Dav Kaufman Visits Reptile Shop & We go Herping | Reptiles With Podcast S04EP56 (Reptile Podcast)?

We have a lot to talk about today. Dave Kaufman, Katalia, Dan the Turtle Man, came over. And then we went outdoors and funneled some animals. Oh, he's got tons of frogs and you're scared of frogs. I want to know. No, frogs, yeah. I knew, you know, when we went out for lunch, I texted him and I was like, it's all frogs. How did you guys think I was going to act? Not going to lie, I was, I told you there, I was like, I'm really proud of you, dude. I thought we were going to have to turn around. Then I did get into a situation where the biggest fear of the Cuban tree frog I had won jump on me. In a normal circumstance, I would have screamed. In this circumstance, when I'm with my boys and I'm a man. You're so disgusting. Welcome back to the Reptiles with Podcast. Listen, I have a new persona. Tino has a new first sonar. It's crazy over here. Look, he ain't got shit. He's got no shoes on. He's got no, there's a reason for my toes to be out. Yes, we were going to see that in a little bit. But look, so I have a story. The other day, Chuck and Estrada were having a conversation. And they were saying, they were like, oh yeah. Sunglasses this, sunglasses that. I'm like, man, I don't wear sunglasses. That's lame. And they were like, yeah, I need sunglasses because the sun makes you blind. I didn't know that. Over time, yeah. I didn't know that. So now I'm sunglasses Yoshi. Okay, but where's the sun? He literally wore them all day long. Yeah, I'm like, what are you doing, bro? I came, I came into work to do that, enough. I came into work the other day, like a celebrity. I had a cap on, I had these on. I had a mask on. You couldn't tell who I was. What was it called? You know, it looked like. The guy from ZZ Top. From ZZ Top. Yes, the guitarist. I don't know. It's over. Yeah. All right. So we have a lot to talk about today. A lot happened. Dave Kaufman, Katalia, Dan the Turtle Man, came over. We went to my house. We had some nighttime adventures. Not with them. No, not with them. We went, you know, they're recording here. At the shop, then the four of us went to my house, fondled some animals. And then we went outdoors and fondled some animals. Yep. All right. Craziness, Sunday. A lot happened. A lot there. A lot there. A lot there. A lot there. A lot there. A lot there. A lot there. A lot there. A lot there. A lot there. A lot there. Let's start with the beginning. So Dave Kaufman, Katalia, Dan the Turtle Man, came to hang out here. Some of them. No, no, it wasn't Dan the Turtle Man. It was Batman. Oh. Oh, yeah. Dan didn't show up. It was Batman. Yeah. Thank you. It was here. Super weird. I came from China. Oh, yeah. My bad, bro. Yeah. How did you guys feel about the day? I mean, it went. It was longer than I thought it was going to be. He really like saw a lot of animals and took his time throughout the thing. Yeah. I think, honestly, I was the one talking. And I do social media here for the most part. Yeah. So I'm not the most knowledgeable in the animals. So whenever I didn't know anything, I didn't act like I did. I just caught one of Yacht Muff. I was like, oh. What is this thing over here? What did this fucking poodle-looking thing? Weird white dick-looking thing? Yeah. Actually, I was showing him the ivory blue tongue. And he got me a trouble. Why? He got me in a little bit of trouble. I was moving it around too much. He said, hold it like a statue. I was like, okay. So I'm sorry. He did that to me every time. I'm like, I'm a shaky dude. Yeah. I'm a shaky dude. Sometimes if I got to do it, I just... Whoa, buddy. What are we talking about doing? He should have been like, oh, sorry. This is a live animal. It does what it wants. No, it was my hand for sure. Yeah. We saw a few things. It was cool. It was cool talking to him. I've met him a few times already. When he saw me, I've seen you somewhere. I was like, I'll talk to you all the time. You won't remember me. It's fine. Yeah. Catalyah. He's too famous for you. Literally. Catalyah. This is like the second time I've met her. She's cool. And then I see him everywhere. Yeah. Every fucking weird I got here. We're gonna see him more often. Yeah. We can't see anything about that. I can't see anything. No. No. He'll be visiting a lot. Hopefully. Hopefully. Dan's always a good time. He has a lot of energy. A lot of ADHD. He's everywhere. But also super present. A lot of people that are everywhere. They're never like with you. But he's with you. Yeah. Yeah. I like him. It was cool. It was cool. I gave him some alligator scoots and you guys. Yes. I got everybody alligator scoots in for those of you guys that don't know. Those are scents. No, they're not scents. No, that's the scoots. That's the bone. Yeah, that's the bone. They don't shed like that. Well, the scoot is an osteotherm. So it's a bony plate under the scale in the back of the alligator that has two jobs. The first one is armored. So if another alligator is alligator, the same size, try to bite them. It doesn't allow their teeth to go completely through. And it's also like a solar panel. So for them to bask, they're large animals. So they need to get out of the water to scoots, heat up with the sun. And then they're connected to nerves and veins and things like that. And then they get all that warm energy throughout the rest of the body. So that's what those things do. That's what I have all the crevices. Yeah, yeah. Very, very cool. And an alligator could actually bite another one. Peel a scoop out in the alligator that gets a scoop that will be completely fine. So very, very cool. It came from an alligator that I own Doug. So very, very cool. Undug. Undug, whatever. Is that the word? Digged. Digged. I got the word, guys. Fuck it. I'm going to get these glasses back on. I'm going to be the first one right now. Digged. Digged. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was cool. Yeah. Your house, dude, you got stuff out of sauce. Yeah, dude. You know, look, I find it funny. The ongoing fucking Yoshi keeps shit in racks. Listen. Yeah, that's funny. You need to put a little. Yeah, the blue tongue outside. Oh, my God. You guys need to put a little respect on the name. No, no, no, no, no, no. I need respect on the name. I do like the stuff. I've been keeping shit outside since 2015 since I started. What a liar. What do you mean? The turtles. And tortoises. Yeah, of course. Some lizards. Technically. What lizards? So the turtles are still in tubs. Oh, my God. Tino, thank you for saving that. You're welcome. Outdoors. Outdoors. I've kept. Savannah monitors. I've kept. I have kept blue tongues. Outdoors before. I have. I have. Am I me? I've kept. They can never survive. You're so dumb. Gertled lizards. African girdled lizards. The ones that you've had. