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Hour 2: It's all about the Knicks! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Bill Mark Simone Show Live from the WR Lifeback Studios.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, well bring you the next ceremony at City Hall
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  Speaker 2: live bottom of the hour it might start, So we're
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  Speaker 2: going to be covering it all live with us right now.
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  Speaker 2: The great comedian, the brilliant talk show host Jimmy Fayla.
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  Speaker 2: You can listen to him every weeknight. You should listen
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  Speaker 2: to him every weeknight nine to midnight on seven to
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  Speaker 2: ten WR, and then make sure you watch his Saturday
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  Speaker 2: night show, Fox News Channel ten o'clock. It is the
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  Speaker 2: best late night show in television. It opens with the
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  Speaker 2: single best monologue in television. It's every Saturday night at
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  Speaker 2: ten Fox News Channel. But make sure you're listening tonight
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  Speaker 2: WR nine to midnight. Jimmy Fayla, how you doing?
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  Speaker 3: My man? Me and you might be the only two
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  Speaker 3: sober people in this city right now with the ticker
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  Speaker 3: tape parade going down the block, I was. I came
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  Speaker 3: in early. I had an early morning TV today. There
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  Speaker 3: were people drinking twelve packs on a on a five
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  Speaker 3: five train this morning. What America America is back drinking?
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  Speaker 3: And they were drinking bud Lights, by the way, so
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  Speaker 3: we really are back because Bud light's acceptable again. It
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  Speaker 3: was great. It was a feel good moment. It was
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  Speaker 3: a moment of redemption for the city and for the country.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, be honest, is it too much? Too much with
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  Speaker 2: the Knicks already? Have we had enough of this?
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  Speaker 3: We haven't done this since fifty three years man. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: this would be like if Joe Biden completed a sentence.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, the world is gonna take notice.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, It's gonna get people just for the historic implications.
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  Speaker 3: And I get it if you're not like a die
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  Speaker 3: hard guy who hangs out at the garden, yet you
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  Speaker 3: saw it, you were excited for the city and you
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  Speaker 3: moved on. But for these people, this is one of
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  Speaker 3: the big trappings of the whole thing, is you get
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  Speaker 3: that residual partying effect, you get the you know, you
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  Speaker 3: get the city whole experience.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 3: And the Knicks are riding high because mom Donnie hasn't
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  Speaker 3: told them he's going to confiscate.
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  Speaker 4: Sixty percent of their bonuses.
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  Speaker 3: Yet it's gonna be a totally different ceremony.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna changed dramatically.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Saturday night, there was a lot of violence and people arrested.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of shootings, a bus set on fire. Are
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna be okay after this parade? There's millions of
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  Speaker 2: people there.
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  Speaker 4: This is a difference.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, this parade is happening at you know, ten eleven
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  Speaker 3: in the morning. Yeah, it's a little different than winning
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  Speaker 3: the title at midnight on Saturday.
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  Speaker 5: Where everybody was already hopped up.
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  Speaker 3: Like the timing matters, they're giving us ten thousand cops.
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  Speaker 3: I have faith in the city on this one. And
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  Speaker 3: as bad as those videos look, they'll have you know,
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  Speaker 3: like you know that that was a five on a
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  Speaker 3: scale of like one to Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, the Eagle's win a playoff game. The over under
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  Speaker 4: on police Horse is getting punched is like twelve and
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  Speaker 4: a half in.
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  Speaker 2: Vegas, Right, that's good.
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  Speaker 3: The idea that we're on a bus and a couple
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  Speaker 3: of cabs, I mean, we'll recover.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, last time they won a championship, it
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  Speaker 2: was nineteen seventy three. There was no parade. The city
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  Speaker 2: couldn't afford it then, so they just threw a part.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: So well, yeah, you would have got mugged on the
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  Speaker 3: route back then.
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  Speaker 4: It was you didn't know what it was showing.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody was trusting on anything getting thrown out a window
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  Speaker 3: in nineteen seventy three New York City, and that's before
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  Speaker 3: Gerald Ford told us to go screw.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, think about that.
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  Speaker 3: But that long ago. So that's why they were as
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  Speaker 3: hopped up as they are. And I listen, I think
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  Speaker 3: it's cool because I like civic pride and this city
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  Speaker 3: hasn't had any in a long time. So the fact
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  Speaker 3: that we have something like this is kind of funny.
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  Speaker 3: But what you're gonna notice is, you know, sports is
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  Speaker 3: a very fair weather sting, and we have all of
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  Speaker 3: these Knicks fans right now.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I know if you were walking down this street a
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  Speaker 3: year ago, you didn't see a lot of Knicks merch
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  Speaker 3: on the sidewalk, you know. So it's a front running town.
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  Speaker 3: It's the Nets won the NBA title. Next year, half
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  Speaker 3: of these people would be in Brooklyn with jay Z
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  Speaker 3: being like, we did it, you know, But it's fun.
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  Speaker 5: It's still fun.
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  Speaker 2: Jimmy Fayla, I'll be totally honest. I was never a
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  Speaker 2: basketball fan. I don't think I ever watched a basketball
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  Speaker 2: game in my life. I started watching the Championships the Knicks,
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  Speaker 2: and I kind of got hooked down, and I got
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  Speaker 2: to admit that I was always a baseball fan. But
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of slow. This basketball stuff, it's pretty quick.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot easier to watch, you think it'll lot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Plus everyone's seats, so everyone is sitting so close
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  Speaker 3: to the court that there's a lot of good like
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  Speaker 3: peripheral scenery. You see the celebrities in every shot. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you see the groupies. You want me to tell you
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  Speaker 3: real funny stories? Do you markimone you missed in New York?
