The Jordan Harbinger Show

If you read the book that holds in there

there's a lot of videos about this to talk about loan sharking and if people didn't pay what he would do is either steal their car or he would put a sternocan underneath the car

This is a fun book

he mentions this in his book

he told a story in his book about finding eighty bales of marijuana floating

And he's the co-author of Gangster Redemption: How America's Most Notorious Jewel Robber Got Rich, Got Caught, and Got His Life Back on Track.

Recommendation of the Week: Operation Toussaint

it's about undercover activities of an elite team of former U.S. law enforcement officers whose sole mission is to track down human traffickers and put an end to child slavery and child prostitution and it's really interesting it's on Amazon Prime video

this guy he was a Homeland Security officer I think FBI and a pastor's son got kidnapped in Haiti and he was a U.S. citizen so he called and said I need help finding my son and this guy decided to fly down to Haiti and look for his son he quit his job as an FBI agent because he kept looking for this guy's son and every time he'd follow up a lead he'd find like 28 kids working in some weird brothel or being sold and he's like every time I follow up a lead I'm just finding more and more nightmare scenarios so my work down here is really fruitful and he's freed thousands of kids from being sold across overseas it's crazy there's whole orphanages there in Haiti and all over the world honestly where kids are just for sale you can just buy them and smuggling out of the country and the people who are there they just don't seem to care what the kids are used for and I think I think it's pretty obvious what a lot of the kids are used for because if you want to adopt somebody you just adopt them right I don't think you buy them for 10 grand so it's really really sad but it's a really interesting look at this underground industry and what a team of really good do-gooders are doing to combat it and I think it's just a fascinating movie operation to sample

Recommendation of the Week: Operation Toussaint

it's about undercover activities of an elite team of former U.S. law enforcement officers whose sole mission is to track down human traffickers and put an end to child slavery and child prostitution and it's really interesting it's on Amazon Prime video

this guy he was a Homeland Security officer I think FBI and a pastor's son got kidnapped in Haiti and he was a U.S. citizen so he called and said I need help finding my son and this guy decided to fly down to Haiti and look for his son he quit his job as an FBI agent because he kept looking for this guy's son and every time he'd follow up a lead he'd find like 28 kids working in some weird brothel or being sold and he's like every time I follow up a lead I'm just finding more and more nightmare scenarios so my work down here is really fruitful and he's freed thousands of kids from being sold across overseas it's crazy there's whole orphanages there in Haiti and all over the world honestly where kids are just for sale you can just buy them and smuggling out of the country and the people who are there they just don't seem to care what the kids are used for and I think I think it's pretty obvious what a lot of the kids are used for because if you want to adopt somebody you just adopt them right I don't think you buy them for 10 grand so it's really really sad but it's a really interesting look at this underground industry and what a team of really good do-gooders are doing to combat it and I think it's just a fascinating movie operation to sample link that in the show notes it's on Amazon Prime Video

I think it's really cool how you framed the book about African American slavery in the United States.

I always recommend these things yes Amazon Prime yeah and it's called Operation Tucson or Toussaint my French is not existence so I'm not totally sure how that goes.

it's told there about then what happens how we go after these guys and and what happens but it was crazy but that's what it's like working in a country like Haiti you know.

Recommendation of the Week: Operation Toussaint

it's on Amazon Prime video

it's about undercover activities of an elite team of former U.S. law enforcement officers whose sole mission is to track down human traffickers and put an end to child slavery and child prostitution and it's really interesting

this guy he was a Homeland Security officer I think FBI and a pastor's son got kidnapped in Haiti and he was a U.S. citizen so he called and said I need help finding my son and this guy decided to fly down to Haiti and look for his son he quit his job as an FBI agent because he kept looking for this guy's son and every time he'd follow up a lead he'd find like 28 kids working in some weird brothel or being sold and he's like every time I follow up a lead I'm just finding more and more nightmare scenarios so my work down here is really fruitful and he's freed thousands of kids from being sold across overseas it's crazy there's whole orphanages there in Haiti and all over the world honestly where kids are just for sale you can just buy them and smuggling out of the country and the people who are there they just don't seem to care what the kids are used for and I think I think it's pretty obvious what a lot of the kids are used for because if you want to adopt somebody you just adopt them right I don't think you buy them for 10 grand so it's really really sad but it's a really interesting look at this underground industry and what a team of really good do-gooders are doing to combat it and I think it's just a fascinating movie

You've heard me say that a lot, there's a book by that title, it's really catchy, so you know it's true.

you got to Dig the Well Before You Get Thirsty you've heard me say that a lot there's a book by that title it's really catchy so you know it's true

I think that's a book title by this guy who don't wanna say like Harvey McHugh some sort of self-helpy type dude from the 90s. Dig the Well Before You Get Thirsty and I say that a lot because you can't really make relationships when you need them.

you got to Dig the Well Before You Get Thirsty you've heard me say that a lot there's a book by that title it's really catchy so you know it's true

This is one of the scariest books I've read in a long time.

