Welcome to Skeptical Sunday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. Today I'm here with Skeptical

Sunday co-host writer and researcher Nick Pell. On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the

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help you become a better informed, more critical thinker. During the week, we have long-form conversations with a variety of amazing folks, from spies to CEOs, athletes, authors, thinkers, and performers. On Sundays, though, it's skeptical Sunday. A rotating guest co-host and I are going to break down a topic you may have never thought about and debunk common misconceptions about that topic, such as astrology, acupuncture, recycling, hypnosis, homeopathy, targeted

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he's leaving the West behind to find a wife who's traditional, who's feminine, and depending

on how honest they're feeling, not like American women, welcome to the world of passport

bros. A loosely organized but very loud movement of men convinced that crossing international borders

is the secret to escaping modern dating, which they consider to be bad, and whatever else they

think is ruining their love lives. According to them, romance abroad is simpler where women are

nicer, expectations are clearer, and everybody knows their role, allegedly. Western women are so

entitled, so unpleasant, and so

irredeemably modern, that the only hope for male happiness is a one-way ticket to Manila,

Medellin, or Fouquet. But are passport bros actually finding more fulfilling relationships

or just different power dynamics? Is this about culture, economics, or just unrealistic

expectations from passport bros and the women who they're dating?

Do foreign women genuinely prefer these men, or are the incentives more transactional than advertised?

To what degree is this predatory, and is it okay to travel the world in search of a submissive wife?

Here today to help me navigate this turbulent airspace as writer and researcher, Nick

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