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  Speaker 3: You have the high security clearance there is. When Taylor
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  Speaker 3: Swift went to the game last week at the Garden,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people layers specifically too, were mad that
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  Speaker 3: she was there because she.
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  Speaker 4: Was sitting in three seats that normally have the hottest groupies.
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  Speaker 5: In the history of the NBA.
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  Speaker 3: It's right by the bench, so there's a lot There
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  Speaker 3: are a lot of players that were actually bummed out
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  Speaker 3: to see Taylor Swift there, especially because she was in
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  Speaker 3: Cleveland rooting for the Calves with Travis Kelcey on the round.
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  Speaker 3: You're right, yeah, she was there in a Cabs T
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  Speaker 3: shirt in the second round, and then she showed up.
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  Speaker 6: Like Miss New York.
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  Speaker 3: No I'm gonna have my wedding here. No one buys it, so, oh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you're right.
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  Speaker 2: I never thought of She's like a pandering Chuck Schumer
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  Speaker 2: type politician, Like totally, and.
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  Speaker 3: We could have had some rap video vixen sitting forth side,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like real looking Kardashians, but instead we got
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  Speaker 3: Taylor Swift and her pretend Nick fan friends.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and you're right, those baseball groupies are
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  Speaker 2: kind of rough around the edges.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a different animal, man.
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  Speaker 3: But in the NBA, I will tell you this man
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  Speaker 3: they have if you get in it, if you get
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  Speaker 3: into watching it, as you know, very fast paced, but
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  Speaker 3: nothing matters till the last three minutes. And these playoffs
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  Speaker 3: proved it. I mean the next you know, how many
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  Speaker 3: games would you normally shut off if somebody was down
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  Speaker 3: twenty nine points.
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  Speaker 5: And they won the game.
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  Speaker 3: So like this past Saturday when the next we're playing,
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  Speaker 3: an our TV show was on, you know, they were like, well,
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  Speaker 3: hopefully it's a blowout and then you'll get more ratings
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  Speaker 3: because people are shut it off. I'm like, they're not
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  Speaker 3: going to shut it off because if they came back
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  Speaker 3: from twenty nine, you're not going to shut it off
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  Speaker 3: if they're down by thirty.
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  Speaker 7: You know.
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  Speaker 4: But it worked out.
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  Speaker 3: We had a good one. And by the way, I
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  Speaker 3: have to tell you this, I meant to say this,
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  Speaker 3: said hello, we had a family come to the taping
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  Speaker 3: last week that listens to you pretty religiously here on
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  Speaker 3: the radio. And they're like, we didn't.
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  Speaker 4: Know who you were. We're some own people. I was,
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  Speaker 4: go get out of here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah right. Jimmy Fail does Sergeant Slaughter. He does the
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  Speaker 2: best late night show in television. It's Saturday nights at ten,
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  Speaker 2: but they tape at Friday evening and you can go.
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  Speaker 2: It's free. You can come sit in the audience, meet
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of celebrities. And where do they get the tickets?
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  Speaker 3: So the tickets are at Fox Across America dot com.
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  Speaker 3: Fox across America dot com. They're free. You just got
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  Speaker 3: to go there and register. This week Friday night's taping.
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  Speaker 3: Boy George's on the show. Remember boy George. Yeah, form
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  Speaker 3: a chameleon. Boy George probably coming to steal some of
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  Speaker 3: his jackets out of my closet. Say hey, where'd you
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  Speaker 3: get this?
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  Speaker 4: Now? You know else is on this week from the Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: go ahead, you take it away.
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna say, if you want to go, you
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  Speaker 2: invite some people. Go get the tickets. They're free. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have to tell them they're free. You just say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I've arranged for us to go to Fox and meet
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  Speaker 2: Jimmy Faylor will sit in there, and it's a just
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  Speaker 2: go to Fox Across America dot com. Get the tickets
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  Speaker 2: Fox across America. Who else is on this week?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, from the remember of the movie American Pie. Shannon Elizabeth,
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  Speaker 3: the star of.
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  Speaker 4: The movie, the woman who played the.
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  Speaker 3: Funny story because she was a goddess. In the movie
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  Speaker 3: American Pie, she plays the exchange student who's the female lead.
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  Speaker 3: She actually has an OnlyFans. Now, I'm gonna have to
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  Speaker 3: go research that for the interview. But no, she's a big,
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  Speaker 3: you know, big Hollywood gal. And there's a rapper this week,
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  Speaker 3: Walk a Flock of Flame. So walk a Flock of Flame.
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  Speaker 3: Boy George Shannon Elizabeth, And I might be wearing like
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  Speaker 3: a zebra print jacket because if boy George is on,
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  Speaker 3: nothing I wear is going to be just distracting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, uh so, I know it's your guess. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: always a big name. It's always a very funny person,
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  Speaker 2: and it's always a hot looking woman. You always seem
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  Speaker 2: to work that into the guest line.
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  Speaker 5: Yah.
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  Speaker 4: Funny thing about TV mark is people like to look
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  Speaker 4: at it. It's a very visual medium.
