Sydney Sweeney’s Jeans, Kamala’s '107 Days,' and the Aging of ‘Martin’ Jokes | Higher Learning | The Ringer

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Rachel and Van start the show by running through some quick-hitters, including the internet’s reaction to Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle commercial, Ari Lennox’s thoughts on Martin’s treatment of Pam, and Kamala Harris’s new book. Then, they talk about new updates to the Israel-Hamas conflict and some reactions to their Hulk Hogan segment last week. 00:00 - Welcome! 00:59 - Sydney Sweeney’s good “jeans” 29:57 - Ari Lennox’s thoughts on Martin and Pam 44:59 - Kamala Harris’s '107 Days' 1:12:28 - The Gaza-Israel Conflict 1:35:14 - Shannon Sharpe and Gilbert Arenas 1:45:32 - Reactions to our Hulk Hogan segment 2:08:38 - Thanks for watching! Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Producers: Donnie Beacham and Ashleigh Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, yo, yo, thought warriors.
0:03.8	What is up?
0:04.6	Carl Lernery is on. Is Ivan Laysn Jr. And it's me, Rachel Lundon. Sidney Sweeney. Get right into the quick hitters. Fuck it. Get right into the quick hitters. We were supposed to have guests on the show today. We were. But we're going to have them later. Who are the guests? The yestergays. The guest are gays.
0:01.1	Lakely Thornton and Justin Sylvester.
0:03.9	Lakely Thornton. But we're going to have them later. Who are the guests? The yestergays. The yestergays.
0:21.5	Lakely Thornton and Justin Sylvester. Lakely Thornton. Blakely. Blakely Thornton and Justin Sylvester. Did I tell you I ran into Justin Sylvester? I hear y'all are neighbors. Well, ish. Yeah. Neighbors once removed. Ish. Justin Sylvester might have been doing a walk of shame.
0:19.7	No.
0:21.0	It's awful. neighbor well ish yeah neighbors once removed is justin semester might have been doing a walk of shame
0:39.3	no he's in a very happy relationship um Sydney Sweeney look we're gonna get straight into the
0:49.7	quick hitters got a lot stuff nothing super important to talk about on the on the show today but a lot
0:54.0	of stuff to discuss.
0:55.6	We're starting off with quick hitters. Donnie, get us into what's going on with Sidney Sweeney.
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