Honoring Family and Legacy

Welcome to Pablo Tore, Finds out. I am Pablo Tore, and today we're going to find out What this sound is sundress, no underwear Just just cheeks moving from side to side, respectfully. you know? respectfully respectfully will consent. rightight after the ad Yeaho This is this is a Is that Jalen's Chipoli order That is purple Doritos There's a lot. there's a lot Are we where we are rolling Okay, great Have you opened a bottle of champagne recently, Desas? U Not to my knowledge That's why right I won't be in classy situations like that that often I think me opening this bottle of champagne would be Dangerous idea It's lot goes into it. You got to take the foil off, you got toa take off the the little mesh cage, the muzzle That's right. I don't know the proper wine terminology. the dental dam. The dental dam. there you go So the dental danceans we're bring them back this year. Nxt dental ds for everybody So Diaz, thank you for being here, by the way. Thank you for having me. We thought of you immediately. We have canan you describe the things on the table? We have what makes America great again? No, what makes New York? Because New York is no longer part of America. We are our own sovereign nation. And these are some of the great things that you see in New York. We got bagels. We got Snapple, which is from New York, we got Chipoli whichich is as close to New York as Mexico can get. You know, we row here. This is this is all according to now, like the legend of this Nick team. Yes. This is Jaen Brunson's Bodeo order as he described it, I already have it before you got here. Yes. and it's delicious. So what his bagel order is everythingverything bagel with cheese, hash browns and spicy mayo Purple Doritos. Purpple Doritos and peach and apppple. The purple Doritos is surprising And I think one thing I've seen on Twitter and social media is a lot of people are saying, hey, I eat that same breakfast. Why aren't I doing as much in life as Jalen Brunson Yeah, you know the answers. You know the answer Also that same logic applies to the Chipotle order, which is Michael Brid Bridges. Yeah. Yes. the same way Weemby did a full one hundred eighty on his reputation. Michael Bridges did a one hundred eighty on his reputation yesterday with the IG Lve. He is literally the coolest person in New York right now. got one word Savages Oh man I'm gonna try and call Miguel Bridges And we'll see if he if he has time for us or if he's still hung over because I imagine he's still hung over. Well I respect he was drinking high level tequila. So I don't even I don'm not even sure if he's getting hang over on. I was going to say combining the tequili he was having with a burrito bowl with white rice and double chicken, tomatillo green chili salsa, roasted chili corn salsa lettuce This is very high protein order that he's apparently ordered every day for more than a decade, allegedly. Yes, that's what I've heard too. And this is like the idea that Chipoli, you know, people look down on Chipoli, but these are what these athletes are doing on their way to a championship So that means you could that is my favorite part. You can order Chipoli now and be like this this help them win the championship is gonna to help me Once you win a title, everything you did before winning that title is now justified as a strategy for championship contention. Not just for the athletes, but also for the viewers. likeike whatever bar you went to, you got to keep going there, whatever drink. If you got the nachos from the most disgusting dive bar in New York, you better keep eating those nachos. We're running it back. I also like how that this table, the food on this table Looks like what you'd imagine like OG An Anobbe is eating becausecause whenever he shows up in public, it does look like he himself is And again, what Newk you can't relate to this. It looks like he is absolutely just Thoned out of his mind What 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 he's been awesome in doing this too is listening to us and just hearing us out Listen, that was me when I moved to LA. and I found that you can get ten grams of weed at the dispensary without any limit. Just sit in there, just stoic. So people were just like, I think he's introverted, no, he's sm He smacked in front of George Stehanopoulis. That's a high level with smack. Like that is the kind that's the kind of smack you get in like o two off a weed. I don't even think that's legally allowed anymore. Yeah, that is the if I don't move the T Rex can't see me Yeah level of stone. That's the kind of high where you can see your heartbeat Y'all listening, don't know I'm talk about, but those of you who have been there like, yeah, yeah those are the good days. By the way, just to explain what's happening here. Um our staff. full of Nick fans that never Ounce of conflict about being a Nick fan, which to say, I I can't celebrate this the way that everybody on our staff has been celebrating it, the way that you have been celebrating it, which I want to get to. We have exclusive footage, I think Allegedly allegedly allegedly of Jesus. And so We're a local show. You are. And like one of the things that you said and I I say this because I didn't have the balls to say it, but this is exactly what I told in real life, friends of mine But you put it on Twitter because Of course, you are the bard of the city of New York. And after the last now six days of celebrating, this is what you posted This is like reverse nine and eleven It was It was it's it's true It's it's just true. People are just like that's terrible. It's like, no, it's a beautiful ide Like yes, it kind of reminds you. Do you remember that Michael Jackson song Earth song? and in the end like all the animals started com come back to life. I really expected the World Trade Center to pop out of the ground again. Like I anything could have happened on Saturday I mean, I can be very sort of like emotional about this, I realize. And thinking about like, I grew up born and raised In Murray Hill beforefore it was a place where consultants went to go vomit. when it was a place for families. This is walking distance of Madison Square Garden. And The way that this city feels, I