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- Yesterday1h 22m
1362: Danny Bate | Why English Spelling Is a Beautiful Mess
Our alphabet is history's junk drawer. Why Q Needs U author Danny Bate traces letters back through 4,000 years of pictures, invasions, and happy accidents.Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1362What We Discuss with Danny Bate:How the alphabet became civilization's 4,000-year-old junk drawer of borrowed symbols, stitched together from Egyptian pictures, Greek tweaks, and Roman branding: not a language at all, but a wildly successful technology shared across English, Spanish, and dozens of unrelated tongues.Why a capital A is secretly an upside-down ox, and Q is a monkey that kept its tail to this day, O began as a lashed human eye, and R traces back to an ancient word for "head" that still lives inside the Hebrew rosh.How dropping the vowels turned writing into an MP3 file. Semitic workers in Egypt around 1900 BC repurposed hieroglyphs into one symbol per consonant, trading the beauty of pictograms for something fast, portable, and simple enough to spread across the ancient world.Why English spelling looks broken at first glance. Letters sit frozen while sounds quietly drift, so Caxton's 15th-century printing press locked in words whose silent K's and GH's were once fully pronounced, leaving competing rules that only look like anarchy.What a gloriously messy alphabet can teach us about each other. Because our spelling fits no single accent perfectly, it clunkily serves everyone at once. Noticing that gap between speech and spelling is a standing invitation to be more curious and generous about how other people talk.And much more...And if you're still game to support us, please leave a review here — even one sentence helps! Sign up for Six-Minute Networking — our free networking and relationship development mini course — at jordanharbinger.com/course!Subscribe to our once-a-week Wee Bit Wiser newsletter today and start filling your Wednesdays with wisdom!Do you even Reddit, bro? Join us at r/JordanHarbinger!This Episode Is Brought To You By Our Fine Sponsors: Boll & Branch: 15% off first set of sheets: bollandbranch.com, code JORDANChime: Open an account in two minutes: chime.com/jhsFactor: 50% off first box: factormeals.com/jordan50off, code JORDAN50OFFHims Weightloss: Get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you: hims.com/harbingerSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
- 5 days ago1h 29m
1361: Creep's Snaps Turn Tide on Body Positivity Ride | Feedback Friday
You biked nude for body positivity. Years later, a predator posted the pics and your personal info online. How can you fight back? It's Feedback Friday!And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger (@JordanHarbinger) and Gabriel Mizrahi (@GabeMizrahi) banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week! If you want us to answer your question, register your feedback, or tell your story on one of our upcoming weekly Feedback Friday episodes, drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com. Now let's dive in!Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1361On This Week's Feedback Friday:10 years ago, you rode naked through Philadelphia in the name of body positivity and silliness. Then a stranger's LinkedIn message informs you your nudes are live on an exposure site — posted by a serial creep who's quietly stalked a dozen women across two countries. You've filed a report and started reverse-doxxing him. So how do you actually bring this ghoul to justice?You're an agnostic-leaning-atheist dad shipping your whip-smart five-year-old off to a Christian private school, and she's already home reciting Sunday School certainties about Heaven, God, and why we're here. You want kids who interrogate ideas, not swallow them whole — but how do you plant healthy doubt without quietly torching her teachers or picking the fight for her?Recommendation of the Week: Peak Design — a gear-obsessed cult favorite (not a sponsor) whose magnetic phone case snaps onto a wallet, bike mount, tripod, or charging stand with zero fiddling, which Jordan calls a gamechanger for a serial bike-borrower and car-renter like himself.For 10 months, you loved a woman who was the kindest person alive sober — and a fork-throwing, credit-card-swiping, bouncer-brawling storm after a few drinks. You drank alongside her, made excuses, watched your own kids clock the change. Now it's finally over, and you're stuck on the hardest question of all: do you try to save her, salvage the wreck, or let her go?Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com!Connect with Jordan on Twitter at @JordanHarbinger and Instagram at @jordanharbinger.Connect with Gabriel on Twitter at @GabeMizrahi and Instagram @gabrielmizrahi.And if you're still game to support us, please leave a review here — even one sentence helps! Sign up for Six-Minute Networking — our free networking and relationship development mini course — at jordanharbinger.com/course!Subscribe to our once-a-week Wee Bit Wiser newsletter today and start filling your Wednesdays with wisdom!Do you even Reddit, bro? Join us at r/JordanHarbinger!This Episode Is Brought To You By Our Fine Sponsors
- 1 weeks ago1h 19m
1360: Scam Compounds | Out of the Loop
