 for a couple minutes but you know I don't want to start talking about super important stuff for oh Vasco Zuzu says thanks for being an awesome dude I think he's talking to me well you're welcome I'm doing my best thanks for you being an awesome dude too all right can everyone everyone hear me all right yeah so if you if you're watching this later just just skip forward like two minutes or something yeah maybe all maybe by two minutes there'll be some people here all right we got four people here well maybe I should start pretty soon so today again I've brought my my pad of paper which I drew on some last week and there was some stuff on here I was supposed to look up like I used this Conway I looked him up usually he's kind of a mountain man and was I don't know if he died yet or what I saw a picture it looked like you know bitch there picture I didn't really get into it but I don't know if he's dead or not but anyway he was living in North Carolina you know kind of off the land and stuff seemed like a fairly cool guy but I didn't watch that much about him and then I started watching the movie meet John Doe because someone recommended it to me so I've been watching that with my kids you know like 20 minutes at a time every now and then over the last week oh right here says morning exercises I did not make a video about morning exercises this week I was gonna do it on Friday but then I ended up having a town trip and well anyway hopefully I'll do it this week I can't do morning I can't do a video of morning exercises on Monday because Monday is too hard there's not enough rest between things so I just don't have enough time to pay attention to the camera and stuff but I'll try to do it this week Friday's the best because that's the day I have the most rest between my exercise all right let's let's open a new page here all right well we have 14 people here already let's see what everyone said just wanted to say hi I'm from Vermont hey that's why I used to live and found your videos years ago when you were building your dome been following you since then hope all as well well not all as well there's too much plastic in the ocean and you know the planets being ruled by psychopaths but you know over here things are going pretty well okay do you miss hot baths and steak dinners well I can have steak dinners so that's not a thing but hot baths all I never liked hot baths my favorite baths actually I get closer to hot baths now jumping in the ocean because the ocean is warm here but my favorite baths are cold when I lived in Vermont I had this 300 gallon tub that was fed from a spring so it just we ran through all the time and the water came out of the ground really cold and I would you know do a cannonball in there all it felt amazing like at the end of a day of working on hot stuff all day and I would jump in that thing even after it like started icing over like as long as the water was still running you wouldn't ice over totally and I'd crack off the ice and jump in anyway let me let me get to my little monologue here alright I'm gonna ignore comments for a little bit I'm gonna talk about something that someone mentioned last week someone asked me a question and it was one of those questions where they asked it toward the end of like two hours and I was like I don't really have time to answer this in five minutes this is just too too big a question and the question was something to the effect of if a whole bunch of adventure builders moved here and suddenly I had all these amazing neighbors who were problem solvers and had imagination and were trustworthy and responsible and and they cared and you know just just surrounded by really really cool neighbors what what would that community be like like well what's the point what's like explain some and there was more of a specific question but it's it's not really the kind of thing I could answer specifically so I'm just gonna talk about it generally and one of the thing the read I'm gonna first talk about why I can't talk about it specifically because that has a lot to do with what it is so you know some people might think well this this is supposed to be some kind of utopian community kind of thing right and sometimes people get these ideas of how to fix the world because you know a lot of people are aware that there are a lot of problems in the world you know there are a lot of cool things too but you know we're making a lot of mistakes that are very easy to notice and point out and it would be nice if we could fix a lot of them so often people come up with this idea for you know a better civilization let's just call it a utopian which is a bad word but people come up with these ideas for a better civilization and sometimes they'll they'll figure out all these all the details of how this civilization would work and what it would look like and what the buildings are going to be like and what the layout is going to be like and they'll maybe draw beautiful pictures of of this amazing place or even make videos of what it's going to be like and what it's going to look like and maybe write write whole like essays on how how things will happen and what will happen and people really like that i mean i even like like you know looking at that kind of stuff it's cool because wow that's what it's going to be like but that's not really useful once you start because well okay i'm a really good uh i'm really good at planning something in my head and then having it work in real life right like i'm really good at that compared to other humans i'm sure some aliens will come along and think i'm an idiot but relative to other humans i am extremely good at planning something in my head and having it work in real life and one of the things probably maybe maybe the most striking thing that i've learned over the years of practicing that and you know planning things and doing them in real life and honing that skill over a long period of time uh is that no matter how how precise i make my plans no matter how many details i figure out in my head and no matter how carefully i plan as soon as i start doing it in reality i can throw out half the plan because once you start doing in reality reality does not care what what you planned in your head it doesn't care what you wrote down on paper it doesn't care what you wrote in a speech or in your videos or what you talked about reality is just like you're gonna do something and it didn't work out the way you wanted reality just can be like well that's just the way it is and you can't negotiate you can't there's nothing you reality is just like well this is just this is just reality sorry man that's that's the way it didn't work out the way you you plan so well that's it and at that point you have two choices you either try to stick to your plan and force it and make it happen and and have all this difficulty or you say well obviously i have to keep my plan flexible and this is one of the reasons that i've well i've learned to become so successful at planning something and having it work in real life because i always always keep my plans flexible i know that once once the rubber hits the road you don't know where the road you don't know if the road's going where you hoped it would go so you have to keep your plans flexible and often you get people trying to set up some some society where they they have the plan and they have the ideas and they they they can show all these beautiful images and and you know maybe show some videos and then all this writing and stuff oh it's gonna be like this it's gonna be amazing they get people all worked up and excited and they get a get a bunch of people together and they're like okay let's do it and then once they start doing it you know they hit reality and reality is just like yeah this is not gonna work the way you thought and then often the person is just like no no it has to and they and they this is one of the things you know this is the big uh this is why you a utopia has become kind of a bad word is because once that vision runs into its first hurdle you know the people making it happen often try to force their vision onto reality and what ends up happening is they they start taking away people's ability to to actually problem solve they're like no this is the way it's supposed to work this is it we have to do this and then everyone loses their their freedom their ability to solve problems and uh you know they might end up getting kind of closer to to the the model that they had the plan they had but they end up destroying the whole thing you know it might look pretty but it's all ruined so this is why i couldn't describe to you what an adventure builder community would look like like what does it look like if you have a whole bunch of responsible caring imaginative problems living in the same place what does it end up looking like i don't know i couldn't i i have no idea i mean i could tell you some things they're those people are going to solve problems they're going to come up to get up against obstacles and they're going to figure things out and they're going to come up with solutions that you couldn't have predicted that you wouldn't you wouldn't you wouldn't be able to figure out just on a paper planning it ahead things are going to happen and all and all you have to do is just let it happen and this is this is why you know the idea of the utopias all they they often just fail and turned into these horrible dystopias is because they're trying to force a vision on to on in they're trying to force a vision into a situation where it doesn't work and there isn't enough flexibility for people to solve and come up with ideas that that might be way better than the vision that you couldn't have planned ahead so you know if if there are a whole bunch of adventure builders living here i'm sure that 10 years from now there would be amazing stuff that that i i just couldn't i couldn't think of right now i couldn't describe it and even just on the the small scale of just me being like the only adventure builder here well i'm you know working on my kids they're they're getting there but like you know if i i look around at what i've built so far and uh you know i just think wow this is this is crazy that this this exists this is this like i did not see this coming 10 years ago if you ask me even when i when i started working on this island if you ask me what it was going to be like i might have some ideas but totally different than than what it ended up being but it's amazing because i just give myself the freedom to figure things out and solve things and take advantage of whatever opportunities come up and blah blah blah so i guess that's what an adventure builder community would be like it would be a a fairly it would be a difficult to define thing on a on a superficial level but on a deeper level it would be a community where people people solve problems where people figure it out they they make it work they they figure out how to do better all the time constantly and uh never know what that's going to look like okay so another thing i want to talk about in terms of that this is a big reason for having such a community and uh you know it's not just me there are other there are other people doing communities around the world and stuff and it's really good to have these kind of communities because if everyone is doing the same thing you know if everyone lives in in our modern popular culture and everyone's doing the same thing you end up with the banana problem and i'm sure like four people were like oh i know what you're talking about and like 30 people were like what what is he talking what is the banana problem okay so many years ago everyone was eating a certain type of banana and all the bananas are the same they're all doing the same thing they're all they're all genetically the same because they're not being grown from seeds there's no variation between the bananas they're all just like coming out from sprouts of the banana but they're basically a clone of the bananas they're great bananas amazing bananas but then some disease came along that targeted that specific kind of banana didn't target that specific kind of banana but that specific kind of banana could not handle this disease wiped them all out so all those bananas were gone luckily there were some other varieties of bananas in the world so they're like oh okay now we can regrow our banana civilization from some of these other types and now the bananas we eat today i think they're actually starting to have some kind of issue too but you know it's really good to have some some pockets of variation even if you're gonna have a society where like 99 percent of the people are all doing the same thing working in the same system using the same financial stuff blah blah blah blah you know you never know when when it's it's gonna have a problem of course you know today it's it's hard to imagine anything going wrong because we've we've all elected such amazing responsible truth-telling leaders who always care about our well-being and they're doing the best for us or if you're doing great for us right so i mean