New York Knicks Playoff Excitement

Happy Fridays slate sts, we are trying something a little new this week Last Friday, Lizzie and I sat down together to chat AIs and popes and anthropics. and the blessing Lizzie got when you were a teeny, tiny baby in nineteen seventy nine. I you've bless my foread And so knowing this about Lizzie, that she was actually a holy figure, I was like, whyy aren't we doing this every week just headed Maybe you would like access to the good stuff. Like Lizzie and I just shooting the shit every week. So here we are. Lizzy, Hi. Hi. A wa first of all, I think we need to tell people that we've known each other Yes, long I have known my husband. Yeah. I have known Lizzie O'Leary. This is true. We worked together at ABC News. We worked for Peter Jennings, which maybe tells you, I mean, the twenty five years tells you, but we put our sneakers on and ran around and handed over scripts. Yes, exactly. Exactly. Very broadcast news. So we've been doing this for a minute. We have real thoughts often express them in the DMs Maybe you wantan to be in the DMs with us. so here you are, welcome, Lizzie, welcome. Thank you. It's lovely to be here Okay. so If you are here, it's because you're a slate plus listener, we are so grateful for you. You help us keep the lights on So Let's get this started. This week we are talking about what? Well, let me do this. Yeah. Lizzy, how are we gonna run this? I think we're gonna should we put like, you know, we got a shot loock and we can run it backwards? That gives you a little bit of information about what I'm gonna talk about. Okay We are each going to bring one thing that we want to talk about with our lovely Slate plus members. Yeah We're calling this the segment what What should we call this thing? Off the record? Yeah. I mean, just ' it kind of is That soundsird. That sounds like kind of sexiz ide Okay we're going to call it off the record. Let's just let's commit to that bit. So you and I are each going to bring like one thing we want to talk about. One thing we want to get off our chest that has been haunting us all week that we couldn't find room for in our Numerous shows Numerous shows, five shows a week. This is number six for the left behinds. Behind but not forgotten How about that? All. Okay, Lizzy. What have you been thinking about this week I have been thinking obviously about the Kicks because you and I both live in New York. the Kicks are on this historic knock on Wood run the Wednesday night game was insane. Totally crazy. They were behind like the whole game whole game and you know, Jayalen Brunson, OG An andobbe. Anyway, Yay. Can you hear it from your house? like what's going on? So after the N run, I went up on My roof. because I get a really amazing view of Flppish Avenue. Yeah. and I could hear cheers all up and down flatbush. That's amazing. Incredible. It was like New Year's Eve is what I was saying. Except like better than New Year's Eve because it wasn't just marking the passage of time, it was marking the victory of your basketball team that you've been waiting to be victorious for a very long time. Yeah, it's great. I mean, I assume you're ha the same issue where at school drop offff, every kid, every teacher likeike everybody's wearing Nick's gear is really fun. It's fun to have a thing to be excited about. Yeah. Totally agree So my one thing is Nix related. Okay I suspect you will know this. There's this clip that went mega viral right after game two. It's this guy, he's got a Nicks hat on. he's in front of Madison Square Garden.. There're all these watch parties now, James Dolan and the mayor and like fight about it. Anyway Does a little chance. Does a little rap. You wantan to do this I mean That's it for now. And if you want to hear the rest of this episode, the way to do it is to subscribe to Slate Plus Unlock sllate plus now by going to slate d. com forward slash what next plus?