LIVE Shop Talk 48: Ten Biggest Challenges I will Face In Africa

hello guys this is paul mcquarter from toptechboy.com and we're here today live live live with episode number 48 in our live shop talk and are you guys ready to rumble because it has been three months since we have had a live stream and i am super excited because this is my first live stream from my new super duper african studio and so i am hopeful that this uh live stream is going to go through a little worried about the bandwidth i do not have the bandwidth that i really need to do a full stream a full resolution stream so i've cut my stream back to 720 uh p with 30 frames per second instead of 1080 at 60 frames per second and so i am hoping that the uh i am hoping that the bandwidth will allow this to come through okay let's see if we've got some comments here okay uh let's see uh quality is pretty good sunil says fleet says looking uh looking okay okay my computer teacher all right nice to see you good looking good not bad at all looking good okay well hopefully we can keep this stream going and what i'm going to do today is i am going to talk to you about now that i am in africa it's been three months since we have had our our last live stream and this is my first live stream from africa and so i've now been in africa for two months and i am going to talk to you tonight about or probably today for you guys this morning for you guys in the united states those of us on the african continent it is tonight and i'm going to be talking to you about the 10 biggest challenges that i have faced living in africa for two months and kind of tell you uh how things are going and you guys give me feedback do you like hearing about things like that this i know that you like things like arduinos and you like things like raspberry pies and artificial intelligence and robotics and fusion 360 and things like that but he like every once in a while just to kind of see what's going on with me just kind of hang out a little bit and chat so i kind of wanted to just take a little time and fill you in on how things are going here in africa okay we got some people tuning in look at that we've got 70 people here so that is really good welcome mohamed metahan welcome binyod the fleet stefan lucas philippe hey man great to see you philippe we are live here from africa and we are hoping that this thing is going to go off okay but you know we never know so what i'm going to do is i'm going to start with a little bit of trivia here and you can see that this is a graphic that i took that was taken out in front of my little farm here in africa and i am looking for the first person to tell me the significance of this boat can anybody tell me the significance of this boat in this picture okay charles welcome to africa hey charles are you in africa all right let's see okay i am waiting jim hello glenn hello stefan the fleets okay guys yeah it's steam all right but there's something more significant about this boat than it's just yes ted it is steam powered but there is okay shuttle pod one you're the winner humphrey bogart right this is the boat from the most famous the most famous movie the african queen which was humphrey bogart and audrey hepburn and it was like one of the classic movies of all time if you haven't watched it go back and get on netflix and watch the old original african queen and this is the boat from that movie and it is still cruising up and down the river and this was out in front of my little piece of property so i thought that that was a pretty cool thing so uh so we had a winner already and then hey opal wow a live stream yeah glad to see you opal thank you yes opal i've kind of got my studio set up i got things going i would like to once again start making live streams and right now you know i've been releasing one python video a week but all those videos i'd made before i left and right now i've kind of taken two months to get settled in here but i really want to go back and start making new videos maybe release the old ones a little bit quicker and then start doing the live streams again and i just thought you know it's not going to be all just about me but i thought it might be neat on this one just to kind of feel fill you guys in on what i have been up to so yes that was the african queen still on the river here from the old humphrey bogart movie this is a picture from uh this is a picture from my balcony and you can see that uh the pretty river in the background and so this is my new abode and i am getting in here i am getting settled in here so what i'm going to talk to you today about is i'm going to talk to you about the 10 biggest challenges that i've faced in getting settled in here in africa oh yeah victor where is your coffee my coffee machine unfortunately is on a very slow container boat sea container boats somewhere near singapore on its way over here and so i don't have coffee today and also it is 6 35 in the afternoon here and i can't drink coffee in the evening and so if i'm going to do these things in the evening i'm going to have to get some other beverage you know i still love coffee but i'm waiting on my coffee machine and i am uh not going to be drinking coffee in the evening so hey it kind of looks like my old home in iraq okay well i haven't been to iraq but uh i've i would i would love to visit iraq someday but i have not been to iraq but maybe it looks a little bit like this okay so let's see here 10 biggest challenges that i have had to face in settling in here to africa oh was my cup my cup is invisible that's funny i didn't notice that invisible cup it'll make don't make my head invisible too look at that okay note to self next time use the red cup okay clarendon i'm being a little bit vague about exactly where i am just given i have some 230 000 subscribers and most of them are normal but there are a few strange ones and believe it or not i get some threatening emails i get some people that get very very angry at me so i'm a little bit vague about exactly where i am i will say that i am on the continent of africa and we will just leave it there and i'm sure that you understand that okay so let's see number 10 thing that i have had to adjust to here is the internet okay because coming from the united states i'm used to having a fa a fast direct internet connection and kind of an unlimited uh an unlimited uh bandwidth unlimited use and you know 25 30 bucks a month you get unlimited internet it always works it's always blindingly fast and you don't even think about it now here the internet comes over the cell phone so it's over the cellular data system and i actually have like a little cellular pod and that pod connects to a cell tower and then uh i connect to the internet from that now there's a couple of things about that one is it's very expensive it's not an unmetered connection and so i have to buy the data by the gigabyte and it's relatively expensive and so really living here one of my largest expenses is internet because you've got to kind of buy it by the gigabyte and it's not cheap the second thing that i have to kind of get used to is is that sometimes it's fast and sometimes it's slow and unfortunately in the evening when everyone gets home and starts watching their netflix or whatever they do on the computer it starts getting really slow and so right now is kind of like one of the worst times of the day but i have to pick a time that that you know it's awake time for me and awake time for the united states and so sort of 10 30 texas time 6 30 africa time that is sort of like kind of a sweet spot but unfortunately it's the time of day that the internet is sort of worse uh the worst here and so oh it looks like we already got a few people banned thanks felipe are you guys misbehaving already already you're misbehaving be nice be nice and moderators thank you for uh thank you for doing your jobs they're keeping things clean and keeping the the people that want to become a nuisance uh at bay so appreciate that so the internet is expensive and when you really need it it's slow and i saw someone made the comment about starlink yes i am waiting for starlink and i really hope that in the next year i can get that also right now my little pod my little internet pod is just this little pocket thing and so i'm gonna get a better one that's like a great big outdoor antenna and then it beams into an indoor unit and it's still over the cell system but i think it gets a stronger signal and it accesses a little better a little better channel so i'm hoping when i get that that i will get a little bit better internet but right now the number 10 thing i'm really happy to adapt to because you know i'm a technology guy and i spend a lot of time either making videos or watching videos or learning or using the computer and so it has been kind of hard for me to adapt to the expense of the internet and the slowness and unreliability of the internet and the other thing is man you guys wouldn't believe how much data you actually use and if you believe it when you start paying by the gigabyte but like you you go to bed and leave your computer on and then you come in in the morning and your computers use 10 gigabytes of data you know like what's that about so you got to go in and really lock your thing down because i guess your iphones and ipads are like sending stuff to the cloud or backing up pictures or something like that and windows man windows is just sucking stuff down updates all that stuff the new virus software all those types of things and so you just use an incredible amount of data so you've got to go in and kind of tighten up all your systems and make sure that they're not just sitting there just sucking down your uh your bandwidth and so that is that is number 10 thing that i have to worry about and the number 10 thing that i have to worry about and adapt to is the lack of reliability speed and the cost of the internet number nine then i have to adapt to is electricity okay good news is i do have electricity it comes from a hydroelectric plant about maybe two miles away but it's very unreliable and it's unreliable in a couple of different ways one is is that sometimes it just goes off and so maybe every day the electricity goes off for an hour or two and that kind of it's not like i'm addicted to electricity but