 Am I early? Yeah, like two minutes. Two minutes early? Oh. Like 10 people here already. Oh, what's up? Oh. How do I even know what time it is? You think it doesn't save the time on it? Well, it's like 10.59 now. Oh. Well, I have a minute. I'd better just wait a minute. Hi, everyone. I'm waiting for the show to start, too. I actually didn't figure out what I'm talking about yet today, so I gotta do that really quick. We've got a live one here. No. We're still waiting. It's only 10.59. It's only 10.59. We've got like one more minute. Just gotta do nothing for a little bit. Just chillin' out. Do nothing. Do nothing. Hold on. I can adjust this. Oh, man. DeShanna always sets it up, so there's so much space over my head. Maybe she thinks there's stuff going on above my head that people need to see, like fumes, like smoke or something. There's smoke coming out of my head. I don't know. What if I just sit here really still? I think it's broken. Oh, the thing moved. Oh, Jeff, were you giving me suggestions of what I could talk about this morning? This morning. Yeah. Yeah, I could do nothing. I could just do nothing. How's it going, Zach? So is it 11 o'clock yet? Am I supposed to start doing stuff now? Or am I still waiting? It's probably 11 o'clock now. So I guess I should talk about something. Well, I made myself a new shirt yesterday. It's all painted fancy. I'm actually really happy with how it came out. She makes faces behind you from there. Did someone make faces behind me? Were you making faces behind me? I think so. Okay, go away. Or do whatever you want. I love all my kids' shirts. Oh, yeah. Maybe I should put this shirt in my thing. Yeah, it came out really good. I'm really happy with that. I've been drawing a bunch of stuff lately that I'm really happy with, which is, okay, hold on a second. My 10-year-old is just standing right there staring at me. Are you being weird? Go play or something. All right. All right, was that Zach? Was that 100% I should sell them? Yeah, I should get this picture and put it on my things. Yeah, I think you're right. I think I should. I wasn't really thinking about that when I did it. I was just, I was just like, first I just, you know, did this, the standard stencil of my thing. And then I was like, well, I think it needs flames. So I just got a paintbrush and painted flames around it. And then in the blue, like there were little spots that were kind of like sparkly because the paint hadn't totally dried yet. And I was like, oh, that should totally be like outer space. So I did lots of little dots. So it kind of looks like little stars. But anyway, still pretty cool. Okay, Zach, I'm going to try to remember to do that. Hey, I'm going to say it to DeShana. So she remembers. Hey, DeShana. Yeah. You know the shirt I'm wearing right now? Yep, I know. And I'll take care of it. Okay. You're going to take care of it? How are you going to take? I'm going to try to get this, my fiery, my fiery shirts on some shirts that people can buy. Because this is pretty cool because for years, I wasn't really, I wasn't really feeling good about drawing things or painting things like pictures and stuff. You know, it's just like, like if I was trying to draw a person, like I had to do it all mathematically. I couldn't just do it. Like I used to do when I was a kid or like in high school or even at university when I was, oh, don't be so high. Okay. Because I used to be, I've historically been a very artistic person. You know, I could get a pencil and some crayons and some paper and, you know, draw something that actually looks pretty good. And then for like, I don't know, almost a decade, I just kind of lost the ability. And I really noticed it. This was like 10 years ago. Yeah, it was probably like 10 years ago. I was hanging out with a friend and he's a video game maker, like an independent video game guy. And that's like his main thing. Like that's his job. He makes video games. And we were sitting around talking about some video game we were thinking about making. And we were drawing things for the video game and I was trying to draw a spaceship. And I just couldn't draw a spaceship. I couldn't draw anything that looked reasonably good. And it was just, it was just horrible. Like he's sitting there drawing all these cool, creative spaceships and then these other robotic things and characters for the game. And I'm just sitting there trying to figure out how to draw this, just a spaceship that looks cool, you know? But because I hadn't actually designed it, I didn't know what the parts were. I couldn't draw it. And after I thought about it and I realized, oh, I think it's because I've been in like technical mode for so long. This is around the time I'd been working on some robot toys. So I was constantly doing CAD on the computer and my brain was all thinking about the specific parts with the exact dimensions and all the relationships of the parts, you know, to get something to work. So when I went to try to draw something that I wanted to just look cool, my brain was just like, I don't know what that is. We're totally turned on to a different way of thinking. And I don't know, I guess a couple months ago, I was like, man, I want to start being artistic again. You know, I want to be able to like get a piece of paper and drawing and enjoying it and making something that I'm actually happy with. And I would say in the last two weeks, it's happened. Like now I can like make nice drawings and things. It looks cool too, but you know, mostly I want to think it looks cool first. And I guess to rewire that part of my brain took a couple months after I decided I wanted to do it. Or I got to turn off the comments for a minute because I keep reading them. So it really made me think about this phrase that I don't really hear people say very often anymore, that I heard more when I was a kid and it got said even more than that before I was even born. Which is you can do anything you put your mind to. And I think that's like an idea that's kind of been lost in our society today. Because like people have this idea that you just are a thing and if you have aptitude for something, that's what you do. And if you're not good at something once, you'll never be good at it and that's it. But it's not true at all. Like I couldn't draw a crap after years of being able to draw a pretty cool crap and then I just had to focus on it and put some energy into it and then it's like my brain was like oh that's what we're being now. So be that again. And it also makes me think of this track and field story. A lot of things make me think of track and field stories. Now I feel a little bit like I'm Arnold Schwarzenegger talking about weightlifting and pumping your muscles because everything relates to muscles. But anyway, track and field was a huge part of my life for like 10 years and I got a lot of lessons from track and field. So I'm going to tell this quick little story that kind of illustrates this whole thing I'm talking about about being able to put your mind to something and then you can become that when you're not it at all. Like you can totally change who and what you are. However, people will try to stop you. So anyway, when I first started running my coach was like, you're an 800 meter runner. You're a middle distance runner. A middle distance and a long distance runner. And I was like, well, yeah, but I kind of like to do decathlon. And there's two issues there. One, there's not a lot of decathlons. It's like a two day event. You do 10 events and then you get scored on every event and whoever, whichever decathlete has the highest score at the end they win. And, you know, they have it at the Olympics and the world championships and, you know, big track. But your standard high school track meet does not have a decathlon. But I could still do all the events in the decathlon. And my coach is like, thanks to the fast Twitch, you're not like that. But you can run. I've seen you. I see you. You can run. So let's do that. You've got natural, natural. That's the thing. Natural talent there. And I was just thinking, well, I can run because I've been playing soccer for years and all these other sports where you run a lot. If I do this other stuff, I could probably do that too. But no, no, train for 800 meters. Do middle distance, do middle distance. And I was like, all right, fine. I'll just do middle distance. Because this was back before the days when I refused to do anything anyone told me. So I complied and was like, all right. And I got pretty good at running this 800 meters. In fact, during high school, I won every race that I broke a bunch of records. It looked pretty good. I even got recruited to run at universities and ended up going to university, being recruited to run 800 meters. And my coach there was like, well, you're kind of a big, a big muscley guy to be running middle distance. Let's shift you down a little bit to like 400, 800, kind of. So I changed events a little bit there. But it was still like, no, you're this guy. This is who you are and this is what you are. So that's what you're going to do. We're going to keep you there, do the same thing. So within the first year, I realized this guy was a terrible coach. All of his athletes were injured and I was getting injured and I got in a big fight with them because I was like, I'm not going down like just permanent injuries for the rest of my life. This is not acceptable. It's not okay. So I got in a big fight with them and we ended up making a deal that as long as I finished the season with him, then I could do another event with another coach and he doesn't care what I do, just go away after that. So I did, I finished the season and ran what he found acceptable. And then after that, I went to the multi-event coach who coaches the cathalon or for girls that's heptathlon because I don't know girls can't count to 10 or something. I don't know, whatever. They have different events for guys and girls. Guys do 10, girls only do seven. Although indoors is the pentathlon and guys and girls both do the pentathlon. Anyway, that's only five events and do it all in one day. So I go up to this multi-coach and she knows that I'm a middle distance and just to calculate, what do you think of that? And she's like, what? Actually, I didn't even ask her what do you think of that? I just walked over to her and said, like, in the middle of a practice, this lady I've never spoken to before who's a coach trying to have her practice and I was like, I want to be a decathlete and she's like, but you're a distance runner. What are you talking about? Because I've got this label on my head. This label, I'm a distance runner. I'm a distance runner. That's what I do. That's what I do. No, no, I want to do this thing. And she's like, all right, have you ever done any of these events? And I'm like, well, I mean, a little bit. And she's like, all right, just hop in and just to hop in with everyone else is doing. Just come along. Let's see what you can do. So the first day we were doing high jump and I had actually done a little bit of high jump. So by the end of the first day, she was like, all right. I mean, we might be able to get to somewhere eventually. So I'm not going to cut you from the team. Well, I'll just let you kind of tag along. So that year ended and over the summer, I tried to do a little more extra push-ups and sit-ups and chin-ups and stuff to get more strength and started doing a little bit of sprint stuff to basically change this thing because for years, I'd just been this endurance machine. Just go, go, go, go, go, go. You know, it was like middle distance, but also long distance. Like this endurance machine. And I was like, I'm pretty sure I can do this other thing because the whole time I was running this 800 meters, I'd be training for it and I'd be doing the race. I'd always be looking, looking at, oh, there's the high jump guys and there's the javelin people and they're like, oh, there's the hurdlers. Oh, that stuff looks so fun. And I'm just like in the most, it's like the most painful in terms of wanting to throw up events, the middle distance. Oh, it just makes you want to throw up. But also, I just felt like I want to do those other events. They look so fun. I want to do those. But I'd always been told for years, no. So anyway, we come back. It's the second year of university and training starts, you know, well before the competitive season starts and maybe a month or two into it. My coach is tagging