WanderLearn Podcast
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Take a profound and distant journey. Call it:
- Deep Travel
- Immersive Travel
- Slow Travel
- Vagabonding
I will guide you to the intersection of travel, technology, and transformation.
The WanderLearn podcast will compel you to go beyond your comfort zone.
I wander all over the world and I share what I learn with you! In so doing, I hope you'll be inspired to do the same. Travel is the best university.
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Nate Ritter, the CEO of Roomsteals, reveals the unseen underbelly of the travel industry.
We discuss:
- Will mistake fares increase in the future
- AI vs. Machine Learning - and how it affects you
- Hotel vs. airline margins
- Wholesale vs. retail pricing in travel
- OTAs
- How discount airlines make money
- Should you buy tickets on the weekend or Tuesday? (Surprising answer!)
- Why Nate started Room Steals
Adrien Behn (pronounced "Bane") has been a nomad for 12 years and has visited 35 countries and 20 US States.
She is the host of the Strangers Abroad Podcast.
We talk about:
- What do you have to do to claim that you have been to a state?
- How can you travel safely as a solo female traveler?
- How is it like to be a comedian in a politically correct age?
- Do women get more hangry than men?
Referencing our "hangry" debate, here are some related articles:
The journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reported that "Men’s Brains Fight Urge to Eat Better Than Women's."
Cosmo had a different take.
Sarah Keating of the BBC argues that men get more hangry than women.
Dan Coplan is a filmmaker.
He is also a drone operator.
We talk about:
- How he got started with drones and filmmaking
- Is helicopter footage going to go extinct with the advent of drones?
- Filming in vertical vs. horizontal
- Image stabilization vs. gimbals
- Digital vs. optical zoom
- Are all 4K cameras equal?
We have plenty of laughs along the way.
After all that, he asks the...
Question of the Week
What are NFTs? Why are they valuable?
Dan mentioned "Right Up Our Alley" on YouTube:
If you're looking for video tools, here are three I recommend:
Today marks the 1-year anniversary of bitcoin's 3rd halving & my critique of Plan B's stock-to-flow model.
I reflect on:
- How the stock-to-flow model is holding up.
- Misunderstandings about my first S2F video.
- Who is right/wrong about the S2F model.
- A potential Bitcoin supercycle.
- Bitcoin's Achilles' Heel.
- What I think will happen in bitcoin's future.
Watch the video:
Or listen to the podcast:
Outline
00:00 Intro
00:22 1 year after the halving
02:50 I'm not a BTC bear
03:56 McAfee eating his dick
05:05 S2F has an extremely broad target
06:32 BTC Supercycle?
10:14 BTC's Achilles' Heel
12:01 Plan B Blocked Me
15:40 Price Predictions
18:45 Summary
I interview Teouta Luri, a Kosovar & ethnic Albanian who was born in Yugoslavia in 1976.
She is the daughter of a prominent Yugoslav politician.
We discuss:
- Why Tito was the most popular dictator ever.
- Why Milosovic's policies inadvertently brought on civil war.
- Why she thought getting married and having a baby in the middle of a war was a brilliant idea.
- Why Albanians love the USA more than anyone else.
- Whether women in Kosovo are more or less liberated than American women.
- Her first impressions of the USA.
- Whether there is an accent between Kosovars and Albanians.
Aaron Millar's Armchair Explorer Podcast will delight Radiolab fans who love to travel!
(Millar is pronounced like Americans pronounce "Miller.")
In this podcast, you'll learn:
- Aaron Millar's origins
- How Millar took the leap of faith of becoming a writer and then a podcaster
- Why and how Millar integrates music in his podcast
- Why Steven Dubner, the host of the Freakanomics podcast, heavily edits his podcast - and why Millar does it.
- Difference between video and audio storytelling
- What telling someone about Bob Dylan lyrics says about you
- The power of pacing & pauses
- How long it takes Millar to produce a 30-minute podcast
- How can you find the courage to make a radical career shift?
- What is FOPO?
- Dolly Parton's wise saying
- One of the joys of travel
I listen to most podcasts at 1.3 to 2.0 times faster than normal so I can be productive and efficient at cramming information into my skull.
If you also do that, do me a favor and take a break from that habit on this particular podcast episode.
Why?
Because speeding up music ruins it. I spend many hours integrating music for your listening pleasure. Besides, I edited out 60% of my one-hour interview. Therefore, in a sense, it's already sped up!
As a bonus, I'm Beta Testing a new segment called...
Question of the Week!
To debut the question, I have a question about viruses, especially the Coronavirus.
- AMA: Short episodes & My Upcoming Book
- AMA: Responding to Critics and Patrons
- 12 Misused Words and Expressions
- Transform Via A Paradigm Shift with Dr. Rosie Kuhn
- Which Military Branch Is Best For Medical Jobs and Careers?
- How is Bulgaria in 2021?
