Ian Wants To Learn

By Ian and Patrick

There are lots of things Ian wants to Learn about/

Patrick is going to attempt to teach Ian some of theses things

Every Episode is a new thing

Along with some chit-chat

So tune in if Ian wants to Lear... more

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How many episodes does Ian Wants To Learn have?

The podcast currently has 58 episodes available.

Ian Wants To Learn episodes:

April 04, 2022 BONUS MATERIAL- A Brief Baseball Chat
Recorded for in episode that will likely never air, sometime in April of 2021, Patrick and Ian discuss Ommegang, Cooperstown Whiskey, and following baseball...... sort of.
It's nothing wild, just a little something extra.
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.
IG- IanWantsToLearn
Twitter- IanWantsToLearn
email: [email protected]
Next Week.... ? P.S. Baseball starts Thursday..... If you care
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4min
March 28, 2022 10... Origins of BASEBALL
It's our 10th episode! (recorded on 7/16/21)
10 episodes in and we decided to mark the event with an episode on Baseball.
Because our fans are huge baseball fans... right? We got that right..... No?
Whatever, It's actually interesting! AND we talk John Hinckley Jr. and his music, revisit UFOs, Invisible sculptures, and Rotting bananas.
And of course, Baseball.
00:01- Preamble
09:20- Hello! And What do you want to learn about?
10:05- Why do you want to learn about Baseball's origins?
13:10- John Hinckley Jr. and his music career
16:00- Excerpt from one of his songs
20:00- UFOs are in the news again
21:30- An Invisible Sculpture
27:30- Our Rotting Banana Pride
31:20- ORIGINS OF BASEBALL
31:40- The 'is baseball American' commission
32:00- 1839, Abner Doubleday and the Commission's findings
32:38- "Father of baseball?"
33:05- Baseball's likely, true, origins
33:35- Alexander Cartwright, The Knickerbockers in 1845, No dodgeball and the likely origins of the modern rules
35:00- The 1st official Game (the New York Variation)
35:20- The different variations of the game (Philadelphia, Massachusetts)
36:36- Allstar Game should use the old rules!
37:00- How gambling helped legitimize baseball
37:20- The earliest mention of Baseball (1735)
38:14- The meaning of 'Knickerbocker'
39:10- 'Take Me Out to the Ballgame' origin. (A Feminist Anthem?)
44:45- What might you want to learn about next?
45:21- Next time? and Goodbye
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!
...more
46min
March 14, 2022 9...THE BAY OF PIGS!
Welcome Back to
IAN WANTS TO LEARN w/ Patrick and Ian (recorded 6/18/21)
FINALLY the Bay of Pigs episode. Ian has been wanting to learn a bout the Bay of pigs for... How Long? HOW LONG!? But now he'll learn. And maybe you will too... or maybe not. It's all good. We aren't experts. We just talk Castro, Kennedy, Some painted planes and mistimed reinforcements. And then they cap it all off with a Peep Show (British television sitcom. 2003-2015. Highly recommend) lifestyle like pact. but again, Bay Of PIGS!
You wanna know? Well give a listen! We'll get around to answering all that in a vague, roundabout, chit-chatty sort of way.
It'll be fun.
Come LEARN something
00:01- The preamble and introduction
03:13- Hello and welcome!
03:30- What do you want to learn about today?
03:50- Why, Ian, do you want to learn about Bay of Pigs so badly?
05:45- POP QUIZ on the PRESIDENTIAL ASSASSINATIONS episode
09:00- A B average
09:40- BAY OF PIGS!
10:40- You can already see why the United States might be upset
11:00- Ok, so the plan is...
12:20- So, we want to keep this a secret
12:35- Kennedy Did authorize it
13:12- 3 days to redo the Plan
13:27- A Trump-esque strategy
14:15- The What if-ers
15:08- The attack does Not go well
15:30- What do you think so far?
16:10- Castro's counter attack and Kennedy's 'mistimed' response
17:00- Prisoner swap
17:15- You could argue this is what pushed us into Vietnam
18:00- Did the CIA give Kennedy bad info? Nooooooooooooo.......
19:50- Modern U.S. Cuban policy
20:15- The Elian Vote (in 2000)
21:55- America's incorrect assumptions
23:10- Kennedy's assassination year was...
23:40- the moive is '537 Votes'
23:49- Did you learn?
24:50- Are we the baddies?
25:30- Let's make a pact
26:23- Good 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!
...more
28min
February 28, 2022 8... Presidential Assassinations
Welcome Back to
IAN WANTS TO LEARN w/ Patrick and Ian (recorded 5/11/21)
How many presidents have been assassinated? WHY were they assassinated? How about other attempts? Also a very strange ... situation up in Alaska (Bit of a trigger Warning here). Also we discuss Hinkley, Who at the time was still incarcerated to some degree. He was unconditionally released in September 2021.
Otherwise, Hey
You wanna know? Well give a listen! We'll get around to answering all that in a vague, roundabout, chit-chatty sort of way.
It'll be fun.
Come LEARN something
00:15- What do you want to learn about today?
00:30- TRIGGER WARNING- "Man accused of kidnapping woman and masturbating on her is given "One pass" and won't go to prison." WHAT!?
07:10- Time to Learn about Presidential Assassinations'
12:39- Lincoln
14:38- Secret Service Beginnings
15:19- Garfield
18:04- McKinley
19:19- Kennedy
20:07- a 1960 assassination attempt
21:20- Teddy Roosevelt Post presidential Attempt
23:05- Reagan attempt
26:30- Jackson attempt
2652- Trump attempt
28:25- Motivation, political
30:25- Patrick fires again (... or why do we need suppressors?)
33:33- Next week...? and Good 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!
...more
35min
February 21, 2022 Bonus Material- PATRICK wants to Learn -Restaurant Life
IAN WANTS TO LEARN BONUS MATERIAL
wait, No, It's...
PATRICK WANTS TO LEARN!
About Restaurant Life!
And Ian worked in restaurants for over 10 years.
So questions will be asked, answers will be given. Anecdotes, pet peeves, worrisome ketchup AND MORE!
