 I should turn around. Aim the way I usually aim, no one's here yet so it doesn't matter. Oh yeah, the lighting is definitely better this direction. So anyone who's watching this later after it's been recorded just like skip ahead to like five minutes because I never scheduled these, although I figured I had scheduled it today so maybe next week I'll schedule it. I mean it wasn't hard to figure out I just had to look through the options but you know I haven't previously done that because I don't have time to mess around with all that crap all the time. Anyway yeah so if you uh if you're watching this after it's been recorded just just skip ahead a few minutes until I actually start doing stuff. Oh two people are here. Hello who is that people? Three people are here. Oh it's this bubble Elvis. Oh bub, bub Elvis. How you doing man? I like your name. You know I have a I have a sourdough for making you know sourdough bread and its name is bubbles because it bubbles you know. Daniel Roup. Hey man. Karch Kimmer. Kimer. Hi Jamie. Hello everyone. All right we got like five people here now. That's great. Napa California. Cool. I've never been to Napa California. At least not that I'm aware of. I once spent a couple months in California and I had a really cool time there actually. Maybe I'll have to talk about it sometime. Still need to email me. Yes you do. You need to email me so you better get right on that and stuff. All right so I did think about something I was going to talk about today at the beginning. Oh first I should mention the sun hasn't come out in like three days. It actually is a little bit bright right now. My voltage is up to 25.2. Very exciting but anyway my electricity has been pretty low because it's been cloudy for the last few days. Actually it really has been cloudy for like the last week or two but the last few days has been very cloudy and I wasn't even sure if I was gonna do this today because my voltage was so low but it's going up a little. My electricity is all right. So last week someone commented that my lifestyle seems to be high impact and I just kind of I didn't really give a real response. I just kind of glossed over it and moved on partly because you know so much of my lifestyle is about not having a high impact and the other part of it is just that it's a that's a big response. It's a big comment. There's so much in that statement. So it wasn't really the kind of thing I wanted to just respond to on the spot and I was kind of thinking I'd get back to it and now I'm going to get back to it right now. So I'm definitely not going to be able to address everything in that statement that my life is high impact but let me go through a few little little bits and pieces that are related to this. One, as a living creature we we have to affect the world around us like this part of being alive like you need to consume stuff you need to eat up food like somehow for a thing to be alive it has to be taking an energy and you know vegans will say well I have no impact because I only eat vegetables so I'm not killing anything yeah but even even in that situation you're still taking up the space in the air that something else could be using I mean you're anytime you're alive whether you're killing other things or just taking up a spot something else can't live so that you can live oh and on the topic of vegans um not that I have anything against vegans but sometimes there's a vegan who's like I'm saving the world because I'm vegan and they just eat like factory farmed soy and like whether you're eating factory farmed soy or factory farmed cows is not that much of a difference the factory farming is terrible anyway so my my little baby just got here so just to be alive you have you have a significant impact on the world around you and I think maybe it's easy to see the impact that I have on the world because I have so much direct contact with with nature with the earth which if you really think about it is is how you can have the most positive impact so you know it's not it's not a question of whether or not you're going to have an impact and yeah you can increase and reduce your impact but you're you're going to have an impact on the world regardless even if you try to ignore it so what do you do to try to have a good impact and not a bad impact and not a huge negative impact well I mean there are a lot of ways to get into that question but I'm just going to tell a little story about a conversation I had with one of my friends who lived in Manhattan now for anyone who doesn't know Manhattan is a piece of New York City some people it is the New York City because you know it's like the fanciest part kind of now Manhattan is an island it's roughly 13 miles long a few miles wide I don't know four or five miles wide or something so it's not that big and there are millions of people living on this on this on this island I don't want to call it a little island because my island is a little island but you know for for the number of people there the people are packed in real tight and my friend was was telling me I know somehow we came up in some we were having some conversation about trying to be environmentally friendly and he was telling me yeah but Jamie you take up so much space I'm much more environmentally friendly me and all the people who live in Manhattan because we take up so little space there's so many people in such a small space and I was like oh wow I see where you're going with this and I was like well well tell me more about it tell me more about you know like where where to get your food he's like yeah I don't even have to drive my car I can just you know I take the elevator down to the first floor walk like a block and a half buy food come back and you know he's got his water right there the electricity is right there he's got everything he needs right in this little space I mean he can do everything he needs without having to go further than like up like two blocks away so he has very little impact because he he's doing so little to impact the world around him and meanwhile I'm you know having all these I'm making all these changes to the world around me you know cutting up trees and you know doing things and digging and changing the world around me so uh the his basic argument was that he takes up so much so so such a little amount of space and I take up such a big amount of space so I asked him so where did your food come from and he said I told you it's from the store and I was like no no no that's where you get it where does it come from and he's like I don't know yeah it's just always at the store and I was like no the food comes from some farm somewhere right he's like well okay yeah okay so technically you're also occupying some space at this farm somewhere he's like all right all right I'll grant that I'm you know I'm I'm also somehow using some of this farm space energy now this farm is probably other I mean his food's coming from various farms but just to take an example say there's a farm a thousand miles away the food comes from the farm goes into some truck to some distribution center gets a gets shuffled around a bunch by a bunch of people and then gets into another truck and then gets driven across the country and then gets into a local distribution center and a bunch of people do some stuff with it and send it out to various places and it gets in another vehicle and you know eventually ends up at his store and he's like well yeah I mean how else was it gonna get there and I'm like okay so for you to get your food you have to have all of these middlemen all these people between you and the farmer that means there there are all these people doing these jobs where they're not producing anything because middlemen don't produce anything so all these middlemen in there kind of facilitating this food to somehow get to you so your your your no impact life he's like all right whatever so basically you know the the way he's living it creates all of these jobs for all these people where they're not producing anything but they they still have to consume things just because they're living so they're they're consuming a lot they're doing all this this work and you know using all this energy and doing all this stuff but not actually producing anything he's like well how how do you expect the economy the economy to work and that's where it always comes down to you know it works financially but a lot of stupid things work financially because we mess around with money in weird ways that make stupid things work for instance you know it's it's financially it's financially viable to have something made on the other side of the planet then shipped all the way here and then buy it here because you know countries mess around with the the uh the currencies and stuff and they make it so that you know money in one country is worth less than money in another country and I don't I don't just mean per dollar I mean like the actual wage you have to pay someone ends up being less than certain countries so you can get stuff built there and it's still cheaper even shipping it all the way across the planet which is obviously more expensive than having something built next door it's more expensive uh on a on a natural like resource if you're just looking at at the resources level of course it's cheaper when you look at the money because of the the funny tricks we do with money so anyway he's explaining well you gotta have all these middle people because then they all get jobs but I'm like well if they didn't have those jobs they could have other jobs where they're actually producing things and uh this reminds me of another conversation that I had around the same time because after I after I graduated from school like you know a bunch of my friends just just dispersed into different areas and a lot of them landed in Manhattan and I had conversations with them about it and this ex-girlfriend of mine was living in Manhattan and she was telling me about how amazing it is and I was saying yeah I'm not really into the play I mean it's fine but I don't really like it she's like well what don't what don't you like about it and I'm like well amongst everything I mean amongst a whole bunch of other things like 90% of the city or more is just middlemen who don't actually do anything they don't produce anything they don't add any value to the world they're just kind of like talking to this person who's also a middleman talking to that person who's also a middleman and just doing all this management stuff and you know administrative nonsense not actually adding any value into the world and she's like well I'm not a middleman and I'm like what's your job and she's like well I'm the head administrative assistant to the as she said this really long boring title to her job and I was like that sounds like a middleman what do you do she's like I'm not a middleman I talk directly to the distribution centers head chief office guy who talks to the next person and talks to the next person and then I get them connected with the the local distributions people so that the import can can have communications with the the local distributions and she starts describing this this chain this distribution chain of like 30 40 50 100 people that are all between some junk in China and someone's home in the United States and I'm like that's a middleman you're you're a middleman you're just describing a middleman and she got angry and said I don't use middleman I do it myself and I'm like no you're not using middleman I'm saying you are the middleman and she just got really angry and the conversation was over so the funny thing about having a negative impact on the world is that it's very easy to to cloud your judgment to to not notice to not see what's happening particularly if you live in a city or any suburb or even like in the country a lot of times like if you're doing everything with money it's very easy to ignore all the all the all the impact that you are having in the world because you just you know like my friend he he goes to the store he walks a very short distance he gives him a bit of money he gets food no impact right no impact because he doesn't see it and then when he gets the food to to his house you know he eats it and well we're going to ignore all the the gas that's coming into his house and the electricity and the water and all that let's just stick with the food to keep this kind of simple eats the food and then whatever food scrap scraps are left over he of course takes those and puts those into the ground so they can compost and give nutrients back to the earth to grow more food right no he takes the food scraps puts it into a garbage thing with a bunch of plastic stuff and a bunch of paper and other potentially biodegradable stuff but now it's all mixed in with plastic and then puts that all inside another plastic bag and then takes it and just it just goes away except it doesn't just go away it goes somewhere so now he's also occupying some some landfill or various landfills all over the world just putting this garbage all over but he