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I've kept those outside. Um, actually under a patio. I've kept Central American. Uh, geckos. Banana geckos? Yeah. Banana geckos. I don't believe you. Oh, my God. It's the truth. You're a tubber. It's so calm. Oh, my God. Redfoot. Listen, whatever. So we went to my house. You guys got to fondle my snakes, fondle my aloe. What was the coolest thing that you guys saw at my house? Honestly, I found a dead beetle outside. That was fire. I kept that shit too. You're coming home with me. That's fire. Um, aloe's dope though. It's always a great thing, aloe. So between the brettles and aloe. So aloe because I have one. And mine is tiny and comparison. Yeah, it is, buddy. Yeah. So I'm like, fuck. Like, I can't wait. But then the brettles is like, oh, this boy really did it. Yeah. And then they get to climb. I literally grabbed them. They were hiding. I don't know. None of the ground. They're really tame. And then I put them on the branches and they started climbing. I was like, yeah, do the thing. Do the thing, do this. Yeah. And you know, the best part is that you leave them alone and they just come straight back on. And that's what they like to do there. They're habitual like that. Is that a word that I use that correctly? I don't have used it correctly. They do habits. They do habits. Sunglasses. The brettles do habits. Yeah, no. It's cool because I see them in different parts of the day. And I see them doing a lot of the same activities. And the male and the female that live together, even they do different activities. They're not, obviously, they're, yeah, from each other. They're not always together. They do give each other their own space. The male has its own hide. The female has its own hide. They have two different arboreal hides. The female comes out every morning when I get up to check my animals outside. She's always at the top of the cage that there's a little bit of light that comes in. And she's always up there basking towards the end of the, I mean, then middle of the day comes when it gets to the hottest. She goes to her hide. The male comes out a little bit. And then at night, they're just both out, you know, wild and hanging out. I feel like those are your favorite animals we keep outside. My favorite animals I keep outside. They are the most unique animals that I keep outside. Mm-hmm. A lot of people keep different iguanas outside. So for me, aloe being outside, I'm like, okay, this is like a normal thing for me to do. Cool, cool animal for sure. The fact that she's okay with me. She lets me hold her. And she's just calm like that. Dope. Turtles, I mean, I've kept turtles outside for a long time. And so, yeah, definitely the brittles. I'm like, this is cool. Yeah, it is. It is. Not many people get to experience that. Yeah. And I think, like from what you said, I'm about to attack you a little bit. But listen, listen, listen, listen. What you just talked about, the habit. Yeah. It goes into the little hide. Yeah. Get it out of the hide. It does the same thing over and over again. Yeah. All pythons in the wild do the same exactly. No, they don't. Yes, they do. I've seen them. No, but you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Like all of those animals, like people try to be like, nah, they live in termite mountains. There's multiple snakes species that live very similarly throughout the entire fight. Yeah. So it's like, that's what it is. And that's how you find them as well. Bro, we went to our friend Tyler's house. I know he's going to listen to this. So shout out to Tyler. He sucks. I love you Tyler. I'll be trying as though. Yeah. And we, he has a blue tongues in some like four by two enclosures. And the whole time Chuck was like, oh, wow. So they have you V. Oh, wow. So they do this. Fucking roasting me the whole time. Tyler said, yeah, sometimes they come on and bask. I was like, no way. They don't bask. No way. They don't live in tubs. They don't bask. Yeah. But then you got to see my blue tongue outside. Yeah, I did. I don't expect that. I didn't know you had that. Yeah, I do. Yeah. That is a very special animal that I can't talk too much about. But that's outside. Crescent geckos outside. Yeah. It can happen here. What are you talking about? I got that. It's impossible. So hot. Yeah. I got that too, buddy. I got two. I got two outside. Fire. Oh, you don't have to stay on the podcast. My fucking day gecko enclosure. Oh, yeah. Yo, if you guys have anybody, if you guys keep anything outside and you guys have anybody that does your lawn, make sure they're careful around your cages because my lawn dude completely destroyed my day gecko reptile breeze. So they're all for sale now. Yeah. No, they got away. There's a new population. Yeah. It's my fault. Yeah. You got them all. I came here. I was like, my god. He has all of them. Yeah. It happened to me too. It was my mom. When I lived with my mom, she cut right through that beach. Didn't get out because it was like at the bottom. Yeah. What the fuck? But yeah, be careful with that shit. Careful with this shit outside. Yep. I'm gonna see what else happened. We saw that. I mean, you guys got to see. You guys didn't see any fucking reef turtles. They're all the way to the bottom. Yeah. I've seen them before though. I love them. Honestly, they're contender for a possible turtle I might get. Eric, you can talk. Say something, bro. He's over there pointing out. Yeah. Hold on. Hold on. I was just saying, you make sure he gets a turtle at some point. Yeah. I'll give him more. I have some right now. No, he said one of the ones that he would get. Now you're fucking lame ass three stripes, right? We'll get that. We'll get that. I could do like the three shapes. But for me, like my favorite turtles, the Indian Spotted. So amazing turtles. Amazing turtles. But they get kind of big. They get on the bigger side. Like about that big. It's a little too big. I don't really. How's that right now? It's basic. But a reused turtle. I'm like, that seems pretty cool. Especially the all black ones. I posted with one on Instagram when I went over. But it's like, that is so. The whole thing is black. The eyes are black. The, the, the toes are white. Yeah. All of it. I'm like, that's so cool. So cool. Rock and roll. Eric, what was your favorite thing? Uh, Yoshi's house? Yeah. Hello. Hello. You held it for a minute. