 defog warm up it's always you know I live in the tropics it's a little humid if I don't use my tablet or any machine for a while it gets moisture in there and then I turn it on it warms up and fogging up the the inside of the lens but it will defog you know a couple minutes that's okay because no one's here anyway of course after the fact people are gonna watch this and be like why is it so foggy yeah it's just cuz I live in the tropics and camera lenses get foggy on the inside have to turn them on and leave them on for a while maybe I should just store this in a in a bag with some rice oh how's it going digital digital man Dave hey digital man Dave how's it going yeah Ken's here too how you guys doing having a good morning excuse me for being so so foggy right now you know I haven't turned my tablet on in a while because I've just been doing things working so you know I live in the tropics so the humidity gets into the camera and then it gets fogged up it'll defog in a few minutes I think it's I know five minutes or something and the camera is just waking up you are correct it's getting the foggies out yeah that camera doesn't have hands to wipe out it's like the eye boogers and stuff so it just needs to warm up and and what do you call it evaporate the the father the condensation ah yes cold and wet up there wherever Dave is cold and wet I don't know you must be in the north somewhere hey Jamie almost evening here still welcome back well hello good evening to yeah people all over the world it's one of the really cool things about the internet you can just communicate instantly with people all over the world oh Dave is in Ontario of the motherland where I originated and I plan to never go back I've been hearing some weird things about Canada lately that Justin Trudeau guys up to some funny business hey it's like he got all woke and he's like we're gonna make Canada the woke country of the universe yeah I know I don't know that much about it though I only know a little bit but I know enough that I'm like who I never want to go back there at least if I were if everyone back to Canada it would to be to be as a revolutionary and I would start fighting the government I mean not not with a bullets or anything but I would I would the only reason I would go back to Canada would be to to strongly oppose the government good evening from Germany oh well that's that's the other motherland that's funny that's where my my dad was born I'm half German at least last they checked oh the arm oh you want to check out my arm you can only see through the fog but let's see I'll show it again after the lens wakes up more but yeah it's basically almost gone now so it got a scab on it like when I first took this oh I'm starting to I'm starting to defog now yeah now I'm starting to defog what's that three minutes three months starting to noticeably defog anyway there's my thing probably by the time we get to five minutes this the fog will be gone but when I took when I pulled the stitches out and I just pulled the stitches out myself you know I supposed to go to the hospital and get the guy to just cutting out some stitches I just pulled them out myself anyway when I when I took out the stitches the cut just like and it was like all healed in this big gully in my arm like probably like half a centimeter deep there's just this looks like a funny gross smile but then it got a scab over it and the scab as it dried up it like you know like pulls it closed because they shrink yeah I guess that's how scabs work I mean it's alive always seem to work they they get crusty and then they shrink and pull the skin back together and it heals and it's actually not gonna leave as much of a scar as I was thinking it would it's yeah it's totally fine on my foot I had that infection on my foot that seems to be totally gone yeah I think everything's fine there and I've yeah I guess and this last week okay so for the whole month of February I basically got nothing done you know it was just super frustrating dealing with all this yeah just just life family nonsense you know just so this month I've been well you know once I'm like my arm healed and my foot started getting better I've just been working I'm I'm probably not gonna stay that long today doing this because I have tons of stuff to do I'm hoping to take the roof off the shark slicer today because I'm replacing the roof you know as per the plans and the little drawings in the thing oh and I shall mention okay so I have two channels now right Jamie builds which is this one and then Jamie talks and these lives are supposed to go over to Jamie talks although it's gonna you know kind of do a short one here and then tell people to go there and do that for a few weeks so people know however Jamie talks is not yet eligible to do lives I don't know I don't know how long that's gonna take maybe I have to put up a certain number of videos or something or get a certain number of Bumscribers or views or something I don't I don't know what the story is it I did all the stuff it seemed to say that I had to do be able to do it I don't know I don't know it's crap work I'm sure there's some some other silly requirement I just don't know anyway I'm just gonna not worry about that because that won't prevent me from cutting the roof off my boat and replacing it with other stuff and doing all this other gobbledygook I have going on and I have this lumber mill and I have the materials to make the track for it and I need to do that and yeah lots of lots of just construction these things going on hello from the UK getting clear yeah so I'm at six minutes now and it looks like everything's my camera's totally woken up no kids today no this morning I took them over to the chain of hello from snowy Estonia cheap log someone painted true dough's father's face with a black can of spray paint statue oh I don't know how was the older true dough I don't I don't really know anything about Canadian politics other than it's just a total disaster right now just get bought subscribers pretty common these days now I don't do any that crap you need a thousand scoop subscribers to do lives from tablet phone okay so that is that what it is so what do I have right now I probably have like 500 Bum Scribers on my Jamie talks channel maybe maybe over the next week I can put a few things on it and you know get a few more Bum Scribers and then I'll be able to do the lives pretty soon I'm sure I'll get that pretty soon but I haven't done much on there just just been working you know just I just went through this whole ridiculous internal family situation and I think I think that's straightened out pretty much and now I just want to get things done you know I just want I just want like after dealing with all that I'm just like I don't want to deal with humans you know I want all the humans to just go away not all of them but pretty much I want all the humans to go away and just just let me let me get stuff done like go away let me get stuff done not my kids I love my kids right get stuff done with my kids around and not you know good good friends and stuff so I need a thousand Bum Scribers to do a live from tablet phone right you seem to be much better spirits glad you're doing better man yeah yeah for about a month ago I was yeah I don't really want to get into it now that might that might all be done soon and just taken care of and don't worry about anymore although I did I did get to a point where I was seriously considering up to the point of actually taking a few steps toward just leaving Central America totally because this family situation that just gotten too too too much you know too too far in the wrong direction but yeah I think I think everything's gonna be I don't know we'll see all the humans accept the pretty ones you know I don't even like I've been I didn't want to deal with girls