FIXED LIVESTREAM (SORRY) 11.08.24
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A November 2024 livestream recovery after the original stream failed. Van fumbles through Patreon's interface trying to repost, cannot figure out how to copy a link from the browser, cannot get the scheduling to work, and eventually starts over from scratch. The technical struggle is the content.
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this I think I forgot to copy the can I just copy from
the can I just copy it from the um browser and now I got to do a new
command new okay so all right so now I got to post on patreon
right oh this is so lame okay live stream no because they don't have the you the only one with the thing
right okay um I can just skip the should I put it what what was the picture thing next okay so 1109 no
11:08 1108 at 959 no 945 44 I'll do 44 schedule okay so it should come up fix live stream 11:08 so what was the
question again all right so after typewriter how is the new studio going okay okay all right just let me know when I'm up
it's not working so what so what does that mean so what does that mean yes okay where where is edit like I don't know where it is I don't see it
I don't see that so I got to go to my page okay that's what I was asking when I
said can I just take it from the browser fixed live
stream edit post okay so it texted it to me let me see this
oh boy I don't like this at all how do I okay and it's just how do I
copy the okay control copy link I don't think that's going to work but I'll
try so just next and then 947 uh oh boy this is so crazy man 1108 what's the date today it's the 8th 11824 says select a date that's in the
past and it is 48 no it won't it just won't let me do
it wait it says please select a date that is in the past release date you can edit the release date of published posts
to change where they appear in your feed I don't know what this means bud I don't know what this means it
won't let me do I I don't know it's just a failan of
Brokenness and I'm very very dumb and very very slow it'll take me one hour to figure out what the [ __ ] going on so what do I just start from scratch and do
another okay so my page create live stream YouTube live stream V add a title okay now what I do it's next uh
1108 yeah pretty sure um is it up can you tell a you can hear me all right so the question that sorry
about that but that's what it's like to be me with computers I cannot tell you how many
safety practices overall we tested and tested and tested but I'm going to show you how we fixed the Russian space
station so this is how we fix it [Applause] and then you never you never use it again don't buy whatever that company is blue whatever it's garbage I think
that's my guess is that it was the mic it's like the things with these the thing with these
um with computer stuff is it goes obsolete very fast even though you know mics should last a hundred years okay so
here I am the last question that I left off on was uh about the
studio how's the new studio going uh the new studio with the exception of the microphone not working ever the new studio is great next live stream I'll
have a new microphone I promise uh studio is great and fast I can get my work done faster with the
studio and that's a question from Ivan um it's hard transitioning to get here and it's hard to not be distracted
by procrastinating uh from working on videos by just procrastinating uh to um uh make uh work make shelves um what are your opinions of gentle masculinity and how are you teaching ex to embrace
vulnerability I don't really know what gentle masculinity is and oh this is from khil and uh I'm just teaching ex
how to be strong and brave but I think his mom's teaching him vulnerability um Evan H asks I have a
second kid on the way and was curious how the adjustment from one to two has been and how it affected work life
balance creativity Etc it's like a hidden distraction because it's not so much of an earth changing event having a
second child so you're just like oh it's just going to be tired so i' say my experience the
second child kind of snuck up on me with as far as my energy consumption was
concerned um um Felix told me about his friend who saw me at REI last
November oh and what's the story behind the iPad speak and spell in my Studio I wish I had it here I forgot it at home
um but I have a iPad with the speaking spell keyboard as the screen saver and the
speaking spell was this like calculator Gadget from the 80s with a handle on it that was red and it would say uh Spell
adjacent and then you'd enter on the keyboard a d j a c e n t and then you'd
hit enter and there was like like that is correct Now spell and then it give you the next word it was like a spelling I don't think it worked that well as far as teaching you how to spell but it was
amazing to have a gadget wherein you could type the letters in and it would say the letters and a speaking spell was
featured in ET it was like part of that Communicator thing that ET built and that's what made the speaking spell
famous I think and it was made by Texas Instruments I'm pretty I'm pretty sure and so it was like a red square with
like a handle and I bought a um I I iPad uh protector for my son's
iPad and uh it looked just like the kind of like a speaking spell so when I so I
put the speaking spell I downloaded the image of the speaking spell keyboard and put it on my screen
saver so that when you turned it on it looked like at first glance like a speak and spell I don't know it's just like 80s Nostalgia for me so that's the
that's the story um what type of military box oh God so it's this first
aid kit box that I use they're very hard to find um when I find them I mean I haven't really looked at for one for
years but here's the numbers and it's a first aid kit and it's American Army Surplus and I don't
know they get more expensive and more rare the further you go because it's Army surface it says uh EPC Incorporated
