The LOTS Project Podcast

This week starts with cabin cleanup and a reality every builder eventually faces: everybody has advice and half of it contradicts the other half.

I'm getting ready for flooring installation and trying to sort through the endless opinions on subfloor prep, skim coating, underlayment, and what actually matters versus what just costs more money.

Then we dive into a surprisingly heated local debate about a new hotel selling day passes to its infinity pool. Great business idea? Maybe. Great experience for paying hotel guests? That's another question.

We also spend time talking Bitcoin, Blockstream's new Jade Core wallet, Fold's growing ecosystem, and why price drops tend to create more opportunity than panic.

If you enjoy practical projects, independent thinking, Bitcoin, and occasional rants about things that don't make sense, you'll probably enjoy this one.

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The cabin hit a major milestone this week.

After months of learning, climbing ladders, making mistakes, fixing mistakes, and figuring things out one project at a time, the trim is finally finished and the cabin is officially dried in.

That leads into a bigger conversation about learning new skills, solving problems without experts, and why YouTube may be the most valuable trade school ever created.

We also dive into Tennessee's blooming mimosa trees, the arrival of summer heat, an Enterprise commercial that accidentally highlights everything frustrating about renting vehicles, the Great American State Fair controversy, Bitcoin price predictions, the new Blockstream Jade Core, and a communications solution that might actually make sense for off-grid and low-signal living.

If you're building your own path, questioning systems, or just trying to get things done while the world gets stranger, this one's for you.

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This episode starts with anniversary week and porch furniture… and somehow ends with steroid-enhanced athletes, collapsing Middle East peace talks, and the political machine steamrolling Thomas Massie.

Pretty standard 2026 conversation.

We talk about:

• 10 years married and the journey from Minneapolis suburbs to off-grid Tennessee
• a huge week of cabin progress
• porch trim struggles and finally seeing the place come together
• why we changed our solar and utility plans
• the Massie Kentucky primary and what it says about modern politics
• growing disillusionment with establishment narratives
• market manipulation around war headlines
• and the launch of the Enhanced Games — aka the open-steroid Olympics

This one feels less like a “news episode” and more like watching modern civilization slowly turn into a sci-fi movie while trying to build a normal life outside of it.

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• Telegram Chat: https://t.me/LOTSChat
• Blockstream Hardware Wallets: https://rewards.blockstream.com/thelotsproject
• Comfrey Roots: https://ComfreyRoots.com
• Food Forest Farms Coffee (LOTS10) https://foodforestfarms.com

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The cabin officially has sheet metal on all four sides, and now comes the phase where confidence slowly turns into second-guessing your own decisions.

This episode gets into:

• wrapping up the exterior metal work
• learning construction skills in real time
• why I already think I may redo part of the porch trim
• local Tennessee radio
• a morning host voice that nearly breaks me
• hantavirus headlines everywhere
• Ebola quietly returning to the conversation
• Cuba allegedly building drone capabilities
• oil shortage rumors tied to Middle East instability
• and how modern media seems completely addicted to fear.

There’s also a solid discussion about how public trust collapsed after COVID and why people increasingly question institutional narratives instead of blindly accepting headlines.

Plus:

Apparently living in Minnesota permanently added “ope” to my operating system.

Resources & Links:

• ComfreyRoots.com

• Blockstream Jade & Jade Plus

• LOTS Telegram Community

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Some weeks you make solid progress.

Other weeks you realize the real problem isn’t building a cabin… it’s dealing with people.

This episode starts with a win—figuring out a scaffolding + ladder setup that actually worked without killing me—and then takes a hard left into one of the most frustrating laundromat trips I’ve had in a long time.

From there it spirals into a bigger question:

Are things actually getting crazier, or are we just paying more attention?

We get into hantavirus, the way the media handles this stuff, and why it feels eerily familiar. Then zoom out into what’s going on globally—war, oil, and the incentives behind it all.

No polished narrative. Just real-time observations from someone trying to build something while everything else feels like it’s slipping sideways.

Resources mentioned:

Comfrey roots: https://comfreyroots.com

Blockstream hardware wallets: https://rewards.blockstream.com/thelotsproject

Food Forest Farms coffee: https://foodforestfarms.com

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