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Speaker 1: How do we start this one off?

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Speaker 2: Guys, I guess just get into this shit, man.

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Speaker 3: I mean a fucking dreary ass, fucked up ass, damn

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Speaker 3: man dog man.

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Speaker 2: Like I just I was crazy when Mike, when you

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Speaker 2: sent the when you sent the the tech the tweet

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Speaker 2: from your your your little.

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Speaker 1: Homie, Peyton was talking about how he's immortal.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm twenty years older than Peyton and I'm

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Speaker 2: looking at these fucking photos and feeling the exact same way,

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Speaker 2: like as far as like the how he seemed like

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Speaker 2: this couldn't happen to Kobe, you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 2: And in this way, you know, with his with his

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Speaker 2: daughter's who seemed like she had Kobe running all through her,

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Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, Like they were attached at

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Speaker 2: the hip.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if it feels it definitely feels like he had

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Speaker 3: a special bond with GG because GG loved basketball more

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Speaker 3: than the other ones they didn't. And you know a

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Speaker 3: couple of them were young, and he's got the older

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Speaker 3: one who wasn't in the hoops.

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Speaker 4: So you know, it seems like he definitely bonded with.

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Speaker 3: GG in a way because she was a hoops fucking

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Speaker 3: fanatic like him, and it's just it's just.

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Speaker 4: So fucked up that that bond.

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Speaker 3: Is what did them in, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 3: And it's it's life is so fucking it Like, it's

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Speaker 3: just it doesn't make sense to me, man.

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Speaker 5: I mean, we were we were in a group chat.

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Speaker 5: I don't even remember what we were talking about, like

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Speaker 5: something completely different, and I think John, I think you

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Speaker 5: were the person who first saw it or whatever. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: And so I went on Twitter and saw the ship

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Speaker 5: from TMZ and it was like a it was like

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Speaker 5: a true, like out of body experience. Like I felt

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Speaker 5: the same way when my mom called to tell me

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Speaker 5: my dad died, and I felt the same way on

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Speaker 5: nine to eleven. Those are the only other times I

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Speaker 5: can remember seeing something and my brain just like it

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Speaker 5: was like my brain rejected it, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 5: It was like, oh no, that, I mean, that can't

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Speaker 5: be true. So your eyes must not be working and

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Speaker 5: your phone must be broken, and John must be crazy,

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Speaker 5: you know what I mean, Like every other thing being

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Speaker 5: wrong would have made more sense than that headline being

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Speaker 5: true because we all the three of us, talked about

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Speaker 5: this after his final game. I think everyone who's a

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Speaker 5: basketball fan saw what he was gonna look like when

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Speaker 5: he was Bill Russell, when he was the sixty seventy

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Speaker 5: year old dude doing interviews, you know what I mean, Like,

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Speaker 5: that's it. I don't know, I mean, that's that's a

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Speaker 5: part to me. That's so just like unimaginable. As you

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Speaker 5: can see where he was on his journey on like

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Speaker 5: an eighty year journey with the sport as an ambassador,

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Speaker 5: as everything else, and the fact that that ended is like,

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Speaker 5: I don't know, it's just like a pop.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's it's it's that and that's what you know

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Speaker 3: going on that. That's what's what's really tragic to me

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Speaker 3: is that you know, we've we saw Kobe go from

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Speaker 3: you know, the closed off, isolated kid who couldn't relate

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Speaker 3: to teammates because you know, he was a foreign kid

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Speaker 3: who grew up in Italy and came here and he

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Speaker 3: all that.

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Speaker 4: And then you know, it's hee matured.

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Speaker 3: You see him becoming more alcohol and more amicable, more

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Speaker 4: You know, it seemed like.

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Speaker 3: He really developed as as a personable person, someone who

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Speaker 3: And I was very, very very invested in, you know,

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Speaker 3: posting NBA Kobe, Like I was so.

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Speaker 4: Fucking excited for the Hall of Fame speech.

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Speaker 3: He was gonna give us this summer, Like we got

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Speaker 3: fucking Kobe, Fucking k KG and duncan give them speeches.

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Speaker 3: And I was like, all three of these are going

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Speaker 3: to be great because all three of them are going

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Speaker 4: And I know all of them are gonna knock that

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Speaker 3: And now Kobe's just not here anymore, dog, and I

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Speaker 3: just can't wrap my head around that ship.

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Speaker 2: What just what tripped me out like a lot about

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Speaker 2: my buddy, talking to my buddy and John about it.

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Speaker 2: The John that was on here before the guests when

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Speaker 2: we were talking about Kobe, I was actually talking to

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Speaker 2: him and he was saying, like how we all kind

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Speaker 2: of expected Kobe once he retired to kind of like,

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Speaker 2: you know, it made sense if he became petty or

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Speaker 2: like was talking shit about the young guys. But he

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Speaker 2: went the exact opposite way. It seemed like anybody that

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Speaker 2: hit him up, he was ready to work with. It

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Speaker 2: showed there's a there's there's a message with him and

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Speaker 2: Shariff where you know, when Sharif wanted.

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Speaker 1: To get workouts and he's like hit me up, you

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Speaker 2: Where he checked on Shariff after the U c l

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Speaker 2: U c l A ship like you good because Sharif

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Speaker 2: We would you know, talk about him and the Shack

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Speaker 2: beef and shit like that, but that was that was us,

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Speaker 2: Like they were they had figured that shit out, you

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Speaker 5: Like they figured it out enough that they could reference

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Speaker 2: And I mean when he's checking on his kid, you

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Speaker 2: you know, for workouts and also checking on seeing these

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Speaker 5: Like Reif always referred to him as an uncle. And

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Speaker 5: I'll tell you it's people my kids referred to his uncle,

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Speaker 5: and my relationship with all those people as solid as fuck.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, right, right, right right.

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Speaker 5: I think when he was when he was retiring, it

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Speaker 5: genuinely was inspirational me. Bro, Like I was twelve years

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Speaker 5: His first game in a Lakers' uniform was in the

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Speaker 5: he was like the he to me. I grew up

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Speaker 5: respect and love for Kobe for that like for that

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Speaker 5: same like the killer mentality and the intensity and all

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Speaker 5: this must be so hard for you to step away,

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Speaker 5: and his response in all those interviews for that last

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Speaker 5: like I achieved everything I want to know. I know

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Speaker 5: the Lakers stuff this year. You know, like I'm good,

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Speaker 5: another step that I think we've all talked about this,

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Speaker 5: Like I don't think Michael Jordan ever really figured that out.