plastic size B case medical instrument and Supply set I doubt they still make them because like again um but they're
waterproof with a gasket on the inside tattoos versus no tattoos I don't have any tattoos but uh I think they
look amazing on some people I don't think I have a good skin tone for it and I'm not like jacked uh I
think yeah I don't know that just not for me but I like I like it when other people have them and it seems
like I've never seen like an MMA guy who didn't have tattoos uh and those guys are amazing uh
how do you balance when to customize surf oh from Jason and that tattoo question was from Drew Jason how do you
balance when to customize something versus the need to change in the future for instance I've wired up
lightning docks in the past for iPhones and now they changed oh yeah with computer stuff like I made this
beautiful microphone system where it hangs on my wall and I had a customized thing so that it and now this crap
microphone um you know doesn't work with this computer so so uh I don't know I guess I used it for a
couple years I don't know what happened with the m microphone probably just as a software thing so I guess don't put just
do crappy work when you're making something for a bit of technology that you know is going obsolete like any phone stuff they're going to change that
charger port it's going to be just the magnet thing soon so you have to buy all new Chargers so I think that that's the
way to go like do it fast and kind of don't put any love into it if you're
just customizing for a like a this digital stuff for stuff that goes
obsolete um yeah that's how that's that's my that's my opinion of it but yeah I get
it you wired up the lightning docks for the iPhones and now they changed the charger so Nathaniel asks how many
messages did you get this week saying the fourth turning has arrived after the election results came in we are at we're almost done with the fourth tur turning
we're like 15 years into the I think the fourth turning started no we're 16 years in it started in 2008 the fourth turning
so by my estimation according to the book where we are in this current fourth turning is we're in I think when Trump
got shot I think that was the second regeneracomsports
sort of takes the majority right so Trump was like barely elected in uh
2006 and he had he didn't even have the popular vote and then he wasn't elected in 2020 and then they shot him and I
think that was the second regeneracomsports electoral vote which hadn't happened in 20 years so I think that's the second regeneracomsports
states that where we all put our political differences aside and we focus on defeating that
um phenomenon or enemy or whatever the last consolidation was the attack on Pearl Harbor that was the last fourth turning and then you know what happened
after that and then the one before that was I think the battle or when it was probably when Lincoln got elected and the South seceded and then the United
States of America said oh no you don't and then the one before that was um probably the signing of the Declaration of Independence or maybe it was the when
they Lexington conquered it started the American Civil War I mean sorry the American Revolutionary War so according
to the book and by my estimation which isn't worth anything uh probably the next thing that's going to happen is
some consolidation event where we're all in it together maybe who knows what it's that is going to be
um I'd love okay Matthew asks I'd love to know what meaning you derive from building things and why it fulfills you
this is something I feel deeply but struggle to express yeah I'm procrastinating so much with this new studio because there's so much fun stuff
to build and I have a builder who's this guy Charlie who's a patron who um is an
excellent Builder and he will build I don't need to build anything because I have that uh production in progress but I still
can't resist and I don't know what it is I think it's because you can get in the you know you can get in the zone you can get in flow when you're building and we
have like you know we're like birds and we love to make nests and stuff um so Vincent asks do you like Woody Allen's
work um and you know it's one of those things where his personal life and all these accusations against him and stuff
has sort of poisoned the wealth for me like I used to love before I heard all this all of these allegations against
them I used to love all of his work and it still stands for me as excellent incredible work but now I kind of don't trust the point of view of the work
because I'm like ah this is might be coming from a really bad guy and so I I don't like revisit it you know I I just
kind of Let It Go from my mind but he's a genius um Nathaniel asks uh what project
would you love to do for yourself right now if you could take as long as it needed to and you didn't have to film it oh my God I think I would just tweak
this studio out and get really over just really taken away by it um that's what I would do definitely
just keep doing the studio keep working and refining and refining and refining that's what I would do but um I got to
make the videos Man that's that's what I'm here for Joshua asks do you think the self-gratification of achievement in the
American dream leads to depression and a general stance of fear loathing towards everyday life how would someone fight
off the constant comparison one does when one worships authenticity do you think the self-gratification of achievement self-gratification of
achievement no I think the ease of American life is what
um is what uh is what leads towards Fear and Loathing towards everyday life I think
it's too easy here and for a lot of us it's too easy and people don't understand that freedom is the freedom
to choose your struggle and you're supposed to work very hard at something and that's wherein you find
the meaning in your life and that's where you feel fulfilled it's not about it's not really about about achievement I mean achievement gives you a little buzz every now and then but I think it's
