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Speaker 1: So Steve um, as we said when we opened the show,

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Speaker 1: paid tribute to Kobe Bryant. Take a listen. Here we

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Speaker 1: are together on music's biggest night, celebrating the artists that

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Speaker 1: do it best. But to be honest with you, we're

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Speaker 1: all feeling crazy sadness right now because earlier today Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: America and the whole wide world lost a hero. And

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Speaker 1: we're literally standing here heartbroken in the house that Kobe

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Speaker 1: Bryant built right now. Kobe and his daughter Gianna and

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Speaker 1: all of those that are that have been tragically lost

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Speaker 1: today are in our spirit, They're in our hearts. They're

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Speaker 1: in our prayers, They're in this building, and I would

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Speaker 1: like to ask everybody to take a moment and just

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Speaker 1: hold them inside of you, hold them inside of you,

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Speaker 1: and share our strength and our support with their families.

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Speaker 1: We never imagined in a million years we'd have to

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Speaker 1: start the show like this, never never, never, never, never never.

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Speaker 1: So we wanted to do something that could describe a

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Speaker 1: tiny bit how we all feel right now. It's so

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Speaker 1: hard to say goodbye to wead. There was also a

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Speaker 1: tribute to Nipsey Hustle on the Grammys led by DJ Khaled,

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Speaker 1: and in that Nipsey Hustle tribute, they also honored Kobe Bryant. So,

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Speaker 1: like Alicia Keith said, Kobe Bryant on the hearts and

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Speaker 1: minds of everyone, especially in LA, in the United States,

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Speaker 1: and around the world, I mean globally. This is this

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Speaker 1: has hit us hard right here, forty one years old. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's just did you see anything those fans, the Lakers

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Speaker 1: fans and just fans of Kobe Bryant, did you all

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Speaker 1: see them gather Yeah around the Staples Center and just

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00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: had a memorial moment. Yeah. LA is very very sad.

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00:31:54,520 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: I mean, they love Kobe Bryant. Kobe Bryant, Right, he

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00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: was the man, he really was, right, Yeah, cat dog

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Speaker 1: you know our engineer, uh that runs the board and

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Speaker 1: takes care of us. Kat Kobe was his favorite player.

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Speaker 1: He didn't talk about anybody else but Kobe all the time.

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Speaker 1: That was his guy. Well, she named her son Kobe

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Speaker 1: after Kobe Bryant. I mean it's serious with all these people.

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Speaker 1: Remember remember when Brandy took her to took him to

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Speaker 1: her prom uh years ago. Yeah, that was a moment,

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Speaker 1: you know. And he was in a Destiny's Child video.

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Speaker 1: He won an Oscar last year, he won an Oscar,

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Speaker 1: an Academy Award made He made music too, Yeah, made music. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he was something special. He certainly was. Um. Magic Johnson

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Speaker 1: called him the greatest laker of all time. Magic Johnson

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Speaker 1: called him that the greatest laker of all time. He

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Speaker 1: said he was a friend, a legend, husband, father, son, brother,

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Speaker 1: Oscar winner and greatest laker of all time. All right, Steve,

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Speaker 1: time to get to today's headlines, please, ladies and gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: miss A and Trip, thank you very much. This is

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Speaker 1: and two with the news. That's right. The world does

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Speaker 1: still more in Kobe Bryant In fact, his crowds converge

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Speaker 1: yesterday evening onto La Staples, Senator honored the stars of

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Speaker 1: music at the Grammys. They were met by the throngs

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Speaker 1: of people who had been their old day, commiserating with

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Speaker 1: each other over the untimely and shocking death of Kobe

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Speaker 1: Bryant and his daughter. Both the FAA and the National

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Speaker 1: Transportation Safety boarder on the scene of the helicopter crash

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Speaker 1: that caused a quarter acre brush fire by the way

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Speaker 1: where LA Sheriff Alex Vinyon Wuava says that the NBA

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Speaker 1: legend and his thirteen year old daughter, Gianna were among

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Speaker 1: the people killed. We have a manifest that indication that

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Speaker 1: there was nine people on board the aircraft, the pilot

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Speaker 1: plus eight individuals at least. For first there was a

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Speaker 1: report there were only three people, and then there was

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Speaker 1: a report that they were five people. Finally that they

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Speaker 1: say that there were nine people. Gianna or Gig Bryant.

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Speaker 1: By the Way, a reportedly talented young basketball player and

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Speaker 1: her coach, Christina Mauser, was also on that crash copter.

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Speaker 1: Others reportedly killed included Orange coach college baseball coach John Altabelli,

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Speaker 1: along with his wife and daughter. His daughter played with

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Speaker 1: Gianni Altabelli. Altabelli was named twenty NINETEENES National Coach of

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Speaker 1: the Year by the American Baseball Coaches Association, just named

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Speaker 1: that last year. There are now four makeshift morils to

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Speaker 1: Kobe today, One at the crash site in Calabasas, California,

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Speaker 1: one outside Kobe's home in Newport Beach, one outside Kobe's

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Speaker 1: Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks, and one, of course,

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Speaker 1: outside Kobe's house outside Staples Center. His fellow players and

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Speaker 1: Admira is still in shock and sadness at the loss

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Speaker 1: of the forty one year old, eighteen time NBA All

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Speaker 1: Star with five NBA titles, considered one of the best

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Speaker 1: athletes period ever. Only a couple of days ago, Lebron

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Speaker 1: James broke Kobe's third place scoring records. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you remember that, but King James could speak only

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00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: admiringly about Kobe Bryant seeing the work, ethic think that

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Speaker 1: he put into the game. He has zero flaws offensively.

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Speaker 1: He could shoot the mare range, he can post, he

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Speaker 1: can make free throws. He has zero flaws offensively, and

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Speaker 1: he was just immortal offensively because of your skill set

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Speaker 1: in your work ethic. I'm happy to just to be

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Speaker 1: in any conversation with Kobe being Bryant, one of the

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Speaker 1: all time greatest basketball players ever played, wearing all time

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Speaker 1: greatest Lakers, and Kareem Abdul Jabbar released to video this

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Speaker 1: in part. Kobe, My thoughts with you, Rest in peace,

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Speaker 1: young man. This loss is it's just hard to comprehend.

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Speaker 1: Go with God. The send An impeachment trial resumes today,

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Speaker 1: the GOP arguing against impeachment. Republicans being urged to allow

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Speaker 1: President transformer National Security advisor John Bolton to testify because

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Speaker 1: in a new book, apparently he backs up what the

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Speaker 1: Democrats are seeing. Last night's Grammy's former Lady Michelle Obama

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Speaker 1: want a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album and Bad

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Speaker 1: Boys for Life number one of the box office for

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Speaker 1: the second week so far, grossing one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: million domestically. Now back to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to show, well, we are all just heartbroken

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Speaker 1: about the loss of Kobe Bryant and his daughter, his

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Speaker 1: thirteen year old daughter Gianna. Last night, sixty minutes to

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Speaker 1: air the special from a past interview when they talked

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Speaker 1: to Kobe about his childhood love of basketball. Take a

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Speaker 1: listen to this, And I played baseball growing up in Italy,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I was forced to play soccer football,

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Speaker 1: but basketball really moved to me. No other sports touched

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Speaker 1: me like the game of basketball. And then when I

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00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: would get really upset and I would get really down,

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00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:42,800
Speaker 1: I can always pick up a basketball and go to

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Speaker 1: the playground and just shoot and just put myself in

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Speaker 1: the scenario of being in the finals game. I will

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Speaker 1: just completely get away from everything that's around me. I

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00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 1: can be able to park with trees and you know,

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Speaker 1: but in my mind, I'm in a gymnasium with thousands

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Speaker 1: of people going crazy, and you know, in game seven,

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00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 1: you know, I can just completely escape that moment and

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00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 1: being in a complete dream world. I love playing basketball.

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Speaker 1: It's nothing like it. This is the ball when it bounces,

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Speaker 1: the sound that it makes the smell of a basketball,

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00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 1: not one that's completely brand new or one that's too old,

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00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 1: but one that's right in the middle, it's kind of

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00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 1: worn down a little bit. It just smells. It smells

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00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,840
Speaker 1: like NBA the nets. You shoot the ball and it

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00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 1: goes right through the net. That noise that it makes

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Speaker 1: when it pops in that up the sneakers as they

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00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:40,839
Speaker 1: squeak on the wood, the strategies, the competition, the camaraderie,

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Speaker 1: the fans, and we used to go on and on

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Speaker 1: and on. See, you know when you hear somebody describe

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Speaker 1: the passion for the game like that, I mean, you know,

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00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: I mean he went on and on and on. There's

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Speaker 1: a whole thing they did in his own words about

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Speaker 1: basketball that he had recorded on a lighter note. That's

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Speaker 1: why I'm not in the league today, cause no, the

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Speaker 1: sound of the gym floor. First of all, I didn't

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Speaker 1: have that sound that the gym shoe on the floor

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Speaker 1: because I was in shoes that cost Shoes don't make

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Speaker 1: that sound. You just slide to a stop. You don't stop. Well, no,

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Speaker 1: you learned to keep dribbling, junior. When you wear shoes

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Speaker 1: that don't have grips on them, you learned that you're

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Speaker 1: not going to stop. So you add two more dribbles

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Speaker 1: and here's just ball is done. You're absolutely right, man,

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00:38:55,320 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: that's funny. But we needed to hear that because, yeah,

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Speaker 1: did you ever have ten issues that came a loose

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Speaker 1: at the front? Steve when it was flapping. Did you

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00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 1: have the front you know how the pelican that's not new. No,

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Speaker 1: that happened a lot. All right, guys if Bobby shoe boy,

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Speaker 1: we'll be sharing all morning. Uh, we'll be back right

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Speaker 1: after this. You're listening to show. Yesterday, various basketball teams

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Speaker 1: paid tribute to Kobe Bryant. The New York Knicks and

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Speaker 1: the Nets had a moment of silence at Madison Square Garden.

