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This is the Dan Levatar Show with the Stugatz Podcast. Look at who we have there.

The radiant— I have never seen him looking quite this post-coital. The kid, Mero, is in the center of a New York— this is a good time to have a morning show in New York. Hot 97 Mornings with Mero. I can't even imagine how good he feels right now. So tell me— please stop doing that, Mero. This is a—

This is—

You're doing that a little bit too well, I gotta be honest. So can you explain to me whether or not you have ever had a sports joy like what it is that you experienced with this basketball team? And thank you for joining us.

Thank you, Dan. Thanks for having me. Shout out to the guys, man. Roy, the whole gang. Listen, no. The short answer is no. You know what I'm saying? The closest that I have ever come to this level of post-coital orgasmic joy as it pertains to sports was 1996, Derek Jeter, I had the shag, Charlie Hayes. Hayes waits, the Yankees are champions of baseball. Like, that is like laser etched into my memory. And OG Anunnaki's tip is laser etched into my memory forever. Like the Larry Johnson 4-point play. You know what I'm saying? Like, there is nothing—

You know what you're saying.

Listen, watch the Giants do it twice against Tom Brady. Watch the Yankees have success, 3-peat, do all that stuff. You know what I'm saying? You know, I'm not even a hockey guy, but I watched the Rangers do it when I was in the 5th grade in 1994. Like, every New Year— the ladies have been holding it down. The Liberty, Gotham FC, like, they've been doing the thing. The only team that hasn't had success in this century has been the New York Knicks. So it's like, man, I don't know, man. OK, so look, I'll say this much, because I don't want to get you— you know what I mean? I don't want you to lose sponsors. It's like when you're dating, you know what I'm saying? And you know, like eventually it's gonna happen. You know what I'm saying? We like each other, you know, you know, things are going good. You know, hey, we made out last night for 20 minutes. You know what I mean? Nothing happened after that. I went home, you know what I'm saying? And went on the tube site, but we're working towards something. You know what I'm saying? We're working towards something.

I think I do know what you're saying. I think I know where you're headed with this, Mero.

You know what I'm saying? We're headed towards something 24, 25, 26. We got in there, we sent it, you know what I'm saying? And we sent it into the 8-foot depth of Victor Wembanyama, which, by the way, is what my co-host Lizbel Ortiz on Victory Light calls him. She does not know how to say Wembanyama. She says Wembanyama. So that's what he's called from now on.

How do you feel about Wemby? I've got a lot of questions, but how do you feel about Wemby right now?

My opinion on Wemby has done a total 180 after this series. Okay, because before this series, like, we beat them in the NBA Cup, which, by the way, nobody talks about the NBA Cup. Like, what is it for if y'all not gonna talk about it? We won. We won both championships. And wait, they see that I got the balloons for that. We won both championships in the season in 2026, and we beat the alien, the guy who's supposed to change the league forever. Okay, the guy who's better than Kevin Durant, better than any guy ever to play in the— NBA. We whooped his ass, you know what I'm saying? Twice, in the Cup and in the Finals. So my opinion of him has changed from, okay, this guy is really good, he's just young, he needs some experience, and he's going to be the face of the league very soon. He's a serious guy, he's competitive, he has that like Kobe, Mike stuff about him where he's like, he hates to lose. You know, he has like that little Jimmy Butler energy, which is like, ah, but it's French. So it's a little bit more, you know, je ne sais quoi, I'm angry about losing the game.

You know, I'm very upset about this, Daniel. You know, so he's got that. And you know, the Emily in Paris, all that, you know, which is, the show stinks, but like, it's the only French thing I could think of at this moment. So he was a good guy. He was gonna be on his way to be the face of the league, and he started playing the New York Knicks, and he decided to start his villain arc by saying stuff like, I'm in your head, I'm in your head, Mitchell Robinson. I'm inside of your cranium. You cannot hit the free throws. And then he goes to the line and bang, bang, misses two free throws à la Mitch Robinson. Okay, so karma's a bitch. Also, he tried to destroy multiple of Wemba— of OG Anunoby's ligaments in one shot. Let's be real. He tried to kill Jalen Brunson on the court, and then he also tried to injure OG Anunoby on the court as well with a weird kind of like Sonic the Hedgehog looking drop kick. I don't know what the hell he was thinking, but he's also telling his guys like he's a bro.

