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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You got a big game tomorrow. Fresnel State headed to
the Islands or the well. I guess we say final
Hawaii game. We'll be saying no more as we moved
to the PAC twelve. I saw him on TV last
weekend and I said, you know what, I sure would
like to talk to that man right there. He does
play by play for Fresnel State. You see him on TV,
you hear him on the radio. Matt Norvil. Matt, welcome man,
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good to have you.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hey, thanks for having me. What's good. You're in your
Dodger brown. I am.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I'm rooting for the Dodgers, and I think Kershaw goes.
I think tonight if I'm right.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And if somebody heard me say Brown, tell them why.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Because I'm wearing a Dodger Brown. Yeah, that's why. Forty
seven hat. And then I got a car heart one too.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Something they got me.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Heer man, all right, well the gear has gone crazy,
he hasn't it?
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I know. For my dad's eightieth birthday, my sister and
Nerby got together and bought him the shirt. It said
Birthday Cake and it had these little sprinkles on it.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Have you seen those?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I have not seen it. And I'm listening to you
right now.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Little birthday cake sprinkles on the Dodger shirt, and we thought, Okay,
he's not gonna like this.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
He loved it.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
He loved it because he's got all the kind of
Dodger stuff. But they're really getting creative or hey, they are.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Man and hopefully they'll start to play some good baseball
going into postseason and maybe have a repeat. Otani is
doing what he does. Mookie looks like he's coming along.
Kershaw announced it's his final season, first Battle Hall of Famer.
I mean, I'm excited they got they got the Giants tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Now I heard I was asking some people about you.
I heard something about baseball in Saint Louis background. Back,
where did you grow up?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
And so I actually was born in LA and then
I ended up. My mom is from south Side Chicago,
So I grew up most of my life in the
Chicago area or south Side Chicago. That's where I spent
most of my life. And then I went to college.
Sox are Cubs. I was Southside. I was white Sox.
Half my family are Cubs and I was white Sox.
And then that was the first baseball game ever went
to was a White Sox game. It was like, if
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you got good grades, you go to a White Sox game,
because White Sox just they don't sell a lot of tickets,
so they were giving them away. I give them that.
That was my favorite first hover baseball.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Game, even worse than the Houston Astros of the late seventies.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
It was orange.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Stripe Chicago white socks. And this was when I was
a kid. I was about ten years old. They're red
and blue and white. Woh no when they wore shorts.
Oh yeah, yeah, okay, you heard that story.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
They wore shorts for a season. Short on. Man, you're
gonna have high socks.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
That's all I knew.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
So how did you get involved in?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
And all that?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
So I grew up playing sports obviously kept us active
for my family. It kept us also, you know, you
have to get good grades to play sports. So it
was it was a did two things at once. Went
played college ball, and then I happened to be down
in Central Illinois and I wanted I either was going
to go into coaching for basketball or I was going
to go into broadcasting because I wanted to stay around basketball.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
You played, but you played, I played, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
And then I decided that, you know, I'm just going
to go into broadcasting because I don't want to take
the losses home with me. And so the first job
I got was a small local radio station in like
a farm area, and they were they were an affiliate
of the same those Cardinals, and so I used to
run the books state card Illinois, Illinois. Yeah, so, like
the Cardinals are big and like you obviously Missouri, Illinois, Kansas,
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but then you get the whole South, like they're big
in Tennessee and all that. Because they don't have really
a sports team Atlanta. The Braves kind of take some
of it, so they have so many affiliates, and so
I ran the board for Cardinals games, and that's kind
of how I got my start. Started doing some small
town basketball and football, did the state tournaments, and moved
out here and I'm doing Presdent State.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
When you just said Tennessee, let me let me tell
you that's that's where I was born. My woman dad
moved back there from Arizona. They retired back there, but
that's where the whole family was. And I was raised
a Dodger fan in Tennessee, which is which is wild
because my uncle my dad's older brother was a Cardinal fan,
and my dad was a little brother, so he wanted
to be against his big brother and he became a
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Dodger fan. And this was in the late fifties into
the early sixties in a small little town in Tennessee.
The Dodgers were not real popular.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Now because they won a lot.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah well the racial lines, yeah yeah, yeah, it wasn't
real popular to be a Dodger r right back then there.
But anyhow, that's that's where my Dodger roots came from.
And it's all because of the Cardinals. So yeah, and
they are big there though. They are a huge, gigantic
in Tennessee, especially Tennessee. I mean you got I mean,
you got Memphis right there. I mean it's West Tennesse
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might be more Cardinal. East Tennessee might be more Braves
because they're further Ea slightly maybe maybe slightly. I mean
there's this there's a lot of Cardinal fans out there.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I learned.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I learned a lot about the Cardinals, uh with, based
on just working for that station. And then a funny
thing is I come out here and Paul Ladwick, who
used to work at Fresno State Uh. He was the
guy that kind of like first got me going with
the broadcasting. He was a Cardinals fan. He had a
YadA or Molina bobblehead. And I walk in, like after
I just got done working at that Cardinal station, I go,
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you have a YadA or Molina, and then we get
talking about the Cardinals and so.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
That when you were bored up and then getting started.
Was that during their big time?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
And was that Yeah, that's that's Alburt, that's Albert Poolhols
and that and that crew and uh World Series appearances.
I went to a World Series and was it twenty
eleven when they played the Texas Rangers, And so I
went to game one because obviously you're part of it.
You get season tickets and all that good stuff. So yeah,
it was It was a blast. It taught me the
behind the scenes, and I knew this is what I
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wanted to do with my with my career. And so
the rest is kind of as they say, history moved
out here. Love California. I mean I just flat out
of door this state and love Fresno. People have been fantastic.
School is great, and it's just like it's one of
those places that I just I've really liked it out here.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Now you do other sports threads?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah, so I radio broadcast, So radio broadcast, I got basketball,
and then softball baseball, so I fill in for Leffler
if he can't do some baseball. I at the NCAA
tournament a couple of seasons ago because I had to
fill in for him. And then I do men's and
women's basketball if men's if Paul can't make it with
the football conflicts, and then I do women's basketball in
softbat like my main two.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
And TV of course, and TV? What do you like better?
I mean, how first of all, how Lord doing TV?
They're different. I've been doing TV for a little bit,
probably about five six years, but they're a little different. Wellferent,
you know.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I mean I've never done TV, right, I would say
I like TV more, but I like I like radio
a lot. Radio is all about describing and you've got
people listening at home, and you paint the picture.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Can I ask this question?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Is TV easier if you've done radio before? TV's easier
because you've never If you've never done radio, i'd say
TV is difficult. But if you've done radio, I always
say every radio guy can do TV.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
But you got to paint the picture.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah, it's you got radio description, right, So if you
just go in doing TV and then you've got to
do a radio broadcast, I would say that's a tougher
transition from if you're doing radio to TV.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Well, you got a great guy there in front of you.
Paul Lefflers call him or somebody else named this. Actually
Steve Darnell, my old boss named in this. Uh called
him the Bob Costas of the Valley is great.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
His delivery is just so, has anflect his words, he
uses everything.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
And well, I tell you it's something else here. Uh,
we're gonna be looking at Hawaii tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
The Rainbow Warriors.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I said, you gotta win if that's gonna be your
mascot right there. And they're tough man there.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
They're three and one. I think it's a pretty even matchup.
I was talking earlier to another station about this upcoming matchup.
I think it's pretty even. It's tough playing on the
island that the Fresno State has won there. I want
to say since nineteen. Last time they beat Hawaii was
twenty twenty two. They had a tough one in twenty
twenty one. So travel, it's it's it's the travel, it's
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the time change, I think. And then I think you're
playing a good opponent on the road. So I think
if you do all of those things that I think
that that makes it very difficult. But I think Fresno State,
I think it's going to be a close game. But
if Fresno State can run the football, control of the clock,
I think they'll be all right.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
All Right.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
The guy just said that called the Bob Costas of
the Valley. I turn around and there's the sun.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Ye, there you go, there, there you go, there you
go learn how life happens like that.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Tomorrow night, the kickoff is going to be at nine o'clock,
so he can't Kenny gonna be starting the party at seven.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
In pregame of Poach.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Poach with Paul Coach, the Poach, Paul Coach and Cam
at eight o'clock, it looked like you and Cam Morell
had a good time up there in the broadcast booth.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Oh blast.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Me and Cam have actually worked together before. We did
a Friday night Rivals game, and so we did that,
so we've got to I think we've got great chemistry.
Cam's a fantastic human being, too, fantastic guy knows his football,
and like I said, he's one of those guys that
you know, you meet some guys and and they'll tell
you everything about themselves and how good they were and
all this. He doesn't really talk about how good of
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a player he was, and you kind of got to
get it out of him. And Cam was an unbelievable
player at I.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Heard you guys talking about the super Bowl on TV,
and obviously I'm a Bears fan, being for Chicago, so yeah,
it's really cool.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Last time we were really any good if you think
about it. We've really struggled since, but yeah, he was there.