you know if you're working on the computer and then the electricity goes off that is kind of a pain the second thing is is that sometimes you have electricity but you just don't have much horsepower you don't have much oomph and so i had about a three week period where like if my wife turned on the teapot it would just suck everything down you would hear the fan go and the lights would dim and so if you turned on the teapot it would bring the whole system down so sometimes you have electricity but it's like you're not getting full juice to your house and then also there's a lot of fluctuations in the voltages and so sometimes your voltage is coming in low sometimes it's coming in really high so you have to sort of start installing some infrastructure in your in your compound so that you're not constantly just burning everything out and normally for a computer you think about a surge protector and that way if you get a spike in the line it'll take that spike out but a surge protector won't take it out if like instead of having 240 volts which is the line voltage you get 400 volts that is not something a surge protector will fix and so you've got to kind of start conditioning the power on your own so how do i handle this sometimes power out an hour to a day sometimes power out for three days or so well what i do is i have installed this bad boy which is a 25 kilowatt count them 25 kilowatt commercial diesel generator and this thing is hooked up so that it sees the power dropping and if the power is going off then it automatically starts and comes on it disconnects from the line so you're not back feeding voltage out to you know back up the line so you're not going to like electrocute someone trying to fix things and then it kicks on and it sends power in there and so this thing is just really dandy the only downside to this thing is well there's a couple of downsides it's it's nice to have electricity okay but a downside is is that when the power goes down immediately you can hear the motor kick and you can hear that diesel motor start but it takes about 10 seconds for it to switch off the other power and actually normalize its voltage and then send you voltage and like if i'm sitting there using the computer that 10 seconds is enough of course for the computer to crash and if i were doing a live stream and the electricity went out that 10 seconds would mean i would lose the you know i would have to reboot the computer and then when it came back i couldn't go live again you know we would just be lost so what am i doing right now as far as this live stream goes i even though the electricity was up i called mr emma my property manager and i told him to go ahead and switch on the generator so we're operating on the generator now so that i know that i won't leave lose you in mid-stream okay now i see a couple of you guys uh kind of overkill for a house well actually i have on my compound i have three houses i also have a laundry room and a shop i have two uh like staff quarters and then i have a dormitory so i have kind of like a lot of infrastructure here and therefore i wanted to size this so that you could sort of run everything and not you know not have to worry about it also these little home generators they're not designed for long-term use and this one really has a diesel engine and a generator that's designed to go the long haul it's designed for commercial applications so i really wanted something that wasn't going to go out after a year or two okay a couple of people have suggested solar and this is the thing solar works better solar works better in a situation like in the united states because in the united states like you get up in the morning and you turn on your oven and your hair dryer and the blow dryer and the curling iron and the toaster and all of that and you're using all of your electricity in the morning okay but you're not generating any but that electricity that you're using comes off the grid then during the day when you're at work and not using much electricity you're generating all of it and then you come home in the evening and you use it so you're using at the start and end of the day and you're generating in the middle of the day and so you have a load problem so even if you need let's say 15 kilowatts and you're generating 15 kilowatts you're generating it at the wrong time well in the united states you just send it back on the grid you get credit for it and then when you come home you take it back it's kind of like a bank account and your excess generation you can send back to the grid and it's kind of like putting energy in the bank here in africa you don't have that you don't have net metering and so if you are producing a lot of electricity in the middle of the day you really don't have anything that you can do with it and then at night you don't you know so it doesn't work without net metering now you could say batteries okay but then if you look at batteries the cost of the batteries is probably more than the cost of the solar panels and then the batteries have a limited lifetime now some people in the united states use batteries as a backup so if the grid goes down you can use the batteries and the solar charge battery that works but if you're using it where you're that's all you have you don't have access to the grid the problem is at night you're draining those batteries and then the day you're charging them and so you're deep cycling them and those batteries have a limited lifetime and so you're going to kind of be wearing your batteries out and so the cost of solar with batteries if you don't have net metering much much more than a generator and so this generator again it's it's bulletproof it uh it runs on diesel you know man it's kind of like the apocalypse could hit and somehow still you're going to have diesel right that you know it doesn't matter how bad things get you're always going to be able to find some diesel and we do store diesel we have uh we probably store 100 gallons of diesel and then we're always using the oldest one you know we kind of have it where it doesn't get old we're always doing it because of the humidity you want to keep your tanks full because if you let the tank go down gets moisture moisture condenses you end up with water in there so you want to keep your tanks full you want to keep this tank full and you want to have some that is stored so that is my solution i did guys i did really really really really look at solar and i'm kind of a high-tech guy and i would love to have solar it would be g-whiz stuff but also it's hard to get i mean you know if you have like a diode or a part of your inverter go out it's really hard to get high-tech stuff here and the generator is very low-tech and there's diesel mechanics everywhere and people understand this stuff and so my solution as much as i would have enjoyed going to solar i went with diesel okay so problem number 10 is internet problem number nine it's electricity i've kind of got that solved the other downside i'll say about this is is that diesel is kind of expensive it's probably about four or five dollars a gallon and this uses two liters an hour and so let's see that's half a gallon so it's probably about three dollars an hour to run this thing and so if your electricity was off for five hours that'd be fifteen dollars and if you're you know every day running it for an hour or two that adds up so what we've kind of adapted at first we were just letting it run all the time now we phillipe man thank you felipe i don't have my little bell but wow thank you for the super chat philippe and you know what that would buy me what that would that would buy me 10 gallons of diesel right for my generator so you just gave me like 40 hours of light there based on that really i really appreciate it really appreciate it but yeah the the diesel generator is a little expensive to run so what we've done is we've kind of adapted where we just don't leave it running like in the you know like in the middle morning and in the middle afternoon we just don't run it and then if it starts getting to evening when you might be cooking or doing things or in the morning or middle of the day we'll run it so we'll run it when we need it but we just don't run it for no reason because it's just even when it's just sitting there and you're not really using electricity it kind of costs to do it so number 10 problem is internet number nine problem is electricity i think i've adapted pretty well to those two things i do think i've adapted pretty well to those two things the third problem are the numbers i guess we're working backwards so this is the number eight problem is water okay and yes i live on the river but i do get the water from a little community water system there's a little community water system and i get my water from there but it is very unreliable and in fact sometimes like we went three days with no water and so the water comes on the water goes off the water's on but it's very low pressure or it's high pressure and so the water is very unreliable and so what has been my adaption what has been my solution to the number eight problem which is water and this is what we have done we have a water tower here and let's see there water tower there and we have two uh we have two tanks on it the lower tank we fill from the river so when you go down to the river we have a pipe in the river and then we pump water up and we keep that lower tank full and then we use that for watering the uh for watering things like watering the garden or watering anything that we need water and then the top tank we fill with the community water system so the community water system goes up into that upper tank and then that feeds the compound and then certain parts of the compound actually work on river water so i think some of the toilets run on river water because you know it's a lot cheaper to pump water the electricity to pump water is a lot cheaper than buying the water so if you can use the river water use the river water if you can't use the river water then you you you know for the things you wouldn't want to use river water for you use city water now i will say there was one day that uh we actually ran the water was out so out for so long that we ran out of uh community water and we had to use river water and so we