who could possibly imagine any of that going wrong but the simple possibility is that at some point things could things could go wrong to the point where you basically consider it to be a collapse how long did Rome take to collapse like 300 years or something you know it doesn't matter you know if if i mean not that this would ever happen of course because everything's going perfectly there but if at some point you know civilization as we know it today collapsed it would be in these these little pockets of of different societies throughout the world would become unbelievably important like that's basically what would save the world and it would be it's also it would it would also be really beneficial to be in one of those communities in the event of one of these collapses of course but i guess i guess obviously today the world looks like it's going in the right direction because so few people are kind of getting out of popular culture and into any of these kind of communities so it must be going well right anyway you would definitely want to be in one of these communities where you know you're taking care of you know you're kind of self-sufficient to some degree taking care of your own food and energy needs and stuff like that so anyway also besides all that stuff having a community of adventure builders would just result in some amazing adventures amazing adventures and inventions and just just cool creative stuff so that's the answer to your question from last week that i did not have sufficient time to answer and i think that's that kind of scratches the surface a little bit yeah so let's see what's going on over here oh and of course now i'm i'm like 14 minutes behind the comment so if i'm reading a comment and you're like why isn't you reading mine is because i'm a little behind and i basically read all the comments so just put whatever you want sound and video is good excellent good morning steve do you miss hot baths and steak dinners yeah so i already answered that real briefly but yeah i don't miss hot i i i never liked hot baths oh probably because i'm you know i've always been an athlete i i'm always exercising stuff so i'm always hot like even even in vermont in the winter i would often just wear a t-shirt or sometimes no shirt and just go out in the in the snow and i would i would actually often in the winter i would have snow baths like which is basically i would just go out in the snow putt naked with a bar soap and just pick up snow and put it on myself because i would be so hot from you know working through through the day and you know climbing up ropes and you know getting whatever exercise i was that like i i just put snow on myself and it would melt so fast i'd be like steaming my brother used to laugh at me when i'd come home from from winter runs like i go running like 10 miles and then come home and i would just be like steaming like a lot and you'd be like oh i can see your stink fumes coming off you anyway yeah so i never liked hot baths and i've steak dinners yeah i mean i could have steak dinners if i want um i've never been that into steak dinners i like maybe it's just i i want to eat the food faster so ground beef is like is like oh man he's like a burger ah but yeah i i do like a good steak dinner now and then cold as hell here in north oklahoma hell is supposed to be hot i understand ha but yeah i know what you mean yeah so what is it it's like november now right middle of november so yeah everyone must be be getting cold oh not everyone everyone in the northern hemisphere here it's just you know i'm close enough to the equator that the temperature varies a little bit but like it's basically always beautiful and comfortable i mean it gets cold but cold is is still t-shirt weather to me the people who live around here um they'll wear like winter coats and i'm just like oh how can you wear a winter coat and they're like it's freezing out i'm like it's like 20 23 degrees Celsius you know like like 60 70 Fahrenheit yeah it gets nowhere near freezing here are you an engineer i'm a i'm a person i don't i'm sure i guess i don't know what what is i don't know what that means like is an engineer someone who has a paper that says they're an engineer or is an engineer someone who engineers things and builds things like i i do build things i i engineer things but uh i don't i don't care about any such titles um oh same in ar is that arkansas or ar is arkansas isn't it or arizona no i don't know everyone's cold anyway yes reality does not care you're right yeah you can plan all you want your reality does not care about your plan kind of like uh yesterday i put i put this bridge together and i'll have videos about the bridge um coming soon but i i i made all these blocks i showed them last week right the big styrocrete blocks they were right there there's nothing there now so i made these big styrocrete blocks and i was making them into uh like an arch bridge with like six individual pieces that were that kind of fit together not like not like fit together but like you know fit together with the right flat angles to make the arch but uh so i took them out there and started putting them together and yeah it's like i had a had a pretty good idea of how it was gonna go and it went roughly how i i thought about it in my head except you know there are all kinds of things that changes like i was i was gonna use these poles to hold each brick up but i put a pole to hold the first brick but then when i got the second brick up i put the pole in you know the first brick moved and the bottom the bottom pole fell out but then the first brick was being supported by the second brick to weight on it anyway so i didn't actually need the pole in the bottom and you know it was just like i can plan till i'm blue in the face but i'm not going to know all the details until i until i just start doing it and you know i just kept the plan flexible and got the bridge up it went pretty quick my daughters helped me it was oh this is really fun actually i'm hopefully that'll be a good video adapt yes yeah i keep your adaption and this is this is this is the problem when you have bad leadership when you have bad leadership they often want to stick to some plan uh you know and they don't have the imagination or the trust in the the people they're dealing with to let them figure it out you know and if you if you can't adapt to situations you end up running into all kinds of problems hey i don't know if i should mention this this this is kind of getting toward the uh don't get too far into this kind of topic or you'll get banned from the internet kind of thing but i can talk about it a little bit but people who are not good leaders who are leaders because of a title or some some authority yeah basically leaders who are leaders because of an authority that says i am the leader and that is it you cannot resist you know they really don't like people who are real leaders and the real leaders are the people who who figure things out as they're going and and try to try to help the world and try to try to teach and you know try to not not really be like everyone's father but but kind of kind of be like a world father you know they try to try to help the world in general and the you know the like elected leaders or the the the leaders with their their job title or whatever they really don't like those the people who are the real leaders and today in our society the people who are the real leaders are really getting crushed and i would count myself among these people and i've definitely felt it but if you if you really want to see how this goes i've i've actually dodged a lot of this this stuff because you know i've learned from a lot of other watching a lot of other people who are leaders like watching them suffer but if you really want to see this and i've mentioned this this documentary a bunch of times there's a movie you can get it free on youtube it's called garbage warrior it's about Mike Reynolds the guy who does the earthships he's one of these people i'm talking about who's like a real leader like no one appointed him he's he's just doing it and because he's doing a good job people are like oh you're a leader i'll i'll follow what you say i'll i'll listen to what you're you're saying because it's good stuff this is and with a real leader as long as you are doing a good job you are still the leader and as soon as you start doing bad job people stop paying attention to you and this is this is the value of leadership that isn't uh that isn't part of authority because when you're in an authority once you start doing a bad job people don't want to follow you anymore but they're stuck they have to do it but anyway this this guy Mike Reynolds the earthship guy you know all the all the politicians in his local area saw what huge influence he was having on people without being elected or hired with a name tag and all this stuff he had no authority over these people but all these people were following him and and you know doing what he said listening to his ideas and they're all these politicians were angry about it so they just went after him with all this legal crap and just mired him in bureaucracy and he wasted unbelievable amounts of time and energy just just fighting against like local governments and bureaucratic nonsense and as long as that is happening our our our civilization is going to keep declining because those people the people who are trying to to help and trying to make the world better not because of any authority that tells them they're supposed to do it but just because they feel in themselves like they need to do it those are the people who can who can save the world those are the people who can make it better those are the people who can who can create a future and kind of lead people into a better future not into some utopia just just along a better path where things are being solved instead of destroyed and right now our society is really really crapping on those people so not that anyone asked this but if i do get this question once in a while like if there was one thing i could change about our society that would that would really turn things around and go in a better direction it would be to to stop villainizing and crapping on the people who are the real leaders who are who are solving problems who are trying to fix things anyway i don't remember where that started i just went on a pretty pretty long tangent there hello obry came here from exploring with josh i've heard a lot about about this exploring with josh video and uh it shows my old house i don't know if i want to watch it though because you know we talked about this a little bit last week um about how we know when you have when you have some place you built and you loved and you put your heart and soul into it and then you sell it or in some way transfer ownership to someone else then it becomes theirs and it's it might be better to just not know what happens after that because you know it's it's not it's it that place isn't mine anymore i don't i don't own it and i don't i don't want to i don't want to remain emotionally attached to it you know i don't want to look at it and be like oh people are wrecking this or doing that wrong or whatever like once i transferred ownership to someone else i just kind of left it behind um but maybe maybe i'll watch it at some point oh tomaters how's it going men forgot about the time change are you not good at teamwork who me me personally i am i'm depends on working with well actually no i wouldn't even say that no i can i can definitely do teamwork um i built a bridge with my kids yesterday uh you know i used to do lots of team sports and i was rarely the official captain but i was almost always like kind of the field captain like when i used to play soccer football depending on where you are in the world it's either soccer or football but uh i was never i was never the official captain but by the time i got to maybe a little bit before high school i just started becoming the guy you know that guy on the soccer field he's yelling at everyone and and directing everyone and getting everyone to do the right things kind of organizing the team that was me um and you know not in a bad way you know um my coach would be like all right you got to be there in the next game because you know when you you got to make sure you get out there and get you guys organized and doing all the stuff and you know my teammates would always give me positive feedback and yeah jamie thanks for thanks for helping me out with whatever like and you know with other sports and stuff i can i can work with people i can i can do good teamwork although i do find it difficult to work with people in a lot of situations like often in terms of building stuff but i think a lot of that just comes down to i need to work with other people who are kind of at my competency level at my skill level near or close enough that that they're valuable because um you know i can i can work with people who are at a lower skill level but then it takes longer to do to do everything so if i actually just need to get things