more like the process um how would someone fight off the constant comparison one does when
one worships authenticity um How would how would someone fight off the constant
comparison one does when one worships authenticity um you got to find something you love to do and let it kill you that's what what's his name said
Bowski yeah you got to find something difficult to do and do it and it doesn't have to be a art project it doesn't have
to be making films it doesn't have to be making paintings or music or any of that stuff there's a whole world out there
that needs your help so yeah that's that's what I think
um yep I think so what is the age gap between you and Isabelle how did you meet and which
three qualities do you most love about her um age Gap is uh 12 years sometimes it's 11 years because I was born in
March and she was born in June so it's like 11 years sometimes it's 12 years um three
qualities well she's gorgeous she's extremely SM art and
she's like she went to an all girls high school so she has this kind of like can
do attitude like she can kind of do anything she's like this comp uh
competence so those are probably the three favorite my favorite three things I love most about oh and she has great
taste and kind of an excellent standard I love that about her do you have any writing
tips sit down and do it oh I've been I I shouldn't be giving advice on this because I've been so negligent although
I did write a little today just sit down and do it for at your best hours for me it's like first thing in the morning
zero distractions with an instrument you love to write with maybe it's a computer God help you if it is um maybe
it's a pen maybe it's a pencil maybe it's a typewriter um and then just make a habit
out of it that's what everybody says it's just work it's just like ditch digging and you know give yourself three
hours a day to do it uh what are your Reflections on the
presidential election will your parents benefit from the no tax on social security my parents will be 70 and 20 oh
this is from SE uh my parents will be 70 in 2025 and they will be able to keep the 25k in the taxes they would have had
to pay each other to pay each year based on social security income what do you think about the leaders of Russia Ukraine Israel
Sweden and many other countri calling immediately after him winning the election Russia Ukraine Israel Sweden what do you think about the report of
the statistic that 20 million more votes were cast for present 2020 I should be reading these out loud sorry what do you
think about the report of the statistic that 20 million more votes were cast for president in 2020 than in 2024 I know
you're not panalytical but you have great perspective um I heard that yesterday I heard some on some podcast they said that there were 20 more
million more votes in 2020 than there were in 2024 I I don't know I just it was you
know it was uh it was pandemic it was like the kind of the peak pandemic so
there was I think people had less to do that might have had something to do that's the big event I can think of that would lead to that I think there were
more I don't know whe there male more mail in ballots is that something that happened like it's just easier to do a mail and ballot it comes right to your
house I don't really know I don't really know and then I think it's gracious that the leaders call after the president
wins I think that's a nice thing I also like and I know he's a bad guy and he invaded a Sovereign Nation and all this stuff but I also like
that Putin refers to all the other leaders as his colleagues I like that I think
that's kind of cool classic but um uh I don't know about this tax stuff I
guess I like that if my parents get to pay fewer less taxes I guess I like that
um I I feel like the government's pretty great at wasting money my brother was in the Air Force and he's told me some
stories about how those budgets get spent and uh it's pretty sickening so um I think it's better for the people to
have the money than for the government they're not very good at things I don't think um so entropy or three trumpy asks
hey van I'm in college for electrical engineering have you ever considered getting more into electrical electronics
work you know what drags me into these things is like is I get stuck in a problem or
something's broken and then I have to like to get myself out of it but the older I get the more kind of reliable a
lot of the things in my life get and then I also am more I have to um be
more productive in my video stuff and my writing stuff
so I would love to learn all of that and I don't have a good brain for retaining things like I'm very slow like I still
don't remember red is positive red is positive on the battery terminal pretty sure black is
negative that took me like 30 years to remember just that little thing and I'm not 100% sure that that's true but I'm pretty sure so you know elect
electrician stuff like you blow up the house and then Electronics is that like playing with computers or like soldering I like to
solder stuff but like soldering little motherboards and stuff I don't I I can't do it I don't have the patience for that
but um you ever consider getting more into electrical electronics work I don't know I
think yeah I mean God I would love to know how to do electricity I really would um and that time may come who
knows Patrick asks can you give us some advice on how to film ourselves building stuff like you do how many camera angles
and types of scenes should we have for the video to be effective but not too overwhelming to make for a solo Creator
thanks for the tips and great content I'm a big fan of your work okay thanks Patrick um I would just say film each
step from a different angle but you only have to film the end of the step really so you don't have to film the entire
jigsaw cut you just have to film The jigsaw the last three qus of an inch and
