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Speaker 2: Welcome into the Blue Crank presented by jkine Day, joined
Speaker 2: by Kate Scott, play by play voice of Philadelphia seventy
Speaker 2: six Ers and new voice of Madden twenty five.
Speaker 3: We're here in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: Your New City brett Yawie, which is a hotel, coffee
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Speaker 4: Yeah, can I live here? They have everything I need?
Speaker 3: I want to live here. Kate.
Speaker 2: Let's dive all the way into this career that you've
Speaker 2: built and Kate, folks that are watching this probably recognize
Speaker 2: you as the Sixers play by play announcer. Maybe we
Speaker 2: are now a few years into that journey and you've
Speaker 2: become just beloved in this city, But it wasn't necessarily
Speaker 2: always like that. Can you take us through the journey though,
Speaker 2: of how quickly you've gone from people saying okay, who's
Speaker 2: this to beloved by so many in this city.
Speaker 4: Does it feel quick?
Speaker 3: I mean, listen, it feels.
Speaker 2: Quick to me based on how far you've come and
Speaker 2: people in the city pulling you aside to take photos
Speaker 2: and loving you so much. So what does it feel
Speaker 2: like to be adored in this way?
Speaker 4: Looking at the journey again? Well, you know me, miss
Speaker 4: ros and I'll try to call you Laurence throughout this
Speaker 4: fine miss Rose, even though that's my nickname for you.
Speaker 4: But it's interesting in that it feels like it is
Speaker 4: in a really long time since I got here, and
Speaker 4: I have had to work like crazy to get better
Speaker 4: at my craft, which I think has allowed people to
Speaker 4: then open themselves up to me and being the team's
Speaker 4: play by play announcer, and then I guess, as you said,
Speaker 4: like it has also happened a lot faster.
Speaker 5: I gave myself three years.
Speaker 4: I knew that from the outside looking in and now
Speaker 4: being here, that Philly is the most intense, incredible sports
Speaker 4: city in the country, hands down. I'm saying that not
Speaker 4: because I'm biased, just because I've been everyplace else, and
Speaker 4: I knew because of that it was going to be
Speaker 4: the hardest to win over. So I give myself three
Speaker 4: years because I knew I represented so many things, not
Speaker 4: only a change from a legend in Mark zoom Off,
Speaker 4: but a woman from California, like so many things that
Speaker 4: so many of our fans had never had in.
Speaker 5: Any of the sports they watched.
Speaker 4: So I just said, hey, be patient, keep going to
Speaker 4: work every day, and hopefully you'll win people over along
Speaker 4: the way.
Speaker 5: Because I say this to you all the time.
Speaker 4: You can't tell people to support you, you can't tell
Speaker 4: people to love you. You have to just give them
Speaker 4: the space to do that and hope that they come around.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's pretty great to be where we are today.
Speaker 2: For those that might not remember, what were those first
Speaker 2: few months like for you?
Speaker 5: They were incredibly difficult.
Speaker 4: And it wasn't just the first few months, I'd say
Speaker 4: the first four to five months. And on top of
Speaker 4: just the huge change. Obviously it was the biggest job
Speaker 4: of my career, but it was in still in the
Speaker 4: midst of a pandemic, so all the things that I
Speaker 4: think would have helped me transition a little bit faster,
Speaker 4: being able to spend time around the players and the coaches,
Speaker 4: getting to travel with the team. I was calling all
Speaker 4: the road games off monitor. I wasn't able to interact
Speaker 4: with fans, so I was just kind of this new
Speaker 4: that felt very removed from everything, including the fans, which
Speaker 4: was challenging. All my sports system was still back on
Speaker 4: the West Coast. It was it was the challenge I
Speaker 4: knew it would be, but then there was added layers
Speaker 4: to it. But I think I'm nothing if not incredibly
Speaker 4: mentally tough and resilient and gritty, and all of those
Speaker 4: things got me here to Philly.
Speaker 5: So I just said, Okay.
Speaker 4: It's time to double down on all the things you
Speaker 4: know that you possess and got you here and just
Speaker 4: keep going to work day after day. And yeah, those
Speaker 4: first four or five months were incredibly tough, but prepare
Speaker 4: me for things that I'm doing now. So I'm now
Speaker 4: in retrospect really grateful that people were incredibly awful to
Speaker 4: me for a number of months because I got through that,
Speaker 4: and I know that I got through it. So now
Speaker 4: I'm just like, bring on, baby, what else you got?
Speaker 2: We talk to you and me about doing the work
Speaker 2: right and the work being as great as it's been.
Speaker 2: Is why people now have developed such a respect and
Speaker 2: a fondness for you. When you look at years one
Speaker 2: through three, what are the games that stand out? What
Speaker 2: are some of your favorite either memories of just being
Speaker 2: there or calling a special moment for one of your.
Speaker 3: Seventy six ers.
Speaker 5: Oh wow, well there were so many this year.
Speaker 4: But I think I'll flash back to the game that
Speaker 4: I think at least fans of our team have reflected
Speaker 4: to me was really the first game where they thought, oh, Okay,
Speaker 4: this chick can do this, And it was Joe wasn't playing,
Speaker 4: and Tyrese goes off and we're at the center right.
Speaker 5: And we're already gonna win. Because we're ahead, but it's.
Speaker 4: A chaotic possession on the defensive end for the Sixers.
Speaker 4: Mattis Sabel gets the ball, throws it up and Tyrese
Speaker 4: is just open.
Speaker 5: We're gonna win the game already.
Speaker 4: And that was at the end of January, so it
Speaker 4: had been October, November, December, so it was really like
Speaker 4: I had made it through what I just talked about,
Speaker 4: really a really difficult time, and I just said, efy, Kate,
Speaker 4: just let go, like stop.
Speaker 5: Trying to be something or someone.
Speaker 4: Just let him hear you, and you know, Sam's really
Speaker 4: gonna win this game. Tyrese maxon And the response was
Speaker 4: overwhelming after that game, like, oh, this girl can do this,
Speaker 4: Like that's the passion. Okay, I see why we hire her.
Speaker 4: So that was just a great moment for me as
Speaker 4: well to learn because I think being another, being one
Speaker 4: of one, one of two, and what I do. It's
Speaker 4: so hard to be yourself because nobody else looks or
Speaker 4: sounds like me.
Speaker 5: So even though I know being myself is.
