Addressing the Corruption Allegations With Mayor Eric Adams. Plus, Is Dark Money Funding Democratic Influencers? | Higher Learning | The Ringer

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Rachel and Van start the show off with some “quick hitters,” including the return of Cracker Barrel’s old logo and Taylor Swift’s engagement. Then, they react to the developing story of an alleged dark money group secretly funding high-profile Democratic influencers. Later, they are joined by NYC Mayor Eric Adams as he addresses corruption allegations, his non-relationship with Trump, and how he feels about his competition, Zohran Mamdani. 00:00 - Welcome! 1:32 - Cracker Barrel scrapped the new logo 07:37 - Taylor is finally engaged (to Travis Kelce) 24:15 - The Nina Turner response 25:19 - Dark money is allegedly secretly funding Democratic influencers 43:51 - The raw milk story and a quick vaccine debate 51:26 - A quick message from Van before the interview 52:42 - Mayor Eric Adams joins us! 1:25:19 - Thanks for watching! Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Guest: Mayor Eric Adams Producers: Donnie Beacham and Ashleigh Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, yeah, yo, thought warriors.
0:03.9	What is up?
0:05.2	Higher learning is on and Zyvan Lathen.
0:07.2	And it's me and Rachel Lenton.
0:08.3	Rachel's mad at me.
0:09.5	I'm mad at you.
0:10.9	You just had Eric Adams on.
0:14.0	And you guys are going to love it.
0:16.3	You guys were loving this stuff.
0:17.3	And if you're, you know what?
0:18.5	Our audience will love Eric Adams being on the show because landlord, landlord lovers. They'll love what Eric Adams says to say. We didn't really get into all that just a little bit. Rachel feels like that. Well, they'll listen. They'll see it. That it was too much Van versus Eric Adams. It's crazy. What did you think about the interview, though?
0:38.2	What did you think about Eric as a candidate
0:39.5	for a New York mayor?
0:41.1	You can vote for him?
0:42.3	I mean, I don't have the ability to vote for him,
0:44.3	but he definitely had an answer to every single question you ask.
0:50.5	He loves it.
0:52.0	He loved it.
0:52.6	He was like, I love being questioned this way.
0:55.0	He probably won't come back. But if he did, we'd have to get him for an hour. Like what? Yeah, we didn't have enough time. We didn't have enough time. Just tough. You know, you turned it. One point of you go, I'm sorry. But I did. I said, I'm sorry because. Why do you go?
1:11.0	I'm sorry.
1:11.6	You say something,
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