 Well, I just uploaded this video asking if anyone has any questions and let's see It's only been like half an hour 113 comments. Oh, those are all questions. Oh, this is gonna be a long video first question This is all from one guy How are things going on the island the banana plants ducks chickens the water collection fruit trees the kids car? All right, let's go look at that stuff real quick All right on the wharf, I've got pineapples that one's brand new I've got lots of pineapples There are a few that are almost ready my daughter recently took the scissors to this here citronella plant The banana circles are doing great. I Should get something out of this tree. I'm guessing pretty soon because it is big the same with This one. This is a banana tree. That's plantain tree. That's why that one's bigger But I just got bananas and plantains out of this bunch Hopefully I'll get some more soon over here I've got some papayas I'm hoping these are getting bigger Maybe have tons of leafy stuff This is like oregano and there's a mint around here somewhere and then kutuk. This is edible leaves I don't know what that tree back there is, but I think it might be monkey tail This is my latest banana circle one banana plants doing pretty well. Oh watermelon. Oh watermelon right there Oh, yeah, there's a bigger one over here, too Check this guy out. He's getting big. Okay, the ducks and chickens We don't have a boy chicken because he was cock-a-doodle-looing like all night We were hoping he would grow out of it, but after like six months of that I just chopped off his head and ate him. He was delicious now. We do have a boy duck and There is a girl duck Inside this building who's sitting on eggs. Let's go say hi Not scared There she is over there. She's sitting on some eggs. I guess this chicken's keeping her company. It's pretty nice. I think I'm gonna have to show ginger. This is one of the original four chickens We got the other three died. So this one's like, I don't know three or four years old She's awesome. Haven't used the bulldozer in a while except its power system, which powers the workshop Now we didn't specifically ask about that, but All right, here's the kid's car No, it's just on hold right now because I've been doing all this digging but it's going very well Too bad of a mess in here And we've got laundry. Okay. We also asked about the water Collection here. So there's a gutter here It comes to a pipe that goes underground and goes into this water tank We've not been drinking out of this one yet just because you know, there's some bits of sand that comes off here It's probably not coming off anymore, but there's a bit of sand in the pipe So when it rains a lot and this is all full I'll have to run the the water full blast to get all the sand out of it so We use that for everything we're drinking and just because we have two other water sources One in the workshop and one in the houseboat that we drink from Although I'm sure you could drink from this one too Might just have a bit of the sand bits. Oh My gosh, there's something what is what are these turkey burgers or are they meatless things? Meatless inventions and like you made bagels. What that's awesome. There's bagels going on in here. What? Hey, wait, what's that all right? Oh, you made a pirate ship. That's a sail. Yeah, awesome. You found the whole mast cool Love Lego So no one Here the kids drew a picture of me Okay, I think that covers it Tom and you take care of yourself too Okay, next guy What do I think of bitcoin? Okay Okay, it was with these huge questions. Okay, let me see if I can sum this up fairly quickly I think bitcoin clearly has a lot of advantages over fiat currency Uh because fiat currencies are controlled by the governments or the private banks How how is the united the us? How is the united states allowing a private bank to run their money? I mean that was the end of the country right there Uh whole other video worth of stuff So bitcoin Is harder for a government or anyone any one particular agency to control because of the way it's set up It's it has A major limitation though, which is that It's not it doesn't have any inherent value like what's one bitcoin? It's nothing. It's just some numbers in a computer Right, it's not like a gold coin, which was the value of that much gold or a silver coin That was the value of that much silver um So when you have something that people are just Agreeing on the value of it. It makes it so the value can go up and down a lot and I have some bitcoin and Oh anyone who has bitcoin right now is aware that in the last year. It's like just nosedived I think it's like Like a seventh of what? The value was a year ago something like that something ridiculous um, so that's that's one of the problems with A currency that doesn't doesn't have any inherent value in itself um Now in terms of currencies in general, I think it would be really useful If people Stop doing everything with currency stop valuing currency more than everything else like people value currency more than they value their own family and friends Like people will go out of their way push their friends and family aside for money, which is crazy I think it would be much more I think it would be much better If people started instead of valuing these currencies if they valued themselves and their own virtue And uh friendships and things like that and that became The the valuable thing that people strove for instead of money money is useful But it it should be like fifth or sixth down the line of priorities not first Which is what it is for most people And once it becomes such a like a lower priority for people The form of the money is not as important The thing is the form of the money isn't going to matter if people value it in a way That screws up their lives even if you went to a barter system if people were just obsessed with you know Transactions and value that has nothing that doesn't necessarily have value to them It just makes for a crappy life So don't worry so much about money value your relationships and yourself Improve yourself improve the world around you Don't call and pay for something every time there's a problem try to figure stuff out for yourself But that's what I think of money in general and bitcoin specifically. Okay Second question Oh another big question. What are you doing different for your forever home compared to the dome structure? I'm guessing he means the dome here. Let me show you Okay, so this dome here I made for disheina So I built that dome for disheina and I know this is going to bring up another