The Golden Retriever of Local News: Matt Howerton’s Wild Ride to WFAA | Matt Howerton

I love Jesse man. He is one of my favorite people in the industry. Yeah, like I don't think you can get better
than like a guy than Jesse because
But anyway, I just called Jesse and asked him if hey, would you be interested in doing this?
Yeah, sure
And came up and and I found out that
That in real life, he's everything that he seems like he is on TV's in a one like dude. Yeah, he is a 100% a one guy and
And I don't know man like I don't get along with anyone else better
At the station than I think because we both have the same humor. Yeah, it's just all self-depreciating
You know, let's make ourselves look incredibly small
I don't mind being the butt of a joke as long as it's low as mine, you know that sort of thing
So he's he's amazing. He's really fun and he's hot now. He's what wait. Jesse's hot now. Yeah, yeah, dude
He's smoking hot. I know. Yeah, I'm married, but I've you know. Oh, hey me too. I'll devourser. Yeah, Jesse. Why not? Yeah, I would too
He's gonna be way hot if he keeps going the way he's going
Yeah, he told me he's got a he's got a cool coach now that's been helping him out and stuff like that
So anyway, yeah, he's getting me one of those. Yeah, everybody everybody needs a
Tony Horton P90 X guy. Yeah, really darn remember that. Yeah, Billy blanks
Yeah, apparently that's back in style now
Oh, it's a big mic. Oh, okay. All right. Yeah, okay. Now I get it
All right, all right. Here's a tip for all these Americana league teams. Don't do it. You said tip. Yeah, okay, the peak. I would keep jamming
The ticket colon nothing but a big gen X jerk off
This is a little lighter what?
Well, somebody would hear that. I'm back
You guys know who we were talking about. I bet you don't
We were talking about Jesse O'Hila who's been on the show a number of times
Absolute jerk
Yes, man, I hate him
He owes me money man. I'm telling you just bust down our door like the cool a man
That was more macho man Randy Savage. Yeah, I got the idea. I'm Jesse O'Hila doing
News oh yeah
Yeah, he would have cropped a range. Oh, yeah
This weekend it's summer. I got kind of a savage. I got I got a bit of a macho man
It would have been amazing if that was your first time ever attempting that you just find this voice out of nowhere
Macho man just came out of nowhere. That's pretty good. I practice in the mirror every morning
And my wife wants to kill me that's understandable very much like go in there and stuff the wrestling stuff
Please get on the team half and 30s. He's dead. It happened 30 years ago
Anyway, we're talking about Jesse O'Hila because this guy knows him too. Hey, hey, yeah, this guy works with Jesse
O'Hila and if he works with Jesse O'Hila
That means he works at W F A A TV channel. Yeah
And if you were up early in the morning you flick on channel eight these days, you see this man. Yes
Salutations. This is the great Matt Howardton with us today
Please, please watch W F A A daybreak. They will fire me if you do not okay? Yes, so if you I'm begging you I have a family
And when I say a family, I just have a wife. We just got married
This could potentially ruin me if you don't watch
So do you want this man to have a baby?
Yeah, yeah, we're yeah, yeah, getting a little watch is ticking right now
Yeah, the TV and radio game the meter always runs
Yeah, life always goes by pretty fast. You try to at least in TV
You kind of feel like you got to find time to have something you know happen with your family here and there took me a while to propose
I've got that in my year a lot. Yeah, because I just was so
focused on doing my job all the time and you know we were
Moving along just fine just swimmingly then you kind of finally take a beat for yourself. You're like oh, yeah
We should we should get it. That's a big step, man. We should get a marriage. That's good. Let's get one marriage
Can we order one of those please? Yeah, but anyway. Yes, get a marriage well done
So my agent said I shouldn't do this. What's this podcast again?
It's just a little YDC. That's all
I'm I'm jacked to be here like I'm soap as I told you
I was like crushing energy drinks and listening to limp biscuit on the way over here
Just so I could like be in the presence of the great groups and Mike Reiner, man
Like this is a legendary radio team in Dallas and I'll tell you this is what's interesting about my
How I know you so I didn't grow up watching sports talk radio in Dallas watching listening
We were gonna say yeah, you know you're the TV guy. I'm a visual creature
But I didn't I didn't grow up listening to the ticket in when I was you know just moving through life and
Then I got back to Dallas
In 2017 and I started hanging out with a photographer at channel eight because we go on stories every day
And and we would kind of head out to his store and he'd be listening into the ticket his name is John Goss
And he like worships the ground that you walk on like you were a deity in the WFA
Photog Lounge kneel before your god Babylon Mike Reiner is right here
But anyway, he was like listening to the ticket the whole time
He's up a big fan
He was listening to the ticket the whole time and essentially I was like who are we what is
Who are these guys are pretty funny and he's like dude this is
Smike Reiner man Mike Reiner and the taste been doing this forever man
He's like a pioneer in the sports talk radio and I was like oh cool and then
So every day we'd listen to the hard line and I would just kind of slowly become like this new fan
Which is a wild time to join in 2017. I know you've been doing it for a long lot longer than that beforehand
Um, and then we met the first time
John wetland got arrested
Um and removed from the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame and they were like go find someone who's like, you know
Can maybe speak about the Rangers
Um
Who maybe isn't part of the team because they probably won't say anything if they're part of the actual you know organization
So say give go find Reiner and you were at some arcade in Arlington like this big arcade bar
And like I could just tell like just the basic like you were such a sweet guy to like do the interview
And just give me your two cents like on the situation
But I could just tell you were like I'm doing this guy a favor
And then the second time we met and I was first off after that first time
I was like Mike's cool duty just like save me because we have to turn stories every day
Sure, and you obviously came in and helped out and gave us some sound
And then the second time Jason Witten had just
retired from Monday night football
If you could say he retired maybe he just left
He unretired he left Monday night football you unretired and he joined the Dallas Cowboys. Yeah, and then we got
Um
Some sound I think just from you and the folks inside the ticket just doing some banter about it because it's got a big deal
Right coming back to the Cowboys and then the third time's the best time
This is my favorite story with Mike Reiner and it's a little sad, but it's also just amazing. Okay. I'm sorry
So we we frequent apparently we frequent one nostalgia place
Or at least do you do you go there at all pretty often? No, I've been yeah, do you sing at all? Oh?
Yes, I do I sing Mac the knife. Yes every single time that I've been there with him
It happens. Yes
So I also love one nostalgia place, which if you don't know where that is
It's off of what northwest highway and
Or least kind of near the old blockbuster the first blockbuster that's now in Applebee's Abrams Abrams
There you go. They do karaoke. What five nights a week?
Um, I'm really not sure. I just go there a weekend. I think it's I think it's through Saturday
Yeah, okay, so they do it quite a bit there and they also have like a pretty cool place
So I love going there and singing
poorly and
Essentially, we're there and then I see Mike at the bar and I'm like, oh my god
It's it's Mike right again. I'm having a deity moment
I'm like this is great and obviously like you know
I kind of wanted to let my my friends know who were there with me and Lauren was with me there
My wife now. I guess we were dating at the time and I was like dude. I basically did what John did to me
I was like Lauren that guy is like
Like radio legend here in Dallas. He's awesome. He's like a pioneer in sports talk radio
And I was like come on come over here. We'll get a picture with him
He's such a nice guy
And so I tapped on like Mike's shoulder and Mike just kind of like looks over to the left at me
And I'm like hey, I'm Matt Howard term channel eight
Uh, you remember me. I mean we did a couple stories together and you were like
Oh, yeah, yeah
Yeah, I didn't feel well who you were
Yeah, I remember and then I was like that's great was like can we guess you might get a picture of me my girlfriend and you go
No
And I was like oh okay, I had the gall to ask why I should just be like all right cool. You know
I'll just go over here. I don't think I said it quite like you were very
Clint Eastwood you were pretty you're pretty Clint Eastwood about it and
And then I said you guys are pulling on now and I asked I asked why
I was it I mean it was I was just kind of shocked. I was like oh
I was like so why can't you get a picture of me and then Mike just goes
I don't want people to know I'm here and I was just like okay
That's fine. I think I said I'm going underground tonight or something like that. Yeah, so I the grid probably I move I moved
I kind of like moved away and I
I texted John the the photo talk and I was like dude. I ran into rider tonight at the bar
And you know, he's kind of our you know Lauren savior of you know radio
I was like
Yeah, and then I was like I want to take a picture with him and he kind of just like I don't know he said no
It just told me off and he goes dude
Today the freak got pulled on the radio and I was like
No, I was like all the times to run into you at the bar
I was like that was like the worst like day of the month probably for you or you wonder what actually
I was number one. I fully expected it
We I saw it coming and we also like coming from miles and miles away. So
No, I didn't come as any kind of surprise at all. I was just going underground that night
You know sometimes the fellow wants to do that, you know
Well, I was very very like excited when you I think you messaged me or you commented on like something that I put online
And because I thought I made you mad
Like by asking you for a photograph that night
I mean, I felt like I was in the wrong and then I'm not saying you were
I was just I just felt like I offended you and then you say like hey, I'll take a picture with you now
Or I like oh, let's get a picture. I'll take a picture with you. And I was like as
I was like my writer knows who I am. Let's go and his fate would have it after we're done here
You know what we're doing taking a picture. We're taking a picture. Hey, what a segue
What a segue baby
Well, either way, I'm I'm jacked to be here. This is and again, I'm like five minutes from your house
I think I'm just gonna stumble over here from the bar one night
Just bang on the door and be like Mike. Let's talk about the 1990s-99 stars team and let's do something around
Five you
Very well, I watched you're just gonna walk in on a man on a couch watch TV
I've got all these questions here to talk to you about oh, I'm sorry. I'm getting in the way
No, you're not I mean
Okay, yeah, this is great. Well, I mean, hey, I'm an open book, you know, and in fine print and also
Great great reading levels probably like six to seventh grade. I try to keep it that low
You know, that's that's my that's my speed. That's pretty good. You know if it's a pop-up book even better
I like pop-up books. I'm a tangible learner. Okay. Who's laughing in us like for you. Oh my gosh
Do you have an hour because I could I could yeah, I could talk to you for an hour about oh, eat time
Innistakes is minus lines
Um, it was awesome man. I think I think growing up in a in a small town, you know, south of here obviously
It's about 45 minutes give or take with the traffic
um, it's just a great place
like really
Easy to know people easy to get around easy to get into people's business, you know
Because it's I think it was a town of like 16 to 20,000 people as I was growing up
It's not a small small town, but it was it was big enough to at least we had a small Walmart
Yeah, but we didn't have them all we didn't have a movie theater
And we had to we did get that when I was in high school
Nobody went there to watch movies
Everybody went there to make out
But if you really wanted to go in and get a movie you see a movie of by yourself or with your family
That was a good place to go and high school though. That was a primo spot, you know
I think when I was the voice of the tarot tigers
No played in us. They played in us one year. What year what year was that you know? Oh god
That would have been back in the 80s. Yeah, I probably weren't alive
We they were in our district whenever I was in junior high
Um, and they were tough team and obviously Jamie Foxx is from there
That's kind of the the the towns
Did you really what was he like?
