Ian Wants To Learn

GHOSTS!!!!!

Are the Real?

no

But why not listen to why we Think we see them!

00:20: What do you want to learn about today?

01:00: Why Do You Want to Learn this?

04:40: Ian's Alarm Clocks

10:20- Sources

--lazy line notes--

27:00- The Science

30:30- That's Ghosts. Bye

We hope you ALSO learned something, or were at least Entertained!

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DISCLAIMER: We are not Experts. We do not claim to be. We use the internet, just like you! So between raising a child and working a Fulltime job Patrick does his best to teach Ian. So, you know, enjoy it, but maybe don't swear by it!

Essentially: We Google so you don't have to. ENJOY!

A Series of Events.

Systems shutting down. Turning off. Going Dark.

The Great Beyond. Heaven. Hell. Nothing.

What Happens? Physically, Existentially, Mentally? Leading Causes of Death? How Old can we go?

We just learn about Death. 

Also, Ian's Kid had a birthday.

00:18- What Do You Want to Learn About Today?

02:05- Ian's Kid's Birthday Party

    04:20- Befriending other Parents

05:35- Sources

06:00- Death is

    06:35- What is "Natural Causes"?

    07:25- What Happens to the Body?

    08:50- What is "The Light" many say they see in Near Death Situations?

    10:05- What Happens As You Die?

    11:50- What Happens After You Die, Existentially?

        15:50- All Major Faiths Believe in Another Level of Existence

    16:35- Christianity, Islam, Judaism

    19:35- Hinduism, Buddhism 

25:10- The 5 Leading Causes of Death (in  the US)(from 2021)

    26:45- From 1900

28:05- Oldest Person Ever

    29:40- France and/or Japan = Long Life

30:15- Best & Worst Ways to Die

32:25- Let's Lighten This Up a Bit... With More Death!

    35:05- Callback to Episode 2, How To Survive a Plane Crash

37:20- That's All We Got on Death

38:05- Bye

We hope you ALSO learned something, or were at least Entertained!

IG- IanWantsToLearn

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email: [email protected]

DISCLAIMER: We are not Experts. We do not claim to be. We use the internet, just like you! So between raising a child and working a Fulltime job Patrick does his best to teach Ian. So, you know, enjoy it, but maybe don't swear by it!

Essentially: We Google so you don't have to. ENJOY!

You are getting sleepy, sleeeepy SleEeEeEEeeepy!!!

No, not because you are listening to the Podcast. Rude!

Because you are being HYPNOTISED! Which is a real thing... And IF you are being Hypnotized, it must be because you are a willing participant. Otherwise... You're probably just getting bored.

Also, how did our Super Bowl Picks go, and What are our Gripes about Poker Face (on Peacock).

00:18- What do You Want to Learn About Today?

    01:50- Why?

01:30- Super Bowl, and our picks, Recap

05:50- Poker Face peeve

08:20- Sources

08:30- What Hypnotherapy Is

    09:20- Gotta Be Open to It

    10:50- The Idea has been around for a Long time

11:10- Franz Mesmer & Animal Magnetism

12:30- James Braid (Coiner of the term Hypnotism)

12:50- Freud

13:45- The Most Important Part of Hypnosis

    15:20- The Main Element

    16:00- Post Hypnotic Suggestion

    16:35- Post Hypnotic Amnesia

16:50- Hypnosis has been Officially Endorsed

    17:00- It is Most Useful for...

    17:55- It Has been Used in Surgery

20:45- How It Actually Works

21:50- What's Happening In Your Brain?

23:40- Skeptics and it's hard to Study

24:40- The Bad Parts (Memory)

    25:20- Avoid Memory Recovery

    25:35- 27 States have banned Hypnotic Influenced Testimony in Court

25:50- Ian Talks about a Movie (The Final Cut. 2004. Starring Robin Williams) 

27:30- It Doesn't Work on Everyone

28:45- You Cannot be Made to do Anything Against Your Will

29:30- So That is Hypnotism

31:50- Oh Yea, UFO's./ Bye

We hope you ALSO learned something, or were at least Entertained!

