Oh, yeah, I'm so 100% not ready to go live right now. But we're doing it. All right, today, let's get this straightened out a little bit. Oh, first, as you mentioned, today, I'm on a pretty low energy level because I decided today I'm just going to mostly chill and just reset everything. I like to do that a couple times a year. It's like the hardest days to do, because days when I'm just pushing hard and doing hard stuff, I feel good. You know, it's like you're kind of high when you do all that kind of stuff. But then days when I'm like, all right, I just need to just chill out and settle down. It's like, I don't know, it's weird. Anyway, today I'm going to talk about edumacation. So recently, I acquired a new student. And you know, at home school, my kids and their mom also homeschools them over there. But one day a week, this kid who lives close by comes and does some edumacation, does some homeschool with us. And before I got him, he was in public school and I'm really seeing, it's reminding me of a lot of the problems in public school. So let me give you a few examples. And then I'm probably gonna go off in some huge tangent here. But at the end of the first day, when he left, he said, hey, thanks for hanging out in chit-chatting in kind of, we didn't really do school today kind of way.  It was just like, the conversation started with me saying, what do you wanna do with your life, man? Like, what do you wanna do? What do you care about? And he's just like, I don't know. And then I pushed it and then we went on for like two hours and we went into like world history and current events and all kinds of stuff. But because it wasn't like in a formal educational kind of setting that he was used to, I don't think he realized that he learned anything, which personally, I think is the best way to learn something. And then the other day when he was here, you know, we did some formal math to start with and then some other stuff. And then I was like, all right, gym class.  And he was like, I don't know, I'll do whatever. So anyway, we ended up deciding we're gonna go dig. And I was like, all right, digging's good because that's a good skill to learn anyway. And he's like, what sort of learn? It's just digging and I wanna dig. And I have to admit that when he said that, I stood there going, my fool of myself thinking this kid's gonna learn anything from digging. I don't know.  But I'm thinking in the back of my head, I feel like there's some lessons here, but I haven't really thought about it. I just kind of presumed there'd be some lessons here. So I was like, all right, let's just see how it goes. So what we're doing is like, moving some dirt from over there to over there. And it's like a hundred meters between or something. So we're putting dirt in the wheelbarrow and then wheeling it over there and then dumping it. So we go up and I'm explaining this to him. We'll take the dirt over there while I'm breaking up some dirt. And then I'm like, all right, put as much dirt from here into this wheelbarrow as you think you can reasonably take to over there. And I was like, I'll go do something else. So I go start cutting some wood on the lumber mill and doing other stuff. And I'm kind of paying attention. And then when he gets to the point where he's like, okay, I think that's enough.  I don't have, I don't have good grip. And I'm like, just spit on your hands. And, you know, it'll make him, it'll give you better grip and make him stickier.   Now I'm thinking like, this kid just learned something. That's an important lesson. Anytime you're doing manual labor, a little bit of moisture on your hands will give you a lot better grip, but not a lot anyway. So we got, we got, we got that figured out. So he gets a wheelbarrow and he's walking down. And I'm like, I'll go with you for the first one. Usually I do 10 of these in a row. And it takes an hour or two depending on, you know, various factors or whatever. But I'll go with you to make sure you know where to put it and everything. So as we're walking down the hill, he's got the wheelbarrow. He's like, oh man, this is, this is way heavier than I thought. Man, Clay is heavy. Another listen. And I'm just thinking, man, this guy's learning so much stuff. But I don't think he's even realizing how much he's learning. Anyway, he wheels the wheelbarrow over to where it's gonna get dubbed. And he starts lifting it up, but he's got the wheel over past where it's horizontal. And then the front wheel is kind of going down the hill. So the wheelbarrow is trying to run away from him while he's trying to lift it up.  You gotta get back on the flat ground. So he pulls it back, gets the wheel back on the flat ground. Then he can lift it up and dump the wheelbarrow. Oh, there's another lesson. Physics, gravity, all this stuff, right? So he takes the wheelbarrow back up. And then my daughter fills it up when she goes and does one. And then I go and do one. And I was thinking, I wasn't gonna go do one. I was thinking they would just go one, one, one, one. But he's on the ground, just like, and there he is learning about endurance. And so I go do one. And I'm like, all right, your turn. So he fills the wheelbarrow much less this time because he learned a lesson on the first one. And then he only spits a little bit on his hands when he goes to pick up the wheelbarrow. And then he's wheeling it down. And he doesn't roll over the edge of the hill when he's dumping the wheelbarrow. But on his way back up the hill, he's just kind of like, dragging the empty wheelbarrow and just not really paying attention. And he drops one of the handles, one of the handles slips out of his hand that lands on his foot.  That was the end of the digging, by the way. But there he learned another lesson about paying attention. So it's like, I mean, I feel like those lessons are so much more valuable than anything that you couldn't get that stuff in a book. And he was under the impression that he knows how to dig, he knows how to do this stuff. I mean, he has a teenager, and teenagers are kind of known for thinking they know everything. But the fact is, he went to school before. Everything was academic and everything. And he thinks, well, I know how to do stuff. But then he gets someone into a real life situation. And that's when you realize how flawed our education system is. It is horrible. Doesn't teach us to do anything.  You know how to do things. You know how to do it, even though you have, you have not learned anything. So, yeah, I think I'm gonna go more in the direction of this, you know, unscripted, like out of the box, what's it called? Like unscheduled, unstructured schooling system because I think he's got enough structure. But I think he needs a lot of not-structure. And that's what I do with my kids too. And I just get them involved in whatever is going on. And then they get involved. And then just real life situations give you so many lessons that you wouldn't even think to write down in a book. Like if I were to write down all the lessons that I think that kid at least got a taste of in like half an hour of digging, like it was just constant. I give a few examples of things that happened, but it was just constant the whole time. It's like, I don't know what's going on here. Oh, okay. Wait, why does this like this? Oh, okay. Oh, I don't get it. Oh, okay. Like so many things. And like to try to write that all down in some book that you could then teach someone. First, half the stuff wouldn't make any sense.  Really? Does that even mean anything? No, but then you do it once. And it's like, oh, that really does make a big difference. A little bit of moisture on your hands, way better grip. You know, just all kinds of things like that that you learn from real life things that you do not learn in a modern academic setting. And I think that's one of the things that's just causing the downfall of our civilization. I mean, largely I think our civilization is falling apart because of the flaw of democracy which is basically when people are not well-informed or involved enough to vote for the right person, then the whole thing, the whole thing goes down too. But yeah, people are just so uninformed.  And at the same time thinking that because we've done all these lessons and we scored whatever on the test and it said you got an A, that means you know how to do stuff. So all it's teaching people is that they know how to do stuff that they don't actually know how to do. Yeah, it's a really weird system. And I haven't had direct experience, direct contact with that in a while. I forgot how bad the education system is. And you know, it seems to just be getting worse and worse as time goes on. Ah, you know, I guess, I don't know, what's the moral of the story here? Teach your kids with real life things. Get them to do real life stuff, man. They're gonna learn so much more if you have kids, if you don't have kids, I don't know, go have a cookie. All right, what else is going on? Okay, so I haven't mentioned this the last couple of weeks but I'm still planning to have adventure builder meeting this May, the week of May 3rd. I forgot what day of the week it was now. It was a weekday though. But like the weekend before, then that week and the weekend after. So it's like a nine day window that people can come anytime during that and we can hang out at the adventure builder campground that I'm working on. Hopefully I'll have at least one good cabin working order by then. I got a lot of work to do but it's only February. Wait February, March, April. Okay, yeah, it's not that long. But I'm working on it. Of course, if I don't get that much done there, I do have other places people can stay. But anyway, adventure builder meeting the week of May 3rd. Just let me know when you wanna come preferably. I mean, you could just show up but it's nice if you let me know if you're coming and when you wanna come during there. And plus I can help give you directions and stuff. Anyway, I have no idea how many people are gonna show up to this. I used to do these in Vermont at my place there but that was a lot easier to get to. So a lot of people could get there pretty easily because I was near pretty high population area within a few hours drive. But people would come from overseas to those meetings sometimes. Like every year, there are a few people who like traveled like halfway across the world to come to this thing. They'd also go and do some other touristy stuff but they were there. Anyway, so that's the week of May 3rd in Panama. So let me know if you wanna come and I can help you with directions and whatever. Other than that. Oh, this probably looks a little bit different than last week. Look, there's some more boards up on my second floor. Although these are all just