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"Your solution is to put Tiger Woods in a car that is literally surrounded by cameras?" Has April Fool's Day lost its juice in a post-truth world? Tony is fascinated by the merger of Japanese and A...

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Luke, a donchitch, had more points in the month of March for the Lakers than Anthony Davis had his entire time with the Mavericks. No, one more time.

I first thought you were going to say with the Lakers, I don't really like that.

I don't know, but it's feeling that way, but one more time. Only ten players have ever scored 600 points in a month. Luke went for 40 again last night, so he had more points in the month of March, more than 400 than Anthony Davis had in the entire time he was with the Mavericks. Nice to see the vision.

Weird. So basically what you got back for Luke a donchitch didn't score as much as Luke a donchitch just scored in a month for the Lakers. But you got back for him, it's why it'll go down as the worst trade in the history of the sport.

That said, though, and I knew Luke it was good.

I think we all knew Luke it was good, but what is this?

We all knew he was good, but the idea that he's scoring right now at Michael Jordan levels Michael Jordan's greatest season. The year, Michael Jordan averaged 37 in a season, correct? He is doing over the last month, Michael Jordan things offensively, where it's just an

unstoppable offensive thing, even though he's always been an unstoppable offensive thing.

And one of the reasons I find this so cool and interesting, kind of quietly while Steph and LeBron are still around, they've handed over the lead to the other guys, like the other guys have taken the lead where you're like, "Yo, kitchen, SGA, and who's next?" And it'll be, they've been able to transition out of that in a way that's been pretty exciting because the offensive play is so good and we love offense so much.

And the crazy thing is those guys are still great, right? It's not just that the transition has started to occur, it's just that the transition is occurring without them having the drop off of like, "Oh, I'm just a seventh guy on this bench trying to get my 10 points tonight or whatever." So that's a really cool part, but yeah, I mean, excuse me, don't you?

Maybe I'm desensitized, there's no part of this that's shocking to me, not even the Anthony

Davis part because again, that's what made it a bad deal, wasn't a bad deal because in retrospect,

wow, it really didn't work out for the Mavericks, it was a bad deal on a date was done because we knew your concerns Nico Harris and were with the durability of your young superstar, but why would you go out and get an old superstar who also has durability issues? We're in the midst of the most unpredictable run in the history of NBA basketball when it comes to the champions and title contenders, it's been for some maybe two wide open.

That's really good now with these players coming online and developing to the point that they are because as they mentioned, you have some of the old guard, hardens with the calves, derands going to be in the equation with the rockets, LeBron still there, but you have these young new faces, I wouldn't necessarily count Yokeach there, there's a multiple time MVP and he's one an NBA championship, but you have these faces of these franchises

that are all really good teams and all the sport needs really at this moment in time is an exceptional playoff. I think and I think we're going to get it too because these series, the way that it's map and out, looks like they're going to be hotly contested, that is going to be so huge for the sport at this point in time.

Yeah, you look, the playoffs are going to be great, you look at the eastern conference, the difference between, was it three and like six is a game and a half two games, whatever you look at the western conference, between four and like seven is the same situation.

So we're going to get hotly contested at playoffs right from the first round and I think

what we have better than great players is we got two guys who have personalities, Victor

Eminyama and Anthony Edwards, I think that's when we talk about handing over ...

then, you need a personality to carry it because it can't just be cold, quiet, calculated efficiency, Tim Duncan couldn't handle those reins, not because he wasn't good enough

as a player, it was an amazing player, but just he didn't have the personality.

Oh, but you don't need, you don't need all of them to have personality, you need seven ten guys who are great that we're going to have an interest in to go up against the guys with the personality, so Larry Bird had quiet personality, but he wasn't, we can go back throughout the history of time here. The fact that we've got nine guys that are competing for best in the league and the fact that they are one up in each other while trying to win the

