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6-11: Knicks Fans Tear Apart NYC...After A Win?! · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: Let's get out of all this politics and this heavy
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  Speaker 1: stuff that's dominated our news cycle recently, and let's talk
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  Speaker 1: some sports. Right, Sports, the American cultural tradition that brings
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  Speaker 1: us all together in unity.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Well, except if.
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  Speaker 1: It's New York after a massive win and then they
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  Speaker 1: decide to tear the city apart. But yeah, you know, now,
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  Speaker 1: to be fair, this is nothing new, even after you know,
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  Speaker 1: in so called celebration after a big win with your
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  Speaker 1: city sports team. It's been happening for years. It used
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  Speaker 1: to be just when they lose, but now this is
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  Speaker 1: a new thing. So you know, it's nothing new, So
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  Speaker 1: we gotta be fair about this. But I gotta tell
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  Speaker 1: you my daughter, my younger daughter, who actually lives in
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  Speaker 1: New York. She's home now. I said to her the
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  Speaker 1: other night. You no, I'm not exactly a New York
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  Speaker 1: sports fan. I'm a Boston guy. But still I'd actually
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  Speaker 1: like to see the Knicks win for history's sake, and
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  Speaker 1: I think it'll keep that city from tearing itself apart.
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  Speaker 1: And she goes, Dad, they gotta tear it apart, whether
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  Speaker 1: they win or lose. Listen, you know, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: You're right, But we'll get to it. We'll get to
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff right now. Business first, thanks for finding
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. All right, let's get to it first.
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  Speaker 1: I love no matter who the team is. Honestly, I
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  Speaker 1: love an historic sports win. I just I love it
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  Speaker 1: because I love sports history.
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  Speaker 2: And I gotta give a credit.
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  Speaker 1: I'm no Knicks fan, but last night, and this is
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  Speaker 1: what kicked everything off last night. I think it was
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  Speaker 1: a twenty nine point deficit overcome, not a buzzer beater
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  Speaker 1: at the end, but it was like one point something
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  Speaker 1: seconds left and the Knicks win. This is game four,
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  Speaker 1: This is now putting them up three to one. It's
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  Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden, very relevant to the story, and this
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  Speaker 1: is the moment they kicked it all off. Just for
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  Speaker 1: if you didn't hear things, if you're not sports oriented,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just for a quick reference.
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  Speaker 3: Flat for tailing Brunson, allow him to operate at the
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  Speaker 3: top one oh one.
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  Speaker 2: Brumpson kept it.
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  Speaker 4: Fires up a three shot, No good, but Chip, it's gone.
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  Speaker 2: It's gone.
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  Speaker 4: It's gone with one point too remaining.
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  Speaker 1: Even if you're not a big sports fan, that's a big,
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  Speaker 1: big moment that will be replayed in that team and
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  Speaker 1: probably NBA history forever.
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  Speaker 2: That's a big thing.
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  Speaker 1: Putting them up three to one, And I gotta tell you,
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  Speaker 1: just following sports as they have my entire life, that's
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  Speaker 1: probably a team of destiny. I mean, you're up three
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  Speaker 1: to one, the advantages in your favor a comeback in
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  Speaker 1: game four, you know, that's huge.
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  Speaker 2: So what would happen? The entire city comes together.
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  Speaker 1: They're hugging outside, right, they're celebrating up and down, people
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  Speaker 1: are toasting each other. No, not in New York. They
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  Speaker 1: start to tear it up. Okay, those were flash bombs.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of this stuff. I'm gonna have to describe
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  Speaker 1: for the audio only listeners just to see some of
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  Speaker 1: this stuff, because it was just insane. I mean, where
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  Speaker 1: they are, complete lack of security. What's happening there? They're
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  Speaker 1: in a feverite state. And you gotta keep in mind,
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  Speaker 1: let's all keep this in perspective. These aren't exactly the
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  Speaker 1: people with the five thousand dollars a ticket court side
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  Speaker 1: seats inside Madison Square Garden. Okay, but I mean, let's
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  Speaker 1: just be honest here, and I know the argument it is,
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  Speaker 1: and somebody somewhere is gonna say this could happen in
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  Speaker 1: any city they do.
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  Speaker 2: The same thing.
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  Speaker 1: It always happens. Mmm, not to this extent. And there's
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  Speaker 1: a background of the story here. Let's see what else happened.