up here to dry. They're obviously not cut. There's spaces between them and everything. So I've been getting all the floorboards from out in the jungle and just putting them on the floor all over the place. I've also got a railing right there. I just put up a video about it actually. So some of you have probably seen it. Anyway, things are going well with the second floor. Although now I'm kind of at the point where I'm gonna have to wait a while. You know, I can finish the railings all the way around. But I have all the joists done and I could do all the joists while the wood is a little bit wet because if they shrink, you know, they'll shrink evenly, it's fine. But the floorboards, I want the wood to be fairly dry before I put the floorboards down because when they shrink, they'll leave gaps between them and I don't wanna have big gaps. So I want the wood to dry a fair amount. I don't know, we'll see how patient I am. You know, I have some other stuff to do. I can put the stairs in. I figured out where I wanna put the stairs and you know, do the rest of the railings and have, I can work on the camp a bunch. Yeah, I'll probably spend like a month working on the camp once I get all the boards out of there. And that'll give the wood a chance to dry and will give me a chance to, you know, get the camp ground going. Don't pull me on any of this. I'm not totally sure what I'm gonna do, but that sounds like a pretty good idea. What else is happening? I love my 3D printer. And yeah, yeah, I'm just doing stuff, doing stuff. You know, let's see what you guys are doing. Love the new video B says. Well, thanks man. Scared me watching them run up there. Yeah, so in my latest video, I do show my kids running laps. Not my three year old. The three year old I kept her on a pretty short leash. But like, you know, my older kids were running laps around the second floor. And obviously there are gaps, you know, where a kid could fall through and stuff.  But I think back to when I was a kid and I did way more dangerous stuff than that.  Like I can tell kids be careful of danger all I want, but I also gotta let them go a little bit, you know? Like I don't want them to get to the point where they actually fall in any of the stuff here or anything. But I want them to get used to being in a situation where there is danger that they have to pay attention to. So obviously they want to run laps around. I'm like, okay, you guys be careful. And if at any point, it actually happened yesterday. They started getting a little bit too rowdy, you know, kind of fighting with each other. And I was like, no fighting in a dangerous place. You guys got to come down now. So, but you know, I do want to let them I do want to let them play and be a little bit, a little bit dangerous, a little bit risky. Just, you know, I have to pay attention and mitigate that risk. So they learn the lessons gained from risky behavior, but don't go past that to the point where someone's actually getting hurt, you know? And yeah, a lot of it is just thinking about when I was a kid and just watched me and being like, all right, they look like they're, they can handle this. You know, they're slowing down at the part where there's just one board and they're only going fast on the other, the part where there's lots of boards and yeah. Anyway, that is one of those things where like, as a parent, you have to figure out where that, you have to decide where that line is for yourself. You know, what's too much danger? You know, the thing is they got to learn, you know? But you don't want them to get hurt. So anyway, how is everyone in Mr. Landville? What's going on? Is there going to be an elevator? And Ellen, I was actually thinking about putting in an elevator. Okay, so to get up to the second floor and to the third floor, I want stairs, a rope, the rope's already over there.  I want to slide, I would like to have a slide coming all the way from the third floor down to the first floor. But after, I don't have any of the stuff for that. So I'm gonna have to figure out how to make that happen.  And yeah, one of the ways I was thinking about what is an elevator to go up and down, but not an electric one. Like one where you get in it and you got to turn a crank or, yeah, probably turn a crank, which will be like severely geared down so that one person can turn the crank and actually get themselves or maybe themselves and someone else to go all the way up. And I'll also have to have some kind of limit to how fast the crank can go backwards. Cause, you know, if someone lets go of it, I don't want just the whole thing to just fall down while this crank is spinning so fast, you can't grab it or whatever, you know. But yeah, I'm thinking an elevator, I'll have to figure out how to do it safely and all that. But I would like to do an elevator. Although of course it's not a high priority. That's one of those things I'll do for fun. You know, the rope is also partly for fun, but that's super easy to do. So I just put that up real quick. No splinters from that wood. I love the color of it. Yeah, if this wood is not, it doesn't really, it doesn't really splinter very easily. You know, like, I don't know. How do you explain that? Like it doesn't, it doesn't have a lot of splits in it. Like the wood stays together, you know. So it doesn't end up with pieces sticking out that you can get splinters. I haven't gotten any splinters. Maybe I shouldn't say that cause I might get one tomorrow. But yeah, so far I haven't gotten any splinters from carrying all the wood around. And I've carried a lot of wood around. And in case anyone's wondering, it's mahogany. Around here they call it myoroho. Yeah, it's mahogany. I love the color of it. Yeah, the color is really nice. When you cut it, when you first cut it, it's pretty white. It looks kind of like pine. But then soon after you cut it, it starts turning this reddish color. It's really nice. It's kind of soft wood too. Not as soft as like, not as soft as pine or anything like that. And it does get more dense once the wood cures. So it's really easy to screw together at the beginning. Oh, hi. Hi, Slee is sixes. I was hauling wood out of the forest this evening. Ooh, that's a fun thing to do, isn't it? Luckily I have a forest just up the road and been walking firewood back on my shoulders. Some pretty chunky pieces that I find on the ground. Awesome, good exercise right there, man. Nice work. Very good, edumacation is important for modern life. Yeah, edumacation is hard to find these days. Well, I shouldn't say that, it's not hard to find.  But if you think you're only gonna learn in a classroom or from a book, you're severely limiting what you can learn. Who's like, yeah, book, classroom, so limiting. You gotta get your hands dirty, you gotta do stuff. You gotta run around on some boards and risk death just a little bit to get real insight into certain things, you know? Learned about gravity. Hey there, Jamie. Hey, it's Fredric Brinkat. What's going on? I haven't seen you in a while, man. I made it to another live, just the video of your upper floor coming together. Love the idea of the bridge between the two sides. Know it may be cooler than a bridge, an arched bridge. Well, I did think about making a bridge that either goes like that or like that. However, you know, there's a first floor and a third floor. So if I make an arched bridge, then in the middle of the arch, you might be hitting your head on the third floor. So I think in this particular case, it's just gotta be straight across. But yeah, otherwise that an arch bridge would be kind of cool. Let's see, wish I could come to Panama, Fredric, and join your adventure builder, but I'm currently fighting my own demons, also financially. But hey, sharing time with you is currently on my bucket list. Hey man, whatever you can do, share time right here. That's great. And I don't know what demons you're fighting, but man, I hope it's, I don't know. It's like whatever you're fighting, just keep fighting. Just keep fighting and keep fighting right till you're dead. That's the way I think about it. Things happen, everyone's got problems to deal with. That's one of the things I learned pretty early in life. Everyone's got problems. Everyone's got demons. Everyone's got stuff they have to deal with. And whatever you're dealing with, good luck with it. And I hope you can get a handle on it, whatever's going on. I like the masks you have there inside. Yeah, those are great, aren't they? Before I put those masks up, I did want to put two pillars there. Let's turn this a little bit so we can show them. So this is one of them. I think the other one's blocked by that pillar right there, yeah. So this is one of the masks and the third floor rests on top of this. It's not this.  But that's a ship mast. And before I got my hands on those, I knew I wanted to put two pillars there. And I was like, man, what am I gonna do for those pillars? I can't just make a straight concrete pillar that tall. That's kind of risky, you know? I mean, if I make it thick enough, it would be fine. But then, yeah, I got this old ship pretty cheap. Cheaply and cheap enough that I got more than the value I paid for it just by taking the masks and all the stainless steel cables and like all kinds of hardware off it. And then, yeah, those masks are great. I'm pretty sure they'll easily hold up the floor even with lots of jumping and stuff. Okay, I like the mask you have there inside. Are you going to use the halyards to winch stuff up and down? A big chandelier could be nice. I do not think there's going to be a chandelier, but it's possible. I'm probably not going to use anything on the masts to hoist things up there because the masts only go up to the third floor. And if I'm going to hoist things up, I'll probably connect to the ceiling of the third floor so I can actually get things up to the third floor. Let's see, a big chandelier could be nice. My kids would get pretty into building a chandelier. Welcome Oscar Digital. Who's Oscar Digital? And yes, of course, kids are like ships. We build ships with the intention of them facing a storm not to keep them sheltered in port. That's true. Yeah, good analogy, man. Yeah, you don't raise kids.   Maybe go to the box of the store and back, but spend all your time in boxes. But that's no way to live. That's not real life. Real life, you got to start interacting with the real world and everything is risky. You know, various degrees of risk, of course.  Even living in a box is risky. Cause you don't get enough exercise.  