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CIA Spy: Is Kanye Mentally Ill or a Narcissist? This is What His Behavior REALLY Reveals... PT 1

Women of Impact

Impact Theory

Relationships, Education, Society & Culture

4.8700 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

You know those moments when you’re transfixed by someone’s words, but what’s lurking underneath is screaming for your attention? Or when you wonder, is this person unpredictable out of passion, pain… or something darker?

Today’s episode is the breakdown you didn’t know you needed. I’m joined by Andrew Bustamante, a former CIA spy, elite operations officer, and real-life human lie detector. Together, we analyze the one and only Kanye West (Ye): his outbursts, emotional swings, the public meltdowns. Is Kanye simply a misunderstood creative genius? Dealing with undiagnosed mental health struggles? Or is he, as many headlines have suggested, a classic narcissist? We use real clips, direct transcripts, and Andrew’s expertise in body language and behavioral analysis to pull back the curtain on one of pop culture’s most polarizing figures.

This is your crash course in influence literacy, learning to spot red flags and decode the truth: Whether you’re dealing with a superstar, a partner, or your own inner circle. And trust me, by the end, you will never look at these behaviors the same way.


SHOWNOTES

Outbursts, danger, and childish tantrums—what’s really going on?

Andrew analyzes emotional outbursts vs. creative personality

Is this mental health, narcissism, or something else?

Clues from Kim Kardashian: When personalities change

Chemical imbalance, neurodivergence, and non-physical aggression

Autism spectrum, developmental issues, and family reactions

Validation, childlike reactions, and the power of emotional response

Breakdown: Manipulation vs. intimidation: Narcissist or something deeper?

Medication, hospital visits, and the suppressed self

Kris Jenner’s calm: Recognizing long-term family patterns

Why validation works and how patterns help partners cope

Storming off: The sensory overload escape

Why not all coping mechanisms are intentional

Hollywood, interviews, and new layers of Kanye behavior

Body language breakdown: aggression, openness, confusion

Structured thinking, repetition, and spectrum tells

The man-child trap: Obligation vs. manipulation in relationships

Repetition, grandiose demands, and the difference between narcissistic and developmental thinking

Mimicry, mental stunting, and what disrupted Kanye’s growth


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0:00.0

What up ladies, I'm Lisa Bilyum and welcome to another episode of Women of Impact and today we are talking about the man, the myth, the legend Kanye West. Now ladies, we can't help but talk about in culture or be obsessed with a label, nozzlesist or toxic or psychopath and especially when it comes to massive personalities like Kanye West. Now one minute some people are calling him an absolute genius. The next minute people are throwing labels calling him a problem or even worse. But underneath all the drama all the viral clips and all the social media meltdowns, the real question is what on earth is actually going on? Now look Kanye is just an example that we over, but really this is about how people act in your real life. When someone is behaving inappropriately, when someone is potentially masking their pain, when you see the reflags, but other people tell you they're not red flags and you're imagining it, all of this, as we assess Kanye West, also known as Jay, is just too relatable and that's why it's so important with this episode that we talk about what we actually see and what it means. Because when you let someone in your life, it really can be a difference between having a beautiful, honest, transparent, elevating relationship or having someone that's bringing you down like a weight-around your ankle only to take you deep, deep into the dark ocean. And we don't want that. So buckle up because today we are absolutely

1:26.1

flipping the damn script on everything shallow you've ever heard about Kanye West. We're taking a look and analysing Kanye through the lens of a former CIA spy. Yes, that's right my man, the phenomenal and to Bruce Lomontate is here today again and we are using spy craft like actual skills to be able to catch out,

