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Cold up in question, the week has soft shoes, we're going to keep it simple.

Yeah.

Would you rather wrestle for 10 minutes with a broken arm or get tiger driver 91.

Damn.

That's a that's a hell of a question.

That's a hell of a question.

Uh, I won't like any type of broken limbs.

So am I take, I think I'm taking the tiger driver 90, what's she?

Surprise.

What a terrible, terrible landing there.

I think I'll take a tiger driver 91 over a broken arm.

That was the way it was supposed to go.

That's a tiger driver 91.

I know.

I know, but man, I, uh, uh, nobody should be taking, I don't want to sound like the old fart

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