MVP trophy that Lucas playing the best basketball you've ever seen him shooting 40% from three during the stretch when everybody's trying to stop him and doing it for that franchise. I want to ask you for your expertise on something, though. The Lakers stink at defense, they do. They've

been better recently because opponents are shooting 32% from three, but it's not because they're

guarding them any better. It's weird, people are shooting poorly against them and furthermore, where they have gotten better and this is how they're defense, they're turning the ball over a lot less and so the numbers going the other way on fast breaks against old guys are not, that has not been happening over three weeks. I have said for a while that team can't win the

championship playing defense that way. I still think so. I think it's a bad stretch of shooting,

but can they fix that? Because if they can fix that and you've got Luca, you've got the things you need to win a championship against an okay see or anybody else. I just think they're bad at defense and are going to be bad at defense in the playoffs. Now when you say, can they fix that? Is this

it April Fool's thing that we're doing here? Because if so, hold on, I have my friend here who's

like to chime in. Blah, it's me, Vibula. And yes, of course they can fix it. I love this date. Now you're going to tell me who fibula is on the front end to telegraph your joke as you announce who you're impersonating the lying vampire. Does April Fool's say have the same kind of juice that it has for you in the past? I think every day is right. That was my, I've been a approaching the internet as if everything's been fake for close to a year now. So April Fool's

say, you kind of work harder than that. I like it's crazy how conditioned I am now. We are so cooked because I don't trust anything. We killed April Fool's day. I think everyone is on guard every day now. I approached the way the internet, the way you had approached like an electric socket with your hand wet. Like, because I don't trust anything on any day. I have to run like several searches to get three sources to back up what I'm seeing. I'm scrutinizing everything because

everything, I is so advanced. Everything appears real that April Fool's say, it's just a Wednesday.

I love that Mike just said, I have to go look for multiple sources. Yeah, that's what you should have

been doing all the time. That's the thing I've been saying this whole time. It started with all these fake like breaking news. Clay Thompson is getting bought out. He's signing with the spot. I'm shafted. I'm like, guys, Barry, my cockenter. It's not that hard. It's like, wow, that's pretty big news. Let me see who else is reporting it. Yeah, I think you're talking to like the audience, like I've known this. Like as soon as a blue checks were just a free for all, like we've had

we've been on our on our toes right now, like it especially for a show like ours, like trying to sus out what's real and what's fake. But I got to say, like I think post truth has really killed April Fool's day. Put it on the poll at Levitar Show has April Fool's day been killed because I think that happened quietly, but I think it did indeed die and we will be talking later in the show to Brett Ehrlich. Mike Ryan was very excited when he heard he was going to be on with us about what

Twitter has done and what Elon Musk has done specifically to that algorithm to to bleep with democracy.

Yes, I mean, that's that's what the intention is. This is hugely intentional for you to not know

what's real because then the defense of fake news, it holds water because so many different things are fake. This is absolutely intentional. Billionaires love this post truth age. They have actually built it and perpetuated it because they love this because they can easily see like where'd you get that on the internet? No, that's not real because nothing is real. You don't know what's real anymore. Sure, you don't know what you're talking about. Sure, that's all cool. But have you guys seen the

merging between American and Japanese Twitter over the weekend? Did you guys see that? Nobody? Nobody saw that. Okay, so they started putting on people's timelines. Japanese tweets from people in Japan in Japanese and then they would translate them to see what they were saying.

Dude, they love us and we love them.

was it predator where they had the uh, the the hand, yeah. Okay, I know what you're saying. Yeah. That's been the biggest thing for the for the Japanese-American relation in the longest time. I have a couple of tweets that I want to put up that were translated on my timeline. Can we put up the pizza tweet first? So it's a pizza tweet, somebody puts up a pizza pizza that has little tiny

pizzas as toppings of the pizza. Yeah, so you've never seen that before? Pizza inception. So this is a

uniquely American thing, because I don't think anybody else really has that somewhere. And somebody in Japanese wrote something and then it was translated to when I saw this pizza top with a pizza in America, I thought there's no way we can beat these guys. They have a bunch of great stuff like this.

Put up the uh, the honky tonklove. Japan loves honky tonk culture. Dan did you know that?

