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Jordan Harbinger

(Apple's Best of 2018) In-depth conversations with people at the top of their game. Jordan Harbinger unpacks guests' wisdom into practical nuggets you can use to impact your work, life, and relationships. Learn from leaders (Ray Dalio, Simon Sinek, Mark Cuban), entertainers (Moby, Tip "T.I." Harris, Dennis Quaid), scientists (Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye), athletes (Kobe Bryant, Dennis Rodman, Tony Hawk) and an eclectic array of fascinating minds, from art forgers and arms traffickers to spies and psychologists.

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You found a profound love late and fast, then lost it to distance and duty. Did you try everything, or let fear end it? It's Feedback Friday!

And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger (@JordanHarbinger) and Gabriel Mizrahi (@GabeMizrahi) banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week! If you want us to answer your question, register your feedback, or tell your story on one of our upcoming weekly Feedback Friday episodes, drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com. Now let's dive in!

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On This Week's Feedback Friday:

At 42, a British dad with a young daughter, you fell hard and fast for an incredible American woman — hours of video calls, a magical weekend in London, whole futures sketched out. Then her dream job landed and her aging parents' pull won out, and she ended it. • You cut off all contact. 
Did fear decide too soon?Your daughter arrived a couple months ago, and so did a familiar problem: your overbearing mother, who kisses the baby after you begged her not to, drops by unannounced, and insists "there are no boundaries." • A book finally named the childhood wound behind it. Now 
how do you set limits that actually stick?You became a committed Christian and joined a tiny, tight-knit church — half of them one family — but the sexual double entendres, lap-sitting, and playful kissing leave you uneasy in a house of worship. • Leadership just says show grace. 
Is this a culture clash, or a sign your values no longer fit?Recommendation of the Week: No Country for Old Men • — Jordan rewatched the Coen brothers' Cormac McCarthy adaptation and was floored all over again by their restraint, ambiguity, and mastery. His broader rec is basically the whole Coen catalog, from 
Fargo • to 
Inside Llewyn Davis • . These dudes rarely miss.
At 35, single, an embryologist with a shrimp tank and a stable career, you took a trip to Costa Rica and cried on the plane home, never feeling more at home anywhere. • Now you're eyeing visas, a possible PhD, a whole new life. Is it too late, or 
are you just trading comfort for something braver? • Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? 
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1384: Have You Lost Chance at Transatlantic Romance? | Feedback Friday

We're apes stuck in a zoo of our own design. Christopher Ryan, author of Civilized to Death, reveals what modern life is really doing to us.

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What We Discuss with Chris Ryan:

Civilization loves writing its own Yelp reviews — the story that it saved us from lives that were nasty, brutish, and short is propaganda. • We never doubled the human lifespan either; a wave of child deaths dragged the average down, while hunter-gatherer adults routinely reached their seventies.
Many of the problems civilization brags about solving, it created. • Contaminated water, crushed teeth, and the plagues bred by crowding and livestock all arrived with us. It's like lighting your house on fire, then showing up with a bucket and expecting thanks.
Pick the yardstick and you win the argument — so we count GDP, tennis rackets, and mango slicers instead of loneliness, chronic pain, and despair. • By honest measures, record anxiety and suicide among the young point to a culture built for commercial interests, not human ones.
Agriculture wasn't a triumphant invention — it was an emergency irrigation fix during drought that ratcheted into a trap. • Surplus grain needed storing, storing needed guarding, guards needed bosses, and the cascade rolled on to taxation, hierarchy, patriarchy, and slavery.
The good thing is that none of this is destiny, and, for the first time in human history, we can choose how we live. This week, shrink your world to human scale: learn your neighbors' names, get into nature, share the caregiving, and find work that feels more like play. Helping others is the oldest cure. • And much more...

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1383: Christopher Ryan | The Dark Side of Civilization and Progress

Digital feudalism or Star Trek at warp factor 9? The Last Economy author Emad Mostaque lays out the two futures toward which AI is racing us.