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  Speaker 1: There's another clip that came in really just hours ago
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  Speaker 1: in real time. Yeah, they're beating the tart of a
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  Speaker 1: guy there. I don't know whether there was a Spurs fan.
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  Speaker 1: Probably nobody was dumb enough to wear a Spurs jersey
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  Speaker 1: outside of Madison's Square Garden in that. Can you imagine
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  Speaker 1: if they lost and that guy, I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: would have happened. More of the same. Those are the
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  Speaker 1: police horses. Now this is relevant to it too. The
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  Speaker 1: watch party for this particular game was canceled. The mayor
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  Speaker 1: made that call along with the police commissioner. I think
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  Speaker 1: her name is Tish, by the way. So the Knicks organization,
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  Speaker 1: James Dolan, who you hear in a second, was all
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  Speaker 1: upset about that. Didn't understand why thought it was just
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  Speaker 1: at a celebration. I think you've got a sports owner
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  Speaker 1: here who, to his credit, the day of so this
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  Speaker 1: should be yesterday, but even before his big game four
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  Speaker 1: win for his team. Right, goes on WFA and in
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  Speaker 1: New York and he blasts Momdanni, the mayor there, and
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  Speaker 1: he blasts the commissioner. I think you've got a sports
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  Speaker 1: owner who's completely unaware of the difference in his fan base.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, the people outside who aren't exactly buying
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars tickets for a playoff game or five thousand
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  Speaker 1: or whatever it is now probably gonna be higher than
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  Speaker 1: that for the next game. And he blasts the mayor
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  Speaker 1: because he can't understand why you would not want to
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  Speaker 1: have the celebration. Right, So this is after the watch
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  Speaker 1: parties were canceled outside of Madison's Square Garden. Here's Knick's
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  Speaker 1: owner James Dolan earlier on in the day. Tell me
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  Speaker 1: this guy's clues.
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  Speaker 5: This is about celebrating the Knicks at Madison Square Garden,
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  Speaker 5: at the mecca of basketball. This is what the Mayor's
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  Speaker 5: office and the Commissioner's office is trying to kill. They
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  Speaker 5: don't want the celebration. The I can't tell you why
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  Speaker 5: they don't want the celebration.
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  Speaker 2: I think maybe.
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  Speaker 1: And last night was more intense obviously, with the violence
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  Speaker 1: and the rioting and all the same. We had more
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  Speaker 1: clips for you here in a second, but that was
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  Speaker 1: before game four. He truly doesn't understand what's been happening here.
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  Speaker 2: And this is.
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  Speaker 1: Even before President Trump's appearance at the game that was
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  Speaker 1: Game three, the one that the Knicks lost. Truly doesn't understand.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't understand why. And I'm no mayor, mom, Donnie fan,
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  Speaker 1: I think as you know, but he doesn't understand why
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  Speaker 1: they would have canceled a watch party ahead of all
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  Speaker 1: this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know why. Here's why.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the clip that's getting all of the viral attention
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  Speaker 1: from last night. Now i'll describe it again for you
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  Speaker 1: audio folks only. You've got a riotous mob jumping on
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  Speaker 1: a cab. So they took some poor cab driver's cab
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  Speaker 1: over here, they jumped on it and they're chanting Free
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  Speaker 1: Palestine while waving a Palestinian flag. That's pretty understandable why
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  Speaker 1: you might want to cancel the watch. If you've been
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  Speaker 1: in New York, you know what cab drivers are like.
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  Speaker 1: That's their office they're in those things like nine ten
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  Speaker 1: hours a day, so they took I don't know where
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  Speaker 1: the cab driver is. That guy was probably running for
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  Speaker 1: his life, that poor guy. So the Denning Hiss car,
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  Speaker 1: they're jumping up and down. God knows what they did
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  Speaker 1: to it. After that clip, I have absolutely no idea.
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  Speaker 1: But you've got the owner of the Knicks, James Dolan,
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  Speaker 1: saying I don't know why they're trying to cancel the celebration.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well, gee, that might be a reason. All right, now,
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  Speaker 1: this is something else that happened last night.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go to this older Oh, Jerry Seinfeld, what up?
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  Speaker 4: Can we get a free past sign? Can we get
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  Speaker 4: a free come on hereways want preprost.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't exist.
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  Speaker 1: Just to counter the free Palestine chance and the guy's
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  Speaker 1: taking over the cabin, jumping up and down on it
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  Speaker 1: and destroying it.
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  Speaker 2: I thought I would.
