 hey wait a minute oh i have to change my fan don't i this one's gonna be noisy ah i don't need no stinking fan all right no i'm just gonna stall for a minute oh i totally need a fan where's my fan oh there's a fan i love this fan it's a big thing i can eat and everything and it's super quiet let's plug that sucker in oh yeah there's some nice fan hey look a fan just showed up all right you got one person here how are you doing one person oh two people here okay oh it's joe blow how you doing man have you been having coffee or is that hot chocolate hot chocho all right i've got a new shirt today hey ken wasik he's doing great and alex bell is alex bell a boy girl a boy's name or a girl's name never know with alex ken is pretty obvious although it could be kendra who knows anyway doesn't really matter oh yes my my shirt is quite fancy oh oh so nice so nice and it's not pretty alex is in fact a boy i would have guessed that actually because most of the people here are our boys which is totally fine so yesterday i painted this shirt um and one of the neighbor kids was over visiting for the day hanging out with my kids you know they were playing all day and i painted my shirt like this and i i ran over and showed it to my kids and i was like hey kids check out my shirt and uh you're like well cool man we're cool man and this neighbor kid goes well it used to be a nice shirt oh he's like why did you put paint all over it you wrecked it now it's like i'm like now it's mine because before it was just some factory shirt anyway okay so what was i going to talk about today i did think of something so let me start with that with a little story kids are so funny kids are hilarious okay so once upon a time i was renovating this house with the oh hello from scotland i was anyway once upon a time i was renovating this house with a friend and we were like we're doing everything and at one point we're standing in the kitchen and we'd already torn out everything in the kitchen like right down to the dry wall and i'd just gotten the the walls back in and my friend is standing there and it's it's his his job it's not not my job not not job it's it's the house it's his house that he's working on so i'm just there helping out right so he's standing there he's like oh all right i guess we got to get a kitchen in here and i'm like well the the store said the the stuff will be here and you know a month or so you know they had to order some of the parks whatever he's like all right yeah like what are we gonna do for a month or so i was like well it's in middle of the summer let's just go outside and use the hose we don't need a kitchen what are we we're just working all day anyway it's not like we're inviting people over whatever he's like yeah but i don't want to i don't want to live like a like a hobo or something i gotta i gotta make some kind of i gotta make some kind of temporary kitchen here so i'm like all right so i go off and i start working on you know other parts of the house because there's you know we're doing everything and he spends the next three days building this temporary countertop he uses uses a a sheet of plywood and a half and a bunch of two by fours and he reinstalls the old sink in that and he didn't have to pay for the old sink but you know he had to buy some plumbing supplies to plumb it back in and you know three days and he's got this this serviceable kitchen he's like ah there we go now we can now we've got a kitchen and this this is great and so we use the kitchen for the next month month and a half and finally all the all the stuff for the real kitchen shows up and we get to the point where we've kind of uh finished up enough other projects that we're like all right now we're ready to start something let's let's start on the kitchen so we go into the kitchen and the first thing we do is like well we got we got to take out this this temporary kitchen and as we're prying it away from the wall with crowbars I look at him and I say wait how much money did you spend on this and he looks at me and goes oh you don't want to know and uh I just kind of I guess I had a look a look on my face and he's like look man I know I know you you thought we should just like use a bucket and the hose outside for the last month and a half but like you know I mean what what would you have done here I'm like yeah I would have just not bothered wasting resources on on a temporary thing that we're just gonna rip out anyway like why don't why don't we just you know just use what we've got not worry about it and save our energy for the the final thing but he's like yeah yeah but if you if you always kind of you know just kind of use whatever's around and never never make something decent then you're always just like in this in this situation where you're always just compromising and you've you're just surrounded by by not the right stuff and it's like like living like a like a homeless person all the time so I say to him okay look remember like six months ago we were at that pizza place uh getting milkshakes and pizza and he's like oh yeah yeah I know the place you're talking about you asked me a question then and he's like I might remember this and like let me do let me just remind him so the question was you said hey Jamie how do you keep getting so much stuff done because you know it doesn't I know I know you're working real hard but it doesn't seem like you do that much more than me in a day but then like a year or two goes by and you have all this stuff done and I'll be almost in the same place I was I don't get it like like I feel like I'm I'm doing a lot but I don't know what's going on and at the time I tried to explain I tried to explain to him and I'm saying you know when I tried to explain it I I couldn't really get the answer across in a way that you really understood and I didn't really understand how to explain it and do you remember I said that at some point in the future something will happen and I'll say this is why and this is why right here and he's like what are you talking about and I'm like this this is this is why you're you're you're you're you're not making as much progress as me it's because you're putting resources into things that don't matter so you put a whole bunch of time and energy and money into this temporary kitchen that we were just going to rip out anyway and he's like well yeah but it's just like one thing that was like three days and you know I mean it was a few hundred dollars but like I mean I mean it's just one thing like so I start listing things the temporary stairs over there the temporary this the temporary that and I'm like how many days do you spend on this how many days you spend on that how many days you spend on that how many days you spend on that he's like just and he's just like all right all right I got it okay so so you don't you don't put energy into things that aren't that aren't going to be like permanent things and I'm like more specifically don't put energy into things that don't matter don't don't go all out on something that doesn't matter save your energy for something that does matter for instance oh and and this applies to a lot of different things so like you know when you bought that bought those two table saws and he's like oh yeah those two table saws yeah that first one was crap and I was like yeah but you knew it was crap when you bought it why did you buy it he's like well I just needed a table saw quick and it was cheap and I was like yeah but you could have bought the more expensive one that you knew would last when you bought the cheaper one and he's like yeah but like I just it was more expensive man and so I'm like you ended up buying the more expensive one anyway and he's like well yeah because the other one broke so I had to get something I didn't want to get another one that was gonna break and I'm just like dude look at the big picture here if you just bought the more expensive one at the beginning you would have just bought that one not bought two you wouldn't you wouldn't have had to spend the time and energy and the money to go get this one and now you wouldn't have this piece of garbage that you have to deal with you could have just gotten the better one and he's like okay okay I get what you're saying so like the the moral of the story here is to is that if you want to make progress and you want to and you want to be able to build on top of that progress and like you know make big changes in your life don't try to make them quick don't try to make them to make make things happen as fast as you can don't don't go for the the short term gains don't waste your time and energy and money and resources on that stuff save your resources for things that are going to matter in the future for things that are longer term and this applies to big things small things tiny little things I grew up I'm not going to say who this was because I don't want to embarrass anyone but I grew up with someone who would lose her keys every day and it was probably like I don't I don't want to overestimate but she probably spent like an hour every day you know at various times in the day running around the house where the are my keys just tearing things apart knocking things over that she would then have to clean up later and just where are my keys where are my keys because the fastest way to put down your keys is just just put them down wherever you are and not think about just put them down it's fastest way to do it instant you're instantly done with the keys then you can move on the problem is then it takes you like half an hour 20 minutes or whatever to find them because you don't know where you put them they could be anywhere but if you just took the extra four and a half seconds to walk over to where the keys go you know the key spot you put them there then then you don't have to spend waste all that time later looking for the keys so put the energy into the into the part that matters put the keys where they go don't save your energy for for when you're gonna have to fix what you screwed up by just not paying attention another example is uh back in the day many many moons ago many years ago they used to make stone houses brick houses stone houses houses made out of masonry right a stone and this is basically the story of the three little pigs but but basically you know if you make a stone house a thousand years later the stone house is still there you know maybe some parts will be knocked over or something smashed into it but like it's basically all still there like if someone's doing even a reasonably decent job of taking care of it and there's no volcanoes exploding or whatever the stone house will still be there but in modern day society people want things done quicker we want instant gratification right so today people are building wood houses often on not even very good foundations because they rush rush the foundation and then they built the house out of wood usually not even that good wood because now we we grow trees too fast so they they don't grow strong but we grow grow them really fast so we can use them up and throw them out and cut more and just use them use them use them you know use everything up as fast as possible and that means people buy houses today and before they've even paid off their mortgage the house has fallen apart full of termites it's got rot that the drywall is getting cracks in it because everything is warping and twisting you know it's just so even though you can you can build a house much more quickly with wood if you do it with if you take the time to build a masonry house it's going to outlast the wood house by such a huge amount of time that'll end up being less time and effort and work in the long run because you won't have to rebuild the house you won't have to do the constant maintenance of the you know fixing the wood and replacing all the stuff all the time so yeah today i'm basically talking about how to how to make progress with things in your life and not just not just get stuck i'm gonna make progress and centering myself in this thing a little better it's weird because you know the tablet's got got the camera on the side but the screen's in the middle the screen's in the middle but the camera's on the side anyway so if you want to make if you want to make good progress and you want to keep keep making progress in your life put your energy into the things that matter the things that are going to that are going to last that way you don't end up wasting all your time and energy doing maintenance and repairs and replacing things constantly because so often in our modern society we choose to do the thing that's going to be quickest to get the fastest quick result but then we end up with a life just surrounded by things that are falling apart all the time and i know so many people who who talk about this they're just like my house has fallen apart everything in my house has fallen apart i feel like i'm just constantly running around doing maintenance oh my gosh and then i'm always like oh that sucks man and they're like well how do you deal with it i'm like i don't have maintenance i mean i have very little maintenance because i take longer to to build everything in the first place or or i'll wait until i have enough money to buy the thing that's going to last or you know whatever i i always try to do the thing that's going to not need the maintenance in the future and the perfect example i'm always going on about is like my stainless steel wheelbarrow and my stainless steel shovels oh my god i love those things and i've had them for years when i first when i first got here to central america you know i'm living in the ocean i'm living on islands there's just salt water everywhere you know even if you're pretty careful at some point salt's going to drip onto whatever tools you have if you're using them outside so i was going through maybe one shovel every four months at the beginning because i was just buying shovels which is the quickest and easiest way to get a shovel you want to shovel just go buy a shovel it's like ten fifteen dollars or whatever it is and i'd be very careful not to break the handle or snap it or anything but then it would just rust to the point where it's just falling apart and then finally i was like all right i i need to i need to do whatever i need to do to to buy make whatever some stainless steel shovels so i made some stainless steel shovels actually first i bought some but the handles were were not stainless so but i used some of the parts anyway i ended up making stainless steel shovels and i've been using those things for years and i leave them outside and they're fine and they're basically in the exact same condition as when i got them and the same with my wheelbarrow you know i drive my wheelbarrow i i take my wheelbarrow everywhere i take it on the boat i take it to town it gets salt water on it the wheel is not stainless i'm gonna have to replace that at some point although i just try to keep the salt water off it but uh people in town now know me by this stainless steel wheelbarrow that i wheel around town when i'm going to all the stores and picking up all my stuff which is great by the way man taking a