 click. Well, first, let's just see what we've got here. I've got a dead baby on the floor. Don't worry, she's just leaving. Exciting boat news about this, this boat right down here, right there, that one. Yeah, right in the middle of the screen. Yep. Okay. So let me turn back to me. Today, I just did a test drive and yesterday and this morning, I was replacing the propeller. So here's the previous propeller I made. It's a nice looking propeller, right? And I replaced this with one that has a little bit lower pitch. So it's, you know, tipped, typically kind of flatter. And I have video of all this. It's, I'll put together and upload it tonight or tomorrow or something. But I just did the test drive with the new propeller. And it was very exciting. Oh, it was excellent. So with this boat, there's been, there's been, what's it called, not like, not like serious issues, but just like, like things that have been kind of not quite optimal since I made it. And my latest incarnation of that boat, I've been messing around with the propellers. You know, I put a, I put a battery in it, a lithium battery in it not too long ago, which was great. And, you know, that was, that's all working excellent. It's a SOK SOC battery is working really well. I love that thing. You know, charge control and all that stuff. But then I've been messing around with the propeller. I made that propeller over there. And I was testing some other propellers. And when I first got the boat, you know, electrified with the battery, I think top speed was something like it was the motor we're using like 80 amps. And which is too much for that motor. It's like a 39 amp motor. So you know, it went real fast, but it wasn't that efficient. I knew it wasn't efficient because there was a lot of there's a lot of energy being wasted. And it's just too much power to put through that motor. So anyway, I got things to the point I went through a different a few different propellers got the power down with the propeller I had on there. It was doing 50 amps at full power 39 amp motors. So it's overpowering a little, which means you know, it's the motor's getting too hot after a while, I can I can drive it for like half an hour at full speed. But you know, the heat starts building up and it's just getting too hot. Plus, I was pretty sure the propeller was just too high pitch and when it's too high pitch, it's it stirs up the motor. You wasting energy that could be used to propel it, you know. So yesterday, it was raining in the morning, and I was like, Well, let me let me tackle that propeller problem because it's raining out, it can't work on the other stuff whatever. So it took the propeller off made. Oh, let me show you. Actually, let me just get it. Hold on, hold on, hold on. I made this nice propeller mold. Oh, check that out. Oh, so the way I make these, it's just a bunch of pieces of wood made into a staircase, right and glued together. You know, at a measured distance and a measured turning rate, everyone. Anyway, then when you put your, you know, propeller blade on there, it comes out like the perfect shape, at least as perfect as you can get it. And I made this one so that the propeller middle part could fit right in here. And when I mold, when I make the propeller part, I can mold it right on to the, you know, the middle part, which is a PVC pipe, but it's just, you know, so it could just put the propeller blade right on there. Anyway, and then I measured everything so I could rotate the propeller 120 degrees so I get three propeller blades, like, you know, at thirds really well anyway. So I got that all, all put together yesterday. I have, I have video of the whole process and everything. I'll put that up later. And last night, I got it to the point where it was, it was basically done and this morning, I did a bit of smoothing and painted it and stuff and put it on the boat at around lunchtime. And my son and I just went out for a test drive and top speed is now 35 amps. It went from 50 down to 35. It's like, it's like using two thirds the power it was using before. And it seems to be going about the same speed. I don't know, it might be going faster, it might be going slower. It seems to be about the same speed and my speedometer is just, you know, I stick my hand in the water up to this knuckle and then see how high the splash is. It was definitely going fast. So, but yeah, just just a huge, the huge decrease in the amount of energy the motor is using to go basically the same speed. I mean, my son thought it was faster. And I gotta say, if I was, if I wasn't being a little bit hyper critical, I would think it was going faster too. But you know, it was it was going definitely close. And I don't want to get too optimistic. Either way, it's going, it's going fast going at a good speed using two thirds of the power and definitely not anywhere near two thirds of the speed. It's like basically the same speed, which is awesome for several reasons because now I'm not overpowering the motor at all. If anything, I'm underpowering the motor because it's a 39 amp motor. And I'm only putting 35 amps into it. So it's actually underpowered. So it shouldn't be overheating or anything, which is just great, which means I should be able to drive like all the way to town, which is like an hour and a half trip at full speed without without overheating the boat. I'm still going to be nervous the first time I try that. But I mean, it should it should theoretically be fine. And then the other thing is at that power level, I should be able to drive all the way to town and all the way back like in the dark, which I don't ever want to do, you know, but it's nice to know that that's, that's possible, you know, I wouldn't want to do that for various reasons, because I wouldn't I would never want to run my batteries down to that point, because you know, it reduces your life. It also makes it so that if you end up in a sticky situation, when you're you barely have enough energy to get somewhere, and you have to like do some maneuvers unexpectedly, like run away from the storm, well, then you don't actually make it home, you had a paddle or whatever. So, you know, but still, you know, it's it's good that I could theoretically make it all the way there and back. Full speed. That's crazy. It's crazy that those batteries, I mean, the batteries only like, like it's like this big, and it can it can take me. Yeah, that is super crazy. And what else? Oh, yeah, the boats, the boats run smoother. It sounds great. The, you know, I can definitely hear the propeller is spinning at a higher rate, higher RPM than before. Which is what I expected, you know, with a lower pitch, you can spin more easily. So yeah, but everything everything's super awesome with that. I'm very excited. I'm very excited to go somewhere. I have no where to go today. I don't feel like going anywhere today anyway. But yeah, next next trip I go somewhere. It's gonna be pretty cool. Oh, another thing. So just about solar boats in general. So many of you probably heard that in Panama, there are well, there's there are few problems in Panama right now. The Panama Canal