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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.
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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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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
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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.
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If you like exploring how great companies are actually built, I recommend checking out the Leap Forward podcast. Hosted by entrepreneur David Rusenko, it is a great show for our listeners who want to hear the founders of AirBnb, Reddit, Twitch and others together with the people who knew them before their success.

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