How 6 YouTube Videos Paid for Our $32,000 Well

[00:00:01]Good morning.

[00:00:03]All right, guys. Good morning and welcome back to our homestead here in North Idaho. We built it debt-free from scratch. Started off living in tents and now we have a a fully functioning complete 99.9% complete home that we've built. And uh we've been going through right some of the um some of the wise of this and we looked at the cost of it. And today we're going to look at a specific project and that is how we paid for our well because that's going to illustrate the process for you.

[00:00:45]Um all right. So I'm going to actually start that over because I messed it up.

[00:00:51]That's not really how I wanted to say it. So, and then I can cut the spaghetti part off again. All right. Um, welcome back to the homestead, guys.

[00:01:01]Welcome back to the homestead, guys, where we are building our off-grid homestead from scratch, debtree, here in North Idaho. Today, we're going to be talking about how we paid for our well.

[00:01:13]I know the title said something like getting it for free. We didn't really get it for free, but we kind of got it for free, right? when you think about like how people view um careers on YouTube, right? You just point the camera at yourself and talk and you just get money, right? Well, there's a lot more work to it than that.

[00:01:32]So, it's not really free. It takes a lot of work to run a YouTube business. And so, but right, we talked about um earlier we talked about the expense and like all of the different expenses in a previous video for building our off-grid homestead. And then we talked about like how we actually paid for that kind of in in broader terms with different revenue streams. And so there's YouTube AdSense, that's one revenue stream. There's also um like products that you might sell like t-shirts or mugs, right? Things like that that you could sell. We sell plans for our chicken coupe and um you could also make money off of sponsorships or brand deals, right?

[00:02:21]That's another revenue stream. And there's also fan fanf funding kind of like uh Patreon or you know uh buy me a coffee those types of services like that. And so we talked about in our last video those different revenue streams and how much we earned off of each one of those revenue streams building our off-grid homestead. And then we kind of compared that to the cost of building the homestead and running the business.

[00:02:50]And so today we're going to look at one specific project because if we can think about it um you know for those of you who want to do this and then there's those of you who are just curious how this is done because you watch a lot of YouTubers and you want to know how they make their money, how they pay for these projects and stuff that they're doing. And so if you can think about it in projects, then you can kind of break down the cost and um and see how a YouTube business could pay for that project. And so we're going to take our well as that example project because I know a lot of you guys want to drill wells on your homestead.

[00:03:32]And um it's expensive, man. It's even it's way more expensive now than it was when we drilled. And so because the prices just keep going up. And so our well cost $32,000 and it's $560 feet deep. They actually drilled down to 600 ft and then they pulled it's cased all the way down, right? So with steel casing. That's one of the reasons why it's so expensive.

[00:04:01]And so we didn't drill through any rock.

[00:04:03]It's all called glacial silt. We're sitting like on a shelf in a valley and the shelf is is just deposits from a glacier. And so we went down 600 ft all the way through like like silt and super fine sand all the way down. So it has to be cased with steel all the way down.

[00:04:27]And um they went down to 600 ft and then they pulled 600 ft of um of 6 in or 8 in, I forget. Whatever normal well casing is 6 or 8 in steel pipe, right? They pulled that back up out of the ground, overcoming all of the friction that is on that thing for 600 ft. They pulled 40 ft out of the ground, pulled it up 20, cut it off, took that piece off, pulled it up another 20, cut that piece off, and then set that aside. And then that was the final depth of the well. Then they pushed that screen all the way down there. Amazing, guys, what these well drillers can do. And no wonder, right, it costs so much to drill a well. That equipment, man, like that that truck right there, th those things are so expensive. But anyway, okay. Um, that's not our actual truck, right? Our actual truck will be here in the next picture that you see. And so, um, $32,000 and we're going to think about it in projects, right? Or stories, you might say. And so our story for getting our well to its final like its final um whatever you call it, its final thing started way before we ever drilled the well. But the first summer that we were here on the property, we hand dug a well 18 ft deep right out by where our well is today. And um we put that on YouTube.

[00:06:06]I mean, we got an augur, a hand auger, and extensions, and we just drilled that thing down 18 ft. Pull it out. It was very difficult, but that was the beginning of the story.

[00:06:18]We didn't hit water. There was nothing there. I mean, it got like the soil was slightly moist. Um, and then from there, then later on, we went way down that way on our property and we hand dug a well.