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Speaker 5: And so while that while his career was sort of

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Speaker 1: I mean, look at him. He was an Oscar when

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Speaker 1: he's want to Oscar.

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Speaker 2: He was a best selling you know at a best

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Speaker 4: You know what I'm.

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Speaker 2: Ridiculous, crazy, like velvet ass, like dog like that's what

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Speaker 2: like we all I feel like we kind of missed out,

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Speaker 2: like we we were supposed to see, Like Tobe had

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Speaker 2: Kobe he played in the league twenty years, he won,

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Speaker 2: uh you know, five chips, you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 2: Like endless accolades is a basketball player, and we still

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Speaker 2: and somehow it still felt like we hadn't you know,

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Speaker 2: like we had so much more of Kobe.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, There was so much more

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Speaker 2: And it was And I mean and when you talk

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Speaker 2: you know, Kobe was their guy.

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Speaker 1: You know we're I'm a bron guy. You know, I'm

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Speaker 2: Right with Kobe guys, that was their guy and and

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Speaker 2: and and you know we talk about like we would

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Speaker 2: argue about the gold Ship and all that, Bro, But

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Speaker 2: if you're looking at the blueprint, you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 2: like somebody's footprint or handprint on the league, Kobe's all

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Speaker 2: over that shit. You know what I'm saying, and it's

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Speaker 2: it's just I mean, and then he continued these like these,

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Speaker 1: What the fuck is Kobe gonna do with Yannis? A

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Speaker 2: He was willing to work with Jannis Gianness. He said,

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Speaker 1: Because when Kobe fucking spoke, nigga, you fucking listen.

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Speaker 2: I mean these, I mean as much as I would

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Speaker 2: talk shit about Kobe, I was at fucking I remember,

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Speaker 2: like dude, most of Kobe's career, I was rooting against

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Speaker 2: There's two times that I probably really rooted for him.

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Speaker 2: Was the ESPN shit when I don't know if y'all

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Speaker 1: Do you remember that shit? And I went, I had

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Speaker 1: a tire rate on Twitter, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Because I was like, nigga, I don't give a fuck

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Speaker 2: when he went through this, fucking Kobe, Nigga, you gotta

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Speaker 2: respect the motherfucking name Nigga flat out, you feel me?

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Speaker 2: And also when he retired the last game, I was

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Speaker 2: at Buffalo Wild Wings watching it with the woman I

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Speaker 2: was at end of the time, and and uh, he

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Speaker 2: then he's you know, shit started, motherfucking started.

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Speaker 1: He's going for me with forty fifty.

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Speaker 6: All of a sudden, I'm crying and I burst into

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Speaker 6: tears in public over my wings. And look at me like,

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Speaker 6: what the fuck is wrong with you? Like I just

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Speaker 6: saw you rooting against him, you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 6: Like most of most of you know, most of his grier.

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Speaker 6: We talked about this and I was just like, bro,

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Speaker 6: like you couldn't. You couldn't watch Kobe play.

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Speaker 2: And as much as I hated him throughout his career,

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Speaker 1: He was much watched television.

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Speaker 3: To look at Kobe play and not appreciate that game.

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Speaker 3: I was just gonna say, there's no possible way you

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's what I was tripping off. Like what

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Speaker 5: That's the stuff I can't even like, there's just like

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Speaker 4: Know what I mean.

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Speaker 5: And I don't begrudget that at all.

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Speaker 5: It was amazing to me to see Kobe just showed up.

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Speaker 5: and like that's so different, dude, to have people display

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Speaker 5: I can't even imagine that. The one thing I wanted

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Speaker 5: And as he's going off and it just becomes obvious

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Speaker 5: all the people in this arena had been yelling at

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Speaker 1: And aw they I'll telling me to shoot.

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Speaker 5: But it was like every time he put a shot

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Speaker 3: Brof shots ever at the last ro I love man.

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Speaker 5: It was genuinely and it was such a like there

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Speaker 5: everyone was just walking around wearing Lakers shit, grinning everyone

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Speaker 5: this shitty season, but it was like this dude did

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Speaker 5: working his way back like that's the ship. To me,

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Speaker 3: Get buckets, that's what he was all about. And he

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Is this is this the for me?

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Speaker 2: This is the first player I would say of like

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think like maybe uh.

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Speaker 5: Shit, Bron's the next one.

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Speaker 1: Bron's the next one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Like like you know, I didn't see all of

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Speaker 1: I was born in eighty two, you.

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Speaker 2: Know what I mean, So and I didn't really get

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Speaker 3: So like that's why I think Mike, like, like, I

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Speaker 4: Like you were twelve years old when Kobe started.

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Speaker 3: That's right at the age where you've got, you know,

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Speaker 3: So it's like you fully kind of under good, how

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Speaker 1: Ye, only two times.

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Speaker 2: I've cried over over three times that crowdover basketball to

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Speaker 5: So this is like, so you know, we're all like

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Speaker 5: he dropped fucking buckets, Bro. And I remember like he

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know.

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Speaker 5: What I mean, Like I got my first room as

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Speaker 1: It didn't make sense to me, like some sho hated it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, like Kobe was the one who was instigating it.

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Speaker 5: as we got good and started to appreciate really how

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Speaker 5: think you like. Clippers fans in southern California were fucking

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Speaker 5: don't know, but it's unique, dude, and this is a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What's what's really crazy when you

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Speaker 1: look through his career, you know what I'm saying, Like

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Speaker 2: Yep, yep, you know, like the Kobe and Shack thing,

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Speaker 1: He seemed like he always approached the ship fearlessly. I mean,

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Speaker 5: I don't go back, just like I briefly just want

439
00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:32,960
Speaker 5: to like hover on how fucking alien that is.

440
00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:37,320
Speaker 2: That is insane, Bro Kobe, take your ass back to

441
00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:38,359
Speaker 2: the fucking.

442
00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:39,080
Speaker 1: To the locker room.

443
00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:41,920
Speaker 2: See you know you have blown you no shooting these

444
00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:43,520
Speaker 2: free throws first, then I'll go.

445
00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,320
Speaker 1: You know that that mindset.

446
00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,879
Speaker 5: Is just people can't Most people can't get off. And

447
00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:52,640
Speaker 5: I'm not all calling anyone else like a pussy.

448
00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:54,959
Speaker 1: No, no nothing the people.

449
00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,440
Speaker 5: Bro. You snap your achilles and look, we covered the

450
00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:00,919
Speaker 5: greatest volleyball player of all time, mister may To. She

451
00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:03,719
Speaker 5: should tell you you can't even stand up on your

452
00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:06,160
Speaker 5: own when you tear your fucking achilles. And this dude

453
00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,680
Speaker 5: limped to the free throw line and knock the shots down.