is like running out of water because there's a drought. But that's a separate issue. Right now, there are protests across the whole country, right? And it's because some Canadian mining company wants to mine copper in the middle of that country where they're, you know, they want to destroy all this nature and stuff. And some guys in the government are like, Oh, if you give us enough money, sure, why not? We'll just write, write your contract. And you know, stuff in their pockets with cash. But the Panamanian people are like, No, man. So they're like shutting down the whole country, like blocking roads and stuff. I think I think it's pretty awesome that there's there's still places in the world where people like, like just just normal people are standing up and saying, No, no, no, this isn't cool, man. No way. And they're and personally, I think they're right. I think I think they should be protesting this, you know, selling the the natural environment of the country, letting it get destroyed just for money. Seriously. Yeah, I'm totally in support of that, that protests, you know, it's a little inconvenient, but I mean, it's inconvenient for the people protesting. It's inconvenient for everyone. And but I totally think they're doing the right thing. Anyway, because of all the protests, and all the roads shut down, no one can get gasoline. And it makes me feel kind of good that I have a solar boat. I don't need gasoline. I mean, I would like I would like more people to be in that position. And maybe maybe more people will be kind of like, Hey, you know, maybe there's something to this solar powered boat thing. Because sometimes, you know, when you rely on a on a energy source like like fuel, they have to go buy somewhere. There are all these things that could happen to change the price of it or to change the availability and you have no control over it. Sometimes that could be a real pain in the butt, you know, but if you just have your own power source using the using the sun that's blasting out of the sky, you're good, man. Anyway, okay, let me let me see what you guys are talking about. I wasn't I wasn't coming on here meeting for this to be a big long thing. But Mr landfill. Let me turn up my brightness a little. I don't usually do these in the daytime. So my brightness is down. tdh and direct energy smirk. Oh, someone retracted a message. Oh, no, he right up right after was probably a typo. Hi, Jamie. Only second live have been able to catch catch hope all as well. Well, I can't say all as well. There are all kinds of problems in this crazy mixed up world. But things are going pretty good for me at the moment, generally speaking. Yeah, you know, congrats with the new website. Do I have a new website? I'm pretty sure I have an old website like very old website, but I did I did put it back up. And you know, I edited it and added a few things. I need to do some some more stuff on my website stuff. The jig you came up with for making the prop is genius. Well, thanks, man. Yeah, so I didn't I didn't come up with this. This is something that's been around like forever, I'm sure. But just having being able to put the the pipe in here, I, you know, I drilled these out so they would match the pipe just by taking four of the four of these pieces and then drilling a hole right in right where they meet. So the corners all got the right curve. Anyway, but yeah, being able to put the pipe in there and mold the piece right on is really useful. And then there's a notch in the in the in the pipe at the top that you could put a steel bar on or steel rod and line it up with lines that I drew on my my desk. So I could make one propeller blade rotated 120 degrees like really accurately put the next propeller blade and you know, do the same that worked out really, really well. And this what is amazing? What is this? I think this was I think this was white mangrove. Whenever whenever like a big mangrove tree falls around here, I'll take it and cut it up into boards. And even if it's not that thick or anything, you know, because I get like, like this came out of a piece that I just cut, you know, like that and pretty thin cut it cut a bunch of pieces like that is just useful to have. You're not supposed to cut the mangrove so but anytime when falls down, it's pretty nice wood. So I grab it. I don't know I grab anything anytime any tree falls down. Let's see the jig you came up with. Yeah. Notice there are a lot more properties for sale in your area at the moment. Hmm. Is something going on out there to drive people away? I have been keeping an island sale out there for years. I don't know. Well, I mean, they're the protests right now. And I don't know. I don't know. I mean, the protests are just something that's happened in the last two weeks, maybe something like that. Yeah, I don't know of anything particular. I mean, there are there always gripes that people have here and there. But yeah, I don't know. I don't know why. It could just be that people are listing more land, like trying to sell land more, or it could be that people are moving out, or it could be that people. Yeah, I don't know. I wonder I wonder if you're finding any land that's good, like all the land that I know for sale around here that's sold through, you know, like a real estate agent is just way overpriced. But you can find stuff, you know, like, Craigslist isn't really active here, but like Craigslist kind of things, you know, grants on the new more efficient prop. Yeah, I'm really happy with it. Man, super happy. Solar boats are unbelievably cool. If the free energy scammers were right, it would work like us, it would work like a solar boat. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, the free energy scammers. Well, I mean, the sun, the sun is I mean, you've got free energy, the sun, like, the sun is just it's just doing its thing. We're not we don't have to throw fuel into it. It's just there. It's it's free to us, which is super lucky for us, at least until it until it burns out, which, you know, based on our lifespan is basically forever, you know, like our species, there's a good, there's a good chance our species will be gone by the time the sun is done. Hopefully not. But you know, whatever. I get a lot of inspiration from your videos and love what you do. Big thanks and greetings from Germany. Well, thanks, Benny. Well, thank you very much, man. Greetings from Panama. You know, my dad's German. So I'm half German. I've never been to Germany, though. I had one chance to go to Germany. But it just it just fell through. And anyway, on an unrelated related topic, do the kids have a swing set? No, they don't. But this morning, I was talking with them about something I've kind of been meaning to do for a while. I just don't really have a good spot to put it yet, which is like a like a stainless steel pipe geodesic dome, you know, like when you when you go to the playground, sometimes they have those those domes as all the triangles and the pipes and you can climb around on it. Yeah, I want to make a big one of those made out of stainless stainless steel pipes. You know, I calculated