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Speaker 1: to be. Welcome to the Iron Dome of Disruption. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Ziggety Zone of Disruption. The name is Michael

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Speaker 2: And this is a well thought out young man. This

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Speaker 1: This is a smart, well thought out, well spoken genius.

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Speaker 1: Whether you want to admit it or not. It's not

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Speaker 2: It's a death. The Knicks beat the Celtics, We beat

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Speaker 1: You said it, not my words. You said, losing to

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Speaker 1: Man of the Year was our pleasure. Al Horford, Joe Missoula,

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Speaker 1: It felt fantastic, toss, But I hope it stung you. Boston,

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Speaker 1: I hope it stung you. Mark Wahlberg, I hope it

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Speaker 1: I hope it hurt and it still hurts. It didn't

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Speaker 2: It felt good. It felt real good. Oh yeah.

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Speaker 1: Podcast.

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Speaker 2: And now we have the.

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Speaker 1: Eastern Conference Finals of twenty twenty five, and this is

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Speaker 1: exactly the way it should be. The New York Knickerbockers,

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Speaker 1: They haven't won a championship since nineteen seventy three. I

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Speaker 1: It is the city game, New York, Madison Square Garden,

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Speaker 2: I didn't make it up.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't the person who said Madison Square Garden is

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Speaker 1: It's a long, long, heated, much discussed. There has been

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Speaker 1: There's memes made. There's good guys, there's bad guys. There's history.

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Speaker 1: There's Reggie Miller, there's Spike Lee. But even before that,

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Speaker 1: Indiana thinks they invented basketball. The state of Indiana loves basketball.

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Speaker 1: It's like the way Texas thinks about high school football

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Speaker 1: the pass, the jump shot. They're like, oh, we play

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Speaker 1: This ain't a movie.

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Speaker 2: This is reality. This ain't a movie. This is reality. Okay.

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Speaker 2: No blood, no foul, you shoot jump shots. We wiggle,

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Speaker 1: New York City is the home the origins of the

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Speaker 2: Indiana's a great basketball state, but it ain't New York.

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Speaker 1: But in the nineties, when you think about the rivalry

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Speaker 1: been yo. Go to ESPN watch this documentary called Winning Time.

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Speaker 1: Get yourself focused, get yourself prepared. It's one of the

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Speaker 1: Knicks and the Pacers, the Pacers and the Knicks, and

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Speaker 1: we duked it out ninety three. We duked it out.

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five Eastern Conference Finals. The window had opened up.

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Speaker 1: the key, one step, two step, finger roll, It rolls around,

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Speaker 2: It bounces off. And I'll tell you something.

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Speaker 1: When the Knicks lost to the Indiana Pacers in nineteen

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Speaker 1: How could that lay up? That finger roll by Patrick?

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Speaker 1: You were not going Why didn't you dunk? Get Patrick?

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Speaker 1: My youth was stripped away. I lost something that night

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Speaker 2: Of course we never got over the hump. We lost

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Speaker 1: I just knew that the Knicks were not gonna win

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Speaker 1: when Patrick missed that finger, and again I don't blame Patrick,

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Speaker 1: and those Indiana Pacers teams with Reggie fucking Miller, snaggletooth

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Speaker 1: Mark Jackson, our guy, the Indiana Pacers. You made me

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Speaker 1: That's our guy, Mark Jackson is our guy. Saint John's

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Speaker 1: And Reggie pushed us, and we pushed him, and he

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Speaker 1: Regi Miller, and you you pushed him. You had some

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't have it any other way. Regi Miller, Regi Miller,

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Speaker 1: your pain is my pleasure. Your pain is New York's pleasure.

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Speaker 2: Huh huh.

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Speaker 1: Podcast.

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Speaker 2: I realized watching the Last Dance.

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Speaker 1: Thirty years later, twenty something years later, twenty something years later,

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Speaker 2: Least favorite athlete of all time.

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Speaker 1: Nothing personal, It's not personal. I'm sure Reggie Miller is

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Speaker 1: know him personally because I enjoy hating Reggie Miller as

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Speaker 1: an Indiana Pacer. I enjoy hating Reggie Miller as an

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Speaker 1: antagonist in the NBA.

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Speaker 2: And I saw Reggie Miller. I told you this story before.

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Speaker 1: I saw Regie Miller a couple of years after he

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Speaker 1: retired in New York in a restaurant I can't remember where,

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Speaker 1: or at a party or at a pre party at

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Speaker 1: a restaurant or.

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Speaker 2: Something, and he said to me, you're done talk and

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Speaker 2: shit and I said, yeah, yeah, I am. And he

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Speaker 2: shook my hand, gave me five, tapped it up, blah

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Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah. But I realized, Regie Miller, that

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Speaker 2: was fake. At the time, it felt real, but it

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Speaker 2: was fake.

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Speaker 1: Because as the dust and the time goes on, and

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Speaker 1: I think about the Pacers, the Knicks, the Knicks, the Pacers,

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Speaker 1: and the rivalry and the dirtiness and the taunting and

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Speaker 1: the headbutting and the provoking and the antagonizing you did.