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Speaker 1: The Raptors and Spurs uh let the twenty four second

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Speaker 1: clock expire during their first possession of the game. Mark Cuban, who,

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Speaker 1: of course, Steve you know, is the owner of the

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Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks. He said that number twenty four will never

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Speaker 1: be worn again by the Mavericks, and d Wade said

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Speaker 1: that yesterday was the saddest day of his lifetime. Take

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Speaker 1: a listen. Today is one of the saddest days in

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Speaker 1: my lifetime. It seems like a bad it's a bad

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00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 1: dream you just want to wake up from. It's a nightmare.

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Speaker 1: I know we all feel the same way about such

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Speaker 1: a great that's a great leader, that's a great champion,

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Speaker 1: it's a great person. If you got a chance to

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Speaker 1: know Kobe, your a chance to really know Kobe. Nobody

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00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 1: better man. Emotions are all over the place. These are

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Speaker 1: the moments when you ask why. My heart thoughts goes

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Speaker 1: out to Kobe's family, his daughter gg. This is a

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Speaker 1: sad day. It's around it. My family and I have

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00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 1: been sharing Kobe stories. We had so many moments that

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Speaker 1: he's given us. We're so thankful for those moments. I'm

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Speaker 1: thankful for those moments. Man. It was one of my

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Speaker 1: favorite players. And I gotta tell to have a relationship

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Speaker 1: a friendship, because I would miss him. I would miss

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Speaker 1: the friendship. Kobe. Thank you, man, Thank you for all

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Speaker 1: the memories. We got a lot of good ones and

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00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 1: these tears that we crying. We're gonna miss you. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for being my friend. I love you, brother. Wow.

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00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 1: That was real from the heart right there. Wow Oo.

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Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant retired after the twenty fifteen sixteen season as

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Speaker 1: a five time NBA champion, one time League MVP. He

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00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,840
Speaker 1: was an eighteen time All Star and played his entire

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Speaker 1: two decade long career as a member of the Lakers

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Speaker 1: after LA acquired him on draft on them draft night

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Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety six from the Charlotte Hornet Kobe exited

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00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 1: his NBA career by scoring sixty points against the Utah

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Speaker 1: Jazz back in April of twenty sixteen, and was just

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Speaker 1: eclipsed by Lebron James on the league's all time scoring list.

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Speaker 1: That was his last night. Yeah, yeah, he got out

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Speaker 1: with sixty. Yeah, just in case I think about coming back,

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00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:42,759
Speaker 1: Just in case coming back. All for god, could you

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00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,280
Speaker 1: answer a question for me, somebody? I mean, you sports

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Speaker 1: what I'm living in a LA and I don't know

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Speaker 1: why did Kobe have two numbers? Because I don't number

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Speaker 1: eight and number twenty four? All I know. The only

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00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 1: thing Kat could probably answer a lot better than me.

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Speaker 1: I know he's which numbers to twenty four because twenty

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Speaker 1: four men, he was on twenty four seven. That's the

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00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:10,440
Speaker 1: only thing that I knew he wanted to number because

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Speaker 1: he was about twenty four seven on twenty four seven.

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Speaker 1: Now there's another story behind it. I don't really know it.

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Speaker 1: I remember I heard it, but I didn't forgot it,

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Speaker 1: so I know I didn't know. That's why I asked, y'all,

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00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 1: here's a question. I want to be next to Jordan four.

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Speaker 1: It was his number his whole high school, since high school, number.

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Speaker 1: Here's a question. Why was he called the black mamba

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00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:41,879
Speaker 1: because he had that kingdom instinct. The black mamba one

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Speaker 1: of the most aggressive snakes in wildlife. The black mama

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Speaker 1: attacks and water, and the black Mama has one of

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Speaker 1: the most poisonous bites, and he's one of the most

632
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 1: aggressive snakes in the Blackma Black Mama. All you get

633
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 1: to say is I've been bid and boom that You

634
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 1: don't even say about what he was like. He was straight.

635
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: You don't know how many arenas uncle. He would boom

636
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant when he walked in because he'd take your

637
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 1: whole hope away. Yeah all right, yuys. Coming up next,

638
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:24,840
Speaker 1: we'll just share our thoughts and our feelings about this

639
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 1: tragic news on the death of Kobe Bryant. Right after

640
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 1: this you're listening. I want you to know now so

641
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: we both can save her. Every moment we have left together,

642
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:43,319
Speaker 1: the good and the bad, You have given each other

643
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 1: all that we have. We both know, no matter what

644
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 1: I do next, I'll always be that kid with the

645
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 1: rolled up sids, garbage can in the corner five seconds

646
00:44:56,080 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 1: from o'clock, ball in my hands five four three two four.

647
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 1: I love you always Kobe. All morning long, we've been

648
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 1: talking about the tragic death of Kobe Bryant, NBA legend.

649
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:47,439
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant and his daughter, along with seven other people

650
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 1: who were tragically killed yesterday in a helicopter crash, are

651
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:55,360
Speaker 1: very on. Jay. Anthony Brown went out on the streets

652
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 1: of LA because La is really feeling this as Kobe

653
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:03,359
Speaker 1: spent most of his career, his entire career professionally playing

654
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 1: basketball for the Los Angeles Lakers. And you did some

655
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 1: man on the street stuff, right, Jay, Yep, yep, yep.

656
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 1: I mean just started talking about Kobe. You can get

657
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:13,880
Speaker 1: a crowd. I mean it was just everybody. Well, I

658
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 1: want to say something. I want to hit him. So listen,

659
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,279
Speaker 1: Jay round with the Steve Harvey Morning Show talking to

660
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:22,319
Speaker 1: people about the passing of Kobe Bryant. Very tragic thing,

661
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:24,839
Speaker 1: you know, for him to lose his life as at

662
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:28,200
Speaker 1: an early age, you know, like Los Angeles full of angels.

663
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 1: Condonass out to his family and all the other fans.

664
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 1: It's really unfortunate, man. And it looked like he was,

665
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:37,840
Speaker 1: you know, he had then settled in as he retired,

666
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:40,279
Speaker 1: and everything looked like he was living his best life

667
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 1: and then had some tragic like there having that's unfortunate. Man,

668
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 1: My daughters are basketball players. It hurts. It's deep. He

669
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 1: was one of the greatest ever play in the game.

670
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 1: You know, he really changed my life. And he's just

671
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 1: changed the game and an NBA just the face of

672
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 1: the future for a lot of these kids. Carbon he

673
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:03,800
Speaker 1: will be missed. That's just some of them, millions, millions

674
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 1: of people, you know what. And it's you know what, Jay,

675
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 1: It's like, it's important sometimes when you have a major

676
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 1: event like this that you had allow people to vent

677
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: because that's a part of dealing with it. Uh, you know,

678
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 1: the moving forward part has not yet started. And because

679
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:27,719
Speaker 1: it's you got to grapple with it. I have no

680
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:34,360
Speaker 1: idea what Vanessa, his wife is, I have no idea

681
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 1: what this woman could possibly and and and like Carla

682
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 1: said earlier, you would have to sedate her, your husband

683
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:48,400
Speaker 1: and your child the same day, one of your children.

684
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 1: And so because now you got to go on being

685
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:54,120
Speaker 1: a mother. You can't stop being a mother, right because

686
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:57,360
Speaker 1: you got three others, you know, so you can't stop

687
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:01,239
Speaker 1: being a mother. But you are you. You are the

688
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 1: wife of somebody. And they've known each other since they

689
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 1: were kids. These two people been together since kids, threw

690
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:13,400
Speaker 1: it all, through it all kids, you know, they learned

691
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:17,239
Speaker 1: and they stayed together. This is this is rough Man.

692
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 1: And then Kobe Bryant had a mother and a father.

