 Oh good T Mike, I'm glad he's not missing today. So can anybody hear anything I'm saying? Ha, ha, ha, hey, the sun will come out tomorrow. And I'm just doing a sound check to see if anyone can hear me. Or not, oh let's do my hair, oh nice hair, there we go. Hmm, hopefully someone can hear something I'm saying. Ah, everyone can hear me. Well, Tomaters can hear me and he counts as everyone. So today I was going to start by talking about a little bit of conspiracy theory, which is just like super truthful stuff that certain people don't want to hear you, don't want you to know about. And a little bit about aliens. And first, I should give the disclaimer that Deshaina always likes to say, don't be a dick. If you ask any questions that you wouldn't want to answer yourself, just don't ask it. What's the other thing I'm supposed to say? Oh yeah, if you have a question, put a big question mark at the beginning of the little things here, it's easy to see if someone has a question. Joseph Blomeister, where do you get this name? OK, so I'm going to talk about a little bit of sort of the state of the world and how we got here and how we get out of it, specifically regarding some certain things that I'm going to get to in a second. OK, so like 70-ish years ago, we could make a lot more money if our light bulbs didn't last so darn long and a whole bunch of people are just going, oh, I know where this is going. Yeah. So they said, look, if we sell someone a light bulb that lasts 20 years, they're not going to buy another light bulb for 20 years. So we basically lose a customer for 20 years every time we sell them a light bulb. What if our light bulbs lasted a shorter amount of time and broke sooner? Then we could sell more light bulbs and make more money. So they kind of played around with the numbers and figured out that if they sold light bulbs that would only last 1,000 hours, they would have to keep reselling them, reselling them. But the 1,000 hours would be enough that people wouldn't give up on light bulbs. Because if you sold people light bulbs that lasted two and a half minutes, people would just say, ah, forget it. I'll use candles. But if you sell people light bulbs that will last 1,000 hours, people will buy the light bulb, get it home. And like a month later or two months later, it breaks. And they're like, oh, well, I guess I'll just go get another one. And they'll keep buying more and more. So this is kind of like a sweet spot between so short people give up on it and long enough that they're not making as much money. So this kind of thinking maximizes the light bulb company's profits. Unfortunately, it also maximizes the amount of light bulbs going into the garbage. Because the more light bulbs they're selling and the more they're breaking, the more end up in the garbage. But they were making huge profits. So they said, let's go with this. Let's run with this. And that's why light bulbs today, if you go to the store, they'll say, you know, guaranteed for 1,000 hours. And that's it. Not counting LEDs, because LEDs didn't get sucked into this. This is incandescent light bulbs. Now, other companies started getting in on this. The pantyhose stockings for ladies' legs. Or for gentlemen's legs, too. I mean, guys can wear stockings, I guess. Those used to actually last like you'd put them on your legs and you could take them off and you could put them on and take them off for a while and they would last. But then the stocking pantyhose companies realized, well, if we make them so you put them on, but you rip them, taking them off, the money. So this became a huge thing. And they called it planned obsolescence. And it was talked about openly at the beginning. You know, in all the industrial design journals and engineering journals, they would talk about finding the sweet spot where things turn to garbage as soon as possible, but not so soon that people give up on the item. Because you buy a toaster, it toasts one piece of it. Hold on. I'm just gonna read a few things here to make sure everything's going okay. All right. So then this became a big thing. This is how companies started profiting more and more. Making more money by making things break as soon as possible without people giving up on them. And this is planned obsolescence. And at some point they realized, wait, if we talk about it openly, planned obsolescence is obscene. You are correct. This should make everyone insanely angry. The entire existence of this concept. But anyway, at some point the company has realized, if we don't actually talk about the planned obsolescence, then we can have things break even sooner because people aren't thinking about it. Because if we talk about it, people get irritated and annoyed and obsolescence now. Anyway, so today, pretty much anything you buy breaks as soon as it can break without people giving up on buying another one. And this maximizes profits for the company. Unfortunately, also maximizes garbage. So our entire economy today runs on garbage. Runs on maximizing the production of garbage, which is totally insane. Now, if you kind of think about it, there's a good chance that any society that gets to our development level would come across this concept and kind of run with it for a while, right? And this is all over the universe, right? There should be aliens all over the place. I don't remember what this question is called. It's something paradox. I guess someone can write it in there. Yeah, the Fermi Paradox basically asked the question, why don't we see aliens all over the place? The universe has been here for billions of years. Why aren't there aliens all over, right? Well, what if every time a civilization gets to our point, they get into this whole turn everything to garbage as quickly as possible mode and then just destroy themselves? Like, if we don't change that at some point, we'll just destroy the life-giving properties of the planet and we'll be dead. And maybe that's what always happens. Now, on the other hand, maybe sometimes a civilization will get past this point and they'll realize, oh, wait, maybe we shouldn't just kill ourselves. Maybe care about the bigger picture and not just think about what's happening right here, right now, and I want this right now, and I want my luxuries and greed and all that. They're interplanetary species and stuff. Now, if there are a bunch of those out in the universe, maybe every time they see a species like ours, which is currently stuck in the garbage age, maybe they look and say, oh, let's just wait, let's wait, see if they annihilate themselves and if they get past this garbage mode, this garbage age, then we can go say hi to them, which would totally explain why the aliens aren't saying hi to us. Now the question is, how do we get past this garbage age? Well, I've done some thinking about this and the best answer I've come up with is disobedience. We need people to be disobedient and just ornery buggers who say, no, I'm not putting up with this. This is crap. And we're strongly, as a society, we are strongly discouraged from this kind of reaction to things. We're supposed to always be okay with everything. Oh, your computer, new operating system can't run on your old computer because no particular reason, so you have to buy a new one. Well, okay, I'll just say, no, you should not accept that, you should say forget it. Oh, the new phone doesn't work on the old charger. Oh, well, I guess that's just the way it is, you know, progress. No, get angry about that. You need to say, no, forget that, screw it. I'm not putting up with that crap. I disobey, you know what, I'm not gonna have a phone. If that's the deal, I'm just not gonna have a phone. And if enough people said, you know what, I'm just not using these garbage products anymore, like someone would have to come along and say, oh, here's this huge niche market for people who don't want garbage. And companies would start capitalizing on that and not selling garbage. Now, one thing I wanted to talk about very briefly is, yes, I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore. That's the attitude we need everyone to think. Okay, so a few weeks ago on one of these lives, I said something about one of my best qualities being that I am disobedient. And then I kind of backped a little bit and said, well, maybe I'm not disobedient, but I'm definitely not obedient. No, I'm pedaling that back forward because I've thought about it. I am disobedient and I think that is one of my best, that may be my best characteristic. And if I look at all the good stuff that's happened in my life, it's because I absolutely refused to go along with what I was told to do. And I said, no, I'm gonna do it my own way. I'm gonna find something better and maybe someone else has a better way. And I'll go with what they say, but whatever it is. Like if it comes down to it, I will do what I think is right against everyone else I know if that's what I have to do to do what I think is right. And I should also mention, my mom told me once that when I was a baby, my first two words were hot dog and no. Hot dogs, pretty self-explanatory because you know, hot dogs are delicious. And dead go like way. And when I think about all my past down to a childhood, I was constantly in trouble because I would not obey. If someone would say to me, hey, Jamie, could you thingy thingy? I'd be like, yeah, sure. But if someone says to me, Jamie, do this now. I would be like, oh, no chance in tech. So I think that's a really, you know, I was constantly punished for this. However, it is, I would say definitely, if not my best characteristic, it's one of my best characteristics is just this, this, this raging disobedience I have in me. Now, disobedience has been kind of weeded out of our society to a huge degree because anyone who disobeys, you get kind of shoved off to the fringes. You lose all the, you know, the benefits. You know, the government doesn't treat you well. You know, people get angry at you all the time. You are strongly disadvantaged, but somehow people are still disobedient. And I think that's because, you know, over the many thousands of years of evolution, the characteristic of being disobedient has proven itself to be so valuable that it's persistent. Like it keeps popping up in our evolution, even if it's kind of really crushed. So I'm not, see, that kind of gives me hope that there's still people out there, even with all the pressure to obey. There are still people out there who are disobedient and those people are the future. And all the people who obey, they kind of need to get weeded out, you know, to really have a chance at a prosperous human future. There's one other thing I want to say, what was it? Hmm, I was talking about, no, I think that's pretty good. So how's that for a good start? How long have I gone on? I've gone on for almost 15 minutes already. All right. The quote is from the movie Network, check it out. So I should watch this movie called Network. Someone should take a note of that. What are you doing, Deshaina? Deshaina's standing right here, looking like she has something to say. So this quote, I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore. That's from the movie Network. I think that's what they're saying. So I'm going to have to look at that. Ha ha, hot dog, yeah. Right now I'm, ah, someone's out of work because of his disobedience. Oh yeah, there's a big one. So right now people are being pressed to obey really hard with all this quarantine stuff and, you know, the vaccines, which I don't know a lot about the vaccines, but from what I understand, they're not even vaccines. They're just calling them that and telling you to believe it and people are believing it, which is, and you know, one of the, this was the other thing I was going to say. So several years ago, during the Obama administration, so whatever that was a couple of decades ago, decade ago or whatever, I remember I didn't pay attention to the news a lot, but I did a little bit. I remember Obama coming on TV and saying, obedience disorder or something like that, talking about how basically people who resist authorities now have a disorder. And when they were talking about that openly, I was just like, oh man, this is it. It's, we're done. I mean, now they're going to start shooting people up with the obedience drugs and that's where all the, what's that thing they give, they give kids when they're too hyperactive and disobedient? Hey, just you know what I'm talking about. The Ritalin, Ritalin. Yeah, they, you know, kids won't sit there for eight hours straight with their hands in their lap doing what they're told. Oh, we've got to give them some pills because that's not natural to want to actually move around and do things. You know, ooh. Anyway, right now the world is in a pretty dark place, I gotta say, but there is hope. And we're not so far down the hole that we're completely screwed yet. You know, we wasted a lot of resources, but we can still, we can still dig our way out. And man, if we can just find more ways to encourage this disobedience, that would be great. You know, I know people who are authorities hate everything I'm saying right now, but authorities in general, the entire concept of authorities is something we need to get rid of because like a leader should not ever have that position because of authority. A leader should only be a leader because of their excellent example. And if they're not putting forth an excellent example, then they should not be the leader. If they're leading people and people say, oh, I don't want to follow you because you're not making sense to me, that should be it. There should be no way that a person can get into a leadership position where they're locked in. You should always have to constantly prove that you should be in the leadership position. Okay. Hey, Deshaina, do you have some important information to tell me now? Oh, no way. The people who obey just need to see more people standing up for what is right. Yes, we need more people to stand up for what is right. That's a huge thing. Like, I mean, that's why I started the whole adventure builder philosophy thing. I mean, mostly it was just to keep myself on track, to keep myself not even doing the right things, but thinking about what the right thing to do is. So I have these posters up in my house to have a bunch of virtues and kind of tell me what I kind of give me ideas of how I should be behaving all the time to be able to do the right thing. And actually I just made a new adventure builder poster yesterday, you know, the big circle one. I think it was in the thumbnail to this video. It's a big circle one with all the eight virtues and mind, body and spirit. And, you know, I made a big poster size one because I used to have a