Was 'WW84' Kind of Problematic? Plus: Hilaria Baldwin's Confession and Consequences of the N-word

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay discuss Rachel’s previous recommendation of ‘WW84’ and why Van thinks the movie might be problematic (11:00). Then they talk about Hilary Baldwin’s recent confirmation that she was born in Boston, not Spain (30:00), and a fascinating story in the New York Times about a usage of the N-word (50:00) before giving a final ‘Bachelorette’ recap (1:17:00) and doing a year in review mailbag (1:25:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo yo yo yo, thought warriors.
0:02.0	What is up?
0:03.0	How you learning is on it is I, Van Lepen.
0:06.0	It's me Rachel Lindsay.
0:08.0	Rachel.
0:09.0	Van, happy holidays.
0:12.0	We're back.
0:13.0	Yeah, we're back.
0:14.0	Are you, did you have a good holiday?
0:16.0	Let's get right to it.
0:17.0	Not interested in the plays of trees right now.
0:22.0	Not interested in the plays of trees.
0:24.0	Had a good holiday.
0:26.0	We did Chinese food for Christmas.
0:28.0	It's a three hour wait for the Chinese food.
0:30.0	Thanks.
0:31.0	Speaking of food,
0:33.0	Rachel, I think it's time that we discussed with the audience
0:37.0	just how fake you are.
0:39.0	I'm sorry, fake.
0:40.0	Yeah, fake.
0:41.0	Fake.
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