lived here for forty five years. It's never felt like this. Never literally just walking here Pe pointing at my shirt and going, we did it or people on the train, they see your nextick stuff and like, good morning champ We really feel like we're in like the most New York centric hallmark movie ever I feel like I'm going to find my midwestern love and he's going to rescue me from this Wretched existence. It does it does feel like this is everybody's living like beauty and the Beast. It's like that scene when Belle is like walking through. little toout ofake of morning. get under her arm, but it's New York supposed bacon and cheese. Everybody, everybody feels like that. It' The funniest part is just like, we always kind of, you know, as Nick fans we're always like, one day we're gonna to win it. We weren't ready for this. We were not ready for the fallout. L just the vibes, the niceness. The thing that every Nick fan always said, which is that winning a title would be different here than it is anywhere else It was underestimated. It really was. Also every Nick fan and I'm guilty of this, every time he was like, what's going to happen when the Nicks were We were like, we're gonna to burn down the city. And it's literally the opposite. Everyone has become so nice. So I want to establish this. Yes, where there a couple of school buses that were set on fire Y. Yeah, I mean that happens. W there was there a cab that people got on top of and I felt bad for the driver? Yes. Yes. But as a matter of like, what was the betting line on how much damage there would be versus just the utter deellirious sharing and feeling of community with your fellow man I mean, it got to a point where you had to stop yourself and if you had destructive impulses, you couldn't go through it. because me myself personally, I wanted to steal the intrepid from the Westide Highway. I wanted to drive it through Times Square. I don't care that it's landlocked. And I said, you know what? we're not going to do that. We're not going to steal a warship. But if there was any day where the security guard might have been like Yeah, Yeah. yeah, let's take it for. Security gu. Even NYPD was standing down. They were just like NYPD was like, hey, I don't see anything And I was trying to think of like why it is that all of this feel specifically like this. And I think it's not just the Kicks, although it's very clear that no team would make New York City feel this way. And as Yankee fans, both of us, we've experienced so many we have Nothing like this. Never felt like this. Nothing like this. The thing that I think about is that there is nothing like feeling like you are David, but also Goliath Like it's th I was thinking about all of the cliches that we tell ourselves that we believe and how this is now manifesting in real time The whole thing of if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. Frank Nach should said that That is some real, I am the underdog, but also the favorite energy If you're not New York, just to be terrifying. It's like New Yorkers already had a battery in their back or now it's lithium battery. Now it's just we're like, o, I'm in one of the most amazing cities on Eth. Therefore I'm amazing. and now it's just like every everything you do now is magical. Like even just get on the subway, like you scan your card and there's like a rainbow behind your hand. It's just like everything is just feels just ten times better than it did before the next one. And I think it's also like it's the thawing. It's the thawing of like the pandemic Yes, of people realizing, oh my God, it feels so good to be around humans. I think even more recent, if you remember the winter we had, Yes ice the f blizzard. Historic L peopleople were looking on social media like how could you survive? Do we had to survive the great Trader Joe's debate? Are you allowed to stockpile Trader Joe's food at your house? Are you a terrible person for doing that? People wanted to kill dogs for their owners leaving dog feces on ice and New York just We felt like we were down bad. I remember there was a couple days People just like, I'm not going outside. It's too cold. And I also remember people were saying, As cold as this winter is, that's how hot this summer is going to be. And the Nicks have just taken out to the next level. So now it is not you can't even have fear of missing out. You have to be outside. Correct. correct. It is the sort of thing where like the entire city feels like, you know that day. And I will be the most u the most unapologetically Hetero normative, I will ever be on this show. Js go The first day when like you see a sundndress. Oh yeah. The whole city is wearing. the whole city sundress, no underwear. Just just cheeks moving from side to side, respectfully. You know? respectfully respectfully will consent. God dab it J the kind the kind where Again, heteronorrative, you make eye contact with someone else as this person walks behind the sundress and you say, salute my shorts. It's just it's just incredible. It's the sort of day when you're walking around and suddenly you see Elmo's head on a spike. Yes. Jesus, can you describe what this video shows? The video shows New York City taking its revenge on a traitor. Also a fraud who has been lying about his aid for years. you know what? we've exposed him We exposed him like a Dominican pitcher with a bad birth certificate. Elmo, you were in our hearts. And then you said, I want both teams to have fun. G, you gotta pick a side. You can't can't can't be halfway in halfway out and And that's why you're on the pike. You're no longer on Sesame Street. You are you have to Elmo you got to do something big for the city to get back in our good graces. How does Elmo come back from this? Because Sesame Street for those who are not familiar That's New York City. That is San Antonio, the Alamo is not a character. It's not maybe in was it Pewey Herman's big adventure The Alamo was a thing because that's where his bike was, But other than that, no cultural references there And now Elmo needs to do something. How would you advise? what what is what can Elmo do to reclaim his New York credibility Well, I saw Wemby at a children's hospital. couple of days ago, so