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Good morning. So, it's 10 o'clock in the
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morning here. I am at Oregon Dunes Day
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use area. It's literally what we call
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it. We have a bunch of day use areas,
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but for some reason that's what this one
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gets called. I think it's confusing. It
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adds a bunch of ambiguity that. But, you
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know, that's that's what we called this
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one. I'm taking a trail that I'm I keep
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missing somehow. This is like the one
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trail in my part of the corridor. So I
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my route is everything from um Tai
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which is just south of Honeyman
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um all the way south to Taken
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campgrounds. Basically there are two
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lakes. There's Sus Lake and there's
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Tachinich Lake um that are on my route.
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And in between those is the Deuse area.
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Oh, I took the wrong turn here.
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There's a day use area. That's where we
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are now.
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Um, there's one trail that leads from
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the day use area down to Tacken Creek
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and I keep missing that one. It's a
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couple miles once I find it. Um, might
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be a bit of a hike for me today, but I I
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really want to get it on my map cuz
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eventually I'm going to have a map
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feature on Autonomy Realms. So, um
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eventually there will be
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um an atlas feature is what I'm going to
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call it. I just was looking because this
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is the trail right here. I don't know
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why I kept missing. I'm going to turn
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this around.
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So, yesterday I started doing a whole
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bunch of stuff. So, let me see if I can
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get y'all updated.
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Um,
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I've decided and my YouTube channels, my
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main one that I had for, you know, when
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I the first one I had and that I used
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for like a year and a half, um, and then
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shut down, you know, kind of archived.
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That one I have completely transformed
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into an archive for the Oregon State
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Parks volunteer abuse archive I created.
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There are five videos public related to
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that incident with them. And that's it.
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That's that's what that YouTube channel
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is now. I'm going to delete all the
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videos on it. There's like eight there's
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like I don't know six 700 of them um
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unlisted, but they're all getting
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deleted after a script finishes. It'll
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take about a month for the script to
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grab everything, but it's going through
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every single one of those. It's getting
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the highest quality video it can from
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YouTube and it's uploading them into an
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S3 bucket with Hzner and I'm going to
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host them locally on Autonomy Realms. Um
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that's going to be the default for
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everybody. So, if you upload a video,
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it's just going to get hosted locally
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and then there will be a process for um
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submitting it to YouTube also as kind of
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like an additional step. But it won't
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start with YouTube like it always has.
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And so that account is going to my main
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YouTube that I had that I archived is
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now officially
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erased. It's just uh a place for five
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videos related to the abuse I
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experienced at Oregon State Parks and
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then the channel that I made after that.
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Um same thing. So that channel will just
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go away at some point. I might I might
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refactor it into just videos about
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autonomy or something like that. That
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one because um you know I will want to
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um I want to share some videos on
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YouTube otherwise no one will ever find
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me. But it's not going to be personal
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content. All of that will stay on
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Autonomy Realms. Most of it behind the
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Sanctum layer. And
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so that's the plan with that. And so so
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it's going to need a new process. This
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video will have to get uploaded directly
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from the admin and then um it'll have to
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get processed like the transcript will
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have to be created. So I have to use a
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service for that. can't really afford
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um can't really afford that right now,
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but I'm going to have to figure it out.
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I'm going to look into that. It's hard
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to get good transcripts. That's one of
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the reasons, you know, it's hard to get
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them for free cuz there are there are
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different models that um different apps
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and things that you can do this stuff
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for free, but it's not very good. So,
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um
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you got to pay for that stuff and just
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can't afford that right now. But so
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anyways, this part of the trail, I've
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been on it many times and I know which
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way I want to go. I want to go this way.
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I'm going to go towards the creeks.
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I'm just looking to see if there's a
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trail sign or um just look for
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footprints, you know, in the sand or
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whatever. We'll see. But I keep missing
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it, though. So,
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um if I if I miss it again, we're just
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going to end up at the ocean, a shorter
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route, which probably is for the best. I
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do so much hiking my my legs would
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really like me to to stop.
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I don't know how though.
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So anyways, um it's a real good day.
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Yesterday I also finished all of the um
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so there's two
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different ways that
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um the AI is called like so I'm trying
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and I keep getting I keep forgetting
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like I analysis it's called analysis and
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synthesis. So there's two different
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types of ways that AI gets prompted. Now
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analysis is just a thing what I call the
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process that that
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uh collects all the data on a signal. So
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you give it a you give it the content
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you know like a transcript if it's a
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video and you give that to the AI and
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then the AI returns a bunch of surface
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and structural data and we call that
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analysis and then there's reflections.