the cost. It's not that bad. And if I make it out of stainless steel, you know, the last forever. And I have tons of stainless steel bolts because was it like five years ago or something on Craigslist? I think it was on Craigslist. Could have been eBay. I think it was Craigslist. Anyway, some guy was just trying to sell all these bolts. And they're like about the size of my pinky, like like pretty, pretty big, half inch, half inch stainless steel bolts, I think are like two inches long or something. They're all in imperial noodle units. But anyway, he was selling them like way cheaper than the normal price. And I was like, how many of those you got? He's like 3500. I'm just trying to get rid of them. I was like, what do you want for all of them? I got them all for like, some like seven cents a piece or something. And they're like, like a dollar or something. I don't know what they cost. But I got them really cheap. So I have, I have a plethora of thousands of these bolts, which are perfect for, you know, bolting pipes, like crushed pipes together to make like domes and stuff like that. I love when I find deals like that. I don't even have enough nuts for them all. I have to get more nuts at some point. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, but I can also put swings inside that. The question was about swings. Yeah, so I can actually put swings inside there, which would be sweet. If I make it big enough, you know, of course, I want to make it huge. Shadow Mansor, wonder if you could intentionally submerge new fallen trees that you don't have an immediate use for that could eventually become that special swamp wood. And I wonder how long it takes. I don't know anything about the special swamp wood. I know that, you know, in a lot of places, they'll submerge trees to store them for a while. I don't know. I don't know what the story is with the special swamp wood. Maybe I should learn something about that since I have wood and I have water, you know. Hi, Julian Tipton. Hi, hello from UK. Do you not have a 3D printer? I do not. You could laminate over it and get accurate things. Okay, two things about 3D printers. First, when you when you make 3D printed parts, they're just not that strong. And I've made propellers before and used them, you know, but, you know, I have to make the I have to make everything thicker. And they definitely have a lifespan that's not that long. And the biggest problem is just that everything is deposited in layers. So wherever you have layers, that's places that things could separate and come apart, right? So like 3D printing is totally awesome, but it's definitely not the strongest thing you can make. Like, like if I had a choice of 3D printing a propeller or, you know, doing this, I would do this. This is more work. It's more of a pin the butt. But fiberglass, like I can make fiberglass propeller. And it's just much stronger. Even if you have like, like they make carbon fiber filament for the 3D printers, right? The problem is the carbon fiber is all going to be going the same direction, like it's not going to be going, you need you need fibers going all the different directions to make it really strong. And if I was going to 3D print something and then cover it with fiberglass, that's just going to make it thicker than it needs to be. So with something like a propeller, you know, the thinner the propeller blades are the better because they I mean, you don't want them zero. But anyway, you don't you want to you want to keep them pretty thin. So they can go through the water with less resistance. However, you know, when I was a few years ago, I was I was doing a bunch of tests with propellers because I was trying to learn and trying to figure out how to make them better and stuff. And for that, that was really cool. Actually, I printed out this big hub that had slots so I could print out different shapes propeller of propeller blades and slide them into the slots. So I could test one, see how fast is going check the power, take them out, put new new propeller blades in the slots and test that. That was really cool. I made videos about that a few years ago. Okay, second thing about 3d printers. Okay, I've been talking about getting a 3d printer, right? The big reason I want a 3d printer is because I've been getting ideas for robots to build like, like giant robots and, and my next giant robot project, I really want to get the design of the thing, like, like really, really, really, really good, like really finalize, you know, before I start making anything big. So I want to 3d print them, just because it's going to be way faster than, you know, machining all the parts for a little thing. And, like I always say, like 3d printed stuff isn't as strong. But if I'm just making prototypes of something that I'm going to make huge, perfect, it's perfect for that kind of thing, you know, so I want to get a 3d printer. And I was thinking about different things. And my latest thinking is I should just get a pretty cheap 3d printer, because I don't need anything super fancy to do this. And maybe at some point in the future, I'll want something fancier, but just like a 202 or $300 one, not one of the, you know, 1000s of dollar ones. And someone, I've got two recommendations from you guys, maybe, maybe someone out here can give me another recommendation. But one is an ender, an ender three, something or other made by Creality. You know, it's on my, it's on my Amazon wishlist, which is like down here, which you should be able to see. I think it's the second thing on there right now. And the other one is an Elegoo Neptune, I think it is something like that. That's also, that's also on my wishlist right now. Because I use my wishlist as just my, like when I'm going to buy something, let's put it on my wishlist. Partly, because, you know, it's amazing if, you know, someone sends me stuff once in a while before I buy it, which is, we're just super awesome. But then also I can show other people and say, here, this, this thing. So anyway, yeah, I'm thinking about getting either the ender or, or that Elegoo one, I'm kind of leaning toward the ender partly because it's cheaper. And I don't know why else, because someone recommended and was saying stuff about it and said it was good. But yeah, I think I want to get something, I want to get a 3D printer on the next container that's coming at like the end of the month. So I probably have like a week. I don't know what today is. What's the date today? I don't even know. I probably have like a week or two to order something. I probably want to order something next week, though. To make sure it gets on the next container coming to Panama. So if anyone has any suggestions of something, you know, just, just really reliable and good doesn't need a million features. I'm probably just going to print with PLA. And, you know, just make make prototypes of things that I'm eventually going to make out of something else. That's that's what's going on with my current 3D printer situation. But yeah, I think I think I'm going to get the ender thing. They also had lots of good reviews and stuff. Let's see. I've