[00:06:32]And then we, that didn't really work out too well. And then we got a little machine. A friend of ours, Gary, had a little well drilling machine and we drilled down 18 feet. I say 18 feet because that's all you can drill in Idaho, uh, without a license, right? So, we drilled down 18 ft and we got water, but it wasn't very good water. It was, um, there was a ton of sediment in it, that really fine silt, and it was super far away. It was like on the other end of our property. And so we would have had to trench all the way up to the house um to make that well work. And it just didn't seem like the best idea. It was a good idea, but it wasn't the best idea.

[00:07:16]And so we continued to save until we could drill a real well right up here by the house. And so a certified like in the well logs real well.

[00:07:27]And um so anyway, so all of that's on the channel. Now, we're not going to look at all of those videos to see how they helped pay for this because they were fairly small. We're going to look at the main videos that paid for our um for our well. And so, there was six videos, right? The first one here is the actual drilling of the of the well, right? This was our most profitable video for this project. And um and it just goes through and documents the process of drilling the well from beginning to end. And then we did another video where Jules and I installed the pump. And so all as we paid for was for them to drill the hole and cap it, right? And then we bought the well pump, we installed the well pump, all of the all of the pipe and wiring and all of that. We did that ourselves. And so that was the second video that we did about the well.

[00:08:25]And then um people were talking about right like how we wasted all of that money. Um we wasted $32,000 on drilling a well when we could have harvested rainwater. Well, okay.

[00:08:41]So, we did a video about that, explaining the cost of the well, um explaining why we went with an actual drilled well rather than collecting rainwater. And so rain water is great, but a well's better in my opinion. All right. Um, and then we got our water tested and so we talked about the the water and like it comes out brown just like that. That is not AI. That is not doctorred or anything. That's like what our water really looks like when it at first when it came out of the well. And so they told us that we needed to run it and run it and run it and run it. And so we just run we've ran that thing like all summer. We just had sprinklers on all over the place just running that well. And so um anyway, it did clear up quite a bit. We do have um iron in it still, but we got filters that filter that out. So anyway, so we got the water tested and we talked about that in that video. And then um when we first installed the well, we installed a 120 volt well pump because we didn't have a generator that could um that could run a 220 volt well pump or a 240 volt well pump. And um right when we installed it, let's go.

[00:10:03]Let's see if we can go back here. Right, look at that. I mean, the ground is totally frozen. We couldn't trench. We couldn't dig. I mean, we were out there trying to dig to drill in the um what's that called? The for the pitless adapter. We had to light fires around the well in order to thaw the ground enough that we could actually dig down through it because frozen ground is like a rock. I mean, we had picks and we were trying to pick through it. It was so hard we couldn't even do it. So, anyway, we built fires. We thawed the ground out there and then we were able to dig down to put that pitless adapter in in a frostfree hydrant so that we could then run the water from our well through a garden hose to our sistern and fill that up before we could like trench and get it all plumbed into the house like normal. All right. So then um we got it finally right plumbed in and all wired in and then hooked up to our off-grid solar system. And so we had to replace the well pump and put in a 220 volt well pump because well a 120 volt well pump requires much larger wire than a 220 volt, right? So basically it doubles the wire size for the same horsepower pump. And um so anyway, so we pulled all of that out and then we we put a new pump on and we put all that back in. It's way heavy, man. Trying to pull a pump out of a well by hand. It's way heavy. So anyway, we did that and um published that video. So this is still the whole well story, right? Just on that particular well, not the hand dug well and all that. And then guys, we did when we did another video about the well where we installed this emergency hand pump. And so this pump that you see there on top of the well is um it's doesn't suck the water up out of the well. It pushes it from the bottom. And so there is a rod there's a there's a pipe that's connected to that well head on top of there. That pipe goes down way down into the well like 200 feet and um or no is it I forget 135 ft I think. It goes down into the well and then there's a rod inside of that and the pump is actually way down at the bottom. And so that rod, every time you use that handle, it pulls that rod up and it pushes the water from the bottom.

