1387: Romance in Rome Ends with Lien on Your Home | Feedback Friday
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What is Feedback Friday and who are the hosts?
Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with Feedback Friday producer, the vegan sorbetto to my tradition, gelato, Gabriel Mazrahi. On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's most fascinating people. Our mission is to help you become a better informed, more critical thinker. And during the week, we have long-formed conversations with a variety of amazing folks, organized crime figures, war correspondents, neuroscientists, extreme and Athletes. This week we had Sean Wiswesser, former CIA spy on the bungling KGB. Are they super spies or are they just kind of corrupt buffoons? Or is it maybe a little bit of both? This was a fascinating look inside the KGB.
Well, from the perspective of the CIA, of course. We also did a skeptical Sunday last Sunday on food deserts, which was quite surprising to sort of left leaning Jessica and myself who'd heard of these and just assumed it was a Everybody agreed existed. Anyway, on Fridays though, we share stories, take listener letters, offer advice, and compare ourselves to various European desserts.
Also, I'm in Italy and the topic of gelato comes coming up, so yeah. You had to do it. You know you had to do it.
My backup option was the cream colored Vespa to my matte black F one fifty, but the one I don't own an F one fifty and the ice cream one seemed more apt somehow. That's right. You drive a Tesla, so that's really kidding. The chow
to my what it do, bruh. Hello show fam, it's Jace here. If Gabe's movie news isn't quite your box of popcorn, we'll give you the full Hollywood treatment and roll out the red carpet and you can skip to the first question at twenty-six minutes and thirty seconds. Enjoy the show. So you're in Bergamo,
huh? Yeah. I got here last night. I'm uh visiting some friends in the area and then I'm going up to the mountains tomorrow, which are supposed to be really beautiful. And then uh week after next, oh you're gonna love this. I'm doing a silent meditation retreat at a Benedictine Abbey near Lake Garda. Color me shocked.
You know what? There is some irony to a podcaster doing a silent meditation retreat.
I actually mentioned that on the intake form, just so they could roll their eyes harder at me.
Yeah. A podcaster doing silent meditation. That's a it's like a hot dog eating champion celebrating Ramadan.
I'm not gonna lie, I'm actually a little scared about this one. I think I'm more scared about this than when we went to North Korea. We were dumber then, but also like, you know, you could be silenced there, but at least you can talk on the bus. Exactly. Like
we might throw you in prison and roast you over an open fire with a hook, but you you're a lot of scream. Yeah. Yeah. My friend Olivia Fox Caban is this like she's this author of the Charisma myth and she's j just she used to do these week long silent meditation retreats and she's like, You gotta do it. And I'm like, I can't think of anything more I mean, maybe being stuck in a pipe or an elevator filling with water or like an underground cave that's flooding is scarier, but only by a little. I really don't want to be in a place where I have to stare at a wall not talking or looking. at any info. That's just no, I that's a nightmare for me. You
Can't talk at all? I don't think so, unless there's an emergency or you need to ask the meditation teacher something. But you just invented a whole other problem. It's not sitting and staring at the wall for twelve hours a day. Like it's a beautiful place. I'm sure you can walk around. You just can't talk.
But can you read a book? Can you write? I think
so. So I think so. I'm not totally clear on the rules. I know it's some silent meditations you can't even do that. No reading, no writing, you just have to be with yourself. But I think at this one you can
Anytime that I only have myself for company, it just sounds like a nightmare. Now I understand my wife a lot better. But yeah, no, I would never want to just be alone with myself. I can't think of anybody I'd rather be with less
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is Feedback Friday and who are the hosts?
0:03–9:07
2
Is the $21,000 Italy trip a romance scam or fraud?
9:07–18:51
3
Should I sue for fraud or accept the costly date?
18:51–27:42
4
What motivates a person to bill a romantic partner for a vacation?
27:42–39:09
5
How can deleted messages affect my small‑claims case?
39:09–49:08
6
How to navigate a rocky marriage with a volatile spouse?
49:08–1:02:39
7
Are my memory lapses signs of dementia or mid‑life stress?
1:02:39–1:17:00
8
What steps should I take now to protect my health and relationships?
1:17:00–1:30:46
Speakers
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