Tragic Flooding in Texas and the Essence Fest Diaspora Wars

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Van and Rachel react to the tragic Texas floods, before switching gears to discuss the conversations coming out of this year’s Essence Festival. (0:00) Intro (0:25) Texas Floods (34:29) Essence Fest 2025 (43:40) Diaspora War (1:02:07) Epstein Files Update (1:07:27) Zohran Mamdani, African American (1:23:43) 4Extra’s 4th of July Accident (1:33:04) Skip Bayless Host: Van Lathan Jr. and Rachel Lindsay 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.
0:05.2	What is up?
0:06.3	Our learning is on is Ivan Latelyfield Jr.
0:08.8	And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay.
0:10.5	The landlord lovers.
0:12.9	That's a little, that's the, that's the, that's the greeting for the landlord lovers.
0:18.1	It's hip-hop.
0:18.8	You got to let it go.
0:20.2	No.
0:22.7	No, the landlord lovers.
0:24.4	It's a big deal.
0:25.4	We are not going to get into extended pleasantries because our big deal today is a really tragic story.
0:32.8	At least 80 dead in catastrophic Texas floods.
0:37.0	As the governor warns that there will be more rain coming.
0:42.1	89 people have died after devastating floods have hit Central Texas.
0:48.0	A lot of the media coverage has been centered around Camp Mystic, which is an all-girls summer
0:52.5	camp that sits along the Guadalupe
0:54.3	River.
0:55.5	27 campers and counselors died in the weekend floods.
0:59.3	Ten campers and one counselor are still unaccounted for.
1:03.3	Rescuers are searching for dozens of missing people.
1:06.6	Before we get into the guts of this issue and the politics of it, obviously, you are very famously from Texas.
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