I just was telling you guys off the air. I
was watching the YouTube highlight of Devin Hester's score, and
I was like, oh, there's got run over like you said,
and then he's the first one in the end zone
like you said, and then he makes a tackle on
the next play like he said, and then he's gassed.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Not everybody has a super Bowl highlight.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Right, exactly. Not everyone has a Super Bowl jersey.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah, can you imagine like when it okay, when it
Dann Marino, right.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
That never made it to it. He went to one
city go and never went, never won, and then he
never went again. I think he went early on in
his career. Might even have been his rookie year.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Think of those veterans I've grinded out in NFC and
AFC championship games and comes so close and then a
rookie comes along and makes it a first year and
who We're in the super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I know.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I mean, you got a local kid right now, and
Josh Allen that's hoping he can get over the hump
and he's he's bawling out. But uh, you just never know, man.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
You know, Josh Allen has made me realize I was
raised a Cowboy fan, always lived in Texas as a kid.
Got my Roger Stallback Sports Illustrated Post still today, still
have it. I got my Dallas Cowboy Weekly. He still
still you were so you were raised? You said you
were raising Texas.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Tennessee and techy. Okay, but a little bit. I got
a funny story for you. But go ahead with you.
I'll go ahead.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
And I was just gonna say, my brother got so
my brother got his mass there is he was a ga,
he's a track coach.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
He got it.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
At Baylor, and he used to go to movies when
the Cowboys played because everyone in Texas is watching the Cowboys, so.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
The theater would be his, he said.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
He said, text me all the time, He's like, Hey,
this movie came out this week, I'm gonna go to
the theater because obviously he's a Bears fan. Cowboys are playing,
no one's gonna be there.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Well, let me tell you how that segues to what
I was just gonna say. What was in talking about
Josh Allen you brought up and I'd always been a
Cowboys fan. But now I don't know if it's my
age or whatever it is, but I'm more of a
player person now. Like Josh Allen's story, I loved it,
and it's like I like him now more than Dak Prescott.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I don't even I don't even care. Really, it's the player.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
And I used to live in Buffalo, and I wasn't
a Bills fan then I lived there a few years.
But the best time to go grocery shopping in Buffalo
it's not before the game. Oh that's the most Busyriday
morning at seven am.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
You don't want to be in a.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Grocery store after church at twelve noon, roll on in
and you'll be like Elvis shop close to yourself.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Hey, I noticed though, and I always equate this to Fresno.
Towns like Fresno and Buffalo and even like Pittsburgh to
in Cleveland. Uh, those kind of towns that like New
York and Boston look down on those other ones San
Francisco and La look down on Fresnoe. It gives you
a chip on your shoulder, right, So the people love
their community, they love their town, and they take pride
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in the fact, especially when they beat those glitzy other places.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I would say, I would say, yeah, that that we're
talking about that kind of on the broadcast, Can and
I were saying that really the team for Fresno kind
of identifies with the community and that's kind of how
they play and they do everything, and it's I think
that's always very important. But like you mentioned those you
mentioned the Pittsburgh's, the the Fresno's, the Buffalo's.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I can't leave out Cleveland. I don't right Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I don't want to mention green Bay, but green Bay
is like that, I mean so like they they are
not gritty, though, are they they're they're pretty great?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Are they pretty?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Gad?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
They are?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I hate saying as embarrass fan, but they really are.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Not Oakland Raider gritty, but not not Oakland Raiders good nobody, No,
but Green Bay is They've got the They've got kind
of the presno vibes to it and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
And yeah, you love that.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
You want to be what your community is because in
your community loves to come out root for you. That's
one of the reasons I think Fresno States had successful
programs athletically and then especially in football, fans come out.
It's a party. They have a blast, and then and
then the kids play hard and and let's hope they
can pick up a dub tomorrow against Hawaii.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
All Right, I do have to say that TV ages you. You
look like a younger man in person. I'm just gonna say, see,
radio keeps you young forever. Radio keeps no one knows
how you you can stay young forever.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
On that radio.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Matt Norville is sitting in with me here Fresne State
play by play on the radio and the TV. I'm
gonna come back and talk about uh, mailboxes and mailboxes.
I said mailboxes, yes, and I'm gonna talk about other announcers,
some of these national people in the presentation, and I'm
going I'm gonna get Matt's take on this as well.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I'll just give you a little hit.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Everything seems so overhyped. You're worn out. You're worn out
by the time the game starts. So we're gonna cover that.
It's a tremor nation all over the place tour. We're
live from he know Ois sheet and even be heading
down to the South Valley. My guests hours Matt Norville
Fresnell state play by play on radio and TV. We
just heard he got his start back in a little
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station out in Illinois. Some of those games you get
out of there at one am and see the fireflies
out there, right.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Oh yeah, it's it's interesting. So the station is wldswe AI.
It's in a small town and I had a good
we had a good laugh. Coach Matt Ence. There's a
Division II school called Illinois College there and that's where
his first job was. He was a DC there. So honestly,
I go into the production meeting and the first thing
I say to him, you know, coaches come in, they're serious,
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you know, they're you know, and he's I just said, hey,
what do you tell me what you know about Jacksonville,
Illinois and coach Tom Rowland And he just stares at
me and goes, this is you're hearing coach Matt ens In,
the president who's coaching the President State Bulldogs team. His
first job was that. And I said, he said.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
How do you know that?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
And then we had a good laugh and talk about
and all that good stuff. But yeah, so it's it's
it's funny how if the world is big but he
has it's small.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
You can go you can travel anywhere in the world
and you'll run into someone. You'll be like, how is
that even possible? And you can tie in I know,
the seven degrees of Kevin Bacon. But it's so true though,
you just tie into someone you don't even realize it.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
So it's we.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Had a good laugh about that. But yeah, small local station.
I think that's the way to go. And then you know,
work your way up and then get to see everything else.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Twelve forty kl Away Ridgecist.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
There you go, there, you go? Right, you know all about.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Senior in high school work and Saturday and Sunday nights, right,
and while all my friends are out, I was there
playing a Livy Newton, John and John T there you go,
and they were listening to k.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Los and La right right, right, right right, Yeah, that
was there were nights listen.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
When I first started Matt, I would go home because
it signed off at midnight and the AM was automated,
so it stayed on. So I would go home and
turn on my clock radio to see if it was
silent or whether it was Yeah, it sound that I
didn't sign something off right right, and I knew I
was gonna be in trouble.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
That's funny because so when I was full time, full
time at that station, I obviously ran board games for
the Cardinals, but they had a music side, so I
actually was a music DJ.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yeah I did.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I did that just and then I did obviously the
board off for the Cardinals games. And so it was
a what year are we talking about? We're talking we're
talking oh five about all right? So was it all
on computer and then all the music and stuff computer?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, I'm not doing it.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Although they they were old school in terms of they
had like it was I wouldn't say it was a museum,
but they had things that you could see like, this
is what we did back in the fifties, this is
what we did back in the sixties, and you could
see that.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
And they had the old turntables. We never used that
until our remodel here. There were some of that around
our building. And the engineer gave me an old reel
to reel and I put that thing right in my
living room.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
It's it's an art piece.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
And I tell people, I go, we used to have
to take a razor blade and a wax pencil and
market on the tape.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yeah, got it, tape it together for one edit, which
takes now click click click done.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Oh, you can edit anything in like ten seconds.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
And Adobe's great, isn't it. Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I'm yeah. I'm not a pro at many things.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I can look at it visually and see what's a breath,
and what right right, right right?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
What the syllables are on it? Up the volume, lower
the volume.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Don't you just love technology?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Listen, there's so much.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
And right before the break, I said, we're gonna come
back and talk about all the the pregame hype with
national broadcasts. I think the team here does it just right.
It's it doesn't wear you out, but it's exciting. Uh
these pregames and okay, you're on TV. Did did the
TV people not understand the voice level thing? The yelling
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and talking? Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Is it me? Okay?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Does your generation enjoy that?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
It's more, it's more inn it's it's you gotta look
at TV's in or just straight up entertainment. So it's
entertainment and I've got to somehow find a way to
get you excited. And say, we're watching a college football
game tomorrow and you don't care about the two teams playing.
How do I get you excited to care about the
two teams playing? And so a lot of it is
just fun and games. Really, I always say that all
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the time. A lot of it's for show, but you're
just trying to get people excited. I actually personally like that.
I like, if I'm going to watch anything, I like
someone to be excited about what they're doing. That gets
me into it. So, like, my favorite announcers are always guys.
I feel like that they that when you sit down
and you watch them, it looks like they enjoy what
they do. I don't like the guys that you just
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feel like, well, there's probably collecting a check that doesn't
excite me, so I don't mind. I don't mind that.
I think everyone's got their own style. I think the
one thing I've talked to younger broadcasters in college and
stuff about is I think that as broadcasters as a whole,
we fall into the mold of we all want to
be kind of the same, and I think everybody is different.
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So you just need to be who you are as
a broadcaster, and I think that'll bring out your best quality,
which then in turn will make everyone a little different
and that separates you from someone else. So that's what
I always tell They always ask me. Usually they say, hey,
what's one rule you would say, or what's a thing
you would tell me that for a young broadcaster to become.
And I always say, just be yourself. I mean, you
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can take things from other people, but at the end
of the day, still be core to who you are.
If you're an excitable person, be excitable. If you're someone
that kind of makes fun of yourself, make fun of
yourself a little bit. Just be who you are. And
I think that comes across as genuine and then people
like it.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I just said it and realized I'm saying TV and radio.
