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The Jordan Harbinger Show

1271: Buzzing Teen Question Has Mom Second-Guessin' | Feedback Friday

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Education, Science, Business

4.8 • 12.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Your 15-year-old just made a request that would make your church-raised mother faint. How do you parent without the shame spiral? 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 friday@jordanharbinger.com. Now let's dive in!

Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1271

On This Week's Feedback Friday:

  • Your 15-year-old daughter approached you with a request that left you speechless — she wants help purchasing something to explore her own body safely. You escaped purity culture and want better for her, but where exactly do healthy boundaries live in this uncharted territory? What does a sex-positive parenting expert have to say? [Thanks to Dr. Linda Baggett for helping us with this one!]
  • Your sister-in-law has burned through a $100k inheritance on vacations, alienated the entire family with vicious voicemails, and is now hunting down your daughter's friends to badmouth everyone who's cut her off. You've been nominated as the family's designated messenger of doom — but how do you deliver a "we're done forever" speech with compassion?
  • You've weathered seven moves, two abortions, and a trailer lifestyle with your husband — but now that you're ready to settle down and start a family, he seems to have ghosted his own future. He told you he didn't believe in marriage, yet you married him anyway. Now you're daydreaming about other relationships — is this marriage salvageable, or are you just delaying the inevitable?
  • Recommendation of the Week: Flighty Flight Tracker App
  • You went on a passionate rant about airplane window shade etiquette, and the internet had opinions. From claustrophobic flyers to grandmas photographing clouds to rhinestone-cowboy-hat disco balls — listeners are pushing back hard. Is keeping your shade open a cardinal sin, or are you the unreasonable one?
  • Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com!
  • Connect with Jordan on Twitter at @JordanHarbinger and Instagram at @jordanharbinger.
  • Connect with Gabriel on Twitter at @GabeMizrahi and Instagram @gabrielmizrahi.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with Feedback

0:08.0

Friday producer, the Alan Wrench helping me assemble this prefabricated Davenport of life drama, Gabriel Mizrahi.

0:15.3

On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's most

0:19.0

fascinating people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you.

0:25.4

Our mission is to help you become a better informed, more critical thinker.

0:28.8

During the week, we have long-form conversations with a variety of amazing folks from rocket

0:32.7

scientists to four-star generals, gold smugglers to money launders.

0:36.2

This week we had Jamie Mustard, author of Child X.

0:39.5

This is a memoir of slavery, poverty, celebrity, Scientology.

0:43.9

I don't mean slavery like plantation slavery.

0:45.9

I mean, this is stuff that was happening in the 80s in Scientology.

0:49.3

Jamie was born into Scientology on what he called a baby farm.

0:53.5

There was forced labor, no education, FBI raids,

0:57.0

and a billion-year contract. His story arc is bananas. He's a really interesting guy. We also had

1:03.0

an out-of-the-loop last Sunday on Venezuela. On Fridays, though, we share stories, take listener letters,

1:07.9

offer advice, play obnoxious sound bites, and generally extract our

1:11.1

pound of flesh, or in my case today, of phlegm, from the villains in your letters.

1:15.6

Speaking to which, Jordan, do you want to tell everybody why you sound like death today?

1:18.9

Yeah, I went to a Disney hotel. That's not the whole reason. What a weird flex.

1:24.1

To the little mermaid themed palace down in Hawaii.

1:28.3

When I sat in the front row at Hamilton, no, I, so what happened is I decided to take the kids to

1:34.3

Hawaii and I thought, this will be fun, I'll take them to a Disney hotel.

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