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Matt Siegel tells the Globe he was offered a morning show and declined

Fenway1912

Fenway1912

www.bostonglobe.com

Matty in the Morning, in his own words - The Boston Globe

Matt Siegel discusses his favorite moments in radio, why he left Kiss 108, and whether or not you’ll hear him on the air again.
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Are there any plans for you to come back to radio?

MS: I’ll tell you what’s tough. For years, I played golf, and it would be like, “Well, I’m lousy at golf, but I’m really successful in my career.” Now, I’m just really bad at golf and nothing else. It’s very depressing. I don’t know, I mean, Billy and Lisa have the show. I’m happy for them. I don’t want to cramp their style. I will say this. I was offered a job to go against Kiss at another radio station — I can’t name it — for good money. And I said no. I don’t wanna go up against Kiss. I didn’t want to do that. I certainly don’t want to get up at five in the morning again. I was very flattered that I was offered a job. But no, I said no. So yeah, I’d like to do something. How much golf can you play? You know I haven’t lost my sense of humor. I would have to have somebody sitting next to me.
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Matt concedes there was friction with Costa at the end

MS: Billy and I were... Billy and I were best friends, and we had a little falling out. The falling out had to do with something that I don’t want to put in the paper because it was personal. But we did have a falling out, so in the last couple of years I haven’t been on the show or anything, which I was disappointed about, but I’m totally cool with Billy. Billy and Lisa said some really nice things when I got in the Hall of Fame. It happens. But he was a major talent. I couldn’t have done it without Billy and Lisa and the people that preceded them. There’s no way, I mean. I don’t do monologues. I’m either interviewing a celebrity or screwing around back and forth with Billy and Lisa and the folks who came before.

I feel bad, because most people know that I haven’t been on Kiss in my retirement. It wasn’t my plan, I wanted to stay around. But I couldn’t have done it … I wouldn’t have had a career without them and they were very sweet to me when I got in the Hall of Fame. It was a little weird toward the end. But I think what happened right before I retired is that I started [doing] the show from my house in Florida. I wouldn’t say it was a mistake, but it made it harder. Because if we had had that falling out and I was in Boston, we would have talked it out. The fact that I was a couple thousand miles away, we never did work it out. So that’s unfortunate. But, like I said, I’m totally appreciative of his talent. I’m totally appreciative of him saying the nice words he said when I got into the Hall of Fame, and who knows? Maybe down the road, we’ll become friends again; it could happen.
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So..Matty and Billy had a “falling out” that wasn’t worked out—but Matty thinks would have been worked out if Matty didn’t do the show from FLA?

On one hand it sounds like a very big deal in the scheme of things— perhaps in the context of Matty’s abrupt retirement and certainly in his post retirement relationship with Kiss and his colleagues.

OTOH-it could have been resolved by Matty being here and just talking it out?

Anyone know what this could be?
 
I wonder what station made him the offer. WROR already had the post-L&W show in place, so I am thinking it was not 105.7. Perhaps Magic?
 
Fenway1912 said:
No paywall

www.boston.com

‘I was criticized for not being woke enough’: Radio giant Matt Siegel opens up in new Globe interview

Matt Siegel reflected on his struggles with “woke” culture and his “falling out” with Billy Costa in a new Boston Globe interview.
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What "struggles with woke culture?" Either you're nice to people, or you're not.

This guy sounds like a tired old tool, which, in Massachusetts, makes you king of the world. Also, I call bull on him being offered any kind of deal by Audacy or Beasley, unless it was to record pithy liners for Big.
 
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