 She's here, no body. Yeah, I just stopped. Even here it's caught down. And like, is it because I was talking about the protest? That would be hilarious. Oh, somebody's here, somebody noticed. Ha ha. Oh, now there's five people here. All right, maybe people are catching on. So I don't know, our lives just disappeared and totally like closed out. And everything, right? Jeff Krupke's back. All right, so I don't know. Maybe it was that I was talking about the PR of TST. Political things, maybe I was talking about too many political things and they shut us down. But anyway, the thing got shut down. That was really funny. All of a sudden, everything got shut off. Okay, so we had to restart a new one. Anyway, so what I was talking about, you're like off the screen right now. I know this is the best thumbnail though ever. That is a good thumbnail. I'm totally using that. It's gonna be your new face. It's gonna go from this one to that. Okay, so I was talking about how there's the protest and we're at one end of the country and all the major civilization stuff is at the other end of the country. And there's one main road that goes through the whole country and that has been blocked off in a bunch of places by protests regarding the expensive gas. So I don't know, they're working on it. Someone's working on something, I don't know. Also, just to add in, if you were asking any questions in the previous chat, I can't think of any more until maybe hours or now. So just re-ask them and include the word question or some kind of symbol that shows me that it's taking my attention. Yeah, sorry that all disappeared. So for us personally, the only effect we've had from the Panama protests are that there's less food in the stores. You can't get propane and there's a few other, I mean, just stores are running out of stock of stuff because they can't get stuff here. They actually ran out of electricity almost. They were functioning it. Well, yeah, that's the other thing on the main island where we go to, for the big stores, or I don't know, where we go shopping. Yeah, the main island, that's what I would call it. They were rationing electricity, turning it off for part of the day and on for part of the day, but that's because they're running on gasoline generators, right? Diesel, yeah, diesel generators. Which I'm sure is also the price has gone way up and they can't get it because the road is, so they did get some. But I'm sure it's harder to get and that's why they're rationing electricity. So last time I went there, the lights were off everywhere. I heard a bunch of generators and I was like, well, why are so many generators on? And then I went to the grocery store, I always go to. And the lady there was telling me that they're off for like six hours. And then as far as they know, they came back on at night time. And their freezers still had frozen stuff, so I was very careful to open quick and get my stuff and close it again to not let the cold out. They also weren't letting in any of the produce or anything like that, but they finally did let some of the produce truck through. You mean the protestors let the food through? Yeah, well, sort of. Some of it? Some of it. Yeah, I don't know, it's kind of a mess. Although on a related topic, a lot of Panama should be fine because a lot of people, what's it called when you farm for yourselves? There's a word for it. I'm studying. Well, I'm staying, but like, a lot of people farm just like for their families and feed themselves. Like garden, garden. No, there's a word for this. I don't know, I know. Like NATO has a mandate to end this because they don't want people farming for themselves. But anyway, there are a lot of people in this country who farm their own food to grow their own food, so. Self-sufficiency farming? That's what somebody just suggested. There's a really specific word for it, but it doesn't matter. Obviously you're trying to figure out what it is for like 20 minutes. Yes, tomatoes. We had to start a new stream because we were suddenly. Did tomatoes just catch up? Yeah, I don't know what happened. And it totally closed out. We couldn't. Yeah, I think that might be subsistence farming. Yeah. So yeah, our lives just got totally shut down. Yeah, it was really weird. I don't know. I think it was my tablet. No, I bet someone at YouTube was like, who's in charge of the stuff, was like sitting there and going, fell asleep and hit a button and was like, oh no, oh no. Oh my God, would it be funny if all of the lives suddenly stopped at the same time? Because some guys fell asleep. We should ask about that. No, I think it's because I was discussing the protest and they're like, oh, this guy's not talking about that. No way, bam. I'm just kidding about that. Aureka says autarky. What? Like autistic turkeys? I don't know, autark. I don't know. I don't know what that means. OK, so are we are you going to be having a solar grid on your islands? Well, I mean, we have solar power on it. I'm not sure what the question asked. Is it like, am I going to have a grid where other people could connect to it? No, but I mean, we have solar power on our islands. We don't need a grid. I mean, if I need electricity to a building, I just run the wire straight there. I don't need to put it on a grid or anything. You know, like a city where they've got a grid of wires running everywhere. Maybe they're saying a micro grid because people like to throw a little fancy word. I didn't even know what this nonsense means. It just means that you have solar panels that go into a controller and a battery and an inverter. Yeah, maybe I'm old MPPT. OK, I don't know what the hell that is