done i usually do things by myself but if i'm doing something that is meant to be with the team yeah i can totally work with people haha do i have starling the only way to find the best way to do something is to try different ways including the bad ways yeah and you'll you'll probably never find the best way to do something captain insane oh yeah i mean you if you don't try things even even often the bad things and i've i've done this occasionally in videos i'll even say well i'm gonna i'm gonna try this even though i don't think it's gonna work because i think there might be something valuable in it and uh often yeah things things come up that i didn't didn't know were gonna happen couldn't have planned or maybe i could have planned if i if i if i thought about it long enough but just try and stuff out man you get so much you know so much feedback so yeah it's really good to try things even things that you don't don't necessarily think are gonna work howdy sam oh vasco yes the starling question is pretty funny haha i like it i really do i don't know what eric's talking about but he likes something what do you think about an adventure builder think tank maybe a think spider tank yeah we should build a giant spider tank and then everyone can get in it and we can think about stuff uh i don't know um oh someone just i just read the next comment about the banana dying we'll get to that in a second though an adventure builder think tank i don't i don't know if i'd want to have you know a think tank like like they have those those corporate think tanks where they put a bunch of people in a room and they they have to figure out what everyone's going to do because like i said before there's a there's a very limited amount of usefulness than that because once you hit reality like things are going to change so i think it's much better to have you know like i was talking about before a community where you've got a bunch of neighbors who are all creative let me move this i'm getting a little bit a little bit of light up from that corner over there is that better that's better anyway it's better to have people who are who are planning things but also doing things in reality and kind of kind of crossing over a bunch of different arbitrarily defined lines of you know planner builder inspector you know some people who are involved in all that stuff not just a think tank but i think you know a think tank would just kind of happen naturally okay eric says yeah the bananas are dying i know about it yeah how how bad are they dying i i hear there's um all my bananas here people have told me that there's this thing that basically turns the the leaves brown and you the the result is you pretty much get half as many bananas as you would get when the leaves were uh would stay green longer because the leaves will work it's just they die faster than they they normally would so they don't get as much energy into the into the plant although my my banana trees right here might not have it although because i got the first few bunches of bananas were enormous like really huge the biggest bunches i've seen um i don't know like maybe ever it could have just been a really good soil spot um but yeah at some point maybe maybe they'll get the disease and my bananas won't come out as much um question oh alex more has a question if a community of people came together like this and everyone is self-reliant would they really want to be in a community a lot of people at that level would just want to be left alone well i mean that's a perfectly reasonable question i i think though a lot of times i mean some people just want to be left alone fine but a lot of times people want to be left alone and this is this is me a little bit a lot of times people want to be left alone when they're when they're self-reliant because their ability to do a lot of different things results in other people showing up at their door saying can you help me with this can you help me with that can you help me with this can you help me with that and like like no one just comes to visit to say here's a hug i love you you're a great person let's hang out now everyone shows up and they're like oh you know how to do this you have this tool i need this i need everyone just needs stuff but if you were in this if i was in a community with like a whole bunch of other people who are also good at stuff and could take care of themselves and take care of their own crap and then you know when i see them they're not constantly asking me to do stuff for them i would definitely be more social than i am now not that i'm anti-social i'm actually trying to be more social lately you know for various reasons but i think i think what you're talking about there is a lot of times people end up kind of hermiting for the reasons i was saying there and you know some people do just want to be left alone and that's fine if someone wants to be alone all the time what's what's the problem although if you have a community of cool people and everything there are specific circumstances where it is very valuable to have like-minded people for instance if there is some threat to someone like you know this so for instance in the in the united states or in canada where i lived for a long time it was a common circumstance for someone to be you know building a shed or doing some kind of renovation on their house and they they didn't get a permit some neighbor would complain that the police would come and tell them they have to tear it down even though they're just trying to improve their own house on their own freaking property right but if you live around other cool people they wouldn't pull that crap on you and when the police showed up maybe they would all come out of their houses and walk over and say hey what's the problem let this guy do what he wants hey would you know like and start pushing back a little bit and maybe maybe if you have a whole bunch of people who are like-minded like that and i don't mean like-minded like they all think the same thing i mean like-minded like they they just want to make things better you know they could kind of protect their community and then you know of course if a zombie apocalypse happened then you know it's it's really nice to have like a whole bunch of people ready to fight off the zombies or you know whoever else is causing problems but yeah there there are a lot of circumstances where even if you have people who are basically keeping themselves most of the time everyone once in a while there comes up there comes a situation where it's like it's really good to have like 50 people with you know maybe shotguns or something you know just in case oh someone's talking about risk of monoculture yeah risk of monoculture in bananas is the same as the same as a human society cavendish that was the uh old old bananas right the cavendish bananas i think that was the old ones i did at one point know all the details of this banana situation but all right eric says it was banana blight i always think it's funny when they call it blight because it's not it's like it's just like problem but yeah banana blight crossbreeding bananas what's going on here in west virginia is the white oaks are dying because of a blight like a banana blight so all the white oaks are getting some white oak sickness that's terrible white oak is great it's split straight if i remember correctly which is very useful when you're trying to make things like with boards and you don't have a lumber mill how do you find jaymo on his island how do you find me well if you're on my island then you just say hey jayme what's up although you can see my house from pretty much anywhere and just look for the naked guy running around did it just get really dark holy cow i just noticed on the camera how dark it's getting and i looked out the window and yeah there's like huge gray clouds and uh oh my electricity's still fine do you mean how do you find my island that's probably a little more complicated answer maybe you email me and say you want to visit or something and then i can give you directions um but my even if you're near my island it's not obvious that my house is here i kind of did this on purpose i left like the perimeter around my island kind of wild and jungle so that when you're in my island like i can look through the leaves and see out to the water but if you look from the water and look into the island it just it's just like leaves it just looks like like almost like a raw jungle um resilience allows for resistance to a collapsing system yeah narrow ha ha ha yeah i know exactly what you're saying brother oh who's who's what was narrow saying i don't know i didn't keep up with that are you going to save the world am i going to save the world i like i do my best to do my best and you know whatever happens happens that's that's all i can do not i'm not specifically trying to save the world or anything but uh i don't know maybe i am kind of trying to save the world i'm trying to make the world as as good a place for my children and grandchildren and all the kids of the future as i can so i don't know whatever that means um jeff you just made a big dragon didn't you i want to hear about that anyway the idea of accepting that reality doesn't typically mean ideal is powerful reality doesn't typically mean ideal talk if you try to force the world to be ideal you will cause problems well yeah if you try to if you try to control too much you end up with all kinds of problems even if your control is accepted by a lot of people it often ends up creating longer-term problems because um you know if you have a society where there's a lot of control people start losing their ability to be responsible for themselves and over time they become more and more irresponsible and then you as the governing body of whatever type or the whatever authority have to control those people more and more because a lot of people are just giving up more and more of their personal responsibility and then the other type of people the people who are trying to be responsible they end up really getting crushed because the government or whatever authority has to implement more and more control over these people who are becoming more and more useless so they have to control everybody so the the people who are trying to be responsible and doing and and do things in smart ways and stuff they just they just get the the raw end of the stick and uh things get difficult for them and plus you know there's only there's only there's you can only be so irresponsible before things start collapsing and i feel like we're seeing some of that you know you know yes div i believe uh you're right it's a transition that each individual must make like a pilgrimage on their own yeah the only time i was ever in vermont i remember it smelled like a Yankee candle must have been all the hemlock trees all those uh what are they deciduous trees caniferous trees caniferous trees are the ones with needles right sorry it was a serious question immediately followed by a silly question i'm a bit behind because my service is laggy oh i'm a bit behind on the on the questions too steak is yummy yeah it is um who needs a bath when you have a wet sauna oh yeah i don't want a sauna either man i don't like like i've always been hot every i mean partly probably because i grew up in canada where it was cold a lot of time so i was used to being in the cold and then you know i was always doing sports and running around and stuff so i was just always hot that's why i'm i'm always like wearing no shirt here not always but but often and uh i do love jumping in the ocean every day though i'll have to show you my beach sometime it's not like a big amazing beach it is a little amazing beach an example of the ideal causing problems would be what if you discovered the fountain of youth and nobody ever died what a wonderful world it would be well not really think about overpopulation yeah that would be yeah it would be overpopulation and the population would become stagnant you lose the ability to uh evolve which we kind of have lost we have kind of lost the ability to evolve because we're just we're just we've just set up a society where there's no advantage for excellence anymore you know particularly no advantage in terms of having more children often people who are doing more end up with less time to take care of children they end up less with less support so we're actually supporting people who do less more so they can have more children who are you know maybe genetically inclined to do less it would be better if we just kind of step back a little bit from that but that's a whole that's a whole other can of worms there's a lot to unpack in that so i'm not gonna oh hell is different for either side of the hemisphere it seems in african they say hell is cold in norway they say hell is hot oh tomato tomato potato potato yes what would cold hell look like everyone would be oh i guess people wouldn't get snow suits then but when i when i thought of cold hell i just thought of people building snow forts and throwing snowballs at each other but that that