along. You don't really know what you're doing. But we're going to have this little mini event just with our two main guys. They're just going to do an indoor pentathlon on their own. If you want to tag along, you know, that's fine. You can come do the competition too. You got to get a bit of practice sometime, right? So I looked there and said, you know I'm going to win that, right? And I knew, I'd been keeping track of how I was doing and how these other guys were doing. And even though I was being completely ignored, I was starting to make some progress, starting to get somewhere. I knew they could beat me in most of the events. However, the last event is a distance event and I can kill them in that. So as long as I can stay close to them, the last event, I can blow them out and win the whole thing, right? So I tell her, you know, I'm going to win that, right? And it was like the first time she actually looked at me and in her mind it cracked the idea that maybe I'm not just this tagging along guy who's useless and worthless and just this distance guy that she needs to like get to fail so I'll go back to distance, you know, maybe I can do this. So we did this little mini competition the three of us and I killed them, totally beat them. So from that point on, I was the main guy for training, right? And this is, and this was like, like much less than a few months between like having no clue of how to do this at all and having a coach look at me like, boy, what are you even doing here? So like, okay, how are you being a guy at this time? Let's go with these other guys. They're off to the side. And then by the end of the year, there was only one, one full of the capital on available to me that year. There was the title track new year of the New Orleans Championships and I won that. And then after the capital on, I ran 4x4 meters and ran 400 faster than I ever did when I was just training for running. Which was weird, because now I was training for all these 10 different events. Why would I be able to run faster doing that than when I was just training for running? Well, here's the important thing. There are a few, like really profound important lessons in this whole story that I got to use every day and I often go back to thinking about that. So one thing was, when you choose to do what you want to do, it's really scary. So when I decided that I was going to do this, the capital on, even though everyone else was telling me, no, you can't do that. No, no, forget it. The most difficult part is, if I'm choosing it and everyone else is saying, no, that means it's my fault. If I fail, and if I even succeed, people say, well, I guess he got lucky, he got away with it this time, not doing what people told him. But when I was doing the just running, whenever I succeeded, people said, ah, there's a good kid doing what he's told and any time I lost race or had a bad race or whatever, people would say, well, no, he's doing his best. He's doing what he's told, he's doing his best. There's so much outside incentive, but what's the pressure? Outside pressure to do the thing that I'm told and so much negative pressure from like just making it more difficult to do what I wanted to do. But here's a really, here's a really cool thing that happens once you get past that that little barricade, that barrier. Once you get past that barricade and you say, you know what, I realize that if I fail, it's all going to be my fault. But I'm just going to do it anyway because I need to do what's really in my heart. I can't be doing one thing and then my heart's over there doing the thing I really want to do. If I actually do the thing I really want to do, I feel like it's going to work out, so I'm just going to do it even though everyone's telling me no. Once you can get past that barrier, you will find that you're just in this different world because when you're doing something you really care about, suddenly your focus is on that thing. So when I was around 800 meters, but I wanted to be over there doing the high jump of those guys, my heart was over there and my attention was over there and I was like, okay, I got to focus on this. Come on, focus, focus. I got to do this to win. I was always just stressed and just trying to force myself to focus on it. But once I was doing what I really wanted, like when I was at pole vault practice, I had that pole and I was like, this is terrifying. But it's amazing once you get the pole in there and you get shot up in the air and I didn't care about anything else. So when I was doing pole vault practice, nothing else in the world mattered. Or when I was doing these sprint hurdles I was like, oh, this is what I want to do. I got to focus on it 100% and I didn't even have to make myself focus. I could just relax and chill out and my focus was just on it 100%. So instead of wasting all that energy trying to force myself to focus on something, that energy was just available to me and just naturally being present and focused on what I was doing meant that within that first year of doing a new event, even though I started way late, I was already at the college level I was doing division one you can't just start an event and within the first year be winning, it doesn't make any sense. Like a totally different event you've never done. Except I was doing what I really wanted to do so every day at practice it was a struggle and it was difficult but my mind was 100% there, I was totally focused on what I was doing. And I didn't even realize how, I mean I didn't even put this together on the spot it wasn't until after and even when I won the competition at the end of the year I won the Decathlon it felt so relaxing like I felt so relaxed during the entire competition and it was completely different than when I used to win the running races that I was just kind of stressed out when I won this Decathlon I was relaxed and chill and I was like what happened? I won that so easily, like was there no competition or something? What was going on? I don't understand. But there was competition there was plenty of competition that I was up against all these other guys, they've been training this for years they were there to win, they were trying hard, they wanted to win so like I yeah it just, it just when I was doing what I really wanted to do I made massive progress just just like way better than I could have expected so that's a lesson that I try to take with me throughout my life and at this point I mean now I'm 47, I'm too old to care about what anyone else thinks but like you know in years past I guess even maybe a little bit now this way do that, don't do this you know and I'm just like yeah but that doesn't help me at all that's not worth anything, if you have actual like rational information for me to use to do something fine but don't just give me the pressure of you have to do what I'm telling you to do something different because I know that if I do what I really want to do what's in my heart, if I can if I can do where if I can do the thing where my heart is I know I'm going to do it better than I'll be able to do anything else because I'll be focused on it, I'll be relaxed I'm not going to be thinking about other things and be distracted and falling off roofs and stuff, I'm going to be totally focused on what I'm doing and sometimes people ask me how do you stay so focused on the tasks you're doing when you have these big big projects going on and there's so much work and that's the answer and it makes so there is nowhere else to go, like there's nothing I'd rather be doing I've been working on this roof at my house and it's a lot of hard work and I'm trying to put up these tiles and rained and washed the tile out and I was like ahhh and you know some days the sun comes out and dries them too fast and they start cracking and I got to keep them wet and fill in the cracks and it's like but then when I stop and I'm like wait wait, what else would I rather be doing? It's like nothing there's nothing I'd rather be doing and then I just relax and I'm like okay you know this is a bit of a struggle but this is where I want to be I don't want to be doing anything else so just to round this out never find yourself in a situation where you have an idea that you want to do and everyone's telling you no no no you can't do it, don't do that, that's a stupid idea take a chance on yourself man, life is short don't do what other people say you're just going to end up regretting it even if it goes well, you're always going to be left wondering what if I just did that thing that I really wanted to do so just go for it man and that's about all I have to say about that alright what have you guys been saying, I'm going to oh this guy says love these intro stories, ah Joe Blossommeister, that's great thanks so much because I'm never sure I'm going to sit here and make a monologue for like well usually it's like 15 minutes, I went on for like almost 25 this time but I guess it was something I cared about a lot but yeah, thanks for your encouragement girls should do 6, no girls should do 10 is there a trippy echo effect um your life is cutting in and out move the torture fan can we move the torture fan, sorry oh Jamie, your mic died sound problems, the sound is horrible it didn't die, there's an issue with the sound okay well, I don't know I guess the internet was was having a problem oh it's fixed, sounds good now sounds good now to me, okay well hopefully we didn't miss too much of that with the with the sound issues sure missed those beige nylon shorts you used to wear oh, you know what they're all dirty cause I've been like wearing them for stuff anyway so DeShane, do we have some questions or something I'm supposed to be answering hey, come sit DeShane has seen my shirt and didn't say anything about it I even put it on that I was like, oh I wonder if she'll say something about it she didn't care, she weren't impressed by my shirt at all, eh you know, the internet may have been having a slight issue because overnight it rained like crazy maybe the the antenna of the internet had some water in it or something, I don't know but yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if it had something to do with the storm, one of my windows actually blew right out of my house it was just a sheet of plastic thing so I went out and, you know, stuck it back on and it just kind of clips on but it got really windy last night Jeff Creep, can you once to know what was it like to burn your diploma bring or scary Oh, it definitely wasn't scary, by that point I'd already like, it had already been years since I wanted anything to do with it it's just, that was when I came across it and I was like, oh, I gotta burn this thing and I'm gonna make a big stinky point about it, because, you know, I put all this effort into getting it, I might as well at least say something about it, make it something kind of make a big stink about it, you know I guess it was more freeing yeah, I mean the burning of the diploma that was just symbolic, obviously, but when I when I just mentally got to the point where I decided I wasn't gonna have anything to do with that world anymore, oh, totally freeing a little bit scary but the thing is, it was scary up to making the decision, once I made the decision it was just totally freeing, yeah and the same thing happened when I moved off grid terrifying buying the land and thinking about it any time I talked to anyone about it they're like, oh, you're gonna starve, you're gonna freeze all this stuff what I was just talking about earlier I felt like taking all this responsibility on myself to do what I want to do then if I fail, it's all my fault but once I actually did it it was amazing after that and so many things I was warned about turned out to be nothing and all the stuff I was worried about turned out to be nothing and there were problems and issues, but there's always things to deal with in life and it was amazing yeah, so I mean if I try to think about my life, what it would have been like if I hadn't bought that land in Vermont and moved there just driven up there with a car full of everything I owned and just like went up the mountain and it just like if I hadn't done that I can't imagine how miserable I'd be right now I mean, maybe I would have figured out something but I would have done something else cool I would have moved off grid some other way if I hadn't moved off grid, man how do you feel about living off grid because you lived in like a city