454
00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:11,880
Speaker 1: Bro, My sister tore her.

455
00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:14,800
Speaker 4: Said what I was gonna say.

456
00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,120
Speaker 3: He won a championship with a fucking with with with

457
00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:21,120
Speaker 3: with with with bum ligaments in his fucking right index finger,

458
00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:23,840
Speaker 3: the most fucking important finger when it comes to shooting,

459
00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:26,239
Speaker 3: Like that's the last finger that the ball touches when

460
00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:28,600
Speaker 3: you're fucking shooting. And he won a championship with that.

461
00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:31,080
Speaker 3: Ship Man Kobe was a different breed.

462
00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:34,879
Speaker 2: Bro, My sister tore her achilles, and the way I

463
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,400
Speaker 2: knew she tore it when she when she blew the ship,

464
00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:40,440
Speaker 2: was looking at what she grabbed immediately, and I thought

465
00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:44,000
Speaker 2: of Kobe immediately. I had to help her just to

466
00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:47,119
Speaker 2: get to her car. She couldn't walk. And this motherfucking

467
00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:48,000
Speaker 2: shot those free throws.

468
00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:48,840
Speaker 1: It's just insane.

469
00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:50,600
Speaker 2: But yeah, even with the ship you're talking about with

470
00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:54,000
Speaker 2: the bubblingaments, bro, Like when you know if the shot

471
00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:57,280
Speaker 2: is wet based upon how it comes off your middle.

472
00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,560
Speaker 1: Finger and your point in your index finger. You know

473
00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:00,000
Speaker 1: what I'm saying.

474
00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:03,440
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, Howard leaves that ship tells

475
00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:05,320
Speaker 2: you if the shots whether or not, you know what

476
00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:05,720
Speaker 2: I mean.

477
00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:10,159
Speaker 1: Like, it's just he was just an alien, bro. He

478
00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:11,560
Speaker 1: was not not normal.

479
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:13,760
Speaker 3: And it's fucking knee like they said it's at some

480
00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,399
Speaker 3: point his knee was basically fucking bone on bone.

481
00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:16,840
Speaker 4: At some point.

482
00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:19,480
Speaker 3: And this was this was fucking prime Pete Kobe too.

483
00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:21,960
Speaker 3: He was still out there killing went.

484
00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,600
Speaker 1: To where to Germany to get the ankle surgery.

485
00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:30,360
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, right right, Wolverine surgery.

486
00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,719
Speaker 2: I mean the base that type of thinking is like

487
00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:36,520
Speaker 2: this motherfucker would have went to Mars to get the

488
00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:39,280
Speaker 2: ship done. If that's what you told him he needed

489
00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:41,240
Speaker 2: to do in order to keep playing basketball.

490
00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:46,080
Speaker 1: That's how much he loved the game. But just how approachable.

491
00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:48,600
Speaker 2: This man, Like this is a guy that you know,

492
00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:53,280
Speaker 2: like like you said, like he was he was. He

493
00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:56,000
Speaker 2: was a demi god in this city and for anybody

494
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,520
Speaker 2: that loved basketball, Like even as a dude who was

495
00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:00,680
Speaker 2: an op on the other side. You know what I'm saying,

496
00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 2: I would look at Kobe like, holy shit when he's playing,

497
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,440
Speaker 2: Like I remember when he came in that one year.

498
00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:06,359
Speaker 1: With his work ethic.

499
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 2: Was he during the seat during the off season, he

500
00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:13,280
Speaker 2: worked out six days a week for six hours, two

501
00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:15,959
Speaker 2: hours in the gym, two hours on the track, and

502
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:17,720
Speaker 2: two hours in the weight room.

503
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:19,120
Speaker 1: And he came in the motherfucker.

504
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,560
Speaker 2: I remember, uh uh t Mac looking at his ass

505
00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:24,400
Speaker 2: because he was cocky. This is the year we got together,

506
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,159
Speaker 2: I think got forty eleven the back and looked at

507
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:32,119
Speaker 2: him and shook his head and he said whoa because

508
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:34,760
Speaker 2: T Mac was an ailing himself and he looking at

509
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,560
Speaker 2: Kobe like this is different, you know what I'm saying,

510
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:39,760
Speaker 2: And just the way and like and as a I'm

511
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,239
Speaker 2: looking at Kobe, like you know, like like damn, like

512
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,480
Speaker 2: like the reason the reason I disliked.

513
00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:46,800
Speaker 1: Him because of how he did the people that I

514
00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:47,520
Speaker 1: liked so much.

515
00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 2: You know what I meant, you know what I'm saying,

516
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,480
Speaker 2: Like you knew, you knew he was dogging motherfuckers. But

517
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,639
Speaker 2: for him to be this guy and for him to

518
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:57,800
Speaker 2: be so approachable, you know what I'm saying.

519
00:23:58,000 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 1: How like he's a call away.

520
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,199
Speaker 2: We're like a guy can call like I want to

521
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:03,639
Speaker 2: you know, they want to work out, you know what

522
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 2: I'm saying.

523
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:06,440
Speaker 1: Like at the you know there was there was leaguers

524
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,119
Speaker 1: working out at the at the Mamba Academy the summer.

525
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:09,800
Speaker 2: Right.

526
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 5: You know, listen, if Robert Ory was that approachable, we

527
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 5: would all say wow, you know what I mean, Like

528
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,480
Speaker 5: a dude who set for life financially, who had a

529
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 5: great career, is still willing to give back. But for

530
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:24,960
Speaker 5: that to be the guy.

531
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,520
Speaker 4: In LA the guy in l A.

532
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:32,280
Speaker 1: He's not the guy in fucking Phoenix. He ain't the

533
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,639
Speaker 1: guy in Memphis. And I love Memphis. I don't know

534
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,080
Speaker 1: about Phoenix. I love Memphis.

535
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 5: Twenty million people, right, He's one of one in a

536
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 5: city with twenty million people. And there were so many

537
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,360
Speaker 5: people where it was like, give him a phone call.

538
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:48,480
Speaker 5: I wanted to tell one other story about the approachability.