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  Speaker 3: They don't call it fox News for nothing. Pal who
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  Speaker 3: are bringing in as many Foxes as I can.
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  Speaker 4: Get on the show? I need a little ratings I
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  Speaker 4: can get.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's why you're saying, well, how come MSNBC
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  Speaker 2: doesn't get any ratings? Look at the women they have.
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  Speaker 5: It's at you, yeah, too much.
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  Speaker 3: They all look every woman on MS MSNBC looks like
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  Speaker 3: Stephen Coulbert.
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  Speaker 4: That's the point. You're watching an.
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  Speaker 3: Even Colbert lookalike contest half the time. That just kills
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  Speaker 3: the mood when they're condescending.
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  Speaker 4: To you, you know, and that's that's why we win. Man.
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  Speaker 3: They're they're good looking, intelligent people and they're making it work.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, CNN, MSNBC, they all look like angry librarians scolding you.
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  Speaker 2: But the good So who do you? Also listen to
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  Speaker 2: Jimmy Fayla on the radio every weeknight nine to midnight
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  Speaker 2: Big Show Tonight. Who does he have on tonight?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 7: Man?
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  Speaker 3: So I think Larra Trump is back tonight and one
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  Speaker 3: of a comic I like a lot Ali Breen, who
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  Speaker 3: is She is a New York stand up comedy legend
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  Speaker 3: for her work at the Comedy club Bar.
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  Speaker 4: She's a very funny girl.
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  Speaker 3: But she's been doing stand up a long time, Super funny,
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  Speaker 3: great hangout like she's a great after party guest too.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta understand a lot of these.
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  Speaker 5: Bookings on my show.
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  Speaker 4: It's just who is a good atmosphere to hang out with?
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  Speaker 3: Because if they're fun at the after party, they're fun
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  Speaker 3: on the air.
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  Speaker 5: That's the point the people. You know, you're not gonna.
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  Speaker 4: Meet anybody who's really.
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  Speaker 3: Fun to hang out with.
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  Speaker 4: It's the stiff on the air.
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  Speaker 3: So that's really the metric. I book people that are
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  Speaker 3: fun and if they're fun, it makes good TV.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well it's gonna be good stuff. Listen tonight
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  Speaker 2: every weeknight Jimmy fayl Is on w o R nine
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  Speaker 2: to midnight. It's a great show. And then make sure
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  Speaker 2: you watch this Saturday night show Fox News Channel ten
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  Speaker 2: o'clock every Saturday night. Jimmy failed great stuff. Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: being with us.
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  Speaker 4: You're a battle season buddy.
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  Speaker 2: All right, take care. Oh let's go The parade is
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  Speaker 2: going on right now, the Canyon of Heroes, and millions
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  Speaker 2: of people are there, and we've got our Ace correspondent
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  Speaker 2: Natalie Migliori, who's at the scene. Natalie, are you there?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 8: I am there, But I got to tell you, Mark,
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  Speaker 8: I think I might be a little secondhand high here.
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  Speaker 8: Everybody is celebrating by rolling up.
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  Speaker 5: A jointed scenes.
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  Speaker 8: And really this is quite an atmosphere around here. I'm
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  Speaker 8: still where I've called you last time, along Broad along
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  Speaker 8: Warren Street. I'm actually watching an MTA bus try to
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  Speaker 8: part the seas of people to make it south down
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  Speaker 8: the street.
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  Speaker 5: So great.
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  Speaker 8: It feels like every hour that we remain here it
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  Speaker 8: gets a a little bit crazier and a little.
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  Speaker 5: Bit more packed.
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  Speaker 2: And what would you say the crowd age wise is
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  Speaker 2: it's a pretty young crowd.
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  Speaker 8: Where I am right now, it seems pretty young. Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: I see a lot of young people. I mean, earlier
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  Speaker 8: this morning I was talking to older people though, who
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  Speaker 8: were saying that they've been waiting for decades so see
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  Speaker 8: the NIX win championship. So there's definitely a mixed croud
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  Speaker 8: throughout the day, but a lot of what I'm seeing
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  Speaker 8: right now along West Broadway is pretty young people streaming
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  Speaker 8: up and down the streets, so they're kind of fighting
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  Speaker 8: the curring.
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  Speaker 2: So you said you can smell pot everywhere. Are you
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  Speaker 2: seeing a lot of drinking there everywhere?
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  Speaker 8: Not as much drinking. There are some guys who are
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  Speaker 8: you know, the good old classic put it in a
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  Speaker 8: paper bag and take a few SIPs out of a
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  Speaker 8: fit while the cops are at looking.
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  Speaker 5: But no, there's.
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  Speaker 8: Definitely that smell of pot in the air. It's been
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  Speaker 8: like that all morning, from the time I started up
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  Speaker 8: the street on Chambers all the way down to the
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  Speaker 8: Oculus and now over here on West Broadway. Yeah, people
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  Speaker 8: are spirits are high, but maybe so are the people.
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  Speaker 2: Well okay, so uh now what about the police present?
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  Speaker 2: A lot of cops right, we hope there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of cops here?
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  Speaker 8: Have you police presence?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: A few minutes ago, a few moments before we got
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  Speaker 8: on the air, actually I watched police officers start moving
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  Speaker 8: people off one of the sidewalks. They were asking them
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  Speaker 8: to move, and you know, sometimes people get combative, but
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  Speaker 8: everybody listened, everybody followed orders, they got up, they left.