doesn't see it because he doesn't go there so i think i think it's very easy to look at someone who lives like on a farm or like an off-grid place and say wow you have a really high impact on the world around you because you actually see it all it's right there however that is also the best way to have a positive impact on the world because if you're directly connected to the stuff you're doing for instance let's just stick with the the food example for for something i ran out of my sentence there but you know going along with the food if you are growing your own food this is like the the best way you can have food is to grow it yourself because you can grow the food yourself there's no transportation costs you don't have to use fuel all this stuff and if you can do it without like pesticides and you know paid for fertilizers and stuff it's even better and and you can't do that on like a factory farm kind of scale but on a you know a small scale you can totally do that you can compost your stuff and and build good soil and use that to grow your stuff and it takes longer to get started doing that way but then once you get it going you know you can eat the food and it's healthier for you because it doesn't have all the the poisons and stuff and then when you're done eating the food you take your food scraps and put them back into your compost to refuel the the food that's going to come next and you can stick your pee in your poo out in there and you can have a symbiotic relationship with the earth when you're actually directly connected to it so yeah I think I think the best way to have a positive impact on the world around you is to is to have like that direct connection where you are manipulating the world around you a lot directly yourself not just you know kind of outsourcing it to things you can't see because then you don't know what's happening then there's there's often a good chance that you know for example you're getting your food from some some place that just dumps like thousands of gallons and tons of of poison all over your food to keep the bugs from eating it and then you get it and it's it's still got a bit of that poison in and you're eating it and then you know you get cancer when you're 15 you don't know why um I don't I don't I don't I don't wish cancer upon anyone um but yeah I'm just saying like try to live try to live healthy anyway okay I'm not going to keep going on about that I think I've said enough um hopefully that addresses what that guy was talking about so you want to know what I've been up to lately I last week I was talking about this bridge I wanted to build right and if you turn this right over here oh I'm gonna try not to mess this up oh look at that oh one two three four five bridge pieces this is looking at them on the edge so you know kind of like this and they're they're shaped like this although not a not as thick as this block one so I currently have 10 of those made and that's all the pieces I need I was originally going to do it do nine oh also today I've brought I bought it brought a drawing thing so I can draw things if I'm talking about something and then I want to give some visual aids so I've got these you know at first let's do this I've got another visual aid for this bridge bridge project last week I showed these these blocks I had and I only had two of them at the time because you know the kids were playing with them and I don't know where they all were so now I've got all six blocks so this is a you know a scale model roughly of the bridge I'm going to build and I think the blocks are not going to necessarily be connected together it's going to have dirt on the sides holding it in and then dirt over the top and the dirt should keep enough pressure on the sides to keep it from collapsing my kids have been playing with this like crazy last week which I think is great because they're learning about arches and bridges and stuff so I want to build my bridge like this however I made my blocks four feet across so four feet across this way and I want to have a six foot wide bridge so let's make a little drawing here okay so here's the here's this isn't a this isn't an accurate drawing because the bridge has been flattened out where the you know the each block is you wouldn't really be able to see these end if I drew it correctly but uh if we go like this okay so here I've got a full block and then a half block right so if I did this the whole way and just went like this right like this and like that it would need nine nine total pieces I think right one two three four five six seven eight nine yeah however I want the bottom piece to stick out further because that's the one that's going to have the most dirt up against it so the dirt can kind of come down and slope down like that you know kind of come like that so I'm going to put two whole pieces along the bottom so that's one two three four five six seven eight nine ten yes ten pieces okay good so I've made ten bridge pieces and I guess I just need to let them harden for a few days so the bottom the bottom row is going to be like this like this and then they're going to get hold on oh good fun all right so the bottom row will be like that and the next row will be thinner well it'll be like one and a half but whatever so that way the dirt can have come down at a slope like this right because I want to have this this big dirt path coming out yeah so hopefully that makes sense clear as dirt and uh I've got 10 of those pieces made now which is great because I finally liberated that spot on my floor that I've been using for styrocrete that I was using to build my uh my kitchen island thing and then these pieces and now I finally got the floor back um all right let's see so I'm going to get to some questions here because I just talked for 22 minutes and ignored a bunch of stuff so let's see what everyone's talking about Dallas has a question I commented on your most recent video about getting a video of your morning routine oh I was wondering if we could get one thanks brother love you uh I take it you're talking about morning exercises okay let's let's put that on my paper you know what if anyone usually people say things on here and I'm always like I'm not going to remember that but here I'm actually going to write this down make a video about morning exercises I could actually just do a live of morning exercises one day Friday would probably be the best day how are you doing I've got a weird weird visitor here is asking me if I want potato pancakes what are you doing in my house just kidding what's up do I I don't want one right now could I have a nibble of one just to taste it yeah I'll take a nibble of a potato pancake okay uh make a video about uh morning exercises okay environmental impact or physically um well I guess that's what I was talking about earlier environmental or physical impact it's kind of the same I don't know I'm not sure that the specifics of that question hey tomatoes is here would you like to say hi to tomatoes he's like your best bud and everything hey that's pretty good potato pancakes nice maybe the man you do a lot of high impact exercise I do actually do a lot of high impact exercise and uh I have something to say about that and now I have a piece of pancake in my mouth just hold on oh so when I was working on building my house I was doing everything low impact because I was just carrying around like buckets of concrete and yeah mostly just buckets of concrete over and over and over every day just buckets of concrete and mixing them and I was also digging moving dirt and you know at the beginning I was all energetic and could jump around and run around and stuff and do things fast but then as the year went on because I was working on this house for like two years like you know like a year of landscaping stuff and then like a year of actually building with the concrete but I started getting you know more and more tired as it went on and I got to a point where I was just kind of slowly slugging along and oh hi and you know not jumping around or running around or anything all right you guys hey you guys got to go out of here and it got to the point where my body got so used to low impact because I was just moving slowly all the time that when I was finally done you know we're building my house not that it's ever done but I was basically done I started running again and the first day went great the second day went pretty well but by the end of the third day my calves were just like knotting up and pretty soon I just couldn't run at all and you know I figured out that it was just my my body had become not used to high impact anymore because I used to do lots of running and stuff you know and concrete and everything and I also noticed that even just walking around on the concrete like my feet hurt and stuff so and that was about a year ago that this was this was happening I think a little less than a year ago so I started doing more high impact exercises just kind of like slowly I can't eat anymore because then I'm sitting she's offering me more more pancakes go away with your pancakes I'll eat some later okay I love you great so I started doing more high impact exercises um just real slowly at first and at first they were brutal man like trying to hop on one foot was really hard partly because that you know I'd just done that running and got my calves all locked up so just like trying to hop on one foot was really hard but I thought okay I just need to do this for a few months and just slowly build up to to the you know to to get my tendons and bones and everything all strong again and I started doing a bunch of stuff I used to do when I ran track and field like track and field warm-ups and stuff which are kind of high impact but that's because you know you have to you have to get your body really warmed up and ready for high impacts when you're gonna be running full speed um and at first that was really brutal too but maybe maybe a few maybe like two or three months ago I kind of got to the point where I can really like exercise hard again um on the concrete and I did this all in bare feet on the concrete so I could get used to it and today like I could sprint around and jump up and down and do all the stuff on the concrete and my legs are totally fine with it which I was I'm very excited about because I was a little bit worried that maybe I was you know just old because you know that always that always comes into my head it's been coming into my head for like I don't know ever since I was like 30 years old every time I get some kind of stress injury or overuse thing or I just can't handle something I'm always like oh no maybe this is it maybe I've just gotten old but no I just had to you know get my body high impact again and now it's now it's great totally fine so I'm actually adding some more high impact things to my morning exercise anyway I'll have to do a morning exercise video um bridge is not made of stainless steel yeah bridges should be made of oh so many things that are made out of out of regular steel should be made out of stainless steel like once we figured out stainless steel we should have been doing that um but doesn't make sense financially because we can't make as many useless jobs of people repairing things for no reason you know uh we should we should we shouldn't have so many people doing so many useless jobs middlemen just repairing things uh that shouldn't be that shouldn't have broken in the first place or you know any any of those kind of jobs we should have people focusing on uh in just improving like inventing new things not just constantly administrating and repairing because when you're just administrating you're repairing you you're gonna end up with this crumbling infrastructure which we have today what was your first paycheck job and your last huh I think my first paycheck job I might be missing one I feel like I'm probably missing one but I had a landscaping job which did not pay much at all uh the job was pretty fun though I liked it maybe maybe fun's the wrong word but I got to be outside and we were actually I did a lot of interlocking patio kind of stuff at first the guy had me mowing lawns a little and that was just tedious and boring and oh my god I wanted to blow my brains out but then he took me on this on this one job where we were doing like we were making interlocking uh driveway like interlocking brick driveway and we went there you know dug out the area we were putting it oh no I know what it was it wasn't a driveway it was it was kind of like a driveway but like at the back of the house like a back patio so we had to dig out I don't know that much dirt and then fill it with with gravel like fine gravel and then pack it all down and then you know make sure it was all level and perfect and then we could lay these these interlocking bricks all over and he was pretty happy with my my performance on that I remember he was saying uh when I was digging he was like damn man don't you run out of energy you're you're this this is supposed to be like a a two-week job we're