00:00Live from has always been much watch TV, especially for me when I finish a day, I always am turning on live from mainly because if it's if it's you or Polly or even Wags recreating a shot, I always feel like I'm I learned something and have more information heading into the next day.
00:16It's just a good way to end the day for me. But how have you seen the show kind of evolve over the years when you have someone like Johnson completely changing, you know, taking what we saw live and then trying to recreate it along with, you know, different cast of characters if you had over the years?
00:31Yeah. I mean, how would I say it's involved? You know, if people have become much more in tune with every aspect of the game, we got to dig deeper and harder to tell a better story.
00:46You know, when I started doing live from 20 years ago, there was no social media. So almost everything you were talking about was brand new to the audience.
00:57So we really have to go even deeper, you know, and and so it helps to have a Wags out there in the field.
01:04We used to do some recreations, but now we because there's so much data.
01:10I mean, I don't think people I feel like, you know, yeah, I do use data a lot, but I don't think data is the story.
01:19Data leads you to the story. So I'm not a big believer in just throwing out numbers without adding context.
01:27And then on the back end, explaining what the numbers mean.
01:31So, you know, 20 years ago, you could just throw out data and nobody had ever seen it.
01:35Nobody knew it. They didn't know where you got it.
01:38There were hardly anybody else in the game that had that data.
01:41Now that everybody has the data, everybody.
01:44And it's great data. It's so nice for us as analysts to have.
01:47It's wonderful. But, you know, I I feel like the perfect blend to me is between the way the U.S. does TV and the DP World Tour do TV.
02:00The U.S. is very data driven and DP is very story driven.
02:04And I feel like a collision of those two is the best way to do it.
02:07And that's what I try to do with live from it's data leads you to a story.
02:12So so tell the story with a little bit of data to set it up, but then tell the story.
02:18And so, you know, the show is evolved as I'd say our audience has become far, far more informed.
02:25Our audience knows what happened.
02:27They don't only know what happened, they know all the data.
02:31So you got to really dig deep and to try to tell them why something happened.
02:37And that's the hardest part of the job.
02:39That's the job. That's the part of the job that.
02:42It's the same way I used to get up in the morning and hit golf balls at 5 a.m. to try to figure things out.
02:48I'm up in the morning on my computer early in the morning to try to figure something out late on the weekends at majors.
02:55They don't tee off till two.
02:56Mm hmm. I'm up five, six a.m. in the morning and that those hours from six in the morning till two.
03:04One of these going to these going.
03:06I'm all going right away, trying to figure out because once the tournament starts, I'm too busy tracking the shots and trying to come up with something about that day.
03:17So I got to do my homework in the morning to get ready for what I think is going to happen and to get ready for I call them breakdowns.
03:26So, you know, during a two hour show, we'd like to have two, three, four different breakdowns.
03:30You can't just show highlights and come out and talk about it.
03:32It's like, hold on.
03:33Let me just show you why Smiley Kaufman can swing 119 miles an hour.
03:37All right.
03:37Let me just let me just dive into that, because three years ago he was 114 miles an hour.
03:42Now he's 119 miles an hour.
03:45And that's the kind of stuff that's that's fun to dig into.
03:48It's also kind of, you know, it does.
03:51It's the part where the job gets controversial.
03:54Yeah.
03:54People are like, well, who are you to say why somebody does it?
