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Slack.com slash DHQ. Well, thank you for being here. Everybody, welcome to the show. Hope

your weekend was well spent. We start today with the big news of the weekend, the terribly

sad news, of course, of NBA legend, Kobe Bryant dying at the age of 41 alongside eight

other people, which we shouldn't forget to include, including his teenage daughter,

Gianna, and a helicopter crash on Sunday. They were, as I understand it, on their way to

a travel basketball game. He was bringing his daughter to her game and the helicopter

crashed. According to investigators today, the latest is that they're saying it was probably

weather-related. There was dense fog in the area at the time of the crash. I want to

discuss a few things related to this story. The first thing I want to talk about is why

a death like this, a celebrity death, affects people the way that it does. Why does it get

under our skin the way it does? Why are we so shocked by it? My point is not to criticize

or complain about our tendency to care so much about celebrity deaths. I've seen some

of that online. In any time, a famous person dies unexpectedly. There are always people

saying, oh, he was just a person like us. Why cry about this? If you're not crying about

the thousands of other people who died across the world on any given day, I think those

sorts of comments deny something fundamental about human nature. It's normal that we care

about it. At one level, it doesn't require explanation or justification. These are people

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