He's like a quarterback talking to his offensive lineman like, yo, good, good, good. Like, get that guy. Next play, get that guy.

Face back, do something.

And it's just like, dog, Hold on. You were a very clean-cut French guy that was very talented and could— you were 8 feet tall and you could shoot and you could put the ball on the floor. And that's what you were about.

And being competitive.

Now you're like a diehard villain. Like, what are we doing? So yeah, nah, I'm out on Wemby. He is not the face of the league. Anthony Edwards should be the face of the league.

Mero, where does Jalen Brunson rank all-time New York athletes? Don't dance around this question. Where does he rank?

I'm not gonna dance around it. I'm not gonna dance around it. I'm not gonna dance around it. I'm not gonna dance around it. I'm gonna put him at number 2 because Patrick Ewing is and always will be the greatest Knick of all time. First-round pick, frozen envelope, you know what I'm saying? Might have did it in '99 if Pat would have been there, maybe it could have happened, you know what I'm saying? Like, but Patrick Ewing is synonymous with the Knicks. It's like, listen, somebody could come and play for the Bulls and win 12 championships. Michael Jordan is always gonna be synonymous with the Bulls. That's just what it is. You know what I mean? And Patrick Ewing is always gonna be synonymous with the Knicks. Jalen Brunson, you got us a chip, and he's on the Mount Rushmore. I said this on First Take. I was like, yo, listen, dog, you can't have a one best of all time with the Knicks. The Knicks is— they're too old. They're from, like, the 1930s. They're like a World War II franchise. So it's like, there's been so many guys from, like, Earl the Pearl to Clyde to Pat to Melo to now Brunson, where it's just like, you got to make a Mount Rushmore of Knicks.

You can't have one greatest thing of all time. Says who? Even though I know I just contradicted myself.

Well, what is Mero doing though? Why would you make Anthony Edwards the face of the league instead of Brunson? Like, what do you— what exactly are you doing? If Knicks fans were to select a face of the league, shouldn't they be asking, why doesn't Brunson get to be the guy now?

I think it's because Brunson is not tall.

Okay.

Do you think it has anything to do with that he has hairy shoulders?

I think so. I think that too. He also, he does, he's also very humble. People like, like people like to be in sports and entertainment guys. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like he's a humble guy who's there to hoop. You know what I'm saying? Like he's never going to be, I know you guys heard that quote where they were like, hey, uh, Jalen, as the star of the team, does it, you know, get to you, uh, when you don't have as many touches as you're used to? And he goes, I'm not a star. Yeah, you got hairy shoulders. I got hairy shoulders too. It's the mark of a champion.

That is not, it's not the mark of a champion.

I made 4 kids with those hairy shoulders.

That's inaccurate.

It is.

You can have 4 kids. It's not the mark of a champion. Put it on the poll at Lebatard Show.

It is the mark.

At Lebatard Show, are hairy shoulders the mark of a champion?

Made 4 kids with them.

The answer is yes.

No, it is not.

There's no, no. And yeah, and I trained Edwin Diaz, his cock, you know what I'm saying? That he was using in Puerto Rico. That's the bird guy— Suave suave de lo mío suave! Hey hey hey hey hey perate perate que eso es un gallo! Okay, un gallo sí, yes, a rooster is what he was saying there.

Yeah, cock, rooster. So put Brunson in the context of all New York all-time sports heroes not just Knicks include Derek Jeter include everybody who's a hero to New York sports fans where does Brunson rank now?—

he's in there with Derek, he's in there with Eli, he's in there, you know what I mean, with, uh, like, who else? Guys, we're talking about black and white era, you know what I'm saying? Like Mickey Mantle, you know what I'm saying? Like type of days, you know?

But he's definitely— Babe Ruth.

Yeah, there you go.

You know what I'm saying? This is New York. This is New York. It's like, bro, there is— there was the bucket of, like, elite You know what I mean? Athletes that have played here, it's too much. It's like, it's an embarrassment of riches. Like, you know, Mero, like you could say, like you could, you could say any 4 names and not be wrong.

Okay, Mero, you're at the bar. You, there's, you only have enough money for 1 drink. You're buying a drink for Jalen Brunson or Derek Jeter.

Oh, don't do this to me. I did it.

Oh, it's been done.

Ah.

