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Matt Siegel Quits Live on Air

 Was it an act?  Matt Siegel is world-famous: if the Boston area is your world.  Siegel is the radio host of the "Matty in the Morning Show" on KISS 108, which has been on the air since 1981. He is -- present tense -- still the host, even though he seemed to have quit for a moment there. Some of us thought that it was an act, and he that he would come back triumphantly in a wave of publicity. Did THE "Matty" need publicity? Not in his own market he didn't and doesn't. He has 450,000 regular listeners. Maybe this was some Machiavellian scheme to go national?  Anyway, on Wednesday, May 19, Matty, the harmless-iconoclast type of radio host, announced apparently in genuine anger, that his bosses weren't going to allow him to make fun of Demi Levato's announcement that she is now a non-binary "they."  Any discussion of them should use the preferred (properly plural!) pronoun. Matty said, "Matty out" and walked off. Hmmmm. It only took ...