 All right yesterday, I didn't do a live again. Just because I was busy man I've been going from set up to sundown getting a lot of stuff done. I have some video stuff load, of course And just report on A lot of things have gone in the last week. Oh, I'm making I'm making sourdough bread right now This is this is bubbles my sourdough starter. Mmm. Look at that slimy mess So it's a living thing though. It's like the blob anyway last week I was saying that I Was just I felt like I need to just turn everything off, you know Internet and Movies and video games just just turn off all the electronic stuff. So I've been doing that this week. Hold on. Let me get some flour Yeah, it feels it feels great to have all that stuff just turned off all the time as soon as I finish this I'm gonna go turn the internet back off and just have everything off Some people say That these internet signals even when you're not connected to looking at on anything are messing with their brain And maybe they are I don't know I just know that I feel a lot better when all that stuff is turned off And I'm like totally engaged in real life And I think one of the problems is that The internet is like the worst Medium for human communication ever invented because it's like that all the drawbacks of all the different kinds of communication You know communication being like talking writing letters I don't know making art There's all kinds of different ways to express and communicate and the internet should like theoretically Should create this place where people could communicate very well Except, you know, there are a bunch of problems one one major problem is anonymity So you don't have to be yourself when you're when you're on the internet, right? So you can just be like Star blaster seven four six and then you have no responsibility for anything you say or do So people with no self-control just turn into horrible people on the internet, right? And then another problem is that You know, you can there's this confusion about whether you're having a conversation with someone or you are Like writing letters back and forth because you know like when you're when you're writing a letter to someone You know, you're not going to get a response for a week or whatever So you're right what you guys say you send off blue and But when you're talking to someone face-to-face You communicate differently, right? So you say you start saying things and you say shorter things and you're watching further responses to right away at everything But with the internet, you don't know what you're doing and I think this is this is another one of the problems that people have So you could you could say something and then someone could respond right away and then you're like, oh, okay We're having a conversation right now But then you say something back and then it's like they don't respond and it just it just it's It's irritating. You know, and I think it it makes people Irritated and they they get like real short fuses and stuff Jamie how did you manage convince? Okay, this question is how do you convince a woman to move off grid? Well Find one who wants to do it That greatly reduces the pool of women you're dealing with but like it Don't ask me about women. I don't know, you know, I'm by myself here and I'm happy Anytime I try to Meet women. It's frustrating and difficult and like I don't know man. I am not the guy to ask you about this Like to me it just seems like our society today is set up for players Because like I could go out right now and today, you know, get lucky as they say Pretty easily actually But in terms of like trying to find someone and actually connect with them Oh, it's like impossible like our whole society's and this isn't another one of the problems with with the internet You know everything With the internet like everything is there all the time It's like constant infinite promises of everything although it fails to deliver generally speaking But it's just like constant like short-term Gratification stuff that's that's what the internet is built on short-term gratification. So it making people with all these short attention spans and that's I think that's one of the reasons that You know what I was just talking about your question there Why it's so hard to meet another person and actually connect with them because people aren't looking to connect even when people Say they want to connect with them They don't know how to do it because they think everything's got to be snappy and instant, right? but you don't build trust instantly you build trust by by By interacting with someone over time and being trustworthy and and then after a while That's when you get the trust. That's when you get the good stuff, right? But no everything is like instant gratification instant everything, you know So yeah, I've this this whole week I've basically had the internet turned off and you know all computers and tablets and everything have been off and You know, I've always said that the best times in my life has been times When I was like way out in the woods like like the like when I went to Alaska and I was I was Just miles past the last cell tower. There was no signal There was no electricity unless you had a generator or something or some solar panel There was nothing, you know, there was no there was no connection no internet or anything those are always the best times in my life and Yeah, just having all that stuff turned off and being totally present. It's just it's just a different thing and A lot of people don't actually experience that today because they're always plugged in always connected, you know, a Man, I highly recommend it. I think it's Maybe maybe that's one of those those things that we just need to come back to Although maybe maybe I'm full of crap Maybe maybe there are a lot of people out there who are connected all the time and they're loving it and they're It's just making them be good people. I just I don't know those people because the people I see online all the time It's it just It just makes them worse and worse worse anyway So that's what's going on now I'm thoroughly enjoying real life and been getting a ton of stuff done You know, one of the one of the really nice things about being disconnected from everything and being just in real life is in the evenings When it you know after after I'm done dinner and everything and you know, everyone's asleep and everything's chill There's nothing in my head like there's no there's no movies or like Conversations from the internet or snarky comments that I read or anything. There's nothing in my head, right? So then I start thinking about useful things instead of just dumb gossipy nonsense My brain starts thinking, you know, what won't be the best thing to do tomorrow and the next day What should I be planning to do this week? And that's just where my brain goes when I don't when it's not so But just cluttered with all this this nonsense from the from the the internet, right? And the internet is basically it's just monkey chatter, you know, you you may have heard like monks like people who who have Eastern philosophies talk about Talk about the monkey mind, you know, like you've you've got in your head this part of your mind That's just like All the time Like when that part is out of control like all you you can't think straight You like everything is just blah blah blah blah blah and you try to focus on something and it's like constant distractions You can't can't think straight. That's the monkey mind the monkey chatter You know, like this is better