Shane Madej
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210 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Well, as long as it's, I think, we're majority receivers on this podcast, we're okay. Because me and Henry were both receivers of the bullying rather than the perpetrators.
You see, you were big, and I was a tiny skinny boy, and Henry was a tiny fat boy.
Well, that was also that was kind of the part of the problem with Martin Bryant and the problem with a lot of kids like this is that like he starts off as extremely annoying, very aggressive, which causes kids to bully him. And the bullying throughout his life was extreme. It got really bad. But the problem is that the bullying makes the behavior worse.
And it's this like, you know, this vicious cycle that just keeps going, going and going. Now, as Martin grew older, his endless energy did not abate one bit. Martin disturbed every classroom he was a part of, and both of his parents had to work endlessly to keep him occupied, sometimes taking him for walks of up to eight miles long, where Martin would bounce relentlessly from beginning to end.
Martin's behavior actually got so chaotic that one of his fuck-ups made the local news. One day, he was playing with some fireworks he found in his father's garage and ended up lighting a rocket in the attic of his family's home. The rocket lit Martin's clothes on fire...
And the resulting burns resulted in skin grafts, a six-week stay at the hospital, and embarrassingly for the Bryants, an interview with the local news. When a reporter asked Martin from his hospital bed if he would still play with fireworks after being hurt so badly, Martin energetically and enthusiastically replied, Yes!
Now by 1980, Martin Bryant had reached high school, where his behavior and grades were just as bad as they'd always been. Teachers also noticed that Bryant was extremely manipulative, because while he was consistently a monster to kids his own age, he always made sure to be polite to adults, and as I said before, he knew when and how to act disabled in order to get out of trouble.
I was really fucking good at it.
Well, the whole thing about Martin Bryant being manipulative to adults, all that, this to me is partly what made Martin Bryant so incredibly dangerous. See, Martin was diagnosed as autistic after the massacre. And while I certainly agree with that diagnosis, I think what motivated Bryant's bad behavior more than anything was antisocial personality disorder.
Unlike many people on the spectrum who have a hard time understanding social cues, Martin Bryant proved over and over again that he had a keen understanding of what was acceptable and what wasn't. He knew what would provoke negative reactions from other people. He just didn't give a shit, and he lived his life accordingly.
when you're born half annoying you don't mean it's just a part of your life and you have to either harness it or not yeah do you think you have like every disorder almost like he's nothing nothing good i mean it there i mean some people say that he was possibly schizophrenic you know there's you know the autism spectrum disorder any social personality disorder like it's he was uh clinically what you'd call all fucked up yeah he was all jack
But the paradox of Martin Bryant, at least when it comes to the average profile of the mass shooter, was that he was considered extremely handsome by the time he reached high school.
Definitely. Yeah. Well, I mean, the best way I could put it, he's like a more handsome version of Dave Mustaine. He does. The lead singer.
And for those of you who didn't understand that, it was Henry saying R worded in an Australian accent.
Martin's looks, however, did nothing for his social status. But the thing is, it is kind of a good point because he did not look like he was mentally challenged. He did have but he did have like learning disabilities. And I think he kind of got a pass. like a fair amount because of that, because he was a good looking guy.
No, he had learning, he had definite learning disabilities. Yeah. His looks, however, did nothing for his social status. And as he got older, his confrontational nature only led him to pull bizarre stunts that seemingly had no other purpose but to make other people feel weird. In one case, Martin showed up to a nighttime beach party that was being thrown by a group of teenagers.
These were the same kids who had called Martin names like Silly Martin, Bloody Simple Martin, or Rubber Lips. That last one, that was due to Martin's constant habit of tightly pursing his lips together as if he was always thinking about something he couldn't quite understand.
But on the night of the beach party, Martin showed up with a can of gasoline. And as the other kids watched, Martin doused himself with petrol and lit himself on fire.
The kids tackled Martin and rolled him in the sand before he suffered any serious burns. But Martin didn't seem to care at all about what he'd done to himself or how disturbed everyone at the party had become as a result of his actions.
Yeah, maybe. I don't know. I think he just liked to disturb people. He liked to fuck with people. Martin Bryant loved to fuck up a day. He was very good at it. Now, Martin's father, to his slight credit, he did try to help his son as much as he could through his depression and alcoholism.
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