 thing going. Should be going. Let's get myself lined up here. All right, this week, I'm going to talk about something that's not always the easiest thing to talk about. You know, my little adventure builder philosophy. And one of the reasons it's kind of hard to talk about lately is because I've gotten a lot of criticism about it over the last year, like, Jamie, we're not sticking to your adventure builder principles. And ironically, it's almost always referring to things I did where I was sticking to these principles. But it went against, you know, the social norm or whatever. But anyway, okay, I haven't talked directly about adventure builder values for a while. You know, I kind of try to weave them into everything I'm talking about and doing anyway. But every once in a while, I like to just lay it out nice and plain. And was that an Epsy and Mr. Landfall? How you guys doing? All right. So let me go over, let me go over the adventure builder basics, which I like to do every once in a while. Oh, and yes, this is this live is on my first channel. And I haven't been doing them on my first channel in a while. And it's because I made a second channel. And at this point, I just don't really have any reason to have a second channel. I'm just, I'm just putting everything back on my first channel from now on. Unless I'm doing something like talking about some subject where I might get kicked off YouTube. So I'll use my other channel for that. Anyway, so this is my little picture of adventure builder values. I actually have a poster of that, like, like right, right around this corner, you know, kind of like this, but like just around the corner on the other side, I was going to bring it over here and stick to the wall. But then I was like, wait, I don't have an extra piece of tape around to stick it back where it was, because I'm going to have to mess up the tape to move it. Anyway, it's going to any good spot I have this one. So adventure builder values. They revolve around your mind, body, and spirit. Because I figure that's everything that a person is, right? Your mind is all the stuff you think about your, your bodies, all the parts you can kick and then or can get kicked. And then your spirit is that sort of that, that, that hard to describe thing that makes you makes you feel like life might be worth it. There's some point. It's the thing that gives you, it makes, makes there be a point to life. You know, it's that thing that makes you get up out of bed in the morning. There's not really any reason to it doesn't really matter if you get up, matter if you live or die, except this spirit has some kind of thing where it's like, Hey man, let's go live and do do a thing. Right. So anyway, each of each of these parts of a person, your mind, your body and a spirit has its own virtue, its own principle. So let's start with your mind. The, the virtue of mind is honesty. And now this is, this is like taking an honest view of the world that has nothing to do with, you know, sharing your honesty with anyone else is just, just within yourself. So it's all about seeing the world as it is getting rid of biases and just, just really trying to, to have a realistic view of what's going on. And this, this one is really hard. Honesty is a really hard one because in our society, there are so many lives like just, just everywhere you turn our lives and you have to like, you have to forget all that stuff because you know, when you grow up in, at least, you know, I grew up in North America, I was, I was filled with so many lies by the time I realized it, I was already stuffed full of them. And I had to go back and like unlearn like everything I'd ever learned and kind of restart again and say, okay, now I'm just going to try to figure out things and not, not let all these lies in, which I do as best as I can, you know. And the symbol for honesty is an equal sign because the goal is to see the world as it is to have the, the image in your mind of what's going on as equal to what is really going on as possible. That's honesty. Now the, the, the virtue of your, what do we do in mind, body, spirit? Yeah, let's do your, your body next. The virtue of your body is strength. And you know, here's a little, here's a little muscle guy, a lifting is, oh yeah, looking pretty good, Jamie, not bad. All right, so the virtue of your body or the principle of your body is strength, you know, you got to use your body and exercise it and do stuff. And that's how you stay strong. And when you're, when your body is strong, it lets you do more in the world. It lets you be more, your body houses your mind. You can think more if you have a, you know, a stronger body because it takes, it actually takes a lot of energy to, to operate this brain up here. And that's all coming from, from your body or heart and your lungs and all this stuff. If your body's healthy, if you can have a healthier mind and a healthier spirit, it's, you know, your body is your container for all of this stuff. And the stronger you are, the more you can do in the world and the more you can handle, the more you can deal with the more, the more problems you can carry through the world and take care. All right. The virtue of your spirit is love. This one, this one is, is probably the hardest one for me. Not that I don't have love, but I grew up just around a lot of hatred and dealing with a lot of hatred. And I had a lot of anger, you know, I grew up with a lot of anger and it's, I have to constantly remind myself to approach situations with this positive love, like even just saying the word, it feels like it's, it's wrong. Like, but no, it's, it's right. That's, that's the right way to approach things. And there's also a big thing in our society, you know, oh, you're talking about love, you're some kind of pansy or whatever, you know, yeah, you got to get rid of all that crap and ignore all that. I mean, I'm pretty, I'm pretty good at ignoring stuff people tell me to do. But yeah, I just grew up with so much anger. But anyway, whenever you approach a situation or think about things, if you keep, if you keep that, that idea of love, you know, in you, you have a very different way of approaching things than if you have anger or hatred. And if you're approaching things with love, you're gonna, you're gonna be much more likely to, to bring about positive, positive circumstances throughout the future and everything. And, you know, positive circumstances now, positive circumstances in the future, you're gonna be better to people doesn't anyway, I could go into a lot of details. But yeah, just, just keeping that really positive loving attitude is a really important thing. All right, so each, each of these mind, body and spirits things can be combined in, in pairs. So let's start with your mind and body. So your mind and body, your mind is honesty, and your body is strength. Well, when you take your honesty and have the strength to share it with the world, that's honor. Oh, and I should say, you know, the symbol of love is a heart, I think that's pretty self-explanatory. Anyway, the symbol of honor