539
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:53,119
Speaker 5: Did you see Alvin Gentry talking today about remembering his

540
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:58,280
Speaker 5: farewell tour, and so he was talking about how you

541
00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:00,480
Speaker 5: know Kobe said when he retired, he said he didn't

542
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,000
Speaker 5: want any of the off court ceremonies and you know

543
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,800
Speaker 5: what I mean, the video tributes or whatever. And I

544
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,719
Speaker 5: think people still did some of those. But what he

545
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:12,239
Speaker 5: did at every arena he went to was after the

546
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:15,240
Speaker 5: game or between shoot around in the game, he would

547
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:18,480
Speaker 5: sign stuff and take pictures with every person who worked

548
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 5: at that arena. And that doesn't I mean, and Alvin

549
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,000
Speaker 5: Gentry said he was like it was plenty of coaches

550
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 5: in those arenas who wanted a picture with Kobe or

551
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 5: who wanted him to sign something for their kid or whatever.

552
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 5: But that means the ushers too, at every arena in

553
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,639
Speaker 5: the league had the opportunity to come and take a

554
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 5: picture with that dude and just tell them that they

555
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:41,679
Speaker 5: appreciated him or whatever. And that is unusual.

556
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:46,200
Speaker 2: I mean for a guy of that caliber, it would

557
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 2: have been very easy for him to just play the

558
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 2: games and shake sign a couple of autographs in league.

559
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,160
Speaker 2: He took the time out to do that. That means

560
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 2: a lot. That means the world to certain people, you

561
00:25:58,800 --> 00:25:59,399
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.

562
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,920
Speaker 5: But in terms of the ambassador of the sport thing,

563
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,880
Speaker 5: that's the other thing. And I don't remember if I've

564
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:07,879
Speaker 5: told this story on the on the pot or not,

565
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 5: but I talked to you guys about I know I've

566
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,880
Speaker 5: told you guys a story about covering the twenty twelve

567
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:17,280
Speaker 5: Olympic team in London and go into a couple of

568
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:21,359
Speaker 5: those practices and seeing you really saw who those dudes

569
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 5: were as people when they were all together, right, And

570
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,199
Speaker 5: what was always amazing to me was it was the

571
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 5: same thing from Kobe. He would at the end of practice,

572
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:32,479
Speaker 5: he would just he sort of hold his hands up.

573
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 5: He's like, let me get in position. Don't rush me.

574
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 5: Don't rush me, because it was it was a circus

575
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,360
Speaker 5: of media at those things, right, Like all the sports

576
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,960
Speaker 5: media in the world is there, and like the top

577
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:45,959
Speaker 5: five most famous basketball players on planet Earth were all

578
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:49,639
Speaker 5: there in one room. So he would sit down and

579
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,920
Speaker 5: he say like okay, and there would be this huge crush.

580
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,159
Speaker 5: I'm gonna tweet a picture of one of the pictures

581
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:59,159
Speaker 5: I took of it out tonight or tomorrow, And he

582
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,440
Speaker 5: would just sit there and he would like he knew

583
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 5: that a lot of people if you were like a

584
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 5: Korean basketball journalist, that's asking a question to Kobe Bryant

585
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 5: meant everything right, but that's this is like a memory

586
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,199
Speaker 5: you're gonna have forever. And he would sit there for

587
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 5: like an hour plus and answer like the dumbest questions, bro,

588
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, like like like like I mean,

589
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 5: like do you like basketball type questions? You know what

590
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 5: I'm saying. But he would sit there and answer them,

591
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 5: and he would he would answer them back in uh

592
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 5: in I'm trying to think at least English, Spanish, Italian,

593
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 5: and I think German just like seamlessly, you know what

594
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 5: I mean. And like I remember the one that tripped

595
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 5: me out was one dude asked him a question and

596
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 5: he had like a Spanish accent, but he asked a

597
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:48,400
Speaker 5: question in English, and Kobe asked him, do you want

598
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:53,120
Speaker 5: my response in English or Spanish? And then and then

599
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,200
Speaker 5: responded in Spanish, you know what I mean. Like that's

600
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 5: just stuff that like if you saw a politician do that,

601
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 5: you'd be like why this is a once in a

602
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:04,359
Speaker 5: lifetime politician. But like basketball for a living.

603
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 2: Bro, just and just I mean, it wasn't that the

604
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 2: same year that, like Kyrie was trying to make the

605
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 2: team and was like challenging Kobe and there was that

606
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 2: one on one.

607
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 1: Shit, he was like, I will watch it within.

608
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,120
Speaker 5: Easy money, bro, right right.

609
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 2: But then Kyrie became the dude that he mentored the

610
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 2: most in the league, the guy that was coming for

611
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 2: his you know, for like I'm coming for you, bro,

612
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 2: like you know what I'm saying like that, and that

613
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 2: kind of speaks to it too, where like also Jordan

614
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 2: embraced Kobe in that way, you know what I'm saying,

615
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 2: because those that those people, you know.

616
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: What I'm saying, they see they see it. He saw

617
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 1: something and Kyrie the same way, Jordan saw something in him.

618
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 2: But like, man, it's just it's I don't know when

619
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 2: this will be real. I don't know when it will

620
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 2: be man.

621
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 5: Tyler was talking about that Lakers Clippers game on Tuesdays

622
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:03,239
Speaker 5: to be fucking surreal as fun. But that but that

623
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 5: might be it, bro.

624
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 2: And that's and how and how fitting though, you know

625
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Like it's really weird to the day

626
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 2: after Brian passes him in points, and the last thing

627
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 2: he tweeted was, you know, bron keep going now now

628
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 2: you go for number two, you number three now twos ago?

629
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: You know, just you know the way he.

630
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 2: Approached it, you know what I'm saying, like, Okay, cool,

631
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 2: you pass me, what's next?

632
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 1: Boom?

633
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, keep pushing it and and

634
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 2: that's how he that's how he existed outside of basketball too,

635
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 2: Like you know, like, but this is this is a

636
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 2: this is a this is a Like I said, if

637
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 2: I won't I want if I live, if I live

638
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 2: a million years, I'll never understand this.

639
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 1: But if I but in those million years.

640
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Like I always these are,

641
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 2: I'll be like you know that, man, Kobe was a dog, bro,

642
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, Like there's memories that we

643
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 2: have that you know, even other if you were rooting

644
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 2: for him against him, you'll never forget him.

645
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 1: Man, the dude was just the way he approached the game.

646
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 2: Like and when he retired, it was the last of

647
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 2: a particular Breeder player. J. J.

648
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 3: Williams has a great story that he tells about when

649
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 3: the bulls and the Lakers were playing, and he went

650
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 3: to the to the court to you know, get some

651
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 3: working at like fucking seven in the morning. And he said,

652
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 3: Kobe was already there, and you know so so Jay

653
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 3: Williams said, you know, he went through his his motions,

654
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 3: did his work, got his workout in. You know, he

655
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 3: expected Kobe to leave earlier than him, because you know,

656
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 3: Kobe was there before him. And he said, and he said,

657
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 3: Jay Williams said, he wound up leaving before Kobe left.

