WEBVTT - The Blueprint | Kate Scott, Episode 1 0:00:49.259 --> 0:00:51.779 I'm Tari's Mexi and you're listening to the seventy six 0:00:51.859 --> 0:00:53.419 Ers Insider's podcast. 0:00:53.699 --> 0:00:56.619 This podcast is part of the seventy six Ers podcast network, 0:00:56.659 --> 0:00:58.379 presented by Stern and Cohen Law. 0:00:58.299 --> 0:01:01.299 Search seventy six Ers Insiders wherever you get your podcasts. 0:01:01.659 --> 0:01:04.419 Suffering an injury at work can cause physical pain, but 0:01:04.499 --> 0:01:07.659 also great uncertainty about your rights. You need to retain 0:01:07.699 --> 0:01:10.419 a worker's compensation law firm that is a winner like 0:01:10.499 --> 0:01:13.379 our sixers, a firm that gets some of the best settlements, 0:01:13.459 --> 0:01:15.539 but is also willing to go toe to toe with 0:01:15.659 --> 0:01:19.379 the insurance company. No settling on the cheap. This is Philly. 0:01:19.539 --> 0:01:21.939 We have grit and fight in us. 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Kate. 0:02:01.699 --> 0:02:03.979 Let's dive all the way into this career that you've 0:02:03.979 --> 0:02:07.259 built and Kate, folks that are watching this probably recognize 0:02:07.259 --> 0:02:09.819 you as the Sixers play by play announcer. Maybe we 0:02:09.859 --> 0:02:11.979 are now a few years into that journey and you've 0:02:11.979 --> 0:02:15.539 become just beloved in this city, But it wasn't necessarily 0:02:15.579 --> 0:02:18.899 always like that. Can you take us through the journey though, 0:02:18.939 --> 0:02:21.819 of how quickly you've gone from people saying okay, who's 0:02:21.859 --> 0:02:25.379 this to beloved by so many in this city. 0:02:25.979 --> 0:02:26.779 Does it feel quick? 0:02:27.619 --> 0:02:28.979 I mean, listen, it feels. 0:02:28.779 --> 0:02:31.379 Quick to me based on how far you've come and 0:02:32.099 --> 0:02:34.259 people in the city pulling you aside to take photos 0:02:34.299 --> 0:02:36.059 and loving you so much. So what does it feel 0:02:36.099 --> 0:02:37.259 like to be adored in this way? 0:02:37.339 --> 0:02:40.179 Looking at the journey again? Well, you know me, miss 0:02:40.259 --> 0:02:41.899 ros and I'll try to call you Laurence throughout this 0:02:42.059 --> 0:02:45.099 fine miss Rose, even though that's my nickname for you. 0:02:45.899 --> 0:02:48.779 But it's interesting in that it feels like it is 0:02:49.059 --> 0:02:52.099 in a really long time since I got here, and 0:02:52.139 --> 0:02:55.179 I have had to work like crazy to get better 0:02:55.219 --> 0:02:57.499 at my craft, which I think has allowed people to 0:02:57.579 --> 0:03:00.179 then open themselves up to me and being the team's 0:03:00.179 --> 0:03:04.219 play by play announcer, and then I guess, as you said, 0:03:04.379 --> 0:03:06.019 like it has also happened a lot faster. 0:03:06.099 --> 0:03:07.579 I gave myself three years. 0:03:07.739 --> 0:03:10.619 I knew that from the outside looking in and now 0:03:10.659 --> 0:03:14.699 being here, that Philly is the most intense, incredible sports 0:03:14.739 --> 0:03:17.259 city in the country, hands down. I'm saying that not 0:03:17.379 --> 0:03:21.539 because I'm biased, just because I've been everyplace else, and 0:03:21.579 --> 0:03:23.739 I knew because of that it was going to be 0:03:23.739 --> 0:03:25.739 the hardest to win over. So I give myself three 0:03:25.779 --> 0:03:29.379 years because I knew I represented so many things, not 0:03:29.419 --> 0:03:32.179 only a change from a legend in Mark zoom Off, 0:03:32.779 --> 0:03:36.419 but a woman from California, like so many things that 0:03:36.459 --> 0:03:39.539 so many of our fans had never had in. 0:03:39.579 --> 0:03:40.899 Any of the sports they watched. 