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So, I don't call it a synthesis cuz
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that's I changed that. So, it's called
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reflections. I think this might be the
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trail head right here actually. You can
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tell is not is definitely not taken
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often. So, and I'm not surprised. It's
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several miles down to the creek.
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Um, but there are trail markers. We're
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going to try it. Okay.
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Um, so then the it does reflections
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based on um there's three different
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types. There's the mirror, there's the
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mythic, and narrative. And I just got
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that working this morning, and I tested
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it on my last signal, and it came out
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awesome. The mythic frame was [ __ ]
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amazing. I am so excited about this
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feature. It's the thing that I love most
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about what I created. Everything about
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autonomy comes down to that actually.
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Like like that's the thing that excites
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me about it is that it can take one of
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my signals in my real life and then turn
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it into a mythic frame without
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distorting it. It just and it's [ __ ]
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amazing what it comes up with. Like my
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last signal, I was talking about
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honeyman in the state parks and um the
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supervisor who um is the real problem
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that I had there and it called her
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um
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oh what did it call her? Man, something
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about being a gatekeeper but you know a
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um
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um an insecure one. I forget the phrase
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it used but I was like man that is
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definitely her that's so perfect. So, I
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could just see, you know, running that
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mythic layer through all 800 of my
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transmissions, my signals, and
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getting some very cool stuff out of
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that. And then from there, you can start
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clustering them. So, this is all before
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you even clustered the signals together
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and create reflections
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of, you know, the clusters.
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So,
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we're real close.
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And I really just want to be at home
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working now. Like that's and I haven't
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felt like that in a while, like years
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actually. But I think I found my groove.
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I found the thing that
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that brings passion, you know, that I
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feel passionate about. I'm excited about
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this. And
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um
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yeah,
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I mean, I just think it's the coolest
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thing. Like I could just see me making
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features where you have like this um a
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dwarf fortress style like character
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sheet on yourself and and you somehow
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can you know you will pass that to the
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AI because you would want it to keep
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that frame. You wouldn't want making you
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mess every single time, you know, for
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every signal. You would want it to have
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continuity
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and it could create like a whole history
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of you as like a dwarf or whatever, you
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know, just a mythic frame, just some
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archetype that it picks for you and um
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watch your life unfold as a myth.
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Especially when it's real, man, because
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it's just
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I I mean I that's the kind of reverence
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I have for life and always have and I
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just feel like most people don't
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anymore, but I do. And so when I read
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the myth that creates, I'm like, hell,
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that's that's exactly how I experience
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that moment. So
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it gives language to something that
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I think
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it's just profound like
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you know so so that's why um
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I'm so glad that it actually worked
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because I was getting worried with the
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way the AI models are becoming all the
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corporate [ __ ] distortion the
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institutional
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um capture, you know, like it just
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um but no, it worked. So, I am really
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excited about what I'm creating with
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this.
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Um I have no idea where it's going to
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go, but it's amazing.
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So, this is a pretty nice trail. You
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know, we're just in the dunes. We're
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walking alongside
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um it's almost like Nevada. I remember
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when I was on my trip from Kentucky to
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Oregon, um going through Nevada,
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you had those mountains and then you had
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the valleys and then the mountains and
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the valleys. It's kind of like that. The
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dunes are like little mountains and
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we're just hiking next to them
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through one of the little valleys are
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constantly shifting and changing. It's
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very cool.
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I didn't like the dunes at first, but
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cuz you know it kind of feels like a
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desert, but not really. you know, not
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when you really spend time on them. And
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um it's not just a desert. It's not just
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sand. It's Look, we've got forest right
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here, right next to us growing on top of
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the [ __ ] sand. I mean, that's
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remarkable to me. Literally growing on
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the sand. Like, if you dig a foot down,
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you would see nothing but sand. It's
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remarkable.
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This entire ecosystem.
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So, I do love it here.
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Um, definitely want to see more of the
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coast. I've only made it as far to
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Newport. Um, and now I'm an hour south
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of that. I basically doubled back. Um,
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but yeah, I always come back here, too.
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So, I mean, I'm I'm here for a year. I'm
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here till October, probably
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if I stayed to to be a camp host at
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Carter Lake, which is the plan, you
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know. So complete my caretaker role,
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become a host for 6 months and then
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probably leave after that. But come back
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every summer, every April to October.
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That is a option that they're giving me
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and they'll keep Carter Lake open for
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me. I love that, you know. And then 6
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months of the year I can explore. So if
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Autonomy takes off, if Autonomy Realms
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makes money for me, it allow me to fund
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my project. and uh my life, my journey.