then that makes it easier to edit and then just move the camera for the next shot and then if and then you can do
time lapse if uh things if it's like super complicated or takes too long I don't know I'm still figuring it out
myself on the best way to do it and then you know you can never get close enough as closeup as a closeup as you can get
every once in a a while I think um Robert I'm 33 commercial filmmaker
and I'm leaving the business to start an electrical apprenticeship with the goal of eventually running my own electrical business I'm planning to document this
Journey on YouTube channel Sharing The Daily Grind and lessons along the way someone who's built a career on sharing real life Journeys what advice would you give for capturing this process
authentically especially when it's a Hands-On trade with a steep learning curve I would say keep them short
I did I read that so that everyone could hear um Robert is becoming a
um I think an electrician he's going to document the journey and he's asking um what advice
would you give for capturing this process authentically especially when it's a Hands-On trade with steep learning
curve uh I would say just reflect on it maybe at the end of the day make things try to keep everything very short like for one or two minutes just reflect on
it into the computer into the camera on maybe not every day maybe every couple days or something and then go back and
get the shots that you need to support the visual things you talked about in your summation and then
um don't film as you're learning go back and film The thing that you learned and you have plenty of
time uh good morning how do you decide if you're going to buy something either a
single part or the whole object versus making it yourself can you talk about how Amazon online shopping has affected
your Yankee Thrift um yes so if the net time it depends how much of how urgent the thing is
like I had to have a I had to do a sign for the for the um live stream this morning
so I made like this rig that I hung right here out of blah blah and like you
know I had to make a sign that said the live stream's happening soon uh so how much time it takes like
real time depending on how the emergency is but if I can just buy it uh and get it in a non-emergency
situation than I usually do that like especially film making equipment it's gotten so cheap now
um and then um if it doesn't exist then I um like these
lamps the there's no such thing as a good clip light and I really like the clip lights and like a good clip light doesn't exist see there's a clip on it
this is this is like a heat lamp from Home Depot and you have to like do all this
customization to make it right in that case I just have to make it because it doesn't exist um and no I don't want to sell
them I don't want to manufacture them that whole business is is a nightmare I know people who do it and you just get ripped off by some
Chinese company and they undersell you and bury you and that's the end of it and then I think I think Yankee my Yankee
Thrift um I use it for time more than I use it for money because now I'm not as broke as I
was when I was you know growing up and for most of my life and now time is the more valuable commodity so it's
definitely affected Amazon has definitely affected my Yankee Thrift but thank God for Amazon because I can just get the like I'll have a new mic
tomorrow you know for this Saturday delivery for this thing so uh
yeah so I think it's just allowed me to invest time in other things okay
um does your Toyota do you take your Toyota truck for camping off off-roading this is arj is asking since it's mostly
rebuilt now wondering if you start to record adventures with it more adventures with it for New Year's my boy and I went camping in it it was pretty
cold in the desert we went to bgo Springs and we were at altitude and we were camping and we camped inside and I
idled it all night with the heat on to keep us warm even though we had sleeping bags and stuff it's still cold inside our car um and then it got like I got
like a warning on the Murphy gauge that the idle speed was not adequate enough to charge the battery but it was fine
like I just drove it around and it recharged and the and the error code went away um but yeah we did a few days of camping it was really fun and um you
know I'm getting kind of old I'm kind of sick of camping I like to go off-roading whenever I can there's like OHV trails
around here in California off highway vehicle but not very much but I think we'll probably do a um a Baja trip where
we'll fly the girls to a nice hotel and then we X and I will drive through the deserts and stuff and meet them at the
hotels I think we might do that because I've done on motorcycle and it's just so fun but uh my boys always wanted to go
camping and there's camping right there in Malibu at Malibu Creek where you can build a fire they have a fire pit and
the they they booked them up on the weekends they're really booked on the weekends you can't you just can't get them but maybe we could do a week night
uh and he would he would love that um would you ever release the Lost niep Brothers videos they're on YouTube last
I checked niep Brothers oh I I put and I also put them on some of them I I put a bunch of them on
if you check the feed I put a bunch of the ni brother stuff on um patreon I'm
trying to chip away at it yeah um usually I do it now post it without director's commentary and then with director's
commentary my commentary that's from M 6510 YT Tristan
asks what are the most valued Tools in Your Arsenal for woodworking are there any tips you haven't covered in videos
you would give some someone getting started okay most valuable tools are
the screw gun drill cordless drill jigsaw and then the bits and blades for both um those are the most valuable
sandpaper combo Square um pencil those are what you really need and then a p saw is great which is just like a Japanese they're Japanese Tajima
I think makes them and they cut on the pull stroke they're very thin but they you can cut really fast through like Pine with
