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We're going to make some coffee the
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offrid style. This is my first time, so
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won't be a smooth process, but I
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basically got everything
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ready. Kind
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of don't have a place for this monitor
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right now. Place is a big mess. I got to
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deal with that. I grabbed the coffee out
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of
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here. We need our coffee.
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$5 for this. Um John gave it to me. You
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got it at Grocery Outlet. Some hazelnut
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creamer, the dry kind. It does not taste
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like hazelnut, but it's better than
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nothing. I got to bring it outside
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because we're doing this outside. I will
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show you why in a
[0:44]
moment. Had to get some water for my
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coffee maker. So, I use this filled this
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cuz I don't have any water in here.
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Can't use my water pump without water.
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Yes, we're using the
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inverter. So, oh, I left some coffee in
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there. My
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bad. Offred
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coffin. Have to empty this. Oh, I need a
[1:20]
coffee filter
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anyways. Fine. Need both hands for
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this. Maybe I would to wrench that out.
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But can't do that now that
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easily. Grab a
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filter. Guess I'm going to need a spoon
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also. I think they might all be dirty. I
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had so much I had to do at the last
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campground before coming cuz I didn't
[1:47]
bother with my dish cuz I only had
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silverware. Regretting that now because
[1:52]
doing dish is even harder now.
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No running water, you
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know.
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Okay, get this out here. Check if I got
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any
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silverware. I
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might. I might. This door here is not.
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Yeah, I got one. Yay. Almost like Oops.
[2:17]
Almost like the universe said yes. like
[2:21]
it was prepared for
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this. My heater just kicked on. That's
[2:26]
the only thing that's really working
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right
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now. I'm a little bit worried. My house
[2:32]
batteries are drawing batteries for my
[2:33]
starter
[2:35]
battery. I don't want that thing going
[2:37]
dead. So, I need to check on that. And
[2:39]
if it is, I'm going to have to
[2:40]
disconnect my house batteries
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um physically because I just can't can't
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risk that.
[2:47]
So, going to ask AI about in a little
[2:51]
while. So, I turn the heat off. There's
[2:54]
absolutely no point for that being
[2:58]
done. Let's make some
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coffee. I thought I flipped this. Hold
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on. I'm just going to pause it for a
[3:05]
sec. I'm a very clumsy man. Got the
[3:09]
coffee in there, but I got some coffee
[3:10]
grinds into the water. So, that is going
[3:12]
to end up in our
[3:14]
coffee. Let's do this.
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So, I hooked up these jumper cables to
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my Jeep's
[3:23]
battery. I've got it sitting on this.
[3:25]
So, that's just down a little ways. And
[3:27]
this is hooked up to the inverter. And
[3:30]
I'm using an extension cord here, which
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is plugged into the coffee
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maker.
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Yeah. Turn this
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on. It's
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on. Run
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this. Can't tell if there's a light or
[3:45]
not. I don't see a
[3:47]
light. There's a light on
[3:54]
that. Can't tell in the dark or in the
[3:58]
light. Don't feel like it's on
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though. Maybe this is
[4:08]
on. I'm not hearing anything. That's
[4:13]
concerning. All right. All right. Well,
[4:14]
let's get the Jeep turned on,
[4:17]
though. We don't want to destroy that
[4:20]
battery,
[4:21]
right? This is how I generate power now.
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So, okay. Just going to let it run in
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neutral. I hate wasting my gas like
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this. What can you
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do? If I shut my door, it's going to
[4:40]
talk. I don't want to bother other
[4:42]
people. Just keep that open, I
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guess. I would like some coffee, please.
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Why aren't you working? Oh, I have the
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ground fault thing. Oh, it's probably
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not going to let me do anything. Oh,
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no. I had this problem
[5:03]
before. I couldn't trick this one and I
[5:08]
tried, man.