because. OK, OK, OK, OK. Yeah, you want to know the difference between an MPPT and a PWM. Yeah. OK. Pulse Width Modulation is the one type of charge controller. So this is between between your solar panels and your batteries. You have something to control the electricity coming into the batteries so the batteries don't explode or whatever. Right. There are different ways you can do it. Pulse Width Modulation or MPPT, which is maximum power point. Thing. I'm just going to say thing. I don't know thing. What is it called? It's like MPPT is the the. Well, let me start with the older one, the one that's less high tech. OK, with the pulse width modulation, the pulse width basically means it's pulsing the electricity, turning it off and on really fast, which works totally fine. You just have to have your solar panels and your batteries. You have to have the voltage matched. So if you're charging like we have 24 volt battery banks. So if you're charging 24 volt batteries, you need solar panels sort of like 30 volts, 35, 6, where, you know, 30, let's just say 30 ish volts. As long as you got short wires and you're not losing too much electricity. Well, OK, you want a little more than 30. Let's say 32 volts. So you have your 32 volt solar panels. And if you connect those directly to your batteries, it would charge them, but it would overcharge them at some point when they're full and then, you know, you can melt them, whatever. Sure, they would explode. No, they would just. Yeah, they should explode. Let's just they should. Anyway, it'll overcharge and wreck the batteries is all really happened. Would they melt or anything? So you put this pulse width modulation charge controller in the way and it stops the electricity at the right time. And it kind of controls the electricity going in. So it's at the right voltage when the batteries are, you know, whatever, when the batteries are really low all in and as they start getting closer to their maximum, you know, it slows it down. Anyway, so the pulse width modulation works and it's a fairly simple set of electronics, but it's still a little complicated. But it basically just turns off and on the electricity coming from the solar panels, which you can do yourself. Right. You wouldn't do it, you know, as perfectly or whatever. But I've had situations where I had the solar panels and the batteries and my charge controller broke and I was just like, well, let me just attach a volt meter to it and I'll connect the batteries and disconnect them and just kind of pay attention to it. I actually had that for months in the houseboat because I was like, I don't want to get a new thing in a place that I'm moving out of. And the advantage of the pulse width modulation is that your solar panels are matched to your batteries. So you could connect them directly if your charge controller breaks. OK, the new technology is the maximum power point. Turkey thing. Someone's going to maximum power point Turkey. Is that what it is tracking? I don't know, but that's what it could be. That's what I'm just going to call it maximum power point thing. That you can put very. You don't have to match the voltage of your solar panels to your batteries. Generally, you have tracking fine. Generally, you have higher voltage coming because, you know, the higher voltage you have, the smaller wires you need, etc. Generally, people have a lot higher voltage in their solar panels charging their lower voltage batteries. So maybe you have 100 volts coming down. And if you connected that right to your batteries, they would explode. It might blow them out. We're probably more like melts stuff, but it would overcharge them quickly and then melt them and maybe not quickly. It depends how much electricity is coming in. But anyway, the maximum power point thing takes the the high voltage coming in and it goes like this. What's the best voltage we could possibly set this to be to charge these batteries? The best right now, maximum power point. And it does some fancy electronics and it's kind of complicated and super fast. It's super fast. But it's also, I think personally, I think it's over complicated, but it will, you know, pretty efficiently convert the 100 volts into whatever the best voltage is to charge the batteries at that moment. So technically, you can charge your batteries faster with a maximum power point thing. However, if it burns out and it is more complicated electronics and it's more expensive and easier to break, more things can go wrong. If it breaks, you can't just take your wires and connect them to the batteries, you know, for a couple of days while you get a new one, like you're kind of screwed. So I personally like the pulse width modulation because, you know, worst case scenario, your thing breaks. You can still connect your wires, which is what I have. Yeah, that's what you have. Jeff Kruppke would like to. But I don't think you should do that because you don't pay attention enough. Yeah, I'm not going to. Yeah, Jeff Kruppke would like to know is it OK for him to get the adventure builders symbol with all the little things tattooed on his arm. That would be amazing. Yes, that would be great. Yeah, you guys sent us a picture, man. I've actually like, if I was going to get a tattoo, I would get adventure builder symbols like tattooed along my forearm. Oh, come on, you have them done like I did on your like the ghetto, like gangster. No, I would want them on my forearms because I can see them. They're for me and I would just. Yeah, you should do it. You get a whole sleeve. I get that I get the whole thing tattooed on my head. I don't need hair. I've got adventure builders stuff. Like a