David Wright: 0:00
in this episode of the motor city hypnotist podcast. Uh, matt, we're doing something we haven't done in a long time. We're doing a top 10 list, and it's top 10, top 10, what listen, this is very entertaining superhero.
Matt Fox: 0:14
Mental health disorders oh my god, I hope I I hope glass made it, mr glass made it, I really do.
David Wright: 0:24
We'll see because'll see, because we'll get into it.
Announcer: 0:28
But if you think, about superheroes.
David Wright: 0:30
They're all messed up in some sort of way. That's how they got their powers in some way. But yeah, we're going to count down the top 10 superhero mental health issues. That's a twist.
Announcer: 0:39
That's a twist.
Matt Fox: 0:40
And it's a top 10 list.
David Wright: 0:42
And, as usual, we're giving away free stuff. That's a twist and that's a top 10 list and, as usual, we're giving away free stuff. Hang in there, folks, we'll be right back.
Announcer: 0:46
This sounds like something for the authorities in Detroit. Well, joke's on you. I'm living to 102 and then dying at the city of Detroit.
Matt Fox: 0:54
Guys like this can't take over here out of Detroit.
Announcer: 0:58
Spawn in the hellfires of Motown.
David Wright: 1:00
Take him to Detroit.
Announcer: 1:03
No, no, not Detroit, no, no, not Detroit, no, no, please, anything but that, no, stationed in Drambuie. It's worse than Detroit. We did not have, as a unit, the confidence that we felt like we needed to beat Detroit. Let's go to Detroit Now. You're talking brother. I don't think so. He plays for Detroit now.
Matt Fox: 1:26
Do they have many farms in detroit? Detroit to michigan.
Announcer: 1:28
I go to school, I know where detroit is get ready for the motor city hypnotist, david r wright. Originating from the suburbs of detroit, michigan, he has hypnotized thousands of people from all over the united states. David r wright has been featured on news outlets all across the country and is the clinical director of an outpatient mental health and hypnosis clinic located just south of Detroit, where he helps people daily using the power of hypnosis. Ding Good one, the Motor City Hypnotist, david R Wright.
David Wright: 2:18
What is going on, my friends? It is David Wright, the Motor City Hypnotist, and we are back with another episode of the Motor City Hypnotist podcast, feeling a little punchy. Yeah, you are punchy, matt, matt's punchy, because he just had a birthday. I just turned 50. He did. Matt is a big 5-0. Congratulations, my friend. I made it this far. I bet you made it to 50, and you're going to have a much better second 50.
Matt Fox: 2:42
You know what my plan is I just put my hands up and enjoy the ride Absolutely.
David Wright: 2:46
That's all you can do.
Matt Fox: 2:47
Just go with go with the dips and turns and ups and downs. That's the thing that Holly and I have. When everyone's wrong, we'll just put our hands up For you. Put our hands up and we, you know cause we're enjoying the ride together, yeah.
David Wright: 3:05
And then you yell about it. I don't know what we're yelling about. We don't. We don't yell, not at all. No, that's good, that's awesome, that's fantastic. So we're here, folks at the palatial podcast, your voice, southfield studios. Welcome back doing a podcast. Welcome back to you, matt. I was, um, you were. We had a week off.
Matt Fox: 3:20
We had, uh, we haven't been here in three weeks has it been that long?
David Wright: 3:23
really has been. Yeah, I was that long, yeah, I was sick one week.
Matt Fox: 3:26
Then you had to take care of some business with you and your boy Yep. So long story short. I'm like I can't.
David Wright: 3:32
So I think I told you. I may not have told you this story because it's been over three weeks. So my son's car took a crap.
Matt Fox: 3:38
Okay.
David Wright: 3:38
So he was on his way downtown to state, was it? Was it like diarrhea crap? No, I don't think so. But so he calls me and he says something's up with my car. And I'm like, well, what do you mean? He goes, it won't go past 50 miles an hour and it won't accelerate. And I'm like, oh geez. But he was already almost downtown to class. So I said, just get there. I said if you leave and it won't run or something, call me, but if you can get home safely with your hazards on, do that okay. So he got it home, got it to the dealership, blown engine. Oh jesus, car's four years old. It has less than 30 000 miles on it, like lemon law coming into well I don't know.
David Wright: 4:13
We took it to the dealership and they said well, we don't have a rental for you. I'm like, really, it's a warranty repair. She goes yeah, it is, it's covered under warranty, but we don't have a rental. So we had to wait for two weeks for a rental. So that was the time I was having to take him back and forth to class, to Wayne State, downtown. That's where you go. Okay, then give me a demo, give me a demo car. And she even said to me she goes you know, our rentals, our new cars, we take off a lot and we let them drive for 500 miles. Those are the demos, yes, so anyway, we had to wait two weeks.
David Wright: 4:46
So that's what threw me off one of the weeks Because I had to take Ethan downtown for class.
Matt Fox: 4:51
And last week I was weakling and I'm like I'm sick.
David Wright: 4:55
You were sick, you're okay.
Announcer: 4:57
You're sick.
David Wright: 4:58
Oh yeah, Right.
Announcer: 5:01
Oh, good for you.
Matt Fox: 5:04
So I'm excited for this top 10, but we have some other things to get to Before we get to that.
