The names Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal are always linked together more so for their alleged long-running feud than their three championships together with the Los Angeles Lakers.

Now, the Black Mamba and the Big Aristotle have addressed the feud when the Lakers superstar guard was a guest in "The Big Podcast with Shaq."

Kobe Bryant said that although the feud was overblown in the media, he also has to shoulder a burden of responsibility.

He explained, "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 s---, I was an idiot when I was a kid."

"To me, the most important thing was really just keep your mouth shut," Kobe Bryant of his feud with Shaquille O'Neal. "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."

The Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal fued has been well-chronicled. In fact, when Kobe Bryant won his fifth championship and was asked how he felt, the giddy superstar quipped, "I got one more than Shaq." That was a response to Shaq's rap when he won his fourth with the Miami Hip when he dropped the line, "Kobe, tell me how my ass tastes."

Meanwhile, Shaquille O'Neal asked Kobe Bryant if he thinks this is his last season with the Los Angeles Lakers, which will pay him $25 million.

"I'm training and getting ready for the season," he said. "I'm really excited about this is my 20th [season]. Twenty years. That's nuts! I couldn't imagine playing for 20 years back in the day. So I'm just getting ready. I'm really excited for the team."

Kobe Bryant just played 41 games for the Los Angeles Lakers last season before he was shut down following a torn right rotator cuff injury. The superstar guard revealed that he started shooting two weeks ago.