And we're live.
Hey, what's up, man?
How you doing?
Good to see you.
We're just going to talk real quick.
Yeah.
And there we are.
Now we're live.
Seriously, we're live.
Look, we're on our phone.
Here we are.
This is real.
Matt Huey on the show,
live from CSM here in Anaheim.
Big Texas guy.
I liked Houston.
Houston was fun.
It was a little warmer than California,
I feel like.
It is a little bit.
So I got to ask,
you do funny videos on the interwebs,
which is a good way to get people
to pay attention,
but then you also give them good
information.
Spoonful of sugar,
and then the medicine goes down, right?
Where do you come up with them?
And I know that might sound like a
weak question, but are you like...
Are you watching something and then
twisting it in the moment?
Like, oh, I'll do that.
Or are you a plotter?
Like, oh, I'm going to do these five.
Where do you do it?
How do you do it?
A lot of it just comes from history.
When I worked with patients and had
something happen, you're like, man,
that could be funny.
That's a cartoon version of funny.
So like watching Saturday Night Live way
back in the day.
Like when he had Phil Hartman,
Chris Farley, Will Ferrell,
those like the skits of what you took
a real life situation.
You made it funny.
You just amped it up ten percent.
Yeah.
And I was like, you know what?
Let me start doing this.
So sometimes I may just scroll and look
at videos and I'm like.
i could do something like that what's my
version of what's our version of that yeah
so something hits and that's yeah so like
what is the rehab pt health care equipment
of that whatever you're seeing in the
moment yeah just to make it and i
said it's just that little snapshot of
that just that time just right there let's
take it let's be funny with it let's
be enjoying it's not making fun of anybody
but let's do that let's all have a
laugh because right life is hard dude
we're monkeys on a rock dude we are
we're just spinning around in space all
this is made up we invented all this
stupid stuff
Good interactions that you've gotten,
have your patients found?
Your content?
Yes.
The patients occasionally have found it,
and they're like, oh, my gosh,
can you do me next?
They get it.
If the patients get it, you're there.
That's where you are.
The most touching thing was my daughter
came home a few weeks ago.
She goes,
I watched one of your videos at school.
Why were you watching that at school?
She was like,
I just wanted to watch one of your
videos.
and i was like okay and and i
was like that's real touching i said well
did you did you like it i wasn't
signed in i was like okay but like
that was touching and like my little niece
i have a little niece and nephew and
they find it hilarious they're like oh
look uncle matt's on there being a good
yeah how long have you been doing it
like uh two thousand nineteen to seven
years now wow and then when you started
sharing things
Nowhere in the job description.
It's not in the syllabus in PT school,
but it is in our lives, right?
We always say we want to meet people
where they are, and I'm like,
I got news for you.
They're on Instagram.
They're on YouTube.
They're on all these places.
What was the goal when you started,
and has the goal changed?
Just a creative outlet.
Flex a muscle that you're like,
this is fun.
Put my personality out there and then that
was it.
And then the same thing now is like,
I'm just going to keep being this
personality and just keep doing that.
Just having fun.
That's how I look.
It's fun.
You don't want to make it like...
a hard job where I got to do
this, but it's like, it's, it's fun.
It could end tomorrow.
Who knows?
Right.
But it's like, just have fun,
entertain people.
You know,
that's what I think is just entertaining.
Yeah.
What's going on in Texas?
In what way?
I don't know.
What's the big, hairy,
scary want to talk about today?
What's the thing everybody's got to hear
about live from CSI?
Oh,
I'll tell you the big thing is getting
member engagement.
That's a big thing.
Within an association?
Within the association.
So,
getting the PTs and PTAs and the students
engaged in the state to make a difference.
Because sometimes I will say the big
things nationwide,
What can I do?
I'm calling this lawmaker.
I'm trying to tell them about PT with
Medicare,
but you've got physicians calling them,
the OTs calling them,
all these other professions are calling
them.
They're also talking about education and
agriculture and business and all this
stuff.
But the local Texas people,
we can make a change there.
We can do something different.
there and it's like we've got to get
our members engaged and give them some
reason why you should why are you should
i be a member why should i be
involved here what do we give you well
let me ask you this why are you
a member let's take the advocacy part out
of it because you could do that without
being a member why are you a member
that's a good question i i do like
the giving back and helping
Advocate for the profession,
grow the profession,
protect us in what we do because
everyone's trying to take a piece of that.
You know,
and then you have people who are,
you know,
the whole thing with the veneers doctors
online.
Do you ever see the veneer tech?
No.
What is that?
Oh,
so these people were on TikToks being
veneer techs.
What are veneer techs?
Exactly.
This people that would do like some online
course or just in-person training to do
veneers on people who are not licensed
dentists or anything.
And they were messing up people's teeth.
And it's like,
You have to protect them.
I feel like there needs to be some
sort of protection there.
Yeah.
And so one guy got charged with like
seven hundred years worth of stuff.
Because he messed up enough people's.
Yeah.
