 All right. It's pretty good. All right. Hmm. All right. This thing should be working by now. Nobody's here yet, of course. Okay. So today I don't have any like big thing I wanted to talk about. Usually I have some kind of idea of what I want to talk about. So I'm just going to talk about some things, some kind of small things that I've been going on lately. Hey, what's going up? What's going on, Pete? Okay. So lately I've been working on this second floor. Oh, you can see some, some garbage bags full of Styrofoam. That's first from Styrocrete. That's up on the second floor. But the second floor goes most of the way around the house now. This section isn't done in the few there. All the floor boards aren't in yet or anything. You know, I still have to work on that. But anyway, what I've been doing a lot. Is taking a chainsaw out to the jungle and cutting wood. And it's a lot of hard work. It's a lot of hard work mentally and physically, you know, carrying this chainsaw. And I got to move the boards around doing all this, all this like mentally and physically challenging stuff, right? And then to get the wood here, I got to drive my boat over there. And if luckily it's high tide, I can get the boat like right up to the land. And that means I only have about a quarter mile between the boat and the wood. And if it's not high, if it's not high tide, well, I got to park a little further out like 100 meters further out. Because I don't want to weigh down the boat and have it get stuck, right? So then I have to carry the stuff like 500 meters. So anyway, I'm carrying all these heavy boards and some of them are like 200 pounds or so. And I'm putting them on my back and just like marching along for a quarter mile through the jungle. And you know, on this path that goes up and down, there's hills to go up and there's stuff to step over. You know, I got to duck under a branch once in a while. This is really strenuous, right? So I've been doing just like kind of a ridiculous amount of exercise lately. And you know, ever since I was 30 years old, people started saying, it's all downhill from here. And it's all, you know, but by the time you hit 30 points, you got nothing, you got nothing but downhill. So it's good that you're in good shape now because you know, you're just going to start collapsing and falling apart after this. And people have been telling me that ever since I was 30, 35, it's all downhill from here. Oh, you're 40. Oh, it's all downhill from here. 45. Okay. I'm 48 right now. I'm almost 50, right? People have been telling me for the last 20 years that it's all downhill from here. But for the last three or four weeks, like I'm like about the last month, I've been doing just like ridiculous amounts of like manual labor and like tons of exercise. I still do my morning exercises and I always make sure I do stretches in the evening. Because I know that if you don't do stretches in the evening, you know, you wake up and you're all tight the next day. But if you do some good stretches every evening, you know, you can keep going and going and going. Anyway, I gotta say, I feel freaking amazing. It's like, like the more hard work I do, the better I feel. Look, check out, check out these muscles, man. Oh, yeah. That's just from like doing stuff. I feel incredible. Like if you ask me how I feel now compared to how I felt like two months ago, I wasn't in bad shape or anything. I wasn't in pretty good shape. But I just wasn't doing this ridiculous amount of stuff, right? Like the kind of stuff that people tell you you can't do when you get older. You know, people have been telling me ever since I moved off grid. I actually did that when I was about 30, you know, like 29 or something. They're like, oh, when you move off grid, there's a lot of manual labor and a lot of stuff you got to do. When you start getting older, you can't do that kind of stuff. So you're going to have to, you know, hire people and get tractors and blah, blah, blah. Like getting machines and you know, just kind of, you got to make it so you can relax in your old age. But man, I have not been finding that at all. Now maybe, maybe I'm just a weird unusual specimen, but I don't think that's what it is. I think I'm just kind of a normal person. And everyone has this same characteristic where if you actually keep doing things like keep doing strenuous things with your body, it doesn't start, you know, getting all old on you. And I'm not talking about the hair. You know, I got the old guy hair and the gray beard and you know, got some wrinkles in there and stuff. But I'm not talking about that stuff. That's just the superficial stuff. I'm talking about like the heart and the lungs and the muscles and the bones and the stuff that does the stuff. I think what happens a lot of time and partly like I've experienced this, you know, as we get older, we just stop doing stuff. And partly it's because, you know, you just want to relax after you do your nine to five job or you know, you go to school for a whole bunch of years and get used to sitting there and you know, doing what you're told and not moving around a lot, not doing all this physical stuff. And then you just kind of get used to it, you know, kind of, kind of give in. And you know, people will do sports when they're younger. But as they get older, it's like, oh, I'm not really getting anything out of this. You know, you get a little injury and it's like, well, the injury is not really worth it because whatever. And then people say, ah, you know, you just got to relax and then you won't have to deal with this kind of injury stuff. And then there's just so many reasons and so many bits of peer pressure and all kinds of pressure. You know, just do less, just do less and less and less as you get older, do less. But man, presuming I'm pretty much like everyone else, do more, do more baby. The more you do, the better you feel. And man, I've had situations where, you know, one time I got a pretty bad injury when I was about like, I don't know, 25-ish. And I couldn't run for seven months. That's probably the worst I've ever felt in my life when I was like, that year when I couldn't run and I got, I wouldn't even say I got in terrible shape. I was still doing push-ups and upper body stuff, but I had, you know, leg injury. Both my legs were, you know, not like I was crippled, but I couldn't run. So I just couldn't be as active as I wanted to be. And then it took a lot of effort to get back into it. And that was the oldest I have felt in my whole life. Other than that, I've always been active and always done a lot of stuff. And right now, like if you asked me two months ago, if I could handle all the work I'm doing right now, like all this carrying of wood and, you know, cutting with the chainsaw and like moving all this heavy stuff, I would have been like, man, I don't know. I don't know if I can do it. And I was even thinking maybe I should just, maybe I should hire people. You know, I almost, I came pretty close to just buying all the wood and having it delivered. Man, am I ever glad I didn't do that stupid idea? And, man, I just feel super physically good having, you know, having done all this difficult manual labor. And I have a whole bunch left. I haven't even carried maybe, I've carried maybe a quarter of the wood that I've cut in the jungle out of the jungle to here. I still have tons more to carry. And that's the hardest part of the job is carrying it out of there. But man, it feels amazing doing all this stuff. And what was the other thing I wanted to talk about? So maybe I did have some stuff I wanted to talk about, even though I said I didn't. Okay, another thing that is been, well, this is another thing that's been kind of amazing, actually. And this is something I was aware of. But man, it's like sometimes you think about something and you're like, yeah, that's a good idea. That's going to be pretty cool. But then you actually do it. And it's like, whoa, I didn't even realize how amazing this would be. I mean, I understood kind of in a logical, rational way. But now that I'm actually doing it, I'm getting all the feel goods. Like all the irrational, I'm getting all the emotions of goodness. And that is like doing stuff without money. So right now I'm taking all these boards that I cut out of the jungle with a chainsaw. When I cut them in the jungle, I mostly just cut them into strips. Well, I cut the whole log right down the middle. So it wouldn't, because they always crack down the middle. But anyway, once I get it into the halves, I just cut them into strips. So you know, like boards of like varying widths and get them over here. And then I've been taken up to my lumber mill up behind my house and cutting them. And it is so awesome to take a board up to the lumber mill, turn the stupid thing on, know that I'm not using any fuel. There's nothing, there's no, there's no money coming after me. There's no, there's no bills to pay for it. It's like it's got the solar panels up there and the motor and the lumber mill. And I just turned on and it freaking works. It just works. And I can, I can use that thing all day. And I haven't used any fuel. Obviously at some point there's going to be some kind of, you know, maintenance, wear and tear, whatever. But like it's so cool to not be relying on money constantly for everything. And to be able to do something big that would cost a lot of money to, you know, cut all this wood. I'd calculated to build my second floor. The minimum I would need to spend was like $1,500. And that was like not really the strength of floor that I would want in this house. And that was just the second floor. Forget