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Real excited about all of it.
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Feels good to be getting back into oh
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man, you know, I'm getting older and for
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many years now, part of me has always
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wondered like is this is just my
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metacognition
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has always wondered if
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um I'm losing my edge as far as
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programming.
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Um,
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and I guess in some ways I probably
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have. I mean, it's fair to say. I I
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can't really explain how though. And
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because I use AI for all my programming
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now pretty much cuz we're writing this
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project in Typescript, which I don't
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know. Um, you know, I'm always been a
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back-end programmer, PHP and stuff like
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that. Um, suddenly I'm using Node and
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Type Script and, you know, Nex.js CS and
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so I does most of the work but I have
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been learning I've been you know pattern
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recognizing
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um recognizing the patterns um you know
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when compilers break and stuff like that
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and I'm starting to pick it up. So, um,
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yeah, I probably, um, maybe that's a a
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narrative I picked up from the world
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telling you that as you get older, you
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know, your brain,
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um, I don't know how they want to
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describe it. I don't really agree. Um,
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it's, you know, I've never seemed to,
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um, all the patterns that I've been told
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throughout my life by society, they
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haven't, they haven't come true, you
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know, like I quit smoking. I quit vaping
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and didn't really think about it after
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that. I just [ __ ] did it after 32
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years. I quit opiates, cold turkey, a
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high dose two years ago, just like that.
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cold turkey, never looked back, never
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thought about them again. Like every
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time society tells me this is going to
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be hard or like it's just wrong. I think
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it's a control mechanism. It's a way of
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a way of making people smaller and we
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make each other smaller by reinforcing
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it. And so yeah, I
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I'm not losing my edge as far as
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programming. I'm actually maturing into
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something else because this project I
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couldn't have made this a few years ago
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probably.
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And now
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it's becoming something incredible.
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That is a very steep dune there. It
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doesn't look like it on the camera cuz
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it vi everything, but Oh man, that is
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that is steep.
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I think we're going around it though.
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Yeah, we are. Are we?
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Hope so cuz that's steep.
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But I've never taken this trail and I
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wanted, you know, I plot my routes when
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I go hiking. I often turn Gia GPS on,
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track my routes. I don't know if I'll be
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able to export that data yet.
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Um, and then import it into my own
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system. I hope so. If not, I don't know
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how I will handle that because that's a
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lot of data I will lose. But, um, I can
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always ask IGPS maybe as a favor. they
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could they could um export it for me or
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something. We'll see. I haven't looked
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into that yet. But anyways, um you know,
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uh this was the one trail on my um the
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area that I was just describing that I
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hadn't done yet, so I've been meaning
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to.
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So, here we go. You can hear the ocean
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in the background.
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We're heading towards the creek and then
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from there I think you can get over to
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the ocean, but we're going way out of
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our way just to get to it.
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It's fun though. I love
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um
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I definitely love being on the coast. I
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think it is so wonderful.
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I cannot believe the way I was treated
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by the people at the state parks, the
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leadership there, the the manager, the
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supervisor,
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the lead volunteer coordinator
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weaponizing trust. Like, holy [ __ ]
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Um,
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the regional coordinator expelling me
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based on the word of a lowly supervisor
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who was
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who was lying through her [ __ ] teeth.
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basically. No, I've never said it that
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explicitly before. That's the truth.
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For her
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to frame me the way she did,
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I mean, she turned me into a threat. A
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threat so serious that they had a covert
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operative come and check up on me while
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nobody was there.
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And I capture that in documentation.
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It's proven.
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And that could have only happened if she
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was telling stories that are so far
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beyond the realm of reasonable
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that it's shocking to me.
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They did not
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discipline her for that because
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that's unreliable. That is retaliatory.
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It's
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um
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I mean it's a clear ethical violation,
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but I know that they don't operate on
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ethics. So, I'm talking about it from
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from their points of view. Like like
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surely they see what a liability that
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is. But no, they'd rather protect her
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than be honest with me about what
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happens. I mean, how remarkable.
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I don't know institutions were this
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dysfunctional, especially a state park,
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you know, like that's just mindblowing,
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but you know, it is what it is.
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Yeah, it's a nice day.
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So excited for my projects. I'm not
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going to be able to keep this camera
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going. I mean, we're 18 minutes in. I
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don't got anything else to say. I guess
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I could leave it running though and let
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you guys take the trail with me.