than that. You're stupid. Yeah, man of the best women of the best No, this color people are better. Those with their racism and sexism. Yeah, just all this stuff, right? Shut all that up, man. Just Like once you get all that out of your head, it's like your brain is suddenly freed up it's like It's like it's like if you go to your tablet or your computer and you just close all the tabs all your internet tabs This doesn't apply to everyone, but some of you have got like 150 internet tabs open Just close them all man and then look at your thing all the apps or programs You've got that that are just useless nonsense waste Just erase all those just get rid of them Just get rid of all that stuff and then suddenly your computer starts working better, you know the same thing with your brain You know you get all that you know that nonsense garbage all the monkey chatter out Yeah, that's what the internet is the internet is like 90% It's like 99% monkey chatter and like 1% useful which It's kind of funny because it could be super useful, but it's just just the way we use it. We're not we're not Like humans didn't have not had a chance to develop as fast as the technology's developed So we don't we don't know how to use the the technology we have To be beneficial. So we're just like using it as monkey chatter, you know Anyway, what are you guys doing here? Let's see. Hey, Mr. Landfall. What's up Hans Hans? How was everyone? Good evening? Yeah, the question about meeting women who want to move off grid. That's I Don't know. How do you meet women who want to move off grid? This actually applies to men or women I've met tons of people who say they want to move off grid, but I almost all of them Say they want to In a fantasy world like they don't really want to do it because they don't really want to do any of the work or You know deal with the realities of anything. They you know They just it's something they just kind of want to dream about. Oh, I'd love to do that But not really, you know men or women. So yeah, I don't know Finding someone who really wants to do stuff. Yeah, maybe start with Finding someone who doesn't spend all day on the internet. Yeah Bon giorno, senior, how's it going man? Hey Phil Part of it is everyone is so eclectic and different. Yeah, so it's harder to find people Who fit into your worldview or values or are interested in the things you are well This is this is one of the things where like I was just saying I like human beings have not developed Socially or morally or like whatever whatever internal development we need to be able to handle the internet because like you said people are different and on the internet you've got Like you can you can interact with anyone anywhere, right? So you're gonna get all these different people with different opinions and stuff and To be able to function in that kind of environment we have to We have to be able to disagree and that's that's something that has actually gotten worse in my lifetime like As far as long back as far back as I remember people were never great at disagreeing But you know when I was a kid people could disagree and just kind of be a little disgruntled like You think what you want. I'll think what I want fine, whatever But now it's gotten to the point where people like no you're wrong and you need to change your mind And it's like whoa, whoa, whoa, we can disagree. We there There's no reason everyone has to be the same everyone has to agree unless of course you are fully into you know Like a socialist communist society in which case everyone has to be the same Which is insane that's one of the reasons that kind of system doesn't work Yeah, it's like I don't think the problem is specifically that people are different I think it's that we're not dealing with our difference as well instead of Instead of just hearing someone else's opinion and accepting it as a different idea people keep trying to decide How the other person is wrong because saying something different it's like I Hate I hate this conversation because it always goes like No, no, no, you you misunderstood you misunderstood. I'm like no I didn't misunderstand. I just disagree with you Oh, no, you didn't understand. You didn't understand. It's like no no no. I understand what you're saying. I Just disagree with you. I think you are wrong and you think I'm wrong and that's fine No, no, you know, you don't understand you know you didn't you didn't understand what I said That's like dude, I don't have to agree with you. You know like The idea that everyone has to agree is just just insane. It doesn't make any sense at all. We don't have to all agree, you know? We don't know how to sit with ourselves anymore. Yeah, that's that's a big problem. And just just just think about it this way. If you can't stand your own presence, how is anybody else gonna? So I think it's like super important to like bread dough on my hands. It's super important to to spend time with yourself. Get to know yourself like and work on yourself to the point where you are happy being in your own presence. And that's something I have. I'm very happy being in my own presence. I've been in my own presence like the last week. I mean, my presence and my kids. But yeah, if you if you can't get happy in your own presence, you should not be putting that presence on anyone else. And it's kind of an ironic thing that the people who are not okay with their own presence are the ones who spend the most time in the presence of other people. Because when you spend time by yourself, that's that's when you start working on yourself and, you know, fixing things so you can you can be a good presence. No, where are we going? Where is that? Oh, yeah, Jamie, me and you think so similar. You are so amazing, brother. All right, Astral, what's up, man? Off time is necessary. I could not agree more. I don't know about off time. I wouldn't even call it off time. I actually, I definitely wouldn't call it off time. I don't feel like I've been off this week at all. I feel like I've been on. But if you're if you mean like off, like in turning off all the switches on the electronic stuff, yes, that's I get what you're saying. If that's what you mean. But yeah, I feel like it's been it's been on time for me, you know, off time for the electronic stuff on time for me. I love that just being in real life. Yes, Jamie, I love that shirt. Oh, thanks, man. This was actually a mistake shirt that someone gave me is like, you know, this was a messed up shirt and, you know, here have it. I kind of like it though, isn't it? I grew up in Stewart, Florida and learned to sail in that club. Oh, no way. That's cool. Looks like internet accelerated what big cities did to people's mental health. Yeah. Yeah, the I think the combination of internet in cities is really bad. Because in cities, you end up, I don't want to go on a huge long tangent here. But basically, when you're in a city, and it's, it's just overcrowding, you got people piled on top of people, there's no space, you know, and you can't even hear your own thoughts because you're constantly hearing other people. And then because you have constant access to a million people, it just becomes like human interaction becomes less valuable, you know, because it's too often. When you when you have a lower population density, you see people less often. So you want to say hi, and you know, have a have like some, some at least a little bit meaningful conversation or interaction with the person, even if it's not a conversation, you know, you just pass them by, it's