They love, they love grilling meats. They love barbecue with the boys. Look at this. I'm going to put this up on the screen here. Just a bunch of guys just hanging around grilling a bunch of stakes. I use someone, it's kind of small. See, if I had to choose between American men and meat, I'd love to see this photo. I want to participate in this event in person someday. Somebody in Japan

seeing a barbecue saying, you know what? I want to be part of this. Is it possible that Tony

you're getting April fooled right now? No, this is 100%. You're saying the internet is bringing us together between Japan and America. Just so that mere weeks after our president insulted you guys were about the wrong stuff. Yeah, you guys were about the wrong stuff. By saying no one wants to surprise before Pearl Harbor. You're right. Again, you guys were about the wrong stuff. I'm talking about pizza on pizza and somebody saying they can't best, they can't beat us because we have pizza on pizza.

They don't have charcoal on Japan. Of course they do. They do beautiful charcoal,

beautiful barbecue in Japan. But so why are they astonished by the idea of people grilling stakes?

Because just the community, the community of Hong Kong, the community of southern culture in America, they're fascinated by it over there, but I don't really have that. Okay. Thank you for that sound because I want to talk about what's real and what's not real because I had an argument with your dad, Chris, during the break where I said to your father, do you realize how loud your stomach is? And he's like, my stomach's not making any sounds and I'm a Greg.

You're having nothing but coffee for 16 hours. You have an eaten since four o'clock yesterday. You're drinking two thermuses of coffee. Yeah. A little bacon as well. That sound is your stomach and it's gurgling and Greg said to me, straight face. He's like, I didn't hear anything. My stomach's not making any sound. And I just like to put this on the poll at Levitard Show.

When your stomach has growled, do you always know it? Because Greg is so used to his stomach

being in turbulence that he's not hearing explosive sounds made by a stomach. Look, he's why Greg, we're not making this up. Okay? Because I cured your stomach. It's explosive. Greg, listen to this. This is not altered in any way. Yeah, right. That's a pig on a farm. Greg, I'm going to give you the cut. You have the context for Chris or you just have that. That is not the isolate. I'll get the longer version.

Greg, that's absolutely you and I'm telling Greg. Fake news, thinking of fake news. You tell him, Greg, I have it as a frog. Really, it sounds like a pig. It's a snort. That's a snorting sound. Quick, that quit doing that. Fibula is so limited. You tell him, Greg, you can do a guy in waterboy as a lying vampire. It's such a limited impersonation.

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You mean to tell me that you don't feel a rubble at all? No. I think he is living in this kind of

discomfort for so long that he is almost completely numb to it. Do you guys remember when former UFC champion Daniel Kormey was on with us and his alarm the alarm on his fire alarm kept beating beeping because the battery was dead and the self detector. The smoke detector. Thank you. A lot of the fire alarm. Thank you. The soundtrack to many recruiting interviews. When we're trying to talk to Daniel Kormey, Kormey, we said to him, "Hey, you got to get that

battery fixed and his response was to like you guys can hear that too because I've been hearing that for months. Where is that sound coming from?" He doesn't hear his own stomach make these sounds because he's been living with these sounds for so long that he's numb to him. Nobody hears their own stomach. Greg, your stomach is making these kinds of sounds. If you don't hear it,

you should at the very least feel it. That kind of sound has to come with a physical feeling that's

running through your stomach. No, like when I have dancing swords, I feel that in a lower region, one number's that. It may make the list. There you go, Daniel. One in one. We'll see. Soof lays in the oven. That's called back. No, he's right. He's right about that. Thank you. I wanted to get to and I'm too late in getting to it. A news that was, I would say, fairly unusual yesterday, even though all of us could have seen it coming. It has been a really

long time since Tiger Woods was a meaningful competitive golfer. He exists in an area unlike most others who have ever played games in that he was so dominant and in his sport. People can win old that there is a large contingent of people who move the ratings in golf because they think he can still win when he can't. This has been the case for damn near 15 years. But that hope keeps him so relevant that when he goes to rehab, even though it's not unexpected because

all of us were shouting some form of somebody get him help. He needs help. Tiger, please get yourself some help because everyone was seeing some of the symptoms of addiction when you keep turning over your car and the police find pills on you and you've already turned over your car in the way that almost made you lose a leg and I've been talking about the seven back surgeries and the pain of the seven back surgeries. Can you look up how many leg surgeries he's had as well just

because I imagine if you guys have ever talked to anybody who's had never mind minor back pain,

