pants on and everything. I'll put this on backwards. All right. Hold on. Give me a second to get fancy here. Oh yeah. Getting so fancy. Whoa, this shirt is fancy. So someone recently sent me some silk shirts. So soft and cuddly. And that's what I'm wearing right now. A silk shirt. I don't think I've ever had a silk shirt before. They sent me like four of them. And some other stuff. And stuff for the kids. Some of that stuff I showed last week, but I didn't, or not last week, maybe it was last week. I don't know. But I didn't show these shirts. I got these nice silk shirts. Check it out. Obviously they didn't come with adventure builder symbols on them. I put that on myself. And I did that with this, which is a adventure builder stamp I made the other day. Hello, Jesse. Jesse's a boy, I take it. Jesse could be a boy's or a girl's name. Same as Jamie. Jamie could be a boy's or a girl's name. Hey, I could have named one of my daughters, Jamie, but I didn't. No, I think I need to angle a little bit.  Just a little bit. Oh yeah, there we go.  I am a guy, LOL. I figured you're a guy. Just statistically speaking, pretty much almost everyone here is a guy. Everlanders, I have arrived. Please begin. Okay. Today, we're in a different spot. We're still in my house. But usually I sit like back over there somewhere. And today I was like, I need a different scenery. I need to be in a different spot. I don't know if this is the best lighting right here, but right there. It's not too bad. You guys are on my table right now. Here, I'll show you my table. Here's my table. Hey, let me let me back up and you can get kind of a view of my table. There's my table. So, you guys today are sitting right on top of that bowl right there. See those pieces of Lego? That's my that's my stand for you guys. So, we're going to stick you up on that table. That is a nice looking table. I know I love this table. It's got what should I show some of the features for for a second. Hold on. Yeah, it's got these steel pipe legs. I'm really liking the steel pipe legs. I first, wait, I got to aim my finger right. Yeah, right here. These things, wait, the can't aim my finger right. Yeah. Oh, it's like looking through a mirror, but backwards, but sort of anyway. The steel pipe legs, I first made them to make it so termites wouldn't, you know, be attracted to the bottom. Not that I have termites in my house, but that's probably because I don't leave wood lying around. And you know, I don't want termites to come in. But the steel pipe legs have been amazing. Like there's so this table is so sturdy. Like I jump around on it, the kids jump up and down. It's got, I don't know, a couple hundred pounds of stuff under the the bottom layer. It's even got another table up on top of it. And the steel legs are in there and they've got some cross bracing. So it's got the four steel legs and man, it's just really, really sturdy table. It's excellent. Okay, I'm probably moving around too much in the the video is starting to get pixely. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna stop moving so much for a minute. Wait, I noticed we had a couple quick questions here before I start rambling on about stuff. Good morning, blow. Is Jamie nickname for James? No, Jamie is just Jamie. Yeah, it's also spelt with two eyes, just like in my head. That's how I remember how many eyes to put in my name. Sometimes I have to look in the mirror. How many eyes do I want to? Oh, yeah. That's how many put in that in my name. What are you planning for Thanksgiving? I don't know. When's Thanksgiving? I try to be thankful, thankful every day. I'm thankful for bananas. I just cut down here. I'll show you this too.  Right, right there. Well, I don't have to point at it.   Isn't that great? So yeah, I've been doing a bunch of stuff this morning. That's why I got all filthy and had to go jump in the ocean and have a shower before I came in, which is why I was only partially clothed when you got here. I had shorts on for anyone who's clicking the rewind button. Relax, I wasn't naked. Well, what am I going to do for Thanksgiving? I don't, nothing in particular, I guess. I don't even know when Thanksgiving is. Let's see. Maybe I should, maybe I should pick a better spot with better lighting. The lighting is good enough, whatever. Better oil them up before they rest. Oh, you're talking about my table legs. They are galvanized, but yeah, they have a little tiny bit of rust on them. But what I did, okay, let me show you. Okay, here's my table. Here's, here's my table leg. Yeah, just ignore the piles of stuff under it. This stuff all has jobs at some point, but right now it's just, yeah, it's just metal storage under here. Anyway, so I've got steel pipe legs and they're all, they all have these PVC caps on the bottom. And I filled those with oil. And my, I had two thoughts about that. One is they'll keep bugs from climbing up here and, you know, getting to the table. If there's any termites or anything, they'll get to the oil and be like, I don't like that. But then also, you know, the oil will kind of help keep the bottom from rusting and maybe I should oil the whole legs once in a while. But the table does seem to be doing very well. Let's see, I'm just going to go through a couple more of these real quick before I start talking my morning monologue, you know, we made it to Ecuador. Oh, nice work guys. Wait, where's Ecuador? Oh yeah, it's like a little south of us, right? On the, it's on the west side, I think.  But then once I got here, I kind of forgot about where everything is in the room. Have you tried grinding a pop can up and making a luma crete? No, I've not. Does that, let me, let me write this down on my, I have my pad of paper today again. Oh, and my pad of paper. I cleaned off when I was, when I was using my big stamp to put on shirts and stuff. I cleaned, I always cleaned it off on, on papers. So there's a whole bunch of papers with varying, varying darknesses of my adventure building from that stamp. Anyway, a luma crete, I'm just going to write a luma crete. I'll be able to remember. Now I don't want to write on this page because it's so nice. Let's use, let's use last week's page, which I've used part of.  Grinding up a pop can and making a luma crete. So does that make it fluffy? Does that, does that make a bubble up? I gotta, I'm gonna have to look it up, aren't I? Well, I gotta get back to work. Jesse, have fun at work. Take care. I hope you have an amazing, fun day. I hope you do too at work, whatever you're doing. I hope your job's fun. Aubrey says, I came from Sam and Colby's video of them exploring your old dome home. It was absolutely amazing. Well, I'm glad it was amazing. It was amazing living there. Although I don't keep up with what's going on there now because I don't, I don't even want to know what people are doing with stuff that I did once upon a time. Besides, I have tons of stuff to worry about here. Oh yeah, you need a degree, wait, you need a degree and permits to build a table like that. Yeah. West, south of Columbia. Okay, I did know where Ecuador is. Yeah, it's on the west side, south of Columbia, right? Wellness check on Tomaters. Yeah, where's Tomaters? Cheers from Brazil. Where, where is Tomaters? Well, hopefully he'll show up. Tomaters may be in a, you know, one of the time zones that just changed the time thing. So maybe he'll be an hour late. Hey, Jamie, sent you the pics of Shovel about 40 minutes ago. Oh, cool. On the Adventure Builder movie at gmail.com. We'll be away for a while, but I'll watch you live later. Won't be contributing in here for the next few hours. Okay, sounds good. But I did want to ask you about your sourdough bread baking adventure. Well, I made a video on it a while ago. My sourdough is amazing. I love it. I have some bread over there right now. Okay, let me, okay, let me answer this last question. Then I'm going to start rambling on some, some big thing. Have you seen the German YouTube survival series that was filmed on an island in Panama? It's extremely successful with over 5 million views per app. I don't care how many views there are. I care if it's like, man, if something is, is like successful in today's world, I tend to think I probably won't like it because like popular culture today is whack, man. But anyway, okay. So what am I going to talk today? I like to start things out with a little bit of a monologue, even though we've already, we've already gone 10 minutes here. Well, I don't know, you might have noticed last week I was a little, a little feeling worn out, you know? Just, just not, not, not quite feeling 100%.  Several, several things. I've had several waves of frustrating things happen this week. And I don't need to bore you with the details. You all know what frustrating things are. You know, everyone has their own problems in life. I don't need to bore you with the specific details of mine.  These cards are worse than having no cards. What the, and then, you know, you turn around and some, some thing that you took a chance on a while ago and you're like, this might work out.   And then you're like, some people are like, it's, it's always has to do with people. For me, it's like, all my frustrations have to do with dealing with people. But anyway, so it got really frustrated. And I don't know how other people deal with frustration, but I'm going to tell you how I deal with it. Because right now I'm feeling pretty good. And not long ago I was feeling pretty darn headache, tight back, just, just not feeling good at all. So the downside of this whole, whole feeling frustrated thing is that, you know, I felt terrible. But the upside is that I would, that I'm also very familiar with this frustrated kind of a little depressed, a little angry feeling because I grew up in a very frustrating situation for me personally. And I don't want to get into the details of that either because someone's going to say, you don't know how good you had it. But, you know, every kid will tell you that they would happily give up a warm bed and a hot meal for a cold floor and some crackers if it came with some love. Just, just a little bit of love. Just give me some love, you know? Anyway, so I've had, I've had a fair amount of, amount of experience with being frustrated and angry and depressed. And when I, when I get really frustrated, and this probably applies to a lot of people, but I'm just going to talk about it in terms of myself because whatever. You know, when I get really frustrated, I can go kind of two main directions. I can go, I can end up kind of like falling down this pit of, of despair and depression and people call it, you know, the downward spiral where it's just self-reinforcing, horrible. This is a not good way to go. It's a terrible way to go. The other direction I can go with frustration is, is just to get angry, you know? And I've found that anger is much more useful than depression.  And I think this is one of the reasons that people often end up really depressed because there are frustrating things that happen in our lives and you got to deal with it some way. And if you can't be angry, the other direction to go is just depressed and so why is, why is anger so much more useful? Well, depression is just like an inactive thing. It's like, it's like passive. You end up depressed, you know? Don't do anything about, about the frustrating problem. But anger, that can motivate you. So like, imagine getting punched in the face, it's like, I'm angry, now I want to punch back. Like anger, anger can get you going. It can, it can get you motivated to do something, to make a change, to change whatever is frustrating you. Or, I mean, often anger will end up just destroying some stuff and, you know, and this is, this is the bad side of anger. Anger has a good side and a bad side.  But the, the useful way to use anger is to say, okay, let me take all of that, all of that depressed feeling and shove it over into, into just frustration.   And that'll make you motivated.  And if you can squeeze that anger over a little bit into raging determination, then you might be able to, you know, keep enough of your, enough, enough of your senses available to actually direct it towards something useful that can help prevent the future frustrations and just make things better in general. So if you, if you can get to the point where you're just like, I've got this raging determination and this is, this is where I am now. You may, you may have known a little worked up and this is gonna, this is gonna, this is gonna stick for a while. One of the cool things about raging determination that's coming from anger is that if you have a lot of anger and frustration, you can just keep funneling it into that raging determination. But then once you've got your raging determination, you know, it's important to make sure you direct it toward things that will be useful. And when I first learned how to do this, it was, it was when I was doing sports, track and field mostly. I learned a lot of things doing track and field. But you know, when I was younger, I had a lot of frustrating, frustrating situations. And I found that I could just direct this all into running. And I got really, I got really, what's the word? I got a lot of practice at taking all my frustration and anger and channeling it into running. At first, you know, it just made me feel sick. I was like, I don't want to run and do something constructive. I just want to destroy something because I'm angry. And then I just like, kind of like trick myself, like talk myself into the right things with, you know, logical silliness.  