Enjoy Patrick learning and Ian teaching! A rarity, certainly, but that's the joy of the Bonus Material, it can get CRAZY!
Anyway, listen and learn a little about what it's like to work in a restaurant, maybe some questions you have will be answered!
and if not, maybe we'll do a part 2!
So here it is, the Bonus Episode
Something to Wet the ole Whistle While Waiting for next Weeks Wonderfully Wacky, Wild new episode.
Enjoy.
IG- IanWantsToLearn
Twitter- IanWantsToLearn
Next Week- Presidential Assassinations?
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41min
February 14, 2022 7... UFOs
Welcome Back to
IAN WANTS TO LEARN w/ Patrick and Ian (recorded 4/27/21)
Have we made contact with Extra Terrestrials? Are UFOs real, the alien kind? Has the government made contact with them? WHAT AREN'T THEY TELLING US!? And what does Tom DeLonge really know!? We don't know. No one is spilling the beans, but we'll make sure to look at a few of those beans!
You wanna know? Well give a listen! We'll get around to answering all that in a vague, roundabout, chit-chatty sort of way.
It'll be fun.
Come LEARN something
00:15- What do you want to Learn about today?
01:25- Time to Learn about UFOs. (and sources used)
01:40- 3 declassified Pentagon videos
02:15- Tom DeLonge's UFO Academy/Think Tank
03:00- The 'Go Fast' video
07:00- the 2nd Video
10:05- The 'Gimble Video'
12:12- Luis Elizondo
12:55- Harry Reid
13:35- and the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program
14:55- and his pal Robert Bigelow and Bigelow Aerospace
16:05- Ted Stephens, Daniel Inouye & Marco Rubio love UFOs too
17:00- Mr. Elizondo leave the Government for Tom DeLonge
18:00- The REAL Question! Government Cover-up!
19:00- We Do Believe in Aliens!
19:30- NBC asks for us all
20:30- A 2009 Pentagon Briefing
21:10- Interviews with Leroy Chiao, Sara Seager and James Oberg think don't jump to conclusions
22:00- Project Bluebook
22:55- Baker Mayfield saw a UFO!
23:40- That' all Patrick has on UFOs
24:05- Disappointing UFO evidence
25:12- Goodbye
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!
...more
26min
February 07, 2022 Bonus Material- Super Bowl picks and Football Chatter
LAST SPORTS EPISODE FOR AWHILE
We get it.
IAN WANTS TO LEARN BONUS MATERIAL. No one asked for it But everyone wants it ...Right? Cut for time, or relevance, or maybe an entire bonus episode !
(Like this one)
This week, as Bonus, you get our picks for this years Super Bowl, From WAY back in September. And we chat about this years super bowl, Washington's New name/uniforms and how terrible Dan Snyder is.
We also make out picks for next years super bowl, because why the hell not!?
and then we swear off sports for awhile, because we know no one cares about sports, or at least US discussing sports.
So here it is, the Bonus Episode
Something to Wet the ole Whistle While Waiting for next Weeks Wonderfully Wacky, Wild new episode.
Enjoy.
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Twitter- IanWantsToLearn
Next Week.... Not Sports!
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17min
January 31, 2022 6... Freedom
Welcome Back to
IAN WANTS TO LEARN w/ Patrick and Ian
Ever wonder what, exactly, our freedoms are? Are we truly the freest country in the world? Freedom of speech, right!? We Fight for that all around the world! You wanna say FUCK, say SHIT! Cause you got Freedom! Of. Speech!
But Without consequence? Can we really say whatever we want and be protected? Carry guns or not be punished cruelly or unfairly? Ship porn from state to state or holler our support for hate organizations? What IS freedom and how free are we as Americans?
You wanna know? Well give a listen! We'll get around to answering all that in a vague, roundabout, chit-chatty sort of way.
It'll be fun.
Come LEARN something
00:01- A... sad(?) intro to the show
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01:02- What do you want to Learn about Today?
02:45- Graffiti helps us all with a little exposition
06:30- Time to Learn about FREEDOM
07:15- Germany
09:15- Comstock Act
10:39- U.S. Recognized Free Speech Restrictions. and limitations
11:57- "Dear God"- What a flick!
13:10- Back to Comstock
13:36- Tariff act (1922)
13:52- Espionage Act (1917)
15:20- The Warren Court ('53-'69) Changes things
15:32- Brandenburg v. Ohio
17:05- Freedom of Religion
17:47- Your Freedoms are not Absolute
18:29- You CAN flip off a cop
20:20- "Don't make shit personal with a cop..."
22:10- Patrick Pull-over anecdote
25:17- Alex Jones is liable
28:04- Conservative Constitutional Approach
     28:27- 'Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech..."
31:25- 2nd Amendment
     21:56- D.C. v. Heller
34:29- National Firearms Act
35:50- Patrick is probably on 'A List' now
36:30- 8th Amendment
37:50- Largest Bail Ever Set (3 billion for The Jinx, Robert Durst)
38:33- Cruel and Unusual Punishment...?
     39:17- Unusual examples
44:33- Ian Learned and Goodbye
We hope you ALSO learned something,
or were at least Entertained! (and not too bothered by the audio)
IG- IanWantsToLearn
Twitter- IanWantsToLearn
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!
...more
46min
January 24, 2022 Bonus Material- Fantasy Sports and sports as a social Lubricant
We have A NEW Bonus Material Theme Song!!!
IAN WANTS TO LEARN BONUS MATERIAL (recorded on a Much earlier date) No one asked for it But everyone wants it ...right? Cut for time, or relevance, or maybe an entire bonus episode !
(Like this one)
This week, as Bonus, you get an ENTIRE EPISODE on Fantasy Sports, Sports as a Social Lubricant and some discussion on the WFT (Washington Football Team). It's a perfect pairing with last weeks Gambling episode. Like wine and cheese....
So here it is, the Bonus Episode
Something to Wet the ole Whistle While Waiting for next Weeks Wonderfully Wacky, Wild new episode.

