Love, Hatred, and Boosie. Plus, Representative Maxwell Frost on the Future of Politics

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Van and Rachel remember the lives of Dikembe Mutombo and Kris Kristofferson (:15) and debate the appropriateness of a sexy TD Jakes R&B album (13:58), before discussing Boosie’s most recent comments on his daughter’s sexuality while on Yung Miami’s podcast (28:34) and Caresha’s involvement in the latest Diddy lawsuit (59:53). Then they dive into the latest and weirdest news out of the GOP (1:06:09) before Representative Maxwell Frost joins to talk about being the first Gen Z member of Congress (1:14:44). Plus, Chappell Roan’s position on the 2024 election has the internet abuzz (1:44:59). Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Guest: Representative Maxwell Alejandro Frost 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, y'all thought warriors.
0:05.3	What's up how learning is on, is I van Liefing Jr.
0:07.4	And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay.
0:09.0	They get right into it, start off with some sad news, man.
0:11.5	I know.
0:15.4	Sad news.
0:16.1	De Kimbait Matumbo, NBA Hall of Famer,
0:19.2	has passed away brain cancer age 58.
0:27.1	The NBA announced this today, it was Monday morning. He was diagnosed in October 2022. He was surrounded by his family in Hawaii when he
0:32.3	passed. Eight-time All-Star, four-time
0:35.7	defensive player of the year, led the NBA in blocks 94, 95, 96, rebounds in 2001, but like what he did on the basketball court is kind of
0:49.4	it falls short to describe to Kimbimboe He was a consummate professional, but like outside of sports off the basketball court was an ambassador for the Congo, was an ambassador for the African people, for the continent, for expanding the game there.
1:07.0	And it was just a really well-liked and integral fabric of the NBA and basketball community.
1:14.8	He was like a cool guy.
1:15.8	He was like one of the players that you rarely heard a bad thing about.
1:19.1	It's very sad.
1:20.3	That's so true.
1:20.9	You really didn't hear a bad thing about him. I didn't know that he had announced that he had a brain tumor back in 2022.
1:28.0	Yeah. So this, did you know that? Yeah. So this was really shocking to me because I had no idea that he was struggling with anything that he had cancer.
1:36.9	Yeah, you know, it's I feel like a newer generation got to know
1:41.5	DeKimbe because of those Geico commercials where he was just like blocking people in everyday life with things and wagging his finger like he used to do on the court.
1:50.0	I've always been partial to defensive players in the league because you play defense.
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