Can't run into a brick wall. You can't like do sloppy running and break your leg.  No, you can only destroy yourself through exhaustion. And that worked. And my anger and my determination would accept that.  And I would, you know, I ended up winning lots of races and my coaches all thought I was insane, but whatever. It was a really good, it was a really valuable thing because now whenever I have massive frustration, I know exactly how to channel that into raging determination. Now I don't want to make it sound like raging determination is the best thing in the world or anything. But it is, it is very useful. It's much better than just being depressed. There is a much better motivator. And I mentioned this in, in the movie I made a little while ago, the adventure builder movie. You know, I went, I went through a little bit of, I scraped over the surface of this history. A much better motivator is love and happiness. Like when you, when you have love and happiness, like, like in the movie I said, a happy Jamie outperforms an angry frustrated Jamie. But if you don't have that happiness at the time, man, take the anger and shove it into just raging determination and it can be very useful. So that's where I am right now. I've got raging determination to, to make, make everything better. I mean, I, I, I'm always trying to make everything better. But yeah, right now I'm just, I'm just like totally focused on that. I'm also really focused on trying to get some better people into my life, like less frustrating people. So I have to see if I can figure out how to do that. I don't know. It's hard, it's, it's kind of hard to do fine tuning things like that, though with raging determination. Raging determination is excellent for, for digging holes and, you know, cutting wood and stuff like that. It's not so good for fine tune things. So like the other day, yes, two days ago, I was trying to do something that was like really finicky. And I was like, I just can't do this right now because I'm just, you know, so I had to go do something that uses more, more gross mortar control. Anyway, so that's what's, that's what's going on with me. It's a vague nutshell. So let's, let's see what these comments are doing here. Let's see. Okay, now I'm, now I'm a little bit behind on the comments, of course, but because I just said a bunch of stuff anonymous retracted their message. I did read it before you retracted it, but I don't actually remember what it was now. So you're off the hook. Insano. You grind, okay, this is about the Illumicrete. You grind the pop can into circles and Illumicrete them together. You grind the pop can into, I'm going to need, how do you grind it into circles? Wouldn't you, you could cut it into circles. I must be missing something. Somehow you grind the pop can into circles and Illumicrete them together. I'm, I'm going to have to look this up. Have you actually shown the location of the upcoming bridge on camera? Would have been nice to include in the last video to have some perspective. Yeah. I have to, I have to skip that question for reasons that if I explained would defeat the point of skipping the question. I'm sorry. Everyone needs the couch once and a while, once in a while. I don't think that's true. I think the couch can be fine, but I don't think anyone needs the couch. I don't even actually, I don't even have a couch. A few bamboo plants would help you out with build projects. Yeah. I planted some bamboo over there and it's growing. It's just not growing very fast. I don't know. It might just be not in enough sun. I should get a bit of it and transplant it somewhere else. But mostly I've been working on just food trees and, you know, my, my bananas are doing great. I just transplanted one of my bananas from the tree where that bunch is to, to over here where there's a, I don't know. It just seemed like my brain was just like, my instincts say this is going to be a good spot for bananas. Do I look kind of crazy today? It's because my hair is sticking out. Whatever. I'm going to stick out my hair. It's fine. Now just be crazy because that's how I feel a little bit crazy. Depression is lack of dopamine. Anger is fired by adrenaline. Yeah. And when you get adrenaline, that, that's, that's good for your, your motivation. It gets you going, man. My popcorn powers have doubled since the last time we met. Oh, nice. Is that how, why is that?  So I don't know. I don't know if that's what you're talking about, but I feel like maybe I should share my, my popcorn cooking techniques because I can generally get like, like no unpopped kernels when I cook popcorn. And the way I do it is I, I cook on a fire, but you know, you could just translate to whatever you have, but I get the fire really, really hot.  And then I, I get the, I get the pot on there and I shake it a lot. Like I'm almost shake it the whole time, but except the fire is coming out the sides and burns my hands and all. So I gotta be like, so I shake it a lot. And because the fire is going so fast, like really soon the popcorn starts popping. And as soon as it starts popping, you know, I keep shaking a little more, but pretty soon after that, I just kind of let it go. And, you know, to shake it every once in a while to make sure there's no popcorn stuck on the bottom, because you know, that happens once in a while. And then, yeah, I just, they, they start popping. Like the thing is, if you, if you shake up the popcorn while, while it's all heating up, like all the kernels end up heating pretty evenly. So they, they pop together all really fast, like, and it's like done within like 30 seconds. And I like, it pops them all. People that deal with extreme depression, their whole life have a very high pain tolerance. Yeah. Yeah, totally. Yeah. Are you a fugitive on the run that's held up in a warehouse? Nope. I am a guy who lives on an island in, I built this, this warehouse. I call it a cathedral, because it's more like a cathedral, I think. Here, look up at the roof. Well, there's all kinds of scaffolding and stuff up there, but it's like a two-story tall dome roof. It's pretty cool up there. Anyway, I just wanted to move to an island. So I bought an island here and I mean, there's a lot more to the story than that. Woodrope stainless, wait, woodrope stainless holes through the bridge weaken the wedges. You mean, if, if it was roped like right through the thing, you could probably do it. The thing is, if there was a rope or something stainless steel, it would be, it would be stronger than the styrocrete. So it could kind of rip through the styrocrete before stopping the styrocrete from moving. So I'd be wary of maybe a rope or like a bunch of small ropes, but like a steel cable, stainless steel cable would be pointless because that would just rip right through the, the styrocrete before it did anything. Lee Douglas McGreevy was just responding a whole bunch of stuff to when I was talking about popcorn. How are the roof scales progressing? Oh, they're not, man. So I just work, it's, it's rained. It's, it's just been raining for like, I don't know, a couple weeks now. It's just rained a lot. So I can't do any concrete outside when it's raining. And it's rained so much that I've run out of all my, my indoor projects. So my indoor projects were, let's see, one was this, this kitchen area here, wait, this whole thing here. And then what was the other one? There's some other, oh yeah, making, making the bridge pieces. That's what I was also doing indoors. And I got all that stuff done. And there was something before that. Yeah, it's, it's rained so much that I've been inside so much that I've kind of run out of all the inside projects I had to do. So I haven't done anything on the roof scales, on the dragon roof scales in a while. I'm gonna have to do that soon. Today it's sunny, which is really nice, because it's been so rainy. Hopefully the out, you know, the outdoors can dry out a little bit. That'll be nice. But I can't do the roof in the sun either, because it'll dry out the concrete too quick. But I can start putting dirt over the bridge. Oh yeah, I got the bridge pieces in place. I'll have to, I'll have to get a video of that. Well, I have, I have some video of that. I have to put it together and put it online. I also didn't upload much video the last week because, you know, I have solar power and it was raining like the whole time, or just very cloudy. So I didn't get that much electricity. So it wasn't turning anything on really. I mean, I wanted to have, you know, lights in the evening and stuff. I have enough for that. And I do have some other solar panels that I can put on the roof. I just, you know, haven't done it. It's not just a matter of like throwing them up and they stick and it's magic. Like there's, you know, it's a little more involved. So anyway, I do have a new project to work on indoors now, because I just brought a whole bunch of tiles over here from Dashena's. And I'm going to maybe tile the kitchen floor or maybe the bathroom. I don't know. I'll have to tiles them. I have a whole bunch of tiles. I gotta do something cool with them. I will be back with awesome abilities. Excellent Lee Douglas McGreevy away from keyboard. I think he's going to make popcorn. Man, I have some popcorn. That sounds delicious. Man, my favorite popcorn is like cooked in animal fat. Hold on. I see mosquito. Oh, that mosquito is totally dead. Good. Rain good for water levels, at least. Yes. My water tank is totally full. It's been overflowing, which is great. Although I never really have a water running out problem because I'm kind of always conservative with my water. So yeah, I mean, I haven't had any problems at all. I do have a stream that I can go to, you know, on another property if I really need water. Let's see. Purposely hyperventilating for 25 breaths, then exhale and hold. Repeat two or three times. This will promote adrenaline production and mood. Oh, this will, yeah, promote adrenaline production and mood.  I've actually done that before. Yeah. I used to do that during like my morning exercises sometimes. So that helps produce adrenaline. Oh, that's cool. If it ain't raining, it ain't. I'm not sure. Is the sawmill next after the bridge? Well, the sawmill can happen at the same time as the bridge. That is another indoor project that I can work on besides the tiling thing, actually. And I should show you a couple other things I've been playing with that are on this table. And that's one of the reasons I wanted to do the video from this table. But yeah, one of the things I've been starting to think about more is building a sawmill. Yeah, you know, it's one of those things where it's kind of rolling around in my head. And at some point I'll be like, okay, time to pull the trigger on it. Let's do it. Oh, the lighting's a little better there than that because I'm not. Oh, now there's the other side. I can't get away from the backlit windows. Yeah, whatever. I'll just have to hang a, hang a sheet behind myself. Anyway, yeah, I think maybe, well, the bridge, the bridge is now at a point where I just have to put dirt on it. So that is just going to be a, you know, whenever it's sunny and I'm not doing something else kind of job. So yeah, I can start working on building a lumber mill. And yeah, oh, I know why I didn't start doing it yet. It's because the first piece I want to make for the lumber mill, I need to use the lathe. It's the piece where the saw blade attaches. I have this, have this shaft, everyone, everyone, in case you didn't know, I've got a shaft. And it's got a threaded thing at one end and a bit of a fatter thing. So basically, like, I can put a saw blade on it.  So I was going to cut that into a bolt or a nut, not a bolt, a nut to go on the end of this threaded thing. I think I drew this last week, but I used that piece of paper for something else. Anyway, so it's much fatter than this.  But I need to make a little groove that's like exactly the right size for the saw blade to go on and not move at all. Because right now, if it goes over the threaded part, you know, the saw blade could wiggle a little bit, but I need it to be like perfectly centered, obviously. Well, it's perfectly as I can get it because this saw blade is going to be spinning around like crazy.  