The Young Professor

The Young Professor Host & Chief Potassium Enthusiast for The Savannah Bananas. Pro live event host. 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!

CREEPY PROMO PHOTO TIMEI wanted AI to help me create a promo image showing that I'd be hosting this weekend once again f...
02/26/2025

CREEPY PROMO PHOTO TIME

I wanted AI to help me create a promo image showing that I'd be hosting this weekend once again for the NHL this time for the Stadium Series game at The Ohio State University between the Detroit Red Wings and the Columbus Blue Jackets

It did an OK job, but couldn't nail down my face's likeness. So, being the skilled photoshop artist that I am (🙄), I just stuck a promo photo of my head on there.

There are 2 lessons here:

1) Get hyped! The Professor is hosting in front of over 90,000 fans this weekend! And;

2) Hire real artists to create dope images for you, or else you get nightmare amalgamations like this.

Happy Wednesday everyone!

02/25/2025

Only a few days away!!!

02/25/2025

Happy to welcome a few more good brothers to Banana Ball: Stunt Marshall and C.b. Suavé !!
The Party Animals

Photos from last weekend at .south , but it’s the final game of our home opening series for and .
02/23/2025

Photos from last weekend at .south , but it’s the final game of our home opening series for and .

Showtime in Savannah for the home opening weekend for The Savannah Bananas ! Suited and booted and ready for the Before ...
02/21/2025

Showtime in Savannah for the home opening weekend for The Savannah Bananas ! Suited and booted and ready for the Before the Peel show with my partner in crime: Isaac Cool !

Which of these fits from last month at the PPA Tour Masters is your favorite?
02/21/2025

Which of these fits from last month at the PPA Tour Masters is your favorite?

While I may be away at work, I did manage this week to head out for an early Valentine’s Day date with my love and I a...
02/15/2025

While I may be away at work, I did manage this week to head out for an early Valentine’s Day date with my love and I also went to what was my very last Daddy/Daughter Dance with Lili, and we were best dressed as always

When you stay loud, you don’t need to get loud 📢
02/12/2025

When you stay loud, you don’t need to get loud 📢

I don’t have a dog in the fight when it comes to the tonight, but I did meet a few years ago when he was hanging out ...
02/09/2025

I don’t have a dog in the fight when it comes to the tonight, but I did meet a few years ago when he was hanging out with . So: shout out KC Wolf .

I will never not get excited to see the Goodyear Blimp flying high in the sky. I still can’t believe I was lucky enough ...
02/09/2025

I will never not get excited to see the Goodyear Blimp flying high in the sky. I still can’t believe I was lucky enough to hitch a ride in that puppy last year 🎈

There are fewer things cooler in life than seeing folks at Dunkin' selling donuts with your face on them.It was awesome ...
02/08/2025

There are fewer things cooler in life than seeing folks at Dunkin' selling donuts with your face on them.

It was awesome connecting with so many amazing The Savannah Bananas fans this morning in Glendale!

I do my little turn on the catwalk.
02/07/2025

I do my little turn on the catwalk.

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CAUGHT IN THE ACT! 🗣️🎙️ Check out this video of @brycen_85 from @gamechangergoats hitting my hype intro on the sidelines of Sunday’s @thesavbananas game! He’s got the words AND the mannerisms down! One of our new hosts took this video without him knowing on the sidelines, and it just blows me away! I want to get to a point where I can get the whole audience doing it with me, and it looks like we’re getting more and more of the #bestinclass out there in on the act! #host #mc #emcee #announcer #hypeman #savannahbananas #mimic #imitation

🧠 🚶‍♂️WISDOM ON A WALK 🚶‍♂️ 🧠 BET ON YOURSELF Throwing it back to when I flew out to Las Vegas for a @tnawrestling tryout in 2018, and the lessons I learned from an experience that could have been seen as less than ideal, but wound up pretty beneficial for other reasons in the grand scheme of things. One thing I know for sure: betting on yourself is worth it. #host #mc #emcee #announcer #ringannouncer #wisdomonawalk #betonyourself

I got a little excited for this one… 😳 🥧 Sorry, Colin! 🤣 #host #mc #emcee #announcer #slapstick #pie #savannahbananas

Want to see the most unhinged fan-participant activation I’ve ever hosted? Ladies and gentlemen I proudly give to you: Low Hanging Fruit with @thesavbananas 🍌 😳 #host #mc #emcee #announcer #savannahbananas #lowhangingfruit

Introducing @nascar Champion @kurtbusch as a guest pinch runner for @thesavbananas , who winds up getting driven in by @coach.rac ! #savannahbananas #nascar #announcer #mc #emcee #host

🗣️🎙️1 MORE DAY🗣️🎙️ It all begins again tomorrow in Arizona! Back on tour with @thesavbananas for the 2025 @bananaball World Tour! Here’s one more throwback with @isaacrpowell as we got the crowd in Boston all fired up outside of @fenwaypark #host #mc #emcee #announcer #bananaball #boston #singing #travel

🍌 ⚾️ 2 DAYS AWAY ⚾️🍌 The 2025 @bananaball World Tour kicks off Saturday in Mesa, AZ 🌵 as @thesavbananas take on @thepartyanimals Here’s a little memory from @nationalspark in Washington DC as we got set to open the gates for what would be an incredible night of Banana Ball! 🇺🇸 #host #mc #emcee #announcer #savannahbananas #knocksquad

Prep for the Banana Ball World Tour
Prep for the Banana Ball World Tour

📝 YOU WRITE THE STORY 📝 We did some fun prep exercises for The Savannah Bananas World Tour over a snowy weekend in Savannah with the guys from Shine Entertainment, including this funky one where I had to listen to and successfully recount two 30 second stories from Jesse Cole and Rad Bod Mikey told to me via whisper simultaneously in each ear 👂 I was able to nail details on both. What stories did they tell me? Tell me in the comments! #improv #training #coaching #host #mc #emcee #announcer #entertainer #savannahbananas

⚾️ HOST WARMUP FROM THE GREEN MONSTER ⚾️ 5 days until the 2025 @bananaball world tour kicks off, and I’m reflecting back on some fun moments from the 2024 tour. Here’s a snippet of my opening crowd warmup at 530pm from atop the world famous #greenmonster at @fenwaypark with the rowdy #Boston faithful! 🗣️🎙️ #bestinclass #host #mc #emcee #announcer #bananaball

My dream. #funny #viral #host #mc #emcee #announcer #peanut #nutmobile

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