 We were running late today and he will be here momentarily so just bear with us. We had to go to the store and so today I am going to introduce the show and let you guys know that we are just doing our normal thing on the YouTube app. We are not messing with the streaming service because last week it was a complete disaster so the video quality might suck today but all we're going for is amazing audio so I just want to say if the video sucks I'm sorry guys but I think everybody would prefer the audio to work really well so we're going to go with yay audio yay so if you can hear me let me know and Jamie should be here momentarily in the meantime what's up guys yeah my hair looks amazing don't worry Joseph Blowmeister couldn't make it last week because the 49ers first game was a morning game sorry about that. Was that Joe Montana? Hopefully they kicked ass I mean but anyway Jamie's here and he's putting his clothes on so don't worry guys um not all my clothes on. Virgin eyes. That is lads. It can't be unseen this is perfect no skipping smoothest silk excellent can hear you well hello from hungry oh yeah I am hungry um but you and you just paddle all the way to the storm back that wasn't me I'm like hot here. I just run the show today it's fine okay bye so oh sorry so guys today we're gonna talk about stuff that's like philosophical I'm gonna talk about things that are like relating to other things that are related to life and important things that like oh I need to shut it anyway so like I just want to let you guys know that you should be doing things in your life that are things and good things for you today we have your questions oh my gosh I had like eight questions but you just kept talking and talking and I forgot about it all right move your see you later guys move your I gotta put my I gotta put my sensors on my my rated g sensor I was gonna say something move your something I almost said the b i t word whoa that is so wait why was it so far away for you but so close for me should be closer for you all right what was I going to talk about today all right you already told everyone hopefully hopefully the audio works what what are you doing nothing I'm just okay so so it's been getting frustrating with this friggin like bad signal and stuff I don't know everyone else is frustrated or whatever you know we just have it set up right now on the one that seems to work with the audio you don't need good video it's just me sitting here with my messy hair and blah blah so I think the shame already went over that so I did have a couple things to talk about today I totally forgot now though because we just pedaled back from the store and I was like motor in as fast as I could to get back here in time for this hey what was I gonna talk about today oh shut up okay hold on I have a piece of paper right there with two things written on it there's a piece of paper right here right here right what a piece of paper oh yeah hey can one of you guys bring me like a paper and a crayon oh yeah I need a paper and a crayon too to answer one of the questions I I've gotten recently and then the other thing is oh yeah okay so you know often I talk with people who want to move off grid because you know I have a youtube channel about off grid stuff so people send me messages well I met this young lady lady recently not in real life just online who was telling me that she wants to do what I'm doing she wants to move off grid and do all this stuff and she's getting a job but she's gonna try to save money up for all this stuff and I was like well that's cool I started talking to her you know about a little more and she was saying that you know she's really unhappy with her life right now she listens in city and like no one gets what she's trying to do and like no one understands her and everything's frustrating that makes sense like she wants to she wants to do what I'm doing it's really frustrating and you know right now she's she's like going to therapy and it costs a lot of money but she's hoping it'll make her make her you know be able to deal with it better and I was just like whoa whoa whoa wait why are you wasting money on therapy okay bells did go pee I've got one kid who will like dance around for 20 minutes before finally sprinting to the bathroom anyway she's saying and I was like you know don't don't waste your money on therapy trying to make your life your current life which you don't even like more tolerable this is just a waste of time you're wasting your resources and you're making it harder to get to where you want to be instead just accept that your life right now isn't what you want it to be which is where a lot of people are a lot of people are in a situation where their life isn't what they want it to be so just when you're in that situation just accept that right now things aren't what I want them to be and you know some stuff's gonna suck even where I am right now my life is pretty good but there's things I don't I don't want and I would I would like to be somewhere else like not another place but I would like to progress but I just accept that you know certain things aren't the way I want them right now but I work towards the the thing I want so I'm telling this this girl you know just save as much money as you possibly can and don't worry about trying to make your current life more tolerable just accept that it's you know not what you want and put all your resources into getting to where you want to be and then you'll actually get there because it's it's so easy to end up spending your entire life trying to make your life that you got a life that you don't want tolerable and then you you know you spend all your resources on that and you never actually get to the thing you want and uh this brings me to a point that you know a lot of people talk to me about these self-help gurus like oh you gotta see what this guy's saying what that guy's doing they got these special techniques to to you know to resist depression fight depression you know kind of make yourself happier and feel better and these self-help gurus are always on always on the on the on the idea that you're supposed to make your the life you don't want more tolerable and I don't think that and I always have a problem with this and people are always asking why don't you like these guys what's wrong with these self-help gurus they're doing trying to help people make make make people happier well this is my problem they're just making they're making the the life people don't want less horrible more tolerable but what would be much more valuable is to just make your life what you actually want it like actually make