0:03:41.299 --> 0:03:43.779 So I just said, hey, be patient, keep going to 0:03:43.779 --> 0:03:47.499 work every day, and hopefully you'll win people over along 0:03:47.499 --> 0:03:47.739 the way. 0:03:47.779 --> 0:03:49.579 Because I say this to you all the time. 0:03:49.699 --> 0:03:51.459 You can't tell people to support you, you can't tell 0:03:51.499 --> 0:03:53.419 people to love you. You have to just give them 0:03:53.419 --> 0:03:55.539 the space to do that and hope that they come around. 0:03:56.379 --> 0:03:58.579 So yeah, it's pretty great to be where we are today. 0:03:58.699 --> 0:04:00.739 For those that might not remember, what were those first 0:04:00.739 --> 0:04:02.299 few months like for you? 0:04:04.859 --> 0:04:06.219 They were incredibly difficult. 0:04:06.379 --> 0:04:08.699 And it wasn't just the first few months, I'd say 0:04:08.699 --> 0:04:12.299 the first four to five months. And on top of 0:04:12.539 --> 0:04:15.539 just the huge change. Obviously it was the biggest job 0:04:15.579 --> 0:04:19.259 of my career, but it was in still in the 0:04:19.259 --> 0:04:21.779 midst of a pandemic, so all the things that I 0:04:21.819 --> 0:04:24.099 think would have helped me transition a little bit faster, 0:04:24.259 --> 0:04:26.619 being able to spend time around the players and the coaches, 0:04:26.659 --> 0:04:28.899 getting to travel with the team. I was calling all 0:04:28.899 --> 0:04:31.259 the road games off monitor. I wasn't able to interact 0:04:31.299 --> 0:04:33.499 with fans, so I was just kind of this new 0:04:34.139 --> 0:04:38.659 that felt very removed from everything, including the fans, which 0:04:38.859 --> 0:04:41.859 was challenging. All my sports system was still back on 0:04:41.899 --> 0:04:45.139 the West Coast. It was it was the challenge I 0:04:45.219 --> 0:04:47.059 knew it would be, but then there was added layers 0:04:47.099 --> 0:04:51.099 to it. But I think I'm nothing if not incredibly 0:04:51.099 --> 0:04:54.619 mentally tough and resilient and gritty, and all of those 0:04:54.659 --> 0:04:56.459 things got me here to Philly. 0:04:57.059 --> 0:04:58.619 So I just said, Okay. 0:04:59.579 --> 0:05:01.379 It's time to double down on all the things you 0:05:01.499 --> 0:05:04.659 know that you possess and got you here and just 0:05:04.859 --> 0:05:07.939 keep going to work day after day. And yeah, those 0:05:07.939 --> 0:05:10.579 first four or five months were incredibly tough, but prepare 0:05:10.579 --> 0:05:14.699 me for things that I'm doing now. So I'm now 0:05:14.699 --> 0:05:18.139 in retrospect really grateful that people were incredibly awful to 0:05:18.179 --> 0:05:21.619 me for a number of months because I got through that, 0:05:21.779 --> 0:05:23.859 and I know that I got through it. So now 0:05:23.859 --> 0:05:25.659 I'm just like, bring on, baby, what else you got? 0:05:25.899 --> 0:05:27.579 We talk to you and me about doing the work 0:05:27.619 --> 0:05:30.019 right and the work being as great as it's been. 0:05:30.099 --> 0:05:33.459 Is why people now have developed such a respect and 0:05:33.499 --> 0:05:35.299 a fondness for you. When you look at years one 0:05:35.299 --> 0:05:37.579 through three, what are the games that stand out? What 0:05:37.619 --> 0:05:39.899 are some of your favorite either memories of just being 0:05:39.939 --> 0:05:43.019 there or calling a special moment for one of your. 0:05:42.899 --> 0:05:43.579 Seventy six ers. 0:05:43.659 --> 0:05:45.939 Oh wow, well there were so many this year. 0:05:46.739 --> 0:05:48.299 But I think I'll flash back to the game that 0:05:48.339 --> 0:05:51.739 I think at least fans of our team have reflected 0:05:51.739 --> 0:05:55.499 to me was really the first game where they thought, oh, Okay, 0:05:55.539 --> 0:05:58.499 this chick can do this, And it was Joe wasn't playing, 0:05:59.139 --> 0:06:02.379 and Tyrese goes off and we're at the center right. 