 All right, let's see what's going on today I'm gonna give this a minute to make sure people are here How's everyone doing today? I hope you're good I found a spot in my house where I could set up my little thing and I would not be back lit because that's that's always a problem like my house. It's a round house It's got windows all the way around so anywhere I go. There's like a window behind me And it's always bright and backlighting me and you know that just makes me into a silhouette it messes everything up But I've hung this right here to block out some windows. Well, look at look how bad that is actually it's like not bad but Anyway, that's just my cape. I didn't I didn't make it special for this or anything Or maybe I should call it my cloak because it does have a hood if it has a hood. It's not a cape, right cloak Anyway All right, I'm gonna waste 30 more seconds just giving people a chance to get here. I Like to I like to not not get into anything for the first two minutes Partly because you know everyone has their greetings and hello's and takes people a minute to get here. Oh Jansen says great shadow man sir says whoo. Did I pronounce that correctly? I hope so anyway I'm doing pretty good And I'll tell you why in a minute. All right. We've been here for two minutes Now I'm gonna I'm gonna get into my usual little monologue here First I want to thank. Oh wait, hold on I flew through Panama City recently and thought of you all looked at a group of islands east of the city Is this where you're located looked rocky? No, I'm not I'm not really close to Panama City I'm not like the other end of the country All right. Let me let me get into some business here. Hopefully my videos coming through. Okay I'm standing today not sitting, but I'm gonna try not to move around too much because I know when you move around a lot And you know makes the video choppier, and I don't have I don't have star link Anyway, so I want to thank this guy Who sent me a message recently? and it was just it was it was just one of those messages that came at the right time because I Was I was feeling a little a little demoralized and this this happens once in a while You know a few times a year here and there I'll just get demoralized and I was I was feeling a bit like Like I was wasting my time like I wasn't I wasn't getting through to anyone and I look at all the problems in the world And it's like things are just getting worse and worse, and I'm like trying to do something about it But what can I do and then I go on YouTube, and I'm like well What are people watching right now, and there's like some video with like 20 million views and I click on it And I'm just like ah This is just giving all the wrong lessons It's just people bickering and fighting or being like bling bling check out my money in my cars or when I just just stupid Garbage nonsense, and I'm just like yeah There's like 20 20 million people watching this and then I'm like well Let me look at one of my videos that that I think is really important and giving out a good positive message that you know can You know people listen to it They could maybe extend their their excellence into the future and it's got like a couple thousand views, and I'm just like oh I Feel like I feel like I'm trying to hold back an ocean, and I'm just being like swarmed and run over So that's how I was feeling the other day feeling a little bit a little bit demoralized And then like just just when I was feeling that I get a message from this guy And I think it might have come as a message like with the donation or something But a few people actually sent me donations recently that were unexpected which was also kind of kind of nice But this this one guy's message. He was basically like hey Jamie You know I know it can be difficult to do what you're doing because there are a lot of people who are kind of against you and Blah blah blah, you know it can just be difficult to sit there and tell the truth You know the the stuff that people don't want to hear and he was he was being I he actually wrote a much more Eloquent message than this, but I'm doing as best as good as I can and he said but you know I hope I hope you keep doing it, and I really appreciate it You know you made a huge difference in my life and people I know who we watch you together And I know you're making a big difference for a lot of other people and you know After I read that I was just like man If I if I am actually making a difference and it's working well then all I'm doing is feeling sorry for myself so Yeah, that kicking the butt man. That was good. Thank you. Thank you for that. That was that was really great So I felt much better after that and started started thinking well I just got to keep doing my thing You know do doing the best I can and then I realized you know if I'm if I'm getting a good message Even just to a few thousand people Huge thing like if I look at throughout history like the ability to get your message out to like thousands of people that is huge Okay, fine You know some people are getting their message out to like millions or even billions of people now because of this fancy technology But that's just a new thing man, you know getting being able to to to help Like inspire or whatever thousands of people or even just connect with with thousands people That's a kind of ridiculous thing. Anyway, so I've been feeling much better about about things after after that guy gave me the kick in the butt Now second last week Hold on. Let me oh, here's a nice message Love your work and love your philosophy. I also I am also having a daughter trying to teach her the value of doing things yourself and Repairing it's good to have people like you. Well. Thank you, man Okay, what are the next thing I have to talk about as it is actually related to that so last week I Was talking about how I? Made my kids earn dinner So I made my kids come out with me and do some digging and I was basically like all right anyone who wants to eat let's go and then they came out and did all this digging with me and Then we came in and we're all like whoa ready to eat because we're a ravenous and real hungry And then we and we had dinner and it was like it was like the best ever because like even my kids were talking about it They were like man food tastes so good after you did some after you do some exercise and some work And then it feels even better after you know We feel like I earned this and this is this is way better than just getting it for free And I was like yes, they're getting the message blam. That's what I'm trying to do and You know, I was I was talking about this and a few few morons Excuse my French, but I know I got I got a call the way I see it a few morons Wrote Very concerned that I'm not feeding my children that I'm starving my children I'm not that I'm just being being a terrible father. Oh my gosh If you had any idea of the amount of the sheer amount of Parenting I put my children through. Oh my gosh. I mean like every day every every day every time I see them I'm just like I'm gonna be your dad and I'm gonna teach you things and I'm I'm gonna be a parent and I'm gonna father the Crap out of you. Oh my god. It's it's I don't know. I don't know how they can how they can put up with it It's just it's just unbelievable the abuse. I put my children through, you know, like being a father over and over and over Here's you know what else I do. I also make them clean up. Mmm. Oh, I don't just let them do whatever I make them clean up I'm like, no, you you have to clean that up. You can't just leave that there. There's not it's not even an option This is not a democracy. I am the patriarch. Is that what you call it? I am I am the boss I am your dad. You have to clean that up. You have no choice another thing we do is We have this. Well, it's not gonna make any sense to anyone but every once in a while. I'll say alright we need blubs let's go and blubs refers to The water here. So you go get gallons of water put them up on the thing and it goes blub blub blub blub This is why we call it blubs. So whenever I say we need we need blubs It means we need to get water and I have four one gallon jugs and I have four kids and whenever they're here They take care of the water and and every once in a while a kid will be like. Oh, I don't feel like it And you know what I say, you know what I say. Oh my god, you would not believe it. Oh, I say to that kid Do you want to drink water? Or do you want to die of thirst? And then they take the jug and they go fill it up and bring it back in the house and then we put it on the thing And then we have water Now if you're an idiot and you hear that story all you're gonna hear is oh You're threatening to to make your kids die of thirst. Oh Come on. Come on Really? Seriously, ah, so this is the reason this is one of the reasons one of the very big reasons I left North America because in North America and in a lot of other places in the world But we're not gonna get into it But in these horrible places in the world Parenting is like not allowed. You're not allowed to you're not allowed to teach your kids anything So if I if I tell my kids if you want to drink water, you need to go get the water You know what that does for them that first it makes them go get the water second it makes them understand That the water is not just free. It's not just they're not just like Entitled to stuff all the time and this is a huge huge huge important lesson If you have kids you need to teach them that they are not entitled To all the stuff you give them when they're little now I also have like a two-year-old and a four-year-old and I Do the same thing with them and they they generally help But if my two-year-old doesn't carry a water and I'm not gonna make her go thirsty But the older kids I'm like no you have to do it You have to get the water if you want to drink water and if you want you want food Oh, here's another one. I do when we when we have dinner We cook on fire with a with a wood fire and I'll tell my kids here. Let's make dinner We need wood. Who's going to get wood? Someone has to go get the wood or we don't have dinner This is the way the world works so One of the reasons I left, you know, I didn't want to raise my kids in the United States or Canada is that there are so many Like what do you call these people who just want to charge in and save everyone like like say I'm having a problem with a kid Doing something inappropriate inside and I say no you have to go outside Until you're ready to come in and act like it like it like an inside person, you know Maybe they're they're crashing around breaking things or something or going crib Whatever it doesn't matter if I if I tell my kid you have to go outside Until you're ready to come in and and act like a like a reasonable person You can you can act like an animal a wild lunatic all you want outside But but to come back in you have to you have to calm down But if you do that in North America and your neighbor sees one of your kids outside look come over Hey kid, what are you doing outside? My my daddy won't let me come inside. Oh My gosh, I'm gonna call it child services. That's child cruelty that your father is teaching you this important lesson and Then yeah, it's just yeah, and then the kid sits there and thinks oh So it's so my dad's doing the wrong thing my parents are doing the wrong thing trying to teach me a lesson They're not teaching me a lesson. They're teaching you a lesson and then you know, you can't you can't be a parent You can't teach your kids the right things in that environment where there's there are always constantly Frickin morons standing around just waiting to say hey kid You shouldn't be you shouldn't be in this situation You should be getting whatever you want anytime you want and if your parents are giving it to you They're neglecting you they're treating you poorly And you see the results of this in our society. How many adults do you know who are just completely? Irresponsible they think they're entitled to everything because when they were a three-year-old child they got everything given to them and Then they never progressed past that