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- 0:15Speaker 1: All right. This regal music means that Miss Jessica Charman
- 0:20Speaker 1: is joining us right now on the Mac and Bone Show.
- 0:24Speaker 1: Huge game for Charlotte FC tomorrow nights in Chicago against
- 0:29Speaker 1: a team that is a couple spots ahead of FC
- 0:31Speaker 1: in the standings. They could pass Chicago with a win.
- 0:34Speaker 1: Chicago just added Robert Lewandowski, star Polish striker from Barcelona.
- 0:40Speaker 1: This is going to be a test for the boys.
- 0:42Speaker 1: But we're looking forward to watching it. And if you
- 0:44Speaker 1: watch it, you will hear Jessica Charman with the play
- 0:48Speaker 1: by play on Apple and she joins us here to
- 0:52Speaker 1: talk a little bit of soccer and as always, a
- 0:54Speaker 1: bunch of other stuff and the latest Willie news will
- 0:56Speaker 1: be shared with her as well. Jess, how you been,
- 0:59Speaker 1: what's going on?
- 1:00Speaker 2: Hey, guys?
- 1:01Speaker 3: Doing well?
- 1:02Speaker 2: I will say that I would like that as my
- 1:04Speaker 2: walkout music every single time I join you. I feel
- 1:06Speaker 2: very sophisticated. Right now.
- 1:08Speaker 1: Your song, Jess, you got your own song? Tell tell
- 1:11Speaker 1: Jess where you found that? So where you know that
- 1:13Speaker 1: song from?
- 1:13Speaker 3: That was the theme song for the wrestling legend the
- 1:15Speaker 3: British Bulldog.
- 1:17Speaker 2: There you go, So it really is a walkout song
- 1:20Speaker 2: that wow, oh, I didn't know that, but I feel
- 1:23Speaker 2: like I could walk it and I would do like
- 1:25Speaker 2: a bit of a knee bop as we went.
- 1:26Speaker 3: I'm not calling you our British bulldog, but that was
- 1:28Speaker 3: the British mad Cat.
- 1:31Speaker 2: Exactly. I think mad Cat is better than bulldog, honestly.
- 1:35Speaker 1: Oh, Jess, I would I hate to start here, but
- 1:38Speaker 1: let's get this out of the way. The England game
- 1:41Speaker 1: against Argentina. How much did you I was gonna text you,
- 1:45Speaker 1: and then I thought, I think she needs space. She's
- 1:48Speaker 1: probably getting enough text. How much did you lose your mind?
- 1:52Speaker 1: And was it on the manager? Thomas? What did you do?
- 1:56Speaker 2: I got to stop you. I got to start you
- 1:58Speaker 2: because there is a hilarious story to right. Okay, so
- 2:01Speaker 2: Major League Soccer obviously kicked off the next day, right, Yeah,
- 2:04Speaker 2: so I was. There was only one direct flight to Montreal.
- 2:09Speaker 2: It was during the game, right, And I fly with
- 2:12Speaker 2: a certain airline that promises wi fi, that promises live television. Yeah,
- 2:16Speaker 2: imagine my dismay when I get on the plane and
- 2:19Speaker 2: there's announcement saying, hey, guys, I'm really sorry the WiFi
- 2:22Speaker 2: is down on the plane today. I'm like, okay, live TV,
- 2:25Speaker 2: live TV. Nope. Live TV didn't work either, so we
- 2:28Speaker 2: took off, no joke, as Anthony Gordon put the ball
- 2:32Speaker 2: in the back of the net. We took off and
- 2:34Speaker 2: I just about you know, you know how you can
- 2:36Speaker 2: play with fire a little bit. When you get to
- 2:38Speaker 2: like two thousand feet, it's still working and then it disconnects,
- 2:40Speaker 2: and then you're feel bad that maybe you're going to
- 2:42Speaker 2: cause the plane to crash, so you put it an
- 2:43Speaker 2: airplane mode. So I put my phone in airplane mode
- 2:47Speaker 2: as we were one mill up from the whole plane,
- 2:50Speaker 2: trying to distract myself, you know, taking a map, doing whatever.
- 2:54Speaker 2: We get to about two thousand feet and I'm like, okay, okay,
- 2:57Speaker 2: I'm going to put my I'm going to put my
- 2:58Speaker 2: phone on. I'm going to find out. You know, we've
- 3:00Speaker 2: got this. We won one nil. Look at what we
- 3:02Speaker 2: did against Mexico with a one nail lead. It loads.
- 3:05Speaker 2: And I must have said the loudest F word ever
- 3:08Speaker 2: because the guy next to me just turned around like
- 3:10Speaker 2: I guess he thought he'd like still a drink on
- 3:12Speaker 2: me or something because it was so loud, and I
- 3:14Speaker 2: was like, ah, sorry, man, we lost. I was so upset, obviously,
- 3:21Speaker 2: I didn't get to watch it, but maybe that was
- 3:23Speaker 2: someone looking down on me like, hey, Jess, you don't
- 3:25Speaker 2: need to watch this, like it's going to be too cruel.
- 3:28Speaker 2: But I think what made it worse was I spend
- 3:30Speaker 2: that whole plane journey like we're one nil up, we're
- 3:32Speaker 2: one nil up, we're one mill up, and then we
- 3:35Speaker 2: laed and I'm like, no way.
- 3:36Speaker 1: So yeah, just trapped on.
- 3:41Speaker 3: Jeff, trapped on a plane or England loss is a
- 3:44Speaker 3: It's really a terrifying thought for the aviation industry.
- 3:48Speaker 1: On the plane, I think, yeah, I'd rather be with
- 3:52Speaker 1: snakes on a plane. I feel like.
- 3:55Speaker 3: Jess, Charlotte f C loses Vargas to a team in Brazil.
- 4:00Speaker 3: What do you think of that loss and the impact
- 4:02Speaker 3: that'll have in the immediate on the squad.
