1294: Sister’s off Her Meds, Now She Faces the Feds | Feedback Friday
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Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Your sister went off her meds, fled cops, got in a bar fight, and assaulted an officer. Now she faces felonies and won't let you help. It's Feedback Friday!
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On This Week's Feedback Friday:
- Your sister with schizoaffective disorder went off her meds, quit her job, led cops on a chase, started a bar fight, and injured an officer — and now she's facing felony charges while refusing your help and rejecting her own public defender. How do you save someone who won't be saved?
- You're pretty sure your wife's business partners are hiding financials, breaching the partnership agreement, and planning to retire while still collecting profits she earns — but she's terrified of "being mean." How do you help her find her backbone before they bleed her dry?
- Your selfless 69-year-old mom is being run ragged by your sister-in-law's marathon visits — nine-hour affairs with free meals, free babysitting, and zero cleanup — and she's too kind to say a word. She even quit her fitness class. How do you protect a woman who won't protect herself?
- Recommendation of the Week: Gabe recommends keeping a quick daily travel log in your phone's notes app and pinning your favorite spots on a custom Google Maps list so you can relive your trips more vividly — and share killer recs with friends headed to the same destinations.
- Your six-year-old son had a helmet-throwing meltdown at Little League, and now three families — including an assistant coach — have requested he not be on their team. You practiced an apology that never happened, and Opening Day is coming. How do you handle the awkward reunion?
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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 |
| 0:08.1 | Friday producer, the Old Nature Valley Granola Bar Box, hiding the crumpled rappers of these dank |
| 0:12.7 | edibles of life drama, Gabriel Mizrahi. Great reference. I thought you would like that. If you have |
| 0:17.6 | no idea what we're talking about, go back three weeks and listen to the first letter. I am the keeper of the Feedback Friday rappers, aren't I? You are. You're our dues, Cruz, stash box. And just like the husband in that letter, we'll keep you on top of the fridge, Gabe, way back in the back, man. No one's going to find you there, man. Except anyone who's looking, apparently. Exactly. I love that that guy thought, oh, I'm just going to stash these in here. And I'll totally remember to eventually throw them away. It's such a classic stoner move. Geez. On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills, the world's most fascinating people, and turned their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact your |
| 0:54.3 | own life and those around you. And our mission is to help you become a better informed, more |
| 0:58.3 | critical thinker. During the week, we have long-form conversations with a variety of amazing |
| 1:02.2 | folks, astronauts, Russian spies, former jihadis, music moguls. This week we had psychologist |
| 1:07.8 | and neuroscientist Dr. Abigail Marsh on psychopathy and altruism. |
| 1:12.1 | Kind of a weird combo at first glance, but we talked about how both of these are about how we process fear. |
| 1:17.5 | And just like there are extreme psychopaths, there are also extreme altruists. |
| 1:21.8 | We also took an interesting diversion into child psychopathy. |
| 1:24.9 | Super interesting conversation. |
| 1:26.4 | This is a two-parter. |
| 2:18.8 | On Fridays, though, we take listener letters, offer advice, play silly sound bites, and generally feel our way benighted through the dark thicket of your most perplexing conundra. Jordan, speaking of being benighted and wandering through dark thickets, you just got back from Lake Tahoe where some crazy stuff happened this week. Yeah, I did. Well, we were just a few days of the mountains with the family, brought the kids. We were going to go, you know, snowboarding or something and realized Juniper was kind of too young and spent the time doing family stuff instead. Yeah, too young for skiing, you mean, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Too young to do a ski lesson on our own. So for anyone who doesn't know, Lake Tahoe is, it's on the border between California and Nevada, right? Mm-hmm. And this week, there was a deadly avalanche, which is heartbreaking because they had a drought and then they had this intense, heavy snowfall and something like six, seven, eight people died in this avalanche. I was reading about it. I was just thinking, first of all, I, every time you've gone to Tahoe, you've gone to go snowboarding. So I assume that you were going snowboarding this time and I texted you and you're like, oh, no, we're just going to chill. And I was like, oh, thank God. Because like, in some weird alternate timeline, that was you. And I was like, what would that have been like if my co-host |
| 2:35.9 | and BFF died in an avalanche? Yeah, a scary way to go. Wild to think about it. I mean, the thing is |
| 2:42.4 | with these, I don't want to scare people away from going to Tahoe or for skiing. These people |
| 2:47.3 | were in the back country, which is you do, it's essentially, it's not, you're not |
| 2:52.2 | at a ski resort getting killed by an avalanche. |
| 2:54.2 | I mean, I'm sure it happens, but it's even more rare than backcountry stuff, of course. |
| 2:58.6 | This is like, you're an expert skier, you hire guides, which these people did, and you go |
| 3:03.9 | into an area that's essentially, think of it like hiking in the wilderness, but you're |
| 3:07.9 | skiing. So this was super unfortunate and essentially a freak accident. Look, these people, |
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