658
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 3: And then Jay Williams said, after the game, he talked

659
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 3: to Kobe and was like.

660
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 4: Man, how long will you work it out?

661
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 3: And and he said, Kobe told him shit, he said,

662
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 3: my workout was was wrapped up, you know, for for

663
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:53,479
Speaker 3: a while, you know, right around the time you came in.

664
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 3: But I couldn't leave before you because I couldn't think

665
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 3: that you worked harder than me. I couldn't have you

666
00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 3: thinking that you worked hard of him.

667
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 1: That's a different type of dude.

668
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 4: That's a different dude.

669
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: That's a different type of dude.

670
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 5: Man.

671
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 2: But I don't, I don't, I don't know what else

672
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 2: to say about the dude, you know what I'm saying.

673
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 2: But I don't even be praying, bro, but I'm playing

674
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 2: praying for his family, you know what I'm saying.

675
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 5: And yeah, dude, that's the part I mean, I just yeah,

676
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 5: I mean, that's the part that I just can't even

677
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 5: begin to fucking imagine, bro. And I mean.

678
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 3: This is yeah, go ahead, I'm not gonna say, man,

679
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 3: if you know that. To kind of lighten things up,

680
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 3: maybe we could talk about our favorite Kobe moments, because Mike,

681
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 3: you were like fucking what sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen during

682
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 3: that three people, which is like, fucking sports fan, heaven't

683
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 3: I can't imagine a better timeline.

684
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 4: To fucking see your team. You don't run three off

685
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 4: in those fucking years.

686
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 5: The Kobe Shaq oop against the Trail.

687
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, ye.

688
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 5: Single happiest moment of my life as a sports fan.

689
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,720
Speaker 5: And my best friend Ryan and I were watching that

690
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 5: game on my mom's couch. We were bouncing up and down.

691
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 5: She kept yelling at us not to break the couch,

692
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 5: and when that oop happened and Shaq turned around and

693
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 5: was running back towards the.

694
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 1: Camera, arms wide open.

695
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 5: I didn't see that ship until the next morning. We

696
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 5: were running up and down.

697
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: My yard, Bro, And what's really weird.

698
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 2: We all when we think of Kobe, we think of

699
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 2: that moment, we think of Kobe passing the ball, We

700
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 2: think of a Kobe passed when we think of Kobe,

701
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 2: And that's that's interesting.

702
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 3: And and Kobe's last stat ever was an assist two

703
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 3: and in his final game.

704
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 4: So yeah, like.

705
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 5: That moment for me as a sports fan, that whole

706
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 5: run the shot Kobe ninety eight to two thousand, like

707
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 5: that is that's it for me as a sports fan,

708
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 5: right there, Bro, Like like you said, I was going

709
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 5: from middle school into high school or excuse me, two

710
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 5: thousand and two thousand and two, Like it was non

711
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 5: stop everywhere Laker fandom, you know what I mean, Like

712
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 5: no one even heard of the fucking Clippers at this point, bro.

713
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 5: Like every car in southern California had a Lakers flag,

714
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 5: everyone had a shack or a Kobe jersey.

715
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: This really ain't changed much though, you know what I mean.

716
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 5: But as I mean, it's hard. It's hard for me

717
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 5: to realize that I'm old, first of all, right, but

718
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 5: like it's hard for me to realize that's eighteen years ago.

719
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 5: And you're right, bro, like you still see you still

720
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 5: see number eight jerseys all over southern California. And then

721
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 5: Shack has lived so much life in so many different

722
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 5: cities since that everything, But Kobe is just like it's

723
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 5: a constant in a in a city where if you

724
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 5: are on top of the sports world for like two years,

725
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 5: you are a legend for the rest of the time.

726
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 5: You know what I mean, because you just you don't

727
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 5: climb to the top of the mountain in La like that,

728
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:12,919
Speaker 5: but but to do it for two decades, Yeah, that's

729
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:14,799
Speaker 5: what did you guys got a fair I mean, I

730
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:17,920
Speaker 5: know you guys were never rooting for him, so you.

731
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 4: Know, I was never a cobehator, you know.

732
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 3: I the thing about about Twitter is that came you know, Twitter.

733
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,840
Speaker 4: Got Yobe declined. So so I was all in on

734
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:29,840
Speaker 4: the Kobe jokes. You know what I'm saying. I was

735
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 4: never at so was he.

736
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 5: I just want to add it. And that was one

737
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 5: of the other things I loved about him. Bro was

738
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,840
Speaker 5: like Kobe. Clearly he might have taken this ship personally.

739
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 5: But the quote I'll never forget from his last year

740
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:42,319
Speaker 5: was he said someone brought up that he was like

741
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 5: number fifty in the league in three point percentage, and

742
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:46,880
Speaker 5: I think his response was like, Hey, I know I

743
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 5: play like shit, but I also know, but I also

744
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 5: know that I'm working. I'm doing all the work I

745
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 5: can and not play like shit, and I just have

746
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 5: to be happy with that.

747
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 3: But yeah, like, like like if Twitter was around during

748
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 3: his five oh sixth season, dog like I was fucking

749
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 3: Kobe stand during that year. That was That's one of

750
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 3: the most ridiculous seasons I've seen in my fucking life, man,

751
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 3: that January had when he was averaging like forty and

752
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 3: to this day, missing missing that eighty one point performance

753
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:16,800
Speaker 3: in real time.

754
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 4: It's the biggest regret I have as a sportsman.

755
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 5: Oh I forgot Why did you miss? I forgot you

756
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 5: COVID that before too.

757
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,839
Speaker 3: I had no fucking first it wasn't nationally television, Yeah,

758
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,720
Speaker 3: fucking North Carolina back then in college and shit, and

759
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 3: you know, it was a fucking you know, just a

760
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:33,879
Speaker 3: fucking you know, Comcast lay game or whatever the fuck.

761
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 3: And I missed that ship. And that's my biggest fucking

762
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 3: regret as a sportsman. I wish I could have seen

763
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 3: that that shit happen in real time.

764
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,439
Speaker 5: You just like had to read like a box score.

765
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 3: Or some shit, yeah, like like it was fucking nineteen

766
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 3: twenty six or some shit right like.

767
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, but.

768
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 1: Like it was I.

769
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 2: Remember talking to John about about uh, about Kobe and

770
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:59,840
Speaker 2: cold like John, John, This dude, John is like, I don't.

