 Hope the knee is better. Have you had any luck with the start capacitor or motor startup on your large lathe running on the inverter? Cheers Okay, um, I Haven't been messing with the big lathe lately Because I do want to use a bigger inverter for it, which is sitting in a box back here. I haven't put it in the workshop I think what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna build, you know, my real workshop and Set everything up there and get it all working over there because You know, I could spend a bunch of time in Putting this inverter over here and then getting everything working And then I'm just gonna drag it to the other workshop and then set it all up And I'm probably not gonna use it in that meantime. So I am very much looking forward to getting it Running and just tuning everything up and getting it amazing, but I'm not gonna do that until I can you know Actually devote the time to it and really pay attention to it and do an amazing job So I'm gonna make a new workshop with a bigger inverter and just get everything everything super awesome awesome in that workshop Okay Yes, I'm happy message message. Okay. How's my family doing? I think I kind of covered that Already in some of the answers. My family is doing great Really good really awesome. Oh, it's so it's so great to see my kids growing up Without being crushed like when I was a kid I just felt like everything was just trying to crush me all the time and I was always fighting back and I was just angry like my kids are so relaxed and curious and They they're so motivated to do so much stuff. It's awesome. Okay Are you still in touch with the lady in Alaska you helped build a cabin with? I've just spoken to her in a little while actually, but yeah, we talked once in a while This is a I built a log cabin in Alaska. I don't know Years ago and it's it's on YouTube a cabin update. I don't have a cabin update I guess I could ask her how it's going but last I heard which was maybe I Don't know sometime within the last year or two If the cabin was still there and she said she'd been there recently and it was great. So that's good Okay, next we have a question about my daughter's dating in the future and it's kind of Not word of the best, but I mean I'm just gonna say something about daughters and fathers in general so I I see a lot of women and young ladies who are simply behaving atrociously and Dating just horrible horrible guys like just choosing players and just jerks and just and then not understanding why no one sticks around And they're just thinking all guys or players are jerks when it when it's only like a small percentage of people And my question whenever I see this happening is where the hell are the dads? Where are the dads in this situation? Now the answer is society has sidelined dads dads aren't allowed to do anything or get involved Because they're just oppressing and being me. It's one of the reasons. I wanted to get out of that society With my daughters Anyone they're dating is gonna have to go through me. I'm gonna have to like them because I'm gonna have a much better idea of What they should be looking for than they are when they're 16 18 20 years old They're not gonna understand what they should be looking for long term in it in a partner. I Will have a much better idea of this and this is why traditionally, you know in the past Guys had to impress the father to get to the daughter and I think it should be that way So yeah, any anyone who dates my girls is gonna have to go through me Will I be doing any more philosophical videos? Yeah, I mean, you know whenever I get Get the inspiration to do it. I don't like to just make them on Like a set schedule because if I don't if I don't have something well thought out that I want to express I don't like to force it because then I'll end up barfing out something. That's doesn't make sense or is like a half-baked idea Hopefully there's some philosophy coming out in these answers right now Okay, this is a 3d printer question like how useful have I found a 3d printer to be now my 3d printers currently on the fritz And it's been for a while and I just haven't fixed it But I guess because I don't find it super useful like it's really nice to be able to draw something in the computer and then print it out, but it's not that strong Like I can make much stronger things just go into the workshop and milling something or melting Something or casting or there's there's so many other options that make more durable items, okay, for example, you know, I made gears for a Pedal power for for a boat and the gears I could have 3d printed those Really easily and made just really nice gears, but I guarantee they wouldn't have Withstood me pushing it on them with my with my leg power So I took some sheet metal and some steel pipes stainless stuff and used a grinder and some you know just did some Some MacGyverie junk and the gears didn't come out perfect. They're a little bit noisy But I can push on those things Pretty much full force and the gears don't slip. They don't break or anything. I wouldn't be able to do that with a 3d printer What is your definition of quality? I think something is missing in that question. I think there's two basic definitions of quality The quality of something is like a characteristic of that thing or you can talk about Like the quality level of something like how good it is What's the next question? What happened to the court