The Psychology of Columbine (Ch 9 - Our Connections)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 1 June 2026
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00:00 Intro
02:02 Repeated proximity to chaos
1:30:01 Is it helpful to make these connections?
1:36:53 Why is Humberto fascinated by these stories?
1:49:02 What do you do with grief?
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| 0:00.0 | So Berto, this is the last chapter in our deep dive on the Columbine shootings. |
| 0:04.9 | And we've already recorded the whole chapter. |
| 0:07.7 | But I'm coming back to the beginning here because I want to make the whole episode just for patrons. |
| 0:12.6 | Because we had been doing that with the deep dives anyway. |
| 0:15.8 | But also this whole episode, we get into a lot of personal stuff that, I don't know, even though it's still |
| 0:21.8 | on the internet, it's to a much smaller degree if it's just for the patrons. So if you want to hear |
| 0:28.8 | this, basically how can you summarize what we talk about in this almost two hour episode? |
| 0:34.7 | The summary is essentially, I'm going to talk about, first of all, me asking myself, |
| 0:38.8 | why was I so fascinated with this? |
| 0:40.3 | And then basically going through a journey of what happened to me in Colombia, |
| 0:44.6 | personally, the societal things happening. |
| 0:47.1 | And then what happened to me when I moved from Colombia? |
| 0:50.2 | And the general theme is a proximity to chaos that I was basically unaware of even till I did this research and tying it all back to why am I obsessed. |
| 1:01.1 | How does this affect me? |
| 1:02.0 | Have I healed from wounds that are related to this? |
| 1:05.6 | Right. |
| 1:06.0 | And then I extrapolate from there to my own unhealed problems that I write about in my book on grief and about |
| 1:14.0 | almost killing myself a number of times when I was younger in. We talk about even broader about |
| 1:20.1 | how maybe all of us have suppressed pain and unprocessed things from the past, which isn't a revelation. But I don't know, when |
| 1:28.4 | you lay it all out and we really get into it and we use yourself as an example, you know, |
| 1:35.1 | this isn't rocket science. Okay, we have suppressed issues or we have unhealed things. But I don't |
| 1:40.3 | know. There's something about the way you laid it all out where I was just like, oh my God. |
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