probably wouldn't be hell they'd probably be more like freezing to death could you please video more of the nature sunsets the sea underwater etc so we get a better idea of your surroundings i can actually i've been thinking about doing that more um like i was just saying i kind of feel like i should show my beach um there is a a reason that i that i don't show all the pretty stuff that much it's kind of because i don't know people people often get this idea that since i'm living on an island i'm like hanging out on a beach you know drinking mimosas i don't even know what a mimosa is but that's i've heard that many times oh i can come visit and we can hang it on the beach and drink mimosas and i'm like no um you know homesteading is a lot of work and a lot of industriousness and doing all the stuff but that's not all it is there is definitely some hanging out on the beach and there's beautiful scenery and um i love being outside here it's amazing and sometimes things happen that i don't just don't have a camera on me at the time at the time like uh my last trip to town a few days ago i was driving you know my pedal boat and i saw some dolphins like swimming straight for me and i was like it like after like 30 seconds i was like oh wait they're not heading this way they're heading straight for me and then they they swam right up under the boat we're like swimming under the boat and the water's so clear like you totally see them oh and the my boat right under me like in front of my chair is open so i can see the water so i can see them like the dolphins swimming right under the boat this is beautiful but i think even if i had a camera i mean i can't it wouldn't it wouldn't do it that kind of thing justice it's the same thing uh it's the same kind of thing when dolphins were like outside here just jumping up in the air doing flips and stuff just because they were having fun and playing um this is beautiful stuff and then yeah sunsets and gorgeousness a lot of that's kind of hard to capture on a on a camera but i'll i'll work on doing some that it's not a good it's not going to be as good as it is in real life but maybe i can talk it up a little and make it make it seem like it's almost as good as it is in real life you're awesome create keep creating never stop filling oh well thanks erin i will i will definitely keep creating as long as i can um you're speaking about Muhammad Ali what did i say about Muhammad Ali i don't i don't remember what i was talking about i'm trying to think of what i said that might have sounded like Muhammad Ali well i just started pouring outside so if you hear a sound that sounds like that's just just the rain knows all those gray clouds um each one teach one each one should teach one another thing i really like is the term ubuntu which basically means i am because we are like i am happy because we are happy i am sad because we are sad you know in a in a greedy society that doesn't mean anything i mean it's not even a word like in english there is no there's no equivalent word for ubuntu as far as i know but in some african language ubuntu basically means i am because we are so you you can't be happy if your neighbor's not because i am happy because we are happy if your neighbor is miserable well i'm miserable because we are miserable so let's fix it you know we don't we don't have that concept where i grew up which is unfortunate and an engineer is someone that takes existing technology and uses it in a beneficial way well then i'm an engineer yes however i just want to mention a quick little thing often when people assign titles like that the implication is that the person is not something else so i'm a human being which means i can be an engineer an artist a father not a mother um maybe i could be a mother sometimes no i know um you know lots of lots of different things farmer whatever um have you looked into considered building a methane generator for cooking gas why yes i've built one as a matter of fact it's right over there it's been there for like i don't know like a year or something and i have not tried the methane i i haven't tested it to see if it's actually working i just i just haven't gotten to it and i do like cooking outside on a wood fire you know like in a rocket stove thing just like an insulated tube uh and part of the reason i like that is because it does make a bit of smoke which keeps the bugs away and if i'm cooking and it gets to the evening in the morning in the evening or when the bugs are out here generally in the middle of the day i can go out you know no shirt on and there's no problem but you know early morning and late evening when the sun's just coming up or going down the bugs are out we call it bug time um but if i'm cooking breakfast or or dinner at that time you know i'll maybe throw a leaf into the fire every now and then to make a bit of smoke just keeps the bugs away but yeah at some point i need to get a a pipe hooked up to that methane producing fart machine thing and see if it actually works dude this is my brother mark what's going on man dude i watched a couple vids from people who found your vermont place if i were you i wouldn't watch them okay so i shouldn't watch them okay i will not watch them then thank you for the recommendation i wasn't sure if i should good day do you think a shark slicer boat could have enough batteries to do the round trip what would be the biggest wait what would the biggest challenge be okay a shark slicer boat like i'm presuming a round trip like to town and back i did one time in the shark slicer do a trip that was basically equivalent yeah it was equivalent to going to town and back almost the exact same distance actually and on the way back i had a really terrible headwind and there was a storm and i still made it and i had eight uh deep cycle lead acid batteries like golf cart batteries you know six volt golf cart batteries i had eight of those on the boat and uh it made it my voltage was getting a little low by the end but it did make it and you know didn't destroy the batteries or anything um but i wouldn't want to partly i did that because i kind of wanted to see if it could actually do it and i did that trip at night so there was actually no sun at all um just because because i was being sneaky no it was because the the the tides were were right at night and at night it had been very calm for a while and in the day times it was like being real stormy but by the time it got to the morning and the sun was just starting to come up it got pretty stormy anyway uh so yeah i did do a trip that was the equivalent of going to town and back just on batteries but i wouldn't want to do that over and over because you know it'll use up the batteries of course i don't have to do it over and over because i can charge the batteries while i'm driving um i've never actually taken the shark slicer to town but maybe i will at some point i i want to renovate it and put pedals on it change the solar panels a little make it make it lighter anyway i have some stuff i want to do to it maybe you go scuba diving for salvage well you know occasionally there are like sunken boats like sailboats and stuff and i'm thinking at some point in the future when you know when i have more time when i have more food growing and you know my roof's done and you know a bunch of other things are done um when i when i get more time i want to do things like you know diving for salvage like rescuing sunken ships or or taking parts off them or whatever and i you know when i lived in vermont before it took me about five years to get to the point where i could sit in my house and be like oh everything's pretty much pretty much taken care of now i can just kind of like do whatever so i've been living in this house for a year and i was i was working on it for like two years before that and before that i was working on all dishinga stuff and that was i don't want to get into that but like working on my place um yeah i've been here for about three years so maybe maybe within like two years i'll be at a point where i'm like all right i got all my my second and third floor done i got food growing and you know i'll get to a point where i'm like okay now i can now i can do some of those kind of less necessity things kind of those more fun things you know fun like diving into muck and unscrewing stainless steel bolts under the water and dragging that that is totally fun i want to be the mike reynolds of air crete do it man jeff i want to hear about this dragon because i thought i saw i thought it was you who posted a picture of a big steel dragon on on facebook oh sleigh love from sweden hey it weighs what kind of name is sleigh is that your real name it has three ease in it i'm trying to look at the picture i can't tell if it's a boy or a girl spray the banana leafs with two melted aspirin in a gallon of water i don't i don't think i want to do that to the banana trees all the time because that's i mean if i could do that once and like they'd be fine fine but uh i think a better solution would be to have a variety of different bananas because there are different varieties of bananas one i oh Steve says one issue i see with the world is people wanting to decide what others need that is actually a huge problem yeah yeah you should decide what you need not decide what other people need for instance jamie you don't need so many boats so we steal your boats and give them to the boat yeah that is a problem yeah totally even though i do use all my boats because i often have well not often but occasionally have friends borrow them or i'll use different boats for different things question is there a jamie day already there because it should i think because there should be um well jamie day would be may 3rd that's my birthday right jamie day i think that's jamie day um and when i lived in vermont um every year i don't remember exactly when it started but it went on for several years um every year during the week of my birthday like people would come visit like a lot a lot of like youtube fans and just people from all over the world is crazy people from like all over the world would come to visit and we just have like an adventure builder week and some some people came during the week some people just came for that weekend or whatever it was pretty cool i kind of want to start doing that again maybe next year the week of may 3rd whatever that is i'll have a come come visit and camp out on my island kind of thing i've been wanting to do that to me and that was actually a really cool thing because i met some really really awesome people doing that anyway to me thinking is better done when doing something often my best idea has happened when i am doing something completely unrelated oh i know what you're talking about like when you're on the toilet you know extruding and you suddenly like oh i figured out how to do the thing and then you have to go like write it write down the designs before you forget them yeah i don't know why i do i do my best best thinking when i'm not doing anything else like when i'm really trying to focus on something to figure out the details or something but yeah like the more imaginative like kind of random idea generator that kind of that can happen anywhere doing anything and it is often the kind of thing that happens when i'm when i'm doing something else like i used to i used to always get ideas while i was running like i'd go for like 10 mile run and halfway through i'd be like oh i got an idea for a thing i just have all these different ideas and by the time i got to the end i write down a bunch of stuff and try not to forget everything after a lot of time i found your island on google earth oh you should definitely send me an aerial photo and that's not creepy at all yes it is it's creepy have you it's fine though have you heard of people wait i i kind of want to try what if i found it what if i told you i found your house on google earth so so me being me hey i was like i was like really curious i mean not to be creepy or anything but then i was like i'm gonna go on google earth and find your house i found your house on google earth so i can watch you haha all right have you heard of people using banana stems to shred into fibers then weaving them into rugs and other useful things i have heard of that and i watched a video on it once even like the guy basically took the the banana stock which is the banana stocks are kind of like spongy like like there are a lot of water and um it's not like wood or anything it's also not really like grass it's it's just kind of spongy i don't know but they do have these long fibers in them so if you take it and put it like on a a thing like with a bunch of nails sticking up and like jam it on the nails and then pull you'll pull off all the spongy stuff and you'll end up with these long fibers that you can then use to you know make clothing and cloth and stuff and i have not tried that um but maybe one day well have you heard of people yes so yes i've heard of it do you think a land vehicle like a bicycle with your solar roof concept would work like the shark