Enjoy.
IG- IanWantsToLearn
Twitter- IanWantsToLearn
Next Week.... Not Sports?
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43min
January 17, 20225... Gambling
Welcome Back to
IAN WANTS TO LEARN w/ Patrick and Ian
Do you like to gamble? A little wager here or there, a nickel on Johnny's Lightning ought to provide a little fun. TEN ON RED you said, just to cover the meal. Did you ever wonder WHY can't i drop a dime in a slot anywhere I go!? What's the deal, how do i bet on sporting events? Are there other interesting vices I might also learn about?
5 bucks says YES!
Sounds like you might want to Learn a little about gambling and its history, particularly in the United States.
Well Lucky you! We've got just the podcast episode for you. Complete with
terrible audio from Ian. We're sorry. He can be foolish.
And a little pre-amble about how to mobile gamble on Sports!
Because, Hey, who couldn't use a new addiction!?

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00:01- Pre-amble to Gambling
00:20- Mobile Sports Betting Legalized in New York
01:20- Do not take legal advice from this show
05:10- The Moneyline
07:35- The Over/Under
08:50- The Spread
10:44- Who is Vegas?
11:35- Prop Bet
12:38- Parlay
17:17- Apologies if the upcoming Audio is bad
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17:42- The Show BEGINS
18:00- What do you want to Learn about Today?
19:20- A Brief Anecdote. And a discussion on the ever evolving digital music scene... and minidiscs
28:30- Time to Learn about GAMBLING
28:45- A quick little history of gambling

29:54- Gambling in America (And Religion)

34:32- Scandal!

35:00- Post Civil War Lottery Return

37:45- The Federal Wire Act arrives

38:08- P.A.S.P.A. comes against sports betting... mostly

40:25- States starting to get in on it

41:15- Nevada was the 1st state to Legalize it

41:47- Native American Casinos

45:20- Is mobile gaming physically safer?

47:30- Gambling is very old

50:10- That's Gambling.... In America
50:40- Soapbox time
52:40- Archaic Liquor Laws
55:20- Adultery Laws in the US
57:20- Goodbye

We hope you ALSO learned something,
or were at least Entertained! (and not too bothered by the audio)
IG- IanWantsToLearn
Twitter- IanWantsToLearn
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!
...more
58min

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