Amazing. Yeah, I've heard good things very nice and was an incredible singer and really numbers singing back then
Wow, wow. Well, yeah, I mean he was he kind of started in a music career right and then he kind of flipped into acting
I think yeah, he really he was able to really promote himself. Yeah
But in this was good. It was fantastic. My dad we were there because my dad decided to be the city manager for the town
in the 80s and
My mom's from Austin. He's from Waco
They decided to go to in us. They were kind of moving around as some city managers do they you know
Spend maybe a few years with the town then they go to another one kind of like superintendents at a school district
so
We were in in us in the 80s, you know
I was born after my sister and then you know kind of he just liked the town. He enjoyed it a lot and so
we
We stayed there and so it met a lot of great people. There's just a lot of friendly folks in in us
There's a big Czechoslovakia in like
Heritage there
They have the polka fest every year all the blue monitor trail stuff is really nice
It's just one of her. It's just a cool town where you go there and I think everyone just you know waves at you and you're
Open in the door of people people say thank you. It kind of reminds me that old Texas hospitality
Um, everybody there seems to have it then the football team was great Sam Harrell, you know
obviously the coach there legendary Graham Harrell
Um, I got to see three state championships in mind time when I was in in us
Wow, which was cool
Yeah, obviously there was like when you're a kid too and you watch like a state championship
You're like maybe six grade, you know
You like think that the team on the field can beat like the cowboys because they're not doing well
And you're like just sorely mistaken, but that's like kind of the love that you have for the team and then
played for him while I was while I was there
Um, had a great time doing that. I was in an incredible bench warmer
I was special teams player of the week against walks of hatchey my senior year. So hey back away guys
Do you want athlete if my mom didn't make great desserts?
So was there anything to suggest about you to suggest that you'd wind up where you were where you are now?
Oh, man. There was there were signs to definitely were I and I often tell people
They're like, how did you get into TV news and I just kind of say, you know
I didn't really pick the job the job sort of pick me
Um, I'd always been comfortable being on a stage when I was a kid
um
Like it started off. I was in pre-K. I was at a Christmas recital and like essentially
They needed a kid to go up and like welcome everyone to the church and
um
And so they they asked me to do it and it's like five sentences. You just kind of say them and you say like hey
Welcome into the Christmas recital this that and the other and usually like the kid either has like a card
Or there's a teacher kind of like helping him say it and my dad was like no no no no no
You're gonna go up. You're gonna memorize all this
You're gonna wear a suit and you're gonna get up there and you're gonna say it all from memory
And I was like okay, this is a lot. I feel like that was really
kind of
Intimidating as a child and then I did it and was like kind of nailed it like kind of knocked out of the park
With nobody's help and everybody in the church. It's like that guy's gonna be a politician or an attorney
uh
Or a pastor
Thank God I'm not all three
Or any of those um, but yeah, I mean it was just something that I think started very young
was in a lot of plays
Like a few plays from fourth and sixth grade
I was like the emcee of our talent show in intermediate school
Did like stupid bits from like Wayne's world and forest gump and
You know little things to make everybody laugh
And just like was a lunchroom ham just like did impressions of our principles and our coaches and all sort of stuff and
Made everybody laugh and then did one act play u.i.l
Did pros and poetry extemporaneous speaking
Did debate as I got into junior junior junior high and then high school
um
Then like did some like stuff in the Baptist general convention of taxes, which is like their speakers tournament
It's like u.i.l for church
You like do like a four to six-minute speech over like a religious topic
And then you have to give it like memorized to a bunch of judges
um
And I got third in state twice and then first my senior year got a bunch of money for scholarship for bailer
um was in a band was in a garage band when uh
Me and my buddies we all got together and like had a band across streak from my house annoyed the hell out of my sister
um
And I saying attempted to sing attempted vocals is what I play
um
so it was in a lot of
Battle of the bands was around town doing stuff and so anyway long story short sorry everyone
um
My parents were like this is we kind of see you have a gift being good at like public speaking like not having a problem from a crowd
And I was like yeah, but how do you make that into like a career and we were just thinking about it and
I was thinking about maybe maybe an attorney could do that
And then just kind of found out the paperwork involved
And how rich but miserable a lot of attorneys can be um smart people. I'm not trying to
It's a good profession. Okay, you know if you need a will call McGill um
uh
If um if that were to happen
I was like I gotta go law school, you know, I don't know about that, but
Dad and I used to watch channel eight all the time
Like that it's funny that I wound up here, but like literally we were
That thing was on every night at like five and six in our house like chip moody Tracy Rowlett John and Gloria Troy Dungan
Dale Hanson obviously was there for a long time
Uh, a slew of reporters who were around back then Brad Watson Gary Reeves
Uh, you know Janet St. James. I mean a name a lot Rebecca Lopez. She's still at the station um
and
That was kind of like my time when I was a kid. I have to turn on Nickelodeon or Disney Channel and like watch the news with that
begrudgingly
Um, but then that was my only time that I got with him because he would be working all day
And so we just kind of watch the news together and so he just suggested it. Oh boy. The lessons really sunk in well because I got to tell you that
Watching you on TV and over a period of time it didn't come to me right away. Uh-huh
Watching you on TV over a period of time
I can't remember what it was you did, but at the end of one of your stories
I just found myself thinking man that guy is really a natural. Oh man. That guy is really good
That's high praise. Let me tell you that right there. I didn't pay him to say that all right
All right, that's Mike that came out of Mike's mouth without me putting a gun to him all right or a knife
Or a sharp object. Speaking the truth. That's it. That's really I mean that's really kind
That's really kind of you say but like I mean because
It's it's been such a journey to get back there because you start off like you know paying your dues
Make it like my first job was like I paid $25,000 a year
Which is more than most people made at their first jobs in TV
It's really astonishing how little they pay people. Where's your first job?