Zass, I'm gonna have to say, like I did like the Zass, right? Like I give you a little flair.

You made it Hispanic. You put an accent. Zasson.

I made it Hispanic.

Hey, Zasson.

It's Z-A-S with an accent over the E.

Oh, it's Zasson. Zasson. So instead of Sasson, it's Zasson. Zasson. I would buy the drink for Derek because Derek is retired and he already fulfilled my dreams as a Yankee. He's done what he need to do so he could go get lit. I do not want Jalen Brunson drinking with me before he has to do anything athletic. You know what I'm saying? Also, I don't want him drinking with me before he has to do anything. 'Cause I don't want him accidentally doing like a, you know, a Céspedes move and like tearing his ACL, like riding a horse or like riding his, you know, on a Peloton or something. Like, I don't want anything like that to happen to Jalen Brunson. So we are keeping him safe and away from any substances.

I want to get your thoughts here on OG Anunoby's appearance on Good Morning America. You are an expert on the smoking of marijuana. So walk me through here what you think might be happening. Oji Anunnobi famously does not speak. He does not say much to anybody about anything. I told you yesterday that on his list of dating preferences, a woman has to be comfortable with silence because he doesn't say anything. What's happening here, Mero, on Good Morning America?

Talk about the difference Coach Brown made and how he brought you all together.

He's been great.

He's been great.

Mike's been great.

And what he's been awesome at doing is to— is listening to us and just hearing us out.

And that is Karl-Anthony Towns being a good teammate.

He's on another planet.

What is happening there, Merrill? Why is Anunoby just staring straight ahead?

Listen, man, I don't want to speculate, but I know that face and I've made that face after I took more than one 250mg Punch Bar against my— the advice of my friends. You know, 500mg will have you looking like that.

What?

That's lunacy. 500mg is lunacy.

Waiting for your flight to LA. It is, you know, but I like to ride the lightning, Dan. You know what I'm saying? I don't play out here.

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Hey, that's what I'm talking about.

Don Lebatard.

I'm just here to say one thing. The Knicks are fucking back. Stugatz.

Tyrese Halliburton, 6 points?

Fraud.

Everybody was like, yo, he's better than Jaylen Brunson.

He's better than—

the Knicks should have drafted him. Fraud. This is the Dan Levatar Show with the Stugatz.

Let me play some sound here from James Dolan, some awkward sound, very hard to root for. I don't believe you're rooting for him. I don't believe you're happy for him. Here he is in front of the team being awkward and saying, guys, make sure that you do not do anything sensual for months at a time.

I had this idea that maybe you should give up sex for the next 10 weeks. You don't have to give up sex for the next 10 weeks. But, but, Jake, but, like Spartans, you know what Spartans are? Right. They denied themselves, right, so that they could have an edge. Get the edge. Go home, talk to your wives, tell them— don't tell them you're not gonna have sex, and don't tell them it was my idea, but let them know what this is going to be like, what your commitment is going to be like, and how they're going to have to sacrifice too. Those concerns at home, they can't come on the court, they can't come into the practice. They— for the next 10 weeks, this has just got to be all about us and about how we play.

That's not off the cuff. He's reading notes there. He decided to take that into the locker room. Your thoughts, Merrill?

Uh, uh, I didn't know that basketball was a combat sport. You know what I'm saying? Like, I've heard that for boxers. Like, yo, you know, don't do any sexy things. Like, I know, Tony, you do the MMA stuff a lot. Like, they apparently restrain from or refrain from doing these types of things.

You gotta hold in the testosterone.

I don't think you need to do that to hit a jumper.

That's crazy. Like, now you got a bunch of dudes bricked up running up and down the court. That's nuts. Basketball shorts are way too loose for you to not have sex for 10 weeks. As soon as you hit the scorer's table, if you brush up against the scorer's table the wrong way, now you're offending everybody that's watching in HD. You know what I'm saying? So— That's not, you know what I mean? Also, like, you got now, you know, now you're creating, now you're creating chaos in the locker room because you got, you know, 5 guys on the floor at the same time. They're all super bricked up. Everybody could tell like who's got what, you know what I'm saying? Now you're creating division and sowing, you know what I'm saying, beef in the locker room because somebody's gonna be like, yo, cat is bigger than you. You know what I'm saying? And I don't mean height.

