Hey y'all, welcome to Ransom Randomness.

I'm Lovie J. Jones and I'm here at the Chicago Recording Company.

Bring you all the radio voice.

I typically will have my episodes with the feel goods and my rant, to my spotlight, and

my guest interview, but I'd like to subscribe to that plan and talk about more of what is

on my sphere right now.

I'd like to start off by saying, Rest and Peace, the Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gianna,

as well as the pilot and other victims in that crash, Orange Coast College baseball

coach, Gianna Altabele, his wife, Carrie and their daughter, Alyssa, Sarah Chester and

her daughter, Peyton, who was a teammate of Gianna's, and the pilot, Arizo Bian, along

with the girl's assistant coach, Christina Mauser, in the wake of this horrible crash and

tragic event.

I was reminded of the fragility of life, but also reminded me of something that has been

on my spirit for about 10 years.

And that is a process of grieving on social media when celebrities die.

Celebrities who impact us, people who have filled larger than life.

And I realized that it's weird because when famous people die, it makes me want to be closer

to people I love and it also makes me want to drop kick people in the face.

And it's because we need to do better when it comes to this process.

So first of all, this whole Kobe Bryant dying thing, it's still a shock.

Like it's one of those things that I'll be going through the day and then I'd randomly

be like, holy shit, Kobe Bryant died.

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