like, hey, how's it going? You know, you want to you want to have some kind of positive interaction. But when you're in a city, and it's just like, oh, people and people and people it's like, all right, just get away from me, just go away, go away. And and then one of the things people end up doing is to get away from all that noise around them, go online. And then they're just stuck online. And it's like, it's like stuck between a noisy world and a chattery world. And it's like, it's basically the same thing, it's just, it just screws up their monkey mind, you know, it just feeds the monkey mind constantly. But when you get out into nature and real life, and like, yeah, the monkey mind just goes and plays some or something, I don't know, it's like, and then your, your, your good mind, the one that the one that thinks and figures things out and can focus and doesn't have a two second attention span, it actually has like a years long attention span out that one starts starts being fed. That's why it's so it's so useful to spend a lot of time in, in, in places where you're not getting that chatter. And you know, the internet is the constant chatter. And it doesn't, it doesn't work if you like go out to nature with your phone and you take your phone with you, because it's just like, it's just plugging in monkey chatter into your head off the spit and everywhere. It's like plugging in monkey chatter, like into your head constantly everywhere you go. Yeah. And then here's the thing, like I feel really, I've been feeling really good, right? And earlier today, I thought, oh, I should go look at something online, because I feel fine, everything's fine, right? But that's a trap. Like when you feel great about real life, it's like, oh, I can go online and then get sucked into something and whatever, I feel fine. But then you get sucked in and then you get dragged down and then, and then there's a problem. So it's like, you got to, you got to make sure, make sure you maintain it, you know, like stay diligent, diligence, that's the word. So yeah, I need to, I need to diligently not just kind of wander into the internet. I got to keep that thing turned off. I really enjoyed actually in my house before I had internet. And I knew when I, when I plugged the internet in, it was going to be a danger that I may just get plugged in too much. And yeah, I totally did. But yeah, I'm just, I'm leaving it off most of the time now. Divide and rule here. Bringing in the fractured part of ourselves to return to oneness. Yeah, all living creatures are motivated by a pleasure seeking pain avoidance and energy conservation. Well, kind of depends how you look at it. I don't, I mean, this, this is going to get into a whole philosophical debate, but I don't, I don't think that avoiding pain is, is useful. That doesn't motivate me. Um, I, in fact, a lot of times I will seek out discomfort and pain, because I know that's the stuff that's going to, to make me stronger and better. Although you could argue that, you know, in seeking out discomfort, like for, for example, exercise, like I seek out massive amounts of discomfort when I exercise. This is like wretched, horrible pain, right? Like I want to put myself in as much pain as I can, but ultimately I'm doing that so I can be more comfortable all the time. So I guess kind of. Yeah, that, that opens a whole can of worms, that statement you just said. Um, let's see. Where was I? Energy, pain, avoidance and energy conversation, conservation. Yeah, definitely not. Anyway, people, you know what? I don't, I don't think, I don't think that's even true. Motivated by pleasure seeking. I'm not, I'm not motivated by pleasure seeking. I'm motivated by doing the right thing. And the doing, doing the right thing is whatever is supportive of biological life, basically. And again, yeah, this, this whole conversation opens a whole can of worms that, I'm not going to get into too much right now. People are at their own individual, people are at their own individual point of development. Spending time with people is the only way to get an idea of where that point is. That's not true. That's totally not true, Vasco. You can, you can, you don't have to gauge yourself against other people. Like you can do your own thing, engage yourself against what, what your idea of what you should be is. And the thing is, like gauging your point of, in development, isn't really that useful. Because like, what does that, what does that do for you? Like say, say I'm trying to, to get to the top of the mountain, right? I'm trying to, trying to climb this mountain. Is it useful to stop and get out a GPS thing and see what exact point I'm at? Or is it more useful to just put that in my pocket and keep going? Like, I think it's, I think it's more useful, generally speaking, to just, to just say, regardless of where I am right now, I want to be better. So let me just try to be better. It doesn't really matter where I am right now. So I guess this is one of the reasons I was never that excited about like competitions and trophies and stuff when I did sports. I always liked the training much more than, than the actual competitions. I did very well in competitions, but that wasn't the thing that I really enjoyed. What I really enjoyed was that, was the struggle to improve. So I don't know. I guess, I guess it also just depends on who you are. Like for me, I don't, I don't really want to know where I am. I just want to aim the right direction and go as, as much as I can and not waste time on other things. But I don't know, maybe, maybe for other people, it's useful to kind of gauge where you are, compares off to other people. Yeah, I don't, I don't like that at all. Wow, this is nostalgic. First saw Jamie in episode two of Giant Robot in high school. Oh man, most people want to be right. They don't want to discuss. Yeah. And being right, that's, it's not useful to just be, like once you, once you think you're right and you're just trying to prove how righteous you are, you lose the ability to learn anything. So it's a complete waste of time to just think you're right. And that doesn't mean you shouldn't argue that's, that's what you're saying is correct. Often doing that with someone is how you end up realizing that you're not right. Because you, you can be arguing for one thing and they can point something out and be like, ah, you know what? You're right. But you got to be open to that or else you'll miss, miss that piece of information that, that fixes whatever idea you had. And maybe, and maybe you weren't even wrong by a lot. Maybe it's like, you thought this, but it's actually two degrees to the left is actually better. But you wouldn't have gotten that unless you were arguing for this one and someone else pointed out, hey, you know, but yeah, if you, if you just get stuck on being right, you can't learn anything. And there's no point in interacting with other people. It's just, it's just a waste of everyone's time. And that's, that's what most people are doing on the internet. Yeah, it's just, I'm right. I'm right. I'm right. Yeah, boring. See where my internet and TV make us stupid. Yeah. Imagine, you know, the guy who invented TV, I have to confirm this because I wasn't there or anything, but I heard that the guy who invented television was concerned that it may be used for just dumb entertainment. Like you wanted it to be an educational thing where it's like, you can make these videos and you can, you can convey like amazing amounts of information, right? But he was concerned that it