Knicks Owner & Mamdani Trade Insults, Joe Rogan Drops a Bombshell | 6/19/26 FIRST LOOK
The Rubin Report
Emma Dog Productions
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🗓️ 19 June 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" gives a first look to the stories you need to know to start your day including more than a million New York Knicks fans flooding Manhattan for the franchise's first NBA championship parade in 53 years as Knicks owner James Dolan takes a pointed shot at New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani during the celebration; and Joe Rogan alleging that powerful political figures, PACs, advocacy groups, and even former presidents pressured Spotify to remove "The Joe Rogan Experience" during the COVID-19 era over claims of vaccine misinformation, reigniting debates over censorship, free speech, Big Tech, and the role of political influence in controlling public discourse, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, I'm Dave Rubin and this is First Look. |
| 0:07.0 | It's Friday, June 19th, 2026. We've got a pack show for you today. |
| 0:13.0 | More than a million Knicks fans flood New York City for the team's first championship parade in 53 years. |
| 0:20.0 | But the celebration includes a public feud between |
| 0:23.3 | Nick's owner James Dolan and Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Joe Rogan says powerful political figures, |
| 0:30.7 | PACs, and even former presidents tried to pressure Spotify into removing his podcast during the |
| 0:37.0 | COVID era. Let's dive in. |
| 0:39.5 | We start in New York City where more than a million Nix fans pack the streets Thursday |
| 0:44.7 | to celebrate something many thought they'd never see, a NICS championship parade. After ending |
| 0:51.6 | a 53-year title drought by defeating the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA |
| 0:56.6 | finals, the Knicks rolled through Manhattan's famed Canyon of Heroes as a sea of blue |
| 1:02.8 | and orange stretched for blocks in every direction. Fans climbed light poles, office workers |
| 1:09.6 | dumped confetti from skyscrapers, entire families |
| 1:13.5 | packed lower Manhattan hours before the parade began. |
| 1:17.8 | For a franchise that has endured decades of heartbreak, disappointment, bad contracts, |
| 1:23.6 | playoff collapses, and false starts, this was the payoff. |
| 1:28.3 | But while the celebration was largely about basketball, politics managed to sneak its way into the spotlight, |
| 1:34.3 | and it involved Nick's owner James Dolan and New York City's Democratic Socialist mayor, |
| 1:40.3 | Zoran Mamdani. |
| 1:42.3 | The tension has been building for weeks. |
| 1:45.2 | Leading up to the NBA finals, Dolan publicly criticized city officials for imposing heavy |
| 1:51.1 | restrictions around Madison Square Garden during outdoor watch parties. |
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