Ian Wants To Learn

Originally recorded 10/9/21

Moon bases. Deep Space travel. Moon Rocks. Domed cities. Dip-n-dots. Monorails!

All things of the future... or are they!? Could we be working towards colonizing the moon, or at least a shitty little mining town? Wouldn't you want to be a moon tourist? Maybe use a Moon Bounce ON the Moon!!! Can we do it by 2024? Can we do it Harmoniously? And most importantly, can we strip the moon of all its resources and make some sweet, sweet Cash from it?

We also talk about our shitty Health Care System.

00:18- What do you want to Learn about Today?

01:10- Patrick needs to Vent about Health Care.

09:15- Artemis Mission

10:30- Space Policy Directive 1

11:30- Private Partner Contracts

12:15- Discovery of Water in Lunar Poles

12:30- Gotta be able to build with materials already there

14:20- Extreme Temperatures = Extreme Problems

15:45- 1638

16:15- Why go to the Moon?

16:35- 3 days to get there (6 months to Mars)

18:00- I we want to explore space, it Starts with the Moon

19:50- Hypothetical Bored Moon Janitors

21:30- Foaming Metals

22:25- Moon Mining 

    22:50- Moon Tourism

23:20- Moon Bouncing on the Moon

24:35- The Lunar Gateway

25:30- Capitalism, Bureaucracy and the Moon

28:00- The Outer Space Treaty of 1967

30:05- Let me tell you why the Moon Sucks.

    30:15- Moon Dust

    31:50- Radiation

    32:19- Long Lunar Nights

33:12- Cotton on the Moon

34:15- Did you Learn about Moon Colinization?

35:00- Bye

We hope that 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!

Do you think the media, commercials, movies, books, signs, radio, soda cans, the Beatles are all sending you subliminal messages? Trying to convince you of something, to do something, buy something, like something, believe something! Well.... maybe they are, maybe they aren't. Ian learns about some of the history of Subliminal messaging, from DRINK COKE to RATS. Did movies like 'They Live' and 'Josie and the Pussycats' get it right? Is that how it works? Can it make you do something you weren't already inclined to do? Who knows! Maybe the Smashing Pumpkins want you the Kill your parents! Only one way to find out!  ianwantstolearnSUBLIMINALianwantstolearnianwantstolearnMESSAGINGianwantstolearnianwantstolearn 

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

01:50- We're Gonna Get Right to It. Lucky You. 

02:00- Sources 02:10- It Sort of Works 

03:00- .003 seconds 04:10- A Hoax Study 

05:35- 2002 Princeton Study 

07:10- RATS

 08:45- 2008 Adelphi/Emory Study 

12:05- Small Studies in Controlled Environments 

14:30- Known Stimuli Creating Unknown Effects 

19:00- Currents Needs and Goals 

22:10- Ice Cream Imitation 

28:30- Just Messaging 

30:00- Advertising 

32:18- Did you Learn?/Bye 

We hope that 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!

Patrick gives Ian a Quiz on what he learned from the 'How to Survive a Plane Crash'(Ep. 2- 12/6/21) episode. How much has Ian retained all these months later?

Also Ian gives an update on Lil Uzi Vert's head diamond.... an older update, but still an update..

Anyway

We'll be back next week with something interesting. Surely!

But here's Something to Wet the ole Whistle While Waiting for next Weeks Wonderfully Wacky, Wild new episode.

Enjoy.

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Next Week.... ?

Originally Recorded on 9/25/2021

College Town Riots, January 6th, Wrestling Audiences, gangs, Trump Rallies, Political Rallies in general, Sports fan mentalities, Violent Mobs, Posse's, Revolutions, Comic Cons

Why do people in Large groups seem to get a little dumber, the aggression rises, the arguments fade away to one drumming demand. Lives are ruined or lost, property is destroyed, names are called etc etc. All when we are in a large group. Why does the individual, rational thought process fade away in favor of the fervor of the crowd. Why are large groups of people so dumb?

Also Braces, bowl cuts, Lil Uzi Vert's head diamond and a math riddle for Ian to solve!

So join the mind meld and lose yourself in the gang as we discuss GROUP THINK

00:18- What do you want to Learn about Today?

00:55- Bit of a Rabbit Hole

06:15- We Revisit Lil Uzi Vert and his 24 million dollar Head Diamond

10:45- Let's do it! Group Think!

10:50- Solomon Asch Demonstrated...

