Episode 2 - Ryan McGee
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What is the introduction to the Matt Jones Show?
Hi, everybody. Welcome to episode two of the Matt Jones Show. Thank you guys very much for making episode one and the show successful. You can subscribe on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. It's been wonderful to get the response. This is what we were hoping for. So every week, we're going to do two episodes, one of which will air on radio in Kentucky, and then the other of which will be on here.
Who is Ryan McGee and what is his background?
And we'll put both episodes on the podcast feed. But really, there'll be one that is kind of podcast only, and we're going to start this one with an old friend of mine, Ryan McGee. He's done writing for ESPN for a long time, used to work on RPM Tonight. He covers college football and auto racing. More importantly, a smart guy with good Southern North Carolina roots. And there's not a lot of us in sports media, actually, from the South. Worked with him on ESPN, and he actually put me – on the radio for my first time with ESPN. So we talked to him a little bit earlier today, and it's a big week with all the motorsports on Memorial Day. So we'll check it out. And then on episode three, we'll have Crystal Ball, my good friend who works in politics.
So we go from Bomani to Ryan to Crystal Ball. That episode should be out probably Thursday night or so. So with that. Ryan McGee. All right, episode two here of the Matt Jones Show. And you know, when I started these, I wanted to get people early on that I knew who've done these before who I know I can talk to and are fun to be around and interesting. And Ryan McGee of ESPN fits all of those. He does college football. He does auto racing. And he's also a good Southerner, one of the few people on ESPN with a voice sounding like mine. Ryan, thank you very much. How you been?
I'm good, yeah. I'm petty enough that I hope that all of the professors that I had who said I could never – and the people I interviewed with for jobs who said I could never be on air because of the way I sounded. I'm petty enough to hope that they – Yeah, screw those people.
When I went to law school and I was going to Duke, it wasn't like I was going up in the Northeast. My professor said to me, you need to work on your voice or all of those folks will think you're dumb. And I actually thought that was bad advice because I thought the voice kind of helped. People underestimate you, Ryan, and then you can prove them wrong.
No, no. I say it all the time. I went to Connecticut to work at ESPN at the Death Star, basically a year out of college. And the company, ESPN is so much different now than it was 30 years ago. People from all over the country. But back then, it was basically just me and a bunch of guys who'd gone to school at Syracuse and Columbia. And everyone treated me like a foreign exchange student. They literally would speak loud and slow to me.
Really?
Like you couldn't understand? Like grinder sandwiches. So if I just did my job, they thought I had overcome some obstacle, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, no, no. So, yeah, it worked out for me.
You needed to be rescued by them or something like that. Yeah, that's it. I like that. Well, so I have a lot of stuff I want to talk to you about. But real quick on being Southern and on ESPN, I joke. We're on ESPN Radio. You do Marty and McGee, and I do Matt and Myron. Did you know we're the two longest-running ESPN Radio shows now? Did you know that?
Yeah, so for years on Saturday, we would lead into Daria and Mel with our buddies Daria Noka and Mel Kiper. And when Daria and Mel ended, I guess it was in 2024, all of a sudden everybody was like, Marty McGee, a show that quite frankly there were people at the time didn't really want us on their radio i understand and we and we've been on now longer than i mean it's not even really close we've been on now we've been on since marty and i were talking today we we started doing a podcast no one listened to like more than a dozen years ago you've been on since 2015 you on the radio then we moved to saturday afternoon um like at three o'clock in the afternoon which the family really liked um and then we moved to saturday morning yeah
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the introduction to the Matt Jones Show?
0:00–0:24
2
Who is Ryan McGee and what is his background?
0:24–5:40
3
What makes Memorial Day significant for auto racing?
5:40–12:47
4
How has Formula One gained popularity in America?
12:47–32:40
5
What impact does NIL have on college sports?
32:40–37:43
6
How do college football and basketball differ in their evolution?
37:43–38:48
7
What are the implications of new state laws on NCAA rules?
38:48–54:04