“What Can He Do?”: A Higher Learning Special

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump's cabinet and staff nominations are flying in and Van and Rachel welcome a few experts to help make sense of it all. Axios political reporter Hans Nichols kicks things off to discuss Matt Gaetz’s nomination for attorney general (7:06), before Georgetown professor Lawrence Gostin joins to shed light on the threat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. poses to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (37:08). Finally, USC scholar Dr. Shaun Harper calls out the absurdity of appointing Linda McMahon of the WWE as head of the U.S. Department of Education (1:07:33). Then, Shaboozey’s shut out of the CMA’s (1:27:55), Jay Leno gets assaulted … by a hill, not the mafia (1:13:26), and Future finally speaks on the Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar beef (1:48:12). Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Guests: Hans Nichols, Lawrence Gostin, and Dr. Shaun Harper Producers: Donnie Beacham Jr. 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.
0:04.5	Coming to you live from New York City.
0:07.9	Higher learning is on.
0:09.3	It is I, Van Latelytian, Jr.
0:11.2	And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay.
0:13.3	Rachel had the bubble guts last night.
0:15.4	She was just talking about it.
0:16.9	See, our relationship is never going to grow. If I can't confide in you about certain things and they just stay between us.
0:26.2	But instead, this is why I can't talk about my dating life around you.
0:29.9	I can't talk about personal issues around you.
0:32.7	I just had stomach cramps.
0:34.8	You had bubble guts.
0:36.6	You actually got sick to your stomach last night. We all went out to dinner last night. Had some drinks. Some of us had three too many. I like to drink. Since when? Because you always put that on me. No, no, no, no, no, no. Because I've, I've peeled back. You like to, I've pilled back. You like to drunk.
0:55.8	I like to drink. You know what's funny?
0:56.7	You've literally never really been around me.
0:58.8	That's not true.
0:59.9	You've never seen me go.
1:01.3	Now, Kalika could tell a different story.
1:03.5	Kalika joining us in the studio today.
1:05.4	Yeah.
1:06.4	You've never been around me like that.
1:08.8	You've seen me on social media.
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