would just turn into dumb dumb entertainment. And wow, was his concern ever valid? Yeah. Let's see. Internet makes us stupid. Imagine we could find home biome stars before light and all that stuff. But we can't talk about it. I totally just didn't totally understand what he said. But we got you. I agree to disagree. Yeah. Hey, Jamie, been watching since the giant robot series way back when love the videos and updates and progress, hope life as well for you and the family. Well, thank you very much, man. That's great to hear. Sir Doc Mad says love it totally right. We don't have to agree to be nice to each other. That's that's another big thing. Yeah. It's like, it's not like if you disagree with someone, you have to like say, well, now we're just different people. So we we can't interact. It's like, you should be able to disagree with someone. It's still totally I mean, I have I've had really good friends in the past. Some of my best friends I had massive disagreements with. Yeah, I think of one friend in particular who, oh my God, he I even wanted to do it. But there was there were some massive, massive disagreements. But if we weren't talking about that, we had so much fun doing anything else, you know, let's see, we don't have yeah. Wow, Jamie, YouTube just recommended this stream. Oh, excellent. I'm not really on the internet anymore. It's been 10 years since I've watched you but still rocking my original adventure builder club shirt. That's awesome. That's really cool. Yeah, man. Don't really spend on time on the internet anymore. That is great. The funny thing is like, one of the messages I used to always push and maybe I should start pushing that more again was like, I was always telling people, you know, turn this off, turn this off, get off the internet, go go do some real life. So that's that's great to hear man. Community perspective and proximity are everything. It's the motivational triad is not what you do. It's how you do it. As per point of development, I didn't mean what your own point is. I meant what the other person's point of development is, like children, for example, or women don't totally understand what you're saying. But even if you want to find out how other people are doing, yeah, I guess you have to interact. But I think the most important person to figure out is yourself. Although like I have kids and I have to I have to pay attention to them and help them develop. So yeah, yeah. I one of the things I really like about my life here is I get to spend tons of time with my kids, which is really good. And it's really cool watching them grow up and like just become way better people than me. It's really cool. Oh, let's see someone's deleting messages. Oh, what are you deleting? All right, I don't know. Do I even want to click on that? Whatever. My granddad always taught me you can be right or you can be happy speaking really to perusing wait speaking really to perusing being right and being right in front of others is just a path to unhappiness. Yeah, trying to always prove how right you are is just a waste of time. What did I miss? Not much. I was just talking about how I've had the internet and all these like electronic stuff off all week and it's just been really it's really good, you know. They're not called TV programs for nothing. Yeah, totally programming you. All right, I'm seeing a lot of deleted messages here. Do I need to check these? Whatever. I'm not sure if I would want to live off grid, but I want to go outside doing things with a partner, but it seems very hard to find an interesting person who also who also likes to go outside. Yeah, no kidding. Yeah. Yeah, it's like it's like there are so many people, but the quality has just has just diminished. I think largely because people are so plugged into the internet and it's like they can't they can't think of anything except the gossip and the nonsense and the foolishness online. And yeah, forget forget that real life is a thing, you know. Hi, what do you brother? I don't know what that means. Any advice for someone who's going to be a new father? Okay, new parents. First thing you need to know is not nearly as scary as it seems like it's going to be. Like at the beginning, it's going to be like terrifying. You're going to check your kid like like eight times a night and make sure they're still breathing. You know what? Enjoy it. And a lot of stuff, like you're going to know a lot of stuff to do just by instinct. So I think the most important thing with your kids is spend a lot of time with them because you've got all this stuff built in, you know, just in your DNA. Like we instinctually just have this idea of what we should be doing with children. So listen to your instincts, trust yourself. Unless your instincts tell you to strangle your children, then there's something problem, there's a problem in your head. But you know, as long as you're not a psycho or anything, like your instincts will tell you a lot of the stuff you need to do. Spend as much time as you can with your kids and interact with them, listen to them, teach them, just you know, just just be with them a lot. And that's I think that's the most important thing. And after that, you know, I can tell you this, but you're going to learn it pretty quickly. Like there's a lot of stuff you'll be worried about. There's not really any point in worrying about it, but you're going to worry about it. When you're a new parent, it's like everything is terrifying because you have this beautiful thing that's fragile and could disappear at any second. But just just just do your best, man, and be happy and just I don't know, don't waste your time with them. Appreciate it. Because it comes and goes so fast, you know. Do your kids visit mainland often? Do they speak Spanish? Just curious. They speak some Spanish. They're not as good as they should be. We kind of got we kind of got screwed up by that whole quarantine thing, you know, my Spanish actually got a lot worse during that time too. And of course, you know, the quarantine has been over for a while. But even just from that, what was it like a year and a half where people are just isolated and locked up, like it changed it just changed the culture, like everywhere, where people are less less social in some way, you know. But my kids do have friends. Most of them speak English, though. So that doesn't really help. Do they go to the mainland often? Almost never. The place they go most often is still an island, like the town that I go to to get supplies, usually that's still on another island. It's just a big island. But I mean, you might call that the mainland, because you know, it's like civilization, you know, it's a town, it's got like cars and stuff. But they don't go that often. Mostly they're out here swinging around on ropes. Man, if I showed you a video of like the stuff my kids do, like a lot of people will be freaking out. Like my son jumps off the second floor over the railing, holding onto a rope and like swings all over the house and like comes down. However, I told him, like he told me he wanted to do that. And I told him, okay, look, you cannot get on the rope any higher than you can climb. If you can climb up to that point, you can get on the rope. And so he could climb like he could climb all the way up to the third floor. So I was like, all right, I mean, if you can do that, you can hold out of the rope and jump off the second floor. He does it all the time. And it's like, whenever I see it, it's like, that's a little bit terrifying. But I know he's fine. You