- 4:05Speaker 2: Yeah, firstly, great business when you look at the difference
- 4:09Speaker 2: in the reported money, So that's a positive right at
- 4:12Speaker 2: the end of the day. In sport, part of it
- 4:15Speaker 2: is a business. So finding players that are diamonds and
- 4:17Speaker 2: the rough cultivating them, giving them experiences, getting their price
- 4:21Speaker 2: value up is a good thing. That being said, co
- 4:25Speaker 2: and Vargas was one of my favorite players that we
- 4:26Speaker 2: ever commentated on and I know he had phases where
- 4:29Speaker 2: he was inconsistent, but there's something so joyful about the
- 4:32Speaker 2: way he plays. Obviously we all know about the backflips
- 4:34Speaker 2: and the celebrations, but more so about the way he
- 4:37Speaker 2: had a willingness, always playing with a smile on his
- 4:39Speaker 2: face and was impactful. Right, So I think he pull
- 4:42Speaker 2: out Cowen Vargas off the roster and immediately this team
- 4:44Speaker 2: is worse than it was without him, but it allows
- 4:48Speaker 2: opportunity with that money to hopefully add reinforcement. Obviously we
- 4:52Speaker 2: know Abou Alan sad my scene coming in. That's going
- 4:54Speaker 2: to be massive once he's available. And I'll give Lie
- 4:57Speaker 2: Labarda some credit, right because I was pretty much on
- 4:59Speaker 2: the Lea Barda, what are you doing kind of bandwagon
- 5:02Speaker 2: for a little bit because he was infuriating to watch
- 5:05Speaker 2: something happened in that World Cup break. Maybe it is
- 5:07Speaker 2: the fact that he knows now that there is more
- 5:09Speaker 2: of a spot up for grabs because Colwin Vargas had
- 5:12Speaker 2: sort of won the favor of the coach in that moment.
- 5:16Speaker 2: But at least Leo Labada is coming up and stepp
- 5:18Speaker 2: into the plate. So thankful for Clerl and Vargas. When
- 5:21Speaker 2: a player is ready to take their next challenge, you've
- 5:24Speaker 2: got to let them go, right, What do they say,
- 5:25Speaker 2: if you love them enough, let them go. So I
- 5:28Speaker 2: guess that's what Charlott's doing.
- 5:29Speaker 1: There you go, And I can't wait to see Maxie
- 5:32Speaker 1: out there on that left wing dance.
- 5:34Speaker 2: And the only thing is so glad by the way
- 5:36Speaker 2: that he's going by Maxie because the name is such
- 5:38Speaker 2: a mouthful. When there's always a nice thing when players
- 5:43Speaker 2: will put like a shortened name on their jersey or
- 5:45Speaker 2: be like, yeah, you can just call me this. I'm like, yes, yes,
- 5:48Speaker 2: I will just call you this.
- 5:50Speaker 1: I think he literally is putting Maxie on the jersey, right,
- 5:53Speaker 1: I think I had seen that.
- 5:54Speaker 2: All the jerseys I've seen sold have max my new
- 5:57Speaker 2: puppies name. I had the puppy before he signed for
- 6:00Speaker 2: Charlotte FC.
- 6:02Speaker 1: You gotta do pubby name MAXI yes, I do. I yeah, And.
- 6:09Speaker 2: I've seen him at the pool. He has a better
- 6:11Speaker 2: life than.
- 6:11Speaker 1: All of us. Is your puppy giving you like issues
- 6:17Speaker 1: like bone is stressed over this dog?
- 6:20Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Well yeah, he's not potty trained, and
- 6:23Speaker 2: pugs are notoriously stubborn and then we did get him
- 6:27Speaker 2: fixed recently, and he's just depressed and mad at me.
- 6:29Speaker 2: I think I think I took away his manhood. So
- 6:32Speaker 2: think it's been it's been a rough ride. He doesn't
- 6:35Speaker 2: like me, if I'm honest, he really doesn't like me.
- 6:37Speaker 2: But you know what it was to get I have
- 6:40Speaker 2: an old pug, and it was to get her to
- 6:41Speaker 2: be a bit more lively. And now she's mad at
- 6:43Speaker 2: me because she's like, what is this baby doing here?
- 6:46Speaker 2: Like this is in my house. I'm like, so it's
- 6:49Speaker 2: all backfired. If I'm honest, I had good intentions, a
- 6:52Speaker 2: very very expensive I'm not gonna call a mistake. I
- 6:56Speaker 2: love my dog. I don't want, like, you know, people
- 6:58Speaker 2: to call animal protection services. He's very well loved, but
- 7:02Speaker 2: he's a pain in my Beehi.
- 7:03Speaker 1: Okay, that's good.
- 7:04Speaker 3: Honestly, I got knocked over at the dog park and
- 7:07Speaker 3: I got humped yesterday and this is so by another dog.
- 7:10Speaker 2: That's one of the reasons we had to get it
- 7:12Speaker 2: fixed because, okay, you said it, you're outside. The hump
- 7:16Speaker 2: thing is unbearable. I've never had a male dog. I'm like,
- 7:20Speaker 2: what is this? And it's obviously I've got my five
- 7:23Speaker 2: year old around. So it's like the fugglers and the
- 7:26Speaker 2: asmaile plushes are being humped. I'm like, guys, leave the
- 7:31Speaker 2: little leap the bobbies alonely I got, I got.
- 7:34Speaker 3: I got humped by someone else's dog. They to pull
- 7:36Speaker 3: them off me yesterday. It's not my proudest moment.
- 7:39Speaker 1: It wasn't even your own dog dog that is.
- 7:43Speaker 2: How quickly did they get How quickly did they get
- 7:45Speaker 2: to because that's an owner's fault.
- 7:47Speaker 1: It was relatively I got knocked.
- 7:49Speaker 3: I was I was crouched getting the leash off of Murphy,
- 7:52Speaker 3: and while I was crouched, this dog double palled me
- 7:55Speaker 3: and took me to and I fell down.
- 7:57Speaker 1: And then I got you going to say double pumped
- 7:59Speaker 1: you for I can't double Okay, all.
- 8:02Speaker 2: Right, we're getting canceled. We are getting canceled today.
- 8:05Speaker 1: Then, and the I talked with Kirk, your PR guy
- 8:09Speaker 1: at Apple. He was so so excited to hear your
- 8:11Speaker 1: coming on. I just hope he's not listening right now.
- 8:13Speaker 1: I hope he's not.
- 8:14Speaker 2: God he knows I know when to put on the
- 8:18Speaker 2: right base. This show is this show called so this tone.
