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#50. Unveiling Media Magic: Matt Knight on Access Humboldt's Evolution, Community Impact, and Rock Legends
What if you could transform your local community through the power of media? Join us as we sit down with Matt Knight, the Training and Facilities Coordinator at Access Humboldt, to uncover the magic behind this incredible organization. Matt shares how Access Humboldt not only operates four TV channels and broadcasts public meetings but also provides top-notch media training and facilities for residents. We explore their recent move from Eureka High to the College of the Redwoods and new membership options that make media creation more accessible for everyone.
Get an insider’s look at the variety of shows produced by Access Humboldt, from North Coast Journal Preview to Community Voices. We introduce you to the key figures behind these productions, like Tanya Shrum, Kelby, David Frank, and Eric Kirk. Matt also highlights Access Humboldt’s remarkable collaborations with nonprofit organizations, including the Humble Bay Symposium and ESL videos for the College of the Redwoods, showcasing their commitment to impactful community service through media.
Let’s take a trip down memory lane as we celebrate the rich heritage of local public broadcasting in Humboldt County. We reminisce about the legendary acts and unforgettable concerts that have shaped our musical landscape, including names like James Brown and the Ramones. The episode also pays tribute to the lasting legacies of KHSU and KMUD, and how Access Humboldt continues to foster community engagement and media creation. Tune in for a heartfelt homage to community-oriented media and the vibrant history that inspires it.
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages, 100% Humboldt with my new best friend, Matt Knight. Hi Matt, hey Scott, How's it going?
Speaker 2:It's going good. Things have been crazy, but it's a good kind of crazy.
Speaker 1:So usually you're on the other side of this asking the questions, so I'll be asking the questions today. Okay, and I'll be providing the answers. Nice, there you go. Tell us who you are, what you do.
Speaker 2:Well, my name is Matt Knight and I work for Access Humboldt. I am the training and facilities coordinator, or is it the facilities and training coordinator? I can never keep those two straight. And I'm also the station manager for our radio station KCCH 96.7.
Speaker 1:Wow, and you've been with them for 12 years. 12 years, wow. So describe Access Humboldt for those that don't know it, although they've been watching it for 20 years, I hope so. Yes, maybe 15.
Speaker 2:Access Humboldt is a nonprofit media organization. We run four TV channels on the Sunlink cable system. Our main reason for being is to broadcast public meetings, public meetings, so we bring democracy, or democracy to you, so you can participate and not have to get in your car and drive down to the soups chamber or Eureka city council or Ferndale or you know various boards and stuff like that. In addition to that, we maintain a studio where we teach people how to make their own content. So we, we, we do classes in podcasting and um and uh field video, uh, using field video gear. We have a television studio, um, and we teach people how to do that so they can mount their own productions, wow, and in addition to that, um, well, and I mentioned the radio station KZCH we run. In addition to that, well, and I mentioned the radio station KZCH, we run a radio outlet and also very involved in broadband policy. Sean McAuliffe, our director, that's kind of his area, but he's very involved in universal access and broadband policy.
Speaker 1:Which is a real big deal. It is, yeah. I remember when suddenly it was Cox Cable yes, cut the deal with Sean and the team.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:As part of their. How does that work? So let's go back. Okay, it's probably 18, 20 years now, right?
Speaker 2:2006,. I believe yeah.
Speaker 1:The Cox sisters were. They owned the cable system which is now Settling Right, which is now Optimum.
Speaker 2:Well, the way it works is that, in exchange for public right-of-ways because that's what they were using to string their cables and their their cables up and bring them into your house they agreed to pay a certain amount from their cable franchise fees to access on both in order to broadcast these public meetings and support our community media center Right so low these many years.
Speaker 1:That's not one. Is that four channels?
Speaker 2:Four channels. Yeah, we've got, let's see, we've got Educate channel eight. Then there's 10, 11, and 12.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, no, I watch them a lot. It's so cool to see what's going on at the Rio Del City Council meetings. That's right. Yeah, yeah, I wish we had a McKinleyville City Council meeting, but well, hey, wait, we're not a city yet.
Speaker 2:We're not a city yet, no, but there is a services district though. Yeah, MCSD is up there. So they haven't—I'm not sure what their requirements are. They may become below the threshold, because all of these kind of districts, I think, are supposed to have some sort of public recording available to the public. Some of them are better at doing that or not. But we've added a bunch Rio Del, we've got Trinidad, you know, we've got the fire district of Narcata. Those are fairly recent ads.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:So a lot of people have gotten on board. Super local, Wow okay. So a lot of people have gotten on board Super local.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, what I like about what you have. So you just recently moved from Eureka High last year or so.
Speaker 2:It's been two years now, it was July of 2022.
Speaker 1:Wow, and you were at Eureka High, now you're at CR. We are at CR. Yeah, let me show it to you on the map, can I? It's right over there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, south of Eureka, you're pointing right at it.
Speaker 1:But the cool thing is that it's a very affordable entry for a layperson to come in and learn media right. That's right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, you know, let's face it, we all have a studio in our pocket now. Sure, our smartphones, our movie video cameras, and a lot of them have editing capability, and I think what Access Humble provides is the expertise to make it look good and to, you know, get your voice out there, and that's you know. Another one of our missions is really to for people to have a place to express themselves. Now, of course, there's lots of other outlets now, like YouTube and what have you, but you have the tech and the technology.
Speaker 2:That's right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love that, so I could come in with my Huckleberry Flint show from last night with a bunch of random videos and download it and edit it up and do a 30-minute program we have editing stations for our members.
Speaker 2:So we are a member-driven organization. People become a member of Access Humboldt. We just came out with a new creator membership, which is a little bit more but it includes all of the education. So we used to charge for that, but now if you're a creator member, you get all of that for free. And the other thing that we did is we used to schedule. We'd have Saturday classes and that's when you would come and you'd get an orientation. You would take field certification Wow. But now we've made an instant certification so you could come in instantly, become a member Wow, get certified in the use of the equipment and walk out the door with the equipment the same day.
Speaker 1:And go to work. Yeah, absolutely, that's really cool. Yeah, it's got my renewal today, so it's $35,000 for that. $ for that 30. 30. What a what a easy price point. It's such a deal, yes, it's such a deal, so I could come in and learn to be a DJ on the uh as well, on the radio station Right Well the thing about us is that we do not do music.
Speaker 2:Okay, so we're, uh, kczh is basically a public affair station. Okay, so a lot of talking heads, um, we, um, we have you know. So our idea is to get local people getting their voices out, doing podcasts like this, including your show, which we carry.
Speaker 1:yeah, hey, hey there, I am right now. There we are.
Speaker 2:You're on bcch yeah, or you're on channel 12, so also a broadcast on radio too.
Speaker 1:I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, hear that Nick. And Nick never talks, so we you couldn't hear him on the radio. We were talking before he. I heard his voice. Actually he's upwards of one a buck, 80 and podcast. So he's, he's heard. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Anyway, yeah, so, yeah. So that's access humbled in a.