693
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant got sisters, Bryant, Kobe Bryant got relatives. It's

694
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:33,880
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, man, And you know you like Jason,

695
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 1: you know you talked about these people who said, you

696
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 1: know he was you know, he was so young, he

697
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 1: was settling into his life. Forty one, you know, I mean,

698
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:48,880
Speaker 1: forty one is young to leave this world. Man. Like

699
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:51,480
Speaker 1: I said earlier, my friend's sister died this week. She

700
00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:55,239
Speaker 1: was sixty eight. You know I'm sixty three. That that

701
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 1: that that gets your attention. Forty one years old, man,

702
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 1: to get every forty one? Yeah, we were on a

703
00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:06,960
Speaker 1: business call on Sunday when we got the news. I

704
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 1: just got off the phone when I heard it, because

705
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:12,400
Speaker 1: you know what, all of a sudden, this business that

706
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 1: we were arguing with, it didn't matter to me. I'm

707
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 1: gonna call my kids, man, and just tell my kids

708
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 1: I love them because this business y'all talking on the

709
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 1: Lord's Day anyway. Really, we'll just deal with we got

710
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 1: to get this straighten out before the beginning of the week,

711
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:35,359
Speaker 1: hey man, or what you know? And the other thing, Steve,

712
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:38,239
Speaker 1: It makes you understand why all the people in LA

713
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 1: went to the Staples Center to be around people who

714
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 1: are going through the same thing that they're going through.

715
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:46,640
Speaker 1: I mean they're not they're not family, but they love

716
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:49,440
Speaker 1: Kobe just as just as much as anybody. You know,

717
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 1: they're big, big fan, And you understand why they would

718
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:55,319
Speaker 1: go to the Staples Center to be around people who

719
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 1: are going through the same thing, because it is it

720
00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 1: is very hard for a lot of people. I mean,

721
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 1: this ain't no Joel. They are really really grieving over this,

722
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 1: over this God, they really. I mean I'm forty one

723
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 1: year old. I mean it shook me to my core. Yeah,

724
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 1: you know, processing that right, like my like whatever, I

725
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 1: was mad at some people about Man, I'm gonna tell

726
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 1: yall to day. I'm sorry. It's not even worth it, man,

727
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 1: It's not even them. It isn't even worth it because

728
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:28,920
Speaker 1: you just never know. This is, man, some news you

729
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:32,239
Speaker 1: never would think you'd get on a day yesterday, Like Yester,

730
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:34,799
Speaker 1: you never would think that. It even made me think

731
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:37,359
Speaker 1: about what were you saying Tommy, Well, I was saying,

732
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:39,880
Speaker 1: my wife went to a lunch yesterday, so I had

733
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 1: my kids and I took them to lunch, so we

734
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 1: just wouldn't be sitting in the house. And I'm watching

735
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 1: all this on TV while we're having lunch, and I'm

736
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:51,840
Speaker 1: just sitting there looking at them like, I'm just so

737
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:56,960
Speaker 1: glad I'm with y'all right now, blessing. You know, the

738
00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:59,440
Speaker 1: only phones. They're doing the normal thing. But I'm just

739
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 1: just for me to just be looking at him President.

740
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:05,799
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Yeah, you don't know what that means. Yeah,

741
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:08,320
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, and I'll say it quickly.

742
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 1: The last time I saw Kobe, Um, not that I

743
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: saw him all the time, but it was just something

744
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 1: that struck me about him. We were at the Beyonce

745
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:21,759
Speaker 1: concert when she toured on the Road too with On

746
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:24,560
Speaker 1: the Run two with jay Z, when she when they

747
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 1: were in Los Angeles. I was at the concert. Yeah,

748
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 1: Kobe was there and as he walked through the crowd, Um,

749
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: just the people were just Kobe Kobe. I mean just

750
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. They showed him so much love and um,

751
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:44,279
Speaker 1: I don't remember seeing him with his daughters, but I

752
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 1: think he was with his family and they were just

753
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:49,439
Speaker 1: he was so kind and so nice. He kept looking forward,

754
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 1: kept walking. But it was like, wow, that's the last time.

755
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:56,359
Speaker 1: Who knew you know? I mean that, you man, it's

756
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 1: just you know the other things that it's amazing. And

757
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:00,839
Speaker 1: I mean Tommy and Steve and Junior, all of us,

758
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 1: we get it. When fans love you. You know, they

759
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:06,719
Speaker 1: don't have to love you, they really don't. You can

760
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 1: put out what you put out, you can put out

761
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:10,279
Speaker 1: what you put out, you can do what you do.

762
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 1: But when they really love you, and they generally love

763
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:15,560
Speaker 1: you and care about you, it is genuine, man. And

764
00:52:15,719 --> 00:52:17,759
Speaker 1: so it doesn't take some time, a lot of time

765
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:20,240
Speaker 1: to say thank you, shake a hand, take a picture,

766
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:24,279
Speaker 1: to take a selfie. Oh I don't take it at all. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

767
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:30,560
Speaker 1: yeah I would. Yeah. Its fans of this show. We

768
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:33,359
Speaker 1: got lot real fans, and we we love and thank

769
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:36,239
Speaker 1: them and we appreciate, appreciate them for listening every day,

770
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 1: taking time out of their morning to listen to us.

771
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:43,720
Speaker 1: Thank you. Definitely. Yeah, it was just a heavy morning.

772
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:47,319
Speaker 1: It's a heavy morning because I mean, this is someone

773
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:50,280
Speaker 1: we all knew and loved and we all watch basically

774
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:53,440
Speaker 1: grow up and you know, mature in the game and

775
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 1: just it's it's, it's it's a lot of people grew

776
00:52:56,640 --> 00:53:02,719
Speaker 1: up with him surely. Yeah, yeah, he grew away onto us. Yeah,

777
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:05,239
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I know that. But I'm saying, watch keep

778
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:07,360
Speaker 1: you on target with the age. Don't be sitting up.

779
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:14,080
Speaker 1: What are you saying? He's right, you ain't grew up

780
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 1: with Cope. Yeah, you're not feeling sitting here like you third,

781
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:20,080
Speaker 1: you could have baby said Kobe grew up. We watched it.

782
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:27,960
Speaker 1: I could have watched Yeah, let's be real about that.

783
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 1: Thank you, Steve. Such the gentleman you are. Thank you, buddy.

784
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:39,000
Speaker 1: Getting real joking at more of the Steve Harvey Morning

785
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 1: Show right after this. You're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show.

786
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:49,160
Speaker 1: What a tough morning this is. I mean, we have

787
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 1: to just be real with our audience and just let

788
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 1: them know. I mean, we're feeling it too. We all

789
00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:59,839
Speaker 1: feel this. Head coach of the Clippers also a LA

790
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:04,279
Speaker 1: basketball team, um Doc Rivers, he had a tough time

791
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:08,160
Speaker 1: dealing with it too. He got really emotional. Take a listen.

792
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:18,840
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know, uh, you know, uh, I

793
00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:23,120
Speaker 1: just don't have a lot to say. The news is

794
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:27,279
Speaker 1: just devastating to everybody who knew him, knows him a

795
00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:33,839
Speaker 1: long time, and uh, you know he just he meant.

796
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:37,000
Speaker 1: He means a lot to me obviously. Um. You know,

797
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:41,719
Speaker 1: he was such a great opponent, you know. Um that's

798
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:46,520
Speaker 1: what you run in sports. Um. Yeah, that that DNA

799
00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 1: that uh that very few athletes can ever have, you know,

800
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 1: the Tiger Woods and the Michael Jordan's you know. Um

801
00:54:56,960 --> 00:55:00,759
Speaker 1: it's funny. Yeah. I was just getting to know him

802
00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:08,080
Speaker 1: more since you retired, you know. Um, yeah, this is

803
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:11,960
Speaker 1: this is a tough one. I don't uh, I mean

804
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:16,879
Speaker 1: we have to go play, uh, I mean the news

805
00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:19,520
Speaker 1: is just devastating for for Vanessa and and his and

806
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:23,360
Speaker 1: his family, and um, there's just so many people he touched,

807
00:55:23,680 --> 00:55:28,480
Speaker 1: you know. Um. And you know it's looking at my

808
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:32,279
Speaker 1: young players and seeing how emotional, uh they are. Um,

809
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:36,080
Speaker 1: they ain't even know him, you know, and uh, it

810
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:39,560
Speaker 1: just tells you how far it's reached us. So um

811
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 1: and this is just shocking news for all of us.

812
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:45,920
Speaker 1: And sorry, I don't have a lot to say. Uh.

813
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:48,320
Speaker 1: I just can't uh have to go talk to a

814
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:54,879
Speaker 1: team before a game and tell him to play. Okay, Wow,

815
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:58,359
Speaker 1: I was watching it live yesterday when they to him,

816
00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:03,600
Speaker 1: because I went to the NBA channel and it was

817
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:06,279
Speaker 1: tough because after he got through saying that he was

818
00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:08,160
Speaker 1: talking about when he was going there to talk to

819
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:13,560
Speaker 1: his team, you're talking to people who played basketball right

820
00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:18,160
Speaker 1: now because of Kobe Bryant. I mean, who in that

821
00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:22,719
Speaker 1: locker room currently that's a Clipper that didn't want to

822
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:27,759
Speaker 1: be Kobe? All of them, Kawhi, Leonard Beverly, all of

823
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 1: them boys in the Paul George. They were all huge

824
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:36,839
Speaker 1: fans and have relationships with Kobe. And I mean any

825
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:40,160
Speaker 1: who who playing the game today don't want his career

826
00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:46,520
Speaker 1: right he said he chased Kobe. I mean, there's no

827
00:56:46,680 --> 00:56:51,799
Speaker 1: one playing right now that that you know, you would

828
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:53,920
Speaker 1: be lucky if you could name any person right now

829
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:58,360
Speaker 1: that's gonna have his career. Anybody that's gonna have his

830
00:56:58,520 --> 00:57:04,839
Speaker 1: career five NBA Championships, eighteen All Stars. Man, nobody's gonna

831
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:07,160
Speaker 1: have that, Nobody, you know what I mean. You you

832
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:11,320
Speaker 1: can you can say that they're young kids on the horizon,

833
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:14,600
Speaker 1: but it's hard to have that career. And you can

834
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 1: have a very very successful and a great career and

835
00:57:18,040 --> 00:57:20,959
Speaker 1: not have that one too. You that a lot. Charles

836
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:24,480
Speaker 1: Barkley had a great career, never won an NBA title,

837
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 1: but he had a great career. But now King had

838
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:31,480
Speaker 1: a great career. I could tell you some bad boys.

