Behind the scenes of Kobe Bryant's touching memorial service
Naughty But Nice with Rob Shuter
iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Vanessa Bryant was the force behind the touching memorial held for husband Kobe and daughter Gianna at L.A.'s Staples Center yesterday. Rob has exclusive details about what went into putting together the star-studded service, and is joined by Garrett Vogel from Elvis Duran and the Morning Show to discuss what happened behind the scenes, from Beyonce's early morning rehearsal to who asked Jimmy Kimmel to host.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:19.3 | Hello, hello, hello, hello. |
| 0:20.2 | Welcome to the naughty but nice show. I'm Rob Rob Shooter with a ton of gossip today, which is why my friend Garrett Voguell is here from Z-100. Hello, Garrett. How are you? So listen, we're going to do a lot of talking today, a lot of exclusives about the Kobe Bryant Memorial, which was yesterday. I understand this. If you've watched it and many, |
| 0:38.2 | many people have, do not tune out. I've got a ton of exclusives, lots of details that you don't know. |
| 0:43.6 | So this is the show for you. And if you didn't watch it yet, you're also in the right place. |
| 0:48.6 | So stay put. I promise you, we've got a lot of information, lots of exclusives to get to. |
| 0:56.8 | What's that I hear? It is the chimes of Big Ben, which means only one thing around here. |
| 1:01.0 | It means that it is tea time. So, Garrett, yesterday, very, very touching tribute, three hours |
| 1:06.9 | at the Staples Center. I probably could have done 10 hours at that point, Rob. It was wild. |
| 1:11.6 | So some exclusives that nobody knows about just yet. |
| 1:14.6 | My sources are telling me, Vanessa put this memorial on herself. |
| 1:17.6 | She was really hands-on. |
| 1:19.6 | She called the artists. |
| 1:20.6 | So they did hire a producer to make sure the sound and the stage and everything was set. |
| 1:26.6 | But as far as the content, this was Vanessa. |
| 1:29.5 | So Vanessa called Beyonce, Vanessa called Alicia Keys, Vanessa called Christina, |
| 1:35.8 | Vanessa wanted Jimmy to host it. |
| 1:38.1 | I thought she was remarkable. |
| 1:41.2 | I mean, if you think about the situation that Vanessa Bryant was in yesterday, she had |
| 1:45.2 | to get up in front of probably 30, 40,000 people. |
| 1:48.0 | I think it's like 20 in the end, 20,000 people were there. |
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