Shane Madej
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210 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Shane Madej’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And in the process, Maurice Bryant introduced Martin to the only activity he seemed to really enjoy in life besides making other people miserable. Maurice took Martin snorkeling and taught him how to dive for crayfish. crawfish here in America. And Martin loved gathering buckets of mud bugs so much that he decided that this was going to be his career for the rest of his life.
Martin, however, did also have a habit of pulling other people's snorkels while they were underwater just because he thought it was funny.
But the massive mistake Maurice Bryant made was when he bought his son Martin an air rifle at the age of 14. It was at least powerful enough to kill birds. This is ostensibly so Maurice could teach Martin proper gun handling techniques.
A paintbrush? No. Oh, all water. All water hobbies.
The rifle seemed to inspire a change in Martin. As it turns out, handing a weapon to an aggressive, unstable teenager, even if it is just an air rifle, is usually a bad idea because all it really does is show them the power of a gun. Where before, Brian had been annoying but mostly harmless, the rifle allowed him to be more destructive.
He'd hide in a creek near the road and fire his air rifle at passing cars, and he was known to shoot birds out of trees before walking up to the corpses to fire several more shots in their heads.
Strangely enough.
And then, worse comes to worse, he just stays there.
Now, the change in Martin's behavior to something far darker was noticed by one of the few friends Martin made over the course of his life, a kid named Greg, who'd bonded with Martin over their shared love of diving for crayfish. You're the only one I know who likes slugs just as much as me, Martin.
According to Greg, Martin once caught a cat and tried to pull the animal apart with his bare hands before Greg stopped him. You can't pet him that way. You've got to leave the guts on the inside. Yeah. More dangerously, though, Greg saw Martin routinely grab the steering wheel when Martin was in the car with his parents.
Martin, of course, laughing maniacally as he tried to pull the whole family off the road. Greg put up with Martin for years, but the friendship ended abruptly when Martin stabbed Greg in the head with a spear gun. No serious damage was done, but Greg punched Martin in the face in response and never spoke to him again.
Yeah. Yeah, it's not over a spear gun to the head.
Yeah, something like that.
Yeah, you should know to not stab anyone else in the head with a spear gun. Yes, that's right. And what do you even need a spear gun for if you're just getting crawfish? I miss fun. The crocs. Yeah, but if you're in the ocean.
It's true. What would I do without you? Now, by the time Martin Bryant reached high school, his father had done pretty well for himself in the real estate business. But in 1982, Maurice Bryant would make a miscalculation that would inadvertently cause Martin to choose Port Arthur as the site of his massacre 14 years later. See, Maurice owned a good amount of property in the town of Port Arthur.
The Bryants actually owned a vacation cottage there. So Martin was certainly acquainted with the town growing up. In the early 80s, though, Martin Bryant tried buying a bed and breakfast in Port Arthur, a little business called Seascape. But due to circumstance, the property was instead scooped up by a couple named David and Sally Martin.
Maurice spent years complaining that David and Sally had stolen Seascape, and he would often say that the loss of the property was what prevented him from reaching the next level as a real estate investor. Martin would listen intently to his father's grievances, and in turn, he held a deep grudge against the people who bought the Bed and Breakfast, a grudge that matched his father's.
That grudge would one day make the Seascape Bed and Breakfast the centerpiece of the Port Arthur Massacre.
The subplot to What About Bob.
Yeah, because that is a very low subplot on the totem pole there.
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