the changes you need to make to to get your life to where you want it to be to to get a better life and uh a lot of these self-help gurus they they put so much emphasis on you know just being happy with what you have and trying to convince yourself that everything's okay and you know you end up spending all this all this concentration and energy and focus into just dealing with what you don't want instead of of taking that energy and putting it in to actually making some progress getting to where you do want to go so uh what was the other thing I was going to talk about so yeah if you if you have a dream and you want to you want to get to some to some better point in your life don't waste all your energy trying to like make your friends happier or make yourself less less depressed or be somehow happier with your life as it sucks now start working toward that better life that you want and that will actually make you happier that will make you much happier than any therapy or drugs or any of the other stuff actually working toward the the better life that you want that that like that will lift your spirits more than any other stuff okay so I get this other question a lot which is Jamie why are you so crazy oh wait no no that's not it well that might be a question too but I get it is this question Jamie why are you always building buildings they're so huge I got my pencil to do some demonstrations okay I mean there are a few reasons obviously I just like to have buildings that are huge so I can you know I like my I like my house being four stories tall and like 40 feet wide which is like 13 meters or so and I like having lots of space so when I go inside I don't feel like I'm claustrophobic you know you like I don't get uh stir crazy inside you know I can spend all day inside my house my front door's open and the wind's blowing through it's almost like being outside because there's so much space but there's another very important easy to explain scientific math reason okay I've got a piece of paper here now say I've got and I'm going to do this in squares even though I'm I'm always building myself my buildings round but the round makes the math much more difficult so here I've got a square say this is a one meter square and uh so to get a one meter square let's write a one on there and we've got one to get a one meter square you have to have four sides that are one meter long each right so that's a total of four meters of wall to get one meter square space of area in the middle so you end up with a ratio of four of these to one of that right now say you double the width of your building well now you're taking your one meter now you've got four meters right we'll make each one of those is one meter and that means let's just divide it up so we know what it looks like now we've got four meters a building that's four times the size of that one now you can take out this part and that part of this box so you only need these two walls right you don't need this wall on this wall and you also don't need this wall on this wall or this wall on this wall or this wall on this wall so you get to take out a whole bunch of walls and still get your four meters of space so let's make a big four there hold on drawing four and now and now to get four meters of area four square meters you need eight meters of wall now that's a lower ratio up here to get the to get the one meter you had to have four walls so for every for every meter of space you have you need four things right here the ratio is four to eight which if you reduce it is one to two so you cut out half of your walls by making the building bigger and let's just keep going with that a little bit now say you want nine square meters now you get nine and one two wait yeah one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve nine to twelve now now you've got even more area for the amount of walls because you can take out a whole bunch of more more walls in the middle and you know you get more more space for the amount of wall on the outside now this effect is amplified when you add in the height so you you get a bigger volume per per wall space the bigger building you get now of course you can't just say well why don't we just make a Dyson sphere and just make a huge thing and compass like half the solar system you know because you know at some point it gets so big that it's it's hard to build i'm not saying we shouldn't build a Dyson sphere we should totally do that but you know i by myself and i'm only going to build a certain size building at some point you know it just gets too big to build and it's like okay this is going to be taking too long even though i would get a huge amount of space so i basically make my buildings kind of as big as i can reasonably make them because then i get the most amount of space enclosed per amount of material hold on dashana had a question for me earlier oh did she know be up up in a minute hey what was i going to talk about that was like i don't know let's let's just see what you guys are talking about okay video quality crowds out when we really need to see the fine lines there's nothing there's nothing important to see here sorry man oh i should also mention that we're working on a thing to get faster internet maybe next week or the week after i almost last at the end of the show last week i told the channel let's just not do one until we get faster internet but she was like well let's just just keep doing them so whatever i'm just gonna keep doing them but soon we're gonna get faster internet so hopefully that'll make you know all this crap better but really the audio is the only important thing to do right now will it pass north american safety code nothing i do will pass north american safety code because north american safety codes are not about safety at all they're all about conformity and making you buy things that you know the people the lobbyists wanted you to want to make everyone buy see this oh god safety codes are not about safety not north america anyway how is the guest house going uh you know i don't know it's going fine i'm mostly just flattening out the area i haven't like built any things yet just you know digging along it's going good let's see let's see most people don't have the brain power to live like you jamie i don't know well i don't know anyone else has to live like me and i don't know i don't know if i have any particular brain power than anyone else doesn't have okay i have like more than average brain power but um word of the kerf oh someone someone who knows something about math is saying word of the kerf smaller the better good luck with your somal plans look