Trump’s Latest Pardons. Plus, Ethical Nonmonogamy With Mandii B and WeezyWTF

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Van and Rachel are back from the Memorial Day break to talk Trump’s "big, beautiful bill" (:48), Elon Musk's decision to officially leave the administration (2:40), the latest out of the Diddy trial (8:15) and Trump’s recent pardons (17:37). Then they give their reactions to Druski’s skit in whiteface (24:46) and have a conversation about conversations with RGIII (32:53), before they give some updates on the alpha dog King Charles (45:46). Finally, Mandii B and WeezyWTF of Decisions Decisions join to talk about the name change from Whoreible Decisions (58:32) and takeaways from their upcoming book, ‘No Holes Barred: A Dual Manifesto of Sexual Exploration and Power’ (1:07:37) Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Guests: Mandii B and WeezyWTF 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 warriors.
0:05.7	What is up?
0:06.3	Higher Learning is on and is Iivan, Laysn.
0:08.2	And it's me, Rachel and Lansing.
0:09.3	Later on in the show, we have Mandy and Weezy from Decisions, Decisions.
0:13.1	They are friends and the authors of No Holes Barred, a dual manifesto of sexual exploration and power.
0:22.7	I feel like it was a great talk with the ladies.
0:25.8	I learned some stuff.
0:27.9	And we do not want you guys to miss that.
0:29.5	That's in the second hour of the show.
0:36.4	We don't have that much time for pleasantries.
0:38.5	No, we don't because we're a big show.
0:39.9	We have a big show.
0:40.4	And we do a lot of pleasantries with the ladies.
0:42.9	With the ladies.
0:43.5	Okay.
0:43.8	So, Donnie, fuck it.
0:45.6	Let's get right into quick hitters right now.
0:48.0	Quick.
0:48.5	All right.
0:48.8	Let's do it quickly.
0:50.3	The House passed Trump's domestic policy bill last week.
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