wheelbarrow with you when you go shopping like food shopping is ah you know carry all these stupid dykes just throw it all in the wheelbarrow but i've had this same wheelbarrow for years and i've seen other people go through wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow and it's just these rusted messes and uh you know it's just just like one one stainless steel wheelbarrow is gonna cost less than thirty cheap ones you know all right i think i've gone on enough about that how you guys doing this week let's see what let's what see what people are saying here oh let me use this finger hey it's neil from homestead hello neil and there's someone from scotland hello jamie i always look forward to seeing your creative projects your new home is looking great oh i love this place yeah um you know like when you're like when you you have an idea in your head and i've mentioned this before because this has happened several times on projects that made but you know you have an idea in your head you're like this is this is gonna be an amazing thing if i make this it's gonna be really awesome but then you know you actually make it it's generally not as as amazing as it was in your head but sometimes it is and like my house oh my god like i i thought this place was going to be amazing when i was building it that's why i put so much energy into it it took me like a a year to build this place oh let me let me talk about that for a second back back to the stories about uh putting your energy and you know thinking about long term versus short term so sometimes it when people find out about my house and they've uh you know they see it and they're like whoa you built that yourself and i'm like yeah it took me a year of real hard labor and blah blah and then you know another year of you know doing all the digging and everything it was like two years of like hard work and and uh i'm really happy with it they're like well why didn't you just buy something it'd be way way faster then i'll look at them and be like how many years is your mortgage oh snap i said it's not two anyway so i yeah i built this place and i mean i've been living in it for almost a year i guess and so happy with it so satisfying i love this place it's just it's just ah if you've never built your own house you should do it and don't don't do it the way other people want want you to do it like build the thing that you really think you want to build like the thing that you want to live in because that's actually living in it it's just it's just a totally different experience than living in you know some kind of prefabricated box like all the all the houses in the world that are just kind of standard issue you know drywall vinyl two by four is man when you may when you make something that's like that's yours it's it just it just feels like like this is it's like part of me like i'm like i'm bigger like the world isn't encroaching on me like when i'm in here it's like i it's like this is big jamie it's like this big jamie space i get to be in okay let's see what else he had some something else okay the dragon tiles is a cool feature yeah i'm really happy with the dragon tiles too i know i'm only like halfway finished them but they already look super cool they're gonna look really cool when i get it all the way done up to the top although i slowed down on that just because you know i work on it when when the weather is convenient which is much less frustrating than trying to get it all done quickly when the weather makes it more difficult hyper focus you know i have to ask about the fart machine progress would be a really cool video yes i've not i've done nothing with the fart machine progress okay he's talking about uh like a methane producer that takes all the all the waste from the house you know the plumbing goes into this big tank and then it's got an overflow into another tank so that the first tank can build up gas pressure and push the push the sludge and stuff into the overflow tank and that way the overflow tank can put pressure back so if you actually use some of the air some of the gas in here that that second tank just keeps going down and this takes up the space and it keeps pressure on the gas it's supposed to make methane in there that supposedly if i connect the pipe to it you know i can i can connect it to a stove or whatever uses methane and and power it i have not tried it yet though i've got the thing like basically made i just need to connect the pipe to it and and test it really um if i was if i was in more dire need of a methane stove or something i'd probably get on it faster but i usually cook on well i guess i always cook here i always cook on a wood fire you know i have a pretty nice stainless steel like rocket stove you know just the insulated tube stove thing and it's insulated with fiberglass that's that was like leftover fiberglass from something and some insulation from the door of a stove like it's a pretty good little thing um so it doesn't use that much wood to cook and everything it works pretty efficiently although i also will occasionally throw like little pieces of something like a piece of wet wood or a chunk of a coconut husk or something there to make a bit of smoke and this is one of the nice things about cooking with fire when you're in the wilderness a bit of smoke keeps the bugs away and the bugs aren't real bad or any or anything here except in the morning in the evening which conveniently is like morning or breakfast and dinner time that's probably why breakfast and dinner exist because people would always cook in the morning and the evening when the when the bugs come out because then when you're cooking on a fire like they would have done in the old days keeps the bugs away so anyway yeah ken says i'm building gutting a house that's been around 125 years i'm taking my time and not rushing because i want it to last another hundred years dude make it last another thousand years totally man yeah don't rush that stuff and it's really easy to get sucked into rushing um like every house i've ever built i've built several houses at this point it's like every house i build i always have to tell myself at the beginning okay don't rush it because the easiest thing to rush is the foundation because it's like when you're working on the foundation it's like there's no house there you have you have nothing to show someone comes and says hey how's it going you're just like there there's nothing to look out but i'm putting a lot of work into the foundation you know it's not a real what's the word it's not a real rewarding i shouldn't say not rewarding it is rewarding because you know it's gonna make the thing but it doesn't look like much when you're working on the foundation and i have to admit that when i was working on this house i probably should have spent another few days compacting the the clay before i started actually building stuff but i was just eager and i did a pretty good job um but then once i once i started building you know the clay the clay at the front of the house it's just this little part at the front where where i filled in clay so it wasn't it wasn't old clay most of the house is on like old clay but there's a little piece at the front of the house that was on new clay and i compacted it pretty well but it started sinking like like millimeter like fraction of a millimeter but enough to make the concrete have a little crack in it so i had to go back and uh stick rocks like against the ground and sand and take a steel rod and pack it down in there to get it solid so it wouldn't keep moving so really i should have spent more time on the foundation but that just reminds me make sure i do it all the time in the future because it's so easy to not it's so easy to just to cut corners to skip things you you shouldn't skip dude you're my idol oh shucks steve what happened to the houseboat well the houseboat i gave it away and i mean it was okay i didn't want to keep the houseboat because um this is actually sort of an example of something that i didn't build didn't build right that needed maintenance so i built the houseboat with plywood covered in fiberglass so and this was because you know i spoke i i i knew that this see i this was a dumb thing i did i asked other people how to build a boat because i was like i don't have enough experience to build this this like 40 foot long 26 foot wide like 13 meter long several meter seven meter eight year wide whatever it is houseboat that's a couple stories tall this is just a big boat like i don't really know what i'm doing so i asked people and they recommended plywood with you know covered in fiberglass which i will never do again so i did it and sure enough you know like there would be little spots where a tiny tiny like little hole or crack just enough space in the fiberglass opened up that a bit of moisture got into the wood and then it starts rotting and then you get a soft spot because the wood kind of turns to mush so at the beginning i would like cut out the fiberglass rip that out rip out all the rotten wood put a new piece of wood in there with some with some resin fiberglass back over and then be like okay now it's good and then i go and after doing this a few times i went to one of these boat builders one of these guys who who could build several boats and i said to him that what is going on man i have to keep making these repairs on my boat he's like oh yeah you just uh you just gotta cut it out and you basically explained what i did and i'm like well is there a way to make it so it doesn't do that and he's like oh no that's just that's just the way it is you know it's a little maintenance and and then i remembered the saying that goes something like this owning a boat is like standing in the shower with all your clothes on while throwing money down the drain and i was like yeah that's if you're thinking like that that's totally what it is and then i realized oh i should not have asked anyone about how to build a boat because i wouldn't have thought to put fiberglass over plywood because even when they were telling me i was like well that's not gonna last like oh no this is the way to do it so anyway it was a question yeah i went off off on a pretty big tangent there um so i had this this big house boat and i lived in it for like six or seven years or something like it definitely was financially worth it you know i i put i put maybe eight thousand dollars into building it and then i lived in it for like six years which ended up being not that much like if i was it would be pretty low rent per month i'm not gonna calculate that right now like a hundred bucks a month or something less i don't know whatever anyway uh financially it was worth it however uh when i decided to give it away i was just like this thing is just gonna keep getting you know soft spots soft areas that i'm gonna have to keep repairing because of the way it's made the you know the material and the way it's made so i uh gave it away and i will never again build a boat with plywood covered in fiberglass because it just if any moisture at all gets in there the fiberglass just seals it in and it just it just turns into this rotting mess in there uh so yeah the house boat the house boat is no more it was pretty cool boat though hey there jaymey i did it oh oh i copied your idea for a stainless steel shock sole i i presume that was a that was a typo typo oh what a shocks will be anyway stainless steel shovel from reclaimed scrap materials it was amazing watching the flat steel or the flat sheet take on this awesome new shape i love it oh that is beautiful can you i want to see a picture can you email me a picture i would love to see a picture of your stainless steel shovel that is awesome man and that's really cool ever considered making a drag line crane dredge uh yes i did at one point make a sucker dredge which uh it's basically a tube with a little propeller at the end like a like a really strong propeller that could hit you know wood and rocks and stuff without breaking and it sucks stuff up into the tube and then the tube has a side squirter off and there's like kind of an impeller an xpeller i guess spinning around there that shoots the stuff out the tube and then it goes somewhere and uh you know it basically sucks mud up and spits it somewhere although i don't use it that much because it you know it needs to suck up a lot of water so if i'm trying to if i'm trying to clean out the canal or something i'd rather get in there with a bucket and get like as dry material as possible and dump it on the land so then it actually builds up some land you know um but a drag line is another another thing to think about but i don't know i feel i feel like that's one of those situations where i'd be putting a lot of energy into something that i wouldn't use that much so in that case i feel like it's better to just just suck it up jump in the water and use a bucket which works really well you take a bucket put upside down into the water so it's holding air and you shove it down to the bottom still with air in it and then as you tip the bucket the air escapes and that means it sucks in whatever's down there so if you take a bucket and shove it right down onto some muck and then tip it up tip it right side up it'll suck the muck right into it like a pretty good suction so then you can pick up your bucket and it'll have like a lot of solid material and not not that much water although i could of course make a machine that does that then it wouldn't have to get in the water but whatever whatever um i do kind of want to make a crane although i can't i haven't yet been able to justify the amount of energy and resources that would go into making a crane because i mean it would be awesome and fun to do but not not all that useful you know i need to i need to get into some more things where a crane would be more useful to to be able to build one or get to a point where i'm done all the more important projects i'll make a flat pointed one soon too oh this is the the guy who made the stainless steel shovel i'll make a flat pointed one soon too cool yeah dude i totally want to see your stainless steel shovels maybe maybe next week i can show them by holding pictures up that i don't have because it would be electronic ones i don't know oh here's a okay regarding the bridge oh i've made some progress on the bridge i should talk about that a little bit uh let's see uh regarding the bridge i think a concrete bridge would be great save the aluminum mass aluminum aluminum mass for something only they can be used for like a crane yeah yeah that's that is definitely something i was thinking and i've begun creating a masonry bridge and i'm making it out of styrocrete let me let me see if i can i have a drawing hold on i'll be right back oh man my leg was asleep so sitting on it it's okay though okay i have started making a video or two about the bridge and this was one of my uh one of my what do you call it visual aids wait there's a good one on the other side here so this is a side view of course i have decided to make big bricks and this this was the first drawing i did and this actually ends up being this the exact number of bricks