right now I mean if I met a girl who's amazing and all that and great but like man forget it I don't even want to deal with girls right now and it's funny because a lot of people have been you know I've mentioned talking I've talked about girls a few times over the last year or whatever and anytime I do a few people always like I don't know Jamie you know getting a girl in your life it makes it complicated and difficult and right now I'm kind of I'm kind of there I'm just like oh I don't want to deal with another frickin child that I have to take care of who's like who's a full-grown adult but acting like a child not that all women are like that it's just a lot of them are and not just women a lot of people in general are men and women it's like it's like we're in a generation of people who don't want to grow up they'll want to be Peter Pan forever and and have no responsibility and do nothing and ridiculous and funny thing is like the other day on the internet someone send me some silly link to something and just so you know when people send me links to things like in email and stuff most of the time I don't click on them because I'm just I just I just have other stuff to do you know but this one I clicked on and it was some some girl who was like who was doing like wood stuff like chopping wood with an axe and stuff and she had a smile on her face and she had some muscles and she was doing stuff and looked like she was having fun and I was like oh that is totally the kind of girl I wanted me oh where where does where does that kind of person hang out with and so I investigate a little bit hundred percent lesbian yeah yeah so maybe maybe I just need to go to like the LGBTQ meet some some lesbian girls who were kind of like Tom boys and then nothing because the lesbians so anyway I'm just not worried about girls right now being social takes practice my guy okay I can be social I can actually be extremely charismatic when I want to be it's not that it's not that I don't have difficulty interacting with people it's just I can't stand them a lot of it because like and it's just it's just our society today you know it goes back to that silly thing you know soft soft times create soft people and right now we're in a world just full of people who just sit around on their asses and do nothing and just don't care and they're like look at my fashion I'm so beautiful and like and I'm not just talking about girls here I'm talking about girls and guys just people in general they just do nothing and I can't I can't stand that I can't stand being around people who just do nothing and talk all the time it's it's it's just it's just so blah like why why are you even alive like what he why what is the point why are you even here go away like contributing nothing of any value other than nothing nothing of any value you know they're just like who cool I am I'm so cool like one once upon a time I was hanging out with these people they were like normal people and I was kind of like okay let me try to talk to them for a little bit turn on charisma okay charisma hey guys how's it going you know and all that I mean I don't do I'm exaggerating there but you know I don't have to talk to people if I want to talk to them and you know I'm talking to these these guys and you know we're talking like guys and stuff and there's one guy's big big fat guy huge fat guy he's telling me about how yeah man last week we figured it out we figured it out man was freaking awesome although and I'm doing a surfer accent now that's not what he sounded like but whatever I'm going with it yeah I was awesome man I was just I figured out that if I sit on my couch like near the front door we could play our video games watch movies like all day and then when we get hungry I can call the pizza guy and he can put the pizza in the window and I can reach it and give him a we don't even have to get up it's awesome and I was just like oh that's that's my social problem is like I talk to people and I'm just like the other time I went to this that was I think was a Christmas thing this Christmas party where a bunch of families got together and you know it wasn't that long ago well I guess it was like a decade ago now or something we went to this Christmas party thing and I'm there and there are all these other dads and I'm just looking at them being like there's got to be an interesting dad in here somewhere right so but I'm mostly just kind of hanging around playing with the kids you know playing games or whatever because that's I know kids kids are usually more fun than adults because at least kids haven't just have they haven't built up that massive amount of bullshit yet so you can play you can play catch with some kids or play some whatever games right but then this dad comes over and he's like hey what do you do and I'm like oh you know I live in the forest and you know I do this and I am you know I'm just off grid do my own thing all day whatever I build inventions whatever he's like what wait why do you get to do that and I was like what do you mean mosquito no he's like why why what are you rich or something I'm like no I know I'm not rich at all not even close they it doesn't cost that much to live that lifestyle is just what I wanted to do I just want to do that he's just like well what do you do he's like oh well I'm the I'm the executive medium assistant director CEO of garbage corp and I was like oh okay and like I already knew that he had nothing interesting to talk about and he got this look at his face like I have nothing interesting to talk about and that's the end of the conversation like that's that's a socializing usually is to me although occasionally I'll come across some people and it's it's like total switch like like when I was in Alaska you know I was building some I built two houses in Alaska two different times I went those are amazing experiences oh my god so fun and fun for me because I like hard work and doing things and achieving things and all that and at one point I went to a Mensa meeting you know I don't even know what meant it's an acronym for something I think that the smart people club basically and because my my friend this girl I was building a house for she was in Mensa she's like go to the meeting you look at some cool people and you know I got there and most of the people were exactly what you'd expect I'm so smart because I'm smarter than everyone because I've got a score of this in this test and smart smart smart I'm smarter than everyone now let's argue about stupid crap that doesn't matter so I can look smart and I'm just like and then I meet the these these two guys and I don't know then they also they were like five of them total but mainly these two guys who were like all interested in like being self-sufficient they wanted to do things for themselves they didn't just want to talk about things they wanted to actually do real things that that mattered and like as soon as I started talking to them you know I mentioned that yeah I live in a dome in Vermont and one guy's like no way you've got a dome I'm building a dome I've got the pieces for it I want to put it together I was like really what you don't like and he starts telling me about this dome and I find out he's got all this these interesting ideas and all this stuff and then we ended up talking for like three hours just oh no way this is amazing oh cool what do you think you know and then my friend who I went to this men's a meeting with as we're leaving she's like who the hell are you like what do you mean like you actually talk to people you were like charismatic and and you didn't just make the face like you hate them and you were like you were like I don't know like freaking Bill Clinton in there just like blah blah blah like I don't know I like those people and cuz like yeah if I'm around people I actually like I