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In this episode of Feedback Friday, Jordan and Gabriel respond to listeners' questions and stories. One listener shares her harrowing experience with her mother's abusive boyfriend, who was repeatedly released from jail due to bail reform laws. Despite the violence and attempts on her mother's life, the system failed to protect the victims. After years of anguish, the boyfriend was eventually sentenced to prison, but the family's trauma persists.
Another listener, battling stage four cancer, seeks advice on navigating student loan debt and private loan companies that deny disability assistance. Jordan and Gabriel offer guidance on prioritizing health, exploring legal options, and potentially crowdfunding or media coverage to shed light on the issue.
The hosts also advise a listener who invented a novelty plastic product. While it serves no functional purpose, it brings laughter. They discuss protecting intellectual property, addressing environmental concerns, and balancing the product's purpose of joy against potential waste.
Key Episodes Takeaways
- Bail reform laws can have unintended consequences of releasing violent offenders who continue to endanger victims.
- Navigating private student loan debt while battling a serious illness like cancer is an immense hardship that may require legal assistance, crowdfunding, or media attention.
- While considering environmental impact is important, a novelty product that brings joy can still have value if its waste is minimized.
- Sometimes you have to accept that you cannot force someone to leave an abusive or self-destructive situation, no matter how much you want to help.
- Maintaining professional boundaries with an authority figure espousing conspiracy theories may be wiser than directly confronting them.
- Jordan and Gabriel demonstrate empathy, pragmatism, and nuanced perspectives when advising listeners on deeply personal struggles.
- The hosts encourage political engagement and systemic change when appropriate to address injustices highlighted by listeners' stories.
- Humor and levity are used to balance the weight of heavy subject matter discussed on the show.
Top Episodes Quotes
- βYou've been dealt a really crappy hand, and you don't deserve it. But in a situation like this, you can only do what you can do, and you keep showing up and you keep taking care of yourself.β by Jordan Harbinger
- βYou can't actually help anyone. You can give it your best shot. But if they don't want help, if they want to live in suffering, even in absurdity, there's absolutely nothing you can do but wait for them to come to you after the worst has happened, if ever.β by The listener
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Episode Information
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
5/3/24
When bail reforms free violent offenders and risk others' safety, how can we uphold justice while safeguarding victims? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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On This Week's Feedback Friday:
- When bail reforms free violent offenders and risk others' safety, how can we uphold justice while safeguarding victims?
- You've about had it with your autistic boss' cringeworthy conspiracy theories. How can you disagree respectfully and maintain professionalism?
- As a cancer patient struggling with massive student loans and disability assistance denial, what legal help and guidance is available for navigating private loan regulations while fighting for survival?
- You've invented a non-functional plastic object that brings laughter to all who behold its absurdity. You want to protect the IP so you can profit from this stroke of comedic novelty, but you can't ignore the potential environmental impact of manufacturing such an item en masse. What should you do?
- Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com!
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