00:00.00 archpodnet Welcome to episode None of a life in ruins podcast where we investigate the careers of those living a life in ruins our lives are ruined. It's David it's Connor and Carlton is will not be here with us today. 00:00.00 Paul_E Walnuts A far. 00:08.72 Paul_E Walnuts Well. 00:14.78 Paul_E Walnuts Ah, Venny's here though? Oh a yo are you doing? No venue's not here viny the Chin guys Follow Spaghetti westerns with a z. 00:22.78 archpodnet Phney is not here. It's just us. Yeah, ah, definitely go check him out. Ah Carlton will be back one day I think he ah he sent me a picture of him after the tornado that he went through and he um. Use the popular thing from twister where you put your belt you tie it to a waterline and you survived the the tornado so he's good to go? Yeah no I mean the field school sit to make it but you know he made it. So. 00:44.95 Paul_E Walnuts Um, that's good. He didn't send me that picture or it that's good. That's good. Um, yeah, we have a lot of group chats and I I can't keep up with a lot of them. Um. 01:01.78 archpodnet Well well for contact everyone everyone We pretty much have an episode with we end up in a group chat that devolves into something like some sort. We tried. 01:03.45 Paul_E Walnuts Anyway, 4 01:07.45 Paul_E Walnuts Yeah, except for the None that we haven't who are now. 01:17.29 archpodnet We tried at in the beginning we tried like every single one It was like we tried to get a group jack going and then they mostly just ghosted us because we're weird. 01:22.90 Paul_E Walnuts Yeah world. Why Wallace Trevor Wallac just ghosted us dude left us on well he did send us a meme a while back and we kind of ghosted him. Um, it's almost yeah yeah, um, it was the sponge Bob with the the butterfly net. 01:30.63 archpodnet Yeah, but it was like it was like in response, you know. 01:41.85 Paul_E Walnuts And his hand or the jellyfish net with his tongue sticking way out and it said archeologists when they find pottery and it was very funny for context that joke. Um, this is a popular like freak out an undergrad kind of thing is like the way to tell if it's a ceramic versus olithic when you have a pile of. Shit on your plate. Sorry Chris hang on the way to tell if it's a ceramic or a lithic when you have a pile of stuff on your plate like on your tray just to lick it because ceramics are porous. So therefore it will stick to your tongue bone is well I'm sorry bone versus um ceramics there you go bonus porous I just. Already take my degree away anyway, point of this story is you lick it I believe ifuse that because the stuff that I licked that I can't mention the name of because of dod purposes when I licked it. My tongue goes dick to it. It's what it is um, but um. 02:22.57 archpodnet I Think a ceramic would stick though. Let's be honest. 02:38.81 Paul_E Walnuts Yes, bone sticks to your tongue so at a field school. Everyone's like yeah, just check and like they're like what and like I will always just immediately lick bone like freshly dead or 2000 years dead 5 minutes ago five thousand years ago who knows. 02:48.15 archpodnet Yeah, my ah my I told whatever it is my dog chewed on it. You know it doesn't matter. But I told my friend that and he like like was appalled. He's like you stick your tongue on a bone that has been in. 02:57.63 Paul_E Walnuts Yeah, yeah, like. 03:08.70 archpodnet Dirt with nasty, whatever and he's just like. Yeah yeah, yeah, we just do that. It's totally fine. He's like why you guys you guys are a bunch of weird weird people. 03:14.51 Paul_E Walnuts Um, and it like it could be like not saying any specific projects or places that have worked. It could be a very nag per heavy site and like I'll lick a bone or 2 and I'm like you know what. High chance that that was someone's Grandmother's femur that I just licked a piece of um, probably cakota federal prison for that. But we don't know when it's a shard and that's the point of curation. Um, but but if I hadn't have licked it the alleged femur. 03:39.60 archpodnet Oh yeah, allegedly allegedly allegedly a feur. 03:48.90 Paul_E Walnuts I wouldn't have known was it sir and it would have gotten filed away as a ceramic and therefore not an abra so it is Hashtag lick for agpro anyway, all right? God we're off to a great start today death. 04:01.44 archpodnet I'm we're just going to warn everyone this is going to be chaos. It's been a chaotic week for all of us. Yeah, Carlton's in the field I am dealing with None crazy projects and David is you know trying to. Trying to do some stuff your bust you want to you want to inform the the folks who are who've made it this far. What you're doing with your bus. 04:22.23 Paul_E Walnuts Yeah, so when you have diet autism like I do it's really hard to like Um, it's really hard to function um so like I was I think we talked about this I was in the process of building my own bus. However, I found the new bus. It was already converted to the way I wanted it so I'm selling. That's a whole or thing. Um I got a new bus and in the new bus like had I finished building the old one or bought it the new one I would have needed to figure out the electrical anyway, whoever since the guy built it. He was like yeah here's how you do this here's how you do that? here's how you do this is what this is. And I recorded a video of him explaining all that to me. But of course I had no idea and I'm like cool I'll just exist. Um