1107: Ballet Date with a Geopolitical Incel Mate | Feedback Friday
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Yes. And apparently it's a Swiss clock because that was way too complicated.
I thought you were going to say cuckoo. I was going to be down with that either way. 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. During the week, we have long-form conversations with a variety of amazing folks, from money laundering experts and undercover agents to astronauts and Emmy-nominated comedians. This week, we had Amanda Ripley on who survives disasters and why. It's actually pretty damn fascinating how there's certain personality types, certain little habits that people have that allow them to survive better, and of course, the people around them to survive better in catastrophes, in disasters. Finally, we had Skeptical Sunday last Sunday on DNA.
On Fridays, though, we share stories, take listener letters, offer advice, play obnoxious soundbites, and come up with increasingly elaborate and verbose metaphors for me and Gabe's partnership. Whatever you want to call this. That just sounds weird to me. Collaboration, perhaps? Collaboration works. Yeah, that's a little less ambiguous. As always, we've got some fun ones and some doozies, and I can't wait to dive in. Gabe, what is the first thing out of the mailbag?
Dear Jordan and Gabe, I'm a soon-to-graduate senior PhD student in a STEM field in the US, and recently my lab recruited a new graduate student. Imagine an Indian baby-faced Dwight Schrute, always sharply dressed and enveloped in a very thick cloud of cologne. While we didn't work directly together, I enjoyed his enthusiasm when talking shop and enjoyed giving him guidance, especially socially, in part because I could sympathize. He has a real case of science brain. During one conversation about Boeing, he actually started listing off all the airplane model names he knew. 747, F-16, 787. To me, against my will. He's often hyper-confident, has excellent memory recall, and loves rules, physical safety, consistency, authority, power, and punishment.
Okay, I think I have a hunch about how this guy's mind might work. I'm getting Big Bang Theory vibes.
My suspicion is that one of the reasons he likes me so much is that my wife is an Indian citizen like him, while I am a white American. Over time, he became more comfortable and started opening up about his thoughts on other things, thoughts he was afraid to share with anyone else. It started when he invited me over to his apartment for tea. His place was immaculate and well-scented, and he made the tea and set out snacks very precisely. Then he started to get into one of his favorite hobbies, geopolitics. He talks so quickly, with so many overly detailed facts and shocking conclusions, that it can be like a tornado of madness. I started hearing things like, the UN is doing what Hitler could not, Ukraine is full of a bunch of Nazis.
They're ethnically Russian and need to be reunited with Russia. People of different ethnicities will never be able to successfully live together. True assimilation is a myth. Democracy is holding India back because its people are emotional and feral. He showed me an obviously bullshit video of an outdoor Nazi rally that then cut to Alexei Navalny in a group of people outside in the same weather as proof that he was a Nazi. I'd have to brush off violent war videos depicting Ukrainian losses that gave him a nasty grin. His number one idol, whom he fantasizes about advising, is the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Vladimir Putin.
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