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I am so screwed if I can't figure that
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out. The whole device needs to be ground
[5:23]
faulted cuz they have a plug thing but
[5:26]
it didn't respond to
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that
[5:31]
trying I got to pause this. I was
[5:34]
getting nervous but the thing wasn't
[5:38]
on. I can't I don't think the ground
[5:41]
light is on. It's not very
[5:44]
bright. No, I don't think so. And the
[5:47]
power's on now. I think maybe the cables
[5:49]
were just not real great. So, let's try
[5:51]
this
[5:53]
again. Can I have some coffee,
[5:56]
please? Really want some
[5:59]
coffee. Cannot tell. I don't think
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that's
[6:03]
on. Cannot tell. Man, this is
[6:07]
ridiculous.
[6:11]
This is not doing anything. I think this
[6:13]
means on.
[6:15]
Yeah. Don't hear
[6:18]
anything. Let's try it without this
[6:20]
cable, I
[6:23]
guess. Doesn't make any
[6:29]
sense. Whatever. I just want some
[6:33]
coffee. Oh, wait. The power went off
[6:35]
again.
[6:38]
Why did it do
[6:39]
that? So, I think maybe I need to do
[6:42]
something about these screws. Maybe give
[6:44]
it a better
[6:52]
connection. I think these ones are
[6:55]
fine.
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No, I think it's my
[7:02]
Jeep. Oh, I saw that. Yeah.
[7:12]
Wild. Okay, it's got
[7:19]
power. I don't understand,
[7:23]
man. Give me
[7:29]
coffee. It's got
[7:32]
power, I think.
[7:36]
I think this might be
[7:40]
on. I hear noise. It's working. It's
[7:44]
working. We're getting coffee. I just
[7:46]
need to be
[7:53]
patient.
[7:56]
Yay. This is a workable
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[Music]
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solution. So,
[8:04]
would like to get that permanently
[8:06]
installed on my Jeep somehow. It's quite
[8:08]
big. Don't know where I would put it.
[8:11]
Can't be mounted in the hood. There's
[8:13]
just no room in
[8:15]
here. I was thinking maybe on the
[8:17]
passenger side of my vehicle cuz I don't
[8:19]
know where else I could really put it. I
[8:20]
don't even know if it could go there.
[8:22]
But that's the thing to ask a mechanic,
[8:24]
right? And I can afford to do that. Try
[8:26]
to put it in the back if I could. You
[8:28]
know, just keep the seat up. Put it back
[8:31]
here.
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That would be
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nice. A little
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um Well, it' be fine. It even has a
[8:42]
remote thing that you can install. See
[8:44]
if you get it installed
[8:45]
properly. And then it would have like a
[8:48]
normal jumper
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cable, like a way better one, more
[8:52]
secure, just routed through the Jeep.
[8:55]
Really want to do that. Been wanting to
[8:57]
do that since I got it. So, we are
[9:00]
making coffee. Real
[9:03]
coffee.
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Yay. I'm just going to go and get my um
[9:08]
coffee
[9:10]
gum.
[9:12]
And oh, I need sugar, of course. Got to
[9:15]
have
[9:18]
sugar. This feels like a
[9:20]
win. I would like to be able to measure
[9:23]
how much power. You know, it says 2,000
[9:25]
watts, but is it getting that much when
[9:26]
it's
[9:27]
idling, or does it
[9:30]
um you know, I assume it only draws what
[9:33]
it needs? I don't really know how any of
[9:35]
this works. I have a lot of things to
[9:36]
research.
[9:39]
So, um, and I want to be able to keep
[9:41]
track of my,
[9:44]
um, um, how much battery there's how
[9:48]
much, um, you know, how much battery
[9:50]
charge I have in my Jeep. Like to be
[9:53]
able to monitor that somehow so I know
[9:56]
that I'm not draining it like even while
[9:58]
idling. I don't know. So look, I kind of
[10:00]
have a lot to learn about this, but um
[10:04]
this is how I learned by being forced to
[10:08]
basically had this thing for 6 months
[10:10]
and I didn't bother to learn about it. I
[10:12]
just was like, okay, that's my backup
[10:14]
option and now I'm literally living in
[10:17]
that backup. So
[10:20]
um I will learn all of
[10:23]
that. I'll
[10:25]
thrive. I'll drink coffee.