the third floor. To build the floor that I'm actually building it'll be like three or $4,000. That I don't have to spend instead I just do it. And it's like, just being self-sufficient in that way. It's such a cool feeling. And the same thing, you know, with all my vehicles, all my boats and stuff. Whenever I want to get in a boat and drive, I just get it in and drive. I don't have to worry about gasoline or, you know, where I'm going to fuel up or whatever. No, it's just, it's always charged. If it's been parked in the sun, it's charged. It's ready to go. And it's funny that so many people talk about how like solar power isn't, isn't viable. You know, it's just not good enough. I don't know how these people are using it, but it is awesome. So maybe I guess the big problem people often have with solar power or that kind of thing is that they don't get the power. Like at any moment they want it at any moment, you know. As long as you can get over that, that just, I want it now instantly. If you can, if you can stop being a baby like that and work with, with the world, I mean solar power is amazing. So what I do when I'm, when I'm cutting boards on the lumber mill, I have all the boards in my house. Now I could take them all up there and then just cut them all at once, right. And that would mean I'd have to have the saw going running constantly, constantly. Or I can just think, well, I've got a solar powered lumber mill. And now I've got batteries on it, by the way, I put batteries on it. I don't know if I put that in the video yet. But anyway, I've got batteries on the lumber mill, right. So what I do is I just take one board up and I cut that. And then, and then I come back down and while I'm coming back down here to get another board and carrying it back up, the stupid thing is charging. And by the time I get back up, back up there, it's back to full charge. Because I only used a little bit of electricity, gave it a minute to recharge a couple minutes while it's getting the next board. Like all you have to do is just, just be sensible and not, not be, not fight the system. Like, yeah, not fight your own system, you know, not fight nature. If you work with nature, solar power is fricking amazing. It's awesome. And like, sure, I don't, I don't want to go, you know, if I, if I really need to go somewhere in the middle of the night, it's going to be super annoying because I'm not going to be charging my boat as I'm driving. But, you know, I have batteries and go for a while. But like, why would I need to go somewhere in the middle of the night besides a hospital? Okay, there might be certain circumstances possible. But then, and then I just run off the batteries. But like, all I have to do is plan my life around when, when the sun is going to be out, which is the best time to do things anyway. You know, even like, when I was a kid, I used to spend a lot of time awake at night. But that was because, you know, I didn't like people and people were super annoying and irritating. My family was driving me nuts. So I'd always be awake at night. But, you know, ever since living off grid, it just totally makes sense to be awake in the, in the daytime and sleep when it's dark. You know, I'll be awake for a little bit of the dark. But like, you know, just, just work with, with the, with the environment around you. And so many things come together and make sense and just, just work really well. Anyway, what else would I have to talk about? Yeah, it's just really cool to be able to, to be self-sufficient enough to do a lot of things without, without money. And it's going to be really awesome when I have enough food growing. Because then it'll be like, I could just be here and just never have to interact with the rest of the world at all. And the important part of that is never have to. It doesn't mean I can't or won't. But if I do, it's because I want to, you know, like, I just think that's going to be a super cool thing when I have enough food growing that I don't have to interact with the world. Like, anytime I interact with the rest of the world, it's because I want to. It's because I feel like it, because it seems like a good thing to do. So anyway, that's, that's what's been going on, on around here. Yeah, I'm feeling really physically good lately. My homestay, you have 9,800 watts of solar panels. That's awesome, man. And what do you do? You stay, you do all your high power stuff in the daytime when the sun's out, right? It's so simple. Like, there were plenty of times when I was off grid, or when I was not off grid, when I was on a grid. And I'd be like, oh, it's two in the morning and I feel like getting out some power tools and doing stuff. But I didn't have to do that in the middle of the night. And all you have to do is just adjust your schedule to meet nature, you know, not fight against it. Anyway, let's see what we go, what's going on here. Glad to see you doing all right. Second floor looking good. Yeah, man, the second floor is so cool being up there. I'm really excited for it to get done. Yeah, I still have some work, but it's going really, really well so far. In another day or two, I should have all the joists in or, you know, pretty much all the joists in. And then I need to bring all the floorboards and I'm just laying the floorboards. Well, you can see a couple of floorboards up there. Yeah, these guys up here. They're not cut to the width yet because the wood needs to dry first. The joists, you know, which are all the pieces going this way, all the pieces going this way that the floorboards sit on top of. All the joists, I'm not too worried about them being totally dry because they can shrink a little. It doesn't matter. But with the floorboards, I want to let them dry a little more because when they shrink, it's going to open up gaps between them. So I think I can, I think I'm going to be fine with some gaps, but not a lot. So I'll just, I'll just put the boards up there and let them dry for a while. Let's see. Jay, man, really liked your adventure virtues video. Thanks, man. You know, it's funny whenever I start talking about that stuff, I always get a lot of hate mail. It's really weird. Like, to me, it's one of the signs that the world is really screwed up. Like you talk about like people having good values, like you should have good values and then do be a good person and do good stuff. And then you get hate mail for it. Yeah, it's it. That's a bad sign, man. It's a really bad sign. But yeah, I want to do a whole bunch more adventure builder videos. You know, I didn't, I didn't talk about it for a while, just because I know it's, it's, to me, it's like a really important thing. I kind of feel like I need to, I need to be in the right kind of mental space to talk about it. Let's see. How was everyone, Mr. landfill? What's going on, man? I got the live from the beginning. How's it going, Kevin? Kevin Henson. I love your uncle's puppets. It's probably not your uncle, I know. Frederick, man, I haven't seen you for a while. It's been a while. Yeah. Since I got you live, but I never missed a video replay of your live streams. You're always so motivating and positively productive. Much love. Well, thanks, man. I can't say, I can't say I feel like I'm always being positively productive. But I do try to do my best. Maybe I don't do my best. Maybe I could actually do better. Yeah, I think I could actually do better. Anyway, I'm doing pretty good. Lois K. Old man strength is no myth. Yeah, old, old guys. It's funny, you know, people, people think that when you get old, you just start falling apart. And I think that's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you, if you think that you're, you're old, then you're old. And like I was saying, you know, maybe, maybe I'm some genetic freak or whatever, but I don't think so. I think I'm just like, not like the same pretty much physically as everyone else. And I have not felt that I'm getting old at all. And I can totally do all the stuff I've always been able to do. Let me think, is there something, well, I can't comb the top of my hair. I can't comb the top of my hair other than that. Well, I can still comb it. There's a little bit up there. But other than that, like I can do all the stuff I've always been able to do, you know. Actually, one thing that I'm like super excited about, I haven't really talked about this. Because, you know, it's, it's kind of like personal for me and no one else than necessarily care, but maybe someone will care. So during the year when I was building my house, I didn't really run at all. Like, I mean, I did a little bit of running, but mostly I was just kind of plotting along, carrying heavy stuff and just like going and going and just being exhausted and going. And when I got the house done, and sorry, not done, when I, when I got it to the point that I could move in, obviously it's not done. I still have these floors up here. But when I got to the point where I was like, okay, now I can take a break and actually breathe. You know, I was like, I got to start running again because I always feel, I always feel better when I'm, when I run, you know, on a regular basis. So I made the path around my house. There's just a concrete, just a concrete walkway. It's like maybe a meter or so wide and goes right around the outside of my house. And I calculated it. If I remember it was something like 38 laps around my house makes a mile or something. But anyway, I got, I got that done. And then I started running around it every morning. And at first I was just doing a mile and then slowly worked out. But pretty quickly, like, honestly, by the third day, my calves