So that was the first thing I wanted to do, but I didn't want to use the lathe when I didn't have much electricity because it's been so rainy and cloudy. I could possibly do it today. It's sunny right now, but I'm doing this instead, which is fine. I do need to let my batteries charge a little anyway. Have you been imagining melting metal lately? I often imagine melting metal. I want to share, I think there's a typo. Wait, I want to share wrapping a loaf of bread in aluminum and placed in fire until it's only carbon. Hollowed out bread, carbon, mini kiln. Yeah, I feel like, I don't know, will that last? I feel like it wouldn't last very long, but I mean, it would be fine for a little mini kiln, I guess. Usually when I do something like that, like I want to set up something that's going to be really good and last a long time. That's kind of why it takes me a while to get started on something. So often people will say, hey, have you started this yet? Have you started this yet? And for years I'll be like, no, I haven't started. I haven't started. And then once I actually do it, I'll make something that's going to last. Once in a while, sorry, just woke up and old age is catching up on me. Oh, Joe, don't accept the old age. The couch reference. We are here for you, bro. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not accepting the couch yet. Maybe at one point in time, I'll get a couch. But no, I don't want a couch. I do not accept you old age. You are rejected. Except, you know, you can have my hair, but that's it. You can take my, but you'll never take my not couch. Ryan Rakowski says arbor. Yes, the arbor. That's the part that attaches to the saw blade. Otherwise, no one is just a steel stick. Black bread kill mostly for low melting point metals. Yeah, is it going to leak? Why is Facebook saying hello Joe? Why is your name Facebook? The thinking process takes time. Yes. T. O. Dave. So, hey, Uncle Dave. I don't have an Uncle Dave. I'm just saying T. O. Dave means Uncle Dave in Espanol. So yeah, whatever I'm, whatever I'm, this is why I haven't started building the lumber mill yet. The first lumber mill I ever made, I just kind of like did it and slap something together because I didn't know how it was going to go. And that went, it ended up going pretty well, but you know, tons of improvements. The second lumber mill I made really thought about it and made something, you know, I was, that was really good. And unfortunately I left that behind in Vermont when I moved here. But I mean, it was huge. I wasn't going to drag it all the way here. But this time when I build one, I want to build one that's even better than that one. So I really want to think it out and plan it out. Well, you know, I'm going to start with, with the pieces that I know I want. So there's a piece, you know, the arbor, I have a pretty good idea of what I want for that. And then, you know, I'll make that. And I don't have to worry about anything else because I know, I know I need to make that and I'll make that. And then I'll figure out the next part that, and the more parts I make, the more I have to think about how they're going to fit it, fit with every other part. But the, the arbor is going to be a pretty simple one. That's an easy thing to figure out. But yeah, it's really good to, to plan things out at the beginning because then you end up with not so many problems later. Oh, Facebook says, my name is very search engine optimized. That's pretty funny. Debelie. Debelie, I'm a recent subscriber. Can you give us a quick overview of how you live your life with the kids and the island? Well, you should watch my movie. I made, I made a movie this year. It's called The Adventure Builder Movie. It should be the first thing that comes up on my page. But that, that explains a lot. But I don't know, in terms of my kids, my kids are over at DeShana's house right now. This is, that's their mother. She and, how do you explain this? She and I don't really get along with each other on a personal level. But you know, we work to, we're, we're like allies in life, I guess. So it was, it was beneficial for us to have separate pieces of land because whenever I do something, she won't undo it. She, she probably has a different story, but that's, that's fine. Anyway, so the, I mean, when we live close enough to get the kids can go back and forth whenever they want. So right now there's no kids at my house. There is Lego on the floor still, from when they were here. Actually, no, they cleaned it up. They cleaned it up. Yeah, usually they clean up stuff before they leave. Oh, no, that was, that was, that was my Lego. I don't know, did, we have, how do I explain it? I don't know, I guess it depends what you want to know. The kids are here. They have an amazing time. I'm trying to set up like a self-sufficient kind of deal where, where we basically don't need much money. Like I want to get food growing. I have, I mean, I have food growing, but I want to get enough food growing that we don't actually have to go anywhere to buy it. Doesn't mean we can't go buy food, but I, you know, I want to be at the point where we don't have to, where we, we basically have, you know, everything we need here on the island. And that's one of the reasons under, under this table, there's a huge pile of scrap metal. Because I, you know, I just have piles of things to build with. I mean, I could, I could build with years before running out of stuff. Like what do I have? I have like lots of these that I got basically for free. So I'm trying to set up a, you know, a pretty self-sufficient deal here. And I have some other land other than just this island. And I'm pretty sure I could actually grow all our food just on this island. Well, this and my, this is like a double island right here.  And I'm making a bridge to that one right now. So I can grow food there and here, workshop on the other island. And yeah, I kind of want to set up a place where we can be self-sufficient, take care of ourselves, and be creative. And one of the big questions that always comes up is what about school? Well, we homeschool our kids. Deshaena at her house during the week does more of a, more kind of a standard curriculum kind of thing where the kids learn, you know, the subjects in school and, you know, go on the internet and do classes with other kids and stuff like that. And then when they're here, they don't have, it's very informal, totally nothing scheduled, nothing, nothing planned really. I just kind of include them in whatever is going on. So I'm always building things and I just get them to participate. So they help with the bridge and they also just spend a lot of time building things. You know, let me show you one thing. So my daughters were working on this, both of them were working on this. This is for my younger daughter. My older daughter has like a ridiculous, like way more complex one over there that I'm not even going to try to pick up. But this is a castle, obviously, and it's a princess castle. And then you can open it and there's all kinds of compartments and she stores all her stuff in here. I'm not going to show you her stuff because it's her stuff. It's like a castle and the dolls can play in it and she stores all her stuff. It's pretty cool. So they spend a lot of time building things and playing with Lego and helping with plants and growing things and they're just very active and creative and I just let their imaginations do their thing and get them involved in anything they want to get involved with and teach them how to use tools and stuff. And every once in a while I'll give a kid a tool and they'll have their own toolboxes. So the oldest kid has a pretty good set of tools and as they get younger, they have fewer tools because my four-year-old, I just need them to keep track of a hammer and a pair of pliers. If you can keep his hammer and his pair of pliers from being lost or taking them outside and leaving them in the mud or something like that, that's his main job now. Anyway, now I'm just kind of going off on explanations. Oh, and they always help with the running of the house too. So for instance, my kitchen over here is a big stainless steel. Let's just go look at it. This is going to get fuzzy for a minute. Excuse the pixelation while we're moving. So yeah, right here we've got 100%. So up here, oh man, the lighting is terrible.  So every day we get some jugs of water from outside and put them in there and then we get filtered water out of our thingy right here. Yeah, right there. Oh, there it is. And excuse me, it's just going to get pixelated again for a second until I get back here and stop moving so much. So the kids go get water every day. That was that was that. That entire thing was just explaining that the kids get water for that every day. And then they help with cooking and you know, just whatever I just get them involved in stuff. I don't know if that answers question, but hopefully Randy Neil says hello, hello. I sent you a YouTube video this morning, a guy getting a small steam engine for a boat running. Oh, that's cool. I thought you'd like it. Well, I am going to have to look at that. That sounds cool because I do kind of want to build a steam engine for a boat at some point. I think that would be really fun. I also think it would be cool to have it have have an engine that can basically go as fast as not as fast as I want. I mean, not like 8,000 miles an hour. But you know, like my my solar boats are great, but they have a they have a very set top speed like high noon and I'm pedaling hard, like that's it. That's top speed. But like with a steam engine, I could be like, well, you know, if I just put in some of this special wood, because there's always, you know, certain types of wood that burn really hot, you know, I could I could crank in that I could crank up the heat and really it going, which I would totally do once in a while because that sounds fun. Let's see. I've heard your old indoor pedal bike still works great. I wish I had that here. Although here I have a 24 volt system, so it wouldn't actually work here. But I do want to build one of those here. You know, a little exercise bike that produces electricity and shoves it into the batteries. But I have to build it with 24, 24 volt inverter instead of a 12 volt.  They're not that hard to find. That would be great to have here, especially on, you know, it's been so cloudy and rainy the last couple weeks. You know, when I get stir crazy, kind of inside and, you know, not outside digging where I want to be, because it's just muck, I could just ride the bike and then actually also have some electricity. I spend about two years on average to figure out what my plan is. Well, doesn't it depend?  Oh, yeah, it's totally awesome to be able to do things on your own property.  And this is this is one of the this is kind of one of the the debates I always have with making videos. It's like, well, how much do I want to show?  And no one knows about it. So no one's going to complain about it, blah, blah, blah, they have they have no problems. But, you know, if if like some some a hole finds out that you're doing something that they don't like or whatever, they can start complaining and, you know, try to get someone to come over and cause a problem and start calling people. And there's a lot of people in the world who literally have nothing to do. This is the couch people who sit around and just like have nothing to do. And they since they have nothing to do, trying to get other people into trouble is like is like a big big event for them. It's like, yeah, I can do that. And there are a lot of people like that. So yeah, it is always a little bit a little bit a little bit stressful, putting putting putting all this information out there on YouTube. I wouldn't necessarily recommend it. Unless you have, I mean, I do it because I think it's it's more valuable than unvaluable. So anyway, oh, D.B. Lee says awesome. Thanks, mate. Why I think that answered your question then about how we live with the kids and video looks awesome. That is great. Is there anything similar in your area culture to growing shells on a post out in the ocean? Hmm. Well, I don't know anyone who's growing shells on a post on purpose. I've been thinking about doing that because I want to, you know, I want to make my own cement at some point, you know, whatever you call it. I don't remember what you call it right now.  Anyway, you can make cement out of seashells because the seashells are limestone. So if you stick something hard in the in the in the ocean, you know, barnacles and oysters and stuff will stick to it. And then you can take seashells, heat them up sufficiently. And they basically turn into cement. This is a very simplified explanation. But there's that's basically it. So I don't know anyone who's doing that. Like growing them on a post on purpose, but there might be someone around.  You know, it's kind of like fish traps, like people around here have fish traps.  For the most part, people leave it alone. But you know, there's always that one schmuck who comes along and is like, Oh, free stuff for me. There's not only someone who wrecks it, you know. So yeah, maybe maybe there are some people doing doing that doing seashells on a pipe who just keeping it keeping it quiet. I would have loved that life as a child. Oh, yeah, totally man. Take the ride. Yeah. I mean, basically when I when I when I had one is even before I had kids when I decided I was like, going to have kids, which I always kind of wanted to do anyway. But I was like, when I was like, okay, I'm going to have kids. I basically tried to set up my life to be like the best childhood I I could come up with, you know, short of outer space. And anyway, I'm not going to get into outer space. But yeah, this is like living on a tropical island with your dad and like getting getting to spend as much time as you want. And they're and their moms here too, of course, we're not here. She's at at her house. I mean, the only thing that I wish I could the only thing I feel like my kids are missing is, you know, two parents in the same place, you know, seeing a loving relationship. But you know, it wasn't in the cards. And maybe at some point, I'll meet someone and then they'll be able to see that loving relationship. See that as an example.  