nozzle experiment and the sailboat mast? I think I talked about the sailboat mast already. Okay, the court nozzle thing I do kind of want to put a nozzle. I do what I want to do some experiments with nozzling some propellers. I Don't have time right now I mean, it's there's a lot of things that I want to do and I'm just going through them one at a time You know so hopefully I will get to that at some point It would be really nice to put a nozzle on the zombie chopper for two reasons one Hopefully it'll make the propeller more efficient and two It'll make it so I don't have to worry so much about hitting the propeller on the On the bottom when I'm you know pulling the boat in and out or if I'm going through a shallow area Do you watch many movies? Do you even have the time if so? What are some good ones that you've enjoyed recently? I wouldn't say I watch a lot of movies. Okay, Friday. No Saturday and Sunday. We have movie night here you know with the kids and the whole family watches and Lately I guess for like a couple months mostly we've been watching stark Star Trek the next generation So we'll just watch an episode Saturday and an episode Sunday and then In the evenings, you know after the kids go to sleep and everything I Usually do like 20 or 30 minutes of stretching and I'll Often put a movie on during that because you know it's kind of boring just stretching so I'll watch like a Quarter of a movie every night so I'll watch a movie like over a week or I Guess recently I watched Firefly you know the whole the whole series and then serenity the the movie. Ah, I it's not the first time I've seen it It's a great great show. Love that show Hmm, I guess I I guess I feel like those characters are kind of kindred spirits a little bit What do you do for fresh drinking water? What do you do with your trash and how is the compact? Composting toilet working. Thanks. Okay, drinking water. We just drink the rain the houseboat I'm in right now Collects water off the solar panels goes down a gutter into a water tank back there and we just drink it not filtered or anything What do you do with your trash well mostly we try not to get Garbage which is difficult because everything comes with packaging But I mean even started before I Move down here. I would like go to the grocery store and buy stuff and leave the boxes with them But the garbage I do have I try to find uses for it after You know after it's it's done its initial use so Any kind of bottles like plastic bottles I stuff inside boats Like I have compartments that are just flotation compartments where you don't put anything in there They're not for storage or anything and I stuff bottles in there and I Have lots of space that I can stuff that kind of stuff in But yeah, I try to I try to just try to limit the amount of garbage I have and then find uses for it and It's it's not a perfect system There there are things where I end up with this garbage that it just can't find to use for and then it kind of hangs around and I'm I Think I want to start melting some plastic down because that's that's really the thing like paper Anything like that, you know, I just used to start fires. It's plastic is the problem So I want to start melting plastic down and like casting it into things or turning it into blocks that I can mill into different parts But yeah, there is there is some amount of garbage that I'm just not doing anything with right now just kind of collecting how many total watts Between pedals and motor. Are you putting to the water in your new boat to achieve nine miles per hour? Also, what was the total boat weight with you in it during testing? Oh, I don't know what the total boat weight with me Okay, the total power Let's see the motor is I think like almost 800 watts and then I was probably putting Maybe another 200 watts of power into there So when I when I was going nine miles per hour That was with the old gear setup and I couldn't push as hard as I Wanted without slipping or without yeah without slipping a gear now I have it set up where I can pedal pretty much as hard as I want and it doesn't slip So I I can probably go a little bit faster, but yeah, probably around a thousand watts to get nine miles per hour Roughly, maybe a little bit less and I could still definitely tweak the propellers to get them more efficient, but You know, they're efficient enough that it's definitely usable So I've just been using it because most of the stuff I make I'm not trying to max it out as much as I'm trying to get it to a point where it's usable and then Then I can use it and then when I have time, you know, I increase the efficiency on things when I can All right, next question is roughly like what's my backstory and how do I deal with a High-stress environment and you know dangers from wildlife and stuff. Okay, the second part I can answer easily I don't find this place to be a high-stress environment at all I find it to be pretty chill actually I find cities to be high stress because there's so many rules You can't you can't do anything without a permit Except, you know what you're as long as you're just walking down the sidewalks following the signs Not trying to build anything or do anything interesting. You're fine But as soon as you start being creative and imaginative in a city you just start getting in trouble and Cops start visiting us. I feel much more comfortable here in terms of wildlife Generally wild animals don't