been in discussion with an agent about 14 acres for sale on East Lab past stories. Okay, I know where that is. But $100,000 being asked for it. And just out of my budget. Make an offer, man. Make an offer for half of that. Well, let's see. I got the thing is, it's going to be more expensive there than here. And if you're going through a real estate agent, it's definitely going to be more expensive. But I got 25 acres for $40,000. So I mean, if you offer 50, there's there's a good chance they'll take it. And when I first got here, I was talking to a real estate agent, you know, he was showing me land and stuff. And I remember he would show me a place and like there was this one place I was looking at. It was $200,000. I was like, that's just, that's too much. I can't afford that. And he's just like, look, the guy will take 100. The guy will definitely take 100. And I'm just like, why is it listed for 200? I mean, I understand optimism, but like, so yeah, I mean, I don't know if that it was like that with several properties, the guy showed me like this is the price they're asking for, but they will take half, you know, so try offer and half. I don't know, you have to see how it goes depends who's selling it how much they want to sell it. See, the other end of that spectrum is people who are trying to sell it listing it at some price where they're like, that amount of money would be great. I don't really care if I sell this. But if someone offers that, I'll take it, you know, I knew a guy who he's gone now, but he was he had some little island with a house on it. It's a nice house and everything. But he had a listed for something like $350,000. And I'm like, you don't really want to sell this to you. He's like, no. He's like, but if someone offers me $350,000, I will take it, you know. So yeah, it depends what kind of what kind of motivation that seller has. I would I would offer them half and see what they do. Geodesic monkey bars are awesome for 10 frames to but swings would be nice. Well yeah, you can totally put swings in there. I mean, if I'm going to make a Geodesic monkey bar thing, I'm going to be able to use I'm not making some little thing. Now it's going to be like a big thing. And then I can get in there. I'll probably put like some some some sheet maybe maybe some stainless steel sheet metal up there. So it's got some shades or like for get some swings in there. I don't know all kinds of cool stuff. But I'm using it too, man. I'm done. Six feet tall and 200 pounds, but I'm still a kid, you know, even though I'm missing all that, but who cares? It's still be a kid. All right, David Ben colon says eight E seven. Is that the property on the north tip of pastoral owners are divorced now, they might be open to a lower offer now. Yeah, I mean, just just offer what you can reasonably offer what you'd be happy with, you know, see how it goes. How about printing the mold? I mean, I could print the mold. But I don't I mean, this, this doesn't take very long to do, you know. And one of the nice things about this is, you know, I can take the pieces, I can put them there line them up and look at it and be like, right to my brains. What's more than my instincts telling me? But yeah, I mean, they're definitely if, if I was doing it more mathematically, I might print the mold. Although I would also want to make sure that the resin isn't going to melt the mold. But I'm sure I could just pick the right plastic for that. But if I was, if I was mathematically, you know, designing the propeller based on, you know, the speed of the boat, the size of it and the power and everything figuring out the correct pitch, like mathematically, then I might want to 3d print it. But if I'm just kind of like, you know, just doing it. I mean, either either way totally works, you know. But yeah, I might might do that. The thing is, like, if I'm going to print a mold, though, first, it's going to take a while to print something that size, and it's got to be really, really solid, because I'm gonna have to sand it a lot to make it smooth, because it's got to be smooth. The other thing is, this would cost me zero. The glue, I don't know, like four cents of glue in here maybe. But that much 3d printing material, it's kind of a lot of 3d print. That's not cheap, you know. But I mean, yeah, in certain certain circumstances, it's worth it. So hi, Jamie. Hello from Southern California. Hello, Southern California. Alex Bee. Any thoughts on having bees on it? Oh, I totally want to get bees. I super much want to get bees. There are a few species of stingless bees, especially in Puerto Rico. We have the stingless bees here. I don't know if they're the same ones you're talking about, but we have these little little bees, they're like half the size of maybe like a third the size, they're just little bees, and they don't sting. And I don't know, I don't know what their honey production is like or anything, but I definitely want to get bees going at some point. And now that I haven't done any videos about this yet, but I've been I talked about it. So I'm working on making this this campground on my bigger property that's that's nearby. And I was digging around over there and the soil is so much better than this island. Like, I mean, on my island here, the top soil is like this, and it's like dense. Over there, the top soils like this, and it's like fluffy. And then even below that, it's just the ground is softer here. Everything is just like dense packed clay. So I really want to start planting food over there and getting all kinds of things going and that'd be a perfect place to set up bees because there's tons of space there. Yeah, I definitely want to get bees. But you know, I've got like so much going on. This is one of the reasons I want to have a girlfriend. You know, I had a girlfriend, someone someone to be here and like bees. Then we could like, like, we could both work on this kind of stuff. And like, you know, anyway, where am I? Hi, again, Jamie. I think that's not the only reason I would want to grow from the horse. Anyway, that's a whole separation. Oh, it's Joe. What's going on, man? Hi again, Jamie. Are there any videos on building the Vermont dome house? There are tons of them. I couldn't find any on your playlist. Or is the documentation limited only to the pictures on your website? Oh, you mean like building the original original dome that like, originally, I only had pictures. So yeah, when I when I first got to Vermont, and I was doing everything, I just had pictures and that's that's all on my website. So I guess you found that already. I didn't have any video until like, I don't know, it was a couple years after that I started doing video like YouTube came out. Yeah, believe it or not, YouTube has not always been there. But I have videos of turning the dome into the palatial mega dome, which was the you know, the final version of it before I left. Lots of videos of that. That was right before my daughter was born because I was like, man, I'm about to have my kid like my first kid, I was like, I got to make my house amazing. So I tore the whole house apart and like