them um but I think for power tools you want to start with uh jigsaw and
uh drill in the bits in the blades um how do you know if a story is worth
writing about oh that's a great question how do you know from Tyler how do you know if a story is worth writing about I
think if you just can't stop thinking about it there's like nor McDonald the comedian said you know he would obsess
about a subject matter and then he would kind of turn it into a joke and then when he had the joke so that it worked
he would forget about it he wouldn't obsess anymore and then he'd move on to the next thing I think something like that
um Joe asks what advice do you have for for an inspiring writer I am 31 years old have been pondering the commitment
to try to become a writer for a while now mainly because since high school I have had to put a large part of my life on hold because of repeat abouts of severe illness in my immediate family
I've taken a few college level courses in writing and aced them all I even had a screenwriting practicum with the Creator and head of writer Friday the
13th Friday 13th of the series we said that I'm a great Storyteller and that he has great faith in me as a writer I've
in trouble forcing myself to sit down and right I have been the go-to driver mechanic and Yard Man for my dad's
trucking company for the last 10 years so I think that this trouble is mainly from difficulty accepting that my creative output is oh yeah I would say
spend the 200 bucks get the master class series you know that subscript to
master class and watch all of the writers and some filmmakers are writers like David Lynch is also a writer you know so I would watch all the people who
write as part of their job and these are all Masters and they all to a man to a
woman they all say the same thing you have to sit down and do it every day that's it you have to sit down and do it
every day I think the minimum is about three hours yeah maybe an hour and a half if you can get it but you want to be three hours is your kind of minimum
and then an emergency you do there's no way around it that's it you have to sit and do it and if you have a natural inclination to do it you should probably
do it but then kind of don't expect anything from it I think is the key um but that's what they all say they
all say it's a job like any other job you gotta get strong at it you got to get good at it and the only way to do that is
reps so sorry that's what you got to do but you know that's fun make your own little like
writing Nest somewhere your little writing setup William asks hey van my question
is in your opinion what must a boy learn in order to become a man and other words what's the difference between boys and men you know I think we don't have it in
the in America we don't really have that that right of passage that most
cultures have you know like the bar mitz like that's a thing that helps a boy become a man where you have to do all
this studying that you just hate and then there's a big ceremony and then after that ceremony it's amazing because you see the 13-year-old Jewish kids
they're part of the circle with the adult men when they're talking about things and discussing things they're not the kids playing anymore there's that
like in the prayer I think they say we put away childish things you know and I think that's a part of it and now like
we're not religious in my family and I kind of wish we were but I try to do adult situations with
the boy that we have to get ourselves out of like we go dirt biking up these big mountains and we got to do our own
water and we gotta you know get ourselves out of situations and we get hurt and we get really tired and stuff
like that and uh I've always done like grownup like play toys so fire like he's
been lighting the fire in the fireplace since he was like 18 months old you know with like a blowtorch and uh he's been
doing like metal smithing which we do with non- Le based solder and a blowtorch he like makes these sculptures
just lots of stuff that's like the kid version of the adult thing and just teach them not to be afraid of stuff but
yeah the right of passages like I I you know I didn't really have it in my life I don't think maybe sobriety was but I mean I was 37 years old just too too
old um but yeah I think that that's what that's what all the cultures in the world for a very long time all of the
successful cultures they all have that you know the the Messi habit um so that's it that's what I
think uh oh I skipped one wendo how was your experience of being young naive and cast out into the world for the first time I'm 18 and moved into an apartment just a few months after graduating from high
school and I'm struggling finding direction purpose and motivation basically do you have any advice for an unmowed kid like me well you moved out at 18 man good for
you that's hard that's like the first and most important thing to do I think um so congratulations on that find
direction you know I don't know maybe try to make a lot of money try to do something hard um
purpose responsibility is purpose so find it you know something to do wherein you're dependent upon and that'll give
you purpose you know helping other people doing something uh and also
listen kind of listen to what you're listen you know what I would listen to that guy uh Scott
Galloway even though he predicted the election all wrong he's got a lot of because he was like born I think to had
like a single mom growing up but he went to the California school system like when Berkeley was free when Berkeley was
like free and then he made a lot of money lost a lot of money and then made a lot of money again and he has great advice he says following your passion is
for rich people like if you're rich go ahead but if you don't have money don't follow your passion find employment in a
industry that has 90% employment and then be in the top 1% of that industry
