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Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

An Insurrection at the Capitol and the Georgia Runoffs: Reacting to a Historic Day in America

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.811.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay discuss the domestic terrorism that happened in Washington D.C. on Wednesday (0:30), Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff’s Senate victories in Georgia (38:00), the reports that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are getting divorced (55:00), and answer some mailbag questions (1:11:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Joe, your your thought warriors. What is up? How are learning is on and is I, Van Laten?

0:05.6

Me Rachel lenses.

0:07.2

Rachel, let's get to it.

0:08.4

Woo! Let's go.

0:10.2

Normally, we have pleasantries. We go back and forth. We last time we gave

0:16.3

me an entire treatment about a show before we got into it. But I think things have to start

0:21.7

off a little seriously now. It seems as if there is, it seems as if there's great tumult

0:29.3

in the United States right now. Yesterday was among the most remarkable days of my life

0:36.3

as we watched riders and domestic terrorists lead an insurrection on the U.S. Capitol

0:45.1

Building. I'm sure that you guys have been consuming this as much as we have. It is

0:50.3

Thursday when we're taping this. This podcast is coming out on Friday. So it's just about

0:55.1

a full 24 hours that we have to digest the ramifications of this. By the time you guys

0:59.4

are listening to this, most likely, it'll be a, it'll have been two days for us to kind

1:04.9

of know what this actually means. Before we get to what this means and the fallout, take

1:12.7

us back, Rachel. What were you thinking as this was going off?

1:17.9

Well, let me set the stage. I was at work. So I was at extra. Yeah, I was at extra. So

1:28.4

I'm watching, because I want to watch the Senate, the Congress, the process that, that

1:34.0

to, like, I can't speak. I want to watch the process where they are going to officially

1:38.6

make Joe Biden the president. So I am watching as the senator from Arizona gives his speech

1:46.9

objects to the electoral votes from his state. I'm watching these senators stand up and clap

1:53.4

on behalf of what it is that he's doing in his speech. And they're so proud of those

1:57.8

cells. And then literally within minutes, people are getting ushered out. And I'm confused.

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