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1252: Her Delusions You Fled; Now She's in an ER Bed | Feedback Friday
05 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What are the consequences of living with a narcissistic partner?
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Welcome to Feedback Friday.
I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with Feedback Friday producer, my Naka E, soaking with me in this scalding onset of life drama, Gabriel Mizrahi. Is that close? I feel like I added a couple extra beats.
Nicely done. I love that.
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Chapter 3: How can someone protect themselves from a manipulative spouse?
Yeah.
All right, whatever.
We're just free balling in these hot springs of WTF for sure. That was a great one. I love that one.
Sitting on those little buckets in the bathhouse before we go and scrub a dub dubbing off the dues before we go into the bath.
I'm in Japan right now. If you cannot tell from this insane conversation we're having. Yeah.
Naka, you taught me this word, Gabe.
Yeah. Courtesy of one of our listeners, by the way, Joan in Tokyo. Shout out to Joan for teaching me some killer slang that I've been using in restaurants. It's making a big difference. Joan, a traditional Japanese name.
What does that mean? Like homie, kind of? Buddy, pal. Yeah. So Naka-e. Man, the nicknames get weirder and weirder the more you travel. And I guess we'll talk about that in a second here.
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Chapter 4: What should you do when faced with a job offer after being laid off?
Exactly. Right.
So are you in Kyoto now? Is that correct?
Yes, I'm in Kyoto. I'm with my other Nakai, Aaron Margolis, as you know. The f***ing doctor.
Happy birthday to Aaron, by the way. Hell of a trip. I don't know. What are you guys doing over there? I mean, vegan Japan?
It's got to be kind of an interesting... I'm having to be flexible on the veganism, unfortunately, but that's just part of the territory. In Tokyo and Kyoto, you can be vegan very easily. But when you get into smaller towns and when you're traveling with a non-vegan, which as you know, I don't want to impose my veganism on everyone else.
So I am being a little flexible, but yeah, little birthday trip for the good doctor. It's her first time in Japan. We did Tokyo for four or five days. It was incredible, but it was a whirlwind. We did Hakone for a day. We stayed in the mountains. It's like a traditional Japanese kind of, I don't know what the word is in or something, but they can be quite nice. That was dope.
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Chapter 5: How do you choose between integrity and financial stability in your career?
think paper doors and sleeping on the floor on the tatamis and like totally sitting it was exquisite actually went to a really beautiful one and now we're in kyoto which is one of my favorite places in the world i think it's a ryokan if you kick someone really hard and they fly through the wall that's how you know what kind of hotel it is if it has those like wood and paper that's the quentin tarantino test
Yes, the Tarantino test, whether you're in a ryokan or not.
So if you feel like a medieval samurai parking in a small village for the evening before you do battle the next day, it's a ryokan.
If ninjas may actually arrive in the evening unexpected, and what are those little like toe sock things that they wear running along the roof? You could be at a ryokan, but otherwise it's up in the air. So are you guys having fun? I assume all you do is feedback Friday consults.
but i could be wrong 24 7 feedback friday consults yeah pretty spilling the tea the green tea while we take the bullet train and hike up and down monasteries it's all we talk about is you guys good yeah that's what i thought i need to know that the two of you are solving doozies while you're living your best lives otherwise i can't cope with the fomo we ran out of things to talk about days ago so thank god we have these feedback friday letters to analyze
Yeah, I figured. How could you possibly have a friendship that doesn't revolve around what you both do for the show? You and Aaron, you guys have been good friends for a long time, but have you traveled together before?
No. Okay. This is our first time traveling together. We're still learning all those things that you learn about someone when you spend more than a day or two days with them, you know, like their needs, their triggers, their rhythms. Okay, so she's never seen you brush your teeth in public.
No.
Perfect example.
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Chapter 6: What strategies can help introverts network effectively at work?
Or she's learning that when I get quiet, I'm not mad or anything. I'm just obsessing about a script I have to turn in soon. You know, that kind of thing.
