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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In 2018, Gary Arndt told me, "Bitcoin is the currency of the future and always will be."
I agree. Let's answer 7 questions related to that statement:
1. Was bitcoin designed to be a major currency?
When Satoshi Nakamoto invented bitcoin, it's unclear if he ever expected it to be a country's currency.
Instead, it seems that he envisioned it becoming digital gold. He saw it as a way to:
- Store wealth
- Make low-fee international transactions possible
- Make money that cannot be confiscated or debased by a horrible government
Nakamoto thought that it's terrible that someone who works hard to save $50,000 and keeps it in a bank, will see the purchasing power of that $50,000 decline each year as inflation devours whatever lousy interest rate the bank pays.
Bitcoin gives everyone the ability to store their savings in the ether. It provides a bank to the unbanked. It offers a place to store money that no government can confiscate. That's bitcoin's true value.
If bitcoin never becomes a national currency, that doesn't mean it has failed since that was never its goal.
2. When countries make their own national cryptocurrencies, won't that make bitcoin obsolete?
Ryan Patterson set out to experience the joys of stoic travel. He wants to travel around the world without taking a plane.
He was halfway across the planet when the Coronapocolypse hit.
As a result, he got stuck in Siberia. And in the winter.
He took:
- Amtrak from San Francisco to New Orleans
- Greyhound bus to Florida
- A container ship to cross the Atlantic (10 days x $200/day).
- Random ground transportation through Eurasia.
He had a phobia of traveling in places that don't speak English. But he faced his fear. And explains how he survived.
Ryan learns that Russian women dig men with beards.
Rambling Ryan website
Follow him on Polar Steps.
At SCI, I interviewed Garry Roone, a digital artist.
He's been doing art for 30 years.
Over 15 minutes, I ask him:
- How did Roone start doing art?
- How does Roone deal with the lack of inspiration?
- What does he think of crypto kitties and blockchain art?
- How does he deal with the piracy of digital art?
- Where will he take his art in 10 years?
Background on Garry
- Since 1986, Garry has been working as a professional illustration artist in the apparel industry.
- In 2013, Garry formed Still Water Design Solutions and from that point to the present, is working as a free agent illustrator.
- Garry has become known for a signature style of artwork that is hand-drawn and organic, and also for being a specialist in the apparel industry.
- For a nationally televised NASCAR event in October 2019, Garry's illustrations were used to completely wrap a car owned by Rick Ware Racing.
- In January 2019, Garry began implementing the addition of new equipment and software to create art assets for virtual reality.
- Garry's skills are multi-faceted including illustration, concept design, brand development, and painting. Additionally, new skills are being acquired through the development of VR asset creation and exploring the potential of creating art by hand in VR.
Gary Arndt has a new podcast called Everything Everywhere Daily.
I highly recommend subscribing to it.
I talk with Gary about:
- How does he come up with topics to discuss
- Why he doesn't do 3-minute podcasts (but he usually keeps it under 10 minutes)
- Where does Nike's "Just Do It" slogan come from
- Which are his most popular podcasts?
- How GPS works
- What are his 2021 travel plans
Listen to my two other podcasts with Gary:
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Kyle and Leanne Huebner did what few large families dare to do: embark on a one-year world tour.
COVID-19 cut their journey short by three months, but they still walked away with plenty of experiences and lessons.
They share much on their detailed blog, Global Teen Adventures.
We discuss the key questions you may have:
- How did they pick the 43 countries they ended up going to?
- How did they manage to book flights for 7 when the max is usually 6?
- What lessons did they learn?
- What did they pack?
- How did their packing strategy evolve?
- How did COVID-19 impact them?
- Where do they plan to go next?
Sponsor: Sawyer
Jaco Oosthuizen attended the Safari Club International show 22 years in a row.
In 2020, he was named The Hunter of the Year.
I ask Jaco Oosthuizen:
- How have things have changed for hunters since the previous century?
- Does hunting have a place in the 21st century or is it outdated?
- Why do poachers poach?
- What does he do that other hunters don't do?
- Why do hunters only target old males? Why not hunt old females too?
- Why can't we convert all the hunting zones into photographic safari zones?
- Will hunting still exist in the next 50 years?
Hear his answers in this 30-minute interview:
Here are my other hunting-related podcasts.
- 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
- Acting CEO of Rome2Rio Makes Partnership With Lonely Planet
- 7 Predictions For 2019
- JoAnneh Nagler Explains How To Make Money Being An Artist
- Tim Butcher - Author of Two Books on Africa
- AMA: Repairing the Schism Between Locals and Tourists
- How To Create A Top Travel Podcast
- The Winding Tree Foundation Founders Answer Criticism
- How To Use, Not Abuse, Couchsurfing
- Amtrak Travel Tips for 2019
- What To Do If You Can't Afford to Travel
- How To Become an A-list Travel Blogger - Gary Arndt Explains
- You're Wrong If You Think You Don't Have Time to Exercise
- Why You Should Always Read Your Alumni Obituaries
- Winding Tree's Blockchain-Based Technology Impacts Travel
- What It Takes to Set a Speed Record or FKT on the AT & PCT
- How To Accumulate Fuck-You Money So You Can Do Anything
- Travis Sherry, The Jetto App, and Getting Travel Bargains
- Introducing A New Travel Show
- Rick Steves Interviews
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