Coachella, Afrika Bambaataa, and Their Lord and Savior Donald Trump

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.7 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 115 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Van and Rachel recap the first weekend of Coachella, before discussing Afrika Bambaataa’s legacy and reported history of abuse. Then, Trump shares an image of himself as Dr. Christ, Gucci Mane releases a diss track, and the church gets lit. (0:00) Intro (2:54) Coachella recap: Justin Bieber (11:47) Coachella recap: Sabrina Carpenter (22:54) The legacy of Afrika Bambaataa (42:18) Rep. Eric Swalwell suspends campaign (51:59) Van makes an endorsement for Governor of CA (58:07) Trump’s Jesus post (1:11:07) Gucci Mane’s Pooh Shiesty diss (1:38:41) Travis Scott’s FEIN and the church (1:49:27) Mysterious death of influencer Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Producers: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Jade Whaley Social Producer: Bernard Moore Video Supervision: Chris Thomas and Jacob Cornett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Yo, yo, yo, thought warriors.
0:08.3	What is up?
0:09.8	Higher learning is on and Zy Van Lathen, Jr.
0:12.3	And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay.
0:14.5	Rachel, how was Coachella?
0:16.6	You have to start there.
0:18.4	You know, I decided to go at the very, very last minute.
0:22.1	I'm talking like I left Saturday, got there Saturday afternoon, didn't know I was going
0:26.2	until Friday.
0:28.4	It's my home girl's birthday today, so she wanted to go, Natasha.
0:33.5	She wanted to go for her birthday and I wanted to go to see Bieber.
0:39.1	So it all happened, just came together a place to stay,
0:44.6	passes, all the works, everybody did their part
0:47.9	to make it happen, me, Natasha, Leila.
0:50.5	Lila went?
0:51.8	Yeah, Layla went.
0:53.0	Oh, interesting.
0:53.8	Laila went. And like last minute. But it was worth it. But I'm telling you, I... I think I'm over it, but I said this last year at Coachella, too. Come on, nigga. No, no, no, no, no, no. It's such a... It's such a hustle. It's so, like you can't just enjoy yourself like you want to.
1:14.8	There's, it's so crowded. You can't get to wait. Like, I don't know. I think I'm just over festival life.
1:20.6	But I did enjoy myself. I did enjoy myself. I saw not a whole lot of people. It's just crazy.
1:28.0	It's just a crazy is, it was wild because I saw not a whole lot of people. It's just crazy. It's just so crazy.
1:29.0	It was wild because I'm not going to be out there all day.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Ringer, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Ringer and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.