actually had to pump river water and use that for things you normally wouldn't use it for but you know what you do is you boil it and then after you boil it you filter it now that really slows you down but you do have water okay so kind of adapting that way we have water and we've kind of got the system working now where you know it might not always be perfect but we do have water and we do have electricity and we do have internet okay so those are the three things three things that i had to adapt to the next thing that i had to adapt to is the issue of driving and the issue of roads and this actually is very terrifying it's very terrifying and uh this is kind of shows you maybe what a typical road would be a typical road would not be paved and it is just wide enough for two cars to pass and people drive highway speeds on this thing that truck there that you see that green truck might be going 60 miles an hour okay now you see the little white toyota he's going the other way and the trucks coming at him and then right about the time they're going to pass you have that cow standing there and the cow he just doesn't care he just stands there so the guy in the toyota he has to swerve to miss the cow and then whip it back so that he doesn't run uh head uh uh you know a head-on into that truck and so everybody is driving at full highway speeds and then you've got these uh you've got these narrow dirt roads and it really really is uh very terrifying okay stefan or the are the roads in south africa better than uh that in deng dong you say it's like where you are where are you guys that uh that are having to look at things like that okay i'll cap i'll get to i'll get to crime in a minute okay i'm just wondering if other people are running into things like this but okay so this is kind of a dirt road i'll show you a highway and sort of show you what you're on on a highway okay and this doesn't really capture it because these things look far apart but if you look at this again two lanes just wide enough for two cars to pass and like if you're in a modern country like the united states there's a shoulder a paved shoulder and a paved shoulder so if you were ever in trouble you could scoot over a little bit but it's not that way here it's just wide enough for two cars to uh to pass yeah potholes potholes are a big problem here okay now the other thing that you're gonna see is you see two trucks coming towards you in this picture and then you see one truck in front of you going the same direction that you're going and then behind him it looks like maybe a land cruiser and then behind him is another car so going in your lane is a truck a land cruiser and a car and if you look at that car the third one back behind the truck he's scooting over he's getting impatient he doesn't want to wait because they're going uphill and that truck's going really slow so he is going to whip out and he's going to try to pass both of those okay both of the cars in front of him but what does he have coming at him he has a truck coming at him that truck is going downhill he's going really fast and then once he gets out there what does he have in that other lane you can see it looks like four people on foot and a guy on a bicycle you know right up i'm talking about this stuff up here i got a bicycle and the bicycle is passing the people in the car so he's going to run into that pedestrian mess and so he has to not only not hit them not hit the truck he's got to get back quick enough that he doesn't push that truck into those pedestrians similarly down here okay on the other side i can't point that as far but on the other side you can see that the bicycle with maybe 150 pounds of corn behind him is a bicycle with no load the bicycle with no load is going to be passing that guy and then the boat the scooter is going to be passing both of them and then the truck is coming and you've got to get around those guys before the truck gets there now you can say well just slow down slow down you see you can't slow down because if you slow down somebody's going to hit you from behind so you can't be timid you just got to go and it's just it's kind of like if you guys ever played that game frogger it's like that and then also you see over there there's a lady in a pink dress it looks like up there and so the bicycle slow bicycle is going to pass her fast bicycle past that those the bow to pass that and then a truck coming and you've got to pass all of that so it's just really really really very very just completely nerve-racking to try to do this driving and again i'm cautious and so my tendency is to just go slow but that doesn't work if you just say well i'm just going to go slow then you're going to create you're going to become an obstacle and you're going to create more problems than you solve so have i solved this well the way i've solved this is i just drive to town i'm like six months from the little town i'm like six miles from the little town and it's just a simple little dirt road and i just drive from here to town in town it's just a little quaint little community it's just really quiet and so you can drive around town slow and i can drive to town and i can drive home from town slow but i would never go out on the open road like this and so the solution is to have a professional driver have somebody that was raised on this traffic and know how to thread that needle and so if i really need to go somewhere i just hire a professional driver and i buckle my seat belt and i close my eyes and just try not to look because it is absolutely terrifying i think that if you're going to drive in something like this what you want to do is you want to uh do a lot of riding before you try to drive so you sort of understand because you see that truck sees you and he is anticipating what you're going to do and you're anticipating what the truck is going to do and it's just you've got to have this hyper attention to the situational awareness you've got to be looking like over here you've got to be looking you know a mile ahead on the road and you have to see things and you have to be constantly making a strategy of how you get through this without you know first of all certainly you don't want to be in a head-on collision but the other part of it you don't want to hurt someone else right you really really don't want to hurt someone else you don't want to you don't want to hit someone on a scooter or hit someone a bicycle so it really scares you as much about hurting someone else as opposed to hurting yourself yeah this particular road is probably the only stretch of road in all of the nation that doesn't have an obvious pothole but i'll show you the road that like comes to my house this is the road that comes to my house and i couldn't get a good picture of it but that that that ditch is like a foot down and so if i just drive my car the bottom of the car would drag on that hump and so you've got to kind of get one wheel up and come over and so there are potholes that are a foot foot and a half deep and you've got to not fall into it and so getting uh to my house is just sort of creeping along and just being careful to negotiate around those potholes and ruts and there's no way to fix this because then when if you fix it then when it rains it just washes it you kind of see the downhill slope it just washes it out and so this is just going to have to be something that uh you know you just adapt to and i just drive slow and take it easy and try not to uh try not to damage my car and go into town i think okay i just do one thing you know you don't go and try to think i got to do 10 things today just going to make it to town do a little shopping and come home yes in the wet season this is very sticky dirt very very slick muddy and so when it gets wet it is very very hard to maintain traction so number 10 thing i've had to adapt to internet number nine electricity number eight water and number seven roads and traffic and i am doing okay but i have had to adapt okay somebody asked what car do i have i got a it's called a harrier it's a product made by toyota it's uh it's a real nice little car it's not four-wheel drive it's very comfortable and what i did was i just had to get something that was reliable and i would have transportation and i was able to buy it before i came here and kind of negotiated made the deal with the broker and then when i got here the car was waiting for me and it's worked very well but it is not the like you know the the toyota land cruiser with the snorkel and the huge knobby tires and all that kind of thing it's just something that gets me to town and now that i'm here i am looking for a better more well-suited vehicle something that's more rugged and my car would be very comfortable if you were going somewhere on the road but for the types of roads that we're dealing with here it's really not a suitable car but i'm thankful for it and it gets me to town and it's quite uh it's quite comfortable and so that will uh that will uh do uh uh do okay okay let's see uh the road will get worse yes the road will get worse and uh uh yeah so okay so the number seven problem i'm having to adapt to is roads and traffic the number six problem that i am having to uh address or the challenge that i'm having to face is our friend mr mosquito okay and so i live in an area where you have really really bad malaria and you don't want to get malaria it's no fun also there's all types of types of malarias that are like treatment resistive malaria and so you don't want to get malaria and so you really have to avoid the mosquito bite now uh the mosquitoes here aren't like what you might think like i imagine just this swampy swarm of mosquitoes just mosquitoes everywhere it's not like that like if i go out during the day i'll never see a mosquito like i go around i do whatever i want go places see people do things and you know you never run into a mosquito it's in the evening that the mosquitoes come out okay so what you've got to do to adapt to them is you've got to of course the way to not get malaria is to not get bit insert so during the day you don't have to worry about it also like you can't think oh we'll put on mosquito repellent you can't as a lifestyle be putting poison on your skin you know every day three times a day you know mosquito repellent is