Speaker 4: What got me here, every day there's things telling me,
Speaker 4: but don't be that much yourself, Like I don't know,
Speaker 4: maybe hold that part of k back. But that was
Speaker 4: a moment that said, no, just lean into you and
Speaker 4: be you and do it. So that was from your
Speaker 4: one And then you know this year Joe scored seventy
Speaker 4: points on the day that Kobe had his day, you know,
Speaker 4: a decade plus earlier, Tyrese going for career high after
Speaker 4: career high, taking us to overtime.
Speaker 5: Down in San Antonio.
Speaker 4: And then the last one, you know, Game five at
Speaker 4: Madison Square Garden with Tyree's hitting the logo three. And
Speaker 4: I'm sitting here thinking, first of all, how did I
Speaker 4: get here? Like this is incredible. I'm sitting at mid
Speaker 4: court at Madison Square. Guar and Breen and doors are
Speaker 4: right next to me, like Clyde Frasier and Kenny Albert
Speaker 4: around there.
Speaker 5: This place is ready to explode, and I'm.
Speaker 4: Getting paid to be here. This is incredible. So those
Speaker 4: are a few of the moments that are going to
Speaker 4: stand out to me. And I just again, I'm pinching myself.
Speaker 4: Then I'm talking about it with.
Speaker 5: You right now.
Speaker 2: You mentioned how did I get here? Sitting courtside at
Speaker 2: Madison Square Garden. So for those that haven't followed your career,
Speaker 2: how did you get from Clovis, California?
Speaker 5: Look at you.
Speaker 3: Oh I am well very shout out to Seato Central California.
Speaker 3: I know everything there is to know.
Speaker 2: But for those who don't, how do you get from Clovis,
Speaker 2: California in your youth to here in Philadelphia in your prime.
Speaker 4: You have family and friends who have from the time
Speaker 4: when you were young told you you could do and
Speaker 4: be anything, which planted the seed in me that I
Speaker 4: could do and be anything. And then time and time again,
Speaker 4: I went up to people who were doing jobs that
Speaker 4: I wanted to do and was told, woman's never done
Speaker 4: this before. I don't know, woman's never done I said, okay, cool,
Speaker 4: can I try? And then I tried, and then I
Speaker 4: learned how to do it and got better at it.
Speaker 4: There's so many jobs, but you know, a quick summary
Speaker 4: is I was literally a sideline reporter for every team
Speaker 4: in the Bay Area.
Speaker 5: I mean, Lauren laughs at me.
Speaker 4: At this point. I started as a radio traffic reporter
Speaker 4: and did that for five years.
Speaker 5: Out of college.
Speaker 4: I knew that sports was what I wanted to do.
Speaker 4: But so many people want to do this. It's the
Speaker 4: candy shop of life. You want to get paid to
Speaker 4: cover sports? Yeah, there's eight billion other people who want
Speaker 4: to do that, So I had to work my tailoff.
Speaker 4: I worked in radio. I worked in television for the
Speaker 4: PAC twelve network for NBC Bay Area.
Speaker 5: I was flying across the country.
Speaker 4: I spent my wife's fortieth birthday at UMass in January.
Speaker 4: It was seventeen degrees there was one hundred people in
Speaker 4: the gym. I was calling an E ten women's basketball game.
Speaker 4: But I knew that if I wanted to call the Olympics.
Speaker 4: One day, NBC had the Olympics and they needed a
Speaker 4: voice to call their eighten women basketball package. And I said,
Speaker 4: I will fly across the country in the middle of
Speaker 4: January and then take a red eye, you know, back
Speaker 4: to get back to call a PAC twelve game. So
Speaker 4: long story long, I have worked my tail off for
Speaker 4: almost two decades because I love what I do and
Speaker 4: I always want to get better. So it was just
Speaker 4: can I try learn how to do it, learn how
Speaker 4: to become the best at it? Okay, what's next, Let's
Speaker 4: keep going, Let's keep challenging ourselves.
Speaker 2: You say what's next, And we're sitting here at a
Speaker 2: good time to talk about what's next for you? Because
Speaker 2: for those that might not be aware, Kate Scott, the
Speaker 2: new voice of Madden twenty five. That game coming out
Speaker 2: sometime around my voice of Madden too, sometime around this
Speaker 2: recording and release. For those that don't know, this has
Speaker 2: been a tedious process that started for you in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two. You're in a booth alone a lot of
Speaker 2: the times, listing every single name of every single player
Speaker 2: that might play in the game this year, listing every team,
Speaker 2: listing every type of coverage and play.
Speaker 5: You breaking down the football.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: How about you tell us though, what it's been like,
Speaker 2: from learning the news, to keeping the secret, to executing
Speaker 2: and now getting to see yourself as part of such
Speaker 2: an incredible project.
Speaker 5: It's been so freaking cool.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm an old head, so I played the
Speaker 4: original iterations of Madden way back in the day when
Speaker 4: John Madden was actually one of the voices, and they
Speaker 4: recorded like fifty lines, so there was very little commentary
Speaker 4: in the game. But since then, I've obviously grown up
Speaker 4: in Football is one of the other sports I call
Speaker 4: in addition of basketball, and it is such an ingrained
Speaker 4: part of the culture that football players say. I learned
Speaker 4: how to play defense by playing Madden when I was
Speaker 4: in high school.
Speaker 5: Have players.
Speaker 4: Now. My recent Seahawks preseason broadcast referenced, oh, that was
Speaker 4: a hit stick hit, Well, that's like a perfect hit
Speaker 4: in Madden game. So it is such a part of
Speaker 4: the vocabin culture of football throughout the world. It's a
Speaker 4: huge deal. And I knew that I was again gonna
Speaker 4: be the first. I knew there was gonna be a
Speaker 4: lot of eyes and ears just waiting for it to
Speaker 4: be bad, waiting.
Speaker 5: For them not to like it.
Speaker 4: So I am so thankful to the team at EA
Speaker 4: and the specific team at Madden that I've been working with.
Speaker 4: From our first recording early December twenty twenty two, we said,
Speaker 4: let's blow the roof off this thing. Let's work our
Speaker 4: asses off. I want you to critique me as hard
Speaker 4: as you can. Let's get every single line as close
Speaker 4: to perfect as possible, and then once we hear them
Speaker 4: in the game, if they're not, let's rerecord them. And
Speaker 4: that's where we are now, over one hundred and sixty
Speaker 4: five hours and counting up another session this afternoon.