Speaker 1:In a nutshell, so cool man, I love it. So you used to be an insurance agent.
Speaker 2:I did, you talked about that?
Speaker 1:What have you done? Tell us the Matt story. Where'd you come from and what'd you do and how'd you get here?
Speaker 2:Oh, wow, okay, Boy, we're going back to the Jurassic period now. Yeah, you know, I'm from Southern California. I was born in Los Angeles Queen of Angels Hospital. It doesn't get any more LA than that. What part of LA did you grow up in? I?
Speaker 2:grew up in actually in the San Gabriel Valley, in a town called Whittier Sure, which is also known as Nixon's hometown. Right, right, right so. Yeah. So I grew up there and I played in rock bands, I was a recording engineer and then at one point or another, needed to get legit. Yeah, so I got. I got shipped over to to England, to London, england and I worked for Lloyd's broker there for a year.
Speaker 2:Oh cool. So we did Deepwater, blue Water, marine Oil Platforms, lloyd's of London, four Lloyd's of London. We were Lloyd's brokers, wow. And so I did that for a year, came back and took a detour into the entertainment industry. I worked for recording studios, ran recorded studios, played in bands, we played on the Sunset Strip. You know, we were rock and rollers. It was the new wave era. So you know, there was that. And then I got married and I really needed to get legit.
Speaker 1:So at that point.
Speaker 2:I went to work for a surplus lines broker in Pasadena.
Speaker 1:How about that?
Speaker 2:Things happened as you know, in the insurance business things happen and eventually went into business with my dad. How about that? So my dad and I opened something called Knightsbridge Insurance Services and we had that for 15 years. Is it here in Humboldt? It started off in West Covina but I decided my wife and I decided when my first child came along that we wanted to get out of LA and be in a rural community. Whittier is very much like a rural community. Is Whittier Orange County? Technically it's kind of right on the border.
Speaker 2:It's right there, yeah, and my wife grew up in upstate New York and so she's very much loved the rural lifestyle and so the nice thing about at the time, the whole fax remember faxes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:It was all blowing up and email was just sort of starting to happen, and so I could be in California. I could be anywhere in California, and so we looked all over the state and came to Humboldt County and people were just so nice and it was just so beautiful and this is where we decided to land. So I opened up an office on 2nd Street and I was there for 14 years. How about that Next door to the Gallegos?
Speaker 1:Oh, right, right right, joan and Paul.
Speaker 2:Yeah to the guy who goes oh right, right, right, joan and Paul. Yeah, is he still around? He is, I saw him somewhere. I haven't seen him in a while, but my spies tell me he's still out there.
Speaker 1:He was the very first political ad we ever did for the Tri-City Weekly newspaper. Okay, so I worked for Ron at the Tri-City. Remember these things called newspapers? I do yeah.
Speaker 2:They were made out of print. If you had a birdcage, you'd probably know all about it.
Speaker 1:Good, one Good one. I'd never heard that one, so he's the very first political ad that we'd ever ran in the paper for a front cover. So it was a decade of first casino ad that we'd ever run, so it had always been more traditional. Pearsons and Joan and Paul are just the nicest people. Yeah, it seems like a nice guy, super nice. Yeah, our friend Bill knows him well, and so so what do you like about Hubbell?
Speaker 2:I like the fact that there aren't 18 million people here. Yeah, that's, that's. That's probably number one on my list. You know, living and working in Los Angeles and the Los Angeles area, you spend your life on the freeway, but just the natural beauty. We live out in the sticks and in the Yucca River area and you know we've got trees that we can hug and you know it was a good place to raise our kids.
Speaker 1:I bet how far back are you back as far as headwaters?
Speaker 2:no, we're, uh, we're, we're on bird, we're on the first covered bridge okay you know the covered bridge where we're, I won't say where sure, but we're, we're, we're out there. In fact, I live it would. Which is so great about being at cr is I actually can walk to CR. Now, oh, do you go through the woods? I can walk down the hill to CR. That's pretty cool. It takes exactly the same amount of time as it does to drive there. How about that? So it's yeah and I, and it's just a beautiful walk.
Speaker 1:And so you're on the other side. Okay, gotcha, yeah.
Speaker 2:That's pretty neat.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's a great area down there. I heard there's trails back there. There is. Yeah, we have a new trail system behind McKinleyville where my wife's been hiking Sure, the Hammond Trail. Yeah Well, the Hammond Trail's down toward the ocean. This is on the Green Diamond property behind east of Central, so it's kind of a newer trail system. So let's talk about some of the shows on access. So we got you, got Ray and his brother they do their shows and got Paul pursue and.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, I don't have anything to do with rails and show, except for being a big fan of his because he is awesome. Yeah, and his brother, him and his brother, he's been a guest. He's, he's great, he has been. Yeah, he, he, yeah. So if you're talking about the shows that I produce, I want to hear about those too first.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay Well you would know more about those.
Speaker 2:I really I kind of do. Yeah. Well, as I was telling Nick before he came in, I produced like a you know seven or eight shows, Probably North Coast Journal Preview, which is a show that we produced with the editors of the North Coast Journal. Preview, which is a show that we produce with the editors of the North Coast Journal, With Jen and Jen and Thad, yeah, and Kelby. Now Kelby, our Berkeley fellow Right.
Speaker 1:So does she kind of moderate that Well?
Speaker 2:Tanya Shrum is our host for that.
Speaker 1:Okay, and she's amazing, and I know Kelby a little bit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Kelby's awesome.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's great, he's um, they've been working him in, you know, to the show and he's. He's really a super nice guy who's the bald guy?
Speaker 1:is that a different show with the glasses? Uh, that was uh. Is that a redwood wonk?
Speaker 2:okay, that is redwood wonk, so we're talking about david frank okay um, so I don't know if he wants to be described as the bald guy, but he hey man we just did.
Speaker 1:You got another bald guy here. Fellow bald David Shine that thing.
Speaker 2:I just got through editing that show. We recorded it last night, he edited it this morning.
Speaker 1:What's his background? Is he an attorney? He works for Internews. Okay, so he's at Arcata.
Speaker 2:Right and they're actually closing that office. But he's he, but they've got decided they're not doing offices anymore as, like, a lot of organizations have done. But yeah, so he's worked for Internet News for quite a long time, and him and Eric Kirk, I think you also know Kirk.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what a nice guy he's been a guest on your show, I think or he's been a guest on Nick's show. I'm not sure. Eric was a big encouragement to me early on. I think when I wrote my book I did know him and made this nice connection. He's a nice guy. He's in Soham or used to be.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure where his offices are, but I think he's located up in northern.
Speaker 1:He's up here now. He is an attorney, right.
Speaker 2:Right, kirk Hamer, eves. Yeah, lps. I should know this because they're underwriters of our, of our Thursday night talk show, which is another show that I just did today.
