Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.

My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.

As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable

experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC

makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,

poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples.

If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds.

Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service.

We're your statistical guide to the world all around us, and I'm Tim Harford.

I don't buy this stuff about him being mentally incompetent to early stages of dementia.

He strikes me as a person of above average intelligence who's tracking

conversations and knows what's going on. I don't think he's medically unfit to be

president. I think he's morally unfit to be president.

One man hardly out of the headlines this year is James Comi, formerly the director of the FBI in the United States.

Since Mr Comi was fired by Donald Trump last year, he's written a book about his White House

encounters and engaged in a very public war of words with the President.

He's a showboat, he's a grandstander, the FBI has been in turmoil, you know that, I know that, everybody knows that.

But something else about Mr. Komi caught the attention of the more or less team,

and that's the fact that James Comi is very, very tall which gave us an idea.

Now that he's out of a job, Mr Comi's probably looking for something else to do, and what better job for a very tall person than to be a basketball player.

So this week on more or less, we're going to be asking the big question, or at least the tall question,

what are the chances of James Comi going all the way in the NBA?

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