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Interrupted by Matt Jones

Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

21 May 2025

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Ryan McGee is a senior writer for ESPN and the co-host of the Marty & McGee show on ESPN Radio. He is best known for his work with NASCAR and college football.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0.149 - 24.696 Matt Jones

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.

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24.716 - 49.855 Matt Jones

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.

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49.875 - 74.106 Matt Jones

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.

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74.146 - 97.793 Matt Jones

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.

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98.113 - 109.216 Matt Jones

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?

110.327 - 129.291 Ryan McGee

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.

129.951 - 149.357 Matt Jones

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.

149.437 - 175.53 Ryan McGee

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.

176.09 - 179.471 Ryan McGee

They literally would speak loud and slow to me.

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