Speaker 1:Right, so let's talk about that. So a couple of your shows, so, and it's you and the other guy that owns the works, that's another show.
Speaker 2:That that's a personal show, okay. So that's not something that's connected to access, simple, that's just something I I am.
Speaker 1:I'm taking it personally. Oh, you should Don't we all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we do the North Coast Journal Redwood Wonk, which is a show about politics we do kind of like a finger in a light socket lately, but it's still good Community Voices, which is the show a lot like this one that you have actually been a guest on. We've been doing that for about 10 years. Uh start off with uh jan kreppelin and we had dave silverbrand as a host for five years and then uh paul bruce is now our permanent host for that show and he nice. So we've been, we've been really blessed with talent on that. Sure, I do a show called uh a radio centro with pueblo de centro, brenda perez. Okay, so that's a Spanish language show. Do you speak Spanish too? I do not. I kind of understand some of it. I understand enough of it to produce a Spanish language radio and TV show.
Speaker 1:I don't know how I miss Spanish, grew up Southern California, took all the Spanish classes and managed to drop out and never really picked up.
Speaker 2:I got A's in Spanish and I'd be at a loss to carry on a conversation, but I can kind of figure out what people are talking about. So it's good enough to make a show. Mucho gusto, amigo. Si, I was thinking of the Mel Blanc routine, but I won't go into that. And then we do a show called Focus on CR, which is about the staff, students and faculty of CR, and we need to kind of get back to that. But it's summertime so that's not happening.
Speaker 2:And you know just various other things that we produce in the community. So one of the other things that Access Humble does is we work as a production company. So, for example, I just got through with a big project. I was telling Nick, 37 videos for the Humble Bay Symposium, wow. So I just finished that project up. What is that Humble Bay Symposium is put on by? I'm going to get the acronym wrong. I think it's SEAC and don't ask me what it stands for but it's basically discussing issues having to do with the Bay and of course, wind power is a big issue now. So they're talking about things like sea level rise, wind power, ways to just make the Bay a better place and stuff. So very interesting. I've got my marine biologist education from editing this show. I'm going right off the bat, but a lot of really great information.
Speaker 2:Um, that's quite a project, too right it was it was a huge project yeah, and I just got through doing something for, uh, the english as a second language for college of the redwoods, and so I've got I've got a couple of other things stacked up out there in the future as well. So you know, I'm basically picking them up and putting them down all the time.
Speaker 1:Are those billable hours, so we would hire you to come and play the show yeah, okay. Right, I imagine you're pretty affordable.
Speaker 2:We are, yeah, we work exclusively with nonprofits, so we're not doing car commercials. Yeah, you know so.
Speaker 1:Sure.
Speaker 2:So and we work to make it affordable for nonprofits, because often nonprofits just don't have a lot of ready cash, you know. Yeah, oh yeah, but so yeah, so that's been. One of the other missions of Humboldt County has been to support the nonprofit community. We've done that through the productions, we've done that through the productions, we've done that through using our radio outlet and just highlighting various nonprofit organizations.
Speaker 1:We, as Humboldt Heroes, the veterans organization, should have hired y'all for the last vet. He's a World War II vet. He led the parade in Normandy a few weeks ago. Oh wow, at the 80th anniversary. He's just a really neat guy. Yeah, george Mullins, okay, super sharp, came in uniform. I mean, this guy was like hardcore World War II, wonderful man.
Speaker 2:And of course we had you on about Humboldt Heroes for the.
Speaker 1:Community Voices show. Yep, yep, yeah, so maybe we should look at that at some point. So tell me about the show with you and the guy from the works and you guys are. I was talking rock and roll and that that always interests me. It's yeah.
Speaker 2:It's not necessarily just rock and roll, although we I think we both like rock and roll, but it the show is the tagline for the show is a show about music and what it means in our lives.
Speaker 1:Yeah, do you pick out a record or a band or Basically, uh.
Speaker 2:Well, I'll just give you an example of the last show uh was, uh. The title of the show was songs that make you cry. I think I saw that it was good, and so we we, because we don't want to get copyright strikes and all that kind of stuff, we don't actually play the music, but we do list things, so we'll we'll talk about specific songs and specific bands.
Speaker 1:Can you sing it? Is that a copyright infringement? It might be, I don't know. Yeah, it's an infringement for some of us to sing songs.
Speaker 2:But yeah, it's a really enjoyable conversation. Bandon is just is fabulous and his his Brandon is just as fabulous and his his knowledge is way, way up there. Of course, you know being in that business, so, yeah, it's one of the fun things that I. You know I don't get a lot of fun, so that's what's the fun show that's the fun show. Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 1:I mean, they're all fun I you know especially.
Speaker 2:You know like, for example, north Coast Journal Preview is just a hoot because first of all Jen Cahill she's a hoot, but they're just really nice and fun people to be with and we always have fun discussions before and after the show.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're fun yeah.
Speaker 2:So it's kind of like a coffee clutch, you know, or something. You know we always were dishing and talking, you know, dirt on people and stuff like that, that stuff that doesn't make it on the air, you know.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, no, that's good. So who films all the local meetings for, say, Trinidad City Council, Arcata, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2:It's done in a couple of different ways. We have operators that we employ. We use a device called a TriCaster, which is basically a band in a box, sort of production center. It's a video switcher, audio switcher, and then we have what we call PTZ cameras point tilt zoom cameras. So it's automated. It's not automated, but it's something you can control with a joystick.
Speaker 1:Okay, On the spot or remotely.
Speaker 2:You can actually both. Oh wow, yeah, so um. For for things like the boards of board of supervisors, for Eureka city council, uh, for for tuna city council, we actually have operators in the building, but for the some of the smaller jurisdictions, we operate the meetings remotely. Wow, so uh. Jerusha Wahami, who's our digital content manager. She's terrific, by the way she is oh man, uh, we would be lost without her. She, she is just shout out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's amazing, but uh, she often operates meetings remotely. And uh, also, Juan Carrillo, who's uh, who's been our production manager. He's kind of moving out of that role, but he also will get into it and some of the meetings are just a single camera, Like, for example, Rio Del. They just have a camera or Zoom.
Speaker 1:Just pointed at the board.
Speaker 2:Yeah, pointed at the board, and Zoom is also, you know, with the advent of COVID, and so that's one of the things that Access Symbol did when COVID came along was oh, we had all these public meetings that you couldn't hold, right. So they're like how do we get our meetings onto mine? Zoom it is, and Zoom ended up being it, and then, as we came out of COVID, then there was the whole. Well, now we needed to be a hybrid meeting, which means that some people are going to come to the meeting Right, there'll be people in the room, but other people are going to want to participate.
Speaker 1:Yeah so access.
Speaker 2:Humble applied there our expertise to making that happen for these jurisdictions.