[00:12:33]Because if you're trying to suck water from the top, like with a pitcher pump or those old kind of those oldfashioned kind of pumps, a pitcher pump or even just, you know, an electric pump that you're using from the top to suck the water, you could only really suck it about 25 ft before it won't do it anymore. And um but you can push it right from the bottom up. And so that's what this that's what this pump does. It pushes it up from the bottom. We installed that on this well. And that was like the last video that we're going to look at for this project. And so we're going to go into the back end of YouTube. If you're not familiar with that, it's called YouTube Studio. And so this is kind of what the back end looks like for one particular video. And so this is the video for us drilling the well. You can see the thumbnail up there, right? So you see the thumbnail for where we are drilling this well. And what I want you to notice here is that blue arrow that's pointing at that this is the information about this video since it was published.

[00:13:36]Okay? And so every one that we're going to look at is since published. And I'm not going to put the blue arrow on there every time, but I want you to notice that so you can see that if you want to for each one. And then this is the number of views that that video has got since it was published. And then this right here is the watch time that the video has generated. That means how many um how many hours that video has watched. So 188,000 hours people have watched that video.

[00:14:13]Somebody figure out how many years that is. How many years is in 188,000 hours?

[00:14:20]Somebody put that in the chat. Let's see what that comes out to. Um, and then, uh, this is right here. This is the subscribers, how many subscribers that video gained for our channel. And then this right here is the AdSense revenue that that video um, produced, right, >> for the channel. And so from this video, right, we can see that we had 1.6 million views on that video and 188,000 hours of watch time. Somebody's going to tell us how many years that is. And then um that is uh we gained 10,000 10.8,000 subscribers from that video and it earned what does that say? $15,684.93.

[00:15:12]So, right around almost half of the cost of drilling that well, we we earned or we paid for the well by making a video about the well. All right. Pretty much half of it there. So, that's pretty good, right? Um, let's see. Let's go on to the next video. That's the one where we install the well pump. And that one got 677,000 views. Um, 120 hours of watch time. It gained us almost 6,000 subscribers and earned $7,9102.

[00:15:49]So, you know, we're we're getting up there. We're going to add all this up in a little bit here. But if somebody wants to add it up as we go, that's cool, too.

[00:15:56]So, that's almost $8,000, right, from making that video. How long was that video? 24 minutes, right? It's a 24-minute video, and it earned almost $8,000.

[00:16:08]All right. So then the next one where we're talking about the um right wasting our money, wasting our money on a well.

[00:16:16]Well, that one got 398,000 subscribers, 21,000 hours of watch time, gained us 1,500 subscribers, and earned us about $1,500. Right? Not a big earner, but still we're chipping away at the cost of that. Well, right. All right, let's move on to the next one.

[00:16:38]So, this one is about, you know, the well water test and is the well poisoning us, that kind of stuff. Little dramatic, but it got 186,000 views, 16.5,000 hours of watch time gained us 409 subscribers, and earned $1,000. That's not bad for, right? An 8 minute video, 8 minutes and 40 seconds earned us $1,000. That ain't bad. All right. So, installing the second well pump and getting all that set up. 237,000 subscribers, I mean, uh, views, 52,000 almost 53,000 watch hours, gained us 853 subscribers, and earned $2,400 for a 32minute video. Much longer video.

[00:17:32]All right. And then the last one that we were going to look at here is the installing the the simple pump. Is it simple pump? I think it is simple pump.

[00:17:42]Uh 691,000 subscribers, 75,000 hours of watch time, 3.5,000 subscribers gained, and 4,790 earned from installing the simple pump on there. So, let's just break this down here, right? We've got uh revenue from well videos. Remember, this isn't the earlier well videos that starts the story. That that would be added in addition to this total here. But 15,000 for the first video, almost 8,000 for the second video, the third video, 1,500, 1,000 for the fourth, 2400 for the fifth, and 4700 uh almost 4,800 for the sixth video for a total of 33,413.

[00:18:33]Now, that is only YouTube ad revenue, right? That's only one income stream.

[00:18:40]And so one of those videos was sponsored and that was the the hand pump, the simple pump, the one that you hand pump to when we installed that, that was a sponsored video. And so because that was sponsored, that would actually make the revenue generated from these videos right at about um $45,000 because it's probably $12,000 for that video since it was a a dedicated a dedicated sponsored video. I don't remember um what we what we charged for that, but typically it's $10 to $12,000 for a dedicated sponsored video on our channel at this time.

