Kobe Bryant on His Beef With Shaquille O'Neal: "Holy Sh*t, I Was an Idiot When I Was a Kid"

If you haven't listened to Shaquille O'Neal's new podcast The Big Podcast With Shaq yet, we can pretty much guarantee that you're going to want to listen to it on Monday. Kobe Bryant is scheduled to be Shaq's guest and, well, yeah. What more do we need to say? We're expecting their conversation to be…something.

To help build up the hype for the podcast (as if it needed it...), ESPN Radio played a short snippet from it today. It featured Shaq and Kobe discussing what they each wish they could take back from their long-running "beef." Here are their answers, courtesy of Lakers Nation:

Shaq: "A lot of things. You just played the clip where I said I wanted to be traded. I definitely did not want to leave L.A., but you know that's how you've got to talk when you're in business, especially when you think you're in control. Definitely didn't want to leave L.A. A lot of stuff was said out of the heat of the moment. I guarantee I don't remember a lot of stuff that they said because I changed my thought process of, you know what, we won three out of four, what the hell are you all talking about? This is not really even a story."

Kobe: "Here's the thing, though. When you say it at the time, you actually mean it, and then when you get older, you have more perspective and you're like, holy shit. I was an idiot when I was a kid. To me, the most important thing was really just keep your mouth shut. You don't need to go to the press with stuff. You keep it internal and we have our arguments and our disagreements, but I think having our debates within the press was something I wish would've been avoided, but it did kind of create this whirlwind around us as a team with myself and Shaq and the press and the media that just put so much pressure on us as an organization."

Monday is gonna be great. Stay tuned to see what else Shaq and Kobe have to say.

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[via Lakers Nation]