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

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Westy is still making time for us on an All
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Star game day for a little Westy Wednesday, coming off
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: the win this past weekend, Westy, how are you feeling special?
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: You're an All Star to day baby, how you feeling
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: good morning?
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  Speaker 2: I am far from an All Star.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: Modest Western I do want to ask you, Westy, like
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  Speaker 1: you're over in over in England, like y'all don't do
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: all Star games, Like it's just not it's it's probably
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: a foreign concept. Like do you how do you feel
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  Speaker 1: about the whole concept of all Star games getting everybody
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  Speaker 1: together and sell a break because it's not what you
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  Speaker 1: grew up with, right.
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  Speaker 2: It's so different from what I'm used to. But being
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  Speaker 2: around it and seeing it up close and personal, I
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  Speaker 2: love it. Mate. You know how much I've embraced the culture,
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: but this isn't it. I was speaking to Honey Muktar
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  Speaker 2: last night, and obviously he's played in Europe, and he
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  Speaker 2: was saying, if they did this over in Europe, it
• 0:55
  Speaker 2: would be incredible the amount of players that they've got
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  Speaker 2: over there, So it's something we should says.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: I did not know, Westy, if you wanted to be
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  Speaker 1: nice to your the guys you play against That was
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  Speaker 1: my one thing.
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  Speaker 3: But it seems like you're playing nice, Westy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm playing very nice. I'm literally just don't tell anyone.
• 1:12
  Speaker 2: I'm literally sat at Quail with with Sonny now, so
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  Speaker 2: I'm just treating him to Quail.
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  Speaker 3: You're your guy.
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  Speaker 4: Tim Reien put on a hell of a performance in
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  Speaker 4: the uh the passing portion of the Skills Challenge last night.
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  Speaker 4: That was fun to watch, Wessy, if you were going
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  Speaker 4: to do one of these challenges, which one do you
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  Speaker 4: Which one draws your eye that you say, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: I could do well with that one.
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  Speaker 2: I think it'd be the passive one. But Tim was incredible.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I didn't surprise us because he's got
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  Speaker 2: that ability.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy because like he's a center back, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna be honest with you, don't tell Reem that that
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  Speaker 1: This was set on the radio today. But I saw
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  Speaker 1: him up against Carlos Heel, up against Montielle, the midfielder
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  Speaker 1: from Mexico, and I kind of thought, well, Reem's a
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  Speaker 1: real good passer as a center back, but against midfielders,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if he can do this. And he
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  Speaker 1: went out there and set a record, Like I don't
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  Speaker 1: know as you're judge, like, are you gonna switch with him?
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  Speaker 1: They gonna move you back to center back and move
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  Speaker 1: room to your spot because he was dealing.
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  Speaker 2: No, he's played in the Premier League, so you're not
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  Speaker 2: a bad player if you played in the Premier League.
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  Speaker 2: And like I said, last night didn't surprise me. I
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  Speaker 2: knew Tim's Tim's got a wonder the left foot. So
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  Speaker 2: he showed the world what he can do. And I'm I'm,
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  Speaker 2: I was so proud of him. I was stood with
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  Speaker 2: his kids and they would jumping out. It's so nice
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  Speaker 2: to see.
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  Speaker 3: That was a cool family moment. Westy.
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  Speaker 4: How big was the road win in New York last weekend?
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  Speaker 4: Not only a road win, but it was needed. But
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  Speaker 4: sometimes the best wins are those ones you get when
• 2:36
  Speaker 4: maybe you're not at your best.
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  Speaker 3: How important was that for you guys?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I think the first first thirty minutesaryre outstanding. Yeah
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  Speaker 2: we got it. We got in the face as we
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  Speaker 2: turned them. But then it was a it was a
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  Speaker 2: real English performance the second half and the last last
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  Speaker 2: fifteen minutes. The first off they put us under a
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  Speaker 2: lot of pressure. No, it was the locker room was
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  Speaker 2: bouncing after to win a game like that, There's no
• 2:57
  Speaker 2: better feeling when you you of under pressure for seven minutes.
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  Speaker 2: It was. It was a great win and much needed
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 1: Gritty, tough to your point about English performance although not
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  Speaker 1: in not not the type of English performance that we
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  Speaker 1: saw in the last thirty minutes against Argentina though Westy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, felt like that.
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  Speaker 1: Man, those road dubs aren't easy to come by. Man,
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  Speaker 1: So I don't really care about style points on the
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  Speaker 1: on the road. What do you think about? Uh, it
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  Speaker 1: seems like I mean, I know, nothing's official, but there
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  Speaker 1: were definitely camera shots of Vargas arriving at an airport
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  Speaker 1: in Brazil. I think, you know, it felt like he
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  Speaker 1: was saying goodbye after the game the other night in
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  Speaker 1: the press conference. Lose if you lose him on top
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  Speaker 1: of Zaha. Now you're getting Maxie in. How much does
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  Speaker 1: that hurt?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 1: He had He's had it. He's been playing really well.
