WanderLearn: Travel to Transform Your Mind & Life

Couchsurfing isn’t simply a way to save money when traveling, but it’s mostly a way to connect with locals, to understand local culture, and see what you’ll never see in a hotel. Nenad seldom stays in a hotel. Watch this video to hear about his unique lodging experiences. Timeline 00:00 Couchsurfing tips 04:00 Chilling in Indonesia 6:45 Longest wait for a hitch What do you think? Put your thoughts...

Here are my 10 hitchhiking tips on Forbes . Nenad Stojanovic hitchhikes everywhere. He shares the joys of hitchhiking and why it's more fascinating than public transportation. At 9:00 he discusses money issues. Watch the video ! What do you think? Put your thoughts in the comments. Connect Send me an anonymous voicemail at SpeakPipe.com/FTapon You can post comments, ask questions, and sign up for...

I met Nenad Stojanovic in 2008 when he hosted me on Couchsurfing.com. He’s been traveling ever since! This is a 5-part series featuring Nenad, one of the world’s most fascinating travelers. This is part 1! Watch the video ! Timeline 00:00 Who is Nenad Stojanovic? 04:25 North American journey 05:25 Remarkable borders 08:20 China What do you think? Put your thoughts in the comments. Connect Send me...

I explained 6 years ago why Plan B’s Stock-to-Flow Bitcoin model was doomed and would fail. Few believed me. Most insulted me. Today, I can confidently declare that I was right and Plan B was wrong. Watch the video of this episode ! Also, watch my May 2020 video that started all the controversy and read the detailed article about why Plan B’s stock-to-flow model was doomed ! In mid-2026, with the...

My mom often says, “If I die….” I sometimes accidentally say the same thing. The “if” is a cognitive security blanket I pull over my head so I can pretend that death — the only thing every single human being who has ever lived has accomplished — might somehow not apply to me. As though the universe looked at my particular assortment of questionable decisions and said, “This one, we keep.” It will...

Sym Blanchard & Joan Chan discuss the ups and downs of their parenting journey. They are both around 72 years old. Each had a boy and a girl with their exes. Watch the video of this podcast ! They candidly share their mistakes and how things turned out decades later. Timeline 00:00 Two parents made 4 children 02:00 Sym’s daughter 04:20 Teenagers 06:00 Cultural difference 09:00 Change after 40 16:2...

Is grounding & earthing BS? I interview two skeptical elders: Joan Chan & Sym Blanchard. Hear what happened. Watch the video ! Timeline 00:00 Car accidents 04:55 Intro to Earthing 08:00 Placebo effect? 11:30 The Limits of Grounding 14:50 How to start What do you think? Put your thoughts in the comments. Connect Send me an anonymous voicemail at SpeakPipe.com/FTapon You can post comments, ask quest...

Sym Blanchard has appeared on many WanderLearn episodes. In this 3-part series, Sym appears with his sweetheart, Joan Chan. Both are in their early 70s. I love elders because they usually don’t give a f**k what others think of them. They’re the opposite of teenagers. Elders are genuine, transparent, and wise. They’re also human, as this three-part series will reveal. Watch it : Timeline 00:00 How...

Thank you, Sande, my 1,000th Substack subscriber! Naturally, the other 999 of you are equally valuable! Thank you to Adam Gasner for being my first Founding Member and Sym Blanchard for being my first paid member! When you create content, you often feel like you’re speaking to a wall. Even when you have 1,000 Substack subscribers or 4,500 YouTube subscribers , it’s sometimes a lonely endeavor: cri...

Dr. Sten Odenwald discusses The Essential Book of Black Holes . See my review of the new book below. But first, watch this video in which I interview Dr. Odenwald about his book! Timeline 00:00 Intro 2:15 Math & Black Holes 5:00 Holographic universe 5:50 Hypernova 9:05 White holes 14:45 Is our universe in a black hole? 17:50 Gravity is NOT a force 25:45 Galactic Power Plant Book Review of The Esse...

The term “Global South” is doing a lot of heavy lifting for a geographically illiterate phrase. Australia is in the Global South. So is New Zealand. Both are fabulously wealthy, stable democracies with excellent dental care. Meanwhile, Afghanistan is in the Global North. The “Global South” term was invented by diplomats who needed something that sounded neutral but meant “the countries that got co...

Rapido Trimarans Founder Paul Koch reveals the truth about their fast trimarans. There are many myths and misunderstandings that Paul seeks to shatter. Listen to this 30-minute interview with one of sailing’s greatest innovators, shot in Vietnam. Watch my interview with Paul Koch of Rapido Background Trimarans are boats with three hulls, whereas catamarans have two hulls, and monohulls have one hu...

Warning: this show has spoilers! Watch the video of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd-jGXonSzM TIMELINE 00:00 Spoiler 01:00 Three positive features 02:00 Fatal Flaw 1 03:30 Fatal Flaw 2 05:10 Sleep schedules 06:00 And then there were 2 08:00 Confirmation bias 10:20 Hal Finney is NOT half of Satoshi 18:00 Widows 19:33 Benjamin Wallace's 5 points 22:00 Conclusion Watch the trailer for...