- 8:21Speaker 2: I'm not going to be doing that on Good Morning
- 8:23Speaker 2: Chicago or whatever. You know what I know.
- 8:26Speaker 1: I know my lanes, Okay, I trust that. I trust that.
- 8:29Speaker 1: By the way, you can hear Jess on the call
- 8:31Speaker 1: tomorrow night, A thirty start shortly after a thirty in
- 8:35Speaker 1: Chicago against the Chicago Fire. Huge game for Charlott Devcy
- 8:39Speaker 1: in the last game before the league's cup break. There'll
- 8:41Speaker 1: be a little break here to play three leagues cup matches.
- 8:45Speaker 1: All right, Look, one more soccer question and then people
- 8:48Speaker 1: are begging us to tell the Willy story because this
- 8:50Speaker 1: is a doozy. But let's another soccer question I want
- 8:54Speaker 1: to ask, is your thoughts on like what this team
- 8:58Speaker 1: needs to add. We had zorin Cornetta on after the
- 9:02Speaker 1: I guess it was right the day they announced the
- 9:03Speaker 1: Maxi signing, and I said, you know, can we expect
- 9:07Speaker 1: more business more incoming? And he basically said, a player
- 9:12Speaker 1: or two, Like I keep an eye out a player
- 9:14Speaker 1: or two. What would you say, I mean, I think
- 9:18Speaker 1: they're down a wing now right if they're losing Vargas
- 9:20Speaker 1: and Zaha and they only bring Maxie in, so wing
- 9:23Speaker 1: feels like one. Would you agree? What are like the
- 9:26Speaker 1: two spots you would say you'd like to see us upgrade.
- 9:30Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, i'd steel like a goalscorer. And I
- 9:32Speaker 2: know that sounds hard on eat Aantaklamatti because he's been
- 9:35Speaker 2: pretty good and Archie Goodwin's been good, But like, I
- 9:38Speaker 2: still feel like you're missing almost like a big Pat
- 9:41Speaker 2: or even Karas Durski, right, like someone that is bagging
- 9:45Speaker 2: double digit goals consistently, pet Biel's magic or whatever. You do.
- 9:49Speaker 2: Hang on to pet bl for as long as possible
- 9:51Speaker 2: because I think he is just one of the best
- 9:53Speaker 2: players in the league. And I wouldn't I don't know,
- 9:56Speaker 2: maybe looking at center back structure as well, just because
- 9:59Speaker 2: how long is him ream going to keep going? Which,
- 10:01Speaker 2: by the way, he was remarkable at the MLSS All
- 10:03Speaker 2: Star Game. That passing was just like so cool to
- 10:06Speaker 2: get to. But then Morrison, you know, I think Morrison
- 10:10Speaker 2: is very very good and very very talented, and there's
- 10:12Speaker 2: also another player. The hard part that we forget for
- 10:15Speaker 2: these sporting directors is you have to be thinking about
- 10:17Speaker 2: the next transfer window as well to make sure you're
- 10:20Speaker 2: proactive of having players to replace players. And when you
- 10:22Speaker 2: have young players that are doing very well, the Europeans
- 10:26Speaker 2: like to poach, right, and we're just seeing it, So
- 10:29Speaker 2: I think that, yeah, squad depthing there, but I still
- 10:32Speaker 2: think goals. I still think clinical finishing because you can't
- 10:36Speaker 2: be fully reliant on pet bl to be magical constantly.
- 10:39Speaker 3: Yeah, mag Is it time to tell her what happened
- 10:42Speaker 3: to Willie with Brady Chastain?
- 10:44Speaker 1: You want to go ahead?
- 10:46Speaker 2: Brandy Chastain and Willie collaboration?
- 10:49Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 10:49Speaker 3: At the Touchdown Club here Willie em seed an event
- 10:52Speaker 3: was a last week that Brady Chastain was the keynote speaker.
- 10:56Speaker 3: Add it it did? It didn't go well for williat
- 10:59Speaker 3: one boy.
- 11:00Speaker 1: Did she like headed him a ball to see if
- 11:02Speaker 1: he could head it back to her?
- 11:04Speaker 2: Oh like head of tennis?
- 11:06Speaker 1: Yes, and he like slipped and fell down his face.
- 11:14Speaker 2: No, no, no, Like this hurts people really because I
- 11:17Speaker 2: know like how important this moment was.
- 11:20Speaker 4: What was her reaction?
- 11:21Speaker 2: Did she have that awkwardness where you don't know whether
- 11:23Speaker 2: to laugh or like check on them, or was she
- 11:24Speaker 2: like all in on, like this is funny, He's okay.
- 11:27Speaker 1: I think she was trying to be supportive. It sounded.
- 11:32Speaker 3: We need to reach out to the Touchdown Club for surveillance.
- 11:35Speaker 2: She ring camera is there? Not ring cameras there's got
- 11:38Speaker 2: to be some sort of fo.
- 11:40Speaker 1: Where did they have touchdown club over at one at
- 11:42Speaker 1: a hotel over there?
- 11:43Speaker 2: Right?
- 11:44Speaker 1: Yeah, so they say this hotel got surveillance. What if
- 11:47Speaker 1: we go over and I go to the hotel and
- 11:49Speaker 1: say we're looking for surveillance, they think we're Last Friday
- 11:51Speaker 1: at eleven am, that.
- 11:54Speaker 2: Was a crime. Crime.
- 11:58Speaker 1: That is amazing.
- 12:00Speaker 2: Will's goalie was that was remarkable. I'm still a little offended.
- 12:02Speaker 2: I didn't get an invite to Well you.
- 12:04Speaker 1: If you were here, that would have been awesome for you.
- 12:06Speaker 1: You could have if you could have wiped up in
- 12:08Speaker 1: that competition.
- 12:09Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I maybe have played left foot only or something,
- 12:14Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Like not to be arrogant,
- 12:15Speaker 2: but I am a goalie. War was champion. You know, guys,
- 12:21Speaker 2: come on es.
- 12:22Speaker 1: Last time you were on and Mac was gone, we
- 12:24Speaker 1: were talking.
