• 1 hour 24 minutes
    1413: Attia Qureshi | Master Big Negotiations by Practicing Small Ones

    From cartel bosses to cranky neighbors, Attia Qureshi explains how to build negotiation muscle memory in 30 seconds a day — before the stakes get high.

    Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1413

    What We Discuss with Attia Qureshi:

    • How Attia stood up to a cartel-linked boss derailing a Colombian farming cooperative with a drone, and why showing strength works against bad-faith actors while relational negotiation that meets everyone’s needs wins the other 95 percent of the time.
    • Why small, no-strings gestures of reciprocity (like a box of cherries) can thaw even a hostile relationship and pave the way for a big ask — and the simple test that separates influence from manipulation: would they be upset if you told them exactly what you were doing?
    • Why the “conqueror mentality” and worst-case-scenario thinking keep so many of us from ever making the ask — like the client who took on two promotions’ worth of responsibility over 18 months without getting the title or raise to match.
    • What makes knowing the other side’s interests the silver bullet of any negotiation, how to uncover them by voicing tentative guesses and asking where you’re wrong, and why making two offers you’d happily accept reveals what they value most.
    • How to train negotiation like the performance skill it is: practice one technique for 30 seconds a day where a no won’t wreck your day, recruit a buddy for accountability, and escalate deliberate rejection from off-menu orders to discount asks to haggling at a car dealership.
    • And much more...

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    12 November 2026, 8:00 am
  • 5 minutes 27 seconds
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    12 November 2026, 7:00 am
  • 1 hour 41 minutes
    1412: Leo Mann | Don't Sign That Contract Before You Listen to This

    Four seconds of awkwardness or $7,000 in regret? Lawyer Leo Mann reveals how to spot (and strike) contract traps before you sign on the dotted line.

    Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1412

    What We Discuss with Leo Mann:

    • Why the most boring, “standard” contract language is often the most dangerous — and how four stacked psychological traps (social awkwardness, a decision that feels already made, the authority gap, and manufactured confusion) keep smart people from reading what they sign.
    • How a salesperson’s verbal promises can vanish the moment you sign, thanks to integration (or merger) clauses — and why anything you were told out loud needs to be written into the contract before your pen ever touches the paper.
    • What employees should know about invention assignment agreements and non-competes — from listing preexisting side projects (even ideas) on the PIIA schedule to negotiating more consideration, a shorter term, and a narrower scope.
    • How car dealerships make most of their money in the finance room through stretched loan terms, pricey add-ons, and fake deadlines — and why negotiating price, trade-in, down payment, and financing separately (or bringing your own financing) keeps them honest.
    • How a 20-minute contract audit can save you thousands: search for words like “automatically,” “terminate,” and “reserve the right to,” calendar every cancellation deadline, and remember that almost any term is negotiable if you’re willing to ask — or walk away.
    • And much more...

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    10 November 2026, 8:00 am
  • 1 hour 16 minutes
    1411: Banned Books | Skeptical Sunday

    On this Skeptical Sunday, Nick Pell reads between the lines of banned book lists to show how outrage moves units — and what real censorship looks like.

    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

    Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1411

    On This Week's Skeptical Sunday:

    • Why most so-called banned books aren’t banned at all — they’ve been challenged, moved to another shelf, or pulled from a school, yet remain on Amazon. No US book has faced a legality trial since Naked Lunch in 1966, while the Bible is outlawed in nearly 60 countries.
    • How underground cartoonist Mike Diana became a rare modern exception: convicted in Florida in 1994 over his comic zine Boiled Angel, barred from drawing anything obscene even for himself, and subjected to warrantless searches — yet his work never appears on banned-book displays.
    • Why the real fight is over who decides what kids read: Florida’s laws let residents without kids challenge school library books, which are often pulled during review, while the Supreme Court’s Pico ruling says schools can’t remove books simply for the ideas they contain.
    • How the old banned in Boston effect still sells books: a challenge lifts a title’s public library circulation by about 12%, Maus hit #1 on Amazon after being challenged in Tennessee, and marketers have long staged protests to make readers crave forbidden fruit.
    • How to read between the lines: check whether a banned book is actually unavailable, save your outrage for real censorship like the death threats against Salman Rushdie, read troubling books to understand and counter their ideas, and turn controversies into age-appropriate talks with kids.
    • 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 [email protected] and let him know!

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    8 November 2026, 8:00 am
  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    1410: Age-Gap Beau Wins Over Dad; His Kids Still Mad | Feedback Friday

    Love won over your skeptical dad, but his adult kids still treat you like an interloper. Is it about you, or the inheritance? 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 [email protected]. Now let's dive in!

