The Most Known Unknown Interview Series: Matt Ufford

Today's interview requires some introduction. On May 10 at 7:00 EST, I will be co-hosting a three-hour program on my student radio station devoted to my favorite thing ever: shitty music videos from the eighties featuring football teams rapping. You want an example? You know damn well you do:



It'll stream over the Internet and I'll try to post the show afterwards, but I thought I might give you a taste by posting one of the interviews I've conducted uncut and unedited. Specifically, With Leather's Matt Ufford, alias Kissing Suzy Kolber's Captain Caveman. With Leather has accounted for at least half of the songs I'll be playing thanks to its many posts on precisely that topic, and as such Mr. Ufford has to be considered the preeminent expert in the field of shitty sports rap songs. If you've been waiting all your life for a half-hour discussion of that particular topic, you're in luck. Also, I managed to Lead him into The Big question, if you know what I mean. Wait, let me restate that: I managed to Lead him into The Big question. Am I not just deliciously subtle? Without further ado...

Play them classics!

[Note: I just realized that this whole thing is totally proof that bloggers and mainstream media types CAN in fact get along. They can even discuss issues and stuff. As long as you define "mainstream media" as "random dude at a college radio station" and "issues" as "hilarious YouTube videos." Sounds about right.]

The Most Known Unknown Interview Series: Junior

For some reason, Fire Everbody has become the happening place for bloggers to get interviewed. (My theory is that's it's because we ask them.)

The person on the other end of the line today is Junior from Fire Joe Morgan. You know, that site we totally didn't rip off when we named this site. Nope, not at all.

Some highlights:
1. References to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle AND Henry V!
2. Someone finally connects the dots between the FJM guys unmasking and the writer's strike!
3. Fresh insight into the hotly debated identity of Chester Jesterton!
4. Junior raises the concept of "blogger living in his mother's basement" to its Platonic motherhumping ideal!
5. Oh, and baseball gets mentioned!

It's a bit of a weird scheduling quirk that we've had two interviews go up nearly simultaneously, and as much as I'd love to promise a daily blogger interview, that sadly just isn't going to happen. Still, we do have one more ace up our sleeve for about a month from now. But in the meantime...

Play them classics!

The Most Known Unknown Interview Series: Big Daddy Drew

As I'm sure you all know, Djmmm, Passive Voice, and I see ourselves as nothing short of superheroes, righting wrongs and fighting the forces of international bad sports journalism. You may have seen the artist's conception that ESPN recently put out:



I won't say who's who, but, uh...sorry, Passive.

But in my civilian life, I actually dally with the ultimate evil itself: sports radio. (Admittedly, we're talking student radio here, but it's still the same medium that spawned the Schrutebag, which is just something I'm going to have to live with.) Hell, our biggest traffic day ever came out of an interview I did with Will Leitch, which I do sorta mention all the fucking time. What can I say? It was our one big flirtation with non-obscurity.

Anyway, since our big broadcast season has finally ended, I've been using the last few weeks as an excuse to interview some of my favorite bloggers. I thought I'd share them (as well as some previous interviews) with you all in what I'm dubbing The Most Known Unknown Interview Series.

In this edition, we've got Big Daddy Drew on the other end of the phone. You will:

1. Get the exclusive scoop on the mildly interesting changes over at Kissing Suzy Kolber!
2. Learn just who that Sage Rosenfels dude is!
3. Hear Drew say the word "Douche"!
4. Revel as Drew hates on a certain Ivy League institution!
5. Discover the shocking secret about Drew and Natalie Portman! (Warning: You must be 18!)
6. Be shocked at my stunning failure to be a hard-hitting journalist!

All that and more is yours for the listening in the Most Known Unknown Interview Series. You can find them all in the sidebar.

By the way, I know that a lot of people question the title, they want to know what it means. The Most Known Unknown Interview Series means that Fire Everybody is known, but at the same time we're unknown, you know what I'm saying? We've got a lot to do with what's going on in sports blogging today, you know what I'm saying? But bloggers don't realize it, bloggers in the basements realize, but the stat counters and link dumpers don't realize it, but it's all good, it is what it is, I ain't gonna talk your head off, I'm going to drop these hits on you...

Play them classics!