city like in a condominium like with a car and you worked at a restaurant and they had all this you had like full on city stuff and then one day you were just it wasn't just like one day but you you just like came to my house and we're just like, hi I'm here you're мен just enjoyed that I just thumbs up a lot a couple months I could just shown up you just showed up and like I was like, I'm how old are you you were like, I just came to move in that's just, what? I'm just kind of staying just kindof stay right fine are you leaving tomorrow right oh yeah I can deal with it tomorrow. We'll work that out. I just chill here for a little bit. Why are you eating sound vibrations? Because you're moving around so much, and it's moving the cord. I'm too...too active. I was also thinking about... Thinking about getting internet at my house. I'm not totally sure I'm gonna do it, but I think I'm gonna do it. Okay, let's do a sound test. Oh, oh, oh. Testies, testies. One, two, three. And I'm gonna try something. Can you guys hear us up here right now? Is it better or worse? I want to see what you guys are talking about. No, just you. They're not talking about anything but the sound. Yeah, but I want to see what you guys are talking about. They're just saying sound is an issue. Sound is an issue. Sound is an issue. No good. Sound is an internet problem. Broken, still, still. We are right now. Well, I don't see that. Yeah, I think it's an internet thing. So, and there's really nothing that we can do about that other than stopping the live and even moving on with our lives. Yeah, I'm guessing it was probably really stupid by internet. Any other apps using internet? You can close. No, nothing else is internet right now. Well, do you want to do it on here? No. But that's hardly... Yeah, I think it's probably just the storm last night. It may have caused some issues. I don't know how to fix it other than we can try this again another day or we can just hope for the best and maybe it'll get better. The fan is not going to be turned off because my daughter is taking a nap right now and it keeps her cool and comfortable for that. They get fan or screaming? We've had the fan on before over many lives already and it has not interfered with the sound other than hearing the fan. Can we... This is just what it does. There's no... It's an app. We're on a tablet, we're not on a laptop. We're streaming this from an island out in the middle of the ocean. That is true. I mean... I'm sorry. Yeah, actually this is pretty impressive. We can even do this from where we are. I did reboot my tablet prior to the live-starting. Not a shit. I really think this is an issue with the internet itself. We share internet with a pile of other people in our area because it's not our internet. But it's shared at the tower which then broadcasts it out to a bunch of islands. There's been storm issues and stuff like that. Really guys, it's kind of out of our control. He says, now it's great again. So, you know... Sorry. He says, what do you mean you don't have good internet on an island in the middle of nowhere? Yeah, I know, right? Okay, so this is good now. Here's a question. Out of my whole almost 25-minute monologue, how much did you hear? I was just sitting here talking and talking and missed a... Oh, it got better after Jamie adjusted the camera. Perhaps a sailboat. Yeah, it's probably a sailboat. That's totally it. You know where our thing is aimed at a... What's it called? At a tower that's like 16 miles away. Good. Is that any better? He gave up halfway. No, it should be fine. Sometimes that can cause a problem. So I just unplugged it. Is it any better? No, I bet it. I bet there's a sailboat driving right there and the mast is like hitting the signal. I feel like Carl and Bob are totally fine. He says it's good now. We better go quick before we lose... We only have 40%. No, I mean we better talk and you doing stuff. Well, you have to plug it in again later. I'm turning this off because it's too distracting for you. All right, fine. So what do you got there? Can you remind them to put question marks or whatever? If you have a question in your comment, write question in capital letters so it's easy to see, you know? I feel like I've just been watching Strange Brewe. Dan DeVall wanted to know if there was any way to shield move the torture fan. What is there something behind it? You can't shield it as it's going to get, I promise you. It's even on a different floor at this point. Is it on the floor? No, it's up on a shelf with a shelf in between it and us. There's this giant piece of plastic that's kind of helping to like Yeah, I think it just is what it is. All right, let's move on. This might be kind of crazy, but you could get a repeater at your house and then we could just do lives there again. I am thinking of getting internet at my house, but I don't want it on all the time. I might not be present during the lives then, but nobody cares about that. I'll just put my thing on and every time I'm talking I'll stop every five seconds and be like, what are they saying? I'm going to have to figure out how to make the thing do the live and everything. Oh, look how big my hands are. Oh, no, Dan, don't worry. The reason I mentioned the fan question specifically is because I'm talking to Dan. Dan's cool. He's my buddy. He's like one of my people too. I'm just saying I'd like mention it just because people like say something about it almost every single live that the fan is on. So it's kind of like funny. Anyway, moving along. Moving along. Okay, I think this is my good question. What videos did you put up this week? I don't know whatever the last one you gave me was. Well, this should have been two, I think. Isn't there another one that was like there was a racing one? Yeah, I was rainy day races. Oh, you did rainy day races? Whatever you called it. And then a roofing one. Which I think the roofing one was called learning. No, getting higher. It was called getting higher. Yeah, it was that one. And yeah, and Vasco says that they saw the great rainy day races one. Yeah. Nikon, is it Nikon? How do you pronounce it? Nodgin. I like how you say it. It's Nike. Yeah, it's like Nike in Nikon. So, Nikon says that they'll miss me. We can just split in the call. I could be here and you could be there. Oh, no, that's going to be too much internet. We're not going to be able to. We'd have to pay them for the upgrade of the thing. I can just do a cardboard chat. Apparently Joseph Lohmeister says that I'm mandatory for these lives. How many people am I going to lose if I lose to Shayna? How many people am I going to gain if I lose to Shayna? And apparently Carl comes for the fan. So, that works out. The fan makes me come. Oh, God. It's a weird finish. I've never heard that particular one. I don't know. I think I did. So, at my island, I'm currently flattening out an area. Oh, yeah, you did talk about that last week. Yeah, I'm flattening out an area. So, there's a hill behind my house. And I'm flattening out the top to make like a spot for a guest house. And a frisbee zone. Like, this is a pretty big area that I'm flattening out. And I'm flattening out the top to make like a spot for the frisbee zone. Like, this is a pretty big area that I'm flattening out. And then I'm taking a lot of that dirt and making like a trail that goes down the mountain. Because right now, maybe I shouldn't call it mountain. No, I'm totally calling it mountain. It's like three stories tall. But it's a mountain. Right now, to get up the mountain behind my house, it's like the steepness of stairs. You know, it's like 45 degree angle. Egyptian pyramid kind of ramp style. That comes down very gently. And I'm using the dirt from the top for that. And that's almost down to the bottom. And, yeah, then I'm going to build a guest house up there. I'm not sure exactly what it's going to be yet. But it'll be amazing. I have a really important question. Oh, no. Can you ride your bike up and down the hill? Like what kind of toilet? Like a toilet. Like a thing you can sit on? You can sit on the guest house? People might not come if you don't have a toilet. Oh, no, if they need the porcelain throne, I might not want them to come. Yeah, I know, but I'm telling you right now, people are not going to come. I actually don't know what I'm going to... I was actually thinking about... Well, if anyone wants to come visit and has requests for this guest house, yeah, just, you know, say it. And we like it if your guest house had a fan that was really loud. I don't really like fans. At least 10 of them. Okay, you want to know the situation with the fans. Oh, my God, these fans. There is a surplus, an electronic surplus place. I got them. I remember which one it was at this point. And it was like a box of like 30 fans and they were a dollar. And you could buy one for like $12. Or you could buy a box for 30. They're so noisy. I was like, oh, that's why they're just getting rid of them. But they totally work. And they were like a dollar each. So maybe we do need to spring for a couple little 24 volt fans at some point. I'm getting some not loud fans. Have you ordered them yet? No, I have to investigate, but it's on my list of things, paraphernalia that I need to go through. We did have some quieter ones that all broke. Oh, man, that one. Yeah, that one at your house. And it's bigger. Yeah, and there were a couple years ago, I bought a bunch that were really nice. They blew so Oh, my, they blew so good. They were so good blowers. And they had like a magnetic bearing. That was really cool actually. And they lasted like two months and I bought five of them or something and they're all dead. So annoying. They want Starlink fans and a shiny toilet that they can hang out near. They can just hover around the toilet. Oh, my gosh, you know, we should get one of that. Oh, bug touch me. Take one of those satellite dishes we have, whatever, they're not satellite dishes. Just white Starlink on it. And like spray paint it white and then get some crayons or white Starlink on it and just mount it on the house. Hey, look, we got Starlink. Down at the ground. Okay, so let's see, what else? I'm going to misspell it too. Yeah, it should be like Starlink or like you could do some funky thing with the wording. Question. Shayna, what made the decision to go to Jamie and live off-grid with him? Well, I like hated my life and I was like, oh my god, do you type like a place? I bet I could stay there for free. I'm just going to see if I could do that. You're not curling your hair or anything. I don't have enough curls to hair. So I'm just going to go to his house and see if I could just hang out there for free and I'm just going to never leave. Okay, excellent. Moving on. The next question is, have you considered using any Mike Reynolds methods of cooling your house with thermal mass water tank under house in parentheses? Well, I'm guessing Mike Reynolds has done a lot of different things, but I don't know. He's the guy in Garbage Warrior. No, I'm just not thinking of Ryan Reynolds, so I have no idea who Mike Reynolds is. He's the guy who did Earthships. Remember, you saw that movie? Yeah, I didn't know that. No water tank under my house. No thermal mass. My house doesn't get that hot. Does my house get hot? I mean, only when I come in. Because it's like I'm here. You show up after you pedaled to my house so you're hot. But then after you're there, well, the baby's laying on you, she's so hot. But after you get there for a while, you're not hot, right? I would say generally speaking, if nobody's touching me, the temperature is acceptable. Yeah, except for when I'm sleeping. Even with a giant fan. No, the fan was perfect. Oh, so it wasn't the problem. No, I had a fan. I was doing like with nothing. With nothing. I thought we were talking with nothing. You just want to complain. No, I wasn't complaining. Okay, question. So my house is very insulated from the styrocrete. Yeah. Will you grow a mustache for 2023? Like $20.23? No. $20.23? If someone came up to me and was like, hey, I got $20.23. If I give it to you, will you grow a mustache? I would probably do it. Okay. Well, don't they have like a month every year where they used to do this when I lived? I would want like a big, evil mustache. When I lived in Bethesda, there was always a thing it was like, November was like a mustache growing month for the guys. Often, I don't shave for like a month or two at a time. So I get a big beard. And then