0:06:02.219 --> 0:06:06.659 And we're already gonna win. Because we're ahead, but it's. 0:06:06.579 --> 0:06:10.499 A chaotic possession on the defensive end for the Sixers. 0:06:10.539 --> 0:06:13.419 Mattis Sabel gets the ball, throws it up and Tyrese 0:06:13.539 --> 0:06:14.219 is just open. 0:06:14.379 --> 0:06:15.659 We're gonna win the game already. 0:06:16.899 --> 0:06:19.939 And that was at the end of January, so it 0:06:19.979 --> 0:06:23.299 had been October, November, December, so it was really like 0:06:23.899 --> 0:06:25.659 I had made it through what I just talked about, 0:06:25.779 --> 0:06:29.939 really a really difficult time, and I just said, efy, Kate, 0:06:30.099 --> 0:06:31.779 just let go, like stop. 0:06:31.619 --> 0:06:33.499 Trying to be something or someone. 0:06:34.099 --> 0:06:37.939 Just let him hear you, and you know, Sam's really 0:06:37.979 --> 0:06:42.419 gonna win this game. Tyrese maxon And the response was 0:06:42.459 --> 0:06:45.419 overwhelming after that game, like, oh, this girl can do this, 0:06:45.739 --> 0:06:49.299 Like that's the passion. Okay, I see why we hire her. 0:06:50.219 --> 0:06:52.379 So that was just a great moment for me as 0:06:52.419 --> 0:06:55.979 well to learn because I think being another, being one 0:06:56.019 --> 0:06:59.859 of one, one of two, and what I do. It's 0:06:59.939 --> 0:07:03.619 so hard to be yourself because nobody else looks or 0:07:03.659 --> 0:07:04.219 sounds like me. 0:07:04.299 --> 0:07:05.739 So even though I know being myself is. 0:07:05.739 --> 0:07:08.179 What got me here, every day there's things telling me, 0:07:08.219 --> 0:07:10.699 but don't be that much yourself, Like I don't know, 0:07:10.739 --> 0:07:14.259 maybe hold that part of k back. But that was 0:07:14.299 --> 0:07:17.099 a moment that said, no, just lean into you and 0:07:17.139 --> 0:07:19.259 be you and do it. So that was from your 0:07:19.339 --> 0:07:25.219 one And then you know this year Joe scored seventy 0:07:25.259 --> 0:07:30.059 points on the day that Kobe had his day, you know, 0:07:30.659 --> 0:07:34.259 a decade plus earlier, Tyrese going for career high after 0:07:34.339 --> 0:07:36.419 career high, taking us to overtime. 0:07:36.019 --> 0:07:37.179 Down in San Antonio. 0:07:38.779 --> 0:07:40.259 And then the last one, you know, Game five at 0:07:40.299 --> 0:07:42.779 Madison Square Garden with Tyree's hitting the logo three. And 0:07:42.819 --> 0:07:45.539 I'm sitting here thinking, first of all, how did I 0:07:45.579 --> 0:07:47.979 get here? Like this is incredible. I'm sitting at mid 0:07:47.979 --> 0:07:50.779 court at Madison Square. Guar and Breen and doors are 0:07:50.859 --> 0:07:53.179 right next to me, like Clyde Frasier and Kenny Albert 0:07:53.219 --> 0:07:53.619 around there. 0:07:53.779 --> 0:07:57.979 This place is ready to explode, and I'm. 0:07:57.859 --> 0:08:02.419 Getting paid to be here. This is incredible. So those 0:08:02.459 --> 0:08:04.219 are a few of the moments that are going to 0:08:04.259 --> 0:08:07.299 stand out to me. And I just again, I'm pinching myself. 