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  Speaker 8: So if there's no uh, there's not a lot of
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  Speaker 8: tension from what I'm seeing right now.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, they so they're expecting a million people, I'm hearing
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  Speaker 2: they get got more like two to three million, maybe
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  Speaker 2: four million.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And they said at seven point thirty all the slots
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  Speaker 2: to be watched the parade were full. So all those
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  Speaker 2: millions excess people, where did they go? Where are they?
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  Speaker 8: They overspilled mark out into Lower Manhattan. They are literally
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  Speaker 8: crawling all over the city. They are, I mean like
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  Speaker 8: they are. So the Oculus is an avenue off of
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  Speaker 8: where the parade route is that was filled to the brim,
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  Speaker 8: filled to the brim with people just packed like sardines.
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  Speaker 8: You go a little bit further west on the West Broadway,
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  Speaker 8: the people are streaming a steady stream, but they're not
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  Speaker 8: they're not completely tacked in, and it's still not easy
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  Speaker 8: to make your way up and down the city. So
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  Speaker 8: within these three this three block radius, that's where all
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  Speaker 8: the people went. They just want to stand as close
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  Speaker 8: to the parade as they can. And those people by
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  Speaker 8: the Oculus were hoping that they would be closed in
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  Speaker 8: us if they climbed on a garbage truck, which we
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  Speaker 8: saw people climbing on garbage trucks or if they climbed
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  Speaker 8: on a traffic light. They were just hoping to at
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  Speaker 8: least catch some sort of glimpse between the building of
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  Speaker 8: the parade.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, so they're not going home and all that. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it looks pretty I'm looking at that. Looks pretty chaotic
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  Speaker 2: down there, all those fans.
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  Speaker 8: But yeah, I mean yeah, well, so now.
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  Speaker 2: When do you think the pary to end? Because we're
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  Speaker 2: waiting for the city hall ceremony.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, we're getting word that they're that they're running behind,
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  Speaker 8: so no word yet on they've already started making their
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  Speaker 8: way up, but a lot of people are actually.
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  Speaker 5: There.
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  Speaker 8: It almost seems like people are making their way uptown now.
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  Speaker 8: So seemingly their hopes have been dashed and they've gotten
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  Speaker 8: word that the parade is almost over and they're not
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  Speaker 8: going to be able to even catch a lens these.
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  Speaker 2: Millions of people. Do they know to stay down there
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  Speaker 2: that we don't. The police don't come to midtown. Have
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  Speaker 2: they been told this?
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  Speaker 8: Well, you better broadcast in Mark. Maybe I'll walk along
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  Speaker 8: the street and ask them all please just stay down here.
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  Speaker 8: Mark Simon does not want you up here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, tell them not to come above above the village.
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  Speaker 8: Well, it'll be difficult for them to get above Canal
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  Speaker 8: Street anyway until the subway start running. They're gonna have
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  Speaker 8: to walk their way up and then get on a
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  Speaker 8: subway and come around or catch an uber, which could
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  Speaker 8: be very expensive at that point, because you know, all
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  Speaker 8: these millions of people are trying to leave the area
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  Speaker 8: at once.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, good work, Natalie Migley. Are you keep
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  Speaker 2: us posted if anything happens down there?
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  Speaker 8: Thank you, Mark, thanks.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: For being with us. Tick here. So the big thing
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: is the city Hall ceremony supposed to start about eleven thirty.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: May run a little behind, but once the ceremony starts,
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: that's the part. That's the thing you want to hear,
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: because the parade is just a lot of cheering and waving,
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: but the ceremony will bring it to you. Live here
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: and we'll take some calls. Next to eight hundred three
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: two one zero seven ten is the number eight hundred
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• 15:53
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• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Now back to the Ximos show on wor Well.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: The Knicks parade continues, and uh look through it a
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: little late. But once they get the city hall and
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: they start the big ceremony, we'll bring that to you
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: live here, and we'll get a lot of listeners around
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: the country and you going, what Nicks. It's like, you
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: have no idea. You have to be here. It's like
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: this sweep in the city. They got these big stores
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: that sell all the Nick's hats and the merchandise. You
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: have to wait in line two three hours just to
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: get in the store. It's Nicks fever. It's unlike anything
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: in sports I've ever seen in New York. Let's take
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: some calls. Let's go to uh Robert in Westchester. Robert,
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: how you doing all right?
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: Mark? And good morning Mark. With the Iranian agreement, the
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: one thing that stands out that makes me uneasy is
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: the Iranians insisted, well, we can dig up the nuclear dust,
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: but they want it destroyed on site.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Well that's actually better. That's better for us too. That's
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: the way we like to do it.
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: I The only thing I hope, Mark, is that our
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: military will be there protect those technicians. That's all.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've done it before. We were pretty good at this.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: We've we've done it before. It's it's easy, but don't
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Suddenly you're an expert on nuclear dust and to destroy
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: it now we can, we can. We can transport it
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: back and destroy it here, but they prefer that we
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: destroy it right there. It's a lot safer, obviously than
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: trying to transport it back. And the last time we
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: had to do this was when Kadafi gave up all
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: his nuclear dust in Libya. We got special teams that
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: go in and destroy it right there. Transporting it is
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: a nightmare. I mean, we can do it, but you
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: don't want to have to.