See the video: https://youtu.be/3kGTgRjpcRw Last week, John Carreyrou and Dylan Freedman of The New York Times reported that Satoshi Nakamoto is Adam Back. Read the full New York Times article (and to bypass the NYT paywall legally). Or if you have a NYT subscription, read the original . Last year, I interviewed Benjamin Wallace about his remarkable book, " The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto ." Watch the...

Corporations are often seen as evil, selfish entities. We overlook that they allow billions of parents to feed, educate, and heal their kids. Jobs also generate taxes that allow governments to build roads, hospitals, and schools. Taxes fund welfare and protect national parks. None of this would be possible (or at least easy) without corporations. Don’t believe me? Consider humanity before corporat...

Sometimes a brief meeting with one human can change your life. Lauren Speeth, President of Elphenworks Productions , met US President Jimmy Carter decades ago. Watch ! Lauren Speeth, PhD, combines a lifelong background in Silicon Valley technology with a commitment to educational, pro‑social storytelling. A classically trained violinist and longtime member emeritus of The Peninsula Symphony’s firs...

Watch this interview to enjoy the b-roll https://youtu.be/35UMP6SV-zw Hal makes informative videos about Vietnam.1st video of the series: Subscribe to Hal's outstanding YouTube channel B-Roll credit: @HalOnEarth Timeline 00:00 Do The Vietnamese Like China More Than The USA? 03:20 Learning the Vietnamese language 05:00 YouTube channel goals 07:00 What Hal Loves & Hates about Vietnam 10:00 Sexism in...

Watch the video version of this podcast Hal makes informative videos about Vietnam. See my previous video with him: Subscribe to Hal's outstanding YouTube channel . Connect Send me an anonymous voicemail at SpeakPipe.com/FTapon You can post comments, ask questions, and sign up for my Substack newsletter . If you like this podcast, subscribe and share! On social media, my username is always FTapon...

Hal makes informative videos about Vietnam. Watch the video of this podcast https://youtu.be/RFcLm9fe4a0 Hal gets credit for the B-roll in the video! Subscribe to Hal's outstanding YouTube channel . Timeline 00:00 Who is Hal Medrano? 04:00 Pittsburgh, PA 06:30 Why Hal Returned to Vietnam 08:00 Hal On Earth Channel Hal's videos mentioned in the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo0mkcMbDHI...

Jost Kobusch, a 32-year-old German mountaineer who summited Denali in winter, is attempting what some experts give a 1% chance of success: he wants to summit Everest in winter, alone, without supplemental oxygen, and following a rarely climbed route, the dangerous West Ridge. https://youtube.com/watch?v=b1QtNL4CqJo In this WanderLearn Show, Jost discusses his overall goal, the extreme winter condi...

I bumped into Erik while visiting Big Basin National Park in Nevada, USA. He's been a nomad, living out of his Subaru on a modest budget, and vlogging about his experience. He shows us how he does it. youtu.be/BhUD0pjITsU https://youtu.be/BhUD0pjITsU Follow Erik's YouTube channel Why Erik Ditched His Teardrop Trailer Loneliest American Road CREDIT FOR THE TWO EMBEDDED VIDEOS:Kenai Pop-Up Truck Cam...

Dr. Isabelle Morley is a couples therapist and author of " They're Not Gaslighting You ." https://youtu.be/cPahcRnG_Fg The kiss cam moment exposes much more than a couple’s private drama—it reveals how we judge, label, and punish one another in the court of public opinion. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Isabelle Morley to unpack why cheating feels unforgivable to most people, how labels and...

WanderLearn explores travel, tech, and transformation. This is a tech-related episode. Aleksandar Svetski is the CEO of Satlantis.io , which began as a travel app but has pivoted toward events, including travel-related events. Satlantis is a new kind of social network for “Sovereign Individuals.” It aims to become the go-to place for people who want more out of life and refuse to conform to the ma...

Dr. Robert Edwards, author of The Last Step but One, proposes 5 hypotheses about Mallory and Irvine’s final ascent of Everest. Two of the hypotheses have sub-hypotheses, bringing the total number of conjectures to 8. Robert Edwards's Mallory & Irvine book . Watch the YouTube video Timeline 00:00 Hypothesis 1 06:10 Hypothesis 2 09:00 Hypothesis 3 12:20 Hypothesis 4.1 19:30 Hypothesis 4.2 23:00 Hypo...

It’s easier to watch the episode because of all the slides. The comments on YouTube will be interesting to read, too! TIMELINE 00:00 Exclusive announcement!05:00 What we know10:30 Odell sighting14:00 Ice ax17:00 Oxygen bottle19:25 Mallory's body23:45 Irvine's boot29:30 What we do NOT know Robert Edwards’s Mallory & Irvine book DISCLOSURE: I used AI to generate this video's thumbnail. So if you're...