rebuilt all the walls with with insulation and then bigger and nice roof and all kinds of stuff. That's all that's all in videos. So she's 13 now. So that was like 14 years ago, 13, 14 years ago. Let's see. David Van Cullen, possibly northern end of the island. Yes, with a small hut over the water, but otherwise all virgin jungle. Thanks for the advice, Jamie. Yeah, totally. Just, I mean, there's the thing is, there's a lot of land around here for sale. And not all of it's even listed for sale. Like, there are there are people who would like to sell land, who would like to sell their land, but they, you know, they're just, they're just busy doing other stuff or they're chilling or they're not like hooked in with the internet or whatever. So if you actually come here and stay for a while and start meeting people and asking around, I mean, that's how I that's how I found the deals that I got. I'm pretty happy with with what I ended up with. Let's see. Shadowman says, I know nothing about 3D printers. You should talk about them then. Not just kidding. I was surprised that Adam Savage keeps his spools of printer feedstock in a humidity controlled box. I assumed it was dehumidifier. He's in San Francisco. Yeah, it's probably dehumidifier because the you want to keep the filament dry. Because if it has moisture in it, you know, it messes it up. Like the filament gets heated up a lot. And if it's if there's moisture in there, you know, the moisture could boil and, you know, expand, make little pops and stuff. It makes your it makes your stuff rough. But if you if your filament is dry, it also it also screws up the temperature and stuff like it makes it harder to heat up. Anyway, it's definitely better to have it dry. I'd probably have to do something. Yeah, I'd do something to make sure my filament stays dry. Although I might just try to get filament that is kind of forgiving, you know, but it's it's not that hard to keep it dry. Yes, it is listed for $130,000. Offer 90. It's a nice property close to Amarante by both. I'd say offer less than 90. But you know, is the third floor of your house still planned as a playground track? No, the second floor is the track. The third floor is the is the gymnasium. And that's how I've always planned it. So the second floor where you can see this is up on the second floor area and see this pillar right here. That'll be the end of where the second floor goes. So the whole middle of the house will be open. And it's one like two and a half three meters of floor here that will go all the way around the house. And at the at the edge, I'm going to have like, you know, a little bit of banked floor so you can run around the whole house. And when you get going fast, you run up on the bank and just run really fast. And then yeah, the third floor is just going to be a floor all the way across. And it's got the domed roof. So it doesn't need anything. Doesn't need any posts or anything. It'll just be an open floor the whole way, which I'm very excited about. Yeah, you know, I keep I keep thinking, you know, I could just I could just put everything else on hold and start working on that just get logs over here, start cutting them. But I mean, I have, I just have a lot of stuff going, you know, I don't know. But I do have I know, I'm really excited about that. I used to build Oh, yeah, I'm gonna have trampoline up on the third floor too, of course. And I already have a bunch of like big mattresses, like king size mattresses, which are in the middle of my house, taking up all kinds of space. But I got them cheap. So I took them and I was like, I'm gonna have to store these for a while, but whatever. I mean, right now in my house, there's a lot of stuff that's just storage for upstairs and for the workshop and for other stuff. Like right here. This is a whole bunch of pipes. This right here, this holds up the third floor. That used to be a shift mast. But this here, that's just a whole bunch of pipes. And there's a few other stacks of those around. Yeah. Um, let's see, durians. Oh, yeah. Okay, wondering how you survive the egg drop at Brown University. I don't know what the egg drop is. What is the egg drop? I have no idea. Yeah, I went to Brown University. I, I didn't really, I mean, I attended class for the first two weeks. And I kind of participated as, as a normal student for like the first couple weeks. And then pretty quickly after that, I just stopped participating in things. I would just show up at exams and it's just started doing my own thing. Because the culture there wasn't anything I was interested. This is all in my, you know, in my my movie, the adventure builder movie. But basically, it was just a, it's just a really sickening culture. So I didn't, I didn't get involved. I don't know what the egg drop is. Is that some kind of initiation thing? I did, I did face, I did face one initiation threat of initiation. So I was on the track team. And we might have been like the first track meet we went on a like the first away track meet. Maybe it was second. I don't know. It was it was pretty soon after I got there. And, you know, I was training middle distance at that point. And I'm in this hotel room. And these, these guys, the middle distance guys, there's like 10 of them, they come into the room. It was me and I don't know, they're, we always shared rooms. Anyway, there's like 10 guys in there. And they come in with like, like snippers, buzzers, right? They're like, we're going to shave your head now. And I was like, no, you're not. And they're like, come on, man, it's initiation, we got to do it. And I was like, first person who touches me goes through that wall. And the thing is, I was like 200 pounds, which is which is pretty unusual for a middle distance runner. So the rest of them were like 120, 130, like the big guy was like 140 pounds. Like these are just little guys, like to like pick up with one hand and throw. So they, they backed up and gave up. It was pretty funny. Oh, the guy who was in the room with me, he was just laughing his head off. He's like, go for it, man, I want to see this. But they, they left. I don't know what the egg drop is though. I must take off soon. I just wanted to say, Hey, how's it going, man? And point out you are looking good. Well, thanks, man. All right. I've got like my nice sweaty shirt on my dirty hat. But I'm glad I'm looking good. I'm feeling I'm actually feeling pretty good. I've been doing a lot of work outside. You know, I got I was down for a while. I mean, there's no secret to you guys. And over the last couple months, I've been just, you know, getting better and better and feeling better. And physically, I'm feeling really good. And you know, mentally, I'm, I'm pretty good. And have a good, I feel like I can, I can see a good future and everything, you know, that's one of the big things for me. Like if I can't see a good path into the future, I, I want to say I start withering, but it's kind of what it's like I start withering. But if I can see a good path to the future, I don't care, I don't care how hard it is, the path, I just need to see a path that's that's to a good