- You know, I've been thinking about doing this video
for a long time
But to be honest with you,
I thought that I shouldn't do it because,
I'm sharing some secrets that I know I maybe shouldn't
and I know Lori is going to be upset about it but,
I want to talk about like
my idea of success and how I got here,
and maybe encourage and motivate you guys.
What do you say we jump right into it.
First thing we have to do is define success.
Now I want to start with prefacing that
success is different for every person.
The way that I define success
is really happiness, right?
I want to do the things that I am really passionate about,
that I wake up in the morning
and that I'm super excited about it,
but I always want to do more, you know?
That's just the way I'm wired,
I'm an idea guy, right?
I never kind of settle for one thing.
So, for me success is continuing to find things
that I'm going to be happy with.
Still enjoying the things that I've already done,
but also expanding them to the next adventure.
And listen, anyone that knows me,
knows that I have a lot of ideas.
And the thing is, I'm about taking those ideas
and making them a reality.
And the thing about ideas for me,
is that I don't have a fear of trying to do them,
I don't have a fear of failing when I try,
I have a fear of not trying
and not knowing if I would have succeeded or failed, right?
So the fact is like the Reptarium for instance,
I know you guys know all about this,
it started with an idea, right?
I started with this building right here and thought,
maybe I can make a little reptile zoo.
Will it work? Won't it work? I don't know.
I didn't know how I was going to do it.
Originally, funny enough,
I was thinking about doing like foam
that we would literally carve into this type of rock
and types of stuff,
and then ultimately put grout on it and paint it
and stuff like that.
It would have taken me three years to get to this point,
and of course
through research I found universal rocks,
and made this place a reality
so much quicker than I possibly could have.
But if it wasn't for just kind of that passionate idea
and the willingness to go forward with things,
cause listen, it costs a lot of money.
There was a big risk, but it didn't matter,
because I believed that it was going to be successful.
You guys know that it was a success,
so much so that we did 2.0 and you also know
that right now we are working on 3.0
and then ultimately 4.0 with the aquarium.
But the fact is guys,
I know that a lot of people just want to do one thing
and they want to do it really good.
And that's not a problem,
if that's you, that is good,
because everyone is different.
But I'm not that guy.
- You're not that guy.
- I'm the guy that actually wants to do many, many things,
because by the time I'm even done
with the thought process of one thing,
like Reptarium 3.0 and 4.0 with the aquarium.
I'm already thinking of the next thing
that I want to do.
Look at this cute little monkey here,
this is of course the Syrian Buford Toad,
The King Toad or the Marine Toad,
whatever you want to call him.
Big giant toad, absolutely incredible.
The fact is, I'm going to share a few things
with you guys today that
most likely might not even be a good idea
that I'm letting them out of the bag.
These are ideas or things that I want to do
that might be in the very early stages,
or might even be a little further along,
to be honest with you.
And I know Lori always says,
"Don't share those types of things, Brian,
because maybe someone is going to steal your idea."
But the fact is, if someone wants to steal my idea
and do the work,
then go for it, I don't have a problem with that.
But let's trust me, everything that I do,
has to be executed at the highest level to be success.
So if you want to steal the idea
and execute it at a higher level than I am,
then I give you all the power to it,
because trust me, it's going to be hard.
I'm going to work really hard
to make all these things a reality.
So listen, you guys are my family,
so what do you say, we jump right into them?
Now you guys know that I am all about experiences.
To be honest with you,
my idea in life now is to create experiences
in everything that I do, right?
I want to bring value to community,
I want to build community
and ultimately bring value to that community
in the form of experiences, right?
We know that the Reptarium is always that way.
You can feed alligators, you can hold snakes,
you can do all kinds of different -
you know, go in with the sloth.
Now we have the armadillo that you can mess with.
The aquarium is going to be the exact same way, right?
We are going to have the aquarium
where you can swim with, touch, feed,
sting rays, sharks.
There's going to be touch tanks,
there's going to be interactive stuff.
That's what it's all about, right?
I'm all about those experiences.
I'll be honest with you,
one of my heroes was Walt Disney,
you know and I realize I'm no Walt Disney.
What I'm trying to say is that,
I love the fact that his ideology
was to create an experience
that you couldn't get anywhere else,
or was very difficult to get anywhere else.
And that's what we're trying to achieve.
Now the next experience that just came into my mind
that I've done a bunch of research on,
we're going to have to go over to BHB's basement.
This idea definitely starts right down here.
Hey RJ, what's going on?
You guys remember,
I talked about why I made this isle
into kind of enclosed -
RJ, what are you doing? Silly.
No, come on, bye.
What a silly monkey.
And, and I wanted these to be enclosures
for the actual overflow animals that were educational.
Well the truth is,
things have changed.
And I want experience, experience, experiences, right?
So I thought to myself that,
I am going to change this basement completely, completely.
There will be no breeder animals down here.
And listen,
every time you have an idea it proposes problems, right?
And problems you have to solve.
Now my problem is, what do I do with the animals here?
I have to find space,
maybe I'll have to find another building,
maybe I'll have to do something else, not sure.
But let me tell you what I wanna do, experience wise right?