is a hand, because that's what you do when you say, you know, you go to court and you swear, you're supposed to put your hand on the Bible too, I guess. But anyway, the important thing is you put your hand up and say, I'm totally telling the truth. So that's the symbol for, for honor. And honesty is totally a prerequisite for honor as is strength. If you don't have the strength or, or the honesty in yourself, you can't, you can't share your honesty with people. And if you can share your honesty with people, that that's honor telling the truth. It's basically just boils down to telling the truth. And that means, you know, being, being truthful, truthful about facts, being truthful about how, how sure you are, something is true, you might think something's true. But if you really look into yourself, honestly, you'd be like, well, really, I'm only like 60% sure, share, share that information, share information that, that you know, people need to know, you know, one, one way people get around this a lot. And it kind of explained away like, Oh, I didn't really lie. I just, you know, kind of left out some truth that's lying and all counts is lying. Well, I did something I knew this person wouldn't like, but I didn't tell them about it. They didn't ask me about it. So I'm not technically lying. No, you're lying. So if you're, if you're really going to be an adventure builder, you got to count all the lies, all the lies count. And if you say you're doing something, you got to follow through, man, or else you lied. So that actually is a huge time saver, like honor, just telling the truth. Because when you tell lies, then you have to like, remember the lies and keep track of who knows which lies and who knows this and you got to make up other lies to cover and fill in the blanks of why the lies don't make sense. It's just, it's, it's so exhausting. And then also, say you're going to meet someone somewhere and you say, I'll be there at three o'clock on Tuesday. To me, once I say that, it's done. I don't have to think about that. I don't have to waste any time being like, do I really want to go? Well, can I come up with an excuse to get out of it? Well, you know, all this, all this nonsense, it's all done. Once I say I'm there, I'm there. And then I don't have to worry about it. I can just like, yeah, it's, it's being, having good honor is a huge time saver compared to, you know, telling lies and stuff. All right, let's see, body and spirit, let's combine those two. Well, when you get your, your strength and all your love that, uh, when you use nose, that's when, when you, when you need courage, that's when you need your strength and your love. I'm sure I could explain this in a better way. Anyway, the, the symbol for courage is a fist because, because you're not, you're not giving up when you're, when you're making your fists, you're giving up when you're like, when you got your fists going, you're ready to go. And actually courage is another huge time saver. Because if often, if you have the courage to deal with a situation rather than put it off, you've dealt with that situation. But often people are like, well, I don't really want to deal with that right now. And they'll put something off that they know they should deal with. And instead of having the courage to deal with it, they put it off and put it off and put it off. And often things they should deal with become bigger and bigger and bigger. And it would be better if you just dealt with the situation right away. You know, this, this actually, um, it relates directly to, to honor, like, like if there's a lie, or, or you've told a lie, or somehow you, you didn't do something you're supposed to, if you have the courage to just tell people right away, it's, it really helps you save face. Because if you start lying about it, and like three weeks later, finally someone either catches you in the lie, or you're just like, oh, I'm like, then people are going to be like, okay, you lied, or you didn't do the thing, or whatever once. But then you compounded it over the last three weeks. Now I think you're a total piece of crap. No, have the courage to deal with that stuff. And yeah, whenever, whenever you come up with, against a situation where maybe you want to change something in your life, but it's, it's scary, right? The only thing putting it off does means you're going to do it later in your life than you, than you could have. Like the, just have the courage to deal with stuff as soon as you reasonably can. And it really, it can really help you get places in life, right? It also helps you not, not have to deal with bullies. Because if bullies, bullies can smell cowardice. Bullies are horrible. Anyway, all right, let's combine your love and, no, your, your spirit and your mind. And you get imagination and imagination. The symbol is couple stars. Cause when I think about imagination, I think about like looking up at the night sky, because there's, there's so much, there's so much unknown, so much you can just imagine, like what, what is going on up there? You know, it's all, it's all imagination. I mean, we know a bit of what's going on up there, but most of it we, all we can do is imagine at this point. So the symbol for imagination is a, is a couple of stars. And imagination is that thing that lets you come up with a new idea. And what, what differentiates it from, you know, your, just your regular mind is that in your regular mind, you can, you can understand things and you can, you can deal with facts and things. But sometimes you come up against a situation where you have no way of dealing with it. I know there's no instructions. There's no, there's nothing good to tell you how to deal with it. That's when imagination really is super valuable. So you go into this place in your mind where it's like kind of somewhere between your mind and your spirit is like vague, hard to define kind of thing. And that's where you, you can get, you can pull these ideas just kind of out of nowhere. And it's, it's really hard to explain because like, how do you explain like nothing? It's, it's like, it's like going to this place of nothingness and just pulling something magical out of it. That's how you get new ideas from your imagination. And, oh, this is one of my favorite things to use whenever I'm figuring out, you know, engineering problems or trying to figure out what I should do with my life or whatever. I always go to this place of imagination. And I'm like, okay, let's say I have no parameters. I mean, I have a few basic parameters, but like, I don't know what I'm going to do. Right. Like, well, just think of anything. And I was just, I'll just come up with all these crazy ideas and most of them get thrown out. But you know, every once in a while, something comes up and it's like, whoa, that'll actually be kind of cool. Let's put that into the plan or whatever, you know, imagination is super cool thing. Anyway, okay, so now your mind, body and spirit makes up you. And the virtue of you living is life. And the symbol of life is a little, it's like an EKG thing, you know, because