know, he's got good grip. You know what he's doing? I think about when I was a kid, like I did way more dangerous stuff. And maybe this is a thing for a new dad too, a little bit. You know, you gotta think about when you were a kid and like you'll be able to understand, you'll be able to connect with your kids better if you remember what you were like when you were a kid. So in this particular example, you know, my son wants to jump off the second floor over the railing, which means it's even higher, and holding onto a rope and just swing around like way up where if he fall, he would get hurt. And you know, one, one part says, tell him not to do that, don't let him do it, don't let him do it. But then the other part of me says, I gotta let him do it, because if I try to make him not do things like that, he's going to do them when I'm not looking, you know, and then it's going to be more dangerous. I'd rather him do the crazy things when I'm there, when I can give him some kind of, some kind of gauge, some kind of way for him to understand how dangerous it is, or like give him some kind of parameters. So for example, I told him, as long as you can climb up to that point on the rope, then you can get on the rope at that point, because I know you'll be able to climb back down. And then, you know, it teaches them how to do risky things. So, you know, instead of just doing crazy stuff when you're not looking, when they're trying to do it really fast and being dangerous, because they don't want you to, they don't want to get caught, you know, they won't be so panicked and worried. And they'll start thinking, okay, when I did the rope thing, it was, I had to make sure I could climb up there before I got there. So when I'm doing this dangerous thing, what's the thing I have to make sure I'm doing to make it not so dangerous? And they start thinking that way, you know, like be, be reasonable with kids. Let's see, bald is better than balding. All right. Hey, man, I threw up at school and everyone knows, what should I do? I went home and apparently people are making fun of me. No, you know what? People, people are going to make fun of you all the time. Like, go back to school. Okay, this is what you do. You go back to school and say, yeah, yeah, I puked. Sorry, man. Like, what do you want me to do? You want me to, you want me to eat it back up? You want me to like suck it back up? Like, I puked, it happens. People throw up, it happens, whatever. And, you know, if someone like is just, just make it like boring and stupid, you know? The thing you have to make sure you don't do is get all upset. So if someone says, ah, you threw up, you don't want to be like, no, because then, you know, all the idiots and the trolls will be like, ha, we got under his skin and stuff. No, just be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I threw up, whatever. You know, puked happens. Oh, well, that's, that's the best advice I could give you. And get out of public school. I know that's not my choice. Quality of life diminished indeed. Yeah. Yeah, when, when people start spending too much time in, in, in, uh, what's it, cyber world or fake life or imaginary world? Yeah, the real world really, really suffers. Romper room, let out early and you have a kid invasion. You know, Romper room used to be a TV show that I watched when I was a kid with a, there was this, there was this big monster in a suit. I don't remember what it was called. Anyway, doesn't matter. Jamie, heck yeah, speed time, spend time with them. Yeah, most important thing, spend time with your kids. And that was one of the reasons that I wanted to live off grid. I didn't want to have a nine to five job and then see my kids, you know, for two minutes in the morning and then tuck them in bed. I want to, I want to spend time with my kids. And that's one of the really valuable things about living off grid or even just, I wouldn't even say necessarily living off grid, just living in a more traditional, like an older style kind of way, you know, like, like the way I live is kind of more like, you know, like the pioneers lived, you know, where my family, like my kids are, not my whole family, my whole family is kind of a mess, but like me and my kids are great. And we have this, this relationship where they help, help with things. So yesterday, I was setting up this dome to, to make a spot to do a kayak. I have a video for that. I'll upload it. But anyway, it was, it took a while. And by the time it was done, it was like, it was starting to get toward the time when it's going to be dark soon. And I was like, I got to make dinner fast. So I'm like, kids, we got to make, we want to make dinner fast first. What are we making pizza? Okay, pizza. And then it's like, you cut the cheese, not like actually cut the cheese. It was carrot pizza. Don't do any math. Why you got the cheese and the carrots, you will get some firewood because I cook on a fire with wood. And you, you open the tomato paste and you, the three-year-old, I just told her to go, go play. I think she helped with something. But anyway, they're all like, they're all like going and doing stuff and working together, you know, to make stuff happen. And then like, whenever I'm building stuff, I always have like, there's always at least one kid, my oldest, no, my second oldest daughter, I call her my building angel, because she's, she's always there. Like, like I'll be holding something up. And I'll be like, oh crap, I need the wrench, but I can't reach it. And she'll just be there. There's the wrench, my building angel. She's like, always there helping me build. And then my son helps me build the stuff a lot. And then, you know, I'll come inside after working on stuff. And my oldest daughter is like, clean up the kitchen. And I'm like, what? So it, you know, all that stuff is just like, kind of an older style way of living. Like that's, that's how people used to live. And that's, that's kind of one of the ideas that I, that I have in my head a lot for how, how to define the way, the direction I want to go in life. Like I'll think about what has worked in the past, because right now, you know, there's all kinds of things going on and none of them have been tested through time. But what, what things have happened in the past that have gone well in, in, in, you know, pieces of civilization here and there. So, so I'll take pieces of that kind of stuff. So, so often when I'm thinking about how to make my life work, how I want to set things up, I'm not really thinking live off grid. I'm thinking more like live like the pioneers, you know, like we're here in this place, there's the wilderness all around us. It's like, we have to tackle the wilderness. We all got to work together to create stuff and you know, to make life here. So what was the question? I don't know. Much appreciated. Thanks very much. Liked and subbed. All right. What are your thoughts on homeschooling and homeschool communities? I don't know anything about homeschool communities, but homeschooling in general, totally, totally for it. Just going back to what I was talking about with, you know, I want to set up my life to be kind of like more like the, you know, like the pioneer kind of life. Like some kids had access to a school, but a lot of kids were just at home learning at home, like farming with their dad, making stuff, you know, cooking with their mom. And I don't want to get into gender roles or anything. Someone's going to go crazy, but personally, I like to cook and sew. So whatever. Anyway, but like, I think