 All right, there's this thing on boop boop boop. Okay What am I talking about today? Well, it's pretty late for me already. It's dark out. It's dark and stormy Who's a dark and stormy night? It's raining. I had a I had an interesting trip getting home today Just it was rainy and windy and waves and blah blah blah I got home way later than I was planning to and it was in the dark and anyway I got home made some dinner ate it and now I'm ready to do this Okay, what am I gonna talk about right now? Well, I thought about something But I didn't really get to think about it that much so this might come out kind of all over the place but here goes So I don't usually pay attention to the news, you know, I I don't know what's going on You know in the world most of the time, you know, I get little tidbits here and there But generally speaking, I don't listen to the news or watch the news or anything, right? But there's been a lot of news going along going on in Panama where where I live, right? So people have been sending me links. Hey, whoa, check this out. Look at this So, you know, I click on some of them and I watch a bit of the news. Oh God the news is horrible and I you know, I know I know why I stopped paying attention to the news But it's it's just gotten worse and worse so the news is basically Problems problems. Oh my god. There's problems. There's problems everywhere over here over there over there There's worldwide problems and huge problems all over the place. There's problems. There's problems and you need to be Oh my god worked up about it. Oh, there's so many problems. Ah That's what the news is like. That's that's what it feels like To me when I watch the news It's like everything everything is alarmist everyone's dying the world's ending everything's a problem you know and There are a lot of reasons why this is it's because people people watch that's kind of stuff because Exciting when when everything's fallen apart and also it It distracts people from what they should really be paying attention to now After watching some of this news I just found my brain dwelling on this stuff You know for like for like the rest of the day for like a day and a half I'm just like my brain keeps kept just like spending all its time thinking about Everything other than where I am And I kept being like this is this is irritating because I'm not paying attention to myself I I have like half the patience I normally do for my kids I'm I'm like not doing a good job on anything I'm like I'm like halfway here because my brain is thinking about all this garbage other places all those all this other Oh my god stuff out in the world And the problem is That when your brain is on that stuff, you're you're not paying attention to To what's what's present you're not paying attention to the world where you can actually do things The immediate world around you the real life like the things you can touch enough and actually have an effect on When you're thinking about all these like worldwide problems and stuff that the news is telling you about these horrible situations You got to pay attention to this What it's doing is it's taking your attention away from where you can actually affect things And saying pay attention to the stuff that you can't do anything about Which is the opposite of what everyone should be doing And You know an example of this that I've talked about before maybe not not necessarily in this kind of framework But I've talked about how I hate the term I hate the overuse of the term, you know global warming and and climate change And you know anything like that where it's like Presenting a problem as a worldwide problem And then it's always talked about in a way where it says this big huge problem now of the planet Then it's it's big and huge out there But if people started talking about things In smaller ways instead of saying there's this global global problem That you can't really do anything about but pay attention to it because that will distract you from doing Anything you like doing your real life But if instead people were told hey, you know what okay, we've got all these pollution problems all kinds of whatever But we fix that by doing a good job in your everyday life so Be where you are do your thing. You know think about how much garbage you're making Think about how much energy you're wasting. Is there anything you can do in your everyday life to to make improvements? That's how we change the world but we're told with all this All all this news all the time to not think about where we are or what we're doing and this is how This is how people are controlled Because when your mind is out there on all this other stuff, you're not paying attention to where you are and what you're doing you're very easy to control And this this this is like just basic propaganda. This is the basic propaganda that The internet has taken to like a massively ridiculous level because people are constantly on their phone or on their Tablet or on the computer just constantly getting this stuff that's taking your mind off off what they're doing off their life And just putting it other places And then there since they're not paying attention. They're just open to just being told Do this think this behave this way go this way buy that do this and people since they're not even paying attention To what they're doing their mind is out there. There's like oh, okay. Okay. I'll just do this and this and this and man It's like You know as I paid attention to the news just for for a little bit and like that's where my mind started going You know luckily I was like what the hell this is this is horrible. I gotta stop this so turn off the news Like I know I know enough about the the world and there are all kinds of problems blah blah blah Let me be here. What can I do here to make the world? Right here around me better than it is And that that's how we that's how we make the world better, you know, you don't make the world better by thinking about people on the other side of the planet who should be doing better or or Or this this problem that you you can't do anything about but you could complain about it on the internet or Or grumble to people no the way the way you make the world a better place You should think about where you are and what you're doing and do a good job wherever you are whatever you're doing all right I don't know if that came out Cohesive at all But what else is going on? All right Wait, let me let me let me see what's going on with you guys Hey, Jeff. What's going on? Joseph the dreamer present day. Oh present and accounted for hey Joe blow. What's going on? Reed, how's it going man? We all uh, we have that in common I stopped watching the news a long time ago, but you can't help but we aware of it at some level Yeah, well I mean I'm all I'm always I'm aware enough Like I don't feel like I need to I need to Pay attention to the news like I know there are all kinds of stupid problems Like I get the picture, you know, I get the I get the big picture So once you get the big picture there isn't really any point in watching the news anymore It's all just details of this this problem. That's that's there How do you beat the problem that's there and the problem that's there? Is basically that People aren't paying attention to to their their everyday lives and doing a better on their doing a better job Where they are When they could you know And just people are are being basically controlled like led around by by Sociopaths who who want to have power and and run other people's lives, which I think is a terrible thing I mean the leadership we have in the world today is just it's not actual leadership Like the way the way leadership is thought of thought of today is not As it's not a responsibility like people don't think of being a leader as a responsibility, but that's what it is Being being a leader is a massive responsibility But people today think being a leader is like this great privilege Like like being in charge means you're somehow better like you're you you've got some some status Which is it's just idiotic. It's this the dumbest thing, but that's that's how we That's how we're running our society right now It is is ranking everyone by where they are in this leadership hierarchy Which is so stupid. It's so dumb Leadership should not be something that people seek. You know, you don't you don't want to be in charge of Of people and all and all this stuff because it's it's a pain in the ass, you know like like Yeah, if you're actually if you actually want to be a real leader You don't want the job because you know that it's just piles of responsibility You might do it because you know someone has to do it But a real leader does not want does not run into that leadership position and say ha ha it's mine No, a real leader goes into that leadership position saying All right I gotta take care of this This is gonna be difficult But uh, yeah anyway All right, I'm kind of going all over the place a little bit here Roger mounts has a go man Um, so just what could I be doing? John Holman that is the first question you should be asking yourself Presuming you're talking about like what what could I be doing in my everyday life in my own world to to make it a better place? That's where you start you start with the question. What could I be doing? What could I