This is season number 19 of Bass Talk Live with Matt Pangrack.

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Good morning and welcome to another exciting edition of BTL Bass Talk Live,

where we are going to talk about bass fishing, and hopefully we can make it an hour without me just completely losing my voice.

I don't know, it happens every year.

It's the, uh, hay fever, I believe is what it's called.

It's the tickle in the back of the throat.

Anytime you even start thinking about mowing the grass or going bass fishing, it just drives you nuts.

But hey, we're going to get through it today.

We got a really cool week of shows playing.

We're going to kick things off with the, uh, with the college bracket champ Lewis Menetti and Lou went out and made the cut in the bass master classic.

I'm, I'm going to admit it, uh, minute, I know he's listening.

I missed this story before the classic, but he was on like every single podcast there was known to man and everyone was covering it.

So I just, I didn't get Lou on.

And then I'm at the classic and I'm enjoying a beverage with Travis Manson on like this rooftop thing and this dude comes up and he's like,

it little Jersey, I, he's like, yo, you missed, you missed the best story of the whole classic man.

And I'm like, what? And he said, it's, it's Lou Menetti.

And Lou was there and I said, yes, I want to get you on.

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