it's, I think what you learn, just being at home with your family, doing things is a lot more valuable than 99% of what you learn in school. Now I also do like, you know, math and stuff every morning. I do, I do math with my kids and the math includes some reading and you know, some word problems and stuff and all this stuff. So there I do like that kind of academic stuff as well. But I think the most valuable stuff my kids learn is in helping me to do whatever I'm doing. And not just buying them stuff. Like my daughters wanted to build a dollhouse. So I'm like, all right, well, pick a piece of wood. Let's go up to the lumber mill and let's plane it and cut it. Tell me what kind of pieces you want, you know, kind of come up with some design. And then here's the pieces. Okay, go. And then they, they, they figure it out. Instead of just going to some store and buying something and dumping it on and being like, here you go. And then they, you know, play with it for a while, but they don't learn anything about how it was made or anything. And they don't really care about it and get broken. Plus just some plastic piece of junk that came from China falls apart. Now, like, like get your kids involved, like really involved in things. I think that's the most valuable stuff they can learn. Because then they just learn how to make things happen, you know, and that's something I learned after school. Like when I was in school, I basically learned, I learned how horrible people can be. I learned that the system is totally screwed up. And I learned how I'm supposed to obey. But it wasn't until after school that I really started learning how to make things happen in real life. Like I had some, some ideas from things I've done and done on my own. But like, for instance, starting a business, being an entrepreneur, doing my own thing, so valuable. Once I, once I started doing that, I couldn't, I couldn't imagine going back and like working for, you know, the man, like just being a wage slave, but learning how to start my own business and how to, how to just do all the stuff, you know, that was super valuable. So that's the kind of stuff I always try to teach my kids just like how to do things in real life, how to, how to, how to have an idea of what you want to happen, have some kind of goal and how to figure out what steps you need to take and then how to take those steps and just do things in real life. And you don't learn that in school. You don't learn any of that in school. You also don't learn morality. You know, over here, I've got a poster of like honor and strength and imagination and humility and just all, all these adventure builder values that I teach my kids. I didn't learn anything about that kind of stuff in school. And you're supposed to learn that kind of stuff in church and stuff. However, I know a lot of churchgoers who do not live by any of that stuff. So I don't know what they're teaching there. Let's see. Machine so true. It's the empty dead culture in society. Yeah, it's, it's funny that like there's so much potential in the world right now. And so much of it is being wasted. It's kind of frustrating to watch, which is one of the reasons I don't like being on the internet, because like once I start seeing what's going on in the world, I'm like, what wasted human potential? So much wasted human potential. We could be doing so much amazing stuff. And people are just instead bickering about nothing, you know? Hey, man, I've got a pretty big question. Oh, no, for you in regards to children, would you mind? Oh, go for it, man. Hopefully you're still here. I got a little bit behind on comments there because I was talking a lot. Hello from Florida. Okay, what's the scariest thing to happen to you living on your island, like maybe intruders or weather? No intruders. I think it helps that I'm kind of scary. So people don't, people know I live here and they're like, well, that's like that crazy lesson. Let's not go over that guy's how they're weather. I mean, there's been earthquakes. Yeah, I would say earthquakes. Because, and there have been no actual problems. But I built this house, right? And it's like four stories tall. It's freaking huge. I call it the cathedral for a reason. It's enormous. So whenever there's an earthquake, I'm always like, no, no, no. Oh, it's okay. But for like, I don't know. Like, it's scary when there's an earthquake. Like, what if the whole thing came crashing down because I didn't do something right? And whenever there's an earthquake, there hasn't been one in a while, but whenever there's an earthquake, I'm just thinking about all the connections I made and all the pieces that I'm like, okay, it could break here and there and oh my gosh, what's the possible? Ah, that's probably the scariest thing, earthquakes. Although there's there've been no actual problems yet. Do you smoke? I do not smoke anything. I've never smoked anything. I don't do any drugs or anything like that. I don't even drink. If someone has like wine, I'll take a sip and just be like, but yeah, I've never been into any of that stuff. I just have I'm busy doing doing real life stuff. You I love your solar boat projects. Well, thanks, man. Me too. Yeah, I love these these boats. No, just like Colin first, he seems like it, but never has. I must have missed some kind of question there. Mr. landfill, you're deleting a lot of questions, a lot of comments here. Are they are they actually bad ones? Okay, people, let's up. Let's put our likes up. Speaking of social changes since pandemic, I just heard that France hasn't returned to its kiss greeting after COVID. Oh, that's funny. You know, that thing. Yeah, that's funny. That's not surprising, though. I'm not surprised at all. That's kind of crazy, though, to meet a French person and have them not kiss your cheeks or even really pretend to. Okay, any any thoughts on how to get yourself unstuck in a rut? Yeah, put yourself in the most the most discomfort and pain possible. Like if you're stuck in a rut, here's what happens a lot of times where white people get stuck in a rut. So they'll get in a difficult situation and it's uncomfortable and difficult. So they'll distract themselves to something else. And this is one of the times when people will, you know, watch a movie or play some video games or just just distract themselves from from the rut they're in. You know what, you get in that rut, you get down in that rut, and you feel it. Oh, it feels bad. And you just just suck up all that pain and discomfort and let it just until you get to the point where like, Oh, I got to do something about this. So, so I think probably the best way I might have a different answer for this like tomorrow. But like right now, just the way I'm thinking is like, don't try to avoid the negative feelings of the rut, feel the negative feelings, let that build up to the point where you just cannot take it anymore and you have to do something and that's, that's going to get you going. That's what's going to get you out of the rut. So turn off your movies and your internet and your everything and you, you sit there in the dark in the pain and the discomfort and just the horribleness. Don't give yourself a way out. Give yourself, let make it so the only way you have to get out is to go through the problem. Don't give yourself any other avenues, just, just, that's it. You're going to deal with that thing and nothing else. And then you only have two choices. When you, and when those two choices are just sit there in misery or start doing something about it, pretty