Living Off Grid in LA - Safety Third 85
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Safety Third is a weekly show hosted by William Osman, NileRed, The Backyard Scientist, Allen Pan and a couple other UA-cam "Scientists". Sometimes we have guests, sometimes it's just us, but always: safety is our number three priority.
0:00 Alex Ernst lore
3:31 Robot camera
8:14 Free gumball machine
13:21 Creator boxing
21:00 Don’t make meth
32:39 Fighting bears
43:32 Finding gold on your land
49:50 Backyard monster truck rally
58:43 Building a tiny house
01:06:08 Digging tunnels
01:13:21 Building a fort underwater
01:19:50 Living off grid in LA
01:28:10 Caveman mode
Please bring the special guest Nigel back.
*Bring back Nigel, nerds!*
he lies too much and tries to one-up everyones stories all the time. Honestly hes fine to just make his own stuff
I don want to be rude but I haven't seen this happen before, may I get a link to an episode here this happens. I just want to see for my self@@user-cm1uc4cu5u
What is bro on?
that's what I am trying to figure out@@trashtrash2169
My parents have a creek running through their land and Will is totally right. There are lots of rules around what you are allowed to do. Cannot reroute it, dump in it, make dam, generator, etc. You can however build a bridge over it or swim in it (in Washinton state, it may be different in California).
Also, in regard to demolition: There existed an abandoned elementary school in my neighborhood for my entire childhood, which was never demolished and rebuilt into something else because it was extremely expensive to destroy because of special permits and the specific location. Then some warehouse company bought it, and within 6 months somebody mysteriously decided to commit arson in the middle of the night and burnt the whole place to the ground. They are now developing it into a warehouse, and IMO the arson was very likely committed by the company trying to develop the land. No one was caught or charged for the arson.
Kevin, that dome idea exists in the Seattle aquarium, you should check it out!
This episode was a banger guys, keep it up! :)
that's cool, and also a good idea thanks for the advice
That same mysterious arson thing happened to one of our buildings here as well - rumor has it they paid a homeless man to set the fire
@@3nertiagood strategem. I'll employ this in my future business ventures
Nutso.
That reminds me of my friends parent's house. A trucking company approached her mom about buying the land that her (very beautiful) home was situated on, right in a beautiful wildflower field, between a creek and a highway.
One day when my friend (who didn't have a car) was home, but her parents weren't (so no cars home) she saw some guys tredging through the creek mysteriously close to the runoff pipe from their home, looking at something. The next morning she woke up to a very flooded basement. Her mom didn't believe her story, but after a few days of sitting with the 'what am i going to do with this food damage' got bombarded with that sweet buy offer again and sold. Now it's a fenced-in parking lot for dump trucks. No more wildflowers.
It's not stealing pallets, it's urban lumberjacking!
33:39 best bear story I ever heard was of this 11yo Alaskan kid who was poking around a garbage dump and poked what he thought was a bag but it turned out to be a huge bear. The kid heard if could hug the bear it’s hard for them to get to you. He was wearing a very bulky winter coat so while the bear was frantically clawing at his coat he stabbed the bear with a hunting knife he was wearing and successfully killed it. All by himself alone. He said it forever changed his entire outlook on life. He didn’t tell anyone till years later. He said he had Insane confidence and perspective the rest of his life because of the incident.
Can confirm, I was the bear 💀
Pallets depend on the store. Walmart for example has a system where the pallets are returned to the warehouse and reused so you would be stealing pallets from Walmart but harbor freight for example just puts them out and hope that people take them.
If you do a zoom episode with Colin Furze to talk about secret tunnels you could have Nigel on the episode 🤯
Live + zoom doesn't work well. The discord delay is extremely jarring and it disrupts the entire thing
uk planning permission laws are kinda wack, as far as i understand it you need permission for anything people will notice/see, but you dont need permission if your construction unnoticed for 6 months or something without any objections, or at least theyre a lot more lenient. Hence Colin hiding his tunnel from his neighbours for a while.
@@mrkrusher29 so you could place a single brick under the bush, keep it there for 6 months, and then build the rest of the house without any permit?
@@anj000 in no way did i say that.
As an urban planner this hurt me and reminded me why we need to simplify our regulations, but also why it's hard to do so. Just want to say its complicated if you have questions call up the planning and zoning and building departments they're there to help.