839
00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:35,720
Speaker 1: There's very few people that you can say came out

840
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:38,720
Speaker 1: of high school and went to the pros. That's not

841
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:45,200
Speaker 1: that many of them. Dominating adults you out here whooping

842
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:48,280
Speaker 1: people that's been in the league ten years. Come on, man,

843
00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:53,080
Speaker 1: I just really know three. I just really know three

844
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:57,640
Speaker 1: came out of high school that was gangster with it,

845
00:57:57,920 --> 00:58:05,360
Speaker 1: and that was Lebron Obie, Moses Malone, Malone, I don't

846
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:13,040
Speaker 1: really know. I'm pretty another. I got ready Saint Garnett.

847
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:17,400
Speaker 1: But that's that's it. I mean, I I that's probably

848
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:21,880
Speaker 1: another one. But I don't know this dude was. But

849
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:28,240
Speaker 1: Moses Malone had a great career. Kevin Garnett had a

850
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:31,800
Speaker 1: great basketball career. One of my favorite players too. Man.

851
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:36,320
Speaker 1: I love just his cussing on the floor. I went

852
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:40,520
Speaker 1: to the dog. I went to the game to hear

853
00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:44,360
Speaker 1: Kevin Garnett cuss people out. Man, That's why I went.

854
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:51,440
Speaker 1: I remember we were doing Kings of Comedy, and I

855
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:54,960
Speaker 1: remember we were doing Kings of Comedy in Minnesota and

856
00:58:55,160 --> 00:58:59,600
Speaker 1: he came early early while he was doing a sound

857
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:02,280
Speaker 1: chat and we ran up in to it. Man, it

858
00:59:02,920 --> 00:59:05,480
Speaker 1: was just a great moment. The last time I saw

859
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:10,000
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant was at the World Series game that was

860
00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:16,520
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. It was the Dodgers against the Socks

861
00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:23,320
Speaker 1: Boston and we were sitting on the same road and

862
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:25,000
Speaker 1: there was a lot of people between us, but we

863
00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:27,480
Speaker 1: were on the same road right right over there by

864
00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:32,480
Speaker 1: the Red Sox dugout and around seventh inning, man, I

865
00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 1: was trying to get out of there and I saw

866
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:37,600
Speaker 1: him and he stood up. He said, my man. We

867
00:59:37,720 --> 00:59:39,480
Speaker 1: went over there and I hugged him and I hugged

868
00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:42,440
Speaker 1: his wife. That's the last time I saw him talk

869
00:59:42,520 --> 00:59:47,560
Speaker 1: to him, and it was you know, you know when

870
00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 1: somebody passes, you always go, man, last time I saw

871
00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:52,960
Speaker 1: them or saying something, you know. And Kobe and I

872
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:56,120
Speaker 1: were not friends, you know, we didn't have each other

873
00:59:56,240 --> 00:59:59,280
Speaker 1: sale number. We never talked, just always saw each other

874
00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:02,480
Speaker 1: as real respect. Always saw each other. It was just

875
01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:06,360
Speaker 1: real respect. I didn't know him personally like that, you know,

876
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:10,120
Speaker 1: I got shocks number. I know Shack. You know, I

877
01:00:10,240 --> 01:00:13,760
Speaker 1: didn't know Kobe like that. But every time I saw him, man,

878
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 1: especially after he had gotten all through that incident with

879
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:21,480
Speaker 1: that girl in Denver. Right. I saw him once and

880
01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:23,880
Speaker 1: I said, hey, man, I want to give you the

881
01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:29,560
Speaker 1: utmost respect. Man. You have turned yourself and quite into

882
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:32,320
Speaker 1: quite a man and a brother. He said, thank you

883
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:36,000
Speaker 1: for saying that. Man. All Right, we'll have more of

884
01:00:36,080 --> 01:00:42,720
Speaker 1: the Steve Harvey Morning Show right after this. Hey, we're back.

885
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:46,000
Speaker 1: I wanted to show you. I wanted to play something

886
01:00:46,120 --> 01:00:51,200
Speaker 1: that I found to be extremely prophetic. U the night

887
01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:58,120
Speaker 1: that Lebron James broke Kobe Bryan's record, which was the

888
01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:02,440
Speaker 1: night before they had him in the locker room talking

889
01:01:02,560 --> 01:01:07,480
Speaker 1: about the breaking of Kobe Bryant's record. Now, this that

890
01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:12,680
Speaker 1: you are about to hear was Lebron James's comments before

891
01:01:13,640 --> 01:01:19,200
Speaker 1: before Kobe Bryant passed. When I heard this and saw

892
01:01:19,360 --> 01:01:26,160
Speaker 1: what he said, it was unbelievably eerie. It was almost

893
01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:29,920
Speaker 1: as if he was paying a tribute to him what

894
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:34,400
Speaker 1: he was. But it was prior to his passing, prior

895
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:37,600
Speaker 1: to this tragic accident, and he was just sitting in

896
01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:41,560
Speaker 1: front of his locker telling the story about what Kobe

897
01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:45,040
Speaker 1: meant to him over the years, how he met him,

898
01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:47,240
Speaker 1: when he was fifteen years old, and he game a

899
01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:53,200
Speaker 1: pair of shoes and the next day Kobe Bryant dies

900
01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:55,560
Speaker 1: in a car crash, I mean, excuse me, in a

901
01:01:55,680 --> 01:02:00,640
Speaker 1: helicopter crash. That This is what he said. And I

902
01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:03,800
Speaker 1: was hesitant to play it because I didn't want you

903
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:06,800
Speaker 1: to think that he was so casually talking about his

904
01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:10,520
Speaker 1: mentor and the reason he played basketball in such a

905
01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:13,320
Speaker 1: cavalier way. But I'm trying to get you to understand

906
01:02:13,360 --> 01:02:17,720
Speaker 1: what this interview was the night before he passed. So

907
01:02:17,920 --> 01:02:21,200
Speaker 1: here it is. You know, when I was a kid,

908
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:24,760
Speaker 1: when I was in high school, I was growing up

909
01:02:24,760 --> 01:02:26,360
Speaker 1: through the ranks. When Kobe came into the league, he

910
01:02:26,440 --> 01:02:29,120
Speaker 1: was you know, it wasn't a dream of mine to

911
01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:30,960
Speaker 1: come straight you know, from high school at that point

912
01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:32,640
Speaker 1: in time to the NBA. But I was like, wow,

913
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:35,480
Speaker 1: seventeen year eight year old kid being able to make

914
01:02:35,560 --> 01:02:39,720
Speaker 1: that leap, That's that's pretty damn cool. UM. And And

915
01:02:39,840 --> 01:02:41,680
Speaker 1: as I started playing more ball and I went into

916
01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:43,919
Speaker 1: high school, the things that he was doing on the floor,

917
01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:47,920
Speaker 1: you know, admired and wanted to be a part of. UM.

918
01:02:48,240 --> 01:02:51,760
Speaker 1: I went to ABCD camp and he came and talked

919
01:02:51,800 --> 01:02:53,360
Speaker 1: to all the all the all the kids that was

920
01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:54,720
Speaker 1: there that happened to be one of the one of

921
01:02:54,760 --> 01:02:57,080
Speaker 1: the kids that was there, and I was just I

922
01:02:57,240 --> 01:02:59,320
Speaker 1: was just listening. I was just trying to soaker everything

923
01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:01,800
Speaker 1: up i could. But you know, and I remember one

924
01:03:01,840 --> 01:03:03,160
Speaker 1: thing that he said. It was like, if you want

925
01:03:03,160 --> 01:03:05,920
Speaker 1: to try to be, you know, great at it, or

926
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:07,160
Speaker 1: want to be one of the great, you got to

927
01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:09,840
Speaker 1: put the work in. You know, there's no substitution to work.

928
01:03:10,440 --> 01:03:12,840
Speaker 1: And I was a fifteen year old kid at that camp.

929
01:03:12,920 --> 01:03:16,520
Speaker 1: You're can actually find the footage of him at that camp.