soon you're going to want to start doing something about it. Of course, depends on what the rut is, but pizza carrot sounds fun. Pizza carrot, I mean carrot pizza, carrot pizza was excellent. Hello from Russia. What's going on in Russia, man? The way of life, I want to live like you. If you want to live like me, then live like me. Just figure out how to make it happen. You know, I would say it really depends on what you mean by live like me. But the way I think about the way I live is that I figure out what I should do. What's the best thing I can do? And then I aim my sights at that and do whatever I can to make it happen. And I think the way a lot of people live and the way I was living, you know, when I was a little kid and stuff, was you spend time doing what you're kind of supposed to be doing, what people are telling you to do. And it can be kind of terrifying to do what you think you can do because then you're responsible. So if everyone is saying, don't go over there, and you go over there, anything that goes wrong, all those other people are going to say, we told you, we told you, don't do that. And it's just like that with moving off grid, like you move off grid and anything goes wrong. Like you could have 10,000 things go right in a row and people will sit there going, then one thing goes wrong. Told you, told you, told you, told you not to do that, told you so. So you really got to put those people away that just get them out of your head. When I first moved off grid, I didn't have a phone or internet or anything. And I did that on purpose because anytime I talked to people about moving off grid, they were not everyone, but a lot, a lot of people, the large majority of people were very discouraging. Oh, don't do that. Don't do that. No, no, no. That's terrible. I mean, that's a, that's a phase you go through and then you get over it. You know, just, just don't even go it's just going to be terrible. You're going to freeze. So when I actually did go off grid and started doing the thing that I really wanted to do, I disconnected my phone service and had no internet. I just didn't, didn't talk to anyone. And I was just like, I'm, I'm going to do what I think. That's, that's how you get the life you want. And I'm not saying you should never talk to anyone ever, but like to get, to get that initial part done, like to get through that initial that initial barrier, you often just have to isolate yourself from, from all the negativity. And that generally means just isolating yourself from everyone. Maybe if you have like one or two friends or family members that you know you can trust and aren't going to try to discourage you, you know, maybe people who are genuinely interested in what you're doing, just talk to them for a while. But you might, but if you don't have any of those people, I didn't have any of those people, you might just want to go a few months, six months a year. Who knows? Just, just being on your own, you know, I shouldn't say I had no one. I had a girlfriend at the time when I first moved off grid and she was pretty much the only person I talked to and she would come, come stay with me out in the woods on the weekends and then go to her job during the week and stuff. But other than that, yeah, I had no, no phone, didn't really talk to anyone. And I think that was really helpful because it just got all the, all the garbage out of the way, you know, I just want to say I'm still watching last night's video. I have to catch up, but that oil you made out of coconut. Oh, I didn't make the oil out of coconut. Now, this is going to be disappointing. This is the coconut oil. I just bought it at the store. There's a price on it. It's like 20, $23 kind of expensive. But this will last me months. I don't, I don't use much oil to cook with or anything. But yeah, here's my, is that, this is the mahogany wood. This is what my, my second floor is made out of. It doesn't look like this on the second floor because I haven't, you know, put any oil on it, but isn't that gorgeous? It's like golden. Let me get it in a light right. It's like sparkly. Like, wow, it's really, really beautiful wood. Here is, here's the cutting board I made when I first built my house. Yeah, it looked like that one over there a few years ago. I don't want to tip it up too much. It's got some crumbs on it. And I keep not wanting to use the new one because I know it's going to end up looking like this. But then I realized, wait a minute, I could just re-sand the top of this and then re-oil it and it'll look beautiful again. Right? Yeah, so anyway. Yeah, that wood's really, really gorgeous when to oil it. So I didn't make the coconut oil, but I do know how to make it. Let's see. I'm still catching a coconut, or that, that board that you first stained looks absolutely amazing. Yes, live like the pioneers, but with solar panels and the internet life can be amazing, free and cheaper than city life with modern technology. Oh, it's, it's my living expenses here are way lower than like anyone I know who's living in the city. Like there's no, no rent, no, the only bills I have are the internet and the only reason I have the internet is so I can do this YouTube stuff, right? Other than that food, and I grow some food myself, you know, I'm increasing the amount of food I grow myself over time. At some point, I really want to, you know, increase that a lot, but you know, I just have a lot of stuff going on. But yeah, basically my, my expenses are food and internet and that's about it. You know, and just, you know, the normal maintenance of stuff. But like when I'm doing maintenance of stuff, like I mostly, it's rare for me to have to go buy something to do any kind of maintenance. I just have stuff, you know, like junk here. I could, I could go decades without ever buying a part because I can make parts. I got a milling machine and, you know, lathe and like all kinds of raw materials and stuff. So yeah, I don't have a lot of expenses. I mean, most of the expenses I have are in like if there's a project I want to do. But some of that gets offset by, well, a lot of that gets offset by, you know, if I make, if I do a project and then I show it online, I get, you know, I get some money back from that to, to help pay for projects and stuff like that. So if I want to build a giant robot, for example, like people will watch that. So I'll get, it'll, it'll also make some money. It'll hopefully come close to keeping up with it. I don't know. Yeah. And when I say I want to kind of arrange my life in the pioneer kind of style, I don't mean like go back to that level of technology, like obviously use the technology that's available today. However, I always try to use technology in ways that's gonna, that are going to benefit my life. For example, I don't have a smartphone because I don't think those are beneficial to people's lives. But, you know, people will argue that and say, oh, but you can look up anything at any second. Personally, I don't think that's a valuable thing. I think that, that diminishes people. But anyway, hello, my friend. Super, I may not be in America, but he is, oh, oh, Jay may not be in America, but he is living the American dream. Let's see. Hello, my friend. How are you today? I'm pretty good, I think. Good. What's up, Yusuf? What's the wrench next to your name? Wait, where's my name? Is this in my, is this like my, my icon thing? It's an adventure builder symbol, probably. Let me see if I have one around here. I don't have one. I don't have to go upstairs to get one. Yeah, there's, let's