Knicks Win It All, UFC at the White House, and the Conviction of Karmelo Anthony

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 11.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2026

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Van and Rachel are back from a break to react to the historic NBA Finals, the UFC fight at the White House, and David Oyelowo’s take on African and Southern Black accents. Then defense attorney Yodit Tewolde joins to help break down the trial and conviction of Karmelo Anthony. (0:00) Intro (8:26) New York Knicks are NBA champs (27:34) UFC fight at the White House (44:15) David Oyelowo on African and Southern Black accents (57:02) Yodit Tewolde on the trial of Karmelo Anthony Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Guest: Yodit Tewolde Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. Social Producers: Bernard Moore and Jon Roemer Video Supervision: Chris Thomas and Jacob Cornett Additional Language to be Inserted into Show Note/Description: The Ringer is committed to responsible trading. Please visit https://fanduel.com/predicts to learn more about the resources and helpline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, yo, yo, yo, thought warriors.
0:10.4	What is up?
0:11.2	How I Learning is on, is Ivan Lately Jr.
0:13.2	And it's me, Rachel Lynn Lindsay.
0:15.4	We're back.
0:16.2	We're back.
0:16.7	Now, listen, I got to say something to everyone.
0:19.8	Take this out.
0:39.2	I have to. Oh, you want to. Oh, yeah, we had an interview with a couple of it. We came back working hard. Well, one of the interviews is for Thursday, though. Sure, but we just, we came back working hard. We have a stale on Thursday. Yeah. Okay. We also have Yudit Tewaldi, who is going to be joining us as we break down the Redington, the Carmelo-Anthony case.
0:40.7	We're actually going to start the show with that.
0:45.2	Before we get to that, we'll let you guys know something.
0:49.1	So last week on Higher Learning, we had two pre-recorded interviews.
0:52.2	So we were basically off.
0:58.0	Rachel was in Turks and K-Cos with Drake, and we were off.
0:58.8	Okay?
1:06.3	So for the people that I've been coming into my comments on El Instagrammo saying,
1:10.7	hey, Van, we hate it when you guys do just these interviews and don't give us anything else.
1:15.5	I'm just wondering if you paid attention to what we said at the top of the deal.
1:16.9	I expect more from you, thought wars.
1:22.9	We gave you two interviews, a new content, because the podcast was dark.
1:23.5	Now we're back.
1:25.4	Also, you're welcome.
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