Just chronic back pain.

guess he's had 15 leg surgeries as well. This guy has been medicated for a long time in order

to do what he still tries to do because it's who he is but no longer do that way at all because his body is failed. Grana Salt with Google AI overview but five knee surgeries to Achilles, tendon procedures. We just talked about this bike. Yeah, I'm a live program and then I got it couched it. Go, go, go. Like he's in the middle of the point. They're interrupting. How did you receive the news Greg when you saw something that I think we're all made sad

by but I do. I'm not talking to you. You're son about this who's a golf fan. I believe and I know Rich is make it so that it makes it very hard for people to absorb what I'm about to say.

I believe the Tiger Woods is a prisoner in his own body and that that body is racked with pain

and his life is far less lovely than we imagine it probably could be with all of that money in

access. I have an eternal fascination with Tiger Woods and I have for 30 years. I think he's one of the most interesting athletes and post-athletes in my lifetime. I think Tiger Woods is still the biggest thing in golf even though it's been four years since he's played on tour with any regularity because of all these injuries. I wish him well. I'm glad that he's taking care of himself or appearing to make an effort to take care of what has been a pretty obvious problem of his for

years. Do you think I have this wrong though in a sighting as unusual? How unusual? The hope is that a 50 year old, this guy's close to my age, that a 50 year old still, hey he can win the masters. Golf guys can win when they're old. That hope makes him a still relevant athlete. It's more relevant

than just about anyone else going to rehab outside of LeBron. Like in American sports,

in American sports, we talked about Steph Curry and LeBron giving over the league. Tiger still hasn't given over golf the numbers spike every time he does anything. If he played, if he would have played any won't now, I'm sure. If he were to play in the masters next week, the TV ratings would be up 20%. And if he made the cut and played on a Sunday and was only three back or whatever, it would be like a major deal. Let's talk about the lack of precedent for what it is

that you're witnessing. And athlete in his 50s is supposed to be washed up. This is someone who, I don't know, how many years are we from what is the relevant playing career of Tiger Woods? The the merit-based excellence. How long has it been since Tiger Woods could reasonably be considered to possibly win a tournament? He won the masters in 2019. So it's been about that long.

And it was an incredible comeback story that had everyone glued to their tellings. That makes

people think that he could do it again six years later. Right. It's the possibility. And you see that in golf in a way you don't see it in other sports. Up until a few years ago, Freddie couples had a reputation of being the old golfer who would really rise in the majors and and make a cut and it'd be. Freddie couples at the at the masters, getting people excited.

Dan, you remember Tom Watson at the British Open? Yes. I just texted the PTI guys, just texted him.

You know what I miss the people who produce PTI. You know what I miss most about all things ESPN that first round Thursday of the British Open when I could talk about Jim Fierick in the A block. What a repulsive tournament to look at on TV. Did you text them all together in a group or like individual? It was a group you have all the shows by a group text like the around the horn guy. He's a title PTI guys. How grateful were you for Tom Watson? He gave you three days. He did

Tom Watson gave us a run. Whenever Tony and Mike would take off, I'd get stuck on that Thursday with talk for a minute and a half of that Jim Fierick. Make it interesting. He needs something. Lead the show. Give us all you got on VJ said. VJ! The thing about this story, though, that really resonates for me. This is a strong man weakened by humanity, by frail teas. We've done the pop psychology the last couple of days of trying to please your dad, dad, you know,

buried in an unmarked grave. I urge you all to watch the HBO Matt's unauthorized documentary because Tiger did not participate in it on. It's two parts and it's pretty exhaustive and well reported. Much like Tom Brady had two Hall of Fame careers. Tiger Woods has had two careers. He's got

Everything before the public adultery and then everything afterward and how i...

and it's two generations of information, two of them totally different. One is prodigy.

Excellent. His dad did such a good job. Look at the robot. He made he's on Murph Griffin as a child.