not a lifestyle solution to the mosquito problem i guess if you were just visiting here you could wear mosquito repellent for a few weeks or something you wouldn't want to do that as a lifetime as a as a lifestyle so uh the thing you got to do is number one you got to avoid getting bit and the number one time that you would get bit is the biggest problem is at night so the first thing that you would do is this is a picture of my bed hey nicholas wow really appreciate it thanks for the super chat you guys are being super generous here that just bought me a gallon of diesel which would allow me to run my uh generator for a couple hours he just gave me a couple hours of electricity there really appreciated so yes this is my bed and you can see that this is the purpose of a canopy bed okay the reason that you have canopy beds originally was not for their cool style but to support a mosquito net and you can see that we have a custom mosquito net there that is fitted just perfectly to the bed and then you see that vertical stripe on the four sides like at night if you need to get up you can open it and get out and then close it back up and so that gives you a pretty good degree of perfect protection but what i will tell you is mosquitoes are very clever little blood sucking parasites and what they do is uh what they do is they always find a way of getting under the net let's see it should uh you should rub oil over your hands and legs not even a single mosquito would buy well what kind of oil what kind of oil are you talking about nerdy geek to keep the mosquitoes off okay because i'm always looking for a non-toxic solution to mosquito problem okay well the problem is is that the uh the bed seems small though it's a full-size bed man i mean it's a full-size full-size bed i don't i'm not sure it looks small to you but no it's a it's a king-sized bed so plenty of room in that bed but the situation is is that if you have a house full of mosquitoes then you know you're going to wake up in the morning there's going to be two or three mosquitoes under your net and they're going to be big fat ones and you're going to smash them and they're going to be bloody and so while you're asleep the mosquitoes will eat you up and so it's not enough to just depend on a mosquito net what you have to do is you got to kind of keep the mosquitoes out of the house and so you know in africa it's very open so like during the day you have the doors and windows open you don't have air conditioner you don't have heaters you just kind of let the coolness and the nice outside weather in and you would really enjoy leaving it open on into kind of the dusk and open up at dawn but the problem is is that's when the mosquitoes are out so you got to kind of close your house up late afternoon before you would really like to and then in the morning you got to kind of leave it closed a little bit longer than you would want to because you got to keep the mosquitoes out of the house because if you have a bunch of mosquitoes in the house there's going to be three or four of the more clever ones that figure out how to get under that net you also got to manage the net like if you got to get up at night and use the restroom make sure that one doesn't follow you back in under the net and then be mindful to make sure that you close that net up as well as you can to keep them out of there and so one thing is we we try to mine that net very carefully we keep the house closed while the mosquitoes are out and then also like in the evening if you're just sitting around the house maybe wear a hoodie with long sleeves and wear sweatpants and wear socks so that as you're just sitting there in the evening it gets dark here every evening at about 6 30 so kind of 6 30 to 9 30 during that period of time you don't want mosquitoes kind of sneaking in sneaking in on you and biting you so if you kind of stay covered in the evening that will help a lot okay we also have a technology solution here that is like one of the coolest things ever have you ever noticed like if there's a mosquito in the house and you try to catch him you know like you try to catch him and then you open your hand to see if you got him and he flies away or you try to clap him but the wind of the clap like blows him and how hard it is to kill a mosquito and you got five mosquitoes in the house and you spend the whole evening try to kill the mosquito well my friend let me introduce you to the mosquito mosquito zapper i have got to turn the green screen off here so you can see it let me see if i can switch over here okay here it is what this is is this creates when i press this button when i create press this button it creates like a probably a two or three thousand volt field between these grids and so all you got to do is just swat it and when you get near or get the mosquito between those grids it just fires a lightning bolt and it just fries the thing and so if you see a mosquito you just go like that and it's so satisfying because it makes this crap noise you know the bolt you know the bolt of electricity makes this really kind of loud crackling noise when you do it so it's really kind of fun when you zap the mosquitoes with these things also it's got a light so i keep this under the canopy at night let's see if you can it's kind of hard to see the light there but you see right here is a light and so like if i have it at night and i hear a mosquito i can turn the light on and then i can get them under that mosquito net and so this thing is worth its weight in gold now i'd like to try to figure out some way that i could put this over some sort of bait like have something the mosquito would like and then put this over it in the house and then the mosquito fly through there to get to the bait but i haven't exactly figured out what the suitable attractant is what the suitable attractant is for a mosquito but i do i'm kind of thinking about that and uh you know i think kind of thinking about that and figuring out if there's a way that i could actually entice the mosquito to fly through that thing so i am working on that so number 10 internet number nine electricity number eight water number seven uh roads and traffic number six is the mosquitoes and then number seven number seven let's see if you guys know what this is this my friend is to be greatly feared okay like you think of africa you fear the lion the elephant the water buffalo but you know what your real enemy is in africa it's this guy does anybody know what this is does anybody know what that is cain that's not a snake but you probably answered before i asked the question okay yes co2 attracts mosquitoes yes it is a fly okay it is a fly yeah hippos are real dangerous you know people don't think of hippos but hippos probably kill more people a hippo and a water buffalo probably kill people more than any other large animal it is not the dengue fly but mario that was a good guess housefly it's not a housefly it is a fly but why would you fear this fly so much actually titsy fly is a good guess oh cap yeah cap you know the mango fly right okay you know the mango fly no that's a that's a real you want to see that you think i faked that picture there he is right there that's the mango fly that i took the picture of and he met his untimely demise from our friend mr mosquito zapper which will also zap the mango fly okay so felipe it's not the problem is not that it's a biting fly okay the problem is that it is the mango fly and what the mango fly loves to do is the mango fly loves to lay its little eggs in a nice little cozy moist place like your laundry right here you know you have someone that helps you and they wash your clothes by hand and then they go put them out on the line in the sun okay so then your clothes are out on the line in the sun and then our friend mrs mingo fly goes out and lays thousands of little eggs on your clothes or on your whatever and then they dry out and then you bring them in and then let's say it's a towel okay and then you take your shower and then you dry off and then those little larvae those little eggs get on you and then as soon as they get on your nice warm skin they hatch and you don't even see them they're like microscopic and they burrow in under the skin and then they start feasting on your flesh you know kind of like in the meat under your skin and they start growing and what happens is you look down and the first thing is you just got a little red like a little red patch on your arm and then the next day it's kind of like instead of that it's more like a rash you got like little red bumps and you think oh well it's just a heat rash you know just to heat rush it it'll go away next day the little bumps are kind of bigger it you know more like kind of like pimples you have all these pimples on your arm and then the next day you you you come and you start start get these great big huge boils on your arm and then all of a sudden you've got kind of like these things all over and it's like you feel something going on there it's grubs okay it is maggots it is flesh eating maggots now normally a normal fly the maggot will only eat dead flesh so that's why you see it like on carcasses and stuff but the mango fly feast on life flesh and they burrow in under your skin and then they start eating you okay [Music] this is oh the fleets thank you wow how uh how how wonderful you know you can help me purchase a couple of bottles of treatment for this uh for this uh this uh uh maggot in infection that you get okay so how do you deal with the mango flat because let me tell you the mango fly also seems to be attracted to like the color white so like probably the mangos fly's favorite place to lay its eggs is on your underwear okay so now i'm gonna stop the story there but i'll just let your imagination fill in the rest of this okay so what do you do well first of all let's say if you get an infestation how do you get rid of it how do you get rid of the uh the maggots that you've got growing in there actually the worst thing you can do is start scratching and clawing and try to kind of like scratch it out because if you start scratching and clawing you'll actually kill that maggot that's under the skin and now you've got this like dead worm under your skin and then your body like has a reaction to it and then you get like