Waco. Waco. So went to went to school of Baylor
Um kind of was like yeah, I mean, I'll try the
The journalism route and see if I like it and then got a um
An internship at KWTX there
Uh my sophomore year and just kind of fell in love with all of it
Shadowed a reporter named Eli Ross goes by Eli Rosenberg now. He's in Boston and it was his first maybe second market
um, and uh
Yeah, man, it was just really cool to just be that first rough draft of of history and I don't know make a difference when you're in local news
I don't really know how much of a difference sometimes cable news networks make especially with how much they're politicized now
um, you know national news networks obviously kind of parachute anywhere in everywhere on the worst day of everyone's lives
And they leave yeah, but in local news you kind of have an opportunity to actually tell people stories make a little bit of a difference
You know, you can help raise money. You can bring awareness
Yeah, kind of part of things you can sort of illuminate big things happening in a community
And if they become big enough, yeah, national news pays attention to it or or anyone else who's got a bigger platform
So I fell in love with it then went to channel eight for an internship the year after got lucky
Gloria compost went to school with the mayor
Uh of our town his wife
They both went to school together at Texas state, I believe I might be wrong
But you know kind of buttered up to her and I was like, hey, I know you know, Gloria
Do you mind if I get a tour of the station and uh bingo we got one
Uh, when I was in college and I remember walking around that was back with Bilo on the joint
And you know, obviously they had a ton of employees and it was really big operation
And I remember walking around with Gloria and everyone was saying man, you got a real expensive tour guide right there
I don't know it's like I don't know what that means, but I'm just glad to be here guys
Um, but anyway then got an internship and and really loved it because that was that was back when
It was about a few years before Bilo sold
And you know, obviously things happen when sales go down right, you know, things can be um
The pie could shrink a little bit and but it was really cool to see that side of channel eight and Bilo kind of minutes finally years
You know, just for I was a couple of months while I was there. It was awesome to the first week
Uh, I was there the Mads won the championship
So like as an intern, that was like my first thing was to go to the parade and on there for this great story
Hang on pause. I know you have questions
So it is like incredibly hot. I'm talking about Hills doorstep
You know abandoned all faith ye you enter here like outside that week
And obviously it's a big deal because you know, they just beaten the heat
And this you know powerhouse that was formed in the offseason the ESPN stuff with LeBron and whatever
And so back in the day like a lot of channel eight reporters would wear
Um, like suits no matter what yes, like in the heat. That's right dead of summer ties. Yeah, and it was
Ties were not loosened. It was uh, it was a tight ship and so I was like all right. I got to do this from an intern
So I show up in slacks a collared shirt and a tie and then like you're gonna be with Rebecca Lopez
In another photographer
We're gonna put them on us channel eight always thinks big
They're like we're gonna put them on a scissor lift at the end of the parade route
And they'll have the best shot in town
And I was like oh cool. This is great
So we go there I drive in a live truck with this back when they had engineers for live trucks
and they had Rebecca Lopez in the scissor lift
And it was really high up in the air and the engineer had the live truck going and he was kind of beaming out the signal and
Essentially once the the parade area or I guess the float that everyone was on once it came down
We were kind of right to the right if you're looking at the American Airlines Center
Plaza we were like to the left of that and it was coming down the road and it was gonna turn
I think into the plaza and Lopez was kind of like shooting this way and like given her live shot
Well, everybody wanted to see the float because they couldn't see
So they started climbing the scissor lift like king Kong
And like there's multiple and I'm like that's not gonna that's not good. That's not that's not good. That's really not good
And you know, even as an intern I was like oh my gosh. This is not great
And the live truck engineer like went down there to like pull them off of the
You know the scissor lift and he goes watch a truck and I was like all right. I got it
And so
Anyway, what happened was is there NBC five didn't have a scissor lift and so their truck was left unattended
People started climbing on their truck on the top of it and wanted to see a better shot of the parade
And they have like a air conditioning unit on the on the back and like some dude like was standing on it
Look like you weighed over two bills at least and it just goes
And it just like cave did like while they were trying to see the parade so I then in my slacks
College shirt
Get up on the back of the ladder of the live truck and I'm like no one's gonna get on the live truck
If I have anything to say about it and I would people and I was standing on the live truck with his wing going
I like literally have my intern badge that I just got I was like get away from the truck
Nobody comes up here while I'm up here totally mr. Flow
Yeah, I mean
Yeah, you want to come up here. It's gonna be summer slam, okay
Summer slam 86 whole cool again, man
But now yeah, it was it was pretty funny. That was like my first couple days in the job was defending a piece of channel a equipment
So you kind of you you might say I had it built in me to be an employee there, but yeah
I have experience with below when they were in the radio game. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah
The first I don't know four five years of my time in the game
I was upstairs on the second floor at Kelly at the zoo at the zoo. Yeah, I mean, oh, that's right
I don't know what it looks like down there now, but the entire second floor
Was radio. Yeah, so that they have the there's a thing called the radio room
And it's the old radio like play I guess it's where the studio was
But the there's nothing there that you would recognize, but the window is still there. Yeah, like the old window
We're like the producers would be able to look right that's still there. Wow, so that's kind of interesting
It used to be just like a right and they used to have it just when I remember when I got there it was untouched hadn't changed
Um, and then now they've kind of made it like a space where you can go into and like work or someone so forth
They renovated it a tad
They went in there in the pandemic and just really like renovated a lot of stuff because nobody was there
So it was kind of like easy for them to do
you know
Well while there
I did know some of the people down in wfa those who would actually
Talk to a lowly radio minions such as myself. Yeah
And I did get to know there and I also had to walk through there around the
Outer rim of the place on the way out to the parking lot uh
And man
One thing that has stayed with me ever since
Is that if there was ever an organization that was a stickler about doing it right. Yeah, that was them
Yeah, this is during the Marty Heygare. I'm sure you've heard a lot about that. I know him very well
I know I'm very well. I'm not not personally, but um
Bert ship who's Brett's dad. Yeah, I worked the assignment desk at channel eight right wrote a book called details at 10
And it kind of chronicles a lot of his time pre-morty and also with Marty
I don't believe oh man. I'd love to read that yeah
Yeah, yeah, and obviously I think birds passed on but um, it's really interesting
Yeah has a lot to do with his initial
Upcomings in like TV and stuff, but I kind of got a nice little history of channel eight reading that my mom
gave it to me when I was in college and I was like okay
Let's take it out give it a spin the thing that amazes me about wfa
And channel eight and well, they're the same thing, but
But now you guys go by wfa 8 more than you do the do channel eight, don't you?
Yeah, I mean you don't really have the dial anymore or like you know, I think it's more about
Moving away from like that TV moniker, you know kind of name
Um, and so yeah, we definitely go by wfa a little bit more. I still like to call us the Ocho
Because I think that's that's way easier to do than to be like wfa, you know
But obviously like it's branded way more than a lot of other things
You know, there's really nowhere anywhere where it says channel eight I think yeah
But you know, obviously that was such a big deal back in the day because you would need to know a channel to put it on
Yeah, nowadays. It's like all right
If you have cable you can still call it channel eight, I guess, but
Most of the time, you know, we're online. We're streaming. We have content on social media
You have to find this by putting in you have to be everywhere today. Oh my gosh. It's the volume and velocity of
Look at what we're doing right now. Yeah, hey, hey, drop a like and subscribe if you can that's right
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Oh cool, I like that. I like that. Is that it Ashley? Yeah, but you guys do
Post on YouTube a bit too right. Yeah, oh, yeah, it'll go up on YouTube
Yeah, just a little bit later. Yeah, we're probably bigger there than anywhere else
But yes, we are live those others right now. We're are we still alive. Yeah, oh, sorry
Okay, I thought we ended it. No, we're just not that I was like dang that was kind of a bummer did on
We just hit a little bit of you like chance like does go by channel any more. Yep, that's it
We didn't have energy drinks.
Well, the thing about, has always amazed me about WFA is no matter, you know, no matter
who's there, no matter how long they've been there, no matter how many times the thing
has turned over all these years, it's still great.
Yeah.
I would say it is still great.
It's like the first thing you learn when you go in there is the standard is the standard.
Yeah.
It's a tough, it's a tough, when you first get there, it's a tough, you know, kind of
thing to walk into because you do know a lot about the legacy.
You know, you read about how the microfilm from Abraham's Appruder was taken to WFA to
be developed and if someone there who didn't, you know, know what they were doing tried
to develop it.
We wouldn't have had that.
Instead, someone at Channel 8 was like, that's not going to be developed here.
We don't develop that type of film.
You got to take that down to a Kodak store.
And then the FBI is coming in, waltz, and into our doors right after that, you know,
it's just countless stories that, you know, we are just kind of weaved into history in
some really interesting and cool ways, unlike any other station and some of our photographers
left and right.
It's not a photographer shop in the nation that does a better job than Channel 8.
We wipe the floor with everybody because in awards, because they do such a great job
storytelling visually.
Yeah.
And it's a shame because like content now is digested by like six to ten seconds and
like our photographers beautifully shoot stuff and sometimes the appetite, at least for
the younger generation, the ginsies, those kids, those kids, get all my lawn.
They're like, you know, they don't really have the time to like watch a piece that's like
two to three minutes even.
So there's some people that do.
There's a lot of people that I think that still understand that type of storytelling is
what we want and what we want to do.
But yeah, there's kind of an appetite for like shorter content, more just get you to the
point informative.
But we still do it, man.
We still do the beautiful storytelling and I'm proud of that.
I'm proud of all the guys in there.
They do all such a great job.
You should be, man.
They aren't great.
Very bright.
Guys like John Goss, who worship Mike, he's got a Mike Reiner shrine in his house, it's
in a closet in the back.
I've seen it.
I will get him on YDC.
There's a, if you brought John Goss onto this podcast, he would, he would lose his mind.
He like, dude, this is like, I can die now.
I literally hung out with Mike Reiner in some form of a radio show.
It's like a gelatin shrine, it's, you know, got a nice statue of Mike and tell him I'll
meet him at one nostalgia sub time.
Yes.
There you go.
Yes.
Yes.
All right.
This is Matt Howardton.
Hello, everyone.
WFAA.
How you doing?
And he will be back for a little bit more in just a bit.
You could relax if you want to.
We do it.
We do it an advertisement.
Yeah.
We are.
Cool, man.
It's like a real radio show.
I love it.
That's right.
Because now it is time for the dreaded and feared mid show read.
Oh.
Yes.
All right.
What do we have here first today?
How's it going?
Oh, okay.
Is that what we got here on the front?
Yes.
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What else?
Another thing.
Another thing.
Another one.
Yeah.
Okay.
Or we can just have Mr. Teleprompter man Matt Howardton read it.
I don't know if that's...
I don't know if I can.
I don't think I can.
I don't think I can.
Just had an idea.
I don't know.
I would totally do it.
I just would probably get yelled at.
They're like...
No, we don't want that.
We didn't get it.
Oh.
Anything for that all the plug-o, I get it.
Well, it's entirely within the realm of the norm for me to read advertisers, so that's
what I'm going to do.
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Okay.
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Oh, really?
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Is that it?
That's it?
That's it?
Yeah, dude.
That's great.
You got good proctor skills.
You can learn it.
You got it?
That was great.
Okay.
Yeah.
He nailed it, man.
You feel good about that, Chupi?
Have you got any other critiques for me?
What else could I have done better?
I mean, honestly, it's kind of, I thought you could do, you could do, prompt your stuff
like full time.