IG- IanWantsToLearn

Twitter- IanWantsToLearn

email: [email protected]

DISCLAIMER: We are not Experts. We do not claim to be. We use the internet, just like you! So between raising a child and working a Fulltime job Patrick does his best to teach Ian. So, you know, enjoy it, but maybe don't swear by it!

Essentially: We Google so you don't have to. ENJOY!

Oh No! A baby has been trapped under that Chevy Blazer! Don't ask how... or why, shut up, it's tragic! What will we do!? Who Will save it!?

The Mother is Hysterical!

Wait a moment! She's trying to life it, lift the CAR!

She's doing it, by Jove she's actually doing it!

Hurrah, She has saved her baby. What a bout of MOM STRENGTH She just had!

Also we talk about the Super bowl.

00:18- What do you Want to Learn About Today?

02:35- Super bowl picks and we revisit our season picks

06:05- Sources

06:10- Examples

08:25- Hysterical Strength

10:05- Hard to Test, unless it's the 60's

12:35- We're all Stronger than we Think

17:50- So... While impressive, maybe not AS impressive

19:15- That's All I Have

19:25- The Moses Paradigm

23:55- Bye

We hope you ALSO learned something, or were at least Entertained!

IG- IanWantsToLearn

Twitter- IanWantsToLearn

email: [email protected]

DISCLAIMER: We are not Experts. We do not claim to be. We use the internet, just like you! So between raising a child and working a Fulltime job Patrick does his best to teach Ian. So, you know, enjoy it, but maybe don't swear by it!

Essentially: We Google so you don't have to. ENJOY!

Cryogenic Freezing. Cryonics. Stasis. Frozen. Is it Real, does it Work?  What about Walt Disney? Ted Williams?  Are they actually frozen, can we bring people back? How does it work? Or is it all just snake oil? Only One Way to Find Out! 

00:19- What Do You Want To Learn About Today?    

   01:00- And Why do you Want to Learn about it?

 02:45- Briefly     

03:30- And Social Media's reaction. Specifically regarding Vaccines. 

07:35- Social Media Frustrations 

11:55- Sources 

12:15- Difference Between Cryonics and Cryogenics     

13:34- Brains, Heads and Bodies

     15:05- 100ish Pets

     15:55- International 

16:55- How it's Done

 18:00- The First Person Frozen

 21:35- General Cost

 22:25- No Idea if it Actually Works

 23:20- Progress?

 27:30- Pop Culture's Idea

 29:20- Libertarian Techno Optimists

 30:20- Cultural Differences

 34:25- The Hell Escape Clause

 38:40- Famous Frozen People

 39:10- Dora Kent

 42:35- Would WE do it?

 43:48- Weirdos in California

 44:55- No Auditors

 47:25- How hard is it to be a Cryo-technician?

 49:30- That's Cryonics/ Bye! 

We hope you ALSO learned something, or were at least Entertained! 

IG- IanWantsToLearn 

Twitter- IanWantsToLearn 

email: [email protected] 

DISCLAIMER: We are not Experts. We do not claim to be. We use the internet, just like you! So between raising a child and working a Fulltime job Patrick does his best to teach Ian. So, you know, enjoy it, but maybe don't swear by it! 

Essentially: We Google so you don't have to. ENJOY!

WE'RE BACK! We know you missed us. We know you're excited to have us back. Do More music stuff you said!

And we agreed.

So MORE music stuff! What makes a catchy song, a cognitive itch, an EarWorm!?

Will Ian learn to write a Hit Song? Or just learn that if you have many, many things necessary for being a songwriter and/or musician as well as luck, then sure, you can write an earworm? Only one way to find out!

00:20- What do you Want to Learn About Today?