do? To make my world a better place to make the world a better place around me Not not in egypt unless you're in egypt But not not in some part of the world where you don't live and some some stuff you have nothing to do with No, how can you make the world better? Where you can actually have an effect where you can have a the most effect and that's the world directly around you Start with your own house Your own yard your neighbors The the environment around you the people around you. That's like like figure out what you can do Locally to make the world a better place and that that's that's the perfect question to ask What can I do and then you got to think about it? It might take a lot of thinking turn off your computer turn off your tablet and your phone and everything Put it away, you know it instead of instead of watching garbage movies until 4 a.m turn all that crap off And and just spend an hour or two in the evening just think you know what what what could I do better What could I do better in the world? How could I make the world around me a better place? How could I make myself better? Because if I make myself better, I'll be able to do a better job of making the world better like it's all it's all connected You know Anyway, that's that's the perfect question to ask. I love that you ask that question So just what could I be doing keep asking that question and ask yourself that question not not other people Oh My crazy computer crashed when I tried to load the jami. Ah, yes, it wasn't sufficiently crazy for me My mind is out there most of the day unfortunately Yeah, man, bring your mind back get your mind back and focus and uh So, you know when I when I built my house here I spent a year just I mean I didn't I went on the internet maybe two or three times like after a few months So I was like, well, let me just check my email to see if I have any important messages And because I hadn't checked in month. It was just like this huge list So while I was building my house if anyone emailed me Sorry um But for that most of that year I didn't go online. I didn't I didn't have a tv. I didn't have any Any information coming I was I was focused on what I was doing and it was amazing It was an amazing experience. It's it's really cool and You know a lot of the best experiences I've had have been Out in nature Beyond the signal, you know where there's no phone service and there's no there's no wires running in there You're just you're just there And the reason I've had such good experiences besides, you know being in nature And I've done a lot of cool projects that I that I liked and stuff but a lot of it was this that I was fully present I was there. There was there was there was nothing else to do. There was no being distracted by the murders in calcutta or you know I don't know pollution over here or whatever. It's like no I'm I'm here and and I don't know what else is going on in the world So I'm just going to focus on what I'm doing here and do do my best right here and Those are those are the best experiences Let's see true that Thanks dust man Have you ever seen videos of chimps scrolling instagram on a smartphone that looks like most people nowadays? I think the chimps are smarter actually. I don't know do they Oh, don't give don't give chimps that let let them live their lives, man yeah Grow where you are planted. Yeah, man. Okay, so That reminds me like one of the one of the sayings I say a lot Which is that the grass is the grass is greenest where you cultivate it You know people always say, you know, the grass is greener over there. The grass is greener over there The grass always looks greener on the other side because it always looks greener somewhere else But in reality the grass is greenest where someone is taking care of it So take care of your damn grass and you will have the greenest grass And if no one's taking care of the grass There's not going to be green grass anywhere You know metaphorically and and literally I guess Perfect analogy the movie idiocracy. Ah, man idiocracy. What a what a beautiful movie and like Ah almost unwatchable Yeah, well, you know when the movie idiocracy first came out if anyone hasn't seen the movie idiocracy I'm not going to say too much about it. You should watch it. It's Although it doesn't have the same effect now Because when I originally watched the movie idiocracy It was like, whoa, that's crazy. How Nah, that's that's so far out there and then like 10 years go by And it's like, well, that doesn't seem that weird now. I mean that's Kind of not that unusual and then another 10 years go by and it's just like well, that's just the world Uh, we're like we're like one step away from that, you know Oh, it's funny I wonder if you made another idiocracy movie now what it would look like because it would have to Does look things are crazy in Panama right now with the roads closed and talk of the airport shutting down another youtube channel Down there is shutting down their coffee business till things improve improve Using starlink to stream. I do not have star starlink. No Uh, let's see evening. Jamie. How goes the projects and how is the family? Okay, the projects are going pretty well. Actually my my family's good I love my kids and they're actually not here tonight for the first time in quite a while actually I'm just here. It's just weird But yeah, they're they're great Okay, my projects that I've been working on Well, one thing I'm really excited about I've already made a video about this. I made a live about it a few days ago is On one of my boats I made a new propeller and I think I got it like really close to like the optimum propeller because it is The performance is really good I'm sure it could still be tweaked to to be better, but it is it is really good, you know Uh, so that's always exciting when you when you're playing around with something over the years And you know every once in a while you make a modification And then at some point it's like oh, oh, I think that's it. I think that's like that's really close to like like optimal You know, of course if someone came with some computerized nonsense they can be like, oh, this could be four percent more efficient well Also, you know, I've been doing a lot of digging and the digging's been going well My arm my elbow is a little sore though right there Oh, I got I got like tennis elbow. Yeah, like right there. I got tennis elbow But it's it's not too bad. Sorry um Okay, I'm going to talk about a project that I want to do that came up because Okay, I got to back up a little bit So I want to build a new giant robot, right? Um, I mean that's something I've wanted to do for a long time But I've kind of gotten to the point where I'm getting I've gotten close enough That I'm starting to like really think about like steps toward toward next giant robot So so I started coming up with some designs and I was like, oh, there's a really cool thing I want to make a prototype of that So then I was like, you know, I need to get a 3d printer and I talked about this a couple times I haven't bought a 3d printer yet, but um, I'm gonna get one To go I'm gonna get one before the next container comes to here because I always order stuff from the states and they're like There's a container service I use so, you know, everything goes on a container, you know A whole bunch of different people's packages and stuff and then it comes like once a month or two Depending and uh, I have a couple weeks before the next one leaves. So sometime in the next week Or so I'll order a 3d printer. But anyway, um I was looking at 3d printers and I think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna get an ender three If anyone know if anyone cares But the company that makes the 3d printer also makes laser cutters and And I just kind of saw it actually. I was like, whoa, wait a minute So yeah, I used to have a laser cutter and it was like this giant box and it was super complicated And you had to have all this This water cooling stuff and this like all this all it was it was complicated And You know, I had a had a glass tube laser and stuff and I see these new laser cutters They've just got like a little laser module. It's like some super duper Like high focus super bright led deal or something. I don't know exactly what's going on there But it's like just a little compact thing and since it's just a little compact thing It doesn't need all these mirrors to bounce the laser around and stuff Because before the laser was huge So it had to have all these mirrors to bounce laser on now It's just like the whole machine is way smaller more compact and they're cheaper and and So now I'm trying to convince a company to send me one of these things one of these laser cutters these little little laser cutters and I want what I want to do with it is I want to make I want to make like spider tank that's the first thing I want to do with it I'll do other stuff with it. But several years ago I made these these robot toys called they were they were marketed in stores as attack nids and I always call them spider tanks, but anyway Right before I was dealing with this toy company and we worked together and got them in stores and everything But right before that I was working on making laser cut versions like laser cut kits of these these robot toys So that I could you know Laser cut out