I bought land earlier this year and I've been dealing with the exact same problems learning about all the rules and permits required to do literally anything with the land that I own. This episode hit home so bad and I'm fuming thinking about it
Welcome to capitalism!
@@3nertia That's.... literally the opposite of capitalism.
Profits over People!
@@3nertia The word you're looking for is bureaucracy.
You know who had a fuckload of bureaus? The SSSR.
@@Tunkkis I think you mean "capitalists" or "dictators" - bureaucracy is just another tool they use to subjugate us. For millennia the privileged and educated have ruled over the poor and uneducated and they'll use whichever [contemporary] buzzwords get the idiots to fall on their proverbial swords for their masters. We've literally never had socialism/communism because the predators in charge have never allowed it. That's why this list of rebellions/revolutions is so long:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revolutions_and_rebellions
When I lived in texas, my cousin bought a small old metal warehouse wanting to live there, but due to zoning and how you get permits, he decided to 'renovate' the warehouse and built two 'offices'. He was allowed to have sinks, a fridge, and a shower, but the shower had to be a chemical shower, so he did the drain and shower for inspection and then enclosed it after the structure was finished. After the 'offices' were complete, he got another permit to re-side the metal building, so he basically built a new building with proper permitting, but becasue they were separated 'renovations' the code compliance was way less strict and the only thing he had to actually get from the city was final inspection for the 'offices' and the only design change was that there had to be inwardly facing windows because every room needed two methods of egress.
All that tunnel chat and no mention of topdog Collin Furze??
Europe has nothing to do with USA.
I think you should bring nile (mr) green again but honestly nile red would be also cool.
Would be hilarious if the fake Nile became the regular host while nigel is hiding in Canada procrastinating his next video while drinking concerning amounts of milk
@@ac.creationsthe problem is fake Nigel is in Australia which is even harder than real Nigel lol
all this permit talk is making me anxious for the future.
When you talk about running for mayor / city council, there’s actually a king of the hill episode where Hank runs for city council to allow for high flow toilets
Kevin I have had the same idea but instead you find a quarry pit and make a glass roof that is sealed about 10 ft below the ground level the entire size of the pit and fill that with water. Then you can build below it and have full sunlight and cooling with the water. Bonus points if you build a waterfall into a pond inside that you pump back up to the surface for a nice water feature.
Definitely need the Furze on to explain his tunnels
This is literally the most dream UA-cam combination ever - also speakeasy is a ridiculously underrated song
This is the most adult conversation that has ever happened on Safety Third lol.
It amazes me that with alle this tunnel talk, colin furzes name did not got dropped once.
the SHEER convolution of government, law, and its complete inaccessibility is a CRIME.
“The kids were going at it like seagulls” 🤣🤣
Nigel and Alex do need to meet
If only you guys knew somebody who knows chemistry to ask all these questions of
Someone that convenient could never exist.
"So it was oldschool?"
"Yeah it was cool"
Cracked me up
Funny enough, we have a gold mine in Alaska. The claims anyways.
You actually have air rights with property as well as mineral rights. So how they build skyscrapers and stuff is they buy the air rights for the buildings around and use them for the one building.
And my dad was a homesteader and land developer in Alaska. Every piece of property he sold he kept the mineral rights. So like if there's gravel on it, they had to talk to him to move it. He ran gravel pits mostly.
When you homestead you actually get up to 150 acres. And in the interior of Alaska I believe they still do homesteading. It's just hella remote.
Also I'm a carpenter/handyman in LA, I could totally help Alex build whatever he wants on his land.
You don't need a permit for a ceiling fan. It's more like structural and plumbing things
3:50 General Sam also uses a face-tracking camera which does more or less the same thing
I've never worked at walmart but the place I have worked at that used pallets would store them outside before sending them back to the warehouse to be reused.
The weight of the water would hold it down. Buoyancy only works if water can get under the structure
Flabbergasted that they don't know this. :(
See, I was thinking that might be the case, but figured I was missing some detail. Is this what gaslighting feels like?
The dome question is dependent on whether you want your lair pressurised or not. Unpressurised you want the plexi panels of the underwater dome to be put from the outside, as there is no gas pressure acting on them from the inside, that isn't also acting on the water above. This asumes you have literally some kind of "tube" leading up and outside, with just air flowing freely.