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How was that? I mean, I disappeared when you guys were holding your house. I love her. I just. I. I am always back and forth if I wanted to go on or not, because I have a Chinese water dragon. Uh-huh. And he fulfills that niche, that niche in my heart. But I was special. The fact that you sit there and know that you can pat on. Yeah. I love that. Yeah. I'm not going to lie to you. It's been so hot. I am surprised how calm she was. Mm-hmm. And it was a testament to, I guess, like some of the work that I've been able to do with her. Mm-hmm. And so whenever we do anything that we want to take her out to do stuff, I know that you had asthma. Oh, how is she? And I was like, what? She's okay. But she gets a little skittish. I was surprised that she was just calm. Yeah. Did we pass the one year with her? Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. Um, whenever I hear stuff like that about the heat and then being a little extra, I saw a bullshit. You're going to work with that animal at that temperature as well. You know what I. Dude, your dogs are disgusting. We'll talk about them in a little bit. Yeah. Uh-huh. I'm going for free on here. Yeah. You already did. I'm here, bro. I'll say why they're so dirty. Yeah. No roast yet. Um, I see her. Is that what I've noticed is that they get a little extra when it's hot, when there's food around. Yeah, for sure. Because they're hungry. Yeah. They're burning this. Yeah. How often do you feed her? Um, I try to offer her something pretty often in small amounts and then I'll give her some big meals, like two to three times a week. I don't want to feed mine just yet. Yeah. But the thing is what I've been. I used to be very strict with diet schedules, keeping animals outside. In my opinion, it doesn't always work like that because you have to watch the animals. You've got to watch the body type. Yeah. Yeah. Make sure. Yeah, exactly. If it's burning and enough, all that stuff. Exactly. And then obviously once it gets colder, you're feeding a lot less. You're probably not feeding much of anything. Yeah. You know, um, so it varies. Um, you know, we say anything about these desert iguanas. The desert iguanas are cool. They wear cool. But they don't do shit. They don't do shit. They're not. I love them. I love the desert iguanas. They're amazing. They're amazing. We're that. Yeah. You're right. You're right. They're cool to watch. It's an animal you want to watch. Yeah. But like the bread holes and then I'll always something that you can hold and like. There's nothing better than the smell of coffee in the morning. Okay. There's also nothing better than the smell of reptiles in the morning. It's like reptiles with coffee. That's the smell you want. The strongest coffee. All right. We have it for you. Head on over the description or go to coldbloodedcaffin.com and use the code reptiles with to get your reptiles with coffee today. We semi-herpet. We semi-herpet. How is it? How is that semi? Bro, we were like in somewhere within the city. You haven't gone anywhere outside of it just yet. Once you go outside, you're going to know it's outside. Yeah. We saw lights. There was a freaking school. Yeah. Yeah. Come on, Doug. Never seen it, though. Actually, you're right. There are no schools in Florida. Yeah. You're right. But yeah. Now you guys know exactly where it was. No. We saw a few things. We saw a few things. So you had never seen three stripes in the wild before. Correct. And I literally said, oh, we can go see that right now. Yep. And then we ran out. And was the first thing we saw? We saw three three stripes. Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah. Chuck really knew a spot. Come on, man. Come on, man. Come on. But what did you think of the three stripes or the whole adventure? The three stripes. Okay. So seeing them coloration. I don't know much about them. Yeah. So striped mud turtles for me are the turtle species that I started with. They are my favorite species of turtle, one for nostalgia. But also, I think that they're personable. They're perfect size for a pet. And I mean, it's a beautiful animal. The color, what I've noticed with a couple of people that I talk to, people that, you know, go outside a lot, like specifically in the Everglades, even out west. And then now here is that there are not only phases of colors, like we have the blonde phase. But there's even more specific things. So some people have noticed in different localities. And something that I noticed where we were at is how dark their bellies were. Where the show itself, the top of it, I mean, it's regular three-shot that you'd expect in the wild. Just because I mean, it's, you know, it wants to be murky. You know, the stripes themselves are not very prominent. But specifically, the plaster on itself was just so black. And then the ones that, the little bit of color that did show, it was like red. That was cool. I like turtles. So that's the first thing we saw. And then on the same spot we saw, the banded water snake. Oh, yes. It was so red. I love when I find those. Those are so freaking cool. Do you think it's because it was so young? Or do they retain? No, the young ones are black and red. I've seen black and red, baby. Yeah, the babies are black and red. That happens quite often. There's some localities that happens more often than others. It could just be a hype on my own. Yeah, it's technically not exactly. There's a hype. That one had a little bit more texture to it. Like some darks. The hype is just red. And then very minimal markings. But something along those lines of some weird coloration, you can find them almost completely black sometimes. Yeah. There was one of the ones. I like the ones we saw. I don't know if it's the one that you guys let go and assume across me or the one that I jumped a fence for, but one of them didn't have any bands. No, no. It was just dark completely. It just variable. It doesn't matter. It's not a rule to them. They just look very different wherever you go. Then we saw the one chasing the frog. Yeah. The last time I went with Daniel, there was a leopard frog who jumped into the water and the snake just caught it quickly. This time I just saw the water and I told you. I was like, that looks like something. There was a lot of movement. There was a lot of movement. So I jumped a fence. I walked and then a frog jumped and wherever it jumped, the water snake just showed up. I didn't know where the fuck it came from. It just showed up right in front of it. And then the frog was a little bit more ahead, but it didn't get it. I just got to record it. Yeah. I mean, did you get some cool footage? Yeah, I got some decent stuff. decent. I just like a night. It's hard to get the right lighting and stuff. Yeah. To get like good content. So a lot of times I just record for myself. Like, oh, shit, I saw this. Yeah. Just remember this. Yeah. And then, oh, he's got tons of frogs and you're scared of frogs. I want to know. No, frogs. Yeah. I knew. You