Valuetainment - March 16, 2020


Episode 442： Kobe Bryant tribute： Most Tragic Loss In Sports History


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Length

10 minutes

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187.9483

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1,939

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206


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 30 seconds.
00:00:02.000 Did you ever think you would make it?
00:00:04.000 I feel I'm so close I could taste sweet victory.
00:00:07.000 I know this life meant for me.
00:00:10.000 Yeah, why would you bet on Goliath when we got Bet David?
00:00:14.000 Value taming, giving value is contagious.
00:00:16.000 This world of entrepreneurs, we get no value to haters.
00:00:19.000 Now they run, homie, look what I become.
00:00:21.000 I'm the one.
00:00:22.000 You know, there are certain moments in your life where you delivered bad news,
00:00:25.000 tragic news, where you will forever remember exactly where you were at,
00:00:29.000 I will forever remember where I was at when I got word that Kobe Bryant died.
00:00:33.000 I will forever remember this.
00:00:36.000 I was at Seasons 52 restaurant in Plano,
00:00:39.000 and I'm sitting there with my wife and kids,
00:00:41.000 and I'm reading this book about wolves to my two boys.
00:00:44.000 And all of a sudden, I get 50, 60 text messages on my phone,
00:00:47.000 and everybody's saying, did you hear the news?
00:00:48.000 Did you hear the news? Did you hear the news? Did you hear the news?
00:00:49.000 Did you hear about Kobe? Did you hear about Kobe?
00:00:51.000 I'm so sorry for your loss. I'm so sorry for your loss.
00:00:53.000 What are these guys talking about?
00:00:55.000 I click on one of the links, video comes out.
00:00:57.000 I got into a fatal accident in a helicopter, and he died.
00:01:01.000 And then an hour later, we get news that his daughter died, 13-year-old star.
00:01:06.000 And I look at my wife, I'm like, babe, this has got to be a spoof.
00:01:09.000 This is not real.
00:01:10.000 People are playing a terrible prank, and this is just not real.
00:01:13.000 This is when news gets out of control, and they report news too early.
00:01:17.000 And then she gets the report.
00:01:19.000 And then I start going to CNN, Fox, MSNBC.
00:01:21.000 I'm like, wait a minute.
00:01:22.000 And then finally, it was verified.
00:01:24.000 Yep, Kobe Bryant died.
00:01:26.000 My six-year-old son is sitting next to me, Dylan.
00:01:28.000 He says, wait a minute.
00:01:29.000 Kobe Bryant, my best friend, just died.
00:01:31.000 I said, yes, buddy.
00:01:32.000 Kobe Bryant just died.
00:01:33.000 And he gets emotional.
00:01:34.000 Because when Kobe came, I had him at an event with President Bush,
00:01:37.000 and I was interviewing him.
00:01:38.000 He spent 15 minutes with my son.
00:01:40.000 My son was five years old at the time.
00:01:42.000 He's talking to my five-year-old son as if my five-year-old son is an adult.
00:01:45.000 The way he treats my wife, my family, my kids, the people in the back,
00:01:50.000 from the lowest level security, just somebody that's working there to the executive.
00:01:54.000 Everybody the same.
00:01:55.000 Class act of a guy.
00:01:57.000 This one's going to be a tough one.
00:01:59.000 A lot of people message me saying, what are you thinking?
00:02:01.000 I'm like, I can't even talk right now.
00:02:02.000 I'm not in a place to say anything.
00:02:04.000 But then we agreed it was probably a proper thing to do for me to share with you
00:02:09.000 what I'm thinking about right now about Kobe.
00:02:10.000 You know, I believe this is the most tragic loss in the history of sports.
00:02:13.000 Most tragic.
00:02:14.000 Listen, if you're a sports fan, you know what it is to be emotionally connected to a certain player.
00:02:18.000 And you follow them as they come up.
00:02:20.000 It's a very different kind of a relationship because you rarely end up building a friendship
00:02:26.000 and a bond with them.
00:02:27.000 It's from a distance.
00:02:28.000 You're watching this person.
00:02:29.000 And in sports, we've had Thurman Munson, who was tragically, he passed away.
00:02:34.000 We've had Derek Thomas.
00:02:36.000 We've had Dale Earnhardt in the racing world.
00:02:39.000 Ernie Davis.
00:02:40.000 Roberto Clemente gets his 3,000 hit.