a bunch of parts throw them in a box send them to someone and they could put them together And also I could just send out the the actual plans So if anyone else has a laser cutter they could laser cut it out and you know make make one of these robots Well that got you know kind of put aside because I was doing the thing with the toy company But now I want to I want to do that again because I was I was almost finished like the The second version like I even made one like I made the first prototype of one of these laser cut Robots and one of you guys got it. I don't know you guys who specifically watching it, but like a youtube fan ended up with it But I was I was just going through like the the second version You know like you're cleaning up all the edges and stuff and kind of you know Like tweaking it and perfecting it and stuff And then I started working this with this toy company. So I have this this almost perfected spider tank laser cut design That I want to build now And you know what I want to get a laser cutter and make one and then just give out The design so anyone who has a laser cutter can Can make it and I'm trying to convince a company Well, I've written to two companies so far I'm trying to convince some companies to send me one of these free And you know, I'll show it in the videos or as I'm doing the stuff, you know Give a give a little review using the project and everything. So give them some advertising. So we'll see how that goes I'm kind of excited about that because Yeah, that was that was one of those projects where I was pretty excited about it and I was getting to the point where it was It was it was I was in the the final Stages of just the perfecting of it and then I ended up going in a different direction and I that's something I've always left It's like a loose end. I left a really cool loose end that I'd like to like to finish Hey, Jamie, I went to your tree house in Vermont. You're a genius dude. Well, thanks, man. Um I'm proud of this. Okay um Jamie my wife and I Think you don't catch or eat fish. Is that that's a you put a question mark Are you are you telling me you don't think that or are you asking me? I've made a couple videos where I caught An eight fish. I don't have any video of me actually catching a fish Because it's kind of hard to you know Use a spear and hold the camera at the same time at at some point I'll go diving with a friend and get them to have the camera And hopefully they'll have the camera going at the time when I actually shoot a fish But I have shown fish that I shot Last last week. I shot a pretty big fish. Like it's like, you know, about like that with a spear gun That one I didn't get in video at all But you know, I there's some videos down there of of fish. I've caught nothing spectacular, but yeah Um, and yes, I do I do catch any fish And believe it or not, you don't have to believe it. I don't care. Um How is the running track progressing Jamie? Well, there's actually two running tracks There's a running track outside and a running track inside There are you're probably talking about the running track upstairs Oh, I haven't started building it yet. Um, I'm getting pretty close to You know starting cut cut the wood for it. The thing is like um A lot of people have been have been impatient about me building my second and third floor because The way most people live If they want to build something out of wood They just order the wood or go to the store and buy it or whatever like you get you just get the wood that day You know blam done you just pay the wood and pay the money get the wood But the way I'm doing it is I built the lumber mill I'm well, I've made a path to get to logs I've got that path pretty good now like I like I could go to my jungle now and and Find a good log and get it out of the jungle I'm still not entirely sure how I'm gonna move like a 4 000 pound log or whatever though, but You know, I'll figure that out as I go I don't know how long how much the logs will actually weigh either But like heavier than I can just like I can't just pick up like a like a big log and throw it over my shoulders on that you know, um But yeah, I'm getting to the point where I'm going to start cutting The wood pretty soon And pretty soon. I don't know it depends on the weather a lot of it depends on the weather Because I always have a few different projects going that I can work on When it's raining or when it's sunny Or when it's overcast, you know, like I'll have a few different projects that I'll and I'll work on whichever one happens to work out with the weather or works out with with You know things that have come in You know materials or whatever or man, then there's also my energy level like like some days I'll be like, oh, I could work on that but I'm just too tired I got I need to I need to do something where I'm going to use less energy And where I'm going to be in my house so I can eat more And catch up, you know in other days, I'll be like wow, I feel like I'm I feel like I've got a lot of energy I've been eating really well and you know, I've been saving up some energy I can go out and do some some really hard work, you know, so Yeah, what what soon is I'm not entirely sure Uh, joseph the dreamer you have only been on youtube for a month. Are you really sure? Jamie is not affected as much as he is with no gas. Oh, yeah, so about the about the The protests and stuff in Panama They haven't had a huge effect on me because Yeah, one one thing is I don't I don't use gasoline for anything except my chainsaw, but I I don't Use my chainsaw that often And I can easily just not use it Um But that's that's been the big thing for people around here Is they can't get gas. That's what that's the number one thing people are complaining about Like there's no gas deliveries trucks can't get through and whatever and then there's no propane so gas and propane Today there were there was food there was food at the stores today Um Like See, oh, isn't that a good-looking pepper? Oh, look at that guy. That's good-looking stuff. Anyway Yeah, the stores seem to have food and everything It's just fuel gasoline and propane. That's that's the big things people are complaining about and I don't use either So my life has not changed significantly um But yeah, you know, there there's some other little shortages at the stores like I don't know though. Well, today I wanted to get eggs And the guy was like, oh man, we're almost out, but he still had some so I bought some eggs. I bought 30 eggs Uh, but you know who was almost out, but I don't know. He hasn't yeah, hasn't had a huge Um effect on me Yeah, also, although I did kind of stock up on a bunch of food like, uh, you know, like jars of peanut butter and like I got some canned meat just in case, you know, like some non-perishable stuff I I got a little stockpile of peanuts You know, I I already have peanuts. Of course, I just talked about peanuts and peanut butter. Apparently we eat a lot of peanuts here um But yeah, you know, I I kind of made sure I have Lots of food right now because I don't know what's going to happen with the protests and stuff But yeah, I mean everything's going fine Also, unless I missed the video, did you ever complete the dragon scales on the roof? No, I haven't um, because like the roof doesn't leak that much So it hasn't been a priority. It's like there's there's one leak kind of over there and then Hi, I don't know Yeah, I mean either there are a couple little leaks around but nothing that A couple drips And I know where they are. So there's just nothing there. There'll be a little wet spot on the floor and it just hasn't been Hasn't been a major issue like like I have other things that are higher priority than than finishing the roof I guess although I do I do want to finish it Of course now I've left it for long enough That I've kind of lost momentum on it. So You know at some point I'll I'll go do it again and one of the things is So I have this wood kind of scaffolding ladder thing going up The side of the dome So my my roof is like a like a two-story tall dome like this big dome And I I made some scaffolding ladder-ish kind of thing the wood thing that goes up the side And now it's been sitting there Unused for long enough that I don't entirely trust it. So Like it might have rotted. Yeah, I feel like I need to make a new one, you know It's just just start from scratch and make a new thing and um I can do a better job now too because You know before I was making it I made the scaffolding just as high as I needed it and then I you know added another piece and then added another piece So it's kind of this Frankenstein together thing. So When I when I want to do the roof again, I'll I'll make some nice scaffolding and You know, I'll just get it all done probably pretty quickly after that Of course, that is one of the jobs that really is very weather dependent Because I can't put thin concrete On the roof on a sunny day because it's just going to dry out before it gets to cure They can't do it. I can't do it when it's rainy obviously because it's just going to wash away Before it it cures. So it has to be on a cloudy day. That's not rainy so But anyway, yeah, I mean, I'll I'll get to that. It's just not a big priority John says thanks for that. You're welcome. I'm not sure what I did Or if you're even talking to