So—

No, you meant beef.

You're sowing division while you do that.

Danny, you know about that bricked up?

Literal, literal beef. Yeah.

Yeah.

The part that I think is right about both boxing. I hate the internet today. The boxing analogy and basketball, I think that's all about your legs. So I do think it's applicable. It's not about the combat.

Tired legs.

It's about whether or not you have your legs. Let's hear some more sound from Dolan here as he awkwardly tries to motivate the team. This gets to be a champion forever.

Can you do it? Can you focus for 10 weeks? If you do that, at the end of 10 weeks, we're walking out of here with wings, right? And we're walking out of here with a moniker on ourselves that will never ever fucking go away.

Me Too.

Do it.

Yeah, me too. Commit to it. I thought he paused for the cheer. Yeah.

Rockers applause. He was buffering.

Yeah.

Yeah. What was that? That was the— [FOREIGN LANGUAGE] of NBA owners. Yo, listen, at this point, man, like I can't— there's nothing. So look, Dan, I am a lifelong Knicks fan. They finally won a championship in my lifetime. Right? The only thing I have never done as a lifelong Knicks fan is sit courtside. You know that if you say bad things about James Dolan, you will never sit courtside. So I have to measure myself very much when I speak about this man, because my dream is to sit next to Spike Lee and talk about basketball. I don't care who we're playing. We could be playing the Pelicans. I don't care. I just want to be sitting courtside like Larry David, where I could trip, you know what I'm saying, somebody on the opposing team.

In the last few months, Mero, as I've told people, I'm very happy for you. Hot 97 mornings with Mero, weekdays 6 to 10 AM. He's the host of Victory Light with the Kid Mero from iHeartRadio. New episodes twice a week wherever it is that you get your podcasts. But the last few months you've been on The Daily Show, you've been on First Take, you've been making the rounds in some rarefied spaces. What has been the highlight from among all of them, all of the things that you've gotten to do over, I'm gonna say, the last 6 months.

Listen, Dan, I'm gonna tell you right now what the highlight was. The highlight for me was going on TV and saying confidently, the Knicks are going to run the table all the way to the Finals after the Philly series. And, or during the Philly series, I said, they're gonna sweep the Sixers. They're gonna sweep whoever comes outta Detroit, Cleveland, and they're gonna sweep the finals. And if it wasn't for one guy messing up the vibes at the Garden, I would have been 100% right. I don't even— listen, you guys are sponsored by— am I— am I—

I don't want to mess up your money.

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You gotta be careful.

That was a CK he put in there.

You gotta be careful there.

Yeah.

Knickerbockers, man. Come on, stop it. Come on. You forgot the bockers at the end. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Come on. I was with Jose Alvarado yesterday at the Knickerbocker Parade and with all the Puerto Ricans.

Put it on the board.

Drink a Palo Viejo.

Do you always have to remember the bockers at Levitard Show? So how is the morning radio thing treating you? Because I've told you before that whether you have 4 kids or not, whether you have hairy shoulders or not, that it's going to eat you up, that you are going to age 10 years for every year because of morning radio. How is it going?

You are—

Look at me.

It is a great time to be the morning show in New York.

This is what happened. Yo, listen, as the— no, that's you, Sason, baby. You look like a— you look like a— you got the skin of a K-pop star.

Morning radio, Mero. Morning radio, 7 years. That's what it did.

That's what happens.

That's exclusive to me? It's not just me? It's what you're gonna look like. You look amazing.

Look at me.

You look great.

K-pop star.

Yeah, listen, stop. I'm bolder than you, if you can believe it. Okay, so relax. You're good. You look great, Sasson. Okay, that's why you're Sasson. All right, everybody calm down. The Morning Show is— I'm actually used to it now. I'm not mad. I used to be very upset. You know, about waking up at 4 in the morning and blah, blah, blah. But now, you know, I have coordinated a ceasefire with my wife. We are opening up the Strait of Naps and we are going to continue to have naps going through the Strait of Napping. Really happy about this geopolitical, you know, agreement that I've come to with my wife. And, you know, So yeah, naps are allowed now. I don't have to get right into 5th grade math as soon as I get home. I can take a nap, take my shoes off and take a shower and then get re-energized.

You can't—

Also, I'm not going to bed at 4:00 AM.

