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Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 151 minutes

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Summary

Rachel and Van start the show by reacting to the Epstein emails released by both Democrats and Republicans. Then, they are joined by former reporter for the Young Turks and current co-host of the Majority Report, Emma Vigeland, to talk about the Epstein files, the state of the GOP, and the characteristics of useful disagreements between progressives. Later, they talk about the response toward Donald Trump’s appearance on the Pat McAfee Show for Veterans Day, and Rachel gives an apology rating to Kayla Nicole. Last, they end the show with a segment of VanLaTEN. 00:00 - Welcome! 05:08 - Updates on the Epstein files 32:04 - Emma Vigeland joins us! 1:31:39 - Trump on the Pat McAfee Show 2:01:15 - Rachel’s apology rating: Kayla Nicole’s old tweets 2:19:15 - The VanLaTEN: “Top five dudes that got their friends killed in movies” 2:29:04 - Thanks for watching! Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Guest: Emma Vigeland Producers: Ashleigh Smith and Donnie Beacham Video Supervision: Chris Thomas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, yo, yo, thought warriors.
0:03.0	What is up?
0:05.0	Higher Learning is on and is I Van Lathen Jr.
0:07.0	And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay.
0:09.0	We got an hour with Emma Viglin coming up.
0:12.0	It's a great hour.
0:14.0	I feel like this has been highly anticipated, at least from our point of view.
0:19.0	Yeah.
0:20.0	Because we're fans.
0:21.4	That's just you. Me too. You put me on. You put me on. Majority report. Sam Cedar, Emma Viglin. I love it. She's going to be on. We're going to talk about all kinds of things. We're going to talk about the progressives, the controlled opposition of the Democrats. maybe we're going to talk about Epstein Files,
0:39.5	which you have to start to show with.
0:41.9	Rachel, I was looking through the Epstein files here.
0:46.9	What are you looking for?
0:48.2	I was looking at the Epstein files right here.
0:50.6	And this is one, this comes from, this from Jeffrey Epstein to
0:54.5	Galane Maxwell. This is dated May 9th, 2009. It says,
1:06.2	I'm going down to Texas to have lunch with...
1:11.0	Don't. Don't you dare.
1:13.6	This is great judge.
1:15.3	You might know.
1:16.6	Why would you do that?
1:17.7	Why would you do that?
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