 All right, I'm just gonna waste two minutes again like I usually do give people a chance to get here One thing I wanted to check real quick is How's my signal doing this week? Oh, man. I'm so totally lit by the side right now Sun's over there now. Anyway last week my signal was a little bit worse than usual and a week and a half ago actually was like Losing internet like it was coming in and out and We talked to the guy who gives us internet and he was like, yeah, I think it's just some kind of weather problem so, you know Check on it tomorrow. You see if it's fine and I Don't know the next day. It seemed all right But then you know last week my my few people commented on my video quality being down a little so maybe it was just you know some Atmospheric disturbances electricity in the air too much Moisture, I don't know. But yeah, people are saying it looks good right now So hopefully that's good and I'm gonna I'm gonna try not to move too much too because you know when you move more Like this I'll pixelate. Whoa, check out my muscles. Whoa, I gotta move I've been been doing some good. Let's nice I've been doing doing lots of digging lately All right, perfect the alarm told me to join the show and I did that's excellent Pitch wife. What is pitch wife? Do you do you throw things? Looking good. I like your model bridge behind you. Oh, yeah model bridge behind me. I love that thing It was over here last week, but my kids are always taking it and then they play with it I'm really glad I built that Because the kids I'll have to show you guys the bridge to I'm not gonna do it during this live because you know anytime I take the camera move around it gets all pixely But I'm gonna get some video of the bridge. I'm gonna talk a little bit about the bridge today in a minute Let's see which I watched a video of someone going around your old place in the woods Have you seen it last from the plat from the past? No, I have not seen So once I once I let's just cover this question because this comes up every week But once I sold my place in Vermont, I didn't look back. I made a conscious decision to like just not Not pay attention to it anymore Like I didn't want to know because like when you put your heart and soul into something and then you transfer ownership to someone else You know like it's kind of hard to divorce yourself from all the all the connection You had to that place and then see someone else doing who knows what with it Maybe maybe I wouldn't like it. Maybe you'll be fine. I don't know But I was like, you know what now that it's yours. It's it's totally yours So when I sold it, I just completely moved on cut the umbilical cord and just I came here. So I haven't kept up with what's going on in my old place in Vermont at all Although I do think it's funny that I think There are probably more views on the videos of people going to explore my place now than there are on my videos here Which is funny although it's it's it is a lot easier to make videos when you just come up upon a place and You know, you just look around what's interesting and show that Versus when you're actually building the place because you know, then you end up not necessarily showing the most interesting thing all the Time it's kind of more like it's more like interesting to an engineer as opposed to a tourist So I mean, I guess that's fine because I want my my videos to be more interesting to an engineer or someone It's kind of involved Anyway, okay, let me start talking about what I was what I was gonna talk about here I have a I have a little bit of a monologue. I thought I'd mention and Here we go Recently, I've been having a little bit of difficulty with my kids Particularly the 12 year old, you know, 12 year old girl. She's got all these hormones and things going on and she's emotional and Angry and just just all over the place, right? and We've just had like a month and a half of Like rain. Well, we've kind of been out of it for the last couple weeks Like now it's things are starting to kind of turn back into like who it's nice and sunny outside And I can actually kind of rely on that a little bit But for like, you know, November and like a lot of December it was just rainy So everyone was stuck inside and you know, we're getting a little bit of a little bit of cabin fever Is that what you call it? people are getting antsy and anxious and Now that the sun came back out. I'm like, all right We got to get back to what we were doing before which is like you would go outside and and get some exercise And that helps burn off some of this tension Particularly in the you know the almost teenage girl who really needs to burn off some of that Some of that anger that tension so a Few days ago like earlier. I don't know Wednesday or something. Anyway earlier this week I said to my kids, hey, you want to go go out and dig up on the hill because you know It's all dried out and we can dig there now again because you know We haven't been able to dig up there for a while because it's just been too mucky and wet and They've gotten so used to just being stuck inside That they're kind of like oh I kind of feel like just Doing stuff in here, but the problem is they're they're stuck inside They're they're getting into fights with each other and they're just like short tempered and angry and I'm like I have this vision of my head of of us as a family working together toward making our our whole Family Better and making our home better, you know, we all work together and cooperate have this vision of this in my head But it's not happening now and you know, it's sure You know that happens when you get stuck inside because of the weather for a while But I need I need us to get back to that but now we're stuck in a rut So I'm like come on guys. I mean, let's let's go You guys love going out and you know digging and getting out in the in the air and getting some fresh air Well, you guys love this but they don't remember that they love it because it was like a while ago when we did that So, you know after a bit of well, I don't feel like doing that You know a bunch of whining Eventually, I was just like all right Jamie figure out the answer right now. Come on figure it out So I sat there for a few minutes and I thought about it and I was like, okay They're not they're not interested in getting involved because there's no there's no They don't understand the benefit They're gonna get in terms of they're gonna feel better after they do it like that's something I've learned because I've gone through this process a whole bunch of times I know that if I if I if I go do some exercise I'm always gonna feel better even if I don't feel like doing that at the beginning, but they haven't learned this yet So I gotta I gotta get figure out some way of motivating them But I don't just want to scream at them or like drag them out of the house and yell at them because that's just ah It's just exhausting and then as soon as I'm not yelling at them. They're gonna stop. So I was like, okay, I Need to get them somehow involved with With some kind of positive result that happens from this exercise that happens more immediately then Then like, you know, we're gonna finish this thing eventually and it's going to be it's gonna motivate you No, they're not they don't care what's gonna happen like two months from now No, I need I need something that's gonna they're gonna get some kind of reward today But not an artificial award reward I don't want to give them some some bull crap metal thing. You know, here's a treat or whatever. So I said All right kids, here's the deal make sure you're listening because I'm only saying this once I'm not arguing with you about it anymore Anyone who wants to earn dinner? Let's go dig anyone who does not want to earn dinner and does not want to eat dinner Stay in here do whatever you want to do and I walked out the front door. All four kids came with me Zero zero more complaining and it had already been like like 10 or 15 minutes of like back and forth. Come on. No, come on No, yeah, once it was like now. There's a reason to do it. They're like, let's go and You know at the beginning we're doing some digging And there's a bit of griping and I'm like, come on guys You gotta get you know you involved with this like like we're building this bridge because you know now I've got this I've got this bridge kind of like kind of like this but with with dirt coming up dirt dirt going over and dirt Going down the other side and it's almost up to the other island that we're going to so we always almost have a Bridge and a path right up to the other island which we could right now We you have to walk through a bit of mud But as soon as we get this path done, you'll just be able to walk right over to the other island It'll be amazing right so I'm like, come on guys you guys guys get it get involved in this and then it'll be your bridge, too It's not like you're just coming and just walking on this bridge No, it'll be yours. You did work and you you can value that. They're just kind of like Yeah, but you know But the fact that they know they have to earn dinner so they have to keep digging kept them going and And I and I said at the beginning all right, we're gonna do ten wheelbarrow's and You know there was a bit of oh ten wheelbarrow so much. No, no that's what we're doing if you if you want dinner you got to help to be ten wheelbarrow's and My my son's little wheelbarrow. We counted that as half. You know, it's not half, but whatever We still counted it as half, but I made a stipulation We can't just do all his little tiny wheelbarrow. We can't do 20 of his little bit wheelbarrow's There can only be one of his little wheelbarrow's for every big full wheelbarrow So we're digging there's a little bit of griping at first, but then because they're motivated to keep going You know by the third or fourth wheelbarrow they start just like you know They still didn't look excited about it Well, one kid was excited about it But the the almost teenager was still a little bit like oh fine. Oh, let's go come on She's starting to get in a little bit and she starts still being still trying to trying to act like she doesn't like it But then halfway through I was like all right Let's go get a water break. Let's take a water break and then go back out now We only at that point we did we did we've gotten six done Because just because the way it works out, you know, we kind of do one and a half wheelbarrow at a time We couldn't stop at four and a half. So I stopped at six One and a half because big wheelbarrow and a little wheelbarrow. We were doing them together So anyway, then we got into the the second half Which was only four full wheelbarrows or we ended up doing three full ones and three small ones and You know, we started going and then then the kids more and more even the 12 year old started Starting kind of speeding up being like who we're getting somewhere. We're actually getting to the goal We were almost at the number. Let's go. Let's go and they started getting more and more into it And by the end we got to the last wheelbarrow and instead of stopping at 10 We did the extra half wheelbarrow the extra little wheelbarrow and did 10 and a half And then we got to the bottom and everyone walked down the path Because the the way it works is like I'm digging out dirt way up on the top of the hill to flatten up the flatten out this area You know to put a to put a little house up there and to have like a field where we can play frisbee and whatever So we're flattening out an area up there And then we're taking the dirt down this path along a thing To to build this path to the to the other island, you know, the bridge thing I was talking about so everyone came down and Instead of just running in the house most of them I think one of them ran in the house But you know the other three came to the bridge and they're looking at the dirt like wow look how far we got We're getting so far and even the 12 year old came out after and was looking was like yeah Pretty good. And then I was asking them how many how many more wheelbarrows do you think we need? and You know it it probably took us about I don't know a little over an hour an hour and 15 minutes. Maybe But the mood After versus the mood before was a complete change and for the rest of the day There was no fighting everyone was happy. It was just like it was just like the atmosphere in my house Was so good and it lasted even through the next morning until I said, you know At two o'clock the next afternoon All right, do you guys want dinner or no dinner? And then I ended up making a rule which was that If you if you don't want to dig i'm not going to make you starve But you just get noodles with no sauce and the sauce is amazing the sauce has got all the stuff in it The noodles are just plain and boring. I'm not going to make anyone starve But if you don't help you just get plain noodles and you know, there's a little bit of griping But then they're immediately they've all right because I walked out the door and they're like, oh, we better go and uh You know just just having that thing where I have the kids involved in their life and They're not just getting everything for free totally changed the atmosphere made everything so much better and You know, I'm not gonna they they know they're not gonna starve But they also know that I'm not gonna give them the good dinner until they do the thing because once I once Papa says something they know I've got adventure builder honor once I say something that is it. It is done deal so uh Yeah, they they get they get they got more involved and everything was happier and You know cooperative and they started talking about like You know how to how to get the bridge done and how many more wheelbarrows we need to do and all this stuff And they just start it just got their their minds involved and engaged in Like real life and what we're doing here and Not to say that what they do the rest of the time is terrible or anything because most of the time Or I shouldn't say most of the time a lot of the time. Well, what they were doing before we went and dug was Like three of the kids were building robots with lego. Amazing. You know using their imagination being creative and then the other one Was the older girl. She was uh the older girl my older daughter She was making sewing dresses for adult, which is also, you know, very creative and a good thing to do and she's being active and everything but you know, none of that stuff actually, uh Actually improves their day right now other than the satisfaction of doing it, of course, which is you know, you you build a thing You get a thing and it's like yay But just adding that extra