slicer um yes if i was going to do a land vehicle that was solar powered i would probably i would probably want to have batteries in it because um you know with my boats uh whenever i'm driving and the sun is not on the solar panels i'm just pedaling so i slow down and then you know the cloud moves out of the way the sun comes out of speed up and with a boat that variation in speed is fine but if you're on a road driving with other cars and stuff you you probably need to be able to keep a consistent speed so you probably need batteries to you know buffer that a bicycle would be difficult because there's not a lot of space to put solar panels um but i used to think about like an rv like a recreational vehicle nice and wide and long but maybe make it shorter than a standard rv uh just so you know so you don't have so much wind resistance but you know keep that long wide part and maybe make it so you can crank it up so you can so when you park somewhere if you wanted to get in the big space you can't but anyway just have that that that whole roof covered with solar panels and you can get a lot of a lot of energy out of that and and yeah it would totally work but uh yeah basically you want to you'd want a vehicle with a lot of a lot of space for the solar panels um of course you could also make like a four-wheeled bicycle a quad cycle and just make it really lightweight and aerodynamic and you wouldn't need such so much solar panel stuff you know you could run that off like a like a quarter horsepower and yeah i mean a person peddling is like a quarter horsepower i think i think that's actually more than most people can pedal Greg Stiles said would up homey question will you ever raise meat animals i raise them to my face and bite them probably disheina currently has chickens and we we don't we don't usually eat them we usually just have the eggs but there was that one rooster that was crowing like at two in the morning and after a month of this disheina was like oh my god can you just can you just like can we just eat the rooster just just that one that that really pretty beautiful huge it was a huge rooster so so we ate him we also ate a couple ducks yeah for the most part we were still you know buying meat from wherever a guy came by disheina's place recently with some pork that they slaughtered that day it was just a couple of guys in a wood canoe they do a good job and you know the price was fine and we got some of that um for me personally on my island i want to get plants plant food going first like i don't want to have animals that i have to buy food for so if i was going to have chickens for example i want to first be growing either enough corn to feed them or have like a big enough like a big compost mound that they can root through and get the bugs or like i want to be able to feed i don't have to buy food to feed the animals so they can feed me you know but then some animals will just eat grass and stuff like that like rabbits but they'll also eat all my vegetables so yeah i want to i want to get vegetables and and you know root plants and i want to get all my all my plant food growing first before i get into to animals but disheina does does have animals what do you think of the modern cultural trend of attention as commodity and today's generation looking at influencers as people to emulate okay i'm so basically the i might i might be messing this up but basically the question is what how do i feel about the cultural trend of like attention as commodity being like people just trying to get attention so like like posting something on youtube or facebook or whatever and just just trying to get as many many views and lights as possible and putting aside all other considerations that's idiotic it's it's so dumb it's completely idiotic oh it's it's like yeah totally dumb it doesn't make any sense at all and it's it's sort of like feeding your ego something that will not nourish it you know it's like it's just like taking drugs you know like i can take heroin and and feel great oh i feel great and then you know the more but but it doesn't actually do anything for me doesn't it doesn't it doesn't make me better it's making feel better very temporarily and then because it didn't actually make me better in some way that good feeling is gonna disappear pretty quick and then i need more heroin and then it's just and then you know you end up just taking it to not feel bad and you know it's just yeah it's just the same thing and an addictive waste of time and so much energy it's such a huge waste of human energy going into that yeah and influencers as people to emulate i mean like if you're emulating someone who's doing something good fine but if you're just emulating someone because they're getting attention and you want to try to get attention too it's yeah total waste of human energy what do you imagine like aliens coming to our planet and seeing that like like imagine imagine we you know got our society worked out to the point where we could you know make cool spaceships and it wasn't you know having a spaceship was kind of like having a car you could fly around and we found some other planet with other creatures there and we we looked through our binoculars down at the planet and you know we listened with our magical listeners and we could translate what they're saying and you just see like like a billion creatures saying look at me look at me look at me look at me look at me look at me and just that's it all day look at me look at me oh you'd be like well maybe we should maybe we should just destroy this planet and just this is horrible or maybe we should just at least put up some buoys so people know not to come here this is terrible place maybe that's what's happening with us right now maybe there's like some interstellar buoys set up outside our solar system that basically warn pastors by uh don't don't don't don't go here there's just yeah just just keep going mimosas sounds like a small free animal it does yeah mimosas i was i was i saw a mimosa out in the jungle so i went and and snuck up behind it and touched it oh the mimosa was so soft but then i climbed on my shoulder and i and i walked around with a little mimosa on my shoulder uh okay mimosa is champagne and orange juice you should try it man i just don't i'll take the orange juice but i don't i don't know i just don't drink alcohol either it's not like any huge thing against it i just for me to do something i need to see i need more benefit not that everything i do is only for you know utilitarian purposes but like yeah i just don't i don't see enough benefit in in alcohol for for me to get involved with it oh please show video of the fish trap in action or figure out a way to make a better fish trap or a second fish trap well the fish trap does work pretty well although i'm not sure how to get video of it in action because like you put it in the water and like like a day and a half goes by and it's like oh there's a fish and i'm like i'm not gonna have a camera down there watching it for like a day and a half while waiting for some fish to swim into it um but do you mean in action like pulling it out of the water with some fishing it there's i've done a few videos of that a while ago i'll try to do one i'll i'll write that down okay i'll add morning exercises again because i didn't do that yet morning exercises okay and fish trap i don't know if i need to make a better fish trap it does work pretty well i don't know maybe at some point i will oh and this kind of goes along the uh along with the do i raise meat animals question i do catch fish and eat them and crabs and snails you know like conk no no conk though but like small conk i don't know what they're some kind of sea snail a laborer uses his hands a craftsman uses his wait uses his hand and his mind and an artist uses his hands his mind and his heart okay um hey i made it i hope you all are good black water boys who's who's black water boys anyway how many boys are there and hello i'm glad you're here thank you for the definition of ubuntu ironically i use the ubuntu version of linux so i enjoyed zombie chopper town trip video and in the spirit of ubuntu it is up to the community to share the new viewers oh to share with new viewers the sublime genius of jamie's inventions gears and bearings oh i do love gears and bearings oh my gosh gears and bearings they're so amazing when i was a kid like like you know like there are kids who are just like oh my god candy candy oh my god if i saw gears like i remember going into some store i didn't remember what the store was but it was some kind of hobby shoppers i think it was a hobby store actually like where they had radio control stuff and up on the wall i was only in there for a few minutes going through with someone else i don't remember who i was with but up on the wall behind the guy at the counter there was like this bag thing package of servo gears like replacement gears for servos and i was just like oh my god there's like 50 gears in there because it was like for like eight servo replacements or something and i got them i think i i don't know i was with someone who ended up buying them for me because i was i was like nine years old or something and i made some pretty cool stuff with those one of them was actually in my movie i made the the adventure builder movie it was the the spider with the little like skinny legs where there are coat hangers but the the spindly little legs all the gears along that that drove the the legs they they were they were that and yeah anytime i like it found gears like in a in a surplus store or something i would just like buy the whole thing i remember once i was in a surplus store there was this once like an army surplus store maybe like five miles from where i were where i lived like during high school and i would go running to there maybe once every week or two and i'd go in and one day they had this this box full of just plastic gears i don't know where they came from they were about this big and they had like the the teeth around the big part and then some teeth around a little gear that was like attached and i was like oh my gosh and they were like 40 cents each and i was like dude how much for the whole box and he gave me a good price in the whole box and i just took the whole box and ran home with it like five miles and then i started running with a backpack you know just in case i would also always run with like rocks in my hand so i was used to carrying things because i didn't want to just build up my legs i wanted my arms to be strong too so i was a question oh yeah gears and bearings hey tomaters i would love to be a member ralfi oh that's who it is blackwater but boys is ralfi if i could pick you i would youtube doesn't do that though i don't know anything about that no problem man yes i posted that but not my work it took the artist two years to complete would be awesome oh okay so jeff i was asking jeff earlier about this big steel dragon that he posted on his facebook page it wasn't something he built it was something someone else built that that thing was pretty cool have you seen the exploring with josh mini documentary on the vermont property well my brother just mentioned earlier in a comment that i should not watch it so i don't think i'm gonna watch it uh let's see brian lib says thanks you're welcome i don't know who to say thanks to i hope to be a member too weird okay ralfi who's we how many people are the blackwater boys toilet extrusion okay what's the coolest piece of junk you've ever found and repurposed oh well the okay the the first thing that came to my head so let me i'll i'll try to think of something even better but the first thing that came to my head and this was like amazing timing and like really rare occurrence which is part of why i think it was so amazing so when i was in vermont i first moved off grid and like i came straight out of the city like i grew up in the suburbs went to university in some city and then lived in a city for a while you know making money to save up to move off grid so i moved off grid i had no idea what i was doing but i loved it and i was like okay i want to build this dome i want to build this house this dome and the first thing i'm going to build well after the foundation is a steel pipe frame so i'm going to go to the store and buy emt pipes you know it's like the electric metallic tubing just like galvanized steel pipes and i'm going to crush the ends of them and then put holes in them and i needed something like 300 holes or maybe it was 300 pipes in which case it would be 600 holes anyway either way i needed to put like hundreds of holes half inch holes in these pipes so i could put you know attach them together with half inch bolts and you know i was like okay let me let me just try drilling one i don't think this is going to be a viable solution because you know i'm out in the woods i don't have much electricity and yeah i think it's just going to use too much electricity because at the time solar panels were still still expensive and i did not have much money so i drilled one hole and