The Psychology of the Menendez Bros (Chapter 8 - Your Emails)

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Dr Kirk Honda and Humberto read follow-up emails to the deep dive on the Menendez Bros.

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00:00 What might life be like for the Menendez Brothers post prison?
26:00 Could generational abuse have affected the brutality?
35:03 Dramatization of the story & other details
44:40 Self-rehabilitation work in prison
46:51 Final words

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August 20, 2025

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0:00.0	So, Berto, we did a deep dive on the Menendez brothers, and we asked for follow-up emails, and we got a few. So let's read those and respond. What do you say? I think it sounds great. This is the Psychology in Seattle podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist, and I'm also a professor. My name is Umberto Castaneda, and I am a calligraphy deconstructionist. See, I can't even say my job title.
0:01.4	You almost said a calligraphy Dick Construction.
0:03.4	Dick Construction. My name is Mberto Castaneda, and I am a calligraphy deconstructionist. See, I can't even say my job
0:21.9	title sometimes. You almost said a calligraphy dick constructionist. Was that what I used to call
0:26.5	myself. I see. So patron Maya from San Francisco, she says, hi, I think Brito did a did an incredible job
0:32.3	slowly unraveling the details of the Menendez story. Yay. I wanted to see what you guys think life on the outside would
0:40.7	be like if the Menendez brothers are released. So here's the first question, Berdo. Would either of
0:46.8	them be able to get a job? Yes. Elaborate? Depends what we define at jobs, but as long as it's
0:53.0	something that pays the money, yeah,
0:54.2	absolutely.
0:55.2	First of all, in today's world, they could be any number of influencing capacities, right?
1:01.4	Like they could do podcasts, they could do YouTube channels, whether or without the haters.
1:06.3	You know, like people could hate them and whatever, they could still do that.
1:09.0	Second, I could see them being contributors on channels for like uh legal contributors or whatever you know and again it'd be hard to
1:17.4	make money doing that though you know as someone who is a contributor on those things they often
1:22.8	don't pay or they that might be fair yeah they barely then they also could write books about their experiences, probably as long as they don't say anything about the victims or something. I don't know. Well, that's a good question. I guess their victims are their parents. Yeah. It's weird, right? It's like... But anyways, I'm thinking they could definitely make money. Now, as like could they go and apply yes there are a lot
1:45.1	of businesses that i think would turn their resume away just because they probably don't want
1:49.4	the mails from that comes with it but if they're just like a regular person at a regular job right
1:55.2	that that isn't public facing like they're a bookkeeper for a business or something, you know.
2:02.8	Well, and legally they shouldn't be able to discriminate against them if they've been,
2:06.3	you know, properly released.
2:07.7	Well, and a lot of people have a lot of sympathy.
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