I just feel like all you got to do is like read it and keep going, you know, and just make
sure the message gets across.
Yeah.
That's it.
What, you know, it's kind of an old, old wooden ship, you know, reading the proctor.
No.
Yeah.
I feel like a lot of anchors that I've tried to ask for tips just say relax and just
kind of focus on just reading, just kind of not like a lot of people try to sing song
and sound like, you know, like an old, timey anchor, they're like, just read, just be
natural.
You know, that sort of thing.
Does the majority of your stuff prompt or do you get to go off the cuff?
Yes.
So we, we clearly have stuff that's written for stories that we have to read.
But stuff, we're doing these things now on daybreak called in the feed and we kind of just
like post some stories that like we click on, like online and we kind of bring them into
the show.
Yeah.
And I just love to pick like silly doofy ones, just like ones that don't make any sense,
like that sort of thing.
And also just like there was a, there was a video, did you see the video of that guy who's
like that wrestler in Austin who has the pizza?
Yes.
And he's like, he's name's like Luigi something, like I picked that one that one day.
Hell yeah.
And I was like, like, this is what I'm clicking on.
Wrestling is real and this is why, you know, like I can kind of go off the cuff for
that sort of stuff.
Nice.
But for the most part, everything else is all prompt or because we all kind of write it
beforehand, we talk about it and then we, you know, have to kind of stick to that and keep
with it.
So I was going to say, I don't know how current you're what you click on needs to be,
but there's also a wrestler in Chicago that goes by Stephen Flow.
Yes.
And he's like a Pearl Jam guy.
Yeah.
And his song is Related Flow.
It's a Steven Flow.
And he like comes out and he's literally, he's dressed like Eddie Fetter.
It's so good.
It's so great.
I actually, I love wrestling.
I could be here for all night talking to you about wrestling.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
I mean, I'm not very good with like current stuff, but if you want me to just like,
like Stone Cold, if you want me to talk about the attitude era and like the Monday Night
Wars, I was, I was, I was there, man.
I lived it.
Okay.
You know, we could be friends.
Yeah.
I definitely do.
Like this isn't just on air.
There's friendships.
There's nothing.
There's nothing more than I would like to talk about in the attitude era.
Just okay.
Is Jesse into that too?
Yes.
Jesse loves Stone Cold.
He loves Stone Cold.
We need to get those two on the clubhouse show.
Can I Jesse?
We do.
Wow.
What do we do?
Yeah.
Those guys are promoting him.
Do anything.
Yeah.
Whatever, man.
Cross-pollination down.
I'm pretty much free after like 11 a.m.s.
Like I get done and I just find time to do whatever.
You know?
So what's that wake up on like 145 a.m.
It's like a grenade going off.
Yeah.
And my wife is sleeping and I'm just like, Oh God.
Oh no.
I don't want to wake you up.
And then, you know, I have to, that is just a brutal.
So what time do you crash these days?
Generally, I would like take a bit of a nap whenever I come home,
a little cat nap, and then it's like probably an hour.
And then I'll wake up and go work out and then, you know,
kind of eat and then probably embed around 6.30
at the latest.
Wow.
So he's about to crash pretty hard.
Boy, yeah.
Dude, I popped some militant in.
What was the last thing he's going to do today?
And some Ashwaganda.
And I'm just like, I'm done.
I sleep pretty well.
Are you making homes home here?
Oh, yeah.
Definitely.
I'll do the, you know, when you said it was five minutes away,
I was like, Oh, I got this easy.
I'm still going to demand a text for you saying you got home.
OK.
Yeah.
Perfect.
Yeah.
Perfect.
Yeah.
Perfect.
Yeah, we could do a wrestling podcast.
Am I doing like wrestling at all?
No, I'm not a big wrestling guy.
Oh, man.
But they could make it fun.
But we have others who are.
We could find clips where you could watch stuff
and give us like your, your two cents just based off of what you're seeing.
I can do this by my close enough.
I feel like, oh, you're great.
You, you project pretty well.
You know, kidding.
Yeah, I got trouble quite a bit in school.
They're like, shut up, Matt.
We can literally hear you in the hallway.
You from a stone will live in.
I'm fully aware you do.
It's a skill.
It's a big skill.
That was rougher than I meant to.
I remember I played Bill Sykes in Oliver Twist
when I was in fifth grade.
And he's like the villain, I guess, of Oliver Twist.
He tries to lure Oliver to do crime.
Anyway, I don't know if you guys have seen the movies or read the book.
We don't read here.
But they, we don't, well, go, yeah.
Go, doggo.
We don't read here.
It's definitely just you.
But my music teacher, Kathy Criner, wonderful woman,
wonderful woman.
She's also my Bible Drill instructor,
which I don't know if you all know what Bible Drill is.
Wow.
What a, what an indoctrination in a baptism or a baptist church.
I can get into that on another visit if I come back.
We'll have you on the next time.
It's very interesting.
I believe you'll be coming back.
Basically, you have a Bible and you,
it's a competition and they'll like say, I don't know,
like a book that they'll just pull a book like Zephaniah out
or something like that or Malachai.
And it's like kind of one of those harder ones.
I'm pretty sure Zephaniah is in the Bible, correct?
We're probably not going to correct you.
OK, arrow.
It sounds like it would be.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's a book.
I was in Bible Drill, by the way.
Really, not helping my case.
Either way, but like you have to find the,
you have to flip to the page with and find a spot in the book
and then you step forward and then they ask you the book
before it and after it.
And so you have to say those three things.
And you have like 10 seconds to do it.
Anyway, she was my Bible Drill instructor and my music teacher.
That's an interesting thing to get into, by the way.
I don't even know if people still do it.
Like it's, it was like a really big thing in the 90s.
So I don't know if it's still a, they do.
OK, it's pretty cool.
I don't know, Bible Drill.
It's dope.
And she didn't give me a microphone whenever I played
Bill Sykes in, I was in fifth grade.
And she was like, we only have a few microphones.
We think you can project to the back row.
And I was like, got it.
This is, I'm the loud kid.
No, yeah, you definitely filled the house when you came in.
Oh, I did.
It was great.
There's some guests, you know, that are, you know, kind of.
Hey, man, how's it going?
How's it going, man?
And then you can tell the ones that have been in broadcasting.
Oh, yeah.
It's like, oh, my God, when Dale Hanson, we had, oh,
Dale is, Dale is, oh, yeah.
I thought we were going to get a noise complaint.
Yeah.
Dale is quite boisterous.
He's quite boy, but it's great because he really
leans into every story and things.
Great story.
Wherever he wants him to get into.
Oh, man, he's got a story for.
For everything, everything.
I sat back in, this is back when we were at Victory Park.
I would kind of come down there to do like standups
in the studio as a reporter.
And I would just sit back there and talk to him
because he would just kind of show up and, you know,
do his thing and wait to go on air.
And anyway, he just, a little, a wealth,
out a trough, a well of information,
just unbelievable, just had so much good stuff.
Anyway, you have questions.
Yeah, I do have a question.
I throw tangent grenades everywhere.
So we go, we've got wrestling, we've got Bible drill,
we've got Bill Sykes from Oliver Twist.
That's good.
We like this.
Brandon Crap.
We like James.
The tangent grenade.
That's a good one.
Oh, man.
Remember that inspirational quote from Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Oh, you know, it's like literally his whole entire movie
career was him grunting.
All right, now tell me this.
There's no good way to segue out of that.
Yeah, old.
Well, do you remember the first time somebody came to you
and said, what was you thinking about doing daybreak?
Yes, I do.
And I figured you would.
It hadn't been exactly like, you know, nine years
or something like that.
That's like two months ago.
Two months ago.
Back when I had my day, I was a young lad, just a tadpole.
No, yeah, they kind of asked me if I would.
I was kind of filling in on the weekends, weekend mornings,
and like at four, just kind of filling the schedule.
And then they were like, hey, do you
want to fill in on daybreak a few times?
It's kind of a bigger show.
And it's longer.
It's two hours, five to seven.
And then now we do five to nine.
We do an extra two hours on digital on WFA plus.
And dude, anchoring for four hours is a.
It's an endurance maker.
I'll tell you that much.
It's a marathon for sure.
But it was really kind of something
that I leaned into in light.
Because when I got to channel eight,
I knew there was going to be some, as you said,
standards, like that I needed to be.
And there's a lot of great journalism
where you're kind of a bulldog.
And you're holding people accountable.
And again, you're illuminating issues in your community.
And a lot of reporters, when they come to that station,
they show up kind of like buttoned up
and they're real stiff and rigid.
And they want to tell you what you need to know.
And there's a big value to that.
Don't get me wrong.
But I'm just not really a bulldog.
I'm kind of a golden retriever.
And I can still do the job.
But I can just be a golden retriever a little bit better.
And anyway, so I started doing day break
and I found out you can be more fun.
I can be that kid in the lunchroom doing some impressions
that I was doing of my coaches and teachers.
And I can be a little bit wild and have some fun.
And I'm kind of like an energy bomb
in my own respect.
When I wake up and I show up in the morning
and producers that have been there since midnight
are kind of dragging.
And I'm like, morning glory, hallelujah everybody.
How's everybody going?
And everyone's like, oh my god, that was a lot.
It's kind of like how I walked into here.
They're like, oh wow, that's who turned the volume up.
But I found that that was kind of a cool outlet for that.
And I enjoyed that.
I feel like it was fun to do.
And then obviously the position came open and I applied
and I felt like it would be the next step for me.
