Mason Waylon is a guest on the radio show Pacemaker show on Public Liberty Radio in Grand Theft Auto IV.
He is voiced by Rick Shapiro.
History[]
Background[]
Waylon is an author and advocate of holistic and homeopathic medicine. He runs a homeopathic care center, Down Home Medicine, from which he derives his nickname, "The Down Home Medicine Man".
His mother died giving childbirth, and Waylon was raised in an isolated woodland setting by a one-legged survivalist father and a neglectful, emotionally distant stepmother. Due to his ostracized background, Waylon is very mentally unstable, socially awkward, deeply anti-authoritarian, and prone to violent tendencies.
Events of Grand Theft Auto IV[]
During his interview segment on the show Pacemaker, Waylon frequently offers home-based and archaic solutions to medical issues, like personally inspecting fæces for illness, drinking cocktails made from "a few household items found under the sink" for heart complications, or using leeches for erectile dysfunction. He prides himself on his home-taught naturalistic medicine and is hostile towards modern medicine, showing notable aggression towards his fellow guests, Sheila Stafford and Wilson Taylor Sr. This attitude is reciprocated by both being condescending towards him and his practices, slowly agitating Waylon through the show.
Waylon has a very conspiratorial view of the world and the healthcare industry, claiming the issue is that "it's an industry" that only delivers "broken promises, made to you, and dirty needles". He claims doctors are part of a conspiracy, stating they "write secrets on little pieces of paper nobody can read". He believes there are too many drugs being dispensed, saying they are "hokem-pokem" which is "making our immune systems weak". He reinforces this point by claiming he is immune to disease due to being left in soiled diapers often as a baby.
Waylon is severely uneducated, evidenced by his rants and ignorance or naïveté of wider social norms. For instance, when co-guest Wilson Taylor Sr. mentions the word "schadenfreude", Waylon angrily claims he's "making up words to an argument". Another instance is when he brings up euthanasia, which he interprets as "youth in Asia" and asks "Why are they all prostitutes?", leading to bewildered stares from the others on the show. Other off-kilter statements include stating "some roes are gay, look at how they swim" in an attempt to contribute to Taylor's discussion of swinger retreats, or mentioning how the Space Station astronauts recycle their urine in the belief it was an interesting conversation topic.
Despite his strange comments and unusual views, Waylon periodically makes good points against Taylor and Sheila Stafford, serving as some sort of idiot savant everyman in response to their corporate delusions. He rightfully calls Taylor on his swindling of customers, and Stafford for her company causing increasing rates of overdoses.
At the end of the show, Waylon goes off on an unhinged tirade about the practice of trepanning and doctors "ignoring the WORLD!!", to which Stafford claims she has a headache. In response, Waylon produces a power drill and takes Stafford hostage. This results in an argument amongst the three guests, and with Ryan McFallon's begrudging permission, he forcefully drills holes into both Stafford's and Taylor's heads in a psychotic rage, presumably killing both.