that's one of his big life advices for career but um God yeah when I was 18 I went to college and just kind of slowly learned how to become an adult but I I wouldn't
go to college now it was different back then it was a different world um Nick asks hi van relative newcomer
here I was wondering As you move out of your Lifeboat and into your warship what skeleton crew of tools will you be
keeping in Your Arsenal at home to keep that place working that's a great question so I have this tool wall and I basically kept all those tools and then
all of the hardware like the screws and stuff I just re-bought it all you know they're $ five dollar for a box I just re-bought all the
screws um and have this really well organized little screw drawer here that's miniature and then um
so the tools on the tool wall is like a screw gun or a drill I call it a screw gun but
it's actually a drill a drill a heat gun for doing heat shrink um uh
jigsaw um drill bits pull saw combo Square um God if I have had it in front of me I could tell you but I just I kind of re-bought a whole bunch of that stuff
like I have a do I have although I had multiple Tool uh drills so I just took one of my multiples or two of my
multiples from home back here um so there's still one at
home um but yeah basically duplicated and um yeah that's that's my Skeleton Crew
tools jigsaw screw gun I think or jigsaw drill where are the pros and cons of living in the Tango Canyon area oh
that's a good question from Gavin uh the pros is all five senses it's beautiful it smells beautiful it feels beautiful
it tastes beautiful it looks beautiful it's a wonderful place it's a real like Community it's like an old school American community and there's lots of
immigrants in my community like most of the kids on my kids soccer team their parents have like some some kind of
accent accent um it's weirdly this is what Isabelle
says it's strangely convenient because it's a it's a the canyon the roads through the canyon connect the PCH to
the valley so we have very easy San Fernando Valley access and San Fernando Valley is where a lot of your maintenance stuff is all your car
maintenance stuff all the construction and hardware stores and groc grocery stores and great restaurants and blah blah blah that's all in the cany if you
live in Pacific Palisades you got to come to to panga to get over the hump and if you live in you know um
uh uh Santa Monica you gotta go uh the I think it's the 45 the 101 to get over
the to get over the mountains to get over the so those are the pros I mean and it's just I just love it and I love the people and there's a little village
in there um the cons the nature nature is the enemy I know people like love to
romanticize nature but nature wants to eat you and kill you so you know there's no um there's only a couple spots in the
canyon let's put it this way there's a lot of places including my house and my road where there's no there's no signal there's no cell phone signal so you
don't have the kids on their phones all the time which is kind of cool but then you also don't have any cell phone signal so you got to use your Wi-Fi there's so many Danger ous deadly
animals everywhere I've killed five um uh scorpions like hidden in my
children's toy stuff um we've killed five rattlesnakes on our property four or five I can't
remember I don't know how many black widow spiders there were landslides that closed off the the the boulevards that
you had to get 20 extra minutes of driving to get to the PCH and 20 extra minutes minutes is huge because if you
have to do it twice a day you know that's 40 extra minutes a day I don't thank God I didn't have to um the fires
are terrifying and the fires what pre precedes the fire usually is a power outage so you don't get warning you
don't like last time we had the woy fire a neighbor who wasn't a neighbor she lived far away in in toena knocked on
her door it's like there's a fire coming you guys need to get ready and then you have to evacuate to like wherever um so
it's I I would say it's the nature is the thing and you're kind of remote like the police it's going to take them God help you I mean God you know if something goes wrong it's gonna take
them 15 minutes to get there um it's very dark at night that can be a pro and a con
uh but overall it's just amazing and it's very expensive up there the real estate's expensive um and then the zoning is
really hard like you can't really build anything you can there's a lot of people like oh I'm gonna buy some land and stuff no you're not okay you're gonna buy some land but they won't even let
you put a tent on it so there's that stuff but that's what we live with it Diaz
asks hope you're having a nice time on your side of the world what are your favorite Americana type books you'd recommend to a 25-year-old Aussie I'm
super Keen for the new Bob Dylan movie coming in the holiday and the trailer interested me in that aspect oh my brother is uh my brother Dean
neistat was like the stunt coordinator on that movie and taught sham how to ride the the uh
Triumph in that movie so my Dean worked on that thing uh Americana books read
the Cormac McCarthy book Blood Meridian that's a masterpiece read it
Blood Meridian cormack McCarthy um read the short stories of Hemingway the I think there's a collection called
like Green Hills of Africa something like that read those um I have a cool
book called well there's a new Bob Dylan book called the philosophy of modern song which is very good and then I have
this other I can't remember the title the name of the title um uh what's your favorite American
Americana type books you'd recommend to which one just go down the cornac McCarthy rabbit hole and read those
books there's one called The Border that's excellent uh there's like a Trilogy there's like the Border Blood Meridian
and then a third one I can't remember the name of it those are excellent and then um yeah I don't know I love books about
the West uh yeah that's some good ones that'll get you started
