COMING SOON
ALL THE GREATEST PEOPLE FROM THE GREATEST PLACE
THE SHOW:
Madness is a love letter scrawled in spray paint and protest signs — a raw, electric tribute to Madison, Wisconsin, and the beautiful chaos that pulses through its veins.
This show is about the artists who burned brighter than their scenes could hold. The rebels who turned campus sidewalks into battlegrounds. The organizers who built new worlds. For the poets who wrote manifestos in bars and basements. For the scientists who danced with atoms and the organizers who turned those atoms into action.
This is where classrooms became launchpads, punk shows doubled as sermons, and quiet minds started loud movements. The dreamers and doers who refused to wait for permission — so changed the shape of this city, this state, the world. Madison didn’t just birth movements — it is one; ever changing.
Madness is where their stories live, unfiltered and on fire. This is the sound of a place that never fit the mold — and never wanted to.
Madness is not a podcast. It’s a riot in your headphones.
About the Host:
FOUNDER/CEO BIO
SPEAK.STUDIO founder and CEO Matt Boatright-Simon is a developer/coder, UX and UI designer, thought leader, entrepreneur, stage play & screenwriter, and filmmaker.
Boatright-Simon is a pioneer in experimentation & development of emerging technologies and methods of visual and audio storytelling including Gen AI, VR, plenoptic capture+presentation, and large-scale volumetric photogrammetry.
KEYNOTE+SPEAKER+PANELIST
He’s a thought leader on intersection of creativity, business and technology; keynoting, paneling and speaking on Agentic and Generative AI, Storytelling and Podcasting.
Topics:
Creativity in the time of Agentic & Gen AI
Don’t Make Your Podcast
SPEAKING CREDITS:
Technology Industry Group (Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Dell), Meta, Forward Fest, Wisconsin Lt. Governor’s Small Business Academy, Blacks in Tech (Los Angeles), and for groups including UWEBC, UCLA, 1m Cups, Madison Pressure Chamber, and more.
MIC+CAMERA
Podcast Host: Boatright-Simon Presents, the Official World Euchre Federation podcast, The Cross Section, All American, IRS CI, The AVR Club, When I Move You Move, The Cut and The Elite sports podcast.
Highlights:
U.S. Presidents, Senators, Congressmen and Heads of State
Nobel Laureates and Fields Medal winners
CIA Operatives and Peace Corps leaders
NASA Astronauts and best-selling novelists
CERN scientists and Hollywood show runners
NBA World Champions and Olympic gold medalists
Oscar winners and avant garde playwrights
Emmy and Grammy winners
Wisconsin farmers and Fijian teachers, and many other extraordinary human beings.
Barack Obama, Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, A.R. Rahman, Glen Ballard, BB King, Roger Daltry, Damian Marley, Kanye West.
After falling in love with the filmmaking, as an extra on the film Hoosiers, he’s shown up in films and TV including Beverly Hills 90210 and the Apple TV+ series Me.
AWARD-WINNING PRODUCER
Matt’s work has been seen by tens of millions across the globe. He’s produced over 1000 podcasts, films, stage plays, commercials + promos, television shows, immersive experiences and more. His work has garnered over 50 awards ranging from a Vogue’s Best Podcast, to an Edinburgh Fringe First. Matt is a two-time Squaw Valley Screenwriter’s Fellow.
HISTORY
Boatright-Simon started his creative tech career at award-winning music video, commercial and film production shop Propaganda Films in Los Angeles, fine-tuned his editing at the foot of Academy Award-winning Hank Corwin at Lost Planet in Santa Monica, honed his storytelling skills on London’s West End stage, and developed his technical chops at Academy Award-Winning Rhythm and Hues Studios in Los Angeles.
Boatright-Simon was a member of University of Wisconsin rowing team, speaks Mandarin, is an inventor. He officiated a lovely wedding. He lives in the country in Wisconsin and the city of Los Angeles.
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