Speaker 1:Wow, so I can call in and participate in government, absolutely Wow.
Speaker 2:Imagine that Public comment yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we finally did our first public comment on the we Are Up project a few months ago. Okay, it was fun yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I actually left McKinleyville and went down to the chambers and said stuff it's, you know, it's your participatory democracy, you know.
Speaker 2:So, when you do that, when you go and I think a lot of people don't realize that you know this is a way of getting your voice heard. Some people do realize it and they abuse it. But I mean, um, it's it, and not like what I tell people uh, I've often told people is like if you want, if you've got a message that you want to encapsulate, you can go down and you know, as long as it gets it's germane to what the board is talking about you can go down and it'll get recorded. And you can go and go to our internet archive and download that and slice it up and put it on your YouTube channel or send it to whoever you want to send it to, and it's a very cheap way of getting a production done.
Speaker 1:I'm laughing to myself because there's a few key people that testify a lot.
Speaker 2:Yes, there are.
Speaker 1:Commentary yes, like the one guy, kent Sawatsky. You know, the one guy Is that Kent. Hi Kent, is he the guy that's always sort of coaching the board and complimenting them? He's a conciliary. I think he's pretty. What's that word? Conciliary?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like that Remember the Godfather yeah, he's that guy. Robert Duvall yeah, oh yeah, he was the conciliary.
Speaker 1:And this guy is really he's kind of encouraging and he applauds them and then he'll chastise them a little bit, yeah, then he'll yeah. And then the anti-vax folks from a ways ago.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've kind of missed that. Well, my first job for Axis Humboldt was covering the Board of Supervisors. Okay, so you've done—. So I covered the Board of Supervisors for almost two years, so I sat in the room with a lot of these people, and that's a fascinating thing too is just to see the Supes work close up. Oh they're great yeah. Yeah, you know you tend to look at people and they become sort of cartoon characters and that sort of thing. But when you see them in action and you see them working.
Speaker 1:They do work hard.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I really appreciate that. We had Natalie Arroyo on Thursday Night Talk. Today we prerecorded a show with Natalie.
Speaker 1:Oh, she did.
Speaker 2:Jared Huffman. Well, natalie is a superstar, so she always does great, and of course, jared Huffman is also a superstar, so he— the Energizer buddy yeah. And just— hey, Jared, what's up? This won't be out by the time this happens, but we actually broke some national news on Thursday Night Talk. Oh really, so you'll just have to watch it.
Speaker 1:You're not going to share what that is right now.
Speaker 2:I'm not going to share it on camera. I'll tell you afterwards.
Speaker 1:So today's Wednesday. Today is Thursday, Is it on tonight?
Speaker 2:It will be on tonight at 6 pm. Really yeah.
Speaker 1:Wow, I don't know if I'm going to be home in time. Right? Well, there's always YouTube National. Is that a first when you broke some?
Speaker 2:news? I think so. Yeah, what's he going to run, commissioner? No he's not Okay.
Speaker 1:No, yeah, I know that was talked about. Really Okay, it came up somewhere. Anyway, you know, what's cool about him is, whether you like his politics or not, he's in Humboldt, he's involved, he does stuff, he gets crap done, he goes to auctions and he goes. I've never seen a guy so jacked up and excited about the role of the master auctioneer, you know, involving himself.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we were talking about this a little before we started, but he is unflinching. He is a brave individual. Yeah, I'm not endorsing him or anything else like that, but he— Certainly I've known him when I worked at Key TV, because I worked at Key TV for years.
Speaker 1:The PBS station, channel 13. The PBS station.
Speaker 2:Channel 13. The PBS station Channel 13, you know represent One of the oldest.
Speaker 1:is it one of the oldest public broadcasting stations?
Speaker 2:I don't think it's one of the oldest, but it used to be one of the three smallest.
Speaker 1:Okay, that I believe yeah.
Speaker 2:I think now they've got a partnership with Chico, I think so it's not no longer qualifies for that. St Clair Adams.
Speaker 1:St Clair Adams, was he your boss? No, st Clair has not been at at for years and years Is he? Is he still living?
Speaker 2:I'm not sure, did you?
Speaker 1:work with him back in the day.
Speaker 2:I did work with him oh he's a legend Because, see, he was a very nice man and Dave, who is no longer with this, was my neighbor for years. Oh, really.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Adams, okay. So uh, I know the family and I know his grandkids and all that kind of stuff, and yeah, then we had Ron Schoener and then David, something, Is Paul Rex still there? Is he? He was at. No, Paul's gone. Yeah, uh, karen Barnes is gone. Okay, um, yeah, sam Green. Uh, who, um, uh is I love uh. Was uh my director of production still there? Wow, and uh, he's. Uh, we're doing, boy, I'm name dropping.
Speaker 1:That's good. That's that's the wrong with that. Is that wrong? Nick Flores over there, the producer folks he's doing great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I forget where we're going with that.
Speaker 1:I was going to backtrack it to the board of supervisors. Yes, head Virginia on on the show. Yes, great, I love Virginia. Terrific. Yeah, steve Madrone. I didn't know Steve had some preconceived notions, as we all do about people. Yeah, he blew me out of the water. He's great, great guy. Yeah, I've met him.
Speaker 2:A couple of times, but I didn't really know him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I saw democracy in action with that planning committee as they took testimony and then they approved the we Are Up project in McKinleyville, which is oh my gosh, it's going to be awesome, but the panel there and the guy is it Levi? Is that his name? I'm trying to think of his name. He's the guy that heads the. Anyway, it was fun to see that. Yeah, absolutely, and experience, like you said.
Speaker 2:The sausage to the sausage being made.
Speaker 1:Right and when you see the person. Yeah, you know to know Patrick Cleary is. Hey, pat.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, is hey pal. Yeah, um, well, patrick, you know, I phenomenally worked for patrick because he was the uh, um, he was the general manager for khsu, all right. So uh, he stepped in after in sort of a tumultuous time and sort of straighten the radio station out. So, uh, yeah, I work with patrick for I don't know three years.
Speaker 1:let's go there. Not there, not Patrick, but KHSU. Okay, tell me about your history with those guys, because KHSU was a really great legendary college radio station.
Speaker 2:It really was. Yeah Well, I started in the late 90s. I just started off as a volunteer. I did what they called a monitor shift and that was just putting a show on the air and reading the ID at the top of the hour. Huh, and that was just putting a show on the air and reading the ID at the top of the hour. And I went from there to a show called Alternative Therapy, which I did for 19 years.
Speaker 1:I think I remember that actually. Okay, and now I'm down at KMUD.
Speaker 2:Huh, so I've done a show. Same show, same title. No, that show is called A Little Night Music in the Afternoon. Huh, and my radio name is Mateo Noche, down there. I bet it is it's just an opportunity for puns, basically. But yeah, KHSU was a fantastic station and really a service to the community. Oh boy, and I'm not shy about saying that the fact that the university gutted the station is criminal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right up with the Lumberjacks football team.