me, but cool Let's see You guys Could have an arguments and no Um I haven't seen you for a long time now. I remember your robot videos in your old land in the u.s and The boat How old are your kids now? Well three five 11 and 13 Don't quote me on that but something like that. I think that's about right Will your containers be delivered with the protests going on? I don't know. I I think I think the container will will make it There's a see There are protests going on, but I've also been paying attention a little bit To know enough that people have been getting in and out. I mean people are still traveling. It's just I don't know what the exact deal is Like things are getting through and like food is getting to the stores in town and You know a bunch of propane and gas made it the other day Of course people immediately bottle all which is why it's it's run out again Um, but yeah things are getting through Uh, even the container might get delayed, but I don't think it's going to get stuck But I mean if it gets stuck eventually it'll make it, you know, I don't I don't know And that's the the container's not coming for a few weeks anyway So if it leaves, I don't know two or three weeks from now It's going to begin transit from the united states to Panama for I don't know a couple weeks Before it gets here. So it's probably not going to get here for like a month, you know And maybe by that time everything will be sorted out. I don't know I'm working on a solar van with 50 51.2 kilovolt hour life po4 battery Well, that's pretty cool You've got plenty of fish too. Well, you don't know how many fish I have I mean there there is some fish. It's it's kind of hard It's kind of hard to find Fish that I consider worth killing. I kind of want to I don't want to go get a bunch of little fish like I want I would rather get one bigger fish That'll feed my whole family than go kill like six little fish for a lot of reasons, you know, um Yeah, just I mean you can you can fill in the blanks on that I think and around here it's Things are a little bit overfished unfortunately partly because people use fishing nets like gill nets And gill nets are these nets you put out and fish swim into them and get their gills caught and basically die And then and these gill nets are huge like they'll put it out like as a big circle where fish swim through And just everything goes in there and gets killed And then you'll see people and you're not supposed to use these nets by the way But people just do anyway But then, you know, I'll see them pulling the the net up and just throwing away like three quarters of the fish um that they just killed And didn't didn't even want because they're too lazy to it's just it's really irritating But that's you know, that's the situation How do you came and taste like chicken? I don't know. I've never eaten a cayman I've actually I haven't seen any cayman here I know they're here because people People talk about seeing them and I have seen I've seen at least one dead one I might have seen a cayman alive at some point. I don't know, but they're I don't really see them Time to buy chickens avoid the sketchy egg supply is it is the egg supply getting sketchy You should try building a pyramid Like what kind of pyramid like why For what? I kind of like I mean, yeah, I don't know what's a fork. I like domes a lot in case you didn't notice That's pretty obvious at this point Jamie your moderator is a bit a bit aggressive. Phil. Are you okay? Phil? Are you okay? Well, I don't know he Well, joseph, you did tell me that you don't think I eat fish But it was it was confusing because I don't know Um Okay, I'm just gonna move on how much money would you say one would need to get set up in bokehs del toro nowadays Depends what you want to do Totally depends on a lot of things like how you want to live where you want to live Yeah, how you want to live and where you want to live totally totally changes What it would cost by a factor of like a hundred. Well, maybe not a hundred more than 10 though Like you can you could live you could come here With $10,000 and get set up Buy a piece of land a little piece of land a little cheap piece of land You know make a little house You know, you'd you'd be doing it all yourself Um And that would be that would be pushing it but it's possible. You know on the other hand, you know, if you want to if you wanted to come Live in live in a really particular place where the The land prices are going to be way more or maybe You want I don't know something specific that's going to cost more Your land could cost much more than if you want to hire people to build your house and do everything And you want like all the stuff that you had in the suburbs, you know, you you could You could spend $250,000 easily And still not be satisfied like yeah, it totally depends what you want to do make charcoal you know, you can also If you wanted to if you wanted to live here the cheapest way would probably be on a sailboat Although on a sailboat, you're not really going to be able to grow food or have chickens and stuff. This is a pretty big boat I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, it is nice having a piece of land because then you can become the self-sufficient And you don't really need money at that point Although if you load a boat you can go fishing and eat lots of fish So, yeah, it really just depends who you are Hug it out, dude. It might make charcoal. Do you make charcoal? I in fact just made some I I had some pizza and I cooked it on a wood fire and made some charcoal Um I I think it says design. I think it's supposed to be designed. I designed a pyramid A mile square and half a mile high Okay, I don't know. I don't know what that means like you you thought in your head Oh, I could make a pyramid shape that's like a mile by half a mile I keep drawing a computer or he's saying like you you I don't know. I don't know what that means On dragon scale, maybe you can focus on top floor a bit and then work on the roof From the top when it's more available from up there Well, the okay the top floor has nothing to do with putting Tiles on top of the roof Like when I'm on top of the roof, it doesn't matter what's inside the house. I'm not I came and see it I have nothing to do with it. So Yeah, that doesn't really affect whether or not I can do the tiles We wait, where are you bill? I'd love to come help Um, yeah, it's about bill who who designed a giant pyramid. We are not talking about fishing. Are we I don't know I don't know what you guys are being weird today and cryptic and I don't know what's going on Biogas, did you ever get enough time to test it out? Okay, my my fart machine the biogas digester, whatever. It's got a little gas leak And I'm pretty sure I know where it is It's like the one one spot. I didn't seal I hope it's there anyway because otherwise I'm gonna have to check all the spots that I glued shut But um, so it's got it has to have an airtight chamber, right? to make this methane and not not let it escape And I glued the lid on this this big plastic tank and then I I uh have a PVC pipe coming out to a valve and all that should be airtight but The the part The PVC part that goes through the water tank Uh, I just wasn't thinking about it before but when I when I went to open the thing and there was like no gas pressure I was like wait man. There's gonna be a leak somewhere Because there was a little bit of gas pressure when I first put it in like when I first put that pipe on but it It lost the pressure pretty quickly And then I realized oh this this um PVC pipe that goes through the the tank at the top Doesn't have to be watertight at all. There's no reason it would ever need to be watertight So there's no reason that the factory guys would have made a water tank, right? So I just need to seal that it's and it should be fine. I hope I hope that's what the what the issue is um, but the thing is like Like I cook on a wood fire and I like cooking on a wood fire partly because I get charcoal and I can use the charcoal in the garden and stuff and another one is that it makes makes a bit of smoke and Whenever I'm cooking there are no bugs like like anywhere And you know the bugs aren't that bad here anyway But in the early morning and in the evening like when the sun's coming up and when the sun's coming down that's when these little little buggers come out And that's when I often cook either breakfast or dinner. So it works out well I know I make a bit of smoke all the bugs disappear and then I basically never have a bug problem. So It's kind of nice cooking with with wood for that reason I even came in for a taste like ox is not at all like chicken. I see Hmm Yeah, I haven't tried came in yet. Mr. Landville says I'm okay. I'm glad you're okay, mr. Landville Purpose of the pyramid is just a big tomb, right? I don't know There's man. That's a rabbit hole. You could Go go look that up on the internet purpose of a pyramid and man You can spend the next week pulling your hair out The locals want to gouge you on the price of land So become friends with them That's that's the answer to that. That's what I did. I became friends with people around here and then suddenly they were offering me land that was That was way cheaper than What was previously available and you know, I think a lot of it is And I understand