David Wright: 5:08
Let me tell you where to find me. My website is MotorCityHypnotistcom. You can do many things on the website. You can book a show, you can book a personal session. You can take a look at my hypnosis recordings that you can purchase and download for your own benefit. I think right now I have on there stop smoking, smoking cessation. I think I have weight loss on there. If something's not on there and it's something that you could benefit from, shoot me a message. I'll be glad, because I have tons of recordings on my computer somewhere that I've done over the years. So if there's something you don't see, reach out and I can see if I have that, or I can make one and then post it for your purchase. Check out the website MotorCityHypnotistcom. My social media links Facebook and YouTube, are both Motor City Hypnotist, and on Snapchat and Instagram, which are both Motor City Hypno and I don't know if I told you, Matt, I'm starting to take a foray into TikTok A foray into TikTok?
Announcer: 6:10
Yes, okay, I've signed up.
David Wright: 6:13
I have, like my I don't know what you call it your channel or your membership or whatever it is your profile.
Announcer: 6:21
So it's set up.
David Wright: 6:23
So now I just need to get some content.
Matt Fox: 6:24
So now you got set up just in time to get shut down.
David Wright: 6:27
Right yeah, when they, when they banned TikTok.
Matt Fox: 6:29
Correct, all right, just making sure I understood, yeah.
David Wright: 6:36
But I figure, if it goes through here, here's the thing, and and and, and. This is not something that's a surprise to anyone. Our social media channel, our main one, is Facebook. Yes, it is, most people under 30 are not using facebook. True, maybe even under 40, I don't know. But there is a cutoff. The younger generation is going more to these quick, fast, instantaneous content like tiktok. So, um, the idea is we'll get to tiktok and we'll promote some mental health issues and hopefully that will build some business there. Okay, so soon to come. Tiktok, all right. And that is Motor City Hypno as well.
Matt Fox: 7:09
Sweet, so keep a lookout for that. I'm not into that old new fandangles type stuff, you know what it's so funny, matt?
David Wright: 7:15
because if I didn't own a business, I probably wouldn't be on social media.
Announcer: 7:21
That's absolutely fair.
David Wright: 7:22
Absolutely be on social media. That's absolutely fair and because I have two businesses, it requires me to have a social or social media presence, if that makes sense it does. Also, as we've done every show going way back I think we're at 279 and 280 today, all the way back to show number one we're giving away a free hypnosis guide. Just text the word hypnosis to 313-800-8510. Again, that's 313-800-8510. You can always look in the show notes for that number as well, or you can just go to my website. It's the same phone number. It's on the website, perfect. Text the word hypnosis to that number. You'll get your free hypnosis guide within a couple of minutes and it will also give you a link it's a google link to my business, motor city hypnotist, and it'll ask you how you like the show. Now, that show could pertain to like a stage show or it could be the podcast show.
Matt Fox: 8:12
I almost said stand up.
David Wright: 8:14
Go on. Well, stand up. That's part of it.
Matt Fox: 8:16
Yeah, I do a lot of that. I got something to share with you during our top 10. Okay, perfect.
David Wright: 8:19
Perfect, let Perfect. Let's do that. So, yeah, find me on social media, hit me up. And here's the other thing, too, that that that maybe I haven't pushed a lot, but if you have a thought or or a topic that you would like to see me cover, just hit me up on social media. We'll make it happen. If there's something that you're like oh, they've never done a podcast on this or I'd like to hear more about that.
Matt Fox: 8:43
Shoot me message, we'll get it done excellent all right, here we go, it is time that's how winning is done yes, it is all right, here we go.
David Wright: 8:59
So this is a fairly short story, but it it's really good. I think it's really cool. Amy Schmidt and her son love to dress up for Halloween. Okay, the house is always festooned with decorations. Festooned, isn't that a great word? Go on.
Announcer: 9:15
I just like this Festooned.
David Wright: 9:17
I'm going to start using that. I'm going to put that in the pocket and save it. The house is always festooned with decorations and locals know it's a must visit. Stop along any trick or treating route. They're the house in my neighborhood that just goes all out. They have like 50 inflatables. I'm exaggerating here, I'm embellishing, of course, but but it's everywhere.
Announcer: 9:39
Yeah.
David Wright: 9:39
Yeah, you can picture, oh wait. However, after her son was hospitalized two days before, schmidt had no time to join in the festivities two days before halloween, yes, okay, and left a simple note on her door apologizing that her son, jacob, was in the hospital and there'd be no candy this year. You can picture schmidt's disappointment. But as the night began to fade, her phone began to buzz. Okay, it was the ring doorbell camera app alerting to her movement, alerting her to movement a group of children who were dumping some of their own candy into a bucket on Schmidt's porch. For her and for Jacob, that's fun, yeah, it's overwhelming. All the love we've received. And I don't know half these people. Schmidt told ABC News Detroit, adding that the parents deserve major credit for raising such considerate young neighbors. It's just amazing what these parents have raised these kids to be six-year-old Mia, who WXYZ Detroit notes had finished trick-or-treating, only to ask her father to go out again to collect candy, specifically to leave at the Schmidt's door.
Matt Fox: 10:51
Yeah, I wonder how many Tootsie Rolls and candy corn. Well yeah, or apples, or pennies, or popcorn balls Right, I, I, I just, but no, no, that's fantastic, I love that gesture.
David Wright: 11:07
Um, she felt bad and didn't want anybody to have any candy on halloween, said mia's father, james sayan. That's the story. That's fun, right, that's local baby. That was local in detroit. Kids just doing the right thing helping out. It's just a great. It's just a great feel-good story. Love that. So yeah, if you want to read the whole story or look it up, the link will be in the show notes. But again, it's just a cool story, sweet, thank you. That is our winner of the week.
Announcer: 11:41
That's how winning is done.
David Wright: 11:44
Yes, it is so back to it. All right. So today we got a top 10 list. We haven't done one of these in forever and I thought it would be interesting, because a lot of times our top 10 lists are just for fun, it's just for me, it's my own ego Movies. My favorite stuff, whatever that is. But this actually connects into mental health and it's kind of funny in a way, but it makes sense once you get into it.