know, when we went out for lunch, I texted him and I was like, it's full of frogs. I texted. I texted back so I perfect. Yeah. I wasn't surprised. I wasn't surprised that how many frogs are. I want to know how you guys thought I would react. Oh, rather, for people that are you here, I'm terrified of frogs and totals. It's like scared, scared. Like how people are with like spiders and arachnophobia. Like that. How did you guys think I was going to act? Not going to lie. I was, I told you there. I was like, I'm really proud of you, dude. I thought we were going to have to turn around. I thought we were going to have to leave. As soon as you saw like a couple of frogs across the road, they were going to have to leave. I thought you were going to trip and want to turn around and I wasn't going to. Yeah. And it's like, you the follow, you go stay in the dark buddy. Yeah. Yeah. I think at the only point that I would have said, no, I don't want to do that, is if we had gone in the water at night. Hmm. I don't want to. I don't want to. I don't know if they're my jeans. I was like, fuck, dude. Yeah. Yeah. But that was, that was, that's not so much about the frog thing. More than like I personally don't feel like I have the skill said to do that. I don't know what I'm looking at. I don't know. I don't recognize some of these things. I don't know if I'm in danger. I don't know if I'm not in danger. Like, and I also don't really have good balance. You know, so I don't, I don't know how that would have gone for me. I literally, like, oh, no, my no shoes. No, I got no shoes because I went into the water to get the three stripes for these guys because they didn't want to get you their feet to use wet. And then I just got, like, I don't want to put my shoes on. That's always a time. That's it. I just literally grabbed them and I just walked around. Barefoot. There you go. Trail. Yeah. Something a few frogs. Yeah. Antos. Ants bit my toes. Got in the water. It was pretty dope. Pretty dope. Yeah. I definitely, I definitely was scared. I mean, I was like tripping out in my head more than anything. And it wasn't that I was scared. I knew there was going to be frogs there. So that for me in my head was like, you put yourself in the situation. That's gone. You know, these are things that I processed, right? It was more like, what happens if one's on me and I know that I wasn't going to go and touch one. So those are the two scenarios. I'm like, well, I'm not going to touch one. And what happens if it's in my direction? What do I do? Tino helped me a lot because he was pushing a lot of the frogs away, which I would always think I'm like, thank you, Tino. But then I did get into a situation where the biggest fear of the QVT frog, I had one jump on me, which in a normal circumstance, I would have screamed. In this circumstance, when I'm with my boys and I'm a man, I honestly just, how do you say I didn't see it? Because we were looking, it was on the sketchy bridge. Yeah, the sketchy bridge. And we were looking in one direction. And I had a feeling I was like, damn dude, there's a lot of holes on this bridge. Anything could be there. But I was like, I'm just in the moment. I wanted to be present. And then I felt it on me. I just felt it. I reacted. Because I had a hook. I reacted. And as I reacted, I looked down and I saw it. But before I did, before I really got to it, I touched it with the hook and it fell down. And that's as fast as it was. And I turned around and I said, Eric, I got a fucking goal. Yeah, funny story to that. So the other day, I was leaving work. And I decided, like, I haven't been in the woods. I need to. Like, I literally told Kara as I go, I'm going to the woods. So I went on my drive there. I saw a corn snake on a branch. I got the corn snake. I brought it out to the woods. So it wasn't near the road. Did a little video release it. And then I decided to walk the trail. So I'm walking the trail, bro. There's the B2I posted. There's tons of things moving around, you know? And now I'm walking this grasshoppers flying in the lands on my knee. Like, my hand's going at the same time. So I felt it. And I freaked. When I freaked, I don't know why I went to, like, push down on it or something with my other hand and I hit my balls. No! I didn't win. Just to the ground. I was like, fuck. Grasshopper playing. Yeah. I definitely had a good time. Like, it was great. We've been saying that we needed to do that for a long time. Today was a perfect opportunity. You know, Eric finally had the day off. Eric. Yeah. Eric. Yeah. We had a great time, man. Talk to us. Reptiverson-York. Well, first things first, I woke up without an alarm clock. Hey. Would you say you woke up quick at about noon? I just thought that you had to be in Compton soon? Straight out. Straight out. Straight out. Straight out. You got to hang out in my dad for a little bit before he left for work. Now, to get milk like you guys. He doesn't come back with this crazy. Well, if my dad cleansed my turtles and then, And then finishing up the coffin stuff happened and up there today, and it was fun going urban at the time I was like, I'm gonna get dirty and I did get dirty, but it was worth it because I saw three stripes It's not the first time for me, but it's a three-stripe man. Yeah, that was your favorite girl. I'm gonna get dirty What my highlight was was the watersnakes. Yeah, I really never seen watersnakes in the wild before at least being able to touch it. Whoa, really? I don't see one at the central fortitude. I didn't know that. I would say watersnakes are my number one I always see watersnakes. I love them. I didn't know that I didn't know that was your life for on your hands Oh, we also saw Nick's nick is Nick is Nick is No, no, no, no, no, is he Donald dragons? Yeah, I thought it was just Nick likes spaghetti. That's the first Oh your foot is first out there. You do like the spin. Yeah, yeah, you did like spaghetti, but that was his first armadillo Oh There's no armadillos down there You did find the gator. Oh, yeah, he found a gator. Yeah, Eric was yeah, Eric was going crazy finding fucking eyes Oh, yeah, I will say me and Eric we're going at it Yeah, I was finding the reps and he was finding the eyes What did he think of of the habitat? Um, okay, so I I don't know if it's because I'm from Miami, but I have an affinity for water Specifically like just aqua life and so I like to see I I loved seeing the stream. I don't want to like say too much and give something away I loved I loved seeing the stream and that it was like the pace that it had Brushing against the aquatic plants and I was just like dude like I was something Eric that one of my actual dreams is to have a creek like that in my house So that like I mean, I