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  Speaker 1: Next up right now. This man will not contribute to
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  Speaker 1: the mistakes on this radio show. He is a senior
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  Speaker 1: writer at Golf Digest. He's joining us talk about this
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  Speaker 1: British open. I know he's sitting there watching it this morning.
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  Speaker 1: And Alex Myers joins us on the Mac and Bone Show. Alex,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on, man? How you enjoying the golf this morning?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I'm doing great. I mean, I hope I don't
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  Speaker 2: make any mistakes, but I'll do my best.
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  Speaker 1: No promises, no promises, all right, I think you'll do
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  Speaker 1: better than we have in that department. I'm very glad
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  Speaker 1: to see Scottie Scheffler bounce back and start this thing. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he's three under right now, two shots back. How about
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  Speaker 1: Alex Smiley. Multiple people are pointing out he's a duke
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  Speaker 1: grad lives in Greensboro, so this is a local guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's he is leading this thing right now at five under.
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  Speaker 1: But what do you think about Scotty and the way
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  Speaker 1: he started? Nice to see him bounce back after the
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  Speaker 1: rare miscut last week?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah for sure. I mean, you know, obviously last week
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  Speaker 2: he this is the cut for the first time in
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  Speaker 2: four years, actually ended an even more incredible streak of
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  Speaker 2: thirty seven consecutive top twenty fives. And you know, he
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  Speaker 2: didn't play that badly last week. It's just the scoring
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  Speaker 2: was really low, and you know, he didn't make a
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  Speaker 2: ton of birdies those first couple of days. It's kind
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  Speaker 2: of schopen. So yeah, great for him to get off
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  Speaker 2: to a big start. You know, he is a defending
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  Speaker 2: champ at the Open, and you know the talk about
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  Speaker 2: his demise has been just, I think greatly exaggerated. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's had a ton of runner ups since that first
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  Speaker 2: win to start the year. You know, I compare it
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  Speaker 2: to what happened in women's golf with Nellie Corda. You know,
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  Speaker 2: a couple of years ago she won the five tournaments
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  Speaker 2: in a row, had all those wins. Last year the
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  Speaker 2: stats say she played just as well, didn't win, and
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  Speaker 2: now this year she's back to winning again. So sometimes
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  Speaker 2: the wins coming bunches and sometimes the runner ups coming bunches,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, if you just keep playing well and
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  Speaker 2: putting yourself in position, things are going to work out. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, Scotty looks back to normal. Everybody can take
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  Speaker 2: a big sigh relief. The world number one is back
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  Speaker 2: on track and he's going to be a threat, no
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  Speaker 2: doubt this week.
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  Speaker 1: Would you let's just say this way, I know he
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  Speaker 1: is the favorite, although I saw it around plus six eighty,
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  Speaker 1: which is certainly not you know, a mammoth favorite right there.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a lot of betting that was coming in
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  Speaker 1: on a lot of the European big dogs. But if
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  Speaker 1: you had to, if I'm saying, I'm putting what you
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  Speaker 1: got to put one of your golf diees paychecks on
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  Speaker 1: somebody this week, would you still go Scottie or would
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  Speaker 1: you pick someone else?
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  Speaker 2: No? I would And I said this yesterday, so I'm
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  Speaker 2: not just saying it. Because he got to the good
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  Speaker 2: start today, you have to take him no matter what
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  Speaker 2: I mean. I guess you could maybe argue for Rory,
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  Speaker 2: who obviously hasn't gotten going yet today, but it's just
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  Speaker 2: the consistency is so there, and like you mentioned, the
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  Speaker 2: odds creeping up to seven to one area are just crazy,
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  Speaker 2: and what because of one miss cut? I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: just kind of wild. So you know, we've been seeing
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  Speaker 2: him at four to one, three to one at majors
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  Speaker 2: and in regular events as low as you know, two
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  Speaker 2: to one two and a half to one, crazy numbers
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  Speaker 2: that are justified based on how well he's played the
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  Speaker 2: past few years. But but yeah, once that number crept
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  Speaker 2: up to you know, seven to one, or I think
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  Speaker 2: some somewhere was even eight to one, it's it's still
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  Speaker 2: probably not the right number, you know, because obviously the
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  Speaker 2: books have to make some money. But in terms of value,
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  Speaker 2: it's actually his great value.
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  Speaker 1: Value that's really good. Now you mentioned Rory, he's obviously
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  Speaker 1: the second choice in the betting. How what's your feeling
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  Speaker 1: about him and Royal Birkdale? Man, I know this, yet
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  Speaker 1: he finished the Scottish with a bang with that final round.