future. Like whatever I got to do to go down that path, I'll do it. And then I feel good about it. Anyway, happy, bright, mentally and physically sharp. I'm glad you were doing well. Well, thanks, man. Man, I remember the days when you were digging out that million mile long driveway in the States. Good times. I can't wait for more robots, robots. Yeah, that was that was crazy when I dug that road in in Vermont. And I've kind of done crazier things since then. At the time, I was like, man, that was a month and a half of just like, going all the time, like sun up till sundown, which now it just seems like nothing a month and a half of, of every day going all out. That's piece of cake, right? But I had to do that to get to the, the next point where where I could do more and more you know, anyway, your your girls are old enough to take care of your bees, especially if you implement a flow hive concept and to increase your garden soil production, just imp an earthworm farm, another great family project. Well, what's that? I don't think I need to worry about the garden soil because on the other property where I'm going to start gardening soon, there's the soil looks really, really good. So I think it'll be fine there. Although we'll see, maybe I'll start planting stuff and there will be something missing or something. But where I was digging with plenty of worms and you know, all the all the good stuff soil looks sprayed crumbly, you know, looks good. I don't know if my the thing is like with my kids, if if I get them involved in doing a beehive thing, or kind of any project like that, they're they're not at the point yet where they're like, okay, dad, they don't call me dad, they don't be Jamie or Papa. They're not going to be like, all right, Jamie or Papa, we can just take it from here. You just go do whatever you want. We got it under control. I'm gonna do the research and we're gonna figure it out. You know, if I do something like that with them, I'm gonna definitely have to be involved in it'll actually be more difficult than me just doing it by myself. Which is fine. I mean, I do a lot of things with my kids knowing it's going to take longer than if I do it by myself. But you know, there's there's only so much that I can do. In a few more years, I think they'll be able to be a little more independent stuff. Anyway, oh God, TVH, you gotta relax, man. Are you going to do a video of your property so we can see? Or are you concerned about getting unwanted visitors? A drone video would be cool. Well, no, I definitely want to do some videos. Let me just let me just tell a story. Many years ago, when I lived in Vermont, I shared everything, everything I was doing. And people were very interested and it was great. And I was like, you know, a lot of people were like, wow, that's inspirational. What you doing? I love it. You know, show more, please show more. You know, I'm learning a lot and all this stuff. And I was like, great, you know, what I'm doing is useful and helpful. And the tax man shows up. And he's like, Hey, I saw you on the local news. And from there I found your website. I saw everything you're doing. And now I know everything that you're doing. And I'm going to tax it all. And I was just like, it was it was not a fun thing. It was not like a great thing. Now it ended up being that I had a low enough income that I qualified for something that so I didn't actually end up paying any more. But I still had to fill in all this paperwork. And I got this idiot showing up to my property, like checking fricking boxes and stuff. So you know, I'm just a little bit more careful now, you know, because who knows what's what didn't you drop an egg from a build? I didn't you drop an egg from a build? I don't know. I don't know. You're talking about at Broad University, there must have been some engineering contest with an egg drop thing. I might have just checked out before that. I don't know. I don't know. I don't remember doing anything. Have you figured out a layout for the new campsites? Well, my one of my daughters and I the other day, yesterday, two days ago, we were out in the jungle, just like running around looking around and we found it like pretty awesome, like, spot that was at a high elevation. It was like a big flat area. And we're running around there, checking it out. And, you know, thinking about what to do, we're still at the, it couldn't be anything at this point, you know, but we're, we're, we're getting excited about stuff. What time is in there? Let me see. 256, three o'clock. Geez, I gotta make dinner soon. Are we having egg pizzas? Yes. Today, we're having egg pizzas, which is basically we don't have cheese today. So we're gonna make eggs as the cheese, eggs are just gonna go on top. And that'll be the cheese. I know something about 3D printers, I can help if something. Well, okay, like I want to get a 3D printer that's not that's a pretty cheap 3D printer, but it's reliable. And I'm, I'm leaning towards an ender three, and there's a bunch of Z three s e something or other. I don't remember. But it's, it's my Amazon wishlist is down here. And it's like the second thing on it right now. I think I'm going to buy that probably next week. Unless someone recommends anything else. Or if you think that thing is great, let me know. They picked the right thing. You know, anyway, um, yeah, any, any information because I, you know, I've done a fair amount of 3D printing before, but I haven't had a 3D printer in several years. So I haven't been keeping up with any of the new stuff, you know, so I don't really know what's going on. Although my, my favorite 3D printer, out of the three I've had was the first one I had, which was also the oldest. It was a BFB 3000. It was huge and heavy and slow, but it was so reliable and precise. It was, it was so good. Like I print something on that. And that, you know, when you, when you put the layers, they end up being a little bit like off that thing, they were like lined up like the whole way up. And all the other 3D printers, they'd be off just a little, you know, I mean, not as much as I'm moving with my fingers just a little bit, but you can see it and you can run your finger on it would be like, yeah, that BFB 3000, that thing was awesome. Let's see. Oh, TDA, are you being a dick? I'm gonna have to get rid of you. Why are you calling me it? Let's see. Hide user on this channel. That's unfortunate. Sorry, man. Mr. Landfill, I can make you a mod. Add as moderator. Oh, God, standard moderator, managing moderator, I don't know. There you're a standard moderator. Whatever, whatever that means. Have you ever looked at earth battery and wind power for your place? Yes, I've. So I have this, this, this fantasy, which may become reality at some point. So I'm on this island. And right across here, there's other little island and I built a bridge between them. And that other little island is real, it just goes, it's real high, it's real steep. It's not very big. It's not very big, it's really small. But it's got almost the same elevation as the top of this island, like up on the hill back there. And I kind of put a windmill