- 12:24Speaker 3: About Freddie the tour. The tourists went viral from Germany
- 12:31Speaker 3: and did we believe in it or not? He announced
- 12:34Speaker 3: the other day he's now coming back for a college
- 12:37Speaker 3: football tour. I think Mac agrees. I now fully believe
- 12:41Speaker 3: that Freddy was an American plant. The whole Stude lives
- 12:44Speaker 3: in Fayetville, Arkansas or something. How can he come back again?
- 12:47Speaker 2: You know what he added? Yeah, because I don't believe
- 12:49Speaker 2: he's truly German because he added Helen for october Fest,
- 12:53Speaker 2: and like Helen, George is lovely and it's all that
- 12:56Speaker 2: Germans like, uh, German fluence, German sparkle, whatever you want
- 13:01Speaker 2: to call it. But would a real German go to
- 13:04Speaker 2: october Fest in Helen? I feel like he's going to
- 13:06Speaker 2: be disappointed with the cultural appropriation.
- 13:08Speaker 1: No, that's a good point too. Plus it can't compare
- 13:13Speaker 1: to what is happening in Germany. Like it's going to
- 13:15Speaker 1: be a.
- 13:16Speaker 2: Bomber to it, you know, eating fish and chips in
- 13:18Speaker 2: a bar here like sorry, guys, exactly, and they give
- 13:20Speaker 2: me the little skinny French fries. I always tell myself,
- 13:23Speaker 2: it's gonna be authentic, it's gonna be authentic, It's gonna
- 13:25Speaker 2: be authentic, and then it comes out with French fries
- 13:27Speaker 2: and I'm like, why did I do this to myself?
- 13:30Speaker 1: It is Yeah, it's like I think I think we
- 13:32Speaker 1: there's stuff in the US like that, like getting barbecue
- 13:34Speaker 1: bone like somewhere else they tried to pull pork up
- 13:37Speaker 1: and like, I don't know, you New York State or
- 13:39Speaker 1: something like.
- 13:40Speaker 3: So I did cross more like Swappy Joe's than barbecue.
- 13:42Speaker 3: So he's gonna be.
- 13:43Speaker 2: There, Oh yeah, not the same.
- 13:45Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm buying. I'm skeptical too. I'm
- 13:48Speaker 1: glad to hear you're on board with that. Just and all.
- 13:50Speaker 1: By the way, how can he take like another month off? Like,
- 13:53Speaker 1: doesn't this dude have work?
- 13:54Speaker 2: Well, hey, pauls No, remember in Europe we have really
- 13:57Speaker 2: good workers, right, So, I mean, you know there's a
- 14:00Speaker 2: call maternity leave. There's a thing called you know, proper
- 14:03Speaker 2: pto of like two months something like that.
- 14:05Speaker 4: Holy yeah, we could take time off.
- 14:07Speaker 2: But I still don't like he doesn't. He still hasn't
- 14:09Speaker 2: shown his face yet there.
- 14:11Speaker 1: Yeah, he that's another thing. Boney had always had the
- 14:13Speaker 1: face like covered up or whatever.
- 14:15Speaker 3: We're gonna find out it's really Will polachicked all the time.
- 14:18Speaker 2: We imagine that's a private jet getting to the games
- 14:23Speaker 2: every weekend from wherever Freddie is.
- 14:25Speaker 1: Before let you go, Jess, you have to explain this
- 14:27Speaker 1: because we this came up when we were questioning Freddy
- 14:30Speaker 1: before or no, it was just talking in general about
- 14:32Speaker 1: how long the European fans who by the way, so
- 14:35Speaker 1: many these sand bases were awesome. It was so fun
- 14:38Speaker 1: having them in the States. I want to go to Norway, Norway,
- 14:40Speaker 1: I mean, how fun was that? Rowan and Norway and
- 14:42Speaker 1: Holland himself like, but anyway, it was just a great
- 14:45Speaker 1: World Cup. But it came up like how great the
- 14:50Speaker 1: like time off situation is over there compared to here?
- 14:54Speaker 1: What like what are we talking about? Like how much
- 14:57Speaker 1: time can people get? You say, like two months a year.
- 15:00Speaker 2: I don't if it's two months, but I know with
- 15:02Speaker 2: all the holidays, I'm pretty sure it's over a month
- 15:04Speaker 2: to guarantee. And the differences. I know here you can
- 15:06Speaker 2: earn time off as you progressively get more senior. But
- 15:10Speaker 2: I think in like England in particular, like they start
- 15:14Speaker 2: with a very good amount of time off beforehand, so
- 15:17Speaker 2: it's just more guaranteed. And then I think the biggest thing,
- 15:19Speaker 2: like I said, stuff like maternity leave is guaranteed, which
- 15:23Speaker 2: is so important, you know, And look, I love being
- 15:25Speaker 2: in America when else I'm going to be an American citizen.
- 15:28Speaker 2: But it would be nice if you had a baby
- 15:29Speaker 2: to you know, get six months with your kids. That's
- 15:32Speaker 2: having to go back to work. This is a very
- 15:35Speaker 2: funny guys. I feel like I'm having to be a
- 15:37Speaker 2: bit too serious.
- 15:38Speaker 1: But here's the thing, though, Jess. We have AC all right,
- 15:41Speaker 1: we have air conditioning all right.
- 15:44Speaker 2: I will never go home in July ever again, love
- 15:48Speaker 2: my parent. But having to sleep and I mean you
- 15:52Speaker 2: can put the fan they like have the windows there,
- 15:54Speaker 2: but I mean it's one hundred degrees in England some days,
- 15:56Speaker 2: like global warming is really doing us a bad disfervice.
- 16:00Speaker 2: And it gets so hot and it is the houses
- 16:03Speaker 2: are miserable.
- 16:03Speaker 1: That's brutal.
- 16:04Speaker 2: I mean, god, it's true horrible. Yeah. I mean my
- 16:08Speaker 2: AC went out the other day in Georgia for like
- 16:11Speaker 2: thirty minutes and I thought I was going to die.
- 16:14Speaker 1: Like you're American? Now you are fully American with that
- 16:18Speaker 1: statement right now?
- 16:19Speaker 2: The eight degrees sixty eight degrees?
- 16:21Speaker 1: Oh do you go sixty? Okay, sixty?
- 16:24Speaker 2: Oh? I love it?
- 16:25Speaker 1: Probably not in that range. Are we go seventy one
- 16:28Speaker 1: to seventy one?
