This is the very first day we told our families that we wanted to sell all of our belongings and sail around the world. Read more details about this episode ...
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it's a recording how do we introduce
ourselves our nothing cheesy do we need
to introduce ourselves about you go
first cuz you get the funny try not to
laugh there's something laughing my name
again today repeated hi I'm Jason I'm
Doug
I'm Jason this is my brother Doug and
we're the sailing brothers oh yeah this
is my brother Doug and I'm Jason and we
are going to share with you our
adventures learning how to sail and it's
good to be a
my original plan was to rope Doug in by
him holding out the YouTube carrot in
front of him selection video what we do
just to get him interested in sailing
with me cuz I think it's way more doable
when he got another family but I was not
quite ready to pull the trigger did not
expect him to say all right what does
the very next text message so I needed
some time before I was willing to make
it more public yeah so it's been four
months and made a lot of huge steps
you're getting to you know find out if
we're even able to do this or willing to
do this or would love to do this and
we're doing it luckily I've been
documenting the whole thing for the last
four months and getting all the footage
and everything
cutting it together and having lots of
fun this is one of the likes and having
it all up seems doable so the only thing
staying in our way is us really time I
got to fish my house like no this will
work unless I can sell my house me too
okay so we have to sell our houses but
after that smooth sailing right no
ceiling plans no plans at all enjoy our
adventure sailing we don't know what
we're doing is quite obvious in our
videos how beginner we are making more
than we're sharing all of our
inexperience and please be kind to us
but hey you know if you have something
to say to us like tips spare in the
comments so good to be
my first to my family I wanted to sail
did not get the best reactions for my
daughter's key what's going through your
brain right now Kate she wouldn't even
talk to me because she was so upset by
the thought of leaving school on sailing
Kelly was angry at me I think it's a
very bad idea and then it's a waste of
time and if you want to have a big
family bonding trip that's not what the
way to do it
when I told Erin she was contemplated
you could tell she was a little nervous
not gonna come up with a lot of ideas
and some of them we do is something we
don't so she didn't know if she should
be scared or not and refused to answer
my questions about what she thought
about but it would just be a little bit
harder to house but then we would all be
in one little bitty space together Jo
seemed ready to go and John will try
anything I think he'll be fine but it
might be a little scary but mostly fun
like if we get to go with our cousin
Bobby it would be fun I think it will be
fun day so my brother text me said let's
go sail around the world and he always
has these crazy ideas I was just like
this is a crazy idea but I'm going to
pass by my wife anyways I said hey Jason
says let's go sailing let's sell
everything and just go do it
and normally she's my voice of reason
and this time she said okay let's do it
so I kind of was like yes we're doing
this
all right just what do you think about
traveling the world on a boat for a year
did you just fart I did just fart mister
I'm scared yeah about the fart or the
trip everything wails pirates capsizing
times whether food like fish
canned goods what would you look forward
to about I want to go hang out
Ireland
because we're kind of apprehensive
because they don't like to eat fish and
we're like telling them that's the
beating and my kids are pretty thick
especially Noah I think it can be fun
but I think we're gonna have bad food
unlike fish because it's like eating
somebody's eyeball off and um I think
that it's gonna be like seasick all the
time and I'm gonna borrow and then the
cousins will be there so alright Brian
what do you thing about sailing on the
boat for a year you know so I think that
it's gonna be fun and I also think that
we us gonna chase us Holly what do you
think oh I think it would be scary and I
think um we would have fun with all
cousin little cousins and I like though
I know presidents could come and then
when it came to my initial thoughts
about sailing and just like living on
the ocean on a boat with uh you know my
brother and his family - it was just I
don't know that sounds pretty awesome
it's pretty freeing and then just the
things that happened in our family we've
all kind of come to realize you know
you're not promised what's next life
short and we want to make the most of it
so we want to explore we want to show
our kids as much as we can
but I think it's time for another
adventure and I think we're up for it as
a family and
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Easter afternoon I showed them a bunch
of sailing Zatara videos and that seemed
to get everybody a little bit more on
fork the idea of sailing at least they
started to consider it I think that it's
sort of a good idea I want to go but I