Matt Fox: 12:11
So before you dive in, I had mentioned I wanted to share with you a stand-up story. Yes, absolutely so, two weeks every year. Holly and I are the same age. Okay, she's 50 as well. No, oh, two weeks every year, oh for two weeks.
David Wright: 12:24
I are the same age. Okay, she's 50 as well. No, oh, two weeks every year.
Matt Fox: 12:28
Oh, for two weeks. You're the same age, Got it Same age. So during those two weeks for the month of November, we like to go out and have a good time we always do Absolutely.
Matt Fox: 12:36
But, we look for something special. And she saw something come across and she was on her bucket list and I 100% support she was on her bucket list and I 100 support her bucket list. Absolutely a lot of fun stuff on a bucket list. But there was a gentleman who was pretty big back in the 90s, did a few movies, one of them called son-in-law paulie.
Matt Fox: 12:56
Sure it was paulie sure, absolutely man and you're in the army, now all that stuff, right. So he biodome, biod. He was doing stand-up in Royal Oak Really, and we went and saw him do his stand-up in Royal Oak at the Comedy Castle, and when you're talking mental health and Pauly Shore man, he was funny but it was funny.
David Wright: 13:25
Like cringe a little bit.
Matt Fox: 13:26
He wanted to laugh and a little cringy sometimes. Ouch, he's very personable on stage and we actually stood in line and got a picture with him. Oh, nice, fantastic, and I think he's either 51 or 56. One of the two, yeah, and we got a picture with him and me turning the age. I am where I'm'm like.
David Wright: 13:47
I look really damn good for my age sitting next to this guy. You know it's funny you say that because not to brag and kendra would punch me in the face for it, but when I get new clients at work, so once in a while I'll be like how old are you? And I'm like, oh, I'm 59. They'll be like no, no, no way, no way, yeah, yeah. I would have pegged you for 42 at the oldest. Yeah, right.
Matt Fox: 14:08
And I'm like. Oh, I wish but you know it's not necessarily the age is the mileage, Absolutely so yes.
David Wright: 14:14
And it's also attitude and outlook. Yeah, it is.
Matt Fox: 14:17
And you know what If? And there were a lot of things that were said. We had a young man with us who was his very first standup show. It was the 18 plus adult show and he he heard things he'd probably never heard in his lifetime. So we're kind of cringing about that all at the same time, but it was a fun time. It was a fun night. We had really a close friends, longtime friends, with us as well.
Matt Fox: 14:38
Nice, nice it was a good time. It really was. But yeah, I had to bring up, you know, pauly Shore and mental health, those kind of go, yeah, they kind of.
David Wright: 14:46
But here's the thing you know what I've realized now over the years Stand-up comics in general, a lot of them have mental health issues, you're not wrong, and they cover up these mental health issues with humor, which I think is a good tool, with humor which, which I think is a good tool. So how? But I mean, you look back on some of you know people who have either committed suicide, who died of a drug overdose, or or you know, um, greg giraldo is one I think of, uh, robin williams, uh, richard pryor had drug issues, you know I but, but, but, a lot of these comedians that they have their demons.
Matt Fox: 15:24
They do. And I'm curious how many personalities Jeff Dunham has. I love his stand-ups. They're so much fun. Great Odin's Raven Actually, he's got a new special coming out.
Announcer: 15:39
Oh cool.
Matt Fox: 15:40
A new Christmas special coming out Nice. I think it drops on the 19th on Prime. Are you a fan of Taylor Toml tomlinson?
David Wright: 15:50
uh, yes, blonde, yes, yeah, yes, I've just caught on to her in the last few months and kind of following her stuff somebody I started following recently and we'll get into the top 10 was brad brad williams.
Matt Fox: 15:59
Brad williams is a little person, yeah, and he is one of the funniest people okay because he talks about personal life experiences, being a little person, and he puts it into the real world and he's he's a real, you know. He tells it like it is right and that makes it even funnier because his delivery I'm sure, very self-deprecating a little bit, a little bit. But his timing and the way he personifies the adventure that he went through and things that he does just to survive in the snow in New York.
Announcer: 16:33
Oh, my God, it's so damn funny.
David Wright: 16:34
I'll take a look at that. Yeah, please do. Absolutely. So we're here. We got a top 10 list. We're talking about the top 10 superheroes who have psychiatric or psychological or mental illness and these are superheroes they are. They're superheroes fictional superheroes.
Matt Fox: 16:52
So these are made up. These are made up diagnoses the diagnoses are real.
David Wright: 16:58
Oh shit, the characters are are okay, the characters are fictional, but the diagnoses are real. That's what makes this impactful.
Matt Fox: 17:06
I wonder if the Joker is going to be on this list.
David Wright: 17:09
That's a good question. I wonder. Of course, just to throw a wrench in there, we're talking about superheroes. We'll see. We might do another list with villains. How about a magic trick Disappear. It's gone. That that's it. It's gone, okay. First one tony stark. Tony iron man he's not well.
Matt Fox: 17:34
He already admitted he was a narcissist, right narcissist.
David Wright: 17:38
Um. So there's a quote from iron man three, he says. A famous man once said we create, we create our own demons. Mm-hmm, um that was.
Matt Fox: 17:49
That was the beginning dialogue of that movie.
David Wright: 17:51
Yes, it was so in the previous movie was, which was the Avengers. At the time it was six months before Iron man 3 in the timeline, Right Okay?
Announcer: 18:00
Okay.
