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Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

All-Out War, or Deescalation? And Crowning the ‘Face of the Ringer’

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.811.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

Rachel’s back! And the U.S. is on the brink of war! Rep. Ro Khanna joins to bring congressional perspective to our involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict, before HuffPost’s Akbar Shahid Ahmed returns to help dig into Iran’s retaliation on a U.S. military base. (0:00)  Intro (17:24)  Rep. Ro Khanna joins the show   (29:54)  Authorizing strikes without Congress (34:08)  Andrew Cuomo vs. Zohran Mamdani (49:32)  Akbar Shahid Ahmed (52:25)  Trump’s response (1:23:04)  NBA Finals (1:29:17)  Kevin Durant traded (1:32:31)  McGrady compares career to Kobe’s (1:38:44)  Face of the Ringer (1:54:09)  Glaze of the Week Host: Van Lathan Jr. and Rachel Lindsay Guests: Rep. Ro Khanna and Akbar Shahid Ahmed Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Ashleigh Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Yo, yo, yo, yo, thought warriors.

0:03.8

What is up?

0:04.9

How learning is on is I, Van Lathan, Jr.

0:08.1

And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay.

0:10.1

Oh, my, fucking God.

0:13.2

Where are you at?

0:13.7

That forehead and all brought the forehead back out for y'all.

0:17.6

You got yours out, too.

0:18.8

I knew that you would, uh,

0:23.0

that you would draw attention to it.

0:26.8

Because today's yours or mine. Yours? Because today's one of those forehead days. My speaks out for itself.

0:29.4

No. But you know, you have days

0:31.8

of forehead and then you have days of five head. It's not the same

0:36.4

all the time.

0:39.9

Sometimes I, sometimes I try to hide it. Like, I could hide it right now. You could? You know, like there are ways I could wear my hair

0:44.9

where it's four and a half. Oh, it's lessish. Yeah, yeah. I'll point it out next time I do it. See,

0:51.2

if I have flipped my hair a little bit to the side, it wouldn't be as pronounced, but like, we in this thing. Fascinating. So are there times where you go,

1:00.0

I'm serious, are there times when you go too much forehead today? God down with that. Wow. And to be

1:05.9

very honest with you, I would have done my hair differently, but I just landed in Paris and was, and it's crazy traffic here right now because it's men's fashion week.

1:16.9

And I was like, I have to get to the podcast.

1:19.3

I have to get here.

1:20.4

So there was no time.

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