going to be done in four days and I was like well you know I like to like to exercise I want to keep going so he just started taking me on all those jobs all the time um that was a pretty fun job did not pay well but I did like it and my last my last like paycheck job oh you know it might have been well I was lifeguard at a pool for a while swimming pool in Vermont that might have been it it was the food stuff okay Deshaun is telling me she's at my house right now um she's telling me it was the food stuff so yeah I was I was food sample lady this job was amazing he did not pay much what did it pay like eight dollars an hour or something no it was not that much it did not pay that much yeah it was like eight to ten dollars an hour which was way more than I was getting doing landscaping but that was like that was ages ago um anyway so this food sample you know when you go to the grocery store and there's a food sample lady there handing out food samples yeah I was a food sample lady and like I said it didn't pay much but I always got to take home any leftover food samples so it was amazing I mean I got I got so many cool snacks and Deshaun did the same job so we would often try to schedule ourselves to to work at the same grocery store and after doing some some crappy samples like I did this horrible energy drink thing that was disgusting and after that we decided okay we're only gonna do food sample things for things we actually like like things we would eat ourselves so we'd go and do food samples of like fancy organic snacks or chocolate chip cookies or pizzas oh man the pizza one was amazing um and there was also a food sample thing where we had to go to the grocery store and actually cook a meal on this cart you know it was a cart with like a uh you know all the stuff you'd need to to cook a meal and then hand some hand you know samples of it out and we'd always make sure that we made a new batch with like 15 minutes left in the day because then you know we'd just take home a huge batch of it for dinner and like maybe lunch the next day so yeah even though the food sample lady job did not pay that well it it did pay well in in just the food snacks and one of my favorite ones was cheese there was one time when I did food samples of cheese and it was all these different like fancy expensive cheeses that I would never buy and I came home boxes of of all this really fancy cheese and it was amazing for months just like cheese oh it was great and uh yeah there were a bunch of things like that where I came home with tons of food um hello Jamie Frederick 12 minutes I'm not sure what 12 minutes is well 12 mine is not too much unless you're underwater or well yes I think I missed something okay so whenever I'm reading the um the comments at the beginning I'm always a little bit behind because I you know do a do a morning monologue whatever hello Tomaters okay time chains so I have come to show early have to remember that oh the time change yeah our time doesn't change in Panama hey to Shayna time we don't have a time zone change in Panama right yeah yeah the time zone does not change here which is great because I don't have to pay attention to it not that I know what time it is ever anyway but you know whatever video quality looks amazing by the way here you want to come see in the video quality for a second that's great yes it does video looks great excellent uh when I heard high impact I thought about your use of concrete and fiberglass and stainless steel high energy use yes but long lasting that your total impact is is not really so much yes that's I didn't mention that because you know I talk about that like all the time so you should show me that later so yeah I use materials like concrete for example which is pretty energy intensive actually this brings up another thing that I wanted to mention in my morning monologue that I totally forgot about so I'm using concrete to to build with and it it does take a lot of energy to make the concrete but it's worth it because it lasts so long so in the long term it ends up using less energy than say building a house out of wood and having to rebuild it you know 40 times in the amount of time that this this concrete's gonna last but another you know I do have much more negative impact than I wish I I would then I wish I had because I'm kind of starting from scratch you know like a lot of people you turn 25 or whatever you get shoved at a school with a bunch of debt or maybe you're smart enough to escape in high school and didn't have a bunch of debt by the way it's like okay go do life now start from scratch and you have no idea what you're doing you you don't you don't have any any real resources it's just like you're just kind of stuck with either accepting what's out there in the world or you have to reject things and you know start yourself from scratch and this is where inheritance would come in very useful so um so I'm buying concrete or like cement and that means the cement has to be made somewhere and shipped somewhere and all this stuff but I actually have all the resources right around me to make my own concrete um if you want to look up how to do that just look up seashells to concrete you know making it into quick lime and stuff like that basically just take seashells or if you're not near the sea limestone but they're made out of the same thing limestone seashells um you heat it up enough and it basically turns into cement I mean this is a very stripped down version of it it's a little more to it but not much now now I hope to get to a point where I'm actually doing that myself and I can do it in a sustainable way where I'll do it with wood and I'll just use wood that's fallen down and that way it's sustainable because the wood is is growing faster than I'm you that I'm burning it right and you can do all all that kind of stuff on a small scale but once you get on a big scale you're just using too much energy at once you you know you just have to start destroying everything around but on a small scale you can do it in a way that is sustainable now the reason I'm not doing that yet is because like I said I you know I'd start from scratch like I you know I have to take some shortcuts to to get ahead and actually have a building made where I can live so I can start setting up things like you know a lumber mill and a place to like a setup for making my own concrete out of shells and you know all that kind of stuff now if I had parents who had set up a bunch of that kind of stuff and maybe helped me get land and helped me build a house when I was younger I could have had a huge head start and then I could spend more of my lifetime trying to improve on all that stuff instead of starting from scratch and I think that's a huge thing that's underrated in our society today so every generation you know in in modern civilization it you know the parents basically say to their kids okay get out and go and do your thing you're on your own now and I think that's a mistake because it means you can't build on the previous generation stuff like everyone has to keep starting from scratch so for example in my case now I'm like almost 50 right and I'm still kind of setting up the things I want to do to to live hold on a second hey what is going on over there well calm down crazy kids right now um oh you watch this I'm gonna be a dad for a minute hold on if you dying kids can't shut your faces I'm gonna have to kick you out okay so anyway so this is something I want to do for my kids so you know obviously people always mention there's no guarantee your kids are going to stay there you know there's no guarantee that I that the earth is going to be here next week you know there's no guarantee of anything fine granted but I want to have a place set up where my kids can start not from scratch so hopefully by the time my kids are you know building their own house and stuff maybe they they'll be able to make their own cement with seashells and all that and maybe they'll already have you know trees growing that are producing food because you know again I had to start food production from scratch which means I have to plant a whole bunch of trees and you know people always ask me every week how are your trees doing how are your trees doing your fruit trees you're doing great it just takes years you know you gotta you gotta put that whole industry but I really want to have oh my two-year-old wants wants the blocks here you can have them right here she can play with them now that I've thinking of them anyway so I want my kids to already have fruit trees growing and a lot of food stuff hopefully by the time they're at the point where they want to build houses they you know I'll be growing all our food and everything and then they can just build off that and continue and you know improve it from there let's see there's always the danger of stubbing a toe there is Roman centurions used to lead legions on the front lines front lines well into their 60s yeah you know I keep hearing people tell me that they can't do things because because of their age and you know what maybe you can't do things because of your age at some point you're gonna get too old and die but what is what is the point of just deciding you're done at a certain age no man go full speed you know life will stop you when it's ready to stop you don't have to stop yourself the world is you know you're gonna fall apart at some point there's no reason to do it prematurely because you just decide or accept that you're old I plan to be I don't know I'm just gonna keep going as long as as long as everything's fine and so far I'm 47 I'm almost 50 and I can do everything I could do when I was 20 let me think no no there's there's some I don't have as much hair on my head so I could not mop the floor as well with the top of my head so okay there are a few things but generally speaking like you know I'm as strong as that was before a few more wrinkles and stuff but yeah there's no reason to just just accept oldness prematurely how much more do you think a stainless steel bridge would cost and how long is the payoff well from what I understand stainless steel costs roughly four times what regular steel does and the stainless steel bridge will last way longer than four times so that makes it financially viable the reason it's not financially viable is because all the people making bridges are only planning for things to go well up to the next election cycle like until they're not they're not in office anymore or whatever you know and this is this is one of the problems like our society it's just like we want quick results immediately immediately and we don't care about the future and now we're at the point where so much of our infrastructure is collapsing because of that attitude that people are starting to be like what's going on man what's going on anyway I was thinking about getting a chainsaw to cut boards off an oak tree that just fell any recommendations well if you're getting a chainsaw hold on a second hey could you guys like turn it down thanks man last week they were great and the week before that no problem too okay if you want to chainsaw if you if you just have like one tree and you might use it once in a while obviously don't get like a thousand dollar chainsaw but um I would totally recommend like either a steel or a husk marna chainsaw just get like the small one I like I have a and I love it it's really great actually stay away from steel chainsaws because they started making them cheap this is this is what I've heard from some some lumberjack guys anyway so maybe take this with the grain of salt but I've heard that steel sti hl started making their like their regular people chainsaws really cheap so their professional chainsaws are still good but they're they're the ones that you would buy as just a normal person are not good so yeah I would go with a husk marna and that was actually one of the reasons I bought a husk marna I was buying kind of a higher end chainsaw so it might not matter anyway but I just don't I can't respect the company that's doing that kind of crap but husk marna I haven't I haven't heard anything the other option is you know you can build something it'd be crazy but it's probably not worth building something for like one tree and something that might just use once in a while rusty steel is carbon steel which has a much higher tensile strength than stainless carbon steel is generally more expensive than stainless when used in high tensile situations okay this gets into a bunch of details that don't make sense okay rusty steel doesn't have to be I mean there's there's formulations of steel are there's so many different ones but the I'm just gonna say that you could build pretty much anything out of stainless steel that you can build with you know high carbon steel low carbon steel carbon steel you know you might have to change the design a little bit and you know screw around some stuff a bit but you can it can be done it's not like it can't be done doesn't doesn't Porsche make a stainless steel car frame after people