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  Speaker 1: Play that clip for you of Jerry Seinfeld coming out
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  Speaker 1: of Massive Square Garden. Some live streamer caught a hold
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  Speaker 1: of him, and Jerry Seinfeld has been very vocal about
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  Speaker 1: support for Israel. Some streamer tries to get a free
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  Speaker 1: Palestine out of him, and Jerry Seinfeld with the perfect answer,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't exist.
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  Speaker 2: So there's your counter of it. There's your counter to that,
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  Speaker 2: all right.
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  Speaker 1: So now we know that New York City will erupt
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  Speaker 1: in mass destroyed. And this isn't isolated little sections here,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's not all of it. It's not the
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  Speaker 1: five boroughs of New York obviously, right, And it's not
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  Speaker 1: exactly all of Knicks fans.
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  Speaker 2: It's not representative of that. It's just not.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, I'll give you that. It's a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more in New York because of the population and the
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  Speaker 1: amount of people are there in the in the in
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  Speaker 1: the density of that city.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it'll give you.
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  Speaker 1: This kind of stuff does happen even in celebrations in cities,
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  Speaker 1: sports cities across the country.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you that for sure. But man, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what they're gonna do if they win,
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  Speaker 1: if they lose. I don't think they're gonna lose. But
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  Speaker 1: this is a massive, massive thing now, and I really
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  Speaker 1: hope anybody this would be a bad time to be
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  Speaker 1: in New York City for this whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine last night?
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  Speaker 1: Right, Let's just say you had a train coming into
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  Speaker 1: Penn Station, which is right, across from Madison Square Garden,
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  Speaker 1: and then you know you've actually come across something not
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  Speaker 1: exactly the vacation you were planning for. What, let's hope anyway,
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  Speaker 1: good time not to be in that city. Let's put
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  Speaker 1: it that way anyway.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: There was also a side story to this whole thing
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  Speaker 1: that wouldn't even talk about yesterday. This was President Trump's
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  Speaker 1: appearance before Game three. There's all kinds of misinformation. You're
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  Speaker 1: being told this throwout sports media, social media, the mainstreams. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: they're saying that he was roundly boo and soundly booed
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  Speaker 1: at his appearance at Madison Square Garden before Game three
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  Speaker 1: on Monday night.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not hearing it. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: This is when they flashed it on the big screen
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  Speaker 1: and they put them on TV. I would call okay, conservatively,
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  Speaker 1: I would call it at fifty to fifty cheers and.
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  Speaker 2: Her cheers.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but there's something in that clip that
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  Speaker 1: you may not have caught that people are kind of
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  Speaker 1: latching onto now. When he did it and he heard
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  Speaker 1: the response, he was there with his granddaughter Kai, they
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  Speaker 1: were both there in the box. I'm sure there were
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  Speaker 1: other Trump family representatives are people from the administration there,
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  Speaker 1: but when the cameras are on both of them, they
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  Speaker 1: both had a nice salute and a.
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  Speaker 2: Smirk to go along with it, which I thought was fascinating.
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  Speaker 1: But it's incredible because it's New York and because it's
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  Speaker 1: that market. How so many celebrities Jerry Seinfeld was there.
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  Speaker 1: Every other celebrity you can imagine that is from or
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  Speaker 1: lives in New York has been at Madison Square Garden.
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  Speaker 1: That president was there. It's just bigger it is. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not a New Yorker either, I get it, but when
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  Speaker 1: something happens in that city, it's the focus of everything
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  Speaker 1: I said in the intro.
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  Speaker 2: It kind of goes beyond sports. It's just a It's a.
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  Speaker 1: Cultural event, which is why the violence outside was pretty fascinating.
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  Speaker 2: But it's been.
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  Speaker 1: Incredible to see all of these politicians, New York based
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  Speaker 1: come out and say that President Trump has nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with the Knicks, doesn't know the team, doesn't know
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  Speaker 1: the history, none of it, and he's just a carpetbagger,
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  Speaker 1: and he's trying to jump onto the moment. A couple
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  Speaker 1: of them have gone so far as to say Kathy
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  Speaker 1: Hokal the Governor of New York went so far as
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  Speaker 1: to say that President Trump has never gone to a
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  Speaker 1: basketball game before.
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  Speaker 2: He never has. Well, number one, he has now, and
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  Speaker 2: he's the first sitting president to go to an NBA
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  Speaker 2: Finals game.
