Welcome to Animal Spirits, a show about markets, life, and investing.

Join Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson as they talk about what they're reading, writing, and watching.

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Welcome to Animal Spirits with Michael and Ben.

So obviously the news yesterday about Kobe's death was just gut-wrenching.

To me that was the, I was trying to think back and put it in like historical context.

The only one to me that kind of had those same shock waves was magic and I was in fourth grade I think in one of those you remember where you

were kind of places and obviously that one was people predicting tragedy

more than it actually happening but it's pretty bizarre how just shocking that was to so many people. I imagine this is

what the world felt when John Lennon was killed like something similar on that of

that magnitude. Yeah the way that I look at it though, I feel like sports stars are almost seen as more

invincible and especially someone like him, whereas with musicians it almost seems to happen more

often people can kind of obviously that was more

of a tragedy in a different way but you look at these people as being invincible in a

lot of ways and just thinking that it won't happen it's I don't really what to say about it. You had a really nice piece about it today.

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