this because I feel the same way People who live in a place don't want someone to come in and throw up some giant resort like If someone came and offered me a million dollars for for some piece of land that I have I'd be like I mean a million dollars would be great, but I I don't really want You know, whatever you're gonna do with this overpriced piece of land like some giant resort disaster monstrosity So that's sorry. I mean if you if you go to a place like I would recommend if you want to go to some place And live there go go live there for a while first meet people Let them know, you know, what you want to do Um And I told people, you know, I want to buy I want I want to buy some land and you know build my own house and And grow some food and you know do all the stuff and then people were like Oh, well that that's cool because a lot of people come here And they want to throw up these giant resorts and just like piss money all over the place And it's just a disaster and you know, it just makes piles of garbage and it's noisy and obnoxious But if you just want to come like, you know, live a happy life and just chill Yeah, we're we'll sell you land for for for the local price, you know Don't fish in london stand in the river Man, you guys got to work on your typos. I'm not even sure you're saying Okay, barbecued iguana iguana is supposed to taste kind of like chicken I've never had it but I've been told around here that it tastes like chicken and people actually refer to iguanas as tree chicken around here Which is kind of funny. Okay. Let me read this again John Paul don't fish in london stand in the river themes I don't know. Are you talking about the river Thames? I don't know. Hi there while you were talking about idiocracy Do you know the anime ghost in the shell from the 80s? Yes, of course I know ghost in the shell for some reason when you asked me about that I just thought of the scene where They figured out that there was someone sneaking around with like an invisibility suit And it was because the elevator had more weight in it Than the people they could see so there was apparently an invisible person in the elevator adding more weight I don't know why that particular scene just popped into my head How often if ever do you do you end up bartending your skills? Oh bartering your skills to neighbors I don't really barter my skills If um I'll just help people like a while ago Some guy asked if I could help set up the solar panels and stuff And I was like, yeah, so I just went and spent the spent the morning Putting his wires together. I didn't use any materials of my own You know, I brought a couple tools, but they didn't get used up And so he's like, you know, what do I owe you? I'm like, oh nothing, you know, don't worry about it Like I didn't have to use anything up. It doesn't it doesn't cost me It cost me a couple hours whatever and so he gave me a bunch of stuff off his trees, you know Monkey tails, uh, what do you call it? Um Well What are those things called? Ice cream bean gave me a bunch of ice cream beans, which my kids love so that was great So I guess I guess we sort of bartered then but um, you know Yeah, you know, usually if if someone I know asks me to help him with something and I can Help them with it. I just do it And then I hope at some point, you know They they would help me in the future, which often is not the case but that's the role I want to live in so that's what I try to do and uh There's a saying in in some spanish-speaking countries that goes something like you know What's it today you tomorrow me which means, you know Like I'll help you today and you know some point in the future I hope someone will help me when I need help, you know, you just you just help people when you can But that's the way that's the way I try to do things Which is is contrary to most of the culture around me, you know, whatever About buying land Are there still good livable islands on the market that I reasonably priced? On the market or you mean that could be bought I would say on the market I mean maybe but probably not however if you if Like I I could go around and ask people around here And I've done this for for a couple other people who who've come here to live You know, just just ask around so, you know, this person wants to live here You know, is there is there any land or an island that you know of that you have that you sell or that you know of and just Just talking to people, you know, and then Something pops up and it might might be a week later or a month later, but Yeah, I would I would say there's There are deals to be had If you are willing to to like like like take a chance, you know, you got to take a chance You can't just sit at home and be like, what's the what's the deal? Give me the best deal And then let me know all the information before I do anything. Now you gotta you gotta put some effort into it first, you know That's how you get the good deal And there's no guarantee you'll get a good deal, but you probably get a good deal, you know Um, do you have any regrets? I mean I have plenty of regrets. I don't know Or do you miss any of your life in the u.s. I don't miss any of my life in the u.s Except for the garbage the garbage in the u.s. Was amazing. Oh my god Like yeah, like I remember one day I was walking around Manhattan. No, it was brooklyn. I was walking around brooklyn And uh, I was just you know visiting a friend I was I'm not I'm not real big on big cities But I would visit friends in the city once in a while and I'm walking around brooklyn And it's garbage day, which is like all the time and That day just like walking couple blocks. I found like a brand new skateboard Which I had for like five years after that. I found a bow and arrow. It was like brand new just um And then like all kinds of other stuff that it didn't take because I was like well I got the skateboard and a bow and arrow. I can take more stuff. I got I'm good, you know But yeah, the garbage in the united states is amazing. I mean it's It's a two-sided thing is it's it's cool because like you can find all kinds of free stuff in the garbage, which is amazing But it's also like terrible That stuff is just being trashed at such an Unbelievable rate like it's a bad thing. So overall, I'd rather not have that but it was cool to be able to get you know free stuff It was it was kind of like It was kind of like just just having some Christmas. Oh, it's garbage day. Let's go. It's Christmas. Let's go see what's out there and just go walk around and you know See what brand new stuff people have thrown out because they're too spoiled and got bored of it in 30 seconds Mojo says I'm late. I'm late too. I was like hours late. How important is knowing Spanish in Panama? Well, it depends what you want to do if you only want to talk Gringos then I mean there are plenty of people who don't know Spanish at all But is very useful. It's it's it's very valuable to have At least decent Spanish if you want to deal with like local people at all, so You know, even if your Spanish isn't great if you if you put the effort in To using your your mediocre Spanish and my Spanish is not great. I have a pretty good accent though So often I'll start talking to someone in Spanish and they'll they'll think I speak No, they'll think I understand pretty good Spanish, but I can speak a lot more than I understand Which I've I've heard is the opposite To what a lot of people don't do but yeah, I can speak I can say a lot more than I can understand so People will will just talk to me at like full speed Espanol and I'm like Repetir lo más despacio por favor, which is you can say that repeat that slower, please But yeah, it's not you don't have to know Spanish, but it is very useful How is all the phone concrete holding up has any of it crumbled not as holding up great even the parts That I haven't I haven't coated like where it's just bare Styrocrete showing the whole the whole domed roof on the inside Doesn't have any any mortar on it. I think it's just just a styrocrete and it's I mean it looks it looks like it looks like it did when I just put it out Like no noticeable difference So yeah, it's holding up really well Let's see how much did you pay for your land in Vermont? I live nearby I want to do a similar thing But everything looks super expensive. I paid 12 and a half thousand dollars for my land in Vermont for 25 acres But it was cheap because there was no road access so If you want to find cheap land There's often some catch So you just have to find the land that has the catch that you're you're okay with and I was totally comfortable Not having road access I actually liked walking up into the into the woods and then I eventually did make a road anyway Don't mention fishing trigger warning. I'm not I don't care What are you wait Okay, I don't know I I do fish. I don't know. Are you having a problem right now? How's the garden project going so the funny thing about the garden project so I have all this stuff growing in places where I didn't put any effort into it And where I did put effort and like, you know churned up all the dirt mixed in charcoal and mixed in like Leaves and compost and stuff. Nothing is growing. They're like nothing But like like right down here. I've got this huge thing of banana trees. That's been making all my bananas and It's just I just