i'm gonna make so i'm gonna make these out of styrocrete and the whole thing's gonna be on the inside it's gonna be six feet across or two meters ish well it's just under two meters and about three feet high here so about a meter high which makes these like a foot and a half on the on the skinny side and then i don't know what they are on the bigger side but whatever and i've got these started i guess i could i could show you i've got four of these made uh although i'm gonna need 10 not just six because at the i'm only making them like four feet long like like this direction four four feet long so this is like just over a meter and i want the bottom of the bridge to be like eight feet wide which is like two and a half meters ish and then it can get a little skinnier as it goes up so i'll need two full ones at the bottom two full four foot sections at the bottom and the next piece up can be like one and five eights and then the next one one three eights and one three eights and one five eights and then uh you know total two for the for this total six layer thing and hopefully my connection is not terrible this is going to get fuzzy for a second well pixely while i'm moving but let's see if we can get over here right under here i've got some pieces these look so small in that tiny little screen so there's my hand and these are about i don't know six inches six inches thick at least i've got three of them here and they're you know pretty long four feet long all right let me go back to sit down and see if anyone actually saw what i was just showing or if it was two pixely hopefully it wasn't two pixely um all right hopefully everyone saw that anyway those are the those are the bridge bricks which are here and i can make one a day i mean i could obviously make more than one but i just made one mold well let me show you my mold too while i'm at it all right this is going to get pixely again for a second while i run over here oh wait that's right i have to turn the camera on okay so here's here's the mold i have and this is a really simple thing it's like a basically a feed trough you know for pigs or something except i don't have pigs i have styrocrete stuffed in there and it's lined with plastic and then i've got tiles laying on top to kind of compress it to give it a good shape and i was very excited about clearing that space on the floor let me back up for a second like this this takes up a a decent section of my floor and for a while i was making styrocrete panels here and those styrocrete panels were for my kitchen thing you know this thing here so i finally put this together and i was so excited to get the floor back but now it's turned into bridge makings i'm trying to hold that still enough that it has a chance to to de-pixelate so hopefully it did anyway part of my floor is being used up again but it's for a good cause for uh for the bridge and you know i can make one piece a day because after about a day it's strong enough that i can pick it up without without risk of it breaking because man that would suck if i went to pick one up and it's broken half far i'd have to re-grind it all up again and make it again yeah so one a day so if i need 10 of them i've got four right now in a week i should have enough pieces oh that's gonna be exciting because where i'm gonna put the bridge so where i'm gonna put the bridge uh the ground is kind of like swampy not really swampy i mean it's it's really solid it's just it gets underwater during low tide so i'm making this walkway out there with dirt and i'm like right up to where the bridge will start so i'm kind of like dumping dirt off the sides and stuff if i want to keep digging uh so i've got a lot of dirt there it's totally ready to go i just need these blocks to put in and then i can get dirt there and there oh and i'm not going to attach these blocks to each other so one of the one of the concerns i had with making a masonry bridge was that if the ground shifts at all the bridge is gonna crack hold on someone's yelling at me on the walkie-talkie all right what are you guys talking about did one of the kids just say something and then mama yelled no no he's busy doing a thing yeah you guys are hilarious all right i'll i'll talk to you when i'm done over and out i love kids they're they're hilarious so i didn't i didn't want to make a masonry bridge that was like a solid thing because the ground it's not like it's not like unstable or anything but it's like soft so it's going to shift a little bit at some point or all the time or whatever you know not a lot but a masonry bridge it's not flexible at all so it'll it'll end up getting cracks so that's when they're figured i make these blocks and just make the angles the right angles so they fit together really well then those angles will kind of give those blocks a bias to kind of kind of help them line up right a little bit and that way they'll they'll sort of yeah they'll they'll just they'll just try they'll always be trying to line themselves up right and then when i put the dirt on on top that will hold in the sides so that when something's on the top block it won't push the side ones out so the dirt and the masonry parts actually work together one or the other would not would not work but both together will should work together very well so it makes sense clear as my right and i made a video about that i'll i'll put that up soon of course i'm still working on it um i oh yeah and yes i want to say the aluminum aluminium masks for for something else maybe a crane or maybe a tower i don't know something so i was really excited to be able to save those i don't remember the plywood in the houseboat oh yeah if you if you go back and watch the houseboat being built it was plywood covered in fiberglass it was a lot of plywood and a lot of fiberglass oh my god it was so much fiberglass how do you get any sleep with your brain constantly spinning my brain is not constantly spinning um well i guess it depends like if if i have a lot on my mind then then it can be hard to sleep but if i if i have a good day like a good productive day and good things have happened like i use this i get this satisfied feeling and then when i go to sleep i'm just like ah that was a good day now i can just but the only times i do have difficulty sleeping are days when maybe i shouldn't say the only times but but usually if i if i have difficulty sleeping it's because i haven't i don't feel like i did enough during the day you know like uh maybe if you if you have a day of traveling or something like that always that often is not good for my sleep because i'll especially if i'm traveling not under my own power if i'm if i'm traveling like with a pedal board or something then i feel like like i did something and i'm tired and i can sleep but if i get on a a bus for 12 hours and it's basically the whole day or an or an airplane oh i used to take these 17 hour flights to china and i'd get there and i'd just be like i just did nothing for the whole day i just sat there and tried not to murder myself you know it was just it was just boring i did nothing and then it'd be time to go to sleep and i'd just be like i haven't done anything during the day i don't i don't want to go to sleep and then it would be really hard to get myself to sleep but uh yeah whenever i whenever i have a good productive day i just have this really satisfied feeling like now i can just chill out and just go to sleep you know i'm gonna try to eat a bunch of food and it's like now i can just recover and just you know refill my tanks for the next day of excellent stuff bust out another thousand bo at boat bust out another thousand yeah so the way boats are built today is it is insanely stupid i'm just going to say that it's insanely stupid how boats are made today like they are they're made to need maintenance um so i got that uh that big sailboat a little while ago that's where i got the masks you know i cut the masks off it and took off all the stainless steel cables which are now in my house like wrapped around my house and i i got a lot of stuff off it that was worth more than i paid for it for sure but every and i wanted to do something with the actual boat itself the boat hull itself but every time i went in there and looked at it i was just like i can't believe how how poorly this is designed like it's designed to need maintenance and then i was just thinking of course it's designed to need maintenance because today's world runs on maintenance like you buy something and then you have to keep everything's on a subscription you can't just get something and this goes back to what i was talking about in my opening monologue you know do things to last so you don't have this life where you're just stuck running around on this treadmill just trying to keep up with maintenance all the time you know do things that last that aren't going to need maintenance it just makes so much more sense but everything we buy today is made so it needs to be maintained and replaced and constantly ah because people are making money off that so the way boats are made today they're made to need insane amounts of maintenance like uh the sailboat i had i don't know how many through holes it had but it was just the the entire idea of a through hole in a boat is it makes no sense to me at all for anyone who doesn't know boats modern boats today have these things called through holes which are holes in the boat and these are holes to like let water in to you know cool off the engine or to let water in to flush a toilet or to let the toilet go out or for various drains of things like i knew a guy with a he was a 60 foot boat and he said there was something like 30 through holes like 30 holes in the hull of his boat and these are always what fails on a boat like if a boat has sunk it's generally the seal on a through hole or some some pipe gotta leak that were they let water in and then people's boats rely on these pumps to pump the water out that's leaking through these stupid through holes like it's so dumb and there are totally other other ways of doing all this stuff like there are other ways to get to get water in to cool the engine and have the drains work without just holes going directly through the bottom of the boat but they don't bother because then you wouldn't need to have so much boat maintenance you wouldn't have to spend so much money and they wouldn't make so much money off all these stupid boats but yeah the way the way modern boats are are designed it's totally insane holes in the boat get rid of the holes in the boat do not put holes in the boat dumbest thing you can possibly do uh oh okay this guy he calculated how much my rent cost so i lived i lived in my houseboat for six or seven years and it cost eight thousand dollars to make it and he says my rent was about a hundred and eleven dollars a month or it would have been equivalent to that roughly when i lived in the houseboat so yeah financially it was it was a pretty good deal still it would have been cool to keep it but i would have had to if i made it now with the knowledge i have now i could have made it to last for sure but at the time yeah whatever you know stuff happens and then you move on and learn i guess that's the big thing whenever you make a mistake the important thing is kind of not to find excuses and figure out who else did who else's fault it was it's to learn from learn from all your mistakes don't worry about who's fault it was uh this is a great stream oh thanks man shipped rank shipped wrecked shipwrecked monkey thank you name man um funny that we were just talking about sinking boats thank you for your great answer to my drag line dredge question could the crane go on to your electric dozer well i could put a crane on my electric dozer i've thought about it i would definitely have to have you know feet that come down and would you know enlarge the footprint you know like stabilizers that come out or whatever um but i don't know when it when i get to a point where i want to use a crane i'll have to really think about it the way i usually think about it like if i just think about making a crane off the top of my head it would be something pretty big that would lift stuff really high like to make it worth actually having a crane because i don't want to get a crane to do something that i could just do with my hands like it's got to be able to like lift something really high and move it like swing it around and whatever so the way i think about it it would be something like a pretty big thing that wouldn't move around a lot like i could you know kind of close it up pack it up or whatever and roll it somewhere else or but it would be be basically stationary and i would probably park it over where i park my boats and use it to unload materials or pull boats in and out of the water and stuff like that and then occasionally i might need it for something else and then i could move it but it would be mostly a stationary thing at least that's the way that's the way i think about it hello again from norway hello to norway don't forget to hit that like button uh get bergett says you should all hit that like button yes sweet the bridge will be awesome yeah i'm i'm really excited about the bridge so i showed the the styrocrete bridge brick pieces that look a bit like this although they're actually gonna be a little thinner this way um than the picture but i'm also i'm not going to put them in just styrocrete as they are i'm going to smear mortar around them so they actually look more like bricks and it'll you know keep them durable something like birds don't start pecking at the styrocrete and pulling it apart or something so i'll i'll coat it with that stuff i was also thinking while we're talking about the bridge looks like this is slowing down okay so once i get the i'm like totally getting stuck here aren't i pixelating a little okay once i get the bridge together i was thinking about putting some plastic mesh reinforcement over the entire outside and then smearing one extra layer of mortar over the whole thing and that layer of mortar that top layer would end up cracking you know at the at the spots where it's flexible but it should just be little cracks and it should just kind of keep it i feel like it'll help help keep it together you know keep keep it from shifting too much because i don't want like one of these to start like sliding down you know and the other one's sliding up or something so it'd be good to have something that goes across just to kind of it wouldn't it wouldn't even have to be that strong just to kind of keep them from shifting and then it would also seal the cracks between enough that dirt's not gonna fall through and slowly get lost through the through the crack so i don't know i'm i'm still gonna i'll figure it out when i put it together but i think it's gonna be really good they looked fine oh yes good yes we saw it saw it good quality okay that's i'm presuming that's when i was in the bathroom showing the uh the brick pieces good to see the new bridge progress yeah i'm really excited about the bridge oh and i made my kids a scale model of the bridge pieces so i made them six blocks hold on i knew where two of