a huge i don't know if infection is the right word but you get a huge inflammation response where you get this big boil that's trying to force that thing out from under your skin and so if you scratch or pick and kill one of these things it's really really bad news but this is there's actually a simple solution and what you do is you get that you look and if you look at those little places on your arm you can see a little tiny air hole okay so what you do is you get vaseline and you put the vaseline on the air holes and then they're not getting any air they can't breathe and they've got to breathe they've got to have air so then they crawl up and then they stick their head out to try to get air and then you just sort of mash and you can kind of pop them out at that point okay so if you ever get an infestation don't try to dig them out don't try to scratch them out what you do is you put vaseline on them and then they'll come out and then you can kind of just gently squeeze them the rest of the way out okay the best thing is to not get infested infected and so what you can do is is that after your laundry is dried what you do is you have it ironed and so the lady that's helping you with the laundry after she dries it she goes in and she presses everything and when we got here we didn't understand why are they pressing everything socks you don't need to press my socks i don't need iron socks oh yes you do i don't need iron iron underwear oh yes you do if you see the cleaning lady iron in your underwear yes it needs to be ironed because when it is ironed it kills those little larvae and then you don't get infected now you do have to watch because your house is open you'll end up with a mango fly that'll end up in the house and usually when you end up with these things now that you know what you're doing maybe a mango fly got in the house and laid an egg on the towel that you have and you laid some eggs on the towel that you have in the bathroom but that's like a much smaller problem and what i do is you know they're kind of like a blowfly they're a pretty big fly so you hear them and if you hear them go and swap them before they make their way to the towel okay so number 10 internet number nine electricity number eight water number seven roads traffic number six mosquitoes number five is the mango fly and then number four is yes somebody asked about this earlier yes we do in fact have snakes and uh we kind of like got not just snakes we got like the really bad snakes so we have cobras here uh and you know cobras are really very very dangerous snakes and uh you know you don't get bit by a cobra now i understood stan that if you live in a metropolitan area if you live in a modern area era area you could get to the hospital quickly and like get anti-venom and stuff like that but here uh you don't get anywhere quickly and wherever you ended up they're not going to have anti-venom or if they have anti-venom it's going to be expired or if they have expired anti-venom they're not going to know where it is or they got the anti-venom but they can't find the syringe it's that sort of thing so it's kind of like you don't want to get bit you just absolutely don't want to get bit and really uh i kind of think the the mosquito and the mango flower bigger risk because i grew up in west texas and in west texas there's rattlesnakes and even though a rattlesnake bite typically you know if you get bit by rattlesnake you go to the emergency room they give you the anti-venom you know it's like people don't die it's a very horrible thing to get bit by a real snake but it's not like you're gonna die but because i grew up in texas around rattlesnakes i'm very snake conscious like i just grew up being snake conscious like if there's a rock you want to move you don't reach down and turn the rock over because you know snakes get under rocks and so all the things rattlesnakes do cobras do so all the things i learned about not getting snake bit growing up in the country on a ranch in west texas sort of applies here you know you don't go walking in tall grass you don't put your foot or your hand somewhere that you don't see beforehand if you walk and walk with a stick you know and avoid places where snakes like to get like really snake snakes love things like wood piles or stacks of lumber or they love crowded confused places like that so so our property we keep the grass trimmed we have short grass we don't have just shrubs and and uh you know just random things growing up that would be nice for snakes so one thing we do have a pile of bush poles and so if we're going to be around the bush polish you're very mindful about checking for snakes before you just reached down and picked one up but we have run into a cobra here and it was at night time and a friend and i jumped out of the car to uh to open the gate and we looked down saw something move and then we shot shown the light down there and it was in fact a cobra and it was not an enormous cobra but it's like it doesn't take a big cobra to kill you and so we yeah okay we killed the snake sorry no that's gonna make a lot of people mad but yeah we killed the snake and kind of you know i kill a lot of snakes in in texas rattlesnakes but these things they're a lot faster than around say it sort of surprised me uh that these snakes were a little bit different than the rattlesnakes and so i learned that you know you want to be careful walking around at night because i could have stepped on that thing man i could have stepped on that thing so yes we have the cobra and then uh you know worse than the cobra we have the black mamba and the thing is the black mamba is probably like the deadliest snake there is it's like you get bit you die they are between 10 and 15 feet long and they're very aggressive they will come after you like normally a rattlesnake if you step on him they'll bite you or if you annoy him he'll bite you but he bites as a last resort where the black mamba can be very aggressive and he can come after you okay and he can move faster than you can so the black mamba is kind of scary and what we do with the black mamba is there have been some around here we try to keep the property super clean we've got some uh land nearby and we keep that all super clean you just want to make it not like a really snake friendly place and then like i say when we're around the bush pole pile or around piles of wood or things like that super cognizant of snakes and you want to have something that should you run into a snake you're able to quickly you know deal with the snake you don't want to be running around with a snake chasing you without a plan okay you want to kind of have a plan you don't have the tools you want to have a plan that if you run into the black mamba or you run into the cobra there's also here the green mambo which is equally venomous to the black mamba and so let's just say that with snakes you want to be very uh you want to be very careful about just not letting yourself get in true troubles with snakes okay so that is let's see internet electricity water roads and traffic mosquitoes mango flies snakes and we have here and are in the midst of a really horrible covet outbreak that uh that it is just re it is just ravaging this country right now and it appears to be the delta variant that is just highly highly transmissive and it is just really really bad right now that uh i mean uh the last time that i drove to town there were just like you saw people that were just dying in the stream and there were people that were just laying on the ground dying and uh very very sad situation and we're still in the midst of it it is still kind of sweeping through the country and a lot of people are in really really bad situation and you know kind of like in it's the the whole virus thing is a very controversial thing it's like there's people it's going to kill us all wear your mask i'm going to hit you if you don't wear your mask or it's just a big conspiracy there's no such thing you know there's all this it's a very very divisive issue and in the united states there's places that are probably maybe like overreacting to it and then maybe places it was bad and maybe at some point at some place it was bad and in other places it wasn't so it's a very very controversial issue and i don't want to in any way get in that controversy about the topic because it's very very controversial what i'll say is here it's real and it's spreading quickly and a whole lot of people have it and a whole lot of people are in a lot of trouble on my compound where i live and i don't want to talk about vaccinations and so that's a topic that i'm not going to talk about because that again is very controversial uh so i want to talk about that uh because the purpose of this is not to be discussing covetous purposes me adapting to the 10 biggest challenges that i have here in africa there's 11 people that live on my compound and 9 out of the 11 became ill okay with it and uh the two that weren't were my wife and i and that was just god's mercy that we did not become infected because we're the old ones you know so we would be the ones that potentially could be uh hit the hardest with it and the way this happened on our compound one of our staff members here on the compound got sick and he went to the clinic and they told him that he had malaria so they sent him home with malaria medicine and then you know his wife's taking care of him everybody's trying to take care of him because you know malaria is kind of bad but normally once you get the the big dog medicines on malaria you just bounce back like really quickly but he didn't he was like getting worse and worse and everybody's worried about them trying to take care of him you know he's not bouncing back the way he should and then it got to like day seven and he starts kind of like gasping for breath and so he goes back to the clinic and it was a false positive malaria he actually had the covid okay and so at that point he was like in really really bad shape and in those seven days everyone on the compound was exposed and my wife and i had been very close to him and uh you know we had been exposed in a very big way along with everyone else in the compound but nine of the people got sick and then my wife and i didn't and that was just god's mercy and we uh okay