0:08:07.339 --> 0:08:08.219 Then I'm talking about it with. 0:08:08.259 --> 0:08:08.779 You right now. 0:08:09.259 --> 0:08:12.099 You mentioned how did I get here? Sitting courtside at 0:08:12.139 --> 0:08:15.259 Madison Square Garden. So for those that haven't followed your career, 0:08:16.339 --> 0:08:19.059 how did you get from Clovis, California? 0:08:19.219 --> 0:08:19.819 Look at you. 0:08:20.459 --> 0:08:24.059 Oh I am well very shout out to Seato Central California. 0:08:24.099 --> 0:08:24.979 I know everything there is to know. 0:08:25.179 --> 0:08:28.219 But for those who don't, how do you get from Clovis, 0:08:28.259 --> 0:08:31.939 California in your youth to here in Philadelphia in your prime. 0:08:34.339 --> 0:08:38.139 You have family and friends who have from the time 0:08:38.179 --> 0:08:39.939 when you were young told you you could do and 0:08:39.979 --> 0:08:44.699 be anything, which planted the seed in me that I 0:08:44.699 --> 0:08:49.619 could do and be anything. And then time and time again, 0:08:50.059 --> 0:08:52.419 I went up to people who were doing jobs that 0:08:52.499 --> 0:08:55.499 I wanted to do and was told, woman's never done 0:08:55.539 --> 0:08:59.139 this before. I don't know, woman's never done I said, okay, cool, 0:08:59.139 --> 0:09:01.819 can I try? And then I tried, and then I 0:09:01.939 --> 0:09:03.339 learned how to do it and got better at it. 0:09:03.579 --> 0:09:06.619 There's so many jobs, but you know, a quick summary 0:09:06.699 --> 0:09:09.179 is I was literally a sideline reporter for every team 0:09:09.179 --> 0:09:09.979 in the Bay Area. 0:09:10.219 --> 0:09:12.219 I mean, Lauren laughs at me. 0:09:12.259 --> 0:09:14.219 At this point. I started as a radio traffic reporter 0:09:14.499 --> 0:09:15.939 and did that for five years. 0:09:16.019 --> 0:09:16.779 Out of college. 0:09:16.899 --> 0:09:18.819 I knew that sports was what I wanted to do. 0:09:18.859 --> 0:09:20.579 But so many people want to do this. It's the 0:09:20.579 --> 0:09:22.579 candy shop of life. You want to get paid to 0:09:22.619 --> 0:09:25.619 cover sports? Yeah, there's eight billion other people who want 0:09:25.659 --> 0:09:28.299 to do that, So I had to work my tailoff. 0:09:28.339 --> 0:09:30.539 I worked in radio. I worked in television for the 0:09:30.579 --> 0:09:32.459 PAC twelve network for NBC Bay Area. 0:09:32.659 --> 0:09:33.939 I was flying across the country. 0:09:34.099 --> 0:09:37.419 I spent my wife's fortieth birthday at UMass in January. 0:09:37.539 --> 0:09:39.459 It was seventeen degrees there was one hundred people in 0:09:39.459 --> 0:09:42.179 the gym. I was calling an E ten women's basketball game. 0:09:42.179 --> 0:09:44.339 But I knew that if I wanted to call the Olympics. 0:09:44.379 --> 0:09:47.659 One day, NBC had the Olympics and they needed a 0:09:47.739 --> 0:09:50.259 voice to call their eighten women basketball package. And I said, 0:09:50.299 --> 0:09:52.259 I will fly across the country in the middle of 0:09:52.339 --> 0:09:54.499 January and then take a red eye, you know, back 0:09:54.539 --> 0:09:57.979 to get back to call a PAC twelve game. So 0:09:58.379 --> 0:10:02.899 long story long, I have worked my tail off for 0:10:02.979 --> 0:10:06.499 almost two decades because I love what I do and 0:10:06.539 --> 0:10:08.459 I always want to get better. So it was just 0:10:08.659 --> 0:10:11.499 can I try learn how to do it, learn how 0:10:11.499 --> 0:10:13.459 to become the best at it? Okay, what's next, Let's 0:10:13.499 --> 0:10:15.099 keep going, Let's keep challenging ourselves. 