He was programmed for this. This was going to be, he made all his dad's dreams come true. He must be so happy. Then the next 20 years for an entire generation of, oh, that used to be Tiger Woods. He's got his demons. Those are all things that we haven't quite seen of our Michael Jordan's in our Tom Brady's before where the temptations grab you and they range from sex addiction to loneliness, to drugs and now pain killers because what you do physically hurts and the torque of swinging

that way with a bad bad means that every single morning you wake up and wear the hell of the meds.

What do I need to do? Not to feel high, not to feel low. What do I need to do? It's not. I can't even get to the highs anymore. What do I need to do to not feel low? And you're the greatest champion we've known. Like think about what that is to age. However, remember I told you guys the story of this was God Almighty 25 years ago. I told you guys the story of feeling sad for Michael Jordan while in China because I'm like you used to be the symbol for all the globe on what youth is

and I'm seeing you struggle up the stairs of the Berlin Wall. That must be tougher to age like him. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. The great great well. My bad. I'm not going to take the feet.

Although I wouldn't put anything past MJ. That's right. Thank you. Then I don't think you should

the balladize. Don Lebatard. Is there a back in my day? There is actually. Are you going to tell anyone? What is it? You guys, guys, it's a Tuesday. Still gots. Here's your guy. Break Cody with back in my day. Not totally. No. We're back. That is great for this one. This is the Don Lebatard show. With this two-gads. What you've been in that break? That's something. I love that you're trying to have an

aging conversation when he makes a big ballad China with a Berlin Wall. Right. It's a bad mistake. I realized that as soon as I did it, the Berlin Wall would be strange if that was in China. It would. It trade. The thing that I find about everything happening with him is that he's suffering. He's suffering at the end of what could have been his life in a couple

of these accidents. Yeah. And he's never quite retired either. It would be one thing if five

years ago. He went out on top after winning his last major in 19. But he hasn't. He's still hanging on. And among the fascinating things I find about him is that he's gone from the peak of excellence to the ultimate underdog. And those are the two things we love in sports. The best and the underdog. And he's that underdog right now. If he played the master's next week, nobody in his right mind thinks he's going to win. But the possibility is still there of him and a red shirt on a Sunday.

And that's enough. I am a Homer when it comes to Tiger Woods. I wish him nothing but the best. I hope he has one more major in him. If not to win it, at least to be in it.

This part is interesting, though. The way this stuff changes because I think that Petino

was somebody who had a lot of people rooting for him in this last tournament. It is an unusual thing. The foil. It is an unusual thing for us to bury someone when they betray us with what their public image is. And then at the end, sometimes come around just like human beings on forgiveness and being someone who roots for Tiger Woods. Because I just remember the specific so much of, when he cheated on his wife, he lost so many of you with what it was that felt like betrayal.

Like you thought you knew that guy and he did something that even though you know men can't be trusted, he did something that made you feel betrayed on what his public image was. Because you were forced fed for 20 years by Nike and everyone else by his dad and everyone else. This is the prodigy. He's going to save the country club. This guy is perfect. He's a robot of golf.

Now he's the face of fallibility.

his image is taken. That you're rooting for him. I do anyway. You know, he's wildly imperfect

and that makes him interesting. It's interesting how few golf fans I can think of that have

turned on Tiger. They all seem to kind of have that take. At the time though, Chris, like now sure, at the time, man, it was a massive scandal. And especially as we found out, the details. It's not just all he cheated on his wife. It's like, this guy was banging waitresses from shoneys, man. Like, that was the part where I was like, whoa. Yeah, public show needs to. It's easy to confuse it too. But yeah, in the middle of that PR storm, it was bad. He got out of it. Why? Because he adds

an adoring public. He beloved. He's beloved. Fortunately for him and others, he hasn't hurt

anybody, which was the easy stance to take on this, which is you're going to get somebody else hurt.

All right. You're dealing with your demons. Don't take somebody down with you. He hasn't done that. He's only hurting himself right now in his family and he can dig himself out of it. And he's got the support of everyone, including the media. Everybody likes Tiger. Hell, the media needs Tiger. The sport needs Tiger still at this age. He's in a good spot to get right. What an unusual interesting thing, though, to remember the specifics of this press conference that he did in

front of a blue screen in Orlando. The reason I remember it is because there was so much howling around him because we had seen some threads of his private life come out in public and he was womanizing a hound. The brain betrayal of howling at him made it. So in front of that blue screen in

Orlando, after hearing people be like, give us an apology, explain yourself, what the hell is this?

