A staple of CBC Radio on PEI, Matt Rainnie, is retiring today. I’ve had the opportunity to speak to Matt on the radio a few times over the years (once about Firefox in 2004 and about music in 2019).

Matt was made for that radio hosting job. He was somehow genuinely curious about every person he spoke with. It didn’t seem to matter if they were talking about their music project, history, technology, or farming.

That curiosity kept his many thousands of conversations on the radio from ever feeling routine. It also made him easy to talk to for those of us being interviewed, who were often nervous and not gifted at speaking naturally in an unusual circumstance.

I can’t imagine a career where you were live on the radio every day for years. You can’t be late for that job. You can’t ‘phone it in’. That takes a special kind of person.

Thanks Matt!