But when you do TV, you're not on the TV
that much because it's always on the game. You know,
it's a few times a game they see you. So
I bet there are sometimes you have to go, do
you kick into radio mode and go wait, I keep
pull back because they're seeing this right now. I don't
have to over explain it. Do you find that, Yeah,
you don't have to.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
The analyst is the one guy that has to explain
it because they get the person watching it wants to know,
especially in football, hey what did I just see? But
from a play by playpoint of view, I mean Paul
was calling the game, and I'm calling the game, and
Paul's got to say, hey, he cuts up field inside
the twenty five, inside the twenty, inside the fifteen. I
don't have to say any of that. I just canna say, hey,
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he makes a move and you can see cut inside
the twenty five, inside the twenty, and you just let
him go. If it's a touchdown round, I can say, hey,
he's inside the thirty, and then I can say touchdown.
You've just seen everything. But if it's Paul on the radio,
or if I'm on the radio, you have to say
he's inside the thirty, he's inside the twenty, he's inside
the ten. So they know, and so yeah, there's differences.
It's a lot of fun though. I mean, it keeps
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me involved in sports because I love sports and sports
has been such a big part of my life, and
it just it keeps me involved without having to do.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
The coaching stuff.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
The coaching stuff just seems like a grind, Like I
relate to the coach. I've got coaches in my family,
so I just I relate to what they go through,
and I just keeps me involved in At the end
of the night, you know, you say either it was
good broadcast or broadcast, and if I'm on radio, I'm
saying bye this guy right next to you, to your right,
and then I go home.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
And that's usually how it goes. Well.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I'm gonna think as a coach, it never because even
with a victory, your mind's already thinking of the next game,
and even when the season's over, you're thinking recruitment. I mean,
it's just a NonStop It's really never enough.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
And it never stops.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
I actually did an interview with the new women's basketball
coaching staff that's gonna air for Fresno State Taylor and
I did it and it's gonna air on Tuesday. But
they kind of talked about it. When you're just saying like, hey,
what do you do for fun or days off? And
they kind of hint it really knows day.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
There are really no days off.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I bet not welcome to be in a Who's your
favorite TV sports announcer?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Gus Johnson hands down? He knew no questions asked. I
love Gus. I actually think their crew as a whole,
it's fantastic. Jenny Tapser sideline reporter Joel Klatt is his
color commentator. But I love I love Gus. He's a
kid from Detroit and he just man. He is so
good at how he calls the game. I love his excitement.
(20:52):
That's my He's my favorite guy by far. I've got
a lot of guys though. I like Harlan he does NBA,
He'll do the NFL's your NFL radio. He's very good.
I like Iron Eagle. I think Iron Eagle is really good,
but Gus Johnson is by far and away my favorite.
I thought Bob Costas was really good too.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Oh wait, wait wait, I have to update myout.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
My boss Steve I said it was Bob Costas he
said Paul Lofflo, it was Jim Nance.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Jim unbelievable though, by the way, Jim Nance is unbelievable.
Him and Romo do a great jo, do a great
job together. I've gotta, I've.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Gotta, I've got a How does Romo's such a predictor?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Like? I love it?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
He goes they're gonna run around the right, and they
do it. I love I love it. By tracking his percentage.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
I'm not, but he is. He's right more often than not.
Kind of spooky, right, I like that though, I mean,
even if you're wrong, I just like that you hear
it from a quarterback's perspective. So like, even if he's
wrong on what they're doing, you know then where the
quarterback probably is thinking.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
And I think that's why a lot of times.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Quarterbacks make such good color commentators in football, and I
think in baseball. I think pitchers and catchers make really
good color commentators in baseball just because calling the game
and seeing the game, they see it a little different
than everyone else.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I think a catcher should be paid more than anybody
in Major League Baeball, I got some friends I would
agree with you on that they must look out to
the left fielder.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
It had anything out there and getting hit and beat.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Up and every true there and they're and they're the
toughest guys on the team, man, because they get hit
and beat up and all of that. Yeah, catchers, man, Man,
that's a tough that's tough being a catcher.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah. In Colt League.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Of course, in high school I was never a catcher,
but in Colt League I would catch some games and
by that equipment be so big, but I loved it.
And I think I blinked every single time that that
ball hit the minute, like you blink when they swing.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
You just can't help it. Uh huh did you?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Did you ever get by? So yeah, I played litle
league baseball. I caught probably for just a couple of games,
and they're like, Matt, you're going outfield.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
So I was.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I was a center fielder to use my speed and stuff,
and then a third base was the only other spot
I ever played was the hot corner. But it was
just it was basically anything in the outfield or a third.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Well, we're talking sports on Fresnel State Friday. What's your
favorite sport?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Matt to call.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Favorite sport to call. Basketball is my favorite sport to
watch and call, I would say, but a closer favorite
basketball close second is volleyball. Though I love Colin, I
love calling volleyball. Volleyball is a great it is a
fantastic sport. Favorite basketball team, Yeah, Golden State Warriors and
Chicago Bulls. I got two of them. You had to
have a mail box that had a Chicago Bulls or
the Warriors.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Which one would you go with? Probably the Bulls? Probably.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I'm gonna tell you next year how you can get
a Chicago Bulls mail boxing in case you're okay.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
It's a tremornation all over the place. Tour we are
live and he know oyshe Matt Norville sitting in with
me this hour for Reznel State play by play, many
different kinds of sports on radio and TV. Matt, we
couldn't ordered a better day than this. Could win gorgeous.
I love it's it eighty three degrees what it was?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Let me let me lick my finger and test it
is beautiful, beautiful, beautiful day.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Wait, I didn't wash my hands, and I grabbed the
doorman and a go, are you are you a German phobe?
When you travel in hotels and stuff like that. I mean,
you really, the older you're getting, I wasn't either, the
older I'm getting the more germophobic.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Really, I mean, I'll use hand sanitizer obviously wash my
hands in the bathroom, but like, I don't. I wouldn't
say more or less. I'm probably just normal.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, you know, normal whatever. I'm not normal.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
I got a sister that like, I mean, she's like
washing your hands a ton and all that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
But I mean I would say, I'm just Matt.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I'm almost to the point of carrying my own cilverlware.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Are you no? Okay? Okay?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Would you would you wear my underwear? If I said
they're watching the right not? But we put forks in
our mouth inside us that everybody else sucks, see what I.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Mean, right, But you can then need that you clean
it through it.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I was a dishwasher in Chico, are you Yeah? I
know about dishwasher. I'm telling me something I don't know.
I'm telling you need to travel.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
With your Oh, so we're gonna we're gonna stop this
conversation so that I don't have to start hearing my
own silverware.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Well, you think you're start thinking about it, You'll start
thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Uh mattuh.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
We want to welcome in here, Ray Winkle, Ray with
seventeen seventy six Manufacturing. I met Ray at the termination
all over the place tour up at Craft ninety nine pizza.
He came out and Ray, when did you start your company?
Get real close to that? Get right on up there, man.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
I started long about two thousand and four, two thousand
and five.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
All right, I'm gonna have to have you get this
one right here real quick.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Started about two thousand and four, two thousand and five.
All right, and what made you started? The company I
was working for went bankrupt?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Okay, well that's one way to do it, right.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
I was an engineer for Upright and when they went under.
I when they went under, I decided to, like, Okay,
what am I gonna do? I got I was sick
of the white collar world, and I decided to go
into the field of fabrication.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Now, explain. I see I watch a lot of HGTV,
the manly ones on there about metal and breaking down
things and put but I watch a lot of people
do artwork with metal. They'll find old stuff and sculpture it,
and it's it's it's a fascinating world. You're not quite
doing that, but you are doing that. Explain what you're
doing with your seventeen seventy six.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
I've I When I purchased my house, it had no mailbox,
and everybody was on me, you gotta have a mailbox,
blah blah blah. I sent all my mail to the
shop so I didn't wasn't worried about it much. And
then finally, okay, I'm gonna make something to make something cool,
and I playing with different ideas, came up with I
(26:30):
can run a solar panel on top, charge the batteries inside.
When the sun goes down, the address is backlit, so
it's very visible at night.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
So it's a mailbox that actually is powered by solar.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Yes, and arresting. It's solar powered mailbox. And it's also
secure mailbox. Once the mail goes in, it's not coming out,
and if you don't have the key, ray. I do
a lot of stories.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
They don't always make the show when people stealing mail,
but you know, more heavier crime makes it. But that
messes people's lives up, and I see countless stories. I
just don't report on it about mail theft all over
the place.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Yeah, being a victim of identity theft myself, it's it
can really mess things up for.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
You, all right, he is, he's a master of building
theater of the mind. On the radio, Matt, I'm gonna
ask you to describe the picture that you just saw
of the mailbox.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
So the picture, it was a kind of pinkish purplish
color lit up on the side of it. It probably
stands about the same height as a normal mailbox.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
It construction wise, it looks like something that's almost unbreakable,
is what it almost looks like from how.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
It looked in the picture.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
It weighs one hundred and so that's what's going That's
what's going to say. You're not picking it up and
going anywhere. No, but don't run into it with your car.