930
01:03:17,760 --> 01:03:19,960
Speaker 1: And in two thousand and one, I believe I was

931
01:03:20,040 --> 01:03:23,360
Speaker 1: playing in New Jersey and the All Star Game. If

932
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:25,000
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, and y'all could correct me, it was

933
01:03:25,040 --> 01:03:30,480
Speaker 1: in Philly, right, Yeah. That Saturday, me and Maverick drove

934
01:03:30,560 --> 01:03:35,160
Speaker 1: to the Intercontinental downtown Philadelphia, and he gave me a

935
01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:38,080
Speaker 1: pair of his shoes, which I ended up wearing that

936
01:03:38,280 --> 01:03:41,040
Speaker 1: following night. It was the red, white, and Blue Kobe's.

937
01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:44,800
Speaker 1: I was a fifteen and he was a fourteen, and

938
01:03:44,840 --> 01:03:47,280
Speaker 1: I wore him any ways, and I sat and just

939
01:03:47,360 --> 01:03:48,720
Speaker 1: talked to him for a little bit. He gave me

940
01:03:48,800 --> 01:03:51,240
Speaker 1: the shoes. I rocked him in the game. And it

941
01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:54,400
Speaker 1: was the same night that we played Old Kill against

942
01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:56,680
Speaker 1: Mellow and then I saw what he was able to

943
01:03:56,720 --> 01:04:01,600
Speaker 1: do the very next night winning MVP here in Philly.

944
01:04:02,160 --> 01:04:05,120
Speaker 1: That that that that same that following night, as I

945
01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:08,200
Speaker 1: got drafted, I still just admired him, you know, seeing

946
01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:11,040
Speaker 1: what he was able to accomplish when the championships, having

947
01:04:11,200 --> 01:04:13,360
Speaker 1: you know, being early in his career where you know,

948
01:04:13,520 --> 01:04:16,720
Speaker 1: he learned from the missus that he had against the

949
01:04:16,760 --> 01:04:20,040
Speaker 1: series against Utah and he just used that as motivation

950
01:04:20,120 --> 01:04:22,160
Speaker 1: and got better and better and better to him winning

951
01:04:22,240 --> 01:04:26,080
Speaker 1: multiple championships, and uh continue to admire him throughout my

952
01:04:26,160 --> 01:04:31,760
Speaker 1: high school rank and and then as competitors, just seeing

953
01:04:31,800 --> 01:04:34,919
Speaker 1: the work ethic, the work ethic that he put into

954
01:04:34,960 --> 01:04:39,680
Speaker 1: the game. He has zero flaws offensively. Zero you backed

955
01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:41,720
Speaker 1: off of me, he could shoot the three you pick,

956
01:04:42,160 --> 01:04:43,920
Speaker 1: you know, you body him up a little bit, he

957
01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:46,280
Speaker 1: can go around you, he can shoot the mere range,

958
01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:49,160
Speaker 1: he can post, he can make free throws. He has

959
01:04:49,240 --> 01:04:53,560
Speaker 1: zero flaws offensively, And you know that's something that I

960
01:04:53,600 --> 01:04:55,920
Speaker 1: admired as well. Just being at a point where the

961
01:04:56,000 --> 01:04:58,280
Speaker 1: defense will always be at bay, where they can guard

962
01:04:58,360 --> 01:05:00,400
Speaker 1: you at all offensively, where you just I think you

963
01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:03,120
Speaker 1: was just immortal offensively because of your skill set in

964
01:05:03,160 --> 01:05:08,640
Speaker 1: your work ethic. Wow, man, and that's true. He didn't, like,

965
01:05:08,920 --> 01:05:15,080
Speaker 1: I get what you're saying. That's the name before, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, prophetic. Yeah,

966
01:05:15,880 --> 01:05:19,320
Speaker 1: but he's talking about the memories of Kobe and Urfeld.

967
01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:26,240
Speaker 1: You know what he meant him And that same day,

968
01:05:26,600 --> 01:05:32,800
Speaker 1: Kobe tweeted, yeah, tweet, he tweeted, continuing, you know, to

969
01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:36,480
Speaker 1: move the game forward at King James, that's Lebron's Twitter

970
01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:45,560
Speaker 1: handle much respect. My brother is earring. It really is earing. Yeah.

971
01:05:46,880 --> 01:05:50,960
Speaker 1: When I heard it, I said, man, this sounds like

972
01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:55,480
Speaker 1: he said this afterwards. But I take my hat off

973
01:05:55,520 --> 01:06:00,480
Speaker 1: to Lebron James because this, dude, the thing I learned

974
01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:06,680
Speaker 1: from people who have a special gift that are not

975
01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:10,880
Speaker 1: only gifted, but also find people. You know, they have

976
01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:18,920
Speaker 1: a way of putting things into contexts. That's that's relevant

977
01:06:19,560 --> 01:06:22,120
Speaker 1: and that and that resonates with other people. That's what

978
01:06:22,320 --> 01:06:27,360
Speaker 1: I've seen over the years from people who are aware

979
01:06:27,600 --> 01:06:32,600
Speaker 1: of other great people because they must have a measure

980
01:06:32,640 --> 01:06:35,720
Speaker 1: of that that in themselves, if you know what I'm saying.

981
01:06:36,440 --> 01:06:40,120
Speaker 1: And I've always noticed that that the great ones who

982
01:06:40,360 --> 01:06:44,680
Speaker 1: are aware of history and have an understanding of other

983
01:06:44,840 --> 01:06:47,800
Speaker 1: people's greatness because there's a piece of that in them.

984
01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:51,200
Speaker 1: They have a way of phrasing things that helps other

985
01:06:51,320 --> 01:06:54,000
Speaker 1: people really understand and relate. And for him to say

986
01:06:54,040 --> 01:06:59,160
Speaker 1: that the day before was really prophetic. All Right, we'll

987
01:06:59,200 --> 01:07:01,440
Speaker 1: have more of the Sea Harvy Morning Show right after this.

988
01:07:02,120 --> 01:07:07,080
Speaker 1: You're listening to show all morning. We've been talking about

989
01:07:07,120 --> 01:07:11,440
Speaker 1: the tragic loss of one of the NBA greatest, NBA's

990
01:07:11,480 --> 01:07:15,880
Speaker 1: greatest players, Kobe Bryant. He was. It's just hard for

991
01:07:15,960 --> 01:07:19,320
Speaker 1: me to say, it's so hard to believe you ever happened.

992
01:07:19,800 --> 01:07:26,800
Speaker 1: Every NBA player that's playing this game today, every last

993
01:07:27,040 --> 01:07:30,440
Speaker 1: one of them have been in a backyard on a

994
01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:36,760
Speaker 1: playground going Kobe five four three two, all of them,

995
01:07:37,760 --> 01:07:43,680
Speaker 1: every last one of them. Because this is that generation's Jordan. Yeah,

996
01:07:44,440 --> 01:07:48,240
Speaker 1: none of us played without going Jordan five four three

997
01:07:48,360 --> 01:07:53,240
Speaker 1: two trying to shoot one in this dude, here is

998
01:07:53,720 --> 01:07:59,280
Speaker 1: a was in the conversation of being the greatest basketball

999
01:07:59,360 --> 01:08:05,760
Speaker 1: player of all time. Because the conversation is Jordan, Magic,

1000
01:08:06,360 --> 01:08:13,360
Speaker 1: lebron Kareem Abdude, Jabbar, Tim Duncan. This is the conversation.

1001
01:08:14,120 --> 01:08:20,280
Speaker 1: You're in, that conversation off top five greatest basketball players.

1002
01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:25,120
Speaker 1: You're in the conversation, partner. What I admired about him

1003
01:08:25,320 --> 01:08:30,040
Speaker 1: was his ability to survive the hardships. You know that

1004
01:08:30,240 --> 01:08:33,160
Speaker 1: thing with that girl in Denver. Man would have took

1005
01:08:33,280 --> 01:08:37,120
Speaker 1: most people out. This dude was he would leave court,

1006
01:08:38,280 --> 01:08:43,080
Speaker 1: fly back to La drop forty. Yeah, no dog, no

1007
01:08:43,280 --> 01:08:46,599
Speaker 1: shoot around, no nothing, get back in time for the game,

1008
01:08:46,880 --> 01:08:50,920
Speaker 1: drop forty and Doc. He was wrestling with doing some

1009
01:08:51,080 --> 01:08:54,519
Speaker 1: serious time over this. I mean, thank god it worked

1010
01:08:54,560 --> 01:08:58,839
Speaker 1: out for him. But man, and then the thing between

1011
01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:00,920
Speaker 1: him and the other players, as what he just went

1012
01:09:00,960 --> 01:09:04,120
Speaker 1: through as a young man, grappling so young with being

1013
01:09:04,200 --> 01:09:07,519
Speaker 1: famous man, because there's no school for fame. Yeah, growth,

1014
01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:09,880
Speaker 1: and you know you just have to figure it out

1015
01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:14,360
Speaker 1: in front of everybody. Yeah yeah yeah. And the things

1016
01:09:14,400 --> 01:09:17,560
Speaker 1: you see all those uh basketball teams a lot of

1017
01:09:17,640 --> 01:09:22,920
Speaker 1: games right yesterday. I mean the Rockets, the Grizzlies, the Knicks,

1018
01:09:24,080 --> 01:09:27,880
Speaker 1: the Nets, they all, all of these teams paid tribute

