Interviewing My Dad (Chapter 2)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 100 minutes
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00:00 Who was Dr. Kirk named after?
05:18 Childhood stories about Dr. Kirk
19:17 Alan's career path
43:56 Has Alan always golfed?
49:30 Alan's modeling career
51:31 Were the internment camps talked about?
1:05:14 Racism growing up
1:08:24 Alan & Sue's relationship
1:28:10 Reaching out to apologize
1:35:50 Final thoughts
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February 7, 2024
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| 0:00.0 | So, Dad, we didn't get to a lot of my questions, so I thought we would do a second interview, and I will ask the questions I didn't get to last time. |
| 0:09.5 | Okay. The first question that I have, father of mine, is who I was named after. |
| 0:15.0 | Who was I named after? |
| 0:17.0 | You really weren't named after anybody. |
| 0:20.0 | I liked the name. |
| 0:21.0 | It first came to light when we were in Spokane growing up. He became a world-ranked light heavyweight boxer. His name was Kirk. Kirkboro. Kirkboro. Yeah. Yeah, so that's the only thing I could look back on. |
| 0:35.0 | How long? |
| 0:36.0 | What did you like about Kirkboro? |
| 0:38.0 | A black guy, right? |
| 0:39.0 | He was. |
| 0:40.0 | He was a good athlete as well. |
| 0:41.0 | Played across town, which was a rival high school. |
| 0:44.0 | You went to Lewis and Clark, he went to North Central Spokane. |
| 0:48.0 | And did you go to high school the same time you were in high school? |
| 0:50.0 | He did. He was two years older than me and was he well known even back then he was |
| 0:57.6 | Especially on the north side because he had quite a reputation. Yeah. Yeah when he became a boxer you were following his career yes in the |
| 1:06.4 | 60s yes correct yeah he had sort of a tragic ending he did his career yeah he was an undersized they moved him up to heavyweight and |
| 1:16.8 | he he just wasn't that big yeah and they put him against some big guys, which was, in my estimation, you know, a big mistake. |
| 1:25.9 | He would have been a great light heavy weight had he just stayed in that category. |
| 1:30.1 | But moving up a weight, you know, you get some athletes or boxers that can really pack a punch. |
| 1:36.2 | Yeah. Yeah. So he experienced chronic brain injury from boxing and had cognitive decline? Yeah, that's my understanding. Yeah. And then his later life was tragic and difficult for him. |
| 1:49.7 | That's my understanding as well. Yeah. |
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