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Psychology In Seattle Podcast

The Psychology of Emotional Charisma - Cesar Chavez, Cults, and Classrooms - Chap 1

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Dr Kirk Honda and Humberto Castaneda examine how emotional charisma shapes influence, through examples like Cesar Chavez, cults such as Synanon, self-help programs like Landmark, and Kirk’s own classroom techniques. April 15, 2026

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00:00 Dr. Kirk's nightmare podcast situation 
07:53 Cesar Chavez's activism & the Farm Worker Movement
47:04 Who is Dolores Huerta? 
53:55 Why was the change so immediate? 


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0:00.0

So, Berto, I had one of my nightmare situations on the podcast the last time we recorded in that I said something and then later something happens that makes it seem like I'm insensitive or that I support a villain or an evil person.

0:21.4

You know what I mean?

0:22.0

I'm trying to remember what this was.

0:24.1

So let me explain.

0:26.2

But let's introduce the podcast.

0:28.5

My name is Dr. Kirk Honda.

0:30.4

This is the Psychology in Seattle podcast.

0:32.8

Who are you, Burdo?

0:33.4

My name is Umberto Castaneda,

0:35.4

and I'm the largest east side distributor of plutonium mud masks.

0:39.9

So I didn't text you about this at all?

0:42.3

No. Did I keep my powder dry?

0:43.8

Yeah, powder was dry.

0:45.4

Okay. So the last time we recorded it, and when I record episodes, I will release them

0:53.3

anywhere from the next day to two months later, because it just

0:57.9

depends on how things are going or how ahead.

1:01.1

What can happen in between.

1:02.4

Right. And so one of my nightmare scenarios is that I'll record and then say something,

1:09.0

and then something will happen in between the time that I record and the time the episode comes out that will make it seem like I don't care or I have a different.

1:18.6

So in passing, the last time we recorded, I talked about patriotism and how in the United States for liberals, we will dislike patriotism.

1:33.1

We will be suspicious of it or think-

1:35.1

I do remember this conversation.

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