Speaker 5: But we don't want it to be good.
Speaker 4: We want it to be great so that people can't
Speaker 4: push back on the woman or the other any of
Speaker 4: that stuff. No the shick knows football. She's great at
Speaker 4: calling it, like, let's have a blast doing it. So
Speaker 4: it's and I've learned a ton as an announcer too, because,
Speaker 4: as you mentioned, like my job is to call what
Speaker 4: I see, but all of these recordings, we just have
Speaker 4: a script and we have context, so we kind of
Speaker 4: we know when the play is going to be firing
Speaker 4: in the game. But it is still so hard to
Speaker 4: replicate the emotion that I feel when I'm again City
Speaker 4: in mid quarter of Madison Square Garden and this is
Speaker 4: huge three at the end of a playoff game. You
Speaker 4: can't replicate that. You can try in a booth, but
Speaker 4: it's hard to walk in there and be like, okay,
Speaker 4: fourth quarter of the super Bowl, like let's go. So
Speaker 4: it's been a great learning process for me as a
Speaker 4: broadcaster to learn how to find that and create that
Speaker 4: without having the game.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it's been incredible.
Speaker 2: And certainly good practice for the Super Bowls that you're
Speaker 2: going to call it live.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, okay, maybe we'll see You said.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty two you wanted to make it a
Speaker 2: perfect product, And this is what's someone important had to
Speaker 2: say about the product that you're creating from Sean Grady,
Speaker 2: the executive producer of Madden Oh Wow. Sean said, we
Speaker 2: were set on getting Kate on board for Madden twenty
Speaker 2: five because she's a rising star in sports broadcasting.
Speaker 4: We love what she's.
Speaker 2: Doing with the seventy six ers. It was important for
Speaker 2: us to bring a diverse voice to the game. As
Speaker 2: the first female commentary voice to call an NFL game
Speaker 2: on the radio. She came with the expertise and authenticity
Speaker 2: we were looking for and it's been a perfect fit.
Speaker 2: Expertise and authenticity dropped off the page for me.
Speaker 3: Where do those words hit you?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm just suppressed to you reached out to Sean.
Speaker 4: Great research five here, journalism, Yeah wow, I'm overwhelmed by that.
Speaker 4: You know me, those are things I strive to be
Speaker 4: every day. I know that if I'm an expert at
Speaker 4: the things that I'm calling.
Speaker 5: I say this a lot.
Speaker 4: But you can hate my voice, you can hate my face,
Speaker 4: you can hate that there's a woman that there's another
Speaker 4: call in your game.
Speaker 5: But somewhere inside.
Speaker 4: You're still gonna be like, Okay, but I didn't know
Speaker 4: that stat she just dropped.
Speaker 5: Okay, that was pretty good.
Speaker 4: So That's why I have always I'm always and I
Speaker 4: know that I probably will never get there, but I
Speaker 4: always strive for that expert so that at some point
Speaker 4: the hate will maybe dissipay. And then I've also learned
Speaker 4: that being authentic and vulnerable. Again, nobody can be me
Speaker 4: but me, and I know that that's one of the
Speaker 4: things that sets me apart, and some people seem to
Speaker 4: like that version of me. So I just keep going
Speaker 4: with it because again, I take things from the broadcasters
Speaker 4: that I respect, but then I have to put it
Speaker 4: in my own voice otherwise it's gonna sound fake and forced, right,
Speaker 4: And I know that that won't fly in Philly, and
Speaker 4: it's not gonna fly in Philly, it's not gonna fly anywhere.
Speaker 4: So uh yeah, that's wow. Thank you for sharing that
Speaker 4: with me.
Speaker 2: And they're not the only people that have already given
Speaker 2: some praise, like Kate Scott for her work on that
Speaker 2: in twenty five. Tyrese Maxi has also been a vocal
Speaker 2: is the best supporter of you and your work. So
Speaker 2: for those that don't know, he just saw a clip
Speaker 2: of what the game looked like, reposted it, called you
Speaker 2: the Goat. I haven't even seen this yet, what is
Speaker 2: does it mean to hear words like that from a
Speaker 2: person that's in the position that Tyrese is, Maybe in
Speaker 2: the context of now the years you guys have shared together.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, you're just you're hitting me less and right
Speaker 4: of misrose and to give Kate her flowers. Know though
Speaker 4: that I'm almost more used to the criticy and the hate.
Speaker 4: I'm still uncomfortable getting compliments.
Speaker 5: Well, Tyrese Maxie, thank you.
Speaker 4: I think first and foremost, that speaks to who he is,
Speaker 4: the young man that his parents raised, because he's not
Speaker 4: on my payroll and he doesn't need to do that
Speaker 4: and we haven't even talked about this yet, So that's incredible,
Speaker 4: and I think speaks to who he is. And I
Speaker 4: think he already at such a young age, understands what
Speaker 4: his voice and his endorsement and his platform mean. And
Speaker 4: that means so much to me, because you know, you
Speaker 4: hope as a broadcaster that's somewhere along the line you're
Speaker 4: going to get to be the voice of a great
Speaker 4: team or a great player, a great moment. But the
Speaker 4: fact that I was lucky enough to arrive here right
Speaker 4: when the Tyrese Maxi train was leaving the station. I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm grateful for that every day.
Speaker 5: So I know that I'm just getting started.
Speaker 4: He's just getting started, and I can't wait to see
Speaker 4: where both of our.
Speaker 5: Journeys take us.
Speaker 2: One more question about Tyres as we transitioned back into
Speaker 2: your broadcasting career and the role model that you are
Speaker 2: to so many people. Tyree shared a story in that
Speaker 2: first season that you guys share together. You now have
Speaker 2: a really beautiful special relationship, I think with Tyree's but
Speaker 2: back then you were just the person that was calling
Speaker 2: the games when he was at home with covid or
Speaker 2: injured watching on TV, and he said, I loved Kate.
Speaker 3: From the jump. She does such a great job.
Speaker 2: I want to be like her in my career after
Speaker 2: my current career. This, of course, is twenty one year
Speaker 2: old Tyrese at this point and has talked sense about
Speaker 2: sometimes turning the volume down on other games and doing
Speaker 2: a Kate Scott impression.