He's holding his mom in front of us and I'm like, why did anyone want this? We wanted this. We wanted this. We called for this. We wanted this. And now we're watching it. Ooh, we didn't want this. This doesn't feel good from that point. Whatever the frailty and the fallibility is it in it, he gets to go in the most unusual way from conquering hero to fallible human being to the support of everyone being like we're rooting for you, Tiger. And it helps him not at all at the

core of the physical pain. Never mind the emotional pain. The physical pain of he gets up every morning

and where are my pills? I need I need more than I've ever needed because I've had so many surgeries because my body and I'm still out here trying to be the guy I was because I need to please my

adoring public. I need to be the guy my dad thought I was. Like I need to keep being out of your

competing because without competing who am I? I'm just a guy popping pills. I gave my entire body over to all of this and now I can't stop taking the pills. Yeah, when you carry two pills with you on the road, that's a definite indication. I wonder about his mental health. I do. I wonder if he's had therapy. I know he early on when the only person he owed an apology to was his wife. He claimed a sex addiction addiction. I wonder if he has had work on his mental health. I know

he says now he's going into therapy for presumably the pill addiction but maybe he needs something. I guess when I ask you for your support or whatever it is on seeing the human parts of what Tiger Woods is as an immortal, the mortal parts of the immortal. It's just this. Imagine every morning you get up in the morning and your back is just killing you that you can't move around and function because you keep you need another surgery. You need an eighth surgery because the they cut you

open and they can't fix it. Like you say his mental health. I'm talking about his physical health because people who are in this kind of pain do harm themselves. They think about harming themselves because that ends the pain. Yeah, but we assume right now that he's in constant pain. How could you not though is what I'm saying? How could you not? If the if the culture of sports is and the culture of men is don't tell anybody about how you hurt. Right. Just hide that. Don't tell the public. You're

you're part of a marketing machine. You are many economies over. Don't go out there and tell anybody you got a pill problem. Don't go out there and tell anybody how broken you are physically because that's weakness. Nothing. There's nothing about anything that rewards him being vulnerable in public. Nothing. But I'm just not assuming he's in constant pain. I would just as soon assume that maybe he's over medicating himself. Maybe he's taking pills for pain that isn't

really there. I have no idea. I think he gains a lot by being vulnerable in public. Like I said,

Everybody's rooting for him.

But he hasn't been no. He could buy more by being vulnerable. But very clearly this is a dude that values his privacy. This was the last stop, right? Like he didn't have any more get a jail

free cards without using the hey, I'm going to go seek help. He's never said I'm going to go seek

help for any sort of pain pill or DUI or anything like that. Like this is the first time we've seen it. He's been embarrassed and public before. Okay. And I don't know what the pressures and hardships because he's never revealed him. He does not talk about this stuff. I don't know. He was burned in the first interview he ever gave. He was in the back of a limo with Charles Pears. He made some sort of lesbian joke and then the whole machine shut up shut down around him. Like that the very

beginning of his career. He never said anything interesting again. He was never himself again in public, not one time ever. He was always, tell me if I have this wrong, Greg. Just marching marketing robot for Nike. Yeah. Right. The Michael Jordan aesthetic, you know, where he's not going to say anything particularly interesting or anything to them himself. But yes, of course, what you guys are saying is part of the rehab tour if what he cares about is the optics and the business of being

Tiger Woods because it's a giant business, giant business. If that's what he cares about on how this

looks, yes, of course. He sits down and talks about all of this. But we've never seen it in his career.