and I like finally moved into the bus fully um and like my desktop computer I'm like man. No one really fits a desktop computer into their bus like I'm going to be 1 of the none people to do that and I did it. And then I realized when you have your desktop computer that can like process four k video and run like skyram and Adobe premiere at the same time. It drains your batteries out real quick ah in and Pierson. So I was like oh shoot. Um. 05:35.82 archpodnet And it runs off solar like it's not attached to the engine or anything like that. It's It's purely powered by the the sun. 05:37.96 Paul_E Walnuts This is gonna be. 05:41.88 Paul_E Walnuts Just purely self-sustaining solar like it's eco friendly as hell. But um, yeah, so and I have 200 amp powers of battery. Um, so like that should theoretically like last forever with just the fridge and the lights like I don't have to worry about it unless I had no sun for like. Two weeks but that thing draws so like when I plug in my air fryer which I notoriously like like power efficient. That's like why they exist um should be okay, but like a keurig I don't have I've heard those take out a lot of power. So anyway, it's just little things so I bought a little watt. Tester to like see how much stuff things take and like I can do some editing on my computer on a thing but like I'm not gonna be able to like be because there's that None guy who's like van life gaing and like everyone. He's so annoying but he does have some good stuff. Um, yeah, he's this gen z looking dude. He's probably my age though. He's got long hair and a cross earring. 06:31.20 archpodnet Ah, wait Really, there's a fan life gamer. 06:39.69 Paul_E Walnuts If you have a cross earring that dangles I Assume you're Gen Z Um, ah the fit the fitprint. The fine print is his name. It's like T T T H like T T The fine print Tt at the end of it um, be a van life gaming and he like it's cool. He has a solar system. He has like. 06:54.45 archpodnet Getcha. 06:58.77 Paul_E Walnuts 600 amp hours of batteryteries. So he could just sustainably game anywhere he goes which is pretty cool and he also does video edit editing. So I think that's like his but that's his day job and that's all these people are like oh how how do you afford van life like how do you know you could just do your job on the road. He has a full time like job doing like visual effects for. 07:17.89 archpodnet Oh. 07:18.30 Paul_E Walnuts Like Disney and but yeah, he doesn't mention that until like 1 video and I was like oh that's how this kid does it but now he's probably got sponsorships and like all that. So um. 07:25.31 archpodnet And he has but the only way he does it is he has like 3 times as much amp hours as you write. 07:31.39 Paul_E Walnuts Yeah, like he has probably 2 to $3000 worth of batteries in his bus or in his van I have about 1500 I think um I didn't buy them but I assume that's the amount those those batteries cost. But anyway to answer your question. It's been. A lot. So now I'm like okay maybe I should add it dc to dc inverter which then I have to like run from my batteries in the engine all the way to the back of the bus at the solar but the bus is already built so I can't strip everything out. So I've been going underneath the bus drilling holes like running wires and stuff I also. And the back of the bus. There's a big rear heater. So like if it was a school bus There's a heater that you flip on the little console up front that turns on the heat. However, that also heats the floor. So everything back there was just roasting hot when I drove to arkansas and I was like oh my god that that's not good like by the heating issue. 08:24.66 archpodnet Dude I I burned my fucking my my calves on those things So many times when yeah as a kid like on the bus. You'd like put your leg back there. You' back just like searing pain. Oh yeah, because you weren't cool because you're short and jewish. 08:27.40 Paul_E Walnuts As a kid. Okay. Oh I never did that I didn't get to sit in the back of the bus or maybe I did that's yeah, ah, this is true. Um I think by the time I was like old enough to be in the back of the bus like we moved to Tennessee and then I was like. 08:43.58 archpodnet Ah, ah. 08:51.46 Paul_E Walnuts Ah, new kid so I had to sit up proud with this japanese exchange student all right. Her name was Sas k anyway doesn't matter ah point b ah did. 08:57.49 archpodnet Also that was a joke about David's height and ethnicity were just joking. 09:08.12 Paul_E Walnuts It's I mean it's all good. They know, um the government knows this in my 23 and me the chinese know that's only that's good. Um, the japanese are cool with this dasa k is cool with it. But you know up. 09:14.59 archpodnet But yeah, that day has been sold to someone definitely rushes. Yeah. 09:23.66 Paul_E Walnuts Oh hang on my headphones just came out Chris pause pause pause. Okay back ah, the point of all this and Chris and his wife Rachel live in ah an rv full time so they're probably laughing their asses off at me right now trying to and like just like oh poor David but. 09:36.20 archpodnet Are. 09:41.62 Paul_E Walnuts Yeah, so I'm like ring up but there is not the heater the heater like burned like my like and my propanees back there and I I know Propane is like pretty safe like even if you shoot it with a gun. It won't like blow up and fire I've saw that on mythbusters. However, I'm just it's ah it's a