771
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 1: Know, I think, did you meet him, Tyler? I don't

772
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 1: know if you met him, Tyler. But Homie is like six' three,

773
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 1: like two thirty.

774
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 2: He's a big man, big beard, you know, like if

775
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 2: you draw a man, you drawing John Ball headed all

776
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 2: that shit, right, So he's grown up in La his

777
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,840
Speaker 2: whole life. Kobe comes to add, John worked at me,

778
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 2: add Kobe. Kobe comes to add, and this is before

779
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,720
Speaker 2: I was actually there. And so he tells a story

780
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 2: about when he shook Kobe's hand. Then he goes to

781
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 2: the bathroom, looks in the mirror. This man is in

782
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 2: his thirties at the time, cries, starts crying.

783
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 1: This sixty three, two hundred and.

784
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:41,840
Speaker 2: Thirty pound man is crying because he shook Kobe's hand.

785
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 1: But that's how much Kobe meant to the city. And

786
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 1: John's not soft by.

787
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,839
Speaker 2: Any means, sit you know what I'm saying, by any

788
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 2: stretch of imagination, But that's how much he meant, you know,

789
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 2: he was LA's guy, you know what I mean, And

790
00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 2: it's you know, and and he's still LA's guy.

791
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 1: Fuck that shit, you know what I'm saying, Like he

792
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 1: still is, you know what I mean? There will never

793
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: be another Kobe Bryant.

794
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,760
Speaker 2: And I don't see you know, I don't see anybody

795
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 2: meaning as much to the city of La as Kobe,

796
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:12,240
Speaker 2: even with Magic playing.

797
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: I think, you know, we talk about who are the

798
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: best Lakers, but when.

799
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,879
Speaker 2: You talk about LA, when you talk about LA and basketball,

800
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 2: Kobe embodies that for some reason, you know what I.

801
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,399
Speaker 5: Mean, Like, well, let me let me say this. When

802
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 5: they ask Kobe who's the greatest Laker of all time,

803
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 5: he would always say that's not for me to decide,

804
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 5: that's up to you guys. Now, when they ask Magic

805
00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:35,839
Speaker 5: who the greatest Laker of all time was, he said Kobe.

806
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 3: So yeah, you know, Like, like I tweeted design not

807
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 3: too long ago, I think that there's there's only a

808
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 3: handful of players who are their city, right. I think

809
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 3: Steph is the Bay, d Wade is Miami, Cebo is Memphis, and.

810
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:54,279
Speaker 4: Kobe is LA. And that's it.

811
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's where it starts and stops. Bro, that's it.

812
00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 3: It's those four guys. But yeah, I got a lot

813
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 3: of favorite Kobe moments. I'll try to do this shit

814
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 3: chronologically if I can. My first, my first favorite Kobe

815
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 3: moment was the fucking two thousand Finals. Fucking was was

816
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 3: a Game four ot when Shaq fouled out and Kobe

817
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 3: just went berserk drug like four straight buckets, looked over

818
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,240
Speaker 3: at Shaq on the bench, and then the i'ma hold.

819
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 1: Us down right right, yeah.

820
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 4: Indiana's ass.

821
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 3: That was when I was like, Okay, this motherfucker might

822
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 3: be this dude might be the real deal, right. And

823
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:36,240
Speaker 3: then the fucking two thousand and one postseason, Oh my god, Oh.

824
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 4: My god, Kobe, that Kobe.

825
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 3: That two thousand and one postseason. I was like, he

826
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 3: might be the best player in the world right now.

827
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 4: And shit.

828
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 3: And then two thousand and three when he wore the

829
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 3: fucking Jordan eights and buston MJ's ass for fifty five

830
00:38:56,760 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 3: the last matchup had some cold blood and Ship just

831
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 3: put the Jordan ighth on him, gave fifty five, patted

832
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 3: him on his asses in them Home forever.

833
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 2: Even the All Star Game too, though, like when he

834
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 2: played him an All Star and Jordan hit that game winner,

835
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 2: Kobe got fouled. Motherfuckers just like Kobe submister freetes. Kobe

836
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 2: was like, nig please, you know what I'm saying. I

837
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 2: give it away, shit, even to my motherfucking even to

838
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 2: the dude I think is a legend.

839
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:26,239
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Who who emulated my game?

840
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 5: After?

841
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 2: No, Bro, I'm taking these points. You gotta take the sail, buddy,

842
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying.

843
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 5: That's something that I think I want to highlight. And

844
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 5: before we hear more of Tyler's awesome movas, is that

845
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 5: there was there is a real special kind of a

846
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:43,359
Speaker 5: torch passing in basketball that's not true in any other

847
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 5: sport because Peyton Manning never guarded Tom Brady right right

848
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:50,360
Speaker 5: where Jordan passed that ship to Kobe and Kobe passed

849
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:52,400
Speaker 5: that ship to Braun. And you can tell there's a

850
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 5: certain satisfaction in those two in the first two dudes

851
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 5: that they were being passed up by a worthy person,

852
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 5: right And you've seen that so much in Broun and

853
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 5: Kobe's relationship, and I can't even imagine what Bron's mindset

854
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:07,719
Speaker 5: is going to be like the rest of this year.

855
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 5: He spoke just last night about how much Kobe meant

856
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 5: to him growing up and tour to him when he

857
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:17,359
Speaker 5: was a young player. And I think that's just such

858
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 5: a special thing about the sport of basketball that you

859
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 5: can have that from your all time greats. You have

860
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:26,400
Speaker 5: this sort of like unbroken chain of I was the

861
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 5: best in the world, and I see you, and I

862
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 5: know you're gonna be the best in the world for

863
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 5: a while, and I know that you got to rip

864
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 5: my throat out to start that.

865
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 4: And here it is.

866
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:39,919
Speaker 2: But the thing is, like they like I think there's

867
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,839
Speaker 2: there's only basketball in general, Like he is more likely

868
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:44,840
Speaker 2: to get struck by lightning and actually to to to

869
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:48,280
Speaker 2: make to make the league. But there's if you're a guy,

870
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 2: that is your league, you know what I'm saying. Jordan

871
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 2: was his league, Kobe was his league. Lebron it is

872
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 2: his league. Those are That's Nobody really can understand what

873
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 2: that truly means other than don't those guys you just.

874
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:05,800
Speaker 5: Scribe half of the history of the sport.

875
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 2: You know, it's so like exactly so like not many

876
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 2: people can understand that.

877
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 1: So like there's only those only only there's only a

878
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 1: few guys that.

879
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 2: Can get that ship, and you know, and and they

880
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 2: understand it this in a different way, like having that

881
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 2: light on them, shine, you know, shineing them, having the

882
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 2: world look at them.