don't even know if I'd put like turtles in it. It's just there was a There was a guy once it when I was buying one of my one of my first staccatos that I went to his house And in his house like his whole backyard was pretty much just a giant pond and I was like I don't even think something like that was possible So I've always had it in my head on my dude if I just had like a stream and then like Just like I don't know like plant life and stuff like that. So that was cool for me because it was just more like brain stuff that I was like Yeah, yeah, the water being so clear and it was yeah, it was it was cool. It was cool I thought you kept mentioning it as I mentioned it because yeah, that's the Muttertle habitat right there. Yeah, that is insane, bro The amount of Something that I specifically since I've been keeping my turtles the whole time that I've bred reptiles And something that I've always had issues with is The amount of water that you need for that species of turtle versus the height of the water because you don't want You don't want something super deep. It's not that they won't utilize it. They're not I don't want to say that they're not the best swimmers, but They're a lot like snapping turtles. Yeah, they'll definitely go down the bottom and they they muck up They bring up the muck. They go out and bass, but they're not like they're not like terrapins or sliders. Yeah Swimming around basing on exactly So the ponds that I have them in right now like I wouldn't even want to have them in that kind of pond I've kept them in a another enclosure that I built that was a little bit shorter But it was wider and then the way that that pond was is that it would pump out water into a different pond and then Then which was deep as fuck where I had my sliders and then water it would pump It would suck that water to a bioactive filter that I had and then run straight back into this three-strap enclosure So it was a string You know, and that's how I like to keep them It's just hard in the style of like enclosures that I have now So it was it definitely gave me ideas for just like the future and stuff like that I just got to build back that three-strap colony. Yeah Hell yeah, man. I thought you were going to focus on plants there too No, I thought you were like I love these. Yeah, I thought you were I I I usually propagate properly that that was a thing like I knew I wasn't gonna do it right I knew I was gonna do it right and I was like oh, I could use that I could use that but I'm also like We saw the the guards the Florida guards. Yeah He saw the little catfish Yeah, you saw a little catfish the little playco you saw that thing. Yeah, it was a little bit bigger last time we saw one this big Yeah, so tiny, but yeah, that's a good experience there for what native wildlife is yeah, yeah, definitely People have found never mind. I'm not saying that. Yeah, it's too specific people will know. Okay. Yeah, cool So Before we move on from this and get into some things that we haven't done in a couple weeks Tino said you said you wanted to ask me something. Yeah, so I have saved the dinosaur shirt And I wanted to ask so you guys have seen the movies right Like what movies the classic world. Oh, okay You guys have seen the movies right? The context they were gonna a volcano is gonna blow up this island or east list So it's a new block where the dinosaurs were came out and at the end of the second movie Uh, he's deciding whether or not to save the dinosaurs or not They go through this whole ethical conundrum of like extinct animals have no rights whatever whatever whatever They're not even real dinosaurs their mutations monsters whatever whatever I wanted to ask you guys if you guys would kill the animals if I would kill the animals Yeah, if you like let them die and or at the end when I think the the main character girl She was like open the thing to let them free obviously don't let yeah, don't animals. It's any ecosystem. Yeah, but in the sense of like allowing them to survive Oh That was I knew he would I knew he would I was like I was picking out a sherford today and I was like I haven't won the show in a minute and I was like I'm gonna ask I think I know I'll keep one for myself So what what are the options? It's either kill them or let them lose Or or we can go ahead and like try to transport them put them in like a zoological institution like You had to let them lose it was no time In that situation yeah, yeah, yeah, I did let them lose oh if it was a choice between letting them lose and kill there were two options They went to the island and they brought some animals out and then the intention was to well To put them into like good institutions, but really they were just kind of seldom well releasing them is never the answer They're leasing them as never the answer you heard that releasing them is never the answer never ever ever The thing is is that when you go ahead and put them into a captivity you put them in a zoological institution There was always risk that they can get out always So is it worth it Is it worth to keep the animals alive keep You can't keep all of them first of all it's impossible. There was two fucking many literally on a freaking island. I would kill a lot of them No as a tape personally I mean I would have I would have to kill a lot bro like the wildlife that lives now is what's important for the ecosystem They're gonna destroy the whole ecosystem So if you let them lose they kill every I think Russian needs like mammoths now, right? Yeah That's what they're doing Bro, bro, hold up my boy just found flamingos in Tampa Why the flamingos are back crazy? They're back dude. They were extinct in the 1950s And now they're back. That's crazy. They were in the South Florida area for a minute now they're starting to move up They're fucking back flamingos are weird one for me. Why are they African? I want to say that they're African. Are you stupid? The Florida has flamingos. Yeah, you stupid, but they're not the same. No Florida has its own Yeah, they're called American they're called American flamingos. That's so weird to me. American flamingos and then greater flamingos are the ones in Africa That's so odd to me. How is that odd? I don't know because Florida also has like the swoonbills and that basically looks like a flamingo The niche is different though. Yeah, but it is basic this flamingo. No. Yeah, weird beak pink has two legs Wings Bird. It's guy. It's a flamingo. This guy. Look, I tell someone pink bird. They're gonna say flamingo all of them. Yeah Spoonbill is a pink bird. It's a flamingo. No, it's the same shit. Colors don't make the bird, dude Come on, man. Yeah, come on, man All right, another bird person. I like reptiles now. I have to ask you