David Wright: 18:01
So it sets up that, that line sets up this movie perfectly with a third Iron man movie. And those of you who've watched it, um, you know, in fact, you, you, you see these conversations between him and pepper pots where he just kinds of voids the situation, oh yeah, and it keeps changing the subject because she warns him against the dangers he he's going to face because people one in the one scene in that movie he was asked to sign pictures for kids and he, he bails because he's he's too emotional, yeah, I loved you in a Christmas story.
Matt Fox: 18:38
By the way, that's when he had his anxiety, so there are a couple of things that he had his panic attack.
David Wright: 18:46
And that's my exact same word. There are definitely signs of anxiety with Tony Stark, and then he tries to deal with them by creating things and working and focusing on work. That's when he tries to develop this technology to avert this life or death situation that he may face. And then, of course, we have to throw PTSD in there.
Matt Fox: 19:09
Yes, because of experiences, because just 300 feet above the tower, they uh, you know he saved the the world yep, after the fight against loki and all of that.
David Wright: 19:18
Yes, definitely he. He developed ptsd. So the, even though it's a superhero movie, it is fiction.
David Wright: 19:28
It is good to see that that they, they kind of there, they kind of focused on the human element of him, dealing with that PTSD and that anxiety, absolutely and really, even though it is fiction. I think it helps because when people watch fiction sometimes they get so into it it's like it's reality and I know they don't logically think that, but the emotions are there and I think this is a great way to bring about issues about mental health, even if it's in a fictional movie about a superhero who doesn't exist, correct. So definitely with Tony Stark it was anxiety and PTSD for sure, and you could say probably in Iron man 1, at the very beginning he was probably a bit of a narcissist.
Matt Fox: 20:12
I would say probably in iron man one. At the very beginning he was probably a bit of a narcissist. I would say well, at the end of uh avengers, when they did the uh write-up on iron man, uh-huh, they accepted iron man, but not tony stark. He said a level of narcissism, yep agreed. So you know, he knew, he already knew himself becoming a superhero.
David Wright: 20:29
But the great thing about that character arc is that it evolved. Yeah, absolutely, and and that's, that's, and again, I know it's fiction, but but I just want to say to the listeners that, yes, you could change, you could evolve over time and he was able to almost, I want to say heal himself.
Matt Fox: 20:48
But when he was able to go back and see his father and he had he had father issues from the yes, absolutely.
David Wright: 20:52
And when he was able to go back and see his father and he had he had father issues from the yes, absolutely.
Matt Fox: 20:54
And when he was able to go back and he was able to see his father and he said everything's gonna be okay. He, because his dad was expecting a son. He's like everything's gonna be okay.
David Wright: 21:03
Yep, because he saw how anxious his father was, that was just being a dad, just the total arc of it all.
Matt Fox: 21:10
It was just.
David Wright: 21:10
It's amazing, so thank you for that yes, absolutely number nine, thor, okay, duh, the god of love and thunder the god of thunder so it's lord of thunder, so so again, those of you who don't follow these movies, that's fine, you don't have to, but I'm going to explain to you. So in Avengers Endgame, thor chopped off Thanos' head because he had a chance to kill him in the Avengers and he didn't. He failed and he felt guilty about that. And then Thor ended up erasing 50% of the population.
Matt Fox: 21:51
The end of Infinity War, he had the chance and he didn't. And then, in the end of infinity war, he had the chance and he didn't.
David Wright: 21:55
And then in the end of end game, he did yes, beginning of beginning of end game, but but thor, in the meantime, had just like, like, just buried himself away.
David Wright: 22:07
He was overweight, he was drinking all the time he really was in a state of depression, very much, much so. So a lot of fans were in on this article that I looked up. A lot of fans were like, oh, they're just making fun of him. This is a joke, yeah, but I think they're missing. The point was that he also was suffering from PTSD. Yeah, that he had a chance to end this and he didn't Right. And now he feels guilt, what.
Matt Fox: 22:32
He had a chance to end this and he didn't. And now he feels guilt. What did Rockett say to him? You?
David Wright: 22:35
look like melted ice cream. Yes, you look like melted ice cream. And then he told him to come with them and he goes. No, no, he goes we have beer.
Matt Fox: 22:42
What kind? Yeah, exactly.
David Wright: 22:44
So yeah, he was in a depressive state, he was drinking heavily, ptsd, depression, alcoholism Again, all of these things are checked off. And he also lost his brother, loki, which I know Loki's. I talk about him failing to stop Thor the first time Survivor's Guild. This happens a lot in mass casualty events. I got my hand up, yes.
Matt Fox: 23:09
So Thor saw Loki perish at the hands of thanos literally right. However, if you watch loki the series, he was taken right before yes oh, he was. He actually left the story of the avengers movie when they were down on the first floor and they had just captured him, and that's when loki disappeared.
Matt Fox: 23:29
Yeah, so it changed the whole if you watch the series, change the whole timeline yes, when they were down on the first floor and they had just captured him, and that's when Loki disappeared. Yeah, so it changed the whole if you watch the series it changed the whole timeline.
David Wright: 23:37
Yes, yes, all right, go on, go on. So, yes, definitely for Thor it is. Yeah, ptsd, yeah, alcoholism, survivor's guilt, I mean a lot of stuff. Oh, yeah, number eight, yes, spider-man uh, which version doesn't matter okay, they're all the same. It's, it's crazy, they're, they're all the same any spider-verse, yes, yes, every single character. The character is the same.
Matt Fox: 24:09
The actors change, but the character is the same the story is supposed to be the same in every universe, and if it deviates, that's a problem and that's where the storyline has to remain. The canon has to remain intact.
