 All right, it's raining out, so let me answer a few more questions. How hard or easy was it to move to South America and is it possible for anyone to do it? I wouldn't say it's hard. Like, moving to another country is a pain in the butt to get residency, because you have to do all this stupid paperwork and pay the fees to get the paperwork done, and it's just super irritating. But I wouldn't say it's necessarily hard. Is it possible for anyone to do it? I don't know. Yeah, I guess so. I mean, it depends what you mean by that. Like, in certain philosophical ways, it's only possible for you to do whatever you're going to do. So in that case, it's not possible, but I mean, theoretically, yeah, anyone could do it. Why did you block comments for so long? What made you open them back up? Okay, I feel like I've answered this like 20 times already, but in a nutshell, the comments were becoming quite a negative C of scum and villainy. And I'm trying to put out a pretty positive message here. And then when the page is full of all this anger and hatred, resentment and negativity from the comments, well, that's kind of messing up my message. So I turned them off. And then after a while, I was like, well, maybe the trolls have gotten bored of not being able to comment and they're off doing something else. And the comments have been pretty good lately. But you know, at some point in the next few months or years or whatever, if they get horrible again, then I'll just turn it off again. Okay, why did I choose Panama and not Costa Rica or Belize or okay, let me just see. Okay, one of the big things is hurricanes. There's no hurricanes in Panama. Belize and Costa Rica get hurricanes. But Panama, I mean, the last hurricane was something like 70 years ago. So that was a huge selling point. Another thing is a lot, a lot, a lot of people are already going to Costa Rica. And I didn't want to just go somewhere where it was going to be all gringos bringing their nothing against gringos or anything. But when you get a huge concentration of, you know, expats, they kind of congealed together and don't interact with the existing culture. And I didn't really want that. I wanted to have kind of a more mixed cultural experience. But yeah, probably the biggest thing was hurricanes. That and it looked like online. Anyway, there were a lot of islands for sale in Panama. And it turns out there are. I'm just going to verbally fix the grammar here. I want to move to Panama and start an off-grid homestead. How did you find cheap land? I've been searching for a couple of weeks now and can't find much good stuff. Price range 10 to $20,000. Love your content very much. Okay. Well, if you're, if you're, how are you searching for land? If you mean like sitting on your butt and looking at a screen, that's not very effective. I spent a year actually in Panama before I found some good stuff. So I mean, just as a general thing, if you want to move somewhere and buy land there, I recommend going to that place like in person, not trying to do it through the internet, like actually go there and, you know, rent some place for a few months or something or just somehow be there and interact with people. And you'll find that real life has a lot more opportunities than the internet does. What's the ultimate goal for your current island? I don't know. I don't really have an ultimate goal. I don't know if any of my stuff has ultimate goals and just make everything better as they go. There's really an end point to anything until I'm dead. And when I'm dead, I just want to like leave a bunch of good stuff behind. But yeah, I don't really have ultimate goals, I guess. Are you familiar with the various mechanisms that can be used to make a paddle wheel with the paddles? Always stay vertical. He's got a link for me here. All right, let's see what we've got here. Just off the top of my head. This looks horribly inefficient. Okay, so you get this rotating thing. And this paddle paddle is in the water. And as it's coming down, it's not moving that way very much. It's not moving that way very much. It's mostly moving down. That means it's coming into the water almost, almost not moving. That means it's going to have a braking action. And then as the paddle gets to this middle part, it's moving fast, right? But then as it comes back out here, it's going to slow down again. So you have a paddle going in that moves slow, then fast and slow. So you're going to have a braking action as it's going in and out of the water. And it would be much more efficient if these paddles were just connected solid, not with the rotating thing. At least that's what it looks like to me. So I guess no, I've not considered building one. When I was living in Panama in the 80s, there was a Cayman issue. Do you have any problems with them on the island? I actually have not seen a single Cayman. I know they exist because one of my neighbors said he found one and it's, most of it's attached to his shed right now. But yeah, I haven't seen any. They don't grow that big, so I'm not super worried about them. First of all, you're an inspirational thing. So my question, okay, what do you think of Elon Musk and his mission to make the world a better place? All right. Honestly, I'm a little wary of Elon Musk. There are a bunch of reasons. Let me give one. Okay, he wants to make self-driving cars as if, as if human beings need less stuff to do, right? We already just sit around and do nothing most of the time anyway. So now we'll get into our car and sit there and do nothing. I don't think doing less stuff is what the human race needs. I think we need to start doing more stuff. We need more to do. We need to be more engaged with the world and with life. The other problem with self-driving cars is it takes away your freedom. Then you just sit in your house and then you sit in your car and your car drives you places. You're giving up control over freedom, over your own destiny, over your own life in that situation. He's getting people all excited about just being able to sit there in the car and look, I can do nothing and just drives me around. Now I can go to my house and just watch TV and then sit in my car and do nothing and then go home and do nothing, go to work and do nothing. There's