them are so this this answers a question that i get sometimes about how do i teach my kids um well various ways but one of the things i do is whenever i'm building something i i try to get them involved so i made them six of these blocks and i don't know where the other four are they go like this you know uh because the kids were playing with them all day yesterday they were so into it and they're like you know they put the whole thing together and smoosh it on the top to you know collapse it and then they put it back together and then use put a piece of lego across the bottom and put a piece of lego there and there to keep it from sliding out and then they could stand on it and be like wow that's cool and then you know it's just playing with this stuff and it's you learn so much just playing with practical objects like that so they have a decent understanding of how an arch works now and then they're gonna see the real life one the real life application and i really love doing that kind of stuff and getting my kids involved and having them see the whole thing man when i was a kid i would have been so psyched about that wait what was i answering yes talking about the bridge regarding building community on the island that's always a big topic okay are you gonna send your kids to university or do you think homeschool is enough to keep the level of iq in the next generations well i don't i definitely don't think they need to go to university i went to university and i could not imagine a bigger waste of time and money i mean i basically learned how to i learned how to make the world what it is today and oh there's so many problems today and going to university i see why people are making a lot of the mistakes they're making because that's that's what we're taught we're taught to do the dumbest things and it all comes down to money like people are making money off selling garbage teaching people garbage so we're we're basically taught at school to be wasteful and and do things in dumb ways that only plan ahead like to the next election cycle and stuff like that uh yeah anyway i'm not sending my kids to university if they want to go to university fine but i'm definitely not pushing that on them and when they ask me about it i i give them the real answer like i went to university it was a complete waste of time i mean i i learned more doing stuff on my own like i learned so much more doing stuff on my own that in all my classes at university i ended up not even attending because i'd already learned way more than they were teaching and most of the stuff they were teaching was just obedience and whenever i talk about school i always say you know school is basically like every class is obedience training with the with a side of math obedience training with a side of english obedience training with a side of art you know every class is obedience training which is not what we need we don't need people being obedient we need people especially today with all the problems we have going on we really really need people who are thinking for themselves and solving problems not just going along with with the problems we currently have but you know if one of my kids really wants to go to university i'll help them do it and i'm definitely not going to encourage that um and i i also think there's just the way people think about university in school today there's there's this idea that if you don't go to all this school and you're not going to be smart you won't be able to solve things but like none of the useful none of the stuff i've done here i learned in school i didn't learn any of this in school i learned it all by doing things myself getting involved with projects and you know biting off more than i can chew and then fighting my way through all stuff they teach you not to do at school at school they teach you to have the answer to have a snappy answer you know you sit in your test and it's time and you've got to have the answer quickly and the answer has to be what the answer is supposed to be not it doesn't necessarily have to be the real answer just the answer the teacher is looking for and i learned that lesson a long time ago when i was a little kid i must have been in like grade four or something like that and i was always having problems at school like you know i get in trouble all the time and you know my report card would come back with a couple of d's on it and my dad i was having a discussion with him and he said look you don't write down the answer that you think is correct you write down the answer that the teacher wants and two things happen then one i got really good at school right after that because after that i was just like that's the most idiotic thing i've ever heard but okay i'll just try to write the answer the teacher wants and then it was like straight A's across the board the other thing i learned was that the world is disgusting oh that was such a disgusting thing don't don't do what you think is right do what you're told is basically what that was and that is how that is how our society today is just it's going over a cliff like we're going we're going down the toilet man we're destroying everything around us we're wasting all our resources we're just we're just doing really dumb things and it's it's silly because we have so much that we take for granted and taking for granted is one of the dumb things that we do that we learn to do at school and it's so much potential today and we can't really get that potential if we just keep doing what's expected of us and what we're told and you know going along with the status quo we really need people who are gonna say well i don't i don't care what the rules are i don't care about any that i mean maybe the rules are good maybe they're not whatever the that's not important what's important is for me to do what i think is right and to think about what i think is right and try to figure out what the right thing to do is and then and then do it and put my heart and soul into that because if you think about it if everyone in the if everyone on the planet just had the general the general notion that they should be doing the right thing i mean the world the world would be amazing this would be an amazing place and it is an amazing place it's just we're not we're not behaving in a sustainable way we're we're taking what we have that's amazing now and we're degrading it every day a little bit a little bit and at some point it's going to get so bad i mean i would say it's already so bad you know a lot of people are losing their homes to foreclosures and things like that there are too many people either starving or eating crap like so many people eat eat garbage and it's terrible for their health and i'm i'm not going to go into all the details but yeah i don't think school is the way to go man we need people thinking thinking for themselves morning jay me hey jeff uh oh no i pushed the wrong thing okay good uh richard says love your videos mate keep it going from down under hey australia i'm presuming that's the down under he's talking about um boats that do not need maintenance construction cruise gifts that are welded aluminum plate aluminum aluminum plate those are almost forever solid yeah and they belong to construction crews because they don't they don't want to deal with all that crap like all the all the consumer boats all the boats you buy can i get one of those construction boats anyway all the all the boats that like normal people can buy they just build the maintenance into them i want to look into these construction boats or construction cruise gifts that are welded aluminum aluminum plate that sounds great built-in obsolescence yeah um the world is just full of built-in obsolescence today planned obsolescence and it weirds me out like it kind of frightens me a little bit how many people think that planned obsolescence is like this myth like it's it's not a thing but people see it every day all the time like it's all around you everything everything everything you go to the store and buy it's it's all it's all got built in degradation so that you have to buy another one like why do cars last five years because that's that's how long the car loan usually is and they just want you to they just want your car to last long enough for you to pay it off so that hopefully you'll keep paying it off and then it can just you know turn to crap after that tools man you buy tools today i don't buy tools today i don't i don't buy new tools ever uh i shouldn't say ever but i i try to avoid buying new tools particularly hand tools like pliers for instance because the last pair of pliers i i bought at a store i i broke the handles off them like i just squeezed it in my hand and it just snapped the handle right off and i would i didn't even think i was squeezing that hard and you know it would be nice to be like whoa i'm just the Hulk but i know i can squeeze all my all my old tools as hard as i can and they don't break but the modern tools you you squeeze them and they break because they make crap now you know people are not making things to be the best or to last the longest they're making them to make the most money and the thing that makes the most money is the thing that doesn't last the thing that falls apart so you have to buy another one and another one and another one and the more the more they can get you to buy them over and over the more money people make so that's that's what we're doing today and that's that's what i learned in that's what i learned how to do at university and this is that's what people need to stop learning people need to stop doing that people need to start thinking for themselves and saying you know what that's That's a stupid idea that that entire system doesn't make any sense. I'm going to get out of that. So instead of, instead of buying all the stuff over and over, you know what? I'm just going to start making stuff and I'm going to make stuff to last. And then when my stuff lasts, they're not going to be making, you know, that all the companies that are making money off all of this disposable stuff, they're going to make less money. And if enough people committed themselves to doing things that last, it would stop being so profitable to make so much disposable stuff. And maybe it would start being more profitable to make long lasting things because people would care. They would be like, I'm not going to buy that cheap crap. No matter what, I'm only going to hold out for something that's going to last or I'm going to build it myself. So there's got to be a niche market there and maybe, maybe that'll start growing. Facebook says, hello adventurers. Your name is just Facebook. Honey. Oh, honey do carpenter. Honey do carpenter. No, honey do carpenter has a really cool mobile crane that he built. Well, maybe I'll have to check it out. I love the smell. I'm not, I'm totally not going to remember that. I'm not going to remember to look that up later. But anyway, I love the smell of a freshly painted room or freshly cut wood or even soldering flux. What are your favorite ABC smells? Well, there's this, there's this one kind of wood here. I'm not sure what kind of wood it is, but man, it smells amazing when you cut it or when you burn it. Because I always cook with the leftover cutoffs. Man, I don't know what it is. But I had some pieces of it recently and my daughter was here when I was cooking and she was like, oh, what's that amazing smell? And I'm like, it's the wood I'm burning. I don't even know what it is. I just found it and I cut it up and used it for some stuff. And I'm burning the leftovers. Oh, it's such a good smell. But let me think, what are the adventure boulder smells I really love? I think my favorite smells are just like nature, like outside. Yeah, I mean, I can smell outside here because, you know, there's a window open right there and then I get the breeze from inside outside. And yeah, just the natural air that's been circulating around lots of plants. And it's, you know, it's just clean and really nice to breathe. When you live in a city and you go out out of the city into a into a place with clean air and you smell the clean air, it smells very different. And it's easy to take it take it for granted when you live in it all the time. So I try not to do that. But yeah, clean fresh air and just like clean fresh air that's been around plants. So good. That houseboat was definitely one of my favorite builds. Sad to hear it had to go. Ha, which is funny because your name is liquidator. I'm sure someone will understand the irony in that. Yeah, I mean, it would have been it would have been nice to have built a houseboat to be something that I could have kept. That would be a long lasting part of my my thing here. But yeah, I just I just didn't have I didn't have the knowledge at the time and, you know, I can't even say that if I had just built it the way I thought I should build it, it would still be here now because I would have built it in the way that it would have lasted. But instead, I I maybe this is where people having more confidence come come into play. Like if I had enough confidence to trust myself to build it at the time, I would have done a better job. But I didn't feel like I knew what I was doing. So I asked other people and got some questionable advice and, you know, build something substandard. Still, I mean, it was it was a really cool thing for a while. But yeah, right, it would it would be really cool if it was if it was still in operation here. I mean, hopefully it's doing something good. Looks like a steep grade on the bridge. Sure, it needs to be that tall. Oh, OK, you might not have caught on to the bridge. But, you know, the surface you go across is this up here. And I'll I'll even make it less steep than that because where I'm digging the dirt right now, it's it's like three feet tall. It's over three feet tall. I know it's about three feet tall now, so it won't have to slope up much to get over the thing. However, I do want the dirt to slope up and have the top of the bridge higher than the size so that water runs off the bridge and doesn't pool on it. Because then, you know, it might if it pools up there and then I drive across, you know, it'll have the pot hole problem. You know how pot holes form for anyone who doesn't know how pot holes form like in a dirt road. If you have a dirt road that's like super smooth and nicely, nicely sloped when it rains, the water, you know, runs off the sides and cars can drive along it. No problem. But if you have a little depression, water will pool in there. So you get a little little spot where there's water and then someone drives along and their tire splashes through and splashes some of the water out, but also splashes some of the dirt out. And then, you know, that happens four hundred and fifty times and it just slowly keeps creating this bigger pot hole. And the bigger the hole is, the more the more water gets in there and the more it turns into mud and the more the more stuff splashes out every time a tire runs into it. So, yeah, I want the top of my bridge to be up so that water runs off and down the side. So I'm not I'm not eroding the dirt on the top of the