as long as you have a heartbeat, that means you're alive. But life, the principle in the Adventure Builders Club, the principle or the virtue of life is all about choosing your life, choosing a life that you can live within your own principles. And if you're an Adventure Builder, this is your principle, you know, choose a life where you can live this way. And I'll tell you when I, where I grew up, I grew up in the suburbs of Ontario, Canada. It was not a place where you could, you could, you could follow these, these principles. And a lot of people have told me this, you know, well, you can't always tell the truth because blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I'm just like, well, that's, you've got to change your life. You got to change your life, go to a place, change your circumstances, do whatever, so you can be in a place where you can tell the truth. You can be honest and real with the people around you. You know, that's, that's what life is. You, you, you choose your life. You got to choose your own life path. Don't let it, don't let, don't let yourself just be shoved around like you're some cow and some stalls and going through this little maze of fences until you get to the place where you finally get slaughtered. No, you take some, take some control, hop some fences, do, do whatever you got to do to figure out how to, how to define your own life, you know, make your own path. And then once you're doing that, once you're in a place where you can live by your principles, do it, live by those principles. That's the second part of life. Now the flip side of the whole thing is, is back here. It's humility. It's humbly hiding behind everything. And the symbol for humility is a backwards question mark, which I think is, it's showing up forwards for you guys. I should have reversed this. It's all backwards. Anyway, I assure you originally this is a backwards question mark. And it's backwards question mark, because when you look in the mirror, you would see the question mark in the right way. And it's all about questioning yourself, you know, always, always questioning yourself. So regardless of how sure you are about something, there's always a chance you can be wrong. You know, I might be wrong about this whole thing I came up with, not that I came up with them. These are all principles that have been around for, I don't know, as long as humans probably. But you know, I assembled it into this, what I think is a cohesive thing that I could follow and rely on to help me make decisions of life. And so far as I've been doing pretty good. But part of it is to realize that it could all be wrong. Everything I'm doing could be wrong. And another part of humility is understanding that no matter how far you go, you'll always have a long way to go. Like you're never at the end. Because if you ever think you're done, or you think you're the best, or you think you need no more improvement, like I'm just perfect now, well, that means you can't grow anymore. And then you turn stagnant and all you're doing is waiting to die. You got to keep that humility and understand that you do always have growth to make. There's always something you can learn. There's always something more you can do that you've, there's something you can learn that you don't even know you can't, you could learn. Like there's so much out there that you don't know or understand or have any experience with. And that's humility, just keeping that in mind. You'll never be at the top of a mountain. There's always somewhere more to go. All right, that's that whole thing. I haven't been going out in for almost 20 minutes. Let me see how you guys are doing. Oh, it looks like my comments got stuck again. Because I'm pretty sure there's more than three comments after 20 minutes. Yeah, okay. Mr. Landfill and Epstein, how you guys doing? Hail Dynamics. You are killing it, dude. You know, sometimes I feel like I'm killing it. But man, like, I definitely have my, my fair share of roadblocks that I have to like just fight my way through. I mean, there was a, there was a big one that happened this year. I had big family issues and I had to fight my way through it and it was ridiculous. But I came out of it. Okay, you know, now I'm kind of like starting to actually really get somewhere again, which is, which is a great feeling. You know, I feel like I'm actually making progress on my original goals of coming here. Like one of them is I want to, I want to grow food, you know, I want to grow all my own food and I'm growing some food on my island here. But my island here is like really dense clay. So it's, it's just, you know, I look at, I look at other people farming and stuff and I'm like, man, how are they doing it? It's, it's so hard. But I've recently been digging on another one of my properties and the soil is amazing. And now I understand. Okay, this is why it's not like almost impossible to grow food because, because not the whole world is made out of this dense clay, you know? So yeah, I'm, I'm going to start planting a lot of food over there. I'm just, you know, working on some stuff. I'll be able to show it pretty soon. But yeah, making progress on, on that and a lot of different things. Joseph Blomeister, how's it going, man? Tom Sudo, what time is it there? 730, 8, 730 or 8 somewhere around there. Wait, if I do this, will it show me? Oh yeah. Oh, 6, 653. Oh yeah, it gets dark early now. Okay, it's about seven o'clock. PM. It takes a real man to show real love. It's something I've struggled with as a man of 36. Yeah, totally. I'm a man of 48. And whoa, like in our society today, there's just, there's some really frustrating things about it. I mean, this is one of the reasons I moved to an island and, you know, don't live around so many people. There's so much negativity. And it's, it's not coming from the people. It's coming from the like people pulling your strings, you know? And, but I wouldn't say, you know, the general public is in any way innocent and all this, because they're going along with it. You know, it's like, it's like there's all the, all these advertisements everywhere and all these TV shows and movies that are pushing certain social dynamics. And generally speaking today, they are not good ones. There's a lot of anger, you know, they're all these war movies and like vengeance and killing and destruction. And that's, we're told that's entertaining. That's cool hate and vengeance and destroying thing. And, you know, if there's, if there's a movie about someone forgiving and, you know, trying to create something, they're, they're being pussies. They're wimps, you know, you got to get in there with your machine guns and your bombs and kill stuff and punch stuff. There's just so much of that today. And, yeah, and if you, if you try to express any kind of love, people are like, what are you, some kind of damn hippie or, you know, are you a loser? It's really frustrating because love is the thing we need. That's, that's what fixes. That's what fixes everything, you know, not everything, but that's that, that gets you going in