Nate Bukaty

And I also was thinking a lot about how with what I do for a living now, I work with all of these soccer commentators from they're from all over the world and they don't know anything about Kansas City.

And when they come here for a game, I would ask them, hey, what did you think of the town?

Because we compare notes on the city we go to.

And honestly, the answer was kind of sad.

It was like, meh, it's fine.

The stadium was nice.

And so I would say, well, what did you do?

Well, got to the airport, went to the hotel.

Kind of a long drive.

Went to the stadium.

Kind of a long drive.

Stadium was really nice.

Went back to the hotel and flew home.

And I thought, well, if that's your experience with Kansas City, it is kind of a meh experience.

But if you have somebody to kind of take you by the hand and show you around a little bit,

You go, wait a second.

This place is 100 times cooler than I ever thought.

And I don't like the idea of people coming here for this World Cup and having that first experience.

You don't get the flavor.

Yeah, and so I thought, well...