thing where it's like if you do this Then you get dinner Like you're actually doing you're actually working for your dinner Uh, and we even had a conversation after digging on the second day where I was like You know, we did dinner or we we did all the digging and then we jumped in the ocean and did swims and then Got all clean had our shower showers here are hilarious because there's a big outdoor shower and Like me and the I and the little kids all get in at the same time and they're just running back and forth. It's hilarious Anyway, um, then we came in and they're eating dinner and I'm like, oh man This dinner tastes so great after doing all that exercise and my my son is like, yeah, man This tastes so good after I don't know is it because we did all this exercise and my 10 year old daughter's like Boy, I feel like this is making muscles. And yeah, you know, if you uh If you're I don't know if I don't know if other people are having the same situation with their kids But I just thought I'd share that story because well, let's face that a lot of people have that situation with your kids Yeah, you know, they're they're always ways you can get them involved in in life and in doing things And this is actually one of the huge benefits to living In an off-grid kind of lifestyle or in the wilderness or or even if you just have a yard Where there's some kind of yard work to do and you can get the kids outside Working together to do something. It's it's really beneficial for the whole family dynamic to get their minds starting to think about The fact that what they do actually affects real life. It's just there's I mean, it's just so many benefits, you know And now I need to think of something to do on rainy days because we're not going to go out and dig in the mud On a rainy day. I can't even get the wheelbarrow down the hill on the rainy days to slick Everything would fall so I'm gonna have to come up with some some rainy day stuff some rainy day projects to do inside not sure what yet, but Something I'll have to come up with something. Maybe if anyone has any suggestions out there, you know, what do you? I know some of you are parents What do you with your kids if you want to get them involved in something and you know make them earn their dinner? So to speak or literally You know, do you have some indoor things that you you do with them get them involved paint Paint the house or I don't know build something or One thing I was actually thinking is I was talking a few weeks ago about making like a backdrop a background That I can hang up while I'm doing these these kind of lives And I might get them involved with me helping to make that but that's just gonna be one thing Uh, so what what do you guys do with your kids indoors or outdoors? Okay, let's let's see where I am And right now I just talked for like 15 minutes. So I'm gonna be 15 minutes behind the comments, but I'm gonna try to go through them all Uh, let's see. Why did you leave the dome house the one in Vermont? Ah, yes. Okay. It's famous now Uh, it is kind of famous now Um, it was famous before too, which is probably why it was I sold it in one day It was really easy to sell although I did take the first offer that I got on it So that probably made it a lot easier to sell Uh, why did I leave the dome house my house in Vermont? Uh, there are two kind of ways I can approach this one is that I'm like my my first choice For a place to live as long as I'm on the earth not counting outer space and spaceships and stuff My first choice to live On the earth was always an island because I love boats. I love being In the ocean. I love swimming. I love fishing. I love. I just love the ocean. I love really love being on the ocean Uh, I really love getting in a boat and driving somewhere. Yeah, it's slower in the ocean than it is on a road But the road is like it's everywhere You just pick the direction you want to go and you just go there as long as there isn't a piece of land in the way You just go anywhere I was I always felt so restricted driving in these little lanes With all these people many of whom have road rage and it's just Man put me in a boat in a wide open sea. Oh, it's beautiful thing And uh, you know living in a tropical place Uh, there's an all year growing season here and I want to grow food I want to get to the point where we're growing enough food that we don't have to go buy anymore It doesn't mean we won't go buy food that we're not growing or anything But I want to be at the point where we don't have to It's a lot harder to do in a cold climate So there are a bunch of things like that where Like living on an island in the caribbean is just like my first choice like ever since I was a little kid Uh, I've I've always wanted to do this my second choice was always living on a mountain And that was amazing when I when I bought the mountain in vermont And I moved up there built this amazing dome and it had the trampoline and the slide and and all the super cool stuff There's spring water. I mean it was an amazing place But I was always like this is second choice though There's something I want more than this and just imagine if I could take the top of this mountain And plop it in the ocean somewhere Like oh that would be amazing and now now I'm here and you know, I've got a dome that's like four Four times the size of the other one by volume maybe maybe more than that. I mean this this place is huge I have so much space. I have a better workshop than I ever had before You know, it's just yeah, it's just amazing Now the other thing had to do with more kind of political issues Uh The united states, you know, I wasn't living in the united states before the united states is increasingly against freedom and that's You know the united states is It was a it was a Freedom was a huge Thing in the united states and then it became just a talking point And then it became something that you do not have at all. You do not have freedom You do not build your own house without asking permission and I I did build my own house without asking permission the only reason I got away with it is because Probably because it was like 15 years ago or whatever it was. I mean it gets increasingly harder as time goes on. There are more and more restrictions and more rules And the other reason is because I just did it out in the woods. No one was there. No one saw it Although eventually, you know people I was on the news a few times and outside this youtube channel And uh, you know, I was in a bunch of different magazines and stuff I was in wired magazine a few times for like stuff. Anyway You know the local tax man eventually saw me on the On the local news And and then came over and was like wow, I see you're doing all this stuff We're gonna have to tax the crap out of you because you know You've been doing all these improvements to your property and just the idea that I have to pay the government For for my own hard work to improve my own life. It's just No, no, no, that's it It gives a huge incentive to sitting around and doing nothing It makes it harder to make improvements to your life and there's just so many problems with it And then, you know, just just the fact that there are so many regulations and increasing regulations in the united states and canada and europe and australia and there's all this this Stuff against living off grid and being independent. It's just getting harder and harder To own your own property and do your own thing like So anyway, that's another reason I wanted to get out of there Plus, you know, I had kids And my kids were still pretty young at the time and I looked at the kids around me And there, you know, there were some kids with decent decent childhoods and everything You know, I was living in a pretty pretty rural area where kids still played outside and stuff But just increasingly I was seeing more and more kids just with the the tablet of the phone And I was like, I can't I can't raise my kids in that society plus i'm going to be paying for Uh paying for public school and if I don't want to put my kids in public school I'm gonna have to fill out all these forms and get ask permission To raise my own children and not let the government forget it. So Yeah, I mean there is that whole issue And eventually I was just like I got to get out of here I got to get out of here for my sake for my kids sake We need to go somewhere where we can have more freedom to live the lives we want where I can I can look at my kids and say, okay, what do they need? Not what do I need to do legally speaking to you know be within the regulations? Like what what do my kids actually need? So for example, you know this week My kids needed to go outside and dig and I needed to get them involved in a project where where we all work together and that's what they needed and You know living in this place. There's enough freedom that I can do that I can look at them and say, okay What do they need? That's what I need to do without constantly thinking. Okay What is the us or the canadian government or wherever I'm living? What is the government going to require of me with my kids? I also need to take into that that into account while trying to figure out what they need and it's just Yeah, living living with more freedom is just so much better All right, that's like a 20-minute answer to that Short question. Samuel Chammel says smash that like button. I don't know what the like button does but cool Uh, good morning read Jason Adams asks How's the running trail? Well, the running trail is what we were working on when we were digging You know with the bridge where it's got the dirt over it and it's going to the other island So right now I've got the running trail That starts up at the top of the hill where we're flattening out an area And the running trail kind of curves down the side of the hill on the island Down to the bottom and goes toward the other island over there It comes like right by the by the house and then kind of curves toward the other island And pretty soon we're going to have that connected to the other island And then you'll be able to run up onto the other island and there's a little path up there Not really a like a manicured path or anything It's just from where people are walking and then you'll be able to run down the other side and maybe do a loop and come back Uh, but eventually, you know, we'll have it keep going somewhere else So the running trail is going well. It's it's you know, it keeps getting longer and longer. It's great It's a running joke to ask about your Vermont house now. Yes. I did notice that that is true The big welcome to my house sign is still in your old dome the big welcome to my house sign I don't remember. I don't remember the sign. I've not seen it for so long. I yeah Uh, good day everyone David says Phil hey, I'm adding place in Vermont to my bingo sheet Once you start gardening your views will skyrocket people love that stuff also fishing well, I've been doing some gardening But yeah, I I do need to I haven't gotten really really into I'm still trying to like Mess and figure out you know Fishing yeah, I need to do more fishing too Alex says hi jamie question. I'm currently in the process of digging a root cellar under my porch under your porch. Cool. Okay I'm about four feet down and hit water. Oh Do you have any thoughts or suggestions on how you would build it? Well if you hit water that That raises a lot of questions like Like is that water Going to keep like if you scoop the water out is it going to keep filling in there? There are a lot of things to think about if you've got water there Could you use it as a water source for something or is it just like you got down to the where the water is and you know It's it's kind of you just going to build above that and it'll be fine Well, it makes me think of when I built Something in in the spring house back in Vermont I I basically built this pool In a stream and what I did was I dug out where I wanted it to be Even though the water was kind of running through and then I put I put Like a plastic sheet down on top of that so the water was under the plastic sheet And then I put concrete on top of that and it was it was a little bit tricky because the water kept Filling up and you know it like floating the plastic sheet. So I had to like force it to stay down So I made some some concrete squares Put the plastic sheet down laid the concrete squares on like on the floor and up the sides to force the concrete Or that the plastic sheet to go down even though the water kept trying to float it up and then Put a bunch of concrete between the cracks and just filled in the whole thing and then I ended up with a pretty good pretty good Yeah, whatever you call it like a like a like a like a concrete bathtub kind of thing and uh I don't know if it would have leaked or not Probably wouldn't because the concrete or the plastic sheet was under there But it didn't matter because I had water coming into the pool and then running out of the pool that's what it was supposed to do But uh, yeah, if you if you want to build something Like a what was it was a root cellar, right? Yeah, if you want to build a root cellar down there You should be able to do it that way and make sure you have a good plastic sheet Before you put the concrete so you're so the water doesn't get in Another thing you might want to think about is just putting Like a bunch of gravel down to get up above the water That's that would probably be the most recommended thing Like if you're if you dug down to water and you want to build something down there Put like I don't know six inches of gravel. Maybe you can do a little less depends how much water's there But just to get above the water and let the you know, let the water run through the gravel and do what it's going to do And then just build on top of that Of course, you know, I'd have to see it to really get a good idea Do you still want to have people come and help with the islands? I don't know if I ever wanted people to come and help with the islands like I want people to come and I want to I want to build a village. I want to have a community like I want I want cool neighbors, but I don't I don't really need help with the islands Um, I mean, you know if we work together and you know build a garden and stuff like that cool, but um I don't I don't think I really need help with the islands Um, but I definitely want people to come and And live you know people who are like me who look around in society and are like Yeah, I think this is going downhill. I think this is going in a bad direction It'd be kind of good to you know Live in some place where we can be more self-sufficient and independent so