and then pavle says robustness usefulness and design ratio when building shelves oh
boy uh I get the corner braces I make my shelves with Corner braces I get the 2
inch 3 inch and 4 inch and then I don't go more than like three inches beyond
the corner brace and then I just custom everything and then they're pretty strong I mean I think you could stand on
almost all of the shelves we build here uh because they're anchored into um
studs uh Warren ask what advice do you have for reestablishing good living relationship for a new roommate that you
do not know very well what advice do you have for EST a good living relationship for a new roommate that you do not know
very well I would say have a meeting every so often and it can just be go out to a restaurant or something
uh and just have policies I know it sounds horrible but just like expectations like who takes out the
garbage like what is to be expected of the communal spaces um privacy how how what's the
best way to have the place to yourself um I would say keep that stuff out in the open don't let resentments
like oh this guy's leaving his [ __ ] in the sink oh that's the dishwashing policy um what's that going to be the the
bathroom cleaning policy like all of that stuff I would establish it I don't know because I think I don't really
remember what it's like to be young but one of the things I sort of remember is that young people think that they're
children and that they don't have to do anything it's like dude I don't need to do it man like whatever that's lame but
like being an adult is like taking on all the responsibilities you can acknowledging that they exist so that's what I would do I don't know and then I
would say um don't become friends with a roommate unless they're already your friend just try to keep it strictly
business uh James asks if you have time I'm a YouTube Creator and have been approached by a director to make
documentary about my restoration practice what advice would you have about working with
a traditional terrestrial TV company and protecting your interest should I get an agent would you go down this route
again I mean the thing that happens is you just get your time extremely wasted all the time and I think you go you're
going backwards if you're going that way it's like there's going to be all these bosses all these people changing it though there's this great advice that I
heard David Letterman gave to um who was it I was just listening I want to say it was Jerry Seinfeld and Letterman said to Seinfeld at just make sure you fail
doing it your way and I don't know that today's TV environment allows for that
and you know you're not really going to make much money I don't think um doing it like that's the temptation but I think at the end of the
day they just waste your time there's so many people so many hangers on so many lawyers it's just backwards I mean it's
just backwards unless you're a specialist then maybe maybe it'll work but you know I don't know if you're just the subject
matter have been approached by a director to make a documentary about my practice what I don't know what that means I don't know the details of it it
sounds like I don't know it doesn't sound right just make sure they pay you that's one of my advice just make sure they pay you
and be upfront with the with the paying but that whole world is a mess and it's dying it's like asking me advice about
starting a an AM radio show it's like you're going backwards pal like no you want to do a podcast if that's your
thing broadcasting voice is your thing you want to do a podcast so I would say TV is kind of backwards in fact I have a
famous I won't say who it is I'm having a meeting with a very famous TV uh series director writer director
maker you've probably all of you seen his his work um I'm meeting with him on Tuesday because he wants to know how to
go my way how to do it how to go from TV to YouTube because I mean this election one thing
that happened with this election is that the shift from the uh the um the I guess you would call it the Legacy Traditional
media to the internet media that internet media is now the king because the guy who did all the podcasts and did
all the um uh you know all the the you know the Rogan show and the Theo Von and
uh Sean Ryan the guy who did all that stuff incessantly he won and then the lady who
like went 60 minutes and did like call her daddy and then maybe she did a couple other
podcasts she lost so I think that you know this is the era for
this um and good riddens I think thoughts on Elon and Joe Rogan pulling for Trump makes me sick
personally uh my comment is this like what Michael Jordan
when they asked him uh why he didn't talk about politics he said something like Republicans buy sneakers too
something like that so that's my opinion they um they have their
reasons uh uh Charlie hopefully I'm not too late you are not too late I know you speak highly of trade and your last
video was a beautiful endorsement of it I'm looking at a career change and becoming an electrician quick pros and cons you've heard of in that industry I think it's important I don't know I
can't advise on things I haven't done so um I think the key though is you sort of
have to live adjacent to a rich area right if you're in the trades okay I
think you have to be you have to have in your sites to be an entrepreneur that you're going to own your own
electricians practice or whatever your trade is I I understand you have to start out at as a jobber like working as
a job as an apprentice to learn the stuff and to um you know to make money in the beginning and then I would say
just the thing that contractors sort of take for granted being having been on this on the consumer side of hiring
contractors or watching Isabelle do it is the reliability is they're very they're so in Dem demand that they just
book tons and tons of job and get to them when they can get to them and they don't kind of clean up they don't it I mean that figuratively and literally