You can't teach 5th grade math, correct? I've learned from my adult friends that when you have kids these days, they're teaching math differently. So you're simply incapable of correctly teaching 5th grade math.

100%. My kids all think I'm very dumb because I don't know how to use 88 different boxes and symbols to signify 5 times 5 equals 25. I was like, I just know that. Like, I'm smarter than you actually, and I'm smarter than your dumb teacher because I just know my times tables, bro. I memorized them. So forget you, miss, you know what I'm saying? I'm not gonna say her name 'cause that's her real name. I almost said my kid's teacher's real name on TV. I'm not gonna do that.

But I'm smarter than you. Put it on the poll, please. Does Zazz have the skin of a K-pop star? And also put on the poll, is Mero's kids' teacher called Miss— you know what I'm saying. Thank you, Mero. Nice seeing you. Hot 97 Mornings with Mero. Happy for him in general. He is winning and it is nice to see. Thank you, sir.

Come on, baby. Let's go Knicks. You know what I'm saying? And listen, First championship in 50 years. Thank you to Mom, Daddy. You know what I'm saying? I'm a proud citizen of Mom, Daddy style. I'm gonna piss so many people off. I had to get that one off.

All right, see you later.

Mixtape 5, inshallah.

Peace. See you later. I wanna ask you guys if something that's been happening with my adult friends is happening with you guys as well. Do you see a very subtle shift? Seeing New York elites, New York celebrities this happy makes you turn on New York? Yes or no? Is it happening to anybody in this room where you might want to get behind the team, but seeing New Yorkers this happy and New York celebrity elite this happy, I have had a number of my friends be like, look, I was rooting for New York during this series, but given now what's happened, I find myself hating what is happening in New York, where we've got a happy New York. Do you feel that is happening anywhere around here?

Yeah, I do. I, I, I'm enough already with Chalamet, enough already with, with everybody, even the old school fans like Spike Lee and everything enough. Showing these guys with their $5,000 front row seats. I don't need to see it anymore.

$5,000 times 10.

Too little?

Oh yeah, way too little. $5,000 didn't get you into the upper deck. $5,000, you had to get $9,000. $5,000, I'll sit on the floor for $5,000. Merrill was listening to that though, and since he's still there, I'll just go right back to him and continue to test my luck with this crappy internet today. Merrill, what were your thoughts on what Cody just said there? You didn't seem bothered. You seem to be laughing in the face of the haters.

Yeah, that's what it is, man. It's just hate, you know what I mean? Like the thing that everybody from every other city had over New York City was, yo, the Knicks suck, haha. Now the Knicks are good, we're champions. So everybody else is just mad that they can't go get whatever they want to eat at 3:00 AM. That's the real deal.

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Don Lebatard.

And he was doing all kind of wild stuff. When he threw the ball off the glass to himself and yammed it, I was like, wow, that's crazy.

You're on perks.

Stugatz. You know what I mean? That allegedly, allegedly, allegedly, allegedly, allegedly. This is the Don Lebatard Show with the Stugatz.

My big issue here though, Mero, is like, I thought New York was all about you know, like in, in, in Mamdani's New York. We're talking about the, the proletariat, and you've got the bourgeoisie, all these rich New Yorkers taking over other towns like San Antonio, and we're applauding these investment bankers for being able to outspend the working class? This is not Mamdani's New York that I was told about, Miro. So for me, yeah, he's helping out, but I thought that ultimately, like, we were supposed to help the working class here, and instead we're charging all this money for tickets?

I don't know.

I just don't feel like that's the New Yorker that I want to root for.

Hey, look, to your point, Zoran is a democratic socialist and maybe eventually Madison Square Garden becomes New York City public Madison Square Garden. You know what I'm saying?

And—

You're definitely not going to sit courtside with that kind of conversation.

Woof. Leave it, leave it.

No puedes hablar así con Dolan, okay?

Okay, callaíto, callaíto.

See you later, Mero. Good seeing you.

How about that internet?

Just hanging on.

Love you.

Hangin' tough.

Love you too.

Yes.

Fighting.

Yes.

Fighting the good fight.

This has been rough today. This has been— we have been testing. We have been skirting, walking right on the line of live stuff here because It doesn't seem like this happens to other professional programs. No.

I don't—

It happens on First Take all the time. Bad internet?

Yeah.