because they didn't have parents They got sent to daycare their parents were either Unavailable or too afraid to actually parent them and try to teach them any any any sort of Responsibility or teach them to value their own hard work and teach them that when you do something good You get something good not not out of a some artificial reward not some sticker or something No, you go get the water you actually get water to drink. It's a it's a natural thing It's it's how the world works if someone goes and gets the the firewood we can make a fire We can cook the food someone will get the firewood someone put water in this pot I'm gonna do this and we work together and make things happen that are important that we need When you teach your kids that stuff then they grow up and become Responsible adults that aren't freaking morons and just ruining everything around them they learn that they actually that their actions actually matter and That's why I do that and I'm not gonna stop doing that because you Some some idiots on the internet are like oh you got to treat your kids better Seriously, I treat my kids amazingly and here's the other thing. They have never missed a meal Because they didn't do something and also if you met my kids There is no way you would look at my kids and think oh those kids are malnourished. They're they have malnutrition No, my kids are like they're just like rippling muscles Well, two of them are just like built like like like linebackers They're just like solid like really muscly and then my other two kids are super skinny Like I was when I was a kid and you might think well those skinny kids They're not getting enough food, but then you see them pick up something or move and it's just like muscles They're just solid muscles. They're skinny, but they're strong And my kids run around with energy is that yeah, you don't have to worry about my kids worry about yours Wait, there's my camera. So we both Worry about your kid Okay, so what's going on here How are you guys doing oh Let's see I flew through Panama City. I read that yeah off grid is the way I love living off grid man seriously like What like once I moved off grid I could not I Could not even entertain the idea of moving back to a city It would just like if oh, I didn't even want to be in a city It's just it's just horrible and claustrophobic and you can't do anything Anywhere ever without getting permission or paying money. It's like oh When you're when you're out in the wilderness, it's just like there's there's freedom. It's it's free and like Sure, there are things that could come and kill you at any time But that there are things that can kill you anywhere any time So I don't know people sometimes think you know if you're living out in the wilderness You know, what if a spider bites you? spiders in cities, you know us have in cities Guns people shooting each other spray a stray bullet could go through your head and you could die Someone someone could drop an air conditioner out of their window and kill you I mean like stuff can kill you anywhere Anyway, living off grid man. I love it. I Love you Jamie and fam. Oh, thanks mechanism eight I Mechanism eight loves me been a fan for so long All right, we got some thumbs up. Hey Jeff. How you doing airs 11 am I am I pronouncing that right airs? It's my airs Love your work and love your philosophy. I read that one earlier It's good to have people like you airs 11. Yes. Okay What is status of lumber mill? What is the status of my lumber mill way? I think I'm I think I'm actually up to date on my videos with the lumber mill right now like I uploaded a video yesterday and I just finished making that yesterday and so Okay, I've done it. I've done a tiny bit today You know, I took the two lumber mill pieces apart so I can start figuring out what to do with the next part But yeah, the the lumber mill videos are are pretty much up to date Cut the live before I go to bed. I don't know where Sam off-grid lives, but I hope you have a good sleep Okay, don't bother with concern trolls. You do great. Well, I got it I got to pay attention to the concern trolls who's got I live on the same planet as them and I've never really I've never really bought the idea that you should not respond to people who are trolls and At first when I would do this You know, I don't know 400 years ago when I first started making these videos You know troll trolly comments and messages would come in and I would at first I always responded to them now I just don't have time and energy, but I would always respond to them and a lot of people would say Oh, don't respond to those trolls. You're just encouraging them But you know a lot of times people end up in In bad states like they end up in a bad place mentally and often it's because they they have some difficulties going on in their life and stuff and For the a lot of times when they're being trolls They're they're really just like crying out for someone to some some help, you know, like that's a lot of what acting out is a lot of times and obviously no one no one is required no one no one's obligated to Respond to that and I'm certainly not obligated to respond to that but I think it is good to respond to that stuff because if you never respond to it then the people saying things that don't make sense never get any feedback and Often they'll just end up doing the same thing over and over never getting any feedback saying. Hey, you know, I'm calling you out on this it doesn't make sense and You know, a lot of people say don't don't do it But I think it is important to do that some at least sometimes and I've also gotten messages Over the years here and there from people who were trolls Like this one one guy years ago He sent me a message saying, you know six months ago I I sent some really snarky messages to you and you responded to them basically calling me out as as kind of the I was being and I you know, I really thank you for that because You know, I was having difficulty in life and I was just kind of You know doing the wrong things and when you said that it at first it made me really angry and then like After like two weeks of stewing about it. I started to realize well, you know, he's kind of right I am kind of being a jerk and you know now I've stopped doing it So the at least at least one guy who was being a troll Changed it because I said something to him about it. And I'm sure there and I mean, I've got a few messages like that So it's I don't think it's always the best policy to just ignore people because they're doing the wrong thing I think often it's People need to hear things and if I'm doing the wrong thing, you know Sometimes people will say something to me and even if even if my first reaction is I don't like that It always makes me think about it later. And then I'm like, wow Maybe maybe maybe I'm being a bit of a schmock or whatever. Maybe that person is kind of like right and then you know That kind of thing happens a lot. So I I do try to bother with the trolls a little bit here and there Thanks for sharing saw build is looking awesome. Yeah, I'm really happy with the lumber mill so far Of course, you know, no guarantee it's gonna keep going amazingly well, but right now it's looking real good And I have Pretty much all the parts to finish it except for Whatever track I'm gonna put it on Yeah, I don't know what I would build the track and I'm sure I could find something around here I could use but I think I'm gonna buy something like some something to build the track. Not sure what It's good to give them tiny work and understand consequences. It's the little things. Yeah, so this is this is talking about kids It's really it's it is really important To kind of like to get your kids involved in things where They do something that they might not necessarily want to do but then they get some positive results because then they start to learn that oh Maybe cleaning up is actually a good thing Maybe it is like even though at first I don't feel like cleaning up my room or whatever But after I clean it up, it's so nice So it's not like I'm like I'm going through this horrible ordeal. No, I'm making my making my life better, you know, and It's really important to give your kids those experiences So that they learn to be responsible and And so that they learn to appreciate their own Responsibility because if you go through life, if you if you go through your whole childhood Never learning the value of earning something Then you become an adult and you don't want to earn anything and you know when you get a job. It's like oh I have to do this horrible thing 40 hours a week So that I can enjoy the weekend But instead if you if you enjoy your hard work and you can say Oh, I'm doing hard work. I'm doing things that matter and it's Then then you can enjoy the whole week not just the weekend, you know And you can have a much better life that way Um, let's see Which one will grow sweet potato potatoes and which one will tend honeybees? And oh, you're talking about my kids. Yeah Um, it's good to give them tiny work and understand Squares is yeah Okay, I can twice Oh, no, I pushed the wrong button your kids have it better than most Yeah, if you're gonna if you're gonna talk about my kids life and and how Terrible or good it is my my kids have a pretty awesome child that I'm I'm a little bit Jealous of how good my kid's childhood is And you could easily look at them and say Oh, this is so stupid. I didn't want to say it but but people think this You know, you can easily look at my kids and say well, they're They don't even have smartphones or or tablets or their own computers or you know all this Fancy stuff that like all the other kids have They they're not watching the the newest tv shows, you know doing all the the cool stuff So, you know, they're they're being neglected or falling behind or whatever but then You could also look at it and say Oh, my kids have a tree fort that they go and build And they play in the dirt and they run around and they They make stuff all day and they're so active in in thing in the real world stuff they can touch with their real hands Maybe those other kids are missing out on all that like Like whatever your kids are doing whatever they have someone else has something different And you just kind of have to choose which which thing is Which thing you think is the best and when I look at it my kids have have some pretty awesome stuff going on Um I think my I think my chat got stuck there. Okay. There we go. Oh, man. I missed a whole bunch of messages Do do do do and scroll the way up It told me I was at the end of my messages here and I just reset the thing. Okay Or hopefully I'm not missing anything. Okay. I agree it was in usa You would have cps called all the time on you. Yeah, uh, so child protection services at cps So, yeah, uh, I used to Get people constantly threatening me online to call Child services because I'm raising my kids in the woods Like animals and you know just all this ridiculous stuff. Um Of course now I'm in a country where I don't I don't think I have to worry about that Especially since you know, there are like a thousand kids in the area here who definitely have much more Neglectful lives than my children. So, yeah um and I actually knew a lady in the united states who Who had some kids in school? and she kept having problems with this one teacher like this one teacher just hated her family or something and And she still had two kids in the school and her older ones were already out and The problems with this teacher got so bad that she took her kids out of school and started homeschooling them and the principal of the school Called child protection services and and you know said this lady's homeschooling She should have her kids here in school and they just made this big thing and then this lady had to had to prove to child services That she's allowed to raise her kids. It's just Oh, it's just disgusting truth Good night Montessori Thought school thinks the same like you kids need to participate in daily life and can contribute towards family more towards family or just toward Everything around them like just toward life and