About this episode

Van and Rachel discuss capitalism, Usher's body double accusations, Drake's content creation, and Kamala Harris's comments on Democrats, along with a breakdown of X-Men vs. Avengers.

Van and Rachel debate "capitalism" before discussing accusations of an Usher body double and Drake’s content creation. Plus, Kamala Harris speaks on what’s needed from the Democrats, and Van breaks down the X-Men vs. the Avengers. (0:00) Intro (6:34) A capitalism conversation (51:37) Usher using body doubles? (1:00:51) Drake’s stream (1:20:56) Kamala Harris and "ruthless" Democrats (1:40:13) X-Men vs. Avengers 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

• capitalism
• Usher body double
• Drake content creation
• Kamala Harris
• Democrats
• X-Men vs. Avengers

Keywords

• capitalism
• Usher
• Drake
• Kamala Harris
• Democrats
• X-Men
• Avengers
• body double
• content creation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Democrats

Books & works: X-Men, Avengers

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