You'll be sorry. Okay, So that's good. So that thing
ain't moving.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
So it's not like you know, Fierris Bueler's day off
and all that stuff, when you're running into something in
the mailbox falls and you fix it or home alone. No,
nothing like that, huh, Okay, all right, any but it's
but it's lit up and it's got it's it looks
like you can put different kind of colors on the
on the lights too, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
The address is back lit and you have full control
over the colors with an app on your phone.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Yeah, I mean that's it's fantastic. It's it's fantastic. And
you can put all kinds of different things on there
you want, so you can spell out different things. You
can put obviously your dress.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
And everything, your your name, whatever you want. I loved it. Now,
how do you get the mail out?
Speaker 3 (28:27):
You said you can? You can obviously get out.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Is it with a key? Is it? What is it?
Speaker 4 (28:31):
There's a door on the backside with a tubular key
which is extremely hard to pick. And you open up
the backside and your mail's sitting there waiting for you.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
That's fantastic. So then what happens when they're delivering mail?
How does that work?
Speaker 4 (28:45):
The door in the front it opens up? Huh they
put the mail in. When the door in the front
is open, you cannot access the inside of the mailbox.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
There, there's a I like that. I like that.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
As they close the door, the mail falls back into
the back. I got in the box where then you
can get it?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Genius kind of like the.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Old Netflix DVD box you drop off kind of thing,
or the drop box at the post office.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
All right, yeah, yeah, that's that's genius. Like video.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Now, I could put power talk down the side of
it if I wanted to. If I do that at home,
I really don't want to be nowhere to come yell
at me. But you can put your your family name
down the side of it, lit up, and you can
control the lights. At Christmas, you can make it red.
At Easter, you can make it kind of purplish or
something like.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
You can make it whatever color you want, and there's
also options for flashing one color, flashing two or three colors.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
So at Christmas, that's uh, Christmas, that's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
It'll it'll flash between you know, red fourteen, red green,
Fourth of July. Is there somewhere where people can go
ray and see this with their eyes at the moment, No, okay,
I am in construction right now. I'm switching over to
being reached ill with this. Uh it's I've had this
(30:03):
idea for a long time. I've been trying to get
it going. I can build anything, but I don't know marketing.
So I finally reached out to you guys to try
to see what we can do about marketing this thing.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Well, that's kind of all I've done my entire life,
so look forward to it. Ray, thank you for coming
out here and go dogs. And were you a football guy?
You got enough tats on there? Where no yellow cherry, no.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Sir, just patriotic. I like it.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
But yeah, I look at red, white and blue right there, Matt.
Are you are you a tat guy? Mad at all
you gotta?
Speaker 2 (30:34):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I'd get my ears pierced. I think before I would
get a tat, but but I've thought about getting the
full sleeve on my left arm. But for but for TV,
it's actually been pretty good, not too because they get
a little iffy sometimes, you know, if you're wearing like
a polo and you show a tattoo or something like that.
So it's actually worked out. But I've thought about it.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
But designers they can have as many tattoos as they want.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
They can do everyone else can. It seems like, hey, Ray,
well I have to.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Get your some tefan yaki out here. Boy, I tell
you it's doing it up. Thanks, Ray, I appreciate you
stopping by.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
You bet you Matt, We're going to come back and
wrap up with some Fresno State facts. Coming up Fresno
State Friday, they're taking on Hawaii. It will be heard
right here tomorrow starting at nine o'clock on Power Talk,
Fox Sports thirteen forty all the iHeart stations up and
down the valley and that iHeartRadio app where Mom and
Dad listening Tennessee to the show back there as well.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
My mom, Matt.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
She knows more about Fresno than most people. Most people
here really does. It's a trebor nation all over the
place tour. We're live out here at He Know Ois
She's and he know Oys. She's out here at Campus
point one sixty eight and forty one, right across from
the Save Mart Center. So if you're getting off from
work and you want to roll out get some great food,
this is the place to get some great food. We
(31:49):
actually had our station Christmas party here and I tell you, man,
it's something else, and I highly suggest this. Order everything
the appetizers. Matt Norvial, My guest is hour. Thank you man,
shit you coming by?
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Yeah, no problem, I I got a second. That food
here is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Isn't it?
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Though?
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I said, if I was on death row and they
gave me one last meal, I'll go the appetizer, and
you right here ship it up to saying it's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
I've I've eaten here a few times after calling some games,
and it's just it's great.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
In that the downtime after, don't you It probably takes
you a while to kind of unmine, especially after a
big game, right.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Yeah, and then and then I'm I'm always hungry because
I mean I eat before, obviously, but then after you
call a game, you're so focused and you know everything,
and then I'm just starving.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I could eat anything, all right.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
You're obviously a younger man, but the older you get
in broadcasting eating before it. Let me ask you, if
you're in the middle of a broadcast, had to like
hit to the bathroom, have.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
You had that? Luckily for me, not yet, not so.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
As all the other broadcasters I have.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
I have and they I mean, if you have the moment,
you just got to go.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
You're a human. That moment's gonna.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I always think it's amazing we don't see more NFL
players like running off the field, you know, because what's up, Well,
they had to go to the bathroom, right you only.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
I mean you probably see that. You just don't know.
It's just don't know what's happening.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Should we talk about that edit of the Food Establishment
a little more longer? Should we nip it in the
But let's nip it in the butt? Tim and Christian,
you're up next.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Man.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
We're gonna play Fresno State corn dog Hole here, and
he know.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
People are leaving because of what we said. Look that
we made him.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Guys come back. We'll stop talking about it, all right.
Here's what ha you got three bags? You got the
corn dog hole? Tim, if you get I'm in a
good mood on a Friday because the weather's good. You
win it real hot, we're grumpy. Look at this coolness.
See how cool it makes everybody. So if you hit
one out of three, uh, you're gonna go see Midland
and get Greek fests.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
So let's go. We'll we'll double him up.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Magic all right, go ahead, one out of three and
he's at a far distance. This is not easy, ladies
and gentlemen. He is almost a winner. He might knock
that in with another one. Let's see here, let's uh
not little far. Let's go third, try third, try if
an earthquake hit right now, two would fall in. I mean,
if we had just a look, jump jump on the concrete,
(34:02):
it just might work. All right, Christian up next, go
grab your go grab your bean bags.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
There he was so close. Did you throw yet, Jed?
I got one in? Yeah? All right, all right, go ahead,
let's do all right, let's go there it is one. Here,
you hit it. He's good on all right, Christian? Second
throw oh oh, three out of.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Three, that's how it's done. You know what, three out
of three we'll we'll hook him up right here. There
you go, Bud and U go ahead and pick you
out some presdo state attire as well. Boy, I tell you,
I can tell Matt Normal that you're a you're a
hat guy. I'm a hat guy. Uh is your is
your hat selection on a rack? Or do you have
(34:50):
them hanging up?
Speaker 2 (34:51):
I got both. I got I'm a hat and.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
You got some older ones that are or that are stackable.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Have a stackable I got, I've.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Got, I've got racks. I got him stacked, I've got
them hung. And then I'm a big shoe guy too,
So shoes and hats and watches are kind of my thing.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Okay, are you such shoe guy that when you come
home with the new ones you take them off and
get the damp cloth to get this?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
I will, I will, I'll put up, I will.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
I'll do that for like six months, and then somehow
they don't happen then.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
But then you're getting new ones anyway, so it doesn't matter,
you know, then they become Then they become the ones
that just wear everywhere.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
I don't like the high new eras though, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Yeah, the fifty nine fifties is that what those are?
Speaker 2 (35:26):
The act I wear.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
I'll wear the fifty nine fifties, I wear the forty sevens,
I wear snapback, I'll wear fitted. It doesn't matter. I
wear everything.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
I think it used to be called hey, thanks guys,
thanks for coming by. I think you should be called
Was it urban outfitters? And they had the old Negro
League hats? Do you remember those?
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Like you?
Speaker 2 (35:42):
They're San Francisco seeds in those kinds.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I've got I've got an old Saint Louis Brown's hat.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
There was the Saint Louis World series of nineteen forty
something between the Cardinals and the.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Browns, and they became the Orioles.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
So I have an old Saint Louis Brown's hat because uh,
I wasn't a Cardinals fan. So it's story because I'm
down and obviously in sant lewis doing that stuff. I'm
not a Cardinals fan, even though they have one of
the coolest hats ever. So I was like, I want
to get kind of that STL and I got a
Brown set.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I tell you, I watch I just recently. The reason
I know this, I just recently watched YouTube. I say,
knows me better than anybody who's Mississippi. Yeah, I knew
I wanted that Saint Louis Brown's I love.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
I even went back.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
I think it's probably the fourth time now watching Kim
Burn's Baseball. I can just watch that again if I
take a few years in between. Have you ever watched
the entire thing? I have not watched the entire thing.
One thing I do like about baseball, though, is how
they're big on the history of the game, you know,
like you can go everything back. I think it's one
of the few sports. I mean, obviously every sport talks
about the history of their game, but baseball it seems
(36:39):
so ingrained into it that you know, you you get talking,
you talk to older players, and they said, well, remember
these stories back in Bob Gibson on the Mound and
all that, Like its just.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Keith or Nan.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
I don't know about that, but yeah, yeah, but all
the all the stories that they've got. I actually watched
the Mets. Was it thirty? It wasn't thirty for thirty
whatever it was. It was like a four part series
on the New York Mets. Very well done.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
And then that was a crazy, crazy team with Strawberry
and Dwight Gooden and all them. Boyd, it's the trebor
Nation all over the place Tour twenty twenty five on
The Valley's Power Talk
You got a big game tomorrow. Fresnel State headed to
the Islands or the well. I guess we say final
Hawaii game. We'll be saying no more as we moved
to the PAC twelve. I saw him on TV last
weekend and I said, you know what, I sure would
like to talk to that man right there. He does
play by play for Fresnel State. You see him on TV,
you hear him on the radio. Matt Norvil. Matt, welcome man,
(00:22):
good to have you.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hey, thanks for having me. What's good. You're in your
Dodger brown. I am.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I'm rooting for the Dodgers, and I think Kershaw goes.