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  Speaker 1: He's obviously been to NFL games, been to college games,
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  Speaker 1: He's been to the Army Navy game, plenty of baseball
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  Speaker 1: games and All Star games. You know, the guy loves sports,
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  Speaker 1: he just does. I've sent it plenty of times before.
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  Speaker 1: I think his Presidential Library when they build it in
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  Speaker 1: Miami when he's out of office, is going to look like
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  Speaker 1: a sports museum.
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  Speaker 2: He loves that kind of stuff. But there's also this
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  Speaker 2: completely that whole.
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  Speaker 1: Propaganda piece about this guy not having anything to do
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  Speaker 1: with New York and never go into a game before,
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  Speaker 1: and I've never seen him in Madison Square Garden. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: is that a bunch of crap? Because as soon as
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  Speaker 1: they said that, there were all kinds of clips of
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  Speaker 1: President Trump back to the nineties and eighties and even
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  Speaker 1: seventies showing up at Knicks games. And then before Game
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  Speaker 1: three when he was in the arena, the Commissioner of
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  Speaker 1: the NBA, Adam Silver, went so far as to say
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  Speaker 1: this completely undoing that narrative that President Trump has nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with the Knicks an and.
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  Speaker 3: I also say about President Trump, you know, I've been
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  Speaker 3: with the league for a long time. I ran MBA
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  Speaker 3: Entertainment years ago. He did an Ie leve against game
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  Speaker 3: spot with us. He was a fixed year at NBA
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  Speaker 3: at Madison Square Garden. If you guys remember who all
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  Speaker 3: of you when you played here, not dreamond, but back
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  Speaker 3: in the old days. He had courtside seats. He was
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  Speaker 3: here all the time, he was at draft. He's a
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  Speaker 3: genuine Knicks fan.
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  Speaker 2: There goes that.
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  Speaker 1: You know what happened immediately after, the Commissioner of the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: Adam Silver, said that all the politicians stopped saying that
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  Speaker 1: Trump wasn't a Knicks fan, has never been to Medis.
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  Speaker 2: Square Garden for a game. Just ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: It's because it's Trump, It's because it's New York City,
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  Speaker 1: it's because of all the media attention.
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  Speaker 2: And to add this in the mix, and this is
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  Speaker 2: part of it.
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  Speaker 1: Now you've got part of this entire series and this
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  Speaker 1: entire event in a historic comeback win from last night,
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  Speaker 1: which even if you're not a Knicks fan, that's a
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  Speaker 1: big deal.
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  Speaker 2: It actually is, so who knows.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, I'm joking around about this, but it's
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  Speaker 1: no laughing matter. You really hope that, no matter what
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  Speaker 1: happens at the end of this thing, I mean, within
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  Speaker 1: a week, within a few days, this series is gonna
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  Speaker 1: end one way or another. And this is where it
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  Speaker 1: transcends beyond sports. You'll hope that they're smart enough in
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  Speaker 1: that city. Doesn't sound like they are so far, but
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  Speaker 1: you'll hope they are. And God love the New York City,
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  Speaker 1: the NYPD to try to, you know, contain control in
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  Speaker 1: this city, but you hope people come to their senses
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  Speaker 1: and they actually you know, don't go nuts either way.
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  Speaker 1: Celebrate you win, don't tear your city apart. It just
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  Speaker 1: you know, just for an example here, this is nothing new,
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  Speaker 1: and it's been a trend. You know, riots for a
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  Speaker 1: team losing a long series in dramatic fashion or if
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  Speaker 1: the fans are mad. That's been going on for decades.
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  Speaker 1: Riots steering your city apart, and vandalism and violence and
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  Speaker 1: all this other stuff happening when your team even wins. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's a little newer, but still it's not isolated to
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  Speaker 1: New York city alone, So they are getting a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a bad rap in this, but boy, what a mess.
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  Speaker 2: You just hope they can keep the peace on that
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  Speaker 2: one way or another.
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  Speaker 1: But why doesn't matter though, proof positive that sports are
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  Speaker 1: a massive part of our culture, always have been, always
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  Speaker 1: will be, massive money maker and they're part of our
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  Speaker 1: daily lives even if you're not in that city. Bad
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  Speaker 1: time to be in New York, but anyway, who knows
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  Speaker 1: good time not to be there.
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  Speaker 2: Let's hope they keep the peace either way. Next to
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  Speaker 2: finding me, I appreciate you.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get out of this one, get into your Thursday,
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