About this episode

Van and Rachel discuss various topics including Tyga's AI album, Russell Westbrook's retirement, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's dating options.

Van and Rachel react to Russell Westbrook’s retirement, Tyga’s AI album ‘$tarface’, and Marcellus Wiley’s domestic violence case being dropped, before discussing Pat McAfee’s appearance with President Trump. Plus, Saucy Santana addresses a White House repost and code-switching gets defined before Van whips out the whiteboard to debate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s dating options. (0:00) Intro (11:02) Russell Westbrook retires from NBA (22:24) Tyga’s AI album, ’$tarface’ (44:46) Marcellus Wiley’s case dropped (1:11:13) Pat McAfee and Trump at the Patriot Games (1:25:09) Saucy Santana’s White House repost (1:40:55) Code-switching (1:59:28) AOC’s dating pool Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Producers: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Jade Whaley Social Producer: Bernard Moore Video Supervision: Chris Thomas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People in this episode

Hosts: Van Lathan, Rachel Lindsay

Topics covered

• AI music
• NBA retirement
• domestic violence
• politics
• code-switching
• dating

Keywords

• Tyga
• AI album
• Russell Westbrook
• Pat McAfee
• AOC dating
• code-switching
• Marcellus Wiley

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Products: $tarface

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