bridge. Although I also want so I want to I want to make my bridge like this with dirt over it. And then I want to have Bermuda grass or like golf course, golf green grass growing all on top of it. I think that will be good. And then, you know, the roots from the grass should hold the dirt all together. And when it's all together like that and the grass is in there and it's got the roots holding the dirt together, the bridge should actually function. Even if I took the the styrofoam bricks out from under it, it should still hold its shape. Now, the problem with doing it just like that is that the dirt would start falling off the bottom and then it would, you know, eventually fall out. So the the bricks, obviously, obviously have to stay there. I'm smoking a joint for you. I don't smoke those at all, but I'm glad you're enjoying yourself. Do the styrocrete blocks float? They probably will float. So I'm making these styrocrete blocks out of styrocrete, which will probably float. And the water level does during like really high tide, it'll probably come up, I don't know, partway up the first block. But there's gonna be so much other weight on top of here that even if the water came way up here, like all the dirt on top will hold it down, keep it from floating away. I'll make sure I put enough dirt on top of it that it won't float. But yeah, speaking of the styrocrete blocks floating, I think this would take a lot of material, but I wanna make a big styrocrete floating dock. I think that would be great. Man, that's gonna be a lot of grinding. Sunday morning, wake and bake. Oh, he's talking about the, yeah. I am late, fellow sleep. Oh, it's tow meters, how you doing, man? You can sleep through this, that's totally okay. Sleeping's a good thing. But we would miss you. Yes, both coffee with chocolate milk added ran out of regular milk this morning. I actually don't drink coffee, but I do drink chocolate milk. I haven't had milk in a long time though. I don't usually have milk. College is to find a mate not to learn. Yeah, so I went to university hoping, well, there were two things I was hoping for. I was hoping I could learn some stuff and do some cool things, but that was all a bust. And then I was hoping also that I could find a lady friend with whom I could then build a life. And maybe it's the fact that I went to an Ivy League university, which was just, oh, it was not. If I knew what I was getting myself into, I just would have done. I would have gone somewhere else. Like I had full scholarship offers, like from track and field to lots of schools. I could have gone to lots of different places, but I went to the Ivy League school because it was supposed to be the best. Anyway, the women I met at this Ivy League school were more interested in just, you know, making money, getting ahead in the world, you know, running real fast on that hamster treadmill to reputation, make a name for yourself. Just all this stuff that just isn't important and means nothing. So, like I have, I basically have no friends from university. I mean, I knew a couple of people I still talk to a little bit, but there's no one in my life because everything we learned there was all about business ethics and being horrible and just nothing to do with anything truly positive. There was plenty of positivity, but it was all fake stuff. It was just this underlying horribleness that just tainted everything. And I did have a few serious girlfriends while I was there and every time I got to the point where I was like, okay, this is starting to get kind of serious, I would have to ask my question. Will this lady be a good wife and mother? I kept coming up with the answer and no, she won't be. She'll be a terrible mother. So yeah, university was a bust there, but maybe if I went to one of those universities, I don't know, is there a university that has people who don't just go in there to get drunk and like learn how to make money? I don't know. Question about bridge. Did you design a tongue and groove system on your bridge blocks so that they won't risk ones, basically so one won't slide, they won't fall in and stuff? Also, yes, I'll take a pick of shovel and email. Yes, thank you. I totally want to see your shovels. So the question is, did I design like a tongue and groove in the sides of the bricks? So this brick would kind of like Lego into the brick next to it so they couldn't slide, they couldn't slide off each other. There's nothing built into the styro cretes. However, when I put the smear of mortar on the outside, I was thinking of doing it like this. So say this is one of the surfaces that's gonna go against another brick. I was thinking to put my smear of mortar on there first and make it a little bit thick and then take maybe a textured sawtooth thing and drag it across. So this would end up having like a kind of like little teeth going along it. And then when I do the mortar on the next brick that's gonna face that one, I would take the first brick, put a piece of plastic on it and put it against the mortar on the other one. And then the other one would get the matching sawtooth to fit exactly in the one next to it. So I might do that. If, I don't know, I think a lot of it's gonna come down to how much I feel like doing that. Cause I don't think that's actually gonna be that important but it would give me some peace of mind that the bricks aren't gonna slide against each other. Another way to do it would be just put them together and squirt some spray foam between them all and kind of glue them together and the spray foam would be able to flex a little. And then also what I was talking about earlier was putting a piece of plastic, fairly heavy duty plastic mesh over the whole thing and then putting mortar over the entire thing that would kind of lock them together a little bit. Yeah, doing the thing where the bricks actually fit together sounds like a great idea but I feel like it's gonna be a pain in the butt so I'm not sure if I'm gonna do that. I might do one of these other ideas just cause I don't think it's gonna be a big factor them sliding across each other. Now, if I build this brick, this bridge without doing it and like 12 years from now, one brick is sliding out. Everyone can laugh. Just, hey, it's Scott, how you doing, man? Just found out my credit card expired, I'll fix that. I abandoned and let's see. Oh, hey, okay, this is actually the guy who had the boat I was talking about earlier, right? About all the, he had all these through holes in his boat. That's so funny that you're here right now. Okay, I abandoned and glassed over 13 through holes and got down to seven from 20. She's still floating and runs. The old girl's almost 50 years old now. Yeah, so that thing had 20 holes through the hull that the boat he has, the yacht, it's a 60-ish foot yacht. 20 different holes going through the hull and then he ended up fiberglassing over most of them. So he's down to seven, probably the seven that are left are ones to cool the engine for other important things. But yeah, man, they just put so many holes in those boats, it's insane. University is far more useful if you realize that you are not paying for what you learn, you are paying for your transcripts. Yeah, some topics are easier to get in university classes, deep genetics things. Wait, what? Some topics are easier to get in university classes, deep genetics things. I might have missed a part of that sentence. But yeah, basically what I was paying for when I went to university was the diploma, which I ended up burning, because the diploma, it opened a whole bunch of doors. I shouldn't say that, it opened a few doors that are not open to most people. And none of those doors were doors I wanted to go through. They were all doors that led to this disgusting life that I wanted nothing to do with. So it was of no use to me. However, when I was at university, I didn't just waste the whole four years, sulking or something. I just worked on my own projects and snuck into the university workshops and used the tools and stuff. I found ways to make it useful and valuable. I shouldn't talk about that too much because I may have done some illegal things. Nothing bad, but stuff you weren't really supposed to do, whatever. If people didn't waste so much, would you be able to live like you currently are? Yeah. Okay, so I gotta address this a little bit. So sometimes, I'm not saying this person is talking about this, but this comes up a lot where people will say, but if the world wasn't so wasteful, you wouldn't be able to get garbage for free or cheap to build things. The thing is, if the world wasn't so wasteful, there would be an abundance of everything. Like, it would be better. It would be much better if the world wasted less. It would definitely not be worse. It's not a situation where like, you're only getting the free, cool stuff because people are throwing it out. If people weren't wasting resources and energy and all this stuff, we would have more resources and energy and all this stuff. It would be easier to get, it'd be more available. Of course, we'd also have to stop this thing where a few people are in control of all the stuff and like to hoard it and make people pay as much as possible. I mean, we have to change a few things about our culture which are ridiculous right now. But that all comes down to people thinking for themselves and doing what they think is right rather than just following the rules. We have to get off a rules-based society and onto a morality-based society. Jamie, take the time to read Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. You will find a friend in the main character. I don't know, maybe I will. People have recommended that book to me several times but I haven't read it. I guess I just, I feel like, I feel like I have a pretty good amount of stuff to do. Like maybe at some point in time, I will have things in my life set up in a way where I'm like, oh, I feel like I have this extra free time that I don't know what to do with. And maybe then I'll do some of these things like read some of these books and stuff. But not right now. I feel like I have so many amazing things that I want to do. I could not possibly do them all. So like I'm choosing from like really, really cool things I want to do all the time. Would your Styrocrete bridge blocks work to build a water tank or retaining walls? Yes, totally. Yeah. So I built two water tanks, two concrete water tanks and they both work amazingly well. And I didn't line them with anything. It's just straight concrete. And when I first built them, I tried to, I tried to look up on the internet, you know, how to build a water tank out of concrete that's gonna work and doesn't need some plastic lining or anything. I couldn't find anything. So I just tried it and yeah, just normal concrete works great. It has some ropes around the outside, you know, pulled real tight to reinforce it. And then that's it. But you could totally do that with Styrocrete too. If I was doing it with Styrocrete, I would definitely line the inside just with mortar. So I wouldn't want any Styrofoam touching the water. I don't know if it would be a problem, but that would just be, I would not risk it, I guess. What was the other thing, a retaining wall? Yeah, you could totally build a retaining wall. So when I'm building these big blocks that I'm gonna use for the bridge, every time I pick one up and look at it, I'm just thinking in my head, oh my God. These blocks would be amazing. Castle wall blocks, retaining wall blocks, there's so many different things I could build with these things. And they're really amazing because they're big and heavy, but not heavy like they would be if they were solid concrete. Like I could still pick them up, but they're big and heavy enough like to put them somewhere and they can build like a really substantial thing, a really cool thing. My high school guidance counselor advice was to drop out and go to an adult high school my senior year. Wouldn't repeating a grade be better advice? Let's see, drop out and go to an adult high school or repeat a year. You know, well, I can tell you what I did in high school that I, the thing that I liked the most that I did at high school. So I went to high school and then I did, I graduated and I did an extra year. And the extra year I kind of went to school part time. I also got a job and I was still doing sports and I, you know, with not going to school that much, I still had a job or whatever. I had enough free time to get into a bunch of projects. And I actually ended up working on some projects with some of my art professors and one of the like the drafting professors. I do call them professors in high school. Now we don't know teachers. Anyway, I got into some really interesting projects with some of my high school teachers when I was kind of going to school part time and then I just started doing this other stuff. And that was one of those things where I was like, well, maybe I should just go straight to university because it's like wasting your time to take a year between. But I think it was really good to take a year between high school and university to just do some living and do a job, get some experience working on some projects and do all that stuff. That was really valuable to me. That was more valuable than the previous several years of school or all my university. If you build stuff that lasts, when it does break, the company is long out of business as people never had to come back for a new one. Okay, yeah, if I buy a screwdriver, if I buy a drill and 462 years from now, it breaks and that company is out of business. So what? I think that's fine. The thing is, and if we also insisted that things were made to be repairable and you don't even have to have that company around to repair it, yeah, there are all these weird excuses and reasons and sayings for why we should have this disposable culture, it's gotta keep the economy going. Why? Why do we have to have an economy that constantly grows? Well, it's because the Federal Reserve sells money to the United States and they can't pay it off. Literally, they can't. Anyway, there are stupid reasons for this stuff. Another question is, if things didn't wear out all the time, we'd make no new stuff and make no progress. But we would. We would make new stuff because it was better, not because it was just replacing the old garbage that we made last time. Because right now we're in a situation where we're making garbage, it breaks and we have to replace it by being buying a new piece of garbage. And companies have no incentive to improve things to make them better. They just keep making them worse and worse. Like why is it that when I had Windows 3.1, it came with a video editor that could do everything I need to do? But now it doesn't. Now Windows does not come with a video editor that does everything I would need to do. Now it's like you have to buy some extra outside thing. They made it worse as time went on. And it also requires more computer resources to do less stuff and blah, blah, blah. If things were built to last, then the reason to make things better would be to make new things, would be to make them better, not just to