The Big Stu-ey: Weeping Tears of Joy (w/ Ariel Helwani)
Stugotz and Company
iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 13.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
An emotional Ariel Helwani joins Stugotz after Game 1 as our Knicks correspondent from New York City to share his full thoughts on the game. Helwani also questions the viral corgi basketball video and whether the dog's owners doctored the footage.
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| 0:00.0 | Ariel Hawani was emotional before the series started. |
| 0:03.6 | He's even more emotional now. |
| 0:05.4 | We talked about crying multiple times headed into the series. |
| 0:08.4 | Last night I was texting with him after the game, three more, three more. |
| 0:12.4 | He said he had to move from his couch 30 minutes after the game was over. |
| 0:16.9 | He was frozen on his couch and I too, too, was frozen on my couch. |
| 0:23.6 | He is the host of the Ariel Hawani show. |
| 0:31.1 | It is live on Uncrowned End, on YouTube, every day, 1 o'clock, and Ariel is with us right now. |
| 0:32.6 | Are you okay? |
| 0:34.1 | How emotional are you right now? |
| 0:36.3 | I'm emotional. |
| 0:37.1 | I'm exhausted. It took me 90 minutes to get out the couch. But by'm emotional, I'm exhausted. |
| 0:39.4 | It took me 90 minutes to get out the couch. |
| 0:41.9 | But by the way, I was loving every second of it. |
| 0:47.1 | I was jumping around from the MSG post show to the ESPN post show to the local news post show, all those little things. |
| 0:48.7 | I was telling my wife, I was like, I can't believe they're talking about this on the 11 o'clock |
| 0:53.3 | news. |
| 0:53.6 | But we're talking to fans in Central Park about the Knicks being three games away. |
| 0:57.8 | I'm savoring every single second of this. |
| 1:00.2 | I felt like I was going to faint in the first five minutes of the game. |
| 1:04.1 | The pace was so dizzying. |
| 1:06.1 | They're wearing those stupid shirts, the pink, the green, the this and that. |
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