00:02:43.000 He's from Puerto Rico.
00:02:44.000 He hears about what's going on in Nicaragua with the earthquake.
00:02:47.000 Gets in a private plane.
00:02:49.000 I think he goes and he crashes the plane with five total people on the plane.
00:02:52.000 They all died.
00:02:53.000 And Ayrton Senna, which for some of you guys know how much of a fan I am, Ayrton Senna,
00:02:59.000 when he died in 1994, greatest race car driver of all time when he died, Brazil was mourning
00:03:06.000 because here's a nation that had, the economy was bad.
00:03:13.000 They're not doing good.
00:03:14.000 But they had one thing to look forward to and it was this guy named Ayrton Senna.
00:03:18.000 They gave millions of dollars back to their country.
00:03:21.000 To the point where I named my own daughter Senna.
00:03:24.000 My daughter's name is Senna.
00:03:25.000 S-E-N-N-A because the race car driver.
00:03:27.000 And as great as Senna was, the level of impact Kobe made to the world.
00:03:33.000 There's never been a more tragic loss in the history of sports than Kobe Bryant.
00:03:37.000 Never.
00:03:38.000 Never.
00:03:39.000 And with the social media world, everybody in the world stopped when Kobe Bryant died.
00:03:44.000 Everybody in the world stopped when Kobe Bryant died.
00:03:47.000 Not just sports, businesses, churches.
00:03:51.000 People were messaging me saying, the pastor stopped, broke down crying saying, I got some
00:03:57.000 bad news for you.
00:03:58.000 The entire church stops saying Kobe Bryant just died.
00:04:03.000 In the middle of a sermon.
00:04:06.000 This is Kobe Bryant that's not a regular guy.
00:04:09.000 He impacted a whole way of thinking when it comes down to sports.
00:04:13.000 There's a very small group of people that belong in that mindset.
00:04:16.000 Very few.
00:04:18.000 Tigers, Jordans, Kobe's, Brady's, Senna's.
00:04:22.000 It's not a big community.
00:04:25.000 It's not.
00:04:26.000 And he died.
00:04:29.000 He's got one at Oscar.
00:04:30.000 He's 41 years old.
00:04:31.000 We're six weeks apart.
00:04:33.000 When I think about Kobe, I think about my dad.
00:04:35.000 Because my dad and I would sit there watching this guy play.
00:04:38.000 One of my dad's dreams was to watch him play live.
00:04:41.000 I took him to a court.
00:04:42.000 I sat right next to Kobe.
00:04:44.000 My dad watched him play.
00:04:45.000 Couldn't believe it.
00:04:46.000 I surprised him on his birthday.
00:04:48.000 April 10th, 2010.
00:04:51.000 Surprised him.
00:04:52.000 He couldn't believe it.
00:04:54.000 Like, Dad, this is what we're doing.
00:04:56.000 He says, you're serious.
00:04:57.000 Security escorted him to it.
00:04:59.000 When Kobe played his last game, I was in Dallas.
00:05:03.000 I was teaching a class to 400 of our students.
00:05:06.000 I came down.
00:05:08.000 My sister and I got in the car, got back to the house.
00:05:10.000 It was 1230.
00:05:11.000 Obviously, West Coast, they were still playing.
00:05:13.000 12 o'clock, something like that.
00:05:14.000 And he scores 60.
00:05:16.000 And Shaq is on the corner saying go for 40, go for 50.
00:05:18.000 He goes for 60, making tough shots against Utah, I believe.
00:05:22.000 Hayward was guarding him, I believe.
00:05:24.000 I may be wrong, but I remember Hayward was guarding him.
00:05:27.000 Scores 60 points.
00:05:28.000 And this guy was just getting warmed up, man.
00:05:34.000 You know?
00:05:35.000 This one's going to hurt.
00:05:37.000 This one's going to sting.
00:05:38.000 This one's going to sting because, you know, Stephen A. Smith was saying something earlier,
00:05:43.000 saying, you know, here's a guy that challenged everybody to think bigger.
00:05:46.000 He says, when basketball players would tell him, oh, I want to be an all-star.
00:05:48.000 I want to be an MVP.
00:05:49.000 He would say, tell me about your work ethic.
00:05:51.000 He would interrogate you if you made big claims about what you want to do in your life.
00:05:55.000 Oh, really?
00:05:56.000 You're that serious about it?
00:05:57.000 How hard did you work?
00:05:59.000 He held everybody accountable.
00:06:01.000 You have no idea how much I relate to this guy and how much I love this guy.
00:06:11.000 This one doesn't make sense.
00:06:14.000 You know, I was an atheist 25 years of my life, specifically for this reason.