[00:19:25]That's how we paid for it, man. That's how powerful, right, YouTube can be for paying for things like building your off-grid homestead, right? And this doesn't apply to only off-grid homesteading. I mean any channel, any topic, any hobby, any passion, anything can do this exact same thing, right? Um and if you're doing something that is much less expensive to do, well then the profit is much higher, right? So I mean basically that well we off of all of those videos as a business, right? it paid for itself. Plus, the sponsorship was $10,000. So, basically, there was a a $10,000 profit in drilling that well, plus I mean, you get the well, right?

[00:20:18]So, I mean, it's kind of like all good.

[00:20:20]But from a business perspective, it cost us $32,000 to do that video project, and we earned or we profited about 10,000 10 to 12,000 off of drilling that well. But if you're doing other projects that are less expensive, well, you could have more profit for your business, for your family, so that you can, right, take care of your family. It could be for gardening, it could be for car restoration, right? It could be for knitting, guys. There are knitting channels with grandmas knitting, making tons of money in their retirement, knitting and telling stories.

[00:21:08]Crazy, man. People love to watch that.

[00:21:11]Retired couples, right? There's this one channel I just I just found recently.

[00:21:15]It's a retired couple and they're old. I mean, I'm old, but they're old and uh they just like they talk about um how they budget and how they make meals on a fixed income and that kind of stuff. And soon, I mean, it's a new channel, but they are growing. And soon they are going their retirement, they are going to be making more money off of their YouTube channel than they do off of their modest pension. they're probably going to double it or triple it by just sharing um tips and tricks for budgeting and making simple meals as a retired couple.

[00:21:57]People are eating it up, right? There are so many different things that you can do on YouTube to not only um earn a living, provide for yourself and your family, build a profitable business, but also meet people right? Meet people in real life because on YouTube there's there's this strange thing that happens and that is um well let's let's kind of back up just a little bit. We used to like to watch the show Lost, right? We were living in Indonesia doing mission work when the show came out and um or I don't know if it's when it came out but we were there while people were watching it here and um we came back to do a report on the work. We were living on the island of New Guinea at the time in Papua, Indonesia. And um we came back to congregation in um Texas, our sponsoring congregation to give a report. And um one of the one of the guys there who he said, "Right, you got to watch this show. It's called Lost. It reminds it reminds us it reminds me of what you guys are doing."

[00:23:07]And we're like, "Okay, we never heard of it, right? I mean, we're living out in the jungle." And so they bought us the DVD. So it must have been out for a while. It was already on DVD, but they bought us the DVD of the of the show. I don't think it was it might have been like season 1 was out already. Anyway, they bought us the DVD and um like, okay, thanks, man. So, we watched it.

[00:23:29]We're like, well, you know, it's not really what it's like there, but it was cool because it was on a on an island in the jungle. And so, but watching that movie or that show, right, we became like attached to those characters, you know, like Jack and like Sawyer and Kate and um Charlie and John, you know, all of the people that are on that show. But the thing is is that those aren't real people. They're just characters that an actor plays. And yet you we we became like attached to them kind of like they were our friends, you know, and and you wonder what Kate's going to do or you wonder what Sawyer's going to pull next week, you know, kind of thing. And um the cool thing is though on YouTube, that same process happens, right? People make a relationship with you as the content creator. So, some of you guys have um like you know us, you know our family, you you watched our kids grow up, right? You saw the mistakes that we made, you saw how we fixed them, you know the things that we like and the things that we don't like and all of that kind of stuff, right? You know a lot about us. And then the thing is though, I'm not a character, right? I'm a real person. And if you are doing a YouTube channel or you want to do a YouTube channel, right, you're going to be a real person. And when you meet people, man, you can make friendships with them. You can build relationships with them. And if you're a member of the Lord's church, I mean, you might be able to teach them the gospel and baptize them into Christ. And now they they went from from casual viewer to subscriber to super fan to friend to brother or sister in Christ. That is the best man. That is the best. See right here? What is it? Here, believe, repent, confess, be baptized. We sell this shirt on our channel, the downto-earth Christian. And um you can get it and it's a great conversational conversation starter because people are looking at it, right? They're like standing there talking to you and they they're looking at your shirt and you're like, "Oh, you like my shirt? Check it out." This is God's plan for salvation. You got to hear the gospel. You got to believe the gospel. You got to repent of your sins.