great what's word of the kerf i don't know what kerf is k-e-r-f must stand for something it's pretty tough going off grid it's going to take a hundred percent of your effort time and planning to get disconnected from the system that's a good point and i talked about this last week and week before something like if you're gonna if you're gonna move off grid or if you're gonna do any kind of dream like that where it's you know something where it's going to be difficult it's going to take a lot of effort don't have a backup plan just go in at hundred percent like like like erase erase the path behind you as you're going don't don't worry about bailing out don't don't think about bailing out just totally commit to the thing because if you commit to something a hundred percent you have a much higher success rate in anything difficult than if you don't well you start the lumbermill after finishing your roof tiles well the roof tiles i'm just kind of doing whenever the weather is working for that so the last two weeks i think i've done like four roof tiles because it's just been either really sunny or raining and there were two days when in the in the afternoon it was cloudy and i put up a couple roof tiles before the sun went down um so i don't know how long the roof doing the roof tiles is actually going to take uh it is it is much easier to do now that i've just kind of relaxed and i'm not like trying to get done as soon as possible um but yeah whenever whenever the weather the weather right now is perfect i could be out doing them right now but i'm doing this instead but anyway i'll i'll get them done sometime in terms of the lumbermill uh yeah i don't i don't think i need to wait for the roof to be done to build that i do need something to power it though um although i mean i don't know i just need to build the thing i want to make a really good lumber mill too i don't want to i don't want to rush it so i'm going to try to plan out something really good and usually when i i shouldn't say usually but a lot of times when i build things i'll just use whatever is around but for the lumber mill i'm gonna you know if i don't have like something really good to build it with i'll buy something because i want it to come out really good because i'm probably going to use it a lot of course the other the other option is to buy all the wood but that costs a lot more and it's it's not it's fun i think it's not as interesting of course there is a balance between you know paying for something to get to get it done faster and doing everything yourself i can't do everything myself so but i i think i'm i am going to cut all the wood myself let's see someone's from here from hungry that's cool uh okay this guy says a bandsaw is a headache from even before you begin stay with your province yes i've having built a bandsaw lumber mill and built a circular saw one like a swing blade one i prefer the swing blade a lot more now with the bandsaw for anyone who doesn't know let's just go over the difference between between a bandsaw lumber mill and a swing blade lumber mill real quick since i've got a paper so let's draw a couple things real quick okay so a bandsaw lumber mill has two wheels and then there's this big long saw blade this thing is like big right this big long saw blade that runs around them and that the saw blade is tight it's got some little rollers here to keep it to keep it straight and one wheel spins and spins the whole thing around and it'll cut a nice flat line you can cut really wide boards like the lumber mill i built i think the widest i could cut was almost i think was like 22 inches almost two feet wide and that was considered to be a pretty small one um and that's that's the biggest advantage of that kind of lumber mill is you can cut a really wide board and now the other kind of lumber mill i mean i'm sure there's other other kinds there's chainsaw ones but the other one that i'm gonna talk about right now is a swing blade lumber mill and basically you know it's got the shaft coming out of your motor or gearbox motor whatever going to a circular blade you know it's just a circular blade like you'd have on a table saw and that will be on a track and you can roll it and just it'll cut through the the wood and this one this one will be on a track too and you push it through and it cuts through the wood and then cool thing about this it'll end because it'll have a a pivot point there so you can swing the the blade up this way so you can cut that way and then come back and cut this way now the problem with this kind of thing is that if your blade isn't really sharp and everything isn't tuned right your blade will start warping up and down in the wood or it'll get start getting you know stuck in the wood it's just when everything is is perfect it's amazing but when anything you got to keep sharpening it and you got to do a really good job and if anything is you know messed up at all it's just it gets very frustrating so if you're in a situation where you can keep everything tuned up and perfect and everything it's great but if you're in a situation where it's like you're living off grid and you know the thing might get beat up a little bit here and there and maybe you won't use it for like four months and it'll be sitting there and then you want to turn it on you just want to have it work again this is much easier to deal with because it's just a circular blade stuck on the end of a shaft and you know the blade isn't going to warp and the blade will have the carbide tips which means you have to sharpen it way less often but even if it's if it does get dull it's just going to slow down your cut it's not going to start you know warping up and down and stuff and if it if it does start slowing down you know you can still sharpen even though it's got the carbide tips but that you'll have to sharpen it way way less often and that's why that's why I really like this one also this will cut much smoother boards than a bandsaw lumber mill so anyway yeah I kind of agreed that's why I ended up not wanting to build a bandsaw lumber mill having used a bandsaw well having built and used a bandsaw one and a swing blade I like the I like the swing blade much more mostly just because it's more reliable it's easier to deal with less sharpening stuff all right all right oh are you coming to hang out sure you don't want to buy a wood miser 1000 for a cool $70,000 that's a lot of logs up to 67 inches yeah I I know he was just joking about that but sometimes people do actually suggest that I oh my god it's like last week you were sitting like miles away from me because you hated me this week you'll