Senator Brian Schatz On Trying to Comprehend MAGA. Plus, Men’s Views on the WNBA With Angel McCoughtry! | Higher Learning | The Ringer

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Rachel and Van start the show by discussing Pharrell Williams's intention behind his comments from the last episode. They are then joined by U.S. Senator Brian Schatz from Hawaii to break down his X post about converting MAGA supporters. Last, they are joined by WNBA legend, musician, and honorary member of Zeta Phi Beta, Angel McCoughtry, to talk about how men treat and talk about the WNBA. 00:00 - Welcome! 00:54 - Pharrell Clarifies 28:20 - Trump Berates Bloomberg News Reporter 37:54 - Sen. Brian Schatz Joins Us! 53:07 - Coast Guard Changes Classifications On Hate Symbols 1:11:12 - Angel McCoughtry Joins Us! 1:33:04 - Thanks for Watching! Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Guests: Sen. Brian Schatz and Angel McCoughtry Producers: Ashleigh Smith and Donnie Beacham Video Supervision: Jon Jones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, yo, thought lawyers.
0:23.8	What is up? Higher Learning is on. Is Ivan Lately Jr.? And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay. We have a couple of guests today. A couple. Senator Brian Schatz joins us to talk about his tweet. Yeah. About how we should try to convert potential Trump voters. He's a friend of the show. He likes Hardin. Friend of the show, yeah. Love that. Who else do we have on? We have Angel Macotry.
0:37.9	Yeah, yeah. Love that. Who else do we have? We have Angel McCotry. Yeah, yeah. Former number one pick in the WNBA. Hooper. She likes to. She's an Olympian. She's an Olympian. She's going to be talking about Michael Porter, Jr. saying that he could have dominated the WNBA when he was in eighth grade.
0:40.6	I've had enough of Michael Porter Jr.
0:45.5	I don't know who started putting a mic in front of his face, but it needs to stop.
0:47.9	I'm not trying to silence anybody, but like enough.
0:49.2	They've told him not to talk.
0:50.7	And I can see why.
0:51.6	They said don't talk anymore. Every time he talks, it's a problem.
0:54.7	I had an interesting conversation on the way in.
0:59.5	And I've talked to this gentleman and we, everything that I'm saying right now,
1:09.7	I talked to him and let him know I was going to be saying.
1:11.9	I talked to Farrell Williams.
1:14.1	Interesting.
1:15.0	Earlier today.
1:16.7	And this is what Farrell communicated to me as we spoke.
1:23.1	Number one, he feels like the context of where he was and what he was talking about is not being considered.
1:31.7	Okay.
1:32.3	Farrell was doing a talk for a black ambition.
1:38.3	Donnie looked this up, a black ambition initiative that he has.
1:41.1	The intent of this initiative is to invest into black and brown
1:48.5	entrepreneurship, lots of lots of money, over $85 million to invest into DEI programs,
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