But you know, anyway, yeah, I really tried to set up a childhood that would be that would be super amazing for my kids. And the funny thing is like, every once in a while, someone tells me, how can you do that to your children? You took them, you took them out of society. And I'm just like, what are you talking about? You're insane. Anyway, my kids like learn so much and they love it. Anyway, when I learned C++, my pro coder friend gave me this old game engine and I proceeded to design a castle similar to your daughters with towers in each corner. Oh, that's cool. How many hours do you think you put into building the cathedral? Like building the structure itself?  Because before, like you could not get materials to here. Like there was a fair amount of work going into kind of just clearing out stuff and like, even just so I could get a boat in that in the canal, which was just like filled up with junk. But I don't know, it was it basically took a year to build this place. And it was my main priority. And I did not take many days off. I don't know if I took I'm sure I must have taken some day. I don't know, maybe I didn't. But generally speaking, I didn't I didn't take days off. There were no like weekends off or anything. Like, when I was building the walls, I could put I don't remember what the number is now, but I could put a certain number of these squares, see these squares, here's a square. And then here's another square. And then this window, that's another square. I could put a certain number of those squares in every day. And I was like, every day, I absolutely must put that number in. I think it was three. I think I was doing a three a day, which doesn't sound like much. But it was like it was, it was like put in the three squares, plus whatever else I have to do to make that possible. So it'd be like putting in three squares, and then I have to be keeping up with these columns, because these this part here attaches to the wall, you know, this, or you can see here, this attaches to the wall here. So this had to be, you know, in place, as this was getting in there. And so yeah, I didn't take any days off. And it was a year there. I mean, I'm sure there are a couple days off somewhere. Have you thought about building a wood gasifier? I thought about it, but I don't have any internal combustion engines other than my chainsaw. My chainsaw is the only one. And I don't know if I'd want to have a gasifier for that, because the gasifier is going to be kind of big. And you know, the chainsaw, the point of having the the gas power chainsaw is that I can go into the jungle, cut a log, and then drag it out to my property here, where I can cut the log into boards using solar power. So yeah, I don't I don't think I'm, I don't know, maybe something will change. But right now, wood gasifiers are not in my, in my brains. Joe McKenna, question, do you have access to welding equipment? Oh, my welder is right over there. Yeah, I have a really nice welder, actually.  Yeah, giant robot project. And I still have that welder. I just haven't used it in a while. It should still work. I before I use it, I would definitely want to have more solar panels up. Although, I mean, I could I could run it off batteries. If I had some little thing I needed to weld, I could just do it real quick and just, you know, just use use the battery some. But if I was doing any any significant amount of welding, I would definitely want to get more solar panels up first. But yes, I have welding equipment. I also did some stainless. Oh, no, I pushed a button. I also did some stainless welding a while ago on my kids car over there, which I haven't finished. I need to finish my kids car. That's what I should be working on in the in the rainy days. I need to finish the kids car because now there's actually a path outside in a little area where you could drive around. I should be doing that. But the kids car is fun thing. Anyway, when I welded that, I have some stainless steel welding rods that I got from some guy in town. And I went out to the sharp slicer, which is one of my solar boats. It's a solar boat with the most solar panels on it. And I took the leads that come to the motor and disconnected them from the motor and connected like vice gripped one onto my material that I was going to weld. And I vice gripped the other one onto this welding rod. And I welded that way. It actually works just running directly out the solar panels. You know, it was high noon, lots of electricity come in. And I could I could stick weld directly out the solar panels. So I have also done that. Although it definitely took more skill, because you know, I couldn't control the current and all that stuff. Hi, all cheers from Western Canada. Well, hello, biker Bob from Western Canada. You know, I've never been to Western Canada. I grew up in Eastern Canada. And I've been to the Western United States, but I've never been to Western Canada. Your electric earth mover, the bulldozer, I have no scene you use it anymore. Have you moved it to the new property? I have not moved it here yet. This morning, I was over at the Shana's house getting a bunch of stuff. You know, that's where I got those tiles and I got one of my ship masts and like some other scrap metal stuff from over there. And I was looking at my bulldozer, you know, just thinking about moving it sometime soon. So I don't know when I'm going to get that over here, but I'm thinking about it. I love your spirit, man. Just awesome. Well, thanks, Taylor. Relief says lime. Lime is the kind of acoustic material. Lime. Oh, you're talking about the seashell thing, making cement. What is it when you cook limestone?  You want a quick lime. That's what it's called. Quick lime. You end up with quick lime. Seashells are calcium. What's limestone? Is it calcium? You'd need an awful lot of shells. Well, it depends what you're doing. But yeah, I can get an awful lot of shells. You know, the ocean is like right there and right there and right over there. And just right back there too. And there along the edges of the mangroves, the mangrove roots hang into the water. And so oysters and barnacles and whatever grow on the on the mangrove roots all along the edge of the land that has mangroves there. And as they die, they just fall down to the bottom. So if you swim along the edge of land, like a lot of land around here, it's just piles of seashells. So you can just go down there and like scoop up handfuls of seashells. I have always stuck to 12 volt solar because I have so much 12 volt. You mean so many 12 volt appliances, lights, clocks, rice cooker, etc. I like not losing power to invert to a different voltage. Now that that is a very good point. Yeah, I I've also used 12 volt systems a lot of times because you can get a lot of 12 volt accessories. The advantage of having a higher voltage is that you don't have so much current running through your wires. So you can use smaller wires or just make less heat and stuff like that. But yeah, I totally get that. Yeah, seashells are about 99% calcium. That's why the acidification of the oceans spells disaster. It'll cause anything built like a seashell to break down. Well, hello, Patrick Stevens, the super peanut. He's a super blue peanut. I hope you're having an awesome day too. Oh, you have a picture of an adventure building thing on there. Cool. Three square days. Yes, Bosco. It sounded like not much three squares a day. But man, yeah, trying to keep up with three squares a day and all the all the necessary stuff that goes along with it was actually that was full days. Partly because I was also you know, every once in a while, I had to not not every once in a while, like fairly regularly, I had to keep getting rocks and sand delivered or go get cement. And you know, I just had to fit that into the day. Hope you're doing well, Jamie. Always a pleasure introducing new people to your working story. Oh, well, thanks. Educationy. Educationy, are you concerned about sea level rise in the next few decades? Yes, I am concerned about sea level rise. And I'm also concerned about how difficult it is to get any reasonably reliable information on anything. I've just done anything. It's so ridiculous. You know, they say we live in the information age.  Yeah, so I am concerned about the sea level rise, which is why I built my house two meters above sea level. Obviously, it could be higher, but according to, you know, pretty disastrous reports, I should be okay for well over 100 years at two meters above sea level. And I do have some low land there that I want to put some more dirt on just just kind of keep it keep it ahead of of the water. So yeah, is definitely a concern. I believe the Romans had a concrete formula, which was basically just seashells that are burned in a furnace to produce quick lime used as binders volcanic dust called pozzolano were mixed. Okay, the volcanic dust reacts with the seawater and actually makes the concrete stronger for from what I understand. Yeah, that makes it so you don't get the degradation in concrete that people, you know, get today. Although the most degradation in concrete happens today from steel reinforcement, which makes it incredibly strong, the steel reinforcement makes the concrete super strong for a while. But then, you know, 50 years later, the steel starts rusting and expands and pops the concrete wide open. So it makes it stronger for a while and then it destroys it. But you know, when we live in a temporary, what's a disposable society, you know, that that sense for people, which is just crazy. I didn't use any steel reinforcement in this building. Oh, no, I shouldn't say that I didn't use any regular steel reinforcement. Most of the reinforcement is ropes. So there are ropes like in all all the square lines going this way and all the square lines going that way and every post here, where the column has like a fat rope going right down the middle and all the ropes have been pulled. They have a lot of tension in them as I was doing the concrete. And I used the right kind of ropes. I think it was polyethylene. I might be remembering this incorrectly, but it was the kind of rope that could be in the concrete without degrading. And I do have four stainless steel bands all the way around the house. So there are two at the base of the roof, because that, you know, the roof is a dome. So push out as it collapses, if we're to collapse. So I have two steel cables holding that together and then one halfway down and then one at the floor level. No regular steel in my building. Before I bought my mountain land, that sounds great. I made sure it was legally buildable. But when I got there, I built my temporary furpole cabin without permits, ended up living in it for 12 years illegally. Yeah. When I when I lived on my place, like my place in Vermont, I didn't ask permission for anything. I just built everything and did it. And even when the tax man showed up, they didn't like say it was a problem, they just increased my taxes a lot. I was going to say so much invested in 12-volt appliances then changed it. My favorite pyramid theory is that they had the tech to pour the blocks in place rather than move them. Oh, pyramids building the pyramids. Yeah. So they education is talking about, you know, when they built the pyramids, instead of moving the giant blocks in place, they could have just poured them as concrete. And yeah, what's it been like 12,000 years from then, since then or something? I don't know how long it's been. Well, like a long, long enough amount of time that if they made them out of concrete, it would be so old that I don't think you can really even tell that it was concrete anymore. It would just be like solid rock. It makes no sense to me that you need a permit to build on your own land. It also makes no sense to me that you need to ask permission to build your own home. When I look at our society and the problems, like a society where you are not allowed to have a home unless you have permission. You have no home.   You have to ask permission before you get to make a home. You get in trouble. Like, well, come on.  No, everyone should be, everyone is entitled. Just natural law, like just the law of nature. You're entitled to create your own dwelling. How could that not be a thing? It's totally insane that we're in a world today where you cannot build your own shelter without permission. You've got to pay someone. You've got to fill the rent papers. You've got to get permission. Oh, it's totally insane. And everyone who goes along with it, you're just perpetuating it. And I understand that's, you know, it's a lot easier to go along with it. So anyway. J-Mo Schmaymo, big fan, regular lurker.  