883
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 1: These are guys that are so popular, so known that

884
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 1: if we.

885
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 2: Had intergalactic or interplanetary travel and interacted with other you know,

886
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 2: you know, fucking planets and ship, they would know who

887
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 2: these motherfuckers are.

888
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 1: You feel me like that they and and and to

889
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:41,280
Speaker 1: carry that ship. Not many people know.

890
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 2: How that feels, you know what I'm saying, And so

891
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 2: that's a certain amount of respect that comes with comes

892
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:45,880
Speaker 2: in that.

893
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 1: So you know, like I mean, you saw, like you know.

894
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 2: Brin in game dapping and hugging Kobe, you know what

895
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:55,280
Speaker 2: I'm saying, Like, you know, like and like, man, it's.

896
00:41:55,160 --> 00:42:00,400
Speaker 1: Just I don't know, bro, It's just crazy Tyler.

897
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 5: You were at him busting Jordan's ass, bros.

898
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 3: Three Okay, all right, So of course, you know, the

899
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 3: whole five o six season, Like I said, one of

900
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 3: the most ridiculous fucking seasons I've ever seen. His January

901
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:14,240
Speaker 3: six is one of the greatest muscle in Bay history.

902
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 3: He averaged like forty that of the whole month. Then

903
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 3: I think It was the two thousand and eight playoffs.

904
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 3: First the Rockets. Do you remember when he was busting

905
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 3: Shane Battier's ass and he turned to the announcmer's table

906
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,799
Speaker 3: and pointed at Shane Battier and said, he can't guard.

907
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 4: Me, y'all.

908
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 5: Look.

909
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 3: And then and then the fucking two thousand and nine

910
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 3: finals when he told Dwight to shut.

911
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:39,839
Speaker 4: The fuck up while he was taking a free throw

912
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 4: because because Wit was bitching.

913
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 2: And I love the thing was they Dwight thought they

914
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 2: was friends and they were. But Kobe's like, bro, we

915
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 2: we dogs. You know what I'm saying, We're trying to

916
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 2: win chips. Shut the fuck up, bro, you know what

917
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:53,319
Speaker 2: I'm saying. I ain't got time to be cool with

918
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 2: your ass. And he's ninety feet, you know, said talk

919
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 2: to me after the finals, my nigga, fuck you, and

920
00:42:57,760 --> 00:42:58,359
Speaker 2: I get it.

921
00:42:58,600 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 5: You know.

922
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: He was a killed on that time for bullshit.

923
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, his his fucking sixty two and three quarters. The

924
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 4: mass forgot that, yeah.

925
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 2: And yeah, and then he sat he said he set

926
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter right, and motherfuckers was mad, like, let

927
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:12,240
Speaker 2: the man play.

928
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 5: Fuck yeah, I was mad.

929
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 3: Ship man that that might And of course his last game,

930
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 3: which is I think the best send off in fucking

931
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:21,760
Speaker 3: sports history.

932
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:25,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, but yeah, that that's about it. Man. Kobe gave

933
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 4: us some fucking moments. Man.

934
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 2: I think I think my favorite moment was when he

935
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 2: averaged forty for that month when he was yet I mean, yeah,

936
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 2: I think did he what's the blazer some we had Omphis?

937
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:39,760
Speaker 2: We had that game winner hit that three off that screen.

938
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean in that in that run, it

939
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 2: was it was like people were talking about how you know,

940
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 2: Harden had that crazy run, you know what I'm saying

941
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 2: of was it thirty or more last year?

942
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:55,319
Speaker 5: And everyone in the world quote tweeted that ship and

943
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 5: said Kobe right right.

944
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:01,440
Speaker 2: The thing is like nobody gave fuck during that I mean,

945
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 2: and you know, Kobe was, like you said, it was

946
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:06,760
Speaker 2: must watch television, but like, you know, during that time period,

947
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 2: like I literally thought, I've never seen anything in my life.

948
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 1: This is when I was obsessed with basketball.

949
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 2: You couldn't have watched it and been like you know,

950
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 2: and and and even like him going head tohead with

951
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 2: like we were talking about Carmelo earlier to day. You

952
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, Going at it with Mellow was

953
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 2: in two thousand and nine in the in the West

954
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 2: Conference Finals. Going back to back the battles he had

955
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 2: with fucking T Mac when there was a time period

956
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 2: we were thinking like is it gonna be T Max

957
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 2: League or Kobe's league?

958
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 1: People probably find that hard to believe, you know.

959
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 5: What I'm saying, But that was a debate as real

960
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:40,320
Speaker 5: as any debate.

961
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Kobe snatched that motherfucker and took off with

962
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 2: that baton nigga.

963
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:50,719
Speaker 3: Like you know what I'm saying, like non and eight

964
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 3: guy or.

965
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 1: Something injury injuries, but we gotta say this, I'll say this,

966
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:58,320
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like T Mac? Yes, dog,

967
00:44:58,480 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 1: you feel me.

968
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 2: But a would watch Team Mac on the defensive end,

969
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 2: and he didn't give a single fuck about stopping a

970
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 2: motherfucking soul.

971
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: You know, And I get it, you know what I mean, whatever,

972
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 1: fuck it, you know what I'm saying.

973
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 2: The buckets got him paid, But Kobe was he he

974
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 2: keeps your ass on because I mean, if if we

975
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:16,799
Speaker 2: think about that, it was in twenty twelve. Oh you said,

976
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 2: the twenty twelve Olympics, right, who was the one that

977
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 2: brought brought it home with them when they was where

978
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 2: they're playing like Argentina or something like that in the finals,

979
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 2: and it was kind of Coloch.

980
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:27,240
Speaker 1: They gave their motherfucker to Kobe.

981
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 2: This is this is Pete Bryant, this is Wade as

982
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:32,439
Speaker 2: a dog, this is Mellow as a dog.

983
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 1: Was there was a Kde on that team too, you

984
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying.

985
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 7: And listen, bro, gods like gods, Bro, everybody that the

986
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:46,839
Speaker 7: league belongs to, now right, I have no question about

987
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 7: who they were giving the ball.

988
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 2: And they y'all set, they ass down and got that

989
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 2: motherfucker to Kobe and it was Kobe time.

990
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:58,759
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And in these arguments online,

991
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:00,160
Speaker 1: I'm never talking about.

992
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 4: This shit, but I was there.