David Wright: 24:23
So with spider-man, it's, it's his, it's in, according to this article, and everybody has their own opinion. But they feel like Tom Holland was the most human Spider-Man, sure, but whatever that means. But he openly displays his emotions after the snap happened, as far as what happened, and, of course, before he went with Tony Stark. But the big thing with Spider-Man, that that I don't know. That's a little bit different than most of the other superheroes. He's just a kid. Yeah, he's not even.
Matt Fox: 24:58
He's not, he's not even an adult, yet he's an adolescent, he's a teenager, he's a 14 year old kid, yep, and he just and he loses, uh, his uncle or his aunt, or his girlfriend, or in in in the death of his uncle was was huge for him because in part you could say he was partially responsible in some way a little bit, but, but there was guilt there.
David Wright: 25:21
and again we're talking about ptsd, we're talking about depression, talking about anxiety, and then, of course, his parents died young too, so that's another issue to deal with. Yeah, so yeah, definitely depression for a lot of these things that happened.
Matt Fox: 25:40
Man. Yeah, go on man, this is interesting. Seven Captain America. Okay, so Steve Rogers.
David Wright: 25:47
Steve.
Matt Fox: 25:47
Rogers World War II survivor.
David Wright: 25:49
So with his character, comic books and movie. I know again. You guys don't have to read or watch any of these to know, but Captain America was like the good old boy. He was the first Avenger. Not a good old boy, but he was so pure and so innocent and so good-natured and very like Pollyannish.
Matt Fox: 26:09
I'm going to say, okay, and everything good about him came from a bottle. Yes, everything special about him came from a bottle.
David Wright: 26:16
But I will say, before he got, before he was changed, he was still that guy.
Matt Fox: 26:20
Right, and the doctor that, that the scientists that transformed him. He said be a good man, yep, and that spoke volumes and he continued to be that good man.
David Wright: 26:32
However, he lost a tremendous amount in his lifetime so yeah, and again, with all that loss, of course that's going to lead to some depression and and that's evident on a lot of the scenes in the movies that focus on him. In fact, this is something I found there was a deleted scene from the avengers when it shows steve rogers going through some documents and looking through some papers about all his old friends that have died bucky and yeah, because he, because he was too yeah, you know way into the future.
David Wright: 27:01
Yeah, you know um in in that cut scene and I don't know why they cut it was that was it.
Matt Fox: 27:07
Even that cut scene. Wasn't he sitting at a table like at a cafe somewhere, and his blog, I don't know, but it says served him something?
David Wright: 27:15
And the scene depicts his emotional state by leaving him in darkness and dimming the color surrounding him. So I don't think I've seen that cut scene. All right, um, in fact, when we go on to the winter soldier movie, he resists, he declines to go out on a Saturday night to hang out because he's still grieving the loss of his friends, and then later he states I don't know what will make me happy. So yeah, definitely a couple things Sleep impairment, guilt over Bucky's death, lack of willpower to save his own life when he was in mortal danger, and it's just deep depression, and that's. That's something that he continuously struggles with in endgame, when he's fighting himself.
Matt Fox: 28:02
He knew exactly what button to push to win the fight against himself. And the words were bucky is alive and his old, his younger self went what the fuck? Yeah, you know, yep, and he knew exactly what button to push because he knew himself that well and knew what he was dealing with. Yep, I love that.
David Wright: 28:25
Yeah, absolutely number six. We we could. We, we could use a couple of terms here about the the Scarlet Witch, wanda, she should be higher up on the list. Well, I know, and I don't know if these are ranked in order as far as importance, I just kind of threw them in there, okay. So, yes, definitely, wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch. Yeah, so here is. And again, you don't need to watch the movies, but her parents were killed at their young age. She had a, she had a twin brother, pietro Yep, and their parents were killed. Um, they grew up in Russia.
Matt Fox: 29:03
Who were they killed by Um?
David Wright: 29:05
um, tony stark's weapons, which again created a conflict there. Um so, wanda, eventually um ended up with vision. Yeah, so was, who was an android? Who was invented by tony stark, of course. And of course that didn't last. The happiness didn't last, because this is a fiction and a superhero movie, but, um, but. But she had a breakdown and created her own world. She disconnected from reality and created her own world with everything she wanted, literally. Yes, so that with with the unstable childhood and her being becoming having that psychotic break to make her own world. I mean, we could use craziness, we could use madness, we could go rogue, but really she had a psychotic break. Yeah, she was not living a reality because of the pain, of the loss she experienced with her brother and with vision also, and her parents, way back when she was a kid and becoming a mother.
Matt Fox: 30:09
Remember, she became a mother in that alternate reality and that fiction reality for a fictional character. She felt that those kids were absolutely real and she fought to keep those kids in reality.
David Wright: 30:25
Which shows that break in the mind, where you can make that break in the mind, where you can make it. It's that again, your reality is not your reality, it's something made up.
Matt Fox: 30:39
The Doctor Strange flick with multi. Now was it multiverse of madness? Yes, it was.
David Wright: 30:43
Yes.
Matt Fox: 30:43
Multiverse of madness and you know she knew that those kids were real because of other universes that she dreamt about. So in her mind, you know, fictionally in her mind, she she's like those kids are real because I see them in my dreams and when you dream it's in you dream because they exist in another reality. It's just the whole of the whole story of these characters goes so deep and stanley is a genius with these folks, I gotta say yeah, go on, go on number five.
Matt Fox: 31:14
Do you, do you want? Do you want to go?