that you know As things are slowly crumbling will be insulated from it and not just relying on money for everything Because you know as everyone is noticing right now, hopefully you're noticing by now inflation's getting pretty bad and it's there's no There's nothing There's no there's no end in sight at the moment like it just at this point inflation is just getting worse and worse And it's probably going to keep getting worse for a while. So if you're you know just dependent on money you're You're susceptible to issues like that But you know if you can get away from that kind of society that kind of culture and get into one that's more You know just connected with nature nature is not just going to disappear But if nature disappears we're all dead anyway, so it doesn't matter But you know relying more on your on yourself and your own hard work And not letting that just be taken away by financial trickery You know people who who want that kind of life Um, I want I'm hoping more of those people will come and live here And I've a few people here now and it's great. It's amazing. You know having having a few cool neighbors And I would really I would really like to have more Although, you know if there are people who want to come and just hang out for a week or whatever Um, yeah, I'm open to that too You're going to come and you know do some digging help out with some stuff, you know Have a fun have a fun working vacation. Yeah, totally How do people send you stuff like donations of tools and why not? Oh Jason Adams, I don't know if you're asking for personal reasons, but if you have Some tools you would like to say and totally send me an email my email should be down here the The Adventure Builder movie at gmail.com which has just become my my normal email now Um, yeah, it's not that hard to send me stuff. I have an address in the United States in Florida And I can get things sent there and then it gets put on a container and ends up here. Well not here. It ends up in town Within a month it depends, you know, there's a there's like a once a month shipping container thing Sometimes more than once a month, but yeah, it gets it gets here within a month and then I can go pick it up But the only thing is It has to be Either have to tell the guy or someone else well I usually tell people just just send me a message saying what's in the box or whatever And then I have to let the guy know so that when it comes into customs into the country You know the customs guy can be like, oh, okay. This is a box full of this stuff this is a box full of this stuff and You know, they don't usually open the marina thing as long as they're fairly well documented And it doesn't have to be like exact itemized things But you know, yeah, it has to be kind of an old box of old tools, you know Those are the best man. Anyway, yeah, if you If you have something you want to send that would be amazing People have sent me a few things recently that have been really really good A few tool things I've been using recently And then also I have an amazon wish list and I put stuff on there every now and then And I originally did it because some guy was like, hey, you should have an amazon wish list and I'm all like What I don't deserve people to just say why Why is like arrogant to think that anyone's gonna send me anything? He's like, no, just just make your wish list, you know I'll I'll get you something off it. I was like, well, okay, that'll be amazing So I made the wish list and he he promptly sent me a couple things and he sent me a couple things like another couple weeks later and Yeah, now people have sent me a bunch of things like Like a metal cutter. Oh like one of those big like Metal cutter. Oh, it's amazing A bunch of bolts and just like tool things and like really useful things someone sent me some off the amazon wish list recently sent me emergency food rations Which I thought would be a good idea to have around and I opened some and you know tested some they taste kind of Like butter cookies. There's just this little little kind of boring biscuits although If you don't like have a lot of Like sugar ever or anything or you don't eat cookies and stuff like that I mean, they're basically really like kind of plain cookies and my kids loved them one of my kids actually Oh, this is hilarious. I also it's a it's a box like a like a steel box Not like a super heavy duty, you know, you probably call it like a tin box even though it's not made out of tin But a box of of individual packages and each each individual package has like four of these biscuit things in it And I was like, all right, let's let's open one kids and we'll we'll share One of these packs of four biscuits And my kids were like, oh these delicious And I was like, all right, let's let's put the rest, you know lock them up in their steel box and put them in the shelf for You know emergency or you know every once in a while Maybe if we're going on a boat trip or something we'll take one with us But for the most part I want to I want to save them and uh And then like a week later I noticed the lid is a little bit crooked and I'm like, hey wait a minute that lid is not on right So I I open up two packs are missing. So I fix the lid and I'm like, all right Have you been eating the emergency rations and my one kid's like what and I'm like, okay next Have you been eating the emergency rations? Wait, what? No, not you. Have you been eating the emergency rations? Oh So busted. So one of my one of my daughters was sneaking them I don't even know when she was sneaking of them. She was pretty sneaky about it because none of us Notice that she had eaten these things And it's not just like a like four of these emergency rations. It's not just like a pop and it's gone It's like you've got a chew on it for a while. They're kind of dry Yeah, somehow she managed to eat two whole packs at some point in time But anyway, I had a conversation with her and I got her to promise not to do that again If she really wants one we can she can let me know and we can talk about it um Anyway, so yeah, um, oh and I also have Uh patreon, so I have a bunch of people on patreon who who You know send money every month through patreon Which is kind of like the thing the most reliable thing that keeps keeps me going doing the videos and everything Just having that little the little stream of money coming in Really he makes it so I can keep doing the videos um, and then I also have You know paypal and bitcoin someone sent me some bitcoin recently Which is super cool, and I think I'm going to use it To buy some some metal materials some stainless steel and some uh marine grade aluminum aluminum stuff which I may Use some up for a boat, but I want to I want to have some extra Just kind of as a You know saved up Treasure basically has treasure Because you know if I if I buy a bunch of stainless steel Poles they're not going to degrade over time and that way if If you know inflation gets real bad and money becomes worth a lot less You know a stainless steel pole will still be the same and it's not going to rust or anything And the same with like a bunch of sheets of marine grade aluminum aluminum as long as I have a decent place decent spot to store them They'll they'll keep their wealth and I can build boats with them or You know I could sell them at some point if I need to or whatever I'd rather do that than buying gold Or something like that that I I couldn't really use myself. I also want to get a bunch more Emergency rations, you know just because it's a really nice thing to have like knowing that You've got like a month worth of Food that's just long-term storage food You know just in case it's it's like it's a really nice thing to have even if it's something kind of bland and not that great You know just knowing that if things suddenly go bad or something goes wrong Or you know you have you have a couple weeks in a row where just just things are all going wrong You you've got like a month of food like you're not going to starve and your family's not going to starve You know, it's it's nice to have that Kids love organizing get them to help you sort your collection of stuff. That is totally true. So two weeks ago When or maybe it was three weeks ago, I think it was two weeks ago when it was raining outside I got the kids to help me organize like a whole bunch of uh You know like scrap metal stuff that I you know, I whenever I go to town I always go by this scrap metal guy and I'll buy stuff from them And then I'll bring it home and you know, it kind of ends up in a pile and Every now and then I'm like, all right, I got to organize this because it's kind of a mess and yeah They help me organize that you're right kids kids love organizing things And they got really into that Not not my 12 year old. She was still busy making doll houses and stuff like that Which is also cool, but but uh all the other kids they were totally into it question What kind of ropes are the best to replace rebar in concrete? That is an excellent question And I almost screwed that up when I built my house here. So You don't want to use polyester rope because polyester rope it kind of disintegrates in the in the concrete Like the cement reacts with it and disintegrates and gets weaker um, you should double check this On the internet or wherever, but if I remember correctly Uh polyethylene rope Is fine in the concrete it'll last and that's what I've that's what I've got in in here And then in all of these verticals Uh, and you can actually see some of my polyethylene ropes sticking out and every once in a while I'll go yank one of those parts and they're they're still strong and my house has been here for a year And I yank on them and it's it seems good Uh What is it nylon or vinyl ropes? Are fine too. I don't know you'd have to double check this but polyethylene ropes are good and then I think either vinyl or nylon ropes, but Definitely double check that but not polyester ropes and I started building my house And I didn't even think about that like what kind of what kind of rope I need to use because this is a plastic rope Right? Why is it getting disintegrated in the concrete? Is it going to be fine? No Polyester rope is not fine and someone said something to me about ropes disintegrate in the concrete and I was like Well a natural rope will sure but like a plastic rope. Oh, no, no no a plastic rope that'll disintegrate and I was like Oh, no, so I did some research on the internet found out polyethylene ropes are fine polyester ropes No good and I did not know what kind of ropes I was using and I was already I'd already done enough of my house to be like, oh crap I didn't you know, I wasn't like done the whole thing or anything, but I you know, I I'd gotten to this far definitely anyway And I was like, oh no, I don't even know what kind of ropes these are so and then I looked up the The properties of the different kind of ropes and polyester ropes sink I might have this backwards One one sinks in one float so I took a piece and it did the right thing I think it floated. I think the polyethylene rope float Anyway, it did the right thing and I was like, oh Thank you just fate, you know, I just I that was just pure luck that I used the right ropes and I mean it was it was luck, but it was also Because the kind of ropes polyethylene ropes are cheaper than polyester ropes So when I bought ropes in town, they were the cheaper ones because they I want they want to sell the cheaper thing Um, they don't even stock more expensive stuff They just want to charge as much as they can for the cheapest thing. So in this case I had the cheaper rope and I was very lucky that I did Question have you oh my gosh Have you played the ultimate series your virtues remind me of the avatar's virtues Okay, so for anyone who doesn't know the ultimate series is a series of video games And the first video game that I really played when I was a kid was ultimate three and It's it was just an old rpg And I and I have it on my computer right now because now you can get it for free because it's you know It's a really old game But I'll still play that game once in a while because you know a lot of those old Old role-playing games They don't have the fancy graphics or anything, but they have like cool stories and like the gameplay is really good And as long as you don't care about the graphics like a lot of them are still totally playable And the ultimate video games totally still playable I would argue that even Ultima one and two there's there's one that comes before that that's a little bit It kind of crashes too much, but um Like even ultimate one and two you have to you have to Take into consideration that these are old games and go into it Understanding that this is a really old game, but as long as you do that they're totally still playable Now he's the the virtues he's talking about Started in ultimate four. So I played ultimate three And you know, you can be a thief and in all the ultimate games up to that point Stealing was of great value. You know, it was a valuable skill and you can steal stuff and it was In some of the games you almost had to steal just to survive And you know people kind of complained like when parents were complaining, you know, this is kind of teaching our kids bad values So richard garry at the guy who who made these games when he made ultimate four He decided okay, we're not going to have just some evil enemy to kill You're going to learn an ideology that has to do with you know a set of eight virtues and Basically you go through the game and to to know what to do and where to go and do the right things you have to kind of slowly learn this This like religion not like not a god religion just like a religion of of virtues of principles And then you get to the end of the game. Oh, I don't even want to tell you um But yeah, if you if you want to if you want to play a video game That is like just was just like a revolutionary thing And it's still amazing because like I don't know of any other video games or video game series that do this They're I'm sure there are but just the the morality of The ideology in the game was so important like it's like that's what the game is all about It's not about killing stuff and fighting and just getting stronger It's like no you have to learn this ideology and then you go through this really cool adventure and the ending is amazing and When when I the first time I played ultima 4 And I played it as an adult. I never had it as a kid I wish I had that game as a kid because I would have gotten I would have gotten the idea of having A set of principles like just like having virtues as a kid that would have been so useful But I didn't play it