Robot
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83 appearances
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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But I guess if you brought up Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, I think it's sort of probably the same reason that we go to see horror movies. It's exploring something that either we are afraid of or that in horror movies, it's something that we're afraid of and we can sort of explore it safely. Go through the steps of death, go through the steps of terror, almost like practice.
Come out the other side and you're fine, maybe learning something along the way. With watching other people be Wrath, And B-Wrath is my wrath name, by the way. Become wrath. Yeah, I think we all have that type of anger in us that comes out actually during... When I talk a little bit later in my segment, I'm going to talk about when I find wrath appearing in my life.
It's a very specific, very weird place that I want to talk about. But because you have that part in you, and I think... Maybe sometimes, whether it's subconscious or not, we feel like we are doing more work than we know to keep that part down. To keep the social code going, we have to say, yes, please, thank you. We try to not get overly crazy when people drive us insane because that's pure what?
Would that be pure id? Of just flying from the seat of your pants? Yeah. And so to be able to have someone, whether or not they are allowed to, to just be like, yeah, well, yes, because with Patrick Bateman, we are fascinated by sociopaths and sociopathy. What would it be like to be freed of those constraints? Yeah.
Ultimately, they are usually punished, not in Patrick Bateman's case, unless you go with that weird reading that he died really a lot earlier in the book. But yeah, to be freed of those social constraints and be able to just live your life as you see fit, punish those who you see fit to be punished, there's something incredibly freeing that we are denied. Right.
I mean, that's why there are places in like Vegas where you just pay to go into a room and smash a bunch of things. Like they give you a sledgehammer, you pay $50 and you get a sledgehammer and you destroy a printer. You destroy a washing machine, probably because the washing machine has taken too many of your quarters over your head.
And that is a really interesting point when you bring up how disgusting he is. And whereas like Hulk, even when he's hulked out, he's still looking pretty good in those jean shorts. Yeah, right.
The world of Patrick Bateman and John Wick, everyone's in suits. Everyone is dressed to the nines for the biggest, always the biggest, whatchamacallit, violence in the entire world. So we're still masking it in humanity. That's what makes it palatable. But if you were just, so I think that's what allows it for us to be like, oh, let's play along with this.
But if it was just pure wrath, if it was pure, I don't really know what venom is, but if it was just sort of like this multi-tentacled, all-teeth monster, then yeah, I think we would shy away from that. That's not fun.
So there is a catharsis. So we're all feeling constrained. We're all angry. I mean, what that sort of leads to is we're all angrier. than we give credence to. We all feel that we are trapped more than we think we are. We're more powerless than we are. And so we give it up to these vengeance characters as catharsis.
I think because they have that catharsis is my guess. I mean, at least cliched-wise or in media, a lot of times they are portrayed as a fairly reserved society in public. But I think they have these outlets. I've always said that I've never agreed with people
demonizing video games or violent video games lead to violence or lead to any real other human behavior that being said it's not exactly violence but i think the number one most dangerous place that i've ever been to in my life is a movie theater parking lot after a fast and furious movie yes because all of a sudden everyone is
the wrong way on the street for no reason. No reason. Yeah, you're not running from anybody.
Yeah, I don't know what that's like. And then cut to me outside just punching a tree. Just over and over again.
Throughout history, wrath has made men and women do terrible things to their opponents, and sometimes said wrath can backfire onto the very person that sought vengeance in the first place. They say that revenge is a dish best served cold, and in the case of Viking Earl Sigurd the Mighty, it was also best served on horseback.
Around 892 CE, Sigurd Eistinsson, or Sigurd the Mighty, was the famed Viking leader of what is now northern Scotland. Keeping hold of the Scottish mainland was a difficult task, and he was challenged by many opponents for his earldom. One of his strongest opponents was Mael Bricht, also known by the significantly less impressive nickname Mael Bricht the Bucktoothed.
Having grown weary of Sigurd's constant attacks near the modern-day land of Inverness, where Colin Farrell's banshees lived and then one movie, Bucktoothed Mael decided to fight things out the honorable way. Mael and Sigurd would meet on the battlefield, each with 40 men. They would fight it out, and the victor would become the Earl of the Land.
But known both for his military prowess and his shaky relationship with fairness, Sigurd the Mighty squirreled the deal in a mighty way. Breaking the compact, he showed up with 40 horses, but had two warriors upon each horse, thus outnumbering his enemy two to one. Male and his men fought bitterly, but were quickly defeated by the overwhelming Sigurd's army.
Showing contempt and wrath for his beaten foe, Sigurd wanted to punish and humiliate him. He had Male decapitated, and he tied the severed head to his horse as a brutal sign of victory and dishonor. But even in death, Male wasn't quite finished with Sigurd the Mighty, and Sigurd the Mighty's wrath was about to, well, bite him back.
For Male the Bucktooth got his nickname from his protruding front teeth, and this being the late 9th century, dental hygiene wasn't exactly at the top of anyone's list. So while the gloating Sigurd rode back to town, Male breached rotten teeth, scraped across Sigurd's leg, opening a wound.
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