Ask Me Anything! Answering your questions... even the crazy ones!

all right we are out shooting some other content we're doing some winter camping I've got the moris kahky super shelter and a fire going we just had some slum gulan stew which was really good shockingly good shockingly good yes so this morning I posted on the Community page uh ask me anything and so here we have your questions we're going to read them back and answer them and then I've got some questions for Joe he's he doesn't know what's going to happen and uh we'll just have some fun with it so here we go I would assume this is Arizona Outdoors AZ Outdoors asks are you a big game hunter oh a big game hunter okay um I'm assuming you mean like giraffes or like lions or rhinos and stuff like that I'm not a big game hunter maybe you mean a big game hunter maybe it's all game and I just am like really into it I don't know um I used to hunt but I don't so much anymore uh um it's just it's just a life thing it's just a convenience thing I don't have a whole lot of time to devote to that hobby um I'm really into camping right now really into like survival stuff maybe he means a big game hunter like board games because if that's the case find those good ones I am a big game hunter I love a good game so like strategy board games I'm I'm All About That what's your favorite right now my favorite board game right now D that's such a hard question I really enjoy any of the tiny epic games Yeah by Scott Al uh my favorite is uh the space one and it's eluding me right now okay so I got a question for you now uh oh what do you think bugs dream about what do bugs dream about man finding the biggest leaf just the biggest leaf possible that they can live on and eat the rest of their lives that's all I'm trying to do oh man leaves they dream of leaves yes okay this comes from uh Pedro DJs J1 okay Pedro asks should you get an axe for batoning wood or as a large knife fine oh man that's a great question I mean it depends on the size of the wood that you're trying to split down so I think that a proper use for a knife in batoning wood um if you have a knife that's made for it like if the Tang of the knife the part that's inside the handle if that part is made properly and not like a little tiny piece you know um then you could split wood with a knife and I wouldn't split anything bigger than about that you know about 2 in in diameter the reason for that is because most knives you know you you you start hitting them into the wood and you need to actually have something to hit on if you put uh your knife onto a log that's just as long as the blade is you're going to bury the knife and you're not going to be able to get it back out again I think that you want to have an axe to split wood for anything that's bigger than 2 in in diameter basically um you know a hatchet would be used for small stuff uh like this big round or so but then once you start getting into actual logs you're going to need an axe you're not going to be able to do that with a knife so uh you know I went to Menards and I needed to buy a new Axe and I saw that there was a chopper and a split what's the difference a chopper and a splitter okay great question so a chopper is going to be like an axe shape that is more meant for cutting down a tree or for removing wood it's a little bit you know a little bit more acute of an angle uh so it slices into the wood versus a chopper or a splitter like a splitting maul they call them they're going to be more like a wedge and they're not very sharp they're just meant to like literally wedge the wood apart o so so they are different a mul a splitting maul you can swing it but you can also hit it so it's it's the way it's tempered is that you can actually hit it with a sledgehammer as well another question for you yes okay uh for the rest of your life would you rather Farm kale or have a detachable tail oh detachable tail why easily oh that sounds fun yeah that sounds awesome what sounds awesome and fun about a detachable tail okay well just having a tail in general I think would be so fun I mean okay so if it's detachable then I would assume it's like a like a lizard type tail okay I would assume just because lizards you know detachable they grow back um and that would help with swimming a lot I love to swim and you know having that momentum you could be like an iguana dang that'd be awesome wow um such detail in this answer and then um I think it would be a great party trick just being able to like take it off and be like hey here it is right totally I agree wow that was very detailed okay uh from Brian Smith Jr mq5 z0 how long have you been doing survival tactics for huh tactics I think just like survival you probably mean survival in general I think I've I've been like interested in it in practicing it for uh man probably like almost 30 years now so I'm 39 I'll maybe 40 this year I know I look so young right uh but I got into like survival and getting in you know going out outdoors and like Adventure camping around 9 years old so yeah it's been a minute and I mean it's been a process like you don't just start doing it and and you're good at everything you just you really need to just focus on one thing to learn at a time and build on that and eventually one day you'll have enough skills to go out with a friend and go camping like this and then maybe one day you'll have enough skills and confidence to go out solo you know and start doing solo adventures and stuff like that Hunter Williams 7338 asks big fan ever thought about trying to participate on the show alone opinions on the show nice yeah cool thanks Hunter um great question I have thought about it a lot I I I absolutely love the show alone it is very cool they let you pick the items you're going to take on you only have so many that you can take with you and they drop you in this situation you have to make the best of it uh I love how realistic it is I have thought about it but the here's the thing I have a family I have two little kids and a wife and I don't think I could leave him for that long I I think the uh the psychological aspect of it would be very hard for me if I wasn't uh if my kids were older maybe uh if they were like in maybe like high school or something like that how long do you have to be on the show how long does a loan take place Al loone some of the contestants stay out there as long as 100 days oh so you know that's a very long time I think the the psychological battle at that point is the hardest sure I would enjoy being on the show but I don't know that I would enjoy being away from my family for that long yeah for sure definely yeah great question I have a friend DJ who runs bear Essentials YouTube channel and he was a contestant on alone he was an alternate uh he he uh practi IED and trained to be the alternate was there and uh got to go through the boot camp and everything so super cool um that guy is Awesome by the way definitely check out DJ's Channel great question I got another question for you all right let's go all right let's see here I got to pull up my notes okay okay uh what's been fun for you as being the editor and chief on this channel oh my gosh I have learned so much in a short amount of time and it has been really fun and just like uh like today you had to make make a a feather stick and I automatically knew what what you were doing I didn't have to like think through and like I didn't have to ask questions and that's what's