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  Speaker 1: He's had a hell of a season for y'all.
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  Speaker 2: He's been brilliant. I mean, I've walked in and Kohn
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  Speaker 2: was here, and to see to see how much he's
• 3:59
  Speaker 2: developed over the last last couple of years is phenomenal
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: and yeah, I think, like going back to what you said,
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  Speaker 2: I think he's I think he's done. I sent him
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  Speaker 2: a message and he replied saying thank you. So we
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  Speaker 2: wish him all the best and he is certainly going
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  Speaker 2: to be a huge loss because he's been he's been
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  Speaker 2: one of our best players for the last two years.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt about him.
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  Speaker 4: That's just that's just the nature of the beasts in
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  Speaker 4: this sport, right, any any given time that that roster
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  Speaker 4: could have a lot of up evil right, But.
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  Speaker 2: It shows and it also shows how well we're doing.
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  Speaker 2: We've lost we lost Patrick to Darby, We've lost Daddy
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  Speaker 2: to Middlesbrough. Now Kerwin's gone his way to the club.
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  Speaker 2: The club are making a lot of money. So it's
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  Speaker 2: it just shows what the developing the developing top talents.
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  Speaker 3: See.
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  Speaker 1: That is something that's really important because like we we
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  Speaker 1: with the American sports westy like losing your good players
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  Speaker 1: like it just oh my god, we lose our minds
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  Speaker 1: over it, right, But with soccer it's different.
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  Speaker 3: What you're saying is so true.
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  Speaker 1: It has shown what the front office is doing over
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  Speaker 1: there is I mean, it's some really good business, right
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  Speaker 1: to be able to spot the these guys when they're young.
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: You're bringing up the coaching part of it, right, so
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  Speaker 1: you have the talent acquisition part of it and the
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  Speaker 1: eye for talent. Then you have the development the coachers
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  Speaker 1: are doing, and then you're selling these guys off for more.
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  Speaker 1: Like it really is commendable. But like we as American
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  Speaker 1: sports fans are like, we're just we're so conditioned to
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  Speaker 1: when you lose your best players, it's horrible, you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know he's.
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  Speaker 2: Like that, but you're different. You sell to you sell
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  Speaker 2: to make money. You sell to you want lads to
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  Speaker 2: move on to bigger and better things, and that's the culture.
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  Speaker 2: But the best thing of soccer is that it gives
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  Speaker 2: someone else a chance to It's not to replace him,
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  Speaker 2: but it is, well sounds bad, but it's to replace him.
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  Speaker 2: There's someone is eventually going to take your spot, and
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  Speaker 2: you've very quickly forgotten in soccer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, an interesting way of putting. All right, Westy
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  Speaker 1: will we will never forget you mate.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: I want you to know that Westy.
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  Speaker 4: West, one of our whisteners, wants to know if they
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  Speaker 4: if they had a yell at the referee skills challenge.
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  Speaker 3: Would you take part in that huggin?
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  Speaker 2: Not no problem.
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  Speaker 4: I love that the fans are getting involved. Can argue back,
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  Speaker 4: you can say whatever you want to with these rests,
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  Speaker 4: and you got it. You got a minute you get
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  Speaker 4: unload on them.
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  Speaker 3: That would be entertainment seconds.
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  Speaker 1: You don't even need the full minute. Oh man, All right,
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: are you really golfing with Sonny? Is that a real
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: thing happening?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I mean I know, but don't sign anyone
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  Speaker 2: because he's got a game tonight.
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  Speaker 1: The Gaffer's not gonna be happy you're not resting, oh man.
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: Although I'm not sure Dean comes from the same background
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  Speaker 1: as you, right, England soccer and England. The way he's
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  Speaker 1: talked about the All Star Game, I'm not like, what,
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  Speaker 1: what's his attitude about it?
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  Speaker 3: Because in the pans would be at the golf course too. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he may be there too.
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  Speaker 1: In the past he's kind of been like this morning,
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  Speaker 1: is he is he focused on this because in the
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  Speaker 1: past he's kind of made comments like I don't really
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  Speaker 1: understand what his All Star fuss is all about.
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  Speaker 2: No, he took trading yesterday. He looked like he enjoyed it. No,
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  Speaker 2: he's yeah, I told him embrace it like when he
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  Speaker 2: first signed there, so I think he will. I think
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  Speaker 2: I think he wants he's playing it cool. He doesn't
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  Speaker 2: want to enjoy it, but he.
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  Speaker 3: Is all right.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 3: Hey have fun tonight, man.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to watching the three of you out
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  Speaker 1: there tonight representing Charlotte, representing the MLS, and then good
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  Speaker 1: luck on Saturday. Another big game on Saturday as you
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  Speaker 1: try to follow up last week's win. Appreciate you for
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  Speaker 1: coming on as always. Brother.
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  Speaker 3: Congrats on the All Star nod too.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Matt. I'm still Ashley. Don't call me in
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  Speaker 2: All starf