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I don't even know who I'm addressing cuz
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I like like I said this won't be on
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YouTube and
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I kind of you know I don't know how
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Autonomy Realms is not designed for
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um
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content consumption. That's not what it
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is.
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So I don't know who would really be
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looking at them. But we'll see where it
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goes, right? Like I just I'm going to be
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faithful to what I wanted and then we'll
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see what emerges from that.
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I do eventually. I mean, I can always
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um
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make something else on my homepage that
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queries all the data from autonomy and
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creates customized,
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you know, a customized interface that is
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more oriented towards towards users
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consuming my content. But
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um
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definitely not the primary way that
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these that I would ever made these
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transmissions. It wasn't the point. It
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wasn't the purpose. And now you can see
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what I've been doing for 2 years.
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I
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I I'm still sitting with the fact that
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I built something really incredible.
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Like yesterday I'm running these
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reflections,
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you know, the analysis layers and I'm
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like, "Wow." Like I just click a button
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and bam, I got new data. Like it's
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[ __ ] awesome. Uh the whole system was
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working. It's just really cool. And I
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can just see all the different ways I
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might use it in the future.
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Got to make some money. I got like five
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bucks in my AI comp by now. And I'm
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going to need like I got to process all
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850 of my transmissions with the new
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structures. That's going to cost like 50
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bucks.
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Um I know that because that's what it
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cost the first time and I'm going to
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have to redo it because the structures
[20:33]
are all different. I have I've iterated
[20:36]
to the point where where signals are
[20:38]
perfect. It captures the right data from
[20:41]
a signal and then you use that for
[20:43]
reflections and you use that for
[20:44]
clustering. So the fidelity of the data
[20:47]
you have is very important. Before I
[20:50]
start reflecting and clustering, I need
[20:53]
updated data.
[20:56]
So
[20:58]
don't even need a lot.
[21:01]
I wish it were easier, man. That money
[21:04]
has been so [ __ ] hard this past year.
[21:09]
Couldn't find anything on the freelance
[21:10]
platforms.
[21:12]
Guru [ __ ] died. like it just and I
[21:15]
had a um a very good reputation on
[21:18]
there, but it's just a dead platform and
[21:21]
Upwork is so saturated that trying to
[21:24]
stand out there when you don't have a
[21:26]
reputation is
[21:29]
it's a challenge and
[21:31]
the effort involved
[21:34]
doesn't justify the payoff. That's why I
[21:38]
haven't really done it because
[21:41]
I would have to
[21:44]
sell myself so short for so long,
[21:47]
consuming all of my time and resources
[21:50]
to build a reputation on a platform that
[21:53]
doesn't [ __ ] deserve me.
[21:55]
So, I just don't put in the effort.
[21:59]
That's the real reason. I'm just I'm
[22:01]
going to name that now.
[22:04]
um
[22:06]
I'd rather keep building autonomy and
[22:10]
trust that the right clients and
[22:11]
audience will find it,
[22:14]
you know, and
[22:18]
build the future out of my own life and
[22:21]
the things that actually interest me.
[22:24]
So that's what we're doing.
[22:27]
Pretty nice out here.
[22:36]
I haven't seen like
[22:39]
no water sources. Often there are little
[22:42]
lagoons or ponds alongside the dunes,
[22:44]
but not on this trail so far.
[22:47]
I mean, lots of them. There even lakes
[22:49]
and just all kinds of stuff that you'll
[22:51]
find out here.
[22:53]
But this one, oh, just a little forest
[22:55]
in the sand.
[22:57]
Pretty cool.
[23:11]
So, I'm definitely going to need a
[23:13]
transcription service. Can use AWS, but
[23:16]
that account's about to get shut down
[23:17]
cuz I owe like 140 bucks. Literally got
[23:20]
an email this morning saying those
[23:21]
eminent.
[23:23]
So, I don't think that that one would
[23:26]
work. Probably it's I may even locked
[23:28]
out from from trying. I mean, I don't
[23:30]
know. Maybe I could make a new account.
[23:33]
Not trying to dodge them or anything,
[23:35]
but
[23:37]
their services are not cheap.
[23:41]
I don't know what else I could use. So,
[23:44]
and I do need to, you know, link up with
[23:46]
them because others will need it and use
[23:47]
that one. Um, give them a couple
[23:50]
different options for
[23:53]
transcripts. And
[23:56]
we're going to do this, right?
[23:58]
You go into the admin, you upload your
[24:00]
transmission
[24:02]
video, it gets sent to one of my
[24:04]
buckets,
[24:06]
processed by AI,
[24:09]
and then and only then do you decide if
[24:11]
you want it on YouTube.
