"Every time I turn the mike on, Iâm just trying to think of something funny," Matt Siegel told Boston Magazine. "Itâs a weird skill I have, but Iâm pretty good at it."
After 37 years on the air, Matt "Matty in the Morning" Siegel is the undisputed king of Boston drive-time. "Weâve been within the top three my whole career," he says, casually describing his stranglehold atop the local ratings. "Thatâs why they keep giving me contract extensions."
Matty opened up on a wide range of topics in the interview, including how the city has changed over the decades. "Itâs not like the old Boston that was kind of rough in a way. I mean, youâd go to the ballpark and there would be fights," he explained. "You donât see that stuff anymore."
On politics, the 67-year-old's views are pretty straightforward: "I hate Donald Trump. Itâs well documented. I think heâs just an awful person in every possible way."
But his thoughts on local legend Tom Brady are a bit more nuanced:
I have problems with Tom Brady a little bit. Well, I thinkâI donât knowâIâve been in the public eye here a long time and it never, ever would occur to me to say to somebody, 'Do what I do.' The diet stuffâthat bothers me. The relentlessness of that. Itâs really odd, and the more Brady talks about it, the more odd he seems to me. I mean, I like the Patriots, I root for the Patriots, I donât want them to be odd. His diet is sketchy.
From retirement plans to what his wife thinks about the show, head on over to Boston Magazine for Matty's full interview!