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True Geordie Podcast

Laurence McKenna’s Emotional Tribute To Kobe Bryant

True Geordie Podcast

True Geordie Podcast

Comedy, News, Sports

4.86.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Kobe Bryant sadly passed away along with his daughter and their friends in a tragic helicopter crash recently. Laurence McKenna is asked by True Geordie how he felt when he heard the news and what his memories are of the NBA legend.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right welcome back basically

0:05.0

Lawrence, you're a massive basketball fan. Yeah, and recently Kobe Brian passed away

0:10.7

Yeah, I don't know how many of our fans are actually gonna want to hear about this

0:14.8

But I just wanted to do this to find out of you. Yeah, what you were feeling like the whole situation because you're a huge

0:21.7

Backable fan and like how would you compare this to like sports? I like like is there a person that would be

0:28.2

It's hard to find someone to compare the closest in the UK is David Beckham, right? Okay, so we're talking like huge mega monumental star

0:36.6

But I don't feel like we know David Beckham as well as people felt like they knew Kobe

0:41.0

And there aren't like many folks are sort of untouchable isn't he? Yeah, but there are also aren't many folk laws about David Beckham

0:47.2

Or like sort of like remember when David did this it's you could compare him to

0:51.9

Like he's a mixture between Paul Gascoin and David Beckham

0:54.9

Because there are the stories of Paul Gascoin and his charisma and the achievement of David Beckham

0:59.9

And being so good at what he did

1:02.0

But then there aren't many other people who sit up on that level who go beyond the sport. That's the I mean

1:09.0

Represented so much more than like basketball. I think so how long you've been a basketball fan?

1:14.3

I picked it up in the early 2000s when I was about 12. I thought it nearly 20 years nearly 20 years. I huge right

1:20.4

And obviously it was my job. It was my birthday when he died. Yeah

1:24.0

What was your initial reaction?

1:26.2

Someone

1:27.2

Elliott text me actually and said if you seen this and it was reported by TMZ

1:31.8

And I was just sat there just like

1:34.8

This is one of those fake news pieces because you just couldn't find it anywhere else. Yeah

1:38.7

And like everyone else we were a bit like yeah, yeah sure

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