Does it?

Yeah.

Nah. Binternet.

I feel like this only happens around here, but that's maybe me just delving into my insecurities and self-involvement because we have had some real issues today just fighting through the internet. But I think what it is that is happening, Zazz, and I'm curious what your thoughts are because When there is an alleged Iran ceasefire, The Daily Show is doing their whole Jon Stewart Monday show on the Knicks have won the championship. And the city is so big and so populated that the video coming out of New York is unlike any that I've seen outside of foreign World Cup countries. Like, this is not something that happens in America at this size. Maybe people gather for, for the parade, But the spilling into the streets where you have just thousands and thousands of people, the last time that I saw anything that resembled that was when the Minnesota Twins won the championship in like 1991 because Minnesota never gets to win at anything where all of a sudden everybody is in the streets, but it pales in size and scope to the, to the city of New York where you just have this rampant riotous happiness that is a bunch of people people like Jon Stewart just taking to the streets, a bunch of famous people who are in the streets surrounded by, uh, just thousands and thousands of people.

Do I have it wrong when I say that this is unusual in size and scope?

Yeah, and I think what also played a major role was it felt like there was this expectation that if the day ever comes when New York City wins a championship, that they have to— it's gonna be so crazy. And so I think there became this expectation that we have to come through and like, we have to be the craziest and we have to light shit on fire and we have to totally act a fool to— it was like a self-fulfilling prophecy, I think, is what wound up happening with New York City.

I think the other thing too is it's a chico when you have 20 million people living on top of each other when everybody can just go outside and there's thousands of people outside because like It is what it is. And it's like, alright, I live next to this guy who's worth $200 million and I've got $20 to my name. We're all standing on the same street because he owns the building and I rent.

I just think New York is by itself different than other major cities. I don't think this happens in LA or Chicago. I don't think if the Dolphins finally win another Super Bowl for the first time in about that distance of time, I don't think there's that celebration in Miami.

It would not.

I think it's, it's New York.

I do marvel still, even being in this profession for as long as I've been, at the unifying power of sports, because the sheer number of people who were watching Knicks basketball in the streets when the televisions are up on the side of buildings, and, uh, the, the size of the fan base that gathered around to make New York, which I do not think of as a unified place feel unified. I just don't think there's anything like it. Like, and, and I'm including patriotism there. I'm, I'm including the best thing in sports, which is patriotic pride in your team during the World Cup. I don't believe that there's anything like the unifying power of sports with people who would otherwise be strangers who can have a shortcut to the fluency of commonalities in language, even if you don't speak the same language, because joy can be shared. I've talked about this before. Whatever you view as the happiest moments in your life— the birth of your children— you weren't jumping up and down in the hotel room, or in the hospital room rather. You weren't screaming and crazed and hugging strangers. Whatever are the happiest moments of your life, sports tends to elevate the emotions of that in a way that connects people that obviously I'm super grateful for because it pays for everything around here, the way people care about sports.

But there really is nothing like it. Right. Like there is just, there, I can't, I can go through all forms of entertainment throughout history and not find anything that creates what sports teams do because, Think about the things in Jon Stewart's life. I don't know how much of a Knicks fan he actually is. I can't even imagine what's going on in Ben Stiller's life right now where he's making a documentary about this because he makes documentaries and things about everything. And so he wants to share this with people, and I'm sure that what he makes will be great because everything that he makes is great. I don't know if you guys know the depths of his neuroses, but because Zoolander 2 didn't do what he wanted it to do in terms of his expectations, I think he sort of vanished for like 6 or 7 years on making things because his standard is where Severance is, right? His standard is above where any reasonable standard is. To see Jon Stewart in the streets howling with delight while surrounded by strangers, I just don't think there's anything else that would— That's amazing. Create that in him, even though he's a passionate person about many different things, and he'll get emotional talking about how poorly we treat veterans in this country, but there is just nothing like sports in that regard.

But there is an answer to why. It's because, you know, and like you say, we don't jump up and down like that when our child is born. The thing that Jon Stewart is jumping up and down now and crying about and howling about is a thing that gave him massive disappointment for many, many, many, many years. And then finally, that thing that you love that gave you all of this disappointment gave you the joy. You know, you don't have years and years and years and years of disappointment and then your son is born or your daughter's born. It's like, no, here, here's the thing. Like, here's the great thing. This is it. We're giving it to you.

