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Episode #1056: Finally Unleashed
First Broadcast: 6/22/26
First: How about those Knicks! From the greatest come-from-behind victory in NBA Finals history, to ending the 53-year-long drought of NBA Championships in New York City, to the celebrations that permeated the entire city after the Knicks' final win was sealed, to the parade downtown that united the city with, in the words of Mayor Mamdani, "pure unfiltered joy," the 2025-2026 New York Knicks will probably be to basketball what the 1986 New York Mets are to baseball: a team of happily victorious underdogs that the city will never stop being pleasantly nostalgic about. The joyous events of this week couldn't stand in starker contrast to the ugliness of the UFC tournament that was held on the White House lawn only one day after the NBA Finals completed. As both Jon Stewart and Kevin Kruse pointed out, while the Knicks' victory and the celebration that followed were uplifting examples of how a team--and a city--could come together and succeed in an atmosphere where violence is an aberration, the UFC fights on President Trump's birthday in his temporary residence were examples of subjugation and degradation where violence is the point, all to supplicate one man who, at times, doesn't even seem capable of enjoyment. Do you suppose it's that same ever-encroaching boredom with his life that's also the reason why Trump is so eager to surrender reach a deal--any deal!--with Iran and be done with the war he started there already? Or perhaps the same lack of true interest is why he half-assed renovations of the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., and turned it into an algae-ridden swamp? Will more progressive Democrats and Democratic Socialists win in this year's primary in New York City, continuing the trend that Mamdani started last year? I guess we'll find out at least one of these answers soon enough! Remember to vote if you still can!
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last updated June 21, 2026
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