were just like knotting up. And I didn't make it through the whole first week even. And ever since then, I've been struggling to like rehab my calves. Because man, if you don't run for a while and this, this, this same thing happened all those years ago when I got injured and couldn't run for seven months, like same thing happened. But anyway, you know, my calves just couldn't handle running. They could handle running one day and maybe two days. But by the third day, it was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, we got to rest, we got to rest. So anyway, I've been working on, you know, stretching and doing like calf exercises and just all this stuff for like, I don't know, like the last year and a half, right. And kind of slowly making progress. And I would say in the last month, I'm feeling springy again, like bouncy, and not not only on a good date, but like all the time, which is so nice to get back into, you know, like, now I can run up the hill. Up to the lumber mill, like, like actually springy, you know, like, like, I don't know if you don't, if you don't run, you might not know what I'm talking about. But you know, like when you're, when you're, when you're real bouncy on your feet and you just run on the, run on the balls of your feet and you're all springy. And it's like, it's like, it feels like it takes half as much energy to go the same speed. And, you know, you can go real fast. And then, you know, jumping is good. And one of the exercises I've been doing lately that I think has helped a lot is jumping rope. So I've been jumping rope. And at first, oh, it was funny. I started, I don't know, months ago. At first I could jump rope, just normal, you know, hopping on two feet. And that was kind of pushing it, you know, you know, a few minutes of that. Okay, I got, I got a rest and let my, let my calves, you know, kind of like rest, but, you know, I kept slowly working up to it. And now I'm doing, well, I'll, I'll get my jump rope and I'll do 100 jump ropes. And then, you know, do some push-ups and then another 100 and then something else. But when I, when I do, and I'll do that 10 times, so I'll end up doing like 1000 jump ropes, right? But each time I do 100, I'll do 20, just like double foot hops. And then I'll do 20, hopping only on one foot. And then I'll do 20, just normal, like double, double foot hops. And then 20, just hopping on the other foot and then 20 normal ones again. And now I can do it like wearing my weight vest, which is like another 30 or 40 pounds. And, you know, it doesn't, it doesn't feel like I'm, like I'm pushing it, you know, it can do it easily, which is great. Yeah, I'm getting, I'm getting all my springiness back, which is, which is amazing. And, and honestly, when it, like a year and a half ago, when I, when I, when I really strained my calves, the thought went through my head. Oh, crap. Am I old now? Is that it? Am I old? And I think a lot of times we just give into that and think, oh, yeah, I guess I'm old and that's it. And it's a self-fulfilling prophecy, 100%. You give into it, you give into it. And if you don't, then you, you work through it and figure it out and then, then you're good. Of course, you know, eventually you're going to die either way, but I think. All right, well, that was a pretty long tangent there. Lambo Drives Hambo. Jamie, two funny, another Adventure Builder club member called me out on another unrelated live stream tied to my normal community. Adventure Builders Unite, 48 year two. Nice. Yeah, man, if we could, I still, I still have the dream of having a whole bunch of Adventure Builders living around me. You know, I've got like one or two, but it would be, I just feel like a community of like 100 Adventure Builders all living in close proximity could just do amazing things, especially like, you know, with, with society and civilization kind of slowly crumbling. And of course, there's a chance maybe it'll halt and start coming back, but I don't know, it looks like things are going downhill. Like a group of Adventure Builders could maintain like a high quality of life and maintain a lot of like knowledge and technical expertise and stuff to survive, you know, that kind of gradual collapse. Which, you know, you kind of have to have if you want to have if you want to bounce back. You do look phenomenally healthy. Well, thanks, man. It's funny. Someone, someone commented that when I was doing a video recently, the Adventure Builder values video that my eyes looked dead. But that was because I mean, I mentioned this last week, I was kind of having an allergic reaction to some, you know, like tree sap. I don't even know, do you call it an allergic reaction when it's like poison ivy? I think it's still called it. I think it's still an allergic reaction. Anyway, so my eyes were kind of puffy. Oh, by the way, I think I'm back to normal now. I can't really see because the lights, not that much light now, but yeah, my face isn't swollen anymore, which is great. Looking good, Jay. You give this 43 year old hope. Hey man, don't don't think you're old when you're 43. You're not old till you tell you accept it. Man, I'm like my plan is to go full speed right into the grave. I want to, I want to hit my coffin so hard I blow that thing to pieces. That would be great. Just splashes everywhere and like my skull and some arms flying around. That's it. Jamie, men have only, wait, men have only man strength until the, oh, shut up, 70, 75, then it just becomes not the same. Once you hit 50 and 60, Jamie, you'll start saying, damn, shut the, seriously, shut up, shut up. Oh my God, I just, I just said how ridiculous it was that the whole time, it's like people keep saying exactly what you're saying. Oh, you're going to slow it. Yeah, just shut up, shut up. Oh God, I can't stand that crap. Like, what is your brain thinking when you're saying that? Like when you're telling someone, oh, you're going to get old and fall apart. Fall down here. Like, what do you think that you're doing for the world in any part? Like, do you think you're doing anything useful? Oh, I'm just, I'm just, you know, I got your interest in mind. I want to, I want to make sure you know it's coming and you're ready for it. No, no, you know what? You're just spreading garbage. Just take that and shove it up your ass. Okay? That's the answer to that. Shove it up your ass. Like, don't spread that negative crap. There's it. There are enough obstacles, real obstacles to deal with, without like people like you throwing like bullshit obstacles at people and just telling them they can't do stuff. So then turn it around. Grow up. Grow up. Stop doing that. Jamie, weird. No way. Urban legend. Yeah. I know I'm weird. Jamie, you are built like a tank, but also some things are not sustainable into all shut up. No, no. Look, okay. Okay, that's why you have beautiful kids to help raise animals and make food and build buildings on the farm. Okay. Yeah. I want my kids to do all kinds of stuff, but that doesn't give me the excuse to say, oh, well, I'm old now. No, I fully plan to go full speed right into my coffin. And I want to put a hole in my grave. I want to hit it so hard. Yeah. Just stop telling people that they're getting old and there's nothing you can do. Forget it, man. You know what? I got to send you to talk to that David Goggins dude. I bet he has some good stuff. He's the same age as me. I'm pretty sure. And he's going 100%. Anyway, hit that thumbs up everyone. Jamie, your concrete dome house is epic. I suggest a coating of latex or epoxy poured over it to prevent leaking or cracking. So I've been, well, epoxy is going to be too expensive, but paint. I don't know. I've been thinking about that. The problem is if I paint the outside, that's it for concrete. Like I can't spackle more concrete on the outside, right? So I've been doing concrete. Well, I haven't done in a while, but I'm halfway done making concrete tiles for the roof. And everywhere I've put the concrete tiles does not leak. So actually it's funny, like I started at the end. So the second floor will have no drips on it because the whole outside, there are just some leaks kind of in the middle there. But yeah. In terms of painting the outside of it, I haven't done it yet because yeah, like once I put paint on that will be a barrier between the concrete. And if I ever want to spackle more mortar or something on the outside, so I haven't done that yet. I don't know. I don't know what I'm going to end up doing there. The no hydrocarbons is amazing. The no hydrocarbons. What's the no hydrocarbons is amazing? The no hydrocarbons is amazing. I don't know what you're talking about, but it sounds amazing. Do you think a bandsaw mill would be better or keep as simple swing blade saw mill style? How big is the blade on your mill? Well, I like the swing blade mill. I've talked about this in a while. I guess I haven't mentioned in a while. But a bandsaw, okay, for anyone who doesn't know, we're talking about a lumber mill, like a machine that will cut logs into boards. And a bandsaw lumber mill has two wheels, right? And then a bandsaw that runs around it, sort of like a tank tread that goes all the way around it, except it's a saw blade, right? And that's really nice because you can cut really wide, like you can make or get these things really wide. So you can cut like a two or three foot, like you can cut like a meter wide cut. So you can cut big slabs, right? Which is amazing. The downside of that kind of mill, though, is the bandsaw, like the, yeah, the bandsaw, the teeth, you have to keep sharpening them and sharpening them because they're not like, they're not