That bad.
And then you also think of like with
contractors,
like I used to do construction when I
was younger and like you get unsavory
people.
It's like you have to protect.
Yeah.
The people who consume our product.
So let's let's be here to help protect
those of those those people and get get
us out there into these less fortunate
areas.
Because like again,
when I came from Mississippi.
There was eighty four counties in
Mississippi.
Eighty two of them are below the poverty
line.
So I'm really saying, hey,
let's let's take this profession that can
help people and let's go into these areas
and share it with people and to help
all those people.
That's what I try to try to do
with it.
I know that's kind of all over the
place in the answers.
No,
it's also got to be because you said
we a few more than a few times.
It's the other people.
I tell people a lot like, oh,
I can't do the math on CSM and
fly all the way there.
And just for that many CEUs,
but I can get CEUs on my couch.
I'm like, my man,
if you're just flying for CEUs,
you're missing you're missing the thing.
The things in the hallways,
the things that the I mean, unfortunately,
it's like, yeah, it is the hotel bar.
It's.
i said it i hope apk steals it
which is you if you're a new grad
you come to csm because hopefully you see
future versions of yourself everywhere oh
yeah or your spin what am i going
what impression am i going to leave and
these pts are all over the country every
day
But when you're in physical proximity,
you can meet someone new,
propose a collaboration,
and then something is born.
And that's if you think you're going to
get your money back out of the CEUs,
you're not.
That's a nice little side quest.
The main thing is the people.
That's why we come together.
Yeah.
It's so much fun.
You get here and you come away so
renewed and you find new products,
all sorts of great,
crazy things out here that are just so...
Test it, jump in it.
Yeah.
And you may see like,
I do have some of the things where
it's like, hey,
this thing may not stick around,
but there's a thought,
there's something going on there that we
need to look at and be aware of.
So that's a really big thing.
And then also like meeting the people,
because you never know,
you meet somebody today and
they may help you in a year,
five years.
You may pull that card out and go,
hey, I need a job.
I'm going to call Bob up right here,
and I can call him up,
and maybe they can find something.
It's not that whole cliche of it's not
what you know, it's who you know.
I go one step further.
It's not what you know or just who
you know.
It's what they know about you.
Someone might know me and be like,
Jimmy's a jerk.
So if I come up in a job
reference situation, I know him.
Don't hire him.
But it's what do they know about you?
And you can build.
You can't.
You can't buy trust.
You can try to buy attention,
but you've got to build trust.
And I don't know.
I feel like you speed it up when
you do something like this in person.
Oh, yeah.
It's great.
You guys have an event.
Do you have an annual in Texas?
Oh, yeah.
It's around October-ish when you typically
have it.
I mean, it's nothing as grand as this,
but you get to see the people from
around the state.
You talk.
People you're on Zoom calls with all year
doing the work.
you go have dinner with one another.
You just,
you just chat about different stuff.
Maybe you may even have to talk about
patient cases or just stuff that you're
struggling with.
And it's like, Hey,
I get these new ideas to kind of
bounce around and talk about.
And it's like, it's a lot of fun.
And even stuff like,
not even pt comes from it sometimes so
it's not all pt all the time but
something something else may come in
because maybe maybe they have um i don't
know you want to start a band or
something oh you play you know guitar you
play let's go do this we got this
album seems like a good reason i know
we can have a band it's named theraband
i think i stole that there we go
theraband
Listen, Picasso said, good artists borrow,
great artists steal.
So if you get a good idea for
a video and twist it.
I heard someone,
we were at the Graham Sessions,
a little meeting put on by PPS a
couple weeks ago.
And...
And someone said, before I wrap up,
I just want to give you my parting
shot.
And I was like, that's my thing.
But I was like, that's cool.
You stole it.
That's all right.
All right.
So we will do the parting shot right
now with Matt.
Let's do it.
This is the parting shot.
One last mic drop moment.
No pressure.
Just your legacy on the line.
All right, Matt Hewitt, your parting shot.
What's something you want to leave?
A mic drop moment, a soapbox statement,
anything?
Just look in that.
Give us a parting shot.
Oh, does that get put on the spot?
Now I can't think.
Well,
what's the big thing you hope that changes
in the profession in the next year,
three years, something?
What's the thing you're hopeful for?
Gosh, now it goes.
Of all the times I talk and I
run out of something.
Okay, like you said earlier.
Every – I'm going to talk about students.
I'm going to talk about students.
Good.
Whenever you work with students,
I tell every single one of them,
I want to leave a little piece of
me with you.
So you're going to form your own way
of how to treat or how to evaluate
or do whatever,
but I want to have a little piece
of me that I gave to you that
you take it,
and then a little piece of you will
go on to the next one and then
the next one.
So you will continue on.
because you did something with somebody,
and they will carry it on,
and they will carry it on.
So a little piece of you will just
keep going through this profession based
upon what you did with students or
whomever now, today.
Hit them with the Instagram account,
just so they can follow you online.
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