Wait. Immobilize, what is, what are you writing here? Immobile and Gringrang equals property tours. What? Mr. Lancel, you're confusing me. Are you speaking other languages? Picks a lot. What's up, man? Hans Hans, J-men. Second floor is going to be sick AF. Sick Air Force. Yes, I know that's not what it means. I learned ground level is first floor in U.S. Canada. Oh yeah. So in, you know, I learned this when I went to England. In various parts of the world, they number the floors differently. In the United States and Canada, the ground floor is the first floor. And then the second floor is the second one. So they just, you know, the ground one is the first one. But in a lot of places, the ground floor is like the neutral floor. It's like the zero floor, you know? Like if you had a number scale. So in the United States and Canada, there is no zero floor. There's just a positive one and then a positive two and then a positive three.  But I don't know, it's fine. But yeah, in other parts of the world, the ground floor is like the zero. And then you got the positive one and then the negative one is the first basement floor. So I'm using the numbers that I grew up with, which is the ground floor is the first floor and then the second floor is above my head there.  Let's see, oh God. Problem is kids don't listen no more. Oh, kids don't listen no more and parents are allowed to be strict. Well, you know, maybe that's one of the reasons, that's definitely one of the reasons I left North America. Because if I showed that video that I just put up of my kids running around a partially finished floor in the United States, I would get various threats that someone's going to call. What's it called? I don't even remember what it's called now. I'm so glad I don't even know what it's called now because no one sends it to me anymore.  Yeah, when I was in the United States, I used to get threats of that all the time. Child services.  I'm just like, you know what? I'm going to raise my kids the best way I can. And if I can't do that, I'm going to go to another country. So yeah, now I'm doing it here and go ahead, call it child services, whatever. Yeah, you get, okay. And the problem is kids don't listen. You have to, this is a lot to unpack right here. Okay, the problem is kids don't listen, no more should be anymore and parents aren't allowed to be strict. Okay, if your kids aren't listening, it's probably because you're not raising them. Now I don't know what your situation is, but for a lot of people, like the majority of people that I know of in the United States and Canada and Europe, Australia, a lot of other countries, people don't actually raise their kids anymore. They just send them to school, send them to daycare first. Like when they're way too young.   And the parents like, oh, why does this bother me? It should bother you. You should not be sending your two or three-year-old away to be raised by someone else.   Oh, God. So people don't raise their kids anymore. And it starts at a very young age and you send them to daycare, then you send them to kindergarten, then you send them to school. And then you get these teenagers who you don't know because then you didn't raise them.  You weren't there, you didn't raise them. So why would your kids listen to you? If you haven't been there for them their whole life, you've been there at dinner time and you saw them at breakfast for a moment before you sent them off.  Unless you do a terrible job. And the second part about parents aren't allowed to be strict, you just gotta decide what's more important.  Like think about what's gonna be better for your kids. Now obviously you have to try not to get thrown in jail because that's not gonna be better for your kids. But you gotta figure out. And this might have a lot to do with raising your kids yourself, not sending them to school. Maybe you'll have to have them not interact with certain families because those families, the kids don't listen to their parents and your kids just gonna see that and do the same thing.  So you have to interact with other families who also are, I guess I'm just gonna use the word strict with their children. And the thing is a lot of people don't understand what strict means. Like when you're strict with your children it doesn't mean you have to scream at them and you beat them and all this stuff. It just means you set the boundary and that's it. It is a strict boundary. You don't go over that. And if the kid goes over that, you have to pull them back. Whatever you have to do.  And the kid says, okay, and you make a deal. Okay, so you're gonna clean this up before dinner. And the kid says, okay, yes, I will clean it up before dinner. Once they make that promise, it's your job to hold them to it and not let them have dinner until they clean it up. And not send them to bed without dinner. Because that's doing a bad job. The worst job would just be giving them dinner and saying like, well, whatever, just, I want you to eat, so just eat. No, that's the worst. The second worst would be sending them to bed with no dinner. But what your real job is, is making sure they actually do it. You know, whatever you gotta do, whatever, like maybe you have to pretend to be Captain Stupendous on the radio. We've got a situation over here with the Lego and Captain Stupendous is gonna need some assistance. I mean, I have various characters that I sometimes do in my house. My house is actually a space station and there's this guy who runs the space station and there's like maintenance things that have to happen in the space station and it just makes it more fun. And some people would see that and say, oh, but if you just make it fun for them, then it doesn't count. No, no, I want them to enjoy following through with what they've said they do. So if they need to clean up the Lego and you know, Joey, the captain or the captain of the space station comes on the announcements and says, you know, we've got a severe infestation of some kind of aliens that are gonna eat Lego and then throw up acid and destroy the station or something and that gets them interested in doing it and following through with what they said. Fine, because the thing is, I just need to make sure they do it so they get in the habit of doing it. Same thing with like brushing their teeth or cleaning up after dinner or whatever, having a shower, I don't feel like it. No, no, you gotta do it, you gotta do it. You gotta do your stuff. You gotta make sure they do the stuff they need to do and make sure it becomes a habit. Don't let them get used to not doing the things that they know they need to do because your job as a parent is making sure that it becomes a habit for them to do the things they need to do because that's what's gonna make a positive difference in their life, you know? Kids, don't listen no more. You gotta fix your grammar, man. Okay, Jamie, I sent you an idea for your stairs in your Adventure Builder email. I hope you like it. I have not checked my email in a while. One of the things, so I said earlier, you know, in my talking here that I was kind of resetting today. So, you know, I didn't do any morning exercise, I didn't do anything strenuous. I'm just kind of like letting my, I'm just trying to calm down my body chemistry and just like just chill, you know? And part of that is also just not going online, doing anything like that. Yeah, it's like sort of getting no input and not doing anything that is going to alter my state and just like, what if I just chill and don't do anything? What happens then?  It's like put yourself in an empty room with no music and no entertainment and blank walls and just be there for like a day. And you learn a lot about yourself and you can like, you know, it's just very meditative and get you, anyway, I haven't checked my email. I can do that later though. In Germany, where I'm from, it's grew ground level, oh, then one too, yeah. Is it that kids don't listen no more or is that adults don't know how to communicate with kids anymore? Well, I think a lot of it is what, you know, what I was just saying is that not even that adults don't know how to, it's just they're not like adults are not communicating with their kids. And like, you know, when you become a parent, you don't know how to do all kinds of stuff. And that's the scariest thing about being a parent.   Still breathing? Oh, okay, still breathing, you know. But like one of the scariest things is you don't know what to do. You don't know how to do anything. And it's really easy to get stuck in a habit of not doing it. Like when you say, when you don't know how to do something as a parent, it's easy to just try to get someone else to do it. But if you do that, you don't learn how to be a parent. So what you gotta do is you gotta start communicating with your kids when they're very young, when they don't even know how to communicate, you know? They're just like blah, blah, blah, blah, just slobbering everywhere and pooping and farting and just peeing all over the place. You gotta start figuring out how to communicate with them then. And by the time they get old enough that it really, really matters, then you have a rapport, you can communicate with them. And the thing is, maybe you're in a situation where you didn't know you should have been doing that the whole time. And now you've got like a teenager who won't communicate or listen to you or respect you at all.  It's really easy to say, I blew it, I screwed it up, I didn't do it, no, start now. At any point, you can start trying to do a better job. And the longer it's been that you haven't done it, probably the harder it's gonna be, but that doesn't mean you quit, doesn't mean you don't do it. Like if you have a 16-year-old who you've never learned to communicate with, it's gonna be really hard to communicate with them, but start doing it. Just start embarrassing yourself and annoying them and doing whatever you have to do to start wiggling your way into their lives and communicating with them. Just try not to be horrible, but it's a tough thing. Because a lot of people grew up just not communicating with their kids and not learning how to and stuff. But yeah, it's like you're not, it's not like in the past, everyone just knew how to do this stuff. It's just in the past, there weren't so many choices saying you don't have to do it. There weren't so many easy ways to just say, well, just send your kid to daycare.  So that's why in the past people had better families because they had to.  