carbide tipped. Maybe you can get carbide tipped ones, but I've never seen them. So you have to keep sharpening it, right? And then the other thing is if you don't sharpen it really well, it can give it a bit of a bias so that the blade will kind of start creeping up or down and it'll screw up or cut. And then the other thing is if it's not tensioned right, it can be problems. And if it's not, I mean, there are a bunch of things with a bandsaw where if everything is going perfectly, it's amazing. But there are a lot of little things that can get messed up, particularly if you're not using it for a while. Like if it's sitting there and you go do something else and come back and, you know, it's been sitting there for a few weeks or months or whatever. And you start running it and realize, oh no, things aren't aligned right or, you know, it starts cutting crooked. So there are some downsides to the bandsaw. Now, a swing mill blade uses a circular blade and it's called a swing mill because you can swing the blade, you know, to cut this way or to cut that way. So you can put your log there. And this is one of the advantages. Like with the bandsaw, if you want to cut boards, you have to put your log there, then you can cut. But to cut this side, you have to turn the log. And if you have a really big, heavy log, it can be kind of hard to move it around and get it lined up just right and whatever. But with the swing blade, you just put your log there and you cut this way and then you cut that way and you cut this way and you cut that way. And, you know, you can do all four sides or you can even put it at different angles or whatever, but you can cut all four sides without moving the log. And because it's a circular blade, you can get standard pretty easily carbide tips, which last a lot longer. You don't need to be sharpened nearly as often as, you know, the bandsaw blades. And then, you know, because it's a disc, like a solid disc, it's much less prone to wandering, you know. Like the bandsaw, you've got this part stretched across that's moving and it's got all this pressure on it so it can start warping and getting bent. The disc, it's like basically a solid disc, it's a lot harder to, you know, throw it off. It doesn't really get messed up in terms of, you know, going crooked or whatever. The limitation of the swing blade is that you can only cut like a little bit less than half the width of your blade. So my sawmill has a 12 inch blade, which is like 30 centimeters. So I can make a 5 inch cut, a little more, but like I can make a 5 inch cut. So the fattest, the widest boards I could cut with it would be 10 inches because I could go down one side and then come back on the other side and cut 10. I might be able to get like 11 if I really pushed it. But like a 10 inch board is about the biggest, the widest thickness I can make or widest wideness I can make, whatever. But I really like the circular blade style because it's a lot less prone to maintenance issues. Just because it's just a solid disc, it's not gonna, it doesn't need tension or whatever. Like I don't do anything to my lumber mill and it'll sit there for months not being used as it did before, I don't know, like last week or whatever when I started using it. And I just go up, turn on the switch and then start cutting it. It just works right away. Don't have to tension anything or do any settings or adjustment or get anything lined up or anything. It's just really easy to maintain. And that's particularly good in a situation where you're living off grid where the lumber mill is not necessarily something that's going to get used all the time and constantly maintained. Because when I'm living off grid, I might have a bunch of wood to cut for a while. And then for like a couple months, I'm doing something totally different and the lumber mill is just sitting there. So I want something that has as little maintenance as possible. So wait, what was the whole question? How big, yeah, the blade on it is 12 inches. And yeah, that's why I like it. Okay, most people say solar does not, do not have solar. Yeah, a lot of people say don't have solar. It's kind of crazy. You should make a large battery bank mobile on a cart so you can move power from house to boat to whatever you need power. Well, from house to boat, I don't need because my house has power. The boat has power, but I do have two vehicles. Well, I guess all the all my boats have power so I can move those to places and, you know, run things. But then also I have a little lump or what's it called little bulldozer that has its own power supply. And then I have my kids car, which doesn't have very big batteries, but I mean, it's got a solar panel on it. It's got some batteries. You know, that's a mobile power supply too. Let's see. Oh, Mr. Lamphill is saying solar does not work. Right. Yeah. Yeah, solar panels are amazing. What a cool invention. Like you can have electricity anywhere the sun shines. It's that's such a cool thing. It's such a cool thing for anyone who wants freedom. Like, like before solar panels, I guess I guess you could still have like, you know, windmill somewhere or a like a stream generator or stuff. But that depends on like having the stream and being in a place where there's wind and when there's no wind, blah, blah. But like the sun is so reliable. Having solar panels is such a freeing thing. Like every day you're going to get some amount of sun. Like I've never had a day with no electricity. And it just makes it possible to do so many things when you're living in a place, you know, like this that's not in the city or anything. I couldn't believe how well it worked with even an underpowered solar solar array and an old bank of batteries kept my deep freeze running. No problem. Yeah, you honestly should get a small gas motor to go to town for the hospital. No, I don't need it. The thing is like, I can drive all the way to town in the dark on in either of the boats that I use most of the time, just on the battery. So, you know, if I was in emergency, I could drive to the hospital just on batteries. But hopefully that won't happen. But yeah, it's that is I can definitely do it if I need to. And, you know, if I was if I was in a situation where I really had to go somewhere in the dark and I didn't have enough. I didn't think I had enough batteries on my boat. I could just like steal the batteries out of my house hook them up to the boat or steal them from the other boat or whatever and they'll put everything on the boat. It was a real emergency situation. I had to go really far in the dark. You know, I could do some crazy stuff. I get I can make it work. But yeah, the nearest hospital the near the nearest like for hospitals. I could get to in the dark on my boat. Let's see. Did you ever have any animals or pets? I don't think I've ever seen that from you. No pets. There was actually what's it called a hummingbird kind of like stuck in the window up there a little while ago. But and that happens once in a while like every every couple weeks there will be a bird inside the house because it's a huge house. There's tons of space up there. But they generally find their way out, you know, in an hour or two. And I have not heard the hummingbird in a while so I'm pretty sure it made its way out. There's always a way to get out of the roof. And then, you know, during the day, the door is always open. And I had like a little family of iguanas here while I was working on my house, which was pretty cool, but they've they've since left. Yeah, I don't have any pets pets of my own pets. Or any animals. I would like to at some point in the future, but I just want to, I want to have more, I want to have more things done first. I'm not ready. I feel like I'm not ready for pets yet. What if you're what if your support like the books written or patronage disappears then what like the books written? What if your support like the books written or patronage disappears then what are you saying like what if I don't make any more money? I don't make any more money on like on my videos that I'm making. I think that's what you're asking. Like the books written. I don't know what the books written means. I don't make any money off books and no one's writing books for me. But I do get money from, you know, Patreon the website and I get some money from from YouTube. And then occasionally people will will send me donations like the PayPal or or Bitcoin or we turn a light on here. That's better. But yeah, if all that dried up, I would just make money doing something else. Probably my first idea in my head right now would be to make kayaks. Because there are a lot of there are a lot of people around here who could use a kayak and would buy a kayak. I don't know. Other than that, like I would just figure something out. When I first moved off grid, whenever I needed money, I would do renovations like house renovations. I had like a little, you know, corner renovation house. What's it called contractor had a little contractor business. And it was just a one man show just me. But that actually was a really good thing because when you hire people, you end up spending like half your time getting them to do their job and then you don't do anything. And I found it actually more productive to just not hire anyone so that I could put 100% of my energy into just, you know, doing whatever, whatever renovations I was working on. And then I could make more money doing it because I wasn't paying other people to like do half a job. Anyway, like whatever it is, like I'll do whatever I need to do to make whatever money I need to make. Although a huge part of what I'm doing