i was like oh wow i am not going to be able to drill hundreds of these this is this is ridiculous i gotta figure something out so the thing i'd made to crush the ends of the pipes was just like like a like i had some steel box tube and made like a hinged thing on one end and it just like you know like went like this like a giant nutcracker so i'd stick the pipe in and crush and then i was like well let me see if i make another one of these with a hole in the bottom and i can put a piece of of a bolt in a top part like a hardened bolt and cut it off in an angle so that i can go and actually punch a hole through and it was kind of hard to punch the hole through but if i if i hit this part with a hammer i could punch the hole through of course hitting it with a hammer after you know a few dozen holes 30 or 40 holes it eventually you know kind of cracked the thing you know like i had to rebuild it differently to get it to do another 30 or 40 holes and uh by the time i i started you know using the second one i was like yeah there's gotta be a better thing i can do here let me go to the junkyard and really take a good look and back in back at this point in time there was a junkyard near me that you could just go into and like browse oh it was amazing it didn't did not last that many years after that but it was it was at a point when i could go in and rummage through the pile and it was that was amazing so i go into the i drove into the junkyard park got out of my car this is this huge pile of scrap metal like like big as a couple houses put together just this is a mountain of scrap metal so i'm just real rummaging around in there i don't want to like pull it out and make a mess because you know these people have to put this into containers or something uh and then i saw this the edge of this really heavy looking cast iron thing i grabbed it and pulled it out and let me let me get a little drawing of what i pulled out uh i'm not gonna be able to get this exact uh yeah something like that so it was this big cast iron thing that looks like this i believe they're called an arbor press now this part is on like a slidey thing here so this part can slide up and down or maybe there was a part inside that could slide on the down yeah i think there's a part inside here that could slide up and down and it didn't have any anything down here it was just a flat plate across and the part that could slide up and down had no like tool at the bottom or anything but it had enough parts that i could that i got a hardened steel bolt shoved up in here that i cut off in an angle and i used you know what the you know these things that go in the back of your truck the trailer hitch the trailer hitch yeah so i also found a trailer hitch which had a hole let's make this a little bit 3d it had a you know a couple holes in here that were the right size so i bolted this onto the thing here and then if i slid this slider up and down it would go through the hole and the slider thing also up here had a hole going through it that way so i put this thing on there got it in position got this lined up so it would go through the hole and i jammed a piece of rebar in here and i would take it and lift it up and smash it down as hard as i could on the you know the the pipe that had been squished where i was trying to drill this half inch hole and i would just take this thing and and at first i i could smash through in like like within 10 smashes i could i could punch a half inch hole in these in these pipes but eventually i got strong enough because i did this for like a while um eventually i got strong enough at it that i could do it like three smashes and i could punch a hole right through the the steel thing a half inch hole and uh it basically made it so i could build the whole steel frame of this this dome in a reasonable amount of time and it was when i was very short on money winter was coming it was it was so it was so beneficial to have found that thing at the right time and this thing this thing must have weighed like i don't know like 50 to 100 pounds anyway and it was exactly what i needed and it's so useful um but let me think coolest piece of junk you've ever found in repurpose let me think of that's the first one that came to mind but let me think of something else other stuff well i mean the next thing i thought of was you know the main body of my stainless steel wheelbarrow it was a the housing for a slot machine it wasn't like a really amazing cool piece it was just like a piece of sheet metal but i made something with it that i use a lot that i really like and i'm sure at some point i'm gonna think of something that was like a specific thing that was really cool i did find a tent that i used for a while and some some backpacks that were cool anyway um yeah i found so many different things damn so close like gambling okay anyway to contact you if we get you something from your amazon wishlist i got a survival food item you had on amazon i hope i did it correctly oh yeah um totally email me um my email address should be in the comments here it's if i remember correctly the adventure builder movie at gmail.com and on my amazon wishlist thing there should be a note that says my email address and that basically says you know let me know if you send something so you know i can tell the shipping guy um but thank you i've been totally wanting to try some of this weird survival food stuff because you know at some point i might want to get some you know not that i think the world's collapsing or anything but you know yeah i might it might be might be beneficial to have some some backup emergency supplies i've actually been thinking i kind of want to build a couple little bunkers up in the jungle where i have like 25 acres and just you know just to have an emergency i guess it's my bug out spot so you know make a few bunkers in there like underground concrete things enough space and some you know some supplies in there emergency foods and water and stuff that if for some reason we just had to disappear for some political reason some war some environmental reason or who knows what you know it would just be kind of nice to have that and yeah i've been thinking about doing that in which case i would want to have some emergency food supplies there the dutch university from i believe leaden netherlands built a solar car ran races in australia and won well that's cool so thank you thank you the bearded duke um but yes h retin tells me about that a dutch university built a solar car you know i bet the people in i bet the dutch people since they were living in a place with so so little sun they were kind of advantaged because they had to make a really really good car to make it work in the netherlands and then they got to australia and it was like it was like wow so much sun you know it's kind of like kind of like training at high altitude when you're a runner and then you go back to normal altitude and you're like so much oxygen i can be amazing now i'm putting solar panels on a trike already has a battery oh cool that's roll fee um dude show show me some show me some pictures post them on facebook or something or or email me i'd love to see them i remember being in high school excitedly watching you build oh man that's cool build the banana building on the mountain the world has changed a lot since then it has uh but i'm glad to still come back and watch j work with bananas oh we had bananas this morning um i have a like half a bunch of bananas hanging up in my kitchen right now the shana has the other half and this morning well all four of my kids here were all four of my kids were here this morning just left here last night which is happens regularly and they saw the bananas and they just the younger ones the three younger ones were just like eating all the bananas and i had to be like wait stop we need to save some of those for me and your older sister because man those kids but then you got to hold the bananas they're just like well i'll eat 20 bananas all at once okay everybody get out of my way i'm just gonna hour and uh i used to think that getting a whole bunch of bananas like like hundreds of bananas at once was a problem because you can't eat them in time which would be a problem if i was by myself but man my kids are here i mean i i never have a problem getting through the bananas before they go bad that's cool that you watched that you watch the videos in high school i you know i wish i wish that when i was younger like in high school even before that i could have watched some some person the internet wasn't the thing you know back then and in high school was when it was just barely starting um but yeah i didn't have internet or anything like that there was never anything about you know living off grid or homesteading stuff for me to watch when i was a kid i would have been total out that would have been amazing i remember once seeing you know what's that guy richard so uh building a plastic bottle island he built his own like floating island i saw that when i was in high school and i was just like oh my god that's amazing i wish i could have seen more of that and that's one of the really cool things about the internet you know you can see you can see people living you know they're weird lifestyles that might connect with you in some way it's it's really cool thing thank you for being awesome and sending good vibes into the world well thank you i i do my best um i'm i'm glad to feel appreciated i'm glad it's it's working to some to some degree do you catch a neat fish i do catch neat fish mostly just in a fish trap although i do occasionally drag a line to catch something oh some guy said he might send me some some fishing lures i hope those come that would be amazing he has a few traps by the shana's place yes i have some well i have a fishing trap over at the shana's place just one because it works pretty well question have you thought of having a small machinery on the island skid steer backhoe small dozer will surely make the work for moving earth easy well kind of i did build a small solar powered bulldozer over at the shana's it was very useful for flattening out a big area that i had to do there super useful for that but over here um you know the the elevation i'm like working up at the top of the hill and putting dirt down at the bottom hill in specific areas it would just i don't know there's not a lot of room to maneuver machinery so so far i've just been doing it with a bulldozer i mean not a bulldozer a wheelbarrow wheelbarrow and you know shovels which is working pretty well i also like the the exercise although i have been thinking more and more about getting my bulldozer from the shana's house and bringing it over here i'll have to take it apart to move it because it's kind of blocked in by some gardens and stuff now uh and i was thinking when i take it apart i maybe i'll put it together in a little bit configuration a little bit different configuration that might be more useful here um but i just haven't gotten to it yet i mean i have a list of like a hundred things i would love to do if i had like 40 clones of me i could that'd be amazing chickens eat everything i saw garden waste used uh can you can have wait you can have a a bit of a table have a worm farm box oh they make tea for the garden yeah i could just have like a thing full of worms that the chickens could eat and stuff yeah they would also like you're saying eat everything so they eat all my pepper plants and all my my my potatoes and yeah they'll just eat everything so i don't want to get chickens until i have some way to control where they go so they can be in a certain area and not eat all my vegetables or maybe protect my vegetables in some way i don't know the only issue is that you will have to convert them to solar i don't know what that's referring to probably something excellent when the aliens come and ask take me to your leader we're screwed you should be our leader well someone someone we should not have leaders who are like leaders by authority like take me to your leader it should be like well that guy over there is pretty good guy you should talk to him you know yeah interstellar buoys is a great band name i'm gonna start a band called interstellar buoys i i'm terrible at music but i'm just gonna do it anyway i well my kids like my music my songs are generally pretty silly and have to do with farts and wearing pants on your head and stuff tuan li hi jamie thanks for your answer the other day you are so inspiring well thank you i don't remember what answer i gave you but i'm i'm glad you enjoyed it the most inspirational i don't know what sam's talking about but hopefully it's very inspirational oh keith you've retracted a message was that was that one of those jamie you suck donkey eggs and you need to go to h e double hockey six oh wait no i'm gonna retract that okay it probably wasn't anything like that uh the pvc bearings are a great idea i fully agree yeah those pvc bearings like on my pedal boat those are amazing like never have any problems no rust or anything they're really great just remember