13:10- An Element of Peer Pressure

15:50- We may be wired from birth to Synchronize and Imitate

16:10- Political Benefits

16:45- It's very important WHEN you form your opinion

    20:05- The order opinions come is important. Anchoring

    21:25- Confidence goes a Long way

24:05- Even Contrarians fall in with a group

24:35- Idea of Group think was developed by Irving Janis

     24:55- BAY OF PIGS

26:25- Group think isn't always Bad

27:35- Groups Error for 2 main reasons

28:07- Smart people can be dumb

29:10- A Simple Math Question

30:40- Mental Shortcuts

31:40- You can't overcome your biases, even if you are aware of them

    32:10- Our most Dangerous Bias

34:10- Doomed to be Stupid

    34:50- We have A Lot of Cognitive Biases

36:40- Does all the explain why people get dumber?

37:25- Bowl cuts and Dumb Teens

40:15- Do you want to learn how Crowds are Smart?

    40:40- The Polymath, Sir Frances Galton

    41:40- A Lost Submarine

42:25- The Four Criteria to make it work

48:40- You learned something?

52:00- Glad you learned. Bye!

We hope you ALSO learned something,

or were at least Entertained! (and not too bothered by the audio)

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!

BLESS YOU! (originally recorded 8/18/21)

Why did we Start saying God Bless you? 

Why do we STILL say it? Who else says it? What's the deal with all this forced politeness? How many cultures have a saying for sneezing?

Also, hip kid slang! We're getting older, do the kids still say the groovy terms of our youth? Probably not, so we might as well try to get to know a few of em!

No Politics! Nothing about the Wealthy (but still, to hell with em!), this week it's something all of us do! Sneezing! So don't worry, we won't boil your blood or tell you the wealthy are killing us all. 

So sit back, relax and enjoy! And hey, if you sneeze, don't worry, it has nothing to do with the devil!

and Gesundheit!

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

01:55- Maybe I've tricked the internet....

03:10- 24 Slang Words of the Gen Z-ers

03:35- The Generations

04:30- The Hip Terms

    04:50- How this article came to Me (seed Bombs and Yeeting)

12:20- So You Want to Know about Bless You?

12:30- One of the Origins

13:15- Historically Speaking, Sneezes were...

14:05- Some Ancient Cultures...

14:30- Many Different Variations around the World

14:50- Rare in Korea

15:30- Sayings for the Serial Sneezers

16:40- What do You Say?

17:45- The Sneeze-Spray Radius

18:00- Some uses were to safeguard against the Devil, partners needed!

19:00- Why We Still do This

    19:15- A Theory on why Not to Say Thank You

    19:50- Micro Affections

20:40- Never Need Another Bless You if we can Just get More Thank You's for Door Holding

     21:18- We Complain about Rude People...

22:35- Why is is Associated with God?

23:30- We Continue to Reinforce it

23:50- Different Cultures, Different Sayings, Here are Some

26:30- Common Myths

27:25- So That's Why

29:35- Hopefully you Learned Something

 29:55- Bye

We hope you ALSO learned something,

or were at least Entertained! (and not too bothered by the audio)

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!

Patrick and Ian discuss.... Well, Patrick..... rants? No, discusses some of his issues with having to into work when remote work has proven effective.

Some of asinine rules and reasons for in office work

And how maybe, just maybe, businesses might be better off allowing employees to work remotely.

It's a little like when Ian talked about working in restaurants... but maybe slightly more relevant and up to date?

We don't know. We had fun. Hope you do to

Otherwise

We'll be back next week with something interesting. Surely! 

But here's Something to Wet the ole Whistle While Waiting for next Weeks Wonderfully Wacky, Wild new episode.

Enjoy.

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Twitter- IanWantsToLearn

email: [email protected] 

Next Week.... ?

AUTOMATION!  (recorded 2/13/22)

The terror of the 'working stiff'! All of our jobs are gonna be taken by robots!! We're all gonna be jobless until we're all destroyed in the Robot apocalypse!

OR, actually, automation has been something we've worried about for over 100 years. It keeps taking and we keep working. 

What jobs are gone? What jobs are Safe? What jobs are gonna BE gone? 

We try to answer that, as well as what we want to happen to us after we're dead, futurists, Universal Basic Income and a few other things.... but mostly Automation!

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

02:45- Do you have a task for folks after you die?

04:45- I was a bank teller...

05:20- AUTOMATION

06:15- Did the Cotton Gin scare people?

07:05- Automation doesn't necessarily mean all jobs will go away.

08:45- Innovation changes perceived possibilities 

10:15- Futurists...n

13:00- Jobs that will, likely, go away in 10-20 years

19:20- Poetry by Verse by Verse, and creative automation 

    20:10- 'I want to Pee on Poop' A poem

22:15- Jobs Lease likely to be replaced

27:40- Jobs that Don't exist anymore

36:45- Origin of the term "Knocked up"?