the the world around them Like yeah, you have to teach your kids that whatever they do Mattered whatever they do does have an effect on the world around them and Montessori schools Okay, so so I understand that Montessori schools are supposed to be pretty cool However, I worked at a Montessori school once and it had the name Montessori school and it was horrible I was I was an art teacher in this place and I quit after like two months because I was just like this is This is a horrible waste of time Um So the way the art classes went. Oh, this is so stupid Is I was supposed to um Have a picture that I was supposed to draw and every kid Was supposed to have a paper and they're supposed to copy all the all the the lines that I make And I'm basically supposed to get them to draw one picture That all they all look the same that looks reasonable that they can then take their to their parents And say look what I drew and then their parents will say wow more child is so amazing They could copy stroke for stroke this idiot art teacher Who just made them all draw the exact same picture using no imagination whatsoever Oh, it's horrible. So the way I did it was I would I would spend half the class drawing that picture And I would rush the kids through it as fast as I can and I tell them, you know, we have to do this picture I am required to do this but once we get this picture done I'll give you an all new piece of paper to draw whatever you want And that was frowned upon. So yeah, I eventually quit But that's not how Montessori schools are supposed to be but just be careful if the place says Montessori school Doesn't necessarily mean it is I have to speed up to catch up. Oh, I think it's hilarious that some people watch this At like two times speed so they can catch up Uh 40 watching only 10 thumbs up hit the button. I didn't I didn't even know what the I guess the thumbs up Gets you in that in the algorithm or something. I don't know Poor parenting is a thing in modern modern society. Sadly Media taking over parent parental duties. Yeah media takes over parental duties the government. I mean just Oh, it's terrible. And now it's been going on enough generations that it's just People just presume They're not supposed to raise their kids which is If you just think about it if you just stop and think about it You realize that that raising your kids Should be the number one priority in your life Like that is the most important thing you can do is raising your kids to be to be good pieces of the future And that doesn't mean that nothing else is important, you know, you have all kinds of other things important going on You know going on in your life You shouldn't like ruin your life to raise your kids But raising your kids should be like top priority. It's the most important thing you can do And when you when you accept that it is the most important thing thing that you can do Then you can start thinking about oh How do I actually include my kids in all this other stuff? I want to do in my life like they don't get shoved to sides like ever Make them make them part of everything you do not everything you do. You know occasionally there's Some naked activities. You just want the kids to be asleep for but like, you know, you know what I mean Where are my kids Sam off grid says do you have kids if you have kids? I hope you know where they are How many solar panels would it take to run a welder any plans to weld to weld any oh any plans follow welder all right, so it's a Not such a simple question. Like if you're if you're running a welder directly off solar panels with no batteries That's one thing. But if you're running off batteries Like one solar panel as long as you charge the batteries Then you can just weld off the batteries like you have have like a few a few golf cart batteries You can weld off that run a welder not like Constantly for hours or anything as long as you let them charge between. Yeah, you can do it Now if you're welding directly off the solar panels, I've done that On my on the shark slicer Which is my one boat. That's right outside. It's right. It's right there It has 10 It has 10 solar panels on it. They're each either two 250 watts or 275 watts and What I do when I weld on that I haven't done in a while But I'll I'll take wires From the solar panels. So all 10 solar panels are connected in parallel to increase the amperage So what I have in these wires is like about 30 or so volts and What's it like? Like 100 amps ish. Maybe a little less than that 90 100 amps That's what these these wires can deliver So I I use vice grips and I clamp one wire To to the piece of material that I'm welding and I'll clamp the other wire onto a welding stick You know a welding rod like an arc welding rod and I can weld with that with with 10 solar panels Oh, I just saw flight. So like uh Like 2600 watts worth of solar panels or so But yeah, if you if you if you just want to do like intermittent welding You can just do it off the batteries as long as you have decent batteries Well, let's check on tomaters. Where is where is tomaters? Have you ever seen the self-propelled chainsaw video? You know, it's funny whenever one of these one of these things comes up I'll get sent the same video like like 50 times At least yes There's a guy who did a self-propelled chainsaw video I've been sent that many times I took a look and it's not anything I want to do so Oh, bitcoin is up. Excellent. That is good. Yeah, I checked this morning. It went up to like 20 000 per coin question. Did you see that? Oh god, probably not Because I don't I don't really watch videos Did you see that hacksmith industries on youtube built a spider mech after I watched it? Uh, I thought that they really would have benefited if they had talked to you first Uh, yeah, like four different people sent me that video like yesterday And I looked real quick, but the thing is I didn't I didn't find it particularly interesting because all they were doing Was making like six hydraulic legs and running running them with a computer To me, that's not Really a challenge. I mean, that's just kind of easy. That's that's sort of super easy like, uh I mean, it's cool that they're doing it though. Great. Um, did it work? Well, I hope it works well because um Like they made it in the simplest way they could possibly do it Um, like if I'm if I'm gonna build something like that I want to I want to actually figure something out not just Not just run a bunch of hydraulic Things with a computer and just program and all to do the right thing And that's that's like kind of super easy to do like I want to do it with some kind of elegant mechanical Parts that that do some amazing things um So, I mean, it was a cool thing, but yeah, I know it wasn't I wasn't as interested in it as I could have been I'm in utah off-grid property is in Colorado just work graveyards and weekends. It's lame, but it funds the dreams. Well, that's cool So you have an off-grid property in Colorado And you you're in utah I I actually looked at going to that area for a while There's a lot of land out in that area like utah, arizona, colorado Where you can buy like like a square mile Of land for I don't remember what the price was like not that much money I mean not like 40 bucks like a hundred thousand dollars or something, but Fosco zoos, I thought seems like they uh Took just as long to make theirs With a higher budget and roughly failed. Oh, no, did they make their spider robot and it didn't really work Yeah, the the thing I wasn't the reason I wasn't interested in that spider robot that much I mean, it's I'm kind of interested because I like that kind of stuff and it's cool, but Yeah, it was just like they they had all this money to dump into it And the guy's just like, oh, we'll just get six backhose and weld them together basically and then and then you know hook up a computer and I don't know it's It's I feel like I feel like there's a more interesting way to do it Really going to crash how adventure builders wait really going to to crash now. Oh really going to crash now Oh, okay. Sorry. I totally read that wrong the first time adventure builders for life. Good night off grid sam Have a good night The pure living for life channel's recent video on troll stalkers was really eye-opening What did they say about trolls and stalkers? I don't even know Stalkers is worse Stalkers. Yeah, stalkers is is definitely worse than trolls and I've had some people Like kind of come after me over the years Which is one of the reasons that I like being on an island that's kind of hidden, you know In central america. It's not that easy to get here and even if you're here You know, you you can't really see my house from outside of the island. It just looks like some you can see a little bit, but You know, it's it's pretty well hidden place. I kind of like it Oh, let's see what I miss here Yeah, what what did they say about trolls and stalkers? I'd be interested interested to hear I must say jamie that I really like you being back doing your things and filming I building stuff With what you have and your ideas and just making it work Makes me want to start doing youtube again. Well, great. Do yourself tech and repairs. Oh, that sounds like fun Um At basil. Yeah, if only they gave jamie that budget. What was their budget on that thing? Um Yeah, if I when I made my first giant robot, I basically had no budget I made everything out of garbage like from the local scrap yard and I did buy a few things But yeah, it was a very low budget even while I'm doing my lumber mill here Almost all the materials The the bolts the nuts and bolts were new but almost all the materials came from Either the scrap yard in town. It's not really a scrap. I guess it is scrap yards. This is a little scrap yard Um, yeah, most of it is just scrap and then some of it I got from a guy who was just getting getting rid of some stuff and he's like here you might be able to use this Yeah, I bought very few parts on my my lumber mill so far even the motor The motor used to be in a guy's sailboat And he posted online saying, you know, I'm getting rid of this Does anyone want to buy it? He's selling it for I don't know less than less than new significantly less than new So I took that and it's a it's a good motor No trolls that are real it's okay to them But if our bot account saved your time as they are not real Oh What is what is up with all the bots like what is that is that really? Like what what we should be doing with ai like is that is that really the valuable thing like This is this is what bores me about technology I love technology. It's just the way people are using it today is just Not in ways that that improve our lives We're using we're wasting so much amazing innovations and technology on just the dumbest stuff like let's let's program a chat bot to be annoying Why why like what a waste of of all this stuff? Kids kids needs to learn delayed gratification. Yes, they do need to learn delayed gratification And it's very easy to not teach them that Particularly in the world today where people complain. Oh, you can't you can't deprive your children of something Oh, no, you're not depriving them of anything. You're teaching them something. You're you're you're giving them you're giving them The chance to to do things for themselves. That's not taking something away from them Cement curbs for track Are you are you talking of oh the the lumber mill track? I did think about Making like concrete things that I could just drive down But I think I want to do like a steel stainless steel track Maybe just a couple stainless steel pipes something like that Children becoming cognizant of how the world works and how they themselves work are strengthened against mental health issues That is totally true. Yeah And one of the things that really annoyed me when I was a kid growing up Was the fact that I turn on the water and it just works and I don't know where it comes from And I could I remember when I was a kid. I was like a little Four or five year old. I'm like following the pipes Under the sink and like I follow them in the basement. I'm like, where do these go? Where's the water coming