The James Donald Forbes McCann Catamaran Plan - Bonus Captain's Log Episode | Flagrant Patreon Beseeching

Episode Date: February 16, 2022

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Find your power. Peloton. Visit Peloton at onepeloton.ca. Oh, hello. This is a special bonus episode of the James Donald Forbes McCann Catamaran Plan, just to let you know more about the James Donald Forbes McCann Catamaran Plan Patreon, which is where you can pay $5, $10, $20, $30. You can just pay a certain amount of money per month, and that gets you access to the James Donald Forbes McCann Catamaran Plan special secret podcast, Captain's Log. And I've been shouting this out on the podcast

several times, but it occurs to me that if you have not already been on the Patreon, it doesn't necessarily mean anything. You don't know what the Captain's Log podcast is, whether you'd like it, whether that would be worth your investment towards another man buying a boat. So what I've done in this episode is I have taken an old episode of the Captain's Log podcast from back in January. It was the second one that I did, and I've put it here as a special bonus for you to listen to. Is this a betrayal of the people already on the Patreon who paid for this episode?

Yes, I believe that it is. But it's a betrayal. You know what? I'm going to make it up to them by having an additional bonus episode. Aha! That's how we'll make up the bonus episode here on The Public One. We'll have a special private bonus episode coming up shortly on the Patreon. We want people to go to the Patreon.

This is good, clean money towards me owning a boat. And you also get so many wonderful things. We have a membership card. We have a shirt. So many wonderful things. It's really good to sign up to the Patreon. Okay, so without any further ado, we're going to play the old episode of the Captain's Log podcast. If you enjoy it, please do consider going to patreon.com forward slash JDF McCann and join the James Donald Forbes McCann Catamaran Plan Sailing Club. Thank you so much. Here's the episode. Well, let's just have a few.

There's one ocean noise. Let's have one more. Just two. Just two more after that. Two more a few. There's one ocean noise. Let's have one more. Just two. Just two more after that. Two more ocean noises. Here's one. Wow, that was a good ocean noise. And one more.

Absolutely lovely. I'll just put an end to it. Oh! Got surprised by that one additional ocean noise. And let's leave the ocean noises there. We had a poll this week. Thank you to everyone who voted. After the first episode of the Captain's Log podcast,

I put up the poll. I said, how do we feel about the ocean noises on the Captain's Log podcast? Votes were one vote for even more ocean noises. An extremist position. Two votes for the ocean noises to be quieter and less obtrusive yes i suspect that that might be the direction we were going in number three uh with one vote occasional ocean noises but not constantly throughout i think that's reasonable and then

one person voted for some other kind of change to the ambient ocean noise not outlined on this poll, which was silly of me, really, leaving that as an option because I don't know how to interpret it. Nobody wanted no ocean noises. Well, that's comforting. And nobody wanted ocean noises to stay the same. So overall, yes, I see where you're coming from. Idea good. We want some ocean noises.

Execution poor. Let's have just one more ocean noise for old time's sake. So good. So good indeed. And welcome to this, the second episode of the Captain's Log podcast. The podcast where we take you behind the scenes of the James Donald Forbes McCann catamaran plan to just, well, go through everything that's happening. It's been a big week. I quit my job. Quit my job this week. Well, gave notice. They know I'm leaving. I'll be there till February. And I can hear you crying out, beloved Patreonist. I can hear you saying, James, you've got a young family. You know, I'm not paying you all that much money to make a podcast about a catamaran.

Please, please tell me you're not quitting your job to live off the $85 a week you're making from the Patreon. I can tell you, dear listener, don't worry. It's cool. It's fine. I am actually, I'm leaving the job because I'm getting more work freelancing and doing work for other copywriting things. Oh, at some point, with your wonderful help and support, you wonderful people, I'll be providing for my family on the catamaran.

You know, an e-boy. Making my income that way. But for the time being, yeah, I just couldn't justify doing the full-time job anymore when it wasn't paying as much as the same work I'm doing for other people. So that's good. That's good. I've never left a job before for better or more work. And I've left a lot of jobs.

And usually, I leave a job because I just don't want to do it. And usually I leave a job because I just don't want to do it. But back when I was doing that, when I would just walk off a job on a whim, that was really the time when I didn't have a family. And that really does change your perspective about staying in a job or leaving a job is, do I have a family? Because when you don't have a family, you know, your boss might say something a bit crook to you and you'd go, you know what? I don't need this job.

I'll go and live in a van. I'll go and live in a van. I'll go and live in a van. You say, I'll just, I'll go and live with my parents. I'll go and live with some losers from university. I'll do, it doesn't matter. Money's not important to me. But when you have, James, you've got a young family.

I can't leave this job. I'll never be able to afford to put my children through a swiss boarding school if i walk away so it was hard i've probably stayed in this job longer than i should have but it's good to have opportunities and you got to take them you got to take opportunities in this life if you see you know if you're on a boat, see if we can make this one a nautical metaphor, and you're in a bad, and you're in the doldrums,

and the wind's not moving, you gotta move that boat to where the wind is to let it carry you swiftly away. Work smarter, not harder. Work harder, not smarter. I don't know. I'm very scared. I'm very scared to have left the job it is it's a scary

time like I think it'll work out and I've got guaranteed work coming up I think of course you know now is not a now is not a good economic time in the world we got the omicron everywhere went to town the other day with my family and my children, my wife and my dad. And it was barren. There was just nobody out and about in town. People were really staying home. And fair enough. Now, it's not a good time to...