- 16:30Speaker 2: It's not very cost efficient, but I'd like to be cold.
- 16:34Speaker 1: All right, Jess. Well, hey, this was awesome catching up.
- 16:37Speaker 1: If somebody says, did y'all talk soccer? I believe there
- 16:40Speaker 1: might have been three questions in there, Jess's World Cup misery,
- 16:43Speaker 1: Keke's of.
- 16:44Speaker 2: The game, stop stop Robert Lewandowski scoring, get off to
- 16:47Speaker 2: a quick start at the Workers magic.
- 16:49Speaker 1: There you go, there you go.
- 16:50Speaker 2: See.
- 16:51Speaker 1: I'm worried about this game, Jess, because that win that
- 16:53Speaker 1: we got on the road last week, they got out
- 16:55Speaker 1: shot twenty four to three. Like they started really well,
- 16:58Speaker 1: but they were pretty much dominated. And like you say,
- 17:00Speaker 1: if we don't get off to a fast start like that,
- 17:03Speaker 1: this one's a scary one, man, no doubt about it.
- 17:05Speaker 1: But the good news is if you watch it tomorrow night,
- 17:09Speaker 1: Jess will be on the call on Apple TV. Jess,
- 17:12Speaker 1: you're awesome. Thank you again for hanging out with us.
- 17:15Speaker 2: Thank you have a good one.
- 17:18Speaker 1: No, we don't. We don't. We don't do that. We
- 17:20Speaker 1: don't need to. We don't need to, all right, way,
- 17:23Speaker 1: I mean it's not it's not her fault, man, we're
- 17:25Speaker 1: asking her the questions. It has to be with Jess.
- 17:27Speaker 1: The beauty of Jess. And the thing is Jess transcends soccer.
- 17:30Speaker 1: You know me, Bone, I could sit here, I'll talk
- 17:32Speaker 1: soccer for next hour, right. I just love it personally,
- 17:35Speaker 1: But like the charm of Jess is. The charm of
- 17:40Speaker 1: Charman is that she will talk about anything and it
- 17:44Speaker 1: will be fun talking. You know what I mean, She's
- 17:46Speaker 1: that's the beauty of talking with her. She's the funniest
- 17:49Speaker 1: guess we have. I think she's funny.
- 17:52Speaker 3: Not even just the accent I think sometimes makes it funnier,
- 17:55Speaker 3: but she's legit funny in general.
- 17:57Speaker 1: If she was American, she'd be funny. I apologize people like,
- 18:00Speaker 1: we've got four people asking her to say ranch and
- 18:03Speaker 1: Bob has asked like a creepy way, like ten times.
- 18:05Speaker 3: I know, it's like Bob kind of, it's just in
- 18:09Speaker 3: people creepy.
- 18:12Speaker 1: Definitely play that again. This is what it sounds like, y'all. Oh,
- 18:16Speaker 1: that's when she does the American accent. She says it
- 18:19Speaker 1: like roch. They want her to get raunchy. But we'll
- 18:22Speaker 1: do We'll do that's that's our American accent, all right,
- 18:26Speaker 1: So we'll do it next time. Because there is for
- 18:29Speaker 1: some reason, there's a real clamoring for that. Boone well
- 18:32Speaker 1: that that segment got a little silly. Our next guest.
- 18:34Speaker 3: It never goes in that direction, joins us with the
- 18:38Speaker 3: stroke Jo Sports Radio WFZ.
- 18:42Speaker 4: So shut good and.
- 18:48Speaker 1: Could it helped step and that you love me social.
- 18:55Speaker 2: Then you live?
- 18:57Speaker 4: Oh day Oh No.
- 19:02Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety two to seven wfn Z ay quick
- 19:05Speaker 1: message here to everybody out there. Uh you guys know
- 19:08Speaker 1: the drill. The Mac and Bone Show is available at
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- 19:21Speaker 1: into football. If you miss, you know, a Panther talk
- 19:24Speaker 1: segment about the latest injury. Unfortunately we've been doing a
- 19:27Speaker 1: lot of those. We talked about the brassle injury. We
- 19:30Speaker 1: talked about FanFest and what you're looking for tonight at FanFest.
- 19:33Speaker 1: Any of these conversations and you miss them or any
- 19:36Speaker 1: of the funny silly stuff, go check out what you
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- 19:43Speaker 1: Listen to the Mac and Bone Show at your leisure, Yes, sir,
- 19:47Speaker 1: there we go. Man all right? So, yes, sir, that
- 19:52Speaker 1: was intense. Bone. That was very intense and stro ever
- 19:55Speaker 1: been on on a Friday before? This feels different. Trow
- 19:58Speaker 1: on a Friday could be different energy, you know, I
- 20:01Speaker 1: feel like that Tuesday Tuesdays. Fitty's point is out before
- 20:04Speaker 1: Tuesday's kind of a hum drum day. Friday Friday. We're
- 20:07Speaker 1: all up beat talking to Sunday of possibilities and hope.
- 20:10Speaker 1: Tuesdays is kind of Tuesday. The big news this Friday
- 20:13Speaker 1: is that all three of us will be leaving the
- 20:15Speaker 1: house on the same Friday.
- 20:16Speaker 3: And I heard what Fiddy told Strow on the phone
- 20:19Speaker 3: over there. What's up but one night out for the guys.
- 20:21Speaker 3: They have to stay up to nine thirty?
- 20:24Speaker 1: You mocking us mind? I included myself. I'm holy, I'm
- 20:28Speaker 1: an early turning guy. On a Friday nine.
- 20:32Speaker 3: I watched I watch some day wine or twenty twenty,
- 20:35Speaker 3: depending on what the story is, and then I usually
- 20:39Speaker 3: fall asleep and I watch it the next morning.
- 20:44Speaker 1: I get all the views out of it. That's a
- 20:45Speaker 1: very old person. Friday Night. I've been there before. I
- 20:48Speaker 1: believe that's missus Max Friday Night every Friday. All right,
- 20:51Speaker 1: we are together watching Let's bring in for clarification, Let's
- 20:54Speaker 1: bring in Strow. Ashley stro Line joins us with a
- 20:58Speaker 1: special Friday Strow Show. Oh how are you feeling on
- 21:01Speaker 1: this Friday morning?