up on top of there. Because a lot of times the wind is coming. Like, there's a pretty steady wind a lot of the time. I don't know if I'm gonna, I don't know. I've definitely thought about it a lot. And an earth battery, what's an earth battery? I'm not sure what an earth battery is. Is that the thing where you stick rods in the ground and basically use the earth as your electrolyte kind of thing? I know there's a lot of different ideas. One, one that I've kind of thought about is, like a water reservoir. Because it does rain here a lot. And, you know, I have this bigger property where I'm doing the campsite and stuff. If I made a pond up on one of the higher elevation spots, and you know, could drain that through a tube through a generator. That could be kind of awesome. That's not a high priority, though. I guess the things about power generation are not high priorities because I have solar panels. And they're amazing, you know, solar panels are such a cool technology. And they're just stick them in the sun. And it's like magic, magic free energy. It's so cool. But I also want to build a steam engine for a boat. But again, you know, I've got all these boats that work great right now. But, you know, if, if civilization collapsed today, and there was like no way I would ever be able to replace the solar panels or batteries or anything, I mean, I could make lead acid batteries. But, you know, solar panels are eventually going to deteriorate. I would start working on a nice steam engine. Because that's something that I could power just with wood, you know. There's no naked kids back there, right? All right. My three year old still passed out on the floor. Dead baby. Oh, man. What do you do to mitigate corrosion? Corrosion. Well, my island here is surrounded by mangroves. And then there's a little beach that has sand. I kind of want to put more sand there, because the higher up the sand comes, the more it protects the land. And right now, the waves come in and hit the land and erode a little bit. So I want to put some more sand on the beach, just to kind of keep, keep, keep up with the ocean, you know. I don't know. I don't know what the ocean's doing. It's the ocean going, I mean, the ocean is definitely going up. Slowly, a little bit. Is it going to like suddenly jump up a bunch? Is it going to like stop? I don't know. But yeah, that my island here is mostly surrounded by mangroves. And they're like the best corrosion resistance. Erosion. Did you say corrosion or erosion? What do you do to mitigate corrosion? And I'm answering erosion. Erosion, corrosion. Well, corrosion of the land. All right, corrosion, why I make everything out of stainless steel. That's, that's basically it. All my boats are fiberglass and then stainless steel parts and the stainless steel rusts a little bit in the salt water, but just like on the surface. My shovels are all stainless steel. I made them and then my wheelbarrow, I made a stainless steel wheelbarrow, although the wheel, the hub of the wheel is not stainless steel. And I've been thinking about replacing it, you know, when it when it finally rusts through replacing it with either stainless steel or fiberglass hub, and whichever I could make more reasonably. Let's see, is a toroidal propeller in the works? No, it's not. Oh, when are you going to get chickens? Um, I don't know. I want to get chickens definitely on the list. But the list is huge. But yeah, I definitely want to get. All right, when should I get chickens? She said I don't know. Oh, when I have a chicken coop for them? Well, yeah, I got to make a chicken coop first. Yeah, I don't want to get chickens. I don't know. There's a lot of stuff I want to do. Chickens, bees, all kinds of stuff. I want to I want to be growing enough food to feed chickens without buying food for the chickens because I think I kind of feel like it defeats the point of having the chickens. If I have to go to the store to buy them corn or feed or whatever, like I want to be able to feed them on my land, you know, I have no toroidal propeller in the works. I'm not I'm not that impressed by the toroidal propellers. Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like not that big an efficiency increase. And they would I mean, if they get a piece of grass caught in them, it's not going to come out, you know, you know, stop and like pull it out. So weedless propellers, you know, the propeller blade is shaped in such a way that grass or seaweed if it gets on the propeller will just fall off. And when you're driving through the ocean, you know, there's like, I'll drive through an area where there's a bunch of crap in the water, you know, a bunch of grass or leaves or whatever. And sometimes it gets caught in the propeller. And usually it just falls right off. But sometimes I have to like stop for a second and reverse the propeller for a second and just or just even just stop and go and it'll it'll fall off. But if a toroidal propeller gets like something in there on one of my boats, I can reach the propeller. But on my faster boat, like I have to jump in the water and swim back to propeller, I can't I can't reach it, you know. Signing off Jamie. Classic dude, Mike time to cook over now, dude, catch you later, man. I have been researching getting tools and equipment. Oh, are you the one who asked about corrosion? Oh, I'm not going to scroll up. Oh, no, that was someone else. Okay, anyway, I've been researching getting tools and equipment to the area if I were to move there to tools, actually get import text, like it's described online. It depends if you're as far as I know, if you're bringing in, like your own stuff, like with all dirty and beat up and stuff, you might not get taxed for it. I don't remember what the exact deal is. But like anything new, you get taxed. However, a lot, a lot of stuff is worth getting somewhere else and importing it, even with the import fees. So I was just thinking of 3d printers, like I'm gonna buy 3d printers by gonna cost me like 30 or $40 to import it. But then I'm realizing I don't even know where I'd get a 3d printer here. So that's not a good example. But like tools, I would I import tools, definitely more than I buy them here. Let's see. Yeah, toroidal props are only efficient in a narrow range. Yeah. When are you going to build the first floor of your house? I'm standing on it. It's done. Or are you talking about the British first floor as that as in the ground floor, then the first floor? Because over here we say the first floor is the ground one, then the second floor is up there. I don't know whenever it's in I'm working on it. I don't know. I got the I got the lumbering will made. I got the path to the logs. I yeah, whenever I get to the top of the priority list, or I just really feel like doing that more than anything else. Let's see everything you do is inspirational. Well, yeah, be careful with that word. Everything. But thanks, man. That's cool. Keep doing what you do. Richie from down under. Well, how's it going, man? I'm presuming you mean Australia should do a solar panel special should do a solar panel special. Is that a question