Southeast Asia's scam compounds have grown into billion-dollar criminal empires. Nathan Southern and Lindsay Kennedy bring us in from Out of the Loop here!Welcome to what we’re calling our “Out of the Loop” episodes, where we dig a little deeper into fascinating current events that may only register as a blip on the media’s news cycle and have conversations with the people who find themselves immersed in them. Investigative journalists Nathan Paul Southern and Lindsey Kennedy are here to help us understand what Southeast Asia's scam compounds are, how they've built criminal empires worth billions on the backs of trafficked humans, and how we can fight back against them.Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1360On This Episode of Out of the Loop:What are scam compounds? What started as online boiler rooms has mutated into multinational criminal empires — CEOs, crypto treasuries, diplomatic cover, billions laundered. As Jordan quipped, it's LinkedIn with torture rooms — and now fighter jets are literally bombing the compounds.Underneath it all is human trafficking. Victims are lured by fake job ads, stripped of their passports, and forced to scam. When crackdowns hit, bosses flee and hundreds of thousands get dumped onto the streets — stranded, broke, and ripe to be trafficked again.The crackdowns look like justice but function like a heist. States get "captured" willingly, seize billions in assets, and keep the cash — while victims see none of it. Bosses vanish to China, the same ruling families cash in, and compounds get rebranded as prisons.Forget the idea that only "your granny" falls for this. These scams now run on bought data, AI deepfakes, and scripts impersonating police, tax offices, and airlines. They know your debt, your address, your fears — and can rattle anyone, at any income or education level.Your best defense is a pause and a callback. When a "detective," "tax officer," or "airline" pressures you, hang up and dial the real number yourself — and tell someone before sending a cent. Verification is free, and refusing to comply has real power.And much more!Connect with Jordan on Twitter, on Instagram, and on YouTube. If you have something you'd like us to tackle here on an Out of the Loop episode, drop Jordan a line at jordan@jordanharbinger.com and let him know!And if you're still game to support us, please leave a review here — even one sentence helps! Sign up for Six-Minute Networking — our free networking and relationship development mini course — at jordanharbinger.com/course!Subscribe to our once-a-week Wee Bit Wiser newsletter today and start filling your Wednesdays with wisdom!Do you even Reddit, bro? Join us at r/JordanHarbinger!This Episode Is Brought To You By Our Fine Sponsors: Ground News: 40% off unlimited access Vantage subscription: groundnews.com/jordanK12: Learn more
- 1 weeks ago54 min
1359: Breakfast Cereal | Skeptical Sunday
Corn subsidies, cartoon tigers, and fake health claims turned sugar into breakfast. Nick Pell digs to the bottom of the box on Skeptical Sunday!Welcome to Skeptical Sunday, a special edition of The Jordan Harbinger Show where Jordan and a guest break down a topic that you may have never thought about, open things up, and debunk common misconceptions. This time around, we’re joined by writer and researcher Nick Pell!Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1359On This Week's Skeptical Sunday:Your innocent bowl of Corn Flakes was invented by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg — a Seventh-Day Adventist convinced that bland, flavorless food would stop people from masturbating. The great American breakfast staple is, at its root, a failed anti-vice experiment that accidentally became candy."Part of a balanced breakfast" and "the most important meal of the day" aren't dietician wisdom — the latter was minted by a 1944 Kellogg's ad campaign and simply repeated until it felt like science. The health halo around cereal was written by marketers, not doctors.Nutritionally, sugary cereal is equivalent to ice cream — some brands run north of 50% sugar with barely any protein or fiber. It spikes your blood sugar, leaves you hungry an hour later, and was engineered to be sold to six-year-olds parked in front of Saturday cartoons.Cereal stays cheap and unchallenged for a reason: corn is America's most subsidized crop — $9.3 billion in 2024 — and a phrase like "high in fiber" has no legal definition. Subsidies quietly fund the sugar while toothless FTC rules protect the claims on the box.The fix is refreshingly doable: treat cereal as an occasional treat, not a daily staple. Hunt down low-sugar or protein options, swap milk for Greek yogurt, or lean on eggs, oats and fruit. Give a better habit a month; small morning choices compound into real quality of life.Connect with Jordan on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. If you have something you'd like us to tackle here on Skeptical Sunday, drop Jordan a line at jordan@jordanharbinger.com and let him know!And if you're still game to support us, please leave a review here — even one sentence helps! Sign up for Six-Minute Networking — our free networking and relationship development mini course — at jordanharbinger.com/course!Subscribe to our once-a-week Wee Bit Wiser newsletter today and start filling your Wednesdays with wisdom!Do you even Reddit, bro? Join us at r/JordanHarbinger!This Episode Is Brought To You By Our Fine Sponsors: The Cybersecurity Tapes: Listen here: thecybersecuritytapes.comSimpliSafe: 50% off + 1st month free: simplisafe.com/jordanThe Perfect Jean: 15% off first order: theperfectjean.nyc, code JORDAN15Whatnot: <a href="https://www.whatnot.com/sell" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_b
