Rep. James Talarico and the Democratic Fight in Texas, Plus Stephen A. Vs. Michelle Obama

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Van and Rachel welcome Texas Rep. James Talarico to shed light on the state’s Democrats fleeing to prevent a vote over efforts to add Republican seats. (0:00) Intro (8:01) Top 5 White Singing Ladies *since 2010 (9:27) Stephen A. Smith vs. Michelle Obama (28:42) Rep. James Talarico joins the show (34:57) The fight against gerrymandering (41:18) Toughening the Democrats (1:02:35) Glaze of the Week (1:15:15) Palantir update (1:16:15) FEMA to deny grants over Israel boycotts Host: Van Lathan Jr. and Rachel Lindsay Guest: Rep. James Talarico Producer: 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 warriors.
0:04.2	What is up? Our learning is on. It's Ivan Lacey Jr. And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay. Like, subscribe, share the podcast. Right. Do it. Do it on YouTube. Do it wherever you. What's up with your energy today? What's going on? What are you sensing? Normally you come in and you're a little bit more over the moon. What's happening? What's going on?
0:00.8	Do you sense something?
0:01.8	I can tell.
0:02.8	Really?
0:03.2	No, I'm okay.
0:04.2	You're good. What do you sense? Normally you come in and you're a little bit more over the moon. What's happening? What's going on?
0:21.0	Do you sense something?
0:22.0	I can tell.
0:23.1	Really?
0:23.5	No, I'm okay.
0:24.5	You're good.
0:24.9	Okay.
0:25.1	Nothing that I want to talk about on the podcast. See, I knew. But I actually am impressed. I knew. That actually makes me, you know what? That makes me feel like really good about our friendship.
0:19.3	What do you mean?
0:20.0	Well, just like you can tell, you can sense things.
0:23.2	I'm big on energy.
0:24.3	So if you sense that, I'm like, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a response to hey, it's hey. And today it was kind of muted. Something happened. No, I mean, I'm fine. I'm fine. But I am coming off a high though because, I mean, I'm a little
0:54.3	tired. I came, I was in San Antonio this weekend for like 36 hours. Family reunions, small family
1:00.1	reunion. My dad's side, but it was really cool. They took us back. So my dad is from South Texas.
1:05.6	They took us back to where my great-grandfather got land or has land, and then my grandfather built on that. So how the land is divided amongst the siblings and how it passes down. My dad wanted us to see that, so they took us back so we could see where it is and, you know, potentially build on it or whatever we want to do with it. So that was really cool. We did a family road trip. We were all together.
1:27.9	I can't tell you the last time we've done that.
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