Adam Nimoy's Life with a Vulcan Father
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 21 March 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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00:00 Introducing Adam Nimoy & "The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father"16:07 Taking inventory & choosing happiness
25:05 The influence of Star Trek
42:36 Adam's key takeaways
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March 21, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Desirving listeners, we have a very special guest with us today. |
| 0:04.6 | Adam Nimoy, you are in town talking about your book that came out last year. |
| 0:11.0 | It is called The Most Human, Reconciling with my father, Leonard Nimoy. |
| 0:16.4 | You noticed when you came in my office that I have Beatles memorabilia and Spock memorabilia, |
| 0:24.5 | your father. So welcome to the podcast. Thank you for having me. What can you tell us about your book? |
| 0:32.7 | It's a personal book, I find. It's very easy to read. It moves really quick, and it sort of phases in and out of |
| 0:41.5 | your childhood, your relationship with your father, your own adult ups and downs, and your own |
| 0:48.2 | fatherhood yourself. So it's like three generations. What would you like to tell the listeners |
| 0:53.2 | about the book? |
| 0:54.8 | Well, I mean, I think the bottom line and the basic theme of the book is how recovery |
| 1:00.8 | enabled me to reconcile with my dad. |
| 1:04.0 | That much like many other families, we had some dysfunction in the family, my dad, and I |
| 1:09.8 | had a lot of trouble relating to each other, |
| 1:12.6 | beginning when I was very young, |
| 1:14.6 | and kind of blossomed into full-on conflict with him |
| 1:17.6 | when I became a teenager, part of the job of a teenager. |
| 1:21.6 | But then for the next 30 years or so, |
| 1:26.6 | my dad and I had this kind of strange relationship of these incredible experiences being the son of Leonard Nimoy and the tremendous success that he had enjoyed, coupled with periodic and regular episodes of outright conflict with my dad. |
| 1:40.6 | And this was all exacerbated by the fact that my dad was an alcoholic admittedly so and I was a |
| 1:47.1 | 30-year pothead and it just I think all that substance to use just made things worse and it wasn't |
| 1:55.4 | until we got into recovery my dad became sober and I really started working the steps in recovery |
| 2:01.3 | that I found a way to reconcile with my dad. So, I mean, that's really, you know, the story, |
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