Speaker 3: So we've talked about how special Tyres is to you,
Speaker 3: But just.
Speaker 2: To know that you're a role model for so many,
Speaker 2: not just young women, but young men in positions like his,
Speaker 2: what does that mean to you?
Speaker 4: Yeah? That's I mean, and you thankfully have brought this
Speaker 4: to my attention because I'm still it still blows my
Speaker 4: mind because I'm often asked, you know, what does it
Speaker 4: mean to inspire young women? And thankfully for this one's
Speaker 4: like hold up, hold up. But it's not just young women,
Speaker 4: it's not. And that is, over the last couple of
Speaker 4: years become one of the many incredible layers of what
Speaker 4: we're doing here because I never in a zillion years
Speaker 4: thought that that would happen. I didn't think that I
Speaker 4: would even be inspiring young women, let alone NBA players
Speaker 4: who are on their way to superstardom and other young
Speaker 4: men who come up to me at the games, because
Speaker 4: just the same way that Mark was the voice of
Speaker 4: so many generations of Sixers fans. And again it's hard
Speaker 4: for me to wrap my head around. I hope to
Speaker 4: have that opportunity to do that for everybody. And there's
Speaker 4: going to be women and men and everybody else, and
Speaker 4: it's just going to be, well, that's our Sixers announcer.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter what she is or where she's from,
Speaker 4: but she's ours.
Speaker 5: So yeah, that's wild.
Speaker 2: When young men, women, everybody in Philly looks back at
Speaker 2: Joel Embiide's MVP campaign or the rise of Tyreese Maxie.
Speaker 2: Those highlights and I remind.
Speaker 3: You all outside I know are going.
Speaker 2: To be coupled with your voice. Yeah, so now I'm curious.
Speaker 2: The blueprint was born out of the idea that the
Speaker 2: people before us set a blueprint or a path for
Speaker 2: those of us to follow, right, those of us following
Speaker 2: to follow. Yeah, and you also leave one behind for
Speaker 2: the people that are following you. So for you when
Speaker 2: you were growing up, when you were Tyrese.
Speaker 4: Maxie, it's been a minute, as your kids says.
Speaker 2: Stop, who were you looking too to lay the blue
Speaker 2: print that you've been able to follow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's the thing, like, there were so few
Speaker 4: women doing this, you know this story. I didn't start
Speaker 4: calling games until after I graduated from college because I
Speaker 4: didn't hear a woman calling a game for the first
Speaker 4: time until I heard Beth Mowens calling a Mountain West
Speaker 4: football game on the West Coast at like ten PM
Speaker 4: on a Friday night when I was a junior in college.
Speaker 4: So up until then, I had been writing and sideline
Speaker 4: reporting and learning how to shoot and starting to delve
Speaker 4: into a little hosting and anchoring because I thought those
Speaker 4: were the ceilings for me. But now looking back, I
Speaker 4: was always drawn to the sports centers hosted by Robin Roberts,
Speaker 4: by Linda Combe anytime Susie Colber was on ESPN too, But.
Speaker 5: I was always drawn to women.
Speaker 4: Leslie Visser and Andrew Kramer are reporting before the NFL game,
Speaker 4: and I didn't understand it at the time, and now
Speaker 4: it makes sense to me, right because they were the
Speaker 4: few voices and faces that looked and sounded like me.
Speaker 4: But to be honest, there wasn't that many that I
Speaker 4: knew of at the time time. One of my favorite
Speaker 4: parts of this is now that I'm older and thanks
Speaker 4: to social media, there was a lot of women doing this.
Speaker 4: You just didn't know their story outside of their market.
Speaker 4: But it is so important to me to connect with
Speaker 4: as many women as I can and thank them because
Speaker 4: I know that I'm not here sitting with you having
Speaker 4: this blueprint conversation without them, so that has been one
Speaker 4: of the best parts of this. I'm getting to see
Speaker 4: another one in a couple of days for NFL preseason
Speaker 4: who we've never met, but she's been crushing it on
Speaker 4: Fox NFL broadcast for years and I can't wait to
Speaker 4: say thank you. I'm not here calling the Seahawks game
Speaker 4: tomorrow night without you.
Speaker 5: And then, as we've talked.
Speaker 4: About, you know, I love to mentor, so I'm going
Speaker 4: to try to make this industry look as reflective as
Speaker 4: the audience of sports fans as possible. So yeah, I mentor,
Speaker 4: and I'm trying to pass all that love and inspiration
Speaker 4: onto the next generation.
Speaker 3: And you're doing it well.
Speaker 2: And I will now take the opportunity to say thank
Speaker 2: you for what you've done, because I don't sit at
Speaker 2: the table without you either. What do you hope you're
Speaker 2: leaving behind for the people that get the privilege of
Speaker 2: knowing you personally, or just the ones that are watching
Speaker 2: on TV somewhere out here in Philadelphia somewhere around What
Speaker 2: do you hope that they're learning from you right now?
Speaker 4: But if you love something with everything you have, you
Speaker 4: can do it. If you put in all the energy
Speaker 4: and efforts and lead with kindness and love and strive
Speaker 4: for that expertise, you can do it. And doesn't matter
Speaker 4: if people who don't look or sound like you haven't
Speaker 4: done it before. Why not you?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: Noe Lyle said it at the Olympics. Why not you?
Speaker 5: Why not me.
Speaker 4: So I think that's what I would love to leave
Speaker 4: people with, and it's not just for sports broadcasting. Those
Speaker 4: are some of my favorite conversations I've had with fans
Speaker 4: who've come up to me at games and are like,
Speaker 4: I don't even like basketball.
Speaker 5: This my first Sixers game.
Speaker 4: It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: But I just know that you are one of the
Speaker 5: very few to do this.
Speaker 4: And let me tell you about the industry I'm in
Speaker 4: and how much your story has inspired me to do
Speaker 4: things that I didn't think I could do. Which again,
Speaker 4: I'm getting paid to be here at the center calling
Speaker 4: Sixers games and my presence is inspiring you.
Speaker 5: That is incredible.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, you mentioned how tough the city of Philadelphia is.
Speaker 2: We're sitting here in Philly. We're at Yowie. It's a hotel,
Speaker 2: a coffee shop, a boutique. It's been spectacular to be
Speaker 2: immersed in this space with you in a.
Speaker 3: Don s Daily T shirt.
