Coming up on the Jordan Harbinger Show.

That adolescent idea of, oh man, the sisters, this is all bullshit.

I don't see things like that anymore.

One of the things that continues is, I'm optimistic about people.

I think people are beautiful and that people will change.

Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger.

On the Jordan Harbinger Show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's most fascinating people.

If you're new to the show, we have in-depth conversations with people at the top of their game, astronauts and entrepreneurs, spies and psychologists, even the occasional economic hitman.

In each episode turns our guests wisdom into practical advice, you can use to build a deeper understanding of how the world works and become a better critical thinker.

Today, we've got a real fun episode for you.

From the vault, look, this episode almost didn't happen. I'm so glad that it did.

We ended up recording it in a green room at NBC Universal in LA after Russell Brand had just done the morning show.

He was completely beat and his people kept trying to feed him during the show, which made for a pretty funny setup.

If you're watching this on YouTube, you can see that we're in a tiny little room and I'm in this weirdly low, yellow chair, which was ridiculously uncomfortable.

I had to lean way back and then lean way forward to be in the conversation.

But it didn't matter at all. We clicked right away. Russell and I had a real conversation. Everything from addiction to being keeping guests, he keeps bees that is totally random, mindfulness, mass media.

There's some philosophy in there as well because it's Russell Brand and you know how he is with all that.

There's some fanboy questions in there because I was slash M, a fan of Russell Brand for the past several years now.

Maybe not my style of comedy per se, but he just seems like he is an amazing guy. He's one of the first guests I ever wanted on any podcast.

14 years ago, I thought I would be cool to get a guy like that on him and Jay Moore as old-time fans know.

So now I've got to rack my brain and think who else am I going to cross off the Jordan Harbanger Show podcast bucket list here.

This episode was a hell of a lot of fun. I hope you enjoy it as well. And if you're wondering how I managed to book all these great authors and thinkers and celebrities every single week, it's because of my network.

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