the right direction. If you're, if you're approaching all kinds of problems with hatred and resentment, which is what's happening today, you know, people complain and they're so angry, but they never fix anything because they're just approaching it with anger and frustration, which is destructive. They're not approaching it with love. They're not saying like, okay, yeah, there are a lot of problems. Let's, let's figure it out. You know, let's, let's work together. Let's work with people we don't even necessarily get along with, but let's figure out how to, how to work with them. Let's work together, make the world a better place, right? But it's, that's just not what's happening today. And I'm hoping at some point that'll turn around, but it might, you know, might be a while. But yeah, it's, it's really frustrating. Anyway, let me, let me turn out my brightness a little bit here so I can see the comments a bit better. Hey people, if you love your body, your mind will be healthier. Yes, totally. What I'm saying is basically negative thinking is poison to your overall health. It is. Yeah. Um, yeah, if you just go around with anger and hatred all the time, it affects you, man. It affects everyone around you. Not a good thing. Like, where's, where's my camera right there? Okay, I can use this hand. I'm so glad you're on YouTube teaching this stuff. All of humanity needs it. Well, you know, this kind of goes back to the way our society is right now. And, uh, you know, maybe I'm wrong and maybe you're wrong and maybe everything I'm saying is stupid, but I'm trying to do my best here. But the thing is like, I hardly get any views. And I, if I go on YouTube and look at what's, what's being promoted and what's getting all the views, it's just, it's, it's so negative. So much negativity. Like so many videos of people just doing dumb things, getting hurt, you know, like you skateboard and fall and hurt your nuts or smash your knee or something is like, whoa, 10 million views or, or all these videos about like, you know, the men hating women and women hating men videos. Oh God, there's so many of those. And so I shouldn't say all of them, but most of them are just like so destructive and promoting that, that divide between men and women. And then there's also videos about, you know, racism and that mostly divide people by race. You know, there's, there's so much negativity out there that, that gets promoted so much that people are watching all the time. And it's, it's frustrating. Yeah, we definitely need more, more positive messages, you know. Love this channel. Keep it coming. Well, thanks, man. Lincoln rig. No, Lincoln, Lincoln rig welder. I have a Lincoln mother. It's great. Tom pseudo clearly. This is one of those middle of the night epiphany situations. What are you talking about? Are you saying that I'm, I'm on here because of the middle of the night epiphany situation? No, I do a live every Sunday. And I've been doing them on my other channel. I just decided to just just start doing everything on this channel again. So yeah, I do, I do this like every Sunday. There is no such thing as a finished project. Yeah, pretty much. I mean, there's a, I wouldn't even necessarily say that though. You can have a finished project, but there's, I would say it's more like there's no project that can't be improved. You know, like it's, it's good to be able to finish your project. But you know, there's always a way you could, you can improve it. So yeah, I guess, I guess one, another way of saying it would be, there's no finished project. Yeah. What do you think of the saying no man is an island? Um, I don't know, it doesn't mean anything. Yeah, it doesn't really mean anything to me. No man is an island. It's basically saying no one person can do it all. But like one person can do it all. You could, you could live by yourself. And, and that's a choice that will be a certain type of existence. It just won't be one that continues into the future because if you're by yourself, you're not going to have babies and stuff, unless you're stealing them from other people or whatever. I don't know. A lot of those things, they don't, they don't really mean anything. Often, that's the kind of thing that people will say to me when I'm working hard on something, I said hard, when I'm working hard on something and people will come up and say, Hey, why are you doing that all by yourself? You should hire people. No, no man can do it. You can't be, no man is an island. You can't do it all yourself. And I'm just like, Hey, stop talking. I'm busy doing don't don't talk over my doing you go away. You know, that's how that's the context I usually hear that that kind of phrase in. So I guess I just don't really care for it. But I mean, I don't know. Love what you are sharing. Thanks man. I just started teaching people how to breathe balance and move their bodies. They were laughing and having so much fun. Well, that's cool. I want to I want to know I do I do you make like YouTube videos of this and stuff because I want to do more of that kind of stuff with my kids. You know, we do athletic stuff and running and stuff. But yeah, anyway, if you have like a YouTube channel or something with videos of that kind of stuff, I'd love to see. Oh, and my email is should be down here in the comments. I think I'm pretty sure it's like the adventure builder movie at gmail.com. Right? Yeah. I was just kidding about the no man is an island thing because you pretty much pull it off. Well, no, I'm not I'm not by myself. And I don't know. You just asked me what I thought of that. It wasn't like you were really saying anything about it. But yeah, I'm I can't do everything by myself. I mean, I can do all the work of stuff by myself. But like to have kids, I couldn't have kids by myself. And you know, I can't build a future by myself because I need those I need those kids and I need them to know people and one day I'm going to be dead. I want I want all this stuff to I want something to carry on. Anyway, I want to have some kind of positive influence on the future. So you don't have to deal with people and try to share my my thoughts in some way. And you know, blah, blah, blah. Oh, I'm planning on starting starting a channel soon. Thank you. Well, Corina, I would love to see it if you start. That would be great. Love hearing the background cricket noise. Can really hear that you're out there in nature. Yeah. It is super duper loud when one gets in the house, like, like so loud, I have to like take it outside. You're so loud. Yeah, when they're outside, they're good. I grew up on a permaculture farm. Oh, man, that's awesome. My mom grows medicinal plants. That is so cool. I wish I grew up on a permaculture farm. That sounds like it would be amazing. You would have learned so many things. I was always irritated that you know, I went to school for I went to public school, you know, like, like everybody else. For like a decade, decade and a half or whatever. So many years going to school. And when I finished school, I had no idea how to survive. Like just just the basic