Speaker 2:The Lumberjacks football, third Street Gallery, the nurses program, which it kind of brought back, but it just seems like anything having to do with public service, anything that's a benefit to the community, has just gone by the wayside, and this is just a function of you know. Education as a business to the community has just gone by the wayside and this is just a function of education as a business. It's all bottom line. People are making their careers and climbing the corporate ladder of education and they don't really care about the townies that much anymore. So it's really sad because I mean that was a public service that people really appreciated and supported right, and supported, yeah, and in turn supported the university for that, and I think they shot themselves in the foot by doing what it was a win, win, win, win.
Speaker 1:Yeah, did it pay for itself or was it expensive? Depends on who you ask.
Speaker 2:Yeah, who's running that number? Well, yeah, yeah, so you know how the voodoo accounting goes. But, uh, you know, at different times they would say that it wasn't covering its own, um, you know expenses. But they do this thing called in kind, right, where they they uh kind of voodoo accounting where they say, well, we're giving you this amount, you know, which you never actually see, it's just on paper, it's rent and so well yeah, rent power rental. You know electricity overhead the building or what have you.
Speaker 2:So they're inventing which was paid for back in the 1960s, right or before. So excuses were made and said that they weren't making, that we weren't covering our, our uh expenses. But I I don't believe that was true.
Speaker 1:The president was not.
Speaker 2:Tom Jackson was the woman before Lisa Rossbacher. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:She killed the football team too Right she did. Lumberjacks been shouted at the lumberjacks. Great football program. For what? 80 years? They were around a long time.
Speaker 2:It yeah, football program. For what 80 years they were around a long time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's pretty crazy, but of course we got CR.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know represent we have the CR football team. Of course theirs are still playing. They have been doing fantastic Wow.
Speaker 1:And in fact KZZH the first year back.
Speaker 2:We covered their football games, their home games, up at Cal.
Speaker 1:Poly Humboldt. How about do you guys do crabs games too? We do not do the crabs.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, that is ESPN, radio.
Speaker 1:Really yes, okay, yeah, they have a local contract with those guys.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they do a great job. I know the guys that call the games and they're fantastic.
Speaker 1:All right, let's call some names out, let's do some name dropping. So Brooks Otisis, he was yes he was owned wildwood music. Hey, brooks, what's up?
Speaker 2:yeah, fantastic little steel.
Speaker 1:Player what a cool guy, yeah, so david grissman walks into the store one day the fiddle mandolin player, bluegrass legend and and brooks is fiddling with some things and he looks up and he goes.
Speaker 2:Well, hello david, it's just like I've been in the audience at center arts when Grissman has called out as Brooks.
Speaker 1:Otis out there. Seriously, that's wonderful.
Speaker 2:Here I am.
Speaker 1:That's great, yeah. And then Greg Devaney. We all knew Greg.
Speaker 2:Vinnie, Vinnie.
Speaker 1:Devaney, vinnie Devaney, what a great guy.
Speaker 2:His daughter narrowly uh, who used to appear on his show as a little girl, her sister. She's now running Humble Hot Air.
Speaker 1:Okay, tell me what that is.
Speaker 2:Well, it's an internet radio station and in fact they've got their construction permit for a LPFM station. But they've been running a LPFM station with a lot of people from KHSU doing music shows, so that's a music outlet. How about Alan Olmsted? I haven't seen. I saw Alan in connection with a video project, but it's been a couple years he used to do the radio show with the foggy nightlights, something. Yeah, that might have been before my time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he had a long running show, I think.
Speaker 2:But yeah, you know, mentioned Gus Mozart, buck Calhoun, who calls the crabs game, tim Warner, halima the Dreamer. Huh, you know there's. You know this goes on and on.
Speaker 1:And Lorna right.
Speaker 2:Lorna, yeah, she's just saw her.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she was doing some DJ work, the other night.
Speaker 2:Yes, she is, yeah, she's a fabulous DJ.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we were at a birthday party and she said scott, scott hammond, you're not allowed on the dance floor. You must leave the dance floor. And I go who's is that? You, god, and I went over. She's great, I love her yeah, this sweetheart very nice, so kind of a legendary cotillion of wonderful family of radio. Well, I mean, it was a hybrid station.
Speaker 2:Uh, I mean, we had npr, we had local public affairs, which is one thing that cage, that kzzh has taken on. So things like art waves with wendy butler, we now do a show that, also in conjunction with humbleair, called art attitude. Um eric kirk, of course, did Thursday Night Talk and we've taken on Thursday Night Talk. We do a community calendar, so we've adopted a lot of the programming Med River Anthology, so the poetry show, oh, that's cool David Holper.
Speaker 1:I know David Holper.
Speaker 2:Dave's been on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he was on the show. He's been on TV several times.
Speaker 2:Well, we used to be like he was my daughter's soccer coach Small town. Yeah, so that's how I've known David Holper, but he's done Community Voices and he's done various things for us. Was David Reed at KHSU? He was, yeah, he's now at Food for People.
Speaker 1:Also been on the show. Yeah, it's kind of weird. We know all the same people. I see him. I keep seeing him at the Crabs games. Oh really.
Speaker 2:I see him walking by, hey David, but I haven't. Actually there's a KHSU reunion coming up, oh fun. So the engineer Kevin Sanders has organized a reunion in September. So I Russ Cole.
Speaker 1:Russ Cole? Yeah, was doing the sound last night at Huckleberry Flint out at the Folklife Festival in Blue Lake, which was remarkable, and he's done a lot of shows for Bruce Coburn, I guess. Yes, yeah.
Speaker 2:He's Bruce's sort of go-to road guy. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I wonder if he did the sound for Bruce when he was here last. Bet you a nickel probably.
Speaker 2:Who knows? I don't know. Like I said, I haven't talked to Russ in a while. He's not taking my calls anymore.
Speaker 1:He's busy.
Speaker 2:You're out there.
Speaker 1:Russ. Hey, russ Call the band so Dick Taylor. Those guys say that Russ is the fifth band member, or I guess he'd be sixth, but his sound is key to their sound.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's a consummate professional. He knows how to get things done. Of Consummate professional, he knows how to get things done. Of course, he did Center Arts for years. He was the sound guy for Center Arts for many years and he and I also worked on the Nutcracker, so that was another thing I did.
Speaker 1:So he was Center Arts. Okay, yeah, for all those shows with everybody Before Pablo. Yeah, he was James Brown and Phoebe King.
Speaker 2:I don't know if he was there when James Brown was there, but that was a great show. I bet it was fun. That was an amazing show. Huh, and he died, like six months later.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So it was it was it was like I'm. I'm glad I got to see that.