01:10- Patrick has a Complaint

    04:05- Origin of the song Last Christmas, by Wham

        06:10- So Simple it's Practically infringement

  08:55- Smooth Transition

09:25- Sources

09:40- Not Hard Science

11:10- 2017 Study

    11:35- Three Melodic Features

    14:35- Whole Lot of Lady Gaga

16:50- Ian's Child Should be in Bed

17:35- Similar, Simple Chord Progressions

18:familiarity

    19:40- Appealing Performance

20:30- No Blue Print

20:40- The Useful aspects of Earworms

23:10- The Claims of Plagiarism

25:55- Bye!

We hope you ALSO learned something,

or were at least Entertained!

IG- IanWantsToLearn

Twitter- IanWantsToLearn

email: [email protected]

DISCLAIMER: We are not Experts. We do not claim to be. We use the internet, just like you! So between raising a child and working a Fulltime job Patrick does his best to teach Ian. So, you know, enjoy it, but maybe don't swear by it!

Essentially: We Google so you don't have to.

ENJOY!

Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays, but for this episode Merry Christmas is probably most appropriate... And Happy Chanukah.

But we talk Christmas Songs. Classics, Some newer classics. Who wrote em? Were they originally Christmas Songs? Whats the best selling? The Most Italian? The oldest?

It's a lot of Christmas, so.... get out that heavy coat, strap yourself into the Sleigh and Tinkle them Bells!

00:18- What do you Want to Learn About Today?

00:35- Patrick wants to Teach

01:50- Are We Christmas People?

05:00- Belief in Santa

06:30- Our Favorite Christmas Songs

 12:00- Sources

12:10- Many Songs have been written by Jewish Writers.

    12:25- Irving Berlin, White Christmas

    14:45- Johnny Marks

        14:50- Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

        15:35- Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

        16:35- Holly Jolly Christmas

    17:25- The Christmas Song

    17:35- It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

    17:40- Santa Baby

    17:45- Let it Snow

    17:50- Silver Bells

19:40- Santa Clause is Coming to Town

20:20- Silent Night

21:20- Deck the Halls

22:55- Jingle Bells

25:05- Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer

28:15- Dominic the Donkey

31:40- Feliz Navidad

35:20- Carol of the Bells

38:10- That's All Patrick Has

39:30- Bye!

We hope you ALSO learned something,

or were at least Entertained!

IG- IanWantsToLearn

Twitter- IanWantsToLearn

email: [email protected]

DISCLAIMER: We are not Experts. We do not claim to be. We use the internet, just like you! So between raising a child and working a Fulltime job Patrick does his best to teach Ian. So, you know, enjoy it, but maybe don't swear by it!

Essentially: We Google so you don't have to.

ENJOY!

Do You watch too much TV? Sit in front of  a Computer all day? Stare at your phone too much?

What are the effects they have on you? Dunno (well, a little). More interested in the effects they have on children. Is it stunting their growth? Making them fat? Does it really make them more violent?

OR are there real world benefits, are there good things, is it Really that bad? All these Screens in our lives!

00:15- What do you Want to Learn About Today?

01:20- Ian's Job

03:20- 90's Ian

04:25- Sources

04:45- We're already over budget

05:10- No screen time Under Two

06:00- Good and Bad Elements of Screen time

    06:15- Obesity

    06:35- Irregular Sleep

    06:45- Behavioral Issues

    07:35- Impaired Academic Performance  

07:50- Kids Need to be Bored

    09:00- Violence

        09:10- Let's dig into that a little more

        09:50- Side Note

        10:00- Game Design: It's hard to get away from Violence

        12:25- Multiple Violent Videogame Studies

        13:35- Brain Blurs the line between Reality and Fiction

16:20- A Meta Study

    17:00- Studies on Media nd Violence

21:45- Any Questions?

23:45- Benefits

24:35- We're Doomed

    24:50- Suggestions on how to improve and/or reduce Screen TIme

    27:45- Oxford Study, 2019

    29:05- Which Screens Count?

    30:20- Screens in the Classroom

32:55- Guide, Monitor and Manage

33:25- That's All I Got

33:35- Common Sense

36:00- We're Trying to Convince Everyone we're not Terrible Parents...