whenever I shave my face off, I'll be like, yeah, lamb chops, panda bar mustache. But then I'll eventually get it all off. But first I'll run around, chase the kids around. My mustache is going to get you. Hey, Nikon says, Jamie, you can get $100 for no shave mustache for $20.23. No shave for the entire year? I don't know. Or starting now? Yeah, I'm not entirely sure. Is this, can I do like I don't know. Like I'll keep the same mustache as long as I get donated $1 per day. $1 per day. I won't shave my mustache for $20.23. Oh, that sounds marvelous. How long do you think I would do that? Well, you didn't shave for like a whole year when you were building your house. No, I wasn't a whole year. It was pretty close though. Maybe it was. It was like a year. It was a while. I had a pretty good mustache. But like at some point, like if I just never did anything like like a walrus and I've been like trying to eat and be like, we eat some food and like at some point it'd be down here and I'd just be like I think you were trying to see how long it would take to do that too. Do you remember Aura said she wanted you to grow it out until she could braid it? Yeah, I couldn't do it. For me, I don't like when my mustache starts getting in my lips because what I started doing was I start chewing on it all the time and yeah, once it gets in my food I'm just like, well this isn't useful anymore. Apparently Frederick Bryncat says, I'd love to come and visit one day, but if I'm coming there has to be a porcelain toilet and dechana, deal or no deal. I see. Like a porcelain thrown toilet. Yeah. Because I can make a porcelain toilet any shape. Yeah. Well, dechana is here. Are you leaving? I mean, I might if he comes. No. You have to discuss that with her, man. I'm sorry. We'll see about the toilet. Oh God, the problem is with toilets. You know the toilets I really like? It sounds like it's going to be fine and then people are like, I'm just going to plug it up with 150 things I'm going to throw into the toilet. Do you remember the toilets at the law school in Vermont when they changed them over and it was literally a straight down toilet. So the toilet she's talking about it was a law school that's near where my dome was I'm squishing a bug. Thank you. At the law school near where my place was in Vermont they were in an environmental law school so they wanted to be all environmentally so they had these composting toilets giant container Would you let me tell it? Do you want to tell it? Do you know how it works? Do you know the whole thing? What do you call it? Like a dumpster almost like a big plastic container in the basement and then upstairs there were toilets they just had a tube that went straight down to this big container and I guess they scooped it out or something every now and then and then at the bottom they also had fans exhausting so if you were in the bathroom you open the toilet air is getting sucked down all the time not like you open an airlocked outer space it wasn't like it was just like a gentle breeze just keeping the stinky going that way so it wasn't stinky or anything like the toilets were great yeah I bet they were a nightmare to deal with under the big pile of I mean essentially that's kind of like what my toilet is right now yeah which one? the one outside you don't have to scoop it out or anything the concept of not really having to use water like it's like a pit that just goes straight into the thing and occasionally we dump water in it like it's kind of the same that part that's how you might not necessarily the interior part I might do a composting toilet with like like once I set up a lumber mill there's going to be tons of sawdust and then it would be easier to like you poop on something throw some sawdust on it and then it's like you can go down there and eat it actually when you have sawdust yeah when you have poop put sawdust on it you can stir it up like the kids you're like don't actually do that don't eat poop with sawdust I don't think that's really a thing stop messing with the corn you stop messing with the corn okay so next question have y'all thought about raising pigs like lifting them up to get more muscles yeah if like I had a pig like when I was a baby I started doing weights with it every day as it grows I just keep getting stronger and stronger yeah eventually it would be like a 4,000 pound pig and I'd just be like to hulk yeah because remember the pig that we bought recently I asked how much it weighed and it was like did you want to get pigs? eventually but I think we should put them on the farm I think our islands are just too small to deal with that we need like a big mud area too well I wouldn't want pigs I have enough space that they can just rummage around and I don't want to feed them like rabbits yeah the rabbits here those are the coolest things because they just hang it outside eating the grass I just have to have a better hatch set up for them no they just need to be crossbred with chickens so they make eggs you know the freaking what are they called the Easter Bunny why can't I just go buy an Easter Bunny I know that's terrible that goes around the yard cuts the lawn and poops out eggs like we're doing all this genetic research on all this stupid crap making diseases like COVID-19 I mean why isn't anybody making a pizza tree yeah like there's all this stuff we can be doing I just don't understand why isn't anyone making a whale that can drive around an outer space that you can get inside you can just open his mouth and you can climb in and it's like sealed and then it's got some environmental stuff in there and then it has some sort of like propeller thing propellant something that can drive you out in outer space and you can be like hey I've got a living spaceship anyway I'm just saying we're wasting a lot of research on dumb things right I mean because pizza trees like stupid consumer products yeah why isn't anyone working on a pizza tree but not the Hawaiian pizza could you imagine if someone went to all the trouble to genetically engineer a tree that would grow pizzas and it had pineapples on it you just have to throw the whole thing out I can once to know are there are there any material minerals or rare materials in your clay the island clay not Jamie clay I was gonna say I'm a rare material sometimes I'm in the clay no not that I'm aware I could be shoveling little diamonds for all I know you know whenever whenever we get like rocks and sand that comes from the river I'm always kind of like when I'm using it I'm always kind of trying to keep my eye out for like sparkly things but I haven't really found anything I found some stuff that looks like quartz oh my gosh what if my quartz is actually a giant diamond were you gonna come over and try to diamonds are just not my thing yeah but I can sell it and then get a spaceship or something I don't understand like why there's not even colorful yeah they're not colorful I just personally don't care about jewels at all I'd much rather have that sparkly I'd rather have a magnet than a diamond but if you if you gave me the option of you could etch in the glass with them if you gave me the option of a diamond or a magnet I would take the diamond because then I could sell it and buy a bunch of magnets but yeah you're right I just got a super chat here's to D'Shaina's snazz no that's that's for me no that says D'Shaina yeah but that's cuz I went to all the work to put up with you to have you here on my show so right because it's called the JMO show it's the JMO show thanks naked she spends my money anyway so I wouldn't do any work for the money at all what that means I didn't even know what that means it doesn't even mean anyway apparently the John Schlick says I don't need to change my last name so I can say to people you're gonna have to marry John now you're gonna have to negotiate that with his wife or whatever the price of spaceships come down a lot it's only 55 million for a week in space these days oh no I don't want to I don't want to go on a cruise ship I want my own and it needs to have some kind of not this chemical propellant bull crap where you need like 8 billion gallons of fuel every time you want to do anything no I need something that's like well Bellatrix and I were talking about this she wants to invent anti-gravity so she wants to figure out the bridge between electricity and gravity so she can make a machine that can Bob I told her I will help her in any way space with bezos oh yeah with these big penis spaceships are you using these penis spaceships no I haven't they just look like big penis it's like a shaft and then there's like a mushroom on top isn't that the shape of most spaceships or do they all it's very distinctively it is a penis that's awesome it's not like a rocket there's like distinctive mushroom shape going on it looks like a penis the only reason I know about it is because like a year ago there was on some youtube thing there was some news like news broadcast where they were saying like they were showing you know what's this thing called something blue his spaceships taking off and they showed the spaceship taking off and there was a guy and the girl the news people and they're looking at it and they just started laughing they're like and I was like and he didn't have to say what it was it was just like this penis was just like wahhh Karina says that she says oh my god I'm going to be able to un-see the penis shape now have you seen this penis spaceship I wish there was a way to call up on youtube in a live where you could pull up a picture in the PIP well I could just I just need to have a piece of paper here and a crayon and I could draw the penis spaceship I mean it would flames coming out the bottom I mean I could do that in seconds I told you I've been getting better at drawing things did you see my video game characters I've been drawing they were right beside the wall where you were hanging out pretty good the only one I was a little the girl with the big hair no it was the the unicorn that one I was staring at for a while I think I was staring at it too much though so you want to know what the unicorn was yeah I didn't understand what was going on there Bellatrix my 10 year old she's just 10 I know how old she is she wanted me to draw her a unicorn so I drew a unicorn and I hadn't seen a horse in quite some time and I wasn't drawing from a picture or anything so I was just like wait their legs I got all the things basically right and it looks it just looks slightly off and I was just like not off it's supposed to now I'm going to have to show this picture I think what it was I was staring at it for like 45 minutes while I'm nursing baby so it was spectacularly glamorous then no you were staring at it yeah it was it was supposed to be it was supposed to be fabulous it was fabulous it was better than anything I could draw so I just wasn't I think the proportions of the lower body and the upper body looked like the upper body was farther away than the lower body so I wasn't sure what was supposed to be now I'm going to have to show this picture because I didn't think that was the case anyway if anything I think the upper body was closer you'll see what I mean I did try to make the lower legs kind of long though because I wanted them to be it was just something, it was the legs I wanted them to be like elegant and fabulous because you know my daughter loves she loves unicorns and princesses and I was like I had like long sexy legs on this unicorn and they were like what I really want to know is the name like what was that about she asked me what the name was well okay I drew that unicorn I really feel like we need the picture of this so anyway I drew a picture of a unicorn and then I was like and then Aurora said well I don't know if you should give that to her because usually when I give a picture to Bellatrix she scribbles all over it and says yeah it's colored so I ended up tracing it for her and then Carcannon and one and one and he's like I'm one horse so I traced him one I ended up tracing like five of these unicorns and then so I kept one for myself and I was like well I'm going to color mine in and then I colored it in and she's like well what's his name and I was like Halfador so his name was Halfador and then I wrote Halfador in fancy letters yeah so Karina would like to know if you can draw bunnies who do we know this name Karina Karina so this isn't Karina no it's C-R-I-N-A C-R-I-N-A Karina she's the one