that you already have a dozer but a very small one yes i do have a very small dozer i don't know if i want to get a big like a bigger piece of equipment to like move stuff around maybe at some point i don't know but i am i do enjoy doing things with my own muscles and stuff and i think there's also something valuable about certain things taking longer like moving dirt taking longer because then it gives you a chance to really kind of connect with the big you know the environment you're doing stuff with so if you if you just come in with a bulldozer and just you know it's done but then if you if you come in with a wheelbarrow or smaller dozer or some kind of smaller piece of equipment that takes longer you know you spend more time moving the dirt or whatever and you end up maybe changing your mind about where you want to how you want to do things as you go you kind of you kind of end up getting feedback from the land you know i like that uh oh hey jamie this is from ship wreck shipwrecked monkey hey jamie another uh great live session thanks keep seeing a black window control box on your shelves are you planning on going back to the 3d printing at all giant styrocreep printer one day maybe oh that would be kind of interesting except the hardest thing about the styrocreep is mixing it up once you actually have the styrocreep it's styrocreep styrocreep styrocreep it's pretty easy to to put it into shapes but where's this black control box anyway um there's a guy who was maybe gonna send me a 3d printer that he manufactured so he got he he's busy though so i don't i don't know but probably at some point i will have a 3d printer here and play with it again yes the blackwater boys are almost the same as the adventure builders i don't know and i started this in 2015 and i am ralph ralphie you are my inspiration bro okay i get what the blackwater water boys is now cool are you helping with these new house okay so dishinga is building a new house and um i'm to make a long story short i'm trying to stay out of it as much as possible not that i don't help but i think this is this is one of those things where it's it's extremely valuable for her to do it personally like it is valuable to her personally for her personal growth to build her own house and maybe also for her her appreciation of me a little bit but anyway yeah i'm i'm trying to i i do help her if she needs me my help with something it's not that i i don't help her with anything but that particular project i'm trying to stay out of it as much as i possibly can um this is my brother saying um i used to take apart his toys to get yours that is true i remember i would ask my brother hey man do you really want this toy or should we like take it apart man this would this would be a good thing to take apart right because it's got some good parts in it yeah gears gears oh oh yeah there are 24 of us now this is the blackwater boys there are 21 blackwater boys very unorganized though cool sounds like it might be more organized than the adventure builder club adventure builders club which is supposed to be not not formally organized like if any organization just comes up comes it comes what's the word comes not comes apart comes to be spontaneously one of the things i think is a problem is viewing the opinion of a celebrity as important oh yeah the best best example is an actor while being an actor is fine but keep in mind actors are good at deceiving yeah so steve there is talking about going back to the topic of you know people emulating people they see so it is good to keep in mind that just because someone is famous or they're in a movie you like or something doesn't mean they're actually a good person they could be a good person could be a bad person and even if they are a good person doesn't mean they have good ideas you know um often and i yeah definitely too much too much weight gets put on people who are famous in terms of people paying attention or listening to them it's kind of a problem question what do you think about the solar panels on dishehna's boat i want to buy them through her on amazon why would you buy them through her oh because then she gets some kickbacks or something yeah the solar panels on her boat look look great they seem to be doing a really good job um so dishehna has this pedal boat that i made years ago and she recently and this this kind of a goes along with the question that the guy just had about am i helping her with her house so dishehna said she wanted to put a motor and a solar system on the pedal boat and i let her do that all by herself well i ended up you know making the motor mount okay fine i put it together in the end but it was up to her to research the parts and buy them and everything and she did a great job she got this little trolling motor and got some batteries and and some solar panels and some some people on youtube helped her get some of that stuff and then she brought it all over and you know asked me to help her put it together but so i helped her put it put it all together and attach it to the boat and everything but yeah now her boat is solar powered and it works great it's amazing not as fast as my boat but she doesn't need one that fast because she's not driving it all the way to town although she's been talking about it well we'll have to talk about that i have one of those they are handy the arbor press oh this is man i'm way behind on comments now aren't i the arbor press yeah we're surrounded by food people um keith will you be your kids track coach let's get training i do exercises with my kids not specifically track and field stuff although i do want to at some point build like a track maybe not a 400 meter track like i could i could fit a 200 meter track well i could fit a 400 meter track on my land over there um but i think like a 200 meter track i could do that and then just on my island here i've been working on trails so they're like there's kind of a a track around the island so you can run around this island and then there's another little island that's like right there i mean you can walk to it but i'm making a little bridge over to it so you can run around this island and run around and make a little course i don't know how long it'll be maybe it'll be a quarter mile i'm a scavenger my nature sometimes i reminisce about my great moments in scavenging got any of your own well i talked about one the uh the arbor press yeah hey jamie thank you for teaching me how to work with fiberglass and pvc especially heating pvc i do it all the time now yeah fiberglass is i mean pvc is so much more useful once you realize you know you just heat it up and melt it and put it into whatever shape you want it's really cool the retracted messages are because i can't spell well that was key that's funny no problem then um more time to appreciate the work a bug a bug out location is a wonderful idea for instance you don't usually have hurricane that's another reason hurricanes yeah you don't usually have hurricanes where you are but what if having a place that you know you will be fine no matter what is very cool yeah so one of the one of the reasons i want to build a bunker up in the up in the jungle is would be you know what if a hurricane shows up i mean it's it's extremely rare for a hurricane to show up in this area i i don't think it's i mean it definitely hasn't happened in my lifetime um but you know you never know what's gonna happen it would be good to have an emergency spot this house i think could handle a lot but you know i might not want to risk my kids in it in the event of a hurricane saw an attack knit on youtube that had your weapons replaced by a balloon popping paper burning blue laser and a red aiming laser i i've seen that too yeah um that blackwater boys carefully you might catch a gang affiliation charge oh jeez am i gonna get get charged with gang affiliation for adventure builders did you ever see my channel where i build domes using tyvek airforms and a stucco sprayer for the cement mix no i have not seen that air crete harry oh maybe i should look let me see uh air crete harry i'll have to check that out using tyvek airforms question how is your bored mill going and are you making boards for your second story of your house i'm not make i'm not cutting boards yet i have not yet build built the lumber mill however you know it's kind of rolling around in my head i've got my lathe set up and the first part i think i want to do for my lumber mill is take this one axle that's over there that has a okay i've got this just give me a second i'm drawing a thing choo choo choo choo oh that's not very good threads oh whatever okay i've got this thing kind of like this and at this end this threaded part is roughly an inch an inch in diameter and the sawblades have an inch diameter hole so it'll fit on there right but i need to lathe down a little bit of a little bit of this down to like a really precise inch so the saw blade fits on it really snugly and i also have a thing that fits onto this like a threaded thing that fits on there and i'll cut that into a bolt or whatever but if i can get this lathe down to fit the hole then i can then i can mount saw blade on this shaft and that's the that's the i think that's the first piece i'm gonna make i'm probably getting pretty close to doing that but i will you know i also want to think about how the rest of it goes together just in case i want to change that part is your dome roof dragon scales done thanks for your answers my roof is not done i haven't done any work on it in i don't know like a month and a half partly because there are so few leaks in my house at the moment right now it's pouring rain and oh i see a little drip over there toward the middle of the house but uh once i got the dragon scales all the way around the outer part there's so few drips left so it seems like kind of a not not an urgent thing to finish and then the other thing is i only work on it on cloudy days that are not raining so not sunny days and not rainy days and most most days here are either sunny or raining but i'll i'll get it finished finished at some point i'm you know i'm getting closer to the top i don't know when i'll finish that it's just not not super urgent let's see usus conway made turtle island in north carolina where he teaches off-grid style homesteading and survival etc yeah he seems like a pretty cool guy although i don't i don't know that much about him obviously um but yeah the the little bit i did see about him was was pretty cool he was teaching people to grow food and live off the grid and stuff like that and be respectful of the of the environment and not wasteful and all that and all that stuff i'm totally down with although i when i typed in his name a lot of the stuff that came up was about his place being raided by you know the authorities because he wasn't he wasn't doing what they wanted basically and the weird thing was in the interview when he was talking about it he was explaining that he had complied with all of the health regulations and he'd even passed their inspections several times but eventually they just said okay we don't care that you're passing the inspections we we just don't like what we're doing so we're we're shutting you down anyway or just what i was what i was saying earlier about you know the world right now is just stifling the real leaders the the people who can fix things the people who are trying to make the world better you know those type of people are life is life is being made harder for them which is not what we need right now we need life we need this we need to smooth the rails for those types of people let them do their thing let them let them fix problems you know but the problem is people in charge who are leading through authority don't like people who lead naturally who lead because people want voluntarily want to want to follow them thanks Tomaters William Glasser how's it going man sometimes saw blade shaft threads are left-handed oh i did check this saw blade this saw blade this isn't actually a saw blade shaft the thing i'm doing here it is right-handed so i have to make sure it's spinning the right direction when i put it all together because you know if you if you have a saw that spins like left it can unscrew the saw blade as you're going so you need to make sure it's spinning the right way which tightens the saw blade as it's cutting let's see Eustace rode a horse across America all that that must have been fun i read a book about him called The Last American Man which is probably a little little melodramatic i'm sure he's not the last american man but i i get the uh the sentiment for sure question how many realistic watts can you get from a solar panel i live in buffalo new york depends on the solar panel that's like saying how many miles per hour can you get out of car depends on the car yeah depends on the solar panel um i have a 275 watt solar panel on top of my house and it's roughly a meter by a meter and a half if i remember or a meter and a quarter i don't know it's somewhere a little over a square meter if i remember correctly it's 275 watts so