here is making my life so I don't need money or don't need much money. Like even now I haven't I haven't calculated what my living expenses are, but it's pretty low. Like compared to like the average North American or even even Central American, you know, my living expenses are very low. I don't need gasoline. There's like I don't have any rent or like internet. I have an internet bill other than that food. That's about it. Internet and food. I think that's my only bills. And I do grow some food and I'm, you know, kind of slowly growing more and more as I go. Let's see. Epic. I have 3,500 watts. Man, you can do a lot with 3,500 watts. I'm grid tied. My home entertainment system is grid tied. Yeah, I would hate to be grid tied. I mean, it's not, you know, it's whatever you want. Thanks for the inspiration. I have been watching your videos for 12 years. Oh man, I hope I haven't infected you with too much craziness. I've always done things my own way. The best way I know how you taught me that it's okay and cool to try things a new way. It is okay to cool and cool to try things a new way. And yeah, and one of the, one of the biggest reasons people don't try things is because they're afraid of failing or looking bad. But man, once you get past that whole thing and you open yourself up to the idea that you can try things and, you know, some things are going to work and some things aren't. Man, you end up learning so much. And it's kind of crazy how many things end up working. And you're like, wow, I can't believe I never did that before. Why is no one doing this? And it's like people are afraid it might not work. And then it's like you try and it's like, wow, this totally works, man. Anyway, running is so awesome. I did my first 10k yesterday and I feel so alive. Well done, you. Man, running is great. That's awesome. What was your time? I shouldn't ask you your time. What was your time? What was your first one? Probably not super great or anything. 100 is a good start, Mr. Landfill says. I know it as mango rash. All right, Michael Jackson here is talking about, you know, the allergic reaction I was having from like puffy eyes. And like I was itchy here. I'm not itchy here anymore. Oh, that's so nice. And my ears were itchy even. That was annoying. But yeah, mango trees are related to poison ivy. And it's not as bad as poison ivy, but it is itchy. And I have two giant mango trees back here, which is great when they're making mangoes. But otherwise, they just, oh, I don't know. Anyway, I'm old as hell, bro. That's awesome. Have you heard about the Mestastic Off Grid Network? It's getting big in the UK. Wait, the Mestastic, I don't know what that is. No, I guess I haven't heard of it. What if AI makes us immortal? I have no idea what I'm doing then. Well, you know, the funny thing about becoming immortal is like we're already in a situation right now, like everything would have to change. Like things would have to change huge if people started living forever or even just living significantly longer. Because right now we're in a situation where birth rates have been declining for like the last 50 years or 70 years. I don't know, birth rates keep going down, right? Overall. And the way, I don't know about everywhere, but like definitely the United States and Canada, the way pensions work, like social security is you put money away for your social security. But you're not getting that money back. The money you put away goes to the previous generation. So your social security is dependent on the next generation and these generations keep shrinking. So it's like fewer people supporting more people and fewer people supporting more people. And if people start living longer, they're going to need social security for longer. And that whole thing would just have to change. It would have to completely change. I am 56 and I'm about to take on the largest project of my life. Oh, that's awesome. That's beautiful. I love hearing that. I wonder what he's doing. Kevin, what are you doing? Somehow saw that response coming. Man, what a great example of a beautiful human. Oh, is that me? Oh, thanks, man. I grew up in cattle country. Our favorite neighbor was still bearback, breaking wild horses in the 70s. I knew it. Now I've got anecdotal evidence, which of course I will take. And I want to be like that guy 70 years and just strutting around the jungle with no shirt on. Just like busting out with my muscles and like doing stuff and like throwing women over my shoulder and dragging them home. Oh, wait, no, that's that's caveman. How's it going? I'm unique. You're old as hell. That's great. Feel young as 22 though. David Goggins is a huge inspiration. Excellent. Excellent. Buffering. Was I buffering? Sorry, man. I'm a little bit behind on the comments now. I'm sure. I don't know. I don't know how far. So self-sufficiency and getting old. What is the short version? There is no short version. The short version was getting old is a self-fulfilling prophecy. So don't accept your oldness. Just just do your thing, man. Don't worry about getting old. Keep being just do your thing. And self-sufficiency is awesome. Like when you don't have when you don't have bills, you cause I got bills, I got to pay. You don't have bills constantly chomping at your butt. Man, it's so nice when you when you get self-sufficient enough that you're not. You're not feeling that, that bill collector coming up behind your head all the time. Or, okay, I missed something. Or don't take Testo and live like a normal human being. Yeah, don't I don't take any of that testosterone stuff, you know. I don't know. Maybe that's maybe that stuff is good for something, but I stay away from all that stuff. Hello, Randy Neal. It's fine. It's life. Use or lose it. What is a good natural herb for kidney stones? Oh, I have no idea. Does anyone know what is a good natural herb for kidney stones? Because Randy wants to know. Damn, watch the bit about you saying you need to do physical activity to be young. So I'm just going to do 10 push-ups right now. Oh, that's excellent. Oh, I'll go. Hold on. I'm going to do it too. I'm not going to let you do it without me. One, two, six, seven. Okay. Couldn't leave you doing those by yourself there, man. And sign up for a gym tomorrow. You know what? Forget the gym. You don't need a gym. How about this? Go run to the gym. Look at the gym and say, haha. I didn't even have to spend the money and then run home. And maybe every, every, you know, a few minutes, every block. So stop and do a few push-ups. You run and pass the tree. Do a few chin-ups. You know, just, you don't need a gym. Although if the gym is going to motivate you, go for the gym. I'm not an anti-gym. I'm just saying you don't need it. You can save yourself some money if you just do it yourself. Ah, let's see. Do you know the, the EACC movement? I do not. I'm also terrible with acronyms. I shouldn't say I'm terrible with acronyms. I just, I never used acronyms. I shouldn't say never. There might be odd occasions when I do. But I generally stay away from acronyms because they, they're always, they're always like a specialized thing. Like an acronym will be for some kind of specialized thing. And there would be the same acronym for some other specialization would be something totally different. And when people start talking in acronyms, it's often like to kind of confuse people. So, so you seem smarter than you are because they don't know what you're talking about. Or it's to, what's the word? Make things seem less important. Like when you short form things. And this one isn't necessarily an acronym, but this is, this is the one that drives me the most nuts. In terms of short forming things to make them seem less, less important, meds. Gotta go take your meds. Get it. Take your meds. Get a jab. You know, all this stuff where it's like, this is serious stuff. Medicine is not something you should just be popping. Like, like without thinking about it. No, this is, say it, say the whole word. If you can't even say the whole word, you probably haven't thought about it enough. You probably shouldn't be taking those pills if you just said popping some meds. Anyway, what were we talking about? It's like, it's a bit like, okay, the EACC movement. It's a bit like Silicon Valley version of your lifestyle. I see. I don't know anything about it. It's nothing compared to this guy truly living, truly living out his dream. Jamie, I know you don't have many engines, but have you ever considered building a gasifier? I have considered it, but yeah, I don't have anything that runs on gas. So, yeah, I did make a thing that will produce methane eventually when I, you know, plug the leaks and stuff. I mean, I'm sure it produces methane now. I'm just not capturing it. Yeah, I'm pretty happy with electric motors. I do want to build a steam powered thing. And okay, the problem with a gasifier is it's like I'm burning something to capture the smoke to run it through a filter to run a motor that's like really complicated and needs an explosive gas. Or I could build a steam engine and just like put the fire right in the steam engine. It's like, it just seems like a lot less complicated. Like I understand the reasoning behind making a gasifier. I'm presuming the gasifier is the one where you burn wood and get wood gas and use that to run a combustion engine. Is that the gasifier we're talking about? I think that's what we're talking about. But anyway, that kind of thing makes sense because there are so many internal combustion engines around. And if gasoline becomes prohibitively expensive or too hard to gather or whatever, then it would make sense