1110: Can True Love Last In Shadow of Dad's Dark Past? | Feedback Friday
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Finding love in midlife with a baby on the way seems like a miracle, but your father's dark past threatens to eclipse it all. It's Feedback Friday!
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On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:- You've found true love in midlife and have been blessed with a baby on the way, but there's a dark family secret lurking in the shadows — your father's abuse of your sisters decades ago. Now you're torn between protecting their story and being honest with your partner. Can you find safe passage through this minefield of trust and trauma?
- You're the new kid at a utility company where everyone's old enough to remember the Carter administration. They call you "little boy" and move at glacial speed, but the pension is golden. How do you bridge this generational grand canyon without losing your sanity?
- Two passionate readers weigh in on AI with opposing views — one concerned about the environmental impact of our chatty digital friends, another warning about cognitive dependence. Join this fascinating debate about the true cost of convenience.
- You're in love with someone half your age, you're both on the autism spectrum, but her mother's controlling behavior feels straight out of a Gothic novel — 8 p.m. curfews and confiscated phones included. Did we mention you're married? Oh, boy, how does this tale unfold?
- Recommendation of the Week: Chia Seed Pudding
- Your corporate IT job pays the bills but feeds your soul about as well as a cardboard sandwich. At 35, with a family to support, you're wondering if it's too late to chase meaningful work. Is stability worth the daily dose of misery?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. Oh, I mean Dr. Jordan Harbinger. I forgot I'm doing that this year. As always, I'm here with Feedback Friday, producer, the candle you use to light all the other candles on the menorah, the light that just keeps on lighting, Gabriel Mizrahi. That's a nice one. That's a sweet one. It's a dated one. It somehow still feels like the holidays. |
| 0:21.9 | I'm not sure why. |
| 0:23.0 | Probably wishful thinking. |
| 0:24.5 | Well, then I guess you're the Christmas tree. |
| 0:26.8 | You leave up until February because it's just so pretty to look at. |
| 0:30.1 | Handsome Tree number one over here. |
| 0:31.4 | Hansom Tree number one. |
| 0:32.3 | Dr. Handsome Tree number one. |
| 0:33.9 | Dr. Handsome Tree number one. Dr. Handsome Tree number one. That's right. New Reddit Flair just dropped. King of the |
| 0:40.6 | Pretty Trees. On the Jordan Harbinger Show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's |
| 0:45.3 | most fascinating people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact your |
| 0:50.4 | own life and those around you. Our mission is to help you become a better informed, more critical thinker. By the way, people have been putting that in their pitch now. They're like, |
| 0:57.0 | the purpose of my book is to make you a better informed, more critical thinker, that it's like |
| 1:00.7 | something about leadership in real estate. And I'm like, guys, you can't just, anyway. During the |
| 1:06.1 | week, we have long-form conversations with a variety of amazing folks from mafia enforcers to investigative journalists, |
| 1:11.7 | astronauts, hackers, tech luminaries. This week, we had none of the above. We had my friend |
| 1:16.1 | Dr. Michael Isretel, leading fitness expert, and perhaps most importantly, former lifting partner of |
| 1:21.9 | yours truly back at the University of Michigan. It's sad because he's huge and fit and I'm just me. |
| 1:27.0 | We discussed fitness, strength, dieting, fat loss, he's huge and fit and I'm just me. We discussed fitness, |
| 1:28.1 | strength, dieting, fat loss, muscle gain, and more. I normally don't really cover health |
| 1:33.1 | at all on this show, but lately, as you all know, I've been a little bit more of a meathead, |
| 1:37.0 | and I just love the science behind this stuff. We tackle some nutrition and dieting myths |
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