[24:16]
Yeah,
[24:20]
I love that, man.
[24:23]
Guess I could make a new channel on
[24:24]
YouTube for
[24:26]
for just those videos that I decide. You
[24:28]
know, they call it
[24:30]
rswire.onomyrealms.com.
[24:32]
Like the channel name.
[24:35]
These are are
[24:38]
videos from that realm that I've chosen
[24:40]
to share on YouTube.
[24:43]
Um, yeah, maybe
[24:46]
I just
[24:49]
I I need to think it through because
[24:52]
I have not been
[24:55]
well received by people on that
[24:56]
platform.
[25:00]
I've had comments turned off for over a
[25:04]
year.
[25:06]
people don't click the like button which
[25:07]
is the only like the only outward signal
[25:13]
that you know is available to them to
[25:15]
show some kind of alignment with me.
[25:18]
Nobody does cuz apparently they have to
[25:20]
be told to do it. And if you got to be
[25:22]
told to do it then then I don't want you
[25:24]
doing it. So, you know, I don't I don't
[25:27]
and
[25:32]
it's not like I'm seeking external
[25:34]
validation or anything. It's not that.
[25:36]
It's just a sign that, hey, I watched
[25:38]
your video. Cool video. You know, and
[25:42]
you don't even get that from people. You
[25:44]
don't let them comment because their
[25:46]
comments will be [ __ ] stupid as [ __ ]
[25:49]
you know, shallow as can be. Um,
[25:51]
judgmental or offering advice or
[25:54]
pandering [ __ ] that you just don't, you
[25:56]
know, I'm not going to deal with. It's
[25:57]
all noise. It's all distortion.
[25:59]
So,
[26:02]
you know, that platform is just designed
[26:04]
in such a way
[26:06]
that
[26:09]
it's just deeply incompatible with me.
[26:12]
So, I just don't know. Like, but at the
[26:15]
same time, I like sharing my life. I
[26:18]
just want to find some aligned viewers
[26:20]
and supporters.
[26:22]
I don't know how to do that
[26:25]
cuz you would think that a random
[26:27]
sampling of people on YouTube would
[26:29]
produce that, but it doesn't.
[26:32]
And I guess it's because that's the
[26:34]
thing that I've been
[26:37]
kind of sitting with for a couple years
[26:39]
now is that a dozen because cuz people
[26:42]
aren't there anymore, man.
[26:45]
They're just so [ __ ]
[26:48]
tuned out or something.
[26:50]
So this is neat. I got a little oasis.
[26:53]
But I really love that structure over
[26:55]
there. Almost like a island of sand
[27:00]
on top of the sand, right? Like
[27:04]
kind of neat.
[27:08]
That looks like clean water. Animals
[27:10]
would like that.
[27:13]
Clean rain water.
[27:20]
So, I don't know if you can tell, but it
[27:22]
is misty. Probably has been the whole
[27:24]
time.
[27:26]
Not bad, though. So,
[27:30]
it's misting. We got rain on the coast.
[27:32]
Winter time.
[27:34]
No sun.
[27:42]
It's nice though. I I love it here.
[27:50]
So, I think I don't think there's like a
[27:53]
loop. Like, if I want to get back, I got
[27:56]
to take this trail back or go through
[27:58]
the, you know, just follow the beach.
[28:01]
Um, I might do that cuz then we can go
[28:03]
see the ocean directly
[28:05]
and just take it the beach back.
[28:10]
Yeah, we got some good trail head signs
[28:12]
here. It's well marked.
[28:16]
Sometimes you can It's not so clear. I
[28:19]
have ended up on paths that, you know,
[28:23]
don't lead where you think they are.
[28:25]
they're supposed to.
[28:34]
So, my allergies been acting up and I
[28:37]
don't know.
[28:40]
Like, I I was hoping that would get
[28:42]
better after I stopped, you know, after
[28:43]
I quit vaping.
[28:46]
And it did. And now they're coming back
[28:48]
again. I'm like, why?
[28:50]
And it might just be because there are
[28:52]
yellow flowers in the winter time on the
[28:54]
coast. They're not out yet. I haven't
[28:56]
seen a single yellow flower yet, but you
[28:58]
know, there are weeds or whatever.
[29:00]
They're probably grown somewhere. I
[29:01]
don't know. I truly don't know. But I
[29:03]
think that, you know, possibly
[29:06]
it's those flowers coming back or it's
[29:08]
just the sand cuz we're in the dunes or
[29:10]
whatever. I don't know. Um
[29:14]
I would really like to find out and
[29:15]
know. Said nothing has helped.
