Hour 2: Bringing Generations Together

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Welcome back to the show, everybody. We are all rejoicing in the unbelievable Nick game yesterday.
The final 21-27 of the game, the Knicks outscored the Spurs 55-25.
Completing the largest comeback in NBA Finals history. Just amazing stuff.
Amazing, amazing stuff. So you heard such horror stories about the security around the garden and how the perimeter of the garden was kind of roped off and you couldn't get through and it took a long time to get in. Well, I told the story on X and again, people go, of course, people recognize you or you had your press credential. First of all, I wasn't credentialed to the NBA Finals. There were so many of the men and women of the police department of New York at different checkpoints. Some people recognized me from the Yankees, obviously. Most of them didn't.
So the people that had to get through the checkpoints, they did not. So you just had to show them your ticket on the phone. So I parked in a lot on 35th and 8th.
Right where, you know, you couldn't go anymore. You couldn't go past the garden. So they closed off everything at 8th. So I parked in that lot. So from that lot to where I entered the garden on the 33rd Street side, it took me 14 minutes on the walk to the lot to get through about five different security checks and then to get to my seat, 14 minutes. So that was easy peasy, nothing to it. Now here's what I don't understand. Why was there suffocating security the way there was yesterday when the president wasn't in town? And it really became apparent when I was leaving Madison Square Garden.
They wouldn't let you walk, you know, I exited on the 8th Avenue side on 33rd Street and I just wanted to make a right to get to 34th and instead they made you walk left and walk down the 31st and then cross 8th Avenue. I don't understand it and you aren't really allowed to, you know, walk in front of the post office, but most people did. So that's what I did. And I just don't and then when I pulled out of the lot, it was at a standstill. So for me to get out of that lot on 34th and 8th and to get to the west side, to the highway, I'd say it took about an hour.
And it usually takes, I don't know, 15 minutes.
And there was a phalanx of security. One NYPD officer after another and, and tanks and trucks and things like that. Why are we doing it? The garden only holds 19,000, what, 812? It's the same amount of people that go to every single big game. And there's not that kind of suffocating security. And it wasn't a clinching game. We have to worry about people overturning cars or, you know, civic unrest or anything like that. It was not a game that had clinching capabilities. But still, almost like NYPD tanks on 34th Street, almost all the way down to the Javits Center, I would like to know why. I mean, I want to be safe just like everybody else, but I never felt like I was in danger. Again, the president wasn't there last night. So why was there presidential-like security? I understand on Monday, and I'm not complaining. I'm just wondering why. Because again, every Nick game is sold out. Every Nick game is sold out. And there's not that kind of security for you to walk to your car or get in your car and takes an hour to go like four blocks.
Amazing. I just wonder why.
So I got a seat, thanks to the people of the Espn New York, in the Espn New York suite. And I got, you know, Stephen A was there. Sham Sharani, by the way, I met him for the first time. Obviously, I know his work. And he was sitting close to where I was sitting. And the fourth quarter starts. And he looks at me and goes, this game's not over. I said, what? He goes, Knicks are making a run. Now, I don't know if they're going to win the game, but they're making a run. It's going to come down to the last minute. That's what he said out of the blue. And boy, was he right. But the person, Michael Wilbomb was there. A lot of our sponsors, great people, that advertise on the station. But somebody showed up in the second quarter and it was ASAP Rocky. Now, for those that don't know, ASAP Rocky is a performer and he's also married to Rihanna.