Vaccines, Who Needs 'Em? Plus, Nina Westbrook and the Wellness App, Nebbi

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 148 minutes

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Van and Rachel dig into the Texas senate race, vaccine mandates (or lack thereof) in Florida, and Young Thug’s leaked jail calls, before welcoming marriage and family therapist Nina Westbrook to discuss her new mental wellness app, Nebbi. (0:00) Intro (0:39) Left-wing influencers (13:29) The Phillies Karen (27:15) Rep. James Talarico running for senate (48:52) Vand & the realities of aging (55:23) Nina Westbrook joins the show (1:37:49) Florida’s vaccine overhaul (1:55:34) Glaze of the Week (2:03:08) Young Thug leaks Host: Van Lathan Jr. and Rachel Lindsay Guest: Nina Westbrook Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Ashleigh Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, yeah, with all, Warriors.
0:03.8	What is up?
0:05.2	I'm learning is on.
0:05.9	Is Ivan Latham Jr.?
0:07.0	And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay.
0:10.8	What's wrong with you?
0:12.2	It happened.
0:13.9	It happened.
0:14.8	I got sick.
0:15.8	Damn.
0:16.6	It's tough.
0:17.0	I got sick.
0:18.2	Listen, it's been a while since I've been sick on the podcast.
0:20.7	It's been a long time since I lost my voice on the podcast. I've been taking an effort to take care of myself, vitamins, rest, less travel, at least for the last month.
0:34.0	Now, step outside, boom, bam. Sick.
0:37.8	There's a COVID surge happening right now. Nobody seems to care. So it's an understandable
0:42.8	thing that this is happening because COVID's on the rise. Cases are growing up. People are
0:47.2	not masking. Taylor Lorenz, who is a lady that wrote the Wired article, remember the
0:54.1	wire article that we talked about
0:55.5	that is tearing the left as far as the content creators apart.
1:00.7	It's tearing them apart.
1:02.1	Everybody's at his throat.
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