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Speaker 2: To the New York Knicks, I don't have to like you,

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Speaker 2: inspect you. I don't have to like you.

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Speaker 1: And I know that so many New York fans of

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Speaker 1: my age, because the younger ones that are out there

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Speaker 1: in the garden and they're great, screaming and yelling, climbing

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Speaker 1: up things, climbing to the tops of buildings, tiktoking, dancing,

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Speaker 1: doing it. The great young Nick fans. They can't appreciate

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Speaker 1: how much their fathers and the older Nick fans in

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Speaker 1: New York really don't like you. Rick Schmid's you made

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Speaker 1: me hate Chris Mullen Byron Scott. Larry Bird was coaching

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Speaker 1: Isaiah Thomas. I couldn't stand you. The Roy Hibbert era

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Speaker 1: of the Indiana Pacers, the Paul George era of the

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Speaker 1: Indiana Pacers. And now we got Tye Tye Halliburton, fly

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Speaker 1: Tye Halliburton, and you beat us last year in Game

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Speaker 1: seven because we fell apart. Og had a hammy. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I was at Game seven last year when the Knicks

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Speaker 1: literally I almost went on the court that you guys

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Speaker 1: need you need a fresh body out there, because we

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Speaker 1: fell apart at the scenes. The New York Knicks fell

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Speaker 1: apart at the scenes, and of course the Pacers won

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Speaker 1: Game seven in the Garden, and it was it was

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Speaker 1: hard to swallow. It was it was hard to swallow.

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Speaker 1: It's hard watching the Knicks lose. It's hard watching the

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Speaker 1: Knicks loose Game seven. It's hard watching the Knicks loose

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Speaker 1: Game seven at the Garden. But it was even harder

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Speaker 1: that it was first the Indiana Pacers, the disgusting, much

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Speaker 1: hated Indiana Pacers, and their fans hate us too, and

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Speaker 1: they're nasty. I was there nineteen ninety nine Conference finals.

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Speaker 1: I was at a game in Indiana. I was with

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Speaker 1: Spike Lee. I'm surprised I made it out alive. These

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Speaker 1: are sick, rabid, crazy fans in Indiana, scary people. I

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Speaker 1: was at that game. I think it was Game three

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Speaker 1: in Indiana. We flew in and we flew out. You

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Speaker 1: couldn't get a hotel room.

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Speaker 2: We'd still do.

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Speaker 1: Who knows what we'd still be missing in action if

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Speaker 1: we had gotten hotel rooms in Indiana. They were mean,

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Speaker 1: They were nasty, yelling, evil little fuckers out there in Indiana.

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Speaker 1: But this is what it's all about, NBA basketball, and

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be great. It's gonna be a great series.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be about matchups. It's gonna be about ty Resee,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be about Josh Hart. It's gonna be about

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Speaker 1: the point guards.

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Speaker 2: Again.

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Speaker 1: You got ty Resee Halliburton, ty Ty Halliburton versus Jalen Brunson.

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Speaker 2: The clutch Player of the Year earned.

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Speaker 1: Earn that the best player in the playoffs consistently this

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Speaker 1: year earned that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I said it.

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Speaker 1: Sorry Sga, Sorry ant Man, Sorry Jokick and the tempo.

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Speaker 1: The pacers like the push push push, push push. We

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Speaker 1: need big Cat, big Bodega. Karl Anthony Towns with all

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Speaker 1: his many actions, Karl Anthony Towns on a different day,

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Speaker 1: different night. His voice changes, his accidents change. We need

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Speaker 1: him to go hard and play hard and dominate. We

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Speaker 1: need him and have a big, dominant series. And the

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Speaker 1: bench contributions. Listen, their bench is a little deeper. We

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Speaker 1: only got two. We got Mitch and we got Deuce.

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Speaker 1: Mitch and Deuce. Deuce and Mitch, and that's all we

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Speaker 1: need to seven man rotation for the most part. I'm

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Speaker 1: predicting right now that the New York Knicks take down

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Speaker 1: the miserable, nasty, unlikable.

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Speaker 2: They're not likable.

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Speaker 1: Nobody likes the Indiana Pacers except for Indiana Pacer fans.

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Speaker 1: Nobody likes the Indiana Pacers and Tyrese Halliburton except for

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Speaker 1: Indiana Pacer fans.

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Speaker 2: I'm predicting right now on WAX. Oh yeah, I'm on WAX.

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Speaker 1: I'm predicting right now that the New York Knicks decimate

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Speaker 1: and dominate, close, hard fought five games. I got the

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Speaker 1: Knicks and five, baby, I got the Knicks in five

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Speaker 1: going to the NBA Finals in twenty twenty five. The

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Speaker 1: Knicks ini go into the NBA Finals in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: You heard it first from me, mister New York Michael

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Speaker 1: Rappaport aka the Gringo man Dingo.

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Speaker 2: There, I said it. I feel a lot better now,

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Speaker 2: Nixon five.

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