The book is called Stealth War, what does this mean in the context of China?

The book a lot of people will think it's alarmist and think it's sensationalist, I assume that you don't agree with that.

I outlined this in the book, a relationship that I started while I was at the council and foreign relations with a guy that had a hedge fund invested in China.

This is a deliberate plan and according to your book Stealth War, you've seen these plans with your own eyes.

Robert Spalding whom you've interviewed before he mentioned in his book Stealth Wars that are propellant for how far missiles we are dependent on China for the propellant I'm not sure of the details there I remember this vaguely I think it was an ingredient in part of the propellant and then there were other things like optics night vision there's some sort of rare earth metal that's required that we get from China even though the rest of the item is made in the United States and we can't really do anything without that rare earth metal it won't work the same so they can just simply clamp down on these very rare earth metals these specific ingredients that we need and we've effectively broken the chain because the weak link is this supply chain from China so we can stockpile it all we want but in a protracted conflict that won't matter no

This is one of the scariest books I've read in a long time.

It's still going every single day like I was just out in Silicon Valley and I'm hearing more and more and more and you know just you keep digging and you hope to get to the end of it and you don't.

Yeah it seems like a complete and total bottomless pit of problems and the book is called Stealth War what does this mean in the context of china just a 30,000 foot overview because I of course I've got a ton of specifics here but I think a lot of folks need to understand what we're talking about in general before we kind of dive in.

I loved this book and I loved this discussion.

I read this all weekend Jason and it's it was one of those terrifying things you just can't put down and I am a little worried about how this might go

This is one of the scariest books I've read in a long time.

The whole China trying to get at the edge on everything we have slept on this.

I loved this book and I loved this discussion.

I read this all weekend Jason and it's it was one of those terrifying things you just can't put down.

The book title is Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept.

I have a podcast called After On and which was named after a novel that I wrote a couple of years ago.

I have a podcast called After On and which was named after a novel that I wrote a couple of years ago.

Rob is a long time tech entrepreneur turned tech investor. He basically pioneered music streaming so he founded the company that became Rhapsody Music Service.

author of After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley, and host of the After On Podcast.

I also did almost a thousand hours of research into the question of synthetic biology pandemic vulnerability particularly artificial pathogens and also ways to prevent the next next pandemic whether it's artificial or natural in nature.

I have a podcast called After On, and which was named after a novel that I wrote a couple of years ago.

After reading The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Caban I noticed that one reason contributing to this problem is that the warmth aspect of my behavior is stronger than presence and power.

After reading The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Caban I noticed that one reason contributing to this problem is that the warmth aspect of my behavior is stronger than presence and power.

After reading The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Caban I noticed that one reason contributing to this problem is that the warmth aspect of my behavior is stronger than presence and power.

We interviewed Todd Cashden, that episode coming out in a few weeks and his book, The Upside of Your Dark Side talks about when and when you're in the middle of the day.

This book and this discussion is an interesting counterpoint to the idea that we always have to be positive and happy and why these emotions might actually harm our ability to get things done and achieve the results we want.

What I found really interesting here was that these negative emotions that we're looking at that often we try to surprise actually become more useful than let's just be cheerful and happy all the time.

I love the concept of wholeness because it actually goes against what I think a lot of the self help kind of BS industry and a lot of these personal growth shows books and seminars are teaching which is you got to be happy, you got to be positive all the time and we'll get into that in a second.

You have books that say how to live an anxiety-free life you have books that say how to live a stress-free life how to have happiness for no reason we're offering a revisionist view that's not just meant to be hopeful it's a closer match to the signs it requires and it requires to have a more nuanced view.

We're persuading people to get the best possible outcome in the situation for all parties and what the thing is is that being positive and optimistic is often exactly the opposite of what you need to get the best possible outcome.