replace stuff that keeps breaking all the time. I, let's see, I graduated on time. That's good. Favorite smell in shop is WD-40. Man, I could use some WD-40. I should get some next time I'm in town. The smell of nature mixed with the smell of construction is pretty awesome. That is a pretty cool smell again. But yeah, I really love having the smell of the fresh air around. Modest life, that's hard. What does that mean? A modest life, what's hard about a modest life? Small footprint in nature, very hard. Why? Why? I mean, that doesn't make any sense to me. You're just saying it's hard. No easy answers. We have such power to create these days. They're a level of responsibility, handling that power, no easy answers. I mean, you're saying that's, you said you, okay, Lucas, Lucas Richard Stevens, I don't wanna be a jerk or anything, but you're a full crab. It's not harder to do the right thing. It's not harder to live a life that makes sense. You know, when I first moved off grid, I was terrified of all the things that were gonna go wrong because everyone told me, you're gonna starve, you're gonna freeze, you're gonna run out of money. All this stuff is gonna go wrong. And you know, I go out there and then everyone, I have to come living back, like half starving with no money. Oh, can I come back? I need to come back because I blew it and everything went wrong. As soon as I actually moved off grid, I realized how many things make sense that don't make sense in the artificial, you know, imitation world that we live in in cities. Let me just try to think of a few stupid examples. Okay, one, people in cities go to a gym to exercise just to maintain their body. Like just to make it so you don't die. Like you don't die of a heart attack or a stroke or whatever or get so fat and fall on the stairs. Like just to maintain your body. People would get in their car, spend money to drive to a place where they're spending money, they're paying money to go in a place to put effort into just going on a treadmill, lifting some weight, putting something up and down back in the same spot it was. Just to keep themselves alive, right? But then when you move off grid, you realize, oh, okay, when you're living in nature in a more natural environment, which is where we evolved to live, you don't have to come up with reasons to exercise. Like you just have an active lifestyle. And that way your exercise, instead of being something that you have to pay money to get, you know, I gotta pay for the weights, I gotta pay for the gym membership, I gotta pay for the running shoes, I gotta pay for all this stuff just to get exercise. You realize that, no, your exercise effort that you put into making your life better. And so many things about living in a natural place are like this and people who live in cities, and I was like this when I lived in a city, people who live in cities don't understand how well life fits together when you're not fighting against nature. And I could go on for like three hours about this stuff. But the basic point I'm making here is that, no, it's not hard to live without destroying everything around you. Like it's not, it doesn't make sense for everyone to be packed in a city that's full of concrete, that just destroys everything in the area. And I've had this stupid discussion with friends over and over who live in cities where they say, oh no, a city is the most nature-friendly way to live because each person takes up less space. But the thing is a person living in nature isn't annihilating the nature around themselves. They don't have to do that. You can live in nature and not destroy. Right over there, there's naturally growing stuff and I actually take care of that stuff. There's more stuff growing around my house than there was when I bought this island. And the thing is when you live in a city, it's so easy to not notice all the destruction that you're causing by living the easy, enjoyable lifestyle. Because things are constantly being driven in. So food is coming in from thousands of miles away and it's taking up huge amounts of land, all this factory farmed stuff. And then water's coming in and just draining lakes and just sucking up so much water from like hundreds of miles around. And then the city produces mountains of garbage that has to be taken away and sent somewhere. And a person in a city could say, well, I'm not using up much space on the planet because I've just got my little apartment here and this is my place and this is the only spot I'm using. Completely ignoring the fact that they're just destroying like acres and acres and acres of land and out there with all the food that's coming in with the water they're sucking in, with all the garbage, they're dumping various places in the world. Now, there are so many things that people say today that make no sense that they just repeat over and over and over. Oh, not everyone could live in nature. Yeah, they could. They totally could if we just decided to do it. Oh, people can't do the right thing and you have to destroy things to live. It's like, well, yeah, you have to consume something to live but that doesn't mean you have to destroy things. Like nature is really cool because it's set up for things to work together, to be symbiotic. Like I'll eat a plant and while I'm eating the plant, I'm breathing out the air that that plant needs and that plant is breathing out the air that I need. So we work together that way. And then I poop and then the poop gets eaten by the plant and it makes more fruits or whatever. And then I get to eat the poopy fruits and it works, it really works together. And you know, to sit there and say, people can't live like that when everything else other than humans, I'm sure there's some exceptions here but everything else other than humans is living in this way that works together. And you know, we just have to destroy everything. No, we don't, we have brains, we can figure things out. That means we can figure out how to do things outside of nature and destroy things, which makes no sense. Or we can use our brains to try to make things better. You know, it's all our choice. Anyway, let's see what we got going on here. I love that each material master is like a section of your show. One season is fiberglass, the next concrete. Yeah, I totally, I totally get that, yeah. And mastering, I don't even know, I don't even know if I could say mastering a material. But yeah, I guess I could say, you know, I fairly much mastered several materials. But anyway, like getting a good level of competency with the material is a really cool thing because you take that with you for the rest of your life. And now anytime I come up against some project, something I want to do, and it's a challenge, you know, now I've got fiberglass in my head and I've got concrete in my head and wood and just all kinds of different options I can apply to any situation. And the more of those I learn, the more different ways I can come at something. It's really cool learning that kind of stuff. I live in a two-unicondo on the top level. It's strong and lasted since 1995 so far. That's nothing, 1995 was a 20-something year, almost 30 years. Like houses should last like 1,000 years. Why not? Stirocrete boat with leak, with leak pretty bad, I think it's supposed to say, will leak pretty bad, I bet. How bad is stirocrete? Dude, you've got to work on your typing here. How bad is stirocrete absorbed water as a general rule? Stirocrete does not absorb water and you could make a stirocrete boat that would totally work. Yeah, I don't see there being any problem. It's been a while, hard to explain personal, wait, hard to explain personal, but you've inspired me and helped me find myself, have maybe some big changes, wait, have made some big changes past two months, thank you. Oh, well, that's pretty cool. Oh no, I push the button again, okay. After I finish making something amazing, I tend to stare at it in amazement for days. You find this true for you too. Oh yeah, man, a perfect example is my house. Like every time I look up at the roof, I'm like, what the, how is that? So my house is like 41 feet in diameter. And I still remember standing two stories up, 41 feet is like 13-ish meters across. I remember standing on the edge of, edge of the, I remember standing two stories up on the edge of the wall, it's just a little ledge, standing up there, looking all the way across to this other side, thinking, how am I gonna make a dome that goes over this whole thing? It's crazy. And this was in my, in the Adventure Builder movie, the movie I made about it. And now to look up there and just be like that, that huge dome is like way up there. It's been there for a year, basically unchanged, and yeah, it's just blows me away. That it's there. And I did it, I vaguely remember doing it. I know I did it, I'm pretty sure I did it. There's video of it. But man, it's just, it's crazy. Try not to get hernia. Okay, whatever. Learning places where people, oh, this is when I was talking about universities. Learning places where people don't get drunk are just there to learn and make stuff. I think the cool people are usually at conferences, incubator spaces, maker spaces, et cetera. Kind of crapshoot though. Yeah, it's hard to find, it's hard to find other cool building people who wanna do interesting inventions and get involved in projects just because they're rare for one and they're often looked at as nerds or weirdos, which I have been called a million times. So we often end up keeping to ourselves. But it is really cool when you do run into another fellow weirdo nerd who makes cool things and does inventions and you know, all that stuff. Like running into a fellow adventure builder is amazing. Then Duval often waits on tomaters. I'm glad you're here, tomaters. No, let's see, what's your internet setup on the island now? Do you have an aerial on the roof, et cetera? I have an antenna that's up, kind of like in the little cupola, whatever you call it, in my ceiling. And it's Ames at DeShana's house. And she has an antenna that Ames in this general direction and then it connects through a thing to her main antenna which Ames at a tower that's like 15 or 16 miles away. I think it's, I don't know, something like that. And the internet works pretty well. Let's see, have you given up on the combustion engine? Well, I do have a chainsaw. I have a gas powered chainsaw and I do use it occasionally. However, I don't like that I can't run it myself. And I know I could make like a wood gas generator or something and find some way to run it. But you know, basically I'm running it on gasoline and I can't produce that myself. So I don't like that. But I haven't completely given up on combustion engines. But yeah, I steer away from them. Do you barter? You know, I generally don't barter. If I have something that I can give to someone, I generally just give it to them. Like if I have extra food, I have a lot of, I have a lot of cocoa plums right now. If someone, if one of my neighbors wants some cocoa plums, I just give them to them. Or if someone needs help, if it's not like a multi-day thing, you know, if it's a couple hours of help with something, I'll just go help them. I don't need anything in return. You know, it'll all even out in the end. If they have something they can do for me, I don't know, I don't generally ask for help. But you know, if someone can help you with something at some point, great. And I like to try to make sure that I help, I help people more than they help me. You know, just for my own conscience. Let's see, my voice is breaking up, oh no. Hopefully it just messed up for a minute. I think the real answer to a lot of consumer-centric culture is actually really complicated, tragic. At root, I think it's a way to distract and keep bad people from killing each other. The answer to a lot of consumer-centric culture is actually really complicated, tragic. You know, there's a lot of things that we're supposed to believe are complicated that just aren't. And the whole consumer, just the idea that we have a consumer society, like just think about that phrase, like we are consumers. Like we just, just eat everything up. We just eat the world. It's a bad thing, we shouldn't be doing that. And it's not to keep, the sentence was a little bit confusing, but I'm not sure I totally understood what he said, but having a consumer society does not keep people from killing each other. It makes it so that, I mean, it's all based around a slave culture, like so certain people can control what other people are doing. Like that's the basic thing. And we don't call it slaves, it's just called, you know, power. It's all just coming down to slave. Jamie, the sound is pixelated now, rants slower. Hope that got better. Oh, voice is good now. Let you know. Oh, good, thank you, man. All right, let me scroll back up to where I was talking about. Okay, that's where the sound messed up. Too many people don't think outside the box. They all stay in the constraints of what the rules of everything say. Yeah, totally. I mean, the average person, even like the average person plus, like almost everybody just kind of does what they're told because they don't wanna maybe get in trouble or have some kind of problems. And I totally know where they're coming from because anytime you do anything amazing, the more amazing it is, the more people wanna tear it down. Which is part of the negative culture we need to get out of. See, if more people would just stand up and do their thing and not be afraid, you know, it would become more normal. And it wouldn't be such a weirdo thing to build a, you know, a big concrete house on an island or something like that. And doing stuff like this, I definitely feel a lot of pushback from certain types of people. You shouldn't be doing that, you know, you're doing it wrong and you know, why do you get to do that? You're not allowed, you know, just a lot of negativity surrounding doing anything unusual. And I think a lot of it comes from people who have accepted kind of the status quo and gave up on what they wanted to do and it makes them feel like they didn't, it makes them feel bad about themselves to see someone else doing like what they wanted to do because then that person feels like they missed the boat, you know, we're gonna get off that stuff. I'm developing a new formula for soft plastic style lures. Oh, but they contain no plastic and are 100% biodegradable and eco-friendly. Would you be interested in trying some out when they're ready? Yes, I would love to try out some fancy lures. Yes, totally, man. I, you know, sometimes when I'm driving my boat I throw a line out and I drag it and catch some fish. I would love to try some biodegradable lures. I'll plug some lures, give you a bit of free advertising but only because it's something I would use. I wouldn't do that for something I wouldn't use. Hopefully they'll work well. Sound is self-correcting now. Oh, good. What is the poppy fruit? Ha-ha, the poppy fruit. Oh, cool plums. That's what I was talking about. Oh, the poopy fruit. Oh, sorry, not the poppy fruit, the poopy fruit. Yes. Does anyone know where he is reading comments from? I'm reading comments