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: Do that, if you yeah, I agree.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: I want to listen.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Listen, listen, listen, listen. Leave this to the expert. Let
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: them take care of this.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: I'm just worried about our people, I know.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: But we've already been on the ground in this particular
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: conflict twice already. Remember we had to rescue the two
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: pilots separately. We sent in ground troops, we built an
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: airbase in there. We're able to protect them. The way
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: they do it is it's pretty easy for the military.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: They wherever they're going to be. Let's say they're gonna
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: sit where they're going to destroy the nuclear dust. They
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: draw a two mile circle around that area. And then
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: they surround that two mile circle with everything, airplanes, drones,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: and they call it the circle of death. Anybody enters
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: that circle, they're killed instantly. That's what we did when
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: we rescued the pilots. They set up that circle of death.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Remember that pilot rescue, the one that was up in
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: the mountains. We went in there and built an air base,
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: a temporary air base. We brought in planes, helicopters, all
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: kinds of equipment, and they had to be there on
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: the ground operating like that for almost a whole day.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: But we set up that two mile circle around them.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: That perimeter protected it and shot anybody that tried to
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: come into it. So they'll they're pretty good. Actually they're
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: perfect at removing nuclear material, destroying it on site. Go
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: to Vincent and Brooklyn Vincent. How you doing.
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: Good morning, Mark, Good morning Mara. It's a real sign
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: of the times. As Mike pointed out that practically all
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: of Lower Manhattan, the subways, the streets are closed. Fifty
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: years ago before there was radical nut job leftist terrorism
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: and Islamic terrorism, that wasn't necessary. They closed. Where's the start.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: The staging area was for the people in the parade
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: and the end and that was that people were allowed
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: to go to the work. That's the side of the times.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: I heard you speak earlier about how Obama, the Obama
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: people from Yobama are stiff and all the contractors and
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: everything they're not getting their money. Because I'll put money
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: if any of these contractors put in file a civil complaint,
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: the civil suit that they weren't paid, all of Obama's
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: cronies in that state and in that city will go
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: look up the nose of all these contractors to find
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: any bit of dirt and put them on the hook. Mark.
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: Something has to be like we saw Saturday night when
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: they lit that school bus on fire, who's going to
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: be responsible for paying out one hundred and fifty thousand
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: dollars for that school bus? And even if they caught
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: the person, Alvin Bragg is going to let them go,
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: or even if there was a sham trial, some corrupt
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: Manhattan judge is going to let them go. Mark. It
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: would be great, and I hope he's working on it.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: Donald Trump, the Justice Department, in the Judicial Department, looked
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: into all these corrupt SOB judges and they gotta be
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: something's got to be done because that bus company should
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: not be on the hook and we shouldn't have to
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: go through all these shenanigans that we're still going through
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: in the city because if people like Bondami, these two
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: other creepsies finding get elected, these two creepy women and
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: album Bragg Marg Yeah.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: All right, well, Vincent, great call as always, thanks for calling.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Now on seven tenor live coverage of the City Hall
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: ceremony as the world Chabby and New York Knicks are
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: presented the Keys to the City sponsored by Nico Sports.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Get your Knicks Championship Ball at nikcosports dot com.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: That's it. That's it. The guy can't say. And now
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: here's Mark Simony. Well, the music sounds good. So the
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: parade is winding down. It's heading towards City Hall. At
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: City Hall they'll have the big ceremony that will cover
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: live for you. There's a band playing there. Now there's
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: half the seats are full. The players are still coming
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: up in the parade. When they get to City Hall,
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: they'll all take their seats and then the ceremony will
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: begin again. We'll bring it to you live. It's going
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: to be uh. The players get to speak, the awards
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: will be given out, the trophy will be given out,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Alicia Keys will perform live. Should be pretty interesting stuff, mate,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: you could be like me where you weren't. I was
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: never a basketball fan. I never even watched basketball, but
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: this Nick stuff, I started watching it, and boy, it
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: was the first series right before the championships that was
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: pretty exciting. And then the championship series started. I was
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: watching every game. So there might be a lot of
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: people like me who suddenly got hooked on the Knicks,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: suddenly became basketball fans. And you know, if you're a
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: big baseball fan like I am, or a big football
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: fan like I am, those games are great, but they're
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: kind of slow. There's a lot of timeouts. In football.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: It takes four hours to play the game. Baseball is
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: very slow. But that basketball stuff, it is fast. It
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: keeps moving. I can see why in the Twitter TikTok
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: world it became the most popular sport. It just moves.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: It's fast. The Knicks an amazing team in that they're
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: always behind. I started to figure this out during the
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: first championship series. That you think that's it, it's over.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: They're thirty points behind. They got no shot even in
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: the third quarter they're thirty points behind. Well, I might
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: as well turn this off. The Knicks come from behind
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: every time, and that's a real super talent. You know,
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: it's one thing to get ahead early in the game,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: but in the very end, when you're way behind, to
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: really take off and win at the end, that's being,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: as Trump would say, a closer. You got to be
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: a closer. Being a real closer is what makes a champion. Now,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Texas they were great, but it was a young, young team.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: They didn't have the Knicks experience or and again they
