Processing the Los Angeles Wildfires With William Gude

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Van and Rachel react to the devastation from the Los Angeles wildfires (0:00) before being joined by activist William Gude to provide insight on the fallout and impact of the disaster (16:01). Then, Stephen 'tWitch’ Boss’s widow, Allison Holker, has received criticism for the promotion of her memoir (47:40), Rachel speaks on her divorce being finalized (1:05:31) and Presidents Obama and Trump share a moment at Jimmy Carter’s funeral (1:12:50). Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Guest: William Gude Producers: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Ashleigh Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, yo, yo, thought lawyers.
0:03.4	What is up?
0:04.2	How are learning is on.
0:05.0	It is I, Van Lacey Jr.
0:06.7	It is me, Rachel and Lindsay.
0:09.3	Okay.
0:10.1	The city is on fire.
0:11.6	Now, as you get this podcast, it will be Friday morning.
0:16.7	We are taping on Thursday.
0:17.8	So it's important for us to say that because the situation in Los Angeles is so rapidly
0:25.9	changing that we don't know what state the city will be in on Friday, should I say,
0:31.9	and that could be that fires are calm down or contained or extinguished or that something else is on fire.
0:40.5	So we wanted to make sure that we said that.
0:44.0	But we're going to jump right into the podcast because there is no way for us to put into context the amount of devastation, displacement, and almost attack from the
1:05.4	fire that the city is under right now. Yeah, it's, you know, I don't even know where to start.
1:15.8	You, I'm not from here, and you're going to probably hear me say that multiple times
1:20.4	in this podcast.
1:22.1	I've, and it's, it's, it's one thing to watch it from the outside.
1:26.9	It's another thing to be here. It's one thing to watch it from the outside. It's another thing to be here.
1:28.9	It's one thing to be in the thick of it.
1:32.0	And it's another thing to be in the city unharmed and feel like helpless, like you can't do anything.
1:39.9	It's a really an unimaginable situation when this, when you know the city is burning all around
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