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

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  Speaker 1: Our next guest, Boney, he and the boys of Charlotte
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: FC are on an absolute roll right now. Man, they're
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  Speaker 1: playing well. And I love it when it happens in Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: a house that we are now owning when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to Charlotte FC and Atlanta United. Rivalry? What rivalry? Charlotte's
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  Speaker 1: gone in there now. after the 2-0 win on Saturday
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  Speaker 1: and won four straight. And the captain, Ashley Westwood, is
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  Speaker 1: here for a Westy win Wednesday on the Mac and
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  Speaker 1: Bone Show. Westy, congrats, man. How you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, mate. Yeah, good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: We're all good. We're all good. Yeah, it was a
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  Speaker 2: good result in our second home.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, I was going to say congrats on owning another home.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. Westy, you've obviously played in a lot of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what y'all call derbies over there, right? A
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  Speaker 1: lot of rivalries. This one, you travel a little further, right,
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  Speaker 1: than those local rivalries have. where you're from. But man,
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  Speaker 1: fans show up every time. There's two things that are
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  Speaker 1: guaranteed to happen, it feels like. Y'all are going to
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  Speaker 1: win and fans are going to be loud as heck.
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  Speaker 1: That has to feel good, winning a match specifically like that, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, especially, that's probably one of the only games where
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  Speaker 2: you get a good number of away supporters. So for
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  Speaker 2: them to turn up, again, I said it a lot
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  Speaker 2: of times, that's the reason our home form is so good.
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  Speaker 2: when our fans turn up, we turn up, and it's
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  Speaker 2: the same in Atlanta. It's unique. Before the game, we
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  Speaker 2: go over and clap, and then after, it's just like
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  Speaker 2: a tradition that we do at home. We do appreciate it,
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  Speaker 2: and the performances we put in are always for them.
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  Speaker 3: The other day on the broadcast, Dax McCarthy was the
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  Speaker 3: analyst for the game, and multiple times he was putting
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  Speaker 3: Pep in the MVP conversation. How happy does that make
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  Speaker 3: you feel that Pep could get at least recognition and
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  Speaker 3: put up in a conversation like that from a national analyst?
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  Speaker 2: He deserves it, and I think last year he was
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  Speaker 2: very close to it. Unfortunately, he just suffered an injury
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  Speaker 2: in the league's cup games, which I think was his hamstring,
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  Speaker 2: but This year, he stayed fit. He's picked off from
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  Speaker 2: where he left off last year. I think it's just
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  Speaker 2: the contributions he gives to the team. Whenever we're playing well,
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  Speaker 2: Pep's usually the one that delivers.
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  Speaker 1: Dude, those guys in front of you right now, like,
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  Speaker 1: you can feel something happening, right? Pep is Mr. Consistent.
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  Speaker 1: If he's healthy, you're right. He's there all the time
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  Speaker 1: producing goal contributions. But Maxie feels like he gets better
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  Speaker 1: and more fit every time out. I mean, that second
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  Speaker 1: goal when he ran through half the dang defense to
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  Speaker 1: set up a bada. And then a bada. He's a
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  Speaker 1: new guy since the World Cup break. And then I
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  Speaker 1: feel like Toklamati's rounding back into form. How good do
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  Speaker 1: you feel when you can get it to those four
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  Speaker 1: dudes in front of you?
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  Speaker 2: Makes my job easier. I don't have to do as
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  Speaker 2: much running. I think Maxi was electric the other night.
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  Speaker 2: And I think the way Listen, we're a team, you
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  Speaker 2: would class us as a European team. We're very much,
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  Speaker 2: we sit in our 4-4-2, we defend, we're very organized.
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  Speaker 2: And I think you find a lot of the MLS teams,
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  Speaker 2: they can be a bit chaos. They just all go
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  Speaker 2: forward man for man. So it could suit us with
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  Speaker 2: Maxi just exploiting it the way he can run at
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  Speaker 2: people 1v1 and You've got Leal's the same. You've got Idan,
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  Speaker 2: and then you've got, to be fair, Archie. Archie Goodwin's
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  Speaker 2: been pushing Idan as well, and I say it all
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  Speaker 2: the time. You need competition for places, and we've certainly
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  Speaker 2: got that.
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  Speaker 3: We have a listener text question for you here, Cap.
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  Speaker 3: Since you now are the mayor of Atlanta, do you
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  Speaker 3: enjoy the Waffle House?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a big fan of the waffle. I probably
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  Speaker 2: need a few drinks and a late night for that.
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  Speaker 2: Henry Kessler took over the aquarium as well on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: He stayed over and walked around the aquarium. So we've
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  Speaker 2: took over the Mercedes-Benz and Charlotte now owns the aquarium.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. That is hilarious.
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  Speaker 3: I thought for sure he might be a Waffle House guy.