have no problem socializing it's just like most of the people today are just oh god horrible and a lot of people don't don't understand the difference between someone who who actually does things and someone who's just like trying to like talk big I well my friend and I used to call it mental masturbation and anytime we were in a conversation you know in a group of people and they were just like yeah I'm so smart and amazing blabber talking about you know just all this garbage of nothing it didn't matter at all and they weren't ever gonna actually use the informational we'd stand there and look at each other and go and then we chuckle yeah most the people who are like that they don't they don't actually they often I don't know maybe they do know but it seems like they don't know the difference between just and actually doing anything anyway would I just went off a huge tangent there because because of reasons oh oh god no no don't get stuck again okay just get boss no no let's see how the humans accept the pretty one yeah that's what got me set up in this big tangent I'm working on making an off-grid mini-split system what is a mini-split system is that so you can do better gymnastics I remember you talking about making a do-it-yourself refrigerator cooler any plans on installing an AC system no I don't need AC here it just doesn't get that hot like occasionally it gets like uncomfortably warm but a fan is always sufficient like it's never gotten hot enough here since like in the last almost decade I've been here it's never gotten hot enough that a fan was not enough you know oh although it would be cool to have like a snow room or something being social takes practice right right I am over girls married twice not going for three have three kids and they're doing great I am fine yeah so so with girls let me just I want to get back into that you know I would love to meet someone but at this point I have too much that I love in my life and you know just just in the last month of dishinga being more separate from basically me not being responsible for her anymore like we were kind of at the point where we're agreeing that she is responsible for herself and I am not like so many things are this is why someone was just mentioning I look like I'm in much better spirits yeah it's just a huge weight off and I don't know if I want to put another weight on now that I've got one up like so many so many things in life are amazing and I can enjoy it I can enjoy the amazing stuff in life without someone dragging me down and I'm not saying it's her fault or anything I don't even want to get into an argument about that or whatever I'm just saying you know sometimes when another person is in your life they can just drag you down so at this point if I were to meet someone like I'm gonna be very careful about who I let get into my life at this point because I have a lot of really awesome stuff going on and I love this stuff I love my life and I love my lifestyle so I'll only let someone in who will be cool there is another reason I would really like to have someone else in my life besides just you know for my own personal stuff I mean it would be great for me but it would also be great for my kids to see someone treat me well because they've never seen someone treat me well and I think that would be particularly for my daughters that would be a good thing to see the example of the father being treated well because presumably they're one day going to be married to some guy and they if they've never seen their you know the husband or the father being treated well they may not have they may not have the instinct to do that right so it'd be really good if I could meet someone who would treat me well and then my kids could see that and they could learn that for their future instead of me just saying well you know this isn't the best it should be like this you know I can talk talk is cheap you know like I was saying before you know there's no there's a limit to how much you can get through talking you know you got to really show it in real life but again like if I I'm not I'm just not gonna worry about girls for a while I'm gonna try to get get all this stuff going that I've been trying to get going for years while carrying too many other people and now that I'm not carrying as many people and I don't want to say anything good or bad about what I don't want to get any fights about that or whatever but the fact is I'm I'm carrying fewer people now and I can get a lot more done even just in the last week since you know my arm healed and my foot's been better things are starting to accelerate and yeah it's going I wanted there's so many things I want to do and I want to get cranking on them oh no digital Dave says I don't know what was oh no you'll have to you will have to find a man don't give up no I'm not oh guys are gross coolest girl I met picking up alpaca manure also lesbian all right what's up what's up come on come on what's with this this this lesbian thing taking all the good women actually you know what I think it is it's more that they're just taking all the good available women because all the all the amazing women are already married right and they're they're not getting divorced because the guy's like oh I'm not letting go of this one and yeah I mean that's a huge generalization but you know I wish I was a lesbian in Stano says yeah let's see what's up Jamie it's Todd who I came out to Vermont a couple times with my wife Lisa we did the ramp oh I remember Todd we did the ram pump together so sorry to hear about what happened keep your head up dude you're awesome yeah I mean you know shit happens and then you just got to deal with it and yeah I'm not gonna get into it now but it's cool to hear from you Todd yeah the ramp pump was amazing that thing worked for you I don't know if it's still there at this point but I left it set up I think I don't know and now I don't know but the ramp up was awesome pump pumped water all the way up to the dome up on the hill from that little stream I want to build one here at some point too Scott Adams vibes who's I don't know I think you're just looking for honest people honesty is the foundation of everything yes I I want to meet honest people in general partly just because I like being around honest people who were who are direct and like to do things and aren't always trying to manipulate and find ways to get other people to do stuff but also because you know I want to build this community here I've got you know a couple couple cool people I count myself but it would be really cool to get just a few more cool amazing people around because even just having like one other amazing person around oh it's it's it's so cool it's it's amazing and and it's a guy so and I'm straight so don't go the wrong direction there but yeah I would really like to meet more people who could come here and then yeah maybe at some point I'll meet a girl but I'm not I'm not gonna worry about that right now we have to try our best in life yeah remember life begins at the end of your comfort zone I that's how I feel I'm I'm always like I'm always outside my comfort zone and I guess you know that's probably a good way to explain it like when I meet people who are just living inside this comfortable little bubble I'm just that's when I'm like oh come on man do something like that I'm just the assistant executive vice CEO of blah blah garbage corp and I'm just like well do you do anything do you do anything other than just what you're told and sit in your phone and collect your check and then go home to your kids who've been at daycare all day like yeah you got to get out of your comfort zone and and yeah our society is too comfortable now and it's so easy to just get comfortable even you know a few weeks ago or a couple weeks ago or whatever when I was at the point where