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  Speaker 1: What's your feeling on Rory this week?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean Rory, it's tough to get a read
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  Speaker 2: on him because you know, we're seeing in play so
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  Speaker 2: much less, you know, these past couple of years, and
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  Speaker 2: especially after winning the Masters, he kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: rightfully so takes a little break. He wants to celebrate
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  Speaker 2: and you know, has it hasn't really got back into it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, last year he kind of went on this
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  Speaker 2: kind of end of the year swoon. But he you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he showed some signs at the at the Scottish Open
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  Speaker 2: for sure, and the conditions at this course at Royal
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  Speaker 2: Birkdale are very similar. It's you know, usually you hear
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  Speaker 2: about how you get all four seasons in one day.
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  Speaker 2: It's at the British Open. It's not like that. It's
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  Speaker 2: it's it's eighty degrees there, it's sunny, it is a
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  Speaker 2: light breeze, you know, and that's kind of what it
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  Speaker 2: was last week other than one day at the Scottish Show.
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  Speaker 2: He's kind of gotten accustomed to that. I think he's
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  Speaker 2: locked in. I think, as we all know, at this
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  Speaker 2: point in his career, it's really all about the majors,
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  Speaker 2: so he's he's focused on that. And yeah, you know
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  Speaker 2: you again, you could make a case for you know,
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  Speaker 2: some books even had him slightly ahead of Scheffler. I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't have gone quite that far, but you can certainly
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  Speaker 2: make the case for him being a co favorite with
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  Speaker 2: with Scotty heading into this week.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I know, got to get you out of
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  Speaker 1: here in the next couple of minutes, so let me
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  Speaker 1: get you a two give me give me a little
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  Speaker 1: bit on both of these. Who's your next name or
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  Speaker 1: to your non Scotti r Rory names that you really
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  Speaker 1: like this week, and then talk a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: how the course is playing today and how it's gonna play,
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  Speaker 1: because you just said it. It's been hot as all
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  Speaker 1: get out here, which they're not used to. The course
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  Speaker 1: is so firm and it's so dry there, which they're
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  Speaker 1: not used to. So talk about those two things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm a big Xander Shaffley believer.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's been kind of knocking on the door.
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  Speaker 2: He's obviously won and Open before, so he's kind of
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  Speaker 2: my pick along with Victor Hoveland of the non Scotty
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  Speaker 2: Rory guys. And yeah, you know these conditions, it's funny
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  Speaker 2: like it does. It is extremely fast and firm. The
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  Speaker 2: ball is bouncing more than usual. A guy who qualified
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  Speaker 2: for the Open is actually a member of Brokedale. He
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  Speaker 2: was saying he's never seen it play like this. Uh
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  Speaker 2: so it it's definitely a different test. I mean, we
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  Speaker 2: all we know that the Open is going to be
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  Speaker 2: a different test just being on a links course and
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  Speaker 2: a link style course. But this week in particular, especially
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  Speaker 2: if the rain really does stay away, Uh, this is
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  Speaker 2: is gonna be you know, it's gonna be pretty interesting.
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  Speaker 2: So guys, are gonna be playing shots along the ground
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  Speaker 2: a lot more. You know, you really have to be
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  Speaker 2: in control of your ball because once it hits the ground,
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  Speaker 2: you're out of control. So you know, you these guys
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  Speaker 2: are used to kind of plodding around courses and having
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  Speaker 2: it go a certain distance and stopping and you know,
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  Speaker 2: going from point A to point B. You can't do
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  Speaker 2: that this week. And you and you're probably gonna get
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  Speaker 2: some good bounces and you're probably gonna get some bad bounces.
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  Speaker 2: So you're gonna really have to have that mental, you know,
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  Speaker 2: mindset to be able to roll roll with whatever comes
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  Speaker 2: your way.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's my mental mindset on the golf course.
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  Speaker 1: No matter what goes wrong, and a lot does. I
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  Speaker 1: just keep battling. Alex all right, I'm a grinder man
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  Speaker 1: for you.
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  Speaker 2: You're tougher than I am.
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  Speaker 1: Who am I kidding? I'll throw a damn club. My
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  Speaker 1: son saw me throw a club for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: He's starting to pick up the game. He's he's just
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  Speaker 1: turned seventeen and for the first time he saw me
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  Speaker 1: get so mad after a club. That was an eye
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  Speaker 1: opener for him. I am really teaching him how to
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  Speaker 1: maturely handle the score.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Ah God, I can't be the only dad that is
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  Speaker 1: doing that on the course with the sun all right. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: he is Alex Myers Golf Digest at Alex Myers three
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  Speaker 1: on Twitter. He is a must follow for golf fans.
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  Speaker 1: He's also Awake Guy as well, so any deeks out
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  Speaker 1: there give a fellow deec a follow. Thank you, Alex.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate you, brother.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you. Thanks for having me on. Enjoy the golf.
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  Speaker 2: Take care,