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  Speaker 1: So what is it, Westy? What is it with the
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  Speaker 1: Waffle House that you don't like? Because I feel like
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  Speaker 1: that's a Southern institution in this country.
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  Speaker 2: I've never tried it. Obviously, I'm an English breakfast guy.
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  Speaker 2: I can't get my head around eating waffles in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: What is English?
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  Speaker 3: Let Mac and I take the lads out. We'll have
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  Speaker 3: a waffle house.
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  Speaker 2: Field trip? We should do a show from the waffle
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  Speaker 2: house one week.
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  Speaker 1: We've done it before we did we we broadcasted we
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  Speaker 1: lost a bet and had to broadcast from a waffle
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  Speaker 1: house in georgia we had to drive three hours away
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  Speaker 1: oh my god that's your state you know georgia westy
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  Speaker 1: what okay for for those of us here in the
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  Speaker 1: states that think of our breakfast right of you know
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  Speaker 1: it might be eggs or it might be like you
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  Speaker 1: say waffles pancakes french toast what is the quintessential english breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big fry-up. See, you'd have– and the bacon's different.
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  Speaker 2: We'd have back bacon, sausage links, poached or fried eggs
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  Speaker 2: or scrambled, mushrooms, tomatoes, and baked beans with a few
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  Speaker 2: slices of toast.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that bean. That beans part is where you lose me, though.
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  Speaker 1: Beans in the morning?
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  Speaker 2: I will get you some. I'm going to send some
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  Speaker 2: into the studio for you. You can try it.
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  Speaker 3: Westy, we don't need this man eating beans anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just not send those.
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  Speaker 3: Let him pick those up from you.
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  Speaker 1: That would be dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: Now, as a former player myself, my pregame meal in
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  Speaker 3: my playing days was burgers and fries. What's your normal
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  Speaker 3: pregame meal consist of?
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  Speaker 2: I hope our nutritionist isn't listening.
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  Speaker 3: No, they're not.
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  Speaker 2: So a home game, obviously, I take the little girl.
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  Speaker 2: We go, she does horse riding. So I'll drop her
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  Speaker 2: off at the stables and then I'll go, I'll go
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  Speaker 2: Starbucks and get a ham and cheese baguette.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Which is not the healthiest. I'll come home and then I'll,
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  Speaker 2: I won't eat them until about two o'clock. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: a big eater on match day. On about two o'clock,
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  Speaker 2: I'll then order, I order a little mama's takeaway. I
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  Speaker 2: have a vodka pasta chicken.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good carb loading there for you on game day. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I like that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm simple. I'm very easy.
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  Speaker 1: I like that. Ashley Westwood, captain of Charlotte FC, joining us.
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  Speaker 1: They're on fire. Fifth in the East right now. And
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  Speaker 1: this match on Saturday, like, Houston's not a team, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that we necessarily see, you know, routinely. It's not like
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  Speaker 1: one of the Eastern Conference squads that we know better.
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  Speaker 1: But this team is having a heck of a season.
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  Speaker 1: This is a hell of a match if y'all are
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  Speaker 1: looking for something to do on Saturday night. Houston is
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  Speaker 1: second in the table. You guys are one of the
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  Speaker 1: hottest teams in the league post-World Cup break. What's this
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  Speaker 1: Houston team do well? And how big of a deal?
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  Speaker 1: This is a good litmus test match for y'all. Plus,
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  Speaker 1: y'all want to keep rising up the standings, too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be a real tough game. Like
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  Speaker 2: you said, they're second in their league. But we're at home,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't think they've been to us yet. So
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  Speaker 2: it'll be interesting to see how they do the turf.
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  Speaker 2: I know they've just lost the midfielder to... He's just
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  Speaker 2: gone to Stoke City, so that's good for us. They
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  Speaker 2: can keep losing players. But no, it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a tough game. But I think we go into any
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  Speaker 2: game at home feeling confident. So we should... We're looking
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  Speaker 2: to go and get the win, and like you said,
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  Speaker 2: we're one of the formed teams, so we need to
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  Speaker 2: carry that momentum into Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: It's also Christian Kalina bobblehead night, isn't it? There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've seen it. It's great. It's very good. It's
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  Speaker 2: very good.
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  Speaker 3: Awesome.
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  Speaker 1: All right, get there early. Grab yourself a Cali bobblehead. Westy,
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  Speaker 1: we always have fun. We're guaranteed to talk soccer or football,
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  Speaker 1: as you would call it, and then we never know
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  Speaker 1: where the rest of it's going to go. But you
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  Speaker 1: do it. You are amazing. at playing along with our
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  Speaker 1: shenanigans and we learned we learned a lot about english
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  Speaker 1: breakfast today we appreciate you brother good luck on saturday
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  Speaker 1: man we hope to talk to you on another win
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  Speaker 1: wednesday next week thanks
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  Speaker 2: For having me again see you next week all right
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  Speaker 2: be good