Speaker 5: I know I had to rep Come on, let go,
Speaker 5: How would you.
Speaker 2: Describe Philadelphia and it's sports culture that you are now
Speaker 2: really synonymous.
Speaker 3: With one day soon already?
Speaker 4: Okay, how do you.
Speaker 2: Describe it to people that haven't experienced Philadelphia?
Speaker 3: Sports culture.
Speaker 4: I say to people that there's no competition. I've been
Speaker 4: to small towns with one hundred thousand at a college
Speaker 4: football stadium. I've been to big cities across the country
Speaker 4: with big teams, just like you're in Philly. We live
Speaker 4: and breathe our sports teams, like our mental health depends
Speaker 4: on how our team did the night before. And I
Speaker 4: have talked to psychologists and therapists who say that's true.
Speaker 4: So if y'all could win tomorrow night, we would really
Speaker 4: appreciate it. It is our blood, like the city sets
Speaker 4: down on Sundays and it's go birds. You don't say hello,
Speaker 4: which is so special to me because sports has been
Speaker 4: my life and has been pumping through my bloodstream since
Speaker 4: I was a little girl. But also, and one of
Speaker 4: the reasons I wanted to come here, and one of
Speaker 4: the reasons I now love being here is they make
Speaker 4: you earn it. There's a grit, there's a chip on
Speaker 4: the shoulder, and people are honest and direct. Everyone always said, oh,
Speaker 4: they're rude, I don't know, and I'm like, no, there's
Speaker 4: a difference between being rude and caring so much that
Speaker 4: you're gonna say, Kate, this was good. But if you
Speaker 4: did this, I think you can make it even better.
Speaker 4: And I don't think you say things like that unless
Speaker 4: you love and care about somebody the way that this
Speaker 4: city loves and cares about its sports teams. And now
Speaker 4: I'm a very small piece of that. So that was
Speaker 4: a very roundabout answer. But it feels like I've come
Speaker 4: home because, as I've explained, grit and tenacity and mental
Speaker 4: toughness and you don't think I can do this, Okay,
Speaker 4: freaking watch me. That has been me since I was
Speaker 4: a little kid playing soccer with ninety boys at recess,
Speaker 4: and that feels like Philly to me. But then when
Speaker 4: you do good, it's like, bring it over, let's make
Speaker 4: out like you're my favorite person in the whole world.
Speaker 4: Not you, but you know, like people are sliding down
Speaker 4: polls and kissing each other because their team won, and
Speaker 4: I love that. I think that's what life should be,
Speaker 4: and that's what Philly is to me.
Speaker 2: This is either going to be the clunkiest or sw
Speaker 2: This transition that I mean I just talked about made
Speaker 2: it out, So that's not the part I.
Speaker 3: Was latching on too.
Speaker 2: But you mentioned how attached people are to Philly sports
Speaker 2: it's clunky Philly sports that they might you might need
Speaker 2: to talk to psychologists to therapists about it.
Speaker 4: Right, I see where you go.
Speaker 2: He talked where we started recording. About the fact that
Speaker 2: you're doing a ton of interviews these days. There's a
Speaker 2: lot that you're getting to talk about, and there's a
Speaker 2: lot you're repeating yourself over. But I know something that's
Speaker 2: near and dear to both of us is talking about
Speaker 2: the side of things of your success that people maybe
Speaker 2: didn't see, don't see, never saw, and don't get to
Speaker 2: talk about.
Speaker 3: And that for us has been mental health.
Speaker 5: Right, that was a great transition.
Speaker 6: I put those words out there because I was hoping,
Speaker 6: see this is she's good at what she does. I
Speaker 6: was like, I'm just gonna love these out here and
Speaker 6: see if you took it and yammed it down, thank you.
Speaker 6: So I tried to distract you with the making up. Okay,
Speaker 6: I won't say that anymore.
Speaker 4: So, yes, you did a great job.
Speaker 2: So mental health, can you tell us a little bit
Speaker 2: about how far you've come and why it's important to
Speaker 2: you to bring attention to that topic when it's not
Speaker 2: something that you can always open up.
Speaker 4: It but also isn't this a great representation of how
Speaker 4: difficult and clunky sometimes talking about mental health can be.
Speaker 4: Like you just you just have to talk about it.
Speaker 4: You can't just be like ms ros and what's going on.
Speaker 4: I'm anxious today. I had to take a pill to
Speaker 4: be able to come and sit down here today. I'm
Speaker 4: dealing with a horrible bout of depression right now. But
Speaker 4: I still have to call four sixers games in the
Speaker 4: next six nights. So here we go, So here we go.
Speaker 3: Everything's great, We'll give me smiling.
Speaker 4: I think, first of all, thank you for bringing that
Speaker 4: up and creating this space where we can talk about it,
Speaker 4: because I think a lot of people I don't know,
Speaker 4: but I think some people look at me and think
Speaker 4: happy and joyous and.
Speaker 5: Energetic, which I am and I have always been.
Speaker 4: And I know that was one of the things that
Speaker 4: took people a while to overcome, like that's fake, She's
Speaker 4: not that energetic all the time. And now people realize, no,
Speaker 4: that's just case cheerleader all the time. But I also
Speaker 4: have struggled with depression and anxiety for a long time.
Speaker 4: Depression runs in my family, from my grandfather to my mom,
Speaker 4: to my sister to me. Just the same way that
Speaker 4: other things can run in your family and your bloodstream.
Speaker 4: Depression is one of those things for me, and I
Speaker 4: am so fortunate to have a supportive family who has
Speaker 4: wanted me to get help, who hasn't looked down on me,
Speaker 4: and saying you can overcome that yourself, because for a
Speaker 4: long time I thought I could. I thought I was
Speaker 4: quitting by asking for help, because again, former athlete, I
Speaker 4: can get over anything myself. And then somebody in sports
Speaker 4: reflected to me, like, hey, you tol me your meniscus
Speaker 4: in high school. Were you just going to play through
Speaker 4: it or did you have to go get surgery and
Speaker 4: then have to do rehab for a long time.
Speaker 5: Your brain is no different.
Speaker 4: Your brain is hurting right now, So go get help
Speaker 4: because we need you one hundred percent. And I'm so
Speaker 4: thankful for that conversation because I've had a therapist now
Speaker 4: on and off for over a decade. I've been lucky
Speaker 4: enough to not talk to her for a number of years.