put a banana tree there and it was like the right spot or something, you know, and uh I had a couple avocado trees over that way They're not making avocados yet because they still have a few years But they're growing amazingly well the leaves are going crazy if they look super healthy and they're just since I don't know if they're just over there. I didn't do anything to the dirt. It's just the I planted avocado trees all over the place by the way But these two were just in the right spot. So I don't know On this island Yeah, I seem to have no control over what will grow where so I just plant stuff everywhere and I'll plant like The same plant 10 different times and like one or two of them will do amazing So I just kind of plant stuff everywhere and see see what works where now I have another property where I want to build this this campsite. I was talking about before Where I want to have the adventure builder meeting. Oh, I should mention that So I want to have an adventure builder meeting here the week of may 3rd next year 2024 And I want to have this campsite set up so people can come and stay in like little cabins or tents You know if you bring their own tents or whatever But the land over there is amazing because I'm you know digging around a little bit and the topsoil Bung on my back. Um, you know, the topsoil is like You know, it's like good topsoil. It's like fluffy and dark looks amazing. So I'm excited to start planting things over there Let's see I designed one light year by one light year pyramid. Okay I went on vacation to london england and it was more like a holiday in afghanistan really I don't I don't know how I don't know what you mean by that, but cool I could build a pyramid feel problem is getting the stones there. Oh the problem is is getting the stones there. Yeah Don't ever go to england. It sucks. I lived in england for four months and I was not I was not particularly happy with the experience Oh man, just the the amount and I've spoken with people who live in england You just totally agree with this just the amount of red tape involved in anything you do Like the rules are insane. Like you you can't do anything without getting permission from the council You know, you're like, I want to scratch my butt now the council's like Ask us permission first before you go scratching your bottom. Oh, it's ridiculous Um, I cook as much as possible on charcoal and cast iron I actually use stainless steel So this is this is the stainless steel pan. I use a lot and I just use it like a cast iron, you know, I seasoned it and Like don't don't wash it with soap or anything I mean, occasionally I'll wash it with soap if I cook something that I really need to wash out But generally just wipe it clean. Keep it greasy Totally non-stick and amazing and then, you know, I live in a salt water environment. So cast iron We're thrust I do have a cast iron pot down here or pan. I just don't use it. Um, let's see Is this what care in the community looks like? I don't know what you're talking about Just made an offer on a house in Kentucky. Well, I hope it I hope it gets accepted I hope you get a nice house We've been arguing about how the pyramids were built for centuries Far from impossible Just look at what one man can do in Panama. Ha Do you have a telescope? I don't have a telescope. I do have like I have like Maybe I have like a really weak telescope Thing, you know, but I don't I don't have like, you know, like a like a telescope like a really like a good telescope um Yeah, I have I have kind of a pretty weak telescope I Own the world's largest seashell collection. Perhaps you've seen portions of it I keep a strewn on beaches all over the world. Oh very clever Classic, dude, like Can you own firearms in Panama? Yes Be well be well and stay strong. Thanks Charles. That's a that's a good message to everyone I know dragon scales don't need the floor. I mean, okay, maybe you could build some Hanging scaffolding from the top and work on it that way The problem is if I'm if the scaffolding is hanging and I'm standing on it I'm working where that hanging is happening, you know, so the It would get in the way Like if I if I build something up from the bottom Then there's nothing in the way up here and I can I can work and you know do all the stuff But if I'm hanging It's it's gonna be complicated. I do keep a rope From the top that comes down that I wrap around my arm just in case anything slips and falls I you know, I can catch myself Um, but yeah, I don't want anything more hanging. You know like right where I'm trying to work Were you good at skateboarding any tricks? I I get kicked out of places still but it's Still super fun. Well, I can do a kickflip. That's the thing where you wait where you Like do an ollie and the board flips and you land on it. I I can do that Actually, I shouldn't say I can do that. I have been able to do that Um, I could probably I could probably still do that if you gave me like an hour to practice I wouldn't say I'm great at skateboarding, but um, you know, I could I could skateboard I'm fast. I can go real fast. I'm gonna go in fast Um Have you checked out the skateboard park in bokehs yet? I've seen it. I've I've walked past it and we'll run past it whatever Um, yeah, I don't I don't actually have a skateboard at the moment. So Are you near the guy with the floating island? Who's who's the guy with the floating island? No, I don't I don't know. Maybe I am. I have no idea Uh, garbage picking used to be a favorite activity of mine in northern New Jersey so much cool stuff Yeah, it's crazy. Um, it's funny like go to I would go to like Manhattan or or brooklyn to visit friends and I'd be like, hey Let's go check out the garbage And one of my friends is like, oh, that's dirty. Don't do that. I was just testing and my other friend is like Oh, you know that too He's like, that's how I got my desk My bed my tv is cool painting on the wall. It's just stuff people throw away. And then yeah Uh, find the land that has the catch you're okay with this is like buying things from the dollar store something is wrong with it But maybe that something doesn't matter to you to your use for it. Yeah, charcoal is bad for plants Great I do yourself soil testing video I don't have any soil testing something charcoal is amazing for plants equals biochar Yeah, I don't know there's always there always multiple It takes on everything as far as I know Charcoal is pretty good for plants if you do it right, you know okay I have questions about how you built the vermont dome If you'd like to tell us about it question one How is the foundation constructed any drainage issues from surrounding slopes, etc? Well, it was up on a Okay, there's I don't explain this There's a cliff and then there's a little ledge That's sloped up and then another cliff and another like there was a bunch of ledges And I built the dome on one But that ledge also like sloped down this way and like kind of like this way and then I also went up that way So water did run down toward the dome But it just went around it and like right there were a lot of ways for water to get down Um, so there was plenty of drainage. There was no uh, no issue with that How did I build the foundation? Okay I do have pictures of this. They're on my website, which should be down here. I think it's in the description uh, I this is before I was doing video, but there are there are pictures um and Let's see first I found the area that I wanted to put it and I had to cut out a few trees And I dug down till I hit bedrock And you know once you hit bedrock it's like well now I'm going to get an amazing foundation So I hit bedrock and of course the bedrock wasn't flat, you know, it's like so I started finding Rocks just in the ground around And throwing them into the into this this circle where I was going to build the dome And I spent two weeks just throwing rocks in there. That's all I did all day And man, this is this was the most the most jacked I'd ever been and I didn't I didn't notice it until um Some friends came to visit and were like, you know, you want to come over for dinner and I was like, yeah man and It was like, you know, right after I'd been working on stuff. They're like, hey just you want to come use a shower You haven't you know, you've been working all day. I was like, oh, that would be amazing So I went use the shower and I came out and they had this big mirror and I was like, oh my god It's like the Hulk coming out of the shower. Oh, that's me so Basically, I just spent two weeks just just hauling rocks out of the ground and throwing them in the into this circle And I was basically moving the biggest rocks I could find Because that meant more rocks were available to me and I kept moving bigger and bigger rocks So I could get more rocks without having to go as far And then I spent two weeks and I think this is where I got a lot of the muscles for that time I spent another two weeks with a sledgehammer pounding on the rocks like that's all I did all day and I had my hands wrapped with all this cloth because my hands were were Or just really sore So I had to wrap with all this cloth to dampen the the shock of it's pounding But I just spent like two weeks just pounding and pounding on these rocks to compact it really well Because I was like, I want to make sure this foundation is