Van Jones’s Very Bad Joke, Ayesha Curry’s Admission, and Diddy’s Sentencing

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 154 minutes

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Van and Rachel react to a strange weekend of football before discussing Van Jones’s “dead Gaza baby” joke, Diddy’s sentencing, and Ayesha Curry’s comments on motherhood and marriage. (0:00) Intro (8:21) Mark Sanchez’s stabbing & arrest (16:30) Kyren Lacy update (31:09) Van Jones apologizes for joke (48:19) Diddy sentenced (1:03:32) Ayesha Curry’s admission (1:45:58) Theo Von & Adin Ross on Trump (2:08:31) Taylor Swift’s new album (2:21:13) “Love is Blind” Hosts: Van Lathan Jr. and Rachel Lindsay Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Ashleigh Smith Video Supervision: Chris Thomas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, yo, yo, yo, thought warriors.
0:04.2	What is up?
0:04.7	High Learning is on and is I Van Lazyton Jr.?
0:06.4	And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay. Like, comment, subscribe on YouTube. Do it. It's been growing, but you know what? We got to do the YouTube different. We got to put smart. We have to build out the YouTube. We got to build it out. It's been a slow burn, but, you know,
0:19.8	it's still, it's still progress.
0:21.7	It's still progress.
0:22.4	Smoldering.
0:22.9	We need, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we progress. It's smoldering. We need, we, we, we, we, we, we, the podcast is, I don't know if you guys been looking at the charts. The podcast is trending upward, yet the YouTube is still, uh, dragging behind because we need to get in more algorithms on YouTube. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We got to put out shorter clips, segments, all the things.
0:39.2	You know who needs to get better as well?
0:41.4	Texas football.
0:43.1	Is that where we're going?
0:44.8	Yeah.
0:45.5	I mean, what can I say to defend my team?
0:50.7	I mean, it's pretty obvious.
0:52.0	I think it, I think when the, when the season started, I can admit
0:56.0	this, nobody thought we should be number one, right? And, but it was a lot of hype. It was an
1:02.6	excitement. It was exciting because it was Ohio State and Texas playing. So like the rankings,
1:06.6	it added to the, the draw of the game. We quickly learned Arch is not what we thought he was.
1:13.3	And since then, we've continued to learn that.
1:16.6	Against, I mean, Florida wasn't ranked.
1:19.7	If you guys didn't watch, Texas lost to Florida,
1:23.5	and it really just revealed who we are.
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