sending us the books to read well that's awesome thanks Karina sorry for my bad sound today hopefully my sound's going better apparently Joseph Blowmeister says rumor has it that Trump has a glorious mushroom really well I hope so there's a lot of people down there so wait what was Karina saying she wanted to know if you can draw bunnies yeah I can draw bunnies I think she wants you to draw one okay I'm going to have to start showing some of my drawings I guess I was if you get internet at your house will you do a live stream showing how to draw unicorns oh yeah oh totally if someone makes a request yeah well that Roscoe just made the request but I'm not going to remember so I'm going to have to get the internet then I'm going to have to be doing a live and then he's going to have to say but if you say hey can you do unicorn tutorial yeah man yeah totally do yeah after I traced a few and I couldn't actually see through the paper because I you know I'm using like most of my big pieces of paper are from packaging material so when I get stuff from the electronics place they stuff the box with all kinds of you know big sheets of paper and I pull them out and flatten them out and that's my big drawing paper or I use cement bags you know I'm always careful to cut my bags of cement near the seams so I can rip them open then I get a big sheet of paper and you can't trace through those so I just kind of like had to see where like look under it see where the things were and kind of like draw and I by the third one I had a really good idea okay I put a circle here for this knee circle here for this knee yeah I feel like releasing any of your questions please feel free to repeat them because I miss them so um I totally don't feel like you're rude to say it again maybe me what were we talking about you were talking about the thing in front of me did I respond in this conversation you were talking about it and you said it should be reasonable so I was just wondering if you want to talk about that a little more extensively for people out there when I was thinking a relationship with a person should you know not be or is yeah what is the actual question well for one first thing I can just say I'm probably not the best person to ask about this because like we had kids together because you're not the best person to ask about this either neither of us found the right person and we're just like let's just have kids together and then not worry about other stuff but yeah now it's like at the point where I'm like okay not you know I've been alone long enough I should try to meet someone but I don't know what stuff to do right no it's not talking about what to do it's thinking about what is your opinion about that should what you were saying you were having this conversation with how society has basically created how society has created this like concept of arguing and like all this stuff and I was saying that it felt like not that I have practical application you were saying that in the past yes that is important right you were also saying that in the past a lot of times relationships were more utilitarian so people would get together because I guess you could say this is kind of like we hang out with each other even though we don't personality-wise we're just like totally different we don't match but we don't match we do match like smash like anyway not anyway I'm digging myself a hole here anyway we both have things the other person needs in terms of skills yeah like you can make babies but also you used to find us cool jobs and stuff like that we were allies in very utilitarian ways and that's how a lot of relationships used to be more right I think that's something that's gotten lost today okay full disclosure I went on one of those dating website things and reading some profiles man it's like I don't know what the guys are saying so I can only talk about the girls because that's all I was looking at but they're just like I like to watch tv and smoke some weed that's it that's a whole profile or like you'll just say let's chat or like I like to have fun there's no substance here like if you're actually trying to meet someone don't you feel like you need to have something to offer or at least have an opinion of what you're looking for that you can connect with and then you know talking with a few people it's like this competition it's not like they're trying to meet someone who's compatible and I'm just like let's see if we're compatible that should be the point of our conversation that's what we should be talking about are we compatible but no it's like me so that I feel good about myself so I'm gonna say whatever I need to to make you like me and then as soon as you like me then I can disappear and get the next person who's gonna boost my little ego and it's just a silly game instead of what people should be doing and the internet is like a perfect thing for this like if people were using it right they could just go on these dating sites or whatever and almost just make a list of like this is what I'm like this is what my personality is like this is the kind of people I get along with and I mean they should even have just this grid of information that you can poke the answers but it doesn't work they kind of like take it it should be so easy to match up people who are likely gonna be able to connect with each other but if they don't want to do that then people with each other then they lost the customer they gotta get a better way to do the business model you know maybe like make it so you pay them when you meet someone An animatron says three years cloud experience mandatory cloud experience like driving a car I don't know that's just what he says where's that like a new window not sure EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE this is the stuff I don't know I have not been keeping up with the new doctor who is also still going I don't know after my favorite one well basically after David Tennant it just kind of fell apart I mean I watched a little bit after that I am used to much like David he didn't have his own personality I did like that after Matt spent the last year I think he was the only one for his tour the first season you know what I didn't like about Matt Speth he was so defiest let's do as always like a victim and I was like that's not that's not doctor who if anyone doesn't know what we're talking about we're talking about this show doctor who and the doctor is like he's not supposed to be a victim I hate when people are victims he's the hero of the show he's this character who's been alive forever and does all this crazy and then suddenly he became a victim and I was like forget it of course Tom Baker was the best one although that's the one I watched when I was growing up that's why I liked him I'm just going to see if it maybe works better if it's on me since I don't move around nearly as much as you do because I keep looking around I've been exercising more so I have more energy so we'll see if that fixes actually that's also why I didn't put sleeves on my shirt do your muscles go outside of your sleeves I was like yeah because I'm working out more and I don't want to rip my sleeves off with my muscles because you're going to keep getting bigger and bigger it's no better on me apparently well I could have told you that I don't know there I hit the tablet again that apparently worked the last two times but we'll see it's low we can see what happens without the microphone let's hear that solving now I don't know now it's working I guess that worked we'll just go with a lot of my people who seem to be doing the rest we're talking about trying to find something that you don't want to do we can just try to find something that needs to work out why we don't work out definitely so in the past like hundreds of years before and now people generally got together because like somebody needed to be doing one job and the other needs to be doing every job and it needs to be doing the female job or I could sum it up in a engineering try to play by saying basically the woman this sounds like the woman or the man the woman took care of the home and the man went out and got stuck I got a weather service today I'm going to stay I'm going to be in check with the service like you know maybe some yeah maybe some trees got messed up some of the wires yeah sorry there's nothing we can do about it one of my windows blew out during the storm and I could put that back in but I can't fix it and I'm out of control at this point oh yeah unless your dish got moved now it's bolted in I'm pretty sure that's not going to happen okay so the mic is plugged back in it's on Jamie as you can see right here all right let's move on from that the whole conversation right now it's hard for people who have shallow understanding of other people to write a person who has lived for as long as Dr. Hill that's what Vasco Sousa said well I would say it's difficult for shallow people to write anything right over like that's okay take Star Trek for example original Star Trek and even the next generation when Gene Roddenberry was still in try and just ignore all the sexist Gene Roddenberry stuff he was kind of a pervert I guess we always wanted the tiny skirts on the girl let's just put all that aside he did some really cool things you know made the show and one of his rules for the show was that the characters in the ship don't fight amongst themselves they work together to take care of problems outside that they encounter and there were a few episodes where you know people got sick or something was affecting the crew when they fought with each other but generally speaking the crew always worked together to figure out the problem and I really enjoyed Star Trek because of that and I think a lot of other people did but in the new Star Trek which I don't watch at all I'm gonna seem a little bit you need to stop talking for a moment and just let the buffering catch up I guess maybe she causes in between blah blah blah but in the new Star Trek people are just bickering with each other all the time and I know I was thinking about watching one of the new ones but I was like let me watch a couple clips on YouTube just to see what it's like and I remember one clip where someone got called into the captain's office and they just got chewed out and they were bickering back and forth and I was just like this is like spoiled teenagers this is after what after they came last right yeah he's dead sorry man so I was checking this particular show everything that happened after he died was without him and yeah I was just thinking this wouldn't have happened with like Captain Picard or Captain Kirk no one would be called into Captain Kirk or Captain Picard's office and just like this spoiled teenager in high school bickering thing it made no sense I was just like I have children I can watch children being ridiculous I want to watch this show to watch competent people doing competent things handling situations and figuring out solving things which is all gone now yeah I mean that's just gone from society in general like now it's like people are just trained to be stupid useless people and I felt like I was trained to be like that too I feel like I'm mostly got out of that hopefully so I'm thinking today my thoughts on the live today is that we should close it early alright are you going to start on time? yeah okay I have a lot of stuff to say oh do you? well you can't call your parents back because the internet is not working back I want to talk to them on this morning so apparently anonimatron says they can't watch movies with people anymore they get bad at pointing out the narrative yeah but how stupid is it? yeah I like a lot of older movies I want us to get too old it's like it's hard to relate but like the movie that just came to mind was Silent Running and I was sure there was some problems with that but it's a pretty cool movie about this guy who it takes forever to explain we can just keep talking we can leave the live on I can still interact with the conversation but I'm just going to talk to people right now if the sound sucks don't tell me because there's nothing to do about it don't go back here or whatever maybe it will even out when it goes into the recorded version of it maybe it won't so yeah I'll still read the comments and we're going to sit here and just chat but don't feel obligated to have to stay through terrible sound and we aren't going to feel obligated to have to address it all