listen, Elmo, go see them, sick kids T Son We need to see a PR blitz from Elmo. I want to see him helping old ladies onto the bus. I want him to be delivering hot meals to shut in seniors. Elmo, you better be doing everything for New York this so. I want to see you picking up litter at Bryant Park after concerts. Elmo, you you owe us so much. Yes, We need Elmo to go Japanese World Cup fan. Here we go, Elmo You got to start from the bottom and work your way back in our hearts But as a sports fan Game. that I will always consider like a core memory was game four I've not talked about this on this show since it happened I watched with my friends from high school at the community room of my parents' building in Maray Hill, and we watched on a projector that my dad had brought and my entire family, they're all Nick fans It's rare to feel like you are resesponsible. For what happened It is sportingvent like that, but that was that's the unmistakable feeling. Yes is that everybody did this together. It's every little thing, what shirt you wore, where what you drank, whereere you watched it. What were you doing with your hands when certain plays were going on? Did you hope enough And' little things like that. that doesn't sound real enough, but did you have enough faith in your Nicks because as Nick fans, we've had our hearts broken so many times that thats tends to be the default and this team is like no, we're no longer like that And game four was like the biggest Litness test as a Nick fan it was like do you believe in this team? because the team was literally like, whether you believe in us or not, we are winning and get a board and Again, game four, it still hasn't really hit me. Like every now and then I listen, I'm still watching every piece of nick content I can see. even as somebody who can't doesn't have the ability to feel it the way that people who never gave up on the team have felt it. Watching people watch game four is like seventy five percent of the last week for. I love it. I love every every blurry Instagram video. I love just just any kind of photo, just watching the reaction, but then also the act remembering the actual moment We mark come back in the history of the NBA in the history of the NBA Fals, why would you allow the Kicks who have that statistic. Why would you allow Kicker Bocker fans to now walk around with that knowledge that not only did we win We had the biggest comeback in the history. of the finals. I don't think it's possible to have more fun watching a sporting event And I've watched a lot we've all watched a lot of sports. Yes. And this is the thing that I think radicalized people. Like I will say like of course, during the playoffs, the Kicks had, you know, the greatest point differential in the history of, you, the playoffs and all that stuff It was it was that moment in particular when I just sort of thought to myself There are a lot of people here otherwise cared all about sports and now they've gotten addicted. They said afterfter that, everyone ran out, bought their Nicks hats, their Nick t shirts. People were saying, you know, if you are not real Nick fan, you can't enjoy this. You are here for this. We can't talk like that because you have people Game for will be the start. Yeah of their lifelong love for the Kicks. Who are we to gatekeep this? So much of being a New Yorker is a think piece about what qualifies. And again, both of us are born and raised here. not a question for us. Not a question The joy, the best part of both the city and the Nick Bandwagon is watching it fill with people who make it better because They weren't here before. Yes. And now they are and the party is greater because of their enthusiasm is and You know, not to not, you know, not to denigrate us actual born and raised native New Yorkers. Just kind of a dust on us We've been through so much that, you know, as a Neworer, you know, you don't want to be cringe. you don't want to be too enthusiastic about stuff, but these like some of these people I was watching game four. And this girl, she was like, this is the first nick game I've ever watched. Right? And she was there because her friends and she was like, no, I'm all in I am all and. I'm watching this is my team now. And this is like I like imagine that's your first nit game you ever watch and The tipping happens and now you run out the bar and you high five in strangers, different ethnic groups, different social you high five in social senior citizens. It was such a moment And I mean, like, Ly, I'm glad I got to take part of it, but then also like you're saying watching other people Like how much it meant for other people and like older people, younger people, every it was just such a great ure moment. And I think there is like there's a tendency in sports and I get it to to purity tests Can you identify Ronald Bachman in a lineup? Yes. I mean, but that's the thing. It's like if everyone's having fun, do you want be whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa What was Ronny Turyov's stats on Tuesday? like you you don't want to do that. Yeah, what were you doing when Chris Dudley tried to throw a basketball his sh? What which basketball player on the Kickers nicknamed the shotmaker and the heartbreaker Rob Baker. Ron Baker. R Baker, the bangs Tyler Koollek, I like to think there's a little Ron Baker in T. You see it. You see it why that's why those is my guys. That's also I love about the Kicks windning because people just like, oh, it reallyiterally felt like the end of an Avengers movie because people were just throw out any random person that ever played for the Kicks and like there's somebody there with either the jersey or simple teier coming out or it might be them Yo, Mache Lamepe might be on a parade on Thursday.. and he will be applauded like a conquering hero. It's always funny like which Nick fans, which Nicks the Nick fans have a special place in their heart for Galinari Dil was there is an Italian restaurant in the Ya village via de la Pach, which I don't even know if it's still open. but I remember walking in and, you know, get a charcuterie just like whatever what do you say And looking up and seeing a framed photo of Danillo Galinari. You love to see that You