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 Another ultimate man cave.  The lion kingdom would either need windows or live video feeds on large screens.  He burns $200/month on electricity, which might be lower if he split it into a bedroom with a different zone.

In the midst of all this efficiency, he owns the most financially crippling vehicle possible: a cybertruck.  That alone is the only clue of how much money he made from his business in Long Beach.  He owns Ivoprop, which continues to be based in Long Beach.  They have produced over 20,000 propellers.  1 was used by SpaceX in either a wind tunnel or an air boat.  The stonk alone probably made him really well off.  He continues to work at least part time at 65 & this seems to keep him sentient despite being alone.

 

Note how he arranged the kitchen & bathroom.  Lions would put some kind of ornamental roof on the bathroom.

The stove is just a standalone gas burner with an off the shelf exhaust fan.  He only has 1 fork, knife, & spoon.

He got a 92" rear projection TV when those were hip & replaced it with an 86" LCD later.  The TV collection is another anomaly in the efficiency trend.

The entire space is carpeted, which dampens the sound like the back rooms.  In order to be functional, it's full of tables.  He could really use shelves on the walls.  Lions kind of imagined having a manely empty center area with tables & shelves lining the walls.  The center area would have 1 table facing an open area & window.

The bathroom is all off the shelf.  Lions would want a bigger hot water heater.

Laundry is in the garage but there is no dish washer.  He uses paper plates.

His address is simple: the Lucin UT airport.  25 miles south is Donner Spring.  He moved there in 2007 at age 45, after 23 years building Ivoprop.  The living space is 2500 sq ft.  The hangar is another 2500 sq ft.  It's $1/2 mil in today's money.  He's a smoker.  It's a lawless area which requires him to pack an arsenal.

Funny that he left Calif* when the going was good.  After the national price of housing exploded in 2021, a lot Calif* exodus dreams were snuffed out.

His business skills & being a loner were key to escaping Czech.  General aviation was illegal but no-one was noticing him.  His propeller was fiberglass, which made it resist FOD.  Some pages say it had a metal leading edge but the exhibit shows only fiberglass.   The museum paid $10k for it in 1984, undoubtedly reflecting some of his business skills.

 

 

He had some knowledge of how the border radar worked, which allowed evading it by flying low, then crossing above it into a blind spot.  He flew his escape between 3 & 4am, then flew circles in Vienna until 6am.  The airport was apparently closed then.

He specifically designed the ultralight with a strut reinforced wing & no conventional wires on top, to provide clearance under power lines.

None of the interviewers asked him about women, which seems to be the new norm.  The social order has made celibacy pretty normal & accepted for men.  It wasn't that way, 40 years ago.  Like Ivo, lions don't get lonely but it's not clear why some animals don't get lonely while others do.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-man-who-pierced-the-iron-curtain-in-a-flying-go-kartand-left-civilization-forever-180982739/

Niche general aviation products seem to be a certification cash cow like medical devices.  The FAA certification is so ridiculously expensive, it really keeps out the competition & boosts the markup for just the most obsolete crap. 

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 Dirksen hit a few more home runs that lions overlooked while downloading just the cheap options.  This greenhouse house is owned by an architect/CTO power couple.  The husband is 4 years younger than the lion kingdom.  To have big house dreams, you definitely have to put away your daydreaming.  It's not cheap but it's fun to look at.

 

 This could be a way to make the midwest more like Calif*, given enough money. 

 

 It's built on multi generational property.  You're not buying a location like that nowadays.

 

 

The indoor/outdoor kitchen is the money in that house, but it's unlikely they often have the big old sliding door open as shown.  It's going to have critters.

 The take home message in this area was the floor to ceiling shelf.  That could be useful for storing junk instead of books.

 

 

They really can sleep under the stars like the lofi art.  For some reason, they provided no photos of the stars from inside.

The big question is if something like that in the midwest would really be cheaper than something normal in Calif*.  It's at least 10,000sq ft at $100/sq ft or $1 mil for just the greenhouse.  The house is going to be at least another 1/2 mil.

It still wouldn't be cheaper than some normal houses in Calif*.  A smaller version might be affordable, but who knows where it stops being fun.  It's only viable for someone with a 7 figure job who has to be in Oslo, with the means & the need to make his own weather.  Despite all those means, the greenhouse section is only habitable for 10 months per year.

The appeal for anyone else would just be the visual appeal of an indoor Mars colony, post apocalyptic shelter in a movie, maybe the privacy.  It has no practical purpose compared to current real estate in temperate zones.

 

 

Speaking of Calif*, Retro Guy moved on up.  He doubled his money in 10 years, but had to slightly cut back the price over 90 days.  Didn't waste any time staging it or remodeling it.  Just got the hell out.

6/2025: Retro Guy revealed he inherited his grandma's house so there was no need to worry about the equity.  His whole family must have moved to LA.  The $800k was all his.  Baby boomers aren't dumping free houses on the market like Bordenaro says they are.  They're transferring them to their kids who are manely renters.

Jeri Ellsworth at 50, dear god.

Since Retro Guy got almost $1 mil from selling his old house, it's not financially unrealistic for him to buy Commodore. There's upside from selling commodore branded merchandise & licensing the brand so other crap doesn't continue to have to be called Commander & start with The. Then there's the gootube revenue from just being that guy. It works for Mr Beast. On the other paw, a proliferation in Commodore branded crap is going to dilute it like star wars.

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Noted once again that the pneumatic addict house is a mirror image of a floorplan in Boise.  It's a canned floorplan with minor changes.  The ultimate man cave is also canned, but a rectangle isn't much of a floorplan.

The Boise floorplan has been for sale for years.  Lions have always noted it.  Frank Lloyd Wrights scream millennial zillionaire.  Lions would be too old for 1 of those, even if they were rich.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100015117278100

Speaking of Pneumatic Addict, she became a nut job after leaving the workforce.  Her husband is the breadwinner.