stuff. Like how do you grow food? You know, even like how do you hunt? Like just how how do you survive on this planet? Just just the basics. You know, if you were if you were plopped on this planet somewhere, and you didn't have, you know, all this stuff set up so you can just use money for everything. Like how would you survive? I think everyone should know that. I mean, it's not. I don't think everyone necessarily has to be living in the woods wearing, you know, a thong made out of a beaver or something. But I think everyone should know how to live on their own planet, just just the basics. You know, it's crazy that we don't. Especially after all those years of school, I mean, but all those years of school aren't meant to teach us how to do anything. Are you ever afraid of your kids hurting themselves out there so far from immediate medical aid? Yeah, I mean, it's the thing is like, life is dangerous. Like there's no getting around that you could die like that any moment. An asteroid could land on my head. Right now, there's nothing I can do about it. Like there's always something that can kill you. So, you know, I take reasonable precautions. Mostly, I just yell at my kids, you can't get hurt or or you're in big trouble. No, what I sometimes say to them if they're if they're getting, you know, real rowdy in the evening or in late afternoon when it's starting to get dark, I'm like, hey, settle down. You can't get hurt because it's going to be dark when we can't go to the hospital. But yeah, in the morning, if they're being rambunctious in the morning, I still try to make make sure they don't hurt themselves over each other. But there is there is definitely I do approach it a little differently in the morning than in the evening. But you know, I think one of the things that my kids are learning by being in this environment is how to not get hurt or how to deal with small injuries or how to minimize injuries. Like if one of my kids is falling, they they they know how to fall without without like breaking something or like, you know, getting seriously injured because they they live in an environment where there is kind of danger around all the time, you know, they'll walk through something slippery or there's there's hills that you could fall down or, you know, there's water where you could drown or, you know, in my house, there there are tools around and I don't lock them all up. I try to teach them, you know, like, like this is dangerous, you can do this, that like, you know, and I'll teach them like when I'm cooking, I'll get like a five year old to cut up the the carrots or whatever. I mean, take some forever. But, you know, I try to I try to teach them how to deal with danger. Someone someone mentioned this a couple weeks ago, about one of my videos where my son was like jumping out of the way of potential danger, not he wasn't in danger. It was just he was like, this could be dangerous. And he like ran out of the way a few steps and then stood there and looked back and was like, okay, now I'm in a safe spot. So, like a lot of kids who grew up in cities don't get that. And I've known a lot of kids who grew up in cities who didn't have any sense of what is dangerous around them and what they can do. So I mean, like once I often hear a lot of people say I would love to live off grid in the wilderness like you do. But, you know, I don't want to put my kids at risk. Like I don't want them I don't want them to get hurt and blah, blah, blah. But the thing is, I don't think it's any more dangerous being in this situation than being in a city. Because kids will adapt like Mike and and my kids learning how to deal with danger when they're young is going to make them be safer in the future. So I think if anything I would say they're probably less prone to injuries living in a place where they really are not allowed to get hurt. And there are dangerous things around. But um, yeah, I mean there there is always the the thought of like what do we what if we have to go to the hospital at 2am like that's going to suck. But if I have to get my boat out and drive at 2am, I've driven that night before like I can do it. Um, fine, you know, I'll do it. But uh, you know, we try not to do anything crazy. And the other thing is like yeah, you can't you can't define your life based on what might possibly happen under rare circumstances. Like I was saying you could you could die from anything. There's no way of getting around that. Yes, you can't do the family part alone. But realistically you could do uh do more than 90% of humanity when it comes to being self-sufficient. It's impressive as all. Yeah, I mean I I do like for my family I do all the work. Like I do all the work. And at this point my kid's mom she's we're we have a separate thing so I don't know what she's doing. I don't I don't have anything to do with her. Her things that are going on anymore. But for many years I was taking care of everything she needed to you know I was just doing everything for my family which was a little frustrating because I was hoping with a partner we could split things better. But anyway um but yeah one person can do it all and that's often what happens actually often when you have a group of people um if you have a person in that group who is particularly competent they do often end up doing everything particularly if you have a few lazy people in a group. Yeah if you have a few lazy people and one motivated person that motivated person will end up doing everything and they'll get annoyed at the lazy people and not want to be around them anymore. But you know I'll do it all. I have about five more months to go before I build my dome home. Oh that's awesome. It's going to be a place of peace and love. Oh that's great. I have no plans for after and for after and money worries. Oh what money worries me. But I feel like I just need to create. Totally do it man. Yeah that sounds a little bit like when I first went off grid that was mildly terrifying because I was like I don't know how this is going to go and I don't know what I'm going to do for money and blah blah blah. But pretty soon I found out just by doing it that all the worries I had and all the things people were warning me about were nothing and I just had to be I just had to have the mindset to take care of whatever I needed to care of you know whatever whatever comes up whatever I have to do I'll deal with it. So like when I first went off grid I had $25,000 and I spent half of that on land and then the other half I was like okay I'll be able to live for a while on $12,500. Get materials to build a house and you know get things going you know and I did and eventually I got down to under $2,000 and I was like now I'm starting to get a little a little nervous that my funds are below $2,000. I mean if I did if I wasn't doing anything fancy this would last me a while but it's not going to be indefinite. So I just started doing some work and made some money and I always just did whatever I had to do. So yeah if you move off grid one thing is your expenses are going to go way down once you