Speaker 1:So, let's, let's go to music for a minute, Okay. So let's go, let's, let's, let's take you to the music world. All right, what bands do you like locally that you feel comfortable calling out to go? You know, I'm particularly in favor of the Abyssinth Quartet, or you know who, are they A quintet, I'm not sure, but who do you like that you'd feel comfortable shouting out? And then, who's your? What are your go-to bands that you like personally, growing up in the new wave era?
Speaker 2:Well, I'm just going to, I'm just going to profess my ignorance about, about the local music scene.
Speaker 2:Okay, I don't really know that much about it. I you know, I I am a guitar player and I've just basically been woodshedding for years, you know, and I've been recently trying to break out of that, but it hasn't worked out all that well. But so I don't really know, uh, a lot of the local bands as well. I mean, I you know, I grew in the 70s and so I went through the rock era and I was a big prog fan, so I love bands like yes and Gentle, giant and all that kind of stuff, oh yeah, but somewhere along the lines, I think, I got infected by the B-52s Nice, who are really old now.
Speaker 2:They're really old now, but they're still fabulous.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they still really old now, but they're still fabulous. Yeah, they still play, right they do yeah.
Speaker 2:And um, as a recording engineer, I worked with a lot of acts that uh, you know that in the punk scene. So I really got involved in the punk scene bands like the anger Samoans and TSOL. And do you ever see the Ramones? I have seen the Ramones, yes, yeah, I have seen the Ramones. Yes, In fact, I saw them with the B-52s.
Speaker 1:How cool are you?
Speaker 2:That's really cool I don't know, I was cool enough to put my money up and buy the tickets. Right, so I kind of went into that sort of realm and I was in a new wave band, so I was a keyboard player and so we played new wave music, because it was the 80s, right Of course it's LA.
Speaker 1:What are you going to do? Yeah?
Speaker 2:So I mean, since then I have very eclectic tastes. I mean I love jazz, I love classical music. I have the show, as I mentioned, called—i already said what it was called so I'm not going to repeat it.
Speaker 1:But anyway—, so you call it out.
Speaker 2:So I mean I like new things that sound old and old things that sound new, and you know I'll throw in some jazz, I'll throw in some country. You know, the only thing I don't really like is that Cookie Monster metal stuff.
Speaker 1:Oh, you know, rawr, rawr, ramstein.
Speaker 2:Ramstein. Yeah, Maybe they're okay.
Speaker 1:My kids like that. But yeah, slipknot, slipknot. I don't really call that music, but you know.
Speaker 2:You know what I've been listening to? I'm going to shout out a local radio station which is the Lounge. The Lounge, yeah, Larry Trask runs a great radio station called the Lounge 94.1.
Speaker 1:Is it part of Patrick's KM.
Speaker 2:I don't know how involved Patrick still is in LCCI he. I don't know how involved Patrick still is in LCCI. He probably is.
Speaker 1:I just don't know. They were bought out, I believe.
Speaker 2:But this is like 40s, 50s, popular music.
Speaker 1:What's the number on the dial? 94? 94.1. Okay.
Speaker 2:So, I don't know why I know why I'm pumping other people's radio stations.
Speaker 1:It's fine, it's great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it got me through the whole. You know WHO administration, basically Reagan, and I may need it again, so the way things are looking. But yeah, so you know we're blessed in this county with a lot of great media and a lot of great radio stations.
Speaker 1:And talent and people that have ran it all. Absolutely yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:No, I think you're kind of a purveyor of that. I saw the Ramones in 77 at San Diego State University and it was listed as one of the top 10 shows in the history of San Diego. Wow. So you had Beatles and Jimi Hendrix and I think the Stones came once or twice, but the Ramones show was right up in there because it was at the beginning of slam dancing, sure, and it was really quite an experience. You know, drinking rum and slam dancing. It was really a thing you know at 17,. That's pretty fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I watched my wife disappear into the mosh pit at an X show. Kind of scary. Yeah, come back. She came back. She got out fairly uninjured, but she was very much into it.
Speaker 1:You know Miles Cochran, right? Oh yeah, yeah, so Miles has been on the show. So, hey, miles, is he part of y'all?
Speaker 2:No, he works for Caltrans.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, but he's on his radio, we do carry Caltrans District 1 in our news block.
Speaker 2:that we do at noon and 5 pm on KZZH if you want to hear some local news. So we do carry that. Manny Machado has been doing it since then, who you might remember as a sports guy. Oh yeah, I know Manny. So he works for Cal Chats. I think he's been recording those lately.
Speaker 1:But yeah, miles is awesome. We're going to call this the shout-out show. I think it is Manny. What's up? Who else can we name? Hey?
Speaker 2:Miles. Who else can we name, Chuck?
Speaker 1:Patrick Cleary. Wait, we did that. So the Ramones is on that list. Yeah, also the Grateful Dead. They did a show at Civic Center downtown San Diego that was apparently remarkable and remembered. Somebody put them on a list, all right, I saw yes, many times.
Speaker 2:Oh, my gosh, yeah. And Blue Easter Cult, that's my secret love In the day. Yeah, I saw them down the road here at Bear River Casino. How many guys were left? Well, the two important ones, buck Dharma and Eric Bloom, who are the singers on all the hits. They're the guys, the writers of all the hits. Yeah, that's cool. They're the writers of all the hits. Yeah, and they were fantastic. The new band was fantastic.
Speaker 1:Oh, often they're better.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, but it wasn't like back in the day when they were shooting lasers into your eyes and stuff. It lacked the laser. Yeah, they kind of. They don't do the lasers anymore.
Speaker 1:We've seen Chicago a number of times and they've replaced several people, but they have key ones. They're spot on. They're wonderful to see those guys. They kind of lost me after Terry Kath died.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh my gosh, but I was huge fans of them too, because I'm a horn player. Oh yeah, in high school I was a trumpet player and trombone player, and so you know you had to like Lighthouse, you had to like Chase, you had to like, you know, power tower of power. Sure, you know blood, sweat and tears, blood, sweat and tears. A lot of horns, absolutely.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah. So have you seen the movie that Terry Kath? Uh, it was done by his daughter. No, it's um got to find it. It's, it's amazing. She did this really nice documentary Strat. That was his. It was his prized Strat. He showed him playing it. He's just fast and amazing and I won't ruin it for you, but they do find it at the end of the show and it kind of connects the movie in a nice way. And the other one I like is the studio musicians from LA that did all the sound for the association Beach Boys, Bonanza, the Monkees, the Wrecking Crew.
Speaker 2:Thank you. In fact, I actually worked with Hal Blaine. How about that? Who was the drummer for the Wrecking Crew? Okay, I worked at a studio called City Recorders which was at Pick Fan Off Studios, which was at Sunset and Gower in Hollywood. Wow, and it was kind of a studio where you had people on the way up and on the way down, so you had, so this particular session was a stockbroker who could afford Hal Blaine, cool. And so you know, it was great, because Hal Blaine at the time was running around town.