I was like you know I think my family's just done I can't I'm not gonna be able to be part of my family I was thinking about alternate things like what I could do with the rest of my life there were so many easy comfortable choices it'd be so easy to do something easy and comfortable and I mean I ultimately reject all that stuff but yeah it's just most people they they're living in their comfort comfort zone do let's see interesting stuff to talk about catching a trophy fish and throwing it back with a picture as proof yeah just who cares catch a fish and eat it that's that's why you catch a fish you catch a fish to eat it Jamie love your show well thanks love your ingenuity get that sawmill done yeah I'm looking forward to getting the sawmill done although I guess I'm not in a super hurry to finish the lumber mill because I still have to set up the thing to power it although if I get the if I get the lumber mill done I can put it outside so that's that's my big motivation right now to you know dot the eyes and cross the T's on that and just get it outside so it's not taking up this big spot in my house but I'm still going to have to do a bunch of work to get to the point where there is something I could do that I could power it pretty soon that I could I could set up in a day you know be easy to put together and basically take apart because I'm gonna okay so I've got I've got my old cargo boat and I'm taking the entire roof off and I'm changing the roof to something else in the roof it doesn't matter but that whole roof that's where the solar panels went and I think I'm going to use that whole roof to go on top of the lumber mill because the roof is actually longer than the distance the lumber mill will roll like the entire thing the entire lumber mill when it rolls all the way to the front and all the way back can be totally under cover of the old boat roof so I'm going to put the old boat roof above it and I could just put the solar panels back on it because they I mean did have a bunch of solar panels on it and that's enough to power the lumber mill oh well now I'm realizing I could I could set that up in like a day okay well let me I yeah I'm gonna I'm gonna have to do some more thinking geez that would be nice I could cut I could start cutting the wood sooner even if and the solar panels I can put them in and then take them out easily when I want to you know put them in something more permanent because yeah I can put them in take them out easily oh I might have to do that all right let me let me put that in my brains let's in my brains now that's gonna be easy to remember because that's like a high priority thing finally found a partner who does things and it's almost too fun no way how did you where did you where did you find a partner who does things you know one of the difficulties is people who do things they it's hard for them to run into each other because they're always off doing things so like if I were to try to meet someone who's kind of like me who's like always off doing things it's like where where the hell do I go to meet that that person's not going to like you know collective socially things they're they're busy enjoying their whatever they're doing like like an artist will be in their studio and they're like get away from me everyone go away go away I'm doing stuff no lock the door lock themselves in or or like I'm here like just like doing doing stuff that I love all day or like yeah how do you how do you meet other doers that's tough when someone tells me a cool story these days I need a picture as proof oh that's so true yeah um so many people have these bullshit stories and they just they do nothing and one of the one of the one of the reasons I know that this is so bad is because I keep getting links like you know like I'm saying earlier people email me links to other videos and occasionally I'll watch one and it's almost always just these idiots who just look fancy words fancy words stupid over over complicated explanation about how amazing this is and how super it is and I've built them an amazing thing that's only barely gonna be useful for a proof of concept demonstration that we're gonna do really quick or maybe not at all maybe we're not even gonna show it working but if we do we'll just do it really quick and but we're just gonna talk about how amazing it is and it won't be anything that they're using and this is one of the things that I always make sure I do on my channel all the shit I do is shit I actually use like for extended periods of time like all the boats I've built they've like they've all gone through hell and and worked and functioned and if something breaks I fix it and you know yeah or like yeah it's just a totally different thing Jane what are you building today Jamie well I want to pull the the roof off the shark slicer off my cargo boat I'm not sure how much it weighs I'm hoping I don't know I'm just gonna do whatever I have to do to get it off I might have to cut it into multiple pieces but it'll be nice to take the whole thing in one piece I can get my friend to come help me hopefully the two of us can move it to up on the hill where the lumber mill is going to be Mensa Mutual Admiration Society yeah pretty much oh what up well I am doing some other stuff today I got some fiberglass dome pieces from DeShana's house and a few other things like basically I'm just getting all my stuff off her island but now I have most of the pieces for to build a fiberglass dome you know like just the fiberglass domes that I've built several of I have five pieces of one and I need eight total to make a to make a whole dome I also have two door pieces so I don't even have to make those two whole sections because the door piece takes up a huge chunk of it and then I also have a few window pieces but I have one more window piece that I can put in the other dome piece so I don't even have to build that whole one so I only have to build three more half pieces to get a whole fiberglass dome and maybe I'll put that up on the hill too I don't know I have to it's I'll have to find somewhere to put it but I got those pieces there on my boat right now I could carry have to carry them up under the hill okay mini split is an AC system with no duct work okay okay so it's just like a little self-contained cooler got it if you built a steamboat would you use a paddle wheel or propeller oh that's a good question I'm not sure I think geez I don't know that's a tough one I'm thinking probably propeller although I would also want some pedals so I probably have a paddle wheel too because that works really well with the speed a person can pedal yeah in terms of in terms of all the human powered things I've put on boats like the pedal things I found the paddle wheels to be much better and I do have on my smallest boat while not counting the kayaks on the zombie chopper my little white boat it has pedals that that run a big gear that run a small gear that goes back to a propeller and that works and it's been working and I don't know it's still just you know it's loud in the the gears I'm only that you know eventually they're going to start skipping and stuff or wearing there's just there's just a lot of moving parts you know but with a paddle wheel you can just have the pedals connected directly to the paddle wheel you know no moving parts no gears or anything and because your legs move at a relatively slow speed you know it matches the paddle thing so you don't need any gearing I guess that's the biggest advantage with having a paddle wheel with pedals but then when you have a motorized thing the motor generally spins faster so if you want to have that go directly to something go directly to a propeller so if I build a steam engine that's going to spin fast which is probably what I'd want to do then I have to go back to running a propeller but if