Drake’s ‘Iceman’ Album Review. Plus, Tom Steyer’s Plan for California.

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.7 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Van and Rachel review Drake’s highly anticipated new album, ‘Iceman.’ Did it live up to the hype? Then they discuss a white college student’s alleged scheme to attract Black athletes before gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer joins the podcast to shed light on his potential policies for the Golden State. (0:00) Intro (8:33) ‘Iceman’ album review (35:06) Black athlete scheme (54:59) Tom Steyer joins the show (1:56:00) Polls in CA races Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Guest: Tom Steyer 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

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0:00.0	Yo, yo, yo, thought warriors.
0:09.0	Donnie.
0:09.7	What is up?
0:11.3	Tyler is on.
0:13.0	It is Ivan Lathin Jr.
0:14.7	And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay.
0:16.4	Donnie, can we talk for a second?
0:18.5	Donnie, you knew this was coming today.
0:20.9	I mean, I don't want to be, I'm not, because I got love for Detroit.
0:24.1	Shout out to all my people in Detroit.
0:26.1	Shout out to Jason Wilson, Alexis, the whole family, Nicole, the young man, everybody.
0:33.0	Shout out to all my people in Detroit.
0:34.2	Shout out to Royster 5'9.
0:36.3	Shout out to all my people in Detroit. I got a Royster 5-9. Shout out to all my people in Detroit.
0:38.9	I got a lot of people in Detroit that I fuck with.
0:41.2	And the city right now must be kind of hanging their heads a little low.
0:46.6	Donnie, what the fuck was that last night?
0:49.3	Jesus Christ, bro.
0:50.5	What happened?
0:52.2	It was bad.
0:53.2	They did not meet the moment. But, you what? I have, I have a good job of looking at things from like a broad perspective. And I feel like with this team specifically, we're okay. Two years ago, we had a historically bad season. I think we're ahead of schedule.
1:11.7	We're young.
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