from and my parents are just like, ah, I don't want to deal with you right now You know and finally I find out, you know Where where it comes from and they're like, uh comes from the water tower. I'm like, where's the water tower? Oh, well, I don't know. It's some reservoir somewhere. Like you don't even know how this works. Why I want to know how it works Um or like light switches. I hated when I was a kid I hated that I could just flick this little switch And then light would turn on and I'd be like, why is it doing that? Oh, it's because of the electricity in the wires. Where where are the wires? They're inside the wall Can I see them? I want to see them. Where's the electricity coming from? Where is it being made? I had all these questions and you know, it would always very quickly get to a point where it's like just just shut up It's fine. It works. Just just shut up you know So one of the things I always try to do with my kids is I have the water They they know where the water tank is they know where the water comes off the roof goes into the gutter Goes into the water tank. They know how the water tank You know gets water to the little spigot. They they they know it all they know where the solar panels are They know they can see the wire coming down They see it going into the charge controller into the batteries and they they see how all this stuff works And I think that's a that's a hugely valuable thing To learn when you're a kid to see when you're a kid and I do understand Why people want to hide all that stuff because it's it's pretty you know You go into a house. You got drywall covering up everything. It's it's pretty it looks nice But it's not it's not Conducive to making your brain work, you know just staring at white walls Like yeah, it's pretty. It's nice, but I want to know what's going on behind that wall So I always I always keep my stuff exposed like you can you can see the wires in my house And they're not like all over the place where kids are going to be tripping on and stuff They're like, you know neatly put where they need to go, but you can see them Back to children giving them positive experiences from work You give them the heightened resistance to frustration. Yes, which is valuable for life That's good guidance and parenting. Yes, I mean there's there's there's just There is no reasonable argument that you can make against forcing your kids to earn things Unless you're unless you're forcing them to earn something that they can't actually earn And it's something they need like no, but if you're if you're like hey kids you want dinner you got to help make dinner it's it All benefit You know kids you want to you want to drink water? We got to get the water you guys got to help You know they they benefit they just benefit from that the only yeah Oh, it's just insane to me that people are like, oh, you're starving your children Like like I'm gonna like I'm gonna make my kids Die of thirst because because I make them participate. Here's the thing You might you might stupidly think if you tell your kids they have to get water to be able to drink You're gonna make them starve. No, what's actually gonna happen Is they're gonna understand how the water works and in the future When I'm not there when I'm dead and they're still alive They're gonna know that they have to get the water for themselves to drink So they're not gonna just die of thirst Because they're gonna learn to to take care of themselves So Yeah, the whole the whole they're gonna starve if you're making them do things and they're gonna die of thirst It doesn't it doesn't make sense in the long term at all That's super smart and wouldn't take a long time and work pretty well. I don't know. He was talking to sam off grid I don't know what that was Elliot says what considerations have you for defending yourself and family out there? Well Depends what we're defending ourselves from one Um, I'm like super strong You know practice my kung fu and do a lot of exercise and get six pack and some some pecs and some muscles and And we also play lots of hide and seek So we're gonna sneak it around and like be an unseen like little ninjas if we need to be Oh, I see a mosquito hold on Anyway, um and but then there's things like if you're talking about The need for guns or weapons of various kinds. I have stuff in my house that I could All right. Now I got Sorry, there's that mosquito. I missed him the first time. Um, I could I could build a gun today like a Like a good functioning gun um So if I need to if things get to some point where I feel like I need A gun I can produce a gun relatively quickly quickly uh, you know, it's it's really The whole thing about defending your family. It's like I don't I don't know what I don't know what the threat is If people are coming onto my island threatening me I will defend my family in whatever way I have to if I have to kill people to protect my family I will do it without hesitation um Like I don't know it depends on it depends on the circumstance on the situation I'm I'm strong and skilled enough that I could kill another human being with a rock If I had to throw it and I had nothing else on me But I do have a lot of stuff and I'm not going to sit here and list everything that I could use as a weapon to To kill someone because I don't want everyone to know that so I don't know. Um Basically If I have to defend my family, I will do it with great vigorousness and ruthlessness I don't know what else to say about it. Oh, let's see Oh, and also I also, you know, try to try to teach my kids to to take care of themselves and make smart decisions And you know, we do play hide and seek so they know how to hide And if I tell them kids hide they they can do it and no one will find them I mean you could find them eventually Question would you teach your children also computer related skills like video editing or music or programming? Yes, actually um So my kids have done a little bit of programming And they weren't that into it. So we kind of put it aside for a while, but um, I might Try doing that a little bit again and see if they're more interested in it When I was working on I haven't done this in a while, but I was working on a video game for a while Like I finished one video game and that one's out there. You can play it it's called Adventure builder, I think it's just called adventure builder Anyway While I was working on the video game and I started making a newer one They would look over my shoulder And you know see what I was doing and ask about what's going on and I would show them and they They start making suggestions So they they get involved with the computer programming that way and I'm just I'm kind of waiting for the point Where one of them is like, hey, I want to program a game or something, you know, that'll that'll probably happen at some point Um And then just general technological stuff um Yes, I get them involved in things like they they see me editing videos a lot and they'll A lot of it is just just them being over my shoulder like watching what I'm doing and saying Oh Trim that there and then cut this off and I'm like, yeah, you're right Exactly. And then, you know, they they just kind of get involved a lot by just seeing the example And that's one of the reasons I like working from home Because I can do all that stuff with my kids there and anytime they want they can see what I'm doing and kind of you know be nosy and I I try to never get annoyed about it Like it can be kind of annoying having a kid staring over your shoulder, but If I'm doing something that they can learn about I I just say yes Look over my shoulder. You know get involved as much as you want Respect Jamie. I've been watching for years. Oh, great How far along is the saw mill versus the videos? Why did you go with a circular blade versus a band saw? Well, I've answered that question like Every live for the last three or four weeks, but It's a good question. Um, the saw mill is currently up to date Oh, it's not a mosquito. Why is it mosquitoes in here? Usually they are never mosquitoes in here Yes, I missed get over here Kids, where's my kids? I need some kids to attack a mosquito. All right. Got away Uh, yeah, so the lumber mill videos are currently up to date and There well, there are a few reasons I I chose a circular saw blade over A band saw the thing is a the advantage of a band saw is that you can cut Yeah, I got them The advantage of a band saw is you can cut really wide boards So you can cut like full slabs off a log which is great You know the first lumber mill I made was a band saw and I could cut like a two foot wide cut Which is amazing. I can make these huge boards There are some downsides to band saws one you can't just go get A blade at the store like you have to order it And I'm in a place Where it takes a month for me or it takes up to a month. It depends We're like it can take up to a month for me to get something So if I'm cutting and I break my blade, you know, I guess I would just have to have backup blades and make sure I keep an eye on them make sure they don't get rusty or anything while I'm not using them The other thing is you have to keep sharpening them Or else well, you just have to keep sharpening them and then you know You got to have everything tuned just right or else your blades start from wobbling up and down and screwing up your boards Like like a band saw blade is amazing when everything is going Perfectly, but if anything is not quite right, it's just it's just a mess And the other downside of a band saw blades you have to move the log so if you have like a one ton Log or more You have to like a one ton log and you you get it to the to the lumber mill. You're not done moving it You know, you got a cut like this and then you you turn it 90 degrees and do another cut God, did I just freeze This freeze in the most horrible Horrible facial expression ever like halfway through a blink. Oh, that's hilarious. I don't know if everyone else is seeing it that way Let me just push the button to fix my thing Okay, hopefully I don't even know if that froze for everyone else, but I froze on my camera So you have to you have to move the log for a band saw mill because you can make a cut But you can't make a cut this way you got to turn the log and if it's like, you know Like like 2,000 pounds of wood is it's not that easy to move Now with a swing blade lumber mill you get your log in place. You don't have to move it anymore and so And we just draw a log Put a bit of bark on it. All right Say say this is your log You just leave it there and your swing blade you can cut a vertical cut And then you can cut a horizontal cut and then you cut another vertical cut And you can cut another horizontal cut and you can just keep going like that and take chunks out Although my my lumber mill does have a nut sticking out at the bottom of the blades So I have to actually go like this I have to go and then go up a bit and then the next board and then I'll fit the next board, you know But whatever But you just leave the log in place and you just You know keep cutting boards out of it as you go Now you can't cut That's like a two foot wide board unless you have a really big blade that can cut like you know A foot down one side and a foot back on the other side To get that bigger board. I mean you need a huge blade for that And I'm not using a huge blade because I wanted to use a blade that I could find easily Like that I can conceivably buy a replacement for in town like if I go to a store That I would not necessarily have to order Or, you know, just like blades that are cheap enough that I could order a few and just keep some I have two blades right now That I bought for the lumber mill and they were not that expensive because they're just like, you know, table saw blades kind of thing now another Really good thing about the circular saw blades is they have carbide tips So they last much longer before you have to sharpen them And you know, you can sharpen them with a diamond file, but they last they last really long compared to just the like the bandsaw blade teeth Another thing is the circular saw blade cuts a much smoother