get yourself set up and the advantage you have over other people is that you're not going to have to make a lot of money. So when I was living in Vermont my yearly expenses were about $2,000 a year and I could make that and if I if I busted my butt I could make that in a week and that would cover the whole year you know. I don't actually know what my expenses are now. Let's see permaculture is super exciting stuff. Yeah growing up in the farm made me strong I learned many skills that is super cool. I have a daughter who is 12 and it terrifies me worrying about her getting permanently hurt. How do you deal with that? So are you off grid somewhere or wait is this are you must be off grid if you're terrified or or in some place where you're far or are you just saying just even though you're near a hospital you're terrified or ever getting permanently hurt. Well the thing is like I mean there's all kinds of sayings about this but like you can't you can't get too overwhelmed by the things you can't change the thing yeah what is that what is that saying is in the bible or something you know gives me the strength to deal with the to do something about the problems I can do something about but the wisdom to accept the ones I can't or something like that like basically you know being alive is is sort of like balancing a pillar of like blocks like 20 feet high and just having enough all down you like there's so many things have to go right all the time for you to be alive like so many things in here like I have to keep breathing my heart has to be going stuff can't get stuck in my blood I can't get some virus or or whatever illness or fungus or wall like so many things can go wrong you could drive yourself crazy worrying about all the things that could go wrong or you can just say okay you know risks are a risk is just part of life let's go and I personally think that's the best decision because if you're if you're constantly worrying about all these things it's not going to make you live longer I mean you could take some precautions you you take reasonable precautions either way it like you should be taking reasonable precautions either way you know not not storing a whole bunch of saws and jackhammers right above your your bedroom so they could land on your head you know not not doing stupid like take reasonable precautions but after that worrying about it all isn't going to make you live any longer so you might as well live so you've got a certain amount of of life it's a finite amount you can't live infinitely so while you're alive take advantage and live you know don't don't get too bogged down by all the things that might go wrong I'll email you to ask about foundations and footings I'm good at designing but not knowledgeable in engineering well I'll tell you basically just just make sure everything's solid I don't know anyway um did you eat well tonight I ate pretty well tonight I had some some dead cow and some hot dogs I made I made snot bacon today I haven't I haven't mentioned snot bacon in a while so I guess I'll explain so snot bacon you know what you know what bacon is right snot bacon is pretty much any meat product that you could slice thinly and then fry it's kind of like bacon you know but it's not bacon so it's not bacon and uh whenever I make snot bacon I always I always pester my kids to ask you come on ask me ask me and they're like fine ah what are you cooking oh snot bacon ah what's that well snot bacon uh dad jokes uh yep yep yeah and I also made some sourdough coconut bread and had some peanut butter sandwiches yeah um stuff like that we didn't really have like a fancy dinner today it was just kind of like here's some food eat it um it is asteroid season november is the time for apocalypse are there asteroid wait should I be looking for I don't see any shooting stars out there is there some point when I should be looking for shooting stars I gotta take it my kids outside I don't know I'm sure yeah they've seen shooting stars but they haven't seen like like a good night of shooting stars like you know a few times in my life I've you know been in places actually one happened a few years ago when I was driving a boat to town and I left at like 3 am just so I could get there early things I woke up and I was like oh I'm wide awake now what do I wait for three or four hours till the sun comes up where do I just go so I just went so I was driving for a few hours in my boat toward town and you know this it was pretty dark it's enough light to navigate um but as I was driving just all these shooting stars all these little little rocks falling through the atmosphere were showing up it was pretty cool the best one I've ever seen was in Vermont where I used to live and I I'd come out of my house walked a mile down the the forest path to get to where my car is and just as I was getting like within sight of my car I looked up and there was this this like burning streak across the sky and then it was just like a really bright point and then it broke up into pieces and they all just like followed the same line it was it was pretty sweet I was like oh cool yeah nobody's here so I guess I'll just say cool to myself wow wasn't that neat he's always nice to have someone there with you to see that kind of stuff. Tomaters what's going on man many people live in fear especially when it comes to money and survival yes that is true one thing one thing that's driving me crazy is how focused people are on money oh it's crazy so all right many of you know that I've been trying to find a girlfriend anyway so I've been talking I've been more socially active than I've been in a while and man it's like all the all the women I talked to lately are like just obsessed with their careers and money and just making more money and I'm and I'm like so do you have any interest in any kind of relationship because you're you're you're you're you know saying you're interested in a relationship oh yeah one relationship one relationship like what would you choose though would you choose a relationship or a career well I can have both I need to make a lot of money because like well if you don't have a lot of money money money money money and I'm just like oh god give it a rest with the money man like there's so much more to life like life existed before there was money you know I'm not saying you don't need money now because like just did not go to jail you need money but it's really nice to get your life into a position where money is not is not the focus it's not like the only thing that matters and one of the one of the good ways to do that is to live off grid you know grow some food even if you're not living off grid you know people have yards and they can grow gardens or you know do some repair something yourself instead of just buy something there's there's there's so many ways to deal with situations that you can do before you resort to money but it just seems like almost everyone today is like oh there's a problem let me check my wallet just see how much money I got if I can deal with this problem and I'm just like why why why