I think tonight if I'm right.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And if somebody heard me say Brown, tell them why.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Because I'm wearing a Dodger Brown. Yeah, that's why. Forty
seven hat. And then I got a car heart one too.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Something they got me.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Heer man, all right, well the gear has gone crazy,
he hasn't it?
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I know. For my dad's eightieth birthday, my sister and
Nerby got together and bought him the shirt. It said
Birthday Cake and it had these little sprinkles on it.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Have you seen those?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I have not seen it. And I'm listening to you
right now.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Little birthday cake sprinkles on the Dodger shirt, and we thought, Okay,
he's not gonna like this.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
He loved it.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
He loved it because he's got all the kind of
Dodger stuff. But they're really getting creative or hey, they are.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Man and hopefully they'll start to play some good baseball
going into postseason and maybe have a repeat. Otani is
doing what he does. Mookie looks like he's coming along.
Kershaw announced it's his final season, first Battle Hall of Famer.
I mean, I'm excited they got they got the Giants tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Now I heard I was asking some people about you.
I heard something about baseball in Saint Louis background. Back,
where did you grow up?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
And so I actually was born in LA and then
I ended up. My mom is from south Side Chicago,
So I grew up most of my life in the
Chicago area or south Side Chicago. That's where I spent
most of my life. And then I went to college.
Sox are Cubs. I was Southside. I was white Sox.
Half my family are Cubs and I was white Sox.
And then that was the first baseball game ever went
to was a White Sox game. It was like, if
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you got good grades, you go to a White Sox game,
because White Sox just they don't sell a lot of tickets,
so they were giving them away. I give them that.
That was my favorite first hover baseball.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Game, even worse than the Houston Astros of the late seventies.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
It was orange.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Stripe Chicago white socks. And this was when I was
a kid. I was about ten years old. They're red
and blue and white. Woh no when they wore shorts.
Oh yeah, yeah, okay, you heard that story.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
They wore shorts for a season. Short on. Man, you're
gonna have high socks.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
That's all I knew.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
So how did you get involved in?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
And all that?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
So I grew up playing sports obviously kept us active
for my family. It kept us also, you know, you
have to get good grades to play sports. So it
was it was a did two things at once. Went
played college ball, and then I happened to be down
in Central Illinois and I wanted I either was going
to go into coaching for basketball or I was going
to go into broadcasting because I wanted to stay around basketball.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
You played, but you played, I played, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
And then I decided that, you know, I'm just going
to go into broadcasting because I don't want to take
the losses home with me. And so the first job
I got was a small local radio station in like
a farm area, and they were they were an affiliate
of the same those Cardinals, and so I used to
run the books state card Illinois, Illinois. Yeah, so, like
the Cardinals are big and like you obviously Missouri, Illinois, Kansas,
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but then you get the whole South, like they're big
in Tennessee and all that. Because they don't have really
a sports team Atlanta. The Braves kind of take some
of it, so they have so many affiliates, and so
I ran the board for Cardinals games, and that's kind
of how I got my start. Started doing some small
town basketball and football, did the state tournaments, and moved
out here and I'm doing Presdent State.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
When you just said Tennessee, let me let me tell
you that's that's where I was born. My woman dad
moved back there from Arizona. They retired back there, but
that's where the whole family was. And I was raised
a Dodger fan in Tennessee, which is which is wild
because my uncle my dad's older brother was a Cardinal fan,
and my dad was a little brother, so he wanted
to be against his big brother and he became a
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Dodger fan. And this was in the late fifties into
the early sixties in a small little town in Tennessee.
The Dodgers were not real popular.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Now because they won a lot.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah well the racial lines, yeah yeah, yeah, it wasn't
real popular to be a Dodger r right back then there.
But anyhow, that's that's where my Dodger roots came from.
And it's all because of the Cardinals. So yeah, and
they are big there though. They are a huge, gigantic
in Tennessee, especially Tennessee. I mean you got I mean,
you got Memphis right there. I mean it's West Tennesse
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might be more Cardinal. East Tennessee might be more Braves
because they're further Ea slightly maybe maybe slightly. I mean
there's this there's a lot of Cardinal fans out there.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I learned.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I learned a lot about the Cardinals, uh with, based
on just working for that station. And then a funny
thing is I come out here and Paul Ladwick, who
used to work at Fresno State Uh. He was the
guy that kind of like first got me going with
the broadcasting. He was a Cardinals fan. He had a
YadA or Molina bobblehead. And I walk in, like after
I just got done working at that Cardinal station, I go,
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you have a YadA or Molina, and then we get
talking about the Cardinals and so.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
That when you were bored up and then getting started.
Was that during their big time?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
And was that Yeah, that's that's Alburt, that's Albert Poolhols
and that and that crew and uh World Series appearances.
I went to a World Series and was it twenty
eleven when they played the Texas Rangers, And so I
went to game one because obviously you're part of it.
You get season tickets and all that good stuff. So yeah,
it was It was a blast. It taught me the
behind the scenes, and I knew this is what I
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wanted to do with my with my career. And so
the rest is kind of as they say, history moved
out here. Love California. I mean I just flat out
of door this state and love Fresno. People have been fantastic.
School is great, and it's just like it's one of
those places that I just I've really liked it out here.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Now you do other sports threads?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah, so I radio broadcast, So radio broadcast, I got basketball,
and then softball baseball, so I fill in for Leffler
if he can't do some baseball. I at the NCAA
tournament a couple of seasons ago because I had to
fill in for him. And then I do men's and
women's basketball if men's if Paul can't make it with
the football conflicts, and then I do women's basketball in
softbat like my main two.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
And TV of course, and TV? What do you like better?
I mean, how first of all, how Lord doing TV?
They're different. I've been doing TV for a little bit,
probably about five six years, but they're a little different. Wellferent,
you know.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I mean I've never done TV, right, I would say
I like TV more, but I like I like radio
a lot. Radio is all about describing and you've got
people listening at home, and you paint the picture.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Can I ask this question?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Is TV easier if you've done radio before? TV's easier
because you've never If you've never done radio, i'd say
TV is difficult. But if you've done radio, I always
say every radio guy can do TV.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
But you got to paint the picture.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah, it's you got radio description, right, So if you
just go in doing TV and then you've got to
do a radio broadcast, I would say that's a tougher
transition from if you're doing radio to TV.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Well, you got a great guy there in front of you.
Paul Lefflers call him or somebody else named this. Actually
Steve Darnell, my old boss named in this. Uh called
him the Bob Costas of the Valley is great.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
His delivery is just so, has anflect his words, he
uses everything.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
And well, I tell you it's something else here. Uh,
we're gonna be looking at Hawaii tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
The Rainbow Warriors.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I said, you gotta win if that's gonna be your
mascot right there. And they're tough man there.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
They're three and one. I think it's a pretty even matchup.
I was talking earlier to another station about this upcoming matchup.
I think it's pretty even. It's tough playing on the
island that the Fresno State has won there. I want
to say since nineteen. Last time they beat Hawaii was
twenty twenty two. They had a tough one in twenty
twenty one. So travel, it's it's it's the travel, it's
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the time change, I think. And then I think you're
playing a good opponent on the road. So I think
if you do all of those things that I think
that that makes it very difficult. But I think Fresno State,
I think it's going to be a close game. But
if Fresno State can run the football, control of the clock,
I think they'll be all right.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
All Right.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
The guy just said that called the Bob Costas of
the Valley. I turn around and there's the sun.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Ye, there you go, there, there you go, there you
go learn how life happens like that.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Tomorrow night, the kickoff is going to be at nine o'clock,
so he can't Kenny gonna be starting the party at seven.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
In pregame of Poach.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Poach with Paul Coach, the Poach, Paul Coach and Cam
at eight o'clock, it looked like you and Cam Morell
had a good time up there in the broadcast booth.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Oh blast.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Me and Cam have actually worked together before. We did
a Friday night Rivals game, and so we did that,
so we've got to I think we've got great chemistry.
Cam's a fantastic human being, too, fantastic guy knows his football,
and like I said, he's one of those guys that
you know, you meet some guys and and they'll tell
you everything about themselves and how good they were and
all this. He doesn't really talk about how good of
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a player he was, and you kind of got to
get it out of him. And Cam was an unbelievable
player at I.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Heard you guys talking about the super Bowl on TV,
and obviously I'm a Bears fan, being for Chicago, so yeah,
it's really cool.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Last time we were really any good if you think
about it. We've really struggled since, but yeah, he was there.