[00:25:48]You need to confess Jesus as Lord and be baptized into Christ. So anyway, it's cool fun stuff, man. There's so many opportunities on YouTube. It is amazing.

[00:26:00]If you want to know more about that, well, maybe we can get together and talk about it. We can talk about the YouTube side, the channel building, growing side, whatever it is. I don't know how we can do that, but maybe we could do that in the future if that's something that you really want to talk about. So, let's go ahead and look at the um at the comments, the chat, and if you have any comments that I mean, any questions that you want to ask, go ahead and put them in the chat, and we will um try to answer those things for you. All right, so here we go. Let's see. Um, Lucy maybe. Lucy from Florida says it's currently 91 and raining in Florida.

[00:26:44]That's way hot, man. It is um what is it here?

[00:26:48]66 outside right now. Maybe you can see that. I don't know if you can read it or not, but here you go. I'll show you because some people are interested in that kind of stuff.

[00:27:00]All right. So, these are all the temperatures we've got outside seller, outside in the shed, and then also the display temperature.

[00:27:10]There you go, man. Look at that. They're all in the 60s today.

[00:27:15]66 outside, 60 in the cellar, which is the the bunker, the root cellar. Um 67 in the shed, and 66 in here. Why is it so cool in here? I don't know, man. But it's cool in here.

[00:27:29]Um, all right. Let's continue on. Do you plan um did you plan for that depth or did you have to keep adding to the depth as they went down? Yeah. So, that's it.

[00:27:39]You don't know, right? You can look at well logs in your area. So, they should be wherever you live, there should be well logs that you can go to your county or your state and um search for like well logs in whatever the name of your city is or your county or state and then there'll be a website and you can look at all of the wells in your area. So, all of them that that are like around your property or your house and then you can look at the depth of all of those wells and um you can read the well log.

[00:28:12]It's public. It's public um public information and so you can get an idea of how deep your well might be based on the other wells in your area and so but you just don't know right a friend of our not a friend a neighbor of ours they just dug a well um drilled it and I forget they went down deeper than we went down I forget how many hundreds of feet 700 I think no water. They just they stopped and they capped the well.

[00:28:46]That's it, man. No water down there for you. 700 ft and you still have to pay for it, right? Because they did the work. So, you just don't know. And um we didn't know. It's just like every 20 foot piece of pipe, right? So, they they they run the the the board, the drill head, whatever it is called, the drill head thing. They run that and there's a piece of pipe and that goes down and then they add another piece of pipe to it, another drill rod that goes down through the pipe. They weld that one on and then it drills down and then they disconnect it, put another pipe on there, another well, another rod, and drill down. So every stick that goes down 20 feet, just like a cash register, man.

[00:29:35]Chuch-ching ching ch-ing.

[00:29:38]We didn't know. We didn't know how deep we were going to go. We didn't know if we were going to get water, but we knew we were going to have to pay for it.

[00:29:45]Okay. Um is really live. I thought something happened like you guys were still out of the country or sold your property um since you guys have been re-sharing videos of how you are how your start began. Yeah. So, we're really live and we're really a live. We're here on the property. We have been traveling like I told you guys early in an earlier video, but yeah, we have been traveling a lot.

[00:30:16]We've uh been to Indonesia. We've been to Tennessee. We've been down to California. We've been over to Oregon.

[00:30:22]We're going to go back to Tennessee um to visit Spud for his first birthday.

[00:30:28]And so, yeah, we've been traveling a lot. We've been enjoying being together.

[00:30:32]We've been enjoying being empty nesters.

[00:30:35]And so, we just been busy a lot and enjoying having our our house 99.999% done. And so, there will be another project video coming up here soon. I just got to we're wrapping up the last little final pieces on it and then I'll share that with you guys um for the last like kind of big project for finishing the actual house part itself.

[00:30:59]Oh, what gio? I don't know what that means, my friend. Oh, what gio?

[00:31:07]I don't know. I'm sorry, man. I don't know what that means. Let's see.

[00:31:11]Finally, I am able to catch up with your life. Well, thanks, man. I'm glad you're here. Um, Aaron and Karen, 21 years and three months, Aaron and Karen. So, uh, that refers back to that well drilling video. I forget how many hours it was of watch time, but he figured it out. Or she, Aaron or Karen from A&K Offgrid Homestead. Check out their channel, guys. Fun stuff going on up there.

