War in Iran, Chalamet vs. Jordan, and the American Black Film Festival

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.7 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

Van and Rachel welcome Indiana University associate professor Hussein Banai, who gives his insight on the joint strikes against Iran. Then they switch gears to discuss Michael B. Jordan’s Oscar odds and Jonathan Majors’s next project. Then Jeff and Nicole Friday join to celebrate 30 years of the American Black Film Festival. (0:00) Intro (09:23) Hussein Banai on the conflict in Iran (41:53) Predictive history (1:02:20) NAACP Image Awards (1:09:27) Oscar speculation (1:23:36) Jonathan Majors and Ben Shapiro (1:36:34) Jeff and Nicole Friday join the show (2:05:42) Magic City Monday and the NBA Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Guests: Hussein Banai, Jeff Friday, and Nicole Friday Producers: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Jade Whaley Social Producer: Bernard Moore Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, yeah, yo, thought warriors.
0:09.6	What is up?
0:11.6	Our learning is on is Ivan Lathin Jr.
0:13.7	And it is me, Rachel Laminty.
0:15.9	What feedback have you gotten on the new studio?
0:17.8	What's the been the feedback?
0:18.8	Um, that it's giving R&B, like intimate, low, set, like low lights, very sexy.
0:28.3	But people love it.
0:29.4	They like it.
0:30.7	If you guys have other things to say about the new studio, you know, just.
0:37.0	What are you hearing?
0:37.8	Talking, I haven't really heard much.
0:39.8	Okay, I feel like I'm getting a lot of feedback on...
0:42.7	People are talking to you about the studio.
0:44.3	Yeah.
0:45.1	People like him on stage, they enjoy him.
0:47.6	They loved.
0:49.9	What, I didn't realize he had a name for his audience.
0:53.7	Is it stage crew?
0:56.3	Like something people kept writing.
0:58.3	I think that's what it is.
0:59.1	Like stage crew or something like that.
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