How to pronounce “gouge”(noun) in English

So, now he has about--depending on the stock price is, he has, you know, between $38 and $50 million dollars to spend a year on his hunger fighting projects in Africa. And he'sinteresting because he really does it on his own, he doesn't have a big staff. You see the gouge on his shoulder, the big scar, that's the way, he's always like that. I mean, thisguy is actually on the dirt scrounging around, falls off stuff just like me all the time.