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: weren't closers. They could get thirty points behind, thirty points ahead.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Those San Antonio Spurs were amazing. Oh he's thirty points ahead,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: forty points ahead. First quarter, unbelievable. Second quarter they start
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: falling apart. Third quarter they fall apart even more. Fourth
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: quarter they try to catch up, but then the Knicks
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: just crushed them. So the Knicks an amazing team. I'm
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: forgetting his name, Bronson, Jalen Bronson. That's that's how new
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: I am to this. Jalen Bronson. Unbelievable becomes. Some think
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: he may end up being the greatest Nick ever. That's
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: a big thing. And Bronson is like the superstar of
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: New York right now, getting standing ovations everywhere he goes
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Yankee Stadium last night anyway, So he'll he'll be the
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: star of this parade. Looks like they're getting close to
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: City Hall. Curtis is going to come in a little while, right.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Is he around somewhere or we're hunting him down? Curtis Curtis.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Curtis will be because the reason I say that, I
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: think he knows more about basketball than I do. But
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: I think are a lot of people. This is the
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: best thing for New York, and it's the best thing
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: for basketball. You know, like golf was popular, but it
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: wasn't that popular, and then Tiger Woods came along, and
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: as soon as Tiger Woods took off, all of a sudden,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: golf became a lot more popular, especially with younger generations.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: It really was a big thing for the game itself
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: and attendance and revenue and all. That's the same thing
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: with the Knicks for basketball. You know, the championship series
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: was getting about twenty million viewers and then towards the end,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: the final games were getting twenty four million viewers, which
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: is huge, huge. That's like beyond the Oscars, the Grammys
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: twenty four million. It hit almost twenty five million during
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: the final game. Now this team, the New York Knicks,
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: the champions are going to the White House. That's part
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: of the deal. They will be the first NBA championship
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: team ever to go to the White House. That'll happen
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: probably the next week or two. Like with all these things, yes,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: some players might refuse to go. I don't know. Remember
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: the Patriots when they won and Bush was president and
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: they refuse to go. Well, the media try to use
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: that against Bush, but owner Bob Kraft pointed out, hey,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Clinton was the president we had players refused to go to.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: When Obama was president, players refuse to go to happens
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: all the time. Speaking of which, that's the other big
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: event today, the Obama Library opening in Chicago. Every ex
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: president is there, all kinds of stars, Bruce Springs for
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: the Obama Presidential Library opening. They planned this for a
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: long time, this big opening, star studded, unbelievable opening. They
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: never counted on a Knick's parade that would drain all
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: the oxygen out of the media air for them. The
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Obama Library is gonna hardly get any coverage because of
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: the Knicks parade. Now, they could never have planned this
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: six months ago. They couldn't and they they wanted to
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: do it on the eve of June nineteenth, June tenth,
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: so that's why they picked the day. But they never
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: ever dreamed that this Knicks parade would be so huge
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: that nobody would Yeah, right now, if you watch any channel,
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: all they're showing is the Knicks parade, not the Obama
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Museum coverage. Were you what, Oh, okay, Yeah, we're gonna
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: we're gonna take a break in. The parade is running late,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: but I mean, I'm looking at it looks like a
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: ton of people there. But the big thing is the ceremony.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: When they get to City Hall, the ceremony begins. That's
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: the part you want to hear, and we'll bring it
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: to you Live coming up just a few minutes on
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: seven to ten w R.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: Markimo, you all are.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Well, the parade looks like it's a well it's kind
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: of stopped right now, but they're all going to head
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: to City Hall. The big ceremony will take place, and
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: we'll bring it to your Live. This is it's running late,
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: so it's a later than usual. Our reporter Natalie Migliori
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: down there on the scene. Natalie, are you there, Yeah.
• 28:22
  Speaker 8: I'm there. But people are starting to kind of leave Mark.
• 28:26
  Speaker 8: Instead of streaming downtown like we saw this morning for
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: people to get to the parade, they're starting to stream uptown.
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: I know that's not what you're looking forward to, but
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: they're at least trying to make their their way through
• 28:39
  Speaker 8: the subways.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: But does that mean they're leaving and breaking up and
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: going home?
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: Yeah, a lot of people. I've just heard one young
• 28:47
  Speaker 8: lady get off the phone and she said, Okay, I'm
• 28:50
  Speaker 8: probably gonna go home now, and like that was her plan.
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: So a lot of people just starting to sort of
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: break up. They've seen what they need to see, or
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: they've had enough. If we couldn't get in and they've left,
• 29:03
  Speaker 8: they've left the area.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Well, it also might be the kind of thing where
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: you just want to go there, say you were there,
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: get your TikTok, get your Instagram pictures, and then you
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: can leave and go home. But hopefully very well, yeah,
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: hopefully everybody goes home. We don't want any trouble like
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Saturday night. How would you say the crowd is behavior wise?
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: They're fine.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: The crowd.
• 29:24
  Speaker 8: The crowd is pretty you know, in this part of
• 29:28
  Speaker 8: the root or in this part of town in a sense,
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: we're about a block off the actual parade route. The
• 29:34
  Speaker 8: crowd is pretty well behaved and they're calm and nobody.
• 29:39
  Speaker 8: I haven't seen anybody yelling or anybody getting into arguments
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: with each other. People just want to be here to
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: have a good time, and they want to celebrate this milestone.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: So are there people down there making money, like selling
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: souvenirs and knick stuff?
• 29:53
  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, there this is, if
• 29:57
  Speaker 8: you know, New York City mark an opportunity to make
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: a buck. I saw one woman. She had made like
• 30:05
  Speaker 8: very long nix colored lanyards that people could put around
• 30:10
  Speaker 8: their nets, almost like a neck read. There's a guy
• 30:14
  Speaker 8: selling T shirts. Lept him right, one guy, he was
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: trying to hustle the girl to buy his last T shirt.