question of why are we living in separate places? Oh To to put it simply She drives me nuts I don't want to speak for her or anything, but I can definitely speak for myself. So she drives me nuts so No, not not anything hugely surprising there. I'm guessing um You know, we didn't have kids together because we are awesome Awesomely meshing well together. We had kids together because we thought we could make awesome kids and give them an awesome Childhood which is which is working out very well. So um So when I built her house I was trying to build it to her specifications and I don't want to sound like a jerk or anything But she said a lot of different things and they changed as I was going and I was It was driving me a little bit nuts But I was just trying to stay focused on the thing and you know, my brains were kind of all over the place and So when I build my house, I'm not listening to anyone. I don't want any advice from anyone I don't want any any input unless it's something specifically like I go ask someone some technical question like Hey, what size would beam should I use to span this? This distance or whatever, you know, some kind of technical question like that But I'm just gonna like go into my own brain do exactly what I want the way I want it And I'm gonna try to make sure I don't cut any corners or do any BS that's that's not going to be the best thing I can do So I'm just gonna try to make it really good and really long lasting And um, you know, if if I'm only doing what I'm Deciding to do It's much easier to stay Uh in the right kind of mindset because you know, I've done Contracting before for other people and you know, anyone who's done contracting will know exactly what I'm talking about And this is the same situation I had with building to chain ourselves You know, like you start working on something you get it halfway done and the person says oh, I won't thought a little bit different You can just change that right and it's like, oh Okay, now I'm not halfway done. I'm only a quarter of the way done And then it's like, okay now I'm three quarters of the way done. Oh, but they want to change something again Okay, now I'm only halfway done And yeah, if you can just get one person, which will be me Deciding on what's going on and doing it. It's just the whole thing is more cohesive And there's a lot fewer like frayed edges just going off in dead-end directions So I don't know if that answers the question. What am I doing differently for my for my forever home? Yeah, and and everything I'm doing here. I'm just gonna I'm planning to to be In this new place I'm building for the rest of my life and I want it to last for I mean several generations after that So I'm just gonna try to make it super awesome And yeah, and I guess the biggest thing is I'm I'm totally gonna ignore any input anyone else gives me Okay Maybe we can get a smaller question next. Okay Next guy the universe. What the hell is it? Oh, seriously? All right That's a nice big question. Let me think about this for a second Okay, my best guess for you know the nature of the universe Is that we are in someone we're in a We're in a universe Or in a In a realm I don't know what you call it in a section of the universe that was created by someone else's imagination someone thought of something and then And then our universe is there and now we're here and you know when I think about something if I think Hey, there's some kid on a swing set swinging around playing at the park Yes, and friends and then I come back here and stop thinking about it. What is that universe? Just stop being there. No, I implied in my head when I was thinking about it that there was a large robust universe there So to that kid swinging on the swings That universe is real to me. He's just an imaginary thing that I thought about for a second And I'm gonna forget about but to him that's all real. So that's their universe. I'm guessing that's what we are We're just this thing that someone Thought of at some point. We're just imaginary nothing this to them, but to us we're real and I don't see any and you know to their And the person who thought of us they're probably in some imaginary universe to something else and it just keeps going on and on and in this kind of scenario, I don't think there would have to be a A hierarchy like there's not like a spot where it started like a first guy who thought of the The universe and then all those people in that universe thought about all the rest of the universes and it just gets bigger No, I don't think there would be a beginning and an end to it and here's why I'm not sure if I'm gonna be able to explain this in words but uh Just imagine Nothing exists like there's no space. There's no Stuff. There's there's nothing like literally no time nothing. None of it exists If you can if you didn't like wrap your head around that you realize Like what a kind of crazy Circumstance it is that anything is exists And just the fact that anything exists Just because the the nature of of that dichotomy between existence and non-existence There's an implication that there's no beginning. There doesn't have to be a beginning like if something exists Compared to nothing Then there there doesn't have to be a beginning or an end because If the alternative isn't that is that nothing exists If literally nothing existed there would be no No potential for anything to exist, right? So there's there it's not like there could ever be a start And if there's a potential for something to happen, that's a thing that exists so Clear as mud Basically, I think we're just some dreamed up thing in a story or computer program or a video game or a movie or some figment of an imagination of some other Thing that thought of us. Oh, and I don't think we're necessarily just one Just the figment of imagination of one thing I think all this stuff blends together Even just my talking about that idea expressing that idea that makes it true in some imaginary world Which we could very well be part of So if some thing thinks of a thinks of some okay If I think of some kid on a swing and he's got some robust universe and then later someone else thinks of Some Some asteroid floating through space. There's nothing to there's nothing preventing those two Things from being part of the same universe So they could very well coexist within A certain imaginary universe and then there could also be in another another imaginary universe Where only one of those things would exist and not the other and it all just blends together into this big scrambled egg of reality Okay next question