0:10:15.299 --> 0:10:17.259 You say what's next, And we're sitting here at a 0:10:17.259 --> 0:10:19.619 good time to talk about what's next for you? Because 0:10:19.619 --> 0:10:22.179 for those that might not be aware, Kate Scott, the 0:10:22.259 --> 0:10:25.739 new voice of Madden twenty five. That game coming out 0:10:26.019 --> 0:10:30.939 sometime around my voice of Madden too, sometime around this 0:10:31.139 --> 0:10:33.939 recording and release. For those that don't know, this has 0:10:33.939 --> 0:10:36.179 been a tedious process that started for you in twenty 0:10:36.299 --> 0:10:39.339 twenty two. You're in a booth alone a lot of 0:10:39.339 --> 0:10:42.419 the times, listing every single name of every single player 0:10:42.459 --> 0:10:45.899 that might play in the game this year, listing every team, 0:10:45.979 --> 0:10:48.659 listing every type of coverage and play. 0:10:49.059 --> 0:10:50.179 You breaking down the football. 0:10:50.379 --> 0:10:50.699 Thank you. 0:10:51.619 --> 0:10:54.019 How about you tell us though, what it's been like, 0:10:54.139 --> 0:10:57.579 from learning the news, to keeping the secret, to executing 0:10:57.619 --> 0:11:00.059 and now getting to see yourself as part of such 0:11:00.059 --> 0:11:01.019 an incredible project. 0:11:01.139 --> 0:11:03.499 It's been so freaking cool. 0:11:04.579 --> 0:11:07.019 I mean, I'm an old head, so I played the 0:11:07.059 --> 0:11:10.499 original iterations of Madden way back in the day when 0:11:10.619 --> 0:11:12.859 John Madden was actually one of the voices, and they 0:11:12.899 --> 0:11:16.939 recorded like fifty lines, so there was very little commentary 0:11:17.019 --> 0:11:20.499 in the game. But since then, I've obviously grown up 0:11:20.499 --> 0:11:22.299 in Football is one of the other sports I call 0:11:22.339 --> 0:11:25.739 in addition of basketball, and it is such an ingrained 0:11:25.859 --> 0:11:29.459 part of the culture that football players say. I learned 0:11:29.699 --> 0:11:32.219 how to play defense by playing Madden when I was 0:11:32.219 --> 0:11:32.899 in high school. 0:11:33.139 --> 0:11:33.699 Have players. 0:11:33.739 --> 0:11:38.579 Now. My recent Seahawks preseason broadcast referenced, oh, that was 0:11:38.579 --> 0:11:40.859 a hit stick hit, Well, that's like a perfect hit 0:11:40.899 --> 0:11:43.179 in Madden game. So it is such a part of 0:11:43.219 --> 0:11:47.819 the vocabin culture of football throughout the world. It's a 0:11:47.899 --> 0:11:52.019 huge deal. And I knew that I was again gonna 0:11:52.019 --> 0:11:53.339 be the first. I knew there was gonna be a 0:11:53.339 --> 0:11:56.539 lot of eyes and ears just waiting for it to 0:11:56.579 --> 0:11:57.979 be bad, waiting. 0:11:57.659 --> 0:11:59.339 For them not to like it. 0:11:59.459 --> 0:12:01.939 So I am so thankful to the team at EA 0:12:02.179 --> 0:12:04.419 and the specific team at Madden that I've been working with. 0:12:04.779 --> 0:12:08.699 From our first recording early December twenty twenty two, we said, 0:12:08.819 --> 0:12:10.779 let's blow the roof off this thing. Let's work our 0:12:10.859 --> 0:12:13.379 asses off. I want you to critique me as hard 0:12:13.419 --> 0:12:16.539 as you can. Let's get every single line as close 0:12:16.579 --> 0:12:18.939 to perfect as possible, and then once we hear them 0:12:18.979 --> 0:12:20.939 in the game, if they're not, let's rerecord them. And 0:12:20.939 --> 0:12:22.939 that's where we are now, over one hundred and sixty 0:12:22.979 --> 0:12:25.339 five hours and counting up another session this afternoon. 