And I was looking for a change.
I think I was reporting this, I was in my eighth year
of reporting, I think, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I finished my eighth year of reporting
and had been doing a lot of cool stuff.
But doing it every night is, it can wear on you after a while.
Just kind of going to scenes and carrying trauma
that doesn't belong to you.
That's very much kind of what we do as reporters.
And we parachute in again on people's worst days
and we ask them to do an interview.
It's kind of like, I don't mean to belittle our industry,
but sometimes that can be a very difficult thing
to process whenever you first get into it.
So after a while doing that, and obviously we do it
with grace and we do it with intentionality,
but from the person's side of me,
yeah, I think it was just time for a change.
And I kind of welcome the idea of doing what we're doing now
because it's just a little bit more fun.
It's a little bit more me.
So you asked somebody about it instead of them saying,
hey, what would you think about doing this?
They, I filled in a few times and they were like,
oh, this guy's a little, he's got some juice to him
if there was ever an opening.
So they saw a fit, a possible fit, huh?
I mean, I don't know.
I would just imagine they looked at some of the stuff
I was doing and said, if there was ever an opening,
you should probably think about it.
And so I didn't actually get approached to apply.
The job posting was made and I walked in
and I said, when can I apply?
Because I kind of wanted to do it.
I was like, this would be,
I think this was a good transition
to be a good fit into the next chapter for me.
So it's building pretty well.
It's great, man, I love it.
And Dia's wonderful.
Dia Wall joined us.
I think, oh my gosh, two years ago, from Kansas City
and she grew up here and she's amazing
and everybody on the, everybody on the show
is super welcoming and super awesome.
Greg's been there obviously for what,
almost 30 years.
I think he's on year 28 right now.
He's stood the test of time.
Yes, he has. For sure.
For sure. I mean, I watched him in high school
and when I tell him that in the morning,
he's like, stop, enough.
Please, no more.
Yeah, 28 years in April.
Yeah, that's what I saw.
Yeah, so he's been there, he's been there for a bit
and he's got some name recognition too.
So anytime you can, you know, make Greg laugh,
that's like important to me, because that's when you know
it's like, all right, I'm going to be okay.
Greg's here been long enough, but he thinks I'm cool.
Don't you think you have name recognition?
I can tell you right now, I don't really think it's as good
as those guys who have been through the 90s and the odds.
I've been recognized a few times
and it's generally by the older crowd.
And I always make, if you know my first and last name,
I always make time for you.
I'm just like, oh my gosh, thank you for watching Channel 8.
At least when I was a reporter,
I didn't get a ton of name recognition,
but now I think it's a little bit,
I've had it a little bit more, not just in random places,
but sometimes here and there, people say,
hey, Matt, I'm just like, oh, hey,
it's kind of a new thing for me.
Yeah.
You got to be gracious to those people, though, man.
100%.
Please.
Yes, you.
He's a story of how to treat a younger brother, though.
Even if he lost your job.
But I was nice about it.
Yeah, he just lost his job.
I was nice about it.
He just lost his job.
Yeah, I just lost my job.
Yeah, and I was like, I understand now.
I understand now.
Yeah, but no, it's pretty cool when that happens.
I used to get a whole lot of, you look familiar.
Are you on TV?
And I'm like, I get that all the time.
And if you didn't know the first and last name,
I was like, I don't really need, I don't really have the time
to explain all this to you.
It's like, yeah, I'm actually a reporter on Channel 8.
It's only a 10 o'clock.
It's only a 10 o'clock.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I did some fun stories, too.
No, I know.
My favorite stories, I mean, I got a wonderful 2023
with the Rangers.
That was probably my favorite year being a reporter, hands down.
Because this is my favorite year, too, of life.
Get this.
Get, check this out.
So literally that year, nobody expected, what did you say?
In your last life, you were a DJ.
Yeah.
Welcome to K-1021 with Mike Reiner.
You're the ninth-collarant guest
as LDL cholesterol level.
We'll give you a free Hyundai Sonata.
Oh my god.
We need to get him and Rick Rinner on together.
Oh, man, that would be so insane.
Yeah.
Everyone would be too much talking, probably.
No, I don't even know who's Rick.
Oh my god.
Is that bad?
I should know that he's great.
He's great.
He was a long time anchor on a Fox Sports Southwest.
He's the guy with the crazy hair.
Oh my god.
It is real hair.
Yes.
I mean, you look at him and you think, OK, this guy is doing a beast.
I did what I told you that I kind of don't like.
But he's a former DJ and all that.
Really?
OK, wow, OK.
And he was a weather guy on TV.
And he's an awesome guy.
Yeah, dude, that would be awesome.
I mean, dude, I love making new friends.
I love making new friends.
Yes.
Flooring.
Carpakes stuff.
Cool.
Yeah.
Wow.
That's a lot.
You're not there yet.
I'm not.
Yeah.
It's called milestone electric.
We'll fix it in a flash call today.
That's not a long way to go.
Yeah, now we literally have them on our air all the time.
So in commercials, like I could tell you the amatic, like,
oh my gosh, Ben Abbott and associates.
That song gets in my head.
I'm not speaking negatively about those who purchase advertising.
I just literally have an earpiece in.
And so I hear all the commercials all the time.
And so like, I know how they all go.
Ben Abbott and associates to let an accident recu-line.
Hello, Ben.
That sound familiar?
I can do all of them.
I like it's.
I'll just give you one more.
Yeah, right.
I mean, they're already paying for airtime on channel 8.
So I feel like I'm not doing any harm by doing them again.
Surely not.
Anyway, but yeah, right, yeah, send them the bill.
Yeah, but 2023, they weren't expecting the Rangers to be
as good that year.
No, sports department was like, there
were guys that took time off in October, planned time off.
I think someone had paternity leave that was scheduled.
Something happened where, again, this was kind of the joke,
once I got assigned to cover some of it, was like, hey, yeah,
we just a lot of guys didn't expect the Rangers to go that far,
because they just kind of were, I mean, guys
playing their schedules out like pretty much months
in advance sometimes.
And so when you get to April and the season starts,
we weren't doing good at all before then.
So this was really cool.
They needed a sports reporter to cover the ALCS,
the first two games in Houston.
And so they were like, Matt, we're going to send you
because you're a big ranger's fan.
And I was like, hell yeah, this is crazy.
And so, dude, let me tell you this, getting a free ticket
to go watch those first two games of the ALCS.
And we, when Jordan Montgomery, correct?
He was the pitcher at that.
Oh my gosh, watching him just put on a pitching masterclass.
I think it was the first game he pitched.
I think Evo pitched the second game,
or maybe it was backwards.
I'm not sure.
Evo started one game and then Jordan Montgomery did the other.
Yeah, I know if they have things their way
and they're not too up on sticking with a rotation.
Yeah, it would be Evo first.
But then he was the first one.
And then Evo and game two.
Okay, all right.
So obviously, I had to go do a hit on the field.
This is like enemy territory for us.
And clearly, I'm like making, I mean, I don't care.
I'm not in the sports department.
I don't need to be impartial.
So I'm like making jokes and stuff.
And I'm just like, all the fans here,
they're ready for the game.
And it's not going to be as much booing
as we see a globe live field.
That's not on the Rangers in either way.
So I was just doing stuff like that.
And then when they won, I got to sit in the press box
the whole time.
I had a great seat.
Their press box is not up in the atmosphere
like the one that the globe live is.
And I had an awesome seat watching that game
like Morgan, or excuse me, Jordan Montgomery, like Wyft.
Oh my gosh, big guy.
Clean up, clean up, clean up.
You're done all over?
You're done.
He like made him with like three time,
like struck him out the most in the season.
I think it was that night.
Like, Yordon had not struck out that much
ever in a bat that season.
And it was amazing.
And I'm downstairs watching the game
and we're because we have to get post game and stuff.
We were the only guys.
And we're sitting there and they're coming out live to me.
And I was like, what a highway robbery here in Houston.
You could take that train up there
and you could steal all the lost.
Are we aware?
You know, I was just making stupid, you know, it was just great.
And then we got to...
You were not there sticking it up, huh?
Yeah, yeah.
And then we get to go in the clubhouse.
And I've not been in the clubhouse just yet for a Rangers game.
And dude, that was intense because like, you know,
all the beat reporters are kind of like...
First off, Major League Baseball beat reporters
are like kind of in this like club.
And if you show up on like a day
where you're not in the club,
they just treat you like you're scumbag.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah, but did you like your radio guy?
They're not.
Look, Evan Grant is fantastic.
Niceest guy that I've ever met.
And he's always been so kind to me.
But there's been other guys from...
I think just kind of the outer Dallas, you know,
coverages, you know, especially during the playoffs
because like, you know, he would send folks,
different people.
And they just kind of look at you like,
wow, what do you do?
You don't watch 160s Re-Baseball games here.
I'm like, yeah, maybe I do.
I don't know, you don't know that.
But there was like always these big scrums
in the clubhouse, obviously.
And that's common after sports,
but I wasn't really used to it
because I didn't do sports.
And like being like this close to Corey Seeger
and like this close to Marcus Cimian
and this close to Nathanielo
and this close to Jonah Heim.
And then in the background,
here's some free information
what happened after that game
because I don't know if anybody would tell you
or report on it within the end.
Are you breaking news right here?
Within the fraternity of baseball journalists,
they probably won't say anything.
And Jordan Montgomery's not with the team anymore.
He's in, he went to the Yankees.
Back to his athletes.
He's back.