poker thing. Yeah. Oh, if I got something on my knuckles, it would probably start with F and end with off. Yeah. I've got special muscles for you. Not that that's all I ever think about. There are marvelous people in the world that I love. OK, but the more important thing is, Jeff, the only the only way to totally do it, man, is if you're not a dick. Yeah, you can't be. Don't be a dick. No, but if you're if he's if he's getting these these symbols tattooed on himself, I presume he's going to be taking them pretty seriously. None of this. Well, I thought it was the truth at the time, so it counts as telling the truth. I'm on the still of my honor. No, no, no, you got to do it for real. Have you considered Bob Cratchit? Would like to have you considered doing it? Have I considered Bob Cratchit? Not really doing a double hole skin boat where the supporting lattice between them creates buoyancy regions. So it doesn't matter if one section gets hold. Easy to retrofit to. Do you need to read that question? Because I made a mistake, frankly, it's a job. Have you considered doing a double hole skin boat? I'm not sure what a skin boat is. Me neither. Is it like skin stretched over something where the supporting lattice between them creates buoyancy regions? So it doesn't matter if one section gets hold. I guess I haven't really. Yeah, I guess no. OK, I mean, I've probably thought about it. I see your boats sitting there with their solar panels in the videos. Obviously, he's not spying on you. Do you plug them into your home system when you aren't using your boats? Generally, no. Most of the solar panels on my boats are plastic ones and, you know, the lightweight, flexible plastic ones. And they last, they're supposed to last like seven to nine years in the tropical sun. So I don't want them out in the sun all the time. So I often close them. So while the one boat, I'll close them so they're not out in the sun. And the other boat, I'll kind of tip them like facing the trees so it doesn't get that much sun. And also they're in the shade most of the day. It's just when the sun is like straight up, they get a bit of sun. But then most of the day, they're not in the sun and I want them to be not in the sun so the solar panels don't degrade. And no, I don't connect them to my house. I do have the. Well, I mean, it doesn't matter. I do have the one boat with the glass solar panels on, which will last a long time. But that one's shaded most of the day, too. Yeah. So I want to go start making lunch. But there's one more question. How much of the waste your family generates? Can you repurpose? I don't know. I don't know how to answer it. I don't either. Like lots. I would say I use up more garbage than I create. But that's mostly because my house is made out of Styrofoam, which I collected from like town. I collect a lot of Styrofoam. Even by weight, it's it's kind of a lot of Styrofoam. Like it definitely outweighs how much garbage I make. Right. And we don't. Yeah. I think most I mean, my my main way of dealing with garbage is just to try to not make it and to try to keep any garbage as non plastic as possible. Because like anything paper I can use, like even my you know, I use a lot of cement and it comes in these plastic bags. So I make sure I cut the plastic bags open along the seams or near the seams. And then I take the, you know, when I'm done with the cement, I'll shake out the bag, you know, rip off the end. So I have a big flat sheet and I put that in my art supplies, you know, sweep them off first. So there's no cement. But I actually drew a picture on one yesterday. There's plastic in the cement. Cement bags. No. Why do you think there's plastic? No, I'm saying, wait, I thought they were made out of paper. I meant to say cement bags or paper. Yeah, you got me even. Not plastic. Why may have said the wrong word? I'm sorry. That's too great. But we're talking about the paper bag part. The paper bag that the cement bags come in. Got it. Paper. That makes perfect sense. So I take the paper bags that the cement came in and I use them as drawing paper and like cardboard. Well, right now Aurora is making a dollhouse. It's pretty cool. You should see it. I mean, she gets really elaborate. Make something really cool out of this. But she's got like, like all this furniture and all this food and all the utensils. And like, she gets really detailed with these dollhouses. I want to get her doing them in wood because, you know, the cardboard is not going to last. But anyway, we do stuff with the cardboard. And what I do with a lot of the cardboard is just use it to light fires. I was thinking of putting a Dremel kit on the wish list. For Aurora, because I think that would be super cool for her birthday in October. So I should look around and see if I have one for her. I feel like I saw one. I have one, but I don't want to give her my one because then I'm going to have to take it back all the time. Like, I wanted her to have her own. But I do want to get her own Dremel kit because I think she would use it. She would, totally. She was stoked when she got this sewing machine. Yeah. Yeah. My daughter just got this old hand crank sewing machine, like, old. Was it like 19? 