cut So you end up with a much smoother surface on the board And a bandsaw does a pretty good job, but just not as nice as a circular saw blade So, yeah, there are a whole bunch of reasons a lot of it just came down to You know, just the the availability of of blades and the longevity of the blade, you know Like a circular saw blade, even if it's if The machine is pretty beat up. You can still make a straight cut. It's just with a bandsaw if anything is wrong It just turns into a mess All right, hopefully that explains that. Oh, no I actually need to scroll to the bottom. How far back was I? Oh Well, let's see jamie Okay, there we are jamie. I love respect Your show for others and how you handle the trolls and still care for the feelings. That is awesome Well, thanks, man I mean through a couple titles in there or maybe I just read it wrong. But yes, I get what you're saying I am behind. I know mad respect, sir. Oh, thank you Have you seen the recent research done by a guy named ad mere masoch on roman concrete? He believes they used quick lime Instead of Instead of or in addition to slake lime giving the concrete self healing properties. Oh, I didn't know that I I do want to get some quick lime Though and start putting it in concrete I haven't done that yet, obviously, but I want to get some is it quick lime and thinking of hydrated lime type s hydrated lime And at some point I also want to make my own. I want to slake shells And you know make my own. I thought that was called the quick line. No, I don't remember Oh, anyway, I want to make my own concrete stuff But I don't have I just don't have time for yet Why do you never use welding when you build stuff? I do sometimes use welding use welding, however Like on the lumber mill, for example, and actually on a lot of other things I like to bolt things together because then I can get them apart And there are several projects I've done where I've made something and then either I want to change something And if you want to change something and you welded it together That means grinding and cutting and you kind of make a mess But if you bolted it together, you know, you just take your bolts out take the thing apart drill some new holes Or whatever you need to do to put it back together. It just makes it much much easier to make adjustments and change things and the other thing is Sometimes I'll make something Use it for a few years And then I'll get to a point where I'm like, oh, I'm not really using this thing anymore And then I can take all the bolts out take it all apart and then I can use the parts for something else As opposed to when something is welded again, you know, if it's welded together You have to like hack it apart and it makes a mess and it's You know, not the pieces are less valuable. So Anytime I can get away with bolts I do that and then my second choice is rivets Because rivets are pretty easy to drill out and stuff, but it does waste a rivet Although anytime I drill out a rivet I get a washer So But I do Weld things occasionally. I currently have no welding set up though But if I if I need to weld something I can I can set up something pretty easily. I do have a welder I don't know if I have I don't know if I'd want to run it much on my current electrical system Hi, Jamie adventure building has totally inspired me. I set up my first solar panels. Oh, that's excellent Felt so good straight from nature to us You are helping a lot of people. Well, thank you giant oak. Are you are you actually it's like a giant guy Like a giant oak. I used to know this guy who was like I think he was six eight and he weighed over 300 pounds. He was a he was a shock putter on the track team That I was on years ago. He was he was a giant guy. That was cool They spent a year and a half and it didn't work Well at all. Oh, this is the spider robot. Oh, that's that's terrible I feel bad like if someone Maybe maybe I shouldn't watch that video then about the spider robot because um Like if you have a budget like a big budget and you can basically do whatever you want And you use all these materials I'm just going to be sitting there watching it thinking like, ah, what a waste of cool stuff I could have done something so much better but anyway Man giant oak, that's cool. You got your solar panel set up. Yeah, isn't it isn't it amazing? Like even if people say, you know solar panels aren't economical or whatever like just just being Responsible for your own energy. It's it's a huge thing. It's it's Yeah, just just having that self-sufficiency is really good It also makes it so you're much more likely to use less energy too Because I don't know maybe it's not like this for everyone but for me If there's a cloudy day and I'm not getting much electricity I just won't use much and I'd just be like, yeah, it's fine I would rather be be getting my own electricity Then have unlimited free electricity well not free unlimited electricity from the grid and then have to pay at the end of every month Let's see. I think a floating sinking dock could be a cool build Videos but also super useful for your boat's barnacles Yeah, I've I've been thinking about doing something like that. So a floating sinking dock would basically be something where you've got you know a dock maybe made out of uh, like Like 55 gallon drum kind of things or maybe some custom made fiberglass whatever and If it's flooded with water it would sink right But then you have a compressor or whatever to pump pump air into it. So you could sink it Drive a boat onto it and then like not inflate it because it doesn't change it But fill it with water, you know fill the ballast I guess is what it's called fill the fill the ballast tanks with with air. I mean And then it would float up and lift up the whole boat Yeah, I've been I've been thinking about making one of those funny that you mentioned it Because that would be super useful Like to get even even just parking a boat um because often I'll park a boat and I won't drive it for days like right now Well, I drove it last night. Okay never mind, but Um, I'm not planning on going anywhere today in my boat Maybe tomorrow. I don't know but I often go days without driving my boat and it's just sitting in the water and if I had a floating dock I could just Like a like a floating sinking dock. I could park it on it float it up get it out of the water Keep barnacles from growing on the boat. They can grow on the dock. Whatever who cares That would that would be a really useful thing the only thing is like I want to I want to have a good way to get the air into it Like I don't want to have to just run a compressor all the time. That would be kind of annoying I don't know it wouldn't it wouldn't have to have much air pressure I don't know. I have to think about it I'm not on that right now because I have a whole bunch of other stuff I'm working on Bob asks do you have the pure life living trolls Living troll problems. I don't know what I don't know what their problems are um Might have some trolls under your bridges Well, I do have a bridge and I think there are no trolls on there. I'm pretty sure Hi gang Matasolo says wishing you all a great sunday. Thanks for the live streams. Well, you're very welcome Matasolo bearings I don't know. I don't know. I do love bearings like ball bearings Okay, pure living for life had people create a website and recruit unwitting accomplices To harass and stalk them the video was a call to action to gather evidence because the evidence They have is apparently insufficient for law law enforcement to take action. That is if it isn't the fbi or some government entity spurring on the off-grid targeted trolling Oh That's annoying. So Oh, did my thing freeze again? I'm frozen in there and I kind of silly buzz right now I don't know if it's frozen for everyone else, but let's just do the little camera trick okay, so What are these guys named off-grid? Oh Pure living for life. So apparently someone or some people created a website to like Get people together to stalk them. That's just like it's like it's kind of impressive That they got all that organized but like why why waste it on that unless these pure living for life guys are terrible or something I don't know. Maybe they need to be stopped and they're like horrible evil people, but I don't know I don't have problems to that degree. No and I don't know people online. I don't know They they complain about me. You know, I've been cancelled a few times But I mean whatever. I mean like I'm I'm here on my island. This is the most important thing to me I don't really care that much If there are a whole bunch of people who hate me online. There was a guy years ago Who kept putting my address all over? and That was kind of stupid Partly because my address my mailbox was like a mile away from my house Okay, it's freezing again or is it just my thing is like having some kind of mental problems okay Everyone on the internet should be required to watch the pure living for life videos on bullies so many people were dumped Oh, we're duped into becoming criminals and the ringleader might get away scot-free. Oh, that's That's terrible It's not polite to talk about his security measures. He can't reveal the most important measures without enabling someone to compromise them Yeah, so that's kind of why he's talking about when the guy asked me about defending myself and my family like Uh, yeah, I mean there's things I'm just not going to mention because if someone knows What? What I have and what I can do Then they're they're more likely to be able to Defend against that. Um, that's suffice it to say, um, I'm a fairly scary person when I need to be How often does your water tank get too full? Huh? I mean it overflows. It has an overflow. So it's fine What do you do with the emergency overflow? So my water tank is outside just like on the side of a hill And it has Uh, it has a hole that's big enough for me to climb inside it. Actually, it was a video where I had to get inside it and And climb out. I barely fit but like it's a pretty decent size hole and there's a concrete cap on top of that So when it rains a lot And you know, it gets full and it's overflowing water just comes out around the around the edge of that cap And just rolls down the hill with all the rest of the rain. So yeah, it doesn't really The only the only thing that it does is is I get to look at it and I see it coming out and I'm like, ah, I'm full Yes, but yeah, there's no other no other issue other than that The rain can catch take yeah the fury of an aroused adventure builder. Yeah, you better be careful You're getting aroused adventure builder You you do not know what is gonna happen Jamie the people telling you You are starving your kids Are just trolls that are only alive To get you riled up. Don't listen to that crap. You are feeding their delusions. Well, I'm not I don't think I'm feeding their delusions. I think they brought up a A useful talking point. So I it was gave me something good to talk about how important it is I mean the fact that the trolls Brought up that they thought I was starving my kids wasn't the important part of what they said It was just like an opportunity to talk about it um I got Jamie live Jamie You're you spelled you're wrong. You are An inspiration You're amongst friends. No need to be defensive. Hopefully. Yeah, I mean that's one of the things I really like about these lives um Yeah, I don't feel any need to be defensive on these at all Well, I mean a little bit because I know people are gonna watch them after and then and I actually didn't read any of the comments about How I was treating my children. It's just just someone sent the shana a message about it And it was like, oh, you're probably telling me to be careful about signing this And then she says something to me about it. And I was like, what? anyway Hey, Jamie, what are Your top three favorite video games of all time? Well, the Ultima series is the first one I think of which is actually a series of like Well, I would count count eight different games Ultima one to six and then uh The Savage Empire There there are two like worlds of Ultima video games the Savage Empire and