Checking in on you. Wonderful fighting spirit you have. Well, thank you. Yes, I got to admit this week when I was frustrated and feeling, feeling not so great about things and just like things kept piling up on top of it. I was feeling like my fight, my fighting spirit was, was kind of being pummeled a little bit. But yes, luckily my fighting spirit was like, no, I'm not taking this craft. We're, we're going to do something. You know, I feel like I should mention one of the things since we were just talking about, you know, our society and the ridiculousness of it. Last week, you know, last week I was a little, I was a little bit out of it while I was doing, doing the live. I feel like I'm, I'm much more, I'm much more here this week. But last week, you know, I, I got to my, my tablet here a little bit early and I was like, oh, well, let me see what's going on on the internet for like 20 minutes before I start the live. And I watched a video of the new, I think it was the new English prime minister, the new UK prime minister. That guy is a psycho. Like I watched a video, let me, let me see if I can do, do an, an impersonation. I don't even know if I have a good enough video to be able to get all the stuff. First you have to imagine that my hair is all thingy and I'm wearing a suit and tie in a blink. And where we would like to introduce a new electronic currency. This will be excellent for everyone. And it will be programmable so that from now on you will not have to worry about what you should or should not buy. The government will make that decision for you. And watch me not blink for six and a half minutes. And they go like just even taking out what he was saying, just looking at this guy, I'm like, this dude is just, he's at least a sociopath or he's, he's like totally not connecting. Like, like, I think he gives a robot. It was like someone jammed a hand up his thing and was like talking with his voice. And they were like, they were like programming his facial facial expressions like, okay, make strong eye contact to connect with the viewers. And he's just like, look, I'm connecting with you. You like digital currency, it will destroy any any speck of freedom you have left in your life. But I'm saying it with a smile. So you'll believe me. Oh my God, this is the world leaders we have today. Oh, that made me feel not so great. So that was one of the things that made me feel a little less a little less than spectacular last week. And then yeah, there were a lot of other things. Let's see. Sorry, I was only laughing because they reminded me of three square meals a day. Squares. Squares are delicious circles are also delicious like pizza. Even triangles like slice pizza. The squares are also great, man. Oh, sandwiches. Squares. You know what? The Shayna got some oat squares recently. Those are delicious too. They have a bunch of sugar in them. So I wouldn't I wouldn't eat them. I don't eat sugar anymore. I do have corn flakes. That's the only like thing I have, I think. And they're not even that sugary, not not frosted flakes. That's that's too much sugar for me. Okay, Joe McKenna, could the cathedral be upgraded in the future to potentially float? You know, this is kind of funny, but I I actually considered making the cathedral floaty while I was building it. And obviously, I would just be like using air creed in the floor and making a floor like, I don't know, like, like, like, like a thick floor. And what I ended up what I ended up coming to in my brain was that, you know, I could still do it. The cathedral is four stories tall, right? I could fill the entire first floor with styrocrete. And that should float the rest of the building like pretty well. And so, yes, it could be turned into a floaty thing. And this is something I have actually thought about and considered. And it would totally work. So if at some point the ocean starts coming up to an alarming level, perhaps I'll do that one day. That would be a lot of styrocrete. However, I've done crazy huge things before. I could totally do it. Although maybe what's going to happen is I will leave, I will leave some kind of emergency instructions for my great grandchildren, just in case the ocean level, you know, keeps going up. And eventually they get to that point. You know, hey guys, just remember, you can always fill the cathedral with styrocrete and float when the water comes up. So, let's see. Welcome to Bros. Yes. Jamie, howdy. Lucky me, I was online while the chat was live. Well, hello, Arc212. I wanted to mention Terrap Frietta again. It's a man-made supersoil discovered in the Amazon and it might be fun and useful. Let's see. Where's my pencil? All right, Tierra. Let me just make sure I spelled it right. Oh, where does it go? Oh, Terra. Oops, Terra Frietta. Okay, I'm gonna have to look that up. Soil. Oh, I should show some of the other stuff that I have on my table here that I've been working on this week. Let's see your garden. I missed something. Oh, addition, a useful addition to your garden. Yeah, I'm trying to build soil out here. So I'm composting and all this stuff. I hear hemp concrete is a thing now. Yeah, I've heard that too. I don't know if I can grow hemp here like weed is illegal in this country. So I don't know. I don't know what the story is. My family barely managed to get a mortgage back in the early 2010s, but since then the prices went through the roof and now we're in danger of having to leave because the property tax is crazy high. Yeah, there's so many. Don't even get me started.  You are not allowed to exist without paying us. This is what the masters say now. If you are breathing, you must be paying. It's ridiculous. A government that impedes humans from obtaining food, water, or shelter has overstepped its bounds and outlived its use of them. Yes, totally. A government should never be impeding people's ability to survive, to thrive on their own. And even in like the Constitution, what there's something or maybe it's the Constitution or one of those, one of those US documents, it says something about everyone has the right to pursue their own happiness or whatever. And that's gone, man. That is long gone. People are not free to pursue their own happiness. You're not allowed to make your own job without permission. You're not allowed to build a house. You're not allowed to often you're not even allowed to grow food on your own property because who knows what. It's just totally insane what's going on. And what blows me away is how many people just accept it. Like, oh, well, everything's fine. Because I didn't want to do that anyway. So I don't care if they take that away from everyone who wanted to do it.  But the problem is, if you're not fighting for everyone else's rights, you're going to lose yours too. You have to fight for everyone's rights across the board. Even if they're doing things that you don't like, you wouldn't want to do when you're like, I don't drink alcohol at all. I don't smoke anything. I don't do any kind of drugs. But I think people should be free to make that decision as I have made that decision. I wouldn't I wouldn't even say that I I want it to be legal for people to smoke pot. I want it to be legal for people to make that decision. That's what I think needs to be legal. It's the same thing with like, I don't know, so many things like people people. Okay, the same thing with like, like abortion, for example. Abortion is a terrible thing. But what's even more terrible is taking away people's choice. You know, like a government, I'm just going to read that one again. A government that impedes humans from obtaining food, water and shelter has overstepped its bounds or outlived its usefulness. Yeah, totally man. I'm going to have to make sure I don't monetize this video because it's going to be what's the word questionable content. I hear some places won't let you live in an RV on your own vacant lot. Yeah, tons of places. Man, you should you should hear the stories of England. Oh my God. Like you try to do anything outside of the rules in England. Oh, God, it's terrible. I lived there. We lived there for four months. He was four months. We were supposed to stay for six, but after four months, I was just like, let's just get out of this place. There are the rules are insane there. Ridiculous. Hey, Jamie, watch your vids in the early days of the channel. Oh man. Yeah, those are. Yeah. And I had a moment this morning where I remembered how much inspiration you gave me to do what I want in my own way. Oh, thank you, man. Thanks for letting me know. That is great to know that, you know, it's actually working. And you know, on that, on that note, I'm going to stop reading comments for a minute and just show what I've been working on this week. And maybe last week, I don't know, just while it's been so rainy outside, I've had a couple other things going on. Okay. First, some quick things. I showed this right at the beginning. This is an adventure builder stamp.  Like there's now there's stamps all over the place. And I just put paint on it and then stick it on.  I might make a little stamp out of that, you know, just draw something on it and cut it out with a little sharp knife. And also recently, someone, someone said me a box of Sharpies, which is amazing, because I had one, I had one Sharpie and I started drawing all these pictures here. I'll show you. I'll show you a couple. So these are, these are video game characters. So here's one of the video game characters. And see, he's outlined with the Sharpie and then colored in with crayons. And then this lady here is a, is another one. And she has some, some pets and animals and stuff. I messed up. Anyway, it doesn't matter. And I was doing lots of drawings like that. And I have a whole bunch of them up there. And I ran out of my Sharpie. So someone sent me a new one or a new, a new whole box of them. So I should be able to do a lot of, a lot of stuff. Anyway, I got inspired the other day. And here's my, my first, my first thing I've done with my new Sharpies. This gentleman over here says, Oh, I love bacon. Where does it come from? And these nice people over here are unsure of how to proceed because bacon comes from him. Okay. So that's the kind of my silly stuff that's been going on. And now I've also been working on a model of a boat. Now this is very similar. It's, roughly similar to the boat I'm driving now. All right. Maybe I should give a bit of backstory first. Like I've built a whole bunch of boats since living on the ocean. And like the, you know, I'll build a boat and then make adjustments to it, fine tuning, tear something off, change something.  And, you know, I've got a boat that I, that I really like right now. And it's been working amazingly. However, the hulls of the boat, you know, these parts I built, it was, they were one of the first things I built when I got here. So they're pretty good. But at this point, I can make way better ones. Like much, much more streamlined. I shouldn't say much more streamlined. Like, like they're, they're pretty decent, but my skills have improved significantly since then. And so one of the improvements would be, you know, even more streamlined hulls. And then, you know, a lot of the stuff up here in the boat I'm driving now has been changed a whole bunch of times. So there's like stuff that's been put on and cut off. If my video just frees, let me, let me do my little trick to unfreeze it. Oh, there's my, so my trick to unfreeze my video is to switch the camera to the back one. There's my, my tool table right back there. Look how clean it is up there. Oh, look how there's like no junk up there right now. I mean, there's a little bit. Anyway, let's come back to here. So in my, in the boat I'm driving now, I did eventually end up with something roughly, this is not attached, roughly like this. But I want to make one from scratch that won't have all the, you know, stuff torn off and reattached and all that stuff. And there's also some significant alterations like, like this, this part here is where a paddle wheel would go and then, you know, let's take this off. And then people sit here. Well, no, people sit here and here and their pedals here.  And I do really like being able to see down through into the water. That's one of the features my current boat has. But yeah, in the boat I have right now, I couldn't put the seat where I wanted it to be because of already existing stuff in the way. So, you know, I could put better seating in stuff. And yeah, it's basically just similar to my current boat, but with a lot of fine tuning kind of worked out so I can build a, you know, a better version. Now, the other thing about this is I made it with all four by eight sheets, you know, four foot by eight sheet, eight foot, you know, obviously this is to scale. However, I can buy aluminum, aluminum four by eight sheets, five millimeters thick. I think they're $90 each. I don't know what delivery is, but anyway, so I built that all with those. And this very efficiently uses those sheets. And everything I did here is stuff I could do with pieces of sheet metal.  