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What We Discuss with Emad Mostaque:

How AI's real disruption arrives long before it achieves sci-fi superintelligence. • Emad's test is whether a digital twin can do a standard white-collar job remotely, at the same level, with no one able to tell it from the human. At the time of this interview, his 1,000-day clock now reads 684.
Why cost is the tipping point • : a humanoid robot renting near $1.50 an hour, digital workers replacing costly graduates, and AI that thinks roughly a thousand times faster, never sleeps, and won't repeat a mistake, out-competing any all-human firm.
What happens when capital makes more capital without workers. • Wealth concentrates around whoever owns the GPUs and robots, abundance registers as catastrophe, and the likely responses — debt jubilees, UBI, or civil insurrection — reshape income and ownership.
Why ownership may matter more than intelligence itself. • If the AI teaching kids, advising doctors, and interpreting law belongs to a government or a few unelected firms, digital feudalism looms, sharpened by super-persuader models that detect lies and steer choices.
How to stay ahead: become AI-enabled now. Learn how these systems work, be the person bringing them into your organization, or use them to launch something of your own, while pushing for a future where people own intelligence aligned to human flourishing. • And much more...

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1382: Emad Mostaque | Surviving the Coming AI Jobs Apocalypse

The housing crisis is real, but the villain isn't the one you think. Nick Pell nails down the real culprits here on Skeptical Sunday!

Welcome to Skeptical Sunday, a special edition of The Jordan Harbinger Show where Jordan and a guest break down a topic that you may have never thought about, open things up, and debunk common misconceptions. This time around, we’re joined by writer and researcher Nick Pell!

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On This Week's Skeptical Sunday:

The villain behind the housing affordability crisis isn't BlackRock. • The scare stat that private equity owns 20% of single-family homes? The Urban Institute — a left-leaning shop — clocks it under 4%. Even grandpa renting out a condo counts as an "investor." Aim your outrage at the right enemy.
Before a single plank of wood gets nailed, regulations bake about 24% into a new home's price — roughly $94,000 nationally, north of $150K in California. • It's effectively illegal to build a genuinely cheap house, and almost nobody is protesting that.
Golden handcuffs froze the market: why trade a 3% mortgage for a 6% one? • Owners now sit tight a record 11 years, the listings that exist cluster between $750K and $1 million, and the starter home you could actually afford never reaches the market.
The other culprit is your neighbor Greg, who treats vinyl siding as a war crime. • Mandated gables, brick on all four sides, half-acre lots, mature trees — pure aesthetics, zero safety — heap tens of thousands onto every build and quietly outlaw the starter home.
The empowering truth is that scarcity is a policy choice, so it's reversible — and the decisive fights are local. Show up to the city-council meetings you've been skipping. And credit is more fixable than you'd guess — Nick raised his 120 points in a year just paying down debt.Connect with Jordan • on 
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1381: The Housing Crisis | Skeptical Sunday

A drink with a stranger in Colombia cost you your savings, your safety, and your peace. As the victim, are you entirely blameless? It's Feedback Friday!

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On This Week's Feedback Friday:

 If you want to take a high-speed delivery drone past the dystopian cityscape of Jordan's latest China stories, you can skip ahead to around 20 minutes and 50 seconds!You'd clawed your way back — 115 pounds gone, the Pacific Crest Trail behind you — when a Colombia trip meant to start a new chapter became a scopolamine nightmare: drugged, assaulted, and drained of tens of thousands • while the banks shrugged that biometrics don't lie. 
Where do you even begin to rebuild?The affair that blew up your marriage never ended — you've quietly kept seeing her through the ugly divorce. • Now she's done hiding and wants to meet your kids and family, who only know her as the scandal, and your ex is poised to weaponize it. 
How do you drag the secret into daylight without torching everything?Recommendation of the Week: Slice Mini Ceramic Box Cutter • — a purse-sized blade with a ceramic edge that feels dull to the touch yet slices clean through cardboard and plastic. It's kid-safe, TSA-friendly, and, per Jen, weirdly indispensable for life's most random little jobs.
You've watched a colleague you care about come apart at the seams — a hidden drinking problem you never saw coming, now impossible to unsee. • You feel responsible for keeping her afloat, dreading the day something breaks. But 
is rescuing her really your job, or just the thing that quiets your own fear? • Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? 
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1380: Is Victim at Fault for Scopolamine Assault? | Feedback Friday

Convinced you missed your shot at getting rich? Historian and former broke professor Joseph Moore is here to explain why it's never been easier.

