Craig and Big Mac Take in the "Insane" Knicks Parade Atmosphere | The Carton Show with Chris McMonigle
WFAN Daily
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🗓️ 18 June 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Craig and Big Mac recap their experience walking through the "controlled zoo" of downtown Manhattan during the New York Knicks championship parade on The Carton Show. They reflect on the emotional weight of the victory, Jalen Brunson’s speech to the doubters, and the "now what" feeling facing fans after ending a 53-year drought.
01:00 - Knicks Parade Atmosphere
06:14 - Security And Logistics
11:32 - Brunson And Parade Speeches
13:51 - Post-Championship Reality
16:46 - Travel And Station Appreciation
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| 0:00.0 | Two o'clock straight up. |
| 0:08.0 | How long you got? |
| 0:09.0 | How long you got? |
| 0:10.0 | It's the Carton Show with Big Mac. |
| 0:14.0 | Yes, sir. |
| 0:15.0 | Woohoo! |
| 0:16.0 | Number to join, as always, 888-808-108-101-19 on a gorgeous, beautiful, perfect. |
| 0:23.5 | Thursday afternoon in New York City and one of the great days, one of the most memorable days. |
| 0:29.9 | One of the days we will tell our grandchildren about. |
| 0:32.7 | Let me tell you the story about the day that New York City shut down to honor the greatest team. |
| 0:40.4 | The New York Knick franchise has had and over 50 years has happened and will continue to be |
| 0:47.7 | enjoyed, not just for today, but for years and years and years. |
| 0:53.2 | And what a privilege it was to be on the streets of Manhattan downtown |
| 0:57.3 | as Big Mac and I met here at Hudson Street and walked over to the parade and we saw dogs dressed like New York |
| 1:05.5 | Nick fans and Dick jerseys and we saw the anorexic ballerinas on stilts rocking Nick jerseys and we saw the anorexic ballerinas on stilts rocking nick jerseys and we saw |
| 1:15.0 | 10,000 cops watching people sell counterfeit nick goods on word street what a great day to be |
| 1:23.2 | alive good afternoon big mac how are you i'm doing great craig yeah that was fun We didn't get anywhere near the parade. We got a block away. But that was really like, to me, again, not seeing the parade. I saw it on TV, obviously. But we were, I don't know, three blocks away, one block down, two blocks over. We were one block away. We're parallel one block. Yeah, parallel one block. Yep. you couldn't walk the streets. It was a party. Blocks were like, you know, obviously streets are, |
| 1:48.0 | are, parallel one block. Yeah, parallel one block. Yep. You couldn't walk the streets. It was a party. Blocks were like, you know, obviously streets are cornered off. Everyone's walking in the middle of the street. You mentioned people selling fake merchandise in the middle of the street. It was an enormous party walking the streets of Manhattan 10 blocks away. Up from 10 blocks away to a block away. We were walking in the middle of the street. Everything was shut off. |
| 2:18.7 | Everyone was in Nick's stuff. Everyone's chanting, let's go Knicks right in the middle of the. So it was more than just the parade. It felt like all of downtown Manhattan was one big block party celebrating the Nick's championship. It was fun to be around even though we didn't get too clothes, it was awesome. Yeah, it was interesting because, look, I've been to the Giants parade. |
| 2:19.0 | I was at the Yankees parade in 2009, and maybe because the expectation of so many more people going to this particular parade versus those parades, |
| 2:27.4 | which is not a knock at all, just the reality of not having a championship in 53 years and not having a parade in 73, not having a parade in 1970, is that it felt like |
| 2:37.2 | they really constricted the flow to the parade route more than ever before. |
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