We interviewed Todd Cashden that episode coming out in a few weeks and his book, The Upside of Your Dark Side talks about when and when you're in the middle of the day. Talks about when anger is more effective and appropriate and there are there are science behind this stuff.

Today we're talking with Todd Cashin, author of The Upside of Your Dark Side, why being your whole self not just your good self drives success and fulfillment.

This book and this discussion is an interesting counterpoint to the idea that we always have to be positive and happy and why these emotions might actually harm our ability to get things done and achieve the results we want.

I love the concept of wholeness because it actually goes against what I think a lot of the self help kind of BS industry and a lot of these personal growth shows books and seminars are teaching which is you got to be happy, you got to be positive all the time and we'll get into that in a second.

you have books that say how to live an anxiety-free life you have books that say how to live a stress-free life how to have happiness for no reason we're offering a revisionist view that's not just meant to be hopeful it's a closer match to the signs it requires and it requires to have a more nuanced view

So in this way in not avoiding negative emotions we gain emotional agility is kind of what we discussed in the beginning of the show here but we talked about healthier unhealthy emotions a little bit is it beneficial to be labeling emotions as healthier unhealthy right sort of like the anxiety that guilt shame anger a lot of times we label those as unhealthy emotions when really what it sounds like you're saying is there's there are things that are healthy or appropriate for a given situation not healthier unhealthy emotions in a general sense exactly

Let's talk about our friend Tim Ferris you know he wrote the book on learning how to learn in the four hour chef and he had a slightly different way of deconstructing but it had to do with deconstructing and for Tim it was like looking at the 10% of the people who got the most extraordinary results.

So if you believe in the laws of attraction, like the secret the book and you believe in any of these things

I did believe over that time because honestly, I think what kept me alive was thinking of my wife, My daughter I had that one daughter at that time now I have two, and my mom.

You're reading about the secret and you're like I'm just going to manifest all my priorities and my money and it's like wait how did you make yourself make yourself dumber over the last couple of years what happened

you're reading about the secret and you're like I'm just going to manifest all my priorities and my money and it's like wait how did you make yourself

There's no new Alzheimer's drug since 2003.

This is the only disease in the top 10 causes of death with no real treatment whatsoever.

We described in the book that there were 36. We initially identified, it's going to end up being closer to 50, but it's not thousands.

Alzheimer's disease is actually a protective response to multiple different insults.

And as you know by the time you get a diagnosis of full blown Alzheimer's, the underlying process has been going on typically for 20 years or so.

There's no new Alzheimer's drug since 2003. And this is the only disease in the top 10 causes of death with no real treatment whatsoever.

And the reality is we have a situation where everything needs to change. Number one, we should be checking, get a quote, what I call a cognoscopy.

We described in the book that there were 36. We initially identified, it's going to be end up being closer to 50, but it's not thousands. You know, there's a finite, there's dozens of things that contribute to cognitive decline.

And as I mentioned in the book, this big surprise is Alzheimer's disease is actually a protective response to multiple different insults.

And in chapter four I went into all these issues here's how you can give yourself Alzheimer's and I wrote that specifically so that people could see how many of the things that are pro Alzheimer's that they do.

There's no new Alzheimer's drug since 2003.

And this is the only disease in the top 10 causes of death with no real treatment whatsoever.

We described in the book that there were 36. We initially identified, it's going to be end up being closer to 50, but it's not thousands. You know, there's a finite, there's dozens of things that contribute to cognitive decline.

And as you know by the time you get a diagnosis of full blown Alzheimer's, the underlying process has been going on typically for 20 years or so.

And that's why you want to jump on this, get yourself checked out and get on an appropriate program.

Da Vinci code don't write back to us but sorry, that's a terrible book. I read that in college and I thought it was so fascinating and then I was like oh it's not real.

When I was probably 35 and it was just one of the most gut off old childish books I've ever read. I'm like oh are you kidding me? Come on.

Da Vinci code don't write back to us but sorry, that's a terrible book. I read that in college and I thought it was so fascinating and then I was like oh it's not real. When I was probably 35 and it was just one of the most gut off old childish books I've ever read. I'm like oh are you kidding me? Come on.

I just remember going oh my gosh this is all real and now I look back and I'm like I wasn't that young when I thought that was all real.

Da Vinci code don't write back to us but sorry, that's a terrible book.