Speaker 4: I've been on antidepressants, I on occasion have to take
Speaker 4: anti anxiety medication. I've struggled with panic attacks because life
Speaker 4: is hard. So I just wanted people to know that
Speaker 4: that you can be multiple things all at once. You
Speaker 4: can be energetic and joyous and happy and also be
Speaker 4: in a really dark, depressive episode that people don't know
Speaker 4: about it because, as my therapist just told me, I'm
Speaker 4: a very high functioning depressive. So some people may not
Speaker 4: be able to get out of bed. I can call
Speaker 4: Game five at Madison Square Garden and be in a
Speaker 4: really tough mental space.
Speaker 5: But I'm just able to do that. Everybody's different. I wasn't.
Speaker 4: I was in a good space then, but yeah, So
Speaker 4: I just really want people to know that it's okay
Speaker 4: to not be okay. I'm so grateful that that sentence
Speaker 4: has kind of permeated society over the last few years.
Speaker 5: It's okay to ask for help. You're not quitting.
Speaker 4: You are investing in yourself and your people and everything
Speaker 4: you love because you're saying, I want to stay here,
Speaker 4: and I'm going to put in the effort and the
Speaker 4: work to get back to myself so that I can
Speaker 4: be my best version of myself.
Speaker 2: You've given me a lot of gifts in this mentorship
Speaker 2: and friendship, but probably the biggest one is the shared
Speaker 2: understanding of what it's like to wake up.
Speaker 3: You mentioned it.
Speaker 2: Okay we have six or six days, four six Ers
Speaker 2: games in the next six days, and I'm feeling extremely
Speaker 2: depressed and I don't know how to get out of
Speaker 2: bed this morning.
Speaker 3: And go live this life that we've worked really.
Speaker 4: Hard to be a part of it, and that millions
Speaker 4: of people would trade us for in it, for getting
Speaker 4: over yourself get to work.
Speaker 2: How could you not be happy waking up in Toronto
Speaker 2: ahead of a playoff series? Like so for anyone that
Speaker 2: might be experiencing something like that, that is waking up
Speaker 2: on a Monday with a week ahead that looks exciting,
Speaker 2: but they're having a hard time getting excited about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well what do you say to those people? I understand,
Speaker 4: I've been there, I still go there from time to time.
Speaker 4: It's okay, first of all, and if you put in
Speaker 4: just little bits effort, right, We've talked about this.
Speaker 5: Getting outside helps both of us. Just finding the.
Speaker 4: Energy to get outside and go for a mosie. Doesn't
Speaker 4: even have to be a walk, just like a mosie.
Speaker 4: Something about the green and the sunlight like helps me.
Speaker 4: Sitting on a bench, you know, I love to find
Speaker 4: a good park bench and just watching the world go
Speaker 4: by helps me. It doesn't help everybody connecting with a friend.
Speaker 4: And I think one of the really important things is
Speaker 4: sometimes when we're in those spaces, it's hard to reach out, right.
Speaker 4: So if you have somebody in your life that you
Speaker 4: think is dealing with this, reach out to them. Don't
Speaker 4: think you're bugging them, and know that you may not
Speaker 4: get a response. But I cannot tell you how many
Speaker 4: I still have texts from friends who simply said, thinking
Speaker 4: about you, Kate, I can't wait to see you again soon,
Speaker 4: And they don't know that that got me out of
Speaker 4: an incredibly difficult moment, those words, Hey, I'm thinking about you.
Speaker 5: I matter to somebody.
Speaker 4: Wow, Okay, I'm going to get up and put on
Speaker 4: my clothes and go to shoot around.
Speaker 5: I can do this today.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's it's difficult. We can all get through
Speaker 4: it together. Whatever helps make you a little bit happier,
Speaker 4: if it's getting outside, if it's getting that cup of coffee,
Speaker 4: if it's listening to.
Speaker 5: That song or talking to that one friend.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what are I mean?
Speaker 5: Is it getting outside for you too?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely. So it's twofold. It's going outside.
Speaker 2: My problems don't seem as heavy to me when I'm outside.
Speaker 3: And when i'm moving, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: And then secondarily, though, as you mentioned, when getting outside
Speaker 2: isn't moving the needle for you, understanding what does for me?
Speaker 3: That was therapy for me.
Speaker 2: I was really blessed to access it at a young
Speaker 2: age and then need to return to it. Right it's
Speaker 2: way too inaccessible and that's why it's important. When you
Speaker 2: give me the floor, I'm gonna say that we need
Speaker 2: to do some work on completely agree making it more accessible,
Speaker 2: and that there's no shame in deciding to do it
Speaker 2: for women, for men who really struggle looking for these things.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think. And I'll just end with this.
Speaker 4: Tormimoniscus got hit by a car that was traveling forty
Speaker 4: miles an hour, moved across the country to get this
Speaker 4: sixer's job. People all over the world hate me and
Speaker 4: they don't even know me. The hardest thing I've ever
Speaker 4: done was asked for help because I thought it was
Speaker 4: quitting when it was actually the bravest thing I've ever done.
Speaker 4: Because I don't know if I'd be here having this
Speaker 4: conversation right now if I hadn't so on.
Speaker 2: Behalf of a former kid that really needed to hear
Speaker 2: what you just shared thank you. I think it's really
Speaker 2: important that folks in positions like yours are providing representation. Obviously,
Speaker 2: some of it jumps off the page for you being
Speaker 2: the first woman to do what you're doing in multiple realms,
Speaker 2: speaking about mental health, speaking about finding your wife and
Speaker 2: what it's meant to be gay and from California and
Speaker 2: a woman like not just about pow right coming into
Speaker 2: this space. So for that community that you represent with
Speaker 2: so much grace, where does that fit into your life today?
Speaker 3: And what do you say to that group of people
Speaker 3: that appreciate you so much?
Speaker 4: Well, you know, we've known each other for three years now.
Speaker 4: I'm looking around the room, known everybody in here for
Speaker 4: a while now, and I mean, it's just a part
Speaker 4: of who I am. Right, It's not a big deal
Speaker 4: because it's one of the things that I have learned
Speaker 4: over the years. If you lead with it and just
Speaker 4: make it a part of your normal from the start,
Speaker 4: then everybody again can have their own reactions. But it's
Speaker 4: not like it is what it's it's not breaking news.