993
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 5: I say today, let me okay, let me let me

994
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 5: run through this roster in ten seconds. Tyson Chandler, Kevin

995
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 5: Durant at twenty three, Lebron at twenty seven, Russ at

996
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 5: twenty three, Dura, williams Iggy at twenty eight, Kevin Love

997
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 5: at twenty three, Hardened at twenty two, Chris Paul at

998
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:24,439
Speaker 5: twenty seven, Anthony Davis at nineteen, and Mellow at twenty eight.

999
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: Was Kobe and how all was Kobe?

1000
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 5: And Kobe was thirty three and the person on the

1001
00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:34,280
Speaker 5: team by four years, and all those dudes and coach

1002
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:39,719
Speaker 5: k Jim Beaheive, Mike D'Antoni, Jerry Colangelo and Ate McMillan

1003
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:43,840
Speaker 5: all looked at Kobe and said, take us home, fuck.

1004
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:48,520
Speaker 2: The ex and os we know what time it is, okay,

1005
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:50,800
Speaker 2: And he took him home in front of the whole world.

1006
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 2: You feel me, I mean, And that's just that was Kobe. Man,

1007
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 2: That was Kobe. That was Kobe even at thirty three.

1008
00:46:57,239 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 2: He was a guy. And I remember that. I think

1009
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:01,800
Speaker 2: it was was Amon Shot that asked that man, you

1010
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:03,919
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, how does he see himself leaving?

1011
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 2: And asking do you see yourself being a seventeen point

1012
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:10,279
Speaker 2: per game? Like you how long would you play? And

1013
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 2: it asked him, like you know when he do you

1014
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 2: think he would play too long?

1015
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 4: And he said, I don't.

1016
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 2: See myself being a seventeen point per game, ass dude,

1017
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 2: fuck that.

1018
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 1: I'd rather retire, you know what I'm saying.

1019
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 2: And the way shit worked out, he didn't retire at

1020
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:25,320
Speaker 2: his peak like you know, like but like he retired

1021
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 2: going out shoot that thing and that's sixty that last game,

1022
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 2: Like I said, as much as I rooted against his

1023
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 2: ass throughout those twenty years, that motherfucking had me sitting

1024
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 2: in front of my lady crying like a baby into

1025
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 2: some shaggy ass fucking wings man. And that's, you know,

1026
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:46,319
Speaker 2: on a fifty shot, sixty point night, And that was

1027
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:49,799
Speaker 2: Kobe Bryant. Dude, to watch him what to be a fan,

1028
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:52,640
Speaker 2: even if you lie to yourself, you know what I'm

1029
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:53,960
Speaker 2: saying about.

1030
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.

1031
00:47:55,280 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 1: You could not not respect that man's game and the

1032
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 1: way he was approaching life was the exact same way.

1033
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:07,839
Speaker 1: And you know, and I want to say this too.

1034
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,120
Speaker 5: We talked about a little bit with Braun. I mean,

1035
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:14,160
Speaker 5: the NBA is going to be different this year, Bro,

1036
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 5: I mean, I think these dudes are going to be

1037
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 5: out here fucking We talked about how everyone's kind of

1038
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 5: waiting around a little bit. Everyone out here who loved

1039
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:24,880
Speaker 5: that guy is gonna come out and go fucking crazy,

1040
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:29,399
Speaker 5: and they should do it, Yeah, for sure, do it

1041
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:30,400
Speaker 5: as they should for me.

1042
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 3: Fucking Trey Young already had forty five on twenty four

1043
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 3: shots while we're a number eight tonight.

1044
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 4: You know what I mean?

1045
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 2: And and shot was an eighty one percent from the

1046
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 2: free throw line. Fuck, I'm trying to tell you, bro,

1047
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:46,320
Speaker 2: his his footprint all over the league.

1048
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 5: Bro.

1049
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 2: Now it's spirit going to be on that ship too.

1050
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 2: And I ain't even on that type of shit, but

1051
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 2: I'm on it right now, fucking.

1052
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:54,400
Speaker 5: One hundred percent. And you guys know I cover You

1053
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 5: know a lot of high school kids. You know Peyton Watson,

1054
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 5: Long Beach poly kids who's all the way up you

1055
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 5: talk He talked about a lot of these kids talked

1056
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:04,799
Speaker 5: about this is the first real death they've ever experienced.

1057
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:05,000
Speaker 4: Bro.

1058
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 5: So you're seeing kids who are gonna have to learn

1059
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:11,880
Speaker 5: how to grieve through losing a basketball player. And that

1060
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 5: is like, that's something different, and that's something special for

1061
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 5: you to be as a basketball player that some of

1062
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:20,920
Speaker 5: these guys never met to be at that level. But

1063
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 5: I want to read you a tweet from Josh Christopher,

1064
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:25,920
Speaker 5: who plays at Mayfair, which is in Lakewood, right next

1065
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 5: to Long Beach, same city that James Harden went to

1066
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:31,360
Speaker 5: high school in. Josh tweeted, you guys know Josh Christopher.

1067
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:32,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, hell yeah, he's adult.

1068
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:37,160
Speaker 5: Josh tweeted, Lord, forgive me for what I'm about to

1069
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 5: do to the next team I play. This is.

1070
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 3: That's favorite, right, can.

1071
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 2: Go put that shit on national TV. I'm trying to

1072
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 2: see it. Hell yeah, let that chopile fly man.

1073
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: Anyway.

1074
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 2: I love y'all, man, I've been crying all fucking day

1075
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:00,839
Speaker 2: and to be able to talk to you, y'all dudes, Bro,

1076
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 2: that's prices.

1077
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:03,960
Speaker 1: I appreciate y'all. Love the out y'all.

1078
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:09,160
Speaker 5: John, John and I took I want to say this, bro,

1079
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:12,879
Speaker 5: John and I both took work off today from potentially

1080
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:15,719
Speaker 5: producing ship non stop about this and this is the

1081
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 5: only conversation I was comfortable having publicly is with you

1082
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:21,239
Speaker 5: two guys. And I love you, and I hope this

1083
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 5: podcast is of some use to people on a Monday

1084
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 5: morning where I know everyone's gonna feel like ship.

1085
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 3: Ye real ship love, y'all man, There's no one, There's

1086
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 3: no one else. I'd rather have these type of conversations, y'all. Man,

1087
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:34,760
Speaker 3: I know that ship.

1088
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:38,399
Speaker 1: I appreciate y'all. Man, y'all be cool. I'm hugging y'all

1089
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 1: over this motherfucking.

1090
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:43,760
Speaker 4: Mic right now, man, motherfucker Skyper. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: The cool ship.

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Speaker 1: We in it all right, man, y'all take care, Bro,

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Speaker 1: all right Bro yeah, Bro,