1:46.7

manipulators, liars,

1:48.4

assess body language,

1:49.8

and Monter is here today again and we are using spycraft like actual skills to be able to catch out manipulators, liars, assess body language and reveal the truth beneath the headlines. Because what you see there could be what you see at home. Now booster Monter is here to help us actually decode the real difference between narcissism, mental health struggles and misunderstood geniuses and how to actually spot which ones which in your own relationship. We also talk about the body language giveaways that tell you someone's about to lose their shit. So you're not blindsided by their next explosion. This one is so important. We also go into the real story behind why smart, loving, amazing, incredibly strong women, stay with what we sometimes call a man child, and how you break free from his traps before it actually breaks you. Now by the end of this episode ladies, you'll have a totally refreshed perspective on what toxic behavior looks like, how to spot real danger and what shared responsibility looks like in a relationship when it feels right. Now turn up the volume because your clarity starts here right now on women of impact. Missed the CIA spy, you're going to help us look at Kanye West and we're going to look at and break down body language and signs in order to help us spot the red flags that can answer the question. Is he a narcissist? Does he have mental health issues? Or is he just a misunderstood artist? We're going to play a clip and I want you to help us identify. Play the clip. This is actually him in Kenya taken in 2020. Like, look, let's make this interesting world. This is a beautiful country. Country felt full of water, water, and water full of water. Let's make, let's expand this hotel. Let's build this as the dumb one towards the safest place in......uh......act. And what you do is you make it. The people reach the country bridge. You bring your bobbin wine and the pressing. That's the... No! No! Don't even bring that to of me. You can't judge my mama. You know you can't change my mama. You can't stop me from being a family and days of being murdered. OK, go home. Go home. No, I'll do it. I'll say you went on like, but I'm not doing it. It ain't about my wife. It's calling on my wife. but at some point it it's a reality that people say no. People say no to me on a daily basis. And I don't just start screaming and throwing a tantrum. That's just not what I'm on. That's not personality. But your personality is not like this a few years ago. What do you mean I should just scream backstage? This is tension in my face. But it's very far from you and me. we was done in a daily every single Conversation pause whenever you see outburst like this is important to understand first and foremost that they're unacceptable You cannot accept them you cannot write it off as he's an artist. He is emotional. He is struggling It's never okay for an adult with a fully developed brain to behave in that way to a person. There is zero chance that this is excusable or acceptable because he is a creative or he is an artist which gives us just the two other options. Is this this some kind of pathological explanation, some psychological behavior,

5:08.7

meaning his neurotypical and just immature, or there is actually something chemically or wiring based, different or not typical about the way he's handling himself. Couple of things that are really interesting to me. First, it's a produced clip.

5:25.4

Yes. So you can see there's multiple camera angles. There's unexplicable changes in time. I don't think that he went from conversational to screaming in an instant because of the way it was cut. Right. One of the reasons I feel like there was time to pass is because when he started screaming, he's wearing sunglasses in a hat. You can't do that! When he was a part of jediq, sunglasses and hat were gone.

5:47.8

Is this the case in my Swiss bacteria. Far too sweet. What we're seeing isn't truly what's happening. This is an example of influence literacy. You have to see, be able to read, when the narrative of the story is being spoon-fed to you in a way that is less than true. The other thing that was interesting is that Kim said you didn't use to be this way. But your personality was not like this a few years ago. What do you mean? I just just screened backstage. Yes, Kanye did say it's just the way I am. I used to yell and scream all the time offstage. And she was like, but in the last two years, you do it all the time. Very far and few in Minnesota with Son and then daily, every single conversation. So that tells me something's changed. When something has changed, that rules out for me pathology. Psychopathic narcissism, sociopathic, those all stay. Those don't go away. Wouldn't it be potential, though, that the mask has eventually slipped? There is a potential for that, but I don't get the sense from this early clip that what we're seeing is a narcissist. Instead I get more of a sense that there's some kind of chemical imbalance, and I would want to know what could have created the change in the last two years. The other thing that's important to notice is that he lost his temper, seemingly lost his temper, but he didn't get physical, slammed and screamed and stomped. You can't tell him! You, now you can't tell him! Does that look more like a man or a child? Child. It definitely looked like he stomped his foot.

7:26.8

You're right. But I wasn't sure if it was a child behavior or a narcissistic, I'm not getting what I want. So I'm going to intimidate me behavior. So what I would actually say is a childish I didn't get what I want behavior. Or a narcissist I didn't get what I want behavior. And a narcissist I didn't get what I wanted out of here. And a narcissist I didn't get what I want

7:45.3

usually looks like manipulation, not intimidation. Oh really? Where a childish I didn't get what I want looks more like intimidation. Okay, so now I wanna move on. And if you see any signs of narcissistic behavior or mental health issues, stand the button. Yes, ma'am. I just, it's like, I can't sleep, I've been crying all day.

8:06.4

It's just this bad dream that's not ending. You're losing everyone around you is like, there's a way to talk about what you feel. Who's everyone around me? Tell me who everyone is. I'm just saying people in the music business business people in the I don't care about the music business. I don't care about the work feel. This is I'm going to slave business. I'm a slave to universal. What are you talking about? Of course they're losing pause so now Now it's interesting to me is that we're talking about feelings Kim who's on the phone Says there's a way to about your feelings. So what that's telling me is that the people in his closest sphere of influence understand that this is a recurring issue, and it's an emotional issue. Different psychopathy in comparison, narcissism in comparison, people often don't see it. It's not obvious. It's hidden. So people don't address you. They don't say, hey, we've got to deal with your narcissism. That's different than with mental health. With mental health, it's usually easier to say we got to deal with your anxiety. We should deal with your paranoia. We can help with your feelings. So that's the piece of evidence. It's important. The other thing is he's looking for specifics, demanding specifics. Who exactly? Tell me who said this. Who's every one around me? Tell me who everyone is. And then he goes from specifics to generalities. I don't care about the field. And then he gives us the most interesting insight into how he feels about the field. I'm a slave. Yes. I'm in a slave business. I'm not slaves at Universal. What are you talking about? Of course they're losing. We're getting insights into how he views himself in the world around him. This demonstrates to me that we may be talking about mental health, and specifically what we may be talking about is the autism spectrum. of the way he's addressing specifics, the way he has emotional outbursts and the way that he's nonsensical in terms of answering in generalities and demanding specifics. It's a developmental issue potentially based off of the first clip and now what we're seeing in this clip. Dude, that's so accurate. So my younger brother is on the spectrum and he permanently acts like he's 12 years old and he has massive outbursts and you're like, you just act like a child. Wow, that never hit me. Wow. Okay. We'll keep watching. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the evidence is starting to pile away from psychopathy and narcissism and into something else that's explainable. Wow, okay, maybe clip. Alright, quick break, but when we come back, we're breaking down the patterns behind storming off and sensory overload and how to actually tell if someone's overwhelmed or just freaking avoiding accountability, stay tuned. And I'm very grateful to them. And that's not how I look at it. So I think you're ascending a lot of people