I wanna turn this entire basement,
the entire thing,
into basically like a cave, right?
So you would walk down the stairs from the Reptarium,
into a cave type of setting, right?
Now down here in that cave,
there will be a handful of activities.
And particular kids are going to love these activities.
What I wanna do is have like
down this main strip right here,
there's gonna be basically like a water stream,
like a mine, right? Like a miner thing.
And you can actually get and shift through things,
like have a little shifters.
Where you are going to get gem stones
and maybe fools good and stuff like that,
so that's going to be one of the activities.
Maybe in a corner over here,
I'm going to have an area that has like you know,
a foot of actual pea gravel down here
that's actually gonna be able to be dug into.
And then there, there's going to be things you can find,
excavating right?
Cause I know when I was a kid
I wanted to be a paleontologist,
I loved mining for gold
I thought that was such and amazing life.
So I wanna create an area like that.
Maybe over on the other side
there's going to be a big area that
you can actually look for fossils.
You know, have a little brush and tin,
and brush through sand and find fossils.
And these are things that you'll be able to take home,
and there'll probably be 4 or 5
other activities in this basement
that are going to be awesome.
And maybe even some animals down here, who knows,
it's a cave.
Maybe I'll do a bat exhibit, I'm not sure.
Regardless, even though we haven't started on 3.0 or 4.0,
I'm already thinking of 5.0.
Now this will come after the Reptarium expansion,
this will come after the aquarium.
But I have to start to prep it now, right?
That way we have the elevator going to all 3 floors,
we have stairways going to all 3 floors.
That way is ready so that, when I do prep it,
I can actually make that happen.
It's an idea I'm super exited about
and another experience I think I can bring to families,
and people that wanna travel in and may be do everything.
"Hey you wanna go to the aquarium?" You go to the aquarium.
"You wanna go the Reptarium?" You go the Reptarium.
Now you come down to the mine
and do some mining and stuff like that.
It's going to be absolutely incredible.
And by the way all these ideas I'm about to share with you,
let me know in the comments what you guys think.
Am I crazy? Would you like it?
Do you think it's an awesome idea?
Would people come? I don't know.
Again, I don't mind trying it and having it failed.
I just know that now it's a vision in my head,
I gotta make it a reality
and find out if it actually will work.
Never really talked about this one,
but I'm actually part or in a company called
Redline Science.
That right now just has a bunchy of really cool like
stainless steel type stuff.
Like you know,
hemostat and scissors and tweezers
and all kinds of stuff like this.
Now this company will eventually have,
hundreds and hundreds of reptile related product.
You know, and right now you can buy like you know,
Triple L, I think Pangaea, Josh's Frogs, Reptile Basics.
It's going to be all over the place soon enough.
But we're pretty excited about the starter,
I mean, some of the scrapers are super cool.
I mean there's just a whole -
I mean all the colors are really neat,
if you wanna jazz up your reptile room.
And I'm really excited about this company,
again, this is just the very start.
I mean there's going to be hundreds and hundreds
of other product.
From caging to, you name it.
I mean if you think reptile products right now,
there's 8 trays that you can buy from Redline Science.
But, but I'm excited about being part of a new product line,
that I think it's going to be really cool.
That can bring value to the community, right?
And again, I talk about it all the time,
build community, add value to that community,
and that's what's important.
What's needed, right?
And we're going to try to bring out products
that are really going to enhance keeping,
and making keeping reptiles easier, right?
And that's what is all about.
But again, I talk about fall in love with it.
I'm in love with Redline Science.
I'm in love with the process of building that company
along with my other partners
to make this an awesome company, right?
And that's what I wanna do,
I wanna always be in love with what I wanna do,
so I'm excited about it
just like I'm excited about Redline.
I'm excited about
every single product that I'm talking about today,
and I'm trying to bring value to the community.
And speaking of value,
I am in love with this next one.
And this is the most afraid to tell you guys about.
Like I said I've been working on this for a while now,
but it- it's pretty close to reality,
not sure if I should be sharing it,
but I'm going to tell you guys because I love you guys.
Let me know in the comments what you think.
So we are actually going to launch something
that's called Animal-Con USA basically.
It's a Comic-Con-y type of thing right?
So we're going to take your favorite YouTubers,
Instagramers, Tik Tokers, that are animal related.
I mean, I'm going to try to get every animal related thing.
Not just reptiles, I'm talking fish,
I'm talking big cats, I'm talking- you name it.
If you follow someone online- animals,
I'm going to try to get them into one spot.
It's going to be in Florida.
We're shooting for next July,
we're meeting with a resort,
can't say much about anything else right now
But it's going to be absolutely amazing.
So you guys could actually come down
and meet everyone.
So there will be panels, there'll be Q&As,
there'll be all kinds of events
with your favorite social media people.
And then you also could have a
meet and greet with them as well.
So you can actually get a picture with them, a signature,
you know hang out with them for a few minutes.
So, again like a Comic-Con
but just for animal personalities, right?
Animal influencers.
Again, not just YouTubers, could be Instagramers,
it could be Tik Tokers, could be you know
people on Facebook, whatever.
So, you know first off,
I wanna know is that something you're excited about?
