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Mac & Bone Show - Ashley Westwood Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Ashley Westwood is here to celebrate the victory, hang out,
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: and probably talk about a bunch of things that don't
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: have anything to do with anything as well, I'm sure.
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Halloween candy is coming up. Halloween candy could be talked about. Westy, congratulations, man.
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: Beautiful free kick, beautiful win, man. How are you feeling?
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: Good morning again, Lutz. Yeah, it's good. Two great results.
• 0:21
  Speaker 2: We're fighting for top four.
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Yep. So you can do no worse than fifth. I'm
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: not telling you, Wes. You probably understand the scenario, but
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: I'm telling everybody out there. Charlotte FC can do no
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: worse than fifth. They can do no better than fourth.
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: It's Charlotte FC in Chicago. We just got a sort
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: out based off the results. Saturday, y'all play at Miami.
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: Whether or not You'll have home field advantage or whether
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: or not they'll have home field advantage. What do you
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: think about just drawing Chicago as an opponent? They got
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: some dang talent on this team. What do you think
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: about them as an opponent in the postseason?
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably the hardest one to face. We're going
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: to come up against, I think, one of the most
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: similar to us. They're very, very organized. Obviously, they've got
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: a top-quality striker. So, no, it's not ideal. But if
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: we finish in the top four, I would fancy us
• 1:12
  Speaker 2: two games at home, that would be, that's the big difference,
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  Speaker 2: and that's what we want.
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Westy, for this club to have postseason success, what do
• 1:20
  Speaker 3: you think the biggest key or two will be to
• 1:23
  Speaker 3: not just be in the postseason, but to advance throughout it?
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: Just to do what we've been doing. I mean, we
• 1:30
  Speaker 2: obviously need, we need Maxi available. That's, it's not ideal. Last,
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: I think, was it last year, we lost Wilf against
• 1:38
  Speaker 2: New York. He was a big loss, and listen, if
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: you lose these caliber of players, it's, It's a big
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: boost to Phil, but we need players available. So hopefully Max,
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: he's only got one game and then he's back for
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: the playoffs.
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: All right. We got to talk about this maxi thing, Westy,
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: because I'm trying to figure this out. First of all,
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: he should not probably with a with a insurmountable lead.
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  Speaker 1: Westy's laughing in the background with an insurmountable lead. You
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: probably if you're jawing with somebody, you should probably just
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: laugh in his face and not grab your goodies, for
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: lack of a better term, to show him how angry
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: you are at him. That resulted in a red card. Is,
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: should that be a red card? Like Dean said, he
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: didn't think it should be a red card offense. I swear.
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: Can't that just be a yellow? What do you think
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  Speaker 1: about that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know the rules. It's a lot, it's
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  Speaker 2: a lot stricter out here. I think in England, you might,
• 2:27
  Speaker 2: you might get away with a, with a little bit,
• 2:29
  Speaker 2: but I don't know. It's listen, you can't, there's kids watching.
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  Speaker 2: So you can't, you can't do that. It'd be better
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  Speaker 2: off punching him.
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  Speaker 1: That's the thing is we can't put it up there
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: with actual violence. That's a good point. This is deja vu, though.
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  Speaker 3: It feels like every year, Westy, you mentioned it, but
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  Speaker 3: every year at this point, you guys end up losing
• 2:51
  Speaker 3: somebody towards the end.
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not me this time.
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: You know what? We actually have to celebrate this. Westy,
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: the three dudes that have gotten themselves red cards late
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: either at the end of the regular season or in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs have all not been you. I give you credit.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, mate. I can keep my mouth shut.
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: Westy's like, yo, teach those lads to do that crap
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  Speaker 1: during the regular season or the league's cup or something
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  Speaker 1: like that. Oh, man. Oh, God.
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  Speaker 3: So and Max here says that should be a blue
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  Speaker 3: card and not a red or yellow card.
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 3:27
  Speaker 2: Hey, now.
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  Speaker 1: So, Westy, I don't know how I segue from what Maxie. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you brought the kids. Kids don't need to see that, Maxie.
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: And what were the kids doing here in Charlotte on
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: Saturday night? They were trick or treating. Do you get
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: into Halloween and trick or treating with your kids? Do
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  Speaker 1: you do you find that fun?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, my wife's huge on Halloween, so that was another
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: reason why we come to America. It dropped off in England,
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: so I've got all my family over from the UK
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  Speaker 2: as well, so they thought it was going to be
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: my last year.
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about that in a second. Before
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: we get to the real important headline stuff, which you
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: just tried to lead us to, I need to ask,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know, do they trick-or-treat in England? Do
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: they get into Halloween? You said it's not the same.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's nowhere near as big. I mean, a lot
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: of them are miserable, so they turn the lights off,
• 4:21
  Speaker 2: they close the curtains, they don't go to the house.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing out here. We did some trick-or-treating. We had
• 4:27
  Speaker 2: a party at the house on Saturday night, so I've
• 4:30
  Speaker 2: still got a bad head.
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  Speaker 1: What's your go-to candy? What do you like the most?
