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Let's have some fun, boys. Action and welcome back to starting nine, episode eight.

It is Carl here, the lovely Chicago we got, Count Cooper out of ones and twos.

And of course, our resident Saiyung Award winner, Jake Garrietta, in Austin, Texas. What's going on,

Fals? Yes, sir, man, how's it going? We're dressed very appropriately. Dress very well.

But I just talked about that off the top. We're matching today.

Yeah, well, old Alan is one of our favorite courses. You love playing there.

Said you haven't spent a dime in the pro-shop. I've probably spent about 2,500.

But it's beautiful gear. And I'm a golf apparel whore. So it is what it is.

There's something about a nice golf club. This is different though, because it's one of the oldest

clubs in Chicago. It's an all-male club. So the memberships are corporate. So like, you can't,

these things don't even exist. I think the average age of the members out there is in the 70s.

It's the fact I can go out there and play a shout out to my buddy Billy Fitzgerald. We get to go

out there and play quite a bit. Because if your dad is a member through the only way to become a

member is again through like a corporation or a company or like an employment. Like his dad's

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