Yeah, he's back.
Oh man, I don't know if I should say this.
Now he's heard and he's probably not gonna pitch much
this year, but he is back.
I mean, no, he was back when we get him back.
We just got him like a couple weeks ago.
Oh man, wow, I missed that.
Okay, well I do wake up at 145 AM.
So a lot of stuff goes over my head.
But okay, so master class pitching performance.
He's sitting there in the middle of the locker room,
slumped up like, I'm gonna be really nice.
This is just, I didn't expect this.
I thought this guy was gonna be just like,
kind of like, you know, zoned in at the club
and you know, at the locker or something like that.
Just kind of, hey guys, good game, good game.
Jordan Montgomery looks like a five year old
with a tablet.
Just like this, in the middle of the locker room
and he's got, and he's got a bud heavy.
And he's just doing one of these.
Just like, kind of has like his foot up on like,
like a, I guess like a desk or something like that.
And he's just doing one of these and I was like,
Jordan Montgomery just pitched his ass off in a game
and looks like he's just five years old out here.
Like at least kind of the posture looked like
he was just really comfortable.
Just being like kind of slumped, awesome.
My closer, sorry, my bad.
You got to kick it away, my bad.
It was just really, it was just,
you had to get into position there.
Yeah, it was just really funny because he just,
again, master class pitching
and then he was just kind of slumped up in the locker
and then once everybody kind of came in,
he was like, all right, I'm gonna get none of it.
He just like left.
So he didn't, cause he didn't wanna do press
but he was a really cool guy too though.
He was awesome obviously and we obviously did
the first two games in the ALCS and then we came back.
Nailbiders obviously all the way toward the end
and then we got to cover the World Series.
I mean, like how many people gets to cover the World Series
when we got to be their covering fans and stuff.
You know, the first two games at least when we were at home,
didn't mean the rest.
It's awesome, man, covering the World Series is,
I mean, that's what you do it for.
We were actually, since we were covering fans,
the first night against Diamondbacks,
we were in Texas live
and we were talking to a couple of people,
like we did a live hit and it was still the ninth
and we were in Texas live.
So we had already left the stadium
and we were just waiting to do our live that we did it.
And so me and my photographer Brandon Mallory,
we're just sitting there waiting for the ninth inning to end
and we were obviously not expecting
what happened next to happen next.
And he was like, dude,
but of course Seager just jacks one out of the park right now.
And I was like, there's no way, man.
There's no, I mean, I can see it, yeah.
But like, there's no way.
And I mean, like what are the odds, right?
And then like the first pitch, he just crushes it.
Like the hardest hitting ball I've seen him hit, like ever.
And we were like, oh my God,
I'm like, oh, everybody, Texas live is just a madhouse,
just absolute earthquake magnitude,
gotta be on the nine somewhere in the Richter scale.
And then we look at each other like, man,
I can't believe we missed that, dude.
Had to be over at Texas live.
And they were like, wait a minute,
we got backstage passage to Alice Cooper.
It's like Wayne's work.
Like, wait a minute, we have media credentials.
We can just go back into the game.
And so, yeah, so like we literally go back in,
we see Adolis hit the walkoff.
I mean, too, it's just wonderful.
Just a wonderful year for that team.
And obviously for just being in the news and having fun.
Hey, the greatest moment of my sports life.
I wasn't really.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Where did you go to, did you go to Arizona for the game?
Or did you, no, no, I didn't go to the,
I was watching it here like everybody else,
but it's still the greatest moment of my sports life.
Yeah.
And it will never be topped.
Yeah, I don't care.
What happens henceforth?
I will not ask for anything better.
I've seen the Rangers win the World Series.
Yeah, I'm a happy guy.
That's huge, man.
That is absolutely huge.
I mean, who would have thought
after the two back-to-back years we lost,
like we would ever get a chance again, you know?
That's just about spoiled it for everybody.
Everybody thought it would just never happen again.
Yeah, but it did.
Yeah, but it did.
But it did, but it did.
But it did.
What's your favorite Tom Petty song?
Ooh, oh man.
Free Falling.
Okay, all right.
I just had to come over the question like that to him.
That's all.
He had to just reach for something.
Yeah.
Yeah, light and round type.
I do have a very good,
I do have some more Ranger stories that are really,
I prepared for this, like as I knew the Rangers
would be maybe a hot topic.
All right, let's hear them.
Okay, so Creed was a huge part
of the Rangers World Series run.
Yeah.
And I was like, I'm a huge Creed fan.
And I think there's a lot of people
that really crapped on them in the 90s,
cause they were like, man, you're just like
trying to be religious to sell copies
of their album and stuff.
I was like, man, there's actually some deep
inner personal battles that Scott staff is singing about
that I think people are listening to now
and they're like, wow, this kind of resets.
It's like Nickelback, which is like about partying
and like borderline domestic abuse.
Like listen to lyrics, they're just like,
this, what are we singing about, guys?
It's a purple throttle.
Yeah, it's a real full throttle.
But like Creed's like a self-finding, you know,
kind of, yeah, very similar.
So anyway, I used to like listen to Creed
in my headphones when I was in fourth grade.
I had human clay and I would ride around
in an old Navy tech fest in my neighborhood.
And I would be like, are you ready?
I'd be like riding around the bike.
These guys are like pretty important to me.
But I never got to see him live
because they broke up before I ever had any money.
So essentially, I was really eager to see him live.
Never got to.
Where did it go?
Yeah.
In 2002, I think.
It was a while ago.
And then we got back together again?
Well, yeah.
They did, they did, they did in like 2008,
briefly, for an album release and then nothing.
And then they got back together
once the rangers kind of made them
start using their songs again.
They were like, wow, people like us.
Like people like higher, because everybody crapped on them.
Like whenever they were, yes, yes.
Oh, yeah.
But anyway, so they showed up randomly
to game three of the ALCS to the stadium.
All four of them did.
And I was like, oh my god, I was in the outfield.
There was like an auxiliary press area.
If you couldn't sit in the alien ship up
at the top of a major stadium, then an auxiliary press area.
And I was sitting there.
And John Blake or someone came over the intercom
and the press box, they were like,
Creed is about to do an interview down in the press room
if anyone wants to ask questions.
And I wasn't there.
And one of my photographers was, he was like, dude.
He's like, Creed's about to literally ask,
like answer questions in the press box.
You got to get over here.
So the elevator to the press
or not the press box, the press room.
That's underneath the, that's like on the event level
of the field.
So to get there, you have to go to the home to home plate.
There's an elevator at home plate.
Takes you down to the field and then the press room
is down here.
It's next to the clubhouse.
So I'm in center field.
And I'm on like the second floor in the auxiliary area.
And I'm like, like, I got to do the news.
Like, Ankerman, like, I'm just like,
show up one way, running around.
And like, I'm running through this, like, kind of the,
I guess it's the, is it the mezzanine area?
I'm not sure.
It's like the 200 level.
There's like some sweets up there.
I'm running like as hard as I can.
I'm like, dude, I'm not gonna get there in time.
Then I see somebody taking an elevator to my left.
And it looks like a guy who's like
with the communications team.
And I'm like, hey, are you guys going down
to the clubhouse area?
And I'm like, yeah.
And I'm like, I'm a channel eight.
I need to be there when Creed does their press thing.
Can I get in there?
Can I get in there?
And he's like, yeah, sure, come on in.
So I'm in the elevator.
And then guess who walks in?
It's got to.
Creed.
All literally, their sweets were right there
next to the outfield.
And all of them just like, excuse me, pardon me, excuse me.
And they all just kind of walk in.
And I'm in the elevator.
I'm like.
And I didn't want to say anything
because I was about to be in the,
I didn't want to like ask for a photograph.
And then you're in the press room asking questions
right after that.
You're gonna want to try to make it kind of unprofessional.
Didn't want to try to make a joke on the elevator
about can we take you higher?
You know, for a band that takes you higher,
we're going down, right?
Yeah.
What's happened?
I loved it.
Yeah, they might have.
But I actually would have.
Yeah.
But it was so surreal.
And I was just like, I don't want to say anything.
I just want to enjoy this moment
because I'm like literally this close to all of them.
And then we went down to the press ball,
or the, I keep calling it the press box.
It's the media room.
And I was like, everybody in the room, locally,
knew I wanted to ask the question first.
And so we all walk in, and I'm like the guy
that got on their elevator with them.
And I was like, so when did you guys know
that the rangers like really liked you guys?
And they're total Chris Farley.
Yeah, right.
Like, oh, man, that's awesome that you guys are here.
That's really cool.
And then like Scott's tap is just like,
it's like, oh, you know, we'll,
we really appreciate that, you know?
And, you know, we just know that there's a higher plane
calling us here on this planet,
so you know, anyway, you ever go to a concert?
That's literally how he talks.
It's pretty funny.
He's like, play the song, forget this preachy stuff,
but anyway.
Do you want another, you want another cool ranger story?
Yeah, sure.
I got one more.
Because I talked to him today.
I talked to him today.
So last, no, I don't know, 2024 opening day.
It was back when, was it post, was post,
we just won the World Series.
They had the gold jerseys out for sale.
And so we were talking in the sports room,
like what would be a good story to do?
Because I had done a couple of pieces
in the playoff run about, I did something on the,
can you say anything nice about the Astros?
That got a lot of play.
Have you all seen that before?
Yeah.
Okay, well, if you guys take a look at it,
if you haven't heard, you want to like refresh your memory.
It's really funny.