yeah uh philippe all i'll do is smile at what you're saying but i can't talk about it okay i can't talk about how it was that my wife and i did not get sick and i can't talk about how this guy that was gasping for breath the next day was breathing and the day after that was up walking around okay so uh ding dong also okay you guys are very insightful people there you're very insightful i didn't say anything i just said 9 out of 11 got sick my wife and i did not get sick and i'm not going to start telling you how we didn't get sick and i'm not going to tell you how the people that were sick got better okay but there is some interesting stuff out there okay my daughter lives about four hours from here and she has eight people on her compound she has eight people on her compound and all eight got it and so my daughter and my son-in-law this is their second time to get it and so just because you had it the fleets well thank you so kind you guys are so generous today really appreciate that i got to get my bill and start reading it i start ringing the bell again okay so uh all eight of the people in my daughter's compound got it and uh you know my son-in-law is an indigenous uh african and many many people in his family got it and like i say it's just really ravaging the country and a lot of people are hurting very very badly because of the covet here and so here it's real and people are in desperate situation and people are dying from it here the the oh and i mean lots lots of people are dying and the other thing here then is is that that was uh number three uh we went internet electricity water roads mosquitoes mango fly snakes covet and then number three was copied and then number two is health care okay and there is just really not any sense at all of healthcare here and in fact you know you can't even there's just they don't have any ability to source the oxygen that's needed so forget intensive care if a person is really really at that point of gasping for breath they need oxygen and our staff member who had gotten to that point because he thought he had uh that he thought he had uh malaria he went back to the hospital they just sent him home there's nothing we can do just go home do your best and so they sent him a home and there was really nothing that they offered him and so as far as health care this was a picture a friend of mine sent and this is not you guys don't laugh i mean it would be easy to make fun of this but this guy in this picture is one of the lucky guys he got somewhere and basically they didn't he couldn't even get in the hospital but they did give him a tank of oxygen and it looks like they gave him an iv so getting hydrated and getting uh you know getting uh some oxygen in the united states this guy would have been like on a ventilator and intensive care and that sort of thing and here sitting in your car and having somebody give you an iv and actually having a tank of oxygen this is one of the lucky guys okay this is one of the lucky guys here so so here there's just not uh there's not any sense of like intensive care like you would think no ability to get oxygen and so the people that get it and start going downhill you know it's uh it's very bad and so no health care okay so how do i deal with no health care i just have like a healthy lifestyle my wife and i are very much into eating natural foods uh most of the foods that we eat we get from the uh the local you know we get that we grow so like we have chickens we have eggs we have gardens we have nut trees we have fruit trees so we eat very very healthy my wife and i take a lot of supplements you know we're not so much into western medicine anyway and so we're more into natural have a healthy natural lifestyle and then not need a lot of modern health care but if you're someone who needs uh modern health care you're not going to find it here okay so number 10 was internet number nine was electricity number eight was water number seven road six mosquito five mango fly four snakes three covet two health care and then number one thing that we're having to adapt to is the response to this uh coveted outbreak here has been a very very strong lockdown okay and so when it was announced kind of like towards the first of june it was announced a hard 42-day lockdown and then in the first week or seven or eight days people were not taking taking it seriously enough so the president came back and said he was restarting the clock on the 42 days like okay you guys gonna play games with me 42 days didn't start eight days ago it starts today again and as long as you guys keep messing with me i'm going to keep resetting the clock the 40 due to day clock so he said it 42 days so we're like 30 days right now into something like 30 days into a 42 day lockdown but the clock was reset so then you got to add eight more days i think to the end of it so we are in the midst of a really really uh we're in the midst of a really really uh severe lockdown and again i'm not trying to be controversial i'm not going to take sides on this i'm not going to say we should lock down we shouldn't lock down president's in charge he said lock down okay let's lock down but people are still playing games at basically there's military checkpoints and there's police checkpoints and and the really sad thing is is that if you tell a person so much of the population here lives hand to mouth day to day so they go somewhere and they work for a day and they take their wages for that day and they buy the food for that day and so if you tell that person they can't go to work then that person has no food because they depend on their labor from a day to feed themselves for a day and that's just that's just the way life is here and when someone is locked down then you don't have an ability to earn a living but then if everybody goes out and just tries to go to work then you know you've got the coveted thing so it's kind of like just a really desperate situation and kind of like a no-one situation and so i'm not going to criticize anybody because it's like there are no good options here there are no good options but what comes with that lockdown is there's military checkpoints and so like between me and town and the market is in town there's military and police checkpoints and by market imagine something that's like a square block or two or three square blocks and it's just all of these little independent food vendors go in there and so like a guy with cabbages he goes in there he sits on a mat he's got cabbages you could buy a cabbage from him or you could go to this next mat lady there she's selling onions so it's just all these little independent people that are selling you know one or two different vegetables and across this large area you go there and you buy your food well what they've said is the market can stay open okay but that doesn't do me any good because there's a military checkpoint between me and the market so the market can be open also the guys in the market they say okay you can stay here in the market but if you're going to stay in the market you can't go home so if you either leave now or you're going to sit by your little mat for 42 days and so the people a lot of people are desperate say okay and so they are basically locked in the market for 42 days and they're not allowed to leave the market they got to stay there but then like go home and starve or say there and hopefully you can sell something but then the problem is like i would love to buy something but i can't i can't get there i can't get to the i can't get to the market because of military checkpoints and police checkpoints and so forth again i'm not criticizing the government i'm not criticizing i'm just telling you it's a very very difficult situation and there is not a clear solution there is not a clear solution so what happens is people are desperate because they're living hand to mouth and so what people are doing is they're trying to run these military checkpoints so you know the boda is the little scooter and a guy gets on a scooter and tries to run through it and uh let's see maybe i've got a do i have a picture this is like the checkpoint that is between me and town here so you can see you've got military people you got police people you have people want to go through you got a lot of confusion going on here and then you got a guy on a scooter that's just gonna try to run the thing and as he runs through it they have a club and they'll club him and if he makes it through then i guess his punishment was getting clubbed and if it knocks him off and he falls over then they take his scooter and you gotta pay 50 bucks to get your scooter back so these guys sit here and they club people that are trying to break the curfew sounds brutal but i'm not gonna i'm not gonna criticize the guy trying to run it i'm not gonna criticize the guy with the club it's just a hard hard hard situation and what happened the other day they clubbed a guy as he was going through and he fell over and you know those tire spikes those tire spikes that they use to keep cars from going the guy fell over on that was impaled and so it was uh it was a uh it was a tough situation there uh there's a curfew at seven people are getting shot for not uh respecting the curfew so if it says you gotta be home at seven you're not home at seven there have been some people shot for being 15 minutes late on curfew so you know it's like no good solution here it's just it's a it's a sad situation and uh you know people people are dying of starvation people are dying of covet people are dying trying to run police blockades what i do is i've got a guy in the market and he's taking care of me i can still get a message to him he puts my food together and somehow he gets it to me i don't ask him how he's doing it i don't ask him where he goes i don't ask how it's working but the food shows up here and so far i've been able to uh to get food that way but you know it is sort of tenuous because you're not exactly sure how the boat is getting from the market to the market to here but it's uh it's a uh it's a little bit of a sticky situation there on the lockdown and uh in the food situation uh we are producing a lot of food like if you just said my wife and i technically we're probably and i'm coughing because i've been talking for an hour not i