Speaker 2:He had two bobtail trucks set up with two different drums that were already pre-miked, so they would just. He had two technicians would roll everything in, snap it together. Truck set up with two different drums that were already pre-miked, and so they would just these. He had two technicians would roll everything in, snap it together, and you just take the snake out and plug it, plug it in and play, and, and then he would walk in. You know, and he walked in. You know, high, high, high handshakes all around, and then look at the chart, look down at his glasses and go, and then so, so okay, bye, see you everybody. That was it, and you know, you know where to send the check and all that sort of stuff. So Gotta go. Yeah, so he, but he was fabulous.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And it was a privilege to be in the same room with him.
Speaker 1:All those guys. So Glenn Campbell came from that right yeah, and Leon Russell huge.
Speaker 2:I don't know if leon russell was in the wrecking crew. Tommy tedesco, there's a great documentary out. That's the one I was to tommy tedesco's son who shopped it around for like 30 years because when I was in hollywood in the 80s.
Speaker 2:Tommy tedesco's son was shopping that around on vhs tape how about that? But they couldn't get the rights to things. So, you know, it cost money to play music and you know and stuff like that, and so he spent like 20 years or 25 years raising the money to play the, the songs that they were playing on about that. Um, they finally did that and if you get a chance to see this, it's just you'll be amazed at all the bands that the wrecking crew played on vanilla fudge and, oh man, just like uh, mamas and the Papas, sure, and the Birds.
Speaker 1:The Monkees, the Beach Boys, the Monkees yeah, absolutely. Yeah, no, they were. I was really surprised. A lot of the association Yep, A lot of themes for Hollywood shows too, for sitcoms, and different bonanza, which is not a sitcom but could be. I guess Depends on who you ask. Kind of depends on. Yeah, so you came from that era. Yeah, yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was you know. And, for example, we work with Eric Burden, who's the guy on the Animals.
Speaker 1:Sure.
Speaker 2:We did what was called spec records. So, uh, you didn't have to pay for the studio time but the studio owned a portion of the record Interesting. You would pay for your engineer, you pay for tape, what have you? And the musicians or whatever, but they got a piece of the pie. You got it, you got a piece of the pie. And so we did a project with Eric Burden. I don't think it ever saw the light of day, maybe it did, but he. I remember sitting in the office with the office manager and he was just going off on Eric Burden saying this guy is a has-been, nobody will touch him Really, and you know he's, you know he's, he's, you know, just poison.
Speaker 1:Was he a.
Speaker 2:Brit. He is a Brit, yeah. And so we get up and walk out of the office. And who's sitting right outside the open door? But Eric Burden, listening to that. He had to have heard every word he said Pops up, shakes hands all around. Couldn't have been a nicer guy.
Speaker 1:Nice Good for him.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, he probably said well, if I want to get this thing, I better, you know, better shine I better, you know. But I felt bad because I I didn't completely agree with that, because he was a very, very talented guy and I didn't really, I don't really think people are over just because they're not making hits anymore.
Speaker 1:Well, Johnny Cash? He was never. I mean, he was drawing crowds of 50, 80 people before. Is it Rick Rubin? Is that his name? Rick Rubin, yeah, Produced the last few records, American Recordings, yeah, yeah, what an amazing. That's a cool story too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely. I didn't work with Johnny Cash, though I'm just going to say that right out front you did or did not, did not, okay.
Speaker 1:And then there's the story of Glenn Campbell, his final tour, which is this what is it called? It's not. Who Am I? That's, this is me. What a great film about his life and his struggle with Alzheimer's Right and trying to get awareness out there.
Speaker 2:Well, I actually know a couple people, the Johnson brothers, who were in a band that people might remember called Small Fish Boy. We really are Small Fish, hey, but they were his next door neighbor. Oh, how about?
Speaker 1:that.
Speaker 2:So they played with his kids growing up.
Speaker 1:Let's call it a couple more names. So Frank Zappa, did you ever see him in LA?
Speaker 2:I did. I saw him at the Joe's garage at Polly's pavilion.
Speaker 1:That's cool. Ucla yeah, that's cool. They said the stone tubes, the tubes open for them Wow. And one of my favorite rock and roll stories we've got time for this.
Speaker 2:I don't know if we have time. Can we fit this in? The Tubes were doing a version of El Paso. You know the Marty Robbins tune, the very violent Marty Robbins tune. And right at the salient point of the song, when the protagonist gets shot, the bass player raises a shotgun that's wired with squib packs. I don't know if you know what a squib pack is. Sure the fake. It's a little explosive thing right there and shoots Phee Weybill and it sprays fake blood all over the entire audience.
Speaker 1:Nice and the entire audience just goes whoa, Freak it out Like this.
Speaker 2:You know, and I'm like this is rock and roll right here.
Speaker 1:This is theater, man, rock and roll. So much for Alice Cooper and David Bowie. Well the tubes they're white. Punks on dope right White punks on dope yeah. Yeah, they were pretty prolific. The other guy I wanted to talk about was so the Voodoo Lounge on Sunset Strip with Alice Cooper, Harry Nilsson, oh, the Viper Lounge.
Speaker 2:The Viper Lounge.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, the band was the Hollywood Vampires with Alice Cooper, joe Perry, johnny Depp, johnny Depp. Yeah, watching Johnny Depp play was interesting. We go to a lot of shows at the Brit Festival.
Speaker 2:He knows how to pose with a guitar in his hand. Yeah, I don't know if he's good or not.
Speaker 1:He played. Okay, he was in a Jeff Beck tribute that you can find online. Oh is that right? Not too long ago he was a guitar player. When he was discovered in a coffee he shot in Florida. Really, yeah, before he's an actor, okay, well, maybe he's good, and now he's a pirate and a rock and roll guy.
Speaker 2:I don't think he's a pirate anymore, but he made a lot of money off of being a pirate.
Speaker 1:So we're going to go see Keanu Reeves' band up at Jacksonville. We're going to go see, I think, maybe a nicer guy yeah, a lot of bands. We'll see how they do and then, to change it up, we're going to go see their Cuban, the Buena Vista Social Club.
Speaker 2:Oh wow, Is there anybody still alive from that?
Speaker 1:They are, yeah, old guys that are still playing.
Speaker 2:Hey, well, they probably. You know, smoking cigars and rum. That keeps you alive, right, it's a preserving, preserving effect yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1:And we just saw Judy Collins, who still has Okay. Yeah, she's still out there. 55 albums. Wow, 86 years old still that's crazy a tune. Yeah, I'm sure she can and she's pretty funny. She's actually pretty sharp. She's on stage and where she'd lose track she's, I don't care, let's just go on and she would carry, she's gracious. So hey, part of our show where we ask you about what you like about Humboldt.
Speaker 2:Okay, I thought we already did that, but that's fine.
Speaker 1:No, we're going to go specific. Okay, so you got a day off. What do you do in Humboldt? If you could do anything, you want no expense spared. What would you do, Matt?