00:06:19.000 Because when I lived in Iran and we were getting bombed out, how do you believe in a God?
00:06:22.000 I don't believe in God.
00:06:23.000 What do you mean, believe in God?
00:06:24.000 You want me to believe in God after bombs were dropped on, you know, innocent people?
00:06:28.000 It's not like this guy was drinking and driving.
00:06:30.000 He's on a helicopter.
00:06:31.000 He would always go on this.
00:06:32.000 When he played for the Lakers, he's always going back and forth.
00:06:35.000 I was on a helicopter just three days ago in Miami, and my wife and I were talking about
00:06:39.000 if we get a house in Greenwich or L.A., and in L.A., we're looking at certain places or Greenwich,
00:06:44.000 I would take the helicopter and go back and forth.
00:06:46.000 It's a normal thing to do.
00:06:47.000 And then, boom, this happens.
00:06:48.000 It just doesn't make any sense.
00:06:51.000 But in these moments like this, when I think about Vanessa and the three surviving daughters
00:06:55.000 and the family, there's only one thing you can lean on in these moments.
00:07:00.000 No wonder the greatest leaders in the world and CEOs and people who have influenced other
00:07:05.000 people that have gone through a lot of tough times, no wonder a big part of their lives
00:07:11.000 is their faith of something, some kind of a higher power.
00:07:15.000 It's not all the same.
00:07:16.000 But they believe in something bigger than themselves.
00:07:19.000 Because how do you handle it in moments like this?
00:07:23.000 Think about living a life for 41 years where you give your best that when you die, the entire world stops.
00:07:44.000 That's what this guy did.
00:07:46.000 Kobe Bryant did exactly that.
00:07:49.000 And he challenged everybody in all industries.
00:07:52.000 All industries.
00:07:54.000 A friend sent me messages saying,
00:07:56.000 Pat, I'm sitting here watching the interview you did with him again.
00:08:00.000 It's the last great interview he did.
00:08:01.000 I said I would exchange that interview for him being alive today, man.
00:08:05.000 Because it would be interesting to see what else he's going to do.
00:08:07.000 But these are the things that's out of our hands.
00:08:09.000 It's not in my hands.
00:08:10.000 It's not in your hands.
00:08:11.000 There are certain questions that we're not going to get answered for decades.
00:08:16.000 Sometimes never.
00:08:18.000 This is one of them.
00:08:19.000 But I am personally grateful to have had a relationship with Kobe.
00:08:25.000 To have had a chance to sit with him.
00:08:27.000 To have had a chance to watch him play.
00:08:29.000 To have had a chance to study his habits.
00:08:31.000 His discipline.
00:08:32.000 His obsession about greatness.
00:08:34.000 The topic of greatness.
00:08:36.000 The guy could have been an accountant.
00:08:38.000 He would have ran an accounting firm.
00:08:41.000 KPMG CEO.
00:08:42.000 He would have been the CEO of that company.
00:08:43.000 The guy could have been a financial advisor.
00:08:45.000 He would have managed more money than anybody else.
00:08:47.000 The guy could have been a gym owner.
00:08:50.000 He would have built the biggest gym.
00:08:52.000 It doesn't matter what it was.
00:08:53.000 Kobe's DNA was a DNA that was transferable to any industry.
00:08:56.000 Very unique guy.
00:08:58.000 Very, very unique guy.
00:09:00.000 And I'm hurt.
00:09:01.000 I'm still in shock.
00:09:03.000 And I'm in pain.
00:09:05.000 But I'm grateful at the same time.
00:09:07.000 For having met a unique, special human being like Kobe Bryant.
00:09:12.000 Kobe will forever be missed.
00:09:15.000 And the Bryant family, my condolences goes out to the entire family.
00:09:22.000 Entire family.
00:09:24.000 And for everybody else watching, whatever you're doing right now, man.
00:09:30.000 Call your mom.
00:09:31.000 Call your dad.
00:09:32.000 Call your kids.
00:09:33.000 Kiss them.
00:09:34.000 Tell them you love them.
00:09:36.000 Appreciate them.
00:09:38.000 And give your best to life.
00:09:40.000 So one day people will also talk about your example.
00:09:45.000 To want to leave a legacy behind.
00:09:47.000 Just like the legendary Kobe Bryant left behind for the rest of us to talk about.
00:09:54.000 Thanks, everybody, for listening.
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00:10:17.000 Take care, everybody.
00:10:18.000 Bye-bye.