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What We Discuss with Joseph Moore:

The "American Dream is dead" cry is 300 years old. • Colonists burned their own capital over it in 1676, long before the phrase existed. A despair industrial complex profits by telling you the game is rigged, because doom earns the clicks, votes, and tenure that good news won't.
Getting ahead has never been easier — not easy, not fair, just easier. • Six in 10 born in the bottom fifth climb out, one in 10 reach the top, and both wages and purchasing power beat what they were at your birth. Your ancestors would have prayed for these odds.
Real wealth is built in slow time. • Movies and headlines sell the dramatic version, so we chase crypto and sports betting for a fast-time win. That's not how fortunes are made.
Budgeting, index funds, and skipping avocado toast protect wealth but rarely build it — that's just solving your own problems. • You get wealthy solving other people's, taking risks others avoid, and moving toward opportunity. And no "timeless" money advice is timeless; it keeps changing.
The best slow-time move you can make this week is to invest in yourself. A course, certificate, or skill that lifts your earning power can double or triple your income, outpacing any index fund. Believe you can, then take the risk. It's always been possible. • And much more...

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1379: Joseph Moore | Why Getting Ahead Has Never Been Easier

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is happening right now to girls worldwide. Jessica Wynn explains why — and what stops it — on Skeptical Sunday.

Welcome to Skeptical Sunday, a special edition of The Jordan Harbinger Show where Jordan and a guest break down a topic that you may have never thought about, open things up, and debunk common misconceptions. This time around, we’re joined by writer and researcher Jessica Wynn!

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On This Week's Skeptical Sunday:

Female Genital Mutilation isn't a fringe practice — an estimated 230 million women and girls alive today have undergone FGM, and the number is climbing, up 15 percent in eight years. • More than two million girls are cut each year, most before their fifth birthday, some within days of being born.
FGM isn't Islamic — it predates Islam and appears among Christian and non-religious communities alike • ; the common thread is culture, not theology. "God requires this" is used as control, which is also why trusted religious leaders are among the strongest voices for ending it.
The decision is overwhelmingly made by women — mothers, grandmothers, aunts — not fathers. • But they act inside a system where marriage, status, and inheritance hinge on being cut, so it isn't simply men oppressing women. FGM and child marriage are two gears in one machine.
The fastest-growing myth is that cutting is safer in a clinic — about one in four recent cases were done by healthcare workers, up to 75 percent in Egypt. There is no safe version. • Medicalizing FGM doesn't reduce harm; it lends the practice a veil of legitimacy that helps it survive.
Here's what actually works: change from the inside out. When communities talk their own way to abandoning FGM, as in Somaliland and Tostan's villages, it sticks. You can help: fund survivor-led groups, check whether your state bans FGM, back healthcare training, and keep the conversation alive.Connect with Jordan • on 
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1378: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) | Skeptical Sunday

You carry an attraction you never chose and never acted on, but therapy could trigger a report that ruins you. Get help, or hide? It's Feedback Friday!

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On This Week's Feedback Friday:

If you want to take a siesta on Gabe's Barcelona adventures and resident post-traumatic growth expert Arseny Thumb von Neuburg's thoughts on cognitive empathy vs. affective empathy, skip forward about 16 minutes and 30 seconds!You're a pedophile who's never acted on it and swears you never will — but the secret is crushing you. • You want a therapist to help you rewire your brain, yet you're terrified that opening up triggers mandatory reporting and torches the life you've built. 
Where does someone in your position even find real help?Remember the lonely wife from episode 1365 — the one whose husband grinds 80-90 hours a week and never plans the date night or trip she keeps asking for? • A sharp listener writes in to reframe the whole thing: maybe it was never about a vacation, but about who quietly carries everything else. 
So who's really right?You're a vegan wellness pro who buried your father, brother, and mother from heart disease — and now you're watching your partner of 20 years surrender to four medications, a widening waistline, and financial shame. • You have the knowledge to help him; what you lack is the key to reaching him. 
How do you break through?Recommendation of the Week: My Dad Wrote a Porno • — the podcast where a man discovers his mild-mannered retired dad secretly wrote a gloriously terrible erotic novel, then reads it aloud with two friends, chapter by chapter. Some of the finest comedy around!
You've quietly become the person your kid self dreamed of — great job, a dog you adore, hobbies, real friends. • Now an inheritance could bankroll the wild dream: a plot in northern England, your own planted forest, a hand-built cabin, food you grow yourself. 
Do you leap, or is that just skipping down delulu lane? • Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? 
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1377: Is Help Unseekable for Attraction Unspeakable? | Feedback Friday

How does shame curdle into addiction? Ex-dealer and federal informant Sean Hemeon retraces his descent and the long climb back to sober.

