365 days after Matt was released from prison, he and a friend were assaulted via 'road rage' by a man brandishing a gun. Though they tried to get away, reaching speeds of over 100 mph, it ended with Matt's friend being shot in the head and killed.
Matt rowed a boat from Monterey, CA to Oahu, HI over the summer of 2014 in 57 days 5 hours 45 minutes. Matt shares the world record with his 3 crew mates for the first ever mixed sex team of 4 to row across the Pacific ocean unsupported.
Worked as a high rise window washer and was known to free climb the buildings he had access to.
Is a mix of German, Irish, Latvian, Cherokee and Choctaw ancestry.
Has a mini Australian Shepherd named Olive which is short for "Olivia Stormborn Wylde".