So I is now a good time to admit that I broke up with a girl because she would only poop at home, which I totally sympathize with. But I'm like, we're traveling. You can be that person who has to like go home from Starbucks when it's a few blocks away. But if we have left the hotel and we have done brunch and now we're like, I don't know, at a monastery.
No, we're not going back to the hotel so that you can take care of that.
Oh, she's like, no, I can't poop in public. We're going back to the four point Sheraton.
Then it became, no, I'll just go alone and I'll meet you later. And I'm like, that's me sleeping on the couch for the rest of the trip and definitely putting up with some passive aggressive nonsense. So I basically just put up with it.
Did you break up with her on the trip or after you got home?
No, that would have been terrible. That's the worst. I can only imagine that's the worst. We're going to get emails from people that have done that. No, I was smart enough to know that I couldn't do that. But I remember in my head being like, I'm done. Like on Wednesday, and we were leaving on Friday. I was like, this is done now. Finished. Anyway, all those travel quirks. Yeah.
What the other person is like when they're tired or they're hungry and whether they can clench up for another few hours and make everybody else's trip a little more.
Funny you mentioned the hungry thing. A few days into our trip, this was in Tokyo. We had this epic, amazing day. We wandered around. this neighborhood called Jiyugaoka. We took the subway to all these far out places. We hit some amazing temples. And around 4 or maybe 5 p.m., we end up at this vintage movie poster shop in Kanda Jinbocho, which is this new area of Tokyo I've never been to.
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Chapter 7: How can self-awareness improve personal relationships?
So you might as well make it a retail storefront.
Exactly. It would take years for you to put it online. You just have to stand in the shop for an hour or two and sift through these collections yourself. And then you walk out with a few jumps. Anyway, it's fun, but it's exhausting. And finally, I look over and Aaron gives me a look that I now know is Aaron is hitting a wall. She gets hangry. She cannot function much longer.
It's so relatable. When I'm hangry, I'm the worst person and I can't do anything about it unless I eat. Like I have to eat or I'm a tyrant.
So interesting. I don't get hangry. I do get a little bit, maybe a little depleted and a little foggy, but I can power through for a while. So I'm learning how to work with other people's anger. Anyway, it is time for dinner. It's clear. So the plan was to go to this restaurant I love called RQ in Akihabara.
And I know about this place because two years ago when I came with my sister and my brother-in-law, we ended up at this restaurant one night and had the time of our life.
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Chapter 8: What steps should you take when a partner attempts suicide?
It was one of those evenings where we're like,
hanging with the sushi chef talking to the restaurant owner they're drinking at our table like we're having a ball at this place and we took pictures with the owner and we just had a love fest and we still talk about this woman to this day because she was such a character anyway so i'm like i really want to take you to this place rq we get there and it's closed on monday nights and google maps didn't say that or maybe i didn't look closely enough so
We can't do our queue that night. So we start looking around Akihabara, looking for a place, and we are going from restaurant to restaurant, and every single place is booked or needs reservations.
Japan loves their reservations. The place could be half empty and they're like, do you have a reservation? You're like, no. And it's like, should I just make one on my phone right now while I stand outside in the rain? Yes.
Roll-up culture is not a thing here. So this happens to us. We get turned away from six, seven, eight. It might've been as many as 10 places, sushi bars, ramen restaurants. Weird Japanese sandwich spots that are run by people who don't speak English and don't have any desire to be helpful to us. Like we are lowering the bar more and we cannot find a restaurant.
And meanwhile, Dr. Nakai over here is swiftly decompensating.
Yeah, hangry, just kicking in like, why did I come to Japan with you?
Erin is having a Fukushima Daiichi grade meltdown. The reactors are starting to crumble into the sea. No one is going to be able to fish within 100 miles of Erin Margolis for at least a decade. She is a husk of a Japanese sweet potato, but she's practically nonverbal. And I am getting pissed off myself because this is one of the downsides to Japan. You get into these moments where
you love everything. It's an amazing day. And then it's time to do something you can't. And you get frustrated. No one speaks English. No one will help you. You need reservations, but you can't get one. And I just want to take care of my friend and get her fed before she detonates. So we're both hungry. We're kind of like delirious.
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