to, you know, build a gasifier because then you can still use your tractor or your machine or your car or whatever. However, if you back up and say, okay, what, what am I going to get a gas engine and then build a gasifier or make a steam engine? Like the steam engine would be a much simpler thing. And I do want to build a steam engine. I actually have a few of the key parts like kind of on a shelf over there. Whenever I see something that I'm like, whoa, that could be for the steam engine. I'll just put it on this little shelf. So there's just a few key parts there and, you know, an idea in my head. But I'm not, I'm not ready to do that yet. Got other stuff to do. Oh, chill fact. There are way too many muscular orc looking bald men as it is. Just eat healthy exercise and your T levels will be good for you. Yeah, well, you know, having no hair on your head is usually not. I don't know, maybe I shouldn't say usually, but it is often a sign that you have lots of testosterone. So, you know, I don't really mind losing my hair up there. I think Jamie has shown he doesn't need imaginary money to live and follow his dreams. He's bald, which is a sign of abundant amounts of testosterone. Hey, that's what I was just talking about. You should write a book or two. Well, I have written a couple of little books, but probably not the kind of books you're thinking of. I have kind of been thinking about writing like an adventure builder Bible kind of. And it would be like part life story with all kinds of lessons and adventure builder values and stuff. Something along those lines. And I feel like that's the kind of thing I'll do at some point. You know, several years from now, when I have a lot more things finished and a little more breathing room, because like right now I get up and I'm just like going until it gets dark or until I have to make food. I don't really like, I don't want to cook in the dark because I cook outside. But yeah, I've been working really hard. You know, I guess I could write a book in the evenings, but I just don't have the energy at the time yet. That's something I need to do more in the future. How much does these, oops, okay, I think you type out something there. Oh, didn't realize I was describing Jamie. Anyway, that's just normal. I'm just saying, listen to your balls, don't take drugs. Take some drugs. I don't want to take any drugs. But I'll probably be able to. Hey, second, the idea for a book. All right. What kind of, it would be interesting to hear from you guys. Like what kind of book would you want me to write? Like when you say, Jamie, you should write a book. Like what kind of book are you talking about there? You know, second, the idea of listening to your balls. Oh, Mr. landfill. Here's silly. The metaversal miscreant greetings new here. How's it going, man? Oh, should I give a little introduction for people who are new here? Well, I'm Jamie and I like to invent things and do exercise. And I live on a little island out like off the coast of Panama on the Caribbean side, not the Pacific side. And yeah, I'm here, you know, being self sufficient, trying to grow food. I've got a lot to learn there, but also building big buildings like the one I'm in right now and, you know, making solar powered boats and lumber mills. And yeah, just using my invention interests to just make life work, you know, and then getting lots of exercise in the process. Do you design your homestead to be more automated and designed to keep old age in mind as far as functionality and ease of use? No, I in fact do the opposite. I don't automate anything. And I, well, I shouldn't say I don't automate anything. I mean, like when I'm using my lumber mill that the blade is spinning automatically, not sitting there turning it. But yeah, I guess I design the way I design my homestead is to be kind of like a playground. So for instance, I'm building a second floor, right? And the second floor part of it is just a racetrack that's around and then there's going to be little rooms all the way around. But then people keep asking me why are you going to get up there? And how I'm going to get up there is like a stairway, a slide, a rope. There's already climbing rope that goes all the way to the top, like the fourth floor top, a fire pole, a ladder, a cargo net. Like I want to have lots of different ways to get up and down. And then I will probably rarely use the stairs. At my old house in Vermont, there were three ways to get to the second floor. Well, no, there were like four ways to get to the second floor. Anyway, I didn't usually take the stairs. There was a rope you can climb up there. You can climb up the walls of the building or there was like monkey bars. You could just climb up the monkey bars and then go up. And that's what I would usually do because I figured if I do that just on a regular basis, I'm going to stay in good shape. So I guess I design my homestead to encourage activity. Yeah. But I don't have chores. Some random dude plows the snow outside my door. Well, you know what you could do? If some random dude plows the snow outside your door, you could get your shovel and go out and beat him to it. And then when the guy shows up, just be like, hahaha. And the guy's going to be like, what happened here? I thought there'd be some snow. Anyway, too randy. Oh, with kidney stones. Apple cider vinegar, probably a shot a day. Oh, so if you need to get rid of kidney stones, drink apple cider vinegar. I see. I don't have any kidney stones that I'm aware of. But I'll try to remember that. Chill fact, run, jump, and most importantly stretch. Yeah, man, stretching, stretching is super important. Particularly when you're doing like things you're not used to. So, you know, I just started doing, well, I shouldn't say it just started. Like in the last month, I've been doing a lot more like carrying things on my shoulders. Because before that I was doing lots of lifting, but it was all like, like lifting things from down. But now I'm carrying things on my shoulders. So I made sure I stretch my back out and everything. But yeah, stretching, stretching, hugely important. When you're young or old, don't think because you're young, you don't need to stretch. And my kids have learned this kind of recently. Like, you know, every once in a while, one of them will be like, well, my back kind of is sore here. I'm like, well, let's do some stretching. And then, you know, as time goes on, they're like, yeah, I don't feel that, that, you know, tightness in my back anymore. Stretches are really good. Yeah. Oh, let's see. I don't know, but I think taking SSRIs, oh gosh, acronyms. Since I was a teen, messed up my brain chemistry. Who knows? Yeah, I mean, that's, that's one of the reasons I always stayed away from any kind of drugs. They affect your brain. And to me, my brain is like my favorite part of my body. My body, I consider to be my most valuable possession is this thing right here. And my brain, that's like, that's like, that's the brain of the whole operation. You know, and drugs, drugs affect it, you know, they can, they can mess it up. Anyway, I don't know what SSRIs are, but I hope your brain isn't too messed up. Kidney stones drink a lot more water and lemonade. Lemonade, I think I actually have some lemon water right here. From these lemons. I love these lemons. Are these lemons the best? Check out the lemons. Those are great. Where are we going? Okay, Jamie, you were talking about getting old. I can see it now. 105 year old Jamie riding around his island on his aluminum solar powered giant spider mobility scooter. Yeah, I'm going to have to like have a big robot with like a walker on it. No, I mean, like when I get toward the end of my life, there might be a point where I'm like, all right, now I just want to, I just want to chill and like just kind of watch the end. Just, just, just watch it for a little bit and then die. But I got to, I got to be like really close to the end. Because yeah, I'm just going to want to get up and do stuff, you know, and people are going to say, no, don't do that. You're going to die on a heart attack. And I'll be like, that's, that's the goal, man. I want to die running like five minute miles, baby. Oh, let's see. Mike says 60 people have been watching Jamie for almost an hour. There are only 11 likes WGF click now. Ah, the likes aren't important. I care if you, if you like it, that's great. Although even if you don't like it, just being here. Because like, one of the things that I think is super important that our civilization is kind of losing a lot is just the ability to disagree, you know, to, to be there for something you don't like. And just, just experience that, you know, but hopefully everyone here does, doesn't like what's going on here. That'd be great. You could combine both use the cooling section of the gasifier for the steam. Panels do near nothing in winter here. Where are you that that solar panels do near nothing in the winter? Because I was in Vermont. And I got lots of solar solar power in the winter. And I had my solar panels aiming like, like very like they were probably at an angle like this. Because I was, you know, Vermont's pretty far north. And yeah, I got, I got plenty of power in the, in the winter. But yeah, it depends where you are. If you get, if you're in a place just with like no sun and solar panels aren't going to be that useful, or maybe you just need twice as many. He was very fit for his age. I don't see him needing a mobility scooter. He, oh, and I'm 105. I might want to go faster than a human being can go. I might need a mobility scooter. You have a way with words. Write the book. Okay. What