[29:18]
I mean,
[29:20]
not big on taking drugs these days, so
[29:25]
but nothing.
[29:28]
I tried different allergy meds, but
[29:30]
nothing helped.
[29:32]
Only thing that ever helped was suit
[29:34]
effect.
[29:36]
I'm out of that.
[29:39]
So, why is this trail curving this way?
[29:42]
That doesn't feel right.
[29:47]
I mean, I don't know that we should even
[29:48]
caught a trail. We're just following
[29:50]
footprints. Old footprints.
[29:53]
But
[29:57]
could we check the map? Maybe we're
[29:58]
closer to the creek than you realize.
[30:02]
It's not as far as I thought it
[30:09]
towards the tree.
[30:12]
Might be a trail in there right next to
[30:14]
the creek related to the ocean.
[30:21]
All right. So, we're at 30 minutes.
[30:29]
Definitely thinking I'm going to need an
[30:31]
app where you can upload your photos and
[30:34]
videos and write documents and stuff
[30:36]
like that for your autonomy realm.
[30:39]
You can do it directly from your phone,
[30:41]
stuff like that. Track your GPS routes,
[30:43]
all of that.
[30:45]
Going to have to make a mobile app.
[30:59]
There is a trail head there.
[31:04]
Trail marker. I don't know that it's
[31:05]
called a trail head. You'd have to be at
[31:07]
the start of the trail, right?
[31:09]
Okay. Where's the next one, though?
[31:13]
We about to get lost. Wait a minute.
[31:16]
I'm convinced that that's there because
[31:18]
we're supposed to go this way.
[31:25]
Pretty cool, man.
[31:32]
Got water over here. This could be the
[31:34]
creek.
[31:36]
Oh man, this is neat.
[31:39]
Okay. So, you probably
[31:41]
somewhere up there
[31:44]
probably is where the trail continues.
[31:47]
Yep. This is definitely the creek. It's
[31:48]
not like a pond there like um not just
[31:52]
excess water. This is the creek.
[31:55]
Theage creek.
[31:57]
Wow.
[32:00]
From the side of it I haven't seen it
[32:01]
from yet.
[32:03]
Cool, man.
[32:06]
It's beautiful. Look
[32:09]
at it flowing
[32:12]
towards the ocean.
[32:15]
Very cool.
[32:18]
I love that. It's even got its own kind
[32:21]
of like switch back, right? Neat. All
[32:24]
right, let's see if we can find a trail
[32:25]
to the ocean cuz this is where it ends.
[32:29]
Um the creek
[32:32]
not easy to go down the beach.
[32:35]
You know, as soon as you hit a river,
[32:36]
that's it. You can't go any further. See
[32:39]
a trail head up here. Marker. Draw
[32:42]
marker
[32:44]
all the way near the edge where the
[32:46]
creek is at.
[32:50]
Cool, man.
[32:52]
Never took this trail.
[32:55]
Was going to take it with windy, but we
[32:57]
never got around to it.
[33:02]
Last trail for this area.
[33:05]
There's another one down at Tacken's
[33:07]
campground that leads to a lake and I've
[33:09]
only taken that part of the way.
[33:12]
So, that's another one
[33:15]
for me to take. Also, I do I can picture
[33:18]
in my mind's eye what it would look like
[33:20]
on the map.
[33:24]
I'm going to take you to the southern
[33:25]
part of this lake. I forgot the name of
[33:27]
the lake, but it's this little tiny
[33:29]
lake. thin lake like um
[33:34]
like a rectangle I guess
[33:37]
and
[33:39]
I haven't seen it from the southern side
[33:41]
but I know there's trails down there. I
[33:44]
think that the trail I'm thinking of
[33:45]
takes you to those trails.
[33:48]
So I have to do that one still.
[33:50]
But we get to finish the day use area
[33:52]
here in Taken Creek and
[33:58]
we'll make it out to the beach. follow
[34:00]
the ocean, the tide, trace the tide on
[34:03]
the way back up north towards
[34:06]
um towards the day use area trail head
[34:09]
because it would be a trail head from
[34:11]
the beach
[34:13]
and
[34:15]
head back to my my forest service truck
[34:17]
and do my runs cuz I'm just parked up
[34:20]
there at the bay area.
[34:26]
a year ago.
[34:29]
Um, my core muscles were healing from an
[34:32]
injury.
[34:33]
I couldn't hike up these these hills and
[34:37]
stuff. Anything with an incline, I was
[34:39]
very careful about for months and
[34:41]
months. But man, I just realized I
[34:45]
all the time I'm climbing these things
[34:47]
now. So, I really did get better
[34:50]
thankfully.