told me like 10 000 times you can't build that car frame out of stainless steel I was like why not of course you could and then finally someone who owns a Porsche he's like oh my Porsche has a stainless steel car frame that's why I bought it um let's see good night Tomaters good night it's morning here I was gonna say I don't think Tomaters is in a nighttime place but yeah you saw only the last 80 years has the idea of your children making everything from scratch was the norm yeah isn't that it's just it's totally insane and that's one of the huge problems with with the world today is why we're kind of going downhill is is that we're making every generation restart and they have to go through all of the they have to spend all this energy and all these resources just to get their head above water and then they can start living and a lot of people go through their whole life without even really catching up it's like they're just scrambling and struggling along but you know back in the day you know like pioneers would go and start a farm somewhere like a homestead and then their kids would would get the farm and you know they build another house on their land and and every new generation would have more to start with and then they just build on that and over several generations they build like a really amazing place amazing way of life they build traditions and all this stuff and we're losing all that by making everyone just start from scratch all the time for the last 30 000 years of human existence Integrational wealth was the norm yeah yeah totally you you're selling your family short if if every generation you just make them start from scratch you should be you should be creating something that your children can then build on and their children and you end up creating creating something that one generation couldn't create on their own that's how you get the the really good life now in the you know in our culture where everyone's thinking you know I need everything snappy quick quick quick I want to right now people don't people are just not thinking about future generations because they're like well I'm not going to be there so what do I care but the thing is you may not be there but every you know if you get something from the previous generation you would benefit from it now you're not going to benefit from the things you send to the future generation but those future people will and then they'll get that and then they can you know it's like what's it pay it forward or something like yeah you gotta you gotta have that kind of attitude to get good stuff in your life and maybe maybe a lot of people are kind of in a situation where they got kicked out of the house and they're like told go start from scratch and they feel like why am I gonna be the one to do everything for the next generation when the previous generation didn't do it for me I think that's where a lot of people are that's the way a lot of people are thinking about it but maybe you should think about it this way I can be the start of something incredible and ten generations from now they can look back and say oh yeah this whole thing started with great great great great great great grandpa Jamie or Joe whoever you are and maybe you can think about it that way then then you you're kind of getting something out of it either way you know if you just want to be greedy and just think about the right now we're all we're screwed and the only way for humans to really thrive into the future is to actually think about the future and plan for it not just waste everything right now we need to build build things through the generations all right let's see oh this is an interesting question do you ever visit with your family do the kids know their aunts uncles grandparents etc well my family is kind of weird I mean it's not weird it's like it's like a lot of families today we just didn't really stick together like when I was growing up my parents divorced and then we were always told oh you're all gonna go off on your own and do your own thing and no one no one told us I was one of five siblings no one told us you know your siblings are important and I didn't know how important my siblings were until we'd all you know spread away from each other and kind of my whole family's like that they're just spread out all over the place so yeah my family was just never never close like that and that's one of the things I really want to change about my family now as I wanted I want I want everyone to be close I want them to always have a home here and all that so kind of when I left North America I didn't feel like I was leaving a lot behind you know yeah I left my family behind but it's like we didn't we didn't that we weren't parts of each other's lives anyway you know and my kids my kids talk with their their grandma my mom sometimes just you know on the internet you know skate skyping or whatever I don't know what they use any what they use today no one uses Skype anymore that's like what they people used to use but you know video calls and stuff like that and my brother came to visit here twice but I don't think I think there's a good chance I won't see him again in my lifetime so yeah I'm there's a good chance I'm not gonna see any of my you know my family for the rest of my life I mean maybe one of my cousins what I was talking to one of my cousins recently and she said she wanted to visit I need a membership let's see you can always visit him right yes my family could visit me and you know this it just made me think of something so I have this one sister and she visited me once in Vermont partly because it was not far from where she lived you know it was like a day drive not not a whole day but you know like a day of driving basically and I was talking about wanting to buy an island somewhere and she was you know I was saying well maybe Nova Scotia which is kind of a cold part of Canada and maybe you know I named a few other places and she was like oh I'm not visiting Nova Scotia it's it's cold and on an island it'd be terrible and I was like well what if I get a tropical island and she's like oh yeah I will totally be there but I don't think she's coming to visit maybe one of my parents will come one day that would be kind of cool but I don't know there's lots of love for Tomaters today which is excellent thumbs up everyone oh thumbs up everyone it helps the channel does it Mr. Landfill I actually don't know anything about this thumbs up stuff but great um statistically speaking Jamie will live to be over 100 years old is that like when you go through the list of um stuff and it's like uh exercises doesn't smoke eats healthy and then like you at the end you get an estimated age thing I was aiming for I'm aiming I'm aiming for 300 000 years old that's when I want to die when I'm 300 000 that's what I'm aiming for you're better at reflecting sunlight me am I better I might have missed something here I had a stroke about two years ago oh man and recovering and feeling better that sucks having a stroke I hope you're I hope you're actually getting better uh regular steel is a bit of a misnomer there's about a thousand types of steel as it is an ally yeah that's what I was trying kind of trying to say John Doe just let us know yeah right there isn't there isn't really a regular steel like if I think of regular steel it's basically like iron with maybe half a percent of carbon somewhere in there maybe a little less than that but like almost totally iron and just a bit of carbon would be the like kind of the most basic steel but yeah the steel is like lots of iron and then a little of various different things there's a lot of different varieties an example of stainless being cheaper is knives stainless steel knives are almost always less expensive than carbon steel knives but you can literally literally chop wood with carbon steel so knives are funny um and I learned a little bit about this when I was doing foraging years ago there's kind of this saying maybe not a saying but basically you know how you know how when you go to a and then mechanic is like okay you can have cheap good or fast you can only pick two you can't have all three well steel is kind of like that you can have it keeps a good edge it will it's easy to sharpen or stainless you can have two of those three but it's really kind of hard to get all three and maybe flexibility is in there or something but yeah just anyway oh samuel chamol says huskvarna all day he also likes huskvarna yeah I've I've I'm very happy with my huskvarna chainsaw so did my did my video freeze wait there's something I did to this before to unfreeze it oh yeah I switched the camera back and forth and then it fixes it okay jamie oh yeah next time that happened someone needs to remember to tell me to switch the camera okay do you miss the snow you know if there was one thing I miss about the cold yeah the snow is fun however I wouldn't take the snow over and all your growing season so I guess I I guess I don't really miss it because I wasn't I haven't thought about it in a long time till someone said but snow is pretty fun I mean I love building snow forts ever since I was a little kid like I don't know I was really young when I built the first one I was like six years old or something I built my first igloo and it took me like a whole week to build the thing and uh ever ever since then every winter I would build an igloo and I got better and better at them and the first one was not very good but I started building like really nice igloos and um I'd have snowball fights I would build all kinds of snuff stuff out of snow I used to build like um like platforms so I could jump off the roof onto the platform without killing myself and have a slide down yeah snow is super fun but uh I would I would definitely take the all year growing season and I can swim every day not in the freezing water which is a kind of amazing you know I grew up in Canada and when you live in Canada pretty much like even in the summer the the water is generally kind of cold so you jump in the water and you go and then you can swim around and warm up but here the water's so it's like getting in a bathtub not not too hot I mean it's still refreshing to get in but like it's still kind of weirds me out when I just get in the water and it's like oh it feels fine not hyperventilating or anything yeah I would take that over over the snow but snow is pretty awesome thanks thanks some people are saying thanks uh waste not want not well I think you type of that waste not want not is how they had resources over time we collected and shared with our community only together do we grow into prosperity we specialize in a trade or profession and trade well I would I would disagree with that last part a little bit there are definitely people you know historically who would specialize in specific trades but there are also a lot of people who would just learn a lot of like learn how to what's the word like just learn how to do things in general like learn how to problem solve maybe that is a specialization you know just learning how to problem solve that's like if you're gonna live off grid today probably the best skill you could have is just learning how to problem solve like learn how to look at any situation where you might possibly hire a specialist but just look at it and just just solve it yourself you know I kind of wish Jamie was some sort of minister and engineer on a grand scale yeah I'm not sure what to say about that that would be cool I mean for a lot of reasons that I was talking about earlier and I always kind of hope that doing these videos I can have a more wide-reaching effects you know influence on the world but I don't I don't personally want to get to a point kind of in charge like of a huge I don't know it's hard it's hard to explain I could be in charge of a huge thing but it would have to be like very connected to the the earth and I don't want to have I don't know that's that's another one of those comments where maybe next week I'll have like say about it look this video stopped again what is going on here all right I remember it's at least I'm not sure if the video is stopping for anyone else but mine got stuck if you lived on a farm could start a little business like egg business or canning hi bud greetings from Greece yeah I could sell eggs I don't think I'd want to sell eggs though I think probably I'd rather do a business of building things or maybe even repairing things but one of the things about having a homestead is your your expenses get low enough that you don't have to have like a job like a like a full-time job it's like you can get a little bit of money here and there doing things which is which is the reason that I can live off what I'm making from you know doing videos and stuff it's not because I make a lot of money doing the videos I I mean I'm definitely below the poverty line like way below the poverty line but my expenses are so low because I do so much myself and a lot of a lot of things I could spend money on instead I just spend my own human effort on