big poster size one, but it didn't make it to Panama. One of the many things that got lost in transit. But, you know, I made it as big as I could with a piece of like recycled packing paper. And I drew it first in pencil and I did a better job on this one than the original one. It looks much nicer. Well, at least I noticed. And then, you know, traced everything with permanent marker and then colored it in with my old crappy crayons, some of which are like falling apart and stuff because they were really cheap and, you know, the humidity was making them crack apart. And so I got it all colored in and did a good job. And then two hours after I finished that, I got 200 new crayons because someone sent me them off my Amazon wish list. Thank you so much. That was amazing. So I'm, I think I'm gonna have to go draw a whole new one and use my new crayons. They were the good ones that are crayola crayons. I don't know if they, they seem to, they seem to be pretty good crayons. Have you ever had a problem with crayola crayons? Yeah, I like the crayola crayons. I don't like to go around pushing brand names or anything, but they seem to be doing a good job because I have some other packs of crayons that just fell apart. Do you wanna come sit? Oh, sure. Oh, we're, we're being forced to have three injections or you cannot work, travel between states, even hospitals are closed to the unbacked unless they need to be admitted. Yeah, isn't that crazy? How, I mean, you can move over a bit. I mean, if you, if you five years ago talked about the world as it is today, people would say, that'll never happen. That's crazy. But then like the whole world got locked in their, locked in their apartments and houses for a year and a half. And now you, you can't do anything without getting shot up by questionable drugs. Am I distracting you? No, no, you're fine. Do you wanna switch sides? Yeah, if you want. And, you know, if you say anything about any, any injections are given out, you know, you're an anti-vaxxer. Well, you know, you can also be totally for vaccines and still be against like being shot up by weird unknown stuff. Especially since, you know, say, I don't wanna get into what I generally think about vaccines. I think in the, well, okay, I'll get into it a little bit. I think in the, generally in the long-term, vaccines are a bad thing because, you know, if you, the more, the more vaccines you take, the more you have to keep taking and you can't just keep piling them up, piling them up. Cause eventually you're just taking too many things and for a human to survive, they need to rely on getting so many injections that the species becomes unviable. Maybe that's another reason species die out. But in the long-term, if people don't get vaccines and just, you know, chunks of the population die out now and then then the population that's left ends up being healthier. Of course it's not that simple cause in the short-term, like a bunch of people die and suffer and it's horrible. So, you know, there's some discussion there. But putting all that aside, even if you're all four vaccines, trusting the pharmaceutical companies that are making them and the pigs running those pharmaceutical companies, I think that's just insane. Cause they are just trying to make money. They don't care about doing a good job. So, what are you talking about today? I'm just the interviewer. Oh, what do you have? Do you have some questions? I do have some questions actually. Question, question. There's one right there. Okay, can I ask the question? Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna beat you every time you take my job away from me. Go, come it. All right, go ahead, do your job. Any update. Come on, do your job. You do it. Any updates on your roof for the dome and you were waiting for a shipment, I think, the last time? Yes, I'm still waiting for a shipment of stuff. Which leaves on June 2nd. So it should be your mid-June-ish? Yeah. So like, I still have like a month. I don't know what today is. It's the middle of May-ish? May 15th. Your birthday's in two days. You're gonna be so old. I know I'm five years older, but it's different for guys, you know. For guys, we get more, what's the word, distinguished as we go older, but ladies just get old. Yeah, ladies get flabbier and guys get more distinguished. So you're actually getting older and I'm just getting more distinguished, ha ha ha. We lost two good things, one of us looks better. Shut up. So updates on the roof. Yeah, I think, yeah, I feel like I have a pretty good feeling about what I've got coming and the way I wanna do it. I'm still not entirely sure how I'm entirely sure. I'm still not entirely sure how I'm gonna get to the whole roof. However, when I was originally building the roof, when I was building it from the outside, I had like a wood platform that I was leaning against the roof to like stand on that, to reach up higher on the roof and nothing was breaking. And that was with like pretty new concrete and the dome wasn't even finished. So most of its strength wasn't there. Thank you, Tomaters, thank you for the happy birthday. You got birthday presents on my thing, that's okay. But anyway, I'm fairly certain that I can climb around on the roof without it breaking. I mean, of course there's always some chance that I've miscalculated something horribly, but I should be able to get up there with you know, you know, cement and all the stuff and it should hold my weight, no problem. I am gonna have to make some kind of little walk, little walkway kind of stuff that I can move around the roof to get up. Did you know that my birthday apparently is Norway's national day as well? Oh, good. Like I'm like the queen of Norway and I just didn't know it or like I'm a princess or something. Murphtopius sent a present that's not for you. No, that's for me, it's a trophy for my birthday. Yeah, yeah, it's a birthday trophy. Wait, was I abducted? Maybe. Ever? Or you mean like right now? Like by aliens? Were you ever abducted by aliens? Or are you an alien? If I got abducted by aliens, I hope it'd be Bud so you can be like, hey, can I borrow one of your spaceships? What was I talking about? Oh yeah, so before all this roof stuff comes, there's a few things I wanna finish. So I wanna finish tackling the outside of my house, which I know should be done by now. However, on Tuesday, I got to like two thirds of the spackling of all my walls done, but then I was getting concrete fingers. Here's a bit of concrete fingers here right there. Oh, it's wearing through. Yeah, that's not just a dot, that's like my blood. Well, not now. It's like a tiny scab now. But you know, when you do concrete, you know about concrete fingers. When you do concrete, if you're doing stuff that's kind of finicky and you get it on your hands, it starts wearing all this week. I would have gotten it done easily, but I wanted to keep some finger skin. So I'll do some more next week and I might be able to get it done next week. Okay, so another question I have. Sorry. Can you tell me a little bit about the marine life specifically around your island and what are you, like what do you have in terms of crustaceans that you can harvest for your own food source? Oh, democracies, don't even get me started on that. Okay, crustaceans, crustaceans. Well, you were feeding crustaceans like oysters to the ducks for a while and the chickens. Yeah, and the chickens, they still do. Yeah, and we've eaten a few crabs. We have. We've eaten a couple of oysters and some sea urchins, not sea urchins, but sea cucumbers. Sea cucumbers, yeah. Those aren't crustaceans because they're not crusty. No, but they're in the ocean. I feel like they're food source. Well, yeah, but I was just saying they're not crusty. Yeah, they're not crustaceans. No, definitely not. There's moth cells too, but we haven't. We haven't eaten any of those, yeah. Yeah, the problem with the oysters is they're so small. Yeah, they're so small. You have to eat like a thousand of them too. They're mangrove oysters. Yeah. But they're actual oysters, like they are legit oysters apparently. Legit ones, eh? Yeah, I'm close to that. Yeah, and actually this morning, when I went out in the boat with the kids, I said, hey, should... Oh, thank you, Joseph, Joseph, for happy birthday. I said, hey, should we get a line out in a hook and go fishing? But they were distracted and... That's funny that you just started talking about that because somebody was just asking if you have a rod and a reel. I do not have a rod and reel. I have this round thing that I have a fishing line wrapped around and a hook on the end. And I like that because it's just much easier to deal with than a rod and a reel. And even if I'm casting, at least when I learned to fish, I was in the Bahamas. And this local guy there, I went fishing with him. And he just had fishing line... Oh, Danny! Yeah, Danny. He just had fishing line wrapped around a bottle and that's like what everyone did. They're just like, there's my fishing line wrapped around a bottle and you just pull some off and throw your line out into the water and let it sink. And, you know, you just kind of let your fishing line fall on the ground in a little pile and just make sure you don't tangle it up and then pull it up. You're freaking the camera out. Yeah. That's why it's freaking actually moving so much. But now that I've done that, like the thought of a like a fishing rod I don't want all that to deal with. So I just have like this like spool thing that's, I don't know, it's like about that big around and it's got a hole in the middle so you can hold it easily. Kind of like Xena Warrior princesses. Like razor things or whatever, except not sharp and you can wrap your fishing line around and then just pull it off and throw it out. And it's interesting that they were that to further expand on the question that you're talking about, how you go out to catch fish. And I think we are really wanting to try to focus more on how we can just grow our own fish. No, but I go in the boat all the time. Like I used to drag a line all the time and I should start doing that again. Yeah. Yeah. It's one day I'll just start doing it and then I'll be doing it all the time after that. But we do also have the fishing trap, which is great. To further expand on that, I actually met a lady when I went into town on Friday. You met a lady? I met several of them. Was she cute? All right, never mind. So I made a couple of new friends and they're all like in the plant world sort of. And this one lady, she actually raises tilapia. And they have these plants that they grow in their rain catchment ponds. They're called water hyacinth and apparently they provide... Is she still out there? No, no, she's a sunny stuff woman. She's in Big Creek. Oh, Big Creek. And she has like a huge... She gave me a tour of her property. Don't tell everyone exactly where they are. No, I wasn't going to. She gave me a tour of her property and she said the water hyacinth give air, like oxygen to the fish and stuff then and shade to them. Oh. Then you just have to kind of weed them out of it, the hyacinth, because they take over. But they're really pretty and useful. Oh, yeah? Yeah. So we're gonna be getting some of the plants because I wanna test them out here. And you wanna grow some tilapia? Yeah, I think it's fun. She said she gets them from a guy in town. Like, if he provides them. So I need to make a pond. Yep. How big a pond does it need to be? I don't know, I was thinking... I mean, I'm gonna look it up, but I was thinking like maybe, maybe like the size of the circle to start with. The circle? That little circle right there. Oh, just like a meter across or something. Just a little pond. Yeah, just to give it a... To kind of test it out. Okay, cool. We'll make it a little bigger as we go. Oh, I wanna make it... If I'm making a pond, I'm making like something I can jump in. Well, I'm talking about like if it was gonna be on my property since I'm gonna be painting the animals. But you can have a house too. I can have a fish too. You're saying I would like to do a pond, maybe like two of those, actually. That would be good. Well, I had a dream the other day. I might as well share this now because it has to do with my island. I had a dream the other day that I flattened out the top of the hill that's behind my house. Cause, so behind my house, there's a big retaining wall I built and then there's a hill up behind that. You know, the hill's kind of rounded. But if I flattened out the top, then I'd have like a bunch of like usable flat space. And then I could take the dirt from that. This is all happened in my dream. Take the dirt from that and like make this ramp that kind of curls down around the hill. So you can get a wheelbarrow easily up and down. Cause right now it's easy to walk up and down but it's kind of like going up and down the stairs a little bit. But if I made like a nice ramp going down with the dirt, then I could get a wheelbarrow up and down. Plus I'd have more dirt left over after that and I could fill in my raised beds at the bottom. And then I was also thinking, and part of this dream, what if I just dug out a hole in the middle of this thing and made a pond? Oh, and then I could proficient it. Yeah, that's a great idea. Now that he got rid of the ducks, I had to give them to a friend so they could have more space. I want to do a pond. You just got sick of having the ducks cause they weren't making eggs. Yeah. I also don't think they had enough space because they had to leave them in the pond all the time or else they were eating things that they should. Yeah, they kill all the plants, right? And pooping everywhere. Even on the walkways, that was really fun. So, but yeah, they're in a better home now and so now I feel safe like making a pond thing. Oh, good. So. Oh God, they would poop in it so fast. I know. So we, well, the chain of had ducks in, if you give them fresh water, the first thing they do is walk up to it, turn around. No. They would poop. I gave them water. They pooped in it, then turn around and then drank it. They would never drink the fresh water. At least none of the times I gave them water. Maybe when you did. But I'm just saying, I give them water and they would be like, you think I'm drinking that clear stuff? Oh, I like it chocolatey brown. Oh. It's not really chocolatey. Yeah, it's whatever. I mean, they poop in the water instantly. And then. Instantly. Instantly, like if they put the water down, the ducks would poop in the water. Do you expect to be, no, no. Oh, sorry. Okay. You're in charge of the question. I got it. Let me do the job. Was that an extension? Yeah, we already talked about that. So let me do the job because I've got it. We do have pistol