[34:52]
was real worried about it back then
[34:53]
because I couldn't imagine a life that
[34:56]
without movement.
[35:00]
So
[35:01]
definitely in really good shape,
[35:03]
especially for my age compared to others
[35:06]
my age anyways cuz
[35:09]
I mean Samsung count with a step counter
[35:11]
tells me I'm in like the top 5% of all
[35:13]
age groups as far as number of steps I
[35:15]
take.
[35:18]
And I don't think that thing is
[35:22]
tracks everything I do. I think I
[35:25]
probably
[35:27]
like it more than it thinks I do. I
[35:28]
don't know. But, you know, make an
[35:31]
autonomy app how to track that stuff.
[35:34]
That'll be fun.
[35:37]
I love that idea.
[35:44]
Okay, we're heading towards the ocean
[35:45]
now.
[36:00]
I used to do this back in Kentucky. Just
[36:05]
record my hikes like this. Just let you
[36:07]
see the view when I'm like walking and
[36:10]
stopped doing that for a long time.
[36:13]
But here we are again.
[36:16]
everything kind of converged into
[36:19]
this new
[36:22]
this new structure and
[36:27]
I built something so [ __ ] cool.
[36:38]
Okay, so
[36:41]
I don't know if this trail has like a
[36:43]
official name or whatever.
[36:46]
This one leads out next to the creek on
[36:49]
the northern side of the creek.
[36:55]
Yeah, which means there should be one on
[36:57]
the southern side, too. I'm taking that.
[37:00]
Both sides of the creek.
[37:05]
Oh, we got We're not I thought we're
[37:08]
closer than we are. So, we're going way
[37:10]
down the dune now, and we're declining
[37:13]
now, like
[37:15]
by a lot.
[37:18]
I didn't realize we were up a size.
[37:26]
This is a pretty spot.
[37:30]
I love nature.
[37:34]
Always loved nature, man. Always.
[37:39]
We live in a beautiful world.
[37:44]
Constantly aed by it.
[38:14]
Wonder how much it would cost
[38:17]
to
[38:19]
extract 850 transcripts. Like, you know,
[38:23]
cuz I got those for free through
[38:25]
YouTube. I don't know. Like, that would
[38:27]
probably cost a lot. We're talking about
[38:29]
a lot of data. those files and you know
[38:32]
the videos themselves cuz you got to
[38:36]
the script needs to look at them in
[38:37]
order to determine what he's saying. So
[38:41]
we're talking massive amounts of data.
[38:45]
I don't know.
[38:46]
I have to look into that cuz I was
[38:49]
thinking I might want to have the time
[38:51]
transcripts
[38:53]
processed differently than YouTube does
[38:55]
it. But we'll see.
[39:01]
Nice little bridge here.
[39:04]
They expect this to flood sometimes.
[39:07]
Already is a little bit.
[39:11]
We got cool infrastructure on our
[39:12]
trails.
[39:15]
Love the little bridges and things we
[39:16]
make.
[39:28]
I like this trail.
[40:28]
Just thinking about my project. Um
[40:31]
different
[40:32]
different things thinking about.
[40:37]
So the main project built with autonomy,
[40:41]
you know, you can clone that and create
[40:43]
your own website from it and then you
[40:46]
could you could customize like your
[40:49]
transmission pages. So it could become
[40:51]
like a YouTube archive for people. I'm
[40:53]
just thinking about ways to make money.
[40:55]
It's got to make money.
[40:57]
Um I was thinking, you know, he kind of
[40:59]
already did build the infrastructure to
[41:02]
do that.
[41:04]
It's not obvious
[41:07]
to people like it's not it's not plug
[41:09]
and play.
[41:12]
Um,
[41:14]
you know, it takes someone like me to
[41:16]
deploy it and
[41:18]
turn it into whatever vision a person
[41:21]
might have for how they want their
[41:22]
YouTube archive to be. But, you know, I
[41:24]
could probably turn that into something.
[41:27]
Um, I've got time. I just
[41:31]
I've got time. There's nothing really
[41:32]
stressing me as far as money, just
[41:36]
aside from, you know, being able to
[41:38]
afford my tech costs and
[41:42]
just basic basic needs. So, and I just
[41:46]
don't have a solution for that.
[41:50]
You know, I've been relying on the help
[41:51]
of others that were aligned with me and
[41:55]
found me on my channel and
[41:57]
I they've helped so much. There's
[42:01]
no way to really ask them to help any
[42:02]
more than they already have. So, just
[42:05]
not sure what to do next on that part.