David Wright: 31:15
all you just want to keep on rolling yeah, let's keep rolling we'll finish this one and we'll be good, all right fair enough, let's go number five, number five um hulk, guess what his issue is matt anger. Uh, I don't even have a suit In the Avengers, I'm always angry. Yeah, I don't even have a suit. That's what he says I'm like exposed.
David Wright: 31:36
What's the other famous Hulk? Maybe not that they did it in the movies a lot, but from the comic books. What was his other thing? What was his other statement? He would say all the time Hulk smash, yeah, smash. There it is matt, you're on it, I am on it. So yeah, he's. He had anger issues. So so bruce banner is is an example of of this. You know, he starts out as this, this timid, shy nuclear physicist, and then, of course, when, when he has that overdose of radiation, it changes his physiological chemistry and then when he gets angry, he turns into the Hulk so there's a lot of theories out there that Hulk is a multiple personality.
David Wright: 32:19
No, he's one personality. Yes, well, and that's the big thing. So he realizes this anger is taking a toll on him. And this plays out in the movies as well, because when you see in the, the end game movies, he combines. He combines the anger with the, the, the, the brawn, the brawn, or the brawn with the brains, brains, that's it, that's it. So, and and. And he does that to to help him with his mental health, to help him feel better, to help him cope better, to have a balance and not just be one or the other extreme.
Matt Fox: 32:56
Went from the Incredible Hulk to the Credible Hulk.
David Wright: 32:59
Yeah.
Matt Fox: 33:00
Or the Mild Hulk. A lot of people had a problem with that in Endgame.
David Wright: 33:04
But that's well, and I don't want to get on a soapbox and argue with people, but the comic books had a whole, there's a whole thing you have to realize. These, these characters, have been rewritten thousands of different times. And the movies just take on one of those paths to tell the story.
Matt Fox: 33:24
So that's fair, so I get it. Number three, number four number four Shit, all right, wolverine.
David Wright: 33:38
Number three, number four, number four, shit. All right, wolverine. So I just saw for the first time this past week, x-men, deadpool, or I'm dead dead deadpool for the first.
Matt Fox: 33:43
I put myself dave in a bubble when it came to that movie. Yes, I could have gone and seen it in the theaters by myself, which is what I did yeah, I don't like to go to the movies by myself. I'm just not comfortable in that regard. See, I do that all the time.
David Wright: 33:56
I just can't I should start, but yeah I'm telling you, matt, just try it once. All right, because I prefer it that way. Now, all right, most movies that I really want to see unless kendra also wants to see it you'll go and see. I just go, it's easier, I'll give it a shot. I don't have people, I don't have to talk to anybody, it's just freeing, Somebody told me, and they're actually in the next room but, somebody told me the first five minutes of that movie are crazy.
David Wright: 34:22
I saw them like wow that is. It is a fun ride.
Matt Fox: 34:33
Wow, it is a fun ride. Wow, and you?
Announcer: 34:34
know watching the entire movie as I did.
Matt Fox: 34:35
Yeah, I, I have to watch it again because I know I missed many, many things, because it was like 4 am in the morning, because I woke up and I couldn't sleep. So I decided to watch it. And here we are and I'm like I need to watch it again because I know I missed a lot. Oh yeah, but the first five minutes I was like, wow, okay, did you catch all the cameos later.
David Wright: 34:52
On.
Matt Fox: 34:52
I caught the cameos.
David Wright: 34:53
I have to watch it again because I'm sure I missed a few and they were great because they were such obscure cameos, but they were fantastic and I'm not going to spoil it for anyone if you haven't seen it.
Announcer: 35:02
So Logan.
Matt Fox: 35:03
Logan go on.
David Wright: 35:04
Yeah, wolverine One. He's an alcoholic, that's number one. He alcoholic, that that's number one. He's got addiction problems. He doesn't care about his own well-being or anyone else's for the most part. So he is really grappling with a lot of issues, definitely struggles with ptsd and night terrors. Yes, even before those events he he had had symptoms of bipolar disorder, severe mood springs, depression. You know, you know, and this, this thing, that the article that I found, the last statement in this article, says he dies at the end of the film Logan, right With restless demons still unresolved. Yeah, so again, do you think he had just a tortured soul?
Matt Fox: 35:57
do you think he had, uh, sexual issues? Oh, I don't know how many women do you think he had been with in his lifetime? He but he was 200 flipping years old that's a good question.
David Wright: 36:11
How do you not have sexual issues? Was that adamantium also just wondering, did you?
Matt Fox: 36:19
I just, oh great odin's raven, I and I, I'm not saying this lightly because a lot of the women he was with ended up dying. So how do you get into another relationship and that fear of potentially getting someone killed?
Announcer: 36:41
Yep.
Matt Fox: 36:42
Because he can't die. Right, he couldn't die.
David Wright: 36:45
Well, he couldn't until the last movie, of course.
Matt Fox: 36:48
But the whole fact is he lived a very long time fictionally. I and you know he had a lot of relationships, but what do you think that did to his sexual psyche, as he's yeah?
David Wright: 37:00
yeah, I mean that that probably played into all of his issues. Yeah, absolutely. Again, fiction folks, it's fiction, it is fiction, but but these are real. See in the thing that sometimes we use fiction to express ourselves or to analyze things for real life. Fair, you know, a lot of times fiction like a book escaping in a book, or or you know, yes, they're made up but the issues are still real. So, yeah, definitely for logan he, he was a very he-emotional, I don't want to say disturbed individual, but he had a lot of mental health issues.
Matt Fox: 37:36
He worked really hard to get away from his emotions.
David Wright: 37:40
Yes, absolutely. And to isolate and to isolate, isolation was huge with him.