so money becomes less of a factor but yeah there are very I mean there's all kinds of jobs you can do let's see absolutely heartbreaking feel for you I think that was about Jeff who had a stroke episode 30 already time moves fast yeah I know hey that means it's been like I mean I do one of these every week so 30 weeks have been doing this already someone asked Jamie does he have any inventions patented okay somebody ask me that or I can just to the question there okay so when I worked with a toy company making these things called attack nids which I think should have been called spider tanks but whatever they patented several of my things so I mean my name was on the patent and then it was licensed to them so they were my patents I had a patent for the design of the you know the walking mechanism thing and I also had a patent for the explodal armor that's what I called it and it was like basically this little armor thing that kind of clips in place and something shoots it and it flies off and a couple other things but yeah nothing I'm not really that independence personally I mean it was useful then because they were making the the toys and you know didn't want someone to just steal it and copy it anyway um Allie and I want to hang with you for sure are you talking to me who's Allie and I or was this part of a conversation that I missed anyway wait a minute this is someone I know Lindsey C is that and is Allie my one cousin okay that might I might know who that is that's funny because you you're spelling your name weird so I didn't know it was you if it is who I think it is how do you celebrate Christmas or do you generally for holidays here we don't really make a big deal if I have usually if I have something I want to give to my kids I just give it to them whenever although I mean occasionally I'll like save something for a special occasion or whatever like I made my son some some toy trucks for his birthday and for something else so you know I'll do little little things like that but we don't really make a big huge deal about holidays my daughters make a bigger deal so like we just had Halloween and my daughters like decorated the house Halloween stuff and probably for Christmas they'll get out all kinds of stuff and like decorate the house and have some kind of thing but yeah we don't really make a big deal I guess I guess I do kind of sometimes make a point of just being around and you know like probably for Christmas I'll not plan to get much work done and I'll just like kind of hang out with my kids so maybe maybe yeah maybe during holidays I just kind of hang out with my kids more but I hang out with my kids a lot anyway let's see someone peeking over the sheet behind you that was Bellatrix yeah hi Jamie obviously you don't take after anyone in your family who influenced you to be so different I guess that's kind of the thing about being different as you end up having I don't want a helicopter oh let me see your helicopter dude the turtle's driving it that's a cool helicopter it's got a turtle in there the turtle's driving it so Karkana who influenced you dad to be so weird I don't know I don't know either um oh you think you think my daughter influenced me to be a weirdo go go play with um now when I was a kid I didn't really have anyone that I looked up to I I always kind of wished I did but um you know it was like everyone around me just I just did not click with the people around me I'm trying to think of like cartoon characters or something that I like that I connected with but uh yeah I just I guess I just always felt like I I I just had to go in this direction and nobody else I knew was going in this direction which was one of the reasons I started making those videos because I thought there's going to be some other kid who you know wants to go in this direction and maybe doesn't have anyone in their life and then they can watch these and you know kind of get a little bit of inspiration here and there but yeah I don't there's no one who really influenced me I just remember feeling very alone when I was growing up like like there was no one that I could connect with um he did build an original giant robot from scratch I did how about a sand battery what's the story with these sand batteries I saw something about a sand battery but I don't I don't know anything about it what's a sand battery someone let me know or you know what I'm going to write it down my my my pad of paper here I've got two video morning exercises and look up uh sand battery all right I'm gonna look that up after if someone feels like putting a little description of a sand battery down in the the comments here that'd be cool too an hour late because time changed everyone oh it's joe blow how's it going man hey jamie happy 30th episode oh charging us with awesome emotions oh yes thank you keep it up I will do my best Georgie I'm glad you appreciate it ain't nothing like a healthy dose of mad genius in the morning ah shucks you know when uh when I was working for the toy company making those robot toys they I was talking to the one guy and he was like well we should get you a business card what do you what would you want on your business card and I was like just put mad scientists and he was like oh we can't do that that's that's crazy we don't think you're mad and I was like dude I'll take it mad scientist are you going to take on Oliver Oliver Reed roll in castaway fixing stuff for a living take on Oliver Reed roll in castaway was was castaway the movie with Tom Hanks I feel like I'm missing missing something I'm totally not remembering some piece of something but I might not have seen the correct movie or something uh this like Sunday morning service at the church of jamie economically speaking this homestead idea is completely viable yes economically speaking homestead idea is still to this day totally economically largely because you reduce your your financial need uh although I do know people who are who have tried homesteading on a very like high financial need kind of basis and they always run into a lot of difficulties like they run out of money and I'm always trying to say no no you don't you don't do it like like presuming you're going to keep spending the amount of money that you've been spending through your life like every every every penny you spend should be geared toward not needing more pennies so if you for instance buy a tree and then you plant it and then you get food and then you don't have to buy the food you know or if you like build a house you know spend the money that you need for the materials or whatever to build the house but make the house something to last so you don't need you know money for maintenance and all that kind of stuff so it's totally economically viable in the circumstance where you're trying to reduce your your financial needs yes my cousin allison that is lindsay isn't it lindster what are you doing oh i'm your cool cousin's boyfriend oh okay well we'll have to say hi hi yeah allison's cool you guys should totally come visit although it's not close or anything festivus could be an a an adventure builder club holiday festivus festivus wasn't that from that was from some tv show i don't watch tv so i don't remember now what it was from question oh we got a question we got a questionnaire oh everybody get ready did your daughters go for cute or scary with their halloween decorations okay well they they dressed up what do you mean they didn't someone's telling me they didn't do decoration they dressed up that's decorations okay so my my oldest daughter was tinkerbell so that would have been cute my next daughter was a vampire so that was scary and she had like a little black gap black cape she looked a lot like um mavis oh she was mavis she was mavis from hotel transylvania it was like a you know one of those animated things adam sandler did the voice of drac dracula and you know david spade did the voice thing in the air and steve bushemi like a bunch of silly guys did the voices for all the characters i actually thought it was pretty good movie overall and then my son was captain america and my daughter was a dog and i didn't actually get to see her with your ears on anyway oh she was a puppy sorry not a dog classic dude like every day is an adventure builder club day when you have adventures and build things yeah every day is an adventure builder day that's right we don't need a we don't need a a specific adventure builder day every day is adventure builder day i always thought that when they had you know earth day and everyone was supposed to be environmentally friendly i'd always think like wait no do that every day okay that's keeping up with what's going on am i religious i am not religious unless you're talking about religiously doing something i do really religiously exercise and i religiously try to do the best i can um you could actually call the adventure builder philosophy a religion so i guess i guess if you call that a religion then yes i am very religious but i don't have any religion that involves any sort of belief and that is because well i guess it's there are two reasons one is because i don't need to believe in anything that's real for it to be real so there's no i don't see any reason to believe in anything or believe anything because it's yeah i don't have to leave and the other thing is one of my one of my core values one of my core virtues or principles is honesty and this is not to be confused with honor which is like telling the truth honesty is is having the truth within yourself you know observing the truth keeping an open mind and all that kind of stuff and you can't keep an open mind and observe things in an unbiased way if you already believe something because that's like a preconceived notion so it's like it would be like looking at the world through a filter of your beliefs so i don't have any beliefs which is confusing for some people but when you when you get used to living without any kind of beliefs you just kind of realizing that it's it's fine you know i'm just floating here in this universe and stuff is happening it may continue to happen it may not continue to happen i'm just going with it man i'm going with it and if there is a god who's gonna judge me then he can judge me that on on the idea that i'm doing my best and if that's not good enough for him well then that's not a good god is bellatrix named after a star in orion's belt partially yes so oh it's an airplane so when we were naming our kids here you go i don't remember exactly how this started but we decided we should name them an a name a b name a c name we skipped a d because duchana and then an e name so we were naming them alphabetically kind of because one day we may become old and senile and this will help kind of keep them organized all right get out of here mister he's that one's c anyway so we you know we had this idea wait take it take it somewhere else because it's squeaky go um so we started with aurora and we were like you know let's let's name them alphabetically but only if we can come up with good names so we're like aurora oh that's a that's a good a name let's let's go with it and then when bellatrix came along we're like well do we have a good b name what's a good b name and you know there's there's bellatrix the the star and i have to i have to admit this ah the the reason bellatrix first came up was because it was i saw or we saw one of the harry potter movies with bellatrix less drawn and they were like well that's kind of a cool b name what what else is bellatrix and then it's you know bellatrix is a star and it also means female warrior in some language i don't remember but anyway we were like yeah cool name so that's a good b name and then karkanian his name came from a dream i had a long time ago like when i was a kid i had this dream about a friend that i had whose name was karkanian and he was actually a car and we were hanging out in like right beside a canyon uh but when i woke up from the dream i was like karkanian that's a good name i need to i need to give that to someone one day and he likes his name and then the the the two year old over there her name is erotrea and disheina did that one at the hospital without consulting me i think it was because i named karkanian well we kind of both named the first two girls and then i named karkanian and then she was like well i get to name the next one then so well we talked to we talked about a little but you i didn't know where the name came from or anything anyway doesn't matter sand battery a stove i don't know what that means sand battery saving summer heat for winter oh a sand battery just like for storing storing heat that kind of sand battery maybe i should look into that more but you know i don't i'm not in a place where i'd have to store heat the weather's just i'm close enough to the equator that the weather's just always like pretty much the same i mean i get rains you know sometimes it's rainier cloudier sunnier whatever but there's no significant temperature change i'm really worried about the advancement of ai