solar panels are amazing they're one of the coolest the coolest inventions that's happened in a long time because like you can just like just the ability to put something in the sunlight the sunlight is everywhere right it's everywhere it gets everywhere on the planet you can go anywhere on the planet where the sun shines and you can hold out this thing and you can get electricity out of it which can run all kinds of things of course it's a really cool invention once i found a filing cabinet on the side of the road and some old metal dryer pipe or vent pipe i turned the filing cabinet into a wood stove oh it must have been a good like heavy duty filing cabinet to boil maple sap into syrup use dryer vent pipe as chimney oh that is awesome man that's super cool yeah i've found lots of stuff on the sides of roads even when i go to town now whenever i go in i i often come out of town with like some some wire or some springs or like a screw it's just just stuff and occasionally i'll find some some big thing and i'll just drag it to my boat and bring it home oh sorry haha out of a hundred watt panel so you're asking me how many watts you can realistically get out of a hundred watt panel well it depends on how you're using it okay so the way i run my boats is i put the solar panels on the roof and there's wires that come to switch and then directly to the motor so that's the most efficient way you can have you can run solar panels have them go directly to whatever you're doing and in that case you can get pretty close to a hundred watts of course it depends what your son is like how well you're aimed at the sun how fly did it whatever like in in full sun if it says a hundred watts you should pretty much get around a hundred watts i might get a little bit more here because i'm close to the equator but anyway if you if you're charging batteries with it that means it's running through a charge controller and going into the batteries you're losing a fair amount of the efficiency like maybe a third because the the charge controller is going to waste a bit of energy and then to charge the battery you actually have to have a higher voltage than the battery so you have to like kind of really force the electricity in there at a higher higher voltage or a higher pressure then you'll be able to get back out of it because there's some resistance in the battery so the more things it's going through the more energy you're losing and the way i i usually think about it is if i'm setting up like a solar system that's going to have a charge controller and you know an inverter and batteries and all that all that extra stuff i count on getting like two-thirds of what the solar panel says in the end more or less i hear you solar is so cool yeah solar panels are really cool invention emma blackbird hello emma did you know my channel is almost all boys watching it's always exciting to see some of the ladies come maybe partly because i have a bunch of daughters and i want to get them interested in building and stuff which they are anyway do you see people videos of them exploring your old house oh yeah i haven't seen it well there are a few videos of of people exploring my own house and uh i was hesitant to watch them and i've since had some recommendations of people to say yeah don't don't watch it because you know you know when you watch people going through your old stuff it's kind of like i don't i don't know i don't know i don't want to get emotionally attached to how people are using or misusing my old house i'd rather just pay attention to what i'm doing here blackwater boys ideally you get 75 capacity for about five to six hours on the average okay so williams is saying if you have solar panels out in the sun if you're for about five or six hours of the day you can count on getting about 75 of the capacity emma says ha ha hello i love your creativity well thank you emma that is great and blackwater boys says thank you william for letting me know about solar panels and i have actually gotten to the end of the comments and i'm at 10 minutes short of two hours well we might as well go to the to the full two hours here so if anyone has any other questions that you want to ask i can answer a couple more questions or i can actually tell you what i've been doing a little bit lately so i had to go to town twice this week well i didn't have to but i went to town twice this week because a container came in which is you know stuff shipped from the united states and so i went to pick up a bunch of packages because uh you know i have this amazon wish list and several people sent me messages saying hey i got you this and this and this so i knew i had a bunch of stuff coming so i went on tuesday and there were two containers coming one on sunday and one on tuesday and i figured i could pick them both up on tuesday but i got there on tuesday and they're like oh the second container is delayed sorry but here's the stuff from the first one which was amazing stuff i got like some uh uh silk what's it called mirror spray paint so you just spray it on a piece of glass you basically make a mirror some chrome pens i got where did it go i got a new tripod this was not on my amazon wish list this was just someone sent us a bunch of stuff for my family but i got a a new tripod for my camera which is way better than my old one which was kind of falling apart the new one actually gets tall which is really nice and some other stuff i did end up making a video so i i got all the stuff in video and then i ended up going two days later on thursday to get the rest of the stuff that came on the second container so i have a bunch of new stuff here oh one of the things i got was um two new computers they're actually super used and old um and they had no hard drives no no uh they didn't come with the charger they're missing a bunch of stuff but one of my old computers was dying like screen went that little mouse pad thing went uh so i took the hard drive out of that one and put it in one of these new computers that i got really cheap because they were used and you know we're missing hard drives and stuff so now i have uh two computers again because i really don't like having only one computer because you know when i'm doing these youtube videos and stuff if i only have one computer i'm one breakage away from from being dead in the water so i always like to have two computers one i use on the internet and the other one never goes online so the one that never goes online is not going to get any viruses or windows updates or anything windows updates are kind of like viruses you know um let's see how would you go about making a solar moped i would the first thing i think of is make a sidecar and maybe make a little roof over the sidecar or over both of you yeah actually a roof a little roof over the sidecar wouldn't have to be too high although it might be nice to also have a roof over yourself um yeah i would probably put a solar panel over the over a sidecar i mean you could just also just make a thing but it would it would you know if you just made a roof on a moped it would make you kind of unstable there's also fold out solar panels but it'd be nice to have it out all the time i don't know there's so many different ideas in different ways you could do that someone tell jamie to make shorts i told him about the other day when i talked to him i sent him something from that list you did send me something from the list you sent me some uh some refillable paint markers which william says are amazing so it's basically just a marker that you put paint in and you know you pump the marker a little bit and paint me you can draw with the paint it's supposed to be really good uh wait what was the first part of that so yeah do shorts so yeah maybe i should start doing some shorts like maybe just do like 30 second lives once once in a while just to give a heads up about what i'm working on stuff frederick brindcrat hello hi there jamie late again today no problem hope all is fine with you guys still didn't get to take pics with my handy dandy do-it-yourself shovel i'm looking forward to see that that will be amazing it's tucked away in my vehicle for just maybe for just in cases that's great do you still use the panasonic nope wait do you use the panasonic notebook still one second okay so this is my this is my main computer and one of you guys sent me this from oh i don't remember what the company was called tech tough or tough tech anyway they make black cobra computers and this is a panasonic tough book and this company refurbishes refurbishes them and one of the guys in the company or maybe they all do i don't know watch my videos and they they sent me this one for free which is amazing because you know i use this to edit all my videos and you know make video games and stuff and i had another i had another tough book which was my other computer that would go online which was you know the one i would risk going online with which we get viruses and that that's the one that died the my uh the one i got from someone who sent it to me for free that one is still going great yeah this one this one is still amazing it's been amazing and everything is great with it but my other one died so let me grab it oh so i went on ebay and bought two of these and this came with no charger didn't have a hard drive so there's no operating system it was missing some other stuff um so i took some of the parts out of my broken one and put it in here and so now this is my second computer and i bought two of these they're like one was 120 dollars and the other one was like 140 and these are like really expensive they're really expensive new but you can often find them pretty cheap used and the reason there are so many used is because they're tough so they they last pretty long so people stop using them and they're still in good enough shape to use and i get them because they're they're supposed to be waterproof and shock proof and you know living in a place by the sea i never know if they're going to be damaged or something i don't want something i have to keep placing so i try to get something that's that's in good shape or that can that can handle a lot of you know a lot of use all of your hard work and persistence and ingenuity ingenuity has made a positive impact on my life and how i do things thank you keep it up well alex you're welcome i'm i'm glad it's been been useful that's that's really cool thanks man thanks for letting me know i love getting those messages because then it makes me feel like all this work i'm putting into these videos and you know all that stuff is actually worth it so that's really cool steve says example of stifling is actually your home i talked with the building department oh yeah here about alternate construction if your home isn't stick built you have to hire an engineer to say it's okay yeah so earlier i was talking about how the creative people the problem solvers that the people who can save the world the people who fix things they're really being stifled in in our modern world and that's that's dragging us down man those are the people we need to just say go go do do anything you want basically because they they solve problems they fix things they come up with new ideas and in north america and a lot of other places in the world you can't even build your own house you know you have to get permission and you can only build certain things and it's it's really sad when we get to a point when as a species you are not allowed to build yourself a dwelling you cannot build shelter for yourself it doesn't make sense it doesn't make sense at all oh jeff do i want to read this just watch the exploring with josh video about the old place and it's very good very positive to you and said uh and someone just bought it and the main dome is in great shape still oh well that's good i'm glad it's it's still in great shape uh yeah air crete harry says hi to jeff i figure you would know jeff because jeff is also super into air crete you guys must hang out and do air crete stuff you gotta that'd be cool not that i think we live near each other anything all right well i'm at a minute no i'm at an hour and 59 minutes here in 30 seconds so i guess i'm gonna shut up in a second and i hope i hope everyone's having a great day and thank you for the people today who said that you know what i'm doing is having a beneficial impact on your life that that really that means a lot to me you know it makes it really feel like like what i'm doing is worthwhile so that's really great thank you and i hope everyone has a wonderful day and if anyone has one more question you have like 10 seconds to say it all right i'm gonna get out of here thank you thanks for streaming and the youtube videos all of these years see you next week yes see you next week i hope everyone has an excellent day okay i'm going to hit the button i'm going to hit the button where's the button it's right up there oh one more comment okay are you sure you want to stream what's the meaning of life oh right when i'm closing the thing you you cheeky little all right i'll see you guys later