something Tino. Yes, what's the thing? Can you tell them your ass ass story? My ass ass story. Oh, yes, I can. I can. This is a transitional comedy piece story too. So I'm driving to work. I'm taking like I'm not taking the highways. I'm taking like the main road, right? I'm driving. I need to get into the left lane. This truck behind me does not want to let me through So I have the signal. I'm like let me through let me through I have actually just worked my way in there. There was enough space. I didn't hit him. I didn't nothing like that I wasn't that close, but I knew he wasn't wanting to let me through So I go in all of a sudden he rides up on the median to get in front of me I am the big that I am. I'm like absolutely not not gonna happen So I start to ride the the guy in front of me so that he can't get in. Hey, pause And yes, I was a little bit of an asshole. Oh well, you know, it was not cause for him to then you were an ass ass Follow me all the way to work Follow me all the way to work stopping in front of me trying to get out of his car Kind of get me to get out of my car and I'm like no, this isn't happening. My pride is not this big I don't care about you right now dude. I got to go work. So I'm going I pull into the the plaza where I'm supposed to go to work He pulls up in front of me stops the car Get out of his car and I'm not having it I rolled on the window pull out my knife that I keep in my car and like get back in your car. I'm not playing around You eventually get so mad he pull he gets back in his car I'm guessing the knife scared him off It is a bigger dude, and I'm not I'm not one to fight random people that I guess met You know, I don't know if he's got a gun. Whatever. I'm like no. I'm ending this right now. Go back in your car so You get stuck in his car. I pull in the work. I pull into the back I go into the into the shop and I check the cameras because I'm like I wonder I check the cameras for the back of the shop I see his truck there, and it's zooming off, right? So I'm like hmm. I wonder so I go out to check out my car There's a spilled drink all over it and he keyed the side door with ass ass It wasn't even that good a job. You can barely see it. You guys saw it. It's like little hairline. I saw it I'm sorry. I know because you guys You guys didn't say anything until I brought it up. No, and then all of a sudden you guys look at you like oh, I see it But if he did a good job, it would have just been ass ass and he'd be like what happened If you want to support us head on over to modernriptoshop.com or in the description where you can find our merch And the best part is is that a percent of the proceeds from the merch gets donated to conservation One more time that's modernriptoshop.com or head on over the description We're gonna get back into the our reaction to some reels And then we're gonna read some comments and shit like that that we haven't done it a couple weeks But we're back in the swing of things also if you're on Facebook check out the reptiles with scorn That is our Facebook group. Hopefully we'll be uploading that Also, if you're going to be an aminocon. I'm not gonna be an aminocon But this is this is coming out after aminocon. Oh shit never mind. If you wasn't All right, let's look at watch these things Guys And I really underestimated that Joe pressure. This gecko is locked right in on me. This is a nocturnal species of gecko This from Southeast Asia, and I'm in the keys in Florida right now and I caught one letting you know that this is invasive And this is a very tough situation that I'm not sure how I'm gonna get out of because this really hurts I mean, this makes snakes look like nothing. How do we feel? I? Mean talking gecko bite. Yeah, they bite they bite at as a content creator like just seeing the fake I'm just like okay. I feel like cave in wildlife. Yeah, no, I'm not saying anything about about him But whenever you watch like whenever I watch those videos, I'm just like I like his excitement. He gets really excited I just see it. Was he the one that we watched that he saw the fuck it? Yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah Yeah, like he gets really excited and those things are exciting, but like guys just like I'm just it's just I would never want to get bit by that That's okay. Yeah, that sounds like a bad time. I don't want to get bit by anything if I'm being honest with you That's just a me thing It's kind of whatever I don't think crocodile liens or the crock monitor. Ooh. Yeah I'm losing whatever it's biting. Can we something that you spent way too much money on but don't regret it at all because it's freaking sick I've said so many times before that diamond carpets need to be more they need to be bred more often Yeah, people need to keep more diamond carpets. They are gorgeous animals They're better than any ball python anybody could ever have They're better than any green key python anybody could ever have they are absolutely gorgeous This is their interactive. They get a really decent size. That's your goal. They're great eaters I mean they are one of the best pets. Thanks. They're right This is my advertisement for you guys to buy my bruddles pythons because I would love to buy a diamond carpet python How much are they? Like a hunker bucks for a baby. Those are not eight hundred dollars. No, they're like two grand Olds no for babies. Oh, yeah. God. How much other bruddles? Didn't not that much If I sell them all I'll be I'm I am gonna when I sell them all I am buying these that's my next outdoor project Rock and roll buddy. What do you mean? Are selling your big bruddles? No, no the babies the babies. No, I would not sell the big ones Those are my babies. All right next one. But you're selling the babies. Oh, you're selling You have a smooth brain No ridges or lumps or valleys or bumps All ideas I'd write off like a water slide Smooth That that for me is like a super underrepresented animal elephant sharks. Thanks. Yeah They're gonna keep them correctly. Nobody does anything with them correctly. They look like little puppies I also don't like it's I guess this is personal preference I would prefer people develop an appreciation for the animals without having to make them cute or cuddly What you know, I'm saying like without having to make it so cute. See and so dainty. It's like. It's still a snake You know, they're still snake. It's not like a puppy It doesn't like the way that they appreciate the animal It's because it's more like oh, we're trying to make it seem like it's a kitten or a lamb or a bunny You know, and it's like and it's not Yeah, come on very superficial And admiration for the animal all they care about is the cute and cut of the list, but they're not Involved and