just on this thing. So PK Adventures, I'm reading your comment. I'm just, I'm probably like 10 minutes behind because I haven't gotten to the end. Your off-grid lifestyle seems quite high impact. It is relative though. I would not say my off-grid lifestyle is high impact compared to, I mean, definitely not compared to like, you know, the average person. Anyway, my lifestyle is quite like yours, Jamie. My last comment was philosophical. I am sorry it upset you. We are trying our best. Okay, dude, you need to chill. Don't, this is something people do that's not good. So Lucas, Lucas Richards Stevens, your previous comment did not upset me. If I disagree with what you said or I have something to say that disagrees with what you said, it does not mean I'm upset. And this is another thing that has to change in our culture. We should be able to disagree and have a discussion. Even if we end the discussion totally disagreeing, we should be able to do that without anyone being upset or angry or whatever. Like it should be. We should be in a society where we can talk about things and 100% disagree with no upsetness. So I was not upset about what you said. Don't worry about that. And don't place upsetting, upsetness on me. If you are upset, you can say that, but don't decide that I'm upset. And if you're upset, I want you to know that I meant no offense. If I didn't care about you or your experiences in the world and stuff, I wouldn't express a differing point of view. If I didn't care about you, I would just placate you by just saying mm-hmm, or just agreeing or whatever. But this show here is all about getting to the truth. And if there's disagreements, we have to be able to talk about them without getting upset. Not that I never get upset. I can't get upset, obviously. Checking in from the Philippines. Hillbilly in the Philippines, oh, that's great. I looked at going to the Philippines, but foreigners can't own land there. So I didn't, I wrote that, I took that off my list. How's it going in the Philippines? Hopefully it's good. It's a beautiful place. He is reading chat in here. He is a little behind. I am a little behind. Maybe I need to read faster. I actually like being a little bit behind. Because if I catch up to the end of the comments, then I have to think of my own thing to say. Ah, okay, that makes sense. Because of the correction delay and signal quality, I was just a bit confused. Yeah, it's mostly just, I've got the comments here on the side. And I'm scrolling up through them as they go. And usually, I mean, the last few times, I'll actually catch up and get down to the bottom of the comments around two hours in, which would be like 10 minutes or an hour. I've been going for an hour and 50 minutes already, which is probably why I'm starting to slur my words and mumble. I don't normally talk that much. I'm proud to be a weirdo nerd. Good. We need more weirdo nerds. And we need it to be like more acceptable. So more of the weirdo nerds who are kind of hiding can come out. How is your new neighbor doing? He is doing great. So let me just read the rest of the question first. Are you planning on introducing him to us anytime soon? Or is he a reserved kind of guy? He is kind of a reserved kind of guy. I did ask him, should I leave you? I mean, do you care if you're in the videos? And he was kind of like, well, I'd kind of rather not be in them. So yeah, he kind of wants his own privacy, which I totally understand. Because I put myself in these videos and then that opens me up to a lot of criticism from people all over the world. Also really positive things. But it is difficult to put yourself out on a worldwide kind of thing like this. Because you can get crapped on from anywhere in the world. But he's doing very well. Yeah, he's, yeah, I don't know what else to say. He's doing really well. I have to get video of his vote. Well, I mean, it's my vote. But it's the vote he's using. It's the canoe that I built an outrigger on the side. This was a really good like two hour job building an outrigger. Man, I did a really good job. But it was because I had something left over from another boat that I didn't end up using. And he's got a little four horsepower motor on this canoe with an outrigger. And that was pretty fast. I was just a tiny little four horsepower motor, which I think is great. Because it hardly uses any gasoline. And it goes pretty fast. Although after a couple of weeks, he was like, man, now I want a 15 horsepower. So I can go really fast. Although on a canoe that size, it might be a little dangerous. Anyway, he's doing really well. The magic is in the learning, right, Jamal? Oh yes, learning is like the best thing. And I've had this concept come up a lot in these discussions where people will say something to the effect of, ah, Jamie, but what if I do something and it fails? I put all this effort into doing something and it ends up not working. Well, even if you put effort into making something, for example, and it doesn't work, then you learn, you still learned so much from that experience. And often, often people comment on the fact that I never seem to fail at anything. And they're always asking me, how did you learn how to do all this stuff? Because everything you do, it ends up working out. Well, I think what you're not paying attention to is, well, a lot of the things I do, I don't know how to do when I start them. And I start them and they don't work out right away. Like a lot of things don't work out right away. But I keep at it and I'll change things and make adjustments and fix things. And then in the end, it ends up working out. But it wasn't like, it wasn't just like a straight shot from like start to finish. It was like I had to learn and screw up a few times on the way and then get there. So often, I don't even remember what the original comment or question was now, but often when you wanna do something, if you have problems and it ends up not working, you just have to keep at it. Oh, it was about learning, right? Yeah, you learn as you go, learn from this mistake or this success or whatever, and that helps steer you down your path, down your path to success. All right, there's another thing here. I mean, that getting people to be good and not enslaved people is actually really complicated. It's not complicated for a smart good person to be good, but okay, getting the bad people to stop trying to enslave you has more to do with not being enslaveable. There are always gonna be people who are gonna try to do the wrong thing and try to enslave other people and just waste resources unnecessarily to try to give themselves some advantage over other people and just compete with everyone all the time and basically just wreck things. There's always gonna be people who do that. The problem comes with the good people letting it happen, and that's the big problem. Good people who can look at what's wrong and say, well, I can clearly see what's wrong here, but I just don't feel like dealing with it, so I'm just gonna not do anything. That is the problem. That's where the evil gets to take root. The people who wanna do bad things, they're always gonna go around trying to do bad things. It's just when good people let them, and that's just going on all over the place today. The good people of the world are way, way too passive, and we're getting walked all over, so it's all your choice. And it gets to a point where it gets dangerous to stand up to the bad people when the bad people get too much power. But then you have to ask yourself, is it more dangerous to stand up to it or to not stand up to it? Because when you don't stand up to it, it keeps getting worse and worse and more dangerous to stand up. So that the sooner you stand up to curing you and whatever, the easier it is. It's just often a difficult, horrible thing to do. But you gotta do it for your kids, especially if you have kids. If you have kids, you gotta stand up and try to make the world a better place for them, even if it makes your own life harder. Question, when you were younger and would meditate to your optimal universe, I don't really have an optimal universe, is that some skill you could teach? Okay, so this would be like a four hour video to really go into it at least. But when I was a kid, I meditated a lot. You're probably talking about a story I told at some point where I got into it a little bit. But I meditated to a point where I ran out of things to meditate about and it's really difficult to explain this, but I called it the end of thinking when I was a kid, when I got to this point. I was 15 when I hit this, the end of thinking thing. And I would not ever teach anyone to do it because it was not something that is conducive to life. It was not life affirming or life promoting. If anything, it made life seem less valuable and there wasn't really a point to doing it. And it took me actually several years to kind of undo a bunch of that and get back to the point where I could see the value of life again. Because when you meditate and break things down and not, if you get to a point where everything loses meaning, and if you do it too much, like everything loses meaning and really nothing, nothing matters. And I wouldn't want to teach someone to do that. But I would totally teach someone to meditate in ways that will put your mind in like a zone where you can achieve goals or fight fears. Maybe I should do videos on that kind of stuff, but I'd have to figure out how to put it into a video kind of context that would make sense for a general audience. It would be much easier to do one-on-one where I could kind of read the person and see what they're doing. And now I've just gone into all floofy, floofy stuff. So let's get back to another comment. I think there are some very smart, good people hiding behind the scenes in very high places. They're just very hard to see. It's very hard to see. They let a lot of jerks be jerks for tragic reasons and hopes people will learn. Well, yeah, I mean, there's a lot of bad stuff going on. And a lot of good people are just... A lot of good people are letting a lot of bad things happen for various reasons. Sometimes it's just out of fear for their own lives and sometimes it's out of just stupid reasons they've convinced themselves that often end up really just boiling down to fear again. That might not be true. I don't know, hard to tell. The world is stupidly large, is hard to make sense of. Okay, I'm not sure what I was talking about with something. Hey, y'all, I made it. Blackwater boys, how's it going, man? Hope you are all doing well. I'm doing pretty well, I think. Criticism, y'all mute anyone who says anything that's not flowers and roses. Who's y'all? Y'all me? I don't. I don't know what that comment's talking about. Well, then tell your new neighbor that a stranger said hi and hope he is doing well in his new life chapter. Yeah, so I recently, back to that, I'll explain a little bit. I recently had a gentleman come and move here. He was a YouTube fan and he's been here, I don't know, probably like two months-ish now. And he got here, he got himself set up. He, yeah, he's doing well, he's doing really well. Kind of figuring out how things work. He's kind of gotten past the, oh my God, oh my God stage. And starting to relax a little bit and kind of get into the life. And a few days ago, I went over and got him and I was like, hey, you wanna go swimming? I wanna go diving, just go diving. He was like, yeah, man, so he came out and we got in my boat and drove for like, I don't know, an hour, just pedaling around, looking for places. And then we go for a while where there is some corals and some fishes and stuff and just had a good time hanging out. And then came back and he was like, man, that was so amazing. I can't believe this is like right near where we live. I mean, it's like right in front of our house. So yeah, he really loves it here. I think he's staying. Awesome. I'm working on making sure the lures will work amazingly well, so don't worry. But even if you hate them, I am happy for the feedback by the way, oh, I'll totally give you feedback. Yeah, if they work great or if they don't work great or which one does the best, I'll totally give you feedback. If you send me fishing lures that I can use, great. Question, are you interested in Roman concrete? I am interested in Roman concrete. So I have a limited, I've done a limited amount of research, but from what I understand Roman concrete, the big advantage with Roman concrete is that it doesn't weaken in saltwater. And since I live on an island and I'm surrounded by saltwater, that is very interesting to me. It actually gets stronger in saltwater. So yeah, I would like to figure that whole Roman concrete thing out. I'm not sure where to get volcanic ash. Can I use like wood ash? Like what's the store where? I need more information. I need to figure this out. Classic Dude Mike says, do you feel this stream helps you out as much as it does us? So you feel like this conversation here helps you. That's what, I hope that's what you're implying. That's great. I do feel like it helps me actually. Yeah, I like doing these like two hours, well now I'm over two hours already. Yeah, I like doing these YouTube live things, this live stream thing much more than going through comments and trying to answer them. Just cause I can get it all out in two hours and then just go back to my life. And plus, if someone has a question, I can say something and they can answer back and we can actually have a conversation rather than on YouTube comments where someone says something, if I respond, then it's like a day and a half later they respond and maybe I see it and maybe I don't. Yeah, I really like this format much better than going through the comments. And then here I also get ideas back from you guys in a much more digestible way than trying to read through comments. So yeah, which I mean I am reading comments, but they're the real time comments. Let's see, Jamie, have you read the network state of Balaji, oh my gosh, Srinivasan, you should start a new country. The book, which is online, is great and new and explains this and how it can be done. I don't know if I wanna start a new country. Well, okay, if I was gonna start a new country, I'd first have to have a lot of people here who would wanna start a new country. And finding fellow adventure builders who wanna come here and live and be adventure builders has proven to be a very slow process. Like definitely not enough people here yet to start a country, maybe a town. Adventure builder meditation, yeah, maybe I can, I'll think about making some adventure builder meditation videos. I'm sure that a lot of people are gonna be like, shut up and go back to building stuff, which happens every time I make a talking video, but I'm just ignoring those from now on. Let's see, hard to many sleepings, I don't know what that says, okay. Have you heard of the networked state, do you, the networked state, I don't know. Do you have any opinions on it? I don't know what the networked state is. It seems like the most intelligent attempt to fight back against a lot of modern dysfunction to me view that crowd as the good