I read that in college and I thought it was so fascinating and then I was like oh it's not real.

When I was probably 35 and it was just one of the most gut off old childish books I've ever read.

I'm like oh are you kidding me? Come on.

I read Awakened the Giant Within by Tony Robbins and did a bunch of those exercises to figure out what I wanted to do

I still think that Awakened The Giant Within is the best tool I've ever come across at figuring that stuff out.

The way that Tony sets out the questions which is really what it is if horses you to ask yourself why and what it is that you want to feel. What emotions you want to feel and it helps you to figure out what decisions you have to make and then it's about finding the resources.

I read 'Awakened the Giant Within' by Tony Robbins and did a bunch of those exercises to figure out what I wanted to do and then I read 'The Artist's Way' and I did those exercises and that is what broke me through

I still think that 'Awakened the Giant Within' is the best tool I've ever come across at figuring that stuff out.

Well a favorite book could be a question to the heart if you love Harry Potter and I come at you with the first question about Harry Potter that is going straight to your heart

I can't tell you how many rebels have told me that they refuse to read Harry Potter because everybody told them how good it was

I can't tell you how many rebels have told me that they refuse to read Harry Potter because everybody told them how good it was

Neil Strauss went with us on one of our trips he's an author of many huge books including one called The Game which is about pick up artists and mind control experiments it knows all this and he was saying this is like The Game but for running a country with total control wow

Neil Strauss went with us on one of our trips he's an author of many huge books including one called The Game which is about pick up artists and mind control experiments it knows all this and he was saying this is like The Game but for running a country with total control wow and that to me was a bold statement because this is a guy who's studied all this and written the best selling book about it and he's like the whole everything we're doing all the things we're saying is a playbook for how to control peoples what people are thinking and manage perception right

Neil Strauss went with us on one of our trips he's an author of many huge books including one called The Game which is about pick up artists and mind control experiments it knows all this and he was saying this is like The Game but for running a country with total control wow

Ben has written a few excellent books and this latest one takes on historical events and turns them into business lessons especially with respect to culture, corporate culture.

Dan is an OG in this space. If you haven't heard of him, you're going to love this episode and of course if you know who he is, you're going to be excited for this so I won't keep it too much longer.

The first book for predictably rational, you know, I had this version of it that took me a long time.

...imagine you wrote everything on hard copy, you would have kind of a sense of your progression...

...you would probably understand some of the progress in your own thinking...

...in the digital world when we just write on top of other things and there's no history right for the progress of thought, it's much easier to say I should have started here...

the first book for predictably rational you know I had this version of it that took me a long time and they look at it and I had the thought of like why didn't they just write this version to start you know why did we have all the other versions like why can't

imagine you wrote everything on hard copy you would have kind of a sense of your progression

you would probably understand some of the progress in your own thinking

you would say oh I really thought about that example and later on I understood something else and I changed it and so on but in the digital world when we just write on top of other things and there's no history right for the progress of thought it's much easier to say I should have started here

By the way, I read the book, I loved it, and I thought it was really interesting and I thought that your memory for details great.

You say in the book that it's as hard to achieve small goals as bigger ones except larger goals have more significant consequences.

There were many interview tips in the book and one that stood out that I loved was only drop names of people that you know if you like and respect them because you're always being judged on your taste and friends and people.

In the book you mentioned that sometimes contracts deals need to be modified despite what's on the paper to keep everyone whole and to keep things fair and that's the long game that you're talking about playing correct.

The most valuable arm of the business in blackstone is I believe at least according to the book at the time was warehousing.

By the way, I read the book, I loved it, and I thought it was really interesting and I thought that your memory for details great.

You say in the book that it's as hard to achieve small goals as bigger ones except larger goals have more significant consequences.

There were many interview tips in the book and one that stood out that I loved was only drop names of people that you know if you like and respect them because you're always being judged on your taste and friends and people.

in the book you mentioned that sometimes contracts deals need to be modified despite what's on the paper to keep everyone whole and to keep things fair and that's the long game that you're talking about playing correct

the most valuable arm of the business in blackstone is I believe at least according to the book at the time was warehousing

By the way, I read the book, I loved it, and I thought it was really interesting and I thought that your memory for details great.

You say in the book that it's as hard to achieve small goals as bigger ones except larger goals have more significant consequences.