is the book? I want to know what, what kind of book are we talking about? Didn't you write a book about how the universe was made? Yeah. Well, no, it was called how big is the universe? I thought I saw something on TikTok about it. Oh, like someone had a small kid's book that was extremely well made. Well, I did make a book called, oh, there's one right here. Hold on. Oh, let's see. This is a book I wrote. How big is the universe? And I think you're going to find this on my website for free. And it's just got like stuff about the universe. Anyway, but what, what, I want to know what the book is that you guys are talking about now. Where were you 40 years ago? Now I'm too old for what I've learned from you. Where were you 40 years ago? Oh, where was I 40 years ago? Yeah, I'm sorry, man. Okay. Okay. Here's, here's something you could still use. Now I'm too old for what I've learned from you. Okay. I don't know how old you are, but at any point in life, you're going to, you're going to be at some kind of health level, right? And regardless of where it is, you can always aim to make it better. So if you are in, you might be in, you might be like an Olympic athlete, you can still aim for better. You could be crippled. You can, you can aim for better. Like whatever, whatever, you know, you could be morbidly obese. You could be too skinny or anywhere. Whatever, whatever your starting point is right now, you can do something to improve it. And maybe, maybe you get to a point where you're so old, all you can do is reduce the amount of degradation so you can keep some quality of life. Whatever it is. Like there's, there's something you can do to maximize the time you have while you're still alive. So I don't know how old you are or what your situation is, but you know, keep doing your best, man. Keep trying. Keep, keep plugging away. And I don't know that I would necessarily recommend this, but the way I think about it is I often say to myself, I would rather die than not be able to do, do, do things, you know, whatever I'm trying to do. Like that's often what I think when I, when I pick up something heavy, I'm like, well, this is heavy. This is really heavy. And I'll put it back down and be like, wait a minute. I don't want to be the person who can't do that. So I would rather die than not be able to lift it. And so far I've always, I've always been fine. You know, you know, obviously I, I, I don't do that too crazy. Yeah, man. I don't know. Anyway, awesome. And I'm glad I'm here with you. Thanks, man. I feel like most of the adventure builders Bible material has been revealed in Jamie's numerous videos and live streams. It would be neat to get a book of it though. You know what would be cool would be, maybe I should do this at some point. Just ask you guys, like what, what are the, like, what are the pieces of, what did you call it? Wait, what did you call it? Where is it? Mostly adventure. Yeah. What are the pieces of the adventure builders Bible material that I've talked about or mentioned or whatever in the past or like, what are the things you think should be in a book? Maybe I'll start, maybe I'll start writing notes and just keep it somewhere. And, and you know, it's probably the kind of thing that for like the next five years, I'll keep adding little notes to something and at some point I'll be like, all right, I want to write this book and I'll go through all these notes and I'll have all the, all the, all the things I need to make sure I include, you know. Yes. Mansell memoirs. If you get near nothing from your panels, put in more panels during gray days, I can get about 400 watts per hour. You mean watt hours per hour? I use 800. I can stretch until sun happens again. Yeah. When I, yeah, you can always get some, some more panels. It would be, I'd be surprised if you were getting nothing unless it's just like dark, dark. Let's say I just reloaded that. Okay. Lois says, write a book of encouragement and values to teach teens how to not waste their lives. That's, yeah, that's, that's something we definitely need. The sort of thing which would be a good gift for birthdays, graduations and would get banned. It would be such a banned book. Oh my gosh. Like that would, yeah. It would be like the band list, you know, Hitler's memoirs and Jamie's book of encouragement. Throw those in the fire. It's crazy. This stuff that's considered dangerous today, you know, like, like even, even when I do these videos, you know, just encouraging people to be self-sufficient. That's so anti what's going on in the world today. I get some pushback from that. It's, you know, it's kind of weird. People, okay. People need to hear your thoughts, tell stories about your life and your life lessons like you do in your videos. I don't know. I finally made time to watch this stream. Well, thanks half eaten loaf. Oh, I could go for some meatloaf right now. Man, I haven't had meatloaf in ages. Okay. They're brain, wait, they tell you your brain is broken. This might fix it. Take it for a couple of months. See what happens. This is talking about when, when they, when they give you drugs when you're a teenager. Yeah, man. Drugs are prescribed way, way too often. And, you know, it all comes down to money because people are trying to sell the drugs so they're encouraging, you know, people to, to, to push them. So, yeah. But yeah, you should. Particularly like when you're a teenager and you got all these weird hormones and you're, you're kind of going crazy inside and you're going in all these different directions. Like you should at least wait until all of that stuff settles down and your, your rational mind can like take the forefront before taking any kind of, you know, mood stabilizers or any, any of that stuff that's going to affect your development. And especially like little kids, like when I hear about little kids being given stuff because, because they can't sit still for eight hours. Oh, like kids should not be able to sit still for eight hours. Like it's normal. Don't medicate kids for being normal kids. Oh, it's, it's insane how much, how much drugs are just pumped into people now. Let's see. Thank you for touching on this subject again. Adventure builders unite. Call the book Jamie's dream. Okay. Tell your story. I don't know how, but just tell everything that led here. So a little bit like my, my movie, but like more detail is what you're saying. Cause I did gloss over a lot of stuff in the adventure builder movie. Yeah. There are definitely a lot of lessons I could, I could expand upon. I'd be interested in a book about recalibrating back to the basic brain code. That would have to be a big part of it. And like I was saying, you know, I, I glossed over a lot of stuff in the adventure builder movie. And that's, that's one of them because that would be like, like a, like a big old chapter in a book or maybe multiple chapters. Yeah. The whole, the whole brain code and D programming, everything that's been stuffed into your head. Yeah. There's a, there's a lot to go into there. Rex Clay says, thank you, Jamie. You're welcome. I'm not sure for what you're thinking it. You're welcome. Or it could just be a small book of anecdotes. You're so brilliant. Oh, oh shucks. No one's going to watch a video I share somewhere, but if they hand them a book, they'd probably read it. You know, one book that I like a lot is, oh crap, what's it called? The Tao Te Ching, which is just like a, just a book of like, it's just a book full of little phrases that are just like important bits of information. And I don't want to try to quote any right now because I haven't read it in a while, but yeah, it's just, it's just full of little, little quotes, just important stuff. Like tiny little phrases of super important stuff, you know. Life has changed for me. That's excellent, Mr. Landfall. Hopefully it's changed in a good way. I'd like some adventure builder material about how to convince self to be motivated and break out a passiveness. Okay. I could talk a little bit about that right now, but, so one thing that really kills your motivation is, is living a life that you don't want. So when I think about when, like the first 20 years of my life, you know, growing up in the suburbs, doing kind of the normal, everything stuff everyone else did, or at least being in that world, it was very frustrating. It was hard to get motivated compared to now, like I wake up before the sun and I'm like, come on, come on, man, let's go, let's go. Like I'm, it's way easier to be motivated now. But still, even now, I'll still have days where I'm feeling sluggish and worn out or whatever, and just not motivated, or maybe I've just dealt with some difficult people, and I'm just like, what is the point, you know? But back, you know, back in the day when I was living in the suburbs, that was a constant thing for me. So I made up this thing called the dragon, and it would, it would drag me out of bed. It was just like, I mean, obviously it wasn't a physical dragon. I would just think, you know, in the morning, I would just lay in bed thinking, oh, I got to drag myself out of bed, or I'm just going to like waste, waste away, waste life here, just laying here. And I would think, you know, one day I'm going to die. This is one thing that gives me a lot of motivation whenever I get stuck. One day I'm going to die, and I'm going to have to look back on my life, and I'm going to look back at it right now, and what would I wish I was doing right now? Well, now I'm here, now this is, I have the chance to do it right now. So do it, you know? And then I'd be thinking like, okay, I got to drag myself out of bed. Let's get