it's a steam engine that's really like joker joker joker I'd probably run a paddle wheel just you know just to see the gearing because gearing is all that extra complicated complication is just not worth it you know a mini-split is an ac system that runs in reverse that can heat to oh I'm using it to supplement my heat because I'm dependent on propene cool yeah so I'm thinking steam steam engine that's what I'm thinking at the moment anyway hey Jamie just want to say that you have been a huge inspiration to my life well that's excellent jimmy jimmy two shoes I have been locked into a rat race oh for a long time and a finally broken free nice currently looking for my new residence that's amazing oh that's so cool that's like an exciting place to be when you you're just starting a huge journey that's whoa that's that's awesome man that's super cool if you have any interest in moving to Panama possibly you can send me a message we can we can talk but I don't know to live and to live off grid to the oh that was still the part of the same message cool man dude yeah totally send me a message if you have any interest in moving to Central America oh you're 40 years old by the way sounds reasonable jimmy you're the best whoa whoa whoa whoa that is a big word man that is a big word you know how many people are on there on the planet there's like eight billion of them yeah be careful about throwing around words like like the best but but I'll take it for the moment jimmy you're the best oh you spelled my name wrong oh it's not me someone else is the best some other jimmy is the best your videos always inspire me to do and be better oh that's beautiful that's the best feedback ever I love that feedback thank you I've been watching since the Vermont road building videos keep it up stay strong thanks man man that road was that was a serious road that was a good road um well thank you Alex is that Alexander Graham bell oh I meant oh no when you said you met the perfect woman except she was a lesbian yeah I mean I'm sure she probably had some other problems but oh yeah well I mean anytime you want to meet someone who's going to be like a life partner like there's there are going to be certain minimum requirements that they and they have to meet all of them you know people like to write out a huge list of minimum requirements but when you get down to it's there usually aren't that many it's just a few things that are critical and it's often what usually happens is you'll meet someone who meets one thing and then it's like ah no they don't mean any of the rest you meet a lot of people like that but then you might meet like occasionally meet someone who meets two or even three of the things and then it's like ah but they don't meet that other critical one yeah being being straight would be would be pretty important because because I don't I don't got no boobies and I am confident for another man anyway I'm sure you could find a good woman in the Philippines maybe I need to go to the Philippines can we can we import can I import uh go be the other cool guy I don't know what that means hey Jamie have you grown any good food lately oh on my boat right now I have a yellow plantain tree that I need to plant and two different types of lemon trees that I need to plant too but what have I grown lately um I don't know if I showed this but a couple weeks ago I got a huge thing of bananas maybe just a few weeks ago now I don't know I've lost track the February the whole month of February was just a bust for me it might have even been a month ago but I got a huge thing of bananas and I have two banana trees that I can see out this window right now that are looking like they're about the size when they start making the banana the the bananas so I should get more bananas and that the trees from that spot have been giving me like really good banana bunches like like big banana bunches and uh let's see I've also got some some tubers growing some uh yucca that I haven't dug up yet but the plants above the ground are they're kind of getting huge so I don't know how big the yucca is under the ground I'm hoping but we'll see and then I don't know I guess nothing nothing particular that I'm thinking of right now probably after I get off this I'm going to realize oh yeah there's that thing that's amazing but yeah just just working on stuff I'm working on getting better soil planting trees you know putting charcoal trying to make terra preta which someone mentioned recently um with some charcoal and some just organic stuff you know trying to try to make better soil is what I'm really focusing on lately but I do have some stuff stuff growing out here that's looking pretty good oh I don't know what that means okay cutting the roof bad idea it could be used camping or long trips cargo okay so cutting the roof off the the shark slice there isn't just something out it's just like oh just don't win let me do it no I really thought about it like I want to take it off partly because the way the roof is right now it's not it's not waterproof and so I definitely want to change it in some way uh the other thing is it's really tall which is not that great when you're in stormy weather and you know on a on a on a day when it's super chill and everything yeah tall roof doesn't matter at all but when you start getting in some high winds and the waves are like tossing your boat around and also that the higher parts of your boat are getting pushed by the wind it's uh it's a little bit crazy whenever I'm in that situation I'm always thinking about lowering the roof and just being more streamlined and all that stuff so I think I want to actually do that and I want to change the roof to be something watertight and I want to be able to get on the roof the way the roof is right now you can't get on the roof and it would be nice if I could get on the roof would be a huge other hangout space right and so you you mentioned camping like that's that's what I end up thinking about actually if I take the boat and drive somewhere you know I put it in in driving mode the solar panels are down on the roof and everything is kind of sleek and streamlined and then I get to where I want to be I can stop uh put the solar panels on the roof up so they're kind of out of the way and then the whole roof is is a place to hang out and I can go up there and chill and eat up there I don't know it's just it'll be have a lot of space the other thing is the way the roof is right now there are times when I want to go up rivers like little rivers I haven't gotten any in video in a while but sometimes there are low branches and that roof has difficulty getting through so if I lower the roof I'll be able to get through more stuff you know I don't know but I and I just there are a bunch of reasons but I think it's going to be good just wait just wait till you see the new roof it's going to be good don't worry I'm not making something crappy volunteering volunteering is a fun way to bump into new people that's true yeah totally I've been kind of paying attention trying to look for things I could go do although it's just I'm hours away from town and occasionally there are voluntary volunteer kind of things in town that I've meant to go to but the last one I want I wanted to go to it was just bad weather that day and for me driving all the way to town in bad weather to do like a couple hours of volunteering is not not the greatest not not the greatest so I don't know I also do occasionally get volunteers here you know work-a-ways or you know woofers kind of thing I haven't had any in a while but I don't know maybe I'll maybe I'll do that more but I mean really I just want to I just want to like now that I've kind of gotten a lot of stuff cleared from my plate and from my mind things I don't have to worry about I just I kind of want to just spend some time just