too much do nothing going on. I'm going to leave it at that. I think he does have some good ideas but I think he has a significant philosophical difference from me. Okay, this is a question about how do I learn things? Like have I studied or am I self-taught? Most of everything I've learned is self-taught. I went to school and tried that and I also have tried asking people things, doing online research, researching in books, all kinds of different stuff. But my favorite way to do things is to just think about something in my head, maybe look up a few bits of information that I need and then just start trying things. And I find that also gets me the best end results. It doesn't necessarily get me to a good result the fastest but it generally gets me to the best end result. And I learn a lot more that way. That's one of the reasons I like it. So when I'm trying things, I don't even necessarily try what I think is going to work right away. A lot of times I'll try things that I think probably won't work but I'm going to learn a lot in the process of whatever that is. And then sometimes unexpected things do work and that's cool. Then I learn a lot from that. And it also depends how much time I have. If I really need to get something to work right away, I'll just do what I think is going to work like the safest choice. But other than that, I like to experiment and just learn as much as I can just on my own. And I also talk to other people and get ideas from time to time. Okay, do you and Deshaena have the typical man does the building, woman does the housewife stuff? Or like how do we split up chores? Okay. This is going to sound terrible but like I'm a very motivated person and Deshaena is kind of like not super motivated. So in a nutshell anything she's willing to do, I tell her she has to do it. And then I do everything else. And it ends up being that I do most of the, you know, the man stuff. She does most of the woman stuff. Like she does most of the cooking. But I also cook and I like to cook. So there's a bunch of overlap. And right now she's working on some concrete thing that she just wanted to do. And you know, she kind of asked me if I want to do it. And I was like, no, I got other stuff I got to do. So she's just doing it. So I mean, generally speaking, like we are responsible for the man jobs and the woman jobs. But once those are taken care of, there's a lot of overlap. That comes right. Showed some garden stuff. Okay, what's up with the sailboat I bought? But it's kind of on hold right now while I'm doing some digging. Like there's a, I just have a lot of different projects that I can work on and the sailboat's one of them. It's just not, hasn't floated to the top of the priority list yet. But I go, I go, I go in the sailboat and just think and stare at it once in a while. And at some point I'm just going to get this like inspiration. I'm going to be like, ah, now I know what to do. And then I'm going to, I don't know, something. What advice do you have for someone who is interested in everything and cannot stick to one thing? Well, if you cannot stick to one thing and you're trying, that's just a problem you have to figure out. But like a jack of all trades, as soon as I find something interesting, I get obsessive for a few months, learn a ton really fast. Then as soon as I'm moderately good, knowledgeable about the said topic, I move on to something else. Okay. I think, you know, going back to what I was saying about the Elon Musk thing, I think this is a problem of people not having anything to do. So if you're just going around learning things just to learn something so you can move on to something else, then you can learn something else and move on to something else. This is the way I think about it. Anything you learn is only as valuable as what you do with it. So if you're just learning all this crap for no particular reason, it's all worthless. So find something you want to do in life, like something that's important that matters that you're going to care about, and then do it. And then instead of just learning trades or skills for no reason, you'll learn skills to do whatever this thing is you're trying to do. So find something that you care about, that you want to do, that preferably you're not currently able to do, and then learn skills to figure out how to do that. And then you won't have to worry about this getting, you know, bored of something and then moving on because you've got a purpose. How much fishing do you and your family normally do? Any plans to make a catch and cook video? I will make a mental note to try to do a catch fish and cook it video. It's kind of gruesome, that middle part, you know, taking the fish apart, but whatever. I don't know how much fishing we do. It really depends on how busy I am. And, you know, the girls fish too sometimes, and that just depends on how motivated they are, I guess. I mean, the kids aren't, the kids don't do it by themselves yet, but Deshaina sometimes does. And sometimes I take the kids with me. But yeah, it really just depends on how much free time I have. And right now I'm working on something really hard, so I'm not doing a lot of fishing. But when I have more time, yeah, I kind of fish anywhere, anytime I'm going somewhere, just drag a line and catch stuff. Hey man, four or five years ago I brought to your attention yet another company that had ripped off your design patent for the Robot Walker. Did you ever take any legal action now? I don't have time for that crap. I have things I want to do in my life. I don't want to sit in a courtroom and just fight it all. That would suck. Now in terms of, all right, I guess that was long ago that they may have still been selling the robot toys that I made, which is kind of irritating. But now, at this point, the toy company I was working with is no longer making the robot toys for kind of really stupid reasons. There were some screw-ups and it doesn't matter, but they're not making them anymore. So kind of at this point, if anyone's, if anyone anywhere is making them, I think that's great because it's a cool, cool thing. I hope someone's having fun with it. What's your daily schedule like? What time do you normally wake up, go to bed? I have no schedule. It's just