are you have you seen stable diffusion i do not know what you're talking about with stable diffusion however yeah artificial intelligence is an issue uh i don't know what's going to happen with that um i can't really do much about all the people programming ai you know i think i think the best way to deal with ai would to be would be to show ai a good example because if ai if artificial intelligence like some computers looked at the way we treat each other now i don't i think it would logically deduce that it doesn't matter how humans are treated that humans are kind of trash because we treat ourselves like trash and we treat our environment like trash and we just like if i was either aliens or a computer or somehow looking in at us i would be like those those creatures don't even care about their own existence so you know we can wipe them out it doesn't really matter but i think we'd have a much better chance of surviving the you know the the judgment or whatever or the reactions of artificial intelligence or aliens for that matter if we showed a better example ourselves and we're kind of somehow more valuable um there is of course a chance that ai will look at us and just say well there's there's an interesting thing this humans let's just not mess with it let's go do something else somewhere else but of course you know there's always the chance that artificial intelligence the moment it has the ability to exponentially grow its understanding of the universe will just decide to wipe us out because we're not valuable i don't know it's one of those things where it's like i don't know what's gonna happen and i just have to proceed as if it's gonna be all right and we'll see did you see the honeydew channel about air creed keep up this wonderful channel we all love it so that honeydew the honeydew carpenter guy i have seen a little bit of his of one of his videos once where he was making air creed and building a shed i think but i didn't see that much about it i ended up i saw enough to like get the idea of of how to make you know styrocrete and stuff um not styrocrete i mean air creed but i ended up choosing to build with styrocrete because well there were two reasons one it doesn't shrink when it dries and uh you know the air creed shrinks when it dries and maybe maybe some maybe that's been worked out and fixed or and everything but the the other reason the bigger reason was that i kept finding all this styrofoam just floating around in the ocean when i'm driving around and i still find it from time to time so i started collecting all the styrofoam just you know a piece here and there and i had this little mountain of styrofoam and i was like geez i need to find something to do with styrofoam that's like a like a long-term use for it that's not because usually it just gets used once and thrown away and if i can find some long-term use for it that would take a huge amount of garbage out of the world and turn it into something useful so i ended up you know going with the styrocrete which i'm been very happy with actually i'm really happy with the styrocrete okay okay this is okay oliver reed was the first movie in castaway then later tom hanks did it i i remember seeing some of that i don't know if i saw the whole movie or not but i can now remember what oliver reed looks like and what he was i remember part of the movie hey quiet um yeah maybe i should watch that one again the old uh oliver reed castaway because then i'll know what you're talking about yay by a tree hey karina how you doing jamie reminds me of eustis conway i'm gonna write this down eustis conway let's see who that was later um for a while people kept saying i was like charlie from it's always sunny in philadelphia and for a long time i had no idea who that was or anything and then eventually i looked it up it is the guy from from uh pacific rim um best friend lol okay i think we will visit one day for sure really that's awesome yes you and allison should totally come visit my place is awesome it's super cool here bring your dad too man he would love this place i don't know what he's doing oh he might be busy um oh no uh so john is not concerned about the ai at all i think that's what he's talking about says i um i for one welcome the advent of our new cybernetic overlords i don't maybe maybe we'll get ai and they'll quickly deduce that one creature or one being ruling over another being is a totally useless thing to do and they'll figure out a way to all people be free which would be great which would also mean that everyone is free to succeed or fail which is what a lot of people are afraid of with freedom um full-scale assimilation plug my brain into the ai and use it to boost its cpu but i don't want to do that jamey can do a homer simpson's voice i think what's at hank his area he's the one who does it he does a good job isn't he still around is that show ever gonna stop last week someone said the simpson's is still on it's been on for like 30 years i was wondering what you were going to do for your kitchen and then you made a video about it it's turning out really cool yeah i'm super happy with my kitchen it's really good so it's got the the whole top surface of tiles and my two littlest kids sit on the lower the lower set of tiles which is like way up and they eat on the higher part and then i stand on the one side and eat on the higher part and then my two older girls they sit at the at the lower part but the two little kids are the messiest ones so they're sitting on tiles and eating on tiles above you know above that level so all of their food garbage ends up on tiles so it's easy to clean off so that works out really well have you ever seen the great egg race or the science shack no i don't know what that is i guess i've not seen either i believe in the hands attached to my wrist because they have never failed me yeah you don't have to believe in them because they're there and whether or not you believe they're there there's they're still there um yeah your your belief in your hands is not necessary theistic religion is holding humanity back from discovering its full potential i i would agree with that yeah the whole idea i guess it just comes down to what i was saying earlier about having preconceived notions you know when you believe like when you believe in whichever god doesn't matter which god you believe in a certain god and certain certain truths that are that are inflexible it means that you can't learn certain things because certain things are basically off limits because you've you already believe something to be true and the worst part about this is that god always exists in the unknown for religious people like god takes care of all the unknown unknown stuff and that means anytime new information comes up it's going to be something that was previously unknown and now we're learning then people of people who have these religions where they believe they fight back and this is why a lot of people throughout history have been murdered or thrown in jail by by religious people who don't accept this new information that people are learning so and that you know i don't want to beat up on people who have religions or anything you know if you want to believe in god and that works for you and makes you feel better or somehow motivates you or whatever great i think i think there is a place for that but when religion starts being aggressive and getting in the way of any kind of learning and is used as an excuse to kill people basically then it's just no good and there are always people who are using religion to take money to steal to kill people to force influence on others and that's yeah just what you're saying it's no good thinking thinking american i don't know about that maybe not i know i'm not sure what you're talking about aurora they make good rototillers oh cool aurora is also one of my favorite singers aurora who is one of your favorite singers aurora my daughter actually sings a lot whenever she's putting the baby to sleep she sings all the time sand battery is like the molten salt stuff yeah i don't know about the sand battery that makes you do sand battery storing heat to run generators so sand battery will will store heat that well i gotta look into this a little bit that's cool so many years watching your life first time live oh well hello coastal marty marty nerf marty nerf marty nier oh no i'm marty nier i'm gonna say that totally wrong sorry uh have some fiat coins for you to invest in things that help you needing less fiat coins in the future i i will thank you you are one of the biggest idols of my life oh well i mean just going back to what i was saying earlier i mean that's that's kind of the biggest compliment i can get on this channel is uh you know i started it when i started it i started making this channel because i didn't have any good good influences to look up to when i was a kid and to have it working where i i have some good influence on some people now yeah that's that's amazing that's great went up to the tree house yesterday oh you have a tree house kyla kyla has a tree house beautiful spot was bummed out so many people went in and kind of destroyed it do you ever go up there oh you're talking about my old house i don't even want to know like if people are treating it poorly or whatever no when i when i sold my own house i sold it and i i left like and now i'm now i'm here now i'm like thousands of miles away from it so i have not kept up with what's going on back there at all you know when i when i sold my house you know i it was it became the other persons it wasn't mine anymore and really i i just didn't keep up with it because i i don't want to be emotionally attached to a thing that i have no say over anymore like it was not my house anymore it's whoever i sold it to is there at their house so yeah i've gone there since leaving any use for seaweed what you can eat seaweed it's also supposed to be good fertilizer for gardens awesome got a notebook yes got a notebook and i have some things written on it that i have to look up after i'm finished this do you watch josh's doc did you watch josh's documentary on you josh's documentary on me what there's a couple documentaries on me wait hold on a second dishing is telling me something about this are you telling me there are some documentaries about me that i don't know about apparently there's some documentaries about me i'm gonna have to look up well i might have to watch these maybe should i all right so anyway dishing is saying i might not have i might not want to watch it because it's related to the all right so maybe maybe i'll look that up and check it out just watching the documentary about you on exploring with josh josh's channel oh well is it is it all it it depends i might want to watch it but i might not want to watch it if it's all just going to show like my old house as it is now then i'm not going to be that interested but if it's about i don't know i'll i'll look into it a little bit um so david taylor's favorite singer is just aurora i don't know her full name well we'll have to check that out hey jamie nice oh i got to the bottom of my comments and i'm only at an hour and a half usually it takes me like two hours to get to the bottom of my comments phew uh hey jamie nice work well thanks billy anita a has retracted her message what were you saying anita now i'm curious did you write jamie you smell like old toenails and then you took it back you can you can tell me i mean if i smell like old toenails i smell like old toenails i just have to live with them i mean i can i can handle it i can take it as long as they don't throw poop on the walls she doesn't care what they do to his old house i don't care if they throw poop on the walls yeah i mean like say you're living in a house and no say say you build things for a living and you sell something you've built if you cared what happened to that thing it could drive you crazy you know it could totally drive you nuts like if i if i paid attention to my old house and cared i it would be very easy to be like oh my gosh they're not doing it right they're not treating it right now i feel bad i put so much work into that you know um that's why when i sold it i decided no i'm selling this i'm just now i'm going to do something else so yeah i sold i sold the house i took the money i bought land here and so all of that love and all that caring is now going into this place um i liked the the banana building classic jude mike says i also like the banana building however you know just that that semi-circle tube design you know has a flaw it's not it's not nearly as strong as a dome dome um it's still pretty cool though um jamey does read he reads our comments oh wait i missed a comment do you have time to read and if so what do you read um i don't really the shana likes to tell people that i don't know how to read i don't really know how to read no i i'm reading comments here that's that's like the extent of my reading yeah i don't really have i should just say this is gonna sound terrible so so when i i don't i