shrimp. They're so loud. Yeah, they're pretty funny. Tell us about the story, how we were trying to figure out the sound in the houseboat for like two years. No, with Tamala. But it was like in the first month, I figured it out. So I built this big houseboat and we moved into it. I just want to remind you guys to write question at the top of your questions, please. Because I will ignore it because I won't know it's a question. Well, you won't ignore it. No, I just. You won't see it as easily. Like I'll get it old. It's just easy to see if it says question at the beginning. Big capital letters. Okay, moving on. So I built this houseboat and we all moved into it. And I'm doing it way huge than I needed to because I wasn't sure how long we were gonna be in it. If I knew it was just gonna be like a month then we'd get land. I would have made it way smaller. And it was literally a month. I know, I know. We moved into the houseboat and a month after we moved in, we got land. Anyway, so we moved in. We moved into the houseboat and I kept hearing this popping sound. Like, I don't even know how to make it. Like just this constant popping. And I was thinking, is that like the fiberglass? Like just slowly cracking apart. Or like, yeah, the wood inside. Like it just sounds like something is coming apart. And I built this huge thing. So maybe it's just like all over the place. There are little cracks just slowly coming through. I was just like, man, it's just constant. And I go to sleep at night. And all I could hear was like all this crackling. Yeah, it's kind of like popcorn. Yeah, like the crickly, the crickly paint. But like loud popcorn. Yeah. And then finally I looked it up and someone else was having the same situation. And they were parked at a marina and they asked and they were like, oh yeah, that's just the pistol shrimp. So it's these shrimp that, they're like little tiny things. Yeah, we found them. But they have a claw that's like the size of their body almost. It'd be like you having me as your claw. Yeah. So I have like a human sized claw. And they go like this. And they go. And they snap it together so fast that like it creates this little like burning hot spot right here and sends out the shockwave. Which is why they're called pistol shrimp. And it goes. And it knocks fish out. So they can go and shoot, knock it, like shoot a stun blast at a fish. And then they just go over and eat the fish. Isn't that crazy? I remember, you know, I knew about them because I saw them on TV when I was a kid. And I was like, whoa, there's like an actual animal with that like fires, like stun blasts, that's crazy. And now they're just all over the place. So speaking of property and like improvements and stuff that you want to make, have you ever thought about maybe doing some drone footage? Have I ever thought about it? That's my favorite question. In all the years of my life, I've never thought. So is that way people can see kind of the cool development of it? Or, well. What about something you would consider doing? I don't know. Maybe. Okay. There was some, I used to share like a lot. Like I would just share everything. But then like people would show up all the time. Like they own the place. Like they were so familiar with my home that they could just like walk in and be like, hey, Jamie, how are you doing? Yeah, I've got to say, oh, I see what we're working on here. And I'm just to be like, whoa, who are you? Why are you coming into my house? Oh, Jamie, we're like buds, we're YouTube buds. You know, I know everything about your house. I know everything about you. And dude, it is like, try to see that from the other perspective. Like say someone just comes up to your house, doesn't knock on the door, just walks in, it's like, hey, how are you doing, man? I'm going to help you with those stairs you were working on and like, you know, what are we making for dinner? And you're just like, what? Yeah, it was a little much. So I'm a little, I mean, I'm still making YouTube videos. So I'm not going to say I'm like secretive now, but I'm a little bit. That's the same sort of put that kind of information. Yeah, I'm a little bit like now my island has a secret entrance. And I'm not going to like give out diagrams to the secret entrance. And I don't want to give diagrams to exactly how to get to my house. Cause I used to do that. I used to be like, oh yeah, here's a map to my house. Here's how you get here. You know, you go this way through a thing and then people would do it. So basically it's like kind of a 50-50 shot that we could get some drone coverage of like. I don't have to think about it. Okay, so I'm wondering if you've ever heard of. Well, I would do some drone. Yeah, I don't know. Well, I'll think about it. Have you ever heard of open source ecology? Yeah. What are your thoughts on that? And what does that seem like they're doing right or wrong? Okay, I have not looked into this for quite some time, but I wasn't that interested in what they were doing because it was like they were saying here is the way everything should be done. And the problem is like. I mean, I'm totally unfamiliar with it at all. So like, I don't know. Then you should definitely be responding to you right now. No, I'm just saying. I know. Well, I'm trying to say. Yeah. So, but the thing is like there's so many different environments and climates on the planet. You can't really say, you know, we're making the kit for homesteaders or whatever. So it's like a kit thing that they're trying to make? Sort of. It's like, okay. I mean, I haven't looked into it in years, so I don't know everything. But they had like basically instructions or plans to make everything you'd need to, you know. You have grid? Yeah, or to like homestead or farm or whatever, you know. But the thing, yeah, it's totally environment dependent. And I think it should be presented more as here are some things that can be useful in this kind of place. Like. Got it. So we're going to try to present. If I were gonna try to prevent, I mean, present, oh, you tried to be nuts. If I was gonna try to present the skills you would need that would be applicable anywhere, it would not be a set of instructions of like machines to build. It would be more like a philosophy of ways to think. You know, like you like trust yourself, have an open mind, look at your resources, try to figure out what to do, you know, that kind of thing. Do you think there's a way that people could make it? But anyway, let me just finish. There's one second. So I think what the stuff they're doing is useful, but not as useful as they're presenting it. So, I mean, it's useful in a narrow, within the bubble of the kind of stuff they're doing. And yeah, I think there's a lot of open mind in this missing. Now again, I have not looked into this in years. So I don't know where they've gone in recent years or whatever. So go ahead. If you were gonna package like an idea to create some kind of system that basically anybody could sort of pick this up and start and do kind of confident-ish in like going off-grid. Like, do you think you could make it in a way where it could apply to various climates? Like you might have to make six different kits. Okay, here's one of the major problems with this. And this is with the open source, equal whatever thing it was to. If you're gonna give people instructions and say, this is the thing to do, you're relying on them having access to the same resources that you have. And everywhere you go, there's different resources. And one of the most important things I think in terms of building things and going off-grid, like half the point of doing this is to try to live a better life, right? Right. So if you're trying to live a better life and make the world a better place, you need to figure out what resources are available in the place where you are. Probably start with garbage because there's so much garbage right now. Like figure out what people are throwing away. You know, like tires, for example. Like that's one that always comes up. Like you build a house out of tires. Here, tires is not a good option because boats don't have tires. Like yes, I could track down tires, but this is not the place for tires. Like if you're like on mainland where there are roads and lots of cars, then tires. But a place like this, there would be other resources, you know, like old wrecked boats, for example. And, you know, you can get parts off those and stuff like that. So like a lot of, I would never want to try to define some kind of set way to do anything. Because it's always going to depend on what resources are available to you, who you are, what you're trying to do. Like there are too many variables. And going back to the disobedience thing, if I'm giving out some pre-made instructions on how to live your life and you take it while you're the past, you're not the future. The people of the future are the ones who are like, well, I see what you're doing and that's useful information. But there's no reason I would take that verbatim and say, this is what I'm doing too. Like you look around for different ideas and then you process it in your own head and figure out what to do from there. So there really is no way to make like a prefabricated. Yeah, there's a way to do it, but it's a completely useless waste of time to do. So you used to do that. I mean, I could also shove my entire finger up my nose, but then I would. You used to do a lot more welding than you do now. Let's look at that. Is this another question? Well, I just haven't set up. Spend on that before you go into it, but because the other day you were doing, you did a video on you were making a rocket stove thing and I feel like you could have welded a lot of the stuff in there. No, the metal's too thin. It would melt through so fast. Yeah, I was kind of wondering why you didn't and I was like, I think you can just do it if you could. That's because you don't know anything about welding. No, I don't. I'd be like, why aren't you sewing with tissue paper? It's like you just blow right through it. So yeah, like thin metal is not the best to weld because it melts through too easily. Why is that? Because it's thin and it melts fast. And so it melts when the other stuff is touching it. Yeah, you have to put a very small amount of heat or else you'll melt right through and just turn it to liquid and it ends up on the ground. So it's welding like really kind of like a very technical skill you have to learn how to do. Yeah, you couldn't just start welding. No, you got to like learn how to do it. Kind of like sewing sort of. Yeah, except sewing you could at least like... Half acid. I mean, if you're sewing with a sewing machine you could put a piece of cloth there, push the pedal and as long as someone has threaded it and set it up right, it would sew a line. But like welding, like yeah, you have to have the coordination and you have to know like what you're looking for and what you're doing to not just melt through. If somebody wanted to get into welding, like what would you recommend me? No, don't get into it, you get melted then. What would you recommend them like start with or you know, is there sort of like, there's two different kinds of welding and they're like steel. There's a lot of different kinds of welding. Well, I would say just pick something. So you can TIG weld, MIG weld or you know, Oxy acetylene. Anything easier than the others to like... No, I wouldn't say any of them is easier or harder. There's different things you can do with each one. So like if you want to do kind of precision stuff, I would go Oxy acetylene welding, but then you're limited to steel. Right, why is that? Oh, you really want to get that deep into it? Well, because I don't know, you might be able to weld aluminum that way, but I don't know of anyone doing it. And I suspect that heating up the metal. The problem... Okay, steel turns into kind of this gel state and then it'll stick together. Something like aluminum, aluminum, aluminum, aluminum, aluminum. It doesn't really turn into a gel state. When it gets hot, it just turns right into liquid. So if you get it hot enough to weld, like you have to let it cool down really like immediately or else it just like, it just like runs into the floor. So if you're heating up aluminum with an Oxy acetylene torch, you're heating it up slowly so you're getting a bunch of metal up to that temperature and it's all gonna turn to liquid. Now I don't know for sure this is how it would happen. It might also just be too hard to heat it up because you can't heat it up fast enough because the aluminum transmits heat so quickly. But steel transmits the heat slower so you can do it with an Oxy acetylene torch. But anyway, if you do it with electricity, like a meg or a TIG, you like the electricity basically makes these tiny little like lightning bolts that melts the stuff really fast so you can melt something like aluminum, aluminum and weld it and it'll heat up and cool down fast enough that it doesn't turn to liquid and run all over the floor. Like it turns into liquid like real quick. Like you want it to not stay liquid. But anyway, yeah, it just depends on what you want to do and what you have access to. Like if you're, if you have basically unlimited electricity, you know, like you live in a city, you can plug anything in, I'd probably start with a MIG welder and just get like a hundred dollar MIG welder. Like they have them at Harbor Freight. My dad got one one time. It was, I think it was like a hundred and nine dollars or maybe, I mean, it was like a hundred dollars and you could put the steel wire in and you could just, it wasn't the best welder I'd ever used but it totally worked. That's a job done. Yeah, I actually used it on a Jaguar, it's like a sports car and I did a good enough job that it was, you know, I didn't screw it up. I want to kind of come back for a moment on the. But if you were like living somewhere with no electricity, oxy acetylene, but then it also depends on what, what metal you want to do. Right. So oxy acetylene and braze aluminum, aluminum, which is supposed to be pretty good too. You don't have to heat it up, heat the metal up enough to liquefy it to braze it. So that's why brazing is easier. All right, what's your question? So I want to come back to the environment thing. Oh, you got the chat right here. No, no, stop it. Oh, you got the whole thing that comes up here on your thing. I was wondering why you weren't singing anymore. I was distracting. Oh yeah, go ahead. Is that good? Yeah, yeah, read the thing. But now I can't see what the people are saying. Touch the thing. I think the bottom line is recognizing what is right. If you're doing something that doesn't interfere with the rights of anyone