[00:31:40]Friends of ours, brothers and sisters in Christ as well.

[00:31:44]Um they are he said that it's 21 years and three months.

[00:31:52]That's how long that video was watched.

[00:31:55]That's so crazy and so crazy.

[00:32:01]Yeah. All right. Um can you drink what comes from the well or do you run it through filters? No, you can drink it.

[00:32:08]that picture that you saw with the thumbnail that had the the the really brown water that was early on in the well and um yeah, I mean you could drink it, but I don't think you'd want to.

[00:32:23]It's just a lot of iron in it at that time. And so yeah, we drink it. You could drink it right out of the well. We do filter it though because there's um iron in it and it will stain our like shower and toilet and stuff like that.

[00:32:38]And so we filter it, but it's fine to drink.

[00:32:45]Let's see what else we got here.

[00:32:47]It would be nice if you could send that cooler Yeah, I'll send that cooler weather down to you, man. Down here to Southeast Texas. That would be nice. But as long as you don't send your hot weather up here. We're not talking about an exchange, right?

[00:33:03]Yeah. Yes, you're alive. See, new subscriber. Sweet, man. and I'm so glad you're here. Raven, Raven, Raven, maybe Raven.

[00:33:13]All right, let's see here. Um, geography.

[00:33:17]Are you building on raw land, Sandp Point or other? Yeah, we're building on raw land. Um, we started off with just trees and we moved on to the property and we lived in tents for about five months while we kind of built the shell of the first part of our cabin and um we lived in tents. We cleared the land, cut the pad, built the place, everything man from scratch in Sandpoint or outside of Sandpoint, but we just call it Sandpoint because that's what it is. All right. So, that looks like it for the chat for the questions, guys. Um, if you have any more questions, we'll just hang out here for a minute and um, let you put the questions in if you got any. Otherwise, we're going to go ahead and, uh, end the live stream and get back to some other fun physical work outside.

[00:34:16]Um, let's see.

[00:34:19]Laugh out loud. Not an exchange.

[00:34:25]We'll send it further south. All right.

[00:34:26]We'll just kind of move it on down, right? We'll send some cool weather down south. You guys send your hot weather even further south. I like that idea.

[00:34:34]All right. I'm going to work on that today for you. See what we can't do.

[00:34:40]Any other thoughts, comments, questions?

[00:34:43]We'll talk about I know some of you guys are doing YouTube and or want to. And so we'll I'll tell you guys just a little bit about the setup that we're using right now to live stream this. And so let's see. I think what can I do?

[00:34:59]H trying to see how I could show you that setup without without um h Let me go I'll be right back. I'm going to go grab a mirror.

[00:35:15]All right, here we go. Grabbing Jules's Jules's mirror. Okay, so this right here, let me come up here. Let me see if I can do this. I'm going to go stand behind it. Okay, so here's our camera.

[00:35:41]Camera set up right there, right? um just on a tripod like that. And then over here we have plugged into the camera. We've got this dongle that comes down here to this. And so we have our microphone receiver plugged in right here. That's this kind of T-shaped thing right here. And then this is You can't really see it because it's on the back side. Oh, there you go. That is the Ethernet dongle connected right there.

[00:36:13]So, that's kind of the setup for recording this particular video.

[00:36:20]And I'm using I have the Ethernet connected directly up to the Starlink because you get a lot better signal through the Ethernet than you do just over Wi-Fi.

[00:36:34]So, hopefully it's coming out clear and you're being able to see like everything and hear everything good. But um so that's how we're doing that. Oh, this is the the microphone right here on my hat.

[00:36:46]You can see there there's a magnet that attaches it. So little strong magnet on that side, microphone on that side.

[00:36:55]Connects to the receiver that's connected to my phone. So normally if I'm just recording a regular video, I just replug the receiver right into the phone. I don't have that dongle and all that stuff hanging on there. And then um it just records using this microphone which sounds way better than just the microphone off of the phone. If you're in like an echoey area or you're kind of standing far away from the phone, it's way better. And then I'm using I'm using Keynote on my iPad to broadcast right this guy up here. So we're just going like that and broadcasting that to the TV.

[00:37:38]using Keynote on my iPad. Super simple.

