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- Is it time for change?
And what I mean by that is every year I tell you guys
on January 2nd I'm kind of rethinking what I'm gonna do
with the future of the vlog.
Am I gonna continue to vlog?
Am I not gonna continue to vlog?
I mean, the good news is, I think anyway,
is just that I wanna continue to vlog
at least six days a week.
Maybe we'll even go back to seven at some point.
Not 100% sure, but I do think that it might be time
for a little bit of a change, too.
Listen, we've had 1,900 videos,
over 1,900 videos on this vlog channel.
We've told a lot of stories.
We've done a lot of things,
and listen, we want what's best for you guys and for us,
and we want you to be engaged,
but we wonder, is it time to change things up a little bit?
Maybe a little bit fresher content?
I'm not sure, but I'm gonna need some participation
on your guys's front.
And I have a whole bunch of different ideas
of what that exactly means.
Of course, I'm still, you know,
ideas are popping through my head.
But one thing you guys know is
that we're a family business, right?
I mean, obviously, Noah, Lori, myself are here,
but also our crew, we're a family business.
Everybody is kind of one big family
You know, should we show more of that?
You guys always see like the best things that happen, right?
You know, like when we're playing with animals
or when there's fun things that happened.
But the truth is there's always a ton of things going on
behind the scenes, right?
I mean, we run a lot of different businesses,
and there's a lot of stress that goes into it,
and a lot of ups and downs.
I mean, do you guys wanna see the inside part of that
and see some more of the relationship side?
Or do you wanna keep it just animals?
I'm not 100% sure, but let me know again.
As we're going through the list of things,
let me know what you guys think because it is important.
You know, if you guys aren't getting a lot out of the vlog,
then the vlog isn't successful,
and if the vlog isn't successful,
we can't keep it going, right?
So let me know. More family stuff, more crew stuff?
Let me know what you guys think.
Remember when we traveled down to Atlanta, Georgia,
to go pick up Ivy?
Gearing up, heading off to Atlanta in a few hours,
and I am hopefully gonna be acquiring
an 11 foot Anaconda.
It's gonna be a pretty awesome trip.
Gonna definitely check out this Anaconda.
I think we're gonna get it.
Again, as long as it's tame
because I don't want anyone coming
to the Reptarium to have a problem.
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This is what I need right here.
I should buy this for Lori. Little Crockpot.
- [Man] Oh, she'd love that.
- Oh my gosh.
Who literally buys a Crockpot at a gas station?
That's right. We are in the hotel here, but don't you worry.
The vlog is not over.
Oh my gosh, look at this. She is so gorgeous, dude.
Oh my gosh. Getting her outside in the light.
She is a gorgeous animal.
By the way, she was so small back then.
We used to travel a lot. As a matter of fact, before COVID,
I was traveling all over the world.
Indonesia, Japan, China, Australia, Africa,
all over the place.
Obviously, now we're a little bit restricted
on what we can do, but I still like traveling,
and now we've been traveling a little bit more
in the country and there's a lot of things
that we could potentially do, right?
Like, hey, we could travel to other collections.
We're absolutely gonna be adding an aquarium.
We could go to aquariums and kind of tour
behind the scenes at aquariums.
Whatever adventures you guys want.
So let me know. Do you wanna see more travel?
And the one thing is, listen,
I understand we wanna mix things up.
We're not gonna always travel.
We're not gonna always show family stuff.
We're not gonna always do whatever I talk
about during this vlog.
So there's gonna be a lot of everything, right?
But I wanna know what you want more of, right?
Do you want more of the family?
Do you want more of the travel?
Or do you want more of the other things
that I'm gonna be talking about in this vlog?
What do we wanna focus on from a creative side in 2022?
Because I'm always about evolving,
and I think in 2022 it's time for this channel
to evolve as much as I possibly can.
But speaking of change, yeah, I think it's time
for some change when it comes to this beard.
Let's have some fun.
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Okay, how about the chin strap?
Nah, probably not.
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Okay, how about a goatee?
Uh, still not liking it.
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Oh yeah, the mustache. I think this is the one.
Let's go show Lori.
Okay, Lori. All set.
- Okay.
- [Brian] You like it?
- Mhm.
Welcome back.
- [Brian] You like the 'stache?
- Yeah. - [Brian] Should I keep it?
- It's bringing me back to wedding days.
A little bit lighter, though.
- [Brian] You think I should shave it? Yeah?
- I mean, do you like it?
- [Brian] No.
- Okay, then you can shave it.
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- Yeah, that's much better. The change that I needed.
New year, new me. Back to the shop.
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You know, we don't do a lot of challenges on the channel,
but we used to years ago.
All the time we would have Eric and Noah do crazy things.
And now, of course, we have challenges
like what morph are these, right?
You know, this one here or this one here?
What do you guys think down in the comments
these two morphs are?
And we do that sometimes with Mike and Noah.
And sometimes, there's a consequence.
We're playing the game Guess the Morph.
That's right, and you know what the consequence is gonna be?
- Getting stabbed again?
- The loser has to put their entire face in the fish spa
for at least 20 seconds.
- 20 seconds? I can't breathe under there for 20 seconds.
- Guess what? You guys are both wrong.
- What is it?
- They were just normal albino pied. I threw you for a loop.
- Why does he do this to us?
- Do some breathing exercise 'cause you got 20 seconds
in the tank.
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Go.
One,
two,
three,
four,
five,
six,
seven.
Again, we don't do a lot of challenges,
but would you like to see us do more challenges?
I don't know, there could be like 24 hour challenges.
There could be, you know, feeding challenges.
There could be all kinds of stuff.