should do a solar panel special? Are you are you saying I should? I don't know. What does that mean? Should I do a solar panel special? Oh, school college is somewhere to go to get brain washed. You hear that? That's why you don't go to school. Yeah. Oh, man. I did not agree with with the brain washing at all. Luckily, I found ways around it and you know, whatever. Well, it's all it's all done. I often think you could totally benefit from the big big bank of old timey extremely robust lead acid batteries. Well, what about nickel nickel iron batteries? Those things last like 100 years or something. That would be amazing. I would love to get some nickel iron batteries and just like I mean, not for like a boat or something like like for my house, I could just put them somewhere and then just take up a bunch of space. But it's like they would just last, you know? Yeah, the ocean is going up. The Statue of Liberty is almost not there anymore. It couldn't be that your property is slightly sinking. That newer industry is solid and definitely great value for the money. You might run into problems with the humidity down there. PLA is absorbs moisture pretty easily and it can screw up the prints. Okay, so yeah, if I do if I use PLA, I just need to make sure I dry it out before I print anything. Now, why don't you pick your nose? What? Wait, if I pick your nose, would you still eat it? Yeah. Geodesic chicken coop. So the the newer ender three is solid. Is the newer newer ender three the one that I put on my wish list down there? Is that the right one? Because if that's the right one, I think I'm just going to get it. One would think that three chickens would be a small enough flock, they would get the vast majority of their food from insects, greenery, and kitchen scraps. Yeah, I mean all this, it's it's it's always like the kind of thing where it sounds so easy, but it's not necessarily because I want to grow things that chickens will eat. So I need to control where the chickens can go. And yeah, there are also things that eat chickens like birds of prey and raccoons and stuff like it's it's not it's not that simple to just be like ah let's get the chickens and done lickety split you know there's things to think about. Because of your videos I now have solar at my camp and I built a solar powered golf cart that is so awesome that is that is super cool. Do you make videos of that stuff or anything? Solar powered golf cart that's great. Randy Neo, let's go down man. I store oh I store my rolls of filament this is for a 3d printer in sealed bags with silica packets and put them in a food dehydrator for a few hours before I start a print. Yeah that's totally yeah I'm thinking it's something like that um silica packets yeah I gotta start saving those keep them somewhere yeah it's like it's like you put it in in a bag of stuff and it'll dry things out it like absorbs moisture out of the air yeah that's what I'm trying to say it absorbs moisture out of the air until it gets full but I think you could you could heat them up and dry them out again right and then using let's see I am totally frustrated that science has not solved the barnacle problem. What part of the problem? The barnacle problem you know barnacles on the bottom you yeah barnacles on the boat um I mean it's 2023 and still a manual battle your thoughts well oh yeah barnacles I mean yeah I don't even know what to say about it okay so if you have a boat that you use regularly and you know you keep it clean um you know clean off the bottom every every couple days or whatever uh just kind of wipe it off and stuff no problem but if you leave a boat for a couple weeks and you don't get a chance to clean it if you go on a trip or you get sick or you cut your foot don't want to go in the water or whatever yeah a couple weeks go by and suddenly it's like oh my boat's a disaster and you got to get under there and chisel away yeah um I'm kind of lucky here because where I parked my boats barnacles don't seem to grow so that's kind of awesome I still get you know a bit of algae on the bottom of the boat but I'm not getting barnacles which is pretty sweet I'm waiting for the lunar boat oh the amount of light from the moon is so small you wouldn't get much energy there's a paint that prevents barnacle growth yeah there there are like toxic things and things you need to keep redoing and stuff love boat comes next okay I bet even when you're being intentionally uninspiring it would be better than most I don't know are my are my burps or farts that inspire and bellatrix no are you sure lithium iron phosphate could probably last 50 years that's cool I do try to take care of my um my my lithium batteries I shouldn't just say lithium batteries because it's two different kinds yeah I have lithium iron phosphate batteries and I try to keep them keep them charged I don't drain them too much and you know hopefully the last a long time you can pick your friends and you can pick your nose but you can't pick your friends nose unless it's your daughter and you hold her down except your nostrils are so tiny the only fingers you can fit in you can't pick you can't pick your skin these fingers are like there's no way I can fit my nostrils you can't pick your dad's nose unless he's asleep no no don't do that hello I just grew a bunch of tomato plants oh man I'm living in in Colombia the soil is amazing I can't wait to grow tomato plants that's gonna be cool yeah the second printer on your list okay so that is the right one that's the one I want to get yeah um marine went railway and haul your boat out every trip well I mean my little boat my little fast boat I pull it out of the water because it's not that big but like my cargo boat it's like what's it like 30 feet long something like that 10 feet wide so like 10 meters long three meters wide it's not small you know it's I'm not saying it can't be done it's just not not that easy to get out of the water even with assistance but I mean if it gets to the point where I need to pull it off figure I'll figure something out but yeah I'm not growing barnacles in what in the in the what do you call the little bay so that's super cool um the title of this video may have brought a few unwanted here really um well that's unfortunate anyway I think I'm gonna shut up and go do some stuff and make some dinner soon and I hope everyone's having a good day I'm very excited about that the boat is now down to 35 amps going full full power it's like two-thirds of what it was although originally it was like 80 amps or something so like oh man so good shadow man sir thank you and enjoy your dinner or whatever you've got coming up okay let's turn this thing off okay I'm trying not to I don't swear on this channel so I can't read that no I just spit on the screen I do have magic videos on YouTube big Vince the magician I will do videos on the solar powered golf cart next year also I've been a fan since oh no stop it since the beginning of your channel cool have a good one uh the out-of-the-box aspect of Jamie's creations are awesome thanks man all right I'm gonna close this you know push the button tell it okay