- 21:03Speaker 4: I mean, my goodness, is the energy different on a
- 21:05Speaker 4: Friday versus a Tuesday or what you guys are full
- 21:09Speaker 4: of life right now?
- 21:10Speaker 1: Yes, Tuesday, Tuesday.
- 21:11Speaker 3: Mac sometimes will be a little more ordery than Friday.
- 21:15Speaker 3: Mac is a vibe. He's a different guy looking at
- 21:17Speaker 3: him right now. That is true too. You're not really
- 21:21Speaker 3: fighting today, Strohole, that is true. That is so true.
- 21:24Speaker 3: Are you going to are you doing? I saw you,
- 21:25Speaker 3: we saw your training camp. I know you're at the
- 21:28Speaker 3: MLS All Star Game? Are you doing fan Fest tonight
- 21:32Speaker 3: or no?
- 21:32Speaker 4: I will be there. I'll be there.
- 21:34Speaker 1: Awesome, awesome. What do you think? Like, what are a
- 21:37Speaker 1: couple of the key storylines or key players do you
- 21:41Speaker 1: think tonight at fan Fest? Because the cool thing about
- 21:44Speaker 1: this stro is these last two years, fan Fest to
- 21:48Speaker 1: me is even bigger because fans have not been able
- 21:52Speaker 1: to see this team in person. So what like, what
- 21:56Speaker 1: what are you watching tonight?
- 21:59Speaker 2: Well?
- 21:59Speaker 4: I think you just said it right in the sense
- 22:01Speaker 4: of like you get it come to the stadium. For me,
- 22:03Speaker 4: this is always an opportunity for people to to be
- 22:07Speaker 4: able to come out. Maybe you're not able to come
- 22:09Speaker 4: to a regular season game or something like that, but
- 22:12Speaker 4: you get it, come out, You get to come to
- 22:13Speaker 4: the stadium. You can get your ticket for chief. I
- 22:17Speaker 4: also think people were reselling those tickets, which I believe
- 22:20Speaker 4: the proceeds go to charity. So I have questions about
- 22:23Speaker 4: that part of what people are doing. But nonetheless, you
- 22:25Speaker 4: can come out, you can come to the stadium, you
- 22:28Speaker 4: can watch the team. As you mentioned, it's it's exciting
- 22:30Speaker 4: because you get to watch your practice with all the guys,
- 22:33Speaker 4: not only your stars, but the guys who are hoping
- 22:36Speaker 4: to make the team. And then you're get to be
- 22:39Speaker 4: with other fans and see are we still doing the
- 22:42Speaker 4: laser show and fireworks and all the festivities.
- 22:44Speaker 1: I'm actually afterwards, I think after fireworks, see.
- 22:49Speaker 4: The stadium and they you know, I can see the
- 22:52Speaker 4: big screen and they've got you know, they're running through everything.
- 22:55Speaker 4: They got fan Fest up there, and all the graphics.
- 22:58Speaker 4: You got the sun shining, So I think it'll be
- 23:01Speaker 4: a great day.
- 23:02Speaker 3: How much positivity are you holding on to despite all
- 23:06Speaker 3: the injuries already at camp?
- 23:09Speaker 4: You know, I think we really need to get to
- 23:11Speaker 4: the bottom of why it's what the curse is. I'm confused.
- 23:15Speaker 4: I don't understand how like, literally day one at camp
- 23:18Speaker 4: and we already you know, have the injury that we did,
- 23:21Speaker 4: and then other things that have happened since then. So
- 23:24Speaker 4: I really want someone to do like a deep dive
- 23:28Speaker 4: into is that area, Like is there some crazy curse
- 23:33Speaker 4: on it? Like what's going on? So it's hard to
- 23:35Speaker 4: be optimistic when in a sense of like you feel
- 23:39Speaker 4: bad for the guys that literally waited all season to
- 23:41Speaker 4: get back to training camp, and then you have season
- 23:43Speaker 4: ending injuries just over small plays or little things that
- 23:50Speaker 4: happen at camp. And I know it happens every season
- 23:54Speaker 4: with different teams and different players, but what a bummer
- 23:57Speaker 4: to start camp that way. But we're going to say positive.
- 23:59Speaker 4: It's what we do.
- 24:01Speaker 1: I like it now, I like it. Well, Hey, our
- 24:02Speaker 1: mantras keep pounding, all right, it's in it's it's it's
- 24:05Speaker 1: written inside the jersey, all right. So this team's got
- 24:08Speaker 1: no choice but to battle. Stro, you brought something up
- 24:11Speaker 1: that bone and I have not discussed and I forgot
- 24:14Speaker 1: to bone. Somebody tell me about this the other day,
- 24:17Speaker 1: but we had not talked about it on the show.
- 24:20Speaker 1: This secondary market fan fest thing is crazy to me.
- 24:24Speaker 1: There they are sold bone for five dollars, and like
- 24:28Speaker 1: Stro said, the Panthers to donate, you know, to their charities.
- 24:33Speaker 1: But Stro I'm on stub Hub right now and I
- 24:37Speaker 1: see sixty two dollars, sixty two dollars for two tickets
- 24:41Speaker 1: fourteen nine on one of the sites. Good luck with
- 24:47Speaker 1: that one. But like the people are trying to make
- 24:50Speaker 1: money off these tickets?
- 24:52Speaker 4: Is there a big secondary because it's a ticket that
- 24:56Speaker 4: goes to charity, and we're what are we doing? Are
- 24:59Speaker 4: you going to do? That's that sixty bucks back to
- 25:02Speaker 4: a charity I've died doubted.
- 25:04Speaker 1: No, I guarantee you. In their mind, they're like, I
- 25:06Speaker 1: gave five dollars to charity. Now my favorite charity is myself.
- 25:09Speaker 1: Let me try to make some for that one that
- 25:11Speaker 1: you know? Are there a lot of people like bone?
- 25:16Speaker 1: Do you think they sell a lot of secondary market tickets?
- 25:18Speaker 1: Like are the tickets? I guess they're sold out right,
- 25:22Speaker 1: which would create the demand? I mean I would, I
- 25:24Speaker 1: would hope, I would hope not.
- 25:27Speaker 4: See that's insane. I'm looking now too, and I'm seeing
- 25:29Speaker 4: the prices that you're seeing.
