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

Friday producer, The Needle helping me drop into the right groove on this absolutely fire album of

life drama, Gabriel Mizrahi. On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets,

and skills of the world's most fascinating people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you.

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

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

economic hitmen, gold smugglers, astronauts.

This week we had near Ayal on the science of belief and why it's more

important than motivation. Really interesting scientific look at belief and even prayer, which I know

y'all know is not normally my thing, but it's cool to hear the science behind all of this from a guy

who's done a lot of research in this and similar areas. On Fridays, though, we share stories,

take listener letters, offer advice,

ponder the eternal questions, while also knocking each other down, a peg or three. And before we

dive in today, I just wanted to thank everybody who emailed me and DM'd me and posted in our

subreddit about my mom after I talked about her Alzheimer's diagnosis. I'm always just blown away by this.

You know, I figured I'd get a few responses, maybe an email here and there, but I was really overwhelmed by all of the love and the well wishes that I received from you guys. A bunch of you shared your own stories of caring with parents with dementia. Some of you shared books and websites and resources, all of which were super helpful. Some of you just had some really nice things. I just

really appreciate that. It meant the world to me. Thank you so much. Yet another moment that made me go,

man, I love this show family. I appreciate you guys making some room for me to talk about something

very personal and very new. And just for reaching out in that amazing Feedback Friday spirit,

last week, because when it rains and pours, my mom fell and hit her head and had to go to the ER. And she's fine. She just had to get some staples, but it was, you know, scary. Old people, my friend made a joke. Actually, one of my previous producers, Jason de Philibble, he made a funny joke, which I assume comes from a comedian, Not because JPD's not funny, but because he watches

a lot of comedy. Anyway, he said, you can tell you're old, by the way, people react when you fall. If they laugh, you're young. If they don't laugh and they're horrified, you're old. But that's what happened with my mom, my poor mom. She slipped in the garage, fell off a step, actually, and she's, you know, had to call the fire department, had to go to the ER, had to get

staples, had to get stishes.

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