[00:37:42]And then it's like, man, why you got so much stuff here? I don't know because that's just the way I'm doing it. And then we've got this guy just connected to the Wi-Fi and um that's where I'm looking at the chat and also I can see myself, but there's a pretty good delay on there. I'm watching myself and um yeah, it's a pretty good little delay.

[00:38:02]All right, so let's look back here at the questions.

[00:38:06]Um, somebody says, "Let's see if we can get up here.

[00:38:13]Did you plan the depth?" All right. Um, can you drink the water? We already talked about that. Lucky. All right. Um, knowledge is so powerful. Thank you for sharing. Well, you're welcome, man. You are welcome. Um, it would be not Oh, send the weather south. We already talked about that.

[00:38:31]I'm not sure what you're asking. Sorry, I'm not sure what you're asking, man.

[00:38:35]Uh, sorry, I don't know what that means.

[00:38:38]Um, Marty, do you still like to eat Sedapoto noodles? Oh, man, those are the best. Saddapoto, I know it's like it's like uh it's not right, but Saddap's better than Endomi.

[00:38:55]I'm just saying it right. Saddap is better than Endomi.

[00:39:01]That's how I feel about it.

[00:39:04]All right. Um, can you collect the iron out of the water and sell it as scrap to a metal recycler? I don't know. But that would be interesting if you could, huh? Wouldn't that be interesting? I mean, you're just wasting it anyway, right? It's in the filters, though.

[00:39:21]Like, so when I replace the filters, it's in the filter. I don't know. That'd be Who knows, man. But that's something something to think about, I guess.

[00:39:30]Especially like for big commercial wells, you So, they're like pumping tons of water. If you're removing that iron, what do you do with it? I don't know.

[00:39:38]Let's see. We don't do that, though. It just gets thrown away. Um, let's see. Laugh out loud. Not an exchange. Oh, we already talked about that. Let's see. Um, what is your next project? Well, we'll talk about that coming up soon, man. The next major project for Jules and I. It's coming up soon, guys. We'll be discussing that.

[00:40:01]So, don't you fear. It's all going to be It's all going to be made known. Uh oh.

[00:40:08]I just I just clicked the wrong button, man. And lost the lost the Where' the chat go?

[00:40:16]I'm going to have to reload the page, I think.

[00:40:22]There we go. Um, thank you for sharing that setup. You are welcome. Let's see. What is the silver gadget? You say dongle. Okay, so let me show you again here real quick.

[00:40:36]Okay, cuz I don't want to like be confusing to you. All right, so here we go. We're looking at the phone on the tripod. This silver thing right here with that that light on it. Yeah. So I call it a dongle. I guess that's kind of like slang for it maybe. I don't know.

[00:40:57]But basically what it does is it takes one USBC port which the phone has right it has a USBC. It takes that USBC port and then it splits it into this one does I think three USB ports, one card reader and um one USBC input. So I could charge the phone and run stuff off of that. It works on my laptop. I originally got it for my laptop, but um it also works with the phone. So anyway, it's like a USBC hub, you might say. Hub or splitter, something like that. But those things that like plug in and just kind of dongle there, dangle there. I don't know. They call them dongles. So that's what I was referring to.

[00:41:45]Um thank you for sharing the setup.

[00:41:46]You're welcome. Can you recommend any concrete guys and excavation guys for your area?

[00:41:54]Um, no. We I mean we did it all ourselves. So like a concrete contractor. No, but we used lake concrete um for our concrete. But we did it like ourselves. Like had friends over and people from church and when we poured our our foundation, our stem walls and stuff like that, we just did it ourselves. Built the forms ourselves, poured it all ourselves. Um so no, I can't really recommend one. When we did the garage, the slab for the garage, we had a bunch of people over and we poured that ourselves as well. Um, we did have a pump guy come though, which was separate from Lake, but I think Lake Readymix it might be called. I think they arranged for the they must have arranged for the pump guy to come. We told them we need a pump truck and they arranged for it. So, but it was a separate guy, not associated with Lake, but somebody they must use to do that.

[00:42:51]Um, so yeah, that's all excavation, man.