0:12:26.699 --> 0:12:28.179 But we don't want it to be good. 0:12:28.219 --> 0:12:30.979 We want it to be great so that people can't 0:12:31.019 --> 0:12:33.739 push back on the woman or the other any of 0:12:33.739 --> 0:12:36.819 that stuff. No the shick knows football. She's great at 0:12:36.819 --> 0:12:41.059 calling it, like, let's have a blast doing it. So 0:12:41.219 --> 0:12:43.819 it's and I've learned a ton as an announcer too, because, 0:12:43.859 --> 0:12:46.019 as you mentioned, like my job is to call what 0:12:46.059 --> 0:12:48.139 I see, but all of these recordings, we just have 0:12:48.179 --> 0:12:51.579 a script and we have context, so we kind of 0:12:51.819 --> 0:12:53.899 we know when the play is going to be firing 0:12:54.019 --> 0:12:55.539 in the game. But it is still so hard to 0:12:55.539 --> 0:12:58.259 replicate the emotion that I feel when I'm again City 0:12:58.299 --> 0:13:00.219 in mid quarter of Madison Square Garden and this is 0:13:00.299 --> 0:13:02.939 huge three at the end of a playoff game. You 0:13:03.019 --> 0:13:06.739 can't replicate that. You can try in a booth, but 0:13:07.619 --> 0:13:09.219 it's hard to walk in there and be like, okay, 0:13:09.219 --> 0:13:12.499 fourth quarter of the super Bowl, like let's go. So 0:13:12.579 --> 0:13:14.339 it's been a great learning process for me as a 0:13:14.379 --> 0:13:17.739 broadcaster to learn how to find that and create that 0:13:18.339 --> 0:13:19.299 without having the game. 0:13:19.419 --> 0:13:21.459 So yeah, it's been incredible. 0:13:21.019 --> 0:13:23.019 And certainly good practice for the Super Bowls that you're 0:13:23.059 --> 0:13:24.939 going to call it live. 0:13:24.979 --> 0:13:27.619 Okay, okay, okay, maybe we'll see You said. 0:13:27.379 --> 0:13:28.979 In twenty twenty two you wanted to make it a 0:13:28.979 --> 0:13:34.259 perfect product, And this is what's someone important had to 0:13:34.259 --> 0:13:37.019 say about the product that you're creating from Sean Grady, 0:13:37.019 --> 0:13:40.379 the executive producer of Madden Oh Wow. Sean said, we 0:13:40.419 --> 0:13:43.179 were set on getting Kate on board for Madden twenty 0:13:43.179 --> 0:13:45.539 five because she's a rising star in sports broadcasting. 0:13:45.859 --> 0:13:46.739 We love what she's. 0:13:46.539 --> 0:13:48.299 Doing with the seventy six ers. It was important for 0:13:48.339 --> 0:13:51.099 us to bring a diverse voice to the game. As 0:13:51.179 --> 0:13:53.419 the first female commentary voice to call an NFL game 0:13:53.459 --> 0:13:56.659 on the radio. She came with the expertise and authenticity 0:13:56.699 --> 0:13:59.219 we were looking for and it's been a perfect fit. 0:14:00.139 --> 0:14:03.139 Expertise and authenticity dropped off the page for me. 0:14:03.459 --> 0:14:05.779 Where do those words hit you? 0:14:06.299 --> 0:14:08.899 Well, I'm just suppressed to you reached out to Sean. 0:14:10.419 --> 0:14:21.219 Great research five here, journalism, Yeah wow, I'm overwhelmed by that. 0:14:23.179 --> 0:14:25.619 You know me, those are things I strive to be 0:14:25.819 --> 0:14:31.899 every day. I know that if I'm an expert at 0:14:31.939 --> 0:14:32.899 the things that I'm calling. 0:14:33.819 --> 0:14:34.619 I say this a lot. 0:14:34.659 --> 0:14:36.899 But you can hate my voice, you can hate my face, 0:14:36.939 --> 0:14:38.899 you can hate that there's a woman that there's another 0:14:39.019 --> 0:14:39.699 call in your game. 0:14:39.779 --> 0:14:41.779 But somewhere inside. 0:14:41.499 --> 0:14:43.459 You're still gonna be like, Okay, but I didn't know 0:14:43.539 --> 0:14:44.739 that stat she just dropped. 