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The Jordan Harbinger Show, page 2
by Jordan Harbinger · English
(Apple's Best of 2018) In-depth conversations with people at the top of their game. Jordan Harbinger unpacks guests' wisdom into practical nuggets you can use to impact your work, life, and relationships. Learn from leaders (Ray Dalio, Simon Sinek, Mark Cuban), entertainers (Moby, Tip "T.I." Harris, Dennis Quaid), scientists (Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye), athletes (Kobe Bryant, Dennis Rodman, Tony Hawk) and an eclectic array of fascinating minds, from art forgers and arms traffickers to spies and psychologists.
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1366: Gut Health | Skeptical SundayGut health skepticism—how the gut-brain axis and microbiome are real, but “gut health” marketing overreaches (probiotics, leaky gut, parasites, detox/cleanses, “mucoid plaque,” and H. pylori).9 Aug 2026 · 1 h 23 min · 30 chapters
1365: Strange Estrangement from Down in the Basement | Feedback FridayFeedback Friday listener letters. Main focus is a “strange estrangement” between a man (Tommy) and his family after he becomes entangled with his girlfriend Jane, plus a secondary letter about…6 Aug 2026 · 1 h 25 min · 26 chapters
1364: Dr. Max Butterfield | Challenging Viral Dating Myths with ScienceDr. Max Butterfield challenges viral dating/relationship “rules” (e.g., attachment labels, narcissism from arguments, love-language certainty) with relationship science, arguing that human behavior…4 Aug 2026 · 1 h 30 min · 33 chapters
1363: Allegations Untrue? Who's Next In the Queue? | Feedback FridayFeedback Friday episode focused on two listener dilemmas: (1) whether to believe a 13-year-old’s allegation that her 8-year-old self was sexually assaulted by a cousin (F) five years earlier, amid…31 Jul 2026 · 1 h 21 min · 18 chapters
1362: Danny Bate | Why English Spelling Is a Beautiful MessThe history and evolution of the alphabet and English spelling, arguing that English orthography is a “beautiful mess” because the Latin alphabet is a reused, modified technology that spread across…28 Jul 2026 · 1 h 23 min · 23 chapters
1361: Creep's Snaps Turn Tide on Body Positivity Ride | Feedback FridayFeedback Friday episode focused on a listener’s experience with non-consensual nude photo posting (“revenge porn”/sextortion-adjacent) after a naked bike ride, plus legal guidance on revenge porn and…24 Jul 2026 · 1 h 29 min · 24 chapters
1360: Scam Compounds | Out of the LoopSoutheast Asia’s “scam compounds” have evolved from online boiler rooms into multinational criminal empires tied to human trafficking, money laundering, and even cross-border warfare.21 Jul 2026 · 1 h 20 min · 36 chapters
1359: Breakfast Cereal | Skeptical SundaySkeptical Sunday episode arguing breakfast cereal is nutritionally poor and historically shaped by anti-masturbation crusades, World War II-era carb narratives, and aggressive child-targeted…19 Jul 2026 · 54 min · 16 chapters
1358: Pleased to Report: Pervert-in-Law Goes to Court | Feedback FridayFeedback Friday episode mixing travel anecdotes from Dali, China with listener mail advice about family conflict; includes a correction about canyon depth rankings and multiple sponsor reads.17 Jul 2026 · 1 h 31 min · 35 chapters
1357: Dr. William Li | Working with Your Body to Beat Disease NaturallyDr. William Li argues that cancer is often present at microscopic levels in everyone, and the real danger is when the body’s “defense systems” (immune surveillance, blood-vessel control, DNA repair,…14 Jul 2026 · 1 h 32 min · 31 chapters
1356: Tipflation | Skeptical Sunday“Tipflation” and why tipping in the U.S. has expanded (often via iPads and online prompts), plus the historical and psychological reasons people accept it.12 Jul 2026 · 1 h · 31 chapters
1355: Making Kids Aware of Genetic Risks They Share | Feedback FridayFeedback Friday mailbag advice on whether to disclose a parent’s mental-health and medical history to adult children, plus a long travel/observations segment from China (spitting/nose-picking…10 Jul 2026 · 1 h 23 min · 31 chapters
1354: Arthur Brand | Recovering the World's Stolen MasterpiecesArthur Brand, an art recovery “detective,” explains how stolen and Nazi-looted art moves through a global criminal network, why many stolen works never resurface, and how he negotiates and uses…7 Jul 2026 · 1 h 38 min · 40 chapters
1353: Text Meant for Another Outs Married Brother | Feedback FridayFeedback Friday episode advice and listener stories, plus discussion of automation/AI usefulness and a misdirected explicit text; includes a construction workplace conflict and a neighbor assault…3 Jul 2026 · 1 h 6 min · 20 chapters
1352: Joanna Stern | The Year I Outsourced My Life to AIJoanna Stern describes her 2025 “outsourced my life to AI” experiment—testing AI across home robotics, wearables, voice assistants, fitness, and especially medical imaging—while arguing AI should…30 Jun 2026 · 1 h 39 min · 31 chapters
1351: Alcohol | Skeptical SundayAlcohol’s harms and how marketing/normalization hide them, including cancer risk, brain effects, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, violence, and accountability gaps.28 Jun 2026 · 1 h 8 min · 17 chapters
1350: Survived the Service, But Mom Makes Him Nervous | Feedback FridayFeedback Friday episode focused on listener advice about (1) how to help a 24-year-old stepson who quit work and is depressed/self-esteem struggling, and (2) how to respond to a possible estate/IRA…26 Jun 2026 · 1 h 26 min · 32 chapters
1349: Valerie Fridland | Why We Talk Funny and What Our Voices RevealHow accents work as sound-only markers (not dialect), why everyone has an accent, and how voices reveal identity, social judgments, and even legal outcomes.23 Jun 2026 · 1 h 40 min · 42 chapters
1348: Medical Tourism | Skeptical SundayMedical tourism—how “cheap” elective procedures abroad can shift legal/safety risk away from providers, create conflicts of interest via brokers, and lead to complications that U.S.21 Jun 2026 · 1 h 15 min · 19 chapters
1347: Grandma's Adoption Blocks Custody Option | Feedback FridayFeedback Friday advice on a Georgia custody/adoption case where a 21-year-old (Sam) lost parental rights after her mother allegedly coerced her during pregnancy; the episode also includes travel…19 Jun 2026 · 1 h 21 min · 33 chapters
1346: David Maimon | Going Undercover in the Fraud UnderworldDr. David Maimon explains fraud as an organized “ecosystem” and “supply chain,” focusing on dark web/Telegram markets, synthetic and stolen identities, AI-enabled deepfakes, and downstream impacts…18 Jun 2026 · 1 h 18 min · 31 chapters
1345: David Epstein | How Constraints Make Us BetterConstraints as a driver of better thinking and creativity, arguing that “outside the box” is often wrong; the right kind of limits clarify priorities, block familiar but unhelpful paths, and force…16 Jun 2026 · 1 h 30 min · 37 chapters
1344: Avocados | Skeptical SundayThe episode explains how the global avocado boom—especially demand in the U.S.—is tied to Mexican drug-cartel extortion, violence (“blood avocados”), deforestation, and water/environmental damage,…14 Jun 2026 · 58 min · 21 chapters
1343: Stats Say Most Men Are Bad and It Makes You Sad | Feedback FridayFeedback Friday advice centered on (1) whether to move in with a mother-in-law who has an extremely aggressive, territorial cat that attacks people and pets and sprays/defecates outside the litter…12 Jun 2026 · 1 h 35 min · 28 chapters