It's really bad for people and families and everything. Oh, it's really garbage. What was I talking about? I don't know. If I became a parent, I think I would be strict. Well, you gotta be strict, man. Yeah, you gotta, like kids don't know what they're supposed to do when they're born. They have no idea what they're supposed to do. You're the one who's gotta teach them everything. And to be able to teach them at their level, you have to be strict. For example, like my two middle kids who are running laps around the second floor. If I didn't let them do that, they wouldn't be challenged. If I just said, no, I just don't even do that at all. Let's just do something else, find something super safe to do and easy where I don't have to draw a line anywhere. But I let them run around on the second floor and then I keep an eye on them. And when they get up to a certain line that I've defined as too dangerous, I say, that's it. This is where we're cutting it off.   What's going on here? Property tours was an Oscar digital's channel. At least I think that's what it translated to. I have no idea what you're talking about. What's property tours was an Oscar digital's channel? I don't know. I don't know what you're talking about right now. Mr. Landfill. Can the structure hold all of the weight of the wood for the floors? You've done some math or eyeballing. No, the structure cannot hold all the weight. It's all gonna collapse. No, I did some math. It wasn't that hard, you know? I know the rough pounds per square inch, which is gonna drive all the Europeans and the English people are crazy. But yeah, the bag of cement and concrete has says how many pounds per square inch it can handle. And I make sure I'm way, way, way well within that. So yeah, I think I was like, I think I have 10 times more strength than I need. There is one thing I'm still doing to support the second floor. So I mentioned this last week. So right here is a pillar. This goes all the way up to the third floor or the second floor if you're in Germany. This goes all the way up to the third floor. And right here is this beam thing that goes across and it's connected there and it's connected there and this beam supports part of the floor there and it supports part of the floor way over there. And on this particular wall, well on this particular beam, it's got a wall under it. So because it's got a wall under it, I'm not worried at all about this collapsing. It's got all the strength of this wall directly under where the weight bearing part. However, on a lot of these, there's no wall here. So this is empty. So that means where the weight's being supported there, it's relying on the sheer strength of the concrete. So anywhere there's not a wall, I'm putting just an extra little pillar there just to have support directly under where the weight is. And the same thing at this end. I'm more concerned about this end because on this end, the beams actually hold all the weight. But on this end, the beams only hold one joist and the other joist that the other three joists rest on is on a part that's, it's already on a, it's got concrete all directly below it and more than enough to support the weight. So yeah, I did some math and it should be all fine. I mean, I just did a, you know, a quick estimation math to just to make sure I've got like at least 10 times more strength than I need. One of the things that comforts me is that concrete is used to make like 50 story tall buildings. So my four story tall building should be fine. Let's see. I just saw the video of the second floor railing but it is just the first floor as it is above the ground floor. Yeah, well, depending on what country you're in could be the first floor or the second floor. So I don't know. Oh no, he said the F word live when you're dishonest. Oh, I love it when you're dishonest. Yeah, I try not to swear, but man, this whole thing about parents not raising their children anymore. God, it's such a, it's so disastrous. It's so disastrous to our culture, to our whole civilization, you know, the fact that parents aren't raising children anymore.  Just families are totally broken and relationships are broken and like men and women, I mean, it all comes down to this thing where men and women are supposed to hate each other, you know, men are from Mars and women are from Venus and we're not supposed to get along with each other or supposed to be at each other's throats and hating each other and that's the story today. It doesn't make any sense. It's totally destructive and it's destroying the fabric of our civilization right out from under our feet and people are just going along with it, you know? And it's so frustrating to watch it happen.  And you have to rush over to grab the ladder and get them to come down. Well, I feel like our civilization is like this kid on top of a ladder that's about to fall over but you can't fix it because you can't do anything.  I can sit here and say this and try to give the message to as many people as possible like, no one's gonna hear it. For the most part, the people who are gonna hear the message already know the message and they're not the ones who need it. It's like just the millions and millions of people who are just going along thinking that, for instance, if you're in a relationship with someone, you're against that person, right? Which doesn't make any sense at all.   What I, my job is this because I'm the woman, my job's this because I'm the man, why do I have to do this? You know, why get stuck with this? But let's say we've at least got some reasonable jobs that one person's deciding, all right, I'm gonna handle this stuff and I'm gonna handle this stuff and it doesn't even have to be gender specific. We can just put that all aside for the moment. The way most people run their relationships today, they don't try to make the other person's job easier, which is insane. Sometimes they'll even try to make the other person's job harder. Like say, say, I'm gonna be the manly man and I'm gonna go work the construction job or something and my wife is gonna be at home, not that this happens anymore, but my wife's gonna be at home and she's gonna take care of the laundry and clean the house. She's gonna do the cleaning, I'm gonna do the bringing home the money. So I go to the construction job and I come home.  That's not me doing the right job. I'm not doing my job right. Like if there's any way that on my way home, I can jump in a creek or in the ocean or in a lake or something and then get out and like I'm mostly clean. Then I can get home. Even if I'm kind of a little damp still, I'm not like dragging in just all the dirt to make my partner's life harder. But people don't think about things like that. Today they're just like, well, this is your job, so do it, just show up and do it. Doesn't matter how dirty it is. Doesn't matter that I put no effort into making your job easier.  No, this is your job, you go do it. And this is not a gender-specific thing. This goes both directions. Men and women are doing this to each other constantly and like all these relationships that I see people in.  Doesn't matter, right?  But that's tearing, that's tearing your relationships apart.  But man, it's just, yeah, just this whole thing about families being destroyed and like no one's raising their children anymore. Like if you wanna know why our civilization's collapsing, if you wanna know why life is getting harder and harder and harder, even though we have more technology that should make it easier, but still it keeps getting harder and harder. Start there, start with families. Start with like kids not being raised to learn the things they need to do to make a better world. And man, when you look at the kids growing up today, like those people are gonna be in charge of things in a few decades. Man. Oh. Let's see, what's going on here? Yes, I did say the F word. Canada and America, number things strange. Yeah. Mr. Landfill, we are in Panama, dammit. Ah, let's see. Jamie was born and raised between Canada and America. Well, yeah, I was in Canada for like the first 20 years. I don't know, is that who cares what numbers the floors are? Geez, it's not that big a deal. It's really not that important. It was a joke, but still, wait, what was the joke? I don't know, right. Okay, COVID brought a school home to a lot of people. Hopefully the world would learn from that experience. Yeah, one of the best things that happened with the whole quarantine, the COVID-19 whole deal there was that people started homeschooling and homeschooling actually became like an acceptable thing, like a normal thing. And I don't know what the statistics are now, how many people are still doing it, but I kind of hope that a lot of people kept doing the homeschooling, but who knows? I know a lot of people just went back to how things were, I'm a regular, thumbs up everyone. Sean says, I was just talking to my dad on the porch. Oh, that would be a cool experience to talk to my dad on the porch. I haven't talked to my dad in quite some time. I don't know if I'll ever talk to him again actually, but I hope that one day my kids will talk to me on the porch when they're older. Anyway, I was talking to my dad on the porch. I'm glad that he taught me, he doesn't know everything and every question could have several answers. Best not to be rigid with ideology. Exactly, yes, totally. And that's one of the things you learn from real life experience. You know, you go into a classroom and you get some test that's a written test and like there is an answer, there is an exact answer. But that's not how real life works. Sometimes that's how real life works, but even then, a lot of times it doesn't work that way. Even, you know, I was talking about doing the calculation for how much weight my floors could hold, like, or how much weight my bi-pillars could hold to make sure the floors could hold them. Well, there's a lot of factors that could change that. My skill in mixing the concrete, how good a job I did, how much cement I put in there, you know, how good my molds were, did I leave voids or gaps and there's like, oh, the answer's not so simple like liquidy split, just crunch the numbers. Like, there's always a lot of variability in real life things that you can't just fit into a book. Now, I'm not saying, you know, book learning is not useful, it's definitely useful. But like for instance, with math, if you're just learning book math and you don't learn how to apply it to real life, it's kind of useless. And this is one of the things I always try to teach my kids. Like a lot of the questions I give them, I'll give them like a few questions every morning with every, we kind of do like breakfast math. So I'll give them a few questions that are just like basic things that are kind of at their level, maybe pushing them a little bit. And then I always give one word question.  