37:20- Universal Basic Income

    40:00- Been in Alaska since 1982

    40:45- UBI criticism

    44:30- A Cherokee Casino in North Carolina provides...

    45:45- Turn the 100 wealthiest Americans upside down and Shake the money out!

    46:00- Even Iran!

47:50- Did you learn?

48:00- Bye 

We hope you ALSO learned something,

or were at least Entertained! (and not too bothered by the audio)

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!

Originally Recorded 4/9/2021

Patrick and Ian discuss Who, exactly, Melissa and Doug, of the eponymous Melissa and Doug toy company, Are.

If you have kids, have ever shopped for a young child, or mistakenly stumbled into their aisle at Target, you likely know this company. 

But those of us with kids, they're a BIG deal. So Ian wants to know who they are, what are their scandals, what's their deal!?

It also fits, nicely, in with our ongoing wealth gap/the wealthy are the worst- theme. Last week was CEO's, before that the Wealthy and their taxes. 

Maybe next week we'll move on. Who knows!

Anyway, It's nothing wild, just a little something extra. (play it for your friends with kids, they'll get it!)

We'll be back next week with something interesting. Surely! Something to Wet the ole Whistle While Waiting for next Weeks Wonderfully Wacky, Wild new episode.

 Enjoy. 

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email: [email protected] Next Week.... ? 

CEOs

Millionaires. Billionaires. Captains of industry, tech-lords and Heirs. We pay them wild amounts of money to run companies But what do the do all day?

What justifies those paychecks? Are they really working hard for the money?

Or is all just a ruse to line the pockets of the elite few?

Good Questions! Let's discuss

00:19- What do you want to learn about today?

00:49- Are you Sure you want to learn about this? Deja Vu?

01:25- Another episode on our 'Fuck the Rich' theme

01:45- A little shameless self promotion

03:05- Sources

03:30- a Little background on CEOs

04:30- Back to Taxes... for a moment

07:20- Heirs

10:00- How CEO Compensation grew so rapidly

13:20- Who CEOs are

15:10- Wall Street Journal CEO Workweek Pie Chart Breakdown (55 hours a week)

    18:23- 5 hours for Business meals (vs how the average worker takes a meal)

23:40- Harvard Business Review CEO Workweek Breakdown (62 1/2 hours a week)

    23:54- Average American's Workweek (44 hours a week)

27:30- HBR Tracked 27 CEOs for 3 months

29:00- Vague CEO Bullshit

32:30- Working Remotely

     33:39- A brief detour on Management

40:54- No Real Consequences

41:38- Does what you learned Justify what CEOs earn?

42:20- More Fun with Accents......

43:50- Bye

We hope you ALSO learned something,

or were at least Entertained! (and not too bothered by the audio)

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!

originally recorder 7/7/2021

The rich. They don't pay much in taxes. How? What!? The Jerks.

And they have ugly houses. Just ask Dr. Phil to see his guns.

Also Patrick went back IN to work... Anyway, here we go

A week before Tax day, so, something to think about as the Government takes your money!

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

01:25- When there's nothing left to buy...

02:15- The Martian Lifeboat

04:25- Patrick had to go back IN to work

07:30- Do you want to pay taxes, Ian?

07:45- Do the Rich pay taxes?

08:30- The Propublica article with all the Dirt

09:05- The responses of those in the article

09:50- Income Tax- Workaround

11:30- Interest Expense on Debt

12:10- U.S. EducationBudget vs a Wealthy Wallet

13:35- A Reverse Lottery- A Patrick Idea

15:15- Back to Bezos

15:55- Money from Stocks- untaxed

20:30- Corporate Taxes- Workaround

21:30- The Estate Tax- Workaround

26:00- Peter Thiel. A Libertarian prince

27:40- The Club of Wealth, get in the know

29:20- A Jumbled metaphor regarding Libertarianism... from Ian

29:40- When is it Too Much?

32:00- Roth IRA- Workaround

37:50- Beck to Thiel, the paypal sneak

44:20- They expect praise for charity?

45:40- Ron Wyden tried to crack down on the Roth IRA

46:40- Houses of the super wealthy are a hodgepodge of Sociopathy

52:00- Should I learn about the French Revolution?

53:32- BAY OF PIGS

53:40- Did you Learn?

53:57- Learning is depressing. Bye!

We hope you ALSO learned something,

or were at least Entertained! (and not too bothered by the audio)

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!