Speaker 4: It's like, Okay, she has blonde hair, she's from California,
Speaker 4: she wears a lot of pumas, and like she's gay.
Speaker 2: So it's just there's plenty of other things I would
Speaker 2: say about you to be there, okay, but those things
Speaker 2: you experience too much.
Speaker 4: But also I learned a number of years ago that
Speaker 4: if I just made I get one of those things,
Speaker 4: then again, people can process it on their own if
Speaker 4: they need to do any processing.
Speaker 5: But a lot of people don't at this point.
Speaker 4: But when I came out to my parents over twenty
Speaker 4: years ago, now I'll get ing up there, my mom
Speaker 4: started crying and I was like, oh crap.
Speaker 5: I thought she knew.
Speaker 4: I thought she was getting me supportive. Why she crying?
Speaker 5: And it was my junior year in college and she said, no,
Speaker 5: I'm not crying. I knew.
Speaker 4: I knew the friend you brought home for Christmas wasn't
Speaker 4: your roommate.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, good job. Mom.
Speaker 4: She said, I'm just so scared for you, Kate, because
Speaker 4: you're already trying to be a woman in sports.
Speaker 5: And again this was two thousand.
Speaker 4: She's like, there's so few women and can you name anybody,
Speaker 4: man or woman in any broadcasting job who's gay?
Speaker 5: And I paused and.
Speaker 4: I thought, wow, I mean I know some who are,
Speaker 4: but at that time they weren't out, and I just said, no, Mom,
Speaker 4: I don't. She just said, I'm so scared for you.
Speaker 4: It's already going to be hard. Are you sure that
Speaker 4: you want to make it that much harder? And I
Speaker 4: didn't know at the time, because you know, I was
Speaker 4: young and thought I was going to conquer the world
Speaker 4: and had no idea that I would be here, but
Speaker 4: hoped that one day I would be in a space
Speaker 4: like this.
Speaker 5: But that conversation taught me, Hey, if I ever get to.
Speaker 4: A place where I have a platform like this, where
Speaker 4: I'm confident in my abilities, where I know that everybody
Speaker 4: I love and respect knows that I got this job
Speaker 4: because I'm really good at it, then I would love
Speaker 4: to use this platform to show the rest of my
Speaker 4: community they can do this too, because again, I have
Speaker 4: the best job in the world, So why not use
Speaker 4: it to lift up other people, to show other people
Speaker 4: who maybe thought that they couldn't do something like this
Speaker 4: that they can. So, yeah, I think you've probably noticed
Speaker 4: over the last six months, I've become more out open.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: Went to Pride this past summer with the Sixers.
Speaker 5: Contingent, which was wonderful for me.
Speaker 4: Because now I feel like I've proven to enough people
Speaker 4: I'm a play by play announcer who also happens to
Speaker 4: be all these other things.
Speaker 5: So I'm gonna hopefully, as I feel comfortable, lean.
Speaker 4: More into those things and do what I can to
Speaker 4: lift the other parts of me and communities that I
Speaker 4: represent up.
Speaker 2: As you continue to lift different groups of people up,
Speaker 2: as we come to a close on the blueprint presented
Speaker 2: by JKJ, I want you to speak directly to some
Speaker 2: of those groups.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, so let's start with the kids.
Speaker 3: That watch you at home, young, my kids, anyone that's
Speaker 3: watching six sixers as a kid.
Speaker 2: Who are going to grow up with memories of what
Speaker 2: it was like to watch Joel and Tyrese and Paul
Speaker 2: George play together, and they're going to associate those memories
Speaker 2: with your voice.
Speaker 3: Not just those kids the kids that are going to
Speaker 3: be playing Madden over.
Speaker 2: The next few years decades of time that are going
Speaker 2: to hear your voice there.
Speaker 3: What do you hope that they know?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: Wow, Well, like I've said a ton of times, this
Speaker 4: is the best job in the world. But I think
Speaker 4: you see it often with athletes or musicians where it's like, oh,
Speaker 4: the overnight success. No, I've worked six to seven days
Speaker 4: a week for twenty plus years now, and nights and
Speaker 4: weekends and holidays, and as I mentioned, birthdays on the
Speaker 4: other side of the country and freezing temperatures.
Speaker 5: To get the coolest looking.
Speaker 4: Jobs, you have to work really hard in the dark
Speaker 4: for a number of years. You know. Years ago, I
Speaker 4: flew across the country, stayed on my friend's couch because
Speaker 4: I had gotten a ten minute meeting at NBC in Stanford, Connecticut,
Speaker 4: borrowed my friend's car because I didn't realize I could
Speaker 4: take a train to Stanford, went up there simply to
Speaker 4: shake somebody's hand. Because I was living in California, most
Speaker 4: of the games I was calling were at eight o'clock
Speaker 4: Pacific time, and I knew that everybody back here was
Speaker 4: just and I just said, thank you so much for
Speaker 4: making time today.
Speaker 5: I'm Kate Scott.
Speaker 4: I just wanted you to put a face and maybe
Speaker 4: a little personality to a name that, hopefully, over the
Speaker 4: next few years you'll be reading as I make my
Speaker 4: way up on the West coast. And he was dumbfounded.
Speaker 4: He was like, wait, you didn't come here to ask
Speaker 4: for a job. I was like, no, I mean down
Speaker 4: the road I hope to call the Olympics for NBC,
Speaker 4: but I know that in order to do that, I
Speaker 4: need to introduce myself to you, prove myself on NBC
Speaker 4: affiliates on the West Coast, and just keep working hard.
Speaker 4: And he was like, oh, okay, and then we talked
Speaker 4: about his daughter's soccer team for a while, again because
Speaker 4: just making an impression. Two weeks later, I got the
Speaker 4: call from them, Hey, we have some A ten women's
Speaker 4: basketball games. Can you fit that in between your Pac
Speaker 4: twelve schedule? And the answer was no, but my answer
Speaker 4: was yes, Yeah, where do you need me, Let's go.
Speaker 4: So I used every flight to prep for the different games.
