The Psychology of Marlon Brando (2017 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 14 August 2025
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March 2, 2017
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, deserving listeners. Today's episode is about the psychology of Marlon Brando. Up until recently, |
| 0:06.7 | I didn't really think much about Marlon Brando. I didn't know much about him. I remembered him |
| 0:12.2 | from the godfather and Apocalypse Now and Superman as Superman's father. And I remember hearing that he was really difficult to work with, and I remember |
| 0:23.5 | hearing that he was sort of insane and sort of crazy. But I had no idea how fascinating his life was, |
| 0:32.4 | and I had no idea how fascinating his psychology was. Well, that's what I want to talk about today. I want to see if we |
| 0:39.1 | can understand Brando and why he was the way that he was. And to help me talk about that, I asked |
| 0:45.1 | Kerry Burbank to join me on this episode. I was listening to the TBTL podcast, the Too Beautiful |
| 0:51.5 | to Live podcast, and I heard that Carrie Burbank was really into Marlon Brando. |
| 0:58.2 | So I messinger, messaged, messaged you on Facebook. And I asked you to come, I asked Carrie to come on |
| 1:06.1 | the podcast so she could offer her insights into his life and his personality. Welcome to the podcast, Carrie. |
| 1:12.6 | Thank you so much for having me. Is there anything you want to introduce about yourself before we get |
| 1:16.7 | going? Other than I have no official legitimate credentials to warrant being on this show, |
| 1:23.4 | it's not going to stop me from giving my very passionate opinions about Marlon Brando. |
| 1:28.5 | So today we're going to talk about his work as an actor. We're going to talk about his |
| 1:32.5 | childhood. And I'll propose here and there a tentative analysis of his personality and |
| 1:39.4 | why he was the way that he was. because he had some interesting behaviors in his life. |
| 1:45.0 | So first, let's talk about Marlon Brando as an actor, because for those of you that don't know his |
| 1:52.0 | influence on American society and film, I think you really should know, because I didn't know |
| 1:59.0 | this until I did a deep dive on him. Carrie, let me ask you a specific question. Do you think, many people think he's one of the best actors that ever lived? Do you think he's one of the best actors that ever lived? I do. Why do you think that? Well, I will say, I wasn't actually very aware of Marlon Brando myself up until about three years ago. I was home alone. |
| 2:20.1 | Luke was, my husband was traveling, and I was in the mood to watch a movie. So I went on demand |
| 2:24.8 | and nothing really appealed to me. So I went to, I think, the old, the classic movie collections |
| 2:30.0 | or something and happened to see Streetcar Name Desire and thought, well, I've never seen |
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