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What We Discuss with Sean Hemeon:

Sean Hemeon was primed for addiction before he ever tried meth. • Abandoned at four, taught by his church that being gay made him diseased, meth gave him the confidence and belonging shame had denied him. It didn't create the void, but filled one that was already there.
Moral collapse is gradual, not sudden. • A year without a sober breath is how a smart person ends up stuffing meth into a dying stranger's nose, hoping to restart his heart. Boundaries don't break all at once — they give way one rationalization at a time.
The system meant to stop the harm made it worse. • Agents saved in Sean's phone as 'yes' and 'no' pushed him back into dealing to gather intel. A judge charmed by his school's basketball team let him walk. The outcome had less to do with the crime than with luck.
A grieving mother found Sean's number on her dead son's last phone bill and called, begging him not to hang up. • He hung up. That choice broke his image of himself as a good person and left a debt he's still trying to pay.
You can't undo the worst thing you've done, but you can stop running from it. 21 years sober, Sean tells the truth, stays reachable, and would fly to that mother tomorrow if she called. Accountability isn't feeling guilty, but facing the damage. • And much more...

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1376: Sean Hemeon | The Good Little Drug Lord

Think you need to be an "alpha" to win? Nick Pell debunks the wolf-pack myth and reveals what actually earns respect here on Skeptical Sunday!

Welcome to Skeptical Sunday, a special edition of The Jordan Harbinger Show where Jordan and a guest break down a topic that you may have never thought about, open things up, and debunk common misconceptions. This time around, we’re joined by writer and researcher Nick Pell!

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On This Week's Skeptical Sunday:

An "alpha" is supposedly the dominant top dog — the leader who takes 90% of life's spoils while the lesser "betas" scrap for crumbs. • But the whole pecking order traces back to a 1940s study of captive wolves crammed into a pen — the "wolf prison yard," not real pack life.
The biologist who made "alpha" famous, L. David Mech, spent decades disavowing his own bestseller. • The so-called alpha wolves aren't the toughest fighters who clawed their way up — they're just the parents. The pack defers to them because they bring the food.
Humans didn't conquer the planet by bullying — we did it by cooperating. • We're "obligate cooperators," self-domesticated apes who arguably bred aggression out of ourselves. Nobody builds a pencil, let alone a moon rocket, alone. 
Dominance is a liability, not a cheat code.Real influence runs on prestige, not dominance • (a distinction from anthropologist Joseph Henrich). Fear makes people hide problems — think D-Day, when nobody dared wake Hitler, or Vietnam-era "fragging." Domineering bosses get avoided; competent ones get followed.
Want to actually lead? Drop the dominance act and build competence instead. Lead by example, stay approachable so small problems reach you while they're still small, and treat people as collaborators rather than rivals. Prestige is freely given — and it's what makes people want to follow you.Connect with Jordan • on 
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1375: Alphas | Skeptical Sunday

Moran Cerf (@twtrdtcm) is a neuroscientist who strives to understand the underlying mechanisms of human psychology, behavior changes, emotion, decision making, and dreams.

What We Discuss with Moran Cerf:

 • What would a future in which we could 
connect our brains to the cloud and outsource parts of our thinking • look like?

 • Can we — or will we ever be able to — 
record and share our dreams like home movies • of the most intimate kind?

 • How teachers might use virtual reality 
attuned to our specific brain engagement patterns to ensure we're learning at an optimal rate • .

 • What happens 
when computers and machines can read our thoughts and know what we're thinking even before we do • ?

 • What are 
the security risks of having our thoughts available • to these kinds of networks?

 • And much more…

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265: Moran Cerf | Hacking into Our Thoughts and Dreams

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