want to fight with things Because they have a survival instinct and getting in unnecessary fights threatens their survival So wild animals don't want to fight me and I don't want to fight them So if I'm like out in the jungle or something I make sure I make a lot of noise, you know talk Stomp around make sure I don't sneak up on anything where you know Where something's gonna suddenly feel cornered and like it needs to defend itself And I haven't had any problems on the little island here. There's no There aren't any scorpions or snakes or anything like that There just just wasn't anything there when we got here Some of my other properties like the big jungly ones. There's You know, there's a bit of dangerous stuff But nothing that would like come after you to kill you and try to eat you or anything Okay, it was swimming in the ocean. There's always a chance that some stray shark Is just gonna come eat you and you know It happens occasionally like very rarely though And there aren't there aren't many sharks around here or anything like that Probably the most dangerous thing are jellyfish But if I look in the water and I see jellyfish, I just don't go in the water It's very rare that there's any that there are any dangerous jellyfish here though And it's not like they're invisible like you can see them Okay, the first part of this question is a little bigger Roughly I grew up in the suburbs of Ontario, Canada and I felt like I was surrounded by a culture of Unhappy people pretending to be happy You know, you know, there's obviously more to it, but that was just the rough idea I was getting And I knew like from a very young age. I couldn't live like that. I Tried to kind of work within the system all the way up through university and You know, I was successful. I did sports and you know did well there and did well in school I was just always frustrated, you know with just the culture around me. So by the time I finished university I was like, all right, I've had it with this I'm not going down this path anymore and I started saving money so I could try to Buy my way out of the system basically, you know buy some land go somewhere do Do something different make some other lifestyle that that meshes with my own My own ideas of morality and virtue as opposed to just kind of being shoved around this cattle pen like I feel most people are and it is Super super worth it like like my life's basically started when I moved off grid Everything before that was just I just felt like I was some cow being shoved around in the pens and Anyone who's thinking about moving off grid and you know, you're not happy with the way, you know popular culture is Don't let people tell you it's gonna be scary and horrible Just just prepare as best you can and go for it It's totally worth the effort But you have to keep in mind. It's a lot of work and Every when you when you take on all the responsibilities for yourself You know that means you you can't be lazy basically, I hope that covers a little bit of it What are your plans for robots any projects for your 3d printer? Yeah, let me go I don't I haven't been 3d printing anything in a little while like I said my my 3d printers on the fritz right now I have to fix it at some point. Okay plans for my robots I'm not sure which robots like the robot toys or just like robots in general Because ever since I was a little kid. I've been making these robot walking things like all kinds of different ones. I do want to build a new giant robot here after I build a workshop and I Want to make it really awesome and probably out of fiberglass and waterproof amphibious and Have some designs in my mind and I Can't say that much about it because I have to work it out of my head first But I have to get a bunch of other things done first like you know building the workshop. This is kind of like Where I started? Originally documenting things in Vermont where it was like building a workshop so I could make a robot and blah blah All right next question. Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or a hundred duck-sized horses? Why would I don't know? Why would I fight? Oh? well If you mean like fighting a horse-sized duck in terms of taming it like hey, you're my friend And it's like no I'm not and I'm like yeah, you're my friend You want me to to get on you and then we can fly around in the sky that'll be great And that could be considered a fight I guess But yeah, I would love to drive around on a horse-sized duck Presuming I'm presuming it could fly up into the air carrying me right and we could zoom around. Oh, that'd be amazing I mean nothing against duck-sized horses, but they That's not as interesting as flying around on a huge duck Can you do a current video tour of the island and the inside of your castle? oops Well, I just kind of did that in the first question I answered But yeah, I'll I'll try to remember to do a Tour of everything kind of soonish like a dedicated video to that I have to clean up a little bit kids made a mess the kids make a mess a lot. That's right. Oh And a couple questions ago one of the things was something about sustainability. Yeah, I want that sustainability Self-sufficiency. Yeah, I want to be totally self-sufficient here on the island Within a few years. I might be like five or ten years before I'm like totally self-sufficient And you know, I'll go buy things but I want to be here and not have to go anywhere to buy anything