Hey, part of my take listeners. You can find every episode on Apple podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime members can listen, add free on Amazon music. On today's part of my take, we're going to do things a little differently. Weird, tough day, crazy day in sports with the passing of Kobe Bryant. We're going to remember Kobe. We have some clips from my interview on the Corp with Kobe. We also have our good friend George Kittle, live in person from Miami before the Super Bowl. Talk to him, get him prepped for media day, night. Before we do that, part of my take is brought to you by the cash app. Not only is it the easiest place to send money to your friends, but it's also the place where you can buy fractional shares of stock with as little as $1.00. P.F. do you invest in? I'm investing heavily this year, big cat. Okay. And? Well, I'm investing in my health for the first few years. Oran Drinking a lot of orange juice. I'm actually carrot juice and ginger is the new thing. Just ju juices. Just juice. I'm going to juice diet.

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Everyone's reaction was pretty much identical. When we saw it coming across Twitter, everyone was just saying like, this has got to be a fake report. There's no way that this is true. Because Kobe seemed like one of those guys that, you know, because of how big his personality was because of how premon, or how relevant he'd been in sports over the last 25 years. He's always been around. He's always been the toughest guy in every single room in the most mentally tough person. Just really a legend in every sense of the word. Thinking that all of a sudden, no longer with us, was very tough to even believe. Yeah. it was truly shocking. And it's hard with like how weird the world's gotten, how weird the internet's gotten, and like the news that you get every day, it's hard to be shocked. And this one like jolted everyone. And it's, I tweeted right away, like it really does. Kobe Bryant was the type of guy who you just expected in 50 years, you'd see him sitting courtside, trash talking like a 21 year old. And still being able to beat him in horse. Yeah, and still being that guy, that presence, that guy who was so bigger than life, bigger than his sport, who was the guy who took the baton from Michael Jordan and passed it to LeBron James, who was basically the guy in the NBA for a decade plus and 41 years old. And the fact that he's with his daughter, who if you ever saw clips of them together and he had four daughters and how much he enjoyed coaching them. And the whole thing is just so horribly, horribly tragic. And it like took the wind out of you. It was one of those rare moments that really took the wind out of you. And yeah, it's hard to like make jokes and and do our regular show. Yeah. I really use like that. Right. There's not there's to talk about with it, just like it's horrific regardless. And Kobe had his detractors out there, but I think even people that didn't like Kobe Bryant like did the gravity of the situation. He's with his daughter, you have to, like nobody can think about this news and feel anything but just like, you know, feel grief and feel like, you know, underpain for his wife and his remaining daughters. It's just, it's an awful story. I can't think of another case where an athlete of like this stature has passed away suddenly, like maybe the closest thing I can even think of is Dale Earnhardt. Where you die in the court saying, Thurmond Monson, the crazy thing about Kobe is more than any other athlete Kobe made people like feel and that's people who hated him people who loved him He was a lightning rod and he loved Like I what I loved about Kobe is he loved being that guy He loved being that guy who would go and rip some teams hard out on the road. He loved being the guy who you might not like him. You might not root for him, but you respect his determination, his will to win that like ultra competitive streak that you don't see in every athlete. You see it in very rare cases. And there's only a handful of guys who have that like win-at-all-cost kind of mentality and Kobe had it and If even if you were on a Laker fan, you're like, hey, I don't I'm not gonna roof for him but at the end of the day you respected what he did and You know, Koli who's one of our colleagues who's who has a great podcast, basketball podcast with with Tyler Mix tape wrote it perfectly when he was like when he said he wasn't Michael Jordan But he was Michael Jordan to a generation of fans because he was that guy after MJ I think you can also see the way that Michael Jordan reacted to it Kobe was the guy that reminded Michael Jordan the most of them. Correct. He was like, highlight tapes. Yeah.

We didn't show. Basically it was like a mirror image of the two of them.

Michael Jordan doesn't respect anyone that he competes against while he's competing.

Right. But he respected Kobe because he was like, I get the sense that this kid

also doesn't like me when he's competing against me.

And whenever, you know, people, even Charles Barkley said, I think it was like three days ago,

said that this NBA is too soft and guys are too friendly with each other. Kobe was exact opposite. Kobe was not friends with anyone because if you're friends with someone, you're not getting better and you're not mentally getting something over someone when you're in the biggest moments and you're fighting for a championship. Right, it's like us with Brasila when he comes on the show.

Yes.

We pretend to be friends with him in reality.

We're just nagging the whole time

so we get a mental advantage.

Okay. moments and you're fighting for a championship. Right. It's like us with Rassilla when he comes on the show.

Yes. We pretend to be friends with him in reality.

We're just nagging the whole time so we get a mental advantage.

Okay. So real quick, I want to, I want to touch on some because there are people that are experiencing obviously like emotional reactions to Kobe's death and they've, you know, a lot of people haven't met Kobe. They don't have a personal story with them, but they're still experiencing like a very real sense of loss

And that's like it's such an unusual phenomenon to explain, but we all go through it. Like, I remember when Sean Taylor passed away. I'd never met the guy. I'd just seen him play football. And there was something about, you know, watching him on the court, the way that, or on the field, the way they played that like seriously affected me because I admired somebody's ability to be that like a hundred percent passionate about something and it made me feel different about myself when I was watching him.

I got to imagine that's like how people feel about Kobe. It's like you watch a guy like that you feel like you know who has the singular determination and you respect his ability to focus so completely on one thing and excel at one thing that he actually made like his fans feel better about themselves and probably gave more drive and and will power to people that were just obsessed with watching them on TV watching play basketball he probably he improved people's lives who would watch him and gave them like something to look up to and and kind of a role model in terms of what their mentality be and whatever their chosen field is. And it's crazy that we'll never meet some of these people, but their passing still has a significant emotional effect on you. So I did meet Kobe. I was lucky enough to meet Kobe. Hank was with me. And so we interviewed him with Alex Rodriguez for the court. We'll put some of the highlights of that at the end of this episode because it was a

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