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Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Rachel and Van start the show by rating Stephen A. Smith’s apology to Jasmine Crockett before getting into Emmanuel Acho’s latest comments and perspective on our past intense interview with him. Then, Logan Murdock from The Ringer’s Real Ones joins to talk about the NBA gambling scandal, celeb culture, and masculinity. Last, they talk about the backlash against Keke Palmer’s new fish-out-of-water show, ‘Southern Fried Rice.’ 00:00 - Welcome! 00:53 - Sneak peek of next week’s show: The AI problem 07:29 - Stephen A.’s apology 29:34 - Revisiting Emmanuel Acho 53:11 - Logan Murdock joins us! 1:40:51 - Keke Palmer’s new show 1:59:14 - Thanks for watching! Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Guest: Logan Murdock Producer: Ashleigh Smith Video Supervision: Chris Thomas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, yo, thought warriors.
0:03.0	What is up?
0:04.0	Higher learning is on is Ivan Lansing Jr.
0:06.0	It is me, Rachel Lynn Lindsay.
0:08.0	Later on, we have Logan Murdoch joining us on the show
0:11.0	to talk about the Chauncey Billups,
0:15.0	Terry Rozier, shocking news, breaking news that happened in the NBA.
0:20.0	Gambling sweep, the mafia, is involved.
0:24.3	Logan Murdoch, a ringer colleague, is going to join us to talk about the ramifications
0:28.7	of this for the NBA, NBA culture.
0:31.0	We then get into a larger conversation about celebrity culture, which then leads to a larger
0:35.9	conversation about masculinity and manhood
0:39.3	and the fact that Logan likes a nice coat of paint on his nails. And we talk about all of it,
0:44.8	talking about prints, talk about child uncles, talk about a lot of stuff. It's a great conversation.
0:48.4	Logan's great. We have a conversation about it. This is more of a culture heavy show.
0:53.7	Next week, though, we are going to get into the economy. We're going to talk to you guys about something that you guys should be very aware of, which is the fact that the American economy right now is a ruse. It's a ruse. It's not real. Are you invests? Do you have stocks? Not really. Okay. It's not a real economy.
1:12.6	I have like, you know, all those funds and stuff, you know, get like money market accounts.
1:18.1	Okay.
1:18.6	I only asked because of the conversation we were having off mic and I started talking
1:23.2	my financial guy about stocks and stuff and my investments and just an interesting conversation.
1:28.8	Let me tell you what I believe. I'm sure your financial guys tell you different.
1:32.0	We're in an AI bubble that is being driven by super normal investment into one sector of the
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