• 30:20
  Speaker 8: She said, oh, I'll come back to you, and he said, no, no,
• 30:23
  Speaker 8: this is my last one. By the time he come back,
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: it's going to be gone. Whether he was right or wrong,
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: he definitely he made out like a bandit for sure.
• 30:30
  Speaker 8: He had an empty bag by the time it was done. Yeah,
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: So people definitely know how to turn a buck around here.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Four million people, not four million, but it looks like
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: it was a little more than one million, and they've
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: been there four or five hours. What about when people
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: have to go to the bathroom. What's going on down there?
• 30:45
  Speaker 8: Very limited? You could really only go to the bathroom
• 30:47
  Speaker 8: in certain parts of the city. And if you had
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: to go to the bathroom and you were already in
• 30:54
  Speaker 8: the crowd, you couldn't leave. It was like New Year's
• 30:56
  Speaker 8: in Times Square, right, You got to get your dependsen,
• 30:59
  Speaker 8: you dye, and you got to sit there. As long
• 31:01
  Speaker 8: as you get into the crowd, you gotta go. You know,
• 31:04
  Speaker 8: you can't you can't go, You gotta stay. That's really it,
• 31:07
  Speaker 8: because once you go, you go.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Millions of people there. So by along that parade, did
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: bodegas and restaurants and stores, and did they stay open
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: and try to make money off this?
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 31:17
  Speaker 8: Yeah, for sure. I mean people were popping in and
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: out all morning, people waiting online. They were going over
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: to the bagel stores or the delis across the streets,
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: the bodegas across the streets from the line while their
• 31:27
  Speaker 8: friends were holding their spot, and they they totally I
• 31:32
  Speaker 8: would say they made bank. I mean, look, I'm not
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: the financial controller of the city, so I can't go
• 31:37
  Speaker 8: into all of our finances here, but I would say
• 31:39
  Speaker 8: that it was a pretty good boom for people, especially
• 31:42
  Speaker 8: people who couldn't get into the parade, who then went
• 31:45
  Speaker 8: into some places where you could sit down and eat
• 31:48
  Speaker 8: and grab a cup of coffee.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I'm watching the parade. Seems to be frozen,
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: like everything stopped. They're not moving. Why is that?
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: You know?
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: This is a back you know, and sanitation follows them
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: as the ticker Cape Convetti comes down. So there's a
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: bunch of processes, and then there could be a delay
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: getting into City Hall Park. You know, the mayor gave
• 32:11
  Speaker 8: out kicks Hunter ticket to people to the general public.
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: Then you have the media, you have these high profile
• 32:16
  Speaker 8: players who are getting into the park. Yeah, got Alicia Keys,
• 32:19
  Speaker 8: Who's going to perform once they all get there. So
• 32:22
  Speaker 8: it could very well be a little backup in logistics
• 32:25
  Speaker 8: to make sure that everybody is safely assembled.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: Into the park.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, looks like a pretty orderly crowd. No pushing, no shoving,
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: none of that.
• 32:33
  Speaker 8: No, I didn't see pushing or shoving, And I got
• 32:35
  Speaker 8: to tell you, there were parts of the day where
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: people were packed into this crowd like sardines, and so
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: everybody was like, hey, hey, hey, we're all good, fam
• 32:43
  Speaker 8: It's all good. Nobody pushing or shoving or fighting or
• 32:46
  Speaker 8: picture or screaming again. And I think everybody kind of
• 32:48
  Speaker 8: understood that there was this sense of organized chaos, but
• 32:52
  Speaker 8: it really was. It very not organized. Not a lot
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: of people, especially in the beginning of the day, who
• 32:58
  Speaker 8: are waiting online before they even got through to the
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: parade end. There was not a lot of directions. Even
• 33:05
  Speaker 8: the police officers were trying to figure out how to
• 33:07
  Speaker 8: direct people, how to control the crowd where they actually
• 33:10
  Speaker 8: needed to go for access points. So the morning started
• 33:13
  Speaker 8: with confusion and people just sort of accepting that, hey,
• 33:16
  Speaker 8: we're here to celebrate, but we might not get in.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it looks cloudy out, but the weather held up.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Nobody got rained down.
• 33:24
  Speaker 8: In this parade, right, weather held up. And they're lucky
• 33:27
  Speaker 8: they did because they weren't allowed to bring umbrellas into
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: this parade. So yeah, there was a whole band on
• 33:34
  Speaker 8: large beds, umbrellas, anything that might have been dangerous. So
• 33:38
  Speaker 8: people got lucky. They had to bring their rain con
• 33:40
  Speaker 8: shows they were expecting rain, and I'm sure those guys
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: who were along the parade route were probably posted up too.
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: They maybe missed out on making a few bucks because
• 33:49
  Speaker 8: they're luckily for the people who were standing out in
• 33:52
  Speaker 8: the in the streets. Wasn't a sound poor during this
• 33:55
  Speaker 8: whole celebratory thing.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: Well, so it's way behind schedule. Any word on when
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: the City Hall ceremony will start, Robert, no word yet.