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  Speaker 2: I like the Sour Patch Kids. That's mine.
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  Speaker 1: Really? You go sour? How about that?
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  Speaker 2: Interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting. Westy, are you like the fun guy everybody wants
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  Speaker 1: to party with in the neighborhood? Are you the fun dad?
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  Speaker 2: I would like to think I am, but the kids
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  Speaker 2: think I'm embarrassing.
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  Speaker 1: Mine, too. And, Bone, there's no way I'm really embarrassing, right?
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  Speaker 1: No way. No, that's not possible. Oh, man. All right,
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: so you hit us. You kind of went there in
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: the press conference, and now you kind of dropped a
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: little hint there. So, Westy, what is your status, are
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: you thinking? It sounds like you... thought this was going
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: to be your last year with FC and now you're
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: not sure what's, where does that stand right now?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, who knows? Listen, I was, I had mentioned it
• 5:27
  Speaker 2: to certain people at the start of the year. I
• 5:29
  Speaker 2: think this was going to be my last one. I
• 5:31
  Speaker 2: wanted to, I wanted to finish, I wanted to finish
• 5:34
  Speaker 2: on a high, I wanted to finish with the legs
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: still going, but no, I think, listen, who knows? There's
• 5:38
  Speaker 2: some conversations to be had. Hopefully, it's if the club
• 5:41
  Speaker 2: want me, so it's not my decision. I've got an option.
• 5:45
  Speaker 2: So the wives give me the go-ahead. She's the boss.
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  Speaker 2: She does all the contract talk. So hopefully there's a
• 5:53
  Speaker 2: few more games left in the legs.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 5:55
  Speaker 3: How are you feeling physically? Are you good at this
• 5:57
  Speaker 3: point in the season?
• 6:00
  Speaker 2: Well, I feel great. But apart from I've got a
• 6:03
  Speaker 2: slight issue with my calf, so we need to get
• 6:05
  Speaker 2: that sorted this week. And then, yeah, I think the
• 6:07
  Speaker 2: body feels good. I'm still running around. So, yeah, I
• 6:11
  Speaker 2: feel good. I feel good.
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're running. When they track the running, the sudden match,
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: you're up there in the top, you know?
• 6:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: You can still move. It might not be as quickly
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: as you moved in the pad, but you're moving.
• 6:24
  Speaker 2: I've never had that much speed anyway.
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: That's true. If I were your agent, that's what I
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: would say. He's not fast. He never was fast.
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  Speaker 3: We have a text, Westy, from the voice of FC,
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  Speaker 3: Willie P. Ask Westy about his Jack Sparrow costume.
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  Speaker 2: He's rumbled me. He's rumbled me.
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  Speaker 1: Is this a real thing?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I dressed up as Captain Jack Sparrow on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's good. God, you really are the fun dad, Westy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I had to run out. I got a bit
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  Speaker 2: carried away.
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  Speaker 1: That is amazing. That is so cool, man. Damn, I
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: wish I lived in Westie's neighborhood. I'd probably have to
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: make more money than to live in Westie's neighborhood. Hey,
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: if he ends up retiring, buy his house. Yeah, right.
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: We're going to have to start about seven GoFundMes, I
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: have a feeling. Now, what do you... I don't want
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: to do this, but I'm going to, um, because you
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: just said, Hey, I'd like to be around. I'd like
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: the club to pick up the option and have another year,
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: but I'll just ask you anyway, like, what are your
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: thoughts about post career? Like coaching? I could definitely see that.
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: Like what, what are you, have you thought about that?
• 7:33
  Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, I've, I've spoke to, I've spoke to Zara
• 7:35
  Speaker 2: and they will try and find something. I would love
• 7:38
  Speaker 2: to work in the Academy. I think working in the,
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: try to develop players. I want to, I want something
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  Speaker 2: back to the game. My club in England was gone,
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  Speaker 2: produced in young talent. So I think that's where I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to go. I think I would like to go
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  Speaker 2: and help out in that, in that department over in the,
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  Speaker 2: help the academy and hopefully produce a few, a few
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  Speaker 2: players that can go on to bigger and better things.
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's awesome. That'd be cool.
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  Speaker 2: Even Charlotte, man, you're not going to get rid of me.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah. I like that. What we do on Wednesdays
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: throughout the summer. Oh, that is true. And now you're
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: going to have so much time where you're like, well, no,
• 8:11
  Speaker 1: we're not doing this. Westy wants to play another year.
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Sorry.
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: Why am I doing this to you? Westy? What am
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: I trying to do to you? All right, brother. Well, Hey,
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: first and foremost, go down there, kick messy a little
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: bit for me. I just give him a couple of kicks. Pleasure.
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: And get the W. I'm sure they'd never give you
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: a yellow card for kicking him. You could probably breathe
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: on him and get a red. But anyway, I digress.
• 8:35
  Speaker 2: Good luck in my.
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: Breath. Good luck on Saturday in Miami and in the playoffs.
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: We'll talk, man, before the playoffs, but appreciate you.
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: Thank you, fellas. Thank you.