until I was an adult But anyway, I got to the end of the game and anyone who's played the game will know what I'm talking about But when I got to the end of the game I finished it on the spot. I didn't I didn't have to like go back And like, you know cheat online or anything or you know put it away and then like think about it for a while No, when I got to the end it was like, oh I know all the answers. I know how to do this Because of everything I've done through the game, you know, it at all stuck and gave me this really cool ideology And that was a huge inspiration for when I came up with the adventure builder Virtues now in that video game in ultima 4 I I didn't necessarily agree with all the virtues, which is why I didn't just say well I'll just take that as my my ideology um, you know, I thought it was a little A little bit sloppily put together. It was really good though. It was really really good And there were there were a few things I didn't agree with one one of the virtues in that game was sacrifice And I don't think sacrifice is a virtue And not that it can never be a virtue But the problem with sacrifice is generally when you have to sacrifice something has already gone wrong So when you have to sacrifice, it means, you know, you're trying to climb out of a hole that you shouldn't have been in the first place That's that's what sacrifice is a lot of the time So if you're really being virtuous, you don't get to a position where you have to sacrifice And I also don't think that doing the right thing Is a sacrifice and that's something that's implied when when sacrifice is a virtue It's like it's always saying that, you know To do the right thing you have to lose something, but I don't like to think about it that way. I think like Like if I'm going to exercise today, it's going to put me in pain and discomfort and some people would say, well, that's a sacrifice But to me, that's not a sacrifice and if you think it's a sacrifice that makes that makes the pain worse, you know But I don't think it's a sacrifice. I think that pain is valuable too And then, you know, I get all these benefits these the longer term benefits from the exercise But I don't think I'm sacrificing anything by having some exercise and going on an adventure right now That's also a good thing and if you you think about it that way Then you can just always be these excellent adventures that you're excited about and having a great time with You know, even when things get difficult, you can still appreciate it because you're not thinking I'm sacrificing and suffering right now You can think I'm doing an adventure right now. So that's why I don't have sacrifice as a virtue in the Adventure Builders Club I've probably gone off gone on enough about that By some bored Dungeons & Dragons style games great pastime with the kids. Well I mean that kind of stuff is cool, but The thing is my kids already have so much Like role-playing game stuff. They just make up Themselves on the spot. I don't think they need anything structured for that What I want to do more of is is get them involved in something That has a direct effect on our quality of life So like gardening for example, if I get them involved in gardening Then we eat the food then they can say I did that work And then we got the food and I got to eat the food and they connect the hard work with the benefit And the same thing with you know, we're working on the bridge together You know every time they walk across that bridge, they'll be able to say yeah, I worked on this I did hard work. I made this happen and now we have this amazing thing But I do know where you're coming from Where are they living now? Anyone knows in chat. Where are they living now? Who's living now? Wait I might have missed something Do your kids have a pet my kids have well not at my house, but at the Shana's house There's a dog a cat a rabbit a bunch of chickens I think that's it, but I don't know there might be some more stuff at my house We and at the Shana's house actually We kind of have wild pets. So they're not really pets like we don't take care of them but You know, my kids have named some of the local birds that they they see regularly because you know birds will find a place Kind of hang out in the zone like there. There's some really pretty Cranes maybe like the tall birds with long skinny legs and a long neck like I think they're cranes, but I don't I don't know what they actually are. Crane might be a specific thing that's Different than these but anyway, they're they're these really cool big birds And there's a gray one. There's gray ones and there's white ones I don't know if it's a gender thing or what but anyway, there's a gray one and a white one That hang out just over here and they're always, you know Stick in their face in the water pulling fish out like little fish out of the water right here So that's that's my my pets here question I revised Your cathedral build Wait, I might have missed something. All right, let me just read it as it's written I revised your cathedral build. How did you know it's gonna work and gonna hold? Especially that concrete dome Where did your confidence come from for such a mega project? No doubts. Um That is a good question. Okay so Building the walls I'm pretty sure the walls we're gonna. I mean, it's just a vertical thing It's a cylinder as long as I've got, you know, some tension pulling it in it should be pretty Right the walls are not a big deal Like I just did a rough calculation Making sure that you know that the concrete at the bottom is not going to get crushed by the weight above it But like there are huge way. Huge are buildings in this so even before I did the calculation I was pretty sure it would be fine now the roof Which is a 40 foot Diameter dome two stories high. It's just this huge dome um The only reason I thought I could do that was because of math and you know even when I It was the kind of thing where I was like Mathematically, this should be possible. It should work now Do I do I actually trust that even though my instincts are like, oh my god, that's gonna be ridiculous But I was like no no the math says it'll work So trust that so I built the walls up and got to the part where I'm doing the dome and at that point I didn't really have a choice. I had this huge cylinder like what am I gonna put on the roof? I have to make some kind of roof It whatever roof I put on it at that point is just gonna be this huge thing So I was like well, I've kind of painted myself in the corner. What do I do? Abandon all that work I've already done or build the damn roof so Yeah part of it was Just painting myself into a corner to the point where it's like I have to do it And the other part was just the math the math says this should work Like I calculated the rough amount of pressure There's gonna be at the edges like From all the weight of it on itself and It seemed like the concrete should be able to hold it And as long as I have enough tension around the outside holding it in and I have two stainless steel cables going around the whole dome Like yeah, it was like it was just a science and math said it should work. So I just trusted it and No doubts. Oh, I've I don't know the thing is One thing I've learned in my life is that There are gonna be things I do That are gonna make me nervous that I'm gonna think well I mean, it seems like it should be all right, but I don't know man Like one was having kids Like having kids is scary like taking responsibility for another life Uh, that's a that's a huge thing. But it's like, you know people do it Um at some point you just you just gotta say I'm going for it and the same thing with like building this roof Or leaving my house in Vermont and saying, all right, we don't know where we're going But we're just gonna take take whatever we can and we're just gonna go and hope That we can make it work and find some some better place And and taking those chances are the only reason I have kids. They're the only reason I'm I'm on an island In living in this place that I love. It's the only reason I I built this house, you know Sometimes you just have to you have to say even though this is a risky thing and my instincts are going Danger danger, you know, you just got to go for it at some point Oh this question Where are they living now? Anyone knows? Yeah, we're living in I live in Panama on a little island Uh in the caribbean Let's see question. Are you still planning to build another giant robot one day? Yes Absolutely So I was talking with my kids about this recently So someone sent me a little bit of bitcoin recently and I was like, oh, I wasn't expecting that Now I've got some a bit of extra funds That I could use for something You know, I don't want to spend it all just the minute I get it or anything, but I'm like, maybe I should Uh, so I was kind of talking to my kids about it. I was like, hey kids Uh, if if if I could if I had a bit of money to spend Would you rather me build a new boat? Or a giant robot and they're just like giant robot. Come on, man Um, and so I've been thinking more I mean the the giant robot thing is has been rumbling around in my head for years Uh, because I built the first giant robot and that one was mostly about just Just learning how to do it because I did not have the capabilities the tools the The skills I didn't have any of the stuff to do it, but I was like, I'm just going to do it anyway And now that I've done it, you know, I built one giant robot the amount of stuff I learned in doing that one I could build a really good one now So yeah, that is definitely In my my priority list and every time it gets kind of jumps up a little notch in the priority list I get a little excited So yes, there's definitely a giant robot In the in the plans my four kids Were much easier to convince trick into Into doing that sort of stuff When they were younger, but as they became teenagers they had other ideas. Yeah, same thing Yeah, my when I was trying to get my kids to go dig the little ones are like, yeah, man Whatever the 10 year olds like Well, I don't know I kind of want to do this But I kind of want to come dig because we always have fun. But yeah, the 12 year old was like, yeah so But after I got her to do it Now I don't I'm not going to say this to her face because she's probably going to disagree. No I didn't like it after No, but after she was happy she was happy that we went out and did the digging and she was like So much more chill the whole rest of the day after getting some exercise and yeah, it was So good That plain noodle honor lesson will last a lifetime four lifetimes. You are such a great dad. I'm such a great dad. Yes Yeah, I thought I thought that was a really good way to do it You know, I don't want to tell my kids you get no dinner if you don't help like I don't want to make it a threat But I do want them to feel like they're earning something So if you want the good dinner and one day we had spaghetti and the spaghetti is just like boring noodles And then like sauce with all this stuff in it because I like to make the sauce really good, right? And another day we had rice with stuff on it and the rice was just plain old rice with a whole bunch of like You know sauteed vegetables and and eggs and you know all this stuff to go on the rice and that sort makes it amazing So I was just like well, you can either have plain rice or you can have amazing dinner and you have to earn it though Let's go and yeah, I think that's I'm gonna keep doing that and I need to remember to keep doing that It was that worked really well Ah Great thumbnail. Yeah, thanks man question I think that's typo were you a legal resident of the u.s. I was a legal resident of the u.s And as soon as I left I When I left I Actually was racing obama care so You know the universal health care system was just about to start and I was like, oh if I start the new year I'm gonna have to sign up for the thing and get all involved with that. I was like, okay Let's just make it a goal to leave the united states Before the new year so we don't have to deal with this whole Universal health care thing that we're gonna sign up for and blah blah blah. That just kind of became our our deadline And when I left the united states, it was like right around christmas So I had a few so I had like a week to go before we had to sign up for the obama care thing Um, and I think it was the day after christmas I was like, okay. I need to turn in my my green card for the united states Before the next year starts Because that way I cannot have to worry about paying taxes or dealing with any of the united states stuff So I went to to a u.s. Embassy and I had to find this form to to you know Lawfully abandon a green card. It wasn't like it was just like you just go there and it's all easy to do No, you have to like find the right form print it out fill it out. You have to go there and they argue with you Do you know what you're doing? They try to get you to keep your green card and I'm just like no I'm not going to be in the united states for several years at least And if you're not in the united states your green card expires and if if you're out of the country and it expires You can't get another one. So that was another reason I needed to legally abandon it just in case at some point in the future I want to get residency in the united states again, then the option stays open But anyway, you know, I abandoned it Legally and uh, yeah, now I have no united states legal anything at this point Although if I if I want to go back into the united states, I need to take the receipt that says I legally abandoned my green cards I don't know. I don't have any plans to go back. Anyway I always try to use logical consequences to influence guide my kids behavior. They're 2019 16 and 14 Now so I think it worked Which is because they made it to that age But yeah, totally. Um Yeah, whenever whenever you're dealing with kids It's always fastest the first time to just yell at them make them do stuff But it always it always works better in the long run if you can find some Some natural consequence that happens Um and get them involved with that and in something like, you know, building the bridge the natural consequence Is kind of far off. So it wasn't good enough So the earning dinner, which is basically like you need to put value into this place to get value out of it That ended up being a pretty good a pretty good way to do it It would be cool to grow berries that it would be I'm I'm trying to grow cherries right now or I mean, I have a cherry tree growing and it's looking good They are perennial reliable and healthy. I will plant many bushes once I buy land Yeah, man berries are