Matt Fox: 37:44
At the end of the day, he used his emotions to be a better person, to be a better person, and that's where the whole X-23 came into place. He let his heart lead him instead of his fists, Absolutely All right.
David Wright: 37:59
Number three the Wasp. This is a little bit vague or a little bit more obscure character in the superhero genre.
Matt Fox: 38:09
And who the Wasp turned into. So the Wasp turned into. So the Wasp turned into. No, no, not true. I'm thinking of the bad guy from the first Ant-Man movie. Oh, no, no, no, we're talking about.
David Wright: 38:21
Evangeline Lilly, the Wasp In the movies, that is. So here's the thing. In the comic series, the Wasp Nadia Van Dyne I don't think they changed her name for the movie, van Dyne was still part of it. So in the comics it actually spells out a storyline in Unstoppable Wasp number five, where she is forced to face her own mental health issues when she is diagnosed bipolar. Okay, in the comics, so it's not a veiled thing, she's diagnosed bipolar Okay In the comics. So it's not a veiled thing, it's actually clear.
David Wright: 38:55
Wow. So apparently she inherited this disorder from her father, hank Pym is what's along the storyline. So her mentor let friends know that Hank had bipolar and that Nadia is messed up.
Announcer: 39:14
Okay.
David Wright: 39:16
And there's a chalkboard with all of this information on it, and the quote from the comic was it looks a lot like a manic episode, which again goes along with bipolar, also in another storyline from that comic. She couldn't remember whether she was assembling or taking apart a walkie-talkie Ah, you lost me. So she was working with a walkie-talkie and it was apart and she couldn't remember. Am I putting this together or am I taking it apart? Oh, okay, yeah. And then, of course, she's depicted as unable to sleep or eat until her work has been done. So she's. She was also lashing out at a lot of friends. She quickly moved into a depressive state in one of the comic book or comic book storylines. So Marvel did this intentionally. The quote is Marvel hope that introducing a bipolar disorder into the comic would help educate readers about mental illness. Okay, which is fantastic. I mean that that's great for marvel to kind of take that, especially when I I don't know the time frame this came out, so I can't speak to that.
Matt Fox: 40:25
But weren't they already doing that with everybody?
David Wright: 40:28
maybe not intentionally.
Matt Fox: 40:30
Okay.
David Wright: 40:30
I mean not to say there was ever a diagnosis stated in the comics or in movies.
Matt Fox: 40:38
We don't know which DSM it was from.
David Wright: 40:40
Right, absolutely All right. We got two left, Matt.
Matt Fox: 40:45
Who's left? Okay, so I'm going to think and you've been really focused on the Marvel Universe- through all this, so I don't know if you're going to stick with.
David Wright: 40:58
No, no, the last two are DC. I'll give you a hint. Okay, the last two are DC.
Matt Fox: 41:04
All right, so that's why I want to clarify here. So one of them is going to be Bruce Wayne.
David Wright: 41:11
Yep.
Matt Fox: 41:11
And the other one is going to be I almost want to say Superman, I almost want to say Clark Kent, but it might be Huh. Okay, that's what I'm going with.
David Wright: 41:26
The two big ones. Okay, number two Batman Bruce.
Matt Fox: 41:28
Wayne Bruce.
David Wright: 41:29
Wayne. Okay, yep, bruce Wayne suffered a traumatic childhood incident yes, you saw.
Announcer: 41:37
His parents were killed in front of him of course.
David Wright: 41:40
So definitely ptsd. You ever dance with the devil? It turned him into fighting crime because of that grief, and he converted his grief into something constructive, so of he trained himself to be a fighter and uses his skills to fight crime. But along the way, the guy's still depressed. It didn't change what happened. He's trying to combat these depressive symptoms by helping other people and being a crime fighter. Okay, so he uses that depression as a motivation to move forward, while cutting everything else out of his life. That doesn't. It's not important.
Matt Fox: 42:18
Let's say, as a superhero. We've talked about all these original folks that are very peculiar. Strange, amazing things happen to them to make them stronger. Right, bruce Wayne is just a man, just a man, yep.
David Wright: 42:32
And what he put himself through fictionally again, folks it's just, it's mind-boggling that he actually survived, and I think this is probably maybe even though it's not number one, because, again, I didn't put him in order of importance but but I think he's the most relatable one, because he's just a man. He doesn't have powers, he didn't inherit a you know, he didn't get radiated or or you know whatever. How are these people?
Matt Fox: 42:56
gain their powers as the line is in the flash what's your superpower? I'm rich. Okay, that was his superpower. There we go, all right there you go.
David Wright: 43:06
Okay, number one. I said it was another dc.
Matt Fox: 43:09
I said it was Clark Kent. Another DC. I said it was Clark Kent Superman, daredevil. Oh shit, matt Murdock, matt Murdock, yeah.
David Wright: 43:18
Matt Murdock suffers from ongoing depression. He's a hell of a lawyer. His girlfriend, Elektra, was murdered. Yeah, Karen Page, which was another love interest of his, also died Eventually. His wife Mila had a mental breakdown. These are all storylines from the comics, not necessarily the TV show. This is a good one, All right. And here's the thing. This is great and I hate to read it, but this was summarized so succinctly. I want to read this. Murdoch has a Catholicolic background and his depression is depicted as a demon that he cannot escape. In the 1986 born again story by frank miller, daredevil is destroyed by kingpin. Murdoch also loses his job, his house and the security of a sound mind. His depression threatens to overpower him.
Matt Fox: 44:09
So is the new series that disney's dropping here, sure that's a good question, because the title is the same reborn yes, devil reborn or born again one of the two. Yes, it's so, it's devil born again, yes, so I'm curious if that is I am thinking they're taking that comic storyline just because of the title.