don't you try to fix that try to fix that problem or try to figure out something first like like before you just resort to the dumb well here's a number that can fix it like like try to learn something try to figure something up like solve problems you know anyway well I don't even know what I was going on about there what was the question uh yeah fears of money and survival and money money's not going to save you if we ever get into a into a situation where your survival really is in danger money is not going to be a thing anymore I mean it might still be a thing but that's it's not going to save you like if we get to a point where food is scarce people aren't selling food food is going to become the money like that's what's going to be the valuable thing money is going to be like unimportant what are your five month five year and ten year plans well five months uh okay this is this is roughly five months ish so next year I want to start having adventure builder meetings again I used to have them every year at the dome in Vermont and people will come from like all over the world to these things it was crazy and I would have it every the week of May 3rd every year May 3rd is my birthday so like the first year I don't know why we did it on my birthday but it just became the tradition you know so next year the week of May 3rd by then I want to have a campground setup like with cabins and stuff and also spots for tents but like I want to have a place where people could come and stay and I want to have an adventure builder meeting the week of May 3rd next year so people could come for the week or the weekend or whatever and we can just hang out and do stuff and go snorkeling and run around the woods and maybe make some stuff or you know do some adventure buildery stuff um because those meetings were really cool they they were really cool I met some really awesome people doing those I also met a few crazies but I met a bunch of really cool people doing those so yeah five months I want to I want to get back going and there's a bunch of stuff I mean I could get in all the details of what I'm trying to build there but that's that's the basic just now five years oh god there's there's so much I mean it's going to take me like an hour to go through um but basically like five years from now I want to be in a position where I've basically got all the stuff set up hopefully before five years but like I want to be growing on my own food you know maybe there'll be one or two things I'm not doing yet or something but generally speaking I want to I want to be growing my own food and I want to have you know kind of all the all the basics of my life set up like the the way I think about it is in Vermont where I used to live when that's where I first moved off grid uh you know I built a house and set up a spring house and I got things pretty cool but it was it was always I was always working trying to build the place up but then at some point maybe five years into it I don't know how long it was something like that at some point I was in my house I got up in the morning I was like okay what do I need to take care of today and I was like nothing nothing there's nothing I need to take care of I got the water situation I got the the electricity my house is comfortable amazing and I love it here and like it's it's like so many things had just been taken care of I was like I could just live in this place and it's amazing and at that point I was like all right then what do I want to do now and I could start just really doing those projects you know like giant robot projects kind of things like like crazy nutty stuff um nutty stuff well maybe nutty stuff but anyway do like like you know what I'm talking about there those those projects that are like not necessary for survival but are amazing yeah so within five years I want to get to that point then 10 years you don't know I don't know it's like continuation of that um if yeah the thing is that the further you you draw it out the more stuff I'm going to have to say to have to even scratch the surface of what I want to do but that's like one of the basic things I want to do in five years and I could get into a lot of details of specifics but part of the thing with that is I'm not sure which specifics like I have a few different paths like specific paths I could take or like parameter like yeah basically I have a set of of parameters that I want to be in but the the specific details are there are a lot of variables you know oh it's not bacon it's not bacon yeah it's not bacon what's the biggest challenge right now you mean besides trying to find a girlfriend um okay that was the easy one um not the easy challenge easy thing to say what's the biggest challenge right now I mean oh what is the biggest challenge right now you know okay the biggest challenge right now is like I went I went through a lot of difficult stuff this year you know um probably the biggest challenge right now and I think I'm I'm kind of taking care of it you know I'm actually getting somewhere now uh the biggest challenge is just getting myself back to a really positive mindset where um I feel good about the future and I see a good future you know because sometimes when you when you get bogged down with crap and like a lot of garbage is going on and people aren't being good and you really need them to be good but they're not and it's like you just have to deal with this frustrating stuff it can become difficult to see any kind of positive future you know and for a while there I was just I was just fighting and fighting and fighting doing anything I could to just scrape by um and now I'm at the point where it's like okay now now I've kind of gotten that whole mess you know calmed down and straightened out or whatever and now I'm starting to make like real like real progress again I can I can see the the visions that I that I had before you know of what the future could be and how amazing it could be and uh yeah I guess I guess it's kind of like crawling out of a hole and I need to make sure I don't fall back in any holes because when you when you've been kind of depressed for a while like it was like and when I say depressed it could be like you know clinically depressed or just you know just got a low point for a while whatever when you're coming out of that it's real easy to slip back because you know you you get a few positive things happening and it's like okay I think I'm okay but it's like no you're not quite okay you got to keep going keep going keep going you can't relax it you know so that's kind of the point I'm at now where it's like okay things are going a lot better I'm making good progress you know I'm gonna I'm in a pretty good state of mind I just gotta make sure I don't slip and and fall back so I guess that's that's probably the the biggest challenge right now is just just me like just making sure this this being true to myself making sure I stay who I am just you know keeping the person I want to be because it's really it's really easy to fall off that horse okay what do you think about the difference