this is a snake. I want to learn about this animal. It's a much more like oh, it's cute scroll. Yeah, I mean that's fine though Yeah, I'm not I'm not ragging on it. Yeah, yeah, it's not my practice. Yeah, it's just it's again Yeah, I'm what's you know, not only I am more into the fascination of the animal more as the Yeah, I think yeah, I think with the way I'm doing my content now Especially on YouTube. I'm gonna start like if I pull some dumb shit like that I'm gonna throw you out of it. No But I would like the way I'm going about it, which they might be doing the same exact thing is like Okay, I'm gonna have this reach the only thing I'm not doing is like getting bit on purpose because I think that's fucking It just looks dumb. It just looks dumb like what the guy just did like Yeah, it wasn't intentional. It's a guy. It's exactly that's a way different But the acting part of it like that when I get bit I don't really give a fuck like I'm just He is whatever like it happens all the fucking time. I don't want to scare people Yeah, I'm just nothing. That's just how it is with me So I'm gonna keep it real in that way But sometimes you do things like this and it reaches new people and then I won't like for example the shorts I want the shorts to catch the attention of the people like I posted kissing the all I get on his face and all that By the way, that's in captivity fuckers. I'll do it in the wild but You know like what I mean like I try to catch people's attention And then I'm gonna get the full-on videos to be more like educational like This is what this is so those people might be able to grab people's attention and maybe teach people about this snake Through just making it cute I'd rather have this I'd rather have this than then trying to get bit and oh my god It's your fake is fuck like you just you just mind you it gets it gets attention You just look goofy like whenever those types of people like are around real people that do this shit They're just goofy the the one that we saw oh my god where the guys like Uh His channel or something is like hey guys we get bit by stuff. I'm like sure you guys this one This is a green iguana wild and yeah, and I'm like oh my god no way That way you can do that for views Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, and they do that for the views and shit and like I don't know I it makes the animal seem bad it makes people like all those things bite There's not mind you they do bite every now and then but if you're doing it on purpose you're making that happen Yeah, I don't know I feel like before like People cared about the animals how it lived and and then the nature of the animal now people are trying to Instead of making the animal look great make you look tough because you got bit by a fucking gecko You got bit by iguana you got bit by whatever. Yeah, it makes you feel some type of way But it's like no you like it's an act. Yeah, like it's a little it's literally an act is all fake Yeah, so do we have any facts any cool facts about the Sullivan Frank snake speaking of which the guy before caveman He was he got bit by the gecko. It wasn't intentional. But then he's giving facts. Yeah, it's not telling you anything Someone controls this. Yeah, I don't know what the fuck that is. I don't even know for example Good example because he gets bit mind you. He's acting the whole fucking time. He does get bit Whatever, but he's at least like talking on the animal And yeah, like getting bit and acting catches people's attention But without attention he's doing something with it. Yeah, this is not bad because like again It's not biting anyone. It's not doing anything. It just looks cute So I got nothing nothing against it. Eric you got facts for this elephant trunk snake. I do Tell me they are from Southeast Asia. They get fucking huge for what they are. Yep And I will spot their cousin at Daytona. Okay. What's their cousin at Daytona? The aquatic file snake Yeah, because they're insane. I don't I'm not very clear on the common name Okay, yeah, you're ready for a fact. Yeah, there was a population in Florida. What? Yeah Like native or invasive invasive. Oh When yeah, a few years back. I know it's like a neighborhood in a pond. Do you think that they're still there? No, no How do we know that they're not there because it was a whole operation? That's crazy. I don't know anything about that It's insane. It isn't insane. We're gonna Florida buddy. Wow, you're fucking South Floridian people. I don't do anything All right, next one All right, the caption says when someone pridefully starts telling me about all the losers. They killed when they were younger. What if I'm just hear me out for a second Yeah, all right last one Let's say it's more about snakes people say that. Yeah, I saw this one. Yeah, this was cool. I just You said the turtle guy. Yeah, this was for Eric You want to know what my life is? You want to know what it's like getting through a day here? Watch tortoise tortoise iguana go times two chicken Chickens tortoise turtle turtles Phoebe turtle Idiots stopping their brothers weird man. Hey, look a tortoise says to tear up in turtle tortoise sleepy tortoise lizard lizard turtle tortoise tortoise tortoise turtle frog Water pig Water pig. Water pig is a virus one Yes This is crazy. Is that your goal Eric? What is what is your actual fucking goal with this thing? I feel like you haven't figured this out I haven't I think this is this is Eric's hobby. This is not Eric's life. I could really really summarize it Half of Kenan's place. Okay. Okay, that's pretty much it. I don't want to go Including mammals and birds No, I don't think I want to keep a lot of that stuff. Yeah, that's involved. That's a lot of involved. Okay Anything I would probably just keep some sort of bird of prey or something got you He's never hilarious You're hilarious with the birds of prey. You know, that's the most involved you can be right. I know that's why I'd only get one thing I'm not gonna get caught You want I guess I support you if you're listening to this your reptile lover All right, and what do we all need? We need supplies So we got you covered head on over to imperial reptiles dot com and use the code reptiles with to get a specific discount Special to us and our listeners for your reptile supplies today One more time. That's imperial reptiles dot com. Use the code reptiles with Now onto some comments. We haven't done this in so long. We have not all right shut up All right, this one is shouting out our boy that reptile first guy really is cute Yo Eric dude In this Tyler all Tyler all right, we love Uh from geeky gecko creations lol love you guys love you too. We love you too rock and roll. We're working hard over here. I can't see if