0:14:44.779 --> 0:14:45.939 Okay, that was pretty good. 0:14:46.499 --> 0:14:49.379 So That's why I have always I'm always and I 0:14:49.459 --> 0:14:51.019 know that I probably will never get there, but I 0:14:51.059 --> 0:14:55.339 always strive for that expert so that at some point 0:14:55.739 --> 0:14:59.539 the hate will maybe dissipay. And then I've also learned 0:14:59.779 --> 0:15:03.179 that being authentic and vulnerable. Again, nobody can be me 0:15:03.339 --> 0:15:05.259 but me, and I know that that's one of the 0:15:05.259 --> 0:15:09.299 things that sets me apart, and some people seem to 0:15:09.339 --> 0:15:11.899 like that version of me. So I just keep going 0:15:11.939 --> 0:15:17.139 with it because again, I take things from the broadcasters 0:15:17.179 --> 0:15:19.219 that I respect, but then I have to put it 0:15:19.259 --> 0:15:21.499 in my own voice otherwise it's gonna sound fake and forced, right, 0:15:21.499 --> 0:15:23.379 And I know that that won't fly in Philly, and 0:15:23.539 --> 0:15:25.419 it's not gonna fly in Philly, it's not gonna fly anywhere. 0:15:25.459 --> 0:15:28.779 So uh yeah, that's wow. Thank you for sharing that 0:15:28.819 --> 0:15:29.059 with me. 0:15:29.419 --> 0:15:32.539 And they're not the only people that have already given 0:15:32.619 --> 0:15:34.499 some praise, like Kate Scott for her work on that 0:15:34.659 --> 0:15:37.899 in twenty five. Tyrese Maxi has also been a vocal 0:15:38.339 --> 0:15:40.459 is the best supporter of you and your work. So 0:15:40.539 --> 0:15:43.179 for those that don't know, he just saw a clip 0:15:43.219 --> 0:15:45.819 of what the game looked like, reposted it, called you 0:15:45.859 --> 0:15:48.899 the Goat. I haven't even seen this yet, what is 0:15:48.979 --> 0:15:51.539 does it mean to hear words like that from a 0:15:51.579 --> 0:15:54.659 person that's in the position that Tyrese is, Maybe in 0:15:54.699 --> 0:15:57.099 the context of now the years you guys have shared together. 0:15:57.299 --> 0:16:01.579 Yeah, man, you're just you're hitting me less and right 0:16:01.579 --> 0:16:06.019 of misrose and to give Kate her flowers. Know though 0:16:06.059 --> 0:16:11.099 that I'm almost more used to the criticy and the hate. 0:16:11.859 --> 0:16:13.579 I'm still uncomfortable getting compliments. 0:16:14.219 --> 0:16:16.179 Well, Tyrese Maxie, thank you. 0:16:17.699 --> 0:16:19.859 I think first and foremost, that speaks to who he is, 0:16:21.459 --> 0:16:25.219 the young man that his parents raised, because he's not 0:16:25.259 --> 0:16:28.019 on my payroll and he doesn't need to do that 0:16:29.699 --> 0:16:32.899 and we haven't even talked about this yet, So that's incredible, 0:16:32.939 --> 0:16:35.459 and I think speaks to who he is. And I 0:16:35.499 --> 0:16:38.179 think he already at such a young age, understands what 0:16:38.379 --> 0:16:42.619 his voice and his endorsement and his platform mean. And 0:16:42.659 --> 0:16:46.939 that means so much to me, because you know, you 0:16:47.459 --> 0:16:51.019 hope as a broadcaster that's somewhere along the line you're 0:16:51.059 --> 0:16:53.539 going to get to be the voice of a great 0:16:53.579 --> 0:16:58.099 team or a great player, a great moment. But the 0:16:58.139 --> 0:17:01.019 fact that I was lucky enough to arrive here right 0:17:01.259 --> 0:17:04.579 when the Tyrese Maxi train was leaving the station. I mean, 0:17:06.619 --> 0:17:08.139 I'm grateful for that every day. 0:17:08.219 --> 0:17:10.779 So I know that I'm just getting started. 