And I would want to do it all with rivets. So basically, I made a model of a boat that I want to build with metal, with aluminum, aluminum. And there's some kind of cool features here. So to connect the two pontoons, there's some, you know, strong, what do you call them pipe tube things. But then the floor parts are just single sheet. But because they're, they go like this, they'll be strong. You know, if they just went flat across, if you put any weight on it, it would crumple up. But because it comes up here, and kind of swoops down and comes back up, and then the same thing with this one, it didn't need to be, it didn't have to have like a corrugated sheet under it or anything, because it kind of like works like a hammock a little bit. Keep it shaped, which means, you know, it doesn't have to use as many sheets of metal, and it's lighter, and it's still strong. Anyway, so that's a model of a metal boat I've been working on. And the more I do it, the more I think, man, I should actually build that. Because it would be really nice to have a boat similar to the one I have, except faster, even with the same amount of energy. And just more streamlined in the design and everything, faster is probably the biggest thing.  That one goes significantly faster. It takes an hour off my trip to town, which is significant when it's like a three hour trip each way, or a two hour trip each way. And that's because the white boat, the faster one, I made it later when I was much better at, you know, making things streamlined. So yeah, okay, let's see, what did I miss here? Have you felt like any media team or independent person ever honestly captured your creations in a video documentary format in a way that you're happy with? Well, the one I think of is, oh crap, what's his name? It's the guy who's the lead singer of Guster, you know, the band Guster. Brian Miller, Brian, Brian Miller. Anyway, he did this show a while ago, and it was just like a, I think they were just doing a cable access thing. And I think I was his first episode, and he came and did it. I think it was made, it was called Making Friends with Ryan Miller, if I remember correctly. Yeah.  I think that was the best one, because he came, and he was just like interested, you know, and it was just him and this girl who did the camera. I think it was just the two of them. Maybe there was a third person there doing sound, but I feel like it was just the two of them. Maybe it was the third. Anyway, it was just a small crew. They were actually interested, like this guy, Ryan, he was like, I want to meet interesting people, like doing the show. And he did it for all the right reasons.  He was actually interested in it. And that was, that was great. That was a great experience. And pretty much everything else has just been just nonsense that they didn't really have anything to do with me or what I'm doing. You know, they just ask the dumbest questions and not show any of my interesting stuff going on.  But yeah, the making friends with Ryan Milley, that one was good. We made these laws to protect you. Ah, yes, that's my favorite phrase ever. We made these laws to protect you like our electronic currency that will be programmable and prevent you from buying anything you shouldn't buy. We're doing this to protect you. You the people, we're here for you. Oh my God, so bad. They made the laws to get as much money out of our pockets as possible. Yeah, pretty much. Smash that like button, folks, education-y. If you smash the like button, how will you be able to use it? Looking for catching up on what I've missed. Have you missed stuff? Well, I haven't, I haven't uploaded much in the last week or so. I mean, mostly because it's just been raining. So you may not have missed much. Forget building a home. Hell, you need permits just to renovate a single room in the home. Yeah, it's totally insane. It's gotten way out of control.  And it's sort of like, it's sort of like there are, it's like the ship is sinking and the rats are taking as much from the drowning people as they can before the sink, as the ship goes down. It's kind of disgusting to watch. Which guy? Snack, I don't know what you're talking about. Actually, there's an electrolytic process to make concrete from the ocean. There is, and I've done some experiments with that. Nothing super, nothing super valuable, though. Although, I've also known other people who've tried electrolysis, like accretion to make, to make, you know, hard stuff in the ocean around here. And people haven't had much success. It might be the Caribbean Ocean doesn't have the right, the right makeup in the ocean or something. I don't know. Maybe I'm just haven't done it right. Let's see. This is exactly the kind of stuff that goes through my head when I watch politicians. So, yeah, talk. We're gonna watch Apologies to Stock. Yeah. Yeah, the new British PM is a cardboard cutout. He is, isn't he? They like, they like stuck a Google the eyes and made the name straight of the camera. And he's plastered this like fake smile. Okay, everyone, we're going to take all your freedom away now. And you're going to love it. Oh, happy day, marvelous.  Oh, my God, what is up with that guy? Oh, look, the camera froze at just the right time, too. I don't know if it did. Maybe it was just mine. Oh, I'm going to look at my, look at my tool bench for a second there again. Oh, look at that. Man, good look and work area. I'm so excited that that is cleaned up because for weeks, it was a mess because my, well, I built some stuff. And before I had to clean it up, my kids got in there and started doing stuff. And then, yeah, it was a mess, but I got it cleaned up. My favorite food is non-Euclidean. My favorite food is non-Euclidean. I'm sure this, oh, you were talking, we're going back to, see, I'm like, I'm like 10 or 15 minutes behind now. My favorite food is non-Euclidean, like macaroni noodles. Are those non-Euclidean? No, mashed potatoes, mashed potatoes. Oh, scrambled eggs. I live in three-story, floating home that's on a 40 by 20 concrete hall. Well, can I see a picture? Can you send me a picture of that? I'd love to see that. I live in a three-story, floating home that's on a 40 by 20 concrete hall. Is it, do you live in like Norway or one of those places where they have a lot of those? Yeah, I'd love to see a picture of that. My email should be down here, theadventurebuildermovieatgmail.com, if I remember correctly. And I do check it now that I have internet at my house. And the ex-president presidential candidate up for reelection is a twisted cartoon character. Oh, yeah, the US, the current US president, not only can he not form complete sentences, he can't even form complete words. He's like, all right, everyone, we're going to make the country really, really good or now. So the potatoes are blue and have scrum-thrush, simple, huh?  Like, these are the people who are in charge of, oh, what about making your blocks interlocking? Which blocks? Are we talking about the bridge blocks? The bridge blocks, I did think about making them interlocking. I wouldn't want to make them too interlocking because I want them to be able to move a little if they need to. But I ended up not making them interlocking. I just did it and they just go flat together. I figured the pressure is going to stick them together. And I also stuffed a bit of mortar between them to kind of help glue them together. And then I also put some some strong plastic mesh over the entire bridge and did a smear of that. So, you know, if anything, they'll be able to crack a little bit like this. But they shouldn't move that way because it's got the mesh across. Humanure. Yes, humanure is great. Hello, Jamie Paul River, Canada here. For the first time I caught you live. Oh, well, hello, Powell River. Oh, you're in Powell River. Don't you love what's it called auto auto sensor, auto correct auto sensor? I pay $250 a month in property taxes. To me, that is absolutely disgusting. Like, you should not in some places in the US, it is illegal to catch rainwater. Yeah, that's totally insane too. Like, okay, there's two insane things here. One is that it's insane that the government's even doing this stuff. But the other insane thing is that people are like, Oh, I'm not allowed to collect rainwater anymore. Okay, passive depression, do nothing.  Yeah, there are a lot of really bad problems and move off grid to some crazy place that no one cares about, kind of like here, no one cares about this place. It's like the only place you can get a bit of freedom. Planning to build off grid in Montrose County, Colorado next week. Now I'm thinking I should skip asking permission. Yeah, I would, I would not ask permission at all. In Vermont, there was a saying that people always said, well, the off grid, you know, weirdos would always say, it's easier to ask forgiveness than ask permission. So just just do your thing.  I don't know, they might do that if you lived in a city. But if you're living like out in the woods somewhere, they wouldn't get too crazy about it. First they came for the rabbits. Oh, but I was not a rabbit. So wait, but I was not a rabbit. So I did not speak out. Yeah, first they came for the rabbits, but I was not a rabbit. So I didn't speak out. You should definitely make your bridge pieces interlocking. I, I already made it. Sorry. Do you know who I don't know who that is? No. Question. Take the ride 23 question. Do you think technology has ruined human creativity? Absolutely not. However, I think the way we use technology has largely ruined human creativity, because we're, and it's not because of the technology. It's because of our attitudes and the way we do things. For example, telephones. It's an amazing invention, right?  It is amazing. However, what we end up doing with this technology instead is just all day, all day. I'm just poking at it, staring at it, not, not using it for anything useful 90% of the time, 99% of the time, just like waste, waste my life. And yeah, I don't think technology is the problem. I think, I don't think technology is the problem. I don't think type of government is the problem. I don't think there's any, any one of these kind of things is the problem. I think, I think the problem is a lack of morality, like an internal guiding light. And that's why, that's why I made this, you know, this thing here. It's behind a window, so you can't see the whole thing. This, this is an example of what people need, you know, like values. So I look at this, and I look at this every day. It's up on my wall, and there's another one right over there. I look at this every day, and it reinforces these values in me, and I remember them.  And what is what the problem we have today is people don't have values, they don't have anything steering them. So because they don't have anything steering them from the inside, they just get directed by whatever is outside.  And they watch TV, and they're like, Oh, those people are cool. And they're smiling and laughing. I must want to be like that too. And then they have no internal good thing that directs their own actions and thoughts. And that is what we're missing. Let's see what the rest of this question is. I learned about these buildings in the desert that utilize towers called wind catchers. When the wind blows, it gets diverted through the building providing AC. That's another amazing piece of technology. So I think one of the reasons that we have so many problems with technology is because people have no internal, you know, no internal morality of your own. So instead of looking at technology and saying, Okay, what is the most useful thing here? What will what will make my life better? What is useful? Like what's what's the most valuable solution to whatever problem I've got? Instead, they just say, Oh, what's the newest thing that that I'm being told about right now on the advertisements that they're trying to get me to buy? You know, what's what's the newest, coolest thing? That's that's what I need to do. That's the problem. So you just described to me an older technology. And I get this, what criticism or comment all the time, when people see how I live. You know, for example, I don't have indoor plumbing, indoor plumbing to go out. But to get water into my house, I go right over there. It's right outside the side door and it's beautiful outside. I go outside get water and bring it in like to my kitchen sink.  