the time because there's really nothing we can do at this point so do you want to try stopping it and starting it again? I mean I don't think that's going to do anything so maybe reset the tablet and then we could come back into the live alright do you want to come back in two minutes? let's come back in two minutes okay do you want to hide that because it'll keep popping up so one thing you know back to first off is that any better is that any better I don't know I'm just going to keep going though otherwise we're going to talk about the sound the whole time we can go back to toilets okay so we just want to cover two things before we start talking first is the sound is whatever it's going to be we've reset the tablet second thing is please if you have a question include the word question at the beginning or like double question marks or something and I'm happy to answer it's just hard to differentiate questions throughout so we're talking about meeting someone and one of the comments I've gotten from people on the internet is that you don't need anyone just be happy in your own thing and blah blah blah well yeah I don't need anyone no one needs anything but like when you have one life to live and you know why wouldn't you try to have the best experience you can't you know and if you think like I definitely feel like if I was with someone I would have a lot of experiences that I don't have you know I've had little tastes of that with girlfriends in the past where we've had experiences that are just more enjoyable with both of us I mean some obvious and some less obvious but lots of things yeah excellent alright let me see if there's questions that I missed I feel like there was but I'm not totally sure alright so if you had any questions that didn't get answered if you could re-post them please because it's really hard to scroll all the way back through like the miles of sound issues I'll do it I'll do it I rule technology did you fix it yes I did but apparently I ruled technology hey I can figure out how to do all this live crap too if I really wanted to wait I just said this one you just talked about skills and stuff yeah you just said this one up I did no I just pushed the button to go yeah if I figure out how to do it what am I going to do with her I know it's like I'm going to if I get the internet and I know how to use all the stuff I'm never going to come over here the baby's not nursing anymore like I'm just obsolete well yeah they can just hang it at my house all the time and you just Barbados and cyan are suckers so whoever the guy was who wanted to visit only if you're here you gotta hurry man time's ticking by the time I get this house built with the toilet forget about it forget about it I'm a citizen I technically could be the president of the United States where you do not live it's just a matter I'm a citizen what a horrible job I mean the problem with that job right now is first it's just a horrible job like being responsible for that much I really don't think you could pay me enough to do that job the problem is if you actually tried to do the job for real you just get assassinated so you just have to like play the puppet or get killed right I just want to live and I think that's probably one of the reasons they always want someone with a family so it's easy to control someone with a family that what doesn't want their family to die and they're willing to kill them it's just like hey do what you want or we're gonna kill all you kids sorry that's the way it is by the way here's the other video of JFK getting blown away yeah that was us Cam LaRen has a question did you guys hear that someone on Instagram found they really want us to ask this question and I've been avoiding asking you because it's like been after this time someone on Instagram found my old house enjoy the trampoline and slide I can send you the link if you want to see it yes Cam we saw that several months ago when Andy did the video I've already spoken to Andy who's the director and videographer of the video directly and I've connected him with the owner of the property who is not us am I a director if I make videos I am a director yeah so you're like a videographer and director and a host but yeah I'm glad people had fun there but I don't have anything to do with it anymore right so anyway moving along are you moving along? I feel like that question gets asked at least every it's like a thrilling question it's fine it's just funny so anyway apparently let's see what else is new so what else is new on your island Jamie what is new I've been planting more food and I've got a bunch of squash growing but they're only like this big but hopefully they'll get like this big you know except there's some caterpillars eating the leaves I need to get rid of those caterpillars oh on the squash plant yeah that happens in my garden they annihilate the leaves they annihilate the plant it happens like overnight oh yeah there's just like a whole pile of leaves are just like mesh now there's just like nothing left I'm also growing some peppers slowly and I have a whole bunch of seedlings growing in my window sill and I don't remember what they were so I saw a couple of those one of them looked like it was squash or watermelon that's the problem yeah I think I have a bunch of squash no I have watermelon seeds in there but I don't think they're coming out yet I also I think I have some cucumber growing but I don't know which ones are which so I don't know I'm just going to start planting them in good places that either thing well a squash and a cucumber they should be able to work in the same place right like they're similar-ish kind of plants yeah I have cucumbers growing until like one of my chickens got to the plant where the bunny is but I have little cucumbers on the plant you like cucumbers on the plant this is why I can't do gardening here until like I have something protected that's okay I'm just doing the gardening you can do your silly animals I don't want animals until I'm growing enough food to feed them yeah that's fine I am growing enough food to feed some of them some of them and I got rid of the fatties the meat chickens yeah I'm done with meat chickens I'm never doing meat chickens again they're disgusting and they eat way too much food so anyway somebody would like to know a great name too have either of you considered pottery with all the clay there production line with the kids though two different questions well I don't know about production line but the kids go out get clay and make stuff and then sometimes I'll fire so far we've just done little things but I do have a cup downstairs in your house just like a pretty good looking cup that's been there for years I need to fire it it's in my house I'll leave it there forever it's in this spot where you don't even notice it so it doesn't matter I think what you're talking about up in the ceiling yeah we do little things here and there but I want to set up a kiln where we can fire some good stuff that we can use I like that John Crisman just put statement in front of me and it says Jamie your shirt is explosion and fire so I think that's a positive thing it's a splody fire yes I like my shirt I think it came out really good I hope it doesn't all wash off but we'll see what kind of paint did you use this is oil paint es malte what's es malte enamel and then this is latex the white latex paint which should be fine but they're both like really old cans of paint okay the next question was Jamie how are you going take the ride 23 once no how are you going to construct the second story to the cathedral well I'm planning to build a lumber mill and then I'll go out to the farm which is like a big piece of property over there which is just all jungle and then some tree generally there's trees that have fallen down and I would just take a chainsaw and cut off the biggest log that I can move get it to the water tow it back to my island drag it out of the water somehow and cut it into boards and then use wood to make the second floor and the second floor is going to be 8 feet wide from the outer wall so it's going to have a big hole in the middle so it'll be like a donut so you can run around and then the edge will be banked maybe maybe two feet of bank maybe less maybe a foot and a half of banked floor so you can run around like up on the bank and run fast are you in guardrails oh for the inside part so the kids don't fall off yeah and then are you going to do like bungee cord jumping from there or something well I was just airflow well I like to have a big ceiling so you can play basketball on the first floor you can also play basketball on the third floor because the third floor will have a high ceiling how many floors are you planning on having three actual floors there's space for a fourth but I want to have a tall ceiling in the third floor so like a gymnasium where you can put a trampoline do you think you'll put a secret lookout tower room like you did in the domi not a room I'm just going to put like a if I can find like a good fishing net or something some kind of hammocky thing so you can climb up the pipes and get up there and then you can look out the little windows or about like that or you can open the roof and you know look at the stars or whatever showing to be romantic stars see stars question I'm not sure what I'm going to do for the stairs yet okay what's your question sorry James person wants to know what type of animals do you have I just have pilot kids you have some animals on your island that are not necessarily farm animals like not my animals well you didn't specify what kind of animals well they're lizards there was what happened to the iguanas yeah the iguanas haven't been there for a while I don't know maybe scared them away well there were two iguanas on my island I was building my house I got them on video a little bit yeah Igor and Wanda Wanda and then they had a baby little igwanda yeah and I don't know they left I did see one of them swimming between my island and like the big island over there so they were going back and forth so I guess they went somewhere else I have lots of little lizards do you still have rabbits no I don't think I have any rabbits do you think they got them all like they've all been trapped and taken I did that or maybe they just died of old age and didn't have enough like any partners like there were there are some hawks on my island and I showed I don't know it was months ago oh the pink eggs like the little pink eggs those actually hatched and there were at least two babies that have grown up into like full size hawks now and it was cool watching them like every week or so I'd see them kind of rummaging around they just like miniature hawks at one point and now they're they're still around and they fly around and then there's pelicans that mostly just they don't come on the land but they float around and you know they dive bomb the water around my island and some other animals little things but you have chickens and rabbits you used to have ducks but you sold them or gave them away or something frogs like laser dart frogs laser dart frogs laser dart frogs yeah that makes your darts turn into laser beings golden leaf tree golden leaf tree frogs too I might make a pond on my island like freshwater pond and I'll have definitely want some frogs for that so mosquitoes don't start hanging out take the ride 23 once in a while have you seen the chicken tractor on steroids from perma pastures from on youtube you can make compost and reduce feed for chickens I don't like steroids I don't use them myself I'm presuming it's just a chicken tractor it's like a little mobile kind of like what the guys had on the farm in the rock yeah I don't know what that one was like but I know what a chicken tractor is like so Kamla Wren would like to know Jamie are you ever going to move the solar tractor to your island or is it landlocked under Shayna's island all of his stuff by the end of the year oh I hope so what's this August that was what we talked about like two months ago I'm going to take all my stuff all of his stuff but the bulldozer is currently landlocked like I couldn't drive it out without running over a bunch of plants like food plants so I'll take it apart and I'll get it out of here at some point alright question can you Will Darling would like to know can you please make bearings for the pedals on one of your boats I was sure you'd do it within a few days of using it and