The Young Professor

The Young Professor Cast Director & Chief Potassium Enthusiast for The Savannah Bananas. Pro live event host (NHL, NASCAR, PPA Tour, and more). Sharp dressed man 🤵 Ladies. Gentlemen.

Boys and Girls... and Live Event Enthusiasts from around the world! The Young Professor Matt Graifer has been an a live event host, announcer, DJ and speaker for over a decade and has performed in front of more than 1,000,000 people in that time! He is best known as the Host/Chief Potassium Enthusiast for The Savannah Bananas, and he has also announced for NASCAR at the 2022 Coke Zero Sugar 400 at

the Daytona International Speedway. He began his sports career as a professional wrestling ring announcer, before adding MMA, boxing, and then team sports event hosting to his repertoire, working for teams and events like the Daytona Tortugas MiLB team, the Jacksonville Sharks arena football team, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Men's/Women's Basketball teams, the NXL Paintball World Cup, and many more. The Young Professor (aka Matt Graifer) was ACTUALLY that: a young professor! At the age of 25, he started as a professor of an exercise science program where he taught 25 separate collegiate level courses over a nearly 8 year span. He then spent several years as a high school social studies teacher. The Daytona Beach News Journal named him Best Live Entertainer in 2018 and in 2022 he was named one of the 40 Under Forty for the same newspaper. The Professor maintains a remarkably busy schedule, but is always interested in new, exciting opportunities. If you or someone you know is in need of a host, DJ, or motivational speaker for your event: you'd be hard pressed to find someone more experienced, better dressed, or more FUN than the one and only Young Professor!

Headed to Ga***rd Palms Resort & Water Park Ice in Orlando today with Shanna and 3 of our kids. 🧊 They keep the whole pl...
11/26/2025

Headed to Ga***rd Palms Resort & Water Park Ice in Orlando today with Shanna and 3 of our kids. 🧊

They keep the whole place at 9 degrees 🌡️ and it’s truly an incredible display of craftsmanship.

If you’ve never been to see it, I’d definitely recommend checking it out.

The Gallivanting Graifers

NEW SHIRTS 🎙️ 🔥 For the Announcer or Professor fan in your life, just in time for holiday shopping and that show the Tu-...
11/25/2025

NEW SHIRTS 🎙️ 🔥

For the Announcer or Professor fan in your life, just in time for holiday shopping and that show the Tu-dum channel about kids getting upside down…

Grab an Announcer Club or Professor club shirt (or one of my many other options) and they’re also available in baseball tees! Link in bio.

https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-young-professor?ref_id=22633

11/25/2025

QUICK UPDATE 👁️

Watch til the end. 🙏

(No it wasn’t actually like this, but I did think of it after)

Last ride with double glasses.Lasik eye surgery today at LasikPlus Orlando.
11/24/2025

Last ride with double glasses.

Lasik eye surgery today at LasikPlus Orlando.

10 Years Of The Young Professor 🗣️🎙️It all started in November 2015To celebrate my 10 year journey, here’s my unlikely s...
11/23/2025

10 Years Of The Young Professor 🗣️🎙️

It all started in November 2015

To celebrate my 10 year journey, here’s my unlikely story told in 20 photos from along the way.

Here’s to many more 🥂

I found out that one of my biggest fans and supporters, Jaron Peterson, was going to be at the same event as I was at la...
11/21/2025

I found out that one of my biggest fans and supporters, Jaron Peterson, was going to be at the same event as I was at last night (Chevy Chase live Christmas Vacation Q&A at the Peabody Auditorium in Daytona), and I brought him a little YoPro package of stickers, buttons, and a Young Professor Potassium Pals figure.

Jaron, outside of my family, is arguably my biggest fan. He was literally cheering me on in the days of shows with 5 fans in the crowd (he was one of the five) and he still shares and posts everything I put out. In the Bananas organization, we talk about being Fans First, so when I found out we’d be at the same spot I wanted to give Jaron a token of my appreciation because without him and the many other people who have been cheering me on from the humble beginnings, I don’t think I’d be out in the world living my dream 🗣️🎙️

11/20/2025

I'm about to do a thing...

Thanks to LasikPlus, I will be getting Lasik eye surgery this coming Monday. 😳

My vision has been terrible (and only getting worse) pretty much since I was a teenager, but I'm also very skeeved about touching my eyes or putting anything in them, which is why I don't already wear contact lenses. I'm definitely nervous about this...

But it's time and I believe I'm with the right people to do it.

More info and videos of the process to come! If you have any questions about it, I'd love to be transparent and keep everyone informed about this entire process.

The Florida Panthers jerseys are 🔥 for this year’s NHL Winter Classic
11/19/2025

The Florida Panthers jerseys are 🔥 for this year’s NHL Winter Classic

The New York Rangers jerseys for the NHL Winter Classic this year are SWEET
11/19/2025

The New York Rangers jerseys for the NHL Winter Classic this year are SWEET

11/18/2025

You get 1 minute, they got 20, but it was a privilege to be the MC for TNA Wrestling this past weekend during their 3 days at Full Sail University. 🗣️🎙️

ICYMI: I hit the 2M+ fan mark this weekend in Orlando with TNA WrestlingTo put that in perspective, in 2024 I performed ...
11/18/2025

ICYMI: I hit the 2M+ fan mark this weekend in Orlando with TNA Wrestling

To put that in perspective, in 2024 I performed in front of 1,067,771. This year is nearly 1 million more people who have seen me live, and I have a couple more events left in 2025.

🗣️🎙️ RECORD SHATTERED 🗣️🎙️

As of this past weekend with 3 jam packed shows, in the year 2025 alone, I have stood with a microphone in my hand in front of 2,000,118 fans this year as a host, announcer, or speaker. This does not include the number of people watching any of the many television broadcasts I have been a part of. 🗣️🎙️

Between Banana Ball, the NHL , PPA Tour , TNA Wrestling and all of the other smaller events in between, I can say that I have stood in front of more in-person fans than any other announcer on the planet this year, and I am floored by this metric. I still have a few events left on my 2025 calendar, and despite the fact that I always post my bi-annual metrics as a host, I thought that this milestone deserved its own post now as it happened.

Thank you to the companies and individuals who have trusted me to represent your brands in front of your fans. I am so grateful to be able to do what I do for a living and to be able to bring joy to millions of people.

🗣️🎙️ RECORD SHATTERED 🗣️🎙️As of this past weekend with 3 jam packed shows, in the year 2025 alone, I have stood with a m...
11/17/2025

🗣️🎙️ RECORD SHATTERED 🗣️🎙️

As of this past weekend with 3 jam packed shows, in the year 2025 alone, I have stood with a microphone in my hand in front of 2,000,118 fans this year as a host, announcer, or speaker. This does not include the number of people watching any of the many television broadcasts I have been a part of. 🗣️🎙️

Between Banana Ball, the NHL , PPA Tour , TNA Wrestling and all of the other smaller events in between, I can say that I have stood in front of more in-person fans than any other announcer on the planet this year, and I am floored by this metric. I still have a few events left on my 2025 calendar, and despite the fact that I always post my bi-annual metrics as a host, I thought that this milestone deserved its own post now as it happened.

Thank you to the companies and individuals who have trusted me to represent your brands in front of your fans. I am so grateful to be able to do what I do for a living and to be able to bring joy to millions of people.

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