Erika, a $1 million soccer challenge, a DCFC legend, an epic Irish pub and a discount on an MLS game -- how much more good stuff could we pack into one podcast?!?

STRAIGHT DOPE
TUESDAY SPECIAL: Get 15% off tickets to TONIGHT's (4/14) U.S. Open Cup match with MLS side Chicago Fire by using promo code SOUL at http://www.detcityfc.com/tickets. Then catch up with ML before the game at Bumbo's!

ML starts the show congratulating the new national champions in a college sport ... just not the one you might expect. Listen and learn which victors he's hailing. (Sorry, Tommy!)

This week's intro says ML will be a friend to the friendless, prompting him to wonder whether the friendless would even want a friend who is friendless himself?

Retired Detroit City Football Club captain Stephen Carroll zooms in to explain DCFC's involvement in a new 7-on-7 tournament in which Le Rouge's men and women will compete together against some international soccer stars for a $1 million prize.

Stephen hails from Cork, where he was playing soccer until a college in Tennessee recruited him to play in America. Within days of arriving on campus, he met the woman who would become his wife. Erika asks him to tell all about their lovely love story.

ML, who is headed back to Ireland next month, asks Stephen to recommend some of his favorite places. Amazingly, it turns out ML's favorite pub in Cork is the Stephen's mother's local. ML says he knew he'd like it when he saw it was a Ford(e) pub and read the ominous sign on the front door.

Marc just got back from Puerto Rico, where he watched his Wolverines buy, er, win a national championship while his daughter coped with a 103-degree fever. They left the medical facility with a trophy -- and no bill!

Erika is hot on the trail of a story about a mom pissed off that her son was pissed on in a widening local high school wrestling scandal in which at least one person's career went, ahem, down the drain. Watch her story here.

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GEEK OF THE WEEK
Life insurance pitchman Mike Slater is ML's geek, until Marc convinces him now-former congressman and California gubernatorial candidate Eric Swawell needs the win more.

ROOM 7609
Listener Kevin marks the sixth anniversary of the Soul of Detroit by booking Morrissey into the New Wave suite to performance his new chanson "Make Up Is A Lie." Please send us your suggestion for a song — along with a great story — to mlsoulofdetroit@gmail.com

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Miguel sends a few Euros to fund ML's Irish excursion and Randy becomes our newest Soulmate! Easter is over, but we're still making this special offer: For a $500 donation, you can join us in the studio and sit in on a show.
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Kickin' it with Erika - April 14, 2026