And welcome back to the first cut podcast with Kyle Porter.

That's Kyle Porter.

I'm Chip Patterson.

We're back here.

We're not recording quite as late.

We're on a few less, a little bit of less

cold medicine. But, you know, when you do this much cross-country travel, you know, you got to,

you got to find ways to power through. You know, I'm no Jason Day here. I'm not going to be out here

telling you about all my ailments. Wow. Wow. We're throwing heaters right off the jump. Yeah, that's unbelievable.

I like the late night pods are kind of kind of off the rails, kind of unhinged, unfiltered.

It was kind of fun. I'm going to miss those over the next few months. Well, I mean, you know,

we're only promising them on Sunday nights. And I do have to, I do, I do family dinner with, uh, my wife and I go over to my parents' house every Sunday. So it will have to record late at some point. That's true. That's true. Because we're about to hit. And I guess a lot of these California events still end sort of late, not like the Hawaii, you know,

10 Eastern or 11 Eastern or whatever, but there's still, they're still a little bit later than you

get with the, with the four to swing coming up here in about a month.

All right, but for this weekend, we're looking ahead to the Desert Classic.

And before we jump into picks and previews, a few items to

knock through. Number one, this, we, we're looking at the desert classic for the moment,

but what about across the pond? How much your time is going to be spent tracking the action at

Abu Dhabi?

Well, I was looking at the fields for these two events, and it's not even close, Chip. I mean, the Abu Dhabi field is way better than the Desert Classic field.

I mean, look, I love Charles Howe.

I hope Charles Howe wins the Masters this year, but he's the fourth, like highest favorite or fourth biggest favorite, I guess, for the Desert Classic.

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