just love to see like a random person you're like, well, how did this happen? How like there was a Not even sure it's still open. There's a pizzeria on like the I want to say in the eighties and they have the Ronalo Bkman Like And I was like, does he work here or does his father own this placeace? But listen, we love some Ronaldo Bookman. Absolutely. And by the way, Viiaela Bach is still open. I am being told, which is great. Also, I should include this as a journalistic effort to be very thorough in all of this point out this is belated, so excuse me. we here at Pabatori finds out, did request an interview through Sesame Workshop, offering Elmo a chance to comment about all of this, and Sesame claimed that Elmo would be too busy, quote, in studio all day and unable to do any interviews That's a lie, when on my way here, I saw Elmo, he is live on Instagram live. He's drunk like Mael. He's like he just slured a mess For the number elo Yo, I uh I think it's really important to point out that game four was something that you decided to throw a watch party for Yes I did and do you don't kill me Nick fans because it worked out In my heart of hearts, I was like, what are you doing I was like, you are going to break every superstition, every tradition. L you are going you' going ruin everything. So I was I was kind of nervous about that. But what I really liked about the shot of Jesus piece of my show. Yeah, the fans came out. So people were just like, I got a chance to watch the game with you. The amount of people who were just like, I didn't havewhere else to watch the game and I wanted to watch the game with other people And that like I'm just watching people looking around and it didn't become about them being there with me. Like everyone's like their fist to their mouth of just watching I could do like a couple of jokes here but even I'm going through it and I was like, I got to be happy at this watch party while my team is just being utterly. cut it at halfim and there was like positivity and I was like, Yeahah, I'm be positive, but that comeback Yeah, so my again, I'm Filipino My dad, my brother and my family, they're all Nick fans. and You know how hard it is for a Filipino person to curse Filipino basketball player. It's like Dylan Harper. Yeah. the amount of curse I never thought I'd see that And luckily we have Jordan Clarkson representing on the Kicks But who's now asking Twitter apparently, what should he name what bur should he name is his child? D didnn't spell Burrow correctly but you know what? You're a nick. you don't have spell. That's how're spelling it now. He really didn't spell anything correctly. But nonetheless, I hope he chooses Staden Island I mean, is that the best? I think there's some poetry.atin island Clarkson. an island that used to have a garbage dump on it. out the Fresh kills. Now being sort of renovated into the image of, of course, the real Saviors of the next season, which is the Wut Tank Klan. Wow That is like full full circle, like Staten Island deniggrrated, looked down upon. now is back on top. likeike a certain team Nothing man said it By the way, shout out shout out to Method Bad and shout out to the Woo Tank clan for Playing halfftime of game four. Yes Can you I just the We're talking about like the emotional spectrum of just like vibes Yes, the commitment to perform the out of your songs in front of a crowd that needed desperately to feel something that was not Uh Total. Dpression, especially after game three. Also shout out to the Ns organization for doing it right because they announced Wu Tang was coming and as New Yorkers and rap fans, we were like H in the Woo tank is showing up. Be' going to be there. Yes, because if listen, I love the Woo. We all love the w unpredictable talent and natural gang. However, if it was just like Rebel INS a you God and maybe three people from Killer Army, I don't know. Woo Gambinos Shorty Shorty Shishen, like Fredrerick Weiss. Oh man. Papa Woo justust ends it with a moologue Do it go over the same way? No, but we had no, they brought the A game. They brought the A game and Wu tang is one of those things it like transcends your race in New York City because everyone, white, black, everyone knows Everyone has a Wu Tang memory. Everyone grew up on Wu Tang. You got cops with Wu Tang tattoos on their arm. like Yes. everyveryone MET HOG, man, come on. That's that's quintessential New York music and that was what was needed for game four I can't even think if If there was any other rapper other I guess like JayZ or somebody, but who else could you possibly? But there's something to the superhero Svior Sequence of events in which it felt like the portals opened up Yes and out came the starting lineup of the Wuta Inlan. Yes and When metetam Man says Friend of the show, Methed Man says Fix it five what' talking about Nixon five at the end five. It's like that's it. You know it's Freddy, Nixon five It's not just something from that night. Now it's still a thing Like you pass people and like Nix of five It's not before it was like now it's now God blessed. Yes. It is.'s it's it's our new roll tide I cannot wait to just be annoying give be like a mix of five The way that New York feels, it takes us It's a Saturday. Yes You may have heard that the Kicks are NBA Champions That's rumors But we have video of Jesus reacting u to that. particular event in his life What' that doing it here Yes. I sa I saw some school buses that were unoccupied and no cops were around about T Square. And I was like, let me get to the bot I was like, let me get my pablo on and investigate this. Let me find out what a pre incinerated school bus looks inside. Very quickly, my PR training was like, boy, you're about to catch such a felony charge if you don't get off this bus right now So you know, I got off, but I had to see what wass going on. I had to be around of people. There start thing about was It was like a rolling chaos It that was that was for those again who are not watching, you have missed just spirit of Times Square made manifest in an empty abandoned school bus. There was like five school buses in a row right there on Fty secondcond street, like right in front of you know, former iconic Senor Frogs You