else. Why should I care what you're doing in front of my business? Yeah, yeah, I agree with that. Like, you know, people should basically do whatever you want to do, as long as it's not interfering with someone else's ability to do whatever they want to do. And then the troll's response is always, well, what if I want to go around murdering people? And like, if your brain has turned out at all, it's like, obviously, that doesn't qualify because I would be preventing them from doing what they want to do. Okay, well, let me tell you this, because then I want to come back to something that's related to that, that's come up. I'm just going to make faces at the camera for a while. Okay, so regarding the environment thing, exactly. Oh yeah. You know, I agree about a universal kit is very difficult, but. Well, I don't think it's even useful, but. But maybe like a modular thing where you could document context would be the key. I mean, that's fine. I mean, I don't think, okay, I think what's going on here is people are talking about like ideas of how to build certain things. And, but instead of seeing it as what it is, trying to say, okay, now it can be everything, but it's not going to be everything. Like someone can say, well, here's how you could build a lumber mill. In a lot. It is not the lumber mill. Here's how you could build a tractor. It is not going to be the tractor. Like I built a little bulldozer here. I would not recommend to everyone in the entire world that you should build that bulldozer. That's the bulldozer I needed for here that was useful for here, that was great for here. But like just to try to come up with some, some kind of thing that's going to be universal for like everyone, it doesn't make sense. Plus it only applies to people who are going to do what they're told. Right. So, we were just, you were just talking about something and I wanted to mention it, gosh, because there was something I was reading about. I want to go, I want to, Oh, it was about, no, Okay, go ahead. I want to talk about something. I want to talk about this. You were talking about the other day in one of your videos, how like differences the spice of life and the differences in people and their personality. You're so spicy. Yeah. And so somebody commented to that saying that, well, yeah, it's, you know, imperative that people are able to do what they want to do within the confines of you have to have laws and you have to have consequences. But I mean, I would, I would disagree with that. Because I feel like the natural consequences would be enough to deter people from making really bad choices. Okay, I think the problem today is that we've gone so far down the having rules and laws route that we could not possibly just turn them off. Because so much of our behaviors is governed by rules and laws. But the more I've learned about life and living and the more, you know, more different cultures I've experienced and stuff, the more I think rules and laws that are coming from authority are basically worthless. And the best example I have for this is when I lived in Alaska, I wasn't there for a huge amount of time, but like long enough that I was there. Did you go there two different times? I went there two different times. I was there for long enough that I was like, I was living there, you know? And it was this little town called McCarthy, Alaska. It's like 60 miles past the last piece of pavement. The road's not always open because sometimes it washes out and then for months, this little town is just cut off. And I think that the winter time population is like 25 people or something. I actually stick it out through the winter. And so the nearest cop is like three hours away, you know, if the road is open. And people there just take care of stuff. And everyone has a gun. Everyone watches out for each other. And if anyone starts causing trouble, that person very quickly is dealt with in whatever way needs to happen. Do they murder people? Yes, there have been people killed. That's so uncivilized. Yeah, I know. Well, but like it was just like, well, this person is going around. Well, there was someone. Oh, I can't remember exactly what happened now. I think they were actually going around murdering people. Like there was a serial killer there like a couple of years before I was there. And I heard the story and this person, by the time they got to the third house, they opened the door and just got blown away. Wow. Like just shot, shot dead. Cause like pretty, pretty soon word got out and attention. And you know, they're like, don't, don't mess with me. You know, I'm not going to sit here and just accept it and just call the cops and hope they come and fix it. No, if there's a problem, I'm dealing with it. So like things, there was also someone who was stealing things. Jesus. And dude, that happens all the time, anywhere you go. But the thing is like both of this was, this was the only two, and this is over like a 10 year period that people were telling me about, you know, these, these troublemakers. This is the only two people who caused trouble during this whole time because the, the murderer got, got taken out like, like pretty soon. And the thief, like pretty soon after they, they started stealing things, you know, people started talking and figured out who it was. And then it was like, okay, now this person is no longer welcome in the community basically. And they were just shunned and they hadn't, is no longer welcome in the community basically. And they were just shunned and they had to leave. And if they stuck around trying to steal something, you know, everyone was on their guard for this person. And you know, people would be like, hey, this person's coming by, you know, in the direction of your house, you might want to watch out. And like people, people took care of stuff themselves. And there were no rules, no laws. And the amount of crime was so low. Like people did not screw around with other people because you would get, I mean, there was a chance that you would get shot. Like you wouldn't, you would not break into someone else's house because you would get blown away. I think Joseph blow my stigris into you because he gave big red thumbs up. Big red thumbs up, super stigris. I just want to ask you a question. Let me just round that out. So like, I think in the way our society is right now, we've just gotten so far down the route of everything has to be, you know, authoritative and laws. And you know, you can't do anything yourself that, you know, it's hard to imagine getting from this back to the point where people just go by the natural rules that make sense. Would you say that's because society's basically taken your ability to have responsibility for yourself away from people? Yeah, well, it's because people who wanted to be the leader basically have gotten so entrenched now with rules that say, I'm the leader and you have to do what I say. And now, and people have got, I mean, people have, I grew up with that, you know, people have just grown up with that system. And for most people, they just accept it and say, well, okay, I just have to live my life by whatever I'm told. And yes, that totally, what's the word? Replaces their own internal morality. So most people have no internal morality. And I wouldn't even say it's their fault necessarily. I would say it's their fault for not fighting back, but just, you know, it's like the natural, not the natural, that's not the right. It's the default state now is you are told, you know, do what you're told or you go to the principal, then do what you're told or you go to jail, then do what you're told or you get fine. You know, everything is like some external rule and an external consequence that's just made up. Like so little of our lives is like, do your thing and then you reap the benefits or the negative consequences that naturally happen. Like that doesn't, that's not really part of most of our lives anymore, which is a huge reason. I think everybody should have a garden. Garden is hugely important in terms of, you know, growing your own food is a beautiful thing. But then also- I don't even know that's where food comes from. Fairly cool. Oh God, I know. But then also you learn that you do things, there are consequences that come. Like if you plant things, you pull the weeds out, you take care of your plants, you get food and the better job you do, the more food you get. The worst job you do, the less food you get. Like it's a very simple way to experience something where you have natural consequences of it, which I think is totally missing in people's lives today. Okay, so I have a quick question that you can answer. Quick question. Do you have 240 volt or 120 volt inverters? 120 volt inverters, I do have one 240 volt one, but I hardly ever use it for anything. Also, so coming back to the environmental question that we were talking about earlier, the systems thing. So there's no canononic, well I can't say the same thing. Oh, this is back to the- Yeah, solution. This is back to the everything kit. Yeah, so but there is a single way to document different paths in a giant web of options where people document their own path, like it would be like a collaborative map. Yeah, but I, okay, here's the problem. I think that is a great thing. I just think it should never become an instruction manual for how to live your life. Because then what's the- It's like here's some suggestions. Well, here's stuff that people have done and that have worked. And see, the way it's useful is you could look at it and say, okay, I wanna build a tractor like that one right there. And then you could go and see how they did it and maybe see some of the mistakes they made so you can skip the mistakes and stuff. But then you go, you come back to your own life and say, okay, I can use a bunch of that innovation, but then also I have access to this kind of material but I don't have access to that. So I'll swap this out for this kind of stuff. Like it can help you to do things. But I think it's counterproductive when people just take the instructions as the gospel of how you should live your life. Because then there isn't much point in living your life then. You know, what's the point of just going through the steps and just doing everything you're told if you've got like a billion people all doing that, all doing the same thing, like what is the point of even being alive? I think it's always important. Yeah, I think it's always important to keep in mind that you should be thinking for yourself. Even if you're doing something mostly like someone else is doing, it's always good to think, is there a way I can either improve this machine or use something that's more readily available to me or somehow use up some garbage, like use some scrappiness or somehow keep your own brain moving so you don't turn into the old dog who can't learn new tricks. Yeah, I would say I made a video about this recently. I tend to do that like when I'm cooking food, like it's the best example I can get, like I'll go and look up a couple recipes and see like what people have tried. And they're like, oh, I don't have that. Well, what's kind of close to that? And then I start substituting things out and then it's a completely different thing by the end, but basically it's... Recipes are for babies, I'm just kidding. I used the recipe once when I was like eight years old. So coming back to the thing about rules. I'm just kidding, people use recipes at school. About rules and laws and consequences and stuff. Like what is it specifically? Like what specific rules don't you like? What specific rules don't I like? Like all of them. I don't like the whole concept of rules. Now, if you asked me this like 15 years ago, I probably would have picked out rules. But the longer I've thought about it and the more I've experienced, the more I'm coming to the conclusion that just external rules in general are not useful. I have a good question. Yeah, go for it. Well, what about people who want to go around murdering people? Everybody knows you should not do that. You don't need a rule. This is better. All right, go ahead. Are you using Starlink Internet or do you have plans on getting it? And it seems like you may be able to get a good sponsor from Elon Musk. We've already answered this question like every time we do one of these. Yeah, the Starlink costs what like triple what we're paying right now, quadruple or something. Yeah. Yeah, it's triple what we're paying right now. And our internet works well enough. Yeah. I don't need faster. I'm actually in terms of the internet, I'm only online like once a week when I come over to do this, like I'll go on the internet. And. Start yellow fly. Yeah, see him over there. Yeah. And the longer I spend not online, the more I hate being online. That's a good thing you have me. Like today I went online and I was like, oh, I should look up some, I should search for some parts for this lumber mill I want to build. And I go online and it's just everything. It's frustrating and annoying. And I'm like, okay, let me check my email. And it's like pop up, pop up. And I'm like, no, I don't care about that. And I don't care about that. Go away. The baby's waking up. Oh, go put that baby to sleep, yo. Anyway, so in terms of having internet, I don't really care about how I don't even want internet at my house. How is the roof protection going? Yeah. I'm still waiting for materials for that. I asked, answer that a little bit ago so you can rewind. Yeah, I don't know what, I don't know what called Dorita's Beach is exactly responding to, but I think there's a conversation going on in the comments here. What? Hold on. But this guy's talking about how local business owners give money to local politicians to profit more. And it's just a big mess of people doing the wrong things for money. And yeah, it's terrible. So keep your motivation and drive when you're doing stuff that- Whoa, whoa, don't pull on the wire. All right, Dashaina's question is, how do I keep my motivation and drive when I'm doing something really tedious? Well, I look at my beautiful children and say, oh, they could have such a wonderful world if I just followed through with this dang boring thing. That is actually, partly the reason, in kind of a very specific way. But in general, when I, when I'm, okay, let's talk about when I was, when I was building my house, because that was a huge project that, that took, oh, that took like everything I had to build the cathedral. And, you know, it was a year of just building the thing. And it's not even done yet. Just the main parts are done. And then before that, it was a year of like, getting, just getting it so I could pull a boat into there and, you know, landscaping the thing and like cutting