Nate Bukaty

I've got a voice for them.

I'm not sure they're great, but I try to do the voices for all the characters.

I did not do that in this book.

Well, I mean, everybody I talked to said that if you want to make a lot of money on a very small amount of work, writing a book is the way to go.

If you're trying to maximize the outcome and minimize the input, it's a really good investment.

Literally every author I talk to is like, I hope you're not looking to make money off this.

I'm just going to put that out there right off the bat.

Is that what it is?

Right, yeah.

I spent a lot of time on planes these days, and so I spent a lot of time thinking on planes.

And last April, I was... Look, the last few years leading up to this World Cup, most of my...

emotional and mental energy when it comes to work stuff has been trying to figure out how I can best maximize what's about to happen here for the city, for myself, for everybody involved.

How can I be as big of a part of it as possible?

And how can I contribute to

two things that are really important to me, which are this town and the sport of soccer that I love a lot.

And so I was thinking about those things, and I was just thinking about what an incredible underdog story it was.

And honestly, I remember the day that we made, that the announcement was made that Kansas City was getting the World Cup.

I was hosting that watch party, and I went on the air with you afterwards, and you were the one that pointed out the statistic that

All 10 of the other American markets that got picked were top 15 media markets and that we're like market 33.

And so I was just thinking like everybody loves an underdog story.