1406: Chase Forbidden Fruit or Stick with the Galoot? | Feedback Friday

This episode is brought to you by Zero. That's Zero with an X. Running a small business and managing your finances shouldn't make your day more complicated. Learn more at zero.com. Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with Feedback Friday producer, the detachable European handheld shower wand, to my American stationary shower head, helping me get into all your existential nooks and crannies, Gabriel Mizrahi. I never use that handheld shower thing. I just leave it in the clampy thing and I shower like a goddamn American. Same. I don't wanna have to do more work in the shower. Just let gravity do the job. Come on. That's right. So undignified, the detachable shower head. It feels like you're power washing a car or something, like hosing down a dog. Uh, not for me. I'm a human with a faucet, not a golden retriever that just

Dashed through some mud flats. That's right. Yeah, I mean it is like a car washer. You can in that you can get your undercarriage, but Glad to know Berlin hasn't taken your Yankee card, Gabe. Thank goodness. On the Jordan Harbinger Show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's most fascinating people. 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, former cult members, former jihadis, current gold smugglers and astronauts, I guess former astronauts because they're They're not usually in space when we interview them. This week we had Alex Davies, author of Kobuk The Destroyer, and other tales from the wild unseen world of test engineering. This is a a well, frankly, an unseen world most of us don't know about. We discussed the hidden work that keeps the modern world going safely and dependably, and how human ingenuity allows us to combat uncertainty and create reliability in a very fragile world. In other words, how we test products and make sure they don't kill us. Really cool and occasionally terrifying conversation.

We also had an episode with Steven Bridges. He's a card counter. So essentially he robs casinos for a living. Really interesting guy. We talked about card counting. Getting kicked out of casinos, how they can't just recognize him with facial recognition, of course all the disguises and tricks he uses to get around it. Really interesting conversation here on the show. We also had a skeptical Sunday last Sunday on restaurant food. On Fridays, though, we take listener letters, offer advice, play obnoxious sound bites, and compare ourselves to various international plumbing solutions. I hear we have a very full Deuce Cruise today, so let's get right to it. Gabe, what is the first thing out of the mailbag? Dear Gabe, intuitive boy number one, and Jordan, Judicious Defender number one. Ooh, new nicknames. New nicknames just dropped.

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