through the jungle. And, you know, it was just, it was a lot of work. And, you know, when I was like a year into that, and I hadn't even started, oh, there's a fly right here. And I hadn't even started, you know, making the actual building. And I was tired. I had nothing really good to look at even. That's the hardest point to stay motivated. It's kind of like the halfway point when you've done all the really grueling grunt work and have nothing really interesting to show for it. And I would just think about past projects I'd done. And the one that I think about probably the most is when I dug a road through the mountains in Vermont. Because when I started digging that, you know, it was a mile and a half of road. And it took me like, like a month and a half, almost two months. And when I started it, I had no idea if I could actually get there. Like I wasn't sure if it was physically even reasonably possible to do this without machinery. And there were sections where I was, you know, I was going along a 45 degree slope. So I had to cut out a trunk here and then take that dirt and put it over there and somehow get a wide enough flat spot for my truck to get through and then build, you know, rock retaining wall on the side. So the dirt just didn't just fall off as I was driving and have my truck tumbled on the road. But and there were days when I hardly got anything done. Like I would maybe make it like three meters along this road. And that was the entire day, you know, dawn to dusk. And I was tired and just I would get home and just eat and go to sleep and then wake up the next day and go some more. But somehow I just kept going and got to the end. So I think about that whenever I feel like, you know, this thing is just, I mean, is this ever gonna happen? It's like impossible. Like how, then I think, no, that road, that road was impossible when I started. But every foot, every meter I did made it more possible. And then like by the time there was a couple of weeks left, I was like, oh, this is actually doable. Like I can see the end. It was funny because the end was along some really steep parts. It took a long time to do the end part. But when I could see the end, it was like, wow, look how much I've done behind. And you know, there's so little distance left, even though it's a lot of hard work. So I just remind myself of that kind of stuff. And that really helps me get going. And then the other thing I also do, yeah, this guy says it doesn't matter how slow you're going, just don't stop. And I would add one other little piece to that, which is if you do stop or even get sent backwards, don't let it stop you. Because when I did that road, there was one point when I was going along the road and I hit this rock and it was a huge rock. I mean, without dynamite, I wasn't getting through it. And I spent a day with a pickaxe chipping away at this rock, but it became clear that I mean, I could spend months, I'm not getting through this thing. So I had to back up two days, two or three days, and then go a different route. But yeah, in one way, I was being sent backwards, but another way to look at it is I figured out that I can't go this way. So that wasn't actually going backwards. I was learning something and then went, but I didn't lose my own momentum. I just went back and just kept going. So yeah, don't worry about slowing, don't worry about speed bumps or anything. Just keep going. And the other thing I think about is what something's gonna be like when it's done. So the whole time I was working on my house, every time I started kind of slowing down. I'm sorry, slowing down. Guys, if you're gonna ask questions, please include the word question before the question or like a couple of question marks so that it's easier for me to see it when I'm scrolling through because it's a really tiny print that I'm looking at. Yeah. So yeah, I keep getting this image in my head. So when I was building my house, I would think if I actually build this thing, it's gonna be like this giant cathedral. It's gonna be the best house in the universe. And it doesn't matter if you exaggerate because to me, it's the best house in the universe. It doesn't have to be the best to have anyone else. I just read something awesome about Tilapia. Apparently they grow 2% a day in a 55-gallon drum. I wanna kill that fly. There's a fly. There was a fly on the screen, but if I smack it, I'm gonna knock the whole thing over. So anyway, yeah, when I'm having difficulty staying motivated, I think about things I've accomplished in the past and I think about what the thing I'm doing right now will be like when I finish it. I don't necessarily say when I finish it. I'm more like say to myself, if I can actually do this, it's gonna be amazing, like this. Oh, I have a good question. Because I don't presume I can finish any of the things I start. I have a good question. Yeah, what's that? So it seems like there's been some debate here. So can you expand on what exactly- I love missing debates. And what exactly happened, if anything, to the houseboat? I don't wanna get into the house, but I gave it away and now it's- It's gone. Someone else's and it's not mine anymore. The thing with the houseboat is, okay, let me get into the houseboat a little bit. Well, I think that was a good answer. No, like why didn't I want to keep it? It's probably a big question. So, and this goes back to trusting yourself. This was probably the last big thing where I trusted someone else. It was like the thing where it was like, okay, I am just not trusting anyone else anymore ever. If I don't think what they're saying is right. So anyway, I got some, like I'd never built a huge boat like this before, right? I was putting a lot of resources into this thing. And we were renting a house and it was somewhere around $8,000 a year to rent this house, something like that. Anyway, that's the number I ended up picking for how much I could spend on building this houseboat. I said, if I build it for $8,000, if I live in it for a year, then financially, I roughly broke even. And I ended up living in it for like six years. So, I mean, financially, it was totally good. Then anyway, this was, this is a big houseboat I was building. It was huge. And, you know, I was like, I'm, I'm a... How wide was it? 23 feet wide, 40 feet long, 25 feet wide. I don't know. It was huge. Okay. Sorry. It's big. We got that. We got the houseboat was huge. Okay. So I'm putting a lot of resources into this. And so I asked people who had built boats, like people who had some expertise in this. And I was given lots of advice about building with plywood and fiberglass. And I was just like, I don't know, man. Plywood and fiberglass. Like I realized the fiberglass is going to protect the plywood. But like, if there's any tiny, tiny, like microscopic hole that water's getting in, then the fiberglass is just holding the moisture in to the wood, which is not good. Like, I don't know about this whole wood and fiberglass thing. Oh no, Jamie, that's, that's, that's the way to do it. You gotta do it. I was like, okay. I mean, this person knows better than me. They have built a bunch of boats. So I built the boat. And then I saw one of the boats, this person built. And he's like, oh, I'm doing some maintenance on the wood. And I'm like, what do you mean you're doing maintenance on the water gets in there? You gotta rip out the fiberglass and, you know, rip out all the plywood and replace it. And I was like, nice. No. So anyway, so the houseboat started getting soft spots, not right away or anything. And, you know, at first it was just a little bit. The back floor, like the back deck, like behind the, you know, the indoor part, it started getting softer and softer. And it never got to the point where it like caved in or anything, but toward the end, it was like pretty step on it. And it was like being on a trampoline a little bit. I was like rolling the dice. Am I going to fall in today? The only reason it didn't collapse is because of the way I designed it. Those pieces, right? No, no idea what I'm going to say. It's because the floor along the bottom, okay, one direction went like this, but the other direction, it went like this. So from the front of the boat all the way to the back, it was hanging. Oh, really? So that, yeah, that's why it could, It was. Like, lengthwise? Yes, from the front of the boat to the back. Yes, lengthwise. It was, the fiberglass was hanging. So that's all that was supporting the boat at the end was the fiberglass hanging there. The plywood was just this mush laying on top of it. And then the top layer of plywood was like decoration again. Decoration. Yeah, decoration. So I mean, I could have done more maintenance on this thing, but it was, it was a couple of times I did pull out some, like cut out some fiberglass, replace some of the wooden side, put the fiberglass back over. And that would be good for a few years, you know? But, you know, it was a losing battle. And I- I feel like there's better things that you could spend your time on too, right? Well, and the thing is I don't want to have that. That's not what I want to build with my life. Like I want my life to have, I want stainless steel wheelbarrow, no maintenance. I want boats that are just fiberglass, no wood, no maintenance. Like, like I'm trying to get out of that lifestyle, which is constant maintenance of constantly things breaking and then having to pour more and more material into it. It was just, it was not what I want to do. And it had, it had served its function long enough and it would have been nice if I could have kept it. Like if I built it just fiberglass, it was a cool boat, it was a really cool boat. But in the end, it was just like, no, that's gonna suck up too much time and energy and resources and like, if I was gonna, if I wanted to have another one of those, I would rather build one from scratch in a way that's going to last 1,000 years without constant maintenance. Because in the long run, it's actually gonna take less material to just build one right than it would to to keep maintaining though the existing one. So that was a huge example of me taking the advice of experts and me not agreeing with it, but going along with it anyway and then realizing, no, I should just listen to my darn disobedience. So the more I learned about everything, the more disobedient I become. So can we just consider this subject dead now? I think that killed it. And then I gave it away and someone else can deal with it now. Okay, so Anonymatron has a really good question. Okay, Anonymatron, who is this Anonymatron? He sounds like some unnamed robot. He says, I don't have a good question. Can you give me one? Here's a good question. What are you gonna do with your life? You know that's from? No. That's from the Twisted Sister video. What are you gonna do with your life? And then the kid is like, I'm gonna rock and then he pulls his guitar out. But it's a good question. It is a good question. So when doing some of these very long grilling jobs, are you listening to music or is it just Jamie and his thoughts? I'm mostly it's Jamie and his thoughts. That's how I like to do it the most. And sometimes I put music on, but I find that if I put music on, it'll kind of short term like energize me a little. But then as it goes on, I kind of like fade more. Whereas if I have no music, I kind of continually increase my energy level. You know, it's like harder at the beginning, but then the longer I'm just in my own head, it's like the more I get everything lined up right. I have vinegar. And the more, yeah. If I don't listen to any music, I have more endurance. Long term. Tom Lindgren. Tom Lindgren, what did you call him before? Lindgren or something? Lindgren, right. He is curious to know if there are ever any visitors that like an announced, invited visitors to just show up at my house since my house is so like kind of. Your house is very visible. You do get a visitor. Well, I'll talk about it. Do you know the police were in my driveway apparently a couple of days ago, I didn't even know. But Terry said she saw them as they were leaving. I guess they came to say hi. Yeah, I just didn't, they probably didn't think it was here. Yeah. The police have always been cool here. They've never had any problems with the police. They brought you cookies. I was really bummed because I didn't know. Dude, what if they brought you cookies again? What if they brought me cookies? I was really sad about that. So I messaged them. I've had a visitor recently. Yeah. Which is not a human. It's a hawk that's up on the hill behind my house. Like there's a dead tree and kind of under it. There's this hawk, like really, really pretty hawk. And it had a nest with two little pink eggs. And a few days ago, I saw a little baby bird. It was just like this little puff ball of cuteness. Was it in the nest? It was, well, it was, it was right. I think they moved their nest a little bit. It's in a slightly more, more covered spot, I guess. Okay. But when it, I noticed it because the mama bird jumped out of the nest and kind of like flopped away and kind of like kind of half hopped and half flew like over to the other side of the island. And I think what it was doing is it was acting like it was hurt. Like, come get me, come get me and leave my baby alone. But I wasn't going to kill any of them. So I just looked at the baby and was like, oh, it's so cute. And then I was like, okay, I'm not going to go over there. And then the mama was back there yesterday. I'm good, I'm glad because I was actually a little... I've scared, I've scared the mama off like three different times, but she's always come back. So I just try to not go in that zone. So a good question. At what age... I don't answer good questions. It's a bad question. At what age do you think you would let the kids boat on their own from island to island? Like from my house to your house or... I have thought about that. I haven't been thinking about that too. I don't know. I think it's... I mean, I don't know what your answer is. I want them to be like kung fu masters, like prepared to handle any situation by then. I mean, before that, I wanted... I want them to drive their own boat with me, you know, kind of escorting them. I have gotten Aurora to start driving from here to there in my boat. She drives in my boat. Yeah. So she does the puddling in the sea. Yeah. So I'm pretty sure, like if I just said, get in my boat and go do it, she could handle it. I think my concern is mostly like if it's windy, like could she handle that like on her own? Or anything. Like if anything happens, like... Like I feel confident that she could like swim, like to the mangroves or whatever. But I mean, I feel like if it got really windy, I