have no symptoms perfectly healthy don't worry perfectly healthy okay but uh i do uh i i do get a little dry after after i talk this long but probably on our compound we're producing enough food that my wife and i could survive on the eggs that we're getting and the mangoes and the avocados and all the fresh vegetables from the garden and all of that that we probably could make it on that but the problem is there's 11 people on the compound and you know you can't just like okay man it sucks to be you and i are eating great you can't do that so so i'm not even pretending that we're anywhere near to being self-sufficient because self-sufficient is not that my wife and i take care of ourselves self-sufficient is is that we're also feeding the people that are tending the garden and we're feeding the people that are tending the trees and doing all the other things so to really be self-sufficient you would need to be able to feed 11 people and we are nowhere uh we are nowhere near uh near that and so guys you need to be uh respectful [Music] okay and [Music] you know if i tell you there's something i don't want to talk about you shouldn't go in and put it on the uh you shouldn't go in and put it on the uh on the messages okay so uh you know we uh we're doing okay actually you know it sounds like i'm telling you kind of like a nightmare here but i love it i mean this last few months have been you know some of the most exciting times of our life it's been a real adventure here we're really really excited about what we do what we've got going here one of the things we did is is that there is a uh you know we started thinking okay there's a lot of desperation around here and uh the problems here are much much greater than what we could fix the needs are so great it's just overwhelming but what we did as a compound we just kind of got together and said look we're not going to let the things that we cannot do keep us from doing the things that we can do and so like between our compound and the road that goes to town it's probably uh 150 yards that little stretch that goes to the road that then that road takes us to town and within kind of a couple hundred meters of our house there's been five people that we know have uh have died from the you know from the virus and so it's just overwhelming and then there's people there's just no way that they're going to be so they'd be able to support themselves and so one of the guys who works on the compound told me about an old couple that are just very very very old and they have no way no way to feed themselves in this and so we just got together and say okay we cannot feed all of africa we cannot feed everyone in the neighborhood but what we're going to do is we're going to go and we're going to provide that very very old couple because they're going to starve we're going to provide them what they need for 42 days and so what we got was we got enough corn and beans and rice and cooking oil and salt and soap to last that period of time so that's uh what we did and then also there were two elderly widows and we did the same for them and it's not like a problem just that money can solve so don't say hey can i send money and you go help someone else because it's not a problem that money can solve because the people on my compound and some of these people you know themselves were just recovering from being sick what they did was they walked like a half a day and they bought this stuff and then they brought it back and then gave it to the elderly couple and then they walked again and brought it back and gave it to the widow and walked again and came back and gave it to the to the other widow and so i provided the financial resources and then they provided you know like a really long walk carrying a really heavy load and so it's kind of like everybody did what they could and what we did was you know we couldn't feed everybody but what we could do is we could take four people and say okay there's gonna be four people that are not gonna starve during this lockdown because we're gonna take care of them and wish i could do more wish there were more people that we could have helped but that is what we were able to do so anyway i guess i should look over here at the questions you guys have any questions now i'm sorry i haven't uh i haven't been able to uh i haven't been able to keep up with the comments and so forth but you guys let's see if you have any questions or comments i'll start kind of going over there and looking at the comments now we've gone a little long here normally we try to wrap this thing up at an hour okay let's see i'm not seeing the i'm not seeing any other questions coming in you guys anybody out there with a question is the live stream still live i guess should be another question okay i'll wait here a second see if you guys have any other questions or comments yeah chickens probably chickens are the easiest way to make food and particularly when we're in a warm climate here year round and just an enormous amount of bugs we don't even have to feed the chickens the chickens just walk around they find bugs they turn the bugs into eggs and so the easiest food that you can produce is with a chicken a chicken's easier than a garden a cow a sheep a goat easiest way to make food is with chickens and we're getting a lot of food from our chickens okay bosco is no longer with us our new guard is named pius and so bosco is no longer with us and pius i'll guys i fill you in on him he used to be a professional cage fighter and so he's the guy you want on your side when things get tough and he's just like the sweetest young man you've ever met in your life but you know he is a professional fighter and you can imagine in a third world country the fighting is probably pretty you know no holds barred there okay uh jen thanks how do you deal with crime that's probably something i don't want to talk a lot about because right you don't want to you don't know who's listening and who's watching and so forth but you know we have layers of security layers upon layers upon layers and so that is a fairly complex topic of how we are dealing with security uh hey the fleet says the stream was faultless that is great to hear how long are you planning to stay there shea i live here this is my home i'll show you a couple of pictures here i didn't show you this this is one of my gardens and up there is the dormitory this is one of the staff quarters uh this is uh another picture of the garden here and that's like the washroom and shop up there you can see the chicken coop and then this is the house that we're building right now this will be the new top tech boys studio and so i've got a i've got a house that i'm living in now on the compound and then that's the one that we are trying to get built uh main mesh reason for moving to africa is we are in fact missionaries and so that's what our passion is is to come here with the good news of the gospel and that is what we're working on and that's the reason we're here and we love it here uh corruption you know corruption here is petty corruption in the united states it's like big corruption it's like trillion dollar corruption billion dollar corruption here it's petty corruption like you know policeman wants you know two bucks and he won't hassle you so corruption is everywhere here it's petty corruption there in the developed world it's kind of elite powerful corruption is it hot or cold it's about 75 degrees every day uh we're very close to the equator so you don't have long day short days you don't really have seasons uh uh what do you what difference do you see when you google for answers on finding supplies well suppliers here don't have website suppliers as a guy sitting on a map with us you know with a box of cabbages so you you have more of a network of people and people you trust and that's how you do things the the kind of google and search engines aren't very useful okay yeah the compound here is very nice yeah i'm a little bit of a prepper and in times like this it does uh pay off don't talk about what country i'm in just saying i'm in africa because there's a lot of you out there and some of you are a little crazy and want to do me harm so like i say i actually get threatening emails and i don't know why people are get so mad at me but i don't like to really disclose where my location is uh let's see uh thank you it's shay from israel very nice okay uh top tech boy studio is pretty cool yeah one day i'll show you the studio you can kind of see me but one day i'll sort of start showing you the studio i was able to get some nice equipment over here uh is there a threat of hailstorm there's really no hail or tornadoes here the other day like in the midst of all this we did have a 5.6 earthquake so we had that in the middle of a virus locked down so uh but we we didn't get hurt in the uh in the earthquake okay uh hello wizard all right how many family members do you have uh well there's my wife and i that live on this compound and then there's a there's nine other people that live on the compound and then my daughter and her family live about four hours away and they're her and her husband and then they have two kids so my wife and i and then four family members some four hours away and then the local indigenous people here are becoming our family as well and so you know the people that we have living on our compound are very much like family members and you know as people were getting sick on our compound like one after the other getting sick one guy peter was staying healthy and man he just really took a huge load he he was doing everything he was getting done everything that had to be done and he was really going out of his way to make sure that anna and i did not get any more exposed than we than we already were and so if you had to interact with someone outside the compound he would do it to make sure that my wife and i did not uh did not get exposed anymore than we already had and then after seven or eight days darn it he he got it too okay he got it too but he sort of held in there while everyone else was sick and then by the time he got sick one of the other guys was getting well so we kind of were able in the midst of all this to keep things functional yes in fact we have dogs big mean ugly dogs they're nice to us but uh we've