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Jordan and Gabe host Feedback Friday from different locations, with Jordan calling in from a hotel in China. They share colorful stories from Jordan's travels in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, including a Lego store encounter and an unconventional pedicure experience. The main episodes tackle two heavy listener questions: a man recovering from being drugged, robbed, and sexually assaulted in Colombia, and a woman navigating how to support a colleague struggling with alcoholism while maintaining professional boundaries.
Jordan's China Adventures: Legos, Pedicures, and Dystopian Cityscapes
Jordan shares entertaining and bizarre stories from his recent trip to Hong Kong and Shenzhen with his wife Jen. From encountering a tough Frenchman desperate for the last Batman Lego set to getting an aggressive medical pedicure involving razor blades and Dremels, Jordan paints a vivid picture of modern China's contradictions. He describes a place where drone delivery of McDonald's coexists with chaos on the streets, and gleaming skyscrapers tower over empty apartment blocks that were never meant to be inhabited.
- Jordan is recording from a mediocre hotel floor in China while Gabe calls in remotely
- Jordan visits a Lego store and nearly buys an Arkham Asylum set until a desperate French man wanted it badly
- Jordan gets an unconventional pedicure in China where they use massive razor blades and Dremels to remove toenail fungus without gloves
- During the procedure, a chunk of infected toenail flies into the technician's eye, and another worker blows into his eye to remove it
- Shenzhen features drone delivery, massive LED building advertisements, and electric scooters illegally zooming down sidewalks
- Shenzhen was a fishing village 30 years ago and now has over 20 million people
- Many apartment complexes in China are completely empty - built as investments but never inhabited, creating ghost neighborhoods
" There is no distance that can stop us from Lydia-ing our show, fam. "
" C'est la grosse merde. Like really serious. "
" These were one thousand percent for him. And he had probably come to the mall specifically to get that set. "
" It lands in his eye and he goes off. And then he like says something in Chinese. And then another, he's like trying to rub it and it's not coming out because it's like this, and it's this big chunk of like infected toenail that's in his eye. "
" You're walking on the sidewalk and there's a Chinese DoorDash guy, Meituan guy, just running over small children with no helmet on, going 30 miles an hour down a pedestrian sidewalk because they're living in the future, but also there's just, it's pure chaos. "
Recovering from Assault and Theft in Colombia
A mid-30s man shares his devastating experience of being drugged with scopolamine, sexually assaulted, and robbed after inviting someone from a dating app to his hotel room in Colombia. After losing 48-60 hours of memory, he discovered that the perpetrator had stolen $30,000-32,000 by using his face to unlock his phone and disable security features. Despite having extensive documentation, Chase and SoFi refused to reverse the debit card charges. Now living with family and struggling with trauma, he seeks advice on recovering his money, finding support groups, and rebuilding his life.
- The writer was in Colombia for three weeks with a friend when he made the mistake of inviting someone from Grindr to his hotel at 3 AM
- He was drugged with what appears to be scopolamine after doing a line of cocaine, leaving him incapacitated but conscious
- He has no memory of the next 48-60 hours and was sexually assaulted during this time
- The perpetrator used his face to unlock his phone, disabled security, changed Face ID, and stole $30,000-32,000
- Chase and SoFi denied his fraud claims, stating that biometric authentication proved he authorized the transactions
- Banks refuse to reverse debit charges even when asked if video evidence of theft would matter
- He's now unemployed, living with difficult family members, and struggling to apply for jobs due to trauma
" After chatting with a guy on Grindr for a little while, I invited him over to my hotel. It was about three in the morning at this point. "
" I was then raped by this man. "
" While I was incapacitated, they used my face to unlock my phone, disable all security functions, and change face ID to their face. "
" They said no. At this point, I felt completely defeated. "
" Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness. "
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