Shane Madej
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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As a baby, it was said that he rejected any sort of affection, and his mother, Carlene, claimed that she found it impossible to bond with her new child. This is one of those things I think ladies do get...
And now you think.
Yeah. All right. Last Podcast Merch dot com. It's the tits fault.
It's my mother's tits. Now, once Martin reached toddler age, he also became fiercely independent and uncontrollable, wandering out of their house at all hours. Eventually, Carlene had to fix Martin with a harness and tether him to something just to keep him inside. Sounds familiar. Did you also get a harness? We've talked about this.
Sometimes you got to tie them up.
So you don't turn around and the kid's rooting through your luggage.
Well, the neighbors looked down on Carlene Bryant for doing this, for tying up her son. They said that the Bryants were treating their child like a dog. But Carlene, in what would be the first of many exhausted explanations throughout her life, defended the practice by saying that she at least knew that little Martin was safe.
See, Carlene loved Martin, but she found it extremely difficult to actually like her child. Likewise, Maurice Bryant found Martin to be just plain weird, and therefore spent most of his energy trying to make his son quote-unquote normal. Martin, however, was anything but. Well, Martin was slower to learn how to talk, and his fine motor skills didn't really develop.
Carlene would take Martin for hours-long walks every day to try to tire him out. But the feverish, unstoppable motor that seemed to power his every waking moment was impossible to control. For example, Carlene was getting her hair done at the salon one day when Martin fell off a balcony and split open his head.
After being taken to the hospital, Martin had to be given adult-strength sedatives so he could sit still long enough to get stitches. And even then, it took an hour for the sedatives to kick in.
extraordinarily annoying well i mean one of the things i really like i don't know if we've established yet so far like just how incredibly irritating martin bryant grew up to be no we haven't I mean, Martin Bryant, he was the type of guy that would book transatlantic flights so he would have someone who was forced to talk to him for 12 hours straight.
Oh, yeah. I love airports. No, he was an incredibly, and we'll get into it more.
But, like, not just irritating, but aggressive. You know, and we're going to get into that right now. I mean, one school could only stand to have him for less than a year before the staff decided they couldn't deal with him anymore. And they suggested that the Bryants instead have Martin examined by psychiatrists and eventually be medicated. Medication, however, did absolutely nothing for Martin.
And when he was sent to another school, a lifelong cycle of rejection, alienation and solitude began because the other kids didn't like Martin any more than his mother did. It was not, however, because Martin was just weird or because he had a speech impediment or because his learning abilities bordered on mentally challenged. All those things were true.
But as anyone who's worked in child care like I have can tell you, some kids are just dickheads and they're only made worse when the other kids volley back. And when Martin was examined in 1975 at the age of eight, he was determined to be a slow learner possessing fairly low base intelligence. But most of all, Martin was deemed to be an unusually aggressive child. Thank you.
I tried really hard to be. Martin was known to throw things at other kids, kick them, spit on them. Sometimes he'd urinate on other kids. But Martin was also fully aware that he was doing something wrong when he got aggressive with others. To mitigate punishment, Martin would suck up to his teachers and had a whole routine worked out for showing remorse when needed.
Like some of the pyromaniacs we talked about a few episodes ago, Martin would play up his disabilities when he got into trouble. Likewise, Martin also had a defense mechanism against the other kids. Since Martin was such a dick, the other kids would respond in kind and gang up on him.
But when the other kids gave chase, Martin would cry and squeal so pitifully that the other kids would just sort of give up because they felt sorry for him. Man, to break the heart of a larrikin. Ha!
Yeah, none of mine were turned off by that either.
Oh, yeah. The country without pity. Oh, yeah. That's America.
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