Matt Graham has quite an amazing history. He and Marc crossed paths in the Boston comedy scene and Matt went on to be a respected comedy writer, a professional Scrabble player, a professional poker player, and an almost-college basketball player at the age of 40. But that only scratches the surface. This episode is sponsored by Stamps.com. Click on the radio mic and enter WTF for a special offer.
The misogyny is a different matter. Using the C word in the 21st century?!? Really!?
I think he uses God as a scape goat to place blame on in order to not hold himself responsible for his own actions. Before it was alcohol and drugs, now it's religion and some ridiculous sense of being cursed with bad luck, instead of his own aggressively anti-social tendencies, which are clearly evident in the second half of this interview. He's so passive aggressive in his attitude towards Marcs apparent lack of gumption in directly addressing his suicide attempt that it'd be funny if it weren't so frustrating.
He claims that he is simply being 'honest', but as Marc tried to say in the interview, there is such a thing as selective honesty. It's not a matter of what he's saying, it's that he says it all at once, and it's simply overwhelming for most people, which is reasonable. But the conclusion that Graham makes from this is that "all people are full of shit, and I'm not" (that ones essentially a direct quote). And of course, all women are out to make men debase themselves for their own sick pleasure. Ridiculous.
His sobriety is certainly a step in the right direction, but he's only trading one vice for another. The first (alcoholism) was material, this one's ideological. He uses both as a way to make himself out to be persecuted by a world that is out to get him. While he may no longer be having hallucinations, he is delusional. Graham clearly still has a long ways to go, and needs some mental help.
I for one found Matt easy to like and unfortunately pretty easy to identify with.