And then there'll always be a few different answers. So it'll be like, how much gasoline do you need to go here and back? And they'll be like, okay, do the calculation, the calculation, they come up with like 26 gallons of gasoline to get there and back. And then I'll ask the next question, which is how much would you take? And then they're like, well, if I take 26 exactly, I'll make it back exactly. Unless there's a headwind. Okay, so I should take a little more. Plus I don't want to get back and be empty because then I won't be able to go get gas later. Okay, so I need to take actually like 10 extra gallons or whatever, you know? So it's really important to always include like real life scenarios and that kind of stuff. And then, you know, when I'm taking my kids out on the boat, I'll ask them questions that I've asked them in math questions about what we're actually doing. Or like I got my kids involved, you know, in the last video, I got them involved in laying out the posts for the railing to figure out how many railings should there actually be in each section? You know, and then we can figure out how many total we need. But you know, there's all kinds of considerations. How close do the railings need to be?  Okay, what other considerations do we need to have? Turns out there's not much other than that. Just as long as a little kid can't fit through, that's pretty much the only consideration. But anyway, I mean, there are other considerations. Blah, blah, blah. Okay, what are the top five books and top five movies that had the biggest impact on you? Oh, well, books, that's a tough one because I did not read a lot. Because what would happen when I would read? Well, part of the problem was school was always trying to get me to read these horribly boring books. And it was like, I don't wanna deal with it. But what often happened to me when I was reading is I would analyze every sentence as I was going. And I was always very good at comprehension. But my reading was always slow. I always got in trouble for that. I was reading too slow. But I was like, I wanna analyze every sentence. I wanna know what's going on here. So I would be analyzing all the messages that are between the lines, you know? And I would often get annoyed at the authors for trying to sell me something, trying to sell me some idea between the lines. They're telling the story, but they've always got some little agenda. And I'd be like, ah, screw this book. So I didn't read a lot. I still don't read a lot. Like, if I start reading, it's the same thing happens. I'm like, I know what this guy's trying to do. I know what this guy's trying to teach me. He's trying to tell me to think like this. Well, I'm not gonna do it. You know, anyway, I can get through a movie much more easily than a book. My top five movies. Well, I used to, the first thing I think about was just like Kung Fu movies. Like American Ninja and like, you know, Ninja movies. Cause I didn't have any, what's the word? I didn't have any exposure to anyone trying to teach me self-discipline or anything like that. But in these Kung Fu, these Ninja movies, self-discipline was a huge thing. Like if you could, if you could have self-discipline and you control your mind and your body, you can do amazing things. Was basically the message I was getting from these Ninja movies. Of course, you know, there was a lot of chopping people up and throwing Ninja stars in people's heads and whatever. But like the part that I really enjoyed about those movies was just the self-discipline and the practice of skills and learning to do things and then being able to do things that just normal people couldn't do. So yeah, I would say like Ninja movies when I was a kid where a huge influence on me. And other than that, much more than books, I would say video games. Because, you know, I played a lot of like RPG type video games. I also played some, you know, action video games and action video games just kind of teach you fast reflexes and stuff. But like the RPG video games, the role-playing games, they put you in kind of real-life situations where you have to think about what you should do or what you would do. And I feel like I learned a lot from that. Just not even specifically from the video game. It's more like what the video game made me think about. So in the video game, the RPGs, I would be in various situations and I would end up thinking, what would I do in that situation? And yeah, I just learned a lot about what to do. Because I'd come up to some kind of similar situation in real life and I'd be like, oh, I know what to do here because I've already thought about the situation because I encountered it in a video game where I could pause the game and I could stop and think about it. Like what should I do? And then when I came up to the situation in real life that I didn't have to make a snappy decision that I hadn't thought out because I thought about it. And I'm sure this question is gonna bounce around in my head and like two days from now, I'm gonna have a much better answer. Jamie, Jamie, quite contrary. How does your garden grow at this time of year? Well, this time of year, it's like always summer here in the tropics. And I've been very excited about my papayas. I showed a couple of papayas we got off the tree the other day. Right now, there are no ripe papayas, but there are a lot of papayas. They're like, I counted over 50 and I couldn't see them all.  And I'm hoping to get more banana soon. My banana trees are looking huge.  But my gardens are not as good as I want. I have this spinachy plant that just grows like crazy. I've got tons of that. I eat that like in everything. I've actually got my dinner sitting right over there, which has definitely had enough time to cool off now, but I'll eat it in a little bit. Has a bunch of that spinach in it and oregano and stuff. But yeah, I definitely do wanna have more food growing, but you know, I'm growing. I'm definitely growing more than I was when I started. And I'm continually slowly growing more. So it's going okay. At some point, I really wanna jumpstart that and like put a lot of effort into like growing crops, growing crops kind of deal. But I think that's gonna happen over in the jungle where I'm building the campground because the soil over there is like 1,000 times better than on this island. This island is very clay. And the only place things are growing really well is like kind of right in front of my house where all the sweepings go. You know, whenever I sweep stuff out of my house, I dump it there and then, you know, fruit scraps, I throw it in certain spots down there. So there's lots of compost and stuff.  That's why the papayas grow right in front of my house. But the rest of the island, you know, it's pretty dense clay. Things don't grow that well. So yeah, hopefully when I get this campground going, I can plant lots of stuff there in the good soil. Maybe the people who show up this year, I know at least one person's coming. There'll probably be a few people. Maybe we can do a bit of planting or something. I don't know, we'll see. For your stairs, why not have them come up on the bridge so you don't have to interrupt your run path? Well, the run path is definitely wide enough that, you know, half the space could be stairs. It's not even gonna be half the space. However, I don't want to have the whole run open anyway. Like the outer half of the floor is the run track. The inner half of the floor will be 12 different rooms. Cause you know, there are 12 of these pillars, 12 of these posts. So there'll be 12 different rooms. And I want to have one be like a Lego zone, one, maybe two, might have to have two of them be Lego zone. There's a lot of Lego here. I want to have one be like a drawing station for like drafting or drawing or whatever. I don't know, all the drawn stuff in one of the spots. And then maybe some of them will be bedrooms. But like the inner half is not gonna be running track. There's gonna be stuff there. So if I use one of the spots for stairs, I think it'll be fine. And I like the idea of the stairs there. I think they'll be good there. Let's see, I think Sean says, I think the poor relationships you describe are because people feel forced together mostly by unplanned pregnancy and by being able to afford other, and being unable to afford other options, sadly, by bad education and less access. Man, you're open into big can of worms here. First, I would say people don't just become pregnant. It's not just like, ooh, I'm pregnant. Throughout most of human history, people were very aware that pregnancy is a possibility when you're getting frisky with someone, getting involved. So they would control themselves. Birth control hasn't been around that long. Before birth control, people just had self-control. And now self-control has been replaced by birth control. And now people are just like, ah, it doesn't matter, whatever, ah, it's not my fault, the condor broke, it's not, meet my problem, I didn't do it, ah, we didn't mean to, it's just an accident, ah, zero responsibility for me.   You don't just get pregnant, you're doing some stuff. And okay, ever since I was a kid, I decided, maybe since I was kid, ever since I became sexually active, let's just say the words, ever since I became sexually active, I decided that I should not be sexually active with anyone that I could not have children with. So it's like, it's important to think about that.   So don't tell me that this is just, oh, unplanned pregnancies just fell out of the sky. No, it's like being irresponsible. And part of that is bad education. A lot of that, a lot of that bad education is just not teaching people to be responsible. This is one of the reasons I let my kids run around on the second floor. I'm teaching them that they are responsible for their own safety. I'm not gonna lock them on the first floor and say, you cannot go up there because it's dangerous. I'm gonna say, you can go up there, but you have to be safe. And that's teaching them to be responsible for themselves. Which is something kids don't learn when they grow up in a box. Going to daycare, where everything's done for them.  