[42:08]
Still contemplating it.
[42:16]
All right. So, we walked.
[42:20]
They call that a return loop. Organ
[42:21]
Dunes trail had 2 and 1/2 miles. That's
[42:23]
where we would have started. Organ Dunes
[42:26]
return loop 1 and 1/2 miles. That
[42:27]
implies there was a trail I missed, but
[42:29]
I don't think that's true. Um, some of
[42:32]
those signs are pretty old and they the
[42:35]
trails
[42:37]
um naturally close up. I noticed that
[42:39]
yesterday. There's one that um at Carter
[42:42]
Lake that's just
[42:45]
um completely closed off. like it's just
[42:47]
reclaimed by nature.
[42:49]
So, I don't know. I think that probably
[42:52]
was one once upon a time.
[42:55]
But here we are.
[42:59]
This is where the federal land ends and
[43:01]
the state property starts once you get
[43:03]
to the beach. Once you're past the
[43:04]
dunes,
[43:06]
we are at what do we call it this one?
[43:10]
South Overlook Trail.
[43:14]
That makes sense because the day use
[43:15]
area is an overlook.
[43:20]
South overlook trail. Cool.
[43:26]
I made it to the ocean.
[43:30]
2 and 1/2 miles, man.
[43:33]
43 minutes. Quartered the whole thing.
[43:36]
Oh, look at those waves. Wow.
[43:41]
Let's
[43:44]
zoom in.
[43:47]
Those are some pretty big waves.
[43:51]
But
[43:53]
beach looks pretty um calm. Basically,
[43:56]
probably doesn't look crazy or anything.
[43:59]
We're just going to walk next to the
[44:01]
ocean until we get to the next trail
[44:03]
marker like this one.
[44:05]
And that will be the day use area where
[44:08]
we can head back from. We could go that
[44:11]
way until we get to the end wherever the
[44:13]
creek is at.
[44:15]
Um, but I don't want to kind of overdo
[44:17]
it. So,
[44:19]
I mean, I already hiked 2 and 1/2 miles.
[44:22]
We got at least that to get back, right?
[44:24]
So, got to be careful here. This is
[44:27]
pretty steep. This spot could really use
[44:30]
a rope.
[44:32]
We got this.
[44:38]
Okay.
[44:40]
Nice, man. I've never been to this spot,
[44:43]
I don't think.
[44:46]
No, I have. I think I walked up this far
[44:49]
from the beach. I just never took the
[44:51]
trail.
[44:55]
Cool, man.
[45:05]
Oh, there's a rainbow over there.
[45:08]
Just barely.
[45:17]
So, we're going to just chase the tides.
[45:20]
I love tracing the tide. It's one of my
[45:22]
favorite things in the world to do.
[45:25]
Just walk next to the edge of the ocean,
[45:27]
the continent.
[45:29]
Walk in rhythm with it, you know.
[45:32]
It's real fun.
[45:35]
This ocean is amazing to me.
[45:39]
Pacific Ocean.
[45:43]
Technically, it's all one ocean, but
[45:46]
I do feel partial to this part of it,
[45:48]
the Pacific.
[46:21]
Yeah. It's beautiful day. Sun is
[46:24]
starting to come out.
[46:32]
I mean, I can feel it. I didn't I could
[46:33]
see it. I don't know. It didn't really
[46:35]
look like it was on the camera, but the
[46:36]
sun's starting to come up.
[46:40]
Here she comes.
[46:43]
Light is coming in. Oh, here she really
[46:46]
comes.
[46:52]
I love it when she does that.
[46:55]
All of a sudden it's like here we come.
[46:59]
Can feel it.
[47:06]
So I missed the king tides apparently. I
[47:08]
didn't even realize it. Wasn't thinking
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about it. You know, I was out here one
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day and all the whole bunch of fishermen
[47:15]
were out here and they're never out
[47:17]
here. So that was interesting. But then
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I realized a couple days later why they
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had all come. It was king tides.
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I didn't realize the ocean was pretty
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violent, but I mean it didn't feel like
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it just felt like winter to me. And I
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didn't realize
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definitely got a lot of work to do.
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And now I would love to just share the
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rest of this hike with you, but I would
[47:54]
like to listen to my music too. So I
[47:57]
don't really have anything to talk
[47:58]
about. Said everything that I felt like
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sharing.
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These transmissions are not
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I already did what they're I already did
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the thing that they're designed for. So
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leave it