1019
01:09:27,920 --> 01:09:33,080
Speaker 1: to Spurs, they all paid to Kobe. Um. It's just

1020
01:09:34,360 --> 01:09:37,400
Speaker 1: all of these, especially these young basketball players that are

1021
01:09:37,439 --> 01:09:41,040
Speaker 1: in I was one of them, every last one of

1022
01:09:41,160 --> 01:09:50,800
Speaker 1: them finished. I'm not playing. He can run, but he

1023
01:09:50,960 --> 01:10:08,360
Speaker 1: can't he's he's running basketball. I had said that that'd

1024
01:10:08,360 --> 01:10:11,640
Speaker 1: be a whole different story. But Junior can play with

1025
01:10:11,880 --> 01:10:24,080
Speaker 1: more right after this. You're listening. Well, last night it

1026
01:10:24,240 --> 01:10:27,320
Speaker 1: was a sixty second annual Grammy Awards. It was hosted

1027
01:10:27,360 --> 01:10:32,840
Speaker 1: by Alicia Keys, and the opening of the show, Alicia was, Yeah,

1028
01:10:32,960 --> 01:10:35,599
Speaker 1: it was really really sad. Alicia was joined on stage

1029
01:10:35,640 --> 01:10:39,559
Speaker 1: by Boys to Men. They paid tribute to Kobe Bryant. Uh,

1030
01:10:39,760 --> 01:10:45,960
Speaker 1: take a listen. Here we are together on music's biggest night,

1031
01:10:46,560 --> 01:10:49,280
Speaker 1: celebrating the artists that do it best. But to be

1032
01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:53,479
Speaker 1: honest with you, we're all feeling crazy sadness right now

1033
01:10:54,040 --> 01:11:01,080
Speaker 1: because earlier today Los Angeles, America and the whole wide

1034
01:11:01,600 --> 01:11:06,680
Speaker 1: world lost a hero. And we're literally standing here heartbroken

1035
01:11:07,479 --> 01:11:23,120
Speaker 1: in the house that Kobe Bryant built. Right now. Kobe

1036
01:11:23,320 --> 01:11:26,400
Speaker 1: and his daughter Gianna and all of those that are

1037
01:11:26,600 --> 01:11:29,639
Speaker 1: that have been tragically lost today are in our spirit,

1038
01:11:30,240 --> 01:11:34,120
Speaker 1: They're in our hearts, they're in our prayers, they're in

1039
01:11:34,200 --> 01:11:38,640
Speaker 1: this building, and I would like to ask everybody to

1040
01:11:38,840 --> 01:11:41,400
Speaker 1: take a moment and just hold them inside of you,

1041
01:11:42,120 --> 01:11:46,000
Speaker 1: hold them inside of you, and share our strength and

1042
01:11:46,120 --> 01:11:50,280
Speaker 1: our support with their families. We never imagined in a

1043
01:11:50,479 --> 01:11:52,439
Speaker 1: million years, we'd have to start the show like this,

1044
01:11:53,240 --> 01:11:56,880
Speaker 1: never never never, never never never. So we wanted to

1045
01:11:57,000 --> 01:12:01,320
Speaker 1: do something that could describe a tiny bit how we

1046
01:12:01,360 --> 01:12:09,640
Speaker 1: y'all feel right now. It's so hard to say gobye

1047
01:12:13,240 --> 01:12:25,320
Speaker 1: to what we have the good times and maids laugh.

1048
01:12:27,479 --> 01:13:18,200
Speaker 1: I'll wait a bit, no mo So two years. We

1049
01:13:18,360 --> 01:13:22,799
Speaker 1: love you, Kobe. There was also a tribute to Nipsey

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01:13:22,920 --> 01:13:27,160
Speaker 1: Hustle on the Grammys led by DJ Khaled, and in

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01:13:27,360 --> 01:13:31,280
Speaker 1: that Nipsey Hustle tribute, they also honored Kobe Bryant. So,

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01:13:31,920 --> 01:13:34,800
Speaker 1: like Alicia Keys said, Kobe Bryant on the hearts and

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01:13:34,960 --> 01:13:40,639
Speaker 1: minds of everyone, especially in LA, in the United States,

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01:13:40,760 --> 01:13:43,680
Speaker 1: and around the world, I mean globally. This is this

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01:13:43,840 --> 01:13:47,920
Speaker 1: has hit us hard right here, forty one years old. Yeah,

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01:13:48,400 --> 01:13:52,439
Speaker 1: it's just did you see anything those fans, the Lakers

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01:13:52,560 --> 01:13:55,400
Speaker 1: fans and just fans of Kobe Bryant. Did you all

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01:13:55,479 --> 01:13:58,720
Speaker 1: see them gather yeah round in the Staples Center and

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01:13:58,960 --> 01:14:03,679
Speaker 1: just had a memorial. Yeah. LA is very very sad.

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01:14:03,760 --> 01:14:08,280
Speaker 1: I mean they loved Kobe Bryant. Yeah, they love Kobe

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01:14:08,360 --> 01:14:12,320
Speaker 1: Bryan that right, he was the man, he really was, right, Yeah,

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01:14:12,560 --> 01:14:17,000
Speaker 1: cat dog, you know, our engineer Uh, that runs the

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01:14:17,080 --> 01:14:20,360
Speaker 1: board and takes care of us. Kat Kobe was his

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01:14:20,479 --> 01:14:24,160
Speaker 1: favorite player. He didn't talk about anybody else but Kobe

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01:14:24,400 --> 01:14:27,479
Speaker 1: all the time. That was his guy. Well, I mean

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01:14:28,760 --> 01:14:31,559
Speaker 1: she named her son Kobe after Kobe Bryant. I mean

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01:14:31,760 --> 01:14:36,599
Speaker 1: it's serious with a lot of these people. Remember brand right,

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01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:39,599
Speaker 1: Remember when Brandy took her to took him to her

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01:14:39,680 --> 01:14:44,479
Speaker 1: prom uh years ago. Yeah, that was a moment, you know.

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01:14:45,240 --> 01:14:49,240
Speaker 1: And he was in a Destiny's Child video. He won

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01:14:49,280 --> 01:14:53,800
Speaker 1: an Oscar last year, he won an Oscar an Academy award.

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01:14:53,920 --> 01:14:57,719
Speaker 1: He made He made music too, Yeah, made music. Yeah,

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01:14:58,479 --> 01:15:02,280
Speaker 1: him something special. He certainly was. We'll have more of

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01:15:02,360 --> 01:15:05,360
Speaker 1: the Steve Harvey Morning Show right after this. You're listening,

1075
01:15:09,760 --> 01:15:12,799
Speaker 1: you know what We've been talking about Kobe Bryant all morning.

1076
01:15:13,160 --> 01:15:15,560
Speaker 1: One thing I did want to point out is that

1077
01:15:16,200 --> 01:15:18,800
Speaker 1: we knew, of course, we were living in LA and

1078
01:15:18,880 --> 01:15:21,880
Speaker 1: everything we knew about the rivalry with Shaq and Kobe.

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01:15:23,000 --> 01:15:26,639
Speaker 1: But what I loved is that they squashed their beef.

1080
01:15:26,800 --> 01:15:29,800
Speaker 1: I love that. Well. A huge part of it was

1081
01:15:30,439 --> 01:15:35,760
Speaker 1: they both were married, they both were having families, and

1082
01:15:35,880 --> 01:15:38,400
Speaker 1: they just sat down as men and went, really, man,

1083
01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:42,320
Speaker 1: what's important here? They sat down as men and they

1084
01:15:42,400 --> 01:15:47,280
Speaker 1: became really really close friends. You know, look, Kobe made

1085
01:15:47,320 --> 01:15:53,559
Speaker 1: some mistakes. Who ain't he made mistakes? Who ain't right, man?

1086
01:15:53,840 --> 01:15:56,679
Speaker 1: And he ain't done nothing, no crazy and nobody else.

1087
01:15:57,120 --> 01:15:59,800
Speaker 1: It was just an incident. And the way he handled it,

1088
01:16:00,040 --> 01:16:05,040
Speaker 1: what he said calls it relf, but I apologized. He

1089
01:16:05,160 --> 01:16:08,400
Speaker 1: knew the mistake. But there once again a camera was

1090
01:16:08,479 --> 01:16:11,720
Speaker 1: in Kobe's face at and he just said something off

1091
01:16:11,760 --> 01:16:15,000
Speaker 1: the cuff. That's all it was. Man, He just said

1092
01:16:15,080 --> 01:16:19,639
Speaker 1: something off the cuff. And they eventually squashed it quickly

1093
01:16:20,080 --> 01:16:23,600
Speaker 1: and they became great friends. Man. He was. That was

1094
01:16:23,800 --> 01:16:27,240
Speaker 1: Uncle shock to all his kids, you know, just just

1095
01:16:27,439 --> 01:16:32,879
Speaker 1: a great, great, great relationship. They had part of his caption,

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01:16:33,080 --> 01:16:37,280
Speaker 1: Steve where Shack said that with his condolences, he said

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01:16:37,360 --> 01:16:41,880
Speaker 1: his knees he lost his knee speaking of Gianna. You know.