And if you can't even do that, right? Well, you get some Prozac and then you're fine, you know? It's just, people are being irresponsible. Oh, let's see. Possum living by Dolly Freed. Oh, is this a book? Possum living by Dolly Freed. I'm not gonna read it probably, but yeah. Hi, Jamie, you're awesome. Well, thanks, Off-Grid Homestead. I appreciate that. Make green papaya salad. So I've heard about this green papaya situation. Now you can eat the papayas green, but I don't know, man. They are so delicious when they're ripe. I don't know how. I don't imagine they're gonna be as good when they're not ripe. And I can get them ripe right off the tree and they're, oh, they're so good, they're amazing. Maybe one day I'll try this green papaya thing, but I don't know. I need to have like excess papayas or something before I risk one of my delicious papayas. Okay, Frederick says, question, okay. Picture is quite pixelated today. At least for me, is that a Star Trek logo on your shirt? Dr. Sulu? No, it's nothing. It's a sailboat. Yeah, it's nothing. Nothing interesting. Dr. Sulu. Frederick Vindicat, I have heard YouTube is having problems today. Well, yeah, I should have. I mean, the internet should be working fine from where I am, but yeah. Maybe YouTube's having a problem. I don't know. Sorry if it's pixelated. I can't do anything about it. There was a lot of child mortality in the old days as well. Well, you know, people talk about how in the old days people were just dropping dead all the time. And like one of the things is before there were hospitals women would die in childbirth like all the time. But the thing is that doesn't make sense because the species would not have continued. None of us would be alive if there was like a 50% chance you'd die in childbirth. Like there would be no people. And yeah, kids used to die. Kids die now. What, who care? Like what, I don't know, what's your point? You gotta have more of a point than people died. Um, what's your upcoming tasks this week? Let me think. I don't know, kind of a lot of the same stuff. Man, YouTube is changing, YouTube keeps changing where the buttons are. It's kind of annoying. Okay, my upcoming tasks this week. Well, I have to get the rest of that wood out of the jungle, the rest of the floorboards. I've got, well, I mean, I've already used all the joists but I do still have at least two boards that are the joist thickness that I have to get out. And then just a lot of floorboards. So yeah, I'll get those out of there. And that I usually just do one trip in a day which ends up taking a few hours. I don't know, it's like three or four hours to do one load of wood because it's pretty far into the jungle. Like a quarter mile from where I can park my boat if I can get my boat like right up when the tide is up. Yeah, like three or four hours to get the boards all the way back here. And then yeah, I usually just do one of those trips a day. And then other than that, what's the other thing I've been doing? I don't know. Well, I was cutting boards.  Maybe I'll put the rest of the railings in. I want to put the stairs in. And then the supports for the second floor which is the first floor in Europe. Just adding little pillars to the edges of the pillars, making the pillars a little bit fatter just under the part that supports the weight. I've started that, but there's a bunch to do. I don't have a lot of stuff to do. And then on my 3D printer, I've just been playing around with stuff, nothing. Nothing important. Yeah. Today, I started making new tank treads because there's something bothering me about the ones I made before that I shared them on Thingiverse. But I was like, I need to make those better. So anyway, I started printing out some new ones after designing them.  I don't know. Other than that, I think thinking. I have to do a lot of thinking, nothing special or nothing new, just the kind of thinking that's like maintenance of my own self, trying to make sure I'm doing a good job of being an adventure builder and doing all the right principles and stuff following the right path. And actually, I'm trying to do one adventure builder video every week or two.  But I want to go through all the virtues and do a video on each one. I did honesty last week. And I made a nice poster. So now I feel like I have to draw a poster for each one and do that. So that's something I kind of do, like if it's raining out or if it's the evening and I'm kind of done with everything else and I'm just chilling, I'll do some drawing. Just think about what I want to talk about. Those videos are actually the hardest ones I do. The ones like the adventure builder videos where I'm talking about principles that I think are really important and I'm trying to be sincere and express things that our language is not really set up to express. Okay, what's going on? Doctors didn't know to wash hands till the last century, germs weren't understood. Well, the thing is it's not that doctors didn't know how to wash their hands. All this stuff goes and waits. Like before there were doctors and before there were cities, germs just were not spread around like crazy. Like when people were less density populated. So anytime you start talking about the mortality of the past, you have to look at the specific situation. How long was that? Like if you're talking about doctors, doctors were not something that existed all throughout human history. Doctors have existed for part of human history and plus there have been different civilizations that did different things. So you can't really just make blanket statements about the past, because it's not going to cover the past. It's going to cover a little piece of the past in a certain region. And it's always important to keep that in mind because there are different civilizations, there are different times, things have changed, like a lot of different things have happened. So a lot of the stuff people talk about with medical things, a lot of the medical problems we have today and we've had for the last hundreds of years, whatever, a lot of that came up because people started living in cities, because people started living more density populated, because then if one person gets sick, they're immediately infecting like 40 other people, whereas when people were living more spread out, illnesses would not spread so fast. So that was just the distance between people was a huge deterrent to things spreading around people. So sicknesses had a disadvantage and when you pack people in a city, illnesses that are contagious through breathing or touch have a huge advantage and that stuff gets a lot worse. And then sanitation, once you pack people in, the tighter you pack people in, the more people you put in a place, the more poop and pee there is to deal with and the more sanitation becomes an issue. So yeah, there's a lot of stuff you have to talk about if you're gonna talk about medical things and the past. There's a lot of variables and stuff. Okay, my point was I think that self-control wasn't necessarily the go-to habit but perhaps large families with lots of children, some of which just wouldn't make it. Okay, well, that's a separate thing.  Is a separate issue then hookup culture? So if you're talking about like what we have today which is hookup culture, and this, oh, this is so irritating. So I'm single right now, right? And I talked to girls once in a while and it's like every girl is just, I'm sure girls have this problem too, but every girl is just interested in hooking up. And I'm just like, yeah, I have zero interest in hooking up. I have, I don't wanna do that at all.  Not worth it, right? Like I would only be interested in a long-term thing but like almost everyone I talk to is like, no, I wanna hook up and just have fun and whatever, you know? And oh, there's so many problems associated with that. And that's a different problem than sometimes children would die. Like if people are having children within a family, even if you're losing some kids once in a while that's still a much better situation for the children than just having hookup culture where people have kids and they don't even know who the parents are, you know? Doctors are only as good as the research and knowledge that's around at the time. Not necessarily true. Again, there are a lot of variables that you're not taking into account. There's, yeah. That's a whole huge can of worms. So one of the problems actually that I think the medical system today has is just what you're talking about, the knowledge and the research. So whatever is written down on a piece of paper somewhere that's the important information and something like bedside manner that's not as important as this stuff, you know?     And that's something that people don't take into account. And you know, yes, you can say, okay, when people do research on that, they've learned about it, but that's something you don't have to do research on.  Saying everything else is equal. When you feel better about yourself, you're going to be healthier than when you feel bad about yourself. Like that's something that's just common sense. That's basic human understanding that's been around forever.  Yeah, that's not in the research, man. Gonna be cool to see your third floor finished. Yeah, I'm excited about the third floor. I'm really looking forward to playing Frisbee on the third floor. That's gonna be exciting because it's totally big enough in here to play Frisbee. We're like cats. To play cats like with a hardball, I'm gonna have to put up some nets or something so I don't damage the house every time someone throws hard and misses. Anyway, yeah, I'm pretty excited about that. Walden is also a good book, you all already know everything there. Yeah, so, yeah, I feel like Walden, is that what the book's called? It's Walden's Pawn. I don't know, anyway. I know what you're talking about. I've never read it, but I've heard bits and pieces about it. And when I first moved off grid, people kept bringing up the book to me because of things I said. And then I'd be like, well, if I just said that and that reminded you of the book, what's the point of reading the book? So yeah, basically what you just said there. Agreed about families and in the past, they are an integral part of human society. Yeah, so you know what? I would give up all the medical knowledge and stuff we have today for families. Like I'm not saying I wanna get rid of all the medical knowledge we have today. But I'm just saying, if I had to pick one, if I could either have good families in a society or lots of medical knowledge, I would choose good families. Because that's the foundation of so many things. You get better medical knowledge when you have good families raising children who learn and their curiosity is not being crushed by some institution that just, God, schools are so horrible today. But like when you have good families raising good people, it fixes so many of the problems. When you don't have good families raising good people, that's when you have a lack of morality. And when you have a lack of morality, just all kinds of problems run rampant. And in those cases, the more knowledge you have, it doesn't necessarily make a better life. Because when people are immoral, they'll use knowledge for the wrong things to be greedy. And that's, you know, medical stuff today is a perfect example of that so much medical knowledge today is used just for profit, like bottom line, making dollars at the expense of people's health. All right, let's see. I love opening a can of worms. Yeah, opening a can of worms. Yeah, that can be a fun thing. I'll second ME about Walden for Jamie. Maybe I should read it. I don't know. Maybe when I get old and I'm not doing so much, I'll read some books. I don't think I've ever seen a can of worms. Now I kind of wanna go onto one of those AI image generators and just type in can of worms and see what it spits out. You need to go fish. I do need to go fish. All right, I have not been fishing in a while. I haven't even been spear fishing in a while because I've just been busy. Yeah, just been busy doing stuff. Nobody should be hooking up with girls, women. Yes, girls, no. Okay, you know what I'm talking about. Women, I'm not literally saying little girls. When I talk about girls and boys, I'm not necessarily identifying any ages. Like if you asked me if I'm a boy or a girl, I'd be like I'm a boy. You don't have to call me a man. Anyway, this is all silliness. All right, it looks like I'm at the end of comments here and I've got some dinner sitting right there that's getting cold and I think I'm gonna go eat it. So everyone, have an excellent day or morning or evening or whatever you got, wherever you are and I'll talk to you soon. I'll keep you updated on how things are going and Mr. Landfill says be safe everyone. Okay, I'm getting out of here. Oh, where's the button now? YouTube, stop changing everything. Okay, this is one up here.