I just was telling you guys off the air. I
was watching the YouTube highlight of Devin Hester's score, and
I was like, oh, there's got run over like you said,
and then he's the first one in the end zone
like you said, and then he makes a tackle on
the next play like he said, and then he's gassed.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Not everybody has a super Bowl highlight.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Right, exactly. Not everyone has a Super Bowl jersey.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah, can you imagine like when it okay, when it
Dann Marino, right.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
That never made it to it. He went to one
city go and never went, never won, and then he
never went again. I think he went early on in
his career. Might even have been his rookie year.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Think of those veterans I've grinded out in NFC and
AFC championship games and comes so close and then a
rookie comes along and makes it a first year and
who We're in the super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I know.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I mean, you got a local kid right now, and
Josh Allen that's hoping he can get over the hump
and he's he's bawling out. But uh, you just never know, man.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
You know, Josh Allen has made me realize I was
raised a Cowboy fan, always lived in Texas as a kid.
Got my Roger Stallback Sports Illustrated Post still today, still
have it. I got my Dallas Cowboy Weekly. He still
still you were so you were raised? You said you
were raising Texas.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Tennessee and techy. Okay, but a little bit. I got
a funny story for you. But go ahead with you.
I'll go ahead.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
And I was just gonna say, my brother got so
my brother got his mass there is he was a ga,
he's a track coach.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
He got it.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
At Baylor, and he used to go to movies when
the Cowboys played because everyone in Texas is watching the Cowboys, so.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
The theater would be his, he said.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
He said, text me all the time, He's like, Hey,
this movie came out this week, I'm gonna go to
the theater because obviously he's a Bears fan. Cowboys are playing,
no one's gonna be there.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Well, let me tell you how that segues to what
I was just gonna say. What was in talking about
Josh Allen you brought up and I'd always been a
Cowboys fan. But now I don't know if it's my
age or whatever it is, but I'm more of a
player person now. Like Josh Allen's story, I loved it,
and it's like I like him now more than Dak Prescott.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I don't even I don't even care. Really, it's the player.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
And I used to live in Buffalo, and I wasn't
a Bills fan then I lived there a few years.
But the best time to go grocery shopping in Buffalo
it's not before the game. Oh that's the most Busyriday
morning at seven am.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
You don't want to be in a.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Grocery store after church at twelve noon, roll on in
and you'll be like Elvis shop close to yourself.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Hey, I noticed though, and I always equate this to Fresno.
Towns like Fresno and Buffalo and even like Pittsburgh to
in Cleveland. Uh, those kind of towns that like New
York and Boston look down on those other ones San
Francisco and La look down on Fresnoe. It gives you
a chip on your shoulder, right, So the people love
their community, they love their town, and they take pride
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in the fact, especially when they beat those glitzy other places.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I would say, I would say, yeah, that that we're
talking about that kind of on the broadcast, Can and
I were saying that really the team for Fresno kind
of identifies with the community and that's kind of how
they play and they do everything, and it's I think
that's always very important. But like you mentioned those you
mentioned the Pittsburgh's, the the Fresno's, the Buffalo's.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I can't leave out Cleveland. I don't right Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I don't want to mention green Bay, but green Bay
is like that, I mean so like they they are
not gritty, though, are they they're they're pretty great?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Are they pretty?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Gad?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
They are?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I hate saying as embarrass fan, but they really are.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Not Oakland Raider gritty, but not not Oakland Raiders good nobody, No,
but Green Bay is They've got the They've got kind
of the presno vibes to it and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
And yeah, you love that.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
You want to be what your community is because in
your community loves to come out root for you. That's
one of the reasons I think Fresno States had successful
programs athletically and then especially in football, fans come out.
It's a party. They have a blast, and then and
then the kids play hard and and let's hope they
can pick up a dub tomorrow against Hawaii.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
All Right, I do have to say that TV ages you. You
look like a younger man in person. I'm just gonna say, see,
radio keeps you young forever. Radio keeps no one knows
how you you can stay young forever.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
On that radio.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Matt Norville is sitting in with me here Fresne State
play by play on the radio and the TV. I'm
gonna come back and talk about uh, mailboxes and mailboxes.
I said mailboxes, yes, and I'm gonna talk about other announcers,
some of these national people in the presentation, and I'm
going I'm gonna get Matt's take on this as well.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I'll just give you a little hit.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Everything seems so overhyped. You're worn out. You're worn out
by the time the game starts. So we're gonna cover that.
It's a tremor nation all over the place tour. We're
live from he know Ois sheet and even be heading
down to the South Valley. My guests hours Matt Norville
Fresnell state play by play on radio and TV. We
just heard he got his start back in a little
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station out in Illinois. Some of those games you get
out of there at one am and see the fireflies
out there, right.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Oh yeah, it's it's interesting. So the station is wldswe AI.
It's in a small town and I had a good
we had a good laugh. Coach Matt Ence. There's a
Division II school called Illinois College there and that's where
his first job was. He was a DC there. So honestly,
I go into the production meeting and the first thing
I say to him, you know, coaches come in, they're serious,
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you know, they're you know, and he's I just said, hey,
what do you tell me what you know about Jacksonville,
Illinois and coach Tom Rowland And he just stares at
me and goes, this is you're hearing coach Matt ens In,
the president who's coaching the President State Bulldogs team. His
first job was that. And I said, he said.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
How do you know that?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
And then we had a good laugh and talk about
and all that good stuff. But yeah, so it's it's
it's funny how if the world is big but he
has it's small.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
You can go you can travel anywhere in the world
and you'll run into someone. You'll be like, how is
that even possible? And you can tie in I know,
the seven degrees of Kevin Bacon. But it's so true though,
you just tie into someone you don't even realize it.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
So it's we.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Had a good laugh about that. But yeah, small local station.
I think that's the way to go. And then you know,
work your way up and then get to see everything else.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Twelve forty kl Away Ridgecist.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
There you go, there, you go? Right, you know all about.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Senior in high school work and Saturday and Sunday nights, right,
and while all my friends are out, I was there
playing a Livy Newton, John and John T there you go,
and they were listening to k.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Los and La right right, right, right right, Yeah, that
was there were nights listen.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
When I first started Matt, I would go home because
it signed off at midnight and the AM was automated,
so it stayed on. So I would go home and
turn on my clock radio to see if it was
silent or whether it was Yeah, it sound that I
didn't sign something off right right, and I knew I
was gonna be in trouble.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
That's funny because so when I was full time, full
time at that station, I obviously ran board games for
the Cardinals, but they had a music side, so I
actually was a music DJ.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yeah I did.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I did that just and then I did obviously the
board off for the Cardinals games. And so it was
a what year are we talking about? We're talking we're
talking oh five about all right? So was it all
on computer and then all the music and stuff computer?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, I'm not doing it.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Although they they were old school in terms of they
had like it was I wouldn't say it was a museum,
but they had things that you could see like, this
is what we did back in the fifties, this is
what we did back in the sixties, and you could
see that.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
And they had the old turntables. We never used that
until our remodel here. There were some of that around
our building. And the engineer gave me an old reel
to reel and I put that thing right in my
living room.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
It's it's an art piece.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
And I tell people, I go, we used to have
to take a razor blade and a wax pencil and
market on the tape.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yeah, got it, tape it together for one edit, which
takes now click click click done.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Oh, you can edit anything in like ten seconds.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
And Adobe's great, isn't it. Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I'm yeah. I'm not a pro at many things.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I can look at it visually and see what's a breath,
and what right right, right right?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
What the syllables are on it? Up the volume, lower
the volume.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Don't you just love technology?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Listen, there's so much.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
And right before the break, I said, we're gonna come
back and talk about all the the pregame hype with
national broadcasts. I think the team here does it just right.
It's it doesn't wear you out, but it's exciting. Uh
these pregames and okay, you're on TV. Did did the
TV people not understand the voice level thing? The yelling
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and talking? Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Is it me? Okay?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Does your generation enjoy that?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
It's more, it's more inn it's it's you gotta look
at TV's in or just straight up entertainment. So it's
entertainment and I've got to somehow find a way to
get you excited. And say, we're watching a college football
game tomorrow and you don't care about the two teams playing.
How do I get you excited to care about the
two teams playing? And so a lot of it is
just fun and games. Really, I always say that all
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the time. A lot of it's for show, but you're
just trying to get people excited. I actually personally like that.
I like, if I'm going to watch anything, I like
someone to be excited about what they're doing. That gets
me into it. So, like, my favorite announcers are always guys.
I feel like that they that when you sit down
and you watch them, it looks like they enjoy what
they do. I don't like the guys that you just
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feel like, well, there's probably collecting a check that doesn't
excite me, so I don't mind. I don't mind that.
I think everyone's got their own style. I think the
one thing I've talked to younger broadcasters in college and
stuff about is I think that as broadcasters as a whole,
we fall into the mold of we all want to
be kind of the same, and I think everybody is different.
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So you just need to be who you are as
a broadcaster, and I think that'll bring out your best quality,
which then in turn will make everyone a little different
and that separates you from someone else. So that's what
I always tell They always ask me. Usually they say, hey,
what's one rule you would say, or what's a thing
you would tell me that for a young broadcaster to become.
And I always say, just be yourself. I mean, you
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can take things from other people, but at the end
of the day, still be core to who you are.
If you're an excitable person, be excitable. If you're someone
that kind of makes fun of yourself, make fun of
yourself a little bit. Just be who you are. And
I think that comes across as genuine and then people
like it.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I just said it and realized I'm saying TV and radio.