Martian Dreams are also amazing games And those were based on the Ultima 6 game engine, which was really good And Yeah, those those games were amazing. So I'm just gonna kind of lump them all together The first half life is the next one. I think of which was really good The the subsequent half-lifes even though they had better technology, you know The graphics were better and everything just the story was not nearly as good as the first half-life Um, but you know, they were there. All right, but the first half life was really good I really enjoyed that where you go you go to this Alien world where things are weird and it was there was a lot of weirdness. I I thought that was pretty cool Although doom is pretty amazing that's that's old and uh, let me see There were some old nintendo games. I liked a lot. I like I like a lot of the older games That relied more on like story and imagination like they had to figure out a way to make things interesting when there was when there weren't Huge amounts of resources going into the graphics. So when there weren't crazy amazing graphics, they really had to to to be creative and imaginative to figure out how to make the games fun and I really like those kind of games and You know the ultimate games are like that like they're they're pretty old at this point like ultimate three it's just like it's just like I mean the graphics are I don't want to say the graphics are bad because the graphics were pretty cool. It's just very pixeled And nothing in real time or anything um But yeah, it's just the the story and the gameplay and everything was really really engaging and interesting And uh another one I think about is um Wing commander I have not played that in a long time because I don't have a I don't have the right joystick I also don't have the game. Oh what another game I just thought of is uh Dragon strike. I loved that game when I was a kid. Um That was a pretty cool game. It was like a you know a first person Like a flight simulator, but you're you're flying on a dragon. It was pretty cool I like I liked a lot of flight sim simulators when I was a kid I don't know just because I don't know. They're just they're just fun X-wing tie fighter now. I've gone to like 10 different video games. Sorry, but yeah, that's some pretty good stuff my favorite probably my favorite old nintendo video game is this game called crystalis And maybe maybe in there I'd also throw the guardian legend and I I played those games once in a while to My favorite my favorite final final fantasy is the first one although I haven't played them all but I I Played a little bit of other one here and there but my favorite one is Final fantasy. Oh tomaters is here. Hi guys. I made it. How you doing tomaters? um let's see Be interesting to see how much energy it needs is that the lumber now Can't you make your own blade? Okay, this is about the lumber mill. Yeah. Yeah, I could make my own blade for lumber mill, but I don't know that I'm going to make one with carbide tips And the the blades are pretty cheap And uh, yeah, I mean I could also make my own um bandsaw blades But still I'm gonna have to you know sharpen it all the time and stuff Blue loctite is liable to be on the wish list for all the bolts Or fingernail polish blue loctite. I'm gonna write that down blue loctite. I don't know I don't I'm not sure if my bolts are gonna shake loose. I guess I guess I'll just have to keep an eye on it at the beginning and see how it goes Cool. Tomaters has a question Did you use all the stainless steel bolts? I bought you on your wish list No, I've not used them all but That's what's going into the lumber mill. Oh, I love having I love having stainless steel bolts nuts and bolts around so I always have more than I need Because I mean obviously if you get to the last one then you're screwed. So I have not used all of them, but I have used them. I am using them for sure. Yes Thank you for sending me some stainless steel bolts and nuts. That was yes Oh Giant oak says sadly I'm average oak, but I can dream. Hey man oak oak is good Regardless of the size Love the saw project. Yes. Hey it froze again I I have to admit it is a little bit funny every time the camera freezes You know, sure it's an annoying thing But now it's kind of becoming a game like what stupid face is it going to freeze me off? you know So you either need a wind powered pvc pipe was With check or a regular air compressor that runs off solar. This is to to make a Floating and sinking dock Yeah, something Although there's there's a dock. I think I'm going to make before that one, which is just a floating dock like a styrocrete dock um Yeah, I know I know totally how I would make that and it would be useful um So on my island there are two places that I go to swim Not counting like going out in the boat to swim. So I have this this little beach, which is a little sandy beach And it's it's sandy for a little bit, but then it pretty quickly gets kind of mushy and like, you know seagrass and stuff And then it's shallow seagrass Pretty far So, you know, it's not it's not good for like deep diving or anything But then on another side of my island there's a spot where I can walk out and it very quickly drops off So that that side's great for for you know jumping in and you know swimming deeper and stuff And on that deeper side. I want to I want to make uh floating dock That you know basically makes it so I can go from the land to the deep water Without having to walk through the the mushy So I want to I kind of want to do that soon Uh, let's see Thanks dandy valve for the welfare check I am still kicking strong excellent Rainwater powered air compressor Well, the rainwater powered air compressor Would be tricky when it's not raining But yeah Have you ever thought about oh, I bet I have whatever it is. I bet I've thought about it Oh, yeah, have you ever thought about pumping water to the top of your hill? Oh, no Uh, you know what's annoying is if I How do you get the The comment here to not disappear because they they keep fading so I have to keep touching it Anyway, have you ever Thought about pumping water to the top of your hill to a holding tank during the times you have lots of sun And then basically using it as a you know a battery and having water come down and run a turbine Well, I've I have thought about that But I've thought about more just having a pond on the top of the hill that'll fill with rainwater and then Have you know to coming down to a generator and then just a valve I can open and just yeah Charge up the batteries anytime I want or Yeah, just just run things from that sometimes Um, which I'm considering doing The thing is it's not that big up on top of the hill and I'm flattening it out to make a nice field and I want I definitely want to put one Building up there not a big building or anything, but I want to put one building on one side And even with the a little building there, there's enough space to like play frisbee, you know have some soccer football games Maybe some volleyball Although I feel like the ball is going to get lost off the hill too often But like there's there's enough space to play catch and you know do some sporty stuff But if I put a pond up there as well That's going to take up a big chunk of the area up there and I kind of want to have A like just a grassy field where I can run around with my kids and stuff So I don't know but I am thinking about it. I could definitely put a pond up there And it is definitely a possibility Yeah Is the saw project mobile will you move it by boat? No, I want to I want to put the saw somewhere and just leave it there Although theoretically I could put it on my my biggest boat Well, I could put it on my medium-sized boat, but I thought I was going to do it I would put it on my biggest boat And I could just have it attached on that and use it on that But no the at least the thinking I'm I'm doing right now is that I want to have The lumber mill set up in one spot and bring logs to it For various reasons You know, I mean one of them Is that I want to have All the sawdust like I want to get all the sawdust on my land and use it in gardens and stuff like that Basically use that as landfill Have it turn into dirt Oh Jamie What is I don't know what the symbol is something in from malta watching from malta Hello, Frederick Must log out have a great day everyone adventure builders for life Have a have a good day, uh, mr. Landfill. He told me Why his name was mr. Landfill. I forgot now it's because He went to the landfill. I don't remember. I bet someone in here remembers He told us like last week or the week before Hope all as well nice work on that mill so far very promising. Yeah, it's going really well so far Your creation inventing and allowing your children to participate in the process is outstanding to say the least Well, thank you. Yeah, I think my kids are having a great time. Oh man wing commander was awesome Was that a great game? Oh, I love that game. That was really good I didn't play the later ones, but like the original wing commander and maybe like the second one Really good You can play a lot of those old games on pie emulators. Yeah, totally like raspberry here. Look at emulation station and retro pie a game I've been playing recently is mech warrior two and mech warrior two mercenaries and Like it's a game. I played when I was a kid and I liked it. So I was like, well, let me just play it whenever I'm You know hanging around and I need a break and that's that's the way I usually do Video games like that. Like if I'm working on stuff all day And you know, I've been like like going for like three hours and then I get to a point where I'm like, oh Okay, I got to stop here and figure out what the next things sometimes I'll just be like, well, let me play a video game for like 10 minutes and just kind of kind of clear my my mental palette sort of, you know So I started playing mech warrior two a little bit And my my son and my middle daughter Are totally into it anytime I turn it on. They're like, whoa Do camera views so we can see the robot walking around. Oh, they love the giant robots And that makes it, you know, twice as fun. They're all like, you know, tell me which which blasters I should use and how I should Organize the robot and I'm like, I don't know. Maybe we should put more heat sinks. Oh, no, you're right. You're right let's put more heat sinks and They're making all these Lego Robots, where is it? Okay. Let me let me get one of their Lego robots. It's pretty cool. Give me a second This one's come apart a little bit. Let me just put its head back on. Okay, check this out I mean, it looks better when it's standing because it gets its legs Doing the doing the right thing like check that out. It's uh, this one I don't remember what they said this one was it was one of the one of the one of the big robots from from mech warrior, you know, it's got like A claw grabber here and some kind of some kind of blaster over here Check that out, man. Hold on. I still hold it still So the camera can catch up yeah, so My kids have been super into that And so that makes it twice as fun because I know that anytime they come and watch They watch the the video game of oh, did this freeze again? Nice So anytime they watch the video game of these giant robots I know they're just gonna get inspired to go grab their Lego and build more of these Giant robot things these mechs So anything that inspires people to anything that inspires my kids to be creative. I I I totally get more into it That's cool to hear jamie Yell when you need more. Oh my gosh. I can never get enough stainless steel bolts. No, I'm I'm good right now Oh, yeah I'm not surprised about the ultimate choice. Yeah Ultimate those are really good games I feel like there are some parallels between the adventure builder club And the ultimate series way of picking your character alignment. Yes so In the ultimate games ultimate one two and three were just kind of like kind of like standard ish Dungeons and dragons kind of like turned into video games kind of things And then a lot of parents were complaining that ultimate three and the early are