[10:28]
I got my coffee here. I was going to end
[10:30]
my video there, but actually no
[10:33]
idea. Going to try to get my satellite
[10:35]
internet working just temporarily so I
[10:39]
can upload this in higher
[10:41]
quality. Otherwise, I'm not This is, you
[10:43]
know, a high quality video. This is just
[10:45]
me
[10:46]
experimenting. Can probably do better
[10:48]
with the I'm going to try
[10:53]
it. So, I need to use the cable. Very
[10:56]
hot. It's hotter than when it's made
[10:57]
inside my RV. So, I don't know what
[10:59]
that's
[11:00]
about. I'm going to start by just
[11:02]
getting this extension cord hooked up
[11:05]
and just run that into my router. If I
[11:08]
can get power to that, then can move
[11:10]
forward. They're sitting up
[11:12]
there. So, start with that. That was
[11:15]
easy. So, this cable works. Got the
[11:18]
extension cord running in there into the
[11:20]
um to the router. You can see the light
[11:22]
on the left side, bottom left. I don't
[11:24]
know if it's showing up on camera. I
[11:26]
think so. Grab my satellite. Route that
[11:28]
in
[11:30]
here. This is a pretty good spot for
[11:32]
satellite. There's not a lot of trees in
[11:33]
the way. Um, let me think. Where's the
[11:37]
ocean? Think the ocean's that way. Just
[11:40]
instinctively. I think it
[11:41]
is. Probably we're pointing it this way.
[11:46]
No, I had the I thought I had the camera
[11:47]
the other way. Let's have a tough time.
[11:49]
Let me just get it set up. Okay, I got
[11:51]
my satellite out. Normally, I'll drop
[11:53]
the cable through that back wall over
[11:56]
there on the other side, which I can do
[11:57]
that later. I just put it in here. I
[11:59]
need to use my phone in order to, you
[12:01]
know, access the Starlink app and
[12:04]
determine orientation, all that kind of
[12:06]
stuff. And I should have internet
[12:09]
running from an inverter that's plugged
[12:10]
into my Jeep. My Jeep is powering my
[12:12]
internet right now. That is
[12:13]
cool. So, that's booting up right now.
[12:16]
It'll take a little while. Just want to
[12:18]
reflect for a minute. This gives me
[12:21]
hope.
[12:23]
uh being on an off-grid campground place
[12:25]
that has no power and water. It's just
[12:27]
the next step for me. Much as I do want
[12:30]
to be fully off-rid, fully autonomous
[12:34]
mooning, I don't feel ready or prepared
[12:36]
for that. I'm not. I'm not. Some people
[12:39]
have already left comments telling me to
[12:41]
just do that. And I think that
[12:45]
is it's disrespectful because you don't
[12:48]
know what the you're talking about.
[12:50]
You are not me. You have not lived my
[12:52]
life. You don't know my situation.
[12:53]
You're flattening my experience. You're
[12:56]
not meeting me where I am. And that's a
[12:58]
problem because I'm trying to show you
[13:00]
precisely where I am and how I'm getting
[13:02]
to where I want to be. So that I light a
[13:06]
path for others who will be on a similar
[13:08]
journey at some
[13:10]
point. And most of you that say stuff
[13:13]
like that have never done this a day in
[13:14]
your life. So you're just
[13:16]
speaking out of your ass.
[13:18]
It pisses me off and I just delete your
[13:21]
comments and block you every time. I
[13:24]
will never let that kind of negativity,
[13:25]
that toxicity onto my my platform ever.
[13:29]
So, it's just
[13:31]
pointless. You're just showing me who
[13:33]
you are cuz you can't meet me where I
[13:35]
am. So, this gives me
[13:38]
hope. This is the next step. I'm
[13:41]
learning to live this way in a safe
[13:45]
environment where I can
[13:48]
adapt at my
[13:51]
pace. And one
[13:53]
day I'm just going to be out there on
[13:55]
the coast somewhere living an incredible
[13:58]
life. Probably in the midst of
[14:01]
societal
[14:03]
collapse while everybody else is
[14:05]
suffering and
[14:06]
dying, starving to death.