Speaker 2:Wow, you know, the thing is is I'm such a homebody. Okay, it's pretty crazy. I, you know, I kind of live out in the woods. So if I take the dogs for a walk in the woods and, uh, perfect, you know, it's uh just commune with nature and stuff. I mean, generally, if I have any free time, I'm, uh, I'm, I play guitar, cool. So uh, yeah, I'm, I'm. I have been home a lot and I do enjoy it. Well, I also do a radio show, so that's something else I like to do. You do it from home. No, oh, I drive down to K-Mud or walk over the hill.
Speaker 1:Oh, I guess you can't walk over that hill.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, no.
Speaker 1:That's a long walk to Garberville, that is.
Speaker 2:It's a bit of a-.
Speaker 1:Is it in?
Speaker 2:Redway or Garberville. It's in Redway.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, I've heard they're really a great lot down there now.
Speaker 2:So, uh, um, that has been an interesting experience. I was going to say fun, but that would be not true. Uh, but it hasn't been unfun, you know. But, uh, yeah, kmud is is great and it's kind of like the last dog standing of that kind of interesting radio station. That's a hybrid of information and music and local news. Lauren, here's another shout out Lauren Schmidt. Hey, lauren, hey, what's happening Lauren. Is fabulous. She's one of the best news people in Humboldt County.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:Her reporting through disasters and all that kind of stuff, and she is just a gem. So there's an embarrassment of riches, shall we say.
Speaker 1:That's good. No, it's a tribute to Humboldt, Okay. Question number two Okay, you can eat anywhere you want. Here's a big check. Where do you take your sweetie to go eat? Oh wow.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Well, the Sea Grill. And what?
Speaker 2:do you have? The Sea Grill is good, uh-huh, I like the sushi, so I like the sushi. So there's a Ichiban who's down there. It's. This is not expensive, I mean. Ichiban's great, yeah I. I like like a little sushi now and then.
Speaker 1:They're right down the alley from my my office.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, I know. Okay, here we go and this is going to be the I don't know the best burritos in Humboldt County. That's saying something. They are currently. They're down on Washington and next to a Mexican restaurant. Ironically, there's a restaurant on on Broadway and then they're back. There's a little Pandera, their little bakery that they have, right, but they're opening a new place. It's all built.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure why it hasn't opened. That's the one that's down over, off of by AT&T and whatever.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure why it hasn't opened yet, but anyway, the burritos are killer.
Speaker 1:They are so good, any reason to think they wouldn't carry that burrito over to their-. They will carry the burrito they have a taqueria in a whole night. They are.
Speaker 2:They're going to do that Because it'll be closer for me, because I won't have to drive all the way in to Eureka to get my burrito on Wednesday, which I did.
Speaker 1:I see it's all about the burrito.
Speaker 2:It is all about the burrito El Pasta, super burrito, really, yeah, okay, that's a good tip.
Speaker 1:I'm from San Diego, home of everything amazing Mexican food. It's like we always joke about it. You know hamburger and my taco. You can't do ground beef. Don't do this to me, bro, and so that's just wrong. Yeah, no, and many people don't do that, and there's still many people that don't have authentica. You know Right, but you're telling me this one does, so we're going to go. Yeah, okay, absolutely great. You get time to go to a beach. Which beach do you go to, and who do you go with, and what do you do at the beach?
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, we used to take our kids to the beach and we would go down to King Salmon. How many kids? By the way, I have two girls. Grandkids no grandkids?
Speaker 1:Nice, yeah, do they stay local? The girls, they're in San Diego. Oh, how about that? Yeah, oh great.
Speaker 2:My youngest daughter. I shouldn't out her. She just turned 28 yesterday, wow, so, yeah, so, shout out, shout out. So we haven't really gone to the beach that much since the kids grew up and flew away, you know, but I mean there's just so many. I mean, like the Lost Coast is another great area to go to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, magical Shout out to all of San Diego, yeah, how you say SD hey Padres. Go.
Speaker 2:Padres, I like the Padres.
Speaker 1:So we'll wrap it up by asking you the tougher Some people struggle with this question who are you? What do you want? I'm sure I'm going to struggle, that's okay.
Speaker 2:I've been struggling since I got here, that's okay, I think he's done great.
Speaker 1:Shout out to Matt. So who are you and what do you want? Who is Matt Knight? And number two, what are we going to say on your tombstone, at your eulogy, your celebration of life in the woods or wherever that is? And you know who are you.
Speaker 2:We'll start with that Well, you know, I just personally, I just strive to just be kind to people and be a caring person.
Speaker 1:Imagine that in these days, I know.
Speaker 2:It's crazy, it's kind of nutty, it's kind of nutty. But you know, I am just sort of mild-mannered and you know I love the arts, so I'm an artist too. I probably shouldn't have brought that out, but I, you know, I just really like the soft music and arts and you know, and just being nice to people, right, why can't we just all be nice to people?
Speaker 1:We can.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. And what was the second?
Speaker 1:bit of that. What about your legacy? Oh, the thing on my tombstone. What's your tombstone?
Speaker 2:What are we talking about? My tombstone will say I told you I was sick.
Speaker 1:That's a good one. Is that from a line, from something I don't know? Probably that's a good one. I like it Well, appreciate you coming. Yeah, thanks Scott. Yeah, pretty cool, it's been a pleasure. Any parting shots, anything you want to? Oh, let's do the shout outs for everything Access. So how do we find y'all? Yeah, how do we give you money? Right, are you on social?
Speaker 2:media. Accesshumboldtnet is the place to go.
Speaker 1:Accesshumboldtnet. Write that down.
Speaker 2:It's all one word lowercase and you can go there and find out what we're doing and how to support and how to become a member and, you know, hopefully come down to CR.
Speaker 1:Yeah, take a tour.
Speaker 2:We're in the old administration building at CR, which is a fabulous building.
Speaker 1:It's easy to find. It's right there, right.
Speaker 2:Well, you would think it would be easy to find, but people have trouble sometimes, but anyway, once you do find it, you'll find a great facility filled with people who really want to help you create content. And you know, for me, for the radio station I am, I've got 24, seven, three, 65 to fill. So I am looking for people who want to do um. You know shows about the community.
Speaker 1:I think it's a, it's a killer value and you're looking for folks to have your content than your money.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean that's a good word. I think a lot of people also don't realize I know we're at the end here but that on our television stations we will take any content, any content that you, as long as it's not obscene, as long as it's not copyright material, as long as it doesn't libel or slander anybody. So if you've got a video, a home movie, whatever, we will put it on the air. It costs you nothing Perfect, but anything that you want to share with the community.
Speaker 1:Accesshumboldtnet Social media too, I imagine.
Speaker 2:Social media yeah, we're at Access Humboldt and we have a Facebook page and there is a KZZH page. So if you go to KZZHLP you can find out about all the shows that are happening there. Thanks for being here. Yeah, thanks for.