don't want to leave Timmy here I want to
catch fish and watch them breakdance and
twitch there's something about sailing
around the world that's very appealing
to me the first time I went sailing with
Bill the guy who turned me on to sailing
I was sailing on a tiny little lake
about three square miles and all I could
think about was the freedom of the wind
moving across the waves and even though
it's a tiny little lake I just imagined
myself out on the ocean so the last four
months we've been you know learning and
we got a boat learning on that trying to
teach our family he's been trying to
teach me so much sticks and I'm learning
myself yeah he hides it really well
because we all think you know who's
doing
even my son said the other day is like
walking uncle Jason go with us because
he's the one that seems to know what
he's doing that's because I'm way more
prepared than you are you just want to
jump at it and I want to read a thousand
books about it and that's why we're
waiting before we go starting to sealing
and selling oh no we've got lots of
children so we're gonna be responsible
learn how to sail we're gonna get
certified we're gonna learn how to scuba
we're gonna take some like first aid
classes just that we're safe on the
water with our kids I've told my work
I've told everybody I know and I think
out of everybody only two people have
said you're crazy what are you thinking
they'd valid points but I'm gonna
overlook those I've had a few people try
to cost me against it but I would rather
fail at trying to do something than be
successful of doing nothing at all now
that's been 4 months we're gonna go
ahead and ask our kids and our wives
their thoughts now that this has become
very much a reality of what our future
is going to start looking like
yeah
what we gonna say I don't remember I
just help me my mouth I think it's gonna
be fun cause I can't be tiring sometimes
and then you can see a whole bunch of
places that you don't have me like ever
gonna see you can use a plane what do
you think about living on a boat I'm not
scary cuz a shark might come up and eat
me
um one thing I'm going to miss is Timmy
my turtle and my Hut playing my harp and
my friends I think that sailing is fun
woo I'm looking forward to bludgeoning
some fishes do I look at you or the
camera I don't even know right damn the
camera well it didn't go away so here we
are talking about it again four months
later I think I am afraid of things like
I make up my own stories of Oh a storm
is gonna come and then we can't get out
of there in time and then we can't tie
up that boat and then we lose everything
and that's where all of our money and
all of our stuff is and then we have
nothing and we have to live off of other
people and I don't like the thought of
that so I but I'd like to create all
these ID
bad things that could happen so the
money thing is is a big thought in my
mind and how we could do this and how we
could stay afloat so you tried to tell
me no more I said no be smooth sailing
from here and then you know what no
stealing funds he goes no plans at all
sorry for the pun so jess and i have
talked about this idea is being a really
really bad idea or it could be one of
the greatest gifts that we could be
given and to have husbands who are
adventurous and handy and like to work
on things and fix things and you have a
lot of courage and they're willing to
even think about something like this
you thought it was like a three on a
scale of one to ten of likelihood of us
doing it what do you think now it
depends on how much Jess and I get on
board oh no I did another pun what
number do you think I would say I think
you would say a ten what number do you
think Doug's at like at twenty-three
like seasons another world I don't know
he wanted to do this before he'd even
ever been on that boat so
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fish okay but is there anything you
liked about sailing like going fast
okay I'm excited him but also what going
to and it you might you know you might
get cheated
that's the mostly saying but it's okay
cuz you could do fish that but someone
who stupid disgusting and so much have
twenty poems like twenty done and you
know and you can also like knuckle know
what to do not it just shocks this is a
little short so it's gonna be a fun time
and you can uh like you know bring some
stuff it'll be pretty fun
oh great making have a great weekend
yeah I see fishy
sharks stingrays go scrubbing a lot
every day maybe
if it's away Nikkei probably not a bunny
she needs to stay in this guy smells
like strawberries you some toys toy I
think you should know that just gonna
bring my stuffed animals with me kaboosh
and good bake well I feel like we've
moved from fantasy dreamland
and to more realistic thinking
realistically what does it look like to
sell our house and everything that goes
in it and what does it look like to say
goodbye to people that we care about and
we can think more about negatives
instead of when they are positive
thinking I am looking forward to seeing
the places and meeting their people
having my kids experience that with me
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