that was almost eight years ago now I don't know what they're talking about bearings for the pedals for the pedals so right now I just have like a it's basically like a pipe and you just put your feet right on the pipes yeah okay but if you put bearings on those then you could put flat things that rotate so you can put your feet flat on even strap them in and then you could just like on your side of my boat no we don't have any okay where you put your feet where you push your feet right bearings on that what is a bearing like a rolly thing okay so right now this just goes around right and you put your foot on and as it goes around it like rolls down your foot because it's just a pipe right but if you put a bearing on there and then a flat thing that can roll so you can put your foot on it and you don't have to keep readjusting your foot what is a bearing made out of in this hypothetical experiment probably roller bearing is that important no the reason I'm asking is because on your side of my boat there are these things on the pedal oh this is PVC pipe it's just clipped on nothing okay I wasn't sure if that was like the same concept no those aren't bearings it was just okay is it to like keep the keep the sound off it yeah it doesn't matter but if you put bearings on them then you could put pedals you know like a normal bicycle like pedals that can spin around and then you just keep your feet on them but the thing is like it just works just pushing on things that I haven't felt the need to actually put the bearings on them like do you feel like you need better pedals I think my pedals are fine but I'm just used to driving it so I don't think about it anymore yeah they've been fine and I like the best thing about the way they are right now is it's just like a thing you know it's just a bent pipe basically and it's so simple like you don't have to worry about splashing it or you know it can be out in the rain you don't have to worry about sand or dirt getting in some bearings it's just very simple and the only maybe difficult thing is when you're pushing you know the pedals roll down your foot as you're going around but then you just you just keep sliding your foot and once you do it a little bit you get used to it yeah I understand what you're saying and like I think in the past I remember that being a little bit weird like the first time you did it now that it just doesn't really think about it anymore yeah the first time you did it was like this is weird but then like three days later you're like what what's the problem I don't know yeah it's totally fine now if you if you strap your feet in you could also pull the pedals like you push and pull but uh when I want to push and pull I just wrap my toes around thing and just pull like that I mean it totally works yeah yeah that's cool that's interesting I never really thought about it um little darling is saying like on a regular bike pedal yeah I guess I just wasn't really thinking about that but now it makes sense and the reason I was asking more in-depth questions to Jamie was just because I was trying to figure out what the pieces on the other side of my boat that I never used that Aurora sits on like what the point of those were it's just on the pipe there's a couple pieces of PVC pipe that I slit and just clamped on it's just nothing yeah so but now I understand what we're talking about so okay question Alex more would like to know how do you motivate yourself to keep going through depression or burnout from projects and life hmm I guess it comes back to what I was talking about earlier how you know I'm doing what I really want to do like my heart is here so if I get to a point where I'm like uh this is really hard and blah blah blah when I think about it I'm like well I wouldn't want to be anywhere else or do anything else so then I just kind of come back and I'm like alright well just just shut up and get it done and it'll be fine because like this is where I want to be but if I was doing something that I didn't really love and my heart wasn't in it and it was as hard as the stuff that I do here I would just it would be brutal it would be horrible it would be like like before I first moved off grid like I had all these jobs trying to save money and it was boring and agonizing and I was just like I want to be in this place in the future and to get there I just need to do this stupid garbage right now and it was horrible yeah but now I'm actually where where I want to be I mean I want I constantly want everything to be better but like I wouldn't want to give up the process of making it better just to get there you know yeah I know what he's talking about you know what he's talking about I think they call it like a jet drive basically a jet propulsion drive yeah jet propulsion drive like a shaft that comes straight down like a big shaft like a big fat little metal shaft shaft that goes down into the water and at the top it's just connected directly to the motor so shaft that comes down and it just has like an impeller so it's not like a propeller that shoots the water this way or that way it just pushes the water out and then you put a housing on it so that it'll end up sucking the water up from the bottom and then it pushes it just out the back just your propulsion so there's like no moving parts except for just the bearing so you have a shaft that's sucking the shaft is doing the sucking yeah which is not so do you have any plans to I currently don't is that like in your bucket list of my favorite thing I don't know maybe at some point I'm gonna try it and it's gonna have amazing results and I'll be like why didn't I do this the whole time but I feel like it's gonna be less efficient than just you know the equally simple motor shaft coming down at an angle and then a propeller at the bottom and then you just need the one bearing in the water and that's like on the zombie chopper the white boat where it's just got the motor shaft propeller and it just blows so this shaft is being blown and the other one is being sucked so and that one the propeller shaft like on most boats they have this thing called a cutlass bearing which is basically a piece of rubber around the shaft that lets has these slits and lets water get through and it lets water get sucked and that's supposed to keep it from wearing out so the way I did it was I just made like a roller bearing shaft with plastic rollers and then I leave some little holes so seawater can blow through or get sucked in and blow out the propeller and the little bearings they prevent so much friction and the bearings just roll and when I was going to make that I posted a bunch of stuff on the internet asking you know some boat forms and what I didn't want to know and everyone was like I don't know that might work so anyway I mean I couldn't find any information about making a roller bearing that will permanently work underwater but it has worked very well so there's a shaft and a slit yeah there's a shaft in the slits the shaft when the shaft is propelling it makes liquid go through the slit like it fires liquid through the slit the slit is being what? which lubricates everything so the shaft can move freely with no friction without chafing I'm crying people this is hilarious okay move me along I really hope the sound was working during that whole fiasco alright stop pooing your pants what do you got here it sure does moving around moving around well it does move around in there this is like it's like hanging out with a two year old who understands the innuendos can you imagine if like her canyon understood well like Aurora's getting to the age where she's starting yeah our 11 almost 12 year old is starting to kind of start to get hip to stuff so when I'm talking about things she gets this look like I know what you're saying and then sometimes it's funny and she's like they're big blue eyes oh question can you see through all those tears no there's a question right there and I can't read it will darling says ever tried using camera trap cameras you might see some cool wildlife oh that kind of trap good secondary clips of Jay working on the roof etc I was about to say you're probably going to probably catch me naked like walking around the house I'm totally doing it I'm going to connect to the live feed once you get the well like yesterday I had a shower my shower is outside so I usually have a shower outside and I came in and I was like oh I forgot something up on the hill behind my house so I just ran up with no clothes on and got it the boys have a penis girls have a vagina thanks for the tip kid I didn't know that one I've been aiming at all the long places no I've got a certain knowledge so yeah sometimes I'll just go out if I'm not wearing I mean there's no one on my island and your kids have already seen me again so it doesn't really matter made out of naked parts Joseph Blowmeister just said the same thing I was thinking which was tip when you said it thanks for the tip I just like the tip I don't like the whole thing it's okay it's just the tip the rest is just too much but if you're shooting it out in the outer space you need a good shot okay so so I have a question is this your question yeah this isn't a question from here this is your question yeah no it's actually my question and the only reason I'm about to ask you this question is because this particular screen name just popped up again and it occurred to me that there's two different ways to pronounce this name depending where you put the emphasis the emphasis on the wrong syllable can you say impotent or impotent me personally I would normally say impotent not talking about myself really I would say impotent so like I don't know why that is I'm an impotent man but I don't know why that is well you're from Florida insurance I got to go get my car insurance what's my favorite thing you say with the thing where this piece of paper oh god I'm not I don't know which way is the correct way which how do you say it's perforated isn't it damn she used to always say perforated impotent man child would like to know is that an adventure builder apocalypse edition shirt yeah so you may have missed at the beginning I painted this yesterday oh it looks so nice oh look at that oh good stuff so someone said I should make this available for buying so I'm going to make a good version of this on my computer not sure how I'll do that but yeah I'll make a version of this that you can put on put on the shirt no I can't just be a photo it's got to be like I'm going to do stuff no I'll do it I'll do it because I have the computer drawing of this okay and then I will maybe take a picture of this and trace it but like I'll make it like okay that sounds great that's fine because you don't want a picture of a shirt to put on them no it wouldn't be a picture but I think well you can take a picture of it too no I should do it okay alright now that we've had our little side I feel like someone should be cooking marshmallows up on top of it okay that's okay little buddy I'm going to help you in a few minutes okay are you okay it should get some air for a little bit anyway my son cut his toe yesterday by dropping a large metal thing on it like what is a water auger oh if it's what I'm thinking of it's just like a like take a tube and make it in a coil like through like around a shaft yeah round a shaft and then if you put one end in the water and turn it it'll like scoop up water and as it goes it'll like the water will keep staying at the bottom then go right up and come out the top oh cool it's like a when we were talking earlier about the propeller thing the jet propulsion whatever he said so like a water auger when you were that's not what I'm talking about the different thing man I don't know a water auger could be a lot of things yes alright just put it up dude could you help him please okay thank you alright um let me see question will darling once know well darling says put a camera trap on your Amazon list and and we'll find out who the pervert is I think eight envelope rechargeable double A's and I will donate alright so we can where should I put it on the Amazon where should I put it no I mean in the physical world what about up on top of the island looking out at the ocean well the thing is something is there and then takes a picture ah okay so it's not going to sense like animal it's not going to sense like a sunset or something I do know where birds hang out all the time but the birds are always there this