don't think she could pedal hard enough to hop and sail. But yeah, you'd also don't want her to swim back to the mangroves and lose the boat. Like losing the boat isn't just a trivial matter here. Like that's how we can go anywhere. Like practice. Grab the rope to go to the mangrove. Well, I should just leave an anchor on the boat, which I don't always do now because I don't usually. But yeah, if there's an emergency situation, throw the anchor over. Let out as much rope as you need. My huge anchor is pretty good. Yes, do heavy for my boat. Oh, your little boat? Yeah, that's a different thing. It's something that it could like scoop something. You know, like it's lightweight, but you could like, don't they make anchors like that? That you like can scoop their type of anchor. They're not super heavy, but you can like throw them in and it's just digs in. It digs in or something. You don't scoop. No, I don't mean like scoop. I thought there was one that just digs into the ground. I thought there was one that kind of like grabs some of the sand or something. They pretty much all do that. Okay, thank you. Yeah. I don't know anything. Unless you have bag of rock anchors. Some people use bag of rocks tied to a rope. I've seen that around here. And one of my friends, he was going out fishing in his canoe, it was like a dugout canoe, but a pretty decent sized one. He had a motor on it. So he's going fishing with a local guy. And he was like, well, I don't have an anchor, so we can't just park somewhere. And the guy was like, oh, just take a bag of rocks. So he was like, all right, that's what people around here do. So they go out with his bag of rocks tied to a rope. And they were kind of far out in some deep water. And it was shallow enough that the bag of rocks would reach the bottom. So he threw his bag of rocks and hit the bottom. And he went out swimming with this guy. And he noticed, oh, there's a shark. A really big one. Oh, there are several of them actually, several bull sharks. Maybe we should go back to the boat. He looks, the boat has been dragged. And the bag of rocks had just been dragged across the bottom until it kind of fell off an edge. So the bag of rocks were just hanging in the water and the boat was just being dragged away. So he had to swim across the deep part, which is like where tons of these sharks were swimming around. And I know sharks almost never bite people. Still, when you're just out in the water and there's a pile of things that could kill you like that. Anyway, he made it to his boat. Got back to tell the tale. So a question is about your current solar setup and what is your plan for the next 12 months? Because in a past video, you mentioned something about it might be changing. What might be changing? Your solar setup. Oh, okay. Well, I don't really, in the next 12 months. That was, can you move over because you're blocking my play? I guess I have general ideas, but there's so many things that I have to do and so many variables going on that the next 12 months is like a big chunk of time right now. But... Beans on now, please. I wanna build a little like solar house behind my house to put solar panels on. Since I only have one solar panel on my roof right now, which is enough to do my computer and lights and the little fan and stuff. But I'm gonna want some more electricity. So, and I wanna put that on a little separate house. And before I do that, I have to dig out a bunch of ground to make a flat spot for this little house. And I wanna plant a lot more food stuff. And I need to build a lumber mill to cut wood to build my second and third floors. And to get the wood, I need... You wanna spell it, you're stopping with lunch? Go. Sorry. I need to dig a canal to get to where I have a lot of trees down. So that's gonna be a bunch of work. And then I'll need to make decent paths where I can roll logs out. So all of that is gonna be a whole bunch of stuff to do. And, you know, I really wanna build a new boat. Are you obsessed with building boats? Man. Is this like a goal of yours to like build the perfect boat? Well, yeah, that's the point. Like all the different boats, it's like a trying different things and I've figured out all this stuff. Like now I've got so many things kind of figured out. I can build a really good boat. Out of all the boats you've built so far, which one is your favorite? I don't know. The most useful one is the one I'm driving right now, the solar snagler. But probably my favorite one is the zombie chopper. That's the white one, right? Yeah, it's not the most practical one. I was thinking you would say that. Yeah, it doesn't have the most, it doesn't have that much cargo space or anything, but I didn't make it for that. I made it to just be a little kind of fast. That one's really fun. It's my white boat. It's got three. It's got like one main pontoon and then two little side pontoons, just to balance it in a little solar roof, which now rotates. Did you upload that video yet? Oh, well, the roof rotates now. It's got five solar panels instead of four now and it doesn't have any batteries, but it has enough solar panels on it that it can go pretty good speed just with the sun, you know, aiming the solar panels at the right spot. And it's also got pedals. So that one's the most fun to drive and if I'm going on a long trip and I don't have a bunch of stuff to take, I'll take that boat. But yeah, the most useful run right now is the solar snailer, which has two pontoons. Or what is what's the other word for them? Sponsons, I'm just calling them pontoons. So it's very stable because it's got two big main pontoons and then floor going all the way across. And then, you know, solar panels and a motor and two pedal seats, which is nice. Now that one, I want to build a boat. That's the boat most similar to the boat I want to build next. But I want it to be, I want it to be a little bit longer, but mostly more sleek pontoons. When you say sleek, what do you mean by that? I like aerodynamics, no, not thinner. Just more sleek. Okay, see this to this like this is not sleek. This is sleek, like the water, not flatter, not flatter, more sleek, like aerodynamic, hydrodynamic. The water can zoom around it, like it just went by nothing. Like the boat goes through the water. Like the white boat leaves almost no wake behind it. You know, wake is the waves. And it goes significantly faster than the green boat. And the green boat is one of the main hull I made much earlier. It was one of the first things I made when we got here, like seven years ago or whatever. And those pontoons are pretty good, but massive room for improvement. So the white boat, which is much more sleek, is much smoother in the water. And with half as much power from the solar panels, it still goes significantly faster than the green one. But I want to kind of get between those two boats. So I have, you know, the bigger boat with more cargo space and easier to get on and off the boat and have that sleekness of the triple pontoon one. Another problem with the triple pontoon one is, you know, all the weight is held up in the middle. So when you get out, you kind of have to step on the pontoon, which if you put too much weight on it, it goes under. So you kind of got to be careful not to just like stand on it. But it's a really fun boat to drive. Anyway, I want to build a boat that has all that stuff. Excellent. And at least two pedal spots. I'd like to do four pedal spots. So I can get a bunch of people pedaling at once, if I happen to have all those people. So I have a couple. And I want it to be more enclosed. So there's a front area or some area where kids can be in, even if it's raining or anything, or they can be locked in so they're not jumping off the side. Not that they do it. Anyway, I've, it's in my brain. It's in my head. I really want to build that. And I want to build a metal boat. Are you going to use? Aluminum Aluminium. Are you going to use those metal shears? And someone, I put this on my Amazon wish list. Because someone, okay. Like, I don't know, two months ago, someone was like, dude, you should make an Amazon wish list. And I was like, well, okay. And then he sent me like, that's the guy who sent me the crayons. And he also sent me a motor. But then. He sent me drill bits. I want some drill bits. To wall drill bits. Oh, to wall, wall, wall. Yeah. So I put a bunch of stuff on there of like varying price ranges. Cause you know, I don't, I don't know what people want to spend. But one of the things I put on there was this big metal shear. And I wasn't really expecting anyone to send that. But I was like, well, you know, might get lucky, but someone totally sent it. Yeah. So anyway. He's living vicariously through you. If I, well, if I build this metal boat that, I mean, now that kind of puts me one step further toward just deciding that I'm doing it. Where's it? Cause it's this big metal shear thing that will be great for cutting, cutting the sheet metal. Oh, I can't wait to set that up. Oh, that's going to be so good. Yeah. So I'm getting pretty close to the point where I want to just say, okay, I'm building this boat. And then just spend like a month building it. And... Do you think that you're going to make like a cool, like Gothic archway type of boat house for these boats to get lifted up? That's because the guy who sent me the shear was asking about arches. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I'm pretty sure his name is Lauren Booker. Oh, are you supposed to talk about people's names on here? Well, yeah, because they like to make sure they know that we are sending them love and... Oh, I send everybody love constantly all the time. Every time I fart, my butt is emitting loved thrills. He really specifically wants to know if you're going to do anything with Gothic archway type construction. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I told him I'd ask you. So I'm asking you. So the next question... Well, when I... You didn't even let me finish the last thing. Oh, I think it's your size. So anyway, with this boat, I want to make it a metal boat. Yeah, oh right. And I'm going to have to put like a million rivets in it. I think, I always think it looks awesome. You know, it'll look a little kind of like steampunkish, but not like that weird steampunkish where people are like, let me glue gears to my hat. And then I'm... No, this is functional stuff. Oh, I hate gears as... Gears as decorations is... Oh, it's such a... Oh, it's blasphemy. But as long as they're functional, it's okay. Any engineer who sees gears as decorations is just like, oh, what a terrible use of that. And it was actually functional. It's like, they're... Well, that's not what I'm talking about. Yeah, I was just wondering if that would be okay. Anyway, so this... Okay, so this boat is not something I absolutely need. I could keep driving the green boat whenever I need to go get cargo or even, you know, rehaul the man. The more I think about it, like if I can make this new boat hold a pretty good amount of cargo and with real sleek hulls, oh, I could cut so much time off like going to get things in general. Okay, so I have... All right, gothic archways. I, you know, I live in a concrete house. So every once in a while, I'm looking at things thinking, man, I could put a nice archway in there. I have a question about this real quick. The problem is I've already got like, kind of a little bit squared off archways. And if I put an archway in under that, it might fall off. So I would have to, it would have to build it from scratch with the archway. Is this like the thing that they did in the castle that we were watching? Like, is that the thing with the blocks that they kind of somehow stacked together and they stay? I mean, in archway, I don't know what a gothic archway is specifically. I'm just thinking about archways in general, just from an engineering point of view. But I do, on the building that I want to build like the little solar house, which will also collect water. It'll be like my backup water thing. So it'll collect water off the solar panels and then have water tank up there. So, you know, have picnics up there. And, you know, if the kids and I are playing up at the top, there's a water spot. Anyway, I will likely put archways up in that building, like as I'm building it. So it would be functional to like the building being more like- Yeah. Yeah, there would be functional. I'm not just making decorative archways. Oh no, I mean, I just, I don't really know much about how archways function. I assume it's like some pressure- Okay. If you have a flat thing like this, that's concrete, right? And it's basically gonna break. No, obviously, but it's definitely subject to breaking. But if you have an archway, right? Like for it to break, it basically has to like collapse in on itself, but the concrete is so strong in compression. So that's compression? Yeah, compression is like- It's tension. Tension is like- Pulling, okay. Yeah, this is tension. Like between us is tension. Tension, oh my God. The tension between us is so- Okay. So you would possibly- Compression is what happens to my head when you and I have tension. A really important question, maple syrup or honey? Oh, they're both so excellent. Yeah, I know. That's all right there. Well, the thing I think is like here, I can have honey, but I can't grow maple syrup here because it's not cold enough. Yeah, so we're gonna have honey. I hope to have some bees. I hope to come back. But if you brought me like a waffle, and we're like, would you like honey or maple syrup on that? I'd be like, I think I'd pick maple syrup though. I think I was gonna say, I think I would too because it's something I wouldn't have access to like regularly. And maple syrup is delicious. They have maple syrup here, but it's so expensive. Oh, it's ridiculous here, because they don't make it here. So, okay, I know we've listened to podcasts in the past. Yeah, if I just had the choice. Yeah. On the spot. On the spot. I would probably take maple syrup. Yeah. I think I would agree with that. I think the distinct flavor of maple syrup is just something else. Anyway, so we've listened to podcasts in the past. Yeah. Yeah. I guess. What have we listened to? The story, the story of podcasts. Oh yeah, story of podcasts. Those are great. Yeah, so like what are some of the, you know, to listen to like, if you're listening to it by yourself or with the kids or whatever, like, is there a specific genre or type, group of genres that you like to listen to? I was thinking of that guy you listened to on the radio sometimes at one o'clock on Fridays. I think we're 11 o'clock on Fridays, the strange brew. Yeah, the radio thing. Yeah, that's like a podcast. Yeah, that's Mike Weber's