Ambulance wait times in South Australia are like hours and hours long now. Because there's so much Omicron out in the community and i read we read a story this week my wife read a story my wife read us i don't really read a lot of news anymore but my wife was reading the news and she told me something she saw and i thought that's so funny i'm using that in comedy it's sort of funny it's it very sad, and then it's funny afterwards, but still very sad. So the story is there was a little boy, a four-year-old, I think, who was scolded, scalded, burnt very badly by a hot tea.

And they called, it was terrible, and they called the ambulance, did the family, and the ambulance didn't arrive for 51 minutes. Dreadful. Poor child, suffering for 51 minutes. And the news spoke to them, and the father said, 51 minutes is too long for the ambulance to come to help my four-year-old. The last time I called an ambulance for my four-year-old, it was here in 10 minutes,

which you sort of go, well, hold on a minute. How many ambulances are you calling for this child? You shouldn't be having to call so many ambulances that you get a running average of good and bad times sitting with the ambos going, this is not your PB boys come on what do you say next listen next time my child is horribly injured in a couple of days I want this ambulance to arrive a little more quickly please that's terrible and we we hope this situation resolves itself very quickly we move on to a happier place. Let's have an ocean noise. Clear the palette. So many things are happening this week.

We're preparing for the art show. I've added up how many pieces of art we have. We have somewhere between 17 and 20 pieces of art, which is a lot. Some of them are more artsy than others, but like 10, 12 of them are real good pieces of art by cool, talented local artists that we're going to auction off. I can't wait. It's going to be wonderful. Have not yet organized the String Quartet.

Have to pull my finger out and get that done this week. Haven't yet gotten in touch with all the... I'm told that you get in touch with wineries, and they just give you free booze for your art show. So I have to start calling wineries. The Room. We've got The Room locked down. Last week, we were trying to find The Room. Now we've got The Room. It's at the Howling Owl.

The date, it was going to be Feb 11. Now it's Feb 10. It's on a Thursday, the auction. So Feb 10 at the Hailing Owl. And I just want all of you Patreon listeners to know you can come for free. You can absolutely come for free. I'll put your name on the door. I'll put you in the VIP section. We're looking for some velvet rope.

We're looking for some brand name vodka. And it'll be a vodka and a velvet rope. And you can hang there. And it'll be so beautiful this art auction i'm telling you i feel good about it i feel very scared that uh we're organizing it too quickly and we won't be able to get rich people to come along but let's see let's see it's costs are low we're keeping costs as cheap as possible. Like picture framing. I bought one frame this week. I spent $39 of my own money.

I'll just sink my own money into it. That's the sort of chappy I am. But $39, I spent that on a frame. And then to get some other frames, I went to Savers. And I bought some pictures, just like $4 pictures, that I think I can then take the picture out of and replace the back with a new picture inside. So that's wonderful. And I've got Dusty's napkin. We're going to cut that into an

auction, one on the internet and one at the auction. Just big things are happening. Big, beautiful art auction things. A is for art auction. This is the first big weird scheme we've done on the catamaran plan. And if this goes well, I consider that auguring beautifully for the future. And who knows what B could stand for. Well, I'm writing a book. That'll be B. C, caravan for the catamaran. The caravan catamaran. As mentioned, wife wants us to move into a car caravan so we'll all move into a caravan and maybe i'll do comedy and live podcasts right around this country and around new zealand and

who knows probably just those two places and then d i could buy a a dog i could invest in a greyhound and find out the ins and outs of the morality of greyhound investment let me see d e um fabergé eggs i could invest the podcast money into an egg and then sell it off f ah what what thing could i do for money that starts with an f i could take up work in a bordello but that's not the sort of thing i want to do to afford the catamaran, F could, I could collect fungus, I could collect feces, Fibonacci sequence, I could solve that, is that a puzzle, I don't know what I'm going to do for F, football, maybe I'll buy a football team. G. G is much easier. G.

G. I don't have anything for G. Listen, the point being, we're going to have a lot of different plans. And we love our Patreon people for helping us. That's why I'm doing this excellent, high-quality, solo podcast episode with occasional ocean noises. Here's one. Oh, so many good things are happening, I'm afraid. I mean, that's a weird thing to do during a plague, isn't it? To quit your job and to devote hours a day into an art auction to buy a boat. Maybe it'll work.

I think it'll work. Let's have one more ocean noise. Let's get out there. Let's believe in ourselves this week. Let's have a good one. I'm feeling it. This is the Captain's Log Insider Podcast. Oh boy, I'm just, I'm so afraid. Okay, I love you. Thank you.

Captain Log, log off. I still haven't come up with a way of ending this podcast. Logarithmic Logging Company. Captain, that doesn't make any sense. Captain, you feel the love tonight. Log on, log off. Catamaran Ho. I think Catamaran Ho is the best one.

Catamaran Ho, everybody. Catamaran Ho. I love you. Well, now, if you enjoyed that may i beseech you to go over to www.com full stop patreon forward slash jdf mccann or there's just a link in the description that might be easy to click that and join the james don McCann Catamaran Planned Sailing Club Patreon. We've currently got just over $100 per month, 13 patrons ongoing. At $100 per month, we will get to the catamaran in a little over 400 years. So if you can join, you know, if we get as many as 10 people joining from this

podcast, I know that might be kooky. We might not get it. But if 10 of you join, even if just one of you join, you're shaving years off the journey to boat ownership. We really appreciate everyone who joins the Patreon, just as we appreciate you listening to this public one, because there's still advertising money that comes through but it's not as much in fact at the moment it's not any because we don't have enough listeners there's something to be said for creating a good product and then monetizing it but what i like to do is demonetizing before we have the product okay thank you all for listening uh i love you god bless peace out Okay, thank you all for listening. I love you. God bless.

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