ultimas we're not teaching good lessons. So Uh, you know, it was it was valuable to be a thief and to steal things like it really helped you in the game So The guy who made the the games richard gary it he got together with a friend or something I don't remember what the I got this whole story at some point, but they decided to make ultimate four based around this Ideology And I know the whole thing because I played the video game got through it and you you learn you learn this ideology and you have to you have to play with The right morality or you can't finish the games And it was totally amazing and that was one of the big inspirations for You know my philosophies that ends up turning into the adventure builders club Pinwheel turbine I re I recommend the wait. Oh, sorry I commented on one of your lumber mill videos. I recently watched a video that had pretty compelling arguments evidence that Split lock washers are actually of negative value Well, the thing is the split split lock washers They're useful if you want to keep some some springy pressure on something But in a situation where it could move a little I don't know I'm sure I often don't use split lock washers Yeah, maybe I should I don't know I feel like I have a pretty good grip on those and I can yeah They can definitely be of negative value in a lot of circumstances I've heard that solar panels get less productive when they get hot. Yeah Is it worth it to rig a water trickle cooling thing? I don't think so I think that's just going to be more complication than it's worth But you know if someone wants to try it, I wouldn't stop them I use fake face freeze during video chats that get boring Paul Elkins made a giant pinwheel. Maybe a good generator. Oh Also, Half-Life one is definitely in my top three as well. It's such an awesome game. Yeah So in Half-Life one there's like it's it's interesting for a while because you got to like battle your way out of this destroyed laboratory and it's a huge complex And you you're kind of like underground and almost like you're left for dead And you got to fight your way out and you go through all this crazy stuff And then finally like you get to a point where you're you you're teleporting to where all these monsters are coming from And when you actually get through the teleporter you just end up in this crazy world that's just Weird and then there's this big thing that comes it attacks you and it spits spiders at you and it's just like What is going on? Yeah, that was like the coolest part of the game when I just got there. It was like, oh, it's so weird I think I played that part like a dozen times Just because I was like, oh I want to play that part again They either compress completely useless or don't and that's contribute to slowly working bolt loose. Oh, so this is split lock washers. Yeah Exactly build a water tower. Well I don't I don't really need a water tower because my the water tank for my house is On a hill that's high enough that I get gravity feed from it. So I guess it's sort of like a water tower just surrounded by dirt And then I guess if I build a A pond on the top of my hill. I guess That is sort of a water tower. It's just that tower is made out of water And now I'm starting to think more and more of that Making a pond up at the top of the hill would be would be worth it Like if I put a pond Right in the middle of the top of the hill then we could still run around the pond And there was this There was this pond or this this swimming pool. I didn't even know what to call it this water place It was it was that bronte creek in ontario and we used to go there And there was this swimming pool. I don't even know if you can call it a swimming pool It was like it was like a like a pond like an artificial pond and it was huge like enormous I don't even know how big this thing is Because I've not seen it as an adult but acres I mean just like a like a big artificial pond And it was lined with concrete like like like swimming pool And people go there and swim and have an amazing time And one of the really nice things is that You know, it was it was concrete that sloped down So you had like you just walked into the water and it it very gradually got deeper And so it was easy for for little kids to play in the the shallow zone But then you go you keep going toward the middle and it gets deeper and deeper It was yeah, that thing was I had so much fun there. It was really cool So I could make a little version of that Like just a pond up on the top of the hill You know dig it out to be a nice shape where you could where you can walk down into the water Line it with concrete make sure it's rough enough that you keep keep grip on your feet But not not rough enough that you're gonna get scratch yourself And you know, I wouldn't be able to make it like really deep in the middle or anything If I want to be able to be like walk into it, but it would be pretty sweet And then have a drain in the bottom Where a pipe comes down to a generator at the bottom And then I don't even have to have it filled all the time Because I wouldn't want to leave it filled all the time because I don't want to put chlorine and stuff in it You know to keep stuff out I also don't want to have some huge complicated I don't want to have a complicated thing to have to deal with like to keep the water good or whatever So it rains here often enough that as long as I have the the field around it Kind of gently sloped toward it It would fill up Pretty easily with it with a decent rain And then you know, we could play in the in the pond for a day or two And then at some point if it seems like it's starting to starting to get whatever Mosquitoes are starting to go in it or whatever then just drain it and use it to charge up some batteries I feel like that would be a pretty cool thing All my kids would love that Make land in mangroves for your other products like For your other products like house play area The top of hill is for food I don't know that I want to I want to use the top of the hill definitely for some food, but I want to have I want to have some hangout zone up there because it's really nice at the top of the hill because it's It's like it's so open like you're above a lot of the trees and you can see super far Down here at the lower levels. It's nice too, but you are Kind of contained by the trees So it's a different experience So I definitely want to have some hanging out zone at the top of the hill And I want to I want to plant a lot of food On the sloping part of the hill. So I want to have the top of the hill Like a little sports area kind of and then A lot of the a lot of the land is sloping down. So From the top of the hill everywhere it slopes down. I want to plant all that with food Piloted his wheelbarrow to landfill because you inspired him IIrc in What is IIrc? I forgot Okay question. What is the swing? High and low of your tide, okay, could the energy be trapped for a floating dock Okay, the the tide here goes up and down roughly two feet Maybe a little two and a half feet. I mean like less than a meter. Maybe a yeah less than a meter On the pacific side of Central America, it's like Almost two stories. I mean is a the tide goes up and down way more But here in the Caribbean it doesn't go up and down that much I could probably find a way to use that tide to Like Operate a floating sinking dock in some way Which I just thought of a couple mechanical ways I could do it, but yeah I create a game where the cyclist gets Even on motorists. Oh, no, I don't know what that means. I create a game where the cyclist gets Gets Even on motorists. I'm not sure what that means. Did you see the Hexmas laze giant hex robot out of you instantly? Yeah, we were talking about that earlier. Someone said it didn't turn out that good I don't know. That is a pretty sweet mac robot. Yeah, I know that that lego thing. That's cool they have a they have a whole bunch of mac robots and It's funny. They each kind of have their own styles of building them like that one is my My 10 year olds And my four year old also builds mechs, but he builds them totally differently and I don't know if I There's they're around but he makes them shorter. They're they're stockier and at first I just I thought he was making one of the one of the stockier ones because there's Some of the robots the novos they're they're short and wide But he's like no, this is a This is a hell bringer, which is like a tall guy and I'm like why I'm so short That's that's all I make it So it's a sort of like all his versions are like a cartoony Shrunking down like short and wide version of them. And it's it's pretty funny Let's see Quite a few studies that were set out to prove that video games are bad Influence and children's education turned out to show the opposite. Yeah, so video games I mean like a lot of things Like so much of the world we have today can be used in a positive way or a negative way depending on what you're doing so if you spend like 12 hours a day playing video games, obviously that's going to be a bad thing because it's You're not going to get any exercise. You're going to forget to eat like your health is going to go down the toilet, right? But if you use video games as something to like kind of like spur your imagination And kind of motivate you in various ways Then it's a very positive thing. So it really depends on on how you do it When I was a kid I played video games and I learned a lot from video games One of the things I learned a lot from like role-playing games was Like how to handle resources Like you end up in situations where it's like you have ways of getting getting gold Getting gold coins and you have things you want to spend it on and you have to think about How you're going to arrange this to get the the stuff you really want because you don't want to waste time on the The intermediary steps of what you kind of want you really want to get So, you know, there's a lot of just thinking about how to deal with what ended up being how to deal with money And because I learned that stuff playing video games When I got to the point where I was like, okay, I want to save money so I can buy land and go off grid It was like just very obvious. It was very easy. I was like, yeah, I've done this in video games I know how to Do what I need to do to get the money and then save it and you know, whatever And then another thing is one of the reasons I really liked Like flight simulators and like, you know action games is because it really gets your You know, it teaches you a good coordination and all that But then another thing it teaches you is persistence So in a lot of video games, you know that are kind of hard or whatever, you know, you have to learn something And it doesn't matter what you're learning in this case, you know You're just learning to push the button at the right time whatever or aim the joystick Isn't some great skill to learn But learning to learn the skill That's the really valuable thing And this is something that a lot of kids lose Today because they have so many video games and they have like 150 video games So they'll play one video game for like 30 seconds. It gets hard Ah, let's get rid of that one. Let's put a new game in and they just jump from game to game to game Never getting involved But when I was a kid it was like you get one video game And that's all you're getting for like six months like you you get that video and that's it So you play it for like 10 minutes and it's hard. It's like, ah But you don't have anywhere else to go. You can go do something in real life But if you want to play a video game This is the video game you're playing. So then you have to like develop this persistence this stubbornness. There's uh Determination and say okay This is hard and I can't get through it, but I'm I'm gonna keep trying. I'm gonna learn I'm gonna figure it out and that learning that level of determination is something you can definitely do in video games If you do it the right way Oh, you think you'll be able to sell sawn lumber. Yeah Sure, I mean, that's not why I'm making the lumber mill, but yeah, I could I could sell Lumber lumber if I wanted to yeah