you're here All right from Matthew coffee Uh talking about coffee. I'm wearing the cold-blooded caffeine today They sent me this a the reptiles with coffee the strongest coffee. I'm not saying the best coffee Don't say the joke. All right from Matthew coffee 2672. I definitely won't be supporting Tino and Chuck anymore USR support all day question. Are you receiving kicks from Matthew coffee 2672? I was with that on I wasn't getting any support you were you were giving me anything. Yeah, what is the support? This is okay. Okay. Again. That's what I always love about what I do like what is the support like Can't flip Chuck by doing what oh he bought every one of our shirts. He keeps buying the cotton. No. No. Have you had a coffee? Yeah I hope you didn't unsubscribe though because we need you here, but we did make him think fuck that guy He thought it was gonna be like you know, I'm gonna post this yeah, all right DNA geckos Y'all should have a segment having non-famous people I think it would be great to be able to talk to you guys and get the average reptile person perspective look at look at us We are then on famous. Yeah This guy's got like a hundred thousand followers on Instagram. This guy's got like maybe half that I definitely not have that roa. I got like fucking seven thousand Yeah, no, but I do so Not to like push this so much, but for real If you're on the reptiles with squad Facebook group the goal is for that to be the place to Talk to us so we can have some kind of topics here Also, I would like to figure out a way to like for people to send in like Like audio recordings like just asking us a question like just like a voice memo so we could play it here on the podcast Discuss that But the the first way to do that is on that Facebook group so we can help build that community And then once we have enough of that going around we can have a new segment on the show where we do that So please be on the reptiles with squad Facebook group Um again from No, there's this right one Yeah, I don't know where this one is next one All right another one from DNA geckos I got so much to say J show is on roku reptile royalty is the name absolutely And then it's a barf emoji Just like his zoos We're talking about Yeah, well, yeah, that's where it's at we're talking about the show and we were saying that none of us had watched it Um now from Fuck bonko But fuck has a v instead of a you he said he said how does it this have more likes? I don't know fucking like the thing subscribe fucking show with your friends etc Trying to grow this all right last comment for the day Um, I don't even know how to say this in geoto Egeo that's your boy. All right, he said Um, this was a great therapy session nice. I hope it was man. I hope it was I feel like I don't know why we always go on these like serious fucking talk sometimes we talk about our emotions But we do that and you guys get to know us and it's fun and then we cry We're having so much fun. Yeah, listen guys you guys want to say anything else before we get going Can we announce anything coming up soon? No, not yet something with three letters that That we're doing a project Can we talk about the process of it? Yeah, okay, so real quick before we get off uh If you've been following this for a long time, you know that there was an episode of this podcast Where we were debating some of the uh laws here in florida from fwc and whatever usark or usark florida was doing against those laws and in that episode Tino for some fucking reason couldn't say fwc He kept saying kfc kfc kfc kfc and also in those conversations Chuck was telling us that hunters are protected because they donate to an organization that helps conservation So whenever people try to fight against hunters They're protected because of that organization because they do so much for conservation So we birthed the idea we saw those three letters kfc and we were like keepers for Conservation and they were like how do we do something like that where keepers can be at a place where we're actively helping Organizations through conservation and we're currently starting the process and working on stuff like that Anything else you guys want to say about that? Yeah, we we we have big dreams for the project. We want to take this uh A really really far away It's going to start with us grabbing a couple organizations local trick here um and basically just funneling uh funneling funds that way Getting making sure that people are aware of the projects that they're doing Getting people to be involved if they can go ahead and donate directly Um donate to us so that we can send those funds over there And basically just being like an extra social media for these uh For these efforts to be like hey, you know, uh, this is uh their platform But we're also going to share their stuff to our platforms that you guys can also see kind of what they're doing and what we want the reptile community to be doing as a whole Yeah, especially right now. This place is like in South Florida. I forgot the name of the places is right South Florida In Miami-Dade County. Yeah, they're trying to to cut down a very pristine habitat and a lot of the pet keepers don't know for a water park Yeah, yeah for a water park and a lot of people don't know that within the industry because they are not paying attention to what conservation problems Are out there and then with things like Exposure and sharing all of those things. There's some videos going around About it and we try to push that as much as possible But at the same time we they don't let there's not a one place to go for all of those things and and like we can say whatever we want about oh Yeah FWC is all all land developers and shit like that, but what are we doing, right? Yeah, so that's usually how I think about it Like you start to say whatever they want, but that is a conservation problem right there. What are they doing? Nothing they're not going to stand up and do anything because all they care about is the animals and captivity like I've always said So why not make an organization that focuses on the other side? Eric you want to say anything about the project? You get any thoughts? No, cool. All right. I'll end it with this As important as if you if you support us arc us arc floor, etc As important as you might think those organizations are I do find substance in those organizations This is also equally as important, you know, so it's not about Saying that oh you should donate to these conservations or you should give money to this organization It's just that we got to figure out a way to be able to offer both That's all we're trying to do. It's not a competition thing. It's about Helping best in all aspects at this point. This was the reptiles with podcasts