- 1 weeks ago1h 31m
1358: Pleased to Report: Pervert-in-Law Goes to Court | Feedback Friday
Remember the hidden-camera blackmailer from episodes 796 and 949? Three years later, our friend finally faces him at sentencing. It's Feedback Friday!And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger (@JordanHarbinger) and Gabriel Mizrahi (@GabeMizrahi) banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week! If you want us to answer your question, register your feedback, or tell your story on one of our upcoming weekly Feedback Friday episodes, drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com. Now let's dive in!Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1358On This Week's Feedback Friday:You've planned a dream beach week with your granddaughters — until your daughter's mother-in-law demands every visit be split exactly 50/50, and your son-in-law won't budge. This is a woman who naps in your bed, claims the best rooms, and once branded your tenant a predator. Do you shorten the trip, or hold the line?Your devout parents called science "the devil's work," steered you away from the stars, then stuck you with half the loans for the degree they pushed instead. Now — at 31 — you learn they'd hidden a birth defect that explains a lifetime of illness they wrote off as hypochondria. Do you cut them off, or something else?Your favorite host preaches "document, document, document" — but can you actually record someone without their consent? You've cooked up some clever workarounds: a hidden eavesdropper, a secret recording handed to a "witness" who'll swear they were there. Which of your schemes is legal, and which one gets you cuffed?Recommendation of the Week: Danner Boots — Jordan laced up some rugged, resole-it-forever footwear from this company (not a sponsor) and wanted to share his experience.Three years ago, your brother-in-law secretly filmed you and used the footage to extort you for sex (as chronicled in episodes 796 and 949). Your sister stayed with him; your mother turned on you. Now, after a dozen court dates and a moment frozen behind a courthouse pillar, you finally face him at sentencing. What does the judge say, and what does justice actually cost? [Thanks yet again to attorney Corbin Payne for helping us with this one!]Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com!Connect with Jordan on Twitter at @JordanHarbinger and Instagram at @jordanharbinger.Connect with Gabriel on Twitter at @GabeMizrahi and Instagram @gabrielmizrahi.And if you're still game to support us, please leave a review here — even one sentence helps! <
- 2 weeks ago1h 31m
1357: Dr. William Li | Working with Your Body to Beat Disease Naturally
Stage four to stage zero is now possible. Dr. William Li, author of Eat to Beat Disease, explains how your body works to beat cancer and other anomalies.Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1357What We Discuss with Dr. William Li:You probably have cancer right now — and that's normal. Your 40 trillion cells copy-paste daily, mistakes happen, and microscopic tumors form constantly. Health isn't the absence of disease, but your defenses catching those errors before they matter.The "war on cancer" framing is a WWII hand-me-down — chemo traces back to leaked mustard gas. Contrarily, Dr. William Li believes we should stop napalming the body and raise its shields instead. Immunotherapy and custom cancer vaccines are now taking some patients from stage four to stage zero.Your body runs five defenses: angiogenesis, stem cells, the microbiome, DNA repair, immunity. But more isn't necessarily better — for instance, too many blood vessels feed tumors and cause blindness. The body wants a Goldilocks amount, growing and pruning constantly. Disease is these systems slipping.Before you inject that gray-market peptide: the biology may be real, but "not ready for prime time" means unknown dose, no oversight, and possible contamination. Dr. Li calls it Breaking Bad biology. One supplier's "mushrooms" tested as 90% dyed sawdust. Buyer beware.The empowering part: food is information, not magic. Cruciferous vegetables deliver sulforaphane that unmasks tumor-suppressor genes; fiber feeds gut bacteria that dial down inflammation and even nudge your own GLP-1. Master the fundamentals — sleep, plants, gut — before chasing biohacks.And much more...And if you're still game to support us, please leave a review here — even one sentence helps! Sign up for Six-Minute Networking — our free networking and relationship development mini course — at jordanharbinger.com/course!Subscribe to our once-a-week Wee Bit Wiser newsletter today and start filling your Wednesdays with wisdom!Do you even Reddit, bro? Join us at r/JordanHarbinger!This Episode Is Brought To You By Our Fine Sponsors: Article: Visit article.com/jordan for $50 off your first purchase of $100 or moreBetterHelp: 10% off first month: betterhelp.com/jordanBoll & Branch: 15% off first set of sheets: bollandbranch.com, code JORDANChime: Open an account in two minutes: chime.com/jhsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