Yeah, a pond with sweet little fish. Okay, so if I do a pond with little fish, then I can't drain the pond all the way for sure Um, that is also a consideration now. I mean Is that a consideration or a possibility is one of one of the options I'm thinking about But I'm still, you know, pretty far away from making a pond so You know, I have some time to figure that out. Well now one advantage to having fish Is that I could then do Like a fish what's it called fish hydroponic kind of thing Where, you know, the fish water feeds the plants and then the plants can feed the fish Instead of a bond a pond you could build a swell A ditch built on contour Of the hillside. Oh I need to look up what a swell is Okay, let's see a ditch built on on contour on the hillside And then just have like like kind of a pond on the side of the hill Anyway Child services are an integral tool for the state's ability to suppress its population. Yeah, totally if Don't even get me started on that Like whenever I whenever I talk about how parents Should be responsible for their own children The obvious argument is always like what if they're doing it wrong? I mean like yeah, but you you can't You can't Set all the rules based on the fact that something might go wrong You have to base your rules around the idea that things can go right so if Just because Some parents are going to do a terrible job and kids are going to end up in these horrible situations That doesn't mean you should destroy all parenting for everyone, right? Because sure you're saving a couple kids at the expense of all the rest of them Like there's got to be better ways to I could I could go on about this for a while and it's it's Complicated problem. We need like an hour to get into it all A water tank would create more pressure Well than a pond. I mean if I if I put the water tank up higher than yeah, but Okay hydroponics food, I'm not sure if you want to go there But what are the dimensions of your island and how much? Flat habitat percentage versus woodland or hillside, etc How big is the hilltop you mentioned once flat the hilltop? Maybe half an acre Ish, maybe not even that big Maybe like I don't know Obviously depends on how much I end up flattening out But let's let's say a quarter acre or so somewhere around that is Is what I want to flatten out at the top And the whole island like this island and my little one right there, which is connected Couple acres, I don't know It's uh, I mean my I don't know I'd have to double check It's big enough that I could conceivably grow all my own food here if I was Very deliberate about it Although I don't need to because I have some other land But yeah, that's that's a rough estimate. I'd have to check the survey to really get a good idea I haven't thought about how big it is in a while. Oh, yes, and please use metric for this answer if possible Oh, Frederick brinkrat. I already answered the question before um, well an acre is like 4 000 square meters and a hectare is 10 000 square meters. So a hectare would be the metric Measurement so less than a hectare Does that help? Oh IIRC is if I recall correctly IIRC if I recall correctly, right The cyclists get fed up with bad motorists. So the game will be a shooter game Bye-bye bad motorists Yes monkey island someone so I have that, you know, I have a friend who came to who moved here recently Like a few months ago now and he keeps telling me about this this video game called monkey island that I need to Play And he's like you've never played monkey island. I can't believe it You need to play it. So and I do remember when I was a kid I saw the advertisement for monkey island, but yeah, I never played it. So maybe Maybe I need to look into monkey island. It was in 80s Oh, I was an 80s space shooter often play a game Dude, Jesper you need to work on your typing It's hard to understand what you're trying to say to me Okay, you like 80 space shooter games At the swimming leisure center. Okay, I think I'm getting what you're saying Never had much money to go to arcades aquaponics. Oh, that's the word I'm looking for. Yeah aquaponics Do any saltwater fish spawn in your stream? Um Probably but I don't see many fish in the stream, but like I'm on an island. So there are fish around And I haven't been fishing a lot lately I mean, sometimes I do though and I eat the fish and my kids love fish. So Questions speaking of parenthood Doing things wrong. Did you see hacksmith hex hexapod video? No Wait, is that the one they got it walking but it but had structural failure. Okay. Yeah, I Well, it was like a half hour video and it didn't seem like it was going to be that interesting to me based on the first Like 30 seconds. So I kind of skipped through it real quick And uh, yeah, I didn't really watch it But now people are telling me about that Okay, it's swales not swales. You won't get the right search result. Otherwise Swales Okay, I'll look up swales Figure out what that means How's the bridge going? Oh, yes Get the saw finished then get on with the bridge. Well the bridge I have to get I have to get some video of it But that's what I've been working on with my kids, you know the digging Where I I starve my children Because I'm so neglectful and I make them dig dirt. Yeah, they've been helping me with the bridge So I have not been working on that when they're not here I only work on the bridge when my kids are here and we all work on it together And it's going pretty well Well, I better I better hurry up and shut up because I've got Uh, I've been talking for like an hour and 46 minutes So maybe 15 more minutes So let's try to get through some of these a little faster The original creators of monkey island made one more game to close out the series Recently and it's very very very good. All right. I'm gonna have to like I'll just put plus one Return to monkey island. Oh return Return to monkey island Oh That sounds like a lot of land You've got all your life set with projects and awesome possibilities. Amazing. Well, yeah, I mean, I have so many things to do and Every time I finish something I just think of like five other things to do There's so much to do Larry flint game Even more funny I'm a research and development guy i.e. I love puzzles and design constraints I loved your hexapod series and continue to watch just for your design vids. Thank you. Well, you're very welcome Yeah, that's that's actually one of the things that I really like about building things out of Scrap like having a you know a scrap pile or some people call it an opportunities pile Because you know if you can just if you just have like a billion dollars and can buy anything you want It's it's one thing, you know It's kind of easy to make stuff that way, but if you have like a pile of Of scrap it's it's just really fun to figure out how it goes together to make the thing you want to make It also it kind of helps define a lot of the A lot of the parameters that don't really have to have certain specifications You know, then you just you just make those defined by whatever materials there are If you ever get a chance Play no man's sky. I believe it's on ps4. I totally do not have a ps4 Lucas games eck ack. Oh, I don't know what that means Thanks for your time. Good sir. You're very welcome I never played monkey island, but everyone I knew at school My I think you're saying that everyone did play at school my my favorite point in click game Was grim fandango. Did you ever play it? I never played grim fandango. Is that Is that good? I always wondered if earthworms could help a garden so near the salt water and raised beds. Yeah, totally There are earthworms all over the place here. Well, I shouldn't say all over the place here, but in the in the ground And then the salt water doesn't come up on the land And I've heard a lot of people say things like if you're on an island, you're going to get salt spray all the time But I'm in a protected area like like I'm kind of in a Like this big cove sort of I mean like a huge cove like the the archipelago of islands where I am is protected from the open sea by I Partly by just like mainland that goes around it and then partly by whatever the last island is so There's a there's an island next to me. That's a big island like it's miles On the other side of that island It gets a lot of waves, but here I don't really get you know salt spray coming up on the island or anything Oh, let's see terracing your hillside wouldn't be a lot of work Uh, you don't shy away from that and maximizes flat arable land area. Yeah, so I I may at some point terrace Well, I guess I kind of did terrace some of the land over there where I made the where I made the path going up But I may terrace the The slopes some more to plant more You know ground plants So far I've mostly just been focusing on planting trees. So I don't have to I don't have to terrace the land to plant trees on it But uh, yeah, I'll I'll probably do some terraces at some point Dude Dude like totally like limited resources make for some really gritty design. Yeah, like totally dude Necessity is the mother invention. Oh no. Oh no, you you did not you did not just catchphrase me Did you just catchphrase me with necessity is the mother of invention? I absolutely disagree people say that a lot But the thing is we don't actually need any of this stuff We could live like cavemen and be perfectly happy So I would not say that necessity is the mother of invention. I would say more like, uh Ambition or imagination or or stubbornness or things like that are the mother of invention, but like yeah When things get invented they should they're generally not Actually needed It's be people invent things because they they want to because they're interested in in doing more But you you don't need to do more Anyway, uh, love it getting away from their perfectionism That's our cultural norm is lovely on my days off. Yeah. Yeah, totally Monkey and salting tactics You gotta work on your typing again. Oh, Jesper it's you again You need to work on your typing. You must be typing on a tablet insult sword fighting escape from monkey island. I watch The long plays and my four never happened. I don't know what you're talking. This is all in the game. Thanks, jamey Paul Robinson says pardon me. Was that who I was just giving crap about the necessity is the mother of invention Yeah, um, don't worry Not a thought or anything and you shouldn't be there. Everything's cool Laziness is the father of invention Um, yeah, yeah, I could say that's A possibility because a lot of things people invent are to make it so you can be more lazy, which is I think the worst inventions Necessity that's a big word. I need a dictionary. Necessity is a big word. I think it gets overused Laptop bad. I say oh, okay. Jesper says yes. He just says bad. I'd say that's why he's typing. He's bad Well, I'll I'll do my best to to read sloppy typing anyway Well, I think I think I've actually made it to the end of the end of comments Let's just reset the comments and make sure they're actually Where'd they go? Oh my god. They're gone comments are gone. No one can say anything else anymore Oh, there you go Are we home yet? Tomander says why why are my comments disappeared? Okay, whatever. Yes. I must go feed my sheep. Oh, you have sheep. I totally want to get sheep Yeah, but I'm not I'm not ready for animals yet. I still need to plant lots of food Thank you for all your endless videos. All right. Well, I think we're on the The goodbye and everyone have a marvelous day part of the uh Part of the live So I'm gonna go and see if I can do something productive with the rest of my day And I hope everyone else has an excellent productive day. And yes Stay safe and see you next week And I hope everyone has a great day Okay, over and out. I'm overnighting Working in harmony with nature is the best way to invent new products Yes, gotta get on with the saw great lighting. Yeah, it's so much better when I put this up to vlog All that Light behind me. Okay. I'm gonna get out of here. See if I can do something with this lumber mill or I need to go eat something I didn't eat yet today. All right. I am out of here. Everyone have a wonderful day