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Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

Paul Pierce Gets Fired From ESPN, Plus Ego Nwodim on Being Black on 'SNL'

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.811.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay discuss Paul Pierce’s viral video on Friday night and reported firing from ESPN (9:00), MLB moving their 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta (21:00), and Charles Barkley’s recent comments about race (29:00). Then they welcome Ego Nwodim to discuss her career in comedy (42:00) and check in with Yodit Tewolde for the latest on the Derek Chauvin trial (1:11:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Yo yo yo yo, thought warriors

0:03.2

What's up that one?

0:05.2

It is I

0:07.2

You know like that voice, you know what it's the face with the voice

0:11.2

Oh, it's the angel and say it's the face that take it. Can we can we get that can we get that face?

0:17.2

Oh, oh, daddy have I ever told you I have ever that I've ever told you how I've used the voice

0:23.9

I think so. I will use it during sports

0:26.5

Like no, I would I would somebody would be at the free throw line. I'll be down on the block

0:35.4

And I'd be like, yeah, make this free throw daddy

0:38.7

daddy

0:39.6

Stoked in free throw and everybody would be laughing

0:43.3

And be like I mean concentrate. Oh make it do it

0:48.4

Do it and it's like it's just funny or like when we were playing Marvel versus Capcom too

0:53.4

But never we gotta turn it and somebody gets in a long combo that I don't like maybe they I mean

0:59.4

You know, we other guys will come over to so we were in bad roots so the gods from New Orleans will come up and play against us

1:04.4

And the gods from Houston will come up and play against us

1:06.4

And they were if they were getting off a like a like a long combo that was like fucking up one of our boys like Dakota or Charles or Kevin or somebody like that

1:15.3

I would be like oh

1:18.5

Oh, welcome daddy

1:20.5

I

1:22.5

Was laughing it would break that concentration

1:26.5

Oh, father

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