couldn't leave Tes Greare because all the subways were shut down. They weren't letting anyone in or out the subway. So everyone's just kind of milling about. and I even said a tweet that it felt like a street fair, like a very rowdy street fair with no prune juices or any kind of natural beverages And just looking at people everyone wanted to climb on top of the buses and jumping on top of the buses. And after that it got a little darker. But just people just wanted to just celebrate and just do stuff and jumping on top of the buses was fun and then they started ripping the hoods off and breaking the glass. but you know went a little too far. But the theory of like what do we learn about, what did we find out about human behavior? is that there is I think there is a certain type of person that has encountered New York City and realized There is no improving on the concept of a city Full of people. Yes. because I want to be around people That was a sickness after the nick game. Like everyone was like, I got get to masc Garden. Everyone said, I have to get it. And the thing is like NYPD was like, do not it was like that comma thing was like, do not come, do not come. And we was like, no, we're going to basask with the barricadade. And you' like no polling polling is still open. Listen, if you are online for the Championship, stay online We just everyone was just trying to get closer to Masc and Garden because Previously for every other playoff game, we were allowed to celebrate outside, you know, all the gambling places, Rothy had the little Cusi robot, but that was the place you went. That was like, you know, not to be sacrilegious. That was the mecca That's where you went. You made your pilgrimage there. So everyone was like, I want to be with the other Nick fans after the Nicks win. And they were like, no, and we were like, I if we can't bring the party to MSG, we're going to party around MSG. And that's what we did. Yes. And so you continue your commute. So the institution, I guess, that is still technically known, although it has changed radically on the inside. Penn station Yeah, yeah. Also I didn't realize that, you know, you could do those little jokes and NYPD is like, I know who you are, Jesus. And I was like, all right, I'm gonna to load my voice now I'm not trying to get te. But o, that was we were trying to get out the station and they weren't letting anyone out the station And so we're all there like, what do we do? because everyone came through the gates already. And even though, you know, we're having the time of our life as a New Yorker, I'm like, whoa, whoa, I'm not paying too fares. Enough is enough buddy. I didn't win a championship. But we were just trapped there. And so what people had to do because there was too many compops for everyone to hop the turns out to get back out. So I think someone came one a train came in and once the door opened, the emergency exit, everyone just ran in and we just dispersed and went to other entrances around the city to get back out because we were getting to that streets any way we could I do want to clarify for people and this is a bit of Jesus' lore is that your dad, your late father. Yes actually did look like Patrick Ewing. He did and also as a child, I thought Pat Ewen was my father. Ah Recipes, dad, there he goes. Look at him This is this is back When as Jamaican immigrants, you could only afford smiles for your children, and that's why he's not smiling We had to save up money for that after like he got a good job at the bank. But no, like my father loved Patry Ewing. I remember in neighborhood I grew up in Wakefield, the wakefield section of the Bronx East, thirty third, northeast Bonx Very Jamaican neighborhood Every store had up like a little patchy Uan poster, especially with Golden Cust Goldencross had the biggest Patche Ewing pitcher. It was like a frame piter. And as a child, I remember Jamaican patty company Goldencross. And I just remember like one day my father was just he was probably yelling at me for like not investing in stocks and bonds at seven or something like that. And I just remember looking at the Patchy Uwing poster. I was like, that's my real dad And I was like, and one day he's going to rescue me and I'm going to live in the Nick Mansion, I guess. And it turned out my dad was my real dad, but he always was a huge fan of Pata Ewing And it was just like, if you look at Patry Ewing, he embodies everything being Jamaican is hard worker You know, left everything out there never got the ring still showing up s still there and now we especially appreciate Paty Uing because now he dresses like an old Jamaican. Oh I love it. So famously, the hardest working NBA player as measured in sweat. Yes that we'd ever seen had leg had braces on every joint on everything. he had the man, I don't have I have no idea if he has any fibers left in his knees because he left it all out there And yet, Patrick Ewing during this finals run has sounded in a way that speaks directly to your childhood vision. Yes. I had never heard before. Nither have I. This is AJ D Bana, the would be number one pick of the draft this month talking to Of course, Jesus' dad I be a C.. J. thinking the testament of Listen. Listen. I had never heard that. No one heard that.veryone like people were just like, was Patrick did that Patry Ewing the basketall player or Patrick Ewing my landlord who clearly just painted over the light switch when I moved to this apartment? It takes us to another case, perhaps of allegedly mistaken identity because Jesus' commute continued into the night Has Brian barked out? Yes. the the go guys That's right. That is future mayor of New York City, Timothy Shalamy. Now some people are saying that it's impossible for him to been there because he was in San Antonio in the locker room. I don't know if that's true. I'm looking at We're sort of pushing in on this video and it looks like it's pretty clearly Timothy. Look at the dance moves that Thats straight L Gardi right there. Exactly. It sounds like he wants us to call him by his name and it is in fact, Timothy Shalamay. That's the king of Dune You know. And look also S people do the thing where he's like jumping one foot through his other leg