Ian Wants To Learn

Ian Wants To Learn

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  • 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.
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    Next Week.... ? P.S. Baseball starts Thursday..... If you care
    4 min
  • 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)
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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!
    46 min
  • 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)
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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!
    28 min
  • 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

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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!

    35 min
  • 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.
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    Next Week- Presidential Assassinations?
    41 min
  • 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

    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!

    26 min
  • 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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    Next Week.... Not Sports!

    17 min
  • 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
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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!
    46 min
  • 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. 

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    Next Week.... Not Sports?

    43 min
  • 5... 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!

      58 min

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