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Good evening, late night edition of BTL and there's only one reason for that. That's because we have a brand new Bass Master Classic Champion, a wire to wire victory for Alabama's Justin

Hamner, 33 years old, one of the good guys in the sport.

You know, sometimes they make a deal of,

oh, he was doing, he was working a full-time job or summer.

This is a life-changing thing.

No, he literally, I know this for a fact, was busting his ass mowing lawn 70 to 80 hours a week in the off weeks to pay for the elite series for the last two years this past year he got some sponsor dollars. I talked to him he said man I've almost got my entry fees covered with sponsor dollars he was pumped that he maybe wouldn't have to mow as many yards.

He has a great first two tournaments of the 20-24 season.

Things are setting up for him coming into Tulsa for a hybrid forward facing jerk bait brush pile jig bite it's in his

wheelhouse on a lake he leads the thing wire to wire 58 pounds three ounces Justin Hamner you want to talk about a truly life

Changing classic folks we had one we have a familiar panel a guess just like we did the first night of

uh late night BTO last night folks you can blame Luke Duncan for why there was not

a show I said it was kind of iffy I was at the low budget live he does a party every

Saturday night and didn't get back to like one in the morning I considered firing it

up but hey days one and days three we have the same familiar panel of guests, Pete Robbins, who was writing for Bass at this event, also him and his wife Hannah run half past first cast. Danos Sullivan from Advanced Dangler and then hopefully

possibly speculatively we have Scott Palmer on Scott Palmer owns the

bass tank the big logo on the side of Justin Hamner's boat you know Justin was in studio a month ago we talked about how he had it rigged he gave Scott a really nice shout out on stage just kind of his initial Scott's a little freaked out right now he just just had his title, his only main sponsored

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