by holding his other foot. People half of New York is like he's doing the nineties. He's doing like the kiden play. everyone was like he's doing an emo So pick what you're doing, What your age, what does it look like to you? Also shout to, peopleople like, oh, they shut down traffic. No, they didn't shut down traffic. Noone those cars could go anywhere because traffic was just blocked. So everyone just started having a dance party, which made things worse. I would say that one lesson we also learned about New York City is that they can't run over all of us. They can't can't get they can try But then they just gets embarrassed. They like a car trying to run you over at two miles per hour.' like, hey, what are you doing? Come on. that doesn't even hurt. And also you have to remember the World Cup was also happening. R. So you had Brazilians out there celebrating and then in a couple hours, we had the Puerto Rican dayay parade. So this crowd is made up of Brazilians, Puerto Ric' Nick f it did not feel real It felt like it felt like an actual Manhattan project. It did like creating a nuclear weapon out of a multiethnic melting pot. It felt like on the in the Avengers movies like after they reverse when Thanos did the snap, even though if you do the logistics of that, that's not a happy situation. Like you moved on, you have a new family and your wife pops back up, like I thought you got snapped away But no, this was just just ecstatic and just dancing and just just pure jubilation And I think the thing that the Brazilians I saw Brazilian, again, in their yellow jerseys, Brazilian World Cup fans testifying to how impressive it is Like Nicks Fandom, how impressive that is. And I think it's worth explaining to everybody who's just like new to the bandwagon and to the New York sports scene. Nick Fandom was never like this never. L that's and when we say like we welcome again, speaking as a New Yorker, but you as again, like the mayor of all of this Welcoming the casuals aboard Ag, you went to LA. you came back welcoming people into this coalition. Y That's this is new This is really new and also shout to the left coast next the fan cllub in LA where they watch like They're at the point now the original members can't go to thirty three taps to over like because so many new people They're there and it's like it's the place to be. You have new people in LA. like I am a Nick fan. I got my jersey. I have to go watch the Nicks to the point where some of the original members had to watch the Nick game at home because they're getting pushed out O the Nick fan cllub we made in Silverake. Gentrification isificational part of for New Yorkers. But like you said, like the beauty of the bandwagon, like you can' even call them, they're baby Nick fans. Yes. They're baby Nick fans and they're they you know they're going to for years talk about OG. They're going to talk about Michael, they're gonna talk Landry Shamot. All they know is a version of Carl Anthony Town. Yes, that is one of the toughest mother It's just tough in the NBA too the point now. Also my new thing now if I hear any Nick slander, I get so defensive. Don't talk about my babies not talk about my babies I bfur them myself But speaking of parental relations, I do think we should point out that one noted celebrity Nick fan does seem like he found a child of his own. I mean, this is what it's about. It's about reuniting. It's about the children you abandon and coming back once they've achieved greatness. John Tururo who is at he's at Liberty Games. He's at Nick's Games. He is a New York icon. He's everywhere. a genuine icon reuniting with what is obviously his own son in Landry shhamot. See the beauty of the championship. Listen I get it, sometimes if your kid doesn't accomplish enough, you can't come back until they achieve something great And now that his son has achieved a championship, he can reclaim him. Also shout to the Landjy Shot, the Dp Godd. I did not know He can dress. He he is out here quuietly L like not only every race that you mentioned Yes combined into one. that melting pot is Landry Shamot. Landry Shamot looks like a Bodega worker and the person that owns the building of Bodega is in.s it's incredible practice And then I just got to spare a thought. Because all of the now again, the Chalam is in all of it. and Ben Stiller has been out here for a long time and credit to him But I just Mike likeike rolling through Fort Green. in his own like pokemobile L's standing in the sunroof. He's's the black pope New York, because you know, the white pope is still Franccesis not going anywhere. But no abolutely. But Spike is like Spike is every one of us We watch Spike. it's it's kind of hard It makes you realize how old you are because they show baby Spike at early nick games when his when his his without the grays without the grays skinny Mars Blackmen era. just like just looking like the average young guy on the train. And then they show because they have that add down to like day one dayay one And everyone's like, Oh, this is a great photo. It's not it's sad Be then you realize how many years you lost Just waiting for this day. L Daisy were just like, like, I remember there were Ts they was like, all right, the next they finished a strong sixteen wins this year, all right We learned from this, but Sike was always there Sike you can never say Spike was a fair weather fan. Sike was there at Nick games. He was there traveling for Nick Games. he is Every one of us, if we had the money to go to every N game. Spike u By the way, also, speaking of the Pope also had an autographed Nick Jersey signed by the Pope by the Pope. And the Pope then recently was seen holding a Nick Jersey because of course I don't know if this is the reason, but I will say that like no Catholic university has gotten greater publicity than Villanova. It's so true as a result of Miguel Bridges and Josh Hard and Jayen Brunson. And by the way R IP Dante Du Vincenz We miss you brother I miss him during this time also because he did post the greatest tweet I think of of of all time. when he said on august seventeenth, twenty eleven at eight twenty PM quote to my dad. I'm on now Question mark because I don't w want to play soccer, Question mark