David Wright: 44:27
Otherwise that would be kind of misleading to correct correct who are comic fans yes.
Matt Fox: 44:31
So yeah, I'm curious. But yeah, the character itself. I'm curious because the the gentleman that plays matt burdock from the daredevil series that we're all familiar with from netflix, right?
David Wright: 44:42
yep, it was really well done yes, the fight scenes were incredible the way he, the way he portrayed the blindness the daredevil was one of the best series on superheroes on netflix. Yes, the other one was the punisher I liked luke cage, I was okay.
Matt Fox: 44:58
I like I was a big. And then the, the young, the young lady, jessica jones.
David Wright: 45:02
Jessica jones that was also a fantastic series. David tennant and this david tennant played an amazing villain. So when we do our top, 10 villains with psychological. You should doment. You need to put him on there.
Matt Fox: 45:14
Absolutely, but yes, but Netflix did Marvel a favor by doing the Jessica Jones and the Daredevil and the Luke Cage. The fourth one, not so much. Iron Fist, iron Fist, yeah, not so much, not so much, yeah, but they brought back characters that weren't really well known Right Like more obscure characters.
Announcer: 45:34
Yeah.
Matt Fox: 45:35
Like even Daredevil, most people wouldn't know who that is, just because it was a movie back in the 90s with Ben Affleck. Yeah, or maybe early 2000s, I don't remember Right, right, right.
David Wright: 45:45
But the fact is and here's the thing I didn't know about Daredevil, about Matt Murdock His mother suffered from postpartum depression and she tried to kill him when he was an infant.
Matt Fox: 45:59
Oh, I did not know that. Yeah, I didn't either, until I read this, this thing he was fun.
David Wright: 46:01
He was fun in, uh, spider-man yeah catching the brick right right, I'm a good lawyer. I'm a good lawyer, yeah maybe so so definitely for him.
David Wright: 46:08
It's, it's, it's definitely, uh, depression, I mean one also he has. He has the additional disability, if you want to challenge that, he's blind. That's the other thing. Yes, dealing with a lot of emotions and a lot of childhood trauma and a lot of depression, goodness, so yeah. So you guys think you want to be a superhero? Yeah, they're all messed up. But see, that's the whole thing about that's.
David Wright: 46:34
What's appealing to this genre is that it's not just here's a good guy, he defeats the bad guy, he's all great. They're all dealing with these inner demons and these inner struggles and these mental health issues. And I know again, I'm relating fiction to real life. But these things, the things I just talked about, that they're suffering with our real life, all of them are real, all of them are real. So this top 10 list, while it was fun, it also I also want to bring to light that a lot of people are suffering from these different disorders and definitely there's something that you can do about it. So if you are suffering from depression, anxiety, ptsd, whatever it is that you're struggling with, there's definitely help out there.
Matt Fox: 47:22
So are you saying I'm a superhero? You could be.
David Wright: 47:25
Yes, sir Matt. What do you want to be? What's your name?
Matt Fox: 47:32
I can't think of what else Boy that escalated quickly.
Announcer: 47:39
I mean, that really got out of hand fast. I like this in the background. What?
Matt Fox: 47:42
the fuck, is it with you, my?
David Wright: 47:47
superpower is forgiveness. Fantastic. There you go.
Matt Fox: 47:52
If the whole world were like that, we would live in a a utopia, wouldn't we, though we would yeah so that folks is our top 10 list of superhero mental illnesses that was like a psychology, psychological difficulties or whatever you want to that that was fun, because one I I'm a big marvel yeah, I'm a big superhero guy I'm a big superhero person, dc marvel I don't care no, not one is not better than the other. I I like them all yeah, yeah, um well I watch one more than the other, probably.
David Wright: 48:20
Well, it depends on what they put out, because marvel's done a lot more have I ever owned a comic book from any of this.
Matt Fox: 48:26
No, you've never owned a comic.
David Wright: 48:28
I've never owned a comic book from are you serious owned a comic book from either one of these.
Matt Fox: 48:30
Not seriously Wow. Not as a kid. Not as a kid Really, no, I was a Mad Magazine child man.
David Wright: 48:38
Okay, well, I was too, but I had a lot of comic books as well.
Matt Fox: 48:42
I enjoy the superhero genre. I enjoy the stories. I enjoy the development of the characters. I've never found myself wanting to buy a comic.
David Wright: 48:51
Wow let me tell you a quick side story. So I'm like I don't know, six, seven, eight, somewhere in that range. My grandma took us to a comic book store, my brother and I. She's like oh, pick out a comic, you know. And at that point I had some comic books at home, not, you know, I wasn't really like, didn't have all the issues or following anything. And you know I'm a six or seven or eight, yeah. So I'm like, oh, yeah, let me get the spider-man one. So I get at home and I get into it, and I'm really into it and I start reading it, going through the whole thing, get to the end. It's a cliffhanger.
Matt Fox: 49:22
Yeah, of course I'm like god damn it see, single, single mom, and it took me I'm not kidding, because I was like seven or eight at the time.
David Wright: 49:30
I had no ability to go out and get another the next issue. It was 20 years before I found out how that thing finished, because at some point I forgot all about it. And then, like 20 years later, I'm like, oh wait, what issue was that? So I had to go, I went back online and looked up whatever, what, whatever the issue I had was, and got the next one. Wow, man, yeah, crazy, all righty folks. That is it for this episode. Yeah, we're done Okay.
Matt Fox: 50:01
Wow, I'm like.
David Wright: 50:03
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