In a video for VICE Sports, Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony says living in New York City is a complicated love affair, he says it's the great city in the world, but like any great love, it just makes you nuts sometimes .
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Knicks star Carmelo Anthony, seen with La La Anthony, has a love-hate relationship with the Big Apple.
. "You're not a New Yorker if you don't wake up some days and be like, man, f--- this place."
KLG : Listen, when you can't get crosstown because of traffic, you hate the city. When you can't get any sleep cause of the sirens all night long then it's hard to love your city. On a beautiful spring day when Central Park starts blooming and you can have a hot dog — well you can't have a hot dog anymore, sorry. When you can have a bowl of fruit in Central Park, then you love it. You say it's the greatest place on Earth. Everything is relative.
HK : I think because he dropped the "F" bomb, it caused it to sting a little. I hear him, particularly when someone grabs your cab or you get splashed by a huge puddle on a rainy day. But I feel like there are many, many more reasons to love it than to hate it. I think the hate comes sporadically. And it does! You're not human if it doesn't. But I do think when you walk around New York, most of the time you get this smile like, 'Oh my god, I can't believe that just happened.' Or, 'Oh my god, only here.'
KLG : But you're a half full person as opposed to half empty. You always were. You felt the same way about New Orleans.
HK : Yeah that's true. And it's New York, we use the F-word. We don't just say "It's not great."
KLG : I say freaking.
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's big mouth got him booted from a quiet train.
HK : There's an edge that needs to be there. Okay?
IT'S NO DEBATE: SHUT UP
Leave it to Hoda to quietly be at the center of a news story. She was there when New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was booted out of an Amtrak train quiet carlast weekend because he was talking too loud on a phone.
HK : I saw him. I wasn't sitting in the quiet car, but I saw him heading into it and then getting on the phone. The funny thing is how people react when you're loud on the quiet car — it's as if you'd slapped someone's mother across the face. Five times.
KLG : People are like, "What the freak are you doing?"
HK : That day there was a woman sitting near me and she was loud. Frankly I don't want to hear half of your conversation. I'd like to hear the whole thing or nothing — so either put it on speaker phone, or not at all.