And people say, Oh, what's what's your problem with technology? You don't even want the water like coming into your house. What are you so old fashioned something? And I'm just like, no, I like, I like going outside. I enjoy going over there and then coming back and having basically just having an excuse every day to go to the water and come back. And and then they'll see other things I do where it's like, I'll have some some high tech thing going on that I'm building. They're like, you know, you don't make any sense. Are you high tech or low? It's like, no, I don't I don't define what I don't define my technology by what what, you know, by some external nonsense. I look at I look at, I look at what's going to be the best solution to any, any problem based on my own values, based on what I can can understand about the world. And I use whatever technology level works. And often it's not the the fanciest technology. A lot of times the fanciest stuff is just kind of garbage like like temporary disposable nonsense, because that's the society we live in right now. And that's the kind of stuff we're building now. So often, the best solution is some older thing, like this, this artificial, no, AC, what's that not artificial condensation, air conditioning. They build some thing. They built these buildings in the desert that utilize towers called wind catchers. The wind blows it gets diverted through the building providing AC. See, that that is something you could build. And then it'll just work. It doesn't rely on some electricity, some external some extra power that you're going to have to pay for. There's so many, there's so many reasons that solution works better than what most people think is the best solution today. Did I go on enough about that? My floating homes concrete hall is one foot thick, and the house weighs 90 tons and floats about four feet, four feet deep. They're made in Sausalito, California, and a place called Aqua Mason, if you need any info. That's cool. Yeah, there's a lot of, there are a lot of places in the world where like they just make floating homes. That's that's a really cool thing. I'm from England, not that bad for van life. All depends if it was in places like Devon Cornwall. Where did you say for four months? I have read scenes so any places in the US that are super strict. I've read scenes so, so many places in US Canada that are super strict. The US and Canada, not the places in the US or Canada were as strict as as England as far as I could come. But you might not notice because if you're used to the things in England, I mostly stayed in Wolverhampton, like near Birmingham, which I've been told is not the most not the most spiffy place in England. But yeah, there were there were just rules that would have applied nationally that were ridiculous. Like we wanted to get the internet connected. And they're like, okay, that's going to be 30 days. And we're like, do you have to install wires like cables? Oh, no, no, it's ready to go. I was like, wait, why does it take 30 days? Well, that's the regulation. So I'm like, wait, wait, wait, so you're telling me that the infrastructure is all there. Like you could literally right now push a few buttons and turn on my internet. Well, I mean, yes, well, technically could. Yeah, well, of course I could do that. But you won't for 30 days because well, that's that's the rules. Well, what do you think that things just happen instantly? It takes time to do these things. No, it doesn't. All you have to do is type.  Awesome drawings. Very cool. Thanks, man. Bacon comments. Like, man, I'm way behind on these comments now. Multi-talented love those drawings. Well, thanks. Yeah, my oldest daughter laughed so hard at this one that she almost snot out of her nose. That was great. I love her. She's like, my oldest daughter is the one that's like kind of the serious one. But she laughs so hard at certain things. And I know what things make her laugh. It's great. My other kids, they all laugh at everything. Rammed earth house, two feet thick walls, whoa, three or four stars tall tower in one corner makes a natural air exchange inside the house, keeping it cool. Well, that's pretty sweet. But AC makes for a higher utility, utility bill. Yes, exactly. So I guess, I guess, having an air conditioning thing is better because then people make more money. And jobs and economy. Five by five video. Good. Excellent. No taxes equals no fight against Putin. Oh man, we could take that one. That sentence apart for a while, but we're going to skip that. Have you considered adding a hydrofoil to one of your boat builds? Yes, I have. I'm picturing you in a boat that looks like it's flying because of the hydrofoil. I think that's the name for it. Yes, that is the name for hydrofoils. They're like little wings that go under the water and like lift your boat out of the water so that just a little bit of stuff is in the water. So it's a lot easier to move. Yeah, the reason I haven't really done much with hydrofoils is because I'm often carrying cargo. And you know, hydrofoils, it's harder when you have a lot of changing weight in your boat and a limited amount of power. So like my green boat right now, I'm pretty sure that empty on the current amount of power it has, I could get it up on hydrofoils. But then when I put like 1200 pounds into it, I'm pretty sure I could not. And at that point, I'd have to have the hydrofoils in a way that I could pull them out of the boat. And then that's just an extra thing on the boat I have to deal with that's going to be in the way. And yeah, I just I haven't gotten into them. The only time I think I would want to make hydrofoils is for like just some little speeder, one or two seater, just to like for times I just want to go somewhere and not move any cargo, which is a rare occurrence. Although I think when I get to that point, I want to make something that flies like on air instead. So I've been thinking about making a ground effect airplane and maybe it could fly up higher, but I basically want something that will work in ground effect and just kind of skim across the water. But who knows when I actually get to the point that I want to make something like that. I don't I don't know what I'll end up doing. Can you do fiberglass for your boat so there's no sanding like on tech ingredients on YouTube? Can I do fiberglass on my boat so there's no sanding? Yeah, I do it in a mold. And usually all my latest boats have molds. Although I usually do end up making some kind of custom parts that end up needing a bit of sanding. But the only thing I really need to really need to have smooth is the parts under the water. And yeah, I use I use molds for those generally. And I'm going to say something about this tech ingredients guy. I know I haven't watched any of his videos recently or anything, but he made he made some boat that was just garbage. And people kept sending it to me and saying, Oh, look, he made a boat just like yours. And I'm like, did he put it in the water and show you at work?  And I'll tell you, it's so easy to make stuff for show. But to make something like to make a boat that you're going to use every day, and put cargo in it and take it in places where you're going to end up in difficult weather sometimes, or, you know, it's going to get smashed by other boats in some parking spot, or, you know, you're going to deal with real life situations, totally different thing. And I don't know what this tech ingredients guy has been doing lately. But last I saw it was just nothing particularly useful. If you make your hulls with a round cross section instead of a V, you can save maybe 20% in wetted surface area, which basically equates to 20% less resistance. Yeah, except I don't even know if it'd be 20%. But the problem is, if it's round, some point in the front and the back, I need it to get down to a small something skinny, you know, that's going to cut through the water. So I don't know. It's, it makes it harder to make the thing, at least at low to moderate speeds. Yeah, you inspired me to build a boat. No way. I made a big canoe with plywood and fiberglass. It worked out great. Myself and family has lots of fun on the river. Oh, that's awesome. Are you worried about sharks biting your feet while you're paddling? No, they're not going to jump out of the water. Although last, last time I went to town, yeah, last time I went to town, there was a dolphin swimming under my boat, like right, like I could see right through there. It was pretty neat. And then the water was super clear. And I saw, I saw three dolphins coming toward me. And then one of them just swam right under the boat with me for a while. That kind of happens a lot. That gives, it seems to be happening more and more. I think the dolphins are kind of getting used to my boat. And I don't know, maybe they talk about it. It's like, oh, that guy's boat's different. He's got paddles that slap a slap a slap. I don't know, but dolphins come visit my boat like more often than they used to. Talking of England. Hi, Jamie.  Oh, man, I hope you're feeling well, man. Your boat design is riveting. Yeah, I didn't even mention I want to put it all together with rivets. No welding or anything. And I think it's going to cost somewhere around $2,000 to build that boat once I get all the pedals and everything. I'm still designing a bit of stuff. Thank you for showing off your drawings and boat design. I think it's worth doing more fast equals more better, right? Well, more fast will will equal like, you know, more time to get more time when I'm at the place. Because, you know, right now I go, I go to town in a boat that takes about three hours to get there in good conditions. And I can't guarantee good conditions. So it might be four hours. So say I have not so great conditions, it takes me four hours to get there, four hours to get home, that's eight hours. I don't want to be driving in the dark. So when I'm in town, I got to I got to move quick, you know, it would be nice to have like an extra couple hours in town or even, you know, on the way back, if I run into a storm or something, I need to hide out somewhere and let a storm pass. You know, it's always nice to have some extra time there. There's a YouTube channel hosted by Professor Andrew Huberman. He teaches how to optimize brain power through neuroscience. Good stuff. I second the recommendation. Huberman is great. Let's see, brain power through neuroscience. I'll look into that a little bit. I do have a lot of fine tuning on my own brain that I've already done. If we were truly free, insurance wouldn't exist because it would be way more agamal. Yeah. Camera freezing was perfect. Yes, it froze. Jamie, that was hilarious. You didn't move while you were speaking like the Prime Minister. I know, that was, I thought that was pretty hairy, pretty hilarious. Yeah, that's Prez Brandon all right. Yeah. Well, Biden has a stutter problem since he was a kid. Wow. Well, it's not just a stutter problem. I think there's more than a stutter problem going on with Joe Biden because he'll go off on sentences where he is not stuttering and they are not making any sense. But I don't really know that much about it. So you just need to hide how you collect rainwater. Yeah.  I also have all of my furniture and woodworking equipment in it probably 20,000 pounds and it floats great. That is cool. The rain dumps trillions of gallons and it's illegal to collect some. Yeah. And the other thing is like generally people when generally speaking, when people are collecting rainwater, they end up putting it back, like the water, the lawn with it and stuff, it ends up going back anyway. You just said it all. They fall. Yeah. I see the kids on their phones with their heads down all day and backs hunch and I just want to yell at them, stand up straight because I know they will have back problems later in life from this.  This is one of the reasons I drag my kids all the way out to an island out here. Like my kids don't spend all day doing that. They actually play in the dirt and in the mud and stuff.  My daughters actually tell jokes about how quickly he can get filthy, but it's great because he's doing things to get filthy. He's not just filthy. He's like playing and building and doing cool stuff. Fortunately in my town, it's actually encouraged to collect rainwater and the city is required to collect it in roadway projects. Good. And new businesses are required to collect the runoff on site and sink it into the ground. Is that okay? Jorge August, did I say that right August? Hi, Jamie. Hello. Dust man. That's what drives me nuts as a handy man. It's hard to find quality products even if you're willing to pay extra. Yes, I know. Like let me give you the boot story. So a few years ago, I had these boots. They were $80 a pair. And at some point, the company just decided, hey, now we can make a lot of money by making really crappy boots. So the quality just went down the toilet, but they still charge $80 per pair of boots. And I was like, this is so frustrating. They're just getting holes or fallen apart. So I went on Amazon and I bought the cheapest five pair of boots I could find. And it was all, it was all boots that had been returned. So they were really cheap, like 10, I think the most expensive one was like $14 or something. All five pairs of those super cheap boots ended up being better than the expensive pair. It's so annoying.  You can't even find something good. Economy is about a word. Yes. Hi, Jamie. I'm enjoying the building videos very much. Cheers from South Africa. Cool. If you look on YouTube, you can find electric hydrofoil surfboards. I don't know how useful a surfboard would be to me. Each human, I mean, if I was going surfing, fine, but each human has an enormous amount of potential energy. I will second that. For good or bad, yeah, totally. Humans are amazing, amazing potential. The solution for the bad is education. Regulations are a banded solution. Regulations are like the worst thing. Why don't you start controlling the population with regulations? It's just a it's just a downhill thing. How warm is it in your house at the moment? Well, I'm not sweating and I've been like, you know, vigorously talking for like two hours. But I'm, I don't know what the temperature is. 75 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Oh man, Celsius. I'm a little rusty on that right now. I don't know. Look up what I don't know. I don't actually know what the temperature is. I don't have anything that reads the thing, but it's very comfortable right now. Very comfortable.  