- 2 weeks ago1h 0m
1356: Tipflation | Skeptical Sunday
We've hit peak tip fatigue. Michael Regilio is here to explain how a century of tipping led us here — and how it can be remedied — on Skeptical Sunday!Welcome to Skeptical Sunday, a special edition of The Jordan Harbinger Show where Jordan and a guest break down a topic that you may have never thought about, open things up, and debunk common misconceptions. This time around, we’re joined by skeptic, comedian, and podcaster Michael Regilio!Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1356On This Week's Skeptical Sunday:Tipping wasn't born of kindness — it was born of swagger. In Tudor England, the wealthy pressed coins on servants to broadcast their status, a little "I'm above you" rendered in currency. From day one, the gratuity signaled hierarchy, not good service.After the Civil War, employers dodged paying newly freed Black workers by letting customers "tip" instead. Pullman porters lived almost entirely on gratuities. Tipping became a tidy loophole for keeping labor nearly free.The federal tipped minimum wage is $2.13 an hour, frozen since 1996. Servers can take home paychecks reading zero dollars, the tips quietly doing all the heavy lifting the law politely declines to.By retiring the old 15% option and anchoring you at 18-22-25% during the on-screen payment process, it nudges your brain toward "generous" before the food even exists. It's behavioral economics, weaponized into a swivel screen that watches you decide.Nobody actually likes this system, which makes it ripe for change. Europe proves restaurants flourish without it. So aim your energy at fair-wage policies rather than the person holding the iPad — they didn't build this maze, they're just surviving it.Connect with Jordan on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. If you have something you'd like us to tackle here on Skeptical Sunday, drop Jordan a line at jordan@jordanharbinger.com and let him know!Connect with Michael Regilio at Twitter, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, and YouTube, and check out War Bar, his comedy special!And if you're still game to support us, please leave a review here — even one sentence helps! Sign up for Six-Minute Networking — our free networking and relationship development mini course — at jordanharbinger.com/course!Subscribe to our once-a-week Wee Bit Wiser newsletter today and start filling your Wednesdays with wisdom!Do you even Reddit, bro? Join us at r/JordanHarbinger!This Episode Is Brought To You By Our Fine Sponsors:
- 2 weeks ago1h 22m
1355: Making Kids Aware of Genetic Risks They Share | Feedback Friday
A rare drug reaction unraveled your mind — twice. Your grown kids know nothing of what runs in their blood. Tell them, or wait? Welcome to Feedback Friday!And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger (@JordanHarbinger) and Gabriel Mizrahi (@GabeMizrahi) banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week! If you want us to answer your question, register your feedback, or tell your story on one of our upcoming weekly Feedback Friday episodes, drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com. Now let's dive in!Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1355On This Week's Feedback Friday:If you want to take a quick plane ride across the sea of Jordan’s reflections on China during his month-long trip there, you can jump to about 30 minutes, five seconds. Sheh-sheh, and enjoy!You've wrestled inflammatory conditions your whole life, until a teenage steroid reaction detonated into psychosis. Years later, a manic episode nearly made you the accidental CEO of Best Buy. Now your kids are young adults, and you're sitting on a medical history you've never breathed a word of. Do you tell them, or wait for fate to force your hand?10-plus years married, two kids, a well-oiled co-parenting machine, but behind closed doors, the romance flatlined years ago. Then a woman at a Vegas conference lit up something long dormant, and the texts have drifted from casual to dangerously deep. Is "emotional cheating" even real — and is this connection, or just a mirage?Recommendation of the Week: Use this prompt (courtesy of listener Ben) with your AI of choice to prepare for layoffs and/or a job search.You fired off a newsletter with the subject line "Saw your name in the Epstein files" — a wink, a test, a point about curiosity owing its audience real substance. Most readers howled with laughter. A furious few grabbed pitchforks. What does the split reaction — and the open-rate data — quietly reveal about how we choose to engage?Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com!Connect with Jordan on Twitter at @JordanHarbinger and Instagram at @jordanharbinger.Connect with Gabriel on Twitter at @GabeMizrahi and Instagram @gabrielmizrahi.And if you're still game to support us, please leave a review here — even one sentence helps! Sign up for Six-Minute Networking — our free networking and relationship development mini course — at jordanharbinger.com/course!Subscribe to our once-a-week Wee Bit Wiser newsletter today and start filling your Wednesdays with wisdom!Do you even Reddit, bro? Join us at r/JordanHarbinger!This Episode Is Brought To You By Our Fine Sponsors: Bet
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