The Jordan Harbinger Show
1107: Ballet Date with a Geopolitical Incel Mate | Feedback Friday
24 Jan 2025
Your fascist colleague thinks clubs turn people gay but loves male ballet dancers. Sometimes the closet has geopolitical dimensions. 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 [email protected]. Now let's dive in! On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss: You're a PhD student who befriended a peculiar new colleague with a penchant for authoritarianism, homophobia, and ballet. He's confiding increasingly concerning political views, showing up in clouds of cologne, and taking you on what might be accidental dates. Can you guide him toward compassionate self-acceptance, or is this a lost cause? Your neighbors are living like chaos incarnate — their yard's a tribute to entropy, their unmuffled car sounds like a dragon with indigestion, and there might be a whole rat civilization developing under their porch. The police can't help, and your three-year-old keeps getting woken up. What's your next move? 20 years ago, your alcoholic father's infidelity led to your mother's tragic end. Now he's remarried to someone younger than you, and you're caught in an exhausting cycle of guilt, obligation, and resentment. Is it time to break free from this emotional tornado? Recommendation of the Week: Mixbook You're a teenage tech prodigy who landed a dream gig with a Forbes 30-Under-30 founder and a popular YouTuber. But four months after delivering stellar work, they've gone radio silent. The prototype's gathering dust, meetings keep getting canceled, and your professional relationships are hanging in the balance. How do you light a fire under success? Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at [email protected]! Connect with Jordan on Twitter at @JordanHarbinger and Instagram at @jordanharbinger. Connect with Gabriel on Twitter at @GabeMizrahi and Instagram @gabrielmizrahi. Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1107 And if you're still game to support us, please leave a review here — even one sentence helps! Consider including your Twitter handle so we can thank you personally! This...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with Feedback Friday producer, the minute hand to my hour hand on this analog clock of life conundra, keeping us precise while I get us generally in the right ballpark, except during daylight savings time in certain U.S. states, only because not all of us observe it for some as yet understood reason, Gabriel Mizrahi.
That was ornate, my friend. Yeah. I owed you one after last week's sign-offs. Ornate is a good word. Over-engineered. Over-engineered. Yes.
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.
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