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

Friday producer, the four-wheel drive crossover SUV, helping me tow this jackknifed car of your heaviest conundra up this

perilous emotional mountain, 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, astronauts, neuroscientists, mafia enforcers. This week, we had none of those.

We had Valerie Friedland. She's great, too. Author of Why We Talk Funny, the real story behind our

accents. Actually, I really love this conversation with her. She's awesome. As you can guess,

we talked about why we have accents, what our accents say about us, what data they contain,

about our social background, level of education,

where we come from, all that. Really interesting conversation, so much so that I'm having

her back on the show really soon. We also did a skeptical Sunday last Sunday on medical

tourism. On Fridays, though, we take listener letters, offer advice, play obnoxious soundbites,

and generally meddle in your lives, like a couple of

chocolate bar wielding lydios. Gabe, you're not in Chile anymore. I'm back in LA, back in my mom's

guest room, as you can see, as the prophecy foretold. As the prophecy foretold, yeah. This background is

very different from your last one. I'm seeing moody lighting. There's a window with very tassily curtains.

I'm seeing vintage bronze statuettes. I'm having flashbacks to our fateful night at Robbins 15 years ago.

Seriously. Shout out to Robin for letting her grown-ass sun crash with her every few months,

like some kind of weird sitcom that they refuse to cancel. Yeah, well, honestly,

shout out to Robin for so many things, like giving birth to you, for example. Oh, what an unexpectedly touching thing for you to say at the top of the show. Yeah, and also by the time this episode comes out, she'll be recuperating from a little surgery she had to have. So shout out to Robin for handling all of that like a champ. It has not been fun for her. I really feel for her. I love you, Mom. I'm glad you doing well. I'm actually sorry to hear that. I hope you're doing well, Robin. So I have so many fun memories of your mom. I won't even get into that here. I think we talked a lot. We talked about some of those nights before as well. So get, that came out weird. I had many great nights with your mother. Gabe, your stories are going to be

significantly more boring for the next month or so. I ain't just sitting around in L.A.

I think they might be. My stories might tend toward the domestic for a few weeks. Yeah, you're

going to go from I almost died in a car accident in Chile to, oh, my mom blocked in my car

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