being a hundred percent Jamie and just just doing you know just doing the thing not worrying about anyone else and you know someone else I mean I do have a work-away profile right now someone who seems like they're cool wants to come yeah I mean and maybe I'll meet some cool people I don't know maybe there is someone who needs help building something and other doers might be there too yeah true I could wait I count spending time here as volunteering my time you all here are cruel yeah I'm volunteering my time here too although someone sent me some money so I guess I'm not technically volunteering I guess I still I mean I still kind of have well this is totally different kind of volunteering than you were talking about in terms of meeting people although I do meet people on here but I still do kind of have the mindset that when I do these these videos I'm kind of doing it voluntarily even though as of several years ago I'm making some money doing them but it's not something that I like count on you know like I always wanted to be the kind of thing where I'm doing it voluntarily because it's going to give the right vibe if I started doing it for money I might start doing you know all that all that fake stuff you know I hate all that fake stuff towingers is back very good very good leave the roof could be your new taxi no no you should get some cats caught you live loving your frequent upload schedule oh great it was quite quite impressed with your bent pipes yeah those things came out amazing didn't that you can almost see them from here oh no the marshmallows in the way right right right there that thing is called the marshmallow it's a giant beanbag but right behind that is all those curved pipes I made keep doing you your projects have been amazing thanks man fissilist berries what are fissilist berries do I need to write that down will they grow here are they are they tropical berries oh my gosh I gotta write this down fissilist berries hold on I gotta find something you know sometimes I think someone is gonna make something up and tell me oh you should get this and it's not a real thing fissilist berries there's all kinds of yeah there's all kinds of cool stuff I want to grow here that I haven't I haven't yet it's just you know it's a lot of a lot of things to do although now I have one huge thing off my plate so I'm starting to make more progress and stuff a mini split is an ac system that has the condensers separate from the evaporator available as heat pump as well they can run off ac or dc or both cool Todd thanks for sharing your life and ideas with the world you're a credit to the world and I can't wait to show my daughter all your cool videos cool videos well thanks man oh he also said thank you thank you Jamie well thank you Todd um Superman had a thinking zone fortress of solitude I've created one too on my enclosed porch do you have a thinking zone my thinking zone is generally inside my head but whenever I'm here by myself yeah I can think really clearly like yeah I guess my thinking zone is my house here and maybe even my island just my island yeah it's uh it's my my own island of solitude even though my you know my kids are here but they they don't mess up my thinking you know hi all did I miss stuff oh my gosh read you missed so much stuff so much super important stuff you would not believe oh not not really I don't think you missed anything hey Jamie good to see you are you still working toward the wood flooring for your house I am working toward the wood flooring for my house and I was just realizing I don't know half an hour ago that I could get the lumber mill working a lot sooner than I was originally thinking because I have a way to set up the power source for it for it that would be super easy and all the only thing I have to do on the lumber mill right now I mean other than you know little little bits of stuff here and there but the only the only main thing that's left is to build the track for it and put the wheels on a lumber mill the rest is basically all there you know I might want to add some stuff or whatever but you know it would function right now if I if I put the wheels on and control um I'm interested in coming down there 80 wait 80 co feast coast I don't know what's anyway I'm interested in coming down there I actually just sent you an email in July of 2022 just before you started making videos again but I've been so busy and I'm sure you missed it I yeah if you sent it while I was not making videos I was probably not even checking my email which I wasn't I didn't check my email for months and then like I didn't go online at all and then when I finally did I had like 4 000 emails 99 percent of which was just spam and I don't know why they keep thinking I need a bigger whatever um can this works good for my boat you can use poor man's fiberglass to do it cheap what's this for I'm not sure Jamie have you started to use any kind of AI to shorten the time you spend online no what would I don't really spend any time online I mean can I get an AI to do this I wouldn't want to add to this there's there's nothing that I would want an AI to do what am I missing is there something I should get an AI to do that I don't know about I don't want an AI speaking for me for sure I like doing stuff for myself I don't I feel like I should edit the videos myself I don't know steam engines are mostly low part low rpm high torque mostly depends on the steam engine but yeah um wait you could bear as Jesus freak some of these missionaries get 3 000 a month oh I could be a Jesus freak oh god I can't do that no I love you man even though you basically called me out for being more talk and less action oh well it's good it's good to get called out feel free to call me out too on on my crap because I I know that I make some mistakes a lot of mistakes I make mistakes constantly all the time um yeah wild schnauzberries oh oh geobomb you you tricky little devil maybe there are a permaculturists there are permaculturists in your area those people experiment a lot with different species of plants it takes a long time to experiment maybe they can help you hit the ground running yeah I've gotten some some of the plants I have have come and have come from uh some other farmer type people in the area so I'm getting some help there I find your inspiration and drive for life awesome oh thanks been watching since you started making the first robot spiders still remember the the big ones first steps in the field keep the projects coming that was a fun day that was a really fun day domestic dingleberries all right all right dingleberries I'm pretty sure those are invasive oh those damn dingleberries hello from India mega duvedi yeah what you know one of the cool things about india there's always there's always all these um youtube videos from people in india making things with like from scratch or like repairing motors with like pieces of paper and stuff there's some cool videos coming out of india uh or like repairing that and stuff like that how do you me thanks for the content and inspiration keep up the good work well thanks man copy paste revolutionary paint how to make surfaces stay cool with the sun for a guy who does the research is this going to be that guy who just talks again someone's already sent me some uh do you have any dead fallen mahogany trees on your island you can make some good money selling the lumber to a guitar company I actually want to use mahogany for my upper floors and I do have mahogany I think I don't know mahogany is all over the place here it's called my old rojo locally I know it's the same thing be careful don't get the wrong fissilis or the wrong plant fissilis has another plant that is poisonous red not orange chinese lanterns I don't want any poisonous stuff indians repair almost everything yeah that's uh yeah and the society I came