Matt Video Interview

Beasley Digital

4/17/2025

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00:00All right, Tipper Bay's morning crew backstage right now with Mr. Matt Stel.

00:04Matt!

00:04What's up, crew?

00:06So we're going to be playing a game with you.

00:07You have picked a word.

00:08It's called the QYK Secret Word.

00:10He has a word.

00:11We do not know what it is.

00:12He's written it down right there.

00:14He's going to try to work it into the interview somewhere, okay?

00:16So, Matt, go ahead and show everybody the word.

00:23We got the word?

00:24All right, here we go.

00:25All right, Matt.

00:26Well, dude, first of all, thank you for being here.

00:28We are so excited to see you on stage.

00:31Well, it's my pleasure to be here.

00:33You know, I grew up not far from here as a child, so it feels like coming home a little bit.

00:39Okay, very nice.

00:39Yeah, for sure.

00:40Yeah, so Bradenton, you said when you were coming over here today, driving across, you're like,

00:45well, I've made this trip many times.

00:46I've made the trip many times to the Tampa airport so that I could fly to Memphis or something to go home.

00:54But, yeah, a lot of great memories here.

00:56I've watched ball games at, shoot, the Tropicana Field and back when the Bucs were still the Bucsicles and dressing.

01:07And I've watched a bunch of Lightning games, too, growing up.

01:10Hockey was so good.

01:11I played more hockey than anything growing up around here, oddly enough.

01:15So have you got to party with the Stanley Cup?

01:17Because, you know, we've won two times in a row now.

01:19I haven't gotten to party with the Stanley Cup, but I have gotten to party with people who have won the Stanley Cup.

01:25That's better.

01:25And that is quite the experience.

01:30And I think we might get to do some more of that today.

01:33And I'm just going to act like it's not Sunday.

01:35Okay.

01:35Because, honestly, ever since we had to take a year off of life, I treat every day like it's Friday.

01:40Yeah.

01:41I love that.

01:42No chill whatsoever.

01:43Very cool, man.

01:44Well, listen, you have absolutely put out some amazing songs.

01:47Prayed for You being one that really jumped out.

01:50Where was an aha moment for you where you said, oh, my gosh, I'm really going to do this.

01:54I feel like people are digging what I'm putting out.

01:56And I see this career really going somewhere.

01:59You know, it's funny that you say that.

02:02I was back.

02:03I was kind of back here-ish, like Longboat Key.

02:07I saw some family there, right?

02:09And this was why I was still touring around and playing music.

02:13And I was sitting there on a pier.

02:15And I was watching, you know, kind of pelicans fly in.

02:18And I was watching, you know, these boats go by.

02:22And I was thinking to myself, man, all of these things out here that are like these ships and everything,

02:27everything's moving, but I felt like I didn't feel like any, like the dolphins or anything.

02:31I felt like, I don't know, like the oysters or the barnacles that were on the, like, pillars of the pier there.

02:38I felt like I couldn't get anything going.

02:40I was just letting life happen to me.

02:42And then, man, I finally made the move to Nashville and wrote some songs and prayed for you being one of them.

02:48And it kind of changed my life.

02:50And that was just, I just remember that kind of dock of the bay moment, if you will.

02:54I love that.

02:55Man, I feel like that word might have been stuck in there somewhere.

02:59And that was really good, by the way.

03:01Well done.

03:02Dock of the bay moment.

03:03I think, I'm sorry to cut you off a little bit.

03:05I think that, well done, sir.

03:08Well done.

03:10Well, I'll be right there, man.

03:11That was awesome.

03:12Oh, well.

03:13Was that really the word?

03:14Yeah, I know it's right there.

03:16Man, we came up with these together.

03:18I didn't know which word it was going to be, but that was very well done.

03:20I love it.

03:21Hey, Matt, thanks for being here, man.

03:23Matt Snell coming to your stage real quick.

03:25Woo!

03:26Woo!

03:27Woo!

03:28Woo!

03:29Woo!

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