The Questionable Pasts of the Joneses: Jerry and James Earl

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Van and Rachel kick the show off by remembering the lives of friend and music executive Hovain Hylton, and actress and pop star Irene Cara (12:46), before digging into a photo of a teenage Jerry Jones at a desegregation protest in 1957 Arkansas (28:09). Plus, an analysis of a 1968 video of James Earl Jones discussing Black women being “uptight” (53:45). Hosts: Van Lathan Jr. and Rachel Lindsay Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is up, man?
0:06.0	High learning is on.
0:08.0	It is I, Vanley to junior.
0:10.0	And it's me, Rachel and Lindsey.
0:12.0	Let me tell you what just happened.
0:14.0	So we're debating guests.
0:18.0	We're going over guests.
0:19.0	And apparently there's a guest that we are going to have on the show now.
0:25.0	No, you can't say what I said.
0:27.0	We're definitely going to have them on.
0:30.0	We have to discuss this as a family.
0:33.0	And we're talking about the guests.
0:37.0	And Rachel's like, Donnie says that, hey, this guest is.
0:43.0	The guy who is a plus size black male model.
0:48.0	He's a heavy set model.
0:51.0	And Donnie goes, you guys want them on?
0:53.0	And Rachel goes, Van, what do you think?
0:56.0	It comes right to me.
0:59.0	Question is, why would you come to me when it's talk to me?
1:04.0	You guys, I simply was wondering your interest in wanting to have the guest on.
1:09.0	That is all you took it.
1:11.0	You took it that way.
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