[14:10]
And in that moment, I want you to
[14:12]
remember how much help you gave me, how
[14:15]
much you supported me, how much you
[14:16]
believed in
[14:18]
me. And this is what I want you to
[14:20]
remember most. I still believe in you. I
[14:24]
hope that you took something from this
[14:25]
channel that it helps
[14:30]
you. So, let's see if this internet's
[14:32]
working. It's working. You had to move
[14:35]
it. The tilt was a little off. Just had
[14:37]
to move it. Um, let me
[14:40]
move from my RV point and that way.
[14:44]
Swear to God, the ocean's over there,
[14:45]
though. So, that would be
[14:48]
west. But it's working. It's
[14:51]
online.
[14:54]
Wow. This is a moment. This is a
[14:59]
wind. I mean, I have a lot of thoughts
[15:01]
going through my head cuz I'm thinking
[15:03]
about the fact that I'm using fuel right
[15:04]
now in my Jeep. I'm going to have to
[15:07]
calculate how
[15:09]
much it takes. If I remember right, I
[15:12]
had these conversations with AI once in
[15:14]
the past. It was something like a gallon
[15:17]
for every 3 hours. I hope that's true. I
[15:19]
don't know if it is. Like my range is
[15:22]
going down at 195 right now. this
[15:25]
says. And okay, I'm just going to I'll
[15:29]
use this image to kind of get a sense of
[15:33]
I'll check it
[15:34]
at I guess I'll do this for an hour.
[15:36]
I'll do it till 12:51 and we'll see
[15:38]
where we are. And I can technically do
[15:42]
the same thing with my RV and it has
[15:44]
diesel and that does change the the
[15:46]
mathematics behind it. I don't have a
[15:49]
lot of fuel in my
[15:51]
RV. If I did it that way though, that
[15:54]
could also charge my house batteries at
[15:56]
the same time. That would I don't see
[15:58]
like there's so much to learn. Like, do
[16:01]
you use more fuel the more things you
[16:03]
have connected or is it always the same?
[16:04]
Is it like a constant flow? You know,
[16:07]
stuff like that. So, would I use more
[16:10]
fuel if I was charging the house
[16:12]
batteries while also using the inverter
[16:14]
or just idling it without the inverter?
[16:16]
Like, there's so many so many things to
[16:19]
learn. That's what I'm doing. This whole
[16:21]
thing that I'm doing is about learning
[16:23]
and
[16:24]
adapting. And those are lessons that I
[16:26]
want to share with
[16:29]
others. This is how I
[16:36]
learn. I don't learn the way you do, way
[16:39]
many of you do. I learn my
[16:47]
way. It's a nice campground. I like it
[16:51]
here. Kind of want to get a different
[16:53]
spot, but you know, I've just been keep
[16:55]
um extending my time at the spot I'm at
[16:57]
just so I don't have to move yet. But um
[17:00]
I need to go around the campground and
[17:01]
see what else is here
[17:03]
and check out the other campgrounds that
[17:05]
are here. Just just know what they are
[17:06]
ahead of time and then I'll know what I
[17:08]
which sites I want to book, things like
[17:09]
that. But I'm going to be here for a
[17:11]
couple of months, I think. Um in this
[17:14]
national forest recreation area, there's
[17:17]
like four campgrounds here. So, be here
[17:20]
for a couple of
[17:21]
months. I'm so stressed out about money.
[17:24]
Like, I think because I'll be here for
[17:27]
so long, maybe I could get a temporary
[17:29]
job in town in
[17:30]
Florence. I haven't looked for a job in
[17:34]
probably two decades at least because
[17:38]
I've been a freelancer basically all of
[17:40]
my life. So, I don't even really know
[17:43]
how how to anymore. Like, do you just
[17:46]
show up at the places? They probably
[17:47]
have you do stuff online. Um where you
[17:50]
know we there are no classifies anymore.
[17:53]
How do you find out where people where
[17:54]
there are jobs? Like all of that. So
[17:59]
um you know I'm navigating a
[18:02]
lot and I'm sharing it in real time. If
[18:06]
you're getting something out of it,
[18:07]
please support me. Leave it at that.