19, oh, geez. It's like a hundred and 111 years old. Wow. That's an old sewing machine. Anyway, I can show it to your people. It's in good shape. Can you? Yeah, I can show it to my daughter. Oh, look at that. Oh, no, it's stuck. What's it stuck on? Oh, it's stuck on that. Here you go. Oh, isn't that nice? But it's got the hand crank and totally functional and everything. OK, don't mess with the thing. Your hand's walking most of it. Anyway, it totally works. It's in the shot. You don't have to move it. OK. But yeah, it doesn't need electricity or anything. It's just a hand crank sewing machine. And she made, you know, she made herself. Yeah, someone sent it to her. John, John sent it to her. Thanks, John. Oh, my God. She loves it. But isn't he really finishing that sailboat? Or did he just launched it? Yeah, I think I talked about it in one of the other videos. What's the name of the boat again? Oh, now I'm blanking. But Aurora just made herself like a princess dress with that sewing machine, which is really nice and fits in everything. It's got like all kinds of ruffles. It was like a Sleeping Beauty princess dress. It was. Yeah, it's actually a dress from Sleeping Beauty. Yeah, that's what I thought. Pink version. The pink version, not the blue version. Not the blue version. Eric Bauerfeld would like to know if you didn't have solar panels, do you think you could still harness the sun make slash make some kind of mirror powered steam turbine? Yeah, although I think if I wasn't doing solar panels, I would do a windmill. I kind of want to do a windmill anyway. But yes, I do think that would be an option. It would be tricky to keep everything clean all the time, you know, all the mirror surfaces. And I feel like that would take kind of a lot of maintenance. But like here, there's, I wouldn't say a steady wind, but there's often a wind going in coming from the north, or at least from the north-ish. So I wouldn't even have to have something that necessarily turns to face the sun. I could just build like, you know, the big Dutch building windmill thing or like in Nassica of the Valley of the Wind, which is the Studio Ghibli movie. Actually, it's pre-Studio Ghibli anyway. Like make a big building with a big windmill on it. I kind of want to do that. Is someone up there? That's the baby. You go potty. You come down? You go potty? So I kind of want to build like a building and have a windmill on it. And then off the windmill, like have the shaft coming from the windmill go into gears that comes down, like into a building, and then run a bunch of stuff directly off that, you know, kind of like the old style, how they used to do it with all the, you know, they'd have machine shops running off belts off, like there'd be like one main shaft coming through the building. And there would just be like either clutches or belts. You can connect or disconnect to run whatever machinery you're using. I think that would be really cool to have. And I think it'd be fun to set up. And then, you know, I don't have to worry about electricity or all that stuff working. The nice thing about mechanical things is that they're repairable. That's my biggest problem with electronic stuff. It's like if there's something electronic, I can't replace like an integrated circuit or something like that. I can replace wires or switches and stuff like that. But like an integrated circuit or, you know, any kind of computer processor, once that blows, it's like you have to replace it. You can't repair it or make it yourself. And I like to be able to at least have the ability to make the thing myself. And you can pretty much always do that with mechanical stuff. Even with something complicated like gears, if you have to sit there with a file by hand, you know, you can do it. Hey, you took the tablet away. Now I can't see what the. I'm putting my hands. No, I'm going to. Eat a snack while we're doing our show. It's OK for us to eat a snack while doing our show. Should we get some popcorn and munch and crunch it? Ah, ah, ah, ah. So we have a thing, at least at my house, where you're not supposed to eat like a possum. Well, yeah, and not our kitchen. No, yes, there are many other things you're not supposed to do, but I'm not going to go through every rule now. I just think those two things are relevant. You're not. Anyway, so you're not supposed to eat like a possum. We saw this video of possums eating, and they don't have big enough lips to keep their lips closed while they're chewing. So in this video, there's just a whole bunch of like this family of possums sitting beside each other and it was very, very funny and super cute. But one of Kapitan police's rules, this is Karkanian when he's being Kapitan police. He has a bunch of rules on the wall. One of those rules is no eating like a possum because you are a human. No eating like a possum if you're a human. Like a German? You have to close your lips. I stole her thing. Don't start messing up the order of what I've got. Give me another bite. Someone said thanks for me making videos. Someone from India. I've never been to India. I did actually think about going to India before, you know, when I was thinking about where in the world we should go. Because there are a lot of people in India, at least according to YouTube, who are very handy and into do-it-yourself stuff and like. Apparently Tomaters wants to buy the Dremel kit for Aurora, so he told me he had it on the wish list and he would get it for her. No way, Tomaters, that's awesome. That's what he just said. Tomaters are awesome, thanks man. Did the Freemason logo have an impact on your Adventure Builder logo? I actually don't know what the Freemason logo looks like. I'm going to tell you. Okay, so it's... So no, but yeah, what is it? It's a right angle ruler. Okay. You know, like it's the ruler that's this on this and then it's the circle drawer thing. I feel like I would recognize it. Okay, yeah, yeah, I think I vaguely know it. Yes, the circle drawer compass thing? Yeah, the compass. And it's like in, so the right angle things like this and then the circle drawer compass