- 25:31Speaker 1: Andy's wild work.
- 25:33Speaker 4: To me, I ticket Master, I'm going to say there
- 25:35Speaker 4: are some upper level tickets. I'm seeing they're still available.
- 25:40Speaker 4: That's coming out to be about just over six bucks,
- 25:43Speaker 4: which I think is just I don't think that's those
- 25:46Speaker 4: aren't Reselle.
- 25:47Speaker 1: Those are literally you know, okay, see the value.
- 25:50Speaker 4: But then I go over to stub hub and I'm
- 25:53Speaker 4: seeing ninety two dollars for the lower bowlt.
- 25:55Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So I guess that's where
- 25:58Speaker 1: you can go to ed Sheeran for cheaper than fan.
- 26:01Speaker 1: So I guess that's where we're at, right Like, if
- 26:03Speaker 1: you want lower bowl, you could pay these prices. Upper
- 26:06Speaker 1: bowls all that's left on the you know, original market.
- 26:11Speaker 1: That's crazy.
- 26:11Speaker 3: There's someone selling for seventy four in the uh, seventy
- 26:15Speaker 3: four dollars right.
- 26:16Speaker 1: There there you go. Fifty two dollars in the lower
- 26:20Speaker 1: bowl is called amazing by step up amazing for something
- 26:27Speaker 1: that's five dollars, it's amazing. That's the price anyway it is.
- 26:33Speaker 4: I'm going to say, it's you know, if you want to,
- 26:35Speaker 4: if you've got tickets and you can't go, and you
- 26:37Speaker 4: want to relist them so someone else can go. I
- 26:40Speaker 4: think that's one thing if you had, But just like
- 26:43Speaker 4: any event, it's people buy the tickets. The people who
- 26:46Speaker 4: really want to go can't go for an affordable price.
- 26:50Speaker 4: And then you're you're stuck. And then half the time
- 26:53Speaker 4: a guy was watching one of the concerts that was
- 26:55Speaker 4: in town recently, and the concert had already started and
- 26:58Speaker 4: people were still trying to sell to gives for an
- 27:00Speaker 4: outrageous price, and I'm like, no one even gets to
- 27:03Speaker 4: use that seat anymore because someone bought a ticket that
- 27:05Speaker 4: didn't want to go and thought they were going to
- 27:07Speaker 4: make money and then they did it. So I just
- 27:09Speaker 4: hate when fans miss out that.
- 27:11Speaker 1: Is that's a legit. Because we did get a text
- 27:13Speaker 1: of somebody who says this is capitalism, and I understand, hey, okay,
- 27:17Speaker 1: you found a way to make money. But what Stroja
- 27:19Speaker 1: said bone is a legit point. One of the things
- 27:22Speaker 1: about first of all, two things now about FanFest. The
- 27:24Speaker 1: one is what I said, where like fans in general
- 27:27Speaker 1: can't see until next year training camp, you can't go
- 27:30Speaker 1: to training camp. But the other one is Stro's point
- 27:32Speaker 1: is a great point. Fan Fest Bone has often been
- 27:36Speaker 1: for folks that are like and that's these games are
- 27:38Speaker 1: too expensive. I can't take the kids, or I can't
- 27:41Speaker 1: go to Spartanburg, but I can go get them there
- 27:44Speaker 1: for five dollars a ticket. And the folks that are
- 27:48Speaker 1: the scalpers are basically, you know, denying an opportunity to
- 27:52Speaker 1: those people that wanted the five dollars ticket.
- 27:54Speaker 3: Really is more of an event for children. I would say,
- 27:59Speaker 3: not that we're not enjoy it ourselves, but the fireworks,
- 28:02Speaker 3: the laser show, there's a lot to family event. It's
- 28:05Speaker 3: a good family event because we know that they're not
- 28:08Speaker 3: doing a whole lot out there per se. But a
- 28:11Speaker 3: small child, he doesn't know the difference between what they're doing,
- 28:14Speaker 3: you know what I mean. They take that as a
- 28:16Speaker 3: big deal. So you're right, it should be more of
- 28:18Speaker 3: a evet for children. People are not why we're bringing
- 28:20Speaker 3: our sun fitting. People are now ripping the guy that
- 28:23Speaker 3: said capitalism. So we've got a big we've got a
- 28:25Speaker 3: big debate going on the text line this text or
- 28:28Speaker 3: stay Bob getting accused of selling tickets for over ninety dollars.
- 28:31Speaker 3: A husky pants says, Bebop sent the capitalism text right.
- 28:36Speaker 3: But anyway, the good news is Stro just went on Ticketmaster.
- 28:39Speaker 3: If you want to get in at five dollars, you
- 28:40Speaker 3: can still do that. It's just upper bowl only at
- 28:43Speaker 3: this point in time, all right, Stro.
- 28:45Speaker 4: It almost makes me want to make it like a
- 28:47Speaker 4: day of ticket and let's go old school, like, let's
- 28:50Speaker 4: forget the digital ticket, like you have to come stand
- 28:53Speaker 4: in line and get your ticket like that. I almost
- 28:56Speaker 4: want to go back to that for fantast.
- 28:57Speaker 2: You think it should be.
- 28:58Speaker 4: Everything that we just talked about. And as you mentioned,
- 29:02Speaker 4: it's not like Spartanburg where you can just drive down
- 29:05Speaker 4: for any practice and sit out and get a glimpse
- 29:07Speaker 4: of the guys or maybe an autograph because it's closed
- 29:10Speaker 4: for right now. So this is your one chance as
- 29:12Speaker 4: a fan to come and catch a practice. And as
- 29:15Speaker 4: you guys know, it's always it's fun right like it's
- 29:18Speaker 4: it's the one training camp session. I feel like that's
- 29:23Speaker 4: a little more. It has a little bit more entertainment
- 29:25Speaker 4: value because you know it's for the fans that are
- 29:27Speaker 4: coming out and.
- 29:28Speaker 2: That kind of stuff.
- 29:28Speaker 1: And I love the way coach Coach Canalis, you know,
- 29:30Speaker 1: said it again. We're going to do it like last year.
- 29:32Speaker 1: We're going to simulate a game, you know what I mean.
