Full Show: James Dolan On His Viral Speech & The First-Ever Knicks Parade

**Craig Carton** (0:05)
It's The Cartoon Show with Big Mac. A beautiful Wednesday afternoon in New York City, 24 hours away from the greatest parade to ever happen. Phone number to join, as always, 888-808-1019.
We got lots cooking today. A lot of the Nick players are making their rounds yet again.
We have the voice of the New York Knicks joining us at 3.3 today. That'll be Mike Breen. And then later today in the 5 o'clock hour, for the third time this calendar year, the greatest owner in New York today, the champion, the guy that gave the speech that took the Knicks from a disappointing regular season to the greatest offseason of all time, Mr. James Anthony Alawish's Dolan joins us again live in studio. Going to be a great day. Knicks, we got some baseball coming your way as well. And good afternoon, Big Mac. How are you today?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:03)
Do it.
Commit to it. Go for it.

**Craig Carton** (1:07)
Yeah.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:07)
Let's go. I'm feeling great, Craig. How are you?

**Craig Carton** (1:09)
I couldn't be better. It's like, look.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:12)
The weather's been great. Great. It's beautiful driving in or taking the train, whatever you're doing, walking the streets. It's fantastic. We got the biggest party in the city's history coming up tomorrow. This is, it doesn't get better.

**Craig Carton** (1:24)
Yeah.
Tomorrow is New Year's Eve basically, right? Tomorrow because Friday is going to be a drop off. Friday is going to be, hey, what a great party yesterday and then what? Now, thankfully, we have the New York Yankees playing great baseball. Big blowout win yesterday against the White Sox, first place team in the Central. But the Yankees can't beat a first place team. They did, they blew them out, Garret Cole, went six innings yesterday. What is he, two and one now, I think, is his record. But who cares about his record, he got pitched very well. After that solo shot, they started off.
Yep, so we'll get to the Yankees.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:57)
And they beat a pitcher in Martin who had the second best ERA in all of the American League behind only Kam Schlitler.

**Craig Carton** (2:02)
There you go.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:03)
Good game.

**Craig Carton** (2:04)
Obviously, the Mets not so good yet again. They become an irrelevant story very quickly. But I do think that it's still the Knicks. I still think they'll give you an opportunity to express your feelings about the championship, the father-son relationship, the mother-daughter, whatever it might be, your experience, how much it means to you. And I was thinking about this this morning, actually. And I was thinking about parades this morning, okay? And obviously, there's a fear among some people. What's New York going to be like? As you probably have, I've been asked to go on other shows, national shows and TV and radio and whatnot. And I keep telling everybody the same thing.
Nothing bad is going to happen tomorrow for a lot of reasons. Number one, it's 10 o'clock in the morning.
Crime doesn't happen at 10 o'clock in the morning. The way it happens when you're drunk at midnight in New York City. And the hooligans that burned down the bus and ruined that poor guy's taxi cab and got into some fights on the street, most of them are sleeping at 10 o'clock in the morning. Look, I know the bars are open, in part because the World Cup is happening, in part because bars open, because that's how you make a living. And yes, there are going to be a lot of people drinking, there's going to be a lot of vaping, a lot of edibles and pens and this and that. But I'm telling you, I will be shocked if the story on Friday is, New York City couldn't handle a parade and it became East St. Louis. I would be shocked if the story Friday morning is, what happened? Did Karen Bass become Mayor of New York City and the city is on fire?
I think tomorrow is going to be remembered as one of the most fun, without incident parades and moments that we have ever experienced in New York City.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:54)
Yeah, I mean, I think you're right. I'd be surprised if we... It's not the same thing. That night of the championship, we've seen that in multiple cities. And sure, we saw an element of it here in New York City after the championship, but the parade's different. Right, the parade's in the middle of the morning. The parade's about celebrating. The parade's gonna be there, the players are gonna be there. Who knows who else is gonna be there?