The Matt Cockburn Fake Radio Show

About
22 January 2008, PetesPerspectives @ 10:21 pm

Hello and welcome to mattcockburn.com , home of the Matt Cockburn Fake Radio Show. I’m your host, Matt Cockburn.

I have many plans for this site and show. Whether I do them or not is another story.

 But I hope you bookmark this page and come back often. We will have a new show up each month. Sometimes more than one.

 Let me tell you a little bit about my favorite subject: me.

I was born in 1978 twenty some-odd years ago in New Jersey. I grew up in the sleepy little bedroom town of Parsippany. I road my first horse there on a pony farm on Rt 46. Like everything else nice and charming in New Jersey, the farm is now condominiums. Shocker.

I went to Catholic school for grades 1-8. Ya know, for a religion that’s all about trying to keep you out of Hell, they sure know how to create Hell on Earth. My emancipation came when I went to Parsippany High School. A public school. I must admit, my Catholic School Principal really beat into my head that you get beaten up for no reason in public school. But it didn’t happen.

It was at P.H.S. that I grew my hair long, started bands, made movies, had my first fake radio show called Matt and Chicken and got hung up on a girl named Kasey. All those things would rule my life for the next few years.

College came and I moved to Fairfax, Virginia, where I attended George Mason University. It was agreat learning experience, for it was there that I learned I was not cut out for real life. Everyone was too similar. Not interesting. Content to be content. Not for me. I dated a big boobed, beautiful eyed, D-s*cking girl named Tara then. But she left me for some dork she cheated on me with. Joke’s on him. I bet she got fat.

GMU did yield one valuable thing. Good old Johnson, one of my co-hosts. She got me. She gets me still. And I have yet to scratch the surface in understanding her.

I moved back to NJ after school and got a job at Geon Seminars, which is the sister company of Goen Technologies, which is the company that makes TrimSpa . I loved working there. But I was too young and dumb and had too much fun with my fello employees. So I got canned. But I am still friends with my manager who canned me as well as others I worked with there.

After that I worked for my father. It was retail and boring. But that’s usually where I am most creative. Like, when I was in school, I would think of anything but the unpleasantness of the classroom. From there came a plethora of things. So, my job at my dad’s did that too. I conceived of a film production company, but didn’t have much experience except raw talent. I couldn’t talk the lingo and didn’t know anyone in the industry. Oh I also hate auditions but like to act. Go figure. So then I scaled my thinking down… WAY down, as it would turn out. I dreamed up GettysBike Tours and moved to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania . It’s a great place to live. But you should only move here if you are retired, independently wealthy, don’t mind a 40+ minute commute, have a skill you can find work in anywhere, or are criminally insane. Ok, not the last one. It’ not a place to cut out your own path in life. But the move is something I felt I needed and would pay off in the end, probably not in Gettysburg, though. The experience is invaluable.
It was here in Gettysburg that things got interesting. I have met great people (co-host Schaffner not the least of them), made somewhat of a name for myself (although it’s debatable as to whether it’s a good name or a bad one) and have started my gift to the world (literally) the Matt Cockburn Fake Radio Show. Our initial listenership was attained through something else I had a hand in creating, BoroughVENT.com .

I hope you find our show entertaining and maybe, at times, thought provoking, though I wouldn’t count on it. And if it pisses you off once in a while, good. It’s does the heart good every now and again.
Matt

P.S. You might notice many words in Italian on this site. Well, the designer was Italian. We’ve tried to translate many of them, but ran into problems with the rest. So, enjoy learning Italian.

8 Commenti a “About”

1. Tracee — January 31, 2008 @ 6:49 pm
   

   Just love the show! And Matt your a sweetie. Its good to be able to here your vocie and your silly smartness on the web.
   Can’t wait to hear the next round of shows coming up.
   Let me and the Sloan-ranger if you need anything.
   Your friends
   Tracie & Sloan

2. admin — January 31, 2008 @ 10:56 pm
   

   Thanks, Tracee. Glad to have you listening. Julie Schreiber next month!

3. Deb G — February 1, 2008 @ 2:15 pm
   

   Can’t wait to hear Pete’s Perspective….come on Pete!

   Love the show…..keep up the good work.

4. JOHNSON — February 13, 2008 @ 6:07 pm
   

   Hey Everybody,

   I LOVE that this site is also in Italian, cause I’m Italian. How, you say, can a girl named JOHNSON be Italiana? Just by the pure grace of God, that’s how! Thanks for listening everybody, and don’t you just love Matt and Jeremey? I’m so thankful they give me a platform for expressing MY-self!!! (they know I’m kidding, sort-of )

   Lots of love guys, and love to you ALL.

   Ciao,

   JOHNSON

5. floyd flannigan — February 18, 2008 @ 8:19 pm
   

   hello mr cockburn.

6. admin — February 19, 2008 @ 9:46 am
   

   hello floyd. good to have you on board.

7. Allison — June 20, 2008 @ 1:26 pm
   

   awwww yeah. Morris County represent!

   p.s….happy belated birthday!

8. admin — June 21, 2008 @ 7:22 am
   

   thanks allison. good to have you listening.

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