guys. The networked state, yeah, I don't know anything about them, maybe they're good guys. Oh, a networked state is a highly aligned online community with a capacity for collective action that crowd funds territory around the world and eventually gains diplomatic recognition from pre-existing states. So are there networked states like that, that are like recognized by the UN for example or something? Not that I think the UN is that important, but whatever. Yes, Jamie, I am the end of thinking. Perfect phrase for the feeling and concept. So to carry on with the stream, so to carry on with the stream helps or the stream helping, yes it does, because we share many common visions about the world society and how it's failing. It's comforting to hear you speak out my own feelings about it. Yeah, I guess what I like about this stream, this format, is I get to talk to people who are kind of along in the same kind of mindset as me. So yeah, I really like that, yeah, it's great. ABC commune, Adventure Builder Club commune. I don't wanna have a commune. There are problems with communism. Okay, so if you have a commune, that means everyone has to kind of follow the same rules and yeah, there's problems with that. I wanna have a community where a community of individuals who can work toward the same kinds of goals but not in as rigid a way as it would be if it was like a commune with like set rules and stuff. So maybe there's a word for that. Or maybe there's a type of commune that's like different than any of the communes I've ever heard of where it's more like just individuals kind of like working toward the same positive goals, each in their own way, sometimes working together, sometimes working separately or whatever. Jamoka, I don't know what Jamoka is. Adventures, awesome use of recycled plastic bags. Oh, PK Adventures. I don't like the cryptocurrency part of the network state idea. I think cryptocurrency is foolish. Well, you got a point there. I mean, cryptocurrency is just kind of based on nothing. It's just like if all the computers crashed in the world they'd just be gone. So yeah, I mean, there is definitely a fundamental problem with cryptocurrency. Like it's a usable thing. But yeah, if there was, if there were ever like a big social crash, first thing to go. I've actually had a few people tell me that cryptocurrency will be the currency of the apocalypse. But I'm like, wait, the internet's not gonna work in the apocalypse, is it? I don't know. Are you sure your kids will be as smart and free as you just repeating your mantras? That question didn't really make sense. Will they be as smart and free as me just repeating my mantras? You mean if there was a me who just repeated mantras would my kids be that smart? No, my kids will be much smarter than them. That doesn't make sense to me. Are you sure? Okay, he's asked the question again. Let me just make sure I can get this. Are you sure your kids will be as smart and free as you just repeating your mantras? So if there was a me that was just repeating mantras, my mantras, I don't really have mantras, would my kids, am I sure my kids will be as smart as that? I'm pretty sure my kids will be way smarter than that because that person would be kind of dumb. Like if I was just like sitting here repeating mantras over and over, yeah, I don't feel like I'd be very smart. Let's see. I would definitely be in on starting a new country. Having a large group of people that want to build and create and do good who can bounce ideas of each other would be amazing. That would be amazing. But I think the country starts with the people. Like if I had, I shouldn't say if I had, they wouldn't be mine. If I was surrounded by those amazing people, that would be the thing more than the country. Making, defining it as a country and getting whatever legal rights or whatever, that would be secondary to just making the thing like being in the thing, having the people and finding, collecting the people, all that. That's the hardest part of that whole situation. Could you edit a video of the construction of the canal at your new house? I would love to see it. Did you use that mangrove block extractor you built on this Shana's canal? Well, I don't know. I'll think about it. If you need more people out there, maybe you could build a casino on the island. See, well, that's the problem. Getting people here is not a problem. Getting the right people here, that is difficult. And that's kind of a standard issue problem. Like anytime you wanna start a group of like a specific thing that's not popular culture, it's hard to find people. So, yeah, if I built a casino and brought people here for the casino, that would not be the right people at all. Oh, the name of my country, Jamoka. You can make your own community is a new thing that you must look at. The book speaks about and the author is a genius. Well, I mean, anyone can, you make your own community by just having people, like having a community of people. I don't know what you mean by making your own community. And I don't know how a book is gonna teach me to find adventure builders who wanna come here and be adventure builders. We are limited to 200 figures ascendents. I have found it tricky to convey my messages clearly without misunderstanding. Yeah, totally, I get what you mean. Debate is wonderful, you are doing well, you keep so many threads of thought going. It is a little bit, actually, that is probably the hardest thing about doing these lives. It's like, I have to talk about this and then that and then like a different thing. And when I'm actually working on different things, I sort of reboot my brain into different modes of working. Like if I have to do math, I'll reboot my brain into math mode or into imagination mode or into English reading thing mode. And so when I'm talking about things here, you may notice that every once in a while I just kind of get stuck with my words. It's because I don't think in English at all, I don't think in that kind of language. So I always have to like find the spot in my brain that's thinking about the bridge, for example. And then I have to take it and translate it into English so it's like kind of like brain gymnastics. Oh, okay, concrete with wood ash works. Okay, I can use wood ash? Not the con, wait. The conventional non-cement additive is fly ash. Being able to reach higher strength before entropy kicks in, then volcanic ash without rusting rebar inside seems best. I don't use rebar, so I don't care about that because I don't use rebar because it over time, it weakens the concrete, doesn't strengthen it. Strengthens it in the short term, but it weakens it in the long term because it starts rusting and expanding and popping the concrete open. But anyway, concrete with wood ash works. So if I mix my concrete, my cement, and rocks and everything with wood ash, that will make it react with seawater to strengthen it. I want it, I need to do some more research on that. Hopefully that's what he's saying, and that's true. You already have an online community and it can become physical and crowd fund it really well. Please look at Lex Friedman and Balaji Srinivasan interview. I must for you. I'll see if I can remember that. A country starts with your principles, a dow, an occurrence and some laws. Sorry to repeat, you must read this online book. Getting the right people is not difficult. The book is about that. Really, getting the right people. Well, maybe I'll have to read this book then. Can you email me the book? Oh man, I don't read much, but yeah, email. My email should be down here, theadventurebuildermovieatgmail.com. I check that regularly now. Well, when I build my solar cell boat out of single-use plastics, I'll head your way and say hi. Okay, cool. Okay, so you know, there is an online community, yes. But an online community is not, it can't replace a community of people who interact in real life. It's definitely not a substitute. It's valuable, but definitely not the same thing. Well, let's see. Did you try night fishing with the light in the water? If I've been out on a boat with a flashlight and fish will sometimes jump right into the boat or swim right into the boat and knock themselves out, I saw that happen once. But I haven't been fishing much lately. Just because, you know, I have a lot to do. Jamie's kids wouldn't exist without him, so raising them in Panama is the deal and he's a better parent than 90% of others. Not sure what that was responding to, but yeah, dads. There are three active volcanoes in Panama, so getting volcanic ash might be attainable, obtainable. I know where some volcanoes are, but yeah, it would not be a short trip to go get volcanic ash. I don't know if I can get someone to bring me some, maybe. I don't know. Oh my gosh, I reached the end of the comments. Usually I get to the end of the comments around two hours, but I've gone over. It's like 220. Okay, PK Adventures knows what I'm talking about. I stream on Twitch, so I definitely get what you mean about the brain gymnastics. Yeah, it's like every comment that comes up that says talking about a different topic. It's like, okay, I gotta load that whole thing into my head so I can talk about it. But this is kind of good practice for that. Finding people with integrity is very difficult these days. Yes, it is insane-o. It is incredibly difficult. And it's often made even more difficult because often people lose their integrity for what they think are good reasons. Like someone lied to me recently, and he said, oh, I just didn't have the heart to tell you the truth because you were in such a good mood about the thing that didn't end up working. But then, you know, I ended up finding out it didn't work and then I was just like, oh, and then I found out the guy didn't tell me it didn't work even though he knew and saw me and then it did not make me feel better. It made me feel worse and I'm just like, man, don't lie to me to make me feel better. Just tell me the truth. Keep your integrity, man. So that kind of thing happens a lot, you know? Let's see. The Dow concept, crypto-based voting cooperation is pretty cool, but I think there's a fundamental mistake in trusting that technology to be the basis of cooperation. Cooperation without tech is better. Yeah, I guess that's basically what I was saying about an online community can't replace a real life community for a lot of reasons. And that's one. Another one is just if you're only online, there's very limited ways you can interact with each other. But if you're actually in real life with each other, there's so many more things you can do. I want to see that video with the fish swimming into the side of the boat and knocking themselves out. Yeah, I don't have that video. The guy who moved here recently when we went on a trip to town in his boat at one point, I told this a couple of weeks ago, but at one point we were driving and I was sitting in the front of the boat and he's in the back driving. And suddenly I hear him yelling, oh, and I turn around and look, and he's like, what the fuck? And he picks up this fish. And he's like, this just hit me in the face. It jumped out of the water and I'm right in the face. Unfortunately, I was not looking when it happened. Let's see, never, let's see. It's always best to be honest with people, especially when it's close to yes, it is always best to be honest. And sometimes people accuse me of being cruel, but like I was saying to, I don't remember who it was now. I don't want to say the name in case I get it wrong, but someone here thought I was upset a little while ago responding to one of his questions that I disagreed with. But I think it's much more important to tell the truth. It's like honoring, I was honoring you by telling the truth that I disagreed with you. And yeah, I wasn't upset. And I think we should be able to disagree and honestly say that we disagree. And there's way too much censorship in the world right now. And don't even get me started on that. Have you ever tried advertising Craigslist or better, your desire to find adventure builders to join you there? You know, I used to do stuff on Craigslist. Craigslist isn't really active here. But I don't know if I've ever done things on Craigslist looking for adventure builders or like people that come here. I was kind of hoping, you know, doing the YouTube videos would connect me with more adventure builders, but I don't know. I don't know. It's a difficult, difficult thing to figure out. Maybe I need to read that guy's book. Jamie, do you like fish sticks? Fish sticks? I do like fish sticks. I like making them and I like eating them. Ooh, delicious. They are kind of a bit of a pain to make unless you get a big enough fish that you can get the meat off nice. All right, peace, brother. Have a good week. Best to all, Rolfie. Oh, that is Rolfie. I think he's signing himself for Rolfie. Cool. All right, well, I think yeah, we're approaching two and a half hours now. People have got to be getting sick of me by now. So I'm gonna go and see if I can do some interesting stuff with my day. This morning I got up and D'Shaina came over and grabbed the kids, took them off to her house because they were here last night. And after they left, I made one of my bridge bricks and I got that done like half an hour before this and now I'm gonna, I don't know. I'm gonna go look around and see what else I have to do today. I'm gonna have dinner at D'Shaina's house later. All right. Who, all right. Two more real quick questions before I go. Who you are preferred to see on your island, programmer or tank station market? I don't know what that question is asking me. Oh, lots of wood ash articles as Wormup mentioned. I'm not sure if those use seawater that seems to be the secret sauce. I've been curious about Roman concrete for a while. Your mind on it would be cool. Yeah, I mean, at some point maybe I should, the problem is it's gonna take a lot of time to investigate making concrete with ash. So I'm kind of hoping someone has like done the study and like gotten it all set up and figured it out and can dispense that information. But if I have to do it at some point, I will. Let's see. All right, I'm gonna get out of here. I'm just trying to see if there's another short question I can say. A lie destroys the world, the truth builds it. That is a good place to leave. Oh, please repeat your email. My email should be in the description of this. But if not, it is theadventurebuildermovieatgmail.com. I'm like 99% sure that's correct. And I check that. So I like what David Rubino just said. A lie destroys the world, the truth builds it. And I will totally agree with that. And even if you have good intentions when you lie, it often ends up causing a problem you didn't intend. Okay, I hope everyone has a wonderful afternoon or morning or evening or night depending on where on the planet you are. And I think it's amazing that we can even talk all around the planet from my little island out in the Caribbean Ocean. Okay, I'm out of here. Have a wonderful day, everyone. I will say hi to Deshaena for you. Yes. You'll find all answers. Okay, okay, I'm gonna get out of here. Are you sure you want to stop streaming? Yes.