Matt's Alternate Reality

I'm so flattered I'm flattened Lynn. Thanks for the kind words! I've been getting interest in this idea from a few producers I know as well, so who knows. And Mark sounds like my kind of guy. So if something actually happens from it, you'll be the first I credit at the Oscars!

Thanks again,
Matt

You're obviously a woman of taste! LOL. Thanks!

Matthew Peterson
Writer/Historian

Thanks so much for the kind words Laurel!
Matt

Thanks for the kind words Amir!

I'm glad that a few people out there are getting this. Thanks again.

I could spell it with a 'u,' but I choose not to. I also spell sh!t with an exclamation point instead of an 'i.'

Homogenized Subversion is a great name for a band. Thanks! :)

stay true to your voice and be as offensive as you want.

I doubt Matt can get a public radio show that way. He'd rule the podcast world, though. Obviously there's a big market for his type of entertainment.

P.S. I'm definitely not a riotgrrl, as you said in your comment Sally. I chose radiogrrl, because that was one of my first email usernames. I ended up with that because radiogirl was taken.

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Please listen, then vote and comment if you are willing, to my 2 minutes of funk (sans funk)
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please grrl, i don't care how or if you can spell or what you call your band. and if you deem matt offensive, hey here's a thought, don't listen. but don't tell me i cant listen. and good luck with your g-rated material. there's obviously a big market for that too, of course, doesn't mean it's any good. Mostly, fluff like yours is just watered down crap, you know, like funk without the funk? sound familiar? Hey, try to offend no one and you end up impressing no one either. Just ask Jay Leno. THAT'S my point. try to keep up here, as matt would say. zzzzzzzzzzzzz

There's no cake around here because you've already taken it. Oh, and remind me not to send you my DVDs of Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator, Mel Brook's The Producers with Hitler on Ice, Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark series which make constant fun of Nazis, the entire series of Hogan's Heroes, Conan O'Brian's Hitler's Kissing Booth (btw, several writers on Conan are friends of mine, so I'll be sure to tell them that now they have to send everything through you first for approval) or John Stewart's book and interview with Hitler on Larry King where he offered him a bagel. And that's just off the top of my head, all for general, PUBLIC consumption as well. If you want a few hundred other examples, just Google Hitler Satire. Hey, I grew up in the middle of an Orthodox Jewish community, several of my best friends are Jewish, and they thought this was hilarious, btw. Plus, I have 4, count 'em FOUR catholic priests in my family. One is a Jesuit teaching in Vatican City while another is a Cardinal, both of whom I'm very close with, not to mention a brother and nephew who are parish priests. And guess what, they ALL played my silly little bit and thought it was perfect dark comedy as well. I love those guys. Regardless, I don't believe in censorship, Kalle, 'self' or otherwise. And if you actually DO, that's much more humiliating and embarrassing to know that you are out there acting as self-appointed adjudicator for what YOU happen to think is appropriate for consumption by the general public. Who died and made YOU hall monitor? Can't anyone else recognize how inappropriate and horrifying it is for you think it's okay for you think like the great censors and dictators in history who personally brought down entire civilizations with their intolerance and absolutism, which has caused many more wars and much more pure human suffering than a stupid crack about Hitler, Stalin, Ho Chi Min, Caligula, King Tut, Genghis Khan, etc. If you don't like it, simple, turn it off. But don't reach over to my radio and tell me I can't listen to it either. That's not at all what PUBLIC radio is all about. And if you think it is, then I suggest you revoke your public radio membership and start up your own private station. But sure to send a cease and desist order to Mo Rocca, Faith Salie, Garrison Keillor, Brian Unger, and Matt Groening, of The Simpsons (hitting episode 400 today with truckloads of offensive material available to the PUBLIC) who love to poke fun at taboos with their subversive free thinking of which I'm sure you don't approve either. Long live freedom of speech. It's one of the principles upon which this country was founded. Look it up. But I've already wasted way too much time on this. Debates like these are always futile and usually devolve into name calling, which I detest. You know, like you calling me horrifying and me calling you a hall monitor? Please, I have to get back to my screenplay about Eve's side of the story in The Garden of Eden. I'm sure you'd love it. Oh, and yes, I've received nothing but accolades for my posting from people who realize what that's all about. Horrifying, isn't it?

I don't think the Holocaust is funny (like this even needs to be said out loud), but clearly Hitler IS funny. His personage is so ridiculous, so clearly the antithesis of even what he claimed he wanted, and he's so small and useless and yet caused so much horror and misery. The name Hitler is just so charged with emotion its like a Coke can that's been shaken for a week, and if you can cleverly fire the contents, its cathartic comedy for everyone involved.
However, I just didn't think this was very funny. It was scripted and put together, but didn't make me laugh.

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