amazing when I when I lived in Vermont There were raspberries blackberries and strawberries wild in the forest and every once in a while I take a plant home and he plants them around my house And uh, that was amazing man the wild raspberries. Oh So good the wild the wild strawberries Were little I mean they were like they were like that big like just the end of my finger But they tasted so good. They probably had enough as much nutrition in in that little tiny thing as those big giant Bloated water sacks. They sell you at the grocery store You notice how strawberries and like fruits and vegetables in general have just gotten like More and more just bland Carbordy over the years It's kind of terrible. I think it's well, it's because they're depleting the soil and they're just Doing whatever they can to grow bigger things but not more nutritious. Anyway Question could you please roughly draw your islands and where the city in respect to that is I could but I don't really want to give out like a map Of like this is where you find me to like just the world Because one of the things I really enjoy about being here is the privacy, you know, it's it's kind of nice Um, not that I don't want anyone to ever come here, but I don't I don't want to really just give that out Uh, just just publicly, you know I did do that in vermont actually and I started getting a little a little bit more visitors than was fun, you know and uh I mean a lot of the visitors were cool, but I then I'd get some really really crazed visitors Are you still thinking about building a fallout bunker? Yes. I am totally thinking about building a fallout bunker Well, or a couple. I was thinking about building several little Little dome bunkers out in the jungle where I have a I have a whole bunch of property On one of the main islands here And yeah, I want to build some Some some bunkers there Partly because I think it would be fun There would also be a fun place to go and hang out, but then I mean I would I would make them buildings that we could Use just, you know normally But they would always always have this purpose of if Something goes terribly bad We can go there and have food there like I want to have some emergency rations there and just have them hidden For I don't know. I don't know just just in case, you know bug out bug out shelter spots I'd love to watch videos From you where you catch harvest and cook Oh I think it was a bit of typo too. I think you'd be great at fishing videos with your commentary Well, I I haven't done any fishing videos in a while. So yeah, I mean this has been years since I did any fishing videos I should do some of those again Yeah Hans, please don't ask for his specific address in public chat. He doesn't want strangers coming to mess with his islands Yeah, I mean kind of that. I mean you can ask it's not a it's not a problem. I understand why Okay, patrick, there's a good thing. Yes, if you want to visit email him Yes, totally if you want to if you want to visit just send me an email You know, I can tell you how to get here and everything But yeah, like you said, I don't want to just you know throw my location out there into public For because you know, there are weirdos out in the world Probably not you probably not even anyone in this chat. You guys are probably all amazing. But you know There are definitely some weirdos out in the world Are there any fun sports events that are organized in your area that you would take part of? marathons long-distance swimming, etc There was like a five kilometer running race in town Like, I don't know a few weeks ago and I didn't know about it until after So I guess I totally missed that but I would have gone because I can still run But not a lot I've been thinking about Doing like starting to do some events long-distance swimming now that That might be a cool thing to do um I do This is this is kind of like not an immediate thing This is kind of like a a distant future But I know it's reasonable that I might actually be able to do this But I've been thinking about making an athletic field On my bigger piece of land, you know the one where I want to build the bunkers This would be in a different spot than the bunkers, of course But I think I could find a big flat-ish area big enough to make like at least like a 200 meter running track And you know a field in the middle, you know, not like a full-sized soccer football field But you know something big enough to to have some events there And then, you know have some little track meets and stuff like that. I think that would be really cool I did try to start water polo a while ago and a few people were interested. It's just I live too far. It basically is what it boiled down to was the problem And there aren't really good Places to play water polo closer to town because there's too much boat traffic and you'd always have to be Concerned about getting run over and killed But around here like Duchenna's Bay is a perfect place To have like water polo or even like a swim meet or or your stuff like that It's just far for a lot of people. But maybe maybe I'll try that again I do want to I do want to start having more events and doing more social stuff Because you know, I was talking about last week. I want I want to start being more Getting more community involved kind of for for various reasons for you know, meeting people that I could collaborate with Meeting people who maybe want to live here Meeting a girlfriend You know meeting meeting people who have kids who are friends who can be friends to my kids, you know stuff like that Although the girlfriend thing I don't want to say um I don't want to say I'm demoralized but man Like Trying to meet people today is horrible. It's terrible. Like people are doing all the wrong things Maybe I should make a video of why it's so hard For people to connect today. It's just people are so focused on all this superficial nonsense and just not They're not doing the right things to be able to connect with the person And this is why so many people and I talked to a lot of people who have this Same situation is so it's so difficult to find a person you can really connect with Because we're just we're just doing it wrong Like tinder Useless, I mean if you're if you're a player and you just want to you know, have fun all that internet internet dating stuff Oh, it's totally set up for that but not set up for like Meeting people and actually connecting them All right, what is oh you guys you guys need to work on your your typing better What is and island with oh, what is an island without telly savalas? Look boss de plane de plane With apologies. Good job. Lauren Do you listen to music? I do sometimes listen to music. It's not like a huge part of my life, but I do enjoy music Uh, I listen to music more often when my kids are here Because one of my daughters is very very into music and all my kids like to sing. It's it's really cool um Lately they've been watching this show And when I say watching the show they don't spend all day all day watching tv. This is like they only watch Stuff After dark like at my house. There's no watching. There's no tv on in Any time but like after dinner after dark sometimes we'll watch something. We have movie nights, but anyway um, we just had movie nights Yesterday and the night before that and my kids wanted to watch this show Tangled tangled the series, you know, it's a Rapunzel show And it's kind of good. It's actually decent I always watch stuff with them because I want to I want to see what my kids are watching And then I can also have discussions with them about it and kind of get involved and help steer their morality So they understand the correct lessons from the the cartoon and stuff But yeah, this uh Rapunzel show has has songs in it something about I've got the wind in my hair And my kids will spend all day singing that and they know the whole song and everything. I don't know the whole song um Let's see Why not sail it's green. Can you legally put a few lobster crab traps out? The gill net a gill net is a problem legally and because You know those gill nets they just they just kill too many things and people do use them around here And I'll see you guys pulling a gill net out of the water And they're just taking all kinds of dead stuff and just throwing it back in the water like little fish and everything It's it's terrible. It's too destructive um Now a lobster crab pot. I would totally do those Uh, I don't know what the I think it is okay to put those out. There's probably a season Lobsters are pretty scarce because they've been overfished because of the tourist thing around here and people are catching little lobsters to sell It's terrible Yeah, uh sailing okay sailing The first boat I made here was a sailboat actually and it was great except When you're sailing amongst lots of little islands and mangrove islands, you can't necessarily always tack So if you're going against the wind through a small channel You there's not enough space to tack back and forth So navigating with a sailboat around here is kind of difficult and I've also spoken with a bunch of people about it And the general consensus is that here the wind Is too it's too unreliable. It changes a lot and then it'll come and go and You know sailing is a little bit tricky here. Not that not that you can't do it, but uh I do I do still think about you know in future boats sales But yeah, that's I guess that's the reason I've made a sand battery to store. This is a classic dude mike who also likes to build things I've made a sand battery to store heat Sketchy results so far any advice. I don't know show me. What have you what have you been doing? Um, send me a couple pictures or stuff. I have never tried to use a sand battery, but I'm guessing it's it's basically just you know If you can get the heat into the sand, you know heat it from the bottom so the heat goes up through Uh after that it just comes down to how much sand you're you're heating and how long you're heating it And I I guess you need to insulate it. So you're not just losing Heat to the outer to you know to to your surroundings um And then you know you have to have some kind of heat take her offer to get the heat out of it And you can probably only get heat out of it at a certain rate because the heat's gonna Move through the sand at a certain rate. But yeah, let let me send me a picture or something Or a video of what you have that'd be interesting to see Uh, when he had a sailboat in his cove corrupt locals started showing up for bribes Sailboat sailboats mean rich gringos in that area. That is true So I I did have a big sailboat here and like Like two days after it was parked you you can see the sails like from really far away because they're they're so tall Yes, some corrupt officials came by and we're trying to get me to bribe them basically You know, they'd say oh, do you have permits for this thing? You don't need permits for and I'd be like Yeah, I don't need permits for that. Well, what about all the all the mangroves you've cut? I'm like no, there's no there's no cut mangroves here or what about your your your dock and I'm like not floating dock I don't need a permit, you know, and they just kept going through things and basically just kind of Trying to harass me and shake me down And I'm I'm presuming and they weren't they weren't that pushy Probably because they go to gringos places who have a lot of money and they show up And they say oh, we're gonna come look at stuff and then these idiot Frickin rich people are just like What if I gave you 400 dollars would that make you go away? And they're like yep And they're gone. They think I just come back they come right back the next month And oh god, I hate when people do stupid things like that and then I'll have Conversations with them and they'll say oh, it's the only way to get rid of them You gotta pay them or else they don't leave and like you know what let them stay Because the one time they visited me they stayed for an hour and a half And when they left, you know what they said to themselves and to each other God That was a waste of time an hour and a half and we got nothing Let's not go back to that guy's place and they've never come back since But you know what they say when they leave your place with 400 dollars they say Whoa What was that five bucks and gas we drove up here. We made 400 dollars in about 30 seconds. Boom To ching. Let's come back here every month like Yeah Yeah, so I ended up like the day after that I cut the mass down and now one mass Is pieces of that mass are holding up my third floor here And another piece is outside doing nothing I think I'm going to use the smaller of the two masts on my lumber mill I think that's that looks like it's what what's going to happen All right, Lee Douglas McGreevy has sent me some some emoticons some little pictures. I don't know what they mean, but yay But I bet he will make a sailboat at some point. I will I will probably Put a sail on another boat in the future at some point. Yeah Uh any plans to upgrade power on the boat and make those trips to town faster and easier on the legs I don't want to make them too easy on my legs. Like I feel like this these agonizingly difficult Pedal trips I get once in a while, you know, like when I get no sun and the wind's in my face And I just got a pedal hard. There's there's a kind of good for me, you know, keep them keeping me from getting getting old But uh, I do kind of want to build another boat Well, okay I'm starting to think instead of building another boat. I'm just going to refurbish the shark slicer Which is is my biggest boat. It's the cargo cargo boat. It's the one I'm building pedals for right now And I'm thinking I might actually put batteries on it again and get it a big enough motor that I can kind of speed up The trips to town and trips to places because Yeah, if you can take if I can take some time off The trip to town and back it'll just make it so I'm not in such a rush all the time Because whenever I go into town, I'm always like, all right One or two hours you got to get in get everything I can And get out and zoom home It would be nice to have a little bit more relaxed, especially since I'm trying to be a little bit more social now So yeah, I'm gonna see if I can get that boat Uh going a little faster to town um My neighbor who has a who's borrowing one of my boats And put his own motor on it. He has a gas motor. We can get the town and his boat a lot faster So, I don't know. Maybe we'll maybe we'll make some plans to do some more socializing going in his boat Uh converting bitcoin to precious metals. Yes We should send you a dehydrator and vacuum sealer dehydrated Dehydration