The WNBA Conspiracy, One-Sided Beefs, and Our Voting Rights Under Attack | Higher Learning | The Ringer

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Rachel and Van start the show by reacting to the news of the cancellation of The Howard Stern Show before getting into some one-sided beefs: Donald Trump against Gayle King and Megyn Kelly against Beyoncé. Then, they talk about Diddy’s possible presidential pardon and the threats against the Voting Rights Act before Van gets into the conspiracy happening in the WNBA. 00:00 - Welcome! 08:44 - The Howard Stern Show is done 18:57 - Gayle King vs. Trump? 24:17 - BET Hip-Hop and Soul Train Awards suspended indefinitely 45:22 - Megyn Kelly tries to rip Beyoncé 1:00:48 - Diddy’s possible presidential pardon 1:14:22 - Voting Rights Act under threat 1:26:57 - The WNBA dildo-tossing conspiracy 1:37:42 - Van's lovely sister joins us! 1:41:26 - 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, yo, thought warriors. What is up? Highland is on. It's Ivan Lays and Jr. And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay. Like, comment, subscribe, share the podcast over on YouTube. Go over on the YouTube and say something nice about Rachel's Tupac situation that's going on today. So anytime anybody wears the bandana, it's got to be Tupac. Yeah, but actually, that's not the way he would wear the bandana. It's not the way he would wear it, exactly. You know it's giving more faith from soul food. That's what I feel like anytime I put on a bandana like this. That's who you are. Oh, really? That's who I am. That's who I am. Actually, you're Terry. You're Terry. By far.
0:38.8	I let my family into the house.
0:41.6	My family.
0:43.4	Who would I be from Soul Food?
0:45.2	Why am I?
0:45.8	Is Terry a lawyer?
0:47.7	But she definitely had the sorry husband.
0:49.9	She definitely had the sorry husband.
0:52.7	I want to shout out somebody. Who are you? You would be. I want to shout out somebody. Who are you?
0:54.8	You would be.
0:56.4	I want to shout out Michael Beach, man.
0:59.8	I want to shout him out because Michael Beach, first of all, is a great follow on Twitter.
1:09.1	But if I'm not mistaken, and I could be wrong about this,
1:12.8	it wasn't Michael Beach.
1:15.3	Well, wait, Michael Beach wasn't in SoFool.
1:17.1	Was he Terry's husband?
1:17.8	Yes, he was Terry's husband.
1:19.8	And then Michael Beach also was in waiting to exhale.
1:23.7	At the same time,
1:24.9	Michael Beach, who's a great actor's been there's one movie called
1:28.5	There's a movie called One False Move
1:30.0	If you guys haven't seen this movie
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