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Psychology In Seattle Podcast

The Psychology of Tiger King

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Is Joe Exotic narcissistic? A psychopath? Is Carol guilty? Why do we like this show so much? Dr. Kirk Honda analyzes the characters (and us viewers) in this episode of Psychology In Seattle.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey deserve your listeners, I just got done watching Tiger King, Murder,

0:04.5

Mayam, and Madness on Netflix.

0:07.7

And wow, what a documentary.

0:10.3

So after I got done watching it, I thought, man, I got to talk about this on the podcast.

0:15.0

So I came into my office, turn on my webcam, and I thought I would go back through it kind of fast forward and get reminded of the whole journey of this documentary and then I would

0:24.8

chime in with my own thoughts. I'm going to spoil the whole thing so if you

0:29.5

haven't seen any you definitely want to watch it and come back and watch this video or listen to this

0:34.0

podcast this is the psychology and Seattle podcast I'm your host Dr Kirk Honda I'm a therapist

0:39.9

and I'm also a professor. Let's see where this takes us.

0:44.0

At the age of 13, I knew I was gay.

0:48.0

And I had a bad time struggling with it.

0:50.0

When my father found out, he made me shake his hand in front of my mom and promised not to come to his funeral.

0:56.0

So I had a real issue dealing with that.

0:59.0

And one night I drove my car off a bridge.

1:04.0

I broke my back and spent five years in braces.

1:09.0

I went to Florida to do my therapy.

1:13.2

And my neighbor was the manager of Lion Country Safari.

1:17.4

And he brought home all the baby lions and baby monkeys

1:20.0

and stuff at night to bottle feed.

1:22.0

And that's where my attraction to exotic animals really started in.

1:28.0

Okay, so right away I have a lot of things to say about that

1:34.0

but some caveats.

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