- Politics in Hungary and Eastern Europe
- Predictions for 2021
- Near Death on the CDT + Sym's 60-Year Love Story
- Cultivating Your Spiritual Atheism with Nick Seneca Jankel
- 1.5 Million COVID Deaths and 2021 Travel Plans
- Lucid Dreaming, Sub-Conscious, Aliens, Skepticism
- What To Be Thankful For This Thanksgiving
- Hal Urban on The Power of Good News
- Who I Am Voting For In The US 2020 Presidential Election
- Czechia vs. The Czech Republic - Name Debate!
- AMA: African Planned Cities, COVID, My Books in Academia
- 7 FAQs About Bitcoin Becoming A Country's Currency
- Circumventing the Globe Without Airplanes - Rambling Ryan
- Creating Digital Virtual Art with Garry Rone
- Random Facts About Everything That Take You Everywhere
- How a Family of 7 Traveled to 7 Continents in 9 months
- Are Hunters An Endangered Species Wonders Hunter of the Year
- NASA Astrophysicist Jack Lissauer On Tides & Terraforming
- What is a Reasonable Number of Unarmed Police Shootings?
- What If Earth Orbited Jupiter? A NASA Astrophysicist Answers
- 100th Episode! Special AMA!
- Reflections on COVID-19's 650,000 Deaths Worldwide
- Hunting Myths - Brittany Longoria Explains
- Peer-to-peer lending with Constant using cryptocurrency
- How Anti-Poaching Is Different Than Counter-Poaching
- Travel By Living Abroad with Traveling Mitch
- Our Future Brains and Countries
- Forrest Fenn's Treasure Found in the Rocky Mountains
- Debating UFOs, Aliens, Crop Circles, and the Supernatural
- Is the Widespread Destruction and Theft Justified? #GeorgeFloyd
- Riots in Minneapolis - Gary Arndt reports from his hometown
- Zen Pilot Is Flying From Pole to Pole
- Why is Bitcoin Worth Anything?
- 80,000 COVID vs. 80,000 Flu Deaths
- 8 Flaws in Bitcoin's Stock-to-Flow Model Will Doom It
- Gold Expert On Bitcoin, Stock-To-Flow, Asteroids, Depression
- Bitcoin vs. Other Cryptocurrencies
- Solving the Coronavirus Crisis
- Don't Hike Your Own Hike in 2020
- Thru-Hike To Escape the Coronapocolypse
- Don't Worry Too Much About COVID-19 and the Coronapocolypse
- Running 30 Marathons Before Turning 30 - Liz Warner
- Overlanding in 35 African countries in 3 years - Dan Grec
- How To Travel When You Have Limited Time
- Answering Kidnapping Podcast Criticisms
- Traveling To Find One's Ancestors
- Being Russian in Estonia
- How To Housesit When You Travel
- Backpacking With Zpacks - Matt Favero Shares The Vision
- How To Take A Sabbatical - DJ Didonna
- Traveling for 30+ Years - Mike Spencer Bown
- How Home Exchanges Work
- Alternatives to the Main El Camino de Santiago - Susan Alcorn
- Life Lessons From A Lion Tracker - Boyd Varty
- How to Avoid or Survive a Kidnapping
- Being A California Mayor: Burlingame's Donna Colson
- Eradicating Malaria in Sumbawa, Indonesia and Beyond
- How To Avoid and Survive an Avalanche
- Touring the World with Jessica Husson
- How Does A Colonial Ghost Haunt Africa's Borders?
- How To Travel Responsibly and Ethically
- Algerians Reveal Their Unseen Sides
- Humans Are Part Of Nature Despite What Environmentalists Say
- The Unseen Egypt with High-End Journeys
- AMA About the Book, Jail, and Languages
- Biking To Over 150 Countries with Patrick Martin Schroeder
- Using Basketball To Connect With Africans
- Biking The Americas From Canada To Patagonia
- Running An Egyptian Luxury Hotel With A Casino Is Tricky
- Debating Environmentalism
- AMA #2 - Bitcoin Q&A
- Unseen Sides of Tanzania
- Hiking to Muxia on El Camino de Santiago
- Traveling To Every Country With 3 Kids
- How Blockchains Will Disrupt Everything - Stephen P. Williams
- The Smartest Guy In Cameroon - Africa's Einstein
- 3 Young Egyptians In Luxor
- Lessons from the Hunting Debate
- Brittany Longoria Explains Her Controversial Leopard Photo
- Are Hunters Responsible for the Decline of Africa's Wildlife?
- How Volara is Bringing Voice Assistants to Hotels
- Gossamer Gear's Founder Glen Van Peski on Backpacking
- Is Libya Still A Shit Show? Frederick Wehrey answers
- A Persian Goes To Africa
- When To Use Vacasa
- Do Africans Still Practice Witchcraft Or Is That A Myth?
- How To Make A Successful Documentary Movie About Mountains
- How To Do Good & Make Money in Africa - The Anou
- How Does Nigeria Compare to Other African Countries?
- Rolf Potts on Vagabonding, Souvenirs, and Getting Drunk at 5
- When Will iinside Give Us Intelligent Airports?
- Whether You Love or Hate Travel Tours, Check Out TourRadar
- A 66-year-old Adventurer Shows How To Live A Meaningful Life
- Vacasa Is A Full-Service Solution If You Have A Second Home
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