I had on a Dante jersey game three and the amount of people who are just guys got sad when he saw it. because the thing is you have so many fond memories of Dante. You have that sequence. Isaiah' hardart is on tip back to Dante. and then also, you know, like you feel like Dante should have been here. Dante was part of this group. You know, ideally in a world where there's no there's no salary caps and people don't have money and stuff and it's just all friendship and you can feed your family or friendship. Dante doesn't leave. But you know, Dante got the bigger bad and also we had to watch Dante get injured. Yes. limping around. He showed up in the city and we were like, are they going are they going show him And Dante, we all love Dante because Dante reminds us of if you're a native New Yorker Y white friend who went on to become a NYPD cop. he's not the best cop But you know what? he's going to get benefits retire in Florida. I we love him for that. That's right. And he still will be the all time next single season record holder for three pointers made. Dante, even though he's not, he doesn't get a ring for this, he still has a ring in our heart And Dante is still beloved And like even like when my cy was showing in the jerseys off, he put his hand. Yeah I like I was like I was like the d. Did he actually die U ye, no. I I prerevious high water marks, I remember going to It was the David Lee double overtime Tippin spepeaking of Tippens I was there. I was there. Oh, you were there too We were both We didn't know each other. I was there with my sister. That was one of my favorite nick games ever. spepeaking of just Little white chocolate TV shows. David Lee with fractional seconds left I was and that felt Like it was as good as it was good. It was. it was It was the we played the Bobcats You know what sad? I remember walking out of the garden. So elated and just so happy. And the way it would work, you'd leave the garden and you'd go back to the reality of New York And you just pass people and they look at you like what are you so happy about? And they'll be like, oh, I guess the Kicks played tonight Like like the all the train is going to be crowded and Nicks played. Like it wasn't now people' like our Nicks. It's like it wasn't our Nicks. It was like, oh, you're one of those weird Nick fans, huh And now we have Michuel Bridges on Instagram Live talking about, hey, maybe we should build a practice facility in Manhattan He's not wrong. But the one thing I asked the Nicks to never get rid of, we need that hill. You can never get rid of the hill withs basket Garded because that video of every opposing player Oh struggling up of the tunnel struggling to walk up that Mount Everest. It wars me because I look at it. how many high heels struggled I' that. I'm also like you guys are in really good shape. Why are you so everyone was like, yo this This hill is no joke I I'm looking through, we took notes on Michael's IG live incidentally. one of the greatest IG lies ever I Walked home yesterday listening to lost by Coldplay on repeat because he reminded me of how good a song is. He reminded all of us how good cool playay used to be Oh Coldpllay used to be fake deep. I was gonna to say Be before ColdPay got gentrified. Yes. You used to listen to clocks and you were like, yeah. Think about my life now I do want to try and call Miuel Bridges Let's go. So We have mutual friends with Michuel Tommy Alter, Tomm being one of them. I amm in this fantagey football league with Michael Bridgers U, And I do want to point out that his team name This past season was everyone's playing for second H and It turns out that was true of the next season, although it wasn't true of his own Fantasy League season because he He did not come close to the metal stand, But wow I've never called Michuel unannounced. We're going to put him on speaker and see what happens possibly pick up You don't know where his phone's at So's the bottom of the East Rriver right now We're going to do the a message though Hey Michael it's Pablo. I'm with Jesus, recording epod of my show and Jesus as An unrepentant and enduring Nick fan wanted to tell you something Lo you, big dog. Thank you for bring a championship to us today. Thank you for being an amazing legend AG Lve Victom picks. See you at the paradade Wing Jay and Brunson basically win a title on slappers only? againgst Victor W Webanyama just repeatedly driving into him is incredible. The ultimate compliment to Brunson is that he makes you feel safe does He does it's it's does itt have the weapons, doesn't have the superpowers, but makes you feel safe. You know, recies from my father and I said this when he died. Growing up in New York, I remember at my father worked at a bank. He wouldn't come home unt like three, four in the morning We lived in the South Pronx. Every night the building we lived had a wooden staircase. So every night I would just hear people coming up the wooden staircase And our front door was right at the staircase. So it was like, I knew the Bronx was bad And it was just like, you just hear these footsteps. You never knew who wass going to come. They're going be like kicking the door or something bad was going to happen But then I'd hear this familiar sound of my father's keys jingling as he comes up the keys. And that's when I knew I could calm down. I could go to sleep. My father's home, notothing bad is going to happen That's what's like, having Jalen Brunson because in the past, we used to have Nicks. We've had many Nicks who the fourth quarter would come and you be like what are we going to do now? are we going Be remember I do that exactly. I do that tweet and it's like Nick game is about to start. I always tweet at the beginning of the fourth quarter. And people are like, Yeahah, because the Kicks are going to do their thing. That's not what that tweet means. For too many years, we've watched the Kicks have a lead in the third quarter and just completely squander it and then it goes down to shot to Mike Woodson It goes down to, you know, tit for tat last two minutes, Fou shot, Foul and end on a mellow shot But now As long as you got Jalen Brunson You got that chance And it's not even like and it's not even thing like