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: We're still waiting. I think that officials are just trying
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: to take a word from word from security and the
• 34:11
  Speaker 8: NYPD and sort of work in candem to see when
• 34:15
  Speaker 8: or how they can safely ensure that everybody celebrates within
• 34:20
  Speaker 8: City Hall Park. It's a lot of people in a
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: very concentrated area.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, well stay safe down there and we'll
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: maybe we'll check in with you again later, all right,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Natalie Midgley, or take care. Actually, we can take a listen, right,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: we can take a listen to the audio. This is
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: the parade, the actual sound. It's just three hours of this.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: That's why we'll bring you the City Hall ceremony live.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: But if you're there, this is all you hear. I mean,
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: it sounds okay, but imagine you hear how loud it
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: is not very long here. You know, when you're down there,
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: it's deafening, deafening, So if you were standing there, you
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: would have this blasting in your ear. So after about
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: ten minutes, I'd probably want to kill myself having that
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: in my head. So that's why it's better not to
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: be there. We'll bring you the actual ceremony once they
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: get the city hall. It'll be much much better. You're
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: gonna hear Mayor Mom Donnie speaker. Whatever you love me
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: or hate him, he is a good speaker. And then
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: you'll hear the the Nicks. They'll get their awards and
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: they'll talk, and then the mayor has a key to
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: the city. It's actually a big gold key. It's about
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: like five inches. It's a big gold key, and everybody
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: will get their key to the city. Of course, knowing
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: this guy, he'll change the locks right afterwards. But and
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: then they'll get the trophy and all that, and then
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Alicia King Alicia Keys will do Empire state of Mind.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: So it should be a pretty good ceremony. Well, but
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: it's supposed to start at eleven thirty. It's almost noon,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: so there's quite a delay on that, so we'll bring
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: it to you, you know, probably right after the news.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: A lot of celebrities there. Timothy Chalome is there, Kylie Jenner,
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: a lot of other celebrities there, Spike Lee. All these
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: people are down there getting ready for this. The fans
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: were chanting, I can't say this, f wemby, just say
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: the F word wemby yelling and screaming of that. A
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: lot of Knick's merchandise being sold down there on the scene.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: First championship since nineteen seventy three, first parade ever seventy three.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: They won the World Championship, but there was no parade.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: The city couldn't afford it at the time. Mayor Lindsay said,
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: we just don't have the money to do it, so
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: they threw a party in party instead. There's some Knicks
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: fans down there. There's one named Madison, and apparently her
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: parents were such Knicks fans, and she said that's why
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: she's named Madison. She was actually named after Madison Square Garden.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: You see, you can see Patrick Ewing in the crowd,
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: greeting fans. Let's see what else is saying. Yeah, a
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: lot of famous faces down there. Jalen Bronson jumped off
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: the float a couple of times. You know, the fans
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: are behind barricades over in the side. A couple of times.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: He actually jumped off the float, went over to shake
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: hands with the fans. A great video that you'll be
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: seeing all over the place. Knicks fans climbed on top
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: of the South Ferry subway station, yelling and screaming, and
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: as we heard before, there climbing up on garbage trucks
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: to get a better look. And oh, apparently there's bathroom
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: entry codes at certain buildings, you know, and sometimes you
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: go to Starbucks and there's a thing like that. So
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: that was a big thing. People were like bribing to
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: get those bathroom codes to get in there. But it
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: looks like well over a million people showed up. We
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: were hearing up to two million formulion. Looks like just
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: well over a million people. Now they're having a problem
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: apparently on the subways last night getting a lot of
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: graffiti sprayed all over the trains. It's all Nick's graffiti.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: I gotta admit it looks pretty good. I'd leave it
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: up there. It's orange and blue, you know, it's graffiti.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: Artists are really good. A lot of orange and blue
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Nick stuff all over the subway trains as graffiti. Youah,
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: there's some trees along the route. They've got all kinds
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: of fans climbing up in the trees trying to get
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: a better look. And now again, I'm a new basketball fan,
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: only about two weeks. But Curtis Leewa has just come in.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: I would imagine you've been a basketball fan longer than
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: two weeks.
• 38:45
  Speaker 7: Sure, I'm seventy two. My first Nick game was in
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: the Old Garden fiftieth and eight, a buck fifty with
• 38:51
  Speaker 7: a student government organization pass, and I got to see
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: Wilf Chamberlain Seff Francisco Warriors take on the New York Knicks,
• 39:00
  Speaker 7: who were lowly at that time. They were not championship caliber,
• 39:04
  Speaker 7: but it was the thrill of my life at that time.
• 39:06
  Speaker 7: Imagine for a dollar fifty now, Mark Simone, you couldn't
• 39:11
  Speaker 7: get even an air sandwich.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: An air sandwich.
• 39:16
  Speaker 7: The prices to go to games now just an average
• 39:19
  Speaker 7: game for the Knicks. Let's say your family of fourth
• 39:22
  Speaker 7: you have spending the thousand bucks about two hundred and
• 39:24
  Speaker 7: fifty dollars a ticket, never mind the dirty water hot
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: dog that'll cost you a reverse mortgage and a payday loan.
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: But today everybody is equal.
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: They're all out there.
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: Working class people, homeless people, the wealthy, the rich. Everybody
• 39:38
  Speaker 7: is going for tootz for the world champion New York Knicks,
• 39:43
  Speaker 7: the toutz.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: I like, yes for touts for touts. All right, take
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: a break for the news, then we'll be back Curtis
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: And I don't know if I'll be here, but Curtis
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: will be here. We'll bring you the ceremony should start
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: pretty soon. It's all coming up. We'll bring it to
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: your live right here on seven to ten WR