thing would be going constantly right yeah actually it might be interesting to just like put it in spots where I'm like I don't know what's there yeah just make sure you have clothes on I can blur out though and he says if he's not talking about one that streams live he's talking about like I think what you were just saying like it like it detects something infrared or whatever and just takes a picture or a video or whatever yeah oh Enelope is a battery brand okay so he says he says to put on your wish list the eight Enelope rechargeable double A's and a camera trap on your Amazon list and he will donate for that camera trap alright okay so before you leave will darling oh will darling alright we're going to try to get some good pictures of something not there's going to be one of me naked you're just going to have to put the black out I'll just blur it or maybe I'll draw a giant cartoon mushroom just put a spaceship I'll just put one of those spaceships right there cause you can put those on right switch to that question wait there was a question I don't know where it is okay um how are your lithium battery pack wait okay hold on I'm sorry let me get the whole question please ask Jamie to comment on the lithium battery packs and how well they worked on the boats well I originally had lithium batteries on the boat I'm driving now and it worked great except I didn't use them very often cause I generally drive the boat in the daylight so I just use the solar panels so almost always the batteries would just be sitting there getting charged and I would very rarely use them and in the end I decided they weren't worth the extra weight and the extra complication but now I do have my battery suitcase oh they were another issue with the lithium batteries that I had is they were old used ones so I wasn't sure how well they were going to last I also didn't have a BMS a bowel movement syndrome a battery management what did I call it before a battery machine she knew something I don't know but it's a battery management yeah battery management system I didn't have that on them so I was always a little nervous that you know something I might have a meltdown at some point but now I have that battery suitcase I made which is 24 volts and I could put that on my boat I don't know I just never end up using it maybe if I had like a brand new lithium battery that I felt was going to be reliable for a long period of time I might put that on my boat and that would be worth you know charge controller and all that stuff right but it did work I mean it worked great you know when I stopped using it oh this is what happened so I had the batteries and the solar panels and I had this motor that I got donated from some company in China I'm not even going to name them because the motor lasted like six months and it lasted a little while and man it was fast it had three different speed settings and on the second speed setting my boat was like hydroplaning almost did I take you guys on the boat ever it was fast but yeah when the motor died it sucked because it was a 48 volt motor and it was the only thing that I was running 48 volts every all my other stuff is 24 volts and the only reason I made this one 48 volt thing is because I got the free motor and I was like alright let me make a thing so when that died I was like I have to rewire everything and I ended up taking the batteries out and I just didn't put them back in and then recently I went through all my battery packs when I made the battery suitcase thing and you know took out all the dead ones and just made one good battery suitcase of good cells but even with that I know it's they're very used at this point like even before I bought them I bought them really cheap and used so I don't actually know how long they're gonna last Lee Douglas McGreeby would like to know what food do we love to make like homemade chocolate or something the kids look forward to for treats etc oh it's there's a piece of fruit oh they go nuts apples oh my god if we have like yeah I don't how many apples do you think we would have to have hundreds for them to not just eat them all hundreds yeah I mean apples oh my god they love apples but even when I get you know I have a big bunch of bananas at my house right now that's not ready yet I'll be ready in a couple months and it's like a huge bunch hundreds of bananas there's like two of our kids will eat like 10 bananas a day well they had pineapple this morning they had pineapple this morning they were very excited about that pop corn yeah yeah pop corn would be a big thing oh man if I actually get my popcorn growing oh that's gonna be so exciting I have some growing right now you know it's like that tall right what kind of cake do they like pretty much any cake that I make generally speaking if I make calzones well it's like there's different kids one kid always answers macaroni and cheese for dinner what do you want for dinner macaroni and cheese and it's not like store-bought macaroni and cheese like we had it last night actually and I made sourdough I was about to say bread but I didn't make it into bread I made sourdough with lots of coconut in it and I made it real thick and ripped that up into little bits and threw that in boiling water and that was the noodles and then mixed that with cheese powder and it was pretty delicious um and they all love that yeah I'm trying to think like they like pizza oh yeah whenever we make pizza we all love pizza I mean I think it's partly because we don't have it all the time so we only have cheese like real cheese not powder cheese when I go to the store and bring it back and if I get like you know a frozen thing of cheese and like a frozen thing of meat as long as we're careful not to let it get warm we can keep it for two or three days like in a cooler they don't want to eat it all at once but that's delicious right but apples yeah I love apples or I really just any fruit yeah they even like those cocoa plums is there a fruit oh I guess it would be apples yeah I was gonna say is there a specific fruit that they really love and it's apples coconuts because you really like coconuts yeah I didn't think about coconuts because we have that every day because I have coconuts growing on my island I can give you a more you can give me a coconut this morning yeah I took it I know I just need to get out of the package I know because you don't like opening them well it's something I don't like opening them it just takes me like a really long time you don't like opening them but I actually I didn't get coconuts for like three weeks my lunch fell recently and now they've been falling pretty regularly yeah that'd be cool I would totally it kind of it just kind of comes and goes like for a couple months I'll get like more coconuts that I can use and then like a month I'll get like almost nothing Bob Krapchitz says cider? I don't think the apples would last that long I don't think so too expensive they are expensive because they don't grow here they won't grow in the tropics unless someone knows of an apple variety that has been bred to grow in the tropics which would be amazing apples or cherries cherries won't grow here either right oh no we have the tropical cherries yeah which I am growing my trees like I don't know it's getting bigger it's getting a lot more leaves no cherries yet though so Reed Cook says did you lose your chocolate supplier kind of then like COVID happened so they haven't been here until like recently and then they've been doing other stuff yeah we have friends who live they're not I mean they're kind of close but kind of near town it's under a message just right about lemons yeah because our lemon tree is producing them so I sent her a picture so they could give us the tree oh nice yeah they used to bring us like little I mean they grow chocolate on their property so they used to bring us little chocolate nibs which are amazing oh having those in cereal is great and by cereal I mean like not store-bought box cereal it's just like oats and coconut raisins and peanuts and stuff mixed in yeah impotent man child do you think Coca Cola is the greatest drink in the universe but only if it's one degree away from frozen no I really like this soda that I discovered here it's grapefruit it's really good I like when you make grapefruit so carbonated beverages in general like once you get out of the store I don't care about at all but D'Shanna makes a thing called a ginger bug she's not the only one who makes it but that I find delicious as soon as I get a fridge sorted out I'll make it again I just don't like it warm I don't care I don't like it dry you know like when all the sugar has been eaten up by the whatever and it's like real fizzy like it almost burns your mouth oh it's so delicious and then you can put different flavors in it Alex more would like to know do you make mead or any kind of home brewed alcohol you have made mead but you don't cook alcohol I drank some of your mead I will eventually I just need to get my laboratory set up which won't be for a few more months and then I'll do a bunch of stuff because I will have refrigeration available to me again and a clean environment which you know is dry and nobody's messing with constantly yeah I would kind of like to try making like high calorie beer but I wouldn't care I wouldn't care about the alcohol content I would just want like something where I could drink it and it's like here's lunch you know I don't have to stop working or anything I could just drink like this like basically liquid bread and just keep going I have plans to do a bunch of different experiments with like fermentation and stuff once I'm not nursing and I have my own laboratory that people can't go into mostly I just want to get food growing you know I have some but nowhere near like what we need so I think we're going to wrap this up because I'm ready to go do other things yeah alright one more question well wait you can't take it from me okay one more question we west does stuff says look up Anna apples and golden dorset apples what have they grown in the tropics I guess we have to look it up I'm going to try to remember because I might not remember I really want to get some nuts Malabar chestnuts yeah I haven't found them yet I mean I found them just not here where are they like Amazon and I can't even guarantee that they would be the right thing so you could try though we need to get peanuts again I want to try growing peanuts grafted apple fruit plant hot climate variety hmm I think it's not that we have a hot climate as much as we have a rainforest like it's so there's so much water here that I think that's also a problem well I thought I thought the apples needed like a temperature variation like I needed to get cold and then they start making the fruit and then it gets warmer and something like that but I think that also varies for a variety because oranges I thought were the same way but they have sweet oranges here yeah oranges look good and there's no temperature variation yeah but they are different oranges then right are like in Florida so this here is a like they're not bright orange they're like green right but you open them and then they're bright orange yeah so anyway all right let's go all right let's go what do we have for lunch so I'm going to go home and have lunch then right um this Bob Karcha says he heard one guy grafted tomatoes onto a potato plant and got both oh that sounds great that's kind of cool yeah maybe we should try that because tomatoes are potatoes well sweet potatoes will grow here right but tomatoes it's too wet maybe the tomatoes would make it if they're grafted to a sweet potato well that I think is kind of a different plan than a potato well maybe it'll work because like a potato plant is kind of similar to a tomato plant yeah but a sweet potato plant is different okay what kind of graft onto mangroves oh you imagine if you graft potatoes oh I learned something interesting about the mangroves yeah what's that what I was talking about yesterday what's that he was telling you that how the mangroves leaves sweat salt yeah when it's over like your property which way you don't want them over it they drip salt over the uh ground I didn't know that I didn't know that yeah that makes sense all right let's go yeah let's go eat a starling for lunch bye guys I'm gonna push the button what you want to push the button okay I'm pushing the button where are your toe buddies okay adios everyone bye guys