36:15- What's Your Dad Grade?   Bye

We hope you ALSO learned something,

or were at least Entertained!

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email: [email protected]

DISCLAIMER: We are not Experts. We do not claim to be. We use the internet, just like you! So between raising a child and working a Fulltime job Patrick does his best to teach Ian. So, you know, enjoy it, but maybe don't swear by it!

Essentially: We Google so you don't have to.

ENJOY!

We're back, on our appropriate day! Yay!

On this episode Ian learns about Meta and the metaverse. What exactly is it? What does it aspire to be and is it even possible to get there.

The whole thing gets very... meta.

ALSO your bank doesn't really care about you, duh. And Dan Snyder may go away soon!

00:00:20- What do you want to learn about today?

00:01:00- Why?

00:02:35- Ian asks a Banking Question

00:12:50- Dan Snyder might be selling the Commanders

00:16:50- Meta Sources

00:17:00- META

    -00:18:40- Zuck Goes Viral

    -00:19:50- Video is the Future, he said in 2015

    -00:23:40- They say Video isn't Immersive Enough

    -00:27:20- Big M, little m

    -00:28:05- The Facebook Connect Video

    -00:30:55- Horizon

    -00:31:15- Quest Since 2014

    -00:32:15- Bring it All Together

    -00:34:15- Legless Avatars

    -00:34:55- Wendy-verse

    -00:39:45- Horizon Work Rooms

    -00:44:15- Can They Ever Get There?

    -00:47:20- Horizon Marketplace

    -00:48:10- Other Sites Do It Better

    -00:50:20- VR Has Been Around for a Long Time

    -00:59:05- Pessimism

01:01:30-  Long Term Investment

01:03:40- Optimism?

01:05:50- Bye

We hope you ALSO learned something,

or were at least Entertained!

IG- IanWantsToLearn

Twitter- IanWantsToLearn

email: [email protected]

DISCLAIMER: We are not Experts. We do not claim to be. We use the internet, just like you! So between raising a child and working a Fulltime job Patrick does his best to teach Ian. So, you know, enjoy it, but maybe don't swear by it!

Essentially: We Google so you don't have to.

ENJOY!

Well, we're a few days late. But like a no knock warrant BOOM, here we are, out of the blue, on a Thursday morning!

This week We're talkin Cops. When did they stop being "good"? Have they ever been "good"? Did something change, or has it always been this way?

We also revisit Vegetarianism, Talk Prius Catalytic Converters and celebrate Dan Snyder likely selling the Washington Commanders.

Apologies for the delay, But here it is, this week's episode! 

ENJOY

00:20- What do You Want to Learn About?

01:50- A Little More on Vegetarianism 

07:10- Stolen Catalytic Converters

10:15- Ficken

11:50- 'Rise of the Warrior Cop' 

12:45- Sources

13:05- Origins

    14:00- The Colonies

    15:00- Barbados

    15:45- Virginia

    16:05- South Carolina

    16:45- Slave Patrols

    16:55- New Orleans

    17:15- 'A Treatise on the Police in the Metropolis'

    18:25- Robert Peel

    20:05- Not Entirely Racist

    19:20- David Walker

    23:40- Anti-Immigration

25:15- US v. UK differences

    27:05- The Mets

29:00- Post Civil War

29:35- August Volmer

30:30- Veterans as Police

31:30- Self Perpetuating System 

33:00- Industrialist Police

34:10- 1900's in Decline

34:45- Johnson, Nixon, Reagan

35:45- Presentation V. Fact

37:40- The Defund the Police Movement

39:30- First Responders

43:30- Change?

45:40- TV

47:50- Bye

We hope you ALSO learned something,

or were at least Entertained!

IG- IanWantsToLearn

Twitter- IanWantsToLearn

email: [email protected]

DISCLAIMER: We are not Experts. We do not claim to be. We use the internet, just like you! So between raising a child and working a Fulltime job Patrick does his best to teach Ian. So, you know, enjoy it, but maybe don't swear by it!

Essentially: We Google so you don't have to.

ENJOY!