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

with Feedback Friday producer, the Yerba Monti, helping me give you that crashless Friday buzz week after week, Gabriel Mizrahi. On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's most fascinating people, and turned 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, money laundering, experts, gold smugglers, astronauts, investigative journalists. This week we had Joanna Stern, author of I Am Not a Robot. Joanna used AI and automation for everything in her life for a year. AI lawnmowers, AI therapists,

an AI boyfriend, even though she's married, whatever, don't ask too many questions, and more.

A fun dive into what is useful, the future of robotics, and why having everything automated

might not actually be what most of us really want. We also had a skeptical Sunday last Sunday

on alcohol. On Fridays, though, we share stories, take listener letters, offer advice,

and compare Gabe and I to various obscure caffeinated beverages. Gabe, as you know, I am leaving

for China tomorrow. Yes, I cannot wait to record feedback Friday while you're there. That should be

cool. I think it'll be kind of fun. I'm bringing a mic with me because I don't want to have to find

a recording studio in random cities in China. So I was packing. Actually, that's a lie. I still have to pack. But whatever. I was getting ready and practicing Chinese with the kids this week. And all of a sudden, I remembered something that I'd completely forgotten about, which is when I was 17, I went to Canada. And while I was there, I met some Indian women at this bar,

and this is gonna show you how sheltered and unaware I was living in Michigan up to that point. I asked, I was like, so are you guys mixed? Because I thought they were half black, because I'd never, I've realized now, I'd never met an Indian person before. Isn't that funny? Wow, that's so funny. Yeah, like I just couldn't compute. I saw light brown skin and I was like, oh, they must be mixed race. Not like, oh, there must be from a totally different part of the world where I haven't actually seen people yet. And now look at you. You're speaking Mandarin with your kids. You're spending a month in China. Wild. It is honestly wild because I never in a million years would have pictured this. When I was a kid. I mean, growing up in Michigan, you pretty much think about your state and not very far outside it. So I told that to Jen and she's like, yeah, I guess you've come a long way in being culture. And then she starts, now she points out all the food that I eat. And she's like, would you have eaten this when you were 20? And the answer is always no.

It's like a snail or a sea cucumber or something that I didn't know was edible until 10 years ago or five years ago. And it's spicy. So, it's so strange. It's so funny. So she's like, when I met you, you thought all ramen was instant noodles. Because that's what I thought. I thought ramen was that Instant noodle brick that you threw in the pot when your mom was like, I'm going to be late from work.

And you're like, oh, God, not again. And so I thought that was what ramen was. And I remember when my brother-in-law and her were like, let's go eat ramen. I was like, you guys are so crazy. Why would you go to a restaurant and order that food? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of my life. Now, the other day, I was eating something called a thousand-year-old eggs. Do you know what these are?

Are these the black

eggs that you can find in Asia? They're black eggs that are partially clear in the inside is like

a dark, weird, grainish yoke that looks like... Are they actually a thousand years old? No.

No, of course not. No, they're just, I don't know the traditional way you make them. I have a

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