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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Ric Gazarian, the co-founder of the Extraordinary Travel Festival, shares why you should join us October 14-16, 2022!
I'll be speaking at the ETF, along with 20 other speakers!
It's $399, but if you use the promo code FT, you get $50 off!
The code expires on October 6, 2022.
It's a perfect opportunity to visit Armenia.
I'll be going to neighboring Georgia after the festival.
I welcome you to join me.
In the podcast, we allay your security concerns.
My 40-minute speech outline
1. Bought truck & burnt the boat that brought me to Africa
2. Mission to climb the tallest peak in all 54 African countries
3. Gambia's tallest peak & maybe
3. Meeting Rejoice
4. Story about hiking Chad mt & Libya mt
5. Going thru Darfur
6. 3000 hitchhikers
7. Near success
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Sym Blanchard is one of my favorite human beings!
Below you'll see our 90-min conversation broken up into 9 WanderLearn episodes.
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1. How To Save Money When Traveling with Sym Blanchard
Get travel tips from Sym Blanchard.
He's been vagabonding for several years.
If you don't mind trading comfort for increasing your travel time, then these are ten valuable minutes that you must listen to!
00:00 Intro
01:11 Hotels & Hostels
06:35 Airlines
8:40 Car rentals
#travel #save #cheap
2. What's the Truth About Ukraine?
Sym Blanchard volunteered near the Ukraine border to help refugees.
We talk about what's the truth about Ukraine.
What's going on?
What do Ukrainians & Russians want?
What's happening in Ukraine, and why is it so hard to uncover the truth?
CORRECTION: In the podcast, I say that 25% of Ukraine is ethnically Russia. That's wrong. It was 17.3% in the 2001 census (the latest data). In the Donetsk (eastern) Ukraine region, ethnic Ukrainians make up 56.9 %, and ethnic Russians are 38.2 % of the population.
3. Who Will Win the 2024 USA Presidential Election?
Sym Blanchard, who listens to more news podcasts than any man alive, discusses who might win the 2024 USA Election for President.
Francis Tapon struggles to get an answer from him, but we have a fun discussion.
4. Hiking, Genealogy, Mont Blanc, Languages, & China with Sym Blanchard
Sym Blanchard and I discussed where he's been traveling this year and his plans. That leads us to talk about chasing your genealogy and these other topics:
00:00 Hiking in Spain & Triple Crown
07:00 Why seek your genealogy
08:30 Mont Blanc
13:00 Language learning
15:35 China
#genealogy #hiking #montblanc
5. Francis Tapon AMA with Sym Blanchard
Sym Blanchard interviews Francis Tapon about anything and everything.
Trusted Housesitters link for 20% off.
Timeline of the video above
00:00 Lowest rent ever
05:00 Family update
08:35 Racism in the USA
12:13 Africa book update (podcast
13:45 Motivations
19:30 Best places
The video above is available as two podcasts below:
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6. Fitness, Eating, & Education
Sym Blanchard asks me about my:
- Fitness habits
- Eating habits
- Education
Subscribe to my YouTube Channel and WanderLearn podcast to get future episodes!
7. The Meaning of Life
Sym Blanchard asks me:
- What is THE meaning of life?
- What is YOUR meaning of life?
8. Taking LSD 45 times
Sym took LSD 45 times. How was it?
9. Preparing to Die
In my final 2022 episode with Sym Blanchard, we get morbid and talk about death.
Having been born & raised in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, I've always been fascinated with technology and the future.
Those subjects still attract me, which is why I read about them often.
Publishers send me Advance Reader Copies (ARC) of their techno-futurist books.
I review them here.
To celebrate the 200th episode of the WanderLearn Show, I answer six listener questions in this AMA episode!
Timeline
00:00 The 6 questions
00:50 Scared?
05:29 Motivations?
07:00 Fav Author?
08:30 Fav Quotation?
11:50 US Direction & Polarization
19:18 Crypto Future?
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In this 7/7/22 Ukraine War update, War Analyst Nejc Trušnovec returns. He appeared on the WanderLearn Show one month into the war.
He was surprisingly accurate.
He continues to make unorthodox predictions.
Will he be right again?
Timestamps
00:00 Nejc's prediction was right
03:00 Ukraine's East
03:50 3 Russian Clans
08:00 Russian minority fodder
13:00 China
14:00 Putin Out?
16:40 Mobilization
21:00 How Putin Can Win
25:00 Predictions
What do you think of Nejc's predictions?
This is a 7-part series featuring Julio Maria Muhorro from Mozambique!
Julio is a Power Coach, Facilitator, and Speaker from Mozambique.
- Traveling in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2022
- Exploring Family Travel with Jocelyn Diaz
- Eczema: Epigenetics, Symptoms, & Treatment
- Why Abortion is NOT About Morality
- Bitcoin's Stock-To-Flow (S2F) 2022 Analysis + Price Prediction
- An Anonymous, Disposable Credit Card - Pay With Moon
- 3 Questions for Anti-Vaxxers
- What are financial bonds and inverted yields?
- Analyzing The Ukraine War
- Will Russia Nuke Ukraine? War analysis
- Buy Privately With a Virtual, Disposable Credit Card
- Spend a Semester at Sea - A Floating University
- Sandboxx Letters Review - Mail Military Recruits!
- Predictions for 2022
- The Best Gift You Can Give That Is Free
- Being a Black Non-African in Africa is a Culture Shock
- Thanksgiving in Gambia - What To Be Grateful For
- Gary Arndt talks about Everything Everywhere in 5 short shows
- Unseen Sides of Lesotho - A Peace Corps Perspective
- Empowa.io Cardano ADA NFT Boosts African Real Estate
- Hitler's War in North Africa with David Green
- Shooting Guns in the US Navy Bootcamp - M9 Firearm training
- How Long Could a Fugitive Hide on the Appalachian Trail?
- Are You Attached To Too Many Things?
- Will Our Descendants Take Down Statues of Meat Eaters?
- 10 Travel Lessons by Artist Mary Hunter
- Is The Food Industry Doomed?
- Why Do Animal Eaters Hate Hunters?
- An Empty Stomach is the Best Chef
- Are Some Cuisines Objectively Better Than Others?
- AMA - Book & Workout Recommendations + Eswatini
- The Underbelly of the Travel Industry with Room Steals
- Tips for Solo Female Travelers by Adrien Behn
- How to Film Better Video with Dan Coplan + NFT
- Bitcoin's Stock-to-Flow Model 1 Year After BTC's 3rd Halving
- Kosovo's Past and Future
- The Radiolab of Travel Podcasts - The Armchair Explorer
- 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
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