really fun is just stepping into a space that I know a little bit about but not enough that I could ever do or maybe not ever but for a long time do it on my own sure um and just getting more and more comfortable and learning more and you're a treat to be with and learn from and treat yeah absolutely I learned so much from you and it's just a joy thank you dude absolutely it's fun yeah and shouldn't it be fun it's so much fun yeah yeah I think like in this genre in this genre genre of of survival and Outdoors and camping like people can sometimes take it too seriously and they they like they like take all the fun out of it the likelihood that you're actually going to be in this kind of a situation is pretty low right but the the value for me is that I'm train I'm like training and it's it's giving me more confidence and uh in everyday life circumstances so yeah there's a lot of value to it and it's great having you around man it's great you're doing a great job isn't he doing a great job he's doing a great jobs so yeah all right what's next what's next o okay this is fun uh from Adrien vdovic 7 do you like carving oh Adrien I love carving I have been carving since I was about 13 and I I went through a phase like in my teens where I was really obsessed with Woodworking and I did a lot of Woodworking and and funny story I well not really that funny but I got a carving knife my parents bought it for me and I started carving this turtle and it was kind of late at night and I ended up looking up at the clock to see what time it was and wasn't paying attention and I buried the carving knife into my hand so you see that scar oh my gosh yeah so it went all the way to the Bone and uh was I just I like stood there for a second and I was like I can't believe I just did and I kind of like moved it like it was talking for a second and then it started bleeding everywhere oh my God for only four stitches for this one inch cut it's an exact one inch cut too so I can use it to measure stuff it's handy that's awesome yeah I love carving love it yes uh what's been something that you really loved carving or like something you felt accomplished when you finished it totally so I carved this thing out of a uh 2in Square a piece of pine which is not the easiest to carve because it's kind of a funky grain coarse grain but it's it's like a captive uh fidget thing so it's got like spheres inside of a cage and then the whole thing rotates so like uh it's all captive carved that way you know wow not assembled I was proud of that because it was it took me a long time from outd door nerd 5643 hammocks are tense and why oh man awesome some question hammock or tent so okay I we are right now camping on um the Ice Age Trail the Ice Age Trail is a like 1200 mile long foot path through Wisconson it's a national trail and I say this because like six years ago I did a huge section of the ice AG Trail all with a hammock it's about 530 some miles of this Trail and all I took with me was a hammock and and so I had like a 20 lb bag that was my load out and I would do some of it in sections you know i' do days at a time and I loved it I absolutely loved it I haven't done much Hammock Camping the last few years I think I've kind of a little bit fallen out of love with it but that's just because I've done so much winter camping now you can camp in the winter with a hammock if you put quilts underneath it and stuff like that it's it's super cozy but uh you know I'm like I'm like almost 40 and I got I feel like I need a little bit better hammock than the one I have to feel more comfortable at night otherwise I turn into a big pretzel you got to have the ones with like the spreader bars on them so they're a little bit more flat um but I have to sleep sideways in a hammock and then roll around a little bit so it's it's just it's I've got a whole system but love hammocks haven't slept in him in a while right now it's tense for but I could see doing hammocks in the summer again yeah yeah do you ever deal with the claustrophobia that's one thing like I always hit it and I can't I can't I can't do the the the hammocks for me totally yeah so like uh my my friend Dan Becker he's got a huge Channel he started off Hammock Camping he had claustrophobia when he was in in his hammock and he found a solution for that was to put a little tiny light inside of the hammock with you so it illuminates the space and he was able to like he handle it so so much better just the orientation just feeling like um there wasn't like this nebulous like I don't know where the walls are you could actually you put the light in there and you can actually have like a point of reference it helps so helps with anxiety so there you go there's a tip for you if you have anxiety about claustrophobia being a hammock yeah uh it's from Evan Moss heyya commenting from France dude how cool is that and my question is how do you get through hard patches on YouTube can you also make check out my channel uh as it was inspired by people like you that's awesome first of all France that's super cool to get a to get a comment from France um yeah there's hard patches on YouTube as a Creator I'm going to tell you it is so hard to do this on a daily weekly basis it is like a roller coaster ride and uh all I can say is that it's a marathon not a Sprint like you have to think of it in the terms of like this is is a 10-year project when you think about it in that like long time Horizon it helps kind of smooth out the bumps along the way because you're going to have negative comments um those people get booted it's just the way it is I don't want people like that in this community I want positive people um you're going to have times where you just kind of don't have inspiration anymore and those are the times when you need to go step back consume some other content read a book go out in nature remember why you're doing this um and just above all like you have to be authentic and show people your flaws show people the mistakes um because that's that's what's going to ultimately allow you to keep going where I see a lot of creators burn out is when they're trying to force themselves to be somebody else yeah and that lasts like two months where you're like you're you're so inspired by somebody else's work you try to be like that but then um you can't sustain that and it's not authentic your your audience is going to recognize right away that it's derivative and it's not it's not going to be um entertaining Absolut or useful yeah so I have struggled with that so many times um just kind of staying on track the other thing is that there's nobody that can tell you exactly how to do your channel so you need to have friends and you to have a lot of them in the in the in the space the YouTube space that to talk to and they give you different perspectives so I have I have a a group of friends that I am constantly talking to and getting input from and they're challenging me and giving me ideas um that's the only way to make it in this weird segment of the internet definitely called YouTube so I'm so happy that you are making content I'm going to check out your channel definitely keep going email me with questions you have it's a goal of mine this year to help creators get behind get in front of the camera actually and do more of this well thank you so much for um sending in your questions we will see you later cool yeah yeah right that was fun that camera is running out of battery is Ito