that, let's get some kind of dragon. I just, I would just imagine some dragon inside myself that like goes. And it's sort of like, it's sort of like the part of me that's just trying to lay there is just getting dragged like, like a puppet out of bed and starts doing things. Like I used to get up every morning and go running it, like five in the morning. And that was really, really, really hard for a while. But I would just get this dragon to start, just dragging me out. And, you know, by the time I get to like two or three miles into the run, you know, I kind of like, the guy who wanted to lay in bed, he's just kind of woke up. And he's like, okay, okay, now we're going. But like that, the initial part, it can be really hard to motorize yourself, to motivate yourself to get going. And I would just, yeah, I made up this dragon that would drag me. And that's why it didn't even call the dragon because it would drag me out of bed. Yeah. I hear a bird in the back. Is it an island resident or a visitor? Let me think. I think, I'm not sure actually. I mean, the bird you were hearing there, it's a bird I hear regularly. It's like often here, but I don't know if it's always here. Some of the birds around here, like they'll go one place during the day and then go another place during the night. I just heard it again. There's this little mangrove island like, I don't know, maybe 150 meters from me right over there. And it's not, not even any land. It's just like a little clump. Maybe, I don't know, I could throw a rock over it pretty easily. It's just a little clump of mangroves. And every evening there are like 200 cranes or some kind of cranish bird, like, you know, tall birds, long legs, long neck, real pretty. And half of them are gray and half of them are white. I don't know which are the boys and which are the girls, but I'm presuming that the color is a gender thing. But yeah, it's just, it's just covered in those. And whenever, whenever we drive back, like whenever we're driving to my island from somewhere and I have the kids on the boat, we'll always drive right beside that little island. And the birds all, they all fly up and do a big circle. And then we drive past and then when we're past, they come back and like all land back on the thing. And it's pretty fun. The kids always have a laugh out of it. And then, but there are a lot of birds around here that, I mean, there's this, there are these, there's this one kind of bird that makes this, this snorting sound. Like they sound like pigs, like people who've been on this island, like, do you have pigs here? Where are the pigs? They're like, oh no, those are the pig birds. And I think they're actually, oh crap, what are they called? I don't remember what they're called now because we always just call them pig birds. I did at some point know what they were called, but they're just pig birds. And they guys are always here and they're, they're hilarious because they just. All right. Wait, wait, wait. Make a book where every page is a bit of Jamie wisdom. When a reader thumbs through it, the page they land on is the most appropriate wisdom for your situation. Could you build a spiral ramp along your walls up to the second floor? Why, yes I could. Or will you build stairs? Maybe like a roller coaster or the way down for the kids. Okay. So I want to do a slide from the second floor down, but it won't be right against the outer wall because that's right under the floor. And the floor goes all the way around the outside. So in the middle part of the house, it's too dark to see now. There's a big, there's a big hole, a big opening. And I want to have a slide that curls down. And I was thinking I should have it keep going up right up to the third floor. So you can go up to the third floor and get in the slide all the way down, which of course would be super fun. And then there's going to be rope climbs and different ways to get up, fire poles and stuff. Is that any way, or sorry, I think you mean is there, is there any way you can rig up a bunch of lights only for your live videos? I think you would get a bunch of comments in chat on good lighting. Yeah, I mean, if you're here for the lighting, you're in the wrong place, man. But yeah, I mean, I could set up lights. The thing is like everything here is under construction. So I don't want to like set up some big thing that I'm just going to have to end up tearing down in two weeks because I'm like changing things. Yeah, I don't know. Sorry, that's doing some better lighting would be good. One of the things that's terrible about videoing inside my house is that anywhere you go, there's a window behind me because it's a round house and there are windows all the way around. So there's always a glare behind my head. So it's terrible lighting in here except when I'm right here. Like this is like the only spot where the lighting is kind of okay. It's actually decent. Obviously right now it's just nighttime and dark. But you know, the daytime, the light will come in here and I'm not backlit because there's a wall right here. But it's like one of the only places I'm not backlit. Oh, let's see. Oh, is it a bird or Sasquatch making bird sounds? It might be a Sasquatch. I wonder if she's cute. Chinese calendar says it's the year of dragon. Excellent. Clearly a Squatch. Usually the more attractive birds are male, I think. Yeah, I think the more attractive birds are usually male. The pelicans. Pelicans are enormous, by the way. They're huge. Anyway, there are two kind of pelicans. The kind of gray, dingy looking ones. And then there's these white. Well, they're white and orange and black. You know, colorful pelicans. I'm pretty sure the colorful ones are the boys. And they're much more territorial, too. If I'm driving by one of the pretty pelicans, it always flies away and comes back to its spot. But I'll drive right beside the dingy gray ones and they're just like... Let's say, hey, Jamie, thanks for your email the other day. Definitely glad I am starting the self-sufficiency thing pretty early, but wow, so much work all the time. Yeah, it is. But one of my friends said to me once, I never realized that living off grid wouldn't tell so much digging. Yeah, so much digging. Oh my God, so much digging. I mean, you could do it without digging, but like there's so many things you can do when you dig. Hey, Jamie. Oh, I read that. The double crested cormorant makes deep guttural grunts that sound a bit like an oinking pig. Oh, cormorant. Is it a cormorant? I don't think it's a cormorant, but it might be. I'd have to double check. I can't remember what it is now. Thanks, Jamie. Something resonates with the dragon dragging me on. Yeah. Jamie, you are a wealth of knowledge. Thank you for sharing. That's funny because I feel like I don't know anything. Slides will be awesome. Okay, about the book. Folks want to be told. Wait, folks want to be told how to live. Do they? Your content is amazing. The lighting is not so important. Well, thank you. Yeah, kind of one of the points of, well, I mean, I'm just going to be totally honest here, which I generally am anyway. I don't want my videos to be too nice looking because then I get views from people who are not so nice on the inside, you know. But if people, if people come and they see my video and the lighting isn't quite perfect and they stick around, they're sticking around because of the content of what I'm saying or doing. But if people are here just for the way it looks, they're like a million other things they can watch. And I don't have to hear them griping about how I'm doing something wrong and blah, blah, blah. So yeah, BK broiler. Oh man, I could go for a burger right now. That sounds delicious. I actually got dinner sitting right there. I started doing this live while it was cooling off. So it's been an hour and a half. I'm pretty sure my dinner's cooled off. Anyway, it's just fun hanging out with Jamie. Excellent. Yeah, pigs like to eat snakes bear. Wait, pigs like to eat snakes, bears, wolves, dragons, last of all, frog legs. You always say that. I do always. Well, every time I see your name BK broiler broiler, I'm just like, oh, whopper. Many years ago, I went on a trip with my track and field team at university. And, you know, we got per diem. You know, we got some money every day to eat. And I was so broke at that point. Like I wasn't even buying books for classes or anything. Luckily I was very good at taking tests. So I got away with it. But I kept as much as that per diem as I could. And the thing is I ate an insane amount of food. And where we were on this trip, it was in Florida for spring break. I think we might have been, I don't know, we're there for a week or two. But anyway, right across the street from where we were staying was a Burger King and they were having a 99 cent whopper deal. So man, I ate a lot of those. It's like, it was like a ton of calories for 99 cents. That was great. Anyway, all right, I'm just here for the muscles. All right. I'm going to go feed my muscles. I think I've probably hammered on long enough. And I hope you guys have an excellent evening or morning or isn't it cool that on the internet, you can talk to people everywhere on the planet. You can even talk to people in outer space. Anyway, I'm going to get out of here and go eat my dinner and see if I can be useful and, you know, think about what I'm going to do on this floor tomorrow. And I'm just going to show up and get back to work. And I hope Big Lizard. All right, Big Lizard. What is that name, Big Lizard? Are you being immodest? All right, I'm going to show up to get out of here. All right, everyone have a great night.