between religious organizational wait etc laws for their members versus the laws of the land you're now standing etc okay the difference between like religious kind of laws like laws for a group or laws for the general public is that the basic gist of laws for oh wait the laws of the land you're now saying I don't know this is this is kind of a confusing question I feel like I need a little more explanation generally speaking I I think laws or rules should be minimized as much as possible because what happens when you have a bunch of rules or even a small number of rules they end up replacing people's morality and that's what we've got today you know when you when you ask people why they wouldn't steal something for example like a huge number of people will say well I wouldn't steal it because I don't want to go to jail not because that's a bad thing to do not because it would it would be taking value out of the world not because there's some moral problems because I might go to jail I would love to steal this $10,000 from those people because then I'd have $10,000 yay but I don't want to go to jail and what we should be doing we should be saying no I don't want to steal $10,000 from someone this is not mine why why would I want something that's not mine that doesn't make any sense because you get much better results that way you get much better results when people are behaving based on their own moral compass rather than a bunch of rules because one of the problems with rules is once the rules replace your morality now you're now you're free to be as much of a sociopath or psychopath as you want as long as you can get away with it based on the rules so and there's no there's no way to make enough rules to cover every situation that could ever happen every problem but your own morality can cover it all like you know when you're doing something right or wrong and one of the problems today also with the rules is so many people are doing things that they know are wrong and it makes them sick you know people are just stressed out all the time they can't sleep so they take pills and they're getting hard to actually take more pills and they're taking all these pills so they can manage to live with their own conscience and it's a really screwed up situation so I don't know if I'm approaching your I'm not really addressing your question specifically at all but just the general idea of rules themselves I think is a problem speaking my language moving to my mom's farm going to build an earthship there that sounds awesome that sounds super cool let's see where was I uh with issues for tourists in hawaii and mexico panama might be ready to bloom as a tourist destination it's already a pretty big tourist destination um I don't think panama needs more tourists ah tourism is a it's kind of a really screwed up thing today I'm not I'm not I don't have any I don't have a problem with just the basic idea of traveling and seeing other cultures and stuff like that but the way people travel today they just they use they're they're so wasteful like the the way people travel today as tourists they're just traveling these long distances burning all kinds of fuel which is irritating but okay whatever but then they get to places like in town here people buy all these water bottles and use them once and buy all this this this disposable stuff because they're like well I'm only here for a week so ah whatever and they just the amount of garbage there's actually huge garbage problem on on the town the the closest town to me because it's an island so there's only a certain amount of space and it's a big tourist destination so tourists come stay for a week and just make mountains of garbage and then leave and there's just there's so much garbage there and you know you don't see it in the brochures but you you go to one of the beaches over there and it's just there's garbage lining the whole thing it's it's horrible yeah the way we do tourism today is a problem make a tent challenge for the adventure club meeting everyone designs makes a tent from scratch and lives in it on the island for a week how exciting well it's not a bad idea although I do see some problems with that like okay so what are they making the tents out of if they're making it out of like leaves and stuff and that might be an issue with bugs getting in but if they're making it with like some kind of cloth that people are rushing to make some crappy tent they're going to use for a few days and then what it's just garbage you know I don't know I think I think I would rather just have people come stay in like either their own tent whatever or stay in one of the cabins I make that's just going to be like a permanent fixture there and won't won't use up anything you know but not a terrible idea tents are good classic dude my but hut making is my thing so far just in the santa cruz mountain redwoods in california usa but I want to make a real tropical high well you should come you want to make a real tropical hut come for the week uh you know next may third whatever week that is spend the whole week making a hut let's see wherever you're going good thing you help with all the recycling you do yeah I do do do a lot a lot of recycling and using I have feeling your audience is very broad and political religious etc mindset I just feel like you cut through a lot of the world's garbage and reach people all over just about well that's great I hope so that would be spectacular um I also do have a lot of trolls oh well there's I mean how do I get into it um but yeah that's that's great to hear um I do try to you know I try to cut through the crap so I'm glad that's working to some degree and uh yeah people with different political and religious backgrounds uh I don't have any problem with with anyone else's political or religious backgrounds as long as they don't require me to think something you know um like I I've had friends of various different religions and the friends I've had that's that stuck were friends who like didn't care that I wasn't Jewish or wasn't christian or wasn't you know left-wing or whatever you know the the friends who just didn't care about that that's the friends I can get along with um and I'm I'm totally happy to interact with people of all kinds of different different mindset as long as they don't require me to change mine you know and I also think it's important that people be able to disagree freely without getting angry and all that stuff anyway I've been rambling on here for an hour I think I should uh shut up and you know go see what my kids doing they're they're I put a movie on for them right now Final Fantasy it was like an old Final Fantasy movie it's like a cartoon one that you know there's a lot of a lot of modern Final Fantasy movie this was like a totally animated like hand drawn one kind of thing um yeah I think it's the best one anyway I'm gonna get out of here uh I hope everyone is having a great morning or evening or middle of the day or middle of the night or whatever you've got and that's it be safe everyone Mr Landfall says yes be safe