got some dogs that would scare you pretty badly if you saw them and they're fiercely loyal and they're really they're not like these fancy fluffy little you know overbred american dogs they're kind of like haven't completely moved that far away from the old wolf stage right so they're sort of like native indigenous dogs and they're fiercely loyal and they're very protective and so our dogs are really uh really good what job did you do in your 20s in my 20s i was an electrical engineer at the national labs in new mexico and worked on very important national security problems okay i what is my religion i'm not really a religious person i'm a follower of jesus christ i am a walker of the narrow way and that is what i am i have faith in jesus christ that question was asked so i will answer it not preaching at you but answering the question did you get your satellite nope don't have that yet not available here but as soon as it is i will get that and africa electronics are very expensive it discourages innovations yeah the problem in getting electronics in africa like an arduino kit would cost thirty dollars like that lagoon kit would cost thirty dollars but it might be fifty dollars to get it over here and so it just it's like darn it when people are so desperately poor it is so hard to break out of poverty and if you're from the wet west you just kind of think well if i was over there i wouldn't be supportive it's just like no darn it you know if you just start out desperately poor it is extremely hard to break out of it and the people here it's like all they can do is to just try to feed themselves for a day so it's really uh i don't know i just love the people here and i consider them to be family and i'm very very happy to be here so despite these 10 challenges that i've told you about man we are having the time of our lives here and don't look back at all really really happy to be here hope to now kind of like now that i've sort of gotten settled in and kind of gotten things working what i hope is is that we can start doing live streams again i hope to start doing some new tutorial series on some some new topics and kind of get back into things you can kind of see that i've had my hands full last couple of months and that's why i am only now kind of getting around to doing a live stream let's see felipe says it would be interesting to see when the avocado trees start producing they are producing my friend philippe i have one avocado tree that's big enough and it's got some some avocados on it we're getting mangoes our macadamia nuts our nut trees are not producing yet we're getting bananas off the banana trees we are getting pomegranates we are getting lettuce kale cucumbers we're getting carrots onions we have kind of a medicinal garden with ginger and garlic and turmeric and rosemary and oregano and thyme and some other medicinal herbs and so we really kind of look for our medicine number one healthy lifestyle number two healthy diet and number three then looking at herbal type of things as far as our medicine goes are there any plants that produce ethanol or stuff like that not really man it is so hard to try to take something and turn it into methanol there's some high bio mass plants here that you could think about making diesel out of it but it is really it is not worth the effort it is just like buy your diesel or do without it trying to make your own would be very very hard here the what was the hardest engineering problem you ever saw ganesh we need to just have a separate topic on that i had some like really really significant national security things that i worked on and that'd be a great thing to talk about to today but i really need to kind of wrap that up ganesh thank you for the kind words i do not speak the native language everyone speaks english they speak three languages english it's kind of like a swahili and then third their tribal language so if the guy you're talking to doesn't speak english i guarantee you the guy next to him does because just about everyone here speaks english so that uh that is the story uh if you could would you automate vegetable production i would like to move into kind of an aquaponic an open look up aquaponics where i had fish tanks the fish water gets dirty and then just use that to water the gardens by open loop i don't want to try to then take the water and put it back in the fish tank that would be closed loop and that's traditionally what aquaponics is i just want to use dirty water to water my plants and then i get rid of the dirty water and then that nasty fish water then is like a great fertilizer that is how i want to do it some say sage is a mosquito deterrent yes also people say citronella is a plant lemongrass marigolds and so we are trying to plant mosquito deterring deterring plants felipe it does feel a little bit like a movie it really does i mean it really is it's been a high done like a very wide dynamic range life like just really great things and really hard things all happening at the same time uh okay so some people ding dong thinks this is a horror story think of it it's not a horror story think of it as an adventure uh funny question have you encountered anyone who noticed you oh yeah i run into people who know me and say hey you're the guy from uh the internet or i used to be like i used to be on tv a lot i used to be on like cnn or fox news or the discovery channel or things like that and so i used to kind of be on tv a lot and then on the internet a lot and then i did some other kind of strange things and so i've kind of been known in a lot of different areas so it's not unusual for people to recognize me uh hey matteo and from turkey great glad to hear that you guys are doing good okay are the people there always asking questions about the usa yeah and they have a wrong impression of the usa it's just like everybody is rich and they have these cards it's a magic card and you stick it in the wall and money comes out and i don't think people understand that people in the west have stuff but they typically are in debt like wouldn't you say that most people in the western world their assets would not cover their debts most people are kind of like negative to where the little guy that lives across the street from me and he lives in a mud hut with a leaky roof one room mud hut with the leaky roof and cooks outside on a campfire and walks half mile for water but he owns an acre of land and he doesn't owe anything you see what that guy can't realize he's richer than half of the united states because he has a positive net worth right he has a positive net worth so he's wealthier than half the people in the united states and it just blows his mind he can't believe that but yeah most people in africa probably have a greater net worth than most people in the united states because of your debt you guys you need to get out of debt you guys are too far in debt okay uh all right this is great great stream extremely thank you shuttle do snake recommend all right that's a good idea snake recognition that's good uh blue jeans are not that popular here uh where people get their clothes is you know like all those clothes that you send to goodwill they put them in big bundles and they put them in shipping containers and they send them over here so what you just see is random used clothes here but the cool thing is a person could go buy a shirt for 10 cents or you know 25 cents for a pair of pants and so it's not like people are running around naked here okay it's not like people are running around naked uh people have clothes and they're decent clothes and then you know like on sunday they have like nice clothes they wear and so even though people are desperately poor here you know they dress okay because all of those used clothes coming from the western world end up here and they're sold for very very low cost uh i do not know what an lm35 is so i won't be doing that since i don't know what it is thank you for your lessons good how much did your place cost you i don't want to say uh like here you would pro i'll i will say this okay here this is like a let's see one two three four five this is like a seven bedroom home okay and very very very nice very very elegant like old world construction everything just very elegant and handmade and you would be shocked at how little the house cost you would be shocked at how little the house cost but if i told you the property you would be shocked at how expensive the property was and so just to kind of exaggerate like imagine an acre of land here costing 10 times as much as an acre of land in the united states but a house costing 10 times less than a house in the united states so that's kind of the crazy thing okay guys we have kind of gone along today we have really gone long today so i'm going to try to wrap this up if you guys like this give me a thumbs up okay if you would like to see more live streams let me know uh you know maybe you guys could suggest some topics that you would like to see for a live stream and maybe we can try to do it also let me know if this time works okay for you i would uh you know i kind of can't do it any later than this because then the internet is just going to completely die it looks like from 6 30 to 8 we kept the internet going well enough that the the stream uh the stream did okay and if you guys want to have some more live streams let me know and we'll see if we can maybe set up like a saturday like see if we can kind of start doing this weekly again and let me know some topics to do some new series on we've still got the python one going we're going to start python 3d graphics very soon and then those graphics are going to come alive those 3d graphics and animations are going to come alive based on hooking the whole thing to an arduino that's what i'm working on if you guys got some good ideas let me know but for now i think i'm going to go ahead and sign off and see if i can get a few things wrapped up before bedtime here it's actually eight o'clock so we've gone long so this is paul mcquarter from toptechboy.com and i will talk to you guys later

Channel: Paul McWhorter

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Keywords: Benford's Law, Benford

Id: wCZzRlISMEo

Length: 89min 42sec (5382 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 03 2021