maybe Jalen will hit a lucky shot. It's like, Yo, Jalen's about to take this game over. We're not losing That is comparing your dad to the live in super that every New Yorker deserves is a beautiful, beautiful thing to also feel about your sports tooe. It's the truth. It really is as the owner, as a guy who still somehow has, I remember I did a profile of the Mike Woodson era Nicks for ESP on the magazine And never returned apologies to the MSGPR department. We've never been the same since admittedly. You and me, as our dynamic is concerned. But I never returned the seven DVDs that I got from them, which are individual episodes of the Mike Woodson showhow on MSG. Yes If you remember that do I Listen, I'm I consume anything on MSGI. They used have a who was this guy, JB Smooth. Oh yeah dinner the dinner. Classic cinema I couldn't watch enough Steve Sharippa eating. I was say, I think every episode was Steve Sharippa. you know, every now and then a little E Falco, you know, out. That's right. Yeah four courses. shout out, shout out to you and MSG's in house programming. All jokes aside. onene thing I really love about the Nicks winning and championship, you can see how much they internalize winning And now they're talking about their actual struggles. likeike Mikeael on the Instagram yesterday talking about l is to that Kendrick Lamar album after his last loss because he said he was depressed, right? And this helped him just rebuild himself and get in the gym. And you know, like that's something Especially blacken, but especially athletes know you rarely hear them tal about their mental struggles. We know they had to go through stuff. Call Anthony Towns winning this after losing so many family members to COVID. Like I recently lost my mother. I can't even imagine having to play a game after to lose and the way he was close with his mother. like even him just talking about that made me tear up because that is just like He he's so strong. An idea that You have to be strong like that after you lose family, but that's also when you're at your weakest. That's when your support system isn't there. So and like he had a tweet and he basically was just like, we want to just win something. I said to God, just give me at least one win. And people's like, you have a hardot girlfriend. You have all this money But it's just like he doesn't have a family. He doesn't have the people closest to him. So while this championship, it's everything he worked for at the same time iss kind of tarnished because he can't celebrate it with the people that are there for him. But he said, every time he looked up, he saw his mother was there and she was riding with him. And that's why the championship means so much to him. And that's why it means so much to all of us So At the end here, the thing that I'm curious about because I have been tearing up watching, again, other people tear up. Yeah talking about family that never got to see this for fifty three years. Yeah. talalking about how this is as much about The things that they miss about their loved ones, as it is anything else If your parents were around Jesus, And they got to see all of this and they got to see you ty school bus in Timesquare. But like Taringa right now, like my mother loved the Kicks. My father loved the Kicks when they came to New York Phicks had just won a championship. So they were bandwagoning Nick fans and they made us become nick fans mee and my sister, Sot Para, my oldest sister. I remember it's one of the she hates this photo. It's a picture of my father and my sister. They're at Nasters Girl Garden and my father's in a three piece suit And my sister is in like a church dress Because my father was like, anytime you go to MSG, you have to dress up, which is not the case whatsoever. That's what he used to do. He would always he instilled on us going to MSG. We'd go. I remember his damn ear am. like because his boss would give him tickets from working at the bank. Yeah And that's how we'd go. So we had all these memories and I remember like you know, towards like my father and I, you know, two guys and one time we had a little You know, contentious relationship. and I remember he would call me and be like, my flight gets in at four hundred twenty. S to drive the JFK pick up my father and we sit in the car is silence And I remember I would turn to like eight hundred eighty or turn to ten ten wins And they'd be talking about like local news or whatever. and he'd just listening. And then once they said anything about teams. They say about the Yankees or they say something about the Nicks and they'd be like Your next might do it this year Your Nicks are terrible. He always said your're Nicks after ninety nine because he was just so doneum with them because they got so close but he' wass like, I can't keep doing that. He would be astatic and my mother, she would have watched every game. Well, she would have watched the first quarter for every game because these games are a little late. like she she's not standing up after nine, but they would be at the parade. They would definitely would come through. So This is for them as well. This is for them. I think a little Dan, me and my little my little Patrick Ewing shirt with my parents watching this. me, my family just devastated in ninety nine, everyone crying and just like I wish they were here to see this, but this is for them, y'all, this is for them Jesus. Day Daniel G government name Thank you for celebrating reverse nine hundred eleven with me. Thank you for having Pablo. It's always a pleasure being here, but it means even more to be with a native New York girl. And we did this. At the end of the day, the Kicks did this but we did as much as they did. I like to think that when Victor Rembanyama, whose name I haven't even said till the end of this podcast, those two free throws It's because the city of New York climbed inside of him and said, Oh It was It was also also one of probably the greatest performance by Fat Joe just behind you know as as I say, Solon monks cannot prepare you Fat Joke. Oh, nothing can. All right? Even when Buyama was forced to lean back This has been Pablo Torere findinds out, a Meadalark media production And I'll talk to you next time.