There were many interview tips in the book and one that stood out that I loved was only drop names of people that you know if you like and respect them because you're always being judged on your taste and friends and people.

In the book you mentioned that sometimes contracts deals need to be modified despite what's on the paper to keep everyone whole and to keep things fair and that's the long game that you're talking about playing correct.

The most valuable arm of the business in blackstone is I believe at least according to the book at the time was warehousing.

And there are many people in the world who have a clear idea I have a niece who knows she wants to be an orthopedic surgeon that must be so nice for a long time yeah that must be nice.

So again I am resistant to describing my path as as instructive even though it is instructive to me. And it was very specifically within special effects so I had bounced around I had that sort of a bunch of different careers from assistant animator to graphic designer, freelance graphic design and moved to San Francisco in 1990 and just started working in theater I worked in about 15 different theaters over two or three years.

And it's important I think because a lot of us do overlook those things deliberately or we we dismiss them your idea that obsession is a necessary and healthy ingredient I think is music to a lot of people's ears because a lot of us will get obsessed with something and we just think oh I shouldn't even like this or I shouldn't focus so much on this because this is irrational or there's never nothing's ever going to come out of this I'm just wasting my time even though I can't stop thinking about it exactly.

And the answer is yeah you really should because and this is a specific because of this which is that when your obsessed was something and let's say it's cosplay and you see other people do it you're like I would like to try that not sure that I should because it seems kind of weird and kind of freaky sure it might be in my experience when I went towards that and started to like assemble a costume I realized oh I have this very specific point of view about the kind of costume I want to wear about the character but also about the fidelity to the original and I want to make this really accurate.

But it does segue nicely into this focused passion or this obsession well we dismiss it I think we just I dismissed it and certainly because my my schoolmates were cruel about my passions right so like I was a nerdy kid and the things I liked were nerdy and I didn't share them with my peers because kids can be cruel and I think middle school and high schools where a lot of people learn to subsume those things but our obsessions and the things we can't stop paying attention to whether it's aliens or fan fiction about twilight or dungeons and dragons or whatever it is those obsessions make us vulnerable because they reveal us they're showing people our bellies.

And there are many people in the world who have a clear idea I have a niece who knows she wants to be an orthopedic surgeon that must be so nice for a long time yeah that must be nice.

So it sounds like once you find this thing that you're really into that's where you know okay I can bust my ass doing making this gun over and over.

I think you mentioned in the book that this is where your ideas come from where you start getting engaged with something in passionate about something we often dismiss that because we think we can't do anything about it but it does segue nicely into this focused passion or this obsession

but our obsessions and the things we can't stop paying attention to whether it's aliens or fan fiction about twilight or dungeons and dragons or whatever it is those obsessions make us vulnerable because they reveal us they're showing people our bellies and so to me yeah a lot of people don't pay heed to those things and this book is my permission slip that when you do pay heed to those things that tickle at your head that you can't stop paying attention to that I call secret thrills

I don't finish stuff and as I say in the book I use deadlines all the time to get stuff to a place where it's wearable or usable or demonstrable and that's vital because if I'm left to my own devices I'll just peter away at the tiniest details forever

So again I am resistant to describing my path as as instructive even though it is instructive to me.

And there are many people in the world who have a clear idea I have a niece who knows she wants to be an orthopedic surgeon that must be so nice for a long time yeah that must be nice.

I agree but for me it took me a lot of bouncing around in different industries and different things before I realized and it was very specifically within special effects so I had bounced around I had that sort of a bunch of different careers from assistant animator to graphic designer, freelance graphic design and moved to San Francisco in 1990 and just started working in theater I worked in about 15 different theaters over two or three years.

and this book is my permission slip that when you do pay heed to those things that tickle at your head that you can't stop paying attention to that I call secret thrills in my experience I found myself in those things yeah I found I found it's it was like a secret formula for self actualization self realization it's important I think because a lot of us do overlook those things deliberately or we we dismiss them your idea that obsession is a necessary and healthy ingredient I think is music to a lot of people's ears because a lot of us will get obsessed with something and we just think oh I shouldn't even like this or I shouldn't focus so much on this because this is irrational or there's never nothing's ever going to come out of this I'm just wasting my time even though I can't stop thinking about it exactly

and as I say in the book I use deadlines all the time to get stuff to a place where it's wearable or usable or demonstrable and that's vital because if I'm left to my own devices I'll just peter away at the tiniest details forever