volume of gas. That's just. In my bus. So I'm constantly like if I get rear-ended I'm dead and like some days I welcome that some days I don't so like I'm just like oh God and like if my floor is so hot I'm like it's going to explode like my dog is going to die in like a fiery inferno while he's locked on the bus like so I have to take this heater out and then like. Take the heater out. Everyone's like oh,, there's just a little valve in your engine that you can just turn it turns it like the coolant doesn't go to it so it doesn't turn on and then like 3 people on the bus life stuff were like yeah just do that and I was like okay but like have you ever opened up a diesel engine and not known a thing about it what valve and then I called like. 10:31.66 archpodnet Um, yeah. 10:35.10 Paul_E Walnuts Ford and Ford was like well it's a collins bus. You got to call collins and I called collins and lady was like yeah just like go down here open up this It's under this flap and then hit the toot like the flux capacitor and turn it this way and I was like okay yeah, not doing that so I just cut the lines. Um, um. And like this is it's an actual solution. It's like the nuclear option to take it out. You just cut like there's ah a flow line that goes into it to bring coolant and ah like power and then one that comes out and brings the coolant. So I just cut those and then got None fittings and rerouted them. So it just like. 10:53.50 archpodnet Um, yeah. 11:07.68 Paul_E Walnuts Rather than going up to the heater that stuff just goes around in a hose to the back of the bus. Yes, so if anybody listening knows how to like turn that off on a specific None a 50 collins bus. Do let me know but the next time I get at service I'm going to ask them to do it. But for now. 11:09.72 archpodnet It just ends and goes back. Yeah. 11:23.79 Paul_E Walnuts It's fine. It just runs back and most people do it that way because it's just the sheer fire way to not have to worry about it and I ripped that thing out and like I just I've been doing so many mechanical and electrical things and plumbing things that I've never like thought I'd ever have to do which I do see as a thing when people they're like bust life. Hell yeah. It's like what they do and I'm always impressed with like this one little like None ear old girl who like lives in a van full time just like with a drill like doing shit that I have no idea what she's doing. 11:48.62 archpodnet See and I wasn't like ever taught that as like a kid growing up so I never got like you know my dad never walked me do this part of the engine is this this does that you know or you do the oil change here. Whatever and I wasn't really interested in either. So it's like yeah and. 12:01.76 Paul_E Walnuts But no cause we had computers and Lara but like you could probably like your dad's probably like how do I change my Ram and you could explain all about Ram and like what bays it goes into and how but my dad be like that makes sense. Um. 12:07.21 archpodnet Lime wire. 12:19.87 Paul_E Walnuts But he doesn't like know it or as a car. He's like yeah, just like turning the and I'm like what how do you know? but. 12:24.10 archpodnet yeah well yeah I just that's something I feel like I missed out on you know I I can't like I could probably change my oil by myself like that's not a big thing but like that was like service industry kind of stuff but I you like you said I can tell you anything about tech. Whatever my parents can't like their power went out the other day and it turned off their like nest cameras and like oh my god I just can't get it back on matter. What I do I plugged it back in I did everything and I just like searched None thing online and then wrote and figured it out and it took me like 10 seconds 12:57.17 Paul_E Walnuts Ah, and what I know what you mean do my mom was she was trying she got a new phone from work and I was like here we go. It was a new iphone. She doesn't have Icloud back up. She doesn't have anything and like she doesn't have enough storage in the phone to back it up to Icloud just she's like do I just charge like the. 13:00.00 archpodnet Um. 13:16.74 Paul_E Walnuts Start to pay to my work credit card like they're not go to approve that and I'm like oh my god they want you to switch to new phone. They'll approve it and then I have to like back up all her stuff to icloud and then of course her contacts don't sync over to the new phone. She's like I'm just gonna take it to Apple and I was like I swear to god if you take it to Apple. The guy's gonna put a gun to his head and say I hate my job. Because he gets this None times a day from people that are older than you mom just Google it like. 13:39.70 archpodnet Well they and they and they don't remember their passwords or anything like that and to like oh I have to sign back in I can't just use the face Id so it's a brand new phone. 