Like the fact that this guy has been in public for 30 years and the dirt is what you know because you don't really know anything else about him. You know, the upbringing, you know, the story, the darkness was revealed to you by accident. He didn't ever want any of that scene. Still doesn't goes to rehab now to avoid the embarrassment of it because there must be great shame in all of this. Right. You know how we say all the time. There's no shame in needing help. No wrong. He's only

seeking it now because there's shame in needing help. And but yet overriding all of that, what we do know about Tiger Woods is the excellence that is virtually unparalleled and beyond that in a way that Jack Nicholas never did, he revolutionized golf. He opens the doors to people of color

to be interested in golf. And I think that's a generational thing. That lasts. That's his legacy

to me. Isn't just the 15 majors. It's that he revolutionized golf. Then I've got the solution for Tiger Woods. Right. So we've been talking for three days. Now Tiger just get a driver and he's like, no, I don't want to drive around my privacy and all that stuff. And we've been fighting. Like, how do we figure it out? I've got the solution. Waymo. Get Tiger Woods away, Mo. Now you don't have to wear my drivers and privacy or anything

like that. And he's not behind the wheel. Your solution is to put Tiger in a car that is literally surrounded by cameras. I was admit, I did not think the flu. He should build his own waymo. That's like, this is mine. Your solution. That's an idea man right there, folks. Your solution. How much just for this one? I want it forever. A waymo with no cameras. Even Mo. So your telling Tiger Woods, the solution for get a driver is get a car that doesn't

have a driver. That's right. Oh, no, I should build on that. It's very limited. Fibula. Fibula. Fibula is a very limited in personation. And I'm here for him being here the rest of the week. I want to get to a story that I've not been able to get to because I miss Angel Hernandez. I know you all love to complain about the officiating and I'm piring, but we have in CB Bunkner. Somebody who is angling for being the greatest of all time at being the worst

of all time at I'm piring. The things going on with CB Bunkner right now make him so that he is the rare baseball empire that makes his way out of the sport into now. I just associate him within companies. Yeah. An empire that I a name I now just associate like Angel Hernandez with this guy's going to get it wrong in ways that are publicly embarrassing. This guy is just my hero. It's now

you have to tune in whenever CB Bunkner. He's behind the dish tonight. Last week he made news for

missing multiple calls having a bunch of challenges go against in the crowd cheering like any time he got it wrong. And last night he was at first base. So a little appetizer before today when he's behind the dish and he just flat out a runner running to first base clearly touches the bag and then

Bunkner ends they end up tagging him and Bunkner's like he never touched first. So he's out.

Well, you can see the evidence here. I want to get to the audio, but please put it on the poll at LeBotard Show. Doosha no Dush saying behind the dish. Oh yeah. I'll just yes it's Dush and I love doing it. I know you love doing it and every time you do it it's monumental Dush. I can't disagree with that. Bunkner is the baseball's most notorious Bunkner since Bill. He's right about that. Thank you.

He had that lined up like he got in there.

really. There wasn't a great on ramp for that joke. I probably should have held it a little bit.

Yeah, but you're not good at holding Joe. No, no. I want to just get to the audio please of the announcers. Just don't understand. We just showed you the video of clearly the runner has

touched first base. The Brewers broadcasters just let CB have it. So the call from CB Bunkner is that

Jake Bower's missed first base and I think that is the horrendous call where to CB Bunkner looking.

That had been looking at it. Why would he even say that? CB Bunkner was not even looking at the

play. He stepped right on top of first bay. I'm not sure what CB Bunkner is looking at there.

That had to be ridiculous. Well, I'm really excited for him to have the plate tomorrow.

He stayed. Don't return. You know what? You were dangerned out.

That's just a waste of time review of that. At least review is available so you can get it right. Yeah, I'm not kidding. Everybody laughing at that call. It doesn't make any sense though. Like it's clearly looking away. In the photo we have where he's clearly on the back. You see

Bunkner just looking at an opposite direction. Yeah. Like the Empire at Grace on this game

last week that I argued about. Yeah. Same thing. If I'm there, I'm yelling at that Empire. That's part of the beauty of a sports, by the way. We love the imperfection. We covered this on the Greg Cody Show, my dad. I was mad at him because he was 10 feet away screaming at a coach pitch on fire. That's part of the charm of baseball. No, it's not not when all the other parents are looking. All the other parents are looking at me like who's this old guy that hasn't shown

up for anything else yelling at the Empire. Oh, the Empire, the other. That's right. Save. What do you mean? Hold your money. Now you can get out of here.

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