[00:42:54]We just rented it, right? Um, at the very first when we first started, we had a friend who who just bought a backhoe and was practicing using it on our property, cutting our pad, right, which was super cool. Um, he got to practice cutting nice flat things on a piece of property that wasn't his, uh, you know, and, uh, we got we got the the pad cut, so it was a great exchange. uh great guy. But um and then after that, we just rented them. Just rent them and learn how to use them. It's way fun. And um it doesn't take very long to learn how to use it. You just got to get in there and start using it. And at first you're super slow and you're like, "Which way goes right, which way goes left? How do you open up the thumb?" Right? And it's super slow, but then after a couple of hours, it's fast, man. It becomes second nature where like I was um I was showing I was Jules was going to run the excavator. This was after we rented it a couple times, but she was going to run it and um I was trying to explain to her how, you know, what the controls do, but I couldn't. Like I had no idea. Push it forward. What does that do? like does that make the arm go out or does it, you know, like what? I didn't know. So, I had to get in there and then I could get in there and sit there and just do it and not even think about it. But to try to say what it does. So, I'd had to like actually test it and figure it out so that I could be able to explain what the what directions on the on the controllers actually did. It's kind of weird, right? Like you don't you can't explain it, but it just becomes like second nature. It's way cool. So, my recommendation is rent it and learn how to use it because it's fun.

[00:44:43]All right, so let's see. I think that might be it, my friends. Explanation.

[00:44:49]Thank you for the explanation of the dongle. You're welcome. And I don't understand. I can't see the last little chat down there, man. I don't know why.

[00:44:58]It's just not coming up. So, let's go ahead. We'll try to pop this out this time and see if we can see. Ah, there you go. Will you guys be sharing some of your explorations with us from Victoria?

[00:45:13]Um, yeah, probably. I imagine so. So, our trips to Indonesia, we did share with you, not on this channel, though.

[00:45:21]We shared it on my second channel, which is the Downto-earth Christian with Martin Johnson. Let me just let's just uh No, that ain't gonna work. Well, we could do that. Let's try it. Let's try to be crazy here, guys.

[00:45:37]Um I'm gonna try to steal the screen.

[00:45:40]We're going to steal the screen here. Is it going to work? It might work. All right. Then we're going to go here.

[00:45:48]We're going to go down to Whoops. We're not search there. So, let's go to YouTube right here. Down to earth Christian. D O W N to E A R T H.

[00:46:09]All right, here we go. Okay, let's see if we can get this guy over onto the screen. There we go. Look at that. Bam, baby. It worked. It's amazing.

[00:46:21]Okay, so the down toear Christian with Martin Johnson. We answer a lot of Bible questions there. But if you scroll down here somewhere, there should be one that says H. What did it say? I thought it said mission blogs. I should just look at my It's over here. Um, okay. Let's go to playlists.

[00:46:45]Mission vlogs right here. Mission vlogs.

[00:46:48]All right. So, we go here and pause that. But anyway, so here are the videos from our two trips to Indonesia right over here.

[00:47:01]Right there. So, they're all on the Down to Earth Christian YouTube channel.

[00:47:07]Click on this. We go up here to videos.

[00:47:10]You can find it here.

[00:47:13]Scroll down. Here's our most recent one.

[00:47:16]Here's one here. So, we got those trip that trip. Oh, look at that. That's so good, man. Bakme delicious.

[00:47:25]All right, keep going down. And then there'll be the one from last year on here somewhere.

[00:47:32]Oh, yeah. Right here. So, here's Jakarta, Pontanak, uh, Joja and Malang, and then Ambon.

[00:47:42]So, anyway, all those videos are there for your watching enjoyment. And they're all in English. I mean, we might speak Indonesian a little bit in them, but they're all in English. They're for English speakers.

[00:47:54]Let's see. Can we go back to here? Yep.

[00:47:58]Look at that. We are here. Uhoh. We lost the chat again.

[00:48:05]Well, well, maybe that's just the way it is this time.

[00:48:15]Let's see.

[00:48:18]Oh, let's go right here. I think we can we can go right here. Oh, it's popped out. I forgot.

[00:48:30]Okay, there we go.

[00:48:33]Um, Victoria, she says, "Uh, my husband and I did see those uh those Indonesia videos. That rent was cheap. What a blessing." All right, cool. So, you guys saw those. Um, but yeah, that's where we're sharing those those types of videos is on that channel, at least for right now. Um, I guess that's it, my friends. Victoria, you get the last word. Thank you so much for hanging out with us. um today here on the live stream and I will see you in the next one, Lord willing. It will be on Friday morning at 8 o'clock. All right, I'll see you then.