strange brew radio show. I listened to that. Okay, so I was saying earlier that I didn't listen to music very often when I'm working on things, but every Monday and Friday at noon for one hour, and it was, on Monday he would do a show and then it was just a repeat on Friday or maybe it was Friday and then repeated on Monday, but anyway, it was only, it was a repeat every other one. But anyway, every Monday and Friday I listened to his radio show and I liked it because it was, it's this guy who plays music from like the 60s to today. So it's like all kinds of different music but he talks about, you know, the history of the music as he's going like, like here's this song made by the Beatles when they were, you know, an interesting story, you know. McCarthy was out on the beach and saw a wave and it just gave him the idea for this thing, you know, and here's the song, you know, he's, and he always has this really positive vibe and he's got all, yeah, he's just got like little stories about, you know, this, they record this song right next to the studio where Led Zeppelin was doing the thing and they actually got the bigger room even though Led Zeppelin got super famous, you know, stuff like this is, he had a real good vibe. Right, I like it. So stuff that has like a positive kind of tone to it. Yeah, I don't know what I want to listen to though. But you did like the story anytime, the story's podcast. Story's podcast, yeah. With, oh, the Good Night, Max Good Night. Max Good Night, Max Good Name. Yeah. He didn't have a last name. And a silent night. Yeah, when he went to register as a night, like he wasn't really a night, but he was like, well, I'm gonna be a night. And he got his friend to make an illusion of armor on him so he could go fight in the night games. Joseph and Patrick, you're welcome. Thank you so much. Which was super ballsy. He had so much courage to do that because he wasn't actually wearing armor. He just looked at it, looked like it. But anyway, he went up to the registration and was like, they're like, what's your name? He's like, Max? Well, Max what? He's like, good, good, good, good name. Name? So his name is Max Good Name. Isn't that awesome? It's on you guys. Oh, yeah, there was a song. I don't remember. OK, so in one of these stories, podcasts, they would go on adventures with knights and dragons. And there was a Basilisk in one. There were magic and stuff. It was that kind of thing, like fantasy. But in one, was it Max? Or someone was singing this song? Of course it was Max and his horse that he was on. He was singing a song about a donkey. And I don't remember the actual song. It was a pony. Yeah, the pony, right. But I ended up singing a song that was similar to this, but I don't remember the things. And now the kids sing it. And it goes something like this. I have a pony and his name is Bologna and he drives all over town. I have a pony and his name is Bologna and he makes something brown. I have a pony and his name is Bologna and he drops it all over town. I have a pony and his name is Bologna and he makes the people frown. That was so fetching. Anyway, that was my version of it. The original one was different. Everybody's going to leave it. But the kids love that one. Because it has to do with. We just lost 20 people just kidding. Hey, it was. I was joking. Karkana's singing it down here right now. But anyway, the song is about poop and people being upset about it. So it's, kids love it. And that's kind of my maturity level in terms of jokes. Most of my jokes have to do with farts and poop and stuff. So coming to the same kind of concept of podcasts. Are there any people like, you know, men or women like in the world today or in history, like even billions of years ago, whatever that inspire you? I don't know. Leonardo da Vinci was pretty cool. He was pretty cool guy. He was always coming up with these inventions and stuff. That was pretty cool. But I don't know enough about him to really say that much. But I was, I like you'd be inspired by him. I like that he like did. He did a lot of stuff, you know, I think that was pretty cool. I think he'd be inspired by him. I think you'd also maybe be inspired by some of the Greek philosophers, like a few of them, I think have a lot of similar kind of questioning everything and not accepting the status quo. Yeah, I'm kind of inspired by people in general who have done things that were difficult. So it's not really like a specific people. It's just like and often it's not it's not even like I won't even know who the person is, but I'll see something in the world and be like, man, somebody made that happen. Somebody made that incredible thing. And at the beginning, there was not that there. And now it's there. And there was somebody who made it happen. And I don't even know who it is, but that person inspired me. Right. Yeah. Tomaters, when it means to remind you, I think I might have forgotten to tell you this. Oh, Tomaters. He got you some stainless steel bolts. The stainless steel bolts and that's it. That is awesome. Yeah, you don't know. I'm not sure how she even going is. OK, let me just so sometimes I don't watch YouTube anymore. But when I used to have the Internet, occasionally I'd see videos where people would talk about the apocalypse and I'd always be like, oh, the apocalypse. Let's click on that because I'd click. I'd click on that before I'd click on, you know, guy hurting his testicles, skateboarding or whatever. And people would often have these debates about what I ever said was like, Bitcoin, it's going to be Bitcoin because there'd be Internet in the apocalypse. Right. Anyway, so the question always came down to. What's going to be the currency of the apocalypse? What are we going to use to buy food? And I'd always be like food is the currency of the apocalypse. You idiot. Everyone is trying to buy food with various different things because food is the thing. But in addition to food, things like stainless steel bolts, stainless steel, all kinds of stuff, because that stuff is not going to disintegrate in the apocalypse. Like any steel stuff, you know, 20 years into the apocalypse is all rusting through and falling apart. But stainless stuff, people are going to be like, oh, my gosh, I need to bolt something together and all my bolts are rusted. Stainless, you've got a stainless nut in a stainless bolt. Oh, my gosh. I will give you like six pumpkins and in like 32 sheep. Just give me two stainless bolts and two stainless that so I can put this thing together. Yeah, in titanium. Oh, things that are made out of. Anyway, super. Thanks for the stainless steel bolts, man. That's like money in the apocalypse. I just also want to say, guys, if I've missed your question, please feel free to repeat it until like I answer it or get, you know, ask it because I have missed a few and not intentionally, you know, because he just doesn't stop talking. And I have to remember the question. Yeah, just just do your scroll in there. Just keep talking. And then I just. All right. Now you're doing it. Wait. Oh, no. Best bad joke. Wait, wait, you know, on the subject of stainless bolts and stuff, if I build and I think I'm going to end up building this metal boat, you're going to have to know I'm going to have to order a lot of aluminum, aluminum rivets. Although there is still a minor debate. Do I build it as stainless steel or marine grade aluminum? I think I'm going with the marine grade aluminum. So I'm going to need tons of marine grade rivets. So. But anyway, that's I'm not I'm not there yet. Although the other thing I was thinking about recently was what I'm going to need to build a lumber mill. And someone said when I get the lumber mill designed, I need to, you know, say it so so that guy could order me a couple parts and stuff. So let me I'm still figuring out what parts I have and what parts I need and what they can get stuff. Speaking of designing, yeah, do you want to mention to tomaters what's going on with the coffee mug design? Oh, yeah. Oh, so I had the coffee. OK, this back up a little bit. Tomaters was like, hey, can you make an adventure builder coffee mug that I can buy? And I was like, yeah, of course, man. And then like a week went by and I was like, oh, yeah. And then another week went by and I was like, I've got the design, but I totally forgot to give it to the Shayna. It's in my bag right over there. That was last week. Now, this week I've got the thing. I've got the drawing place with the cable. You've got the cable so I can tablet. Yeah. So anyway, I also have two videos I need to give you. Yeah. And I still have to upload a bunch of although the two videos are questionable. Maybe I can get a little bit of feedback with. So I started a series called Troll in the Trolls. And I don't want to turn into some huge negative thing. But I mean, you got to have a little bit of fun with the trolls once a while. So it's basically and but maybe slightly trolly manner. How does that sound like a terrible idea? I'll let you know what comes up. Maybe I maybe I just maybe I just need to put the videos up and then people will be like, yo, that was a little too much, man. You took it too far. I don't I don't think I took it too far. I think it was a good level. I have a serious question for you. What's the question? How do frogs bond sheet metal? Oh, OK, speaking of speaking of people who inspire me, I don't know who invented rivets, but man, someone figured out rivets. You can put a thing through and it makes all someone figured that out. What? OK, so that's a joke. I you may tell me when I think. All right, go ahead. I mean, I'm not going to say the joke. Go ahead. I think you should. It's the the cow on the side of the one cow on the side of the road. The two cows. Oh, the two cows in the field. Field, yes. With no roads around. No roads around. All right. So here's a here's a joke. I'm going to do the whole continuation after two. All right, there's two. Tomatoes says you build it. We will buy. The coffee man. Excellent. OK, but there's two cows standing in a field and one of them says. Another one looks up and says, hey, I was going to say that. Then there's a bunch of there's a bunch of bums sitting on a on a on a park bench. And one of the bums says. And the bomb next to him. This is actual bombs like buttocks, like but cheeks, but cheeks. And the one next to us, oh, I was going to say that. Now, don't do the lady one, please. There are a few. No, that's quite terrible. There were a few ladies standing at the bus stop waiting for the bus. I'm rolling my eyes right now. And one of the ladies says, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then the lady next to her look to her and says, the next one says that, too. And the next one says that too, yeah, it's all. That we're we're Layer of Less way to sleep on the couch. Though, like, if you get tired of sleeping in your bed next to some sweaty old lady, you can tell all jok? You get the couch. All right, no, here's here's my best bad joke best best bad joke best bad joke Are you ready? Yeah, tell me Let's see knock knock Who's there? I ape I A poo. Oh that is Disgusting. We've got some other snacks really. Oh Who's there? I had a great I had a great poo Why was it was a great poo or a great poo or was it a great? You had a great poo. Yeah a great poo great No, you had a great poo. It's a great poo. Do you really want to tell them that though? Yeah, I poof. Oh my god. He is not great all the time. She's walking up. I have monochrome feces and it fires out I'd like 300 miles No, no bells, we're not doing that. Okay, so what's your next question? It is hilarious Having little kids who just wander around butt naked doing silly things. Oh, oh wait I'm sorry. There's a question. It's been asked four times. I just completely forgot. Yeah, what's going on? Okay, it's Jamie your job. Have you spent on grinding sparks? Oh Man, what's the cost for spark? I Love me some granny sparks man whenever I'm whenever I'm grinding with some sparks I'm always like, ooh, I gotta get my camera out for this part because it's so it's so camera friendly all of them sparks shoot now Not as delicious as ball bearings though. Oh ball bearings Stop thinking things. I'm not I was focusing on this fly that I was really trying to do. You killed it. I got it Carcass confirmed. Carcass confirmed. Okay. I need to wash my hands. Yeah, you try it. I don't care Okay, so wash my hands when I'm touching someone in chairs. How often do you get baloney? I Have baloney in my name is pony. I don't know. Well, we we get those big hot dogs It's baloney. Well, yeah, we chicken baloney occasionally at the store We'll get these Balonies I just call them giant hot dogs because that's basically what they are It's just like a like a really fat hot dog, but I don't know once every couple weeks or something Yeah, maybe like once every two or three weeks, we'll get one of those and eat it Um, do you worry that your ones likes and needs are gonna change in the next five 10 15 years? Nah I'm an old fart now. So everything stays the same. I'm setting the ways No, I'm trying to think what what what's gonna change that I'm gonna want or need Well, you're gonna need a walker soon And no set of 16. I'm just gonna get my walk. I'm in there. Yeah I'm going I'm going full speed right into the hole when all your teeth fall out. Are you going to get replacements? Do you think you would ever just have all your teeth removed and just get fake ones put in don't you love my teeth? My teeth are so nice Don't you love my smile? Do you love my smile come give me a kiss give me a kiss come on, sweetie Oh I think that's my favorite face. Yeah Because it looks the absolute worst Okay, what's your other question there? Here go get Well, I've got 10 more minutes before it's two hours Whoa, oh some questions you've got hidden on your tablet somewhere back somebody but quack That's quack Where did you learn about sir sir creep your house? Oh, I don't know. I just on the internet somewhere Someone might have said it in a comment somewhere And that's where you just I'm not sure. Yeah, it was just like I mean and then I did a little test piece and it came out really good and I was like, oh Well, that sounds good Is the bologna like oscar mayer bologna, you know, it's spicier just there's a It has like well at least it's there's a couple different kinds. It has like peppercorns Yeah, there's a that's my favorite kind with the peppercorns. I like spicy stuff. You can sit right here if you need to All right, only if jamie can take you on his lap. So, um, Tom Lindgren I think jamie should be the next wiggle star. What is a wiggle? I have no idea but we're not going there right now So Tom Lindgren would like to know a very important question that is what does the shana want jamie to fix with her dome? Okay, that was a good answer So question wait for mine you built a van to travel to south america What was your flight and what happened to the truck? Well, they Yeah, it was a u-haul truck or a retired u-haul truck We bought like really cheap and turned it into a little house and we drove Let's see we drove around and visited all our family people and then When we left we flew and got our stuff shipped from the truck. Yeah, we did consider driving it But we didn't because it was so complicated. Oh, yeah getting across all the borders and everything is ridiculous Yeah, we were also yeah Um, we weren't sure where we wanted. I wanted to go a little faster and try to figure out where we wanted to end up being Yeah, and then Yeah, when did that happen? We like oh it got sold my dad sold it Okay, good like he went and cleaned it out for us and then sold it to us some guys who wanted to start a I don't care what they want to do. They still they have it. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, it might be a food truck right now It could be a food. Oh, it'd be cool. Yeah, they were super excited about it. Yeah, good Yeah, but it became it became something cool. Yeah, I just don't know what well That's good. I could ask my daddy, you know my my pickup truck truckasaurus Yeah, I ended up selling it to a guy like sandblasted the whole thing, right? I don't know, but I sold it to a guy who was like just down the road Who was like I was you know talking to him. I was like, yeah, you know, I'm leaving soon I'm gonna sell my truck He was like, oh man. I wish I had a truck like that and I was like You got 50 bucks And he was like, well first I said 200 I like yeah, well you got 200 bucks. I'll sell it to you right now He was like, oh Oh my god. He was like, oh, I don't have 200 bucks. I was like, yeah 50. It's like, you sell me the truck for 50 bucks It was like, man, how much you want this truck? Yeah, serious. So I sold it to him And uh, man, that guy got one of those sweet deals, you know, that's the deal where it's like You end up getting a corvette for like 20 bucks because there was a divorce and something something Yeah, he was just there at the right time and it was like, oh my gosh I would love to have one of those and it was like right when we were leaving And I was like, I could just take this off my plate right now I mean, yeah, I could get a few thousand dollars for the truck probably But this guy really wants it and yeah, that's cool. So it's like the two vehicles became something cool Yeah, hopefully and I saw that dude driving around like the next day. He was so excited Um, why no windmill? yet Oh, that's funny because yesterday was yesterday the day before I pulled out This windmill that I got for 20 dollars. It's only part of it. It's like the main The main housing with the generator and everything without the propeller blades on it And uh, I got it for 20 bucks I don't know like six years ago or something just from a guy in a sailboat You know, he posted it on facebook wan ads whatever And I was like, I'll take it and I drove up to his Oh, don't pull that and I drove up to the sailboat and Just bought it right from boat to boat And then it's been sitting kind of in my stuff for a few years and the other day I pulled it out And you know took it all apart and the wires were cut off like right in there So I couldn't even get to the wires But I you know got the access to the wires hooked up my little voltmeter Check that it's actually producing electricity hooked up a little motor to it turned it with my hand It turned the motor like everything seems to be functioning with it So and it's a it's a marine Wind turbine, so it should be pretty high quality. I just need to build some propeller blades for it You know fix the wires a little mounted on something and then I can uh, you know use it It's only 200 watts. That's not a huge one 400 watt peak, but it's rated for 200 watts continuous But that's useful, you know, I remember we talked about this many years ago Like we're on the time we were just getting to know how much we were gonna love each other Um So you had pets growing up, right cats or something. Yeah, stuff like that cats mostly yeah, and you're kind of allergic to them A little bit. Yeah, so have our kids the thing is like I'm a lot less allergic since moving out to the wilderness Yeah, like I can go up to a cat. It's not a big deal anymore, right Um, so have you have our kids shown any interest in having pets dude? They have like rabbits and chickens and what else they have they have there's Totally like dogs. Oh, yeah, the rabbits are like in and out of the house all the time. You can call them and they'll come to you Yeah, the rabbits are basically like little puppies that don't work And you have you have baby rabbits in here somewhere downstairs. Yeah, the baby rabbits are so cute But you know, I didn't I didn't finish the windmill thing. Oh, sorry Well, my island is actually two little islands next to each other and on the one other island Which the like the little island kind of in front of my house Which faces the wind I want to build like a like a dutch windmill There's only two islands there right in front of my house. Yeah But I want to build like a building, you know, big windmill thing like like the dutch windmills or like In nasa ka valley of the wind nasa ka of the valley of the wind I don't know if anyone's seen that movie but it's a pretty cool movie Actually, I like some of the characters more than I like the story. The story gets pretty bleak Yeah, I wouldn't I would say it was but the the valley of the wind was really cool They lived in this valley and they had all these big buildings of windmills and the the castle where the king lived It was like a double tower big Oh, yeah pets. Yeah, the kids have tons of pets. Yeah, and they have like pets that they also have pets that are not Uh contained like wild animals Who's fendor? Oh the bird. Yeah And then all those some kind of crane or something I think for Ivan I don't know, but he's gray. Yeah. Oh, you might want to help her dump that but then there's also There's also all those now All those uh dark frogs Various frogs, they're really pretty. Yeah, they're really cool. We've been seeing a lot of them more lately I think yeah, I'm more abundant Um, they eat the bugs they eat the bug larva somebody was asking why did I bring them on to the island and I because of ants Oh, that's right I should get them not eating But the termites I observed them doing it Oh, I even cut open the hole a bit more so more would come out so they can eat the frog they've got in there Yes, dude, I might want some of those frogs. I don't have a termite problem or anything But like I don't need to wait till I have one before I get the frog Supply of food that they can eat. Well, there's something there they can eat I'm sure they can find some termites on my whole island. They can find some termites and some mosquito larva If there's any mosquito larva around they'll they'll hop around and all the plants and stuff. We'll eat that, right? Yeah, I'm probably cut down on the bugs a little and I think they lay their eggs in um In the pineapple plants because we The other day and had this foreign just red goo stuff that looked kind of like Fish eggs and I think it was frog eggs. I'm pretty sure it was the green frogs, too Are you gonna ask what my social life looks like? Yeah. Um, so another question is what's your social life? I have like no social life Yeah, I have highly kids twice a week. I have moving night twice a kid twice a week twice a week I don't know mostly it's just hanging out with my kids, but When I go to town I sometimes visit some friends there But usually I'm in town. I'm not I don't want to spend that much time You know screwing around I thought it's screwing around visiting friends, but um Yeah, I don't have a super act. Oh Somebody needs to tighten her nuts. You need to tighten your nuts. All right Yeah, I wouldn't say I have a bustling social life But you know, there are a few people here and there that we hang out with What's the uh, or I hang out with you have more of a social life than me A lot of my social life is When you get work away or that's right, or you know woofers or things like that Stop kicking then you have people over and I'll come and decide if I want to talk to them or not Yeah, I mean I do invite guests here on a regular basis. Yeah, and then you have the choice Yeah, for me. I think a lot of it is like I've been enjoying that nobody comes to my house. Yeah Um, which I mean isn't something I want to always happen Like I'm gonna I want to I want to start having people over or more often Yep, but I I am kind of enjoying having no visitors You're gonna what? Oh, so you can move your legs. Yeah, I just needed to sit up more. Um, that's fine. You can be the big one I should have more of a social life though. I I think probably but I'll I'll work on that So, uh, I'd like to somebody would like to know why is it that you have to be so painfully honest about everything Well, I have a disagreement with that question. I think it's the wrong question to ask See, I don't I don't buy this whole brutal honesty thing If uh, if the truth is making you feel bad You need to change not the truth. That's what I think Like usually people get upset About the truth when it's something they don't like about themselves and they don't want to do anything about it Then they just get upset instead of actually doing something about it But it's much more valuable in the long term to actually face the truth whatever it happens to be And I found I found that with myself for sure and with You know other people in general when people face the truth It turns out much better in the long run So, yeah, I don't I don't I don't buy the idea that the truth should ever be painful Or any more painful than anything else like you know bad things happen, you know, that's part of the deal Lying about it doesn't make it not have happened What are you doing? No, why are you taking a picture? Does someone ask to take a picture? Well, I think I just wanted a picture What's my plan for me? I have a question for you. So we were talking about this a couple of days ago and just remembered Um, and I want you to comment on your response when people say that They don't like us uh art family participating in the live shows Families here like what do we what do you want me to do like not have a family? The thing is like ever since I had kids the first video I had where Where I showed a kid You know a bunch of people were like I don't want to see your kids. I don't care about that and like Okay, then Yeah, the thing is there's plenty of videos to watch there are a million videos to watch on on the internet If you don't want to see ones with kids then don't watch it Um, but there are also A lot of people and this is one of the videos I made about the troll comments You know, there are a lot of people who really appreciate Seeing my kids in videos and they what they watch my videos with their kids and they'll you know, I often get requests You know, can you have your kids in the videos more? So it's like Some people say can you have your kids less some people say you can have your kids more? But I don't know What if I just got to pick something and do it and if you're one of the people who who does not want to see Kids there are tons of channels There where you can see no kids. Oh my gosh, maybe I should start putting a little like, you know How I sometimes do the brackets and I say features like to Shayna maybe should say features kids and then they know Not to click on it. Yeah. Well, and also like Years and years ago when I was first starting to do YouTube videos I had to decide a bunch of things like one was am I swearing or am I not swearing? Like am I going to have a kid and family friendly channel? Or am I going to you know, say the f word whenever whenever it comes up and I picked to have a family friendly channel and that includes having having kids in it sometimes and I've gotten a lot of feedback from parents who Who thank me for having, you know, a kid friendly channel You know as easily as many people that complain about it so Um, how would you deal with people that I don't deal with people. I just hide on my island and close the door Our Mighty, how do I deal with people? What that you don't want to talk to you? Oh, that's basically it Uh, like like what circumstance doesn't matter Well, sometimes going back to when you have work-awayers or stuff Sometimes you have people over and I meet them and I'm just like Oh, I just kind of like turn around and go home Or I'll hang out with the kids. You know and just yeah, I just I don't fake it generally like I'll give people a lot of benefit of doubt like when I first meet someone I'm always friendly and say hi and stuff and you know But uh, when it gets to the point where someone Has mentioned the brand name of their clothes and their car and their hats and their watch And they're asking me what brand name I blah blah blah and it's just everything is a brand name I'm pretty quickly like Okay, well, I'm I I'm not really interested in this so I'm gonna go do something else And then you know, they usually look down on me because because I don't care about brand names Which is funny because like Ah, Irini. Okay. Irini moving on to the next question. Okay moving on to the next question That's okay Well, I think let's have one more question because it's been two hours people must be getting sick of my ugly head by now Any plans for major storms Well, my my island has a lot of protection in terms of plants Like often I can't tell if it's windy because I have big trees Around my house like there's a big hill behind my house and then in front there's big trees We also don't really have major storms. Well, there's there's some stormy time I think that I think the plan for major storms is basically don't go anywhere Like just stay in my house. Yeah, I think our kids need us. Yeah, let's say goodbye. Yeah. Bye. Bye That's it. Bye. What Wait, wait, there's one more question. What was that? No Yeah, it was that you'd answer that when I just had it up So you should make a rebel brand name for people who don't care about brand names to have a brand to represent those views Yeah, that's the adventure builders adventure builder. I was actually thinking I should make like adventure builder brand stuff Which is all like Like super hardy heavy duty will last forever. Like you buy this you buy this pocket knife It will last For your like your grandkids and stuff. I'm turning this off. You can be talking Bye everybody. Yeah. Bye guys. Thanks for joining us today