is the best way to store food. It preserves the most nutrients. Well, that's a good thing um a couple years ago a few years ago now when I got a lot of mangoes I dried out a whole bunch And those are so delicious and I dried out like I don't know probably like 150 mangoes like a lot But they did not last because they were so delicious. My kids are like, oh no, no, man, and I'm all like We should save these Yeah, we should save these some never mind Let's just eat them and we just ate them all like in in a week or two because they were so amazingly delicious um But yeah, I should I want to get to the point where I'm growing more food than we can eat and then I'll start You know preserving it drying it canning it. Deshaina does pressure canning Some canned food has been edible at a hundred a hundred or more years. Well, that's cool Okay, someone just said a word that I don't understand Matt is saying Hygroscopic With question mark, what's hygroscopic? I don't know what hygroscopic means and I don't I can't look it up on here While I'm doing this Strong people don't put people down. They lift them up Then slam them into the ground for maximum damage. Wait, what? Oh Oh, I read it wrong the first time strong people don't put people down They lift them up and then slam them into the ground for maximum damage. Yes. I get you know very funny very funny But it is true that strong people Do lift people up not not just slam them even though that was very funny Um Not put them down and it is very easy to put people down Especially when we're in living in a society where it's kind of encouraged like you're always supposed to like Crap on the people around you because it's you know funny and witty and all this stuff. Yeah, it's it's not a good thing Question hey g Who's who's g you must be talking about someone else but what's the eta Of your own game. I really want to try it Who's who's making a game? Are you talking to me because I would be j. I did make a video game And that is finished And you can totally play it online I don't remember what the link is now. I mean not that I would remember the link, but if you look up The adventure builder video game on skeera sc irra Or it's also actually i'm not sure if that's the newest version. It's also on itch You know itch.io I think it is But if you just if you just type in the adventure builder video game I think it comes up It should come up in your search and it'll be obvious because it'll be like There's like a picture of me on the cover with it with this robot and you know, I'm holding the rope and stuff. Anyway Ultimate six was my favorite patrick. Yes Ultimate six was my favorite too. That one was was amazing um After ultimate six they kind of dropped off and fell apart in my opinion. You know seven eight and nine I don't really consider those to be part of the ultimate series. You know, it's kind of like Aliens alien and aliens amazing Alien three. I don't know what that was. That was something else. Yeah, ultimate seven eight and nine I don't know what those were Now ultimate underworld was that really good because I never really got into those I played one a little bit Because a friend had it, but now I think you can get them for free because they're so old Maybe I should maybe I should try it Okay, lawns 2k says sorry if you already answer this. I'm a little late, but did you see the video that? All right. I already answered that earlier Hmm Well patrick answered this for me. He said I don't want to watch it and I don't care It's not that I don't care. I think it's more that I might care too much about something That like I put my heart and soul into you know, maybe I'll care too much I don't I don't want to know what other people are doing with the place I used to have Did you get did you get my email of my float? um Maybe I'll I'll check again Did you send it to the the adventure builder movie at gmail doc The one that's in the in the thing here I feel I feel like I do remember there was something about a float. Maybe I just didn't respond to it Uh next robot going to be for aesthetics or functional on the island. Well, I want to build another giant robot That's not just aesthetics. I'm not sure what it's function. Well. Yeah, I want to I do want to make something functional I want to make some something that I could actually use to transport and Maybe I can even make it be a heavy mover like a like like actually Not just the people mover, but like I could actually move cargo and stuff like that I kind of want to I don't know. I want to I want to make it definitely functional in some way You know, if nothing else I feel like having a giant robot that that moves around and does stuff would uh Would deter a lot of People from possibly Causing problems like if you say you're a say you're a thief or something not that I haven't had any problems with thieves So it's good, but there are thieves, you know around. I know I know people who had who've had problems But say you're a thief and you're looking to cause trouble and you go to this island And you're kind of scoping it out during the daytime keeping an eye on it and you see some giant robot walking around Ow Yeah, let's just let's just move on to the next place. Let's not mess with with the place that has a giant robot I was asking for a rough skate sketch. Okay Uh, no robot foiling boat I don't I don't know if I want to build a foiling boat like a hydrofoil boat I think I would rather build a flying like a What's it called a ground effect? airplane We want to see flying over water Well, I'm all I'm working on it Cable robots like sky cam can be giant and I think they can be used to tend garden and do other useful Work outside. They can also be small and a very educational Our friend Wigglesworth says hi. Well, hello. Oh, you have the same the same first name is Wigglesworth. Hello Wigglesworth. I hope you're having a good time Why don't you use your chainsaw inside of the swing mill? You have a deeper cut depth and it's self-powered. Well, the fuel is actually one of the major reasons Uh, I don't want to use the gas. I don't want to I don't want to cut wood using a fossil fuel because then I'm dependent on You know the gas station, which is just the store over there I don't want to have to keep buying fuel to cut wood it is Okay, so let me take my boat for example Whenever I get in my boat, I can just get in my boat and drive around. I don't have to get in my boat and think, okay How many dollars of gasoline am I spending is this worth it? Like I can just go in my boat and just go for a fun drive and I don't have to think like oh I'm spending money on gasoline and I need to go get gasoline and all this stuff And I don't want to think every time I I'm cutting boards kind of with this this little ticker going by Tick tick tick. This is money going down the tubes for gasoline that you're using To cut these boards. I want to just be able to take a log and say I've got everything set up I can just cut the boards. I don't I don't it's not using anything. It's using the sun power. We're just coming anyway And also I I don't know what the price of gasoline is going to do I don't want that to change my life drastically I don't want I don't might want my life to drastically change because gasoline prices something I have no control over and then another thing is Yes, a chainsaw will cut a deeper cut, but it also cuts a fatter cut So it wastes a lot more wood than a circular saw blade And it also that also means it has to use a lot more energy to cut that wood Now I love getting you know the wood chips and bits. I can use those for stuff, but I'd rather Waste less of the wood and get more boards Oh, and the other thing is chainsaw you'd have to keep sharpening it With a circular saw blade has carbide tips. They last way way longer without having to sharpen them. So Although I'll keep my gas powered chainsaw for cutting logs That I can then move to here question. Have you seen anything weird in the jungles? Well, I've seen myself and people have told me I'm a little weird. So, you know Um, let me think what if I seen that's weird in the jungles A toucan they're they're amazing and beautiful, but they are kind of weird with that big honkin beak But it is pretty cool to walk out into the jungle and and just be like just walking around on my own trails And be like, hey, there's a toucan cool Um, I don't know if I I'd say anything weird Like it's it's a jungle. It's it's full of jungly stuff It's pretty cool Hi, jayme great that you are back. Where did I go? Uh, why have you chosen to build so much in concrete and not in wood? Ah, all right Let me answer that I can answer that real quick termites termites termites termites termites and you know general rot So this here presuming I did a decent job building it My great-grandchildren can live in this house If I built a house out of wood I could build the house a lot faster But I'm going to have to replace it way sooner than I would have to replace a concrete building So I'm trying to do everything here thinking long long term like a long term as I can reasonably do so Yes, it takes a lot longer to build build things in masonry But it lasts way more longer if it takes me You know if it takes me 10 times as long To build in concrete and it lasts a hundred times What wood would it's totally worth it like at 10 times more longevity per work And living in a tropical environment The wood does not last as long as it would in you know, like a like a colder climate that's drier you know, it's definitely got a Not too long lifespan here Oh, you're from Denmark So you you can probably build things with wood there and then it'll last much longer than here and you don't have the termite problem that we have here I may be naive, but aren't you surrounded by super good hardwood? Yes, there's lots of good hardwood although It's not as easy to find as it used to be because people keep using it, but still even the hardwood You know in a tropical environment You know, there's moisture There's heat and there's bugs, you know things get into it and it doesn't last like it would in a colder climate Do you plan on starting like a guest house hostile or anything down the line? Yeah, so I'm building this this thing on the top of my hill Besides behind my house that I've been calling a guest house and it's going to have other functions than that But one of the things I was thinking was yeah, I could have have guests there I can have guests, of course in my house here too. I just have to like them preferably The the nice thing about having a separate guest house is you don't have to like them as much So in the event that you get some people or some person who comes and it's kind of like they're kind of a drag It's not as bad When they're in a separate house But you know if people want to come visit now people come visit now Occasionally and it's totally fine Just you just have to email me and say hey, you know and then we can talk about it make some kind of plan or whatever Uh, if you go back and watch all his older videos That might drive you crazy. Uh, you can figure out the location, but respect his privacy and keep it to yourself Yes, thank you. That's yeah Exactly just just be respectful, you know Jack hackaday jamie Great dadding. Well, thanks when I was a kid. I didn't like meat. So my parents. Oh my gosh, my kids do not have that problem So my parents would feed me just noodles But I would puke and be sick if I ate The nasty sauce. I still think it's a great idea to motivate healthy behavior In your context though, but who decides who should decide what's healthy My story was at the recommendation of a doctor who said meat was healthy And so I only carbs and butter and breakfast cereal for years. Anyways, I'm gonna go make a chain mail winding machine Thanks for all the inspiration over the years. Yeah, I mean obviously You know, you have to pay attention to your own body and if you have kids You kind of have to make that decision for them by by observing them and seeing how they do based on certain foods and So for instance, one of my One of my daughters will eat so many raw peppers that she starts burping a lot and like kind of feeling bad Like like my kids will eat raw vegetables. Just like they love raw vegetables And if there's a there are plants outside where they can eat the leaves I have to stop them from Stripping the plants of all the leaves because they'll just kill a plant by eating it all like they're like drafts But one of my daughters would eat so many peppers that she would actually kind of feel sick So I you know, I had to tell her hey just eat one at a time. You know, just just slow it down a little bit um But yeah, if you if you have a bad bad reaction to meat or whatever. Yeah, I mean you got to do whatever you have to do uh, let's see Said me was healthy. Wait, I think I read that already Oh Also might be personal questions. So if you don't want to answer, no worries your children, especially your daughter aurora Growing older. What is their her take on living off-grid in their future? Well, that's that's something that always comes up When I talk about people who want to move off-grid. There's always this Yeah, but I want to have kids or I don't want to force my kids to live off-grid like I'm making these decisions for them the thing is Regardless of where you live and what you're doing you're making this decision for your kids So you're you're gonna have to make some decision for your kids. So just try to make the best one you can and realize that They don't have a choice until they get older. Okay. Now. What do what do my kids think of living off-grid? They seem to like it I mean, they they have a good time here. They they'll run up and Yell at me. You're the best pop ever, which is This is all when you're a dad that that's all you want to hear man. You're the best pop ever. Just ah, yeah, that's the best um I don't know Like if if my kids want to live some other life in some other place. I mean they'll they'll do that uh My job I think is to make this place a home for them And make it the best I can make it and get them involved in being here and all that stuff And if they if they end up wanting to do something else, fine although I think that The idea that kids are always supposed to go off and do something else Is only a product of kind of a spoiled Society we have right now Like that's not historically been the case Like we've got we've kind of gotten not just a spoiled society, but kind of a corrupted one where we're told that Kids are supposed to leave home. They're supposed to want to get away but that's only possible in a society where Families aren't important families don't stick