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01:16:42,200 --> 01:16:46,160
Speaker 1: All right, uh wow, but I'm glad they squashed it. Yeah.

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01:16:46,520 --> 01:16:48,840
Speaker 1: We'll be back with more of the Steve Harvey Morning

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01:16:48,880 --> 01:16:51,760
Speaker 1: Show at thirty three minutes after the hour. Right after this,

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01:16:52,400 --> 01:16:57,960
Speaker 1: you're listening all right here, we are back with the

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01:16:58,040 --> 01:17:00,759
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey Morning Show. We've been discuss seeing the tragic

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01:17:00,840 --> 01:17:05,440
Speaker 1: death of course of Kobe Bryant all morning. We're all devastated.

1104
01:17:06,840 --> 01:17:10,200
Speaker 1: And stephen A. Smith we all know him, of course

1105
01:17:10,320 --> 01:17:14,360
Speaker 1: from ESPN and from his talk show. Yeah, he's just

1106
01:17:14,520 --> 01:17:17,880
Speaker 1: you know, we love stephen A, and stephen A of

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01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:20,559
Speaker 1: course love Kobe like we all did. But he actually

1108
01:17:20,680 --> 01:17:23,360
Speaker 1: knew Kobe and this is what he had to say.

1109
01:17:23,479 --> 01:17:27,920
Speaker 1: Take a listen. Just devastating. Obviously. I found out a

1110
01:17:28,160 --> 01:17:32,600
Speaker 1: few minutes after the reports came out. And you know,

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01:17:33,040 --> 01:17:36,000
Speaker 1: it's a guy I've known for his entire career, and

1112
01:17:36,640 --> 01:17:38,760
Speaker 1: I've known him pretty well, and we talked a lot

1113
01:17:38,880 --> 01:17:42,439
Speaker 1: and throughout the years, and knowing what a winning he was,

1114
01:17:43,240 --> 01:17:45,519
Speaker 1: not just on the basketball court, but off of it,

1115
01:17:46,400 --> 01:17:50,240
Speaker 1: how inspirational he was, how motivational he was in terms

1116
01:17:50,280 --> 01:17:53,960
Speaker 1: of really helping to instill in other people. Uh, you know,

1117
01:17:54,200 --> 01:17:58,080
Speaker 1: just the tenacity and the focused on being all that

1118
01:17:58,200 --> 01:18:01,479
Speaker 1: you could be, never taking any short much, a willingness

1119
01:18:01,520 --> 01:18:04,880
Speaker 1: to put in the work, to rip yourself and shred

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01:18:05,000 --> 01:18:07,120
Speaker 1: yourself with the excuses of the things that hold you

1121
01:18:07,280 --> 01:18:11,120
Speaker 1: back from achieving the things that you aspired to achieve. Uh,

1122
01:18:11,240 --> 01:18:13,640
Speaker 1: it didn't. It wasn't just about basketball with him, It

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01:18:13,760 --> 01:18:16,680
Speaker 1: was about life and that Mama mentality wasn't something that

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01:18:16,840 --> 01:18:20,799
Speaker 1: was reserved for just basketball players or for just athletes.

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01:18:20,920 --> 01:18:22,800
Speaker 1: It was for any human being out there who had

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01:18:22,840 --> 01:18:25,680
Speaker 1: a dream, who had who felt the need to be

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01:18:25,800 --> 01:18:29,479
Speaker 1: inspired about something, who wanted something so badly. It was

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Speaker 1: about going out and getting it. And he was just

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01:18:32,240 --> 01:18:35,000
Speaker 1: that kind of guy. And he laughed a lot more

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01:18:35,080 --> 01:18:38,600
Speaker 1: than people realized he was. He told a lot of

1131
01:18:38,680 --> 01:18:42,120
Speaker 1: jokes more than people realized. He'd sting you whenever he could,

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01:18:42,240 --> 01:18:45,519
Speaker 1: because that was his way. He was a great basketball player,

1133
01:18:46,120 --> 01:18:48,479
Speaker 1: he was a great father. He loved his wife, and

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01:18:48,560 --> 01:18:52,400
Speaker 1: that's obviously tremendously. He was a great friend. We were

1135
01:18:52,439 --> 01:18:55,679
Speaker 1: just together on New Year's Eve and we were supposed

1136
01:18:55,680 --> 01:18:58,040
Speaker 1: to meet again in a few weeks to discuss some

1137
01:18:58,200 --> 01:19:01,759
Speaker 1: things and to just hit the news that he passed away,

1138
01:19:02,160 --> 01:19:06,200
Speaker 1: particularly in this fashion. He's been taking a helicopter for decades,

1139
01:19:06,920 --> 01:19:09,400
Speaker 1: living the New Sport Beach and you know, flying uh

1140
01:19:10,200 --> 01:19:12,840
Speaker 1: or you know toward downtown to La to the Staples Center,

1141
01:19:13,040 --> 01:19:15,160
Speaker 1: you know, to and from games all the time for

1142
01:19:15,280 --> 01:19:17,600
Speaker 1: many many years. Uh. He loved to be in in

1143
01:19:17,720 --> 01:19:20,600
Speaker 1: that helicopter. He certainly was never really concerned about it.

1144
01:19:21,080 --> 01:19:24,639
Speaker 1: Um and for him to be gone, particularly through these means,

1145
01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:27,240
Speaker 1: is incredibly tragic, and it's saddened to note that his

1146
01:19:27,400 --> 01:19:31,000
Speaker 1: daughter was on on on a helicopter with him. It

1147
01:19:32,040 --> 01:19:35,680
Speaker 1: just resonate even that much more profoundly. So obviously it's

1148
01:19:35,680 --> 01:19:39,120
Speaker 1: incredibly sad for me, incredibly sad for the NBA community.

1149
01:19:39,200 --> 01:19:41,760
Speaker 1: And um, it's just hard to put it in words,

1150
01:19:41,800 --> 01:19:44,519
Speaker 1: to be quite honest, with just the best I can do. Wow,

1151
01:19:45,920 --> 01:19:49,679
Speaker 1: I put it in perspective. Yeah, man, we cannot take

1152
01:19:49,760 --> 01:19:55,479
Speaker 1: life for granted. Nope, that's at all exactly right. Cannot

1153
01:19:55,640 --> 01:20:01,519
Speaker 1: take for granted. And it's comedians saying that there's a

1154
01:20:01,640 --> 01:20:04,080
Speaker 1: video of him saying that, you know, enjoy life, don't

1155
01:20:04,120 --> 01:20:06,920
Speaker 1: take it for granted, you know, when one thing ends,

1156
01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:09,559
Speaker 1: move on to the next, and saying it in the video.

1157
01:20:09,680 --> 01:20:12,160
Speaker 1: And I mean, but if you think about it, we

1158
01:20:12,320 --> 01:20:14,240
Speaker 1: may not have a video of it, but all of

1159
01:20:14,320 --> 01:20:17,800
Speaker 1: us have said that. All right, coming up, we have

1160
01:20:17,960 --> 01:20:20,920
Speaker 1: one more break on this Monday. Steve with his closing

1161
01:20:21,000 --> 01:20:26,800
Speaker 1: remarks right after this. You're listening, all right, Steve, here

1162
01:20:26,840 --> 01:20:29,479
Speaker 1: we are. This is definitely the last break of the day.

1163
01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:33,760
Speaker 1: Yes it is. And you know what I just want

1164
01:20:33,800 --> 01:20:37,439
Speaker 1: to say in closing, I think this puts a lot

1165
01:20:37,479 --> 01:20:42,280
Speaker 1: of things in perspective for a lot of us. When

1166
01:20:42,439 --> 01:20:50,080
Speaker 1: someone of this magnitude passes, now the incredible the thing is,

1167
01:20:51,240 --> 01:20:54,439
Speaker 1: you know, I'm hearing people say this is the most

1168
01:20:54,640 --> 01:21:01,240
Speaker 1: devastating day of my life because of his passing. Well,

1169
01:21:01,640 --> 01:21:04,880
Speaker 1: there are those of us who have been around and

1170
01:21:05,120 --> 01:21:10,479
Speaker 1: seen other devastating days, And as tough as yesterday was

1171
01:21:11,400 --> 01:21:14,120
Speaker 1: for me, and as how much I hated to hear

1172
01:21:14,200 --> 01:21:17,759
Speaker 1: that news, and how bad Loud felt for his wife

1173
01:21:17,840 --> 01:21:21,439
Speaker 1: and his father and his family, there are those of

1174
01:21:21,600 --> 01:21:25,120
Speaker 1: us who have some personal moments that we've had that

1175
01:21:25,560 --> 01:21:29,479
Speaker 1: even outweighed this. You know, there are people listening to

1176
01:21:29,640 --> 01:21:33,919
Speaker 1: this show who have lost mothers, who have lost fathers

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01:21:34,560 --> 01:21:40,560
Speaker 1: and can attest to more difficult times. But grief is

1178
01:21:40,640 --> 01:21:45,920
Speaker 1: not a competition, and we're not in this to say