from everyone throws everything out because they just have people are too spoiled and then I can't talk to them because I'm like stop doing nothing he mixes kens and has temp probes okay whatever all right it's been almost an hour and I have some things that I should go do and uh yeah I should total you wait was there anything else I wanted to talk about today um oh when I was when I was going on amazon someone mentioned last week not that I want to plug amazon or anything but that's why I order a lot of stuff um someone mentioned last week I should look up marine carpet for the the roof of the new roof of my world because I want to put up something that's going to insulate so it's not just bare metal in the sun and I looked up marine carpet but then I found I forgot what they called it now this like EVA foam it's like fake wood paneling but it's just rubbery stuff and I might end up doing that because I did find some that had been returned and then was then half priced it's kind of expensive but if it's you know been returned in half price well it's not so bad though so I might get some of that um I read Jamie I read about you really like how different you are from others well thanks man because some places you can read about me and it is not flattering oh damn I bought tomato I bought tomato seed instead of fissilis I should have taken my glasses oh tomatoes I want to grow tomatoes but they're a little bit tricky here because it rains so much so you have to like put them under a roof or make sure there's good drainage or something like you can grow tomatoes here but they're a little tricky from what I hear from people um uh yes that guy with that channel is a guy who talks very much uh yeah I don't know I know you're trying to leave but curious do you do much fishing I don't do as much fishing as I should be but just because I'm busy all the time you know um but I have done fishing and I have a fishing thing on my boat you know just a line wrapped around a thing the hook on it and a little like a lure that's made out of just a little basically like a straw which works and uh yeah I fish with it occasionally but I just I'm just busy a lot once so here's the thing the way my life is set up right now I just have a lot of things to do I'm kind of scrambling to get everything set up which sounds silly because I've been in this rough location for like nine years but for a lot of that time I was working on something that ultimately was a total bust just because there were some personal issues and blah blah blah so here I'm I'm kind of still in the early not in the early stages I'm just I'm kind of in the mid stages of getting things set up and going so it's a lot of just busy doings you know like getting getting the logistics of the the basic stuff I'll set up like I don't even have the upper floors down in my house when I lived in Vermont it took me about five years from when I got there to when I got to the point that I said wow I can kind of chill I've got like all this stuff set up you know like all the all the basics are taken care of and functioning well and there's like basically no maintenance you know I'm kind of I'm set up now I'm good you know there's still stuff to do obviously but it took about five years to get to that point there here in this house I'm about two years in and I figured it'll probably be like five years maybe like two or three years in it'll probably be like another two or three years till I get to the point where I'm like oh I can I can take a breath and relax and like I've got all this stuff set up and it's good and it's ready to go and it's like you know I don't need constant maintenance I'm not always you know fighting to try to make progress like when I get to the point where it's like you know I'm kind of I'm kind of set up and at that point I'm definitely going to be doing a lot of fishing a lot more snorkeling maybe some salvaging of stuff and you know all that kind of stuff I would it would be really cool to like salvage some boats and stuff like that um but yeah it's still gonna still gonna be a while till I get to that point um oh you guys said just said so much stuff I know you're trying oh yeah um all right oh wait haven't heard you mentioned adventure builders lately is that still your core belief oh that's an important good good thing I read that yes my I still follow adventure builder virtues it's in fact that has been tested quite quite strongly in the last month and uh yeah I still stick to adventure builder principles even when it's very difficult so yeah and I'll talk about that more I don't know sometime kind of when when things when things stabilize and chill out a little bit in two to three years you will get bored and need to move to another wild place to start over I know how you are wired that is absolutely not true when I was in Vermont I'm a place in Vermont when I got to the point where things were basically you know kind of set up and I was like oh I can actually take a breath and chill a little bit that didn't mean I chilled that means I started putting more time into building robots and building giant robots and doing all these other things that I really love doing like I cannot wait till I get to the point that I can kind of like put a bunch of buildings to rest and a bunch of landscaping and just kind of be mostly done with that stuff and then I can really focus on the stuff that I really want to do not that I don't want to do that other stuff but a lot of the stuff that I'm doing right now is just like the hard work foundation of the life I really want you know so it's important to do and I'm enjoying it while I'm doing it but mostly because it needs to be done if I could just skip all that part and get to the stuff that I really love I would and that kind of goes back to one of the reasons I'm doing this whole off-grid kind of lifestyle in the first place like I always wanted to build inventions and machines and I would love to get into you know outer space stuff and you know more robotic stuff you know there's a lot of invention-y kind of stuff that I want to do and I could have just gone directly into those kind of fields and just worked on that kind of stuff but I couldn't live with the society I was in you know just being part of a society that's just destructive so I was like all right I got to go all the way back to the beginning and like start from scratch and build the foundation and once I get everything set up in a way that it's not wasteful and you know things are running efficiently and you know not creating all this garbage and you know when I have a lifestyle that I can feel good about then I can do all the all the really fun stuff I want to do so that's you know right now I'm still in the the hard work foundations of everything and when I get that stuff done I am definitely not going to want to leave I'm going to go crazy with the with the fun stuff I can do just because you don't talk about your beliefs all the time doesn't mean you don't believe it anymore that is true you can fish more when the kids are old enough they don't need you all the time keep on going yeah I mean the kids can the kids like fishing too they love eating fish too so were you not scared to burn your degree and leave secure life in the city well I was not actually I would not call it secure life in the city when I lived in when I lived in the city I felt that I was basically living in a prison camp and there are all these rules I didn't agree I agree with I think they were wrong I thought they were bad rules but I was required to follow them just because I was there and it got to the point where I was like I would rather be dead than do this and at that point it wasn't scary to to move off grid because if I was willing to die then this is one of the good things about you know when you get to a point where you're