Oh, don't you love my thing? I got these nice silk shirts from someone who sent them to me, but they were all plain and I was like, I got to make this mine. So yeah, I made it mine. At your house, yes, ground effect vehicle would work great. Well, there. Yeah, I would love to have a ground effect. I mean, that would be so cool to have a ground effect flying vehicle like just oh man. Yeah, blah, blah, blah. Taxes are necessary for that reason alone. Okay. Dustman says that tech ingredients boat was compromised from an efficiency perspective. He did show it in the water and it underperformed. Yeah, it was not a good design.  I can tell that looking at it. Do you have Starlink? No. Ah, Wolverhampton. I have a friend who lives there. Yeah, that is one of the parts that is a pain for van care van life. But many other parts of UK are fine. I'm from the south of Kent. Sure, you know of it. South and Kent. No, I don't really know. I mean, vaguely, you know, I don't know anything about Kent. But van life might be good, but try living off grid and on like actually on a piece of land. Man, the rules are terrible in England. Have you considered making boat halls from expanding foam? Well, when I make, I just said when I make, maybe I'm going to do it. So if when I make this aluminum aluminum boat, which will look so cool with like thousands of rivets all on it, I was thinking to fill the pontoons with foam, you know, that way it would be basically unsinkable. And I don't think it would necessarily need it. I would put in, you know, relevant bulk heads for just in case it got a leak or anything. But it is kind of nice having a boat that has sufficient foam that even if you crashed and had some terrible disaster, it's still going to float, you know. But I wouldn't want to do it with just expanding foam because the foam would get damaged, and then it would turn into a mess. Like it's got to have some kind of cover. Great to see you, J-Mo. Hello from New Mexico. Well, hello. You live in the same places. Mike Reynolds, well, not the same place, the same state. At least last I heard, I don't know, he could have moved. What country do you live in? I'm in Panama. Rivets in salt water. Yes, rivets can be in salt water. You got to get good rivets. And, you know, you use marine grade everything. I would also have to waterproof the rivets. But, you know, that's not that hard to do. Jamie, you have many boats sitting with unused solar for much of the day. Could you set up a system? Basically, oh, use it to power, divert it to something like desalination.  They're almost always in shade, actually. There's a little bit of the day when the sun is straight above them, that they get a bit of sun. But they're mostly parked in the shade. Do you have an island that could be a guest island? Yeah, I actually have a couple guest islands right now with guests on them. So, I guess, yes. In Seattle, they have switches, although they do pay me rent. I mean, not much. But I didn't. Okay, originally, I originally, when people wanted to come stay here for a while, I wouldn't charge them rent or anything. And I would, I would even give them some food at the beginning and let them borrow a boat. And people were just horrible. People would just take advantage of that like really bad. So then I started charging people rent. It's not much. It's just, we talk about it and whatever. And, you know, I'm renting a boat to a guy right now. And yeah, once you pay even just a little bit, most people get much more respectful of the stuff. So I always charge a little bit. In Seattle, they have switches, though they have switched to a more water permeable concrete in many open spaces, so that the rainwater that hits it gets into the ground as opposed to running off and needing to be processed. Yeah. So one of the problems with concrete is that when rain lands on it, the rain basically creates a river along the concrete because it can't sew through. So it ends up, you know, running down the sides of roads and stuff and washing things out or, you know, rivers, they cause erosion. But if the water can just soak right through the concrete instead of making a river, it would just soak through like any other ground. So that's cool. I wonder what they're doing to make the concrete permeable. Oh, 75 degrees is like basically 24 degrees Celsius. Okay. So I wasn't too far off what I was thinking. What are some of the worst health issues, injuries your family have had since going off grid in Panama? Well, my worst health injury was just stress related. And I was, I just got so beaten down that I was, I was a mess. I was just like, I was like getting skin infections and stuff, which I've never had a problem with. And finally, I just got to the point where it was when I built this house and moved here and told everything that was bad for me, like that made me frustrated. You cannot be on this island.  And suddenly all that all the problems I had disappeared. It's amazing, like, like how much your health is affected by stress level. Or even just like, like, like before I built this house, I was having difficulty seeing my path to a good future. And that was like, basically making me sick. So yeah, it's been great since then, though. But like, injuries, you know, like the odd cold once in a while, but we almost never get sick. The only time we get sick is when someone comes to visit, of course, because they'll come visit from the city, then they'll get in a bus and in a taxi and an airplane and another bus.  And we even before, you know, the whole quarantine thing happened, we would always kind of quarantine people a little for a day or two. And just be like, well, just just, you know, don't give me any hugs for a day or two, just just to see if you start coughing. And often people by the second day would be like, and then we'd be like, okay, you just you just stay over there. They don't need like four sick kids for the next two weeks. But yeah, in terms of injuries, nothing, you know, cuts, scrapes, stuff like that. Nothing. Nothing serious. I'm trying to think of like the few times we've gone to the hospital. Like we, you know, one time the baby was I don't even remember what it was, but she was it might have even been the baby before that. But at some point, there was a baby who was, you know, kind of in some distress and we, oh yeah, it was my son, we took him to the hospital. It was more of a just in case thing. He ended up being fine, you know, it was just like, yeah, we haven't had any, any serious things. Yeah. Just the usual little stuff in my Orchard Park, Hamburg, Hamburg, New York, we got nailed with snow. Oh, I'm in Orchard Park, sorry, Hamburg, New York, we got nailed with snow. Oh yeah, it's snowing there, right. Someday we can all vote on everything digitally and eliminate all politicians, one person, one vote. Oh, that is not, yeah, I'm not counting on that. Not to be negative, but I think the rivets will leak. Maybe welding would be better. That's fine, you can think that. Please make your boat with welding if you think that's what you should do. Oh, and I was also going to put something, I wasn't just going to rivet the metal together and expect it to not leak. I was going to put some, some glue in there too.  So you say you don't really know nothing about Kent. Man, you got to work on your grammar, man. Many famous people from there like Mick Jagger, Keith Richards from, yeah, I don't, okay. I like their music, but I don't know. Nice to see you again. I'm glad that you have managed to get some people there. Yeah, got some people there. I need to work on some, yeah, something I'm kind of always working on. Thanks for years of inspiration and engineering directed third alternative solutions. Oh, you're welcome. Try the watermelon rind popcorn. Wait, what is that watermelon rind popcorn? Write this down. I love watermelon and popcorn. Is this, is this a red herring? All right. Let's look up what this guy's talking about. Sounds amazing though. I don't think one person one vote is a good solution. All right, I'm gonna have to speed through some of these because I've already gone over over two hours. I'll be building a small catamaran soon using expanded foam coated with fiberglass. The frame will be connected to spines that run through the middle of the foam halls. Can you like, are you like going to make video or take pictures or anything? Because I'd love to see that. Oh, it looks like I am. I have been keeping up with comments. Good. I don't think one, the one person one vote is a good solution. I think autonomous communities is the way for decentralized self governance dangerous freedom instead of peaceful slavery. Yeah, I think decentralizing things is a great idea. Some people mistaken kindness for weakness. Yeah, don't get me started on that. Yeah, oh, right. Yeah, I've had girlfriends in the past who mistook my kindness for weakness. And then when I broke up with them, they're like, why, what's the problem? I thought I could just walk all over you. I'm like, no, go away. Anyway, all right. It looks like I'm at the end of the comments, which is excellent because I'm just over two hours and that's what I usually do. And it's a beautiful day out and have some stuff that I could do. So unless my comments are stuck, is it stuck? Keep going. Keep going. Let's see. All messages are visible. Yeah. Oh, no, there were some I missed. It just got stuck. Oh, no. Oh, I'll certainly be documenting it. This is the guy building the boat. My grammar goes, goes right out the window when I type two wrong too fast. Then I hit enter without spell checking myself. Eric, the boat guy, how was your concrete haul? How is Marin? Okay, I'm going to get out of here. How do you maintain motivation on for your larger projects? This is another huge question that you've asked right at the end. How do I maintain motivation during for large projects? Well, I kind of keep an idea of what it's going to be like when I'm done in my head as I'm going because it's really easy to get lost when you're working on a large project that's going to take a long time and kind of lose track. It just feels like you're just endlessly doing the same thing over and over. But if you keep this, the idea in your mind, like the finished product, then it's like, oh yeah, okay, I'm making more and more steps to get to there. Like building this house was one, I was doing three squares a day. And it was like for a year, well, not for a year that specifically, but once I got the walls done, then it was a different thing. But yeah, it was just like endlessly going. And in the middle, it seemed like every day barely made any difference. But I just kept thinking, just keep going, just keep going, you're going to get to this really cool thing. And now I'm in the place and I still can hardly believe how awesome my house is. I love this place. And it's not even finished. It's all concrete. I still want to paint stuff. I'm still, I'm slowly working on different areas to make them more complete though. You still believe in infectious disease? Oh God, I don't know. You can't share your stuff because they will want it all want all of it for nothing. Yeah. Yeah, it's annoying when you're trying to share and trying to be helpful is is really difficult today. Like even even just doing these these YouTube videos, you know, I'm like always trying to share this this perspective and you know, maybe not everyone will appreciate it, but it's definitely useful for some people. And if I was still living in a place with a high high cost of living, I wouldn't just be able to do this. The only reason I can do it is because I have a very low cost of living here. And I don't need to make much money. I make a little bit of money doing this. And it's mostly enough. And I make a little bit of money here and there doing other things. But yeah, like if I was living in the United States or something, I wouldn't be able to pay you know property taxes and still keep my what's the word? My integrity. Okay, I'm gonna get out of here. And I hope everyone is having an excellent day. I'm just gonna read through the rest of these real quick. Jamie, can you help? Wait, can I help what? I need your feedback real quick. All right, all balls. What's your question? Chainmail muscles, pneumatic flexible muscles. Balloon on the inside, large rings on outside. I don't know. Chainmail balloon muscles. I mean, you could do that, I guess. I did not finish my roof yet.  Thanks for the live stream, Jamie. Go do it, man. All right, I'm gonna go do some stuff now. I'm gonna eat some of these bananas that I pulled off the tree today. I need to take some over to my kids who are at the other house right now. And I hope everyone has an excellent day today. And good luck to everyone. Keep up, keep up the good fight.