It is prob the best option for a lair you just want hidden somewhat. The pressurised option becomes a must at a certain depth, because then you need the air pressure to counteract like you know, thousands of litres of water xD
My stepdad could only get an office permit for the development of one of the sheds on his farm, so he built the kitchen and beds all on wheels to make sure the space could always be converted back to an office.
Happy Thanksgiving!
1:27:00 pallets left outside of grocery stores are free. I worked at couple grocery stores as a facilities person. Pallets that are good are put directly from the store into the trucks. Pallets left outside are there to be destroyed... but we pray that people come by and make them dissappear
1:16:41 the dome would have water pressure on all sides. The water wouldn't "know" if air was in there or cement or jello.
1:18:54 my brother in law did this based on pool rules in his city and he became mayor. Within a few months, his city was filled with peaceful protests, in 2020, in the pacific northwest. He quit.
The house of my parents had shredd newspapers as insulation in the walls some pieces were large enough to read and most were from 1936
Great video!
another guest! nice!
Oh good, they're making me miss Cameraman John.
should note, if you go deep enough underwater. The water will just compress or dissolve into the water. So I'll guess the pressure would be acting on it on all sides keeping the glass in place on the sides simply with friction.
I would've never guessed this collab
You should greenscreen Nigel in. Just get a green speedsuit and stuff it and put it in a chair and overlay it with Nigel
very special indeed
Mini series of Alex's shed misadventures!
Here for the spaghetti stay for the sauce
1:02:10 I’ve seen those belt driven multi ceiling fans in a McMinimans restaurant. I instantly wanted them also
In Texas, if you own the mineral rights to your property, you own anything and everything under you to the very core of the earth. This is true in most places.
As for airspace, you generally own between the first 500 and 1000 feet above your roof, but this is not a hard limit and can be argued for more or less depending on the land and how it's to be used.
Whitaker Wright’s Lea Park estate in Godalming, England has an underwater smoking/ball room with a facetted glass dome. It was constructed in one of several artificial lakes on the estate.
The guest was competely lost when u guys first started talking about the underwater fort. I was right alongside you guys really questioning whether the forces would be pushing the glass out or inwards.
Have electroboom on the podcast
There are lots of places to gold pan legally in the US, in CO and CA! I used to drive out and pan when living in SF!
know any places in British Columbia?
@@ryhen7062 Not offhand, but theirs tons of places! Dan Hurd is based out of the vancouver area and has a very active youtube about gold panning in that region!
@25:10 the dutch youtube channel named here is called :"spuiten en slikken" they arent recording new episodes but they have tried a lot, very educational, i would guess most of them have subtitles for the ones interested
I think the channel is Drugslab, but it's part of Spuiten en Slikken
"20 minute episodes" best quote
I worked as an intern at an Architectural Firm and - when I was there, they had a whole shitload of up-cycled shit. Like a re-surfaced bowling lane for a big ass table.
Anyway, wanted to point out that their insulation was just shredded denim. Just, jeans that were literally shredded to pulp!
You should talk to ColinFurze about digging a tunnel 😅 he also can tell you, what health care and education are like here in Europe 😅 We don't need to decide between education and building a tunnel... But I think you still need some permit for the tunnel...
Oh god the don't make meth section reminded me of working with John McAfee so much. I laughed my ass off so much its just like the type of crap he use to talk about at the bar.
Did he kill himself though I must know or is it CIA
Get yourself a composting toilet. I tried one at an airbnb in the middle of nowhere and it was cool.
You can disconnect from the grid, it’s not even expensive but if you want to go back it’s 10’s of thousands to reconnect
A joke about Nigel not being here.
Another fun fact about California, the "state full of environmentalists", nowhere in the state does the government recommend drinking tap water. This has led to private businesses selling a basic human right as the only option for most people.