1179
01:21:46,760 --> 01:21:51,080
Speaker 1: who's hurting more because of what, Because sometimes I'm careful

1180
01:21:51,160 --> 01:21:54,360
Speaker 1: with how I word myself when it comes to my

1181
01:21:54,560 --> 01:22:01,040
Speaker 1: grief about a situation, because it almost comes like you've

1182
01:22:01,080 --> 01:22:04,880
Speaker 1: ever been to a funeral and people try to outgrieve

1183
01:22:05,080 --> 01:22:08,080
Speaker 1: one another, you know, you kind of see it. I

1184
01:22:08,200 --> 01:22:10,519
Speaker 1: think this is a time for all of us to

1185
01:22:10,720 --> 01:22:18,439
Speaker 1: recognize the how fragile life really really is. And one

1186
01:22:18,479 --> 01:22:22,960
Speaker 1: of my daughters called me, text me and said, I

1187
01:22:23,120 --> 01:22:27,080
Speaker 1: love you Dad, and I it's so kind of out

1188
01:22:27,120 --> 01:22:30,080
Speaker 1: of place, you know. So they always tell me they

1189
01:22:30,160 --> 01:22:32,360
Speaker 1: loved me, but it was just simple, I love you, Dad,

1190
01:22:32,880 --> 01:22:37,519
Speaker 1: and that was it. And so I called them back

1191
01:22:37,600 --> 01:22:41,600
Speaker 1: because okay, it's something wrong, and she just said, no,

1192
01:22:42,160 --> 01:22:46,240
Speaker 1: I'm just really sad today about Kobe and his daughter

1193
01:22:47,560 --> 01:22:51,160
Speaker 1: and how you know, Kobe's wife must feel. And I

1194
01:22:51,280 --> 01:22:53,000
Speaker 1: just wanted to tell y'all love y'all said, well, I

1195
01:22:53,080 --> 01:22:57,200
Speaker 1: love you too, And so it dawned on me that

1196
01:22:57,400 --> 01:23:00,240
Speaker 1: all of us should take a moment today, tomorrow, this

1197
01:23:00,439 --> 01:23:03,760
Speaker 1: evening and put a phone call into somebody that you

1198
01:23:03,920 --> 01:23:09,479
Speaker 1: really love and tell them that, because, as we saw today,

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01:23:09,640 --> 01:23:12,200
Speaker 1: you don't know the time, the place, or the hour

1200
01:23:13,160 --> 01:23:16,280
Speaker 1: when your time on this earth is up, and you

1201
01:23:16,400 --> 01:23:19,519
Speaker 1: want to kind of have having said something positive to

1202
01:23:19,680 --> 01:23:23,800
Speaker 1: somebody to make sure that you got something said. You

1203
01:23:23,880 --> 01:23:26,400
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I think a really bad thing

1204
01:23:26,520 --> 01:23:29,479
Speaker 1: or part of our grieving is when someone leaves here

1205
01:23:29,840 --> 01:23:32,720
Speaker 1: and and and and and and you didn't get a

1206
01:23:32,840 --> 01:23:36,559
Speaker 1: chance to correct a mistake with them. You didn't get

1207
01:23:36,560 --> 01:23:40,120
Speaker 1: a chance to say I'm sorry you you let you

1208
01:23:40,600 --> 01:23:45,760
Speaker 1: let your end come to the end with its unfinished forgiveness.

1209
01:23:47,800 --> 01:23:52,000
Speaker 1: If you owe anybody an apology, call them. If you

1210
01:23:52,200 --> 01:23:56,160
Speaker 1: don't think you owe them an apology, call them anyway.

1211
01:23:56,640 --> 01:23:59,840
Speaker 1: If it's somebody that you need to forgive, pick up

1212
01:23:59,880 --> 01:24:02,960
Speaker 1: the phone and tell them you forgive them. I was

1213
01:24:03,160 --> 01:24:08,080
Speaker 1: on a business call yesterday at two o'clock Eastern time,

1214
01:24:09,280 --> 01:24:12,720
Speaker 1: two thirty. We were discussing it, and my phone was

1215
01:24:12,840 --> 01:24:14,920
Speaker 1: lighting up. Have you heard about Kobe? Have you heard

1216
01:24:14,920 --> 01:24:18,160
Speaker 1: about Kobe? And on the other end, these people who

1217
01:24:18,240 --> 01:24:21,040
Speaker 1: are nothing like me were getting the same things, and

1218
01:24:21,160 --> 01:24:23,679
Speaker 1: we started talking about it, and it was a huge

1219
01:24:23,800 --> 01:24:25,720
Speaker 1: business thing that we had to get it. And I

1220
01:24:25,840 --> 01:24:27,920
Speaker 1: just said, hey, man, I can't do this right now.

1221
01:24:28,600 --> 01:24:30,720
Speaker 1: I gotta get off the phone. I gotta check this out.

1222
01:24:32,320 --> 01:24:37,680
Speaker 1: And the guy said, hey, we're handling business here. And

1223
01:24:37,840 --> 01:24:40,400
Speaker 1: do you know what, Man, At that particular moment, business

1224
01:24:40,479 --> 01:24:44,479
Speaker 1: meant nothing to me, because all of a sudden, life

1225
01:24:44,600 --> 01:24:48,400
Speaker 1: came into focus, because how fragile life is has nothing

1226
01:24:48,439 --> 01:24:51,439
Speaker 1: to do with business, it really doesn't. And I just

1227
01:24:51,560 --> 01:24:54,960
Speaker 1: got off the phone because I wanted to talk to

1228
01:24:55,160 --> 01:24:58,439
Speaker 1: somebody I love, and my wife was away from the house,

1229
01:24:58,520 --> 01:25:00,439
Speaker 1: and I just called in. She said, Steve, did you

1230
01:25:00,560 --> 01:25:03,759
Speaker 1: hear and we talked about it today. Pick up the phone.

1231
01:25:04,600 --> 01:25:07,160
Speaker 1: If it's somebody you love, call him and tell them.

1232
01:25:07,880 --> 01:25:11,040
Speaker 1: Pick up the phone today. If you've had a problem

1233
01:25:11,160 --> 01:25:15,160
Speaker 1: with anybody that you were once cool with, and straighten

1234
01:25:15,280 --> 01:25:19,080
Speaker 1: it out. If anybody has asked you for forgiveness, and

1235
01:25:19,200 --> 01:25:22,040
Speaker 1: for whatever reason you've not given it to them, pick

1236
01:25:22,120 --> 01:25:25,400
Speaker 1: up the phone and tell them you forgive them, and

1237
01:25:25,600 --> 01:25:28,840
Speaker 1: then ask them for your forgiveness for not forgiving them.

1238
01:25:29,240 --> 01:25:31,599
Speaker 1: Call your mother and tell her you love her today.

1239
01:25:32,080 --> 01:25:36,000
Speaker 1: Call your children, call your dad, call your brother, your sister,

1240
01:25:36,080 --> 01:25:41,720
Speaker 1: and tell them that you love them today. Man, this

1241
01:25:41,920 --> 01:25:46,040
Speaker 1: thing is fragile. We need to remember that because we

1242
01:25:46,200 --> 01:25:49,280
Speaker 1: know not the day, the time, or the hour when

1243
01:25:49,360 --> 01:25:52,559
Speaker 1: our day will come. Just remember that, y'all. Those are

1244
01:25:52,600 --> 01:25:59,599
Speaker 1: my closing remarks. So all right, drop that money, start

1245
01:25:59,720 --> 01:26:02,120
Speaker 1: right now. Hey. I love you guys, love you, love you,

1246
01:26:02,240 --> 01:26:05,320
Speaker 1: love you, love you back you, guys, I really do.

1247
01:26:05,680 --> 01:26:08,320
Speaker 1: And keep it going, keep it going, keep it going. Yeah,

1248
01:26:09,080 --> 01:26:12,920
Speaker 1: don't let us down. Yeah, give them their flowers now

1249
01:26:13,280 --> 01:26:16,439
Speaker 1: while they're alive and can appreciate them. I don't want

1250
01:26:16,479 --> 01:26:19,720
Speaker 1: no flowers. Surely, and you and surely and you owe

1251
01:26:19,760 --> 01:26:23,680
Speaker 1: me an apology too, because you remember, surely when I

1252
01:26:23,760 --> 01:26:27,599
Speaker 1: bought you them flowers in La Yeah, I remember. I remember.

1253
01:26:27,760 --> 01:26:32,560
Speaker 1: Do you remember what to buy those flowers in La? No?

1254
01:26:32,880 --> 01:26:36,759
Speaker 1: But whatever it was, I was apologizing, I don't remember,

1255
01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:39,320
Speaker 1: but I'm sure you do. But the fact that you

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Speaker 1: turned the flowers down after all these years, it's twenty years,

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Speaker 1: you owe me an apologist when I'm getting at She

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Speaker 1: turned the flowers down, Jake, Yeah, because he he said

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Speaker 1: something that offended me or that hurt my feelings. And

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Speaker 1: I apologized, Junior. So I had some flowers bought up

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Speaker 1: to the station, a bunch of them she turned down.

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Speaker 1: Oh buy full, Oh Shirley. Well, y'all have a great weekend.

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