1098: Sanctioned Spank Sparks Sibling Split | Feedback Friday
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What family conflict arises from a spanking incident?
Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with Feedback Friday producer, the sugar in the raw packet, evening out the wonky leg of this tabletop with savory life conundra, Gabriel Mizrahi. On the Jordan Harbinger Show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's most fascinating people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you. Our mission is to help you become a better informed, more critical thinker. And during the week, we have long form conversations with a variety of amazing folks, such as organized crime figures, cold case homicide investigators, gold smugglers or astronauts. On Fridays, though, we take listener letters, offer advice, compare Gabe to various ad hoc solutions to mundane everyday problems, while also subjecting you guys to multiple takes of our stupid little bits, apparently.
So, welcome to the first show of the year. Hope 2025 is off to a great start for all of you. This is another year full of joy and growth and healthy challenges and all that good stuff. Thank you for continuing to spend your Fridays with us. We really do hope to make your year as rich and entertaining and productive as possible, if that's your goal. So Gabe, I was cleaning out some old boxes over the holidays, and I came across a Zippo lighter. I used to love Zippos when I was in high school and college. I don't know why.
Yeah, who didn't?
Okay. So that was a thing.
Yeah. We all go through the Zippo phase. You do. Okay.
And you like learn that trick where you put two fingers on top and the thumb on the bottom, it goes bling and it flips open and it's like magic. Like you're a pool hustler in the 80s. Totally. Yes. Like me and James Dean just hang out regularly. Anyway, I came across this Zippo lighter that I found in Vietnam in the jungle while I was walking around with a guide near the tunnels that they have. Some of those tunnels that the Viet Cong dug. Do you know about these? I mean, I've heard loosely, but tell me. So for people who don't know, the Viet Cong, one of the ways they evaded the U.S. government was everything they could, they did it underground, literally. So they would dig these holes in the clay and they had kitchens, schools, bunking areas, armories, tunnels that would go to different parts of the jungle so they could pop up in one part of a village or another part of the jungle or something like that or escape during raids and then come behind the enemy, which was us and the South Vietnamese, of course.
It was crazy, and so now, those tunnels, despite it raining like crazy in Vietnam, they still exist. Some of them are maintained, some of them they dug out more, so fat-ass tourists like me can crawl through them, and they're miles and miles long. It's insane to think about. It's really nuts, and you can go in there, and of course, there's also stuff in there that you don't wanna find, like weird bugs and snakes. But you can go in these tunnels. They're just unbelievable. This tunnel complex is just absolutely insane. They had their own water supplies. They ran electricity in there. It was just absolutely crazy. Anyway, I went there, and I just got so into it that the guide, who in the beginning told me how much he hated Americans, was actually like, hey, if you pay me like 40 extra dollars, I'll take you on a really cool hike. And I was like, are you going to kill me in the jungle? He's like, actually, the North Vietnamese killed my family. So I hate the Vietnamese as much as I hate the Americans.
He's a complicated dude, but he was a little bit older than me, only a little. And his English was awesome. So he would tell me these really sick stories and be like, are you having a good time? And I'm like, I don't know about good time, but yeah. But that is the tour guide you want.
How does one navigate family accusations of child abuse?
Yeah.
He was a little bit like messed up. Like he wanted me to suffer. Clearly. Telling me how Americans died in gruesome ways and stuff. He showed me these pits where they would take like sharpened bamboo and put leaves over it. So when you're walking, you fall into it and you just bleed to death in this like pit. And so he showed me some of these old pits that still existed.
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