- 29:34Speaker 1: It's it's I feel like in the past Bone there's
- 29:36Speaker 1: a lot more downtime with previous coaches, there was a
- 29:39Speaker 1: lot more non football. They're going to give you an
- 29:41Speaker 1: hour and fifteen minutes of just inter squad scrimmage. Yeah,
- 29:44Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like like college teams.
- 29:46Speaker 3: Remember when because Rivera they would show some stuff on
- 29:49Speaker 3: the TV with fan Fast and then the Matt Rural
- 29:53Speaker 3: era and they started to not show us much. I
- 29:55Speaker 3: think we realize why they stopped showing stuff on fan
- 29:58Speaker 3: Fast because Matt uld knew how this.
- 30:00Speaker 1: Team might be. I don't want to show this. We
- 30:05Speaker 1: always wondered, is it to not let the uh the
- 30:08Speaker 1: rival see it or not let your own fans see it. Stro,
- 30:12Speaker 1: We've got to run this scenario by you we talked
- 30:14Speaker 1: about earlier. I don't know the name of this woman.
- 30:17Speaker 1: She's a relationship expert, but she she shared, Yeah, oh yeah,
- 30:23Speaker 1: this is just getting good here. Stro. She shared a
- 30:27Speaker 1: text exchange from one of her girlfriends, and she said
- 30:29Speaker 1: she wanted to know what people thought about what she
- 30:33Speaker 1: did pre date. She was she met online a guy
- 30:37Speaker 1: and they were going out and going on a date
- 30:38Speaker 1: and they're figuring out what restaurant, and you can see
- 30:41Speaker 1: in the text change, she says, Okay, I'd like you
- 30:44Speaker 1: to send an uber over to my place and I'll
- 30:46Speaker 1: meet you at the restaurant. The guy's like, oh, I'm
- 30:49Speaker 1: not doing that. You got you meet me there? And
- 30:52Speaker 1: the relationship expert wanted to know what people thought about that,
- 30:55Speaker 1: and we had a conversation about this. Do you feel
- 30:58Speaker 1: like that is something that is like out of hand
- 31:03Speaker 1: for a woman to say, Hey, send me an uber
- 31:07Speaker 1: and I'll meet you at the restaurant or is that
- 31:09Speaker 1: just kind of like Bone said, it might be the
- 31:11Speaker 1: modern version of i'll pick you up. Used to be
- 31:13Speaker 1: i'll pick you up, but nowadays you can't. You don't
- 31:15Speaker 1: want to have someone go to your house that you've
- 31:17Speaker 1: never met. How do you feel about that request?
- 31:22Speaker 4: I mean, I think that's an example of someone saying
- 31:25Speaker 4: this is my standard, and I'm setting that standard and
- 31:29Speaker 4: bar of expectation for you right now, and it didn't
- 31:34Speaker 4: work in her favor. So don't I can't. I don't
- 31:37Speaker 4: think you can fault the lady for saying, hey, send
- 31:41Speaker 4: an uber, right because, as you just said, I get
- 31:45Speaker 4: I get why I'm modern dating people is like, oh,
- 31:47Speaker 4: what a DVA like that's too much. But to me,
- 31:50Speaker 4: it is the equivalent of I'll pick you up for
- 31:53Speaker 4: a date, because we don't do that anymore, because it's
- 31:55Speaker 4: a little wild out here. With to me, like someone
- 31:57Speaker 4: offering back in the day saying help, I'll pick you
- 32:01Speaker 4: up for the date. Was the guy kind of setting
- 32:04Speaker 4: like his standard, like I'm gonna show some chivalry and
- 32:08Speaker 4: I'm gonna pick you up and I'm gonna drop you off.
- 32:10Speaker 4: Like to me, that was a guy showing respect when
- 32:13Speaker 4: we did those types of things. So I don't think
- 32:15Speaker 4: someone maybe mentioning an uber if she thinks that's her
- 32:21Speaker 4: way of being treated like a lady, is a bad thing.
- 32:24Speaker 4: I don't have any friends I think that have asked
- 32:26Speaker 4: for an uber because we like to be able to
- 32:28Speaker 4: get in her own car and you know, get out
- 32:31Speaker 4: of the situation if it doesn't go well.
- 32:34Speaker 1: You want to have that good. Stro leaves it running
- 32:36Speaker 1: just a gaze just the case it's a bad date.
- 32:39Speaker 4: If you're acting for the uber to to pick you up,
- 32:42Speaker 4: you have to give that person your address.
- 32:44Speaker 1: That's what a lot of people are saying. Maybe maybe
- 32:46Speaker 1: she would get the uber and then say hey, venmo
- 32:49Speaker 1: me the money or something like that, because a lot
- 32:50Speaker 1: of people are saying if he's setting up the uber,
- 32:53Speaker 1: he he's getting the address.
- 32:54Speaker 3: Anyway, my girlfriend tera Stro says that maybe she's nervous
- 32:58Speaker 3: before a first date and maybe had a dream or
- 33:00Speaker 3: two before she went, and that's why she couldn't get
- 33:02Speaker 3: in your own car. But she she she said that
- 33:04Speaker 3: she has experienced with that. I thought, oh my god,
- 33:07Speaker 3: maybe that's our first day. She had the whole bottle
- 33:09Speaker 3: before dayton Bone. She's like, my god, what.
- 33:11Speaker 1: Am I doing? My life? My god, I'm sorry. I
- 33:20Speaker 1: couldn't resist. I was just sitting there for me.
- 33:23Speaker 2: I can't.
- 33:23Speaker 1: I can't wait to your single again. One day should
- 33:29Speaker 1: have happened long before. Now, what's missus Mac thinking? Seriously?
- 33:32Speaker 1: I think the Lord every day. What's be honest about?
- 33:35Speaker 1: You're on borrow time. I have already overachieved the expectations
- 33:40Speaker 1: anybody that knows me and Missus Mac had for us.
- 33:43Speaker 1: They thought she would leave me long before. Now I've
- 33:45Speaker 1: already overachieved, all right. Anyway, stro It's awesome. I do
- 33:50Speaker 1: feel like the Friday vibe. I like the Friday vibe
- 33:52Speaker 1: we had. Strow is getting rave reviews for standing up
- 33:56Speaker 1: for the common Panther fan