together You know you rely on the government to take care of you instead of your family Which I think is a mistake because I think that's a huge mistake in our society So the idea that that is always put out and I'm sure I could word this much better than I am but the idea today is like Everyone has independence So as soon as you're an adult you go off and you get all this independence And you become alone is the problem and you don't have people to To watch your back and you don't have people to work with But the government is going to take care of you they're going to be your family So so people are going off being alone on their own Thinking the government is going to take care of them that that's their family replacement But if you go back in time, you know historically your family was your family Like you you stick with your family because they're they're the ones who are going to make sure That you they're going to help make sure you eat and have a roof over your head And in our society today People are taking for granted that they're going to have a roof over the head And they're going to be able to eat and all this stuff but that I mean right now our culture is declining and I think part of it is because of that that That mentality of taking it for granted And at some point we're not going to be able to take it for granted anymore because there's not going to be Roof over everyone's head and food in everyone's mouth and it's becoming increasingly a problem even now You hear more and more about people losing their homes and people having difficulty getting enough food and You know, it's just all it's just all falling apart And I think over time It's going to become more and more important for people to stick with their families and You know when when a family builds a home, that's beginning to become an increasingly valuable thing as our culture declines So I don't know if that really answers the question but you know Uh every scene videos like from japan where they build an exoskeleton Like an exoskeleton robot kind of thing. Have you ever thought about building one yourself instead of another robot? So you could wear it for extra strength. Yes. I actually have designs Pretty like pretty good designs. I think will work very well for an exoskeleton like a suit you can get in Makes super strong I I really want to build that too um Yeah, I think that'll be a really cool thing to build a really fun thing to build And the cool thing about that is I really just have to build one Functioning joint that works really well and get all the bugs worked out on that one joint So maybe just like make one elbow joint So it goes like that with super strength both directions, you know Get all the details worked out and once all the details are worked out Then it's just a matter of you know copying that to all the other joints and you know making everything else work But that's that's definitely a project that I've wanted to do for a long time Build an exoskeleton an exoskeleton strength suit Hmm, I wonder why you wouldn't know the song about feeling wind in your hair Oh snap. Oh snapping doodle do you've got me right in the feelings Oh Maybe your location would suit a wind turbine On a battery boat, although solar seems good. I want to build a wind turbine on my other little island right there So where I am right now it's it's two islands I'm on the bigger one where I built my house, but then right over there. There's a littler one That's where I'm building the you know the bridge to the other little island I kind of want to build like a wind turbine up on that island Um, let's see foiling boat Scrutiny Not sure what you guys talking about but cool. Yeah, great solar foil would be great. Has anyone Someone must have built a solar powered foil boat not not just for one of those competitions But like one people actually use Just enough solar to maintain speed went up on the foils and just enough battery to boost up to the foil once you're going Yeah, I mean Yeah The problem with the problem with hydrofoils here At the moment is that I'm always moving cargo So, you know the foils would be great one direction when my boat's empty But then I put all the stuff on the boat and then the foils are useless I basically have to pull them out of the water and then it's an extra thing on the boat getting in the way of the cargo So it's just you know How worried are you about climate change at your location? And yeah, I mean that's that's something to think about My house is two meters above high tide sea level more or less And according to the the the models, you know the the estimations I should be good for you know well over a century and um But yeah, I mean it's it's something to consider Yeah, I try to make sure my stuff I build my stuff up a little bit because you know Although overall overall our our planet is cooling in the in the big Time scale of things so anyway Uh, could imagine matrix inception interstellar Would be jame jamey's style. Let's see Not sure where I do like those movies. Well interstellar. I had serious problems with that movie Actually, I didn't really enjoy inception either and matrix I thought the first matrix was amazing and then after that they just kind of were like silly and boring I still watch them but interstellar They lost me Like there were there were a lot of plot holes in that movie. It was just full of plot holes But they lost me when they went to the planet Beside the black hole And it was like they went down to the planet knowing the circumstances But behaving as if they didn't understand the time dilation. They went down to the planet and when they came back They were like they had this big realization Oh, the person on the planet that went before us was experiencing that the time the War And we didn't think about that before we went down because we're just like why would we think about things ahead of time There were some I don't remember exactly what the details were but there was some Problem with that that just made no sense to me and I was like this is just Sillyness and then, you know, it just got sillier How is everyone mr. Landfall says Do you have any predatory animals where you live? That you have to be cautious about well, I mean the ocean the ocean has things in it nothing I've never had a Each situation in the ocean. I have seen a giant jellyfish like a like like big big jellyfish with huge long tentacles I got out of the water immediately And then like the next day it washed up on shore and dried out. I guess it was He was dying I've seen a shark There are other jellyfish, you know, I've gotten a little sting like on my arm from like a jellyfish tentacle. It's not a big deal And you know, there are some poisonous snakes around which There are no snakes on my island Unless they swim here But out in the jungle I've occasionally seen a snake a snake But it's it's the kind of thing where like before I moved to the tropics I would hear about these poisonous animals and I'd be like, oh no, that's going to be a problem But now that I'm here, it's like I see them so rarely Uh, yeah, I haven't had any problems with with animals In vermont a bear lived near me for a while And there were also moose moose can be pretty dangerous Okay, let's see moon is the best film not for kids though moon. I do remember moon I don't know if it was the best film was a little depressing But I mean, yeah, I did enjoy that movie. Maybe enjoy. It's not the right word. But yeah, I got it, you know Um just came home and heard you talking about you tempted to share a petrol fuel ride to the city Yeah, I mean I would I would go in my friend's boat, but no, I would generally I I always choose to go in my boat because it's you know human power and solar power But uh, I mean if my friend wants to go in his gas boat, I'm not going to say no Why refuse to go, you know, whatever it's fine The dog aliens and alien three has so much promise and in my mind They were cool. Yeah, I don't even remember that much of aliens tree. Okay You know the problem in aliens three is that In the space between the movies between aliens and you know the second one or the third one They are erased everything of value that happened in in the second one and I hate when that happens You know in tv shows or movies or anything like that Uh, it's it's just kind of a lazy writing thing. It's like the writer's like, oh, we need some new Thing to solve a new problem. Oh, well, let's just say Between the movies or the episodes or whatever some terrible thing happened killed a bunch of people that were important And now now we can make a movie about solving it. I hate that crap so in aliens the second one Ripley went to all this trouble to save herself To save a kid to save this other guy like four people for I think four people made it out of their life and then Between the second and the third movie. They were all dead Including Ripley. I mean she wasn't literally dead yet, but she had an alien in her that was just gonna she was basically dead And so, you know right at the beginning of the third aliens movie I'm just like well, you just threw away everything from the last movie. What do I what do I care now? It's all you know, it's all right question Are you going to build a new smelting forge and blacksmith's forge on the island? I do plan to yes I'm gonna try to answer some of these questions a little faster now because we're getting up to two hours here Just watch the live stream by some russian dudes From a boat between Thai islands full Is it oh, they're just telling me my internet's not that great Yeah, I mean I could pay for faster internet, but I I think I have better ways to use the money Yes, it was just a few photos of it cobbled together. I'll send you more. Oh, okay Let's see Let's steal this giant robot. Yeah That's why I ride a Bike in the mountains. I love your boats for that same pedal power not dependent on gas. No worry lifestyle Yeah, even though even though it is a lot more physically demanding to ride a pedal boat It's it's so much more relaxing partly because you know you you do end up more relaxed when you get more exercise But then also it's just like any time i'm driving my boat. I'm not thinking i'm using up gas I'm using up gas. I'm using up fuel in my own body But that's actually good for me It makes me stronger But if i'm using up gas then all i'm doing is making so i'm gonna have to pay more money and you know spend money on maintenance all right And I make a point at least once a year in the worst coldest weather to go on a long bike ride keeps you young Yeah, it's really it's really good to give your To be in a situation where you have occasional Very difficult situations that you have to fight through it. It's just really good for your soul or whatever You could go for a A chebychev linkage on your next robot i'm i don't know what that means Chebychev Linkage generally if i'm gonna spend As much time as I will building something like a giant robot. I want to come up with some new design myself I don't want to just like make something that someone else came up with And then put that much work into it. Yeah, I want I want to come up with something Speaking of building it right to shana just did a video repairing cracks in her house Have you solved the problem that caused that? Oh, I don't know if we want to have that conversation that has been a Oh, I can't I can't solve it um Foundation of her house out from under her and she let it happen and that has been a An uncomfortable discussion let's say Um, let's see. I'm gonna skip through a bunch of stuff Because I'm pretty far behind on comments here. So if you have a question or something I need to Think same. Okay. Here's a question Can you make a geodesic dome by making triangle panels in concrete rather than struts and connectors? Yeah, totally Um, I built a a concrete dome by making triangles when I was in vermont. It was the spring house So if you look up spring house and my name Jamie Mansell you can probably see Video of me making triangle panels and then putting them putting them together into a dome Uh, let's see. I gotta skip through. Sorry if I'm missing some important stuff Aliens three was a train wreck. Yeah Um Oh this thing crashed Yeah, show all the show all the comments all right, either I'm Either I'm caught up on comments or this thing is Not showing them all All right, maybe I'm caught up. All right. Let me back up a little bit Perhaps metal lathe and trowel the cement On for non structural areas of a bill. I'm not sure what that's talking about Thanks for your input on the sand battery. I'll look into heat proof insulation. Oh, yeah, you didn't you didn't Insulate the the sand battery. I would presume you need to insulate the sand battery. So you're not just losing the heat To the space around Have you ever thought about making a a gasifier to run your gas engines? Well, I thought about it. I actually downloaded the What was it the the united states at some point they gave out plans You know to to build a gasifier actually downloaded that but I don't have any gasoline engines at this point Other than my chainsaw and I'm not going to run a gasifier through my chainsaw um Yeah, I don't know. I don't really have any intention of doing that I get it makes sense if you have gas engines already and you run it and you can't get gasoline And it's like a backup thing, but No, he has solar panels. No need for gas fire. Yeah kind of kind of that Uh, you can make a wind turbine from an old ceiling fan. I don't think that's gonna be good enough for what I want to do But I don't know how much output you'd get or do you mean Do you mean like from the motor part like I wouldn't want to use an old ceiling fan That's for the the blades, but you're talking about the end the uh the generator part the motor part. You turn it into a generator um I don't know uh Is he helping to shana fix her crumbling dome her dome is not crumbling that thing That thing is tough And I made it that way Knowing she may neglect it a little bit, but yes, I have been helping her but the thing is I don't want to get into a whole thing about that I love blade runner blade runner is kind of a cool movie a little bit depressing, but Cool I I never saw the I didn't see the new blade runner Yo, just tuning in nullis solis uh Question oh can you think of a new project to use the cool mechanism? You made for the dozer hmm So the mechanism I I made for the bulldozer is like a fancy kind of steering thing that like It controls all four wheels In a way that they're all getting power at the same time And you know it can do tank turns and it can do likes like like car turns And uh, I don't know Maybe Yeah, I don't really have