13:51.18 Paul_E Walnuts If anybody listening works at Geek Squad or at the apple genius bar you are a soldier of god like the stuff I saw this guy go through geek squad dude at best buy and I was just trying to get my phone repaired like the only place that could do it was best buy that day. Um and he was like okay so do I buy like. If I buy this $200 Norton security like you'll install it for me and he's like I could but like you don't really need that windows defender does it just fine and he's like but like I have to have security and he's like yeah but like you don't have to have you could just do windows defender like it's really good and he's like but like why would they sell this for this much money if it doesn't. He's like capitalism like they just want you to buy that thing and I had to sit there for 45 minutes and like watch this poor patient hispanic man in like he spoke like perfect english but I could tell like he was this has nothing relevance to it but I could just tell like he was calculating in his head the words to say without just like chewing this guy out and. 14:32.23 archpodnet It's like it. It. 14:50.14 Paul_E Walnuts He just like you don't need it and like after the guy left um and he was like defeated you he's like I feel like he felt like he was the guy was like trying to hurt like ruin his computer or something like that and the the customer left and I locked it up to the dude and he was like I'm so sorry for your weight man and I was like dude. 15:00.74 archpodnet No yeah. 15:08.79 Paul_E Walnuts You have the patience of a saint and he was like every every goddamn day man I was just like oh my god. 15:15.87 archpodnet I feel like if I worked like a week at doing that like I kind of do that as part of my job and I do it like just enough that I can keep my patients. But if I had to do that for a full week like I would I would hop on a plane buy None way ticket to the middle of Canada and do logging. I never saw another piece of technology ever again like I would I would Dexter it I would go like hang out in the middle nowhere ruin the end of my series and then end up in the Canada being a logger because it's it's awful like it trying to explain something to folks who doesn't do not understand stuff. 15:37.47 Paul_E Walnuts Um, as politics. 15:53.77 archpodnet Like it's got to be painful, but it's also going to be painful like for mechanics every time I go in there and be like hey the thing doesn't work. Ah. 15:59.55 Paul_E Walnuts My car smoking. They're like well yeah, you haven't changed your oil in 6 years it's gonna be smoking and do good up. Dude it just spits out parts on the highway. Um. 16:08.67 archpodnet I was sixty Thousand miles per oil change I can't remember. 16:19.27 Paul_E Walnuts To to bring this back archeologically though like I went on a ran about the bus and like we just talked about technology but like it's interesting to me like in this bus like I will now be like a mobile person like a hunter gatherer and I have to go to places sorry I have to go to places where there's sun. I Need to go somewhere where I know there is water that I can fill up my tank and get the dog water I got to be don't care if I'm near a grocery store or whatever but it's just like I literally have to calculate things like that based on like how much Amp hours of battery I have left. Um, if I can make it the gas station. Especially right now. Yeah. 16:49.40 archpodnet What how much gas you have if you can make it to a gas station to. 16:56.82 Paul_E Walnuts And like but people a geek squat too like're like it's literally dealing with an achilean hand ae versus like a clovis point and they're just like someone's like but this None works just fine ed he's like no but like you don't need an achchilean hand ae size tool when you could just use a flake to cut open your box. You know what? I mean like the Amazon buck and like they deal with that. So there's probably people in prehistory or or pre. Let's just say the stone age that were um, like dealing with this stuff and they were like no mom I swear to god like yeah like neanderthals. You don't have to make all these exterior flakes to get to the one in the middle like you could literally just bi facially work this thing down to a usable tool and not waste so much flint now I need to buy the extended wrongty I'm on Avalwa point more. 17:39.59 archpodnet And he's like mom and grandpa are like no no, no, it's so way we've always ah but just called me about it. The Nigerian Princes Nigerian neanderthals. Once. 17:51.39 Paul_E Walnuts Got next? Oh dude I got its being a nigerian princes I got someone that wanted to. It's quick. Um it ah wait. It's at 18 So oh it's quick though. The guy. 17:59.30 archpodnet Do you want to save this for the next segment. Okay. 18:07.29 Paul_E Walnuts So I messaged me saying like they want to. They're perusing my art and they wanted to like buy it for their husband who it's his anniversary. She doesn't want him to see it so she wants to send me a check and all caps. Um for the art and I was like oh here we go. Um, and I went with it because I wanted them to send me the fake Check. That's clearly they gonna bounce and expect me to send the art back and I was like man these people really want my art for like why mine and then I wanted them to give me their address because I was literally going to mail them a box of strider's dog shit. Um. And like let's not bleep that out because it's what what I would but have sent but they want me to like meet with a person in a parking lot and do an exchange where we sign for it and stuff and like I think it's either going to be a robbery or somebody really wants my art that bad that I messaged and said like hey you're bad at this. Don't capitalize check next time and also if you want it that bad you can just have it and they just didn't respond all right? We'll call it next segment thinking. 19:01.92 archpodnet Ah, would eat and we will be back.