Hi everyone, it's Leah, your lead course instructor here at Advanced E-Clinical Training. So welcome back to our pharmacology lessons. Today we're gonna just briefly discuss some psychiatric medications. Now, I don't want you all to spend a lot of time memorizing all of these medications, what they are used to treat, their mechanisms of actions. That's not what this is about, but as a certified medical assistant, part of your job will be to take down people's medical history and take down a list of medications. And so a lot of people are on psychiatric medications these days, especially anti-depressants. So I really just wanted to give you an overview of some of these medications so you can start to familiarize yourself with what they are and some of their names. And also just keep in mind that as you gain more experience in the field and you start hearing these names more often, you'll start to memorize them more and know what they're used for. Okay, so let's move along here too. So classes of psychiatric medications. So the main classes of psychiatric medications include anti-anxiety medications or agents, of course anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, mood stabilizers, and then psychostimulants or otherwise known just as stimulants. So anti-depressants. So there are five main categories of anti-depressants. So they include the monamine oxidase inhibitors or otherwise known as MAOIs. We have the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs. We also have the serotonin norepinephrine reuptake and have inhibitors also known as SNRIs. And then we also have the tricyclic anti-depressants as well as a new group of anti-depressants. They're kind of thrown into this group called atypical anti-depressants. So we'll first begin talking about the MAOIs. So MAOIs is used to treat major depression or depression itself. And it's an older class of medications. It's not used as often these days anymore, but it works. There's an enzyme called monamine oxidase and it's involved in removing the neurotransmitters, norepinephrine serotonin and dopamine from the brain. So the MAOIs prevent this from happening because of course the nore serotonin you have in your brain, the happier you're gonna be. So there are four main MAOIs that are available here from the United States, listed first with their generic name and then the trade name. So those are here for you to see right here. And again, I don't want you to memorize all of these names. Just know that there's a class of medications for anti-depressants called MAOIs. And again, these are an older class of medication. You're not nearly gonna see these as often any longer. So some side effects of MAOIs include dry mouth, nausea, headache, drowsiness, insomnia, dizziness, or lightheadedness and skin reaction. Now moving along to the SSRIs or the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. So again, these medications are used to treat major depression. The anti-depressant effect of the SSRIs is mediated by the inhibition of the reuptake of serotonin in the synapses of the nerve. So effectively it helps to increase the serotonin levels in the brain. And again, the more serotonin you have in the brain, the happier your brain's gonna be. Some of these names you might be familiar with some of them, because again, these are more common than more commonly prescribed now than the MAOIs. But we have Cedalopram or Cilexam, Acetylopram or Lexapro, Fluoxetine or Prozac, Fluvoxamine or Luvox, Prooxetine or Paxil, and then Sertraline or Zoloft. So some side effects of the SSRIs include anxiety, drowsiness, headache, insomnia, some sexual dysfunction, weight gain, and then other less common adverse effects that can occur is the QT prolongation in our heart rhythm, or otherwise known as a long QT interval, an increased risk for suicidal behavior and suicidal ideation. And that's mostly could happen more commonly in patients that are under the age of 18 years old. So that's something to watch out for. Sometimes when people begin to take some antidepressants, they can experience an increase in their suicidal ideation if they had it prior. And then serotonin syndrome as well. Next, we're gonna talk about the serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors. So again, these medications are used to treat major depressive disorder or otherwise known as MDD. And so the antidepressant effects of the SNRIs are mediated by the inhibition of the reuptake of serotonin and norepinephrine.  So the five main SNRIs available here in the US and that we use. And again, you might be familiar with a few of these. The despenilexine, which is pristique, duloxetine or simbalta. We have fetsima, which I don't, I haven't really seen at all, if ever, in any of my patients. Cervilla and then the vanillaxapine or effectsor. And again, side effects with these SNRIs include anxiety, constipation, headache, insomnia, nausea, sexual dysfunction and increased blood pressure and heart rate. And that's because of the norepinephrine that's in these SNRIs. Norepinephrine will increase your blood pressure alone. It's used as a drug alone in medicine and your heart rate. Next, we have the tricyclic antidepressants. Again, tricyclic antidepressants are an order class of drug like the MAOIs. And we don't use these as often. You won't see these as commonly as the SSRIs or the SNRIs. So again, this medication is used to treat major depressive disorder. And so the effects of the TSAs are created by the inhibition of serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake. So here are some of the names for tricyclic antidepressants. I do see amitriptyline used commonly still. A lot of times patients are using or prescribed amitriptyline at bedtime. And that's a more common one. Amoxapine, anaphrano, this doxopin I still see used pretty often. And then these last few here, again, I don't see these ones as often for the TSAs. Mostly it's the amitriptyline and the doxopin. But that doesn't mean that you won't see these other names as well. And again, some side effects of the TSAs. The TCAs, I apologize, TCAs or tricyclic antidepressants include blurred vision, confusion, constipation, delirium, dry mouth, difficulty urinating or urinary retention. Also orthostatic hypotension and waking. Now moving on to the last category of the antidepressants is the atypical antidepressants. And again, as I said in the beginning, so these atypical antidepressants are kind of new medications that are labeled to treat major depressive disorder and have mechanisms of action that make them a little bit different from the last four classes of antidepressants that we talked about. But, and again, these are, we're starting to see these a lot more often now. So be appropriate or well-buttern is used pretty often. Sometimes this is prescribed for people that are trying to quit smoking. Mirtazepine or Remeron, I see a lot of elderly patients being prescribed this medication. Nephazone, Trazodone is one that's used, I see a lot in patients prescribed for them again at bedtime. Vibrid and then Trentalex is a new one as well. These two Vibrid and Trentalex are the most new that I am aware of. I see Trentalex and Vibrid also being used to treat people that have bipolar disorder as well as the major depressive disorder as well. So moving on here to, let me move my face so you can see these names. Okay. So some of these, so moving on to the next class of psychiatric medications known as anti-anxiety medications or anti-anxiety agents. Most of these medications are benzodiazepines and Boosprone and it's used to help reduce anxiety. So these benzodiazepines are used to treat and reduce anxiety as I said and also are used to treat GAD or otherwise known as general anxiety disorder. So some of these medications that's the names of these medications you might be familiar with some of them, Zanax. I see people, that's a pretty common one. Librium, not so much. Colonipin or clonazepan, pretty common. Diozepan or Valium. They give this medication pretty often to people who are withdrawing from alcohol. Let's see. Lorazepan or Ativan is pretty common one as well. Let's see. Restore, I do see this one as well. Pretty common. People are given Restore at bedtime to help them sleep. So those are the most common ones on this list that I tend to see in my daily practice with patients. And again, we have to of course talk about some of the adverse effects. So you have to be careful with benzodiazepines because they can be habit forming and they have some adverse effects especially with the central nervous system depression. So this can make these medications pretty dangerous especially for elderly adults. And so you also want to be conscientious if you have a patient that's prescribed one of these anti-exanity medications and then say they're also prescribed a narcotic pain medication like oxycodone. So some good teaching. If you see that and you will see it sometimes people will take anti-anxiety medications and then say they break their arm and so now they are on oxycodone for the pain. So some good teaching is you just want to make sure you let that patient know that you don't want to take the benzodiazepine at the same time as you're taking the oxycodone because of course it can suppress your central nervous system and depress your respiratory system and the breathing as well. So just keep that in mind. And of course when we're talking about the depression the central nervous system that can cause some cognitive impairment, drowsiness, delirium, falls, addiction