don't read books anymore because generally speaking when i read books i start getting irritated at the what's it called the the hidden agendas because whenever you read a book there's always these little agendas people are trying to push on you and i just it ruins the stories for me and i'm always like you know so i end up i end up not reading books then although if anything i read usually has to do with like reference material for like the the melting temperature of a metal that i'm trying to melt or or you know some kind of scientific information for something i'm trying to do and yeah in terms of having time to read yeah i don't really have time to read i guess now if i could read like my oldest daughter maybe because she reads so fast um she was like eight years old she first she she just taught herself to read we didn't even have to teach her to read she's just like well i'm four and i can read anything so go away but it was like she was like eight years old or something like that and she read the the entire harry potter series in a week and i was like how wait what you can't it would take me a week to get through one of those how do you how do you read that so fast and so i watched her reading and she's just like like page after page is going and i'm like are you actually getting any information or you and then she tells me the whole story and i'm like wow she's actually she's actually getting the information now one of the reasons that i read slowly is not because i can't read fast it's because whenever i'm putting information into my brain i'm always analyzing it so i can't just read a page of text like i read a sentence and i'm like hmm what are all the implications here and then i'll go to the next sentence and read and i'm very like very deliberate about any information i put in my head so i read very slowly so yeah i don't have time to read maybe one day i will but uh right now i just have so many amazing things that i want to do and so many useful things to do with my day that uh does she just like having this whole conversation with me that i can't hear in the back of my head and i'm gonna get one of my kids to go fart in her face i never learned to read either yeah good well now that now i'm behind on comments again because i just went on about that for a while uh jamey does read he reads their comments yeah that's the extent of what i read hola from coin spain enjoy your channel well hello to to david i hope you're having a good time anita a what do you read what kind of books do you read and um i have to i have to admit something anita that name always uh i really like the name anita because there are so many jokes that i make up that have to do with anita because you know anita i'm sure you've heard all the jokes because your name is anita but anyway have to log out oh mr landfall have an excellent afternoon or whatever it is when i sold my land and furpole cabin the new owners tore it down oh i also converted three acres of forest to clear cut pasture it's on google satellite map yeah you shouldn't have looked joe low maybe that's why i don't i don't want to know what happens yeah now that you said that i really don't want to know what happens to my old house because he built a house i don't know did he say he built it i don't know it doesn't matter they tore it down and clear cut the whole place well billy never learned to read either i can't read books there's too many words i don't know what they mean you know i actually i don't just have difficulty reading books i also have difficulty watching youtube videos because there will be like like most of the time i try to watch a youtube video the person will start rambling on for like four and a half minutes before they get to anything that has anything to do with the title of the video and and usually before that i'm just like oh forget it x and i and i get out of it so i actually try and make sure i don't do that myself but i'm sure i'm guilty to some degree hi jamie were you able to take a look at the network state ah yes of bellagy srinivasan it and you have potential bellagy could fund you did you get my email regarding this so i did look at it very briefly but i didn't ah this is one of those situations where i started watching a video about this is what i just said i started watching a video and like the host started rambling on and on and on like 10 minutes into the video i'm just like oh god shut up and i just i didn't look into it that much more but why i don't understand why do i need why do i want funding from bellagy srinivasan and what is he going to fund me to do like to to do some paperwork to make a country is that i i really didn't get any of the information that would be useful enough to answer your question because it was just so long-winded the whole thing i need someone to someone to sum this thing up for me because the impression i get is that it's just some some jumping through hoops pure hoops bureaucratic stuff but maybe there's more to it than that maybe i don't know so i i looked into it very briefly and didn't get anywhere i i didn't have the attention span and it didn't look promising enough to really i don't know so let me know if there's something some some some way you can sum it up in some way to make it interesting enough that's something i'm actually gonna look into because often people tell me about things that i need to look into and then i look into it and i'm like why why did i even look into it that was a total waste of time watching a movie is easier than reading a book that is true yeah i definitely watch more movies than read books because one of the things is like when you're watching a movie even if you're disagreeing with a lot of stuff the movie's gonna keep going but if i'm reading a book i'm gonna stop and be like uh um yeah anyway oh karina are you are you cheering on joshaina for talking at the back of my head audiobooks i i you know the last audiobook i listened to was um out of the silent planet no i've listened to a few since then but it's by that see it no i can't remember the author now hey who wrote out of the silent planet it's an old sci-fi uh art author oh who did the lost world i need a dictionary when i read too many fancy words in the books yeah um we just got on well hello shadow man sir you sound very very scary and powerful have to go back to the beginning at two times so i think from now on i need to start my videos talking super super fast so the people who catch up later and watch that two times can have a ridiculous time i am forced to read chat forced i say i'm glad i can read the comments some live channels move too fast yeah i think this is like i don't know how many well there's 64 people on right now and that seems to be like about a good number of people to be able to read all the comments and keep up with them because i'm pretty close to the bottom of the comments and i can basically keep up with them i usually skip the first two minutes of most youtube videos except yours of course well i'm doing a good job then trying to get to the point right away that's also why i don't have you know an opening intro title thing because you know when you're when you see some video and it's like here's how to do blah blah blah and you're like oh great i get to watch this video learning how to do something and then you click on the video and it's like 45 seconds of like some title and some music and some blah blah blah it's like okay this is really great and pretty but can you just get to the point so that's why i don't have a an intro to my videos i just i try to get to the point i skip many youtube videos too yeah jamie i bought one of your long sleeve shirts and tank tops and they are both great yes i wear the long sleeves to work all the time fit uh great fit and very comfortable good for working in oh that's great hold on you're asking me a question if he's the one who's come to shana's asking me some question about the shirts right now and i can't really hear very well do you know if burning wood creates carbon dioxide i am pretty sure that burning wood creates carbon dioxide yes carbon dioxide is what plants crave except when they're busy craving brondo uh glad you like my name i i read everything fiction and non-fiction fiction favorite author and x wait oh probably george elliot what is george elliot right i don't know let me look that up maybe wood equals clean fuel why aren't you using it to power cars boat spikes well um i'm i'm personally not using wood to power you know vehicles because i have solar panels and they they power my vehicles and myself i power my vehicles i mostly power my vehicles um i do use wood to cook and i have you know an insulated tube stove otherwise known as a rocket stove which burns the wood pretty efficiently and you know on my little island here it's not very big there aren't a ton of trees but there is plenty of hey hold on what's going on oh they're playing screen games so even on my little island there's plenty of wood just on the ground to you to keep up with my small wood fuel needs lost work i lost world i think was my was from steven king no this is a different lost world uh it might be the lost world i have it on my computer and the author he wrote a bunch of stuff i'm gonna remember this as soon as i turn this off let's see lost i i get fed up with too many snotty middle-class videos gloating how good their lives are that i find something else to look at yeah you know i i a lot of youtube videos about how to do things are just from like people who live in the suburbs and they're not actually doing anything so their information always ends up being not that useful in real life you know can you burn your manure i put my i put my poo into a uh fertilizer maker and then it can become well it becomes methane which i'm not using yet i haven't tested it if i can use the methane but also fertilizer yes that was me oh matt baker i think dishinga matt is saying yes that was him james sunday show is a nicely weekly reality check well that is excellent i love that that is beautiful oh tomaters agrees thanks man can you burn your manure yeah if i dry it out i should be able to burn poo yeah you can burn camel poo because it comes out of dry right when you would you be interested in making making a community with your values would you like to expand this community to make it solid with the correct people if so look into network state okay so here's the thing i want to build i want to build a community that does not have any kind of uh like formal sort of network thing so this is probably going to be my problem with this network state thing like i want a community of people who are individuals who are working toward you know making a better world and all that and there's no there's no set of rules that everyone has to follow but maybe more like you know just a collection of people who share kind of values but not i mean the thing is you you lose something huge once it's once it's quantified and written down and people have to follow a thing i think that's one of the problems that comes up with when people make religions or any kind of ideology because once you once you have something quantified and written down and people have to follow the rules then people start misinterpreting and changing things but you have to follow it and you get this you get this big mess so the community i want and the community that i'm building here is not any kind of formal organized community it's self organized you know like in you're in a situation where there's chaos otherwise known as chaos like things self organized and i think that is much much more valuable than something you force into organization because something that self organizes it will maintain that organization over time but when you kind of force organization upon something as soon as that force that's that's making something be organized is gone then the whole thing disintegrates and this is what happens a lot with intentional communities like there will be the the person or the people who start it and it'll go amazingly and all this great stuff will happen and then once those original people die it kind of falls apart like the second generation is just it just they just leave you know it doesn't stay you could build a little steam engine for your boat for extra power on those long trips now i do want to build a steam engine i i really want to build a steam engine boat it's on it's kind of on my list of things i want to do but it isn't high priority because you know i currently have a boat that works and there's a bunch of other stuff that are that's higher priority one is like growing food that's a really high priority another one is setting up a lumber mill because then once i've got that i can cut cut boards to build my upper floors and stuff so building a steam engine is definitely on my thing it's just not it's not at the top of the priority list yet yes i built my fur pole cabin and was very proud of it i lived in it for 12 years it was a fur pole frame covered in chicken wire hey tell don't tell her not slam