any other plans to use it for anything right now But it it did work very well for the bulldozer. I still need to take the bulldozer apart and bring it over here And at this point, I definitely have to take it apart I can't drive it out of to shane's island because there's just too much stuff in the way at this point Morning jamie have you read how they just Learned more about how ancient roman concrete was made so strong I I don't know anything about that. Um, do I need to look up something about Roman concrete and how they made it so strong from from what I understand The big thing about roman concrete compared to today's concrete. Well, there are two things One is that It doesn't weaken in salt water so you can make You know seawalls and it was really good for seawalls and it would actually get stronger over time in the seawater Um, but other than that it it didn't really have any significant advantages over modern concrete from what I understand like aside from the seawater thing And the reason that modern concrete Fails after 50 years is not because of the concrete. It's because of the rebar the steel inside it because the steel has some kind of Reaction or there's some kind of thing going on between the steel and the concrete that protects the steel from rusting for a while And then once the steel does start rusting It expands and pops the concrete open. So your steel Reinforcement makes the concrete incredibly strong in tension at the beginning, but then it ends up ultimately destroying itself um And roman concrete didn't have any steel in it. So it didn't have that problem But there might be more to this than I'm understanding Morning, Jamie. Oh, that's a new blade runner is just as good best sequel ever. Oh, well, maybe I'll have to watch it I guess I don't know. I'm not that excited about it. I don't know. Maybe it's good It's apparently at least somewhat self healing well concrete in general is Somewhat self healing from what I understand Because the crystals continue growing Like for a really long period of time It just slows down the rate at which the crystals grow But it does keep getting stronger as far as I understand now Maybe I have to do more research, but I don't have I wouldn't say I have excellent information on this But yeah, as far as I know this concrete here will continue getting stronger over time Which means You know if it got a small enough crack like it should theoretically kind of seal itself together But only if it's touching but I don't know I don't actually know about that Ever thought about making a solar amphibious vehicle. Yes as a matter of fact My current leading and this is something I think about regularly my my leading idea for next giant robot is amphibious And will be solar powered And yeah, you can drive it on land drive it into the water it'll swim or whatever you call it Um, so yes, definitely I've also I also had ideas For making like a recumbent bicycle that you can drive right into the water and that would actually have hydrofoils on it and The only reason I haven't done anything like that at all is because like I said earlier I'm always taking cargo places now. So just a personal vehicle that can just hold my own body weight. Isn't that useful for me Blade runner Tyrell man of the year. I haven't seen the movie. So I have no idea what you're talking about question Will you make a video Of an updated tour of jamie's island the last one was made four years ago four years ago. Well Well, let me write that down Uh update Well, let's just say tour Of my island Yeah, the last one was four years ago. Gee Yeah, wait, I must have done something since then because I've only my house has only been here for like two years Did I have I not done one since I built my house? All right I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to do a tour of my island There are a few other things that other videos that I I kind of need to do and I have a little list over here one is Uh, show how I sharpen drill bits with an angle grinder give some lessons for that And I don't a couple other things Uh, September 2018 that was the last time I did a tour of was that of this island? um Did I give a tour of this island in 2018? Okay question as mentioned you had a construction You had a construction job. Will you film it? Well the construction job was actually on dishingus house so Um For the most part I'm trying to let dishinga take care of her own house because there's a situation that happens where It's very easy for her to get into the habit of just asking me to do everything all the time every little tiny thing Even things she should do for herself. So at some point I said, okay, look, this is your island You need to take care of it. This is your house. You take care of this is yours and Over the last couple years. She's kind of like started like mentally taking ownership of Her place and feeling more responsible for it And she's even told me about this like she feels like it's hers now Because I'm not just it's because before it was like it was just some hotel She was living in and I was just taking care of it, you know, but now it's becoming like hers mentally and so We agreed that I shouldn't just come over and fix everything all the time. So She basically paid me to to do some work on a roof She didn't she didn't actually pay me because at the end of like whatever. I don't I don't care about the money You're gonna spend it anyway because you spend my money. It's the same money but you know, it's just it was it was kind of uh Just having some kind of formality between Me just fixing everything on her house all the time. So anyway, yeah, it was I I did a bunch of Work on her roof fixing up her roof helping with some of the cracks and stuff That was the construction job Um lime helps with cracks in concrete Okay Well, let me just finish reading this. Did you use lime in your water tank mix? I did not I just used normal concrete I would still be interested In a plant tree walk Also that you mentioned with the sawmill dude loving the films A plant tree walk like a oh I know what you're talking about like like there's a local guy here Who said he would walk through the jungle with me and identify a bunch of trees. Yeah When I do that I should definitely take my camera and at least Record on camera the names of each tree and get a shot of the bark and the the leaves and stuff So I can you know then look back at it and get a view of all that So lime helps with cracks in the concrete. So if I if I mix lime in with the concrete that'll help To or do I paint the lime on after? Uh coincidentally Just like two days ago This I just put this on amazon wishlist because whenever something comes up like this I'll put it on the amazon wishlist first And see if someone like gets it for me and if they don't then I'll end up buying it myself But I put on my amazon wishlist the other day Lime wash I had to kind of search around to find it But apparently someone sells like old style white wash like lime wash that they used to paint on concrete and it's white and It it hardens the concrete makes it more waterproof and for more than I understand it It'll also like Kind of seal hairline cracks and stuff like that So it's basically just a coating that Not even a coating like it soaks into the concrete and makes it stronger So I'm hopefully going to get Some of that and paint it on the whole building and I kind of want to paint it on the entire building It'll make it like whiter and maybe like someone was saying before it'd be like an ivory tower You can get it it tinted in color, but I don't know I'm I don't know that much about it, but I'm definitely going to do videos of The lime wash the white washing and see how that goes because I'm curious about it. It's Like what they used to use before they started You know just using silicone for everything basically What were winters in Vermont like in terms of getting work done and your shop well Let's say one It was it was definitely hard to get a lot of stuff done In the Vermont winter because it was snow, you know, it was frozen. Everything was covered in snow so Doing work outside Was very limited I did my house was always warm because I had all the south facing windows and there was A wood stove inside so heat was never a problem in my house and then I had a workshop And when I got that insulated with all the styrofoam boxes It was amazing in there and I had this huge wood stove in there and I could get the entire building And that building was pretty big and I get the whole building warm enough That I would just take off all my not all my clothes, but like take off my shirt even it was just warm And I could work on things in there. That was Amazing that was really cool um Let's see lime goes in the mix Also for background you can research lime render Let's see lime render render writing like a I'm writing like a medical doctor here. You can be able to read it later That they use in europe on castles so lime render they use in europe on castles I think that's what I put on my amazon wish list the other day is probably what you're calling lime render like lime wash Unless I don't know maybe it's something else Lime turns into a glue when water gets Into a crack of concrete. That's why roman roman concrete lasts so long Okay, so if I if I have lime wash and I paint it on the building it should do this effect Hopefully it still works after the after the fact and you know because it does soak into the concrete from what I understand If nothing else it should soak into any hairline cracks, right? And glue them together I was talking about lime in the context of water tanks a small amount in the mix Ratio fills micro cracks works great. Also lime wash is amazing so is Is the lime you're talking about the same thing as the lime wash but the lime wash is just it's mixed with water I used it in a chicken coop. It was so beautiful Uh, so in my water tanks, I just use Uh cement mixed with sand and rocks and water And didn't do anything fancy and it doesn't leak although originally it did seem like it was seeping water out until I you know the water tank was totally full one day Because it rained a lot and I threw a bunch of uh clay in it And I did that and then stirred it all up and my thinking there was that the clay Would stick to the walls and would get pushed through any any tiny cracks and seal them it seems to have done that and uh So for and then and then the rest of the clay That didn't stick to the walls or whatever didn't go in any cracks It ended up just settling down to the bottom which also helps seal the bottom So I didn't end up having you know clay water or anything I just made sure I didn't turn on the water for a while after I put the clay in there but the the clay seemed to do The trick in the uh the concrete water tanks, but that's interesting about the lime if I do another one I'll have to try this lime situation Have you heard about living tree architecture for buildings and bridges? Well, I can guess what you're talking about And living tree architecture is pretty cool um I would be a little bit wary of building something significant out of living trees here because Like say I have a couple trees making something and one tree gets brought And the termites get in a Man, then what do I have to chisel out all that dead wood and then get a new tree to grow in there? I don't know That lime wash might Chap concrete long term and make it want to flake off hear me out Uh the surface after a hundred years of treatment Has a case hardening right long lime wash Uh, yeah, okay, so the concern is that If I put lime wash on the surface of the concrete and it's not mixed in then the surface is going to be different than the inside And it might start falling off Um, yeah, that's a possibility. So I've heard that to kind of Mitigate that issue you make your lime water really watery. So it soaks in a lot So that's what I was going to do and just do a whole bunch of coats and hope it soaks in But yeah, maybe from now on I'll start mixing a bit into The concrete, you know, what's really annoying like I'm always I'm always saying like It's hard to do any good internet research because you look stuff up. You can't find anything really useful When I was building the concrete water tanks I like I spent a bunch of time looking up concrete water tanks and trying to get some information I got nothing about lime and basically just useless crap about plastic linings and all this stuff I wasn't going to do It's not till now that I'm hearing about this lime thing that I could do in the thing So that's pretty cool. Lime wash has a sparkle and has a purifying aspect to the air Oh Has a basic smell It's crazy how cheap and awesome it is so stoked. You're going to mess around with it Yeah, if you if you you know A really cheap source of lime, let me know because I you know, I found some on amazon. I think it was like $90 for five gallons worth So I I don't know if that's good or not, but um, the case hardening in a few years are missed Uh, we want to separate because the surface is heating and cooling and expanding differently, right? I don't know about lime wash on exterior concrete But the the coop the chicken coop is awesome. Also lime and concrete mix is fun to experiment with Yeah, I think it's called limo eight I think the lime calcifies the micro cracks basically uh, they get Clugged up. They get clogged up. Yeah. All right We're at an hour and 10 or two hours and 10 minutes here And I'm now I'm wondering where tromators is. Hopefully he's having a good day And I hope everyone else is having a good day. I'm gonna get off this thing and try to do some real life And I hope everyone else is having an excellent day and thanks for that for the information you guys This this has been super useful. Oh my dad used to build houses in argentina He mixed cal e portland lime and Portland cement all the time search for type s hydrated line type s hydrated line type s hydrated Lime 50 pound bag of dry 50 pound bag bag, right 30 dollars for 50 pound bag 30 dollars. That's what I'm aiming for Thanks for the years of inspiration dan says Well, thanks for thanks for being here, man Classic dude mike over and out. Thanks jimmy. All right I hope you guys have an excellent day. Go get some lunch or dinner or do whatever you're gonna do And I hope everyone keeps working hard to make the world the best place they can Take care of the world around you and I'm out of here. Oh wait. I gotta read the last message Yes, you can make your own line burning shells I want to do that, but I don't have the time right now, but I do plan to do that in the future Okay, I better get out of here. I'm gonna read this all day Okay