But when you do TV, you're not on the TV
that much because it's always on the game. You know,
it's a few times a game they see you. So
I bet there are sometimes you have to go, do
you kick into radio mode and go wait, I keep
pull back because they're seeing this right now. I don't
have to over explain it. Do you find that, Yeah,
you don't have to.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
The analyst is the one guy that has to explain
it because they get the person watching it wants to know,
especially in football, hey what did I just see? But
from a play by playpoint of view, I mean Paul
was calling the game, and I'm calling the game, and
Paul's got to say, hey, he cuts up field inside
the twenty five, inside the twenty, inside the fifteen. I
don't have to say any of that. I just canna say, hey,
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he makes a move and you can see cut inside
the twenty five, inside the twenty, and you just let
him go. If it's a touchdown round, I can say, hey,
he's inside the thirty, and then I can say touchdown.
You've just seen everything. But if it's Paul on the radio,
or if I'm on the radio, you have to say
he's inside the thirty, he's inside the twenty, he's inside
the ten. So they know, and so yeah, there's differences.
It's a lot of fun though. I mean, it keeps
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me involved in sports because I love sports and sports
has been such a big part of my life, and
it just it keeps me involved without having to do.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
The coaching stuff.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
The coaching stuff just seems like a grind, Like I
relate to the coach. I've got coaches in my family,
so I just I relate to what they go through,
and I just keeps me involved in At the end
of the night, you know, you say either it was
good broadcast or broadcast, and if I'm on radio, I'm
saying bye this guy right next to you, to your right,
and then I go home.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
And that's usually how it goes. Well.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I'm gonna think as a coach, it never because even
with a victory, your mind's already thinking of the next game,
and even when the season's over, you're thinking recruitment. I mean,
it's just a NonStop It's really never enough.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
And it never stops.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
I actually did an interview with the new women's basketball
coaching staff that's gonna air for Fresno State Taylor and
I did it and it's gonna air on Tuesday. But
they kind of talked about it. When you're just saying like, hey,
what do you do for fun or days off? And
they kind of hint it really knows day.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
There are really no days off.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I bet not welcome to be in a Who's your
favorite TV sports announcer?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Gus Johnson hands down? He knew no questions asked. I
love Gus. I actually think their crew as a whole,
it's fantastic. Jenny Tapser sideline reporter Joel Klatt is his
color commentator. But I love I love Gus. He's a
kid from Detroit and he just man. He is so
good at how he calls the game. I love his excitement.
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That's my He's my favorite guy by far. I've got
a lot of guys though. I like Harlan he does NBA,
He'll do the NFL's your NFL radio. He's very good.
I like Iron Eagle. I think Iron Eagle is really good,
but Gus Johnson is by far and away my favorite.
I thought Bob Costas was really good too.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Oh wait, wait wait, I have to update myout.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
My boss Steve I said it was Bob Costas he
said Paul Lofflo, it was Jim Nance.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Jim unbelievable though, by the way, Jim Nance is unbelievable.
Him and Romo do a great jo, do a great
job together. I've gotta, I've.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Gotta, I've got a How does Romo's such a predictor?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Like? I love it?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
He goes they're gonna run around the right, and they
do it. I love I love it. By tracking his percentage.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
I'm not, but he is. He's right more often than not.
Kind of spooky, right, I like that though, I mean,
even if you're wrong, I just like that you hear
it from a quarterback's perspective. So like, even if he's
wrong on what they're doing, you know then where the
quarterback probably is thinking.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
And I think that's why a lot of times.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Quarterbacks make such good color commentators in football, and I
think in baseball. I think pitchers and catchers make really
good color commentators in baseball just because calling the game
and seeing the game, they see it a little different
than everyone else.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I think a catcher should be paid more than anybody
in Major League Baeball, I got some friends I would
agree with you on that they must look out to
the left fielder.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
It had anything out there and getting hit and beat.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Up and every true there and they're and they're the
toughest guys on the team, man, because they get hit
and beat up and all of that. Yeah, catchers, man, Man,
that's a tough that's tough being a catcher.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah. In Colt League.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Of course, in high school I was never a catcher,
but in Colt League I would catch some games and
by that equipment be so big, but I loved it.
And I think I blinked every single time that that
ball hit the minute, like you blink when they swing.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
You just can't help it. Uh huh did you?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Did you ever get by? So yeah, I played litle
league baseball. I caught probably for just a couple of games,
and they're like, Matt, you're going outfield.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
So I was.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I was a center fielder to use my speed and stuff,
and then a third base was the only other spot
I ever played was the hot corner. But it was
just it was basically anything in the outfield or a third.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Well, we're talking sports on Fresnel State Friday. What's your
favorite sport?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Matt to call.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Favorite sport to call. Basketball is my favorite sport to
watch and call, I would say, but a closer favorite
basketball close second is volleyball. Though I love Colin, I
love calling volleyball. Volleyball is a great it is a
fantastic sport. Favorite basketball team, Yeah, Golden State Warriors and
Chicago Bulls. I got two of them. You had to
have a mail box that had a Chicago Bulls or
the Warriors.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Which one would you go with? Probably the Bulls? Probably.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I'm gonna tell you next year how you can get
a Chicago Bulls mail boxing in case you're okay.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
It's a tremornation all over the place. Tour we are
live and he know oyshe Matt Norville sitting in with
me this hour for Reznel State play by play, many
different kinds of sports on radio and TV. Matt, we
couldn't ordered a better day than this. Could win gorgeous.
I love it's it eighty three degrees what it was?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Let me let me lick my finger and test it
is beautiful, beautiful, beautiful day.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Wait, I didn't wash my hands, and I grabbed the
doorman and a go, are you are you a German phobe?
When you travel in hotels and stuff like that. I mean,
you really, the older you're getting, I wasn't either, the
older I'm getting the more germophobic.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Really, I mean, I'll use hand sanitizer obviously wash my
hands in the bathroom, but like, I don't. I wouldn't
say more or less. I'm probably just normal.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, you know, normal whatever. I'm not normal.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
I got a sister that like, I mean, she's like
washing your hands a ton and all that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
But I mean I would say, I'm just Matt.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I'm almost to the point of carrying my own cilverlware.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Are you no? Okay? Okay?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Would you would you wear my underwear? If I said
they're watching the right not? But we put forks in
our mouth inside us that everybody else sucks, see what I.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Mean, right, But you can then need that you clean
it through it.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I was a dishwasher in Chico, are you Yeah? I
know about dishwasher. I'm telling me something I don't know.
I'm telling you need to travel.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
With your Oh, so we're gonna we're gonna stop this
conversation so that I don't have to start hearing my
own silverware.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Well, you think you're start thinking about it, You'll start
thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Uh mattuh.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
We want to welcome in here, Ray Winkle, Ray with
seventeen seventy six Manufacturing. I met Ray at the termination
all over the place tour up at Craft ninety nine pizza.
He came out and Ray, when did you start your company?
Get real close to that? Get right on up there, man.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
I started long about two thousand and four, two thousand
and five.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
All right, I'm gonna have to have you get this
one right here real quick.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Started about two thousand and four, two thousand and five.
All right, and what made you started? The company I
was working for went bankrupt?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Okay, well that's one way to do it, right.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
I was an engineer for Upright and when they went under.
I when they went under, I decided to, like, Okay,
what am I gonna do? I got I was sick
of the white collar world, and I decided to go
into the field of fabrication.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Now, explain. I see I watch a lot of HGTV,
the manly ones on there about metal and breaking down
things and put but I watch a lot of people
do artwork with metal. They'll find old stuff and sculpture it,
and it's it's it's a fascinating world. You're not quite
doing that, but you are doing that. Explain what you're
doing with your seventeen seventy six.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
I've I When I purchased my house, it had no mailbox,
and everybody was on me, you gotta have a mailbox,
blah blah blah. I sent all my mail to the
shop so I didn't wasn't worried about it much. And
then finally, okay, I'm gonna make something to make something cool,
and I playing with different ideas, came up with I
(26:30):
can run a solar panel on top, charge the batteries inside.
When the sun goes down, the address is backlit, so
it's very visible at night.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
So it's a mailbox that actually is powered by solar.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Yes, and arresting. It's solar powered mailbox. And it's also
secure mailbox. Once the mail goes in, it's not coming out,
and if you don't have the key, ray. I do
a lot of stories.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
They don't always make the show when people stealing mail,
but you know, more heavier crime makes it. But that
messes people's lives up, and I see countless stories. I
just don't report on it about mail theft all over
the place.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Yeah, being a victim of identity theft myself, it's it
can really mess things up for.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
You, all right, he is, he's a master of building
theater of the mind. On the radio, Matt, I'm gonna
ask you to describe the picture that you just saw
of the mailbox.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
So the picture, it was a kind of pinkish purplish
color lit up on the side of it. It probably
stands about the same height as a normal mailbox.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
It construction wise, it looks like something that's almost unbreakable,
is what it almost looks like from how.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
It looked in the picture.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
It weighs one hundred and so that's what's going That's
what's going to say. You're not picking it up and
going anywhere. No, but don't run into it with your car.
