Metta Sandiford-Artest Wants the Knicks Job, and the White Black Panther

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Van and Rachel are joined by NBA great Metta Sandiford-Artest, who thinks he’s the right man to lead the Knicks. (:39) Debating the phrase "freak-off" (12:53) Offset threatens violence (22:09) Linda McMahon and DEI (34:32) Metta Sandiford-Artest joins the show (56:08) Karine Jean-Pierre leaving the Dem. Party (1:09:47) Dez Bryant, homophobia, and the NFL (1:18:12) The White Black Panther (1:27:59) Transactional relationships Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Guest: Metta Sandiford-Artest 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.
0:05.6	What is up?
0:07.1	Hilarian is on and is Ivan Lathen, Jr.
0:10.1	And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay.
0:14.4	Rachel, I have a thought.
0:18.0	We have, first of all, we have meta- peace, meta standard for Artes. We're on
0:24.5	our test. All the names. Joining us later. He is a homie and he wants the next head coaching job. So he's
0:30.4	going to be on with us a little bit later. Yeah. But Rachel, I have a thought and I want to run it by
0:35.1	you. Okay. I get nervous. But. Okay. I have a thought and I want to run it by you. Okay. I get nervous.
0:38.7	Okay.
0:39.5	I have a thought and I want the opinions of everybody on the higher learning team about this thought.
0:46.3	A train is a freak off.
0:53.8	Okay.
0:54.8	Is that, is that it?
0:57.0	Is that, is that a discussion?
0:58.6	I'm saying,
0:59.1	I have pushed back.
1:01.3	A train is a freak off.
1:05.0	So obviously the freakoffs that we're talking about with Diddy are under duress, right?
1:15.6	It seems as if Cassie didn't want to do all of these freak-offs.
1:19.8	Well, it seems as if that's the allegation, she wouldn't do all.
1:22.0	Yeah, she says she didn't.
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