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Our old friend Josh Rodriguez of the dime with Josh and Kwob, Josh, thanks for hopping on.

How are you doing the Knicks are in the final day. Let's go. How are you doing? 27 motherfucking years, man. It might be the last, so I'm going all in, man. Wimby's going to rule the NBA for the next 15 years. This is the only opportunity I'm going to get. Can you show everyone Josh got merch? Josh got finals merch. Hell yeah. Let's fucking get it. Stop in, bro. You got the Eastern Conference Championship. Where did you get it from? At the foot locker on 34th Street, right by the garden. Oh, okay. Okay, so you went, okay, damn, man. Yeah. Official official, official. That's what you're really feeling romantic when you're like, I want to pay the most amount of money possible. This ain't no corner score, you know, old naga, you know what I'm saying? No, fanatics. I see the fanatics logo on that motherfucker.

And that particular footlocker, you walk in and you have to go up an escalator immediately.

But when you walk in, they already had the shirts like right there with somebody handing them to you.

Like I know what time it was.

I literally got handed the shirt before I even went up the escalator to go into the store. Are Models still around in New York? I know there's one by the Barclays. I don't know if it's still there. But I don't think so. I haven't seen a Models a long time. Models was... Modell, bro, that, Moldels was like bigger than foot locker, foot action,

whatever the fuck. Oh, really? New York, bro. The Knicks were sponsored by them and everything. Oh, shit, that's crazy. And the whiz. And the whiz. And of course, the whiz. Josh, you are a lifelong Nix fan. How old were you in 1999? I was 12. 12 years old.

So first time of your adult life that the team has gotten to Knicks fan. How old were you in 1999? I was 12. 12 years old.

So first time of your adult life that the team has gotten to the finals.

What's this playoffs been like for you and just how giddy and excited are you for game

one tomorrow?

I'm getting excited just because they've reached a level that I think us Nick fans have

been begging for them to reach basically for the past two seasons and that I wasn't sure they really had in them. You know, my take on the Knicks was always that their ceiling is really high, but to get to the ceiling, like they have to climb on the countertop to a back flip onto like the stairs and then take a rope up to the ad. Like it's just hard to get to their ceiling instead of just taking an elevator straight to the ceiling.

And we've seen that ceiling for the past 11 games. So I'm excited that they could be anybody. You know, if they would have beat Cleveland in seven and had trouble with the Sixers, I don't know how excited I would be. I would have like a, I'm just happy to be here type vibe. but I genuinely think they can win it all.

So I'm, I'm amped.

Yeah, like going off what you said, this season was like a roller coaster for the Knicks, you know? There was, I was, I was low key out on them during that spell in January, where they lost, where they lost like eight out of their 10. Yeah. And I was like, yo, I was like, I'm not seeing this team take the leap that a new

roster should take in their second full season together right now, right?

Because, you know, the first season with the new roster, y'all got to figure shit out.

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