And so they were like, Matt,
what can you do that would be funny
for the opening day stuff?
And so essentially, they were like,
why don't you ask people what jersey they want you to get
or that you should get like a gold jersey?
And then you should ask them like all the questions
about like who's your favorite player?
What jersey should I get?
And he's like, you know, and Jonah Javad suggested this.
He goes, how about you ask every person who they want
you to like, who should you get?
They're all gonna say like Cory Seeger,
a Dolly Scarcee, you know, all these like marquee names.
And he goes, and you should just get a Travis Jankowski jersey.
Hell yeah.
It's like, that's brilliant.
I was like, and what if, what if I get a wig
and wear it while I'm buying it?
And so this story, I don't know if you can pull it up,
but it would be really funny if you could.
But is there a possibility to take this full?
You have permission from Channel 8.
I promise you.
I will try to find it.
Okay.
It should be something like Matt Howard's in Jersey.
Ash, I'm sending it to you now in an email with that help.
This is pretty good.
This is pretty good.
All right, this is live email here on YDC today.
Yeah.
You got a hotmail account still?
Or is it an opera account?
I don't know.
We've ever had.
I'm still got AOL.
This is our interlude music.
That's my favorite thing.
Ash actually feels less present.
That's my favorite thing in the world.
Is that poor recorder music?
It's so good.
It's like, did you ever get a recorder
when you're an elementary school?
It was so, what like, is there like a big recorder industry?
There must be.
There's no way.
No use outside of that.
Yeah, like, there's got to be a conspiracy.
Oh my god, go on now.
Don't I?
You got a slide whistle.
You got a slide whistle.
Oh, okay.
Oh, is that kind of like the one that's like,
yeah, yeah, okay.
You could play your slide whistle.
Yeah, it's like, pry on the desk.
Don't you play it?
Don't you play guitar?
Don't you play little guitar?
I don't think you do, too.
Don't you?
Huh?
You play guitar, too, don't you?
I do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If you guys want me to ever joke around.
Oh, there it is.
There's a slide whistle.
I'll hand me that thing.
I want to play it while I'm waiting.
Ah.
Mike's reasonably good.
No way.
What do you do?
You just pull it down?
Oh, cool.
It's kind of smooth.
Ah.
Ah.
Yeah.
Ah.
Ah.
Ah.
Ah.
Ah.
No way.
That's so cool.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm like, I'm like a four-year-old kid.
Okay.
No, it's fine.
Okay.
Okay.
So this, this is easier to just show this to you and then we can, yeah.
Do we could have done that for an hour?
Well, you could have just like, Mike Ryan or Matt Howard's been blowing to a silly whistle
for for an hour.
There's your headline for the, for the podcast.
Oh my god.
Yes, it is.
Uh-oh.
But hell.
It's okay.
We got, we got plenty of time.
Yeah.
We got, are we over?
Is there a, is there a, oh, that's right.
We're on the internet.
Yeah.
We're not bumping up against network programming or anything.
It makes it over.
Not as one trying to figure out the TV.
It's okay.
It's okay.
We got time.
Yeah.
But I swear there's, there's a point to this.
There's, there is a point.
Yes.
She did it.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh, yeah.
That's pretty good on the slide whistle.
Oh my gosh.
Oh, on the slide whistle.
Oh my god.
I didn't even know you could make, I mean.
There's no idea how many times I've listened to practice this during the day.
This is the stiff slide whistle.
Wow.
I didn't even know you could like play a slide whistle.
Yeah.
I thought it was just for gas.
Did you all just hear that?
He just played the sad.
He just played the sad.
My heart will go on on a slide whistle.
The Titanic song.
The Titanic is one of his favorite movies.
Okay.
Are we ready?
Yeah.
There you go.
Oh, wait a minute.
Oh, no.
We don't have any audio.
I look like a total goof.
Here you do it from your computer.
Okay.
Come on, Chupi.
We'll sink this up.
All right.
Very well.
Two, one.
Go.
Where's your music?
Some of them.
These guys, guys, this is, this is, this is again.
I got to get one by the end of the game.
But which player do I get?
Open again, baby.
I don't like cup fans.
I don't like Astro fans.
Yeah.
I don't like anybody.
It's not a ranger fan.
Go ranger.
Woo!
Woo!
I got to get a jersey by the end of the day.
Which one should I get?
Which jersey should I get?
Cory Seager.
Yeah.
Cory Seager.
Of course.
Cory Seager's a good choice.
You got any suggestions?
I was going to say the same thing.
Because we were both at game one.
Seager or Garcia?
Elbombie.
Elbombie.
Elbombie.
Elbombie.
I don't know.
Nothing about by spot.
What?
Let's see what the players have to say.
Which jersey should I buy?
Oh, I see.
That's a lot of good candidates.
I mean, the easy answer is always to get the MEP.
And that's Cory Seager.
Elbombie.
Have you read about that?
I've heard Elbombie.
I've heard Elbombie, and I like it.
It's not to look like a guitarist from Seattle.
The long hair.
No, it's just, I got a really small head.
What do you condition with?
I use whatever my wife gives me.
Get a dulcest.
Get a dulcest jersey.
Are you a skinned fan by chance?
I am not.
No, I mean.
You look like you could be in the bed.
I'm like free bird and simple man,
but that's about all I know.
Elbombie, Garcia!
Garcia!
Get him out of here!
Garcia!
I'm like ridiculous in this.
No, no, no.
Get him out of here.
Get him out of here.
He'll be here for a long time.
How many pile drivers have you taken in your life?
12.
If someone steals a jersey, what do you do?
I tackle him.
Elbow to the throne.
Right.
There you go.
Crushed their windpipe.
What about Travis Jankowski?
I do.
It's not a bad name.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Elbombie.
I still go Cory Seager.
You don't want me to buy a Jankowski jersey?
No.
No.
A selfless and modest man.
You want me in a better way.
Oh, what?
Matthew.
God.
That's Joe Trayhand, by the way.
You know what you must do.
Yeah.
You have right here.
Thanks.
Okay.
Okay.
Hey, God.
Hey, God.
So, that was kind of the idea, right?
Like in the sports department, they're like, go ask everybody who you should get.
They'll tell you Cory Seager.
They'll tell you Dolas, Simeon, whomever, and they're like, and you get a Jankowski jersey.
You get the fans guy.
You get the fans player.
The guys who stepped up for Dolas in the playoffs, who is the recognizable Elbombie.
And so we went to the costume shop.
I went to the costume shop.
Got the hair thing.
Went down to the clubhouse.
The only guy interviewing Travis Jankowski that day on opening day.
And I was, and I'm not trying to say like he's not worthy of being interviewed, but like,
they go around and they talk to like Scherzer.
They talk to, you know, Simeon.
They talk to Big Man.
They talk to there.
And Jankowski's, you know, utility outfielder and he plays around.
And anyway, I didn't even ask him who's Jersey I should get, because I knew I was going
to get his.
And so I was like, you know, I was kind of messing with him about the hair.
So I could obviously show that I have the hair thing.
Then when he said, you know, Leonard Skinner, and I was like, they make a planer.
Skinner at the end.
And then, then when he was like, do you such a nice guy, he was like, use your money in
a better way.
And I was like, dude, this guy is so like humble and nice.
And anyway, so we get his Jersey that night right in the piece or putting this together.
And literally the Rangers are down to against the Cubs opening day.
Guess who comes up to pinch hit Travis Jankowski and he hits a home run.
The only the 11th time in his career, and he ties the game, then they walked it off
in the next inning.
All right.
An hour later, when the game's over, guess who all is at his locker?
Everybody.
Everybody.
And it started out the day that day started out with me talking to him about his hair.
And of course, some of those guys standing around that locker had to be told who they
were talking to.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was pretty funny, man.
And like, so basically today we went and talked to Jankowski because he's back.
He's playing first base or he's the first base coach.
Yeah, he's coach.
Yeah.
We have a cool story with him and I was going to plug that just and we showed he had never
seen that.
No way.
Like he had never seen it.
And so I showed it to him.
He's like, that's the best thing I've ever seen.
And I was like, yes, Janception.
We did it.
We got him.
That's good.
Ladies and gentlemen, Janception directed by Christopher Nolan.
Well, anyway, I mean, I feel like I'm taking up all the time.
I'm sorry.
I did not hijacked the show.
I think I hijacked it.
Actually, there is time.
There's a flat circle up in here.
Yeah.
God's great show.
True detective.
Yeah.
I could talk about that show for hours.
Oh, my gosh.
Loved it.
Loved it.
Y'all watching anything fun right now?
I used to work at Blockbuster, so this is kind of like my, this is my M.O.
Could be movies.
Does Jeopardy count?
Yeah.
Jeopardy's fantastic.
It's the last thing I do every night.
Ken Jennings.
Yeah.
He's still, he's still trucking along his host.
Yep.
He is great, man.
He is.
He's got the stick down, man.
And celebrity Jeopardy is on right now.
Do you guys, I feel like no one's really on Wheel of Fortune anymore.
I feel like every time I turn it on, it's like celebrity Wheel of Fortune.
Eleetors.
They're hosts.
Oh, my gosh.
He's too scared.
Oh, my gosh.
Right after Jeopardy and you hear, wheel.
Oh, my God.
I thought it was a nervous reaction at me.
My skin breaks out.
I tried to get off of it before that happened.
Have you guys seen a night of the Seven Kingdoms?
It's like a Game of Thrones spinoff.
Oh, no.
Oh, it's really good.
You don't even need to know anything about Game of Thrones.
