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The Show Episode 539

April 8, 2026·44 min·4 clips

The host kicks off the annual Masters show with Pat Summerall's voice and a live remote from the guest house.

The opening is all Augusta. Pat Summerall's voice, the CBS Masters mood, and the music cue explain why the show sounds different this time. The guest is back for his first appearance since the Super Bowl show, and the host turns the reunion into something warm enough, but still needly. The guest house setup is fine, apparently, just not home studio fine. They move fast through baseball, the Yankees, and the Final Four, with the basketball games getting more of a complaint than a full segment. Then Augusta takes over. A chairman rundown rolls into Fred Ridley, the women's amateur, and the annual scramble to get inside the clubhouse store. The line is the problem. People with access are not just buying a shirt and leaving. They are loading carts because the secondary market makes the stuff worth hoarding. That is what sets the host off. He shows the guest a picture from Twitter where one buyer has stacked up shirts, hats, putters, chairs, backpacks, flags, and Masters gnomes. The reaction is instant. The pile is described at more than twenty-five hundred dollars, with the buyer supposedly expecting four times that on eBay. Of course, the host has fixes. He works through the suggested store limit of thirty minutes and a thousand dollar cap, because Augusta can run the tournament but somehow cannot police checkout. The guest keeps giving him facts. That is the rhythm: the host rants, the guest brings lists and quiz energy, and the show keeps wandering without losing its betting show spine. The close is familiar. The host tells listeners to take their advice and bet, thanks the download crowd, names the usual podcast apps, and leaves with Masters music and the line about being nice.

As heard by us

Masters Sunday, Augusta banter, and a long gripe about the clubhouse-store line.

The segment uses Masters Sunday as its backdrop, with Pat Summerall at Augusta, the annual-show music, and a guest returning for the first time since the Super Bowl show.

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For a Masters Sunday fix with Augusta chatter, remote-studio banter, and clubhouse-store chaos.

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