As a truck driver while there are still people that do meth but not as much as we use to cuz it was used cuz we drove like 16 to 20 hours a day but now that we are regulated to at most 11 hours a day we don't need it to much any more but weed is huge out here
Back door scientist
A couple things: I'm an engineer for a power utility.... pretty much everything Will said is accurate lol. Also, at an old job I had, we got in trouble for destroying the shitty pallets. Apparently, the shipping company actually owns them and they can be worth a couple hundred depending on what style so you are typically expected to return them to the shipping company. This probably varies from place to place but as far as I understand it, you definitely can't take pallets from behind stores...legally that is
I enjoy the ceiling fan talk for some odd reason
A lot of old Finnish houses use sawdust and newspapers as insulation.
do you guys ever visit universities? I go to Milwaukee school of engineering and i know it would be so fun to have you guys do a talk here
we also have some structural engineers that could tell you about building tunnels haha
the air would push up on the dome while the water would push in on the sides
Yup crazy
there are definitely grizzlies in montana everyone who lives here knows of someone who had one on their doorstep
_"Meth is what keeps the world going, man."_ lmfao
27:53 I spit my tea out that was hilarious about perscribing meth
I enjoyed the part with Nigel! (edit: just to be clear I actually liked the whole episode.)
I think this episode made me believe that Will and Kevin are actually adults
Colin Furze and JerryRigEverything are making bunkers if you need inspiration
Did William move to Florida or did Kevin move to California? How are they able to record together? And where does Alan live?
You actually do own your airspace up to a certain point, which is why you can't just fly drones around on other people's property
Oh that nose spray is the GOOD SHIT
at least where I am, you don't have to use power, but you do have to pay the service fees regardless, unless it's a never developed plot, then you just don't hook up power and that's legal.
There was that car exploding at the US/Canada border... Nigel probably had something to do with that.
Another great episode. When are you going to have me on? Haha I'm just playing around. Anyways I hope you guys have a great day.
Just move to the middle of nowhere Nebraska. You can do whatever you want!
Oh i missed Alex
Great episode, but please turn up the volume or something. It is pretty low in volume.
When will you go to England and record an episode of the podcast inside Colin Furze's house tunnel?
I built a "tiny house" no permit shed, and the rules here are a bathroom, a kitchen, and a sleeping area is a "house". I wanted initially to "live" in there while my house was being renovated. Nope.
Weirdly, I am in the only place in canada where a real tiny house is actually legal, but it still has to be a properly permitted building to code. The ones on trailers do not count. They want 200-800sqft. By those rules, my actual main house is a "tiny house" though. They may have missed the point :)
No, they're on point and the point is profit :)
@@3nertiaNot here. They don't make any money on it. A permit for a tiny house is $280 with no development fees (a normal new house is as much as 100k in permits and fees). They just want nice livable structures to help with housing demand. But 800sqft is crazy big.
@@littleshopofrandom685 Lolwhat? So they don't make $280 for the permit on a "tiny house" they had no labor or even material costs into? Do I have that right? They don't make any money on it? ROFLMEYERWIENER
@@3nertia permit costs 280 I said. as opposed to 100,000 for a full sized house. 280 covers the person checking the plans and the inspection. its also 280 if you built a garage.
@@littleshopofrandom685 So they charge $280 for permission to build something they're not gonna help build in any way and have no vested interest in ...
And you see nothing wrong with this, really? :/
Hey I'm a gold planner in Colorado! It's all about mineral rights.
You guys should have Nile red as a special guest
23:59 haha saaaaame
now i acnt wait for the episode where u guys are sitting in the weeds on alexs property
1:11:24 - This already exists... it's known as the "Underwater Ballroom"
Faa controls all airspace in the US. If you did jump a dirt bike it would be completely legal. IANAL however.
just make a bell diver tipe beat dome and put it in the poel/lake
many places will not allow people to live there if it is not connected to the grid. they will condemn the house
Meth may have been pretty prevailent in the past in trucking. but we are so over controlled its not to common now. now cattle haulers and farm hands may still like them toothpicks.
You prob can't make tunnels. You can, however, landscape. And maybe there is a difference between "temporary" and "permanent" stuff.
What if Nigel(some dumb joke about nigel not being here(yes i stole a comment, what you gonna do))
Will figured it out: there are things that are legal for everyone and other things that are legal for wealthy people. I'm sure that's fine...
20:34
There's a weird audio thing
missed pun - "Methter Beast"
Never seen Nile and alex in the same room before... hmmm
Badger.
Like Seagulls they were.
It’s a volley gun not a four barrel sawed off shotgun lol