You'll be sorry. Okay, So that's good. So that thing
ain't moving.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
So it's not like you know, Fierris Bueler's day off
and all that stuff, when you're running into something in
the mailbox falls and you fix it or home alone. No,
nothing like that, huh, Okay, all right, any but it's
but it's lit up and it's got it's it looks
like you can put different kind of colors on the
on the lights too, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
The address is back lit and you have full control
over the colors with an app on your phone.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Yeah, I mean that's it's fantastic. It's it's fantastic. And
you can put all kinds of different things on there
you want, so you can spell out different things. You
can put obviously your dress.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
And everything, your your name, whatever you want. I loved it. Now,
how do you get the mail out?
Speaker 3 (28:27):
You said you can? You can obviously get out.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Is it with a key? Is it? What is it?
Speaker 4 (28:31):
There's a door on the backside with a tubular key
which is extremely hard to pick. And you open up
the backside and your mail's sitting there waiting for you.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
That's fantastic. So then what happens when they're delivering mail?
How does that work?
Speaker 4 (28:45):
The door in the front it opens up? Huh they
put the mail in. When the door in the front
is open, you cannot access the inside of the mailbox.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
There, there's a I like that. I like that.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
As they close the door, the mail falls back into
the back. I got in the box where then you
can get it?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Genius kind of like the.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Old Netflix DVD box you drop off kind of thing,
or the drop box at the post office.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
All right, yeah, yeah, that's that's genius. Like video.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Now, I could put power talk down the side of
it if I wanted to. If I do that at home,
I really don't want to be nowhere to come yell
at me. But you can put your your family name
down the side of it, lit up, and you can
control the lights. At Christmas, you can make it red.
At Easter, you can make it kind of purplish or
something like.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
You can make it whatever color you want, and there's
also options for flashing one color, flashing two or three colors.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
So at Christmas, that's uh, Christmas, that's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
It'll it'll flash between you know, red fourteen, red green,
Fourth of July. Is there somewhere where people can go
ray and see this with their eyes at the moment, No, okay,
I am in construction right now. I'm switching over to
being reached ill with this. Uh it's I've had this
(30:03):
idea for a long time. I've been trying to get
it going. I can build anything, but I don't know marketing.
So I finally reached out to you guys to try
to see what we can do about marketing this thing.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Well, that's kind of all I've done my entire life,
so look forward to it. Ray, thank you for coming
out here and go dogs. And were you a football guy?
You got enough tats on there? Where no yellow cherry, no.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Sir, just patriotic. I like it.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
But yeah, I look at red, white and blue right there, Matt.
Are you are you a tat guy? Mad at all
you gotta?
Speaker 2 (30:34):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I'd get my ears pierced. I think before I would
get a tat, but but I've thought about getting the
full sleeve on my left arm. But for but for TV,
it's actually been pretty good, not too because they get
a little iffy sometimes, you know, if you're wearing like
a polo and you show a tattoo or something like that.
So it's actually worked out. But I've thought about it.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
But designers they can have as many tattoos as they want.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
They can do everyone else can. It seems like, hey, Ray,
well I have to.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Get your some tefan yaki out here. Boy, I tell
you it's doing it up. Thanks, Ray, I appreciate you
stopping by.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
You bet you Matt, We're going to come back and
wrap up with some Fresno State facts. Coming up Fresno
State Friday, they're taking on Hawaii. It will be heard
right here tomorrow starting at nine o'clock on Power Talk,
Fox Sports thirteen forty all the iHeart stations up and
down the valley and that iHeartRadio app where Mom and
Dad listening Tennessee to the show back there as well.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
My mom, Matt.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
She knows more about Fresno than most people. Most people
here really does. It's a trebor nation all over the
place tour. We're live out here at He Know Ois
She's and he know Oys. She's out here at Campus
point one sixty eight and forty one, right across from
the Save Mart Center. So if you're getting off from
work and you want to roll out get some great food,
this is the place to get some great food. We
(31:49):
actually had our station Christmas party here and I tell you, man,
it's something else, and I highly suggest this. Order everything
the appetizers. Matt Norvial, My guest is hour. Thank you man,
shit you coming by?
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Yeah, no problem, I I got a second. That food
here is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Isn't it?
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Though?
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I said, if I was on death row and they
gave me one last meal, I'll go the appetizer, and
you right here ship it up to saying it's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
I've I've eaten here a few times after calling some games,
and it's just it's great.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
In that the downtime after, don't you It probably takes
you a while to kind of unmine, especially after a
big game, right.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Yeah, and then and then I'm I'm always hungry because
I mean I eat before, obviously, but then after you
call a game, you're so focused and you know everything,
and then I'm just starving.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I could eat anything, all right.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
You're obviously a younger man, but the older you get
in broadcasting eating before it. Let me ask you, if
you're in the middle of a broadcast, had to like
hit to the bathroom, have.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
You had that? Luckily for me, not yet, not so.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
As all the other broadcasters I have.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
I have and they I mean, if you have the moment,
you just got to go.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
You're a human. That moment's gonna.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I always think it's amazing we don't see more NFL
players like running off the field, you know, because what's up, Well,
they had to go to the bathroom, right you only.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
I mean you probably see that. You just don't know.
It's just don't know what's happening.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Should we talk about that edit of the Food Establishment
a little more longer? Should we nip it in the
But let's nip it in the butt? Tim and Christian,
you're up next.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Man.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
We're gonna play Fresno State corn dog Hole here, and
he know.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
People are leaving because of what we said. Look that
we made him.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Guys come back. We'll stop talking about it, all right.
Here's what ha you got three bags? You got the
corn dog hole? Tim, if you get I'm in a
good mood on a Friday because the weather's good. You
win it real hot, we're grumpy. Look at this coolness.
See how cool it makes everybody. So if you hit
one out of three, uh, you're gonna go see Midland
and get Greek fests.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
So let's go. We'll we'll double him up.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Magic all right, go ahead, one out of three and
he's at a far distance. This is not easy, ladies
and gentlemen. He is almost a winner. He might knock
that in with another one. Let's see here, let's uh
not little far. Let's go third, try third, try if
an earthquake hit right now, two would fall in. I mean,
if we had just a look, jump jump on the concrete,
(34:02):
it just might work. All right, Christian up next, go
grab your go grab your bean bags.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
There he was so close. Did you throw yet, Jed?
I got one in? Yeah? All right, all right, go ahead,
let's do all right, let's go there it is one. Here,
you hit it. He's good on all right, Christian? Second
throw oh oh, three out of.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Three, that's how it's done. You know what, three out
of three we'll we'll hook him up right here. There
you go, Bud and U go ahead and pick you
out some presdo state attire as well. Boy, I tell you,
I can tell Matt Normal that you're a you're a
hat guy. I'm a hat guy. Uh is your is
your hat selection on a rack? Or do you have
(34:50):
them hanging up?
Speaker 2 (34:51):
I got both. I got I'm a hat and.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
You got some older ones that are or that are stackable.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Have a stackable I got, I've.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Got, I've got racks. I got him stacked, I've got
them hung. And then I'm a big shoe guy too,
So shoes and hats and watches are kind of my thing.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Okay, are you such shoe guy that when you come
home with the new ones you take them off and
get the damp cloth to get this?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
I will, I will, I'll put up, I will.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
I'll do that for like six months, and then somehow
they don't happen then.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
But then you're getting new ones anyway, so it doesn't matter,
you know, then they become Then they become the ones
that just wear everywhere.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
I don't like the high new eras though, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Yeah, the fifty nine fifties is that what those are?
Speaker 2 (35:26):
The act I wear.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
I'll wear the fifty nine fifties, I wear the forty sevens,
I wear snapback, I'll wear fitted. It doesn't matter. I
wear everything.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
I think it used to be called hey, thanks guys,
thanks for coming by. I think you should be called
Was it urban outfitters? And they had the old Negro
League hats? Do you remember those?
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Like you?
Speaker 2 (35:42):
They're San Francisco seeds in those kinds.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I've got I've got an old Saint Louis Brown's hat.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
There was the Saint Louis World series of nineteen forty
something between the Cardinals and the.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Browns, and they became the Orioles.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
So I have an old Saint Louis Brown's hat because uh,
I wasn't a Cardinals fan. So it's story because I'm
down and obviously in sant lewis doing that stuff. I'm
not a Cardinals fan, even though they have one of
the coolest hats ever. So I was like, I want
to get kind of that STL and I got a
Brown set.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I tell you, I watch I just recently. The reason
I know this, I just recently watched YouTube. I say,
knows me better than anybody who's Mississippi. Yeah, I knew
I wanted that Saint Louis Brown's I love.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
I even went back.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
I think it's probably the fourth time now watching Kim
Burn's Baseball. I can just watch that again if I
take a few years in between. Have you ever watched
the entire thing? I have not watched the entire thing.
One thing I do like about baseball, though, is how
they're big on the history of the game, you know,
like you can go everything back. I think it's one
of the few sports. I mean, obviously every sport talks
about the history of their game, but baseball it seems
(36:39):
so ingrained into it that you know, you you get talking,
you talk to older players, and they said, well, remember
these stories back in Bob Gibson on the Mound and
all that, Like its just.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Keith or Nan.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
I don't know about that, but yeah, yeah, but all
the all the stories that they've got. I actually watched
the Mets. Was it thirty? It wasn't thirty for thirty
whatever it was. It was like a four part series
on the New York Mets. Very well done.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
And then that was a crazy, crazy team with Strawberry
and Dwight Gooden and all them. Boyd, it's the trebor
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