It's like kind of a, it's, it's like this generation's a night's tale.
But with some Game of Thrones stuff in there, it's really good.
It's on HBO.
Okay.
Well, add it to the list.
Just finished.
What else?
Oh, man.
What is Matt watching?
I just got done watching that.
What was that drop?
Did you bet your day last night?
Oh, my goodness.
Man, I watch that.
I'm done with that.
I'm rewatching succession with my wife because she wants to see it.
She hasn't seen it.
And I was like, you like this.
This is kind of cerebral and funny.
Well, I love that show.
It's so good.
It's so good.
Yeah, that was the last one I did was a night of the Seven Kingdoms.
I do rewatch Chernobyl a lot though.
Have you guys seen Chernobyl?
It is.
Yes, I knew you would watch that.
Not good, not terrible.
Not great, not terrible.
It's not, it wasn't a, it's not a great thing that happened.
But like, it's a limited series and it was like six episodes.
That was a great, great one.
It's a really easy watch.
What's that on?
HBO.
HBO.
Yeah.
They kind of talk about the fallout and like the,
wow, we're really getting real dark right now talking about a nuclear disaster.
It was in the 80s, but you're the one that brought it up.
Yeah, it's like, it's really, it's like about how the Soviet Union has to grapple
with like dealing with the worst thing that's ever happened on this planet.
But also like protecting their reputation.
Yeah, and it's like a strength like, you know, show might and strength and not like
embarrass themselves like while people are dying of radiation poisoning.
And it's kind of like how the people in the middle had to like figure it out and like
clean it up and make sure it didn't like destroy countries and populations.
Well, that sounds like fun.
It's very, yeah.
If you really into, yeah, politics and yeah, what happens during a nuclear blast or
nuclear meltdown?
It's very interesting because like there was a lot of film that like the Soviet Union
took of like that cleanup and they used it to like base off of this, this show.
And I think it was unearthed whenever the Soviet Union eventually fell.
I think.
That sounds right.
Anyway.
You're the news guy.
Right.
Yeah.
I don't want to put my stamp on everything, but, you know, I don't know.
I'm not an expert.
Yeah, we brought you here to talk about stuff like that.
Yeah.
It's historically that has to be really an interesting show anyway because it was closed
off.
It's not like it was new.
It's such a, it's such an interesting, it's like fascinating to like just like look at
how like if that were to happen in the US, that would like be crazy.
Like if there's like a part of the country, we just can't enter because of this that
and the other.
But anyway, sorry.
This is a downer.
It's kind of a downer.
Let's go back to the radio voice.
We know you're kind of winding down.
Yeah.
I'm just kind of like a forever sleep.
I'm like, I'm like Yoda in the Empire or not.
Turn the Jedi when he's just like, rest now.
Just kind of keep going slower and slower.
Your father, Vader, is I'm going to tell you, I did not expect this from you.
What were you expecting?
Not this.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Maybe.
Yeah.
I mean, just because I didn't, you know, don't know you're anything.
All right.
I didn't.
I did approach you at a bar, asked him for a picture.
Yeah.
You did.
Pretty assertive.
You did.
And that bar is not exactly what you would call a, shall we say, well, healed.
It is kind of a, it's kind of a dive bar.
Yeah.
It is.
But that's why that's the way I like it.
Damn right.
That's the way I like it.
That's kind.
Yeah.
Right.
Going into any places that are loud, I just really hate that.
It's just not my favorite anymore, at least.
I don't know.
I used to when I was a kid, I could kind of stomach it and be like, nah, cool.
That's fun.
What's the example of a bar that's loud?
Like a club.
I don't know.
Yeah.
It's like where it's music that she's like, do, do, do, do, do.
And you're just like, hey, can you want a drink?
You're like, what?
It's like, that's the whole night with everybody.
I don't even have those anymore.
I think you'd be surprised.
There's, I've had to like, be dragged to one one time.
Like, I think generally like at weddings or like, like, I went to a, after a wedding recently,
we went to a, I don't even know where this place is, but it's downtown.
It's an Asian restaurant, but then they have like a speakeasy club in the back.
I don't know the name of it.
I should know the name of it, but that's just rural Ellis County boy who got dragged to
this club.
And everyone there is like doing bottle service.
And I'm like, can I have a course light, please?
And it's like, what?
It's like, do, do a course light, please?
Anyway.
But yeah, I just say, man, you ain't, I don't want to stowage it tonight.
I know, man.
I know.
See, that's like the fun thing about karaoke.
It feels like a church service, except it's not.
Everybody's singing, you know, and there's kind of a joyous sense.
Yeah.
It's really good time.
That's like kind of why I'm drawn to it.
You like karaoke, shoot me.
I like to watch it.
I don't try, I try not to get on the mic.
What's your, what's your go-to care?
If you had to do one, what's your go-to karaoke song?
I generally try not to.
Really?
It's for the good of everyone.
All right, what if we had some sort of animal?
What if we had some sort of event where I don't know the fate of the world depended on you doing a song?
I will put my wife up as proxy.
No, you got to pick one.
Like, you can't just think of one right now.
To God.
Jakila.
Have you ever heard the song, uh, Hocus Pocus by Focus?
Oh, yeah.
You got it.
All right.
All right.
That was a big hit back in the day.
I have a, I have a great story, um, about, I'm sorry.
If you guys really want me to stop this podcast, we can.
But I might be here all night if I continue talking.
It is almost my bedtime.
It's literally 628.
We have a heart out.
It's in two minutes.
It's going to become a pumpkin.
All right, you got two minutes here.
So on my bachelor party, we went to Pensacola, which is where my wife's from, for the Blue
Angels July 4th show.
That is really fun if you guys have never been air shows are like kind of meh when you
go to like a runway somewhere in a tot.
But in Pensacola, the Blue Angels show is on the beach and you can like go in the beach.
You can bring a cooler of beer.
You can bring snacks.
You can do all sorts of stuff.
And they just like literally like burn jet fuel over your head.
It's amazing.
Um, anyway, have my bachelor party there because a bunch of guys were like, there's
no way we're going an air show for your bachelor party.
I was like, guys, just feel it out.
Like just try it first.
And then we'll see.
It's like Talladega bow with airplanes.
That's these and no one's racing.
This just bakes me doing a show.
Um, and we go to this bar, it's karaoke on the strand.
And I didn't have my wallet with me because I was wearing my swimsuit and we had written,
we had rented a like a golf cart and we're just kind of driving around the strand going
to these different places and we drive and pull up.
They wouldn't let me get a beer because they said I didn't look.
I was like over 18 and I was like, what?
I was like, dude, like I was born in 1989.
Like if you had, if you weren't 20, I guess if it was last year, you would have to have
been born in, let's see, 2003, right?
2004.
We don't do math here.
Yeah.
Something like that.
That's insane.
Like, do I look like I was born in 2004 or earlier?
That's crazy.
So he wouldn't serve me and I'm just like, dude, let's go back to the house and get my
wallet.
And anyway, I was like, I don't want to do that.
So I asked my friend.
I was like, just go buy me a drink.
I'm not trying to get anything crazy.
And he like, the guy, the bartender like pointed it out and was like, no, like don't,
no, don't do that.
And I was like, what are you doing, dude?
Like this is crazy.
Like you, is the, you know, the equivalent of the T.A.B.C. here?
So I go back to the house, I get my wallet and I come back and it's, it, they're doing
karaoke.
And I'm like, I'm going to get everyone out of this place and, and I'm so mad that they
just like, we're being so petty with me.
So I went up to the lady and I was like, can I do Hocus Pocus by Focus?
Which if you ever heard this song, it's like, yeah, and it's nothing but yodeling.
And there were several people who left the bar.
Right.
Very, very-and I was very proud of that.
That's good.
I was very proud of that.
And there's a video of it.
And I'm like screening and yodeling, and it's very unpleasant.
Like it sounds like a slaughterhouse.
It's very bad.
There's like, there's like that one part.
He's like, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude,
dude, you like, kind of does like that, that's Scat Man stuff.
And when I did that part, everyone was Vegan.
That's it right there. Yeah, and it way hang up. Let's let's pull apart.
Yeah, that's like imagine doing that in a karaoke bar. Everybody would just be like,
I would love to see it. Well, I did it. I achieved a few, I achieved a few patrons leaving,
you know, as mainly the people that were wanting to be there to be seen. I was like, you don't
come here to be seen. You come here with your ID. Anyway,
I gotta go to bed. Please watch WFA Daybreak. Also watch your dark companion.
Yes, you guys have been so awesome. Thank you all so much for inviting me, man.
Hey, thank you for doing this. The great one. I would not miss this, man.
And literally, I've been looking forward to this for like two weeks.
I've been like, not only haven't I never done a podcast before. You guys are the first ones.
But like literally this, I've talked to Jesse about he's like, Mike and the guys are so much fun.
And I was like, I know I've listened to them previously before.
You know, when they were on the radio's. And so I love this. This is someone I'm honored to
you guys ask me on. Well, we're honored to have you, man. You're damn good at what you do, brother.
Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. I also have a fun side too.
I'm not afraid. You sure do? I'm not afraid to let it loose a little bit.
You sure? I'm not afraid to let it loose a little bit.
If there's one thing we learned about the great Matt Howard, then today it's that.
And that I have really bad hair when it's not done. Look at that. Fantastic.
Is it not? Looks like a doll's hair, parted in the middle. Just really bad.
I can't imagine it not being great all the time.
Yeah, a doll with dead eyes.
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