11:25.8

including adults because they've provided a life to me

11:30.7

that I never would have been able to provide.

11:33.2

And I'm very grateful for that.

11:34.6

And I thought about burning bridges with companies.

11:37.6

Yeah.

11:38.1

You're going to wake up one day and you're

11:39.2

going to have like nothing because no one's going to,

11:42.6

you know, no, never, never tell me I'm gonna, no, never, no, never tell me I'm gonna wake up one day and have nothing. Wow, you see how rapid that transformation happened? And what's really fascinating is he was not interrupting her for a few seconds, as she's explaining to him her point of view, and he's listening to her point of view. But as soon as she labels him, one day you will have nothing. We have this explosion. Don't you tell me that? Don't you tell me how that's gonna work? That is not a typical brain and without a doubt that is not a psychopath or a sociopath or a narcissist's reaction to being challenged. They would find another way to respond to being challenged. They would manipulate and say, you're just saying that because of what you're worried about because you're no good. That's how they'll spin it. They'll do it. They will not make it. They will not keep it on them. They will make it about your problem. Right. We also have to recognize the two different levels of sophistication.

12:45.0

Cognite. Yes. Cophistication. Think about the processing power of a computer. If you have to take something in real time, switch it around and make it accusatory and emotional and demeaning as it's happening versus storming your feet, raising your voice, repeating yourself and screaming out loud. One of them is like an eight-bit Nintendo system, and one of them is a brand new PlayStation 5 type of system. And if you have the capacity for the highest possible system, that's where you should turn. That's not what's happening here. Yeah. Ooh. All right. Never put that into the universe. It's really cool, bro. It's like... They try to scare you, try to troll you, all that, you know. You could like feel the masculinity in this song. First year, my wife, all that, you know what I'm so, I need 30 masks left. Pause again. The conversation that we're hearing, it's produced, it's cut, we don't get everything, but the terms that he's using, they're trying to control you, I feel emasculated. These are paranoia terms, as if he's not in control, as if he's being a slave, as if he's being abused, right? These are victim type of ideas that are being spoken about, out loud, and shared with somebody else. This is not how a narcissist handles feeling like a victim. They feel like a victim, not by telling other people, hey, notice me, notice me, notice me. They feel like a victim by saying, I'm innocent. I didn't do anything. Not that that makes this healthy in a partner. Yes. But it's a different type of unhealthy if you see it. Correct. Yes. Thank you for saying so. Okay. Hit up. Y'all, demasculated me and made me feel like a piece of shit and all you weight down the way it is without managing it. God will rather be dead, not in jail. Cause I would rather be dead than the old mediation. Go away from the family and send you any responsibility for my hospital visit. But if we were to go on, that's 50% of what people say can lease or maybe on my line. It does have nine. Am I lying? It do now! And you see the 12-year-old child. This also answers one of our earlier questions about what changed two years ago. Assumingming the timelines are relatively stable. There were meds involved at some point. Well, if meds are involved in an affecting behavior, then you know it's a chemical thing, which makes it more of a mental health thing. So if off meds, he has more alpers, which is what we heard from the first clip, then he does on meds, then maybe he's always had the behavioral issues, but they were subdued or they were depressed when he was on medication. And now the medications have been removed. And what's also sad is, Chris Jenner's response is almost non-reactive, which means that she's seen him do that so many times

16:05.9

that she's not shocked by it, but she stays calm, she lets him do the outbursts, and then she continues. That's true, it's a very good observation, and he's a big man. So very clearly nobody here is concerned about their safety. Right, yes, she doesn't back off, just out of instinct, she doesn't even do that. Doesn't stand behind the counter to put space between the two of them. Yeah, nothing.

16:24.6

I'm gonna head out.

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