like they don't like the the finishing details you kind of have to hound them and then they're not really going to bother so I would say be very very
reliable show up at such and such a time never be late all of that stuff be wiggle give a lot of wiggle room with how long it's going to take because it's
going to take a long long long time probably charge by the hour and then be very very rough with the
estimates I'm just talking from like a consumer side of things um
um but I don't know it's sort of maybe I you know one of the things I'm I'm I worry about is like am I just because I
like making things with my hand am I just romanticizing these trades U because I don't do them for money you know even know I was a
fabricator for Tom sacks but that was kind of a different world that was like we weren't making the money that those guys get we were making like a half or a
quarter what an actual Tradesman would make but then there was so much glamor like they don't fly electricians to
Berlin and put them up in five star hotels in Paris you know so um so I
don't know if I'm just romanticizing it but it seems to me I mean I just love people who work in the trades like there's guys out in front of me right
now um doing HVAC and there were guys building the roof out there and I just like you know I don't know it just If I
Was Young starting out you can make a lot of money doing that relative to the other young jobs there's they they're so
hard to find in in these like rich cities there's not enough people doing the work and there's especially not enough people with like the right good
taste I know you're going into electrical but that's also there's taste involved and that that like refined you know taste and everything
and attitude so I guess that would be my advice but I'm not in a position to give advice because I've never done it you know what I mean
so um but I think electricity electric electrician's a good one I think that's a good one because you're inside for a
lot of it you don't have to work out in the elements um film designs.com
do you use I love filmd designs.com for the for the domain name and the old you
got an old fashioned like um logo thing it's so great do you have
any particular okay do you have any particular plugins on your voice over
audio I sometimes use isotope nectar elements or vocal sync to clean or spice things up just curious to see if you
have any go-to tools for your vocals there's a in the Final Cut there's you can auto sync it so I do
that uh braxon taught me how to do that you like you select both in events you select the audio track and the video
track and then you rightclick and select synchronized clips and it synchronizes them so I do that and
then uh I usually EQ it to take it sounds very Bassy on my computer I usually take the I take the uh I take
the Basse down a little bit and then I so and also so you don't have the p and t so much and then I take the treble so
that the s's aren't so crazy think I take those down a little bit so that it looks like that I think it goes like
that the or it goes like that although I do feel like I pull up some of the stuff the higher frequency stuff anyway I do
that and then I like preset it according to where I am and what microphone I'm using so in Final Cut it'll say like van
road which is the roadter um actually the mics I use for that are the I'll just say van studio
for that and then the date or van Taz cam which is one of the uh like lavali or wireless mics that
I use um and then I you know I preset it and then click and drag basically um
and then uh Phil also you should end these questions with a bang so do you do any
impersonations oh my gosh so this is the last one I think do I do any personation I must have been able to do them when I was younger I must have had some that I
could do I don't think so no one's ever said to me hey van do like Christopher Walkin I know I think everyone can do
Christopher Walkin so he's he's like the go I think I have like the my boy is in his
range like uh they give me to watch wait what does he say he's like your father Doughboy
whatever his name was uh no I don't have any impersonations I should but
um no impersonations are wonderful okay everybody have a good weekend I'm so sorry about the audio I'm
getting a new mic and that's the end of that um that's the end of that that Nightmare
and uh see you next time um and hopefully next week I'll have something cool for you take care oh no like this take care
Products & Tools Mentioned
- Home Depot uses — source for clip light/heat lamp
- Amazon uses — discussed impact on Yankee thrift, Saturday delivery praised
- Final Cut Pro uses — video editing software used
- RODECaster uses — audio recording device mentioned as 'van road' preset
- Tascam uses — lavalier/wireless mic brand mentioned as 'van Tascam' preset
- iZotope Nectar Elements mentions — audio plugin discussed by a patron
- Tajima pull saw recommends — Japanese pull saw that cuts on the pull stroke, recommended for woodworking
- Speak & Spell mentions — Texas Instruments educational toy from the 80s, featured in E.T., iPad screensav
- Texas Instruments mentions — manufacturer of Speak & Spell
- Master Class recommends — writing education platform recommended, $200 subscription
People Referenced
David Lynch, Norm MacDonald, Scott Galloway, David Letterman, Jerry Seinfeld, Woody Allen, Isabelle, Michael Jordan, Theo Von, Sean Ryan, Tom Sachs, Braxon, Dean Neistat, Timothee Chalamet, Cormac McCarthy
Books Mentioned
- masterpiece recommended as Americana reading (by Cormac McCarthy)
- recommended Americana reading (by Cormac McCarthy)
- new Bob Dylan book, very good (by Bob Dylan)
- discussed in context of 2024 election, 16 years into fourth turning (by Neil Howe and William Strauss)
- recommended as Americana reading, Green Hills of Africa collection (by Ernest Hemingway)
Films & Media Referenced
- featured Speak & Spell as part of communicator
- Dean Neistat was stunt coordinator, taught Chalamet to ride Triumph