thing is kind of open. Like that's basic. Is there more to it? There is, but I just can't remember the rest of it. I feel like I would recognize it if I saw it. But I guess similar inspiration, because you know, that, you know, they're tools and you know, Adventure Builder symbols, tools and smiley face. Okay, so I don't see any other question. And you're hungry. You wanna go eat. Oh, come on, give me that. No, there's no other questions. You stop it. I want, I'm gonna answer two more questions. Okay, two more questions. Let me see if anything comes up. I'll just make up some questions. Yeah, that's fine. You asked me a question. Somebody says, V-LOG says, oh question. Okay, how about a sun tracking solar panel? Maybe a tube with four light resistant diodes with a small gear down motor on each. My position on that is that it's not worth the complication. I would agree with you. And I think some of your view is what I also agree with you. There's one out there that actually did a whole video on it and he said it's not worth the amount of... Well, the way I think about it is like, you can get some more sun by having the thing track the sun, but the amount, like then you have all these moving parts and you have to either build by whatever, some combination of stuff. All the resources that go into that, you could just like get a couple extra solar panels instead. Right, exactly. Have you thought of building a tilapia pond? Oh, but my boats, they do aim, although I do that manually. Tilapia pond, we talked about that a few times. Yeah, there's someone in town. They have tilapia, right? There are actually two people in the area that I know of who have ponds with fish in them. Yeah, there's a place in Bogus that I actually sell some or whatever and there's my friend of mine who has the pond with the water hyacinth in it. Well, that's three people then. Well, yeah, I've thought about it. Like up on top of my island, I dug a hole a little while ago and it's holding water. I mean, I dug a hole because I was digging a hole because I wanted to flatten out that area and I just wanted to dig a hole that was down to the right depth so I could see where it is, but the hole is holding water. So on the top of my island, I could just dig a hole and it will be a pond, like the rain will fill it up and it rains enough that it would stay pretty much full. And I don't think there's ever a time where there's a long enough period without rain that it would ever dry up. So I think I could do it, but then it would be just a standing pond, like no moving water or anything. Although we do also have a stream, but it's like a quarter mile away from the ocean. Yeah, if you move over there, you could keep an eye on it and we could dig out a pond and the stream water could run in and it can run out and we just have to put like a grating so the fish don't accidentally go down the stream out into the ocean and die. So many would like to know if you've looked into steam engines and or building a steamboat. I thought about it, yeah. I don't know if, yeah, I kind of want to do that, actually. Have you ever tried making glass? No, well, actually, yeah. I did put some sand in a fire and got it really hot and it like kind of clumped together. I don't even know if it was good enough that it was glass, glass, but yeah. But not in any in-depth way, more like just a kind of screw-in-around way. Are you allowed to use fishing nets? I don't think you are allowed to use fishing nets. I mean, you can use like a little fishing net, but. I think the indigenous people are, but they're in a different. They have different rule books. I see a lot of not indigenous people using big fishing nets. The guys, we saw one being put out today right out in the middle, like where everyone could see it. They're part of the indigenous village. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but I know there are definitely some. Oh yeah, definitely. People who aren't supposed to be putting them out, who are putting them out. Now the problem with these, you know, it's like a giant fishing net that just encompasses, I'm not showing it as big as it is with my hands. Just pretend this is like, I don't know, 50 meters across or something. The problem is it just catches everything, big fish, little fish, and then people pull this net out and like, I don't know, half three quarters of what they pull out, they kill, but they're not keeping. So the problem is it just kills so much of the fish. Yeah, it sucks. So Bob, Karchit would like to say, just to say you both are a breath of fresh air, insanity in this increasingly crazy world. Thank you and bon appetit. Bon appetit. Yeah, I'm glad to be a breath of fresh air. That's good, because sometimes I get called just straight up crazy. So the other way, are you saying goodbye? You're anti-vulcanine? Yeah, you're an alien. You're being weird. Do they know about the weird game? No. Okay, the weird game kind of goes like this. And I need to keep doing this until the person I'm doing it, she says, are you being weird? And then we both laugh, ha, ha, ha. Somebody must know if you guys are friends with benefits. I get no benefits out of you. Why until like a week ago? What are you talking about? Anyway, moving on. What? No. Bye. All right. I think we're going to have lunch now. Yeah. I have to make sure that I'm just going to make a lot of noise. All right, we're going to go when I shut this life down. All right, you should shut this life down. Like down. We need more thumbs up. We need more thumbs up. Okay. Thumbs up. Thumbs up. I'm playing the weird game right now, by the way. Someone has to type, are you being weird?