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Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

LeBron and Israel, the “Kevin Durant Files,” and the Beautiful Hellscape of Culver City

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.711.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 148 minutes

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Summary

Van and Rachel discuss the NBA dunk contest before reacting to leaks from an alleged burner account, and LeBron’s message to his Israeli fans. Then, Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove joins to discuss the Pam Bondi hearings, before Ed Zitron returns to shed light on the world of AI. (0:00) Intro (8:39) NBA dunk contest (19:32) The very alleged Kevin Durant files (39:42) LeBron James and Israel (1:05:58) Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove interview (1:42:07) Ed Zitron interview (2:12:55) Hillary Clinton on migration (2:22:36) Barack Obama confirms aliens are real? Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Guests: Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove and Ed Zitron Producers: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Jade Whaley Social Producer: Bernard Moore For more from Ed Zitron: wheresyoured.at and betteroffline.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Yoel Thought Warriors.

0:08.5

What is up?

0:10.0

How Learning is on is Ivan Lathin Jr.

0:11.9

And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay.

0:13.5

Rachel, what's up?

0:15.2

You know, I'm just, I'm coming down.

0:18.1

I've had a very busy three weeks,

0:21.5

and I am happy that it's behind me.

0:23.9

Yes.

0:27.1

You're using that term very generally.

0:30.0

I was networking.

0:32.2

It was funny.

0:33.6

Do y'all remember, like, back in the day?

0:36.4

I don't know if I used, if y'all did this, but I used to do this, it was like, I used to tell

0:42.3

my parents that me and Paulette, my girl at the time that we were going to the library to study

0:48.4

and this was a way that we could like basically go out on dates and see each other every single

0:53.7

day because we was in there studying and all that shit like that, studying're going to the library we got to get work done and stuff like that but really that's not why we were doing that we were going to the library so that we can hang out and that's what everyone in baton rogge did goodwill library the new burbank library go there to hang out so all of stuff, you're talking about you going out to these places to network and stuff like that. Yeah, that's exactly what I did. Okay. The amount of content. Now, did I at night party? Absolutely. Saturday, I played a little spades. I was able to get in on the tournament. You don't know how to play, right? I do. You didn't know the tournament.

1:33.2

It was a space tournament. How many parties did you hit this week? How many different events?

1:52.9

I did more for Super Bowl, but for All-Star, I went to at least seven. Two a day but they're not parties i went to a women's networking event i went to meta house i went to a boardroom brunch i went to what i was doing i was i was putting together

1:58.8

this thing on voter id for the show today i can show you mine yeah because I don't sleep yeah because I don't I don't sleep so I sound like this would you like to see mine would you like to see mine thank you very much yeah is that a chart yeah bullet points okay all right um let's go so here's the deal I'll say this uh it I have to say something before we get into the show today.

2:20.6

I warn people about this and it happened. Okay. I warn people. I warn people that if you saw me and you say,

2:29.6

boy, you've put some weight on that I was going to start getting in your ass.

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