0:17:10.819 --> 0:17:12.779 He's just getting started, and I can't wait to see 0:17:12.779 --> 0:17:13.419 where both of our. 0:17:13.419 --> 0:17:14.299 Journeys take us. 0:17:14.339 --> 0:17:16.859 One more question about Tyres as we transitioned back into 0:17:16.939 --> 0:17:19.939 your broadcasting career and the role model that you are 0:17:19.979 --> 0:17:22.619 to so many people. Tyree shared a story in that 0:17:22.659 --> 0:17:24.979 first season that you guys share together. You now have 0:17:25.099 --> 0:17:27.939 a really beautiful special relationship, I think with Tyree's but 0:17:27.979 --> 0:17:30.379 back then you were just the person that was calling 0:17:30.419 --> 0:17:33.499 the games when he was at home with covid or 0:17:33.619 --> 0:17:37.579 injured watching on TV, and he said, I loved Kate. 0:17:37.419 --> 0:17:39.339 From the jump. She does such a great job. 0:17:39.699 --> 0:17:42.499 I want to be like her in my career after 0:17:42.659 --> 0:17:44.859 my current career. This, of course, is twenty one year 0:17:44.859 --> 0:17:47.619 old Tyrese at this point and has talked sense about 0:17:47.619 --> 0:17:50.619 sometimes turning the volume down on other games and doing 0:17:50.659 --> 0:17:51.939 a Kate Scott impression. 0:17:52.059 --> 0:17:54.419 So we've talked about how special Tyres is to you, 0:17:54.459 --> 0:17:54.859 But just. 0:17:54.819 --> 0:17:57.899 To know that you're a role model for so many, 0:17:57.939 --> 0:18:01.459 not just young women, but young men in positions like his, 0:18:02.739 --> 0:18:03.739 what does that mean to you? 0:18:03.979 --> 0:18:06.699 Yeah? That's I mean, and you thankfully have brought this 0:18:06.739 --> 0:18:09.139 to my attention because I'm still it still blows my 0:18:09.219 --> 0:18:11.379 mind because I'm often asked, you know, what does it 0:18:11.459 --> 0:18:15.219 mean to inspire young women? And thankfully for this one's 0:18:15.259 --> 0:18:17.019 like hold up, hold up. But it's not just young women, 0:18:17.179 --> 0:18:21.779 it's not. And that is, over the last couple of 0:18:21.859 --> 0:18:27.619 years become one of the many incredible layers of what 0:18:27.699 --> 0:18:30.779 we're doing here because I never in a zillion years 0:18:30.859 --> 0:18:33.059 thought that that would happen. I didn't think that I 0:18:33.099 --> 0:18:37.459 would even be inspiring young women, let alone NBA players 0:18:37.459 --> 0:18:40.299 who are on their way to superstardom and other young 0:18:40.339 --> 0:18:43.339 men who come up to me at the games, because 0:18:43.499 --> 0:18:46.059 just the same way that Mark was the voice of 0:18:46.099 --> 0:18:50.019 so many generations of Sixers fans. And again it's hard 0:18:50.019 --> 0:18:51.979 for me to wrap my head around. I hope to 0:18:52.019 --> 0:18:55.259 have that opportunity to do that for everybody. And there's 0:18:55.299 --> 0:18:57.659 going to be women and men and everybody else, and 0:18:57.699 --> 0:19:00.899 it's just going to be, well, that's our Sixers announcer. 0:19:00.899 --> 0:19:03.419 It doesn't matter what she is or where she's from, 0:19:03.539 --> 0:19:04.459 but she's ours. 0:19:04.659 --> 0:19:06.139 So yeah, that's wild. 0:19:06.539 --> 0:19:10.299 When young men, women, everybody in Philly looks back at 0:19:10.379 --> 0:19:14.019 Joel Embiide's MVP campaign or the rise of Tyreese Maxie. 0:19:14.499 --> 0:19:16.019 Those highlights and I remind. 0:19:15.739 --> 0:19:17.419 You all outside I know are going. 0:19:17.419 --> 0:19:21.579 To be coupled with your voice. Yeah, so now I'm curious. 0:19:21.659 --> 0:19:24.779 The blueprint was born out of the idea that the 0:19:24.819 --> 0:19:28.539 people before us set a blueprint or a path for 0:19:28.659 --> 0:19:30.939 those of us to follow, right, those of us following 0:19:30.979 --> 0:19:33.579 to follow. Yeah, and you also leave one behind for 0:19:33.659 --> 0:19:37.299 the people that are following you. So for you when 0:19:37.339 --> 0:19:40.219