see. Yeah, I don't have it here. But I started this thing called the Adventure Builders Club, which isn't really like a club. It's just, it's more of a philosophy of a way of life and stuff. You know what? There's an adventure builder symbol. Hold on. Is, is this what you're talking about? I mean, it's sideways, obviously. But if I turn the thing, it's, wait, can I turn it? I don't know. I don't want to mess it up. Oh, I'm going to have to go that way. Oh yeah. Anyway, this is the symbol of an adventure builder. And then there are other symbols to go along with the, the principles of an adventure builder. But, you know, it's just like philosophies of, it's just kind of a guideline for how to, how to, how to deal with, with life, you know? Things like always tell the truth and, you know, remain humble and try to see, try to see the world, like keep your BS detector turned on and stuff like that. What's the wrench next to your name? Mr. Landfill says, just decoration. Is it something else? Oh, oh, wait a minute. Is this next to Mr. Landfill's name? Yeah, I don't know. Alright, I get totally confused there. So I just regret everything I just said. Yeah, I'm getting ready to build a dollhouse for my daughter and a toy box. That's awesome. Get them involved in it, man. Let them help. Someday, can you show us your book collection? I don't have a lot of books. I only have a few, but yeah. You've only been on YouTube for four days, so tons of stuff will be new to you. How do you get over a woman's body count in her past? How do you get over a woman's body count in her past? Oh man. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. You have to just decide if it's someone you want to be with or not. I don't know. There's all kinds of factors. Yeah, I don't know. That's a big question with a lot of parameters to get into. I'll be back on another live just a little bit busy today. I'm sorry, Jay. No problem. I'm busy, too, actually. I got to go in a minute. I was just doing this while I was making my bread dough, which is totally made. But yeah, I'll just try to get through the rest of these comments before I take off. I've learned a ton about technology by disassembling everything I could get my hands on when I was a kid. So something that's store bought can also teach kids in some way. That is true. I'm not saying there's no value in it, but a lot of store bought stuff is just junk. And you can also learn by actually building the thing from scratch. Anyway, this is a comment about the guy who's asking how to get over a woman with high body count. And Rusty says, you don't, you drop her like a used tissue and find a chased woman who values family and purity. This is definitely one answer. And I would not say that's a terrible answer. Me too, Phil, when you can save the useful components for your projects, hardware, etc, hardware, switches, love unconditionally and giving without measure, heaven on earth is coming as well as the pyramids. I don't know what that means. Very good though. That's that's the crazy guy who builds concrete doves and has solar powered boat. I have several solar powered boats. How Jamie gets unstuck in a rut, build a giant spider robot. Yeah. Wow, Jamie has a smartphone. I do not have a smart, actually, I do have a smartphone that doesn't, it's just, it's not turned on ever. It doesn't even have any, what do you call it, minutes? It doesn't have any minutes on or anything. It's just, I don't even know where it is somewhere around here though. Someone gave it to me and I was like, I don't know what to do with this dead thing. My money, my monkey brain is like a monkey on my back. Yeah, man, turn it off. Damn it, Jamie, you are a tank. Hit the problem, head on. Yeah, totally, man. Thanks for the advice about the rut. Well, I'm glad it helped. Technically, you are on the grid now. Oh God, don't start that debate. I don't know what that means. Most people gaslight and don't have the ability, so they detract from even wanting to go off grid. Yeah. Yeah, that's one of the problems in the modern world is like so many people have nothing to do and they don't need to be able to do anything because it's too easy to survive. So they see someone else doing something and a lot of times they don't want to feel bad about themselves because when they see someone else doing something, it makes them feel bad. So they want them want to stop everyone else from doing anything. It's kind of a crazy thing. I study engineering and I like to take on fun projects. A lot of them are challenging and not a normal thing, but so often I will get told not to. Yeah, just ignore those people. Do your thing, man. And people will often say, what's the point? You didn't even make any money or anything. Whenever I take on an engineering project or something challenging like that, my first thought is whether or not this works, I'm going to learn a lot of stuff. And even if what I'm trying to do doesn't work, I'll often get to a point where I'm like, okay, this isn't going to work the way I was hoping. But you know what this could be? It could become this and I'll make some other thing that I never would have made if I hadn't. You go down these unknown paths because you don't know where you're going to end up. And if you just keep trying to find a good place down that path, you're going to find cool stuff. You know, learn cool stuff, create things that would not have otherwise come up. Yeah, you follow those unknown paths. Don't listen to people when they tell you not to do it. Let's see, show the resurfacing in a video, the resurfacing of like the wood. Oh, the cutting board, right? Yeah, maybe I should. I could probably just do a shorter, it won't take very long. Have you thought of making support rollers for wood planer to support long boards? I've thought about it, but I can just hold the thing. It's not like I can go do something else while the wood is getting plain. Like if I have a support roller, I still have to stand there. I'm just not holding my hand up. So it's not really that valuable. Like I'd rather just just hold it off, you know. It's wild. I've watched you since I was 14. I'm 28 now. Love your mind and ingenuity. Thanks, man. Winston, that is so cool, man. Wow, rest you say. Would look awesome to stain all your wood and oil since you have so much wood, perhaps you have using used motor oil since it can be had for free. I use motor oil preserve my fence and it looks great. I don't know if I wanted to use motor oil inside, though. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't. Rollers could be easily done with some sort of height and 3D printing press fit adapters for standard bearings. Yeah, I mean, I don't think I need rollers for the planer. All right, let me let me just jump through the rest of these because I got a whole bunch of stuff I got to do today. Do you have children in your basement? I have no children in my basement. I've got a bunch of women chained up down there. It's my harem. Dude, I don't even have a basement. My basement would be below sea level. Like the, let me see. Yeah, like the bottom of my basement would be sea level. Anyway, let's see. All right, I'm just gonna, plus I'm tired of leaving. Yeah, Mr. landfill, if you if you find someone that's really horrible, just totally block them. All right, I'm gonna get out of here and get some stuff done. Let me just check it and miss any commentary. Okay, yeah, I'm getting out of here. Everyone have an excellent day. Yeah, I gotta go do stuff. You sure you want to stop streaming? Yes.