Matthew’s Story

I am Matthew Berdyck and I am relentless. I got my start late in life, at age 34, a disabled man with a dream of becoming a filmmaker, activist, and investigative journalist.

In 2011, that dream began to come true when Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim solicited my first TV pilot only ten months into my film career, a comedy project, developed with Mad Magazine’s Sergio Aragones, who had discovered me and opened all the doors to hell.

After Adult Swim passed (fucking dicks) on my show, I focused on creating the first ever, first-person film about homelessness in film history. The film was released in 2013, distributed by Distrify Media, titled Blame Reagan. I created the film by living on the streets of major cities along the west coast for 18 months.

One month after the release of the film, I received a $500,000 angel investment into my film and activism career from a Google software developer in Silicon Valley

I then went on tour with 2022 Grammy Winner, Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater) and Rod Morgenstein (Winger, Dixie Dreggs, Berklee College of Music) to create the experimental concert film ‘Philadelphia Experiment: Ra (Live)’, a fucking wild visual effects and audio experimental film.

In 2014, wanting to do something more real and weighty, I turned my focus to environmental reform. I began traveling the country investigating and exposing toxic waste sites, cancer clusters, the redevelopment of still polluted Superfund sites, and exposing government corruption, for his former organization Superfund Research

For the following five years, (2014-2019) I traveled to thousands of cities, fought hundreds of powerful causes, including becoming the first person to blow the whistle on the corruption at the Region 5 EPA that led to the Flint Water Crisis.

In 2017, I was credited in the Roanoke Times for exposing the largest corruption scandal in Virginia history.

In 2018, I founded an independent media outlet, Daily Independent Journal. We were raided by the FBI and then sued into oblivion by paper terrorists. I also introduced my own personal brand of custom high-end Japanese wagyu beef, called Wandering Plains Wagyu.

In 2019, I merged Daily Independent Journal and Superfund Research into one organization, ToxicWasteSites.org and branched out into other areas of environmental work, including using law to fight regulators and fed agencies.

In 2021, I began distributing military leaks to the New York Times, generating thousands of news articles across the globe.

In 2023, I signed with a legendary national fire and weather videography team, to provide footage to major media outlets, like CNN, FOX, Weather Channel, ABC, NBC, Accuweather, Weather Nation, and other national and local media outlets.

In 2025, after almost being killed filming the LA Fires (gee, no one saw that coming) I made plans to go to college, to obtain a degree in environmental law. In August, I started a misanthropic satire writing project which exploded virally, generating over 48,000,000 readers. Five months after he went viral he was scouted by legendary Screw Magazine as writer, satirist, and investigative journalist.

It took me 15 years but I did, at age 49, when I literally no longer give a fuck about anything you just read and want to go rest and watch X Files.

Now fuck off, it’s a Smoking Man episode.