Speaker 4: I was covering four different leagues at that point, men's
Speaker 4: and women's college, but it was so many names and teams,
Speaker 4: and again, I don't know how I did it, but
Speaker 4: now that I'm here, those moments propel me on the
Speaker 4: tough weeks where we've got four games in six days,
Speaker 4: And because of that, a few years later, they asked
Speaker 4: me to call a hockey game for the first time
Speaker 4: because they trusted me, they knew I was a play
Speaker 4: by play announcer. They had faith in me, and that
Speaker 4: led to the Olympics. So I think this was a
Speaker 4: really long way of telling kids, these are the most
Speaker 4: incredible jobs, and it can be in any industry, not
Speaker 4: just in sports, but usually the coolest jobs. It takes
Speaker 4: really hard, consistent work to get there. And that's why
Speaker 4: one of my favorite sayings is, little by little one
Speaker 4: walks far. You know, the old saying was there's no
Speaker 4: elevator to success, which is another play on it, but
Speaker 4: one step out of time from traffic reporting to siline reporting,
Speaker 4: to hosting, to anchoring, into calling high school sports to
Speaker 4: calling college sports, calling men's college sports, to hear. And
Speaker 4: I wouldn't have it any other way because now I
Speaker 4: have such an incredible army behind me rooting me on
Speaker 4: because they know that I put in the work. I
Speaker 4: didn't luck into this, I didn't have somebody that helped
Speaker 4: me get this job.
Speaker 5: I earned it.
Speaker 4: So and there's nothing sweeter than that. I don't think, so.
Speaker 5: Little by little one walks far. And you always know
Speaker 5: my other saying, just.
Speaker 4: Be you and do the work. Wake up every day,
Speaker 4: figure out a way to be yourself because nobody else can,
Speaker 4: and then put in the work and it's going to
Speaker 4: take you far and far.
Speaker 2: Now, is Philadelphia, and I can tell you for sure.
Speaker 2: We've talked to children. There are so many adults in
Speaker 2: the city of Philadelphia that would love to have a
Speaker 2: beer with you.
Speaker 4: I do it. Let us do it.
Speaker 3: Let's just face them out at games the way people
Speaker 3: see you walking up to the booth.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, it's kids. Got Okay?
Speaker 3: Do you want some of my beer? Like crazy?
Speaker 4: Yes, the answer is yes, but I probably shouldn't on
Speaker 4: game day.
Speaker 3: So, because you can't always have a beer with everybody
Speaker 3: in this city.
Speaker 4: That wants to, Let's figure out a way to do
Speaker 4: that though.
Speaker 2: What's your message to grown people that have embraced you
Speaker 2: now that want.
Speaker 4: To know you better.
Speaker 5: Well, first of all, thank you.
Speaker 4: That means more than any of you will know, because
Speaker 4: this is the hardest sports town in America and probably
Speaker 4: one of the hardest in the world.
Speaker 5: But truly thank you because I know that I was
Speaker 5: such a change for so many.
Speaker 4: It was a change for me. I grew up listening
Speaker 4: to men call sports. I think that speaks to what
Speaker 4: incredible people they are. To My favorite messages, and I
Speaker 4: posted some of them are the past year or two.
Speaker 5: I hated you at first. Oh, I wanted you to
Speaker 5: go back to California.
Speaker 4: You were the worst. I'd never heard a chick.
Speaker 5: I don't know where this voice is coming from, but
Speaker 5: there it is.
Speaker 3: That's probably what they sound like in their basements.
Speaker 5: Yep, that's what I imagine.
Speaker 4: But I gave you time and this one game and
Speaker 4: this one play, and my friend told me I was
Speaker 4: a jerk, so I started listening again. And now I
Speaker 4: can't watch a game without your energy, like it just
Speaker 4: makes me so happy. I get so pissed when you
Speaker 4: and all aren't calling games in the playoffs, and so
Speaker 4: just thank you for giving this new and different who
Speaker 4: is me a chance because I know that it was
Speaker 4: a lot. Your support now means everything to me, and
Speaker 4: just you wait, we're just getting started. We're going to
Speaker 4: be one of the best in the NBA very soon,
Speaker 4: one of the best broadcasters across all sports very soon.
Speaker 4: And a lot of it is because of you all
Speaker 4: and the sport that you have given me in the
Speaker 4: inspiration and motivation you give me.
Speaker 5: Every day to be the best, because Philly is the
Speaker 5: best and I love being here.
Speaker 2: You mentioned Beth Mowens as someone that you found to
Speaker 2: set a blueprint for you when you were around twenty
Speaker 2: one years old, the exact same age Tyrese Maxie was
Speaker 2: when he found you as a.
Speaker 3: Blue print before a career.
Speaker 2: Yes, said, junior in college, so unless you were wad
Speaker 2: or way behind.
Speaker 4: It was on my twenty first birthday. I celebrated by
Speaker 4: coming out to.
Speaker 2: My parents'ctacular and watching Beth Mowens, who has now become
Speaker 2: a friend.
Speaker 3: So what I want to know for the last group
Speaker 3: that I.
Speaker 2: Hope that you'll share a message with to the women
Speaker 2: that came before you, what do you want to say
Speaker 2: to them?
Speaker 5: Oh? Wow, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4: I am not here without you. And I laugh when
Speaker 4: people say, oh ye have it's so hard. I saw
Speaker 4: those mean tweets that people sent you, and I just
Speaker 4: start laughing because I'm like, bro, you have no idea.
Speaker 4: People have no idea what Beth and Leslie and Andrew
Speaker 4: and Claire Smith and Susie and Susan Waldman and so
Speaker 4: many of my mentors went through. The people they were
Speaker 4: simply trying to cover were literally spitting in their faces
Speaker 4: and telling them to go away just for doing their jobs.
Speaker 4: And that was twenty five years ago.
Speaker 5: Was not that long.
Speaker 4: So their support of me now it again. It gives
Speaker 4: me the chills because I am not here having this
Speaker 4: conversation calling Sixers games without them. They are the blueprint.
Speaker 4: They were ahead of their time. They haven't gotten nearly
Speaker 4: the shine that they should have that I am now
Speaker 4: getting because of them.
Speaker 5: So I try every day to work my.
Speaker 4: Tail off to make them proud and to shout them
Speaker 4: out because I'm not here without them.
Speaker 2: They can call you anything they want, but they can't
Speaker 2: say you're not grateful, that you're not a hard worker,
Speaker 2: and that you're not one of simply the best people
Speaker 2: to have a conversation with you. So I hope that
Speaker 2: everybody enjoys this as.
Speaker 3: Much as I enjoyed too chatting with you. Kate Scott,
Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us on the Blueprint presented by
Speaker 3: JKJ