the window and clear poly ethylene was water snow proof someday i'll send pics i would love to see pictures of that joe blow uh so yeah that all got torn down by the people who bought it yeah that's like that's exactly why i don't want to know what's going on with my old house when i sold it i left it was like now it's yours you do whatever you want i don't even want to know so i just focus all my energy on my my place here i must tell you your video quality is so much better today every time you move the picture we're just pixel up so gladly it was it wad horrible it was horrible yeah sorry arthur codon Doyle that's what i was thinking of yes i need to thank you very much you do do read a lot don't you yes sir arthur codon Doyle so i've um um listened to a bunch of audiobooks of arthur codon Doyle stuff with professor challenger now i actually remember things uh the lost world was was pretty amazing um it's kind of it's kind of dated so they have some some words in there that are considered bad words today so you know uh you're not going to hear a lot of arthur codon Doyle today um you know like anyway it doesn't matter but i listened to a bunch of the a bunch of different arthur arthur codon Doyle stuff that i had on my computer that i've had for like i don't know 20 years i got up from i don't even remember where i got it from um but he had some really cool really cool sci-fi stories it's kind of interesting to to read sci-fi stories that are older because you know they talk about the future which is now are today um let's talk poop for a little bit all right tomaters all right all right the lost world are the arthur codon Doyle or michael krichton krichton how do you say his name whatever depending on which book you meant yeah i was talking about the arthur codon Doyle ones and was the um out of the silent planet maybe that was c.s louis i'm not totally sure no what do you think would be the biggest upgrade to your life right now in terms of saving time and reaching your future goals more easily hmm maybe i mean one thing okay two a couple things popped into my head first one was like like more more people like more community and kind of like a girlfriend but i can't control that but yeah having having a bigger community like i want to have a bigger community around here of fellow adventure builders and that community is very slowly growing um like very slowly but it is growing um but it would be cool if if suddenly i don't even know if this could happen like i i can't just suddenly have like you know a hundred adventure builders just show up and just like i think it is something that kind of has to happen slowly um for it to happen correctly like that to happen right but in terms of just like my own island and stuff the first thing i thought i was food like i want more more food i want to grow all my own food my pepper plants are doing much better now that i'm i've got little houses around them not even houses just little pvc tubes protecting them from the crab so they're not being eaten and then i've got all those trees that are like fruit trees that are growing and you know i'm getting more coconuts i'm planting coconut trees like this is all just stuff that takes time uh another thing would be like if i could get like 14 000 tons of nice dirt just jump that would be that would be spectacular although another thing i thought of was like one boatload of sand for my beach but i don't want to make my beach too nice because then people might might start coming to it but my beach has a situation where you know the water level has been kind of slowly going up so my beach has sand like this and then there's like basically a wall of clay and the water is getting up to the point where it's hitting the wall of clay and eroding it so it would be nice to have that that sand layer up enough that there's some part of sand always out of the water that kind of protects the land so i don't know i guess a lot of things um um more materials stainless steel stuff the biggest upgrade to your life right now in terms of saving time and reaching your future goals more easily yeah i guess this is i guess yeah having having someone else living in my house who is on my team and wants to work with me on stuff would be would be pretty amazing i think that would really be awesome but it would have to be someone that i could work with on things we can work toward our goals together many came here because this this is a lot of typos oh so some people came here because they saw my they saw the documentary i guess that josh made about my place in montana which is vermont but yeah a steam powered paddle boat i i would love to build a steam powered paddle boat i think that would be really really fun and i look forward to the day when that makes it that floats up to the top of my priority list and yeah just the idea of like you know going into the forest and collecting a bunch of dry wood bring it on to the boat and then just like taking off and like getting that thing lit and like stopping the fire in there yeah oh that would that would be super cool uh ever watched the old movie meet john doe it's about a good idea for a positive mindset for great for people corrupted by greed i've never seen that meet john doe i'm gonna write that down on my on my my little go movie hold on i've got someone standing right here looking at me what what's going on are you gonna be wrapping up am i gonna be wrapping up you're rushing me yeah i'm gonna be done probably in a few minutes it's almost that two hours uh did that biodegesture methane farm work out i don't know i haven't tested it yet i still have to i next time i go to town try to remember to get a pipe to put on it and a valve and stuff supposedly it's working though oh shelfel rod and for steam paddle boat maybe i'll have to look that up how the spud's growing and the runner beans i've actually my beans a lot of my beans have died out at this point but i i did get a lot of them out and i planted some new ones and my potatoes are are growing i she can come in i'm about to be done anyway oh no you can't come in here no naked babies second question are you still messing around with those acoustic concentrators you made with satellite dishes crazy that crabs are the garden pests rather than rabbits or deers um so the the acoustic dishes that you know i was playing around for a while with satellite dishes and setting them far apart and if you talk into them at the right place that they would bounce through the other one and the person could hear i called them whisper dishes i do still want to set those up like one on my island one on dishena's island like one on my my friend's island over there and another one here aiming at that but again it's just not at the top of the priority list so i haven't really set up any any big things to do that although i've got all this styrofoam and i've got the styrocrete styrocrete would be like the perfect thing to build a big outdoor dish for that so yeah i haven't i don't have any amazing progress on that but i do plan to like next the next thing i do with those with the with the the sound dishes this probably just make like a really big good one uh jamie what's your take on earthships oh don't get me started on mike reynolds so mike reynolds is this guy who he's responsible for the earthships that everyone's heard about and he's an awesome dude who just got mired in in legality and bureaucratic nonsense and i highly recommend this this movie about him called garbage warrior i watched it years ago when i was still living in the united states and it was just another layer of why i need to move out of north america you know uh so just a just a quick warning if you watch the movie garbage warrior it's about mike reynolds the first half of it is amazing it's this guy who's building these houses and doing all this experimental stuff and learning all this cool stuff is it's really awesome and then he just gets he gets bogged down with legal nonsense and just oh man it was just it was just heart crushing watching this the second half of this thing and earthships specifically i think the original idea behind earthships was like experimental housing and all this really cool stuff and then because of all the legalities involved the earthships that people know about today are just kind of this watered down legal version of what was amazing so read the machine stops by em foster sci-fi about people becoming technology i don't have to read that i see it every day i'm totally not going to read that though see this is the kind of maybe i'll write it down that's the kind of stuff that i could read one day in the future after i get my like 14 i don't know like 20 years from now when i feel like i've kind of got things set up and i don't know i'm never going to get to the end of my priority list but at some point i'm gonna have to slow down maybe i don't know i don't know i feel like at some point in the future i'll read more though the lost world audio book is available in full on youtube i would totally recommend listening to the lost world by arthur conan doile that was it was really cool you need to hire a dredger for your sandy beach no there's not the problem is there's not a lot of sand right there it's like kind of mush under um so i couldn't shoot a bunch of sand out which would be nice if a hundred adventure builders would suddenly show up and they would be amazing what would you imagine what happened as best-case scenario well that would just be like awesome um like basically we would just create this amazing piece of the world that would maybe kind of spread out and grow and just yeah just create a really cool way of life and and make this is the kind of question you need to ask like an hour and a half ago because now i'm at like two hours i i mean it's like there's there's so much that i could say about that um yeah it would just be really cool it is short and really fascinating okay the book Anita recommends to me is short and really fascinating also i'm going to write it down i'm writing down this book Anita okay the machine stops the machine i'm writing in doctor handwriting right now because i'm trying to write fast the machine stops by e m e m p no e m forester all right i'm gonna be done in a second so i'm gonna to skip a few things here are you interested in terra prieta carbon porous matrix humic matter i don't know maybe then in the art of motorcycle maintenance people always recommended i haven't read it i don't i don't have time how much of your food are you able to grow on the island am i able to or am i currently i am able to grow all our food on this island so i mean i'm working up to that um russian me i don't know what that is just wanted to ask why what you did after being so isolated in vermont what you did after being so isolated in vermont i'm not sure what the question is but i wasn't actually that isolated in vermont i was living like a mile from a little town so i was basically as isolated as i felt like being i could walk to the town anytime i wanted but i did spend a lot of time just up on the mountain okay let me see if i can find two more quick questions and then i'm gonna take off and go out lunch or something let's see okay that's what i was curious about with the styrofoam that you put in the tower up in vermont how well did those styrofoam cubes work for insulation oh okay yeah so i've i've been doing styrofoam recycling for a long time apparently i used styrofoam boxes to oh i just froze to insulate a building in vermont and it worked amazingly it was really good i could i i could with a with a wood stove heat up it was like a 40 foot by 25 foot by two story tall building i could i could heat the whole thing uh with one wood stove i lived in k patris for a while and about two years ago i tried to find my way out of here but got sidetracked and had to come back to west virginia okay does anyone have one more question before i take off and i know i just skipped a bunch of things but i've been on here for two hours and people must be getting sick of me i was joking about someone rushing you to wrap up no i do need i do need to take off though i usually do this for like two hours and now i'm at 205 and i gotta make lunch and stuff all right maybe we don't have enough do you have a question bellatrix now this is my b kid the second one she's she's working on getting her adult teeth which is super cute because they they call come in like all crazy style like an ogre and uh all right i'm gonna take off i'm gonna go go feed this one and feed the rest of these guys to shaney you brought over potato pancakes right are there any left yes all right i'm gonna go eat some potato pancakes too and uh i hope everyone has a marvelous day and have you know what every day is an adventure builder day so i hope you are i hope everyone has an excellent adventure builder day oh this was a volume question do you know how awesome you are i don't i don't know what you're telling me right now okay everyone have an awesome day okay are you sure you want to stop streaming i guess so