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We've been thoughts about Tiger Woods yesterday. We all felt a little different with Tiger Woods because he meant more to us. I said this a couple years ago when he won the Masters when he came back.

I was just incredibly emotional watching on the couch and you know different actors, different entertainers, different musicians.

They just land differently for us. Maybe you go through a tragedy in your life and you listen, you know, for me, it's been an Eric Clapton song for you. It could be Beyonce. It could be Kanye. It could be anybody.

And it was a time in your life that you really needed something and that musician or that artist or that painter or that athlete delivered for you.

And Tiger Woods, it's really interesting what we ask of our athletes. And I consider music and sports the only places in America where we ask 15 to 20 year old young men and women to run companies and the company is themself.

And I can't speak for them, but let me speak for me. The idea that I could be a hundred million dollar franchise. It's 17.

I couldn't have done that at 30. And so what you see with Tiger Woods is magnetic and amazing and polarizing and vulnerable and flawed.

And yesterday he drove too fast on a dangerous road and he made a big mistake. And we've seen some mistakes, but I've always considered him a gift that I understand I've always tried to that adults would struggle with the riches and stardom we ask of our artists, our entertainers, our musicians and our athletes.

The fact that you look around the NFL these quarterbacks and you look around the NBA stars and you look around baseball and soccer. And so few of them have missteps, but Tiger was always different.

Whereas Michael Jordan had the struggle to prove himself at Carol Lina and played in a rigid Dean Smith system and prove himself as he was tackled by the Celtics and the pistons and we watched that 10 part documentary on Michael Jordan.

And I think Joanne I were both taken back by how much of a damn struggle it was for the greatest basketball player, the most glamorous basketball player, the best dressed basketball player, the best looking basketball player, the most skilled basketball player. Good God he was fighting with his own front office. Tiger was different.

Television at three agent 11 worshiped by 15. That is a cautionary tale. And it is not a surprise that there have been some missteps and moments like yesterday that are really scary.

And with that I bring in Tom Rinaldi Fox sports has been covering Tiger for over two decades. He always got the exclusive. He certainly did following that Thanksgiving accident and he is now joining us live.

My first reaction yesterday, Tom, I was sick to my stomach. I said golf. I didn't grow up with money. So I golf was for rich people and old people and Tiger made it cool and he made it inclusive and he made it like he was an athlete. And my first thought yesterday was, oh God, no, no, no, it's been a bad year.

You're really close to him. What was your first thought? Almost exactly the same. It was not for the legend and the athlete and the golfer and the all time great Colin. It was for predictably I'd say for the man. I think whether you know him or not, that's your first reaction. That was compounded by seeing the state of the car.

And we understand that the car obviously is going to undergo further damage due to extricating him. But nonetheless, the CDR bags deployed to be so thankful for that for the crumple zone to see the images of it, 30 some odd yards or whatever it might have been off of, offhorn in that downward winding part of that boulevard, whatever speedy was traveling at.

And that's actually wondered about survival. And that's a frightening, frightening thought. And that was my first thought.

Tiger was socially different. He was a star at Stanford. And socially, he didn't have a robust social life. And initially he trusted people and was kind of jovial. And then he got burned a couple of times by the media and shut himself down.

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