1350: Survived the Service, But Mom Makes Him Nervous | Feedback Friday

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 jack-knifed 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 Friedlin. 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.

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