all over the place. Depends what's going on. It changes all the time, like literally no schedule. Most of the time, I don't even know what time of day it is. And often, I'm doing things based on the weather or the tides of the ocean and those chains all the time. So yeah, no schedule. I don't even know what time it is right now. Okay, why don't you build a drag line dredge? Okay, basically this is asking why I'm not... So I'm cleaning out a river. Why don't I just make a huge dredge that can just drag down the whole river and clean everything up? I've gotten this comment a lot actually lately. Basically, because the amount of force that would be required, I think is being underestimated by some people. And then plus, once I drag this mountain of material to one end, then what do I do with it? I need it to go somewhere, not just in a giant pile. Like I need it to go specific places. So you know, okay, maybe I can build a plow that would just and perfectly plow everything out to the side. Dude, this stuff does not work as well in reality as it might in your head. And it's kind of difficult to explain until someone has tried it. So when I was a kid, I had this experience where I went to my dad's house and he had dug this enormous hole beside his house to expose the basement wall so he could paint it to waterproof it. So I got there and I see this scene with this huge hole, this big mound of dirt beside it. And I'm like, Hey dad, you want me to put the push that dirt back in there? And I'm a little kid. I don't know anything. And he's like, Yeah, sure, go for it. And I'm thinking things kind of along the lines this. So one of the things I tried was there's a pet, there's fence post, and then there's a mount, this mound of dirt here, like huge mound of dirt, way taller than me. And I'm thinking, what if I get two sticks, wedge one against the fence post, one against a board that's against the dirt, and I can jump on this middle part and it'll push the dirt, right? Oh, no dice. The amount of force that would have been required, just incredible. So I mean, it did not budge, not at all. So if someone's, you know, anytime I do one of these kind of big projects where it's a lot of work and it takes a while, I always get a lot of comments about like, why don't you just make a thing to just all at once? Or just like drag like, you know, a centimeter off the top of the entire thing, all at once. It'll go so much faster. First of all, like the amount of time it's going to take to build that thing is kind of crazy. And then what do I do with this huge thing I've built when I'm done? And here's what you have to do to get this perspective. Go out to some wilderness somewhere and get some sticks and stake out at 10 meter by 10 meter square. I'm not talking about an manicured field. I'm talking about just in some wilderness where there's rocks and trees and sticks and all kinds of crap and they have grounds uneven, stake out at 10 by 10 meter square. Now level that area and then dig it down two meters. If you accomplish that, you will have a very different perspective on this entire situation. What are your plans for your old boats that don't float anymore? I don't have any old boats that don't float anymore. They kind of look like eyesores in my opinion. Then go away. I literally do not care if you watch any of these videos at all. Please feel free to leave. I'm not taking them to the dump. First of all, I don't have any boats that don't float. Didn't I just make a video about boats and showed them all and the plans and stuff? Yeah, I don't have any garbage boats. Sorry. Oh no, now we're starting to get into the the dark zone of comments. Let the tools do the work. What does that mean? Your tools don't do the work for you. You have to do it. If you're just relying on your tools to do everything for you, what's the point of being alive? You just want to sit there in a chair and push a button and have a robot do everything for you. This goes back to the whole thing I said before about people have nothing to do, so they're causing all kinds of trouble, doing stupid things, wasting resources. I think we need to let the tools do less of the work. I think we need to start doing more of the work and taking more of an more initiative in our own existence, putting more effort into it. Instead of just kind of sitting back and flipping switches and having all this stuff going on around us while we get fatter and lazier. I may have been more responsible that guy I was looking for. Oh no, now I've got to quit. This is more of a comment, but he's talking about the the pedal car I'm making for the kids. I know you will make it childproof. What does that mean? I'm not making it childproof. Too much stuff in the world is childproof. There's there's sharp stuff and stuff that can the kids could fall and get hurt on all over the place here. I think that's an important part of their environment because then they learn. They learn not to do stupid things. I'm not going to like wrap this stainless steel car and rubber so they can fall and smash their head on it and be okay. No, if they're going to fall and do dumb things and whatever, I think they should get hurt. So it's my job to teach them not to do stupid things, not to be careless and not to get dangerous. There's there's danger in the world. You can't bubble wrap the universe. Has anyone else joined your Adventure Builders Club? I don't know because there's no there's no membership, there's no registration, there's nothing like that. You just do it. Like I'm not I don't have anything that says I am a member of the Adventure Builders Club. It's just a philosophy to follow. And if you're following it, you're in the Adventure Builders Club unless you feel like not saying you're in the Adventure Builder Club. It's just not that kind of club. The term club is kind of facetious a little bit. It's not something where you join and sign up and pay a fee and get a thing. No, you just try to do it. And if you're doing it, I guess you're in. And if you're not doing it, you're not. So I don't know what other people are doing. But hopefully there are a few people out there who are like, yeah, this Adventure Builder philosophy is cool. I'm going to do that too. They're in the club.