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Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

Feeling for Josh Allen, Stephen A. and the Bruhs, Plus Charlie Kirk the Time Traveler

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.711.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

Van and Rachel react to a weekend of sports before discussing Stephen A. Smith and frat life, the Black Panther Party in 2026, and military aid in Israel. Plus, Gavin Newsom caves to Ben Shapiro, and Candace Owens has a theory … a conspiracy theory. (0:00) Intro (0:58) Sisqo or Ne-Yo (9:01) Feeling for Josh Allen (24:21) Stephen A. Smith misspeaks (44:20) A Divine 9 discussion (57:50) The Black Panther Party in 2026 (1:11:20) AIPAC and congressional funding (1:36:07) Gavin Newsom sits with Ben Shapiro (1:53:33) The Charlie Kirk conspiracy Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Producers: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Jade Whaley Social Producer: Bernard Moore Video Supervision: Chris Thomas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Yo, yo, yo, yo, thought warriors.

0:10.6

What is up?

0:11.7

How I learning his own is I Van Latham Jr.

0:15.6

And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay.

0:18.3

I wasn't recorded.

0:19.4

I had pressed the record button.

0:23.6

Okay. So, what's going on with you?

0:28.8

Where are you at? I'm in Miami for the game. Well, not really just for the game. I mean, I work with the foundation. So I do this every year. I've heard people have been telling me you've been

0:34.0

popping up everywhere. I literally, you, you love to do this whenever I'll get it from you during Super Bowl weekend, I'm sure I'll get it from you ours, All-Star weekend. I'm not everywhere. I'm just a foundation event. People hit me up. I seen your home girl. I was walking into a restaurant. I seen your home girl. I was in Tutsis. I see your home girl all over the place. I haven't been there in a long time. Yeah, you're doing your thing. I have a question for you. I want to start the podcast with a question before we get into a really serious issue. We're starting the podcast with a really serious issue. Donnie, I'm going to, I'm actually going to, the first topic that we get to after I ask Rachel this question, I'm

1:11.9

going to do it because you guys, we continuously attempt on this podcast to talk about the things

1:19.5

that are most pertinent to our world.

1:21.8

Yeah.

1:22.4

And we're just getting a shit ton of important things happening all the time.

1:27.9

It's like such a dense news time right now.

1:30.7

It's very, very difficult to keep up with the super important things that are happening.

1:35.0

So we're going to start the podcast with one of those.

1:38.6

But before I get to this, I have a question for you.

1:40.9

Yes.

1:41.2

Really, really for everyone here.

1:43.2

Everyone that knows, who had the highest peak,

1:48.4

like the highest peak, the highest heights, Cisco or Neo? Who got to? Because I'm talking about

2:00.0

at their hottest. Who got the hottest? Who'm talking about at their hottest.

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