Talking ‘Him,’ Biracial Identity, and Athleticism With Tyriq Withers! Plus, the Back-and-Forth With Stephen A. and Jimmy Kimmel’s Return. | Higher Learning | The Ringer

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Rachel and Van start the show off by talking about Stephen A. Smith’s response to our comments last show before getting into the removal of ‘Fearless Debaters’ from TSU’s campus and Jimmy Kimmel’s successful return. Then, Tyriq Withers joins the show to talk about his new movie, ‘Him’; the different reactions to the film; the realism of the athleticism showcased in it; and biracial identity. 00:00 - Welcome! 07:29 - Stephen A.’s response to Higher Learning 32:32 - Pandering to Black women 37:47 - ‘Fearless Debaters’ removed from TSU's campus 48:13 - Jimmy Kimmel’s return 1:10:03 - The missing PS5 1:16:38 - Kamala Harris’s appearance on 'The Rachel Maddow Show' 1:20:52 - Tyriq Withers joins us! 1:52:25 - Thanks for watching! Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Guest: Tyriq Withers Producers: Donnie Beacham and 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, yo, yo, thought warriors.
0:04.5	What is up?
0:05.6	Herlian is on, is I Van Lacey Jr.
0:07.6	And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay.
0:09.5	Where are you at, Rachel?
0:11.4	On the road.
0:12.7	On the road, like where exactly don't tell me?
0:15.6	Why?
0:16.5	Why I got to tell everybody about business?
0:19.5	I do a Lady World this weekend in Destin, Florida.
0:22.3	Lady World. Oh, but they want to know the exact address at you. Stop. Keep going.
0:27.4	Do it now. Okay. What's Lady World? What's Lady World? It's a big festival. It's put on by
0:33.0	Lady Gang, podcast, group of women, and Kelty Knight had this big envision of like getting all your
0:41.4	best friends together, kind of like an homage to the 2000s.
0:45.3	So it's like Y2K Knight and people performing are like Mark McGrath and O-Town.
0:52.6	And it's just like a, yeah, it's Crystal Colpatrick from InSink. This is a what? A watt gathering? People are, I'm there. I mean, I'm there. But when you said Lady Gang. We're performing. Lady Gang is the name of it. They're calling it Lady World. So it's to all their listeners. Anybody's a fan. And then like there's a bunch of people performing doing like shows on
1:16.2	stage. So Justin Sylvester and I are doing a show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Justin and I are doing
1:21.8	a show together. Yeah. So we're going to have some fun. But like a bunch of different people will be there.
1:28.8	A lot of podcasters.
1:29.9	What happens when you makes fun girl-powered community with you see pop culture commentary?
1:35.3	A dash of unfiltered celebrity interviews at three LA ladies with a killer sense of humor.
1:40.5	You get not only one of America's most popular podcast, but a phenomenon that everyone from
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