I agree with you on the power of sports that we're seeing in New York right now. And that's one of the many things I love about the World Cup. Where in the stadium last night, I'm looking at 60,000 Uruguayan fans all wearing the blue stripes, all cheering for the same thing. The power of sports. The only thing I might liken sports to is in a, in a certain music concert where you have 50,000 music fans in a stadium with tears in their eyes, all cheering for the same—

whether it's Taylor Swift—

But you know going there though, it's going to be a positive experience. You don't necessarily know that with That's true.

Yeah, with sports, you feel like you have a part of it being a positive experience. You feel like the fan matters. You matter in whether or not your team wins, even though you don't. But that's part of the power of sports is you have that feeling. And you're right, you go into a music concert knowing you're going to hear all your favorite songs and knowing what to expect, whereas you don't in sports.

What other concerts are there other than music concerts? Like, are you doing other concerts? That you're making the music concert a specific—

what? Well, I'm thinking of— when I say that, I'm thinking of pop music. I'm not thinking of a classical music concert.

Well, but okay, @LeBittardShow, is music concert redundant? Yes or no? @LeBittardShow. Did I ask the question? Yes, I think I did already. We got to update a lot of polls today because we got yesterday's polls as well. Again, I want to reiterate, does Zazz have the skin of a K-pop star? When you think about Sports stories that would create a rampant spilling into the streets. The Cubs winning the title because they're waiting 100 years, right? The reason this one's different isn't just because it's New York. It's because of how long New York has been waiting, and it's because of what New York means to this team— means to this city. I'm sorry, what the Knicks mean to this city. But can you guys tell me what's the comp in terms of— I know Darren Rovell said this— the Canadiens winning in Montreal would probably— It'd be the Leafs. Feels—

The Leafs.

More, more than, more than Montreal?

Well, because at least Montreal, they, like, we've been alive. The Leafs haven't won in like 100 years. Yeah, like, like, it's been— the Leafs have been the longest, and they care just as much as Montreal does. At least Montreal, it's 1993. All right, I kind of remember that.

Was Boston like this? Was Boston— did they spill into the streets when Boston won the championship because of how they care about basketball? But Boston's not quite as congested, right? Like, Boston isn't quite as this many people living on top of each other so that you just have streets and city blocks upon city blocks, just rampant chaos.

It is just different because of the way that it's structured. Like, that's what Tony was talking about. Like, everybody is on top of each other in New York, and so there, there's an ability for everyone to be there. But when the Red Sox won the World Series, like, that's what Boston looked like, at least to my memory. I know I was, you know, 9 years old, but like, I remember seeing on SportsCenter the videos coming out of Boston of, you know, people hugging strangers in the streets in a way that was different than anything else I've seen.

This all makes me feel sad now thinking back to '03 when I alone ran outside in my front yard and ran in circles when the Marlins won a World Series.

My dad had bought, uh, like apple cider, sparkling apple cider, that we went outside in our front lawn and sprayed that. That's a party!

Me and my friend just got in our car and started driving around like honking and like— You're driving Well, yeah.

I was 8.

It was like in '03.

I was like 16.

Damn. You were wearing tighty-whities driving around?

Yeah, my buddy was driving it to Tony's point. I don't think I was driving yet. My older friend was driving. We just drove around, honked the horn. No one was out there with us.

It was Radke's kid.

Woo! You think it was like Greg Cody's Panther Parade across the street here where he's just driving on the back of a convertible? Very similar. And it's just one sad, lonely person because you, You running around the neighborhood by yourself shouting while everyone's indoors saying, "Quiet down, I'm watching Golden Girls." After Beckett made that tag.

Oh, what a time. It wasn't the same as what I saw on the streets of New York.

We do have occasional people spill into the streets banging drums.

It's only one place.

Not in Weston.

Oh.

I was also in Weston.

Pots and pans?

Suburbia is a little bit different, I think.

There is something about the idea that the Cubs and the Red Sox had waited 100 years, and the Knicks felt like they had been waiting that long, right? They'd only been waiting 50 by comparison, but it felt like it had been that long.

It was our second in 10 years.

Can we just get it up for the internet today, though?

One final time.

Woo!

Internet!

Good job, internet.

Way to hang tough.

Way to hang tough!