really good. It's the best foundation I've ever made and then Once I done all that I put the spin layer of concrete on top It didn't need much because it was compacted so hard Um, and yeah, that was a foundation and when I when I did the concrete I wanted to do the concrete all the way across the whole thing all in one day. So I started really early And I I bought I think 11 or 12 bags. I think it was 11 I think it was 11 bags of of just you know cement just portland cement and I had this This sandy spot I found on my property and I was mixing it with that and you know a bit of rocky stuff It wasn't the best mix, but it was good enough um, and I worked until After dark and I had some lights going on And I had a girlfriend at the time and she was doing it with me. She was like She was at the bottom of the cliff And I would throw a bucket down with a with a rope attached to it and there was a spring down there so she would She would take a bucket scoop up some water And I would throw this bucket down the rope and she pour the water in and I pull the bucket up And use that to you know mix the mix the concrete and then put it on and by the time I had that done I threw the bucket down. She had another bucket of water ready to go in One time I pull up the bucket of water and there's a frog in it. Like it's a big frog I'm like, what are you doing? You sent me up a frog. She's like, I sent you up a frog I'm like, yeah, you sent me up a frog So I sent I sent the bucket back down and she poured it back into her bucket and took it and dumped it back in the spring So the frog got to go back home. But anyway, we got it done Out like well after dark and it was a stormy night And I remember the trees were just swaying and she and I were just there just just it was like I don't know. It was like we were in we were on another planet or something, you know um Because we had no contact with the outside world. There wasn't any We didn't have phones on us or anything. I don't know. She might have her phone I probably made her turn off or whatever But um, yeah, it was just like we were we were there totally present doing this thing And finally at 11 at night I was like, I don't feel like trying to cook anything. Let's just go go Find someplace to eat some food and of course everything in vermont was closed except for mcdonald's so we we ate at mcdonald's just as they were closing and uh Yeah, that was that was a pretty cool day But I think that's like the last time I ate at mcdonald's because I I don't really go to mcdonald's Um, let's see Foundation that was yeah, okay Since there is so much topsoil on adventure builder island Is it possible to make tree houses or in tree platforms for tents to save the soil quality? Um, it's possible to make tree houses or in tree platforms for tents To save the soil. Do you mean like instead of putting the the uh Tent on the ground because that's going to kill the soil Yeah, I'm not I'm not a big fan of tree houses Unless it's in something like a sequoia like something that's going to last like a thousand years But the trees around here um You know in a place like this it's tropical. It's a it's a rainforest like life is just happening so much And you know trees are are growing and then dying and growing and dying constantly if if you built a A house Where a platform up in trees is a good chance one's going to die within the next 10 years, you know um But I could put it on stilts or something. I don't know Oh chris says I live in uk and yes, it sucks Yeah You guys need to start having some protests. I don't know um Mr safety forever. That's a funny name watch you for years. Where do you get so much energy? Take care Where do I get so much energy? Well I've done a lot of like endurance training so in terms of Like being able to spend all day, you know digging or moving heavy stuff or stuff like that I think a lot of that has to do with just having been an athlete and you know doing a lot of running and stuff like that but just in terms of my motivation I always think to myself One day i'm gonna die And when I look back on today, well, what did I think? And when I think about that, you know, it puts me in a pretty interesting perspective where i'm like if I waste today One day i'm gonna look back and be like come on man. Why why did you do that? Why didn't you waste that and I would want to come back to today and do a better job So since i'm actually here right now in today, why don't I just do a good job right now? So that one day in the future. I don't have to wish I could come back to fix it And I that's something I think about a lot is like when I'm about to die Will I be happy with what I did today? And you know, I try to make sure that that I would be Are you are you going to collect sign-ups for the meet-up next year? I don't know. I don't know about sign-ups, but if you want to let me know you're coming that would be great You don't have to sign up or anything I was thinking of woofing for a few weeks in Panama to get a lay of the land I see well I'm not really looking for anyone to help me with anything right now, but I mean if you if you write me an email and just give me the basic gist of what you're You know what you what you want to do what you want to get maybe get involved in, you know, maybe Some of your basic skills or something um Maybe I'll have something that you come to here Or I might know some people because I know I know people around here who have woofers and you know, work-awayers and you know, whatever volunteers But yeah, I mean and I can't guarantee anything obviously, but you know if you send me an email maybe I was thinking let's see late, but here Arthur what's going on You should definitely make a little skateboarding video would be sweet. Well, I need to get a skateboard first I totally don't have a skateboard. I haven't had one in years um, I kind of want to have one in here though because I have this big concrete floor and there's like there's a there's a Well, we call it the running track You know, there's a way to go around the house like in any constant loop And my kids drive scooters around which I just made out of caster wheels and I mean really easy to make these little scooters and they did drive around this This track on their scooters like maniacs and yeah, it'd be perfect for a skateboard and Yeah, I did. I just don't have a skateboard I'll have to get one Where can we get more info on the may meet up? Well, if you okay basically You know, I live in Panama near the town of Boca Stel Toro and next Next year the week of May 3rd. I want to have an adventure builder Meet meet up meeting and it will be that week So you you could come for the whole week for there for one weekend or the other weekend I figure if people are going to come all the way here, they're probably going to want to stay all week If you want to come just email me, let me know um, I can give you a directions and you know We can talk about whatever. Yeah, so Um, yeah, if you actually want to come just just let me know Do the walkie-talkie saucers sideways dishes pointed between homes still work Oh, you're talking about the the whisper dishes Uh, none are set up right now. Oh, I see a mosquito. I see a mosquito. Oh, wait here he is Oh death all right Yeah, I don't have any of those set up right now Uh, since there are those old pilings underwater and the old packed soil on cathedral And do you know what development used to be there? um, there used to be I'm aware at least of three houses that used to be on the on these two little islands And they were all they were all in the water all three islands And there also used to be no mangroves around these islands. They like it used to be just beach around And that wasn't that long ago like like 20 years ago um Are there days where you end up not doing much? And do you feel guilty at the end of the day? I have days where I vegetate then feel like I lost time I don't feel guilty There there are days when I don't do like a lot of physical labor like I'll I'll find stuff to do inside like if I sometimes it'll be a rainy day and it's just storming outside And I'm like, all right, let me just find some stuff to tinker with in here Like make a new propeller or find something to do Um, and on those days I get I get real antsy because I'm I'm so used to doing a lot of physical activity if I don't do a lot of a lot of like manual labor or ring or something Yeah, I feel Yeah, like like antsy, you know kind of like just just anxious This is something that happens to athletes, you know, when when you're used to training a lot And you don't train a day because you have to rest or something. It's like Gotta do something gotta do something. I don't feel guilty if anything it's more like I'll have days where I'm resting on purpose and I have to force myself to not Do a bunch of stuff, you know, like sometimes it'll be Like I'll feel a little injury coming on and it's like, okay I haven't taken a day off in like three months And I've been doing all this digging and hard work outside I should probably take like like a few days and just just just let my body recovery, you know, just so I can keep going and those Yeah, I get I get really anxious and I really want to do stuff But sometimes I do force myself to take a rest But yeah, I don't I don't feel guilty when I do um I guess I guess I