You know, again, all respectful to the animals,
but it's just something that I'm thinking about.
Do we add that to the lineup? Do you guys enjoy challenges?
And what I'm gonna do as this video is out
is I'm gonna go over to my community tab
and actually put a poll of all the things
that we talked about today, and I want you guys not only
to comment down below, I want you to go over to
that community poll and actually vote
for what you want to see more of on this channel
because, again, it's always about what you guys want.
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You guys know that I love building stuff.
And, of course, in 2022, if everything goes well,
we're gonna be doing this giant expansion,
talked about it ad nauseum,
so you guys know what's going on.
So there's gonna be a ton of building stuff,
but that's gonna be to the back half of 2022.
And I love building stuff, so this is something
that we do builds every single week, something different.
The top half, you can see it bows out like a banana.
It's about an inch off.
Well, we can't get our door or our glass in
with it being an inch out.
So somehow we're gonna have to figure out
how to get that top an inch in.
I really don't know what we're gonna do.
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This to here, even though it's tilted this way,
it's straight, it's right here.
This doesn't look as bad as that.
Definitely gonna be a gap, but that's all right.
It is what it is.
I'm not exactly sure what.
Now I can't build every single day
because obviously, there's just only so much I can do.
But if it's something that you really enjoy,
kind of making new enclosures,
changing the enclosures we have, you know,
doing kind of new projects, I'm happy to do that.
You know, again, I'm like Bob the Builder, you know?
So if you guys like building stuff,
let me know about that because I think it'd be really cool.
And by the way, when you're down there,
let me know what kind of builds you want me to do.
Is it brand new cages,
or is it maybe setting up bioactive cages step-by-step?
Let me know what you'd like to see
because, hey, I'm always game for a good build.
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You know, education is what it's all about.
I mean, look, Fiji Island anacondas.
This is actually a book that was back in the '90s.
It's called The Complete Illustrated Atlas
of Reptiles and Amphibians for the Terrarium.
And it basically has almost everything
you can absolutely imagine.
I probably have read this book three, four times over
from front to back.
I used to spend just all day reading it.
It's about learning things, and I've been learning literally
for 30 plus years and every day I still learn.
So I have to ask you,
do you guys like the educational stuff?
Should I do some deep dives, I mean, really deep dives
into the educational side?
I always try to educate you guys,
but I try not to talk over you, you know?
So I could really get like deep into maybe a species
or care or husbandry or, you know, a cage set up
or something like that.
I don't mind doing that. I actually love it.
The only reason I don't do it more is
because, quite frankly, I don't know
that you guys want it, right?
I don't wanna do a video where it's
like really a deep dive into how to keep, you know,
say fire belly toads or something that,
and then all of a sudden, no one cares about it
and no one listens to it,
so let me know if you guys want it.
'Cause trust me, even though I have a lot to learn,
I definitely have three decades of experience
that I always love to share with you guys.
- Brian's got a baby face.
- Oh, yeah, you see? Looks nice, huh?
- [Woman] Look at you. You're all snazzed up.
- He's still a grandpa now, though.
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- You guys know that I have the Reptarium, I have BHB,
but the truth is we run seven or eight businesses
with two or three more businesses
that are gonna launch in 2022,
so there's a lot of business stuff that goes on.
I've (indistinct) breed reptiles, let's say,
for a living anymore. It is one of my businesses.
It's kind of more of a hobby than it is anything else
for me to be honest with you.
It's like, I just enjoy doing it,
but don't get me wrong, it's still a business.
I mean, we have several employees.
There's a lot that goes on and stuff like that.
And I wonder, I mean, as you guys are maybe aspiring
to work with reptiles, whether it's in a zoo type
of setting, breeding setting, or just keeping
and stuff like that, and you wanna know
like the business side of that whole situation.
'Cause that's something you want me
to talk more about, you know?
Would you like me to take some deep dives
into the actual financial side, the business side,
how it is to run things as complicated as we are?
Like I said, you guys see a little bit of it.
The truth is we have a lot of layers.
I always tell people I'm like an onion.
Lots and lot of layers, so I don't mind sharing it
because I'm like an open book when it comes
to that type of stuff, so if it's something
that you guys want, do more business-related stuff,
I'd be happy to get more deep into that.
And I don't know if it's like every day
of the week we do something different.
Maybe business, then this.
I don't know what it is, so let me know in the comments.
I'm just trying to create this vlog
to where the 2022 is a change.
We've evolved into something different.
I don't wanna just put out another year of vlogs
that were just like 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018.
I wanna put out a year of vlogs that has kind of evolved
into kind of more like what you guys wanna see.
So again, keep on commenting and let me know.
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And we used to do tons of stuff here
at the house back in the vlog, you know?
Matter of fact, we've got these
hot chocolate chocolate bombs.
I don't know if you guys wanna see us do this
or something like that.
There's always cool stuff that we could do here.
I mean, family time is always great for us.
We've been keeping a little bit private the last year
or year and a half or so, but we're happy to bring you back
into our household and kind of show you
what's going on here, so let me know in the comments
if you would enjoy seeing some more Barczyk family time
here at the house or wherever we go out on the adventures.
Something that, again, I used to do a lot
and haven't done recently.
Do you guys miss it? Do you want me to add it?
Let me know in the comments.
So again, guys, let's make 2022 an amazing year,
and with your help, we can evolve this vlog into something
that's better than it's ever been.
And I want to, I'll put the work in,
I'll do whatever we have to do
to make this absolutely incredible and mold it more
to what you guys want more than anything.
So I appreciate you guys so much.
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Have an absolutely wonderful day, Reptile Army.
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