willing to die and a lot of people kind of get stuck in this depressing state where they're unhappy with what's going on but not enough to do something about it you know and when you're stuck in that middle state that is the worst place because that can drag on for a long long time so I was fortunate to get to be so at odds with the life around me that I got to the point where I was past depression I was to the point of suicidal and I was like I cannot live like this I either have to die or change my life or die trying so and that's why I could change my life to something I really wanted because I was I would rather die than go back and uh that was that was what kept me going at the beginning but then eventually I was like dude this this life is amazing like living off grid uh waking up and being being my own person and taking care of stuff myself and you know like having my my own hands actually matter like it matters what I do with these hands today if I do the right stuff today I have a good tomorrow if I do the wrong stuff today I have a bad stuff a bad time tomorrow I love that kind of uh responsibility where what I do matters um so yeah I didn't have any problem leaving the city I the the hardest thing was that I didn't have any example of like I had look up to I was just flying blind making it up as I go and that's one of that was the big motivation for me to originally start making the videos so that I could say okay I have nothing to look up to to to follow here so I'm just gonna barrel forward and hope I can figure some stuff out make these videos so that the next person can look at what I did and be like okay I could skip a bunch of mistakes because that guy went through all this and you know figured some stuff out or or maybe even just look at what I'm doing and say well that guy has no clue what he's doing and he's making it work so maybe I can too you know um no no problem leaving the city uh all right I think I am going to get out of here and use my hands do you still make clothes and hats I do I made this hat this is my hat that I made a few years ago it's pretty beat up at this point I'm probably gonna have to make another one kind of soon uh I did not make this shirt uh but I I make some of my shirts and it's yeah all my clothes are either just kind of like hand me downs or stuff I made and yeah all right wait in brief if you don't like your reality change it yes and don't listen to people tell you you can't change it sometimes you have to change it um oh mega you are right I'm not happy but can't do anything about it okay so if you're this a lot of people are in this situation so let me just let me just talk about this for a minute and then I'm gonna get out of here and use my hands and do some stuff but when you're stuck in a life that is not satisfying you it does not feel like like this is the life you should be living a lot of people have the situation and I had I had the situation when I was good um maybe I should just share the way I thought about it the way I thought about it was okay I've only got one chance at this life as far as I know I've got one chance and that is it if I blow it if I spend the next 80 years of my life just kind of being pushed around and you know following the the line that I'm supposed to and staying in my lane I'm gonna die and I'm gonna look back on my life and I'm gonna say shit I fucking blew it I had one chance and now I'm at the end and I blew it and I'm gonna wish I'm gonna be laying there in some yeah got him I mean laying there dying as some old man thinking about all the things I didn't do that I and I blew it so put yourself in that mindset save yourself okay I'm 100 years old I'm laying in bed I'm dying and I'm looking back on my life what am I going to wish I had done and you're only getting one chance to do it you only get one chance to do every day every moment everything you only get one chance to do it so put yourself at the end of your life and look back at your life and you know what's gonna happen between now and then if you just do nothing if you don't change your life you basically know that you're just gonna go through the steps doing exactly what you're doing now and then you're gonna die and you're gonna have to look back on if you're not happy about that if you if you look back on the life you're living right now and you say that's crap you gotta fix it you gotta do whatever you have to do to fix it risk dying to fix it and uh so many times in fact one time pretty recently I've had to risk dying to change my life which is which hasn't really happened since I had kids and I don't want to talk about the recent one but like many times in my life I've I've risked death to change my life because the life I was living was not worth living and risking death doesn't mean you're gonna die you know it's this is this is one of the things that we've become really really squeamish about in our society it's just like people are so afraid to take a risk to change their life because they might die doing it like when I first went off grid people said oh you're gonna die you're gonna freeze over the winter you're never gonna make it and I just was like well if I die then I die I would rather die than not try and you know it wasn't anywhere near as bad as anyone said I figured everything out it's not like death just suddenly showed up and was like ha you're dead no it was like death started creeping in it was like okay I gotta do something about that before this kills me and it kept they kept being things that I could handle over and over and the silly thing is you are always at risk of dying you could be hit by a meteor I could be hit by a meteor right now just a little pebble from outer space nothing I could do about it you could die like that from from a hundred different things that you have no control over any moment you could die so don't waste the time while you have it because it could disappear any time and the other thing is we do we do life-risking things every day every time you get in a car if you walk down the street and you know any you know there's so many you get in elevator there's so many things that we do in our daily lives that we've just gotten used to we're just we're just we're just accepting all these all of these life-risking things like you drive a car you're in a steel box going 60 70 80 miles an hour next to people who are doing the same thing a whole bunch of people a lot of people died dying dying crashes you get an airplane if it crashes you're dead you you you get in an elevator if it malfunctions you could fall and die there there are so many ways you could die you could die just from eating something so risking your life to make your life better should not be such a huge thing you know i don't know what anyone's circumstances are you know you get you gotta figure it out but a lot of times i mean as far as i know every time i've encountered something there's always something you can do to change your life but sometimes often you have to get to the point the point of discomfort past where you're just depressed to the point where you would rather die than continue and that's when you can that's when you can really make big changes all right i'm gonna go see what i can do to make some big changes not gonna do anything particularly life-risking but i'm i'm just going for it man i'm not worried about my mortality i am just going for it all right let's just see if i missed anything that i need to say okay okay see you guys later tomaters okay bye jamie yeah mega you don't don't give up on yourself man remember you you have control over your life you might have to risk it to keep control but that's that's that's what life is man that's life all right everyone have a good life and a good day and be amazing and i'm gonna stop streaming apparently i've been peeing this whole time okay