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    On This Week's Feedback Friday:

    • A year and a half ago, you were torn between your older Australian boyfriend and a family convinced it was all daddy issues, so you wrote us for some advice (episode 1187). Now you’re back with an update involving a courtroom, a secret house, and one very surprising convert — but his kids are still icing you out. Can the last holdouts ever be won over?
    • You keep 100 greenhouses running by day, and in your off-hours you’ve built a working prototype that solves one of the industry’s most nagging problems. A friend could help you sell it, but the business side is a total mystery. LLC, patent, contracts — what do you actually need, and when do you need it?
    • Four months ago, a company snapped you up with a 50%-plus raise for your niche skills — then filled your role with contractors who know things you don’t. Now you’re stuck on vague “pathfinder” tasks and bracing for a termination letter. Should you retrain, take a pay cut, or is there a smarter move?
    • Recommendation of the Week: Only the Lonely — Gabe’s YouTube find, a short documentary by Violet Du Feng that follows young men in China, including a delivery driver, trying to find love in a country with far more men than women. Why did it leave Jordan feeling both heartbroken and riveted?
    • It’s 2006, and Jordan has freshly arrived in New York. He points out a stop to a subway rider with a paper map and two huge cases, who snaps that he’s a local. Jordan keeps chatting anyway — and that weekend, he winds up hauling audio gear into a jaw-dropping upstate estate for a 90th birthday party. So who's playing?
    • Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at [email protected]!
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    6 November 2026, 8:00 am
  • 1 hour 21 minutes
    1409: Lindsay Owens | How Your Own Data Is Used to Overcharge You

    Gouged author Lindsay Owens explains how corporate America reinvented the ripoff with algorithms and surveillance pricing, and how shoppers can fight back.

    Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1409

    What We Discuss with Lindsay Owens:

    • How price-fixing went digital. RealPage software allegedly let landlords share sensitive data and follow the same rent recommendations, complete with a hard price floor, a soft ceiling, and advice to leave units empty rather than offer discounts.
    • What happened when 400+ shoppers filled identical 23-item Instacart carts at the same stores. 75% of items varied in price from person to person, by as much as 23%, and the average 7% gap costs a family of four roughly $1,200 a year.
    • Why surveillance pricing, which taps your location, device, purchase history, clicks, and even what you confess to AI shopping agents, doesn’t just soak the rich — it monetizes urgency, like a sick kid, a funeral flight, or a last-minute prom dress.
    • How repair locks on everything from McFlurry machines to John Deere tractors create a daisy chain of price gouging on purchases, parts, labor, and replacements — and why threatening to void your warranty over third-party repair is illegal.
    • How to fight back by turning the experiment around: compare prices logged in vs. out, in the app vs. on the website vs. in store, and with or without loyalty cards. Have friends check the same fare, limit tracking, and speak up — backlash made Coke and Instacart retreat.
    • And much more...

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    5 November 2026, 8:00 am
  • 1 hour 18 minutes
    1408: Patric Gagne | How a "Sociopath" Decides Right from Wrong

    Forget Hannibal Lecter. Sociopath author Patric Gagne shares what secondary psychopathy really looks like — and why it’s more treatable than we think.

    Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1408

    What We Discuss with Patric Gagne:

    • Psychopathy is a spectrum, and “sociopath” is clinically obsolete. Patric’s diagnosis is now called secondary psychopathy. Unlike rare primary psychopaths, secondary psychopaths feel hardwired emotions and can learn social ones like empathy, guilt, and shame, so treatment is possible.
    • As a kid, Patric learned that admitting she didn’t feel guilt got her in trouble, so she learned to mask and lie — not out of malice, but survival. Her acting out, from stealing a barrette to stabbing a bully with a pencil, was about releasing building pressure, not causing pain.
    • Punishment doesn’t work on psychopathic kids or adults — they’ll just find another way. Re-socialization does: reverse emotional instruction by making it about the child first (hit Susie and you can’t go to the pool), then build empathy for others from that understanding of self.
    • Patric rejects the idea that morality only counts if it comes from the heart. She makes good choices through logic — her kids’ wellbeing, the cost of prison, the bandwidth lying burns — and argues emotion-driven morality can justify almost anything, as crimes of passion show.
    • Stuck in a destructive loop? Borrow Patric’s CBT approach — journal the beliefs driving it and ask, “Is this really true?” Find your money, drinking, or anxiety story, name your demons, and catch the sequence early. Many beliefs are just echoes of childhood lessons you’re free to unlearn.
    • And much more...

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    3 November 2026, 8:00 am
  • 1 hour 22 minutes
    1407: Paging Hezbollah | Out of the Loop

    How do you get your enemy to buy its own bomb? Paging Hezbollah filmmaker Justin Folk brings 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. Filmmaker Justin Folk, whose documentary Paging Hezbollah reconstructs Israel’s exploding-pager operation, is here to help us understand how Mossad got Hezbollah to buy, distribute, and carry its own booby-trapped pagers, how everything from the alert tone to the sales pitch was engineered to work, and how the operation weakened Hezbollah and Iran’s wider network.

    Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1407

    What We Discuss with Justin Folk on This Episode of Out of the Loop:

    • How Israel got Hezbollah to buy, distribute, and willingly carry the very weapon used against it, and why Hezbollah’s own fear of Israeli cellphone surveillance created the vulnerability Mossad exploited.
    • Why Mossad reportedly reduced the explosive charge to maim rather than kill — reasoning that dead fighters become martyrs, while thousands of visibly injured ones become walking warnings and a lasting drain on medical resources.
    • What Mossad learned by having its own people carry test pagers and filming how they reacted, which led to a louder, more irritating alert and firmware requiring two buttons pressed at once to read the message.
    • How Mossad licensed Taiwan’s Gold Apollo brand, hired the sales manager Hezbollah already trusted, and built a fake company convincing enough to survive due diligence by an organization that assumed Israel was trying to penetrate everything it did.
    • Why even the most sophisticated technology still depends on understanding people — a familiar salesperson, a desirable product, and habits nobody thinks about. Notice which of your own routines run on autopilot, and you’ll make wiser choices about whom and what you trust.
    • And much more!
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    1 November 2026, 7:00 am
  • 1 hour 26 minutes
    1406: Chase Forbidden Fruit or Stick with the Galoot? | Feedback Friday

    He’s your best friend, but the spark’s long gone. Do you open the relationship to save it, or are you just postponing goodbye? 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 [email protected]. Now let's dive in!

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    On This Week's Feedback Friday:

    • You’re nearing 40 and 12 years in with a loving boyfriend — but seven months without intimacy, his nightly couch-and-booze routine, and your growing urge to explore women and the wider world have you eyeing an open relationship. Can you raise it without blowing everything up, or is the real question bigger?
    • Your sister rented your L.A. condo to a tenant who turned out to be a serial squatter armed with fake bank statements and borrowed identities. Six months, a trashed condo, and $25,000 in unpaid rent later, you want her held accountable. Is there a real path to justice, or any hope of seeing that money again?
    • Years after your breakup, your ex and his parents are still family — daily chats, a group text, the works. But your serious new boyfriend has no idea, and they don’t know about him either. With marriage on the horizon, how do you come clean without making the whole thing look far shadier than it is?
    • Recommendation of the Week: Big Brother: North Korea’s Forgotten Prince — a podcast on Kim Jong-nam, the eldest son once groomed to rule North Korea, and the brazen airport assassination that ended his exile. How does the heir to a dictatorship end up a target in a crowded terminal?
    • A few months ago, your life collapsed all at once — marriage, job, house, health, even your dog and your car. Now you’re back with one final update after a gauntlet of interviews, rejections, assessments, and maddening waiting. So where did all that rubble lead, and what did you learn about rebuilding?
    • Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at [email protected]!
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    30 October 2026, 7:00 am
  • 1 hour 37 minutes
    1405: Steven Bridges | How a Card Counter Learned to Beat the Odds

    Card counter Steven Bridges reveals how to beat blackjack legally, dodge casino surveillance, and why playing perfectly can still cost you a fortune.

    Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1405

    What We Discuss with Steven Bridges:

    • How card counting actually works — not by memorizing cards, but by keeping a running point tally to spot when the remaining shoe favors the player, then betting big on those waves for a slim one to five percent edge over the house.
    • Why you can play perfectly and still lose a fortune. With such a thin edge, counters need hundreds of hours to reach the long run, and Steven’s team once won $97,000 in Vegas only to lose $110,000 right after.
    • What casino surveillance looks for, and how Steven buys extra time at the table with movie-quality fake teeth, bruises, tattoos, code-word team play, and the paradoxical trick of blending in by standing out.
    • Why Steven, a professional gambler, detests how casinos operate — from staff ignoring a drunk player who couldn’t stack his chips to a 77-year-old woman left gambling for over 24 hours without food or sleep.
    • How to judge your decisions by process rather than outcome. A good choice can lose money and a bad one can pay off, so understand the downside, respect variance, and never let one lucky win convince you that you’ve outsmarted the game.
    • And much more...

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    29 October 2026, 7:00 am
  • 1 hour 39 minutes
    1404: Alex Davies | The Grizzly Truth About How Safety Gets Tested

    Alex Davies explains why "user error" often hides a design failure, and how testers — from grizzlies to toddlers — keep the modern world from breaking.

    Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1404

    What We Discuss with Alex Davies:

    • How Kobuk the Destroyer, an orphaned grizzly at a Montana bear sanctuary, became the gold standard for certifying products as bear-resistant — and why a wild bear named Yellow-Yellow still cracked canisters that had passed the test.
    • Why every good test must balance real-world similarity against repeatability, and how the de Havilland Comet’s earlier maximum-pressure test unknowingly strengthened its test fuselage, producing false confidence before the jets began exploding midair.
    • What the factor of safety means for airplane wings (1.5), steel mill cranes, and elevator hoist cables (11 or 12), and why these margins are negotiated compromises rather than numbers handed down on stone tablets.
    • How shifting from “user error” to “use error” — redesigning B-17 landing-gear buttons, morphine pump interfaces, and table saws like SawStop — beats warning labels, which sit at the very bottom of the safety hierarchy.
    • How to borrow a product tester’s mindset: ask what mistake your setup is counting on you never making, then change it so that mistake is harder to make or less costly when it happens — because “I’ll just be more careful” is a terrible safety feature.
    • And much more...


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    27 October 2026, 7:00 am
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