don't I don't ever I don't ever not do anything for a day Because I just don't feel like doing something, you know, I always I always feel like doing stuff and a lot of that has to do with With having a lifestyle that I'm Where I'm in charge of what I'm doing, you know So I'm not I'm not going to choose to get involved in projects that I really don't care about and really hate No, there's like all the stuff I'm doing like I'm really into it, you know So I don't really have like that lack of motivation where I want to sit around No, let's see Great talk about the v foundation man. Thanks much the Vermont foundation Great McDonald's here doesn't do the specials. So I haven't Ate there in years also the corporate contracts manager attorney daughter has been Stocking me for three years threatening to sue me. Okay Oh, jimmy since you do a lot of running I have been running a lot more recently and Was able to do a 2.4 mile run A couple of times. That's cool. What would you say? For trying to get to those higher mile counts um Well, there's a there's a bunch of things you got to make sure you do one It like it depends it depends how old you are how active you are what you're doing Okay, let's let's say you start at you can run 2.4 miles without having you know Without spending the next three weeks in bed or something like, you know, you can you can run 2.4 miles reasonably Maybe once a week do your maximum Distance which is 2.4 miles not a little bit every week, you know next next week do do 2.5 2.7 you know, just just increase it a little bit, but You don't want to get too much into a Schedule where you're doing the exact same thing. So every once in a while You might want to just like like just double it And then you know throw in one where it's like half as far And I say this because I found that if I do things That are really formulaic My body will get used to it and it's almost like I'll get overuse Not overuse. What's a repetitive stress injury, you know so throw in some some things that you're just not used to and It just just once in a while though, you know, like once every few weeks do something totally weird and if you're If you're wanting to run longer distances, make sure you also do some faster stuff So you don't you don't want to always be training your body to To run as efficiently as possible so you can get those longer distances Because then your tendons will get weaker and your muscles will get weaker And then you'll be more prone to injury. So you also want to throw in like every week Maybe maybe some sprints or maybe some, you know, longish sprints just just something that's going to put more stress Like more direct physical stress on your joints and your muscles and everything Then the goal you're doing And that's just that's just to basically Train your body to also have that physical strength to be able to handle The the distances without getting injured because the thing is if you if you like say you're running on a track And you run the exact same way You go straight you do your corner you go straight you do your corner and everything is like perfect, right? Your body can get so used to that that it adapts so perfectly to that that You could then run like on the on a sidewalk And because you go around a curve that's not the same radius as the track You could like you could pull a muscle, you know, so it's really important to To do to keep a variation in what you're doing not just specifically at your goal you want to You want to kind of do a little bit a little bit more distance sometimes or a little bit faster and just just vary things So that your body doesn't get used to one specific thing and adapt too much To that exact thing because that's that's how you get injured I don't know if that helps at all hopefully it does You know what do some jump rope to do some jump rope. It's really good How about how many people would be your ideal amount for the camp out in May? I don't know so I've never set numbers on adventure builder meetings But they've always been like 10 to 20 people ish I'm trying to think what they might have been like up to 25 one time, but it's always been, you know Kind of a reasonable number of people If a hundred people showed up um I would want to know I wouldn't want a hundred people to just show up like I definitely want to know but if a hundred people wanted to come We we figured out, you know um I'm planning on building this campground with some cabins and maybe we would have to pack people in a little tight and and tell You know people if you if you can bring a tent bring a tent and you know get a Get a tally of everyone who can bring a tent and everyone who's who's gonna want to sleep in a in a different thing and you know Now plan it out and figure it out, you know, it shouldn't be that hard But I don't know what the ideal number of people would be 20 10 20 Five I don't know. It's just whatever whoever shows up. I'm more I'm more interested in the quality And I've met some really really cool people At these adventure builder meetings like like really high quality people Uh, let's see Home planet always love the idea of tree houses and tree platforms On my forested land but never built any. Oh, yeah, I totally love The idea of tree houses like, uh, you know the ewoks. Oh so cool But yeah, it's gotta be it's gotta be in a tree that's gonna like At least outlive me, you know, if I'm gonna build a house in it, I don't want to build it in something that's not gonna outlive me Um Want to make a small fortune start with a large fortune and buy a coin shop but Jamie you have to tell me where in the ocean elanthus is located. I'm sure you know where it is I don't know wizards only wizards. You're a wizard. You should be able to find it Uh, I'm web server administrator. So I don't know how useful I would be on a farm, but I suppose I could learn Let's see thomas spears says also since You're a home builder. Do you have any advice for building an off-grid cabin? I currently have my foundation finished Um, well, this obviously depends on where you are and what the regulations are and everything But I would say as much as possible Do whatever you want because if you're gonna live in the place like you don't you don't want to if you want to build some place and Have it be the product of what other people told you that you should have done Because then you're gonna be sitting there and be like, why don't I why do I even why don't I even do that? Why didn't I do the thing? I really wanted Do the thing you really want Like if you wanted to be some crazy weird thing just just do that like think about what what you really want to live in and build that and Of course, it depends on the regulations. You have to contend with whatever but as much as possible do do do the thing that you really want to do And throw out all the presumptions and all the advice of other people. Do you do what you think? Let's see. I never feel guilty of not pleasing others. Good um, I like to I like to I think it's pretty important to please others in certain situations Like I want my kids to be happy that i'm that i'm an awesome dad And they they routinely tell me That i'm an awesome papa And that makes me feel good. That's i'm happy about that. Like I I I really care that I that I please them although I wouldn't do things just to please them I think it's important that I do what they need more than just you know doing what but that that is, you know Going to please them in the long term. Like if I if I teach them things they need to learn to learn even if it's hard lessons They will be pleased in the long run Anyway This is all semantics The painting studio I built out of thick fallen redwood limbs Tied with strong hemp strings and covered with pruned redwood boats bows Was a great I was amazed at how sound purple was that's pretty cool tree houses need to be suspended and able to re-level okay Occasionally for tree growth On the last of course You like to be a little crooked sometimes I always think it's weird when people say things need to be because like there there are a lot of different ways to skin a cat, you know um anyway with with skinning cats I'm gonna I'm gonna get off here in a second I'll just I'll just wait and see if anyone else has a last minute question You wanted to ask or or comment or something But yeah, I think I'm gonna get off here And I don't know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take a drink of water because I've been talking for an hour and a half I'm thirsty Let's see. There was a lot of useful hardware out there to build up in the trees. I had a hard pack um In a redwood circle by a two-lane busy highway To build my painting hut on didn't take long cool Classic dude mic over and out All right. I think I think that's good Uh, thanks for everyone for showing up and I hope everyone had a great time and maybe learned a bit of stuff and I learned a bit of stuff so thanks for thanks for your excellent comments and everyone and uh Be safe everyone. It is crazy out there. It is crazy out there The world is a crazy place right now and the way to the way to fix it and make it less crazy is to To be where you are and fix what you can fix Change change the immediate world around you improve the things you can do Not get too hung up on the things you can't change All right I'm gonna get out of here