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Psychology In Seattle Podcast

The Beatles Family System

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Dr Kirk and Humberto analyze the family system of The Beatles.

00:00 The Beatles Family System
00:20 Beatles Family System Analysis
17:58 Beatles success and hubris
27:33 Beatles archetypes
29:05 OPP
30:00 Humberto guesses celebrity's favorite Paul McCartney songs
39:52 Top 10 McCartney songs
46:08 Anonymous patron's list of sad songs
48:15 Dr. Kirk's Talking Heads concert film experience
54:54 Top Gun review
59:48 JJ Abrams is a hack
1:04:30 Do You Love Me by Nick Cave - Review
1:06:14 L'Enfer by Stromae - Review

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0:00.0

So, Burdo, I thought we would do an episode in which we answered a lot of people's questions, music-related.

0:06.8

Oh, fun!

0:07.8

This is the Psychology and Seattle podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and a professor who are you, Burdo.

0:13.2

My name is Umberto Kastanya and I am an AIRT critic.

0:17.4

So, patron D from Cardiff UK says, could you discuss the Beatles get back in family systems terms?

0:26.8

Yeah, so I've gotten a lot of questions like this over the years and so I feel like I should

0:33.0

do it at some point. I mean, the reason why I resist is because it's so hard to analyze

0:39.9

these folks from afar. We've done a lot of episodes on the Beatles, by the way. We did an

0:45.8

episode on the Psychology of John Lennon. We did an episode on the Psychology of John Lennon's

0:50.7

Killer. We did an episode on the Get Back documentary that was, I think, four hours long

0:55.6

you and I talking about it. It was about half the length of the show.

0:59.9

Yeah, we did an episode on the one note challenge. We did an episode on the best Beatles songs.

1:06.4

It's hard to know what's really going on and the more I learn about them during that time,

1:12.3

the more complicated their relationships seem to me. You know, there's the stereotype.

1:16.7

If you know anything about the Beatles a little bit, you're like, okay, well, John was the leader

1:21.5

and the hard one and the smart one and Paul was the happy-go-lucky good-looking narcissistic one.

1:28.0

George was the forgotten one and Ringo was the, I don't know, the mascot or something.

1:34.9

And there's some truth to that. But when you learn more about their relationships, particularly

1:39.1

over time, you're like, well, it's just way more complex, way more nuanced.

1:45.3

Like another simplistic thing that people will have is that John and George,

1:50.1

they must have been really good friends and they must have not liked Paul.

1:55.1

That's a common stereotype, right? Because it just kind of seems that way because John and George

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