1162: Calculating Courtesan Craves Close Connection | Feedback Friday
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 30 May 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Machiavelli guides your relationships, sex work funds your freedom, but loneliness looms. Can calculating hearts learn to love? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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On This Week's Feedback Friday:
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- You're a trans woman with Machiavellian traits who craves intimacy but views relationships as cost-benefit transactions. After escaping an unhappy marriage, you're working at a brothel while running a business in rural Asia. Can someone who treats people like "toys" ever find genuine connection?
- Remember that emotional affair with your coworker Bob while you had a boyfriend in episode 1037? Well, life just served up a delicious plot twist: you landed your dream job only to discover you're now working directly with Bob's girlfriend. She wants to be best friends. What could possibly go wrong?
- You're a federal power plant operator facing potential job cuts under the new administration. They're offering a resignation package with continued pay through September, but there's a job opportunity in NYC. Do you hedge your bets or roll the dice on government stability? [Thanks to federal employment lawyer Justin Schnitzer for helping us with this one!]
- Recommendation of the Week: Wayfinders
- Gabe attended a two-day dance workshop involving forced vulnerability exercises, portal-walking declarations, and receiving roses for sharing your "truth." He proclaimed "I am available" and felt like he failed at emotional openness. Did the workshop miss the mark, or was he too defended to benefit?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with Feedback Friday producer, the co-captain keeping an eye on the skies while we put this aircraft of life drama on Dews Control, Gabriel Mizrahi. |
| 0:15.3 | Nice. Are we free to walk about the cabin now? Is that reason? Yeah, you can go stretch your quads or do some yoga by the first class lavatory. |
| 0:21.8 | I am that guy, actually, on long haul flights. |
| 0:24.1 | I am the guy who's, like, in the back of the plane by the lavatory. |
| 0:27.0 | I won't do down dogs. |
| 0:28.0 | It's gross to put your hand on those sports. |
| 0:30.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:30.9 | But, you know, I'm like stretching against the wall while the flight attendants are |
| 0:34.8 | checking their phones on their break. It's the only way to get through a flight. |
| 0:38.2 | It really is. |
| 0:39.1 | You know, I have to say, you ever see somebody go into the, have we talked about this? |
| 0:42.8 | They go into the lavatory wearing no socks and you're just like, you disgusting bastard. |
| 0:46.5 | Oh, of course we've talked about that. |
| 0:48.0 | But are we going to talk about the fact that you pronounce it, lavatory? |
| 0:51.2 | Did I say lavatory? |
| 0:52.6 | The lavatory? The lavatory? That seems like how I used to talk. |
| 0:55.1 | My dear friend and co-host loves to say lavatory and grandiose. |
| 1:00.2 | Grandios. |
| 1:01.2 | Lavalier. |
| 1:01.7 | Like he's a member of the upper crust and like Imperial Britain. |
| 1:04.8 | What are you talking about? |
| 1:06.0 | This podcast is really the Queen's English is the only acceptable vernacular. |
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