and then of course there's always rebound anxiety after short term use of these benzodiazepines. Moving along to antipsychotics. So antipsychotic medications are used to treat psychosis. Now psychosis can be related or can happen due to several different things that could be related to someone abusing drugs or to drug use or to a mental health condition such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or severe, severe depression which can also be known as psychotic depression. So some healthcare providers may also with this population of patients you might see them on a combination of different medications. So if your patient has bipolar disorder you might see them on like a antipsychotic and an antidepressant. So that group of patients is sometimes prescribed a combination of some of these psychiatric medications. But these antipsychotics are divided into typical antipsychotics and the atypical antipsychotics also known as the first and second generation of these medications. So here is a list some typical antipsychotics. Here you can read these. Now I have to say how doll is probably the one you're going to see use the most that's used often working in the emergency department if somebody comes in and they are combative or very confused and psychotic we do give them how dolls also given in the inpatient healthcare setting as well for people that are hallucinating or in some psychosis state. So that is a common one you'll see as well. Now some of these atypical antipsychotics you might start to recognize some of these names. Abilify is one I'm seeing here pretty used I see commercials for it. It's being used more often. This Vraylar is another one being used pretty often. Now I see people with bipolar being prescribed Vraylar. In addition to other medications Latuda, Ziprexa is a pretty common one. Cerakwil is a pretty common one now especially for the adult population. You'll see a lot of times I'm elderly people on this at bedtime. Reciparital common, Gia did not so common. Gia didn't as I see that mostly prescribed to people with rapidly cycling bipolar disorder. Which is some of the main ones. And again, I don't want you all to memorize all of these names, but just some I wanted to I want you to just start to familiarize yourselves because again, as a medical assistant you will be taking medical histories. So you're gonna come into you're gonna have patients that have major depressive disorder or bipolar disorder or schizophrenia and these medications may be on their list. So some side effects of the antipsychotics of course is sedation. Anticolinergic effects, sexual dysfunction, weight gain and orthostatic hypotension. Moving on to mood stabilizers. So mood stabilizers are used to treat bipolar disorder and changes associated with other mental health conditions. In some cases, providers may prescribe mood stabilizers to increase the effect of other psychiatric medications and used to treat depression. So big one is lithium for these mood stabilizers. Also some anti-confalsants are used. So interestingly enough, Ted we're tall is one medication that you'll see and that's really classified as an anti-confalsant but you'll see that used as a mood stabilizer as well. The lithium, of course, or lamyctal is another one that's an anti-confalsant that is used as a mood stabilizer. So, but these are all used for treating mood disorders and bipolar patients mostly but also can be used and I've seen it being used to treat people that have personality disorders as well. So mood stabilizers to lithium. So here are some adverse effects of lithium, it's nausea, polyuria. So having to urinate often, polydipsia and that's feeling very thirsty, having tremors, weight gain. And then our last category for psychiatric medications are these CNS stimulants. So central nervous stimulants are the primary treatment for attention deficit disorder or ADHD and hyperactivity disorder in children and adults. Not so these medications are used to treat ADHD and adults as well, I just wanna make that clear. So again, here are some of the medications appropriately most familiar to you is Adderall and probably Ritalin. Vivians is a newer one and I see this mostly given to adults with ADHD, Ritalin, I see mostly in children given to children with ADHD. So and then of course we have the side effects or adverse effects of CNS stimulants, you have dizziness, dry mouth, insomnia, irritability, weight loss and then some less common but more serious adverse effects of these stimulants can include elevations in blood pressure heart rate of course, cardiovascular events, psychosis, prism, ticks and abuse or diversion. So thank you again for joining me here for this pharmacology series on psychiatric medications. Again, I just wanna make it clear I don't want you all to spend a lot of time memorizing all of these but just familiarize yourself with what kind of medications are used to treat the different mental health conditions here and just familiarize yourself with some of these names, okay? And if you have any questions or you need any clarification, of course, you know, you can always email me or schedule office hours with me as well. All right, I'll see you all again soon. Thanks so much.


Let's take a look at another Super Nintendo beat-em-up that never left Japan. In the past I've done videos on games like Ghost Chaser Densei and Undercover Cops, but this one's a little different. It's Koryu No Mimi, a beat-em-up based on an obscure manga of the same name, and as you can see, even at a glance this one's a little odd. What are you, James Bond, kicking people off of motorcycles? I'm playing this one in English thanks to a translation patch made by RPG1, originally created back in 2004, but it recently received a much-needed update to the script along with a few other touches. But bear in mind, the latest patch is a little wonky, and it doesn't work with every emulator. It works fine with the SD2 SNES flash cartridge and some older versions of SNES 9X, and of course the original cartridge is fine too. But on other programs the game will run really chopply, or even freeze entirely, so keep that in mind. Anyway, you play as Netsume, no, not that Netsume. Some rich dude who's due to inherit what's known as the Ear of the Golden Dragon, a ring that gives its bearer all sorts of power, but it also kinda acts as a love potion of sorts. For instance, his ancestor hundreds of years ago wielded the ring to create an empire, but he fell in love, and instead decided to use the ring's power to please his lover. The same sort of thing happens to Netsume, only the person he falls for, Kanako, is involved with a rival clan which creates all sorts of tension, and I'll just leave it at that. Koryu No Mimi is a single-plane beat-em-up similar to games like Ninja Warriors, so there's no pseudo 3D aspect here. It's strictly 2D action which allows you to use fighting game style moves, and perform combos which is pretty cool. There's plenty of weapons here as well, all the usual stuff you'd expect from a beat-em-up of course, but there's also tons of stuff you can snag from the environment around you, like this street sign here, that's always fun. Later on in the game you even get guns, which gives this one a bit of a different feel, especially since you can use both the weapon and keep enemies at bay with your physical attacks at the same time. The further you progress, the more you fill up your secondary power meter, which once filled, you can activate by pressing R to make your character stronger and faster for a brief period of time. I mean you even turn Super Saiyan if you look at the character portrait up there. The combat here is pretty simple, I mean you only have one attack button, but there's a variety of moves beneath the surface, like pressing down and wide delivers an uppercut, down forward and wide does a leg sweep, plus there's different types of jumping attacks that are so ferocious your character's foot bursts into flames. You'll tap down and you can roll the dodge or execute a rolling kick. Press up twice and you do a couple of defensive kicks while jumping backward. Also when you're armed with a weapon, you can press A to deliver a special attack and these are especially satisfying since you just swing from one side of the screen to the next. So yeah the 2D plane may seem limiting at first, but there's still plenty you can do. There's only five levels here and no saves or passwords, but hey it's a beat em up, so it's gonna be a short play through. However if you die once, you go all the way back to the beginning of the level, but there are unlimited continues here. Make no mistake though, the emphasis here isn't on the combat, but on the story. There's tons of ham-fisted dialogue here, with people getting kidnapped and political intrigue and hidden treasure, and yeah okay, this isn't exactly Hamlet. Still I appreciate the different approach, especially considering that it leads to some interesting settings. You're beating up sharp dressed flunkies on a church, on an airplane, and on the rooftop of a temple, on a cool moonlit evening. But yeah, I have to admit the story here, well I enjoy how campy and ridiculous it is, but then I'm the type that loves to watch bad movies, so maybe that's just me. One flaw I can't rationalize however, is how the gameplay can really drag. The action here is kinda slow compared to other beat em ups, and that's kinda disappointing considering this game was made in 1995. I mean, even bullets travel slowly here. Compare this to something like Ninja Warriors, which cuts a blistering pace. The game definitely still plays fine, it's just that, I mean you get to the third level here which takes place on an airplane, and you've got runaway beverage carts coming after you, that's what counts for variety here. Yeah, I can appreciate how silly it is, but at the same time, freaking beverage carts? Really? So yeah, I do appreciate that Koryu Nokemi has a bit of a different presentation compared to most other beat em ups. Instead of street thugs, you're defeating people in finely tailored suits and dresses, and the attempt at a larger story here is pretty cool, even if the story itself is incredibly campy and ridiculous, in a good way in my opinion, but the action here is gonna turn some people away, both that it's strictly a 2D beat em up, and because of how slow and monotonous the gameplay can be. Still, this is one of those weird ones where it's a game I stumbled across and I gotta let everyone know about it because I'm sure for someone out there, it's right up their alley. I enjoyed this game for what it is, but I can totally understand if it's not your thing. And I wanna thank you for watching, and I hope you have a great rest of your day.