Would you wanna come down to Florida in July?
And we have a bunch of cool stuff going-
I can't tell you everything, oh we have much good stuff guys
but it's going to be cool.
Lots of other events that are going to be attached to this,
and it's going to be absolutely amazing.
Talked to a bunch of really big influencers already
that area on board,
and they're like "Yes, we're going to come."
Still have some more that I got around so
down in the comments let me know if you would come,
let me know number 2, who should I talk to?
Who do you watch online? Whether it be on YouTube
or Instagram or Tik Tok,
that you would like to see on the event,
cause I wanna make sure I'm getting as many.
I'm talking like, maybe 100,
maybe even 200 of the top influencers in one spot
that you guys could again,
meet and greet with, talk to, you know get involved with.
I mean it would be absolutely amazing.
I've been thinking about this for years,
and I finally took the initiative to started going
here over the last several months.
And now we're at a point were we're almost locked in,
so it is so close.
Like I said, I probably should have waited
until we were locked in to talk to you about it.
But, today is the day.
I'm trying to inspire you guys and also tell you
how I look at success
and how I like to build community right?
This is about building community,
getting people together
and then adding value to that community
by letting people interact with the people
that they really love online
and that they look up to and inspire them.
So let me now what you guys think, like I said,
I'm a little nervous that I just shared that with you.
We actually talked about this the other day
on the podcast a little bit if you didn't do it-
by the way if you're not following my podcast,
checking in, link in the description,
definitely come follow cause we love it, you know.
We talked a little bit about this,
it's a little bit in the future.
I'm not gonna lie to you,
not everyone understands what these are yet.
Some of you guys may have heard of NTFs,
Non-fungible tokens, right?
And basically they're like digital art,
they're digital collecting pieces stuff like that.
Well we've been working for the last several months
on launching NFTs right?
Now listen, it may seem like a hard thing
because you gotta have e-wallet, it's based on Ethereum,
all kinds of different stuff.
- FUTURE!
- Although you can buy it with US dollars,
it's actually converted to Ethereum
long- doesn't matter.
It's going to be a little bit of learning,
but fact is that in 4 or 5 years everybody,
all you you guys are going to have e-wallets
and you're all going to have NFTs.
I mean there are actually like,
now musicians that are releasing their albums as NFTs,
their entire album is coming out as a NFT.
So trust me, NFTs are the future
and we wanna be on the base floor of that future
when it comes to animals and reptiles.
So we're about to launch some NFT's for the very first time.
The first ones, are going to be what they're called
generative NFTs.
And basically what that's going to mean is
there's going to be a picture,
and it's going to be generated into
a thousand other types of pictures
that are all similarly based on the same one.
But you will have the unique one, you will have the only one
and it's going to be on the blockchain
so that no one else could steal that from you.
And it's basically yours to do whatever you want with it.
The idea is to build a community in the NFT world.
Now there's gonna be utility or what they call
function with it right?
So that- that you're not just buying something,
cause you are buying something,
but we also wanna create utility
basically what else are we giving you.
So, there could be things like
a percentage of sales go to USARK,
a percentage of a secondary sales go to you.
So basically what happens is that NFT, as you buy it,
it may become worth more money because people want it.
Now you can sell that NFT and make money on it,
but then when they sell it,
you can get a percentage of the next sale
and the next and the next sale,
it's called perpetuity.
So, part of that money can go back to you,
part of that money can go to USARK,
to continue to fund USARK our reptile advocacy group.
Then, beyond that we're going to launch reptile packs here
in the next month in a half or so.
They'll be like a pack of 10 trading cards,
so you can kinda, you know, collect reptile animals,
or you can collect ball pythons,
you can collect- virtually right.
And these packs are going to be randoms packs,
so maybe one out of every 10 packs you buy on random
are going to have a holographic, this really rare snake
that has this cool pattern,
and that's going to have more value.
And then we're just trying to build community right?
So we're excited about the NFT thing.
I know it's early and I know a lot of people are very
confused about it, but I think it's going to be
really exciting.
So stay tuned, like I said, hopefully with in the next
2, 3, 4 weeks tops, we're going to launch our first NFTs.
And I am super excited to be the first one in the game
in the reptile hobby.
So that basically wraps it up,
and again I gotta tell you,
I don't do anything until I fall in love with it
I keep saying it.
But I have an idea, if I fall in love with the idea,
that's when I wanna go.
I have so many things in the back of my head
that jump out all the time
that I haven't quite falling in love with yet.
If they come to a fruition, where I'm like
"Oh wait a second, now I wanna revisit it", I do.
I have a notebook literally full and full of ideas.
I have hundreds of domain names I've picked out
for business ideas.
It's just that I haven't fall in love with them yet.
Doesn't mean I'm not going to in the future
but I hope that I've inspire you guys.
I wanna know in the comments what you think about things,
which- which project are you excited about?
Which ones you think I'm crazy about?
I wanna hear about it man, you're my family
and I wanted to just kind of get this all off my chest
and I know when Lori watches,
she's going to be really mad at me
so say something nice okay.
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Remember be kind to someone and I promise,
I see you on the next one.