- Today I'm gonna talk about
something that didn't actually work out very well.
Something is bizarre in this clutch,
I don't know what's going on.
I don't know what I'm doing here,
I gotta regroup, and keep on going forward.
Every time we bring Elvis out,
he will literally do this for sometimes
15 or 20 minutes.
And in the end, I'm gonna be totally honest with you guys,
both parties decided it was best to just probably
take the project and shelf it and not move forward.
I'm just gonna leave, I'm gonna let them.
So you guys (stutters)
Oh, she got me.
Hey good morning everybody and welcome to
the vlog, I hope the start of your day
is absolutely incredible.
You know, today I'm gonna talk about
something that didn't actually work out very well.
You know, not all businesses that you start
or ideas you have work out the way you want them to,
and you guys might remember that I was working on
Reptile Tycoon, the reptile breeding app game.
I was super stoked and I still am super stoked about it,
but I always try to tell people that sometimes you have
great ideas and the execution may not be
what you want it to be.
And sometimes you need to step back and kinda make it right.
Because that vision needs to be executed right
to where you want it to be.
When I'm putting my name on something,
I want it to be exactly what I want,
I want it to be absolutely incredible.
And I thought a breeding app game where you start
with a couple snakes, you breed 'em, you get more snakes,
you grow from one rack to another,
to more cages, to a room, to a building,
you hire people, all that stuff,
would be absolutely incredible.
I mean it like virtually breeding snakes, right?
And speaking of virtually breeding snakes,
I actually have to go clutch a bull python real quick,
and then we'll get back to this.
For those of you who have been missing egg cutting,
we have a really cool clutch here,
this is actually a Pewter Bee,
which is actually a Pastel, its a Cinnamon,
it's a Spider. And its bred to a Dragonfly,
which is a Pastel, a Fire, and a Pinstripe.
So a lot of different genes going on there,
could be some really cool babies,
hopefully I'll know what's in the egg.
Let's go ahead an jump into the first egg right now
and just see what this clutch has to offer us.
Oh, right off the rip
what the heck is that?
What the heck is that?
Pewter Bee to a Dragonfly
and it's a pure white snake.
It's a pure white snake.
That's kind of impossible.
I'm not really sure what's goin on here.
Huh, I'm not sure.
That's a wacky snake.
It's a pure white snake
but it's laying a little weird in the egg
so I'm a little bit concerned
about maybe it being messed up.
I'm not sure, let's just move on
and we'll wait to see if that one hopefully
crawls out of the egg in the next, you know,
two, three days or whatever the case may be.
Let's move on to egg number two.
And, another pure white snake.
Huh.
I'm not exactly sure what's going on here guys.
Now this one is flipped upside down
but I don't see any pattern on it whatsoever
so something is bizarre in this clutch.
I don't know what's going on
let's just keep cutting and see if we can find the mystery
of what the heck is going on.
All right.
Wow, this is crazy people.
This is another white snake.
I don't know, I'm seriously blown away right now
because you shouldn't produce any white snakes
on this at all and I'm just getting white snakes.
Like it doesn't even make sense.
Now, you could get Black Eyed Lucys
if the female was a Fire, which she 's not supposed to be.
Now we got, finally, a normal snake
but this is weird
this looks like it either just a normal Ball Python
or a Fire Ball Python.
So three white snakes and one normal snake
that is not exactly the way I think this clutch
was gonna go but hey, We got three more eggs
I am just befuddled guys, I'm not gonna lie to you
I don't even know what the heck is going on.
This is a really pretty snake right here.
So this is definitely a Fire Pewter Bee.
So this is a Fire, it's a Pastel, it's a Cinnamon
and it's a Spider so it's a lot of the genes.
The only genes that were missing in that snake right there
is actually the other Pastel and the Pinstripe
so maybe we'll get lucky and get something else
I'm still just blown away about that white snake thing.
I don't know what is going on here with this one.
But let's see here we have a really faded snake here.
This one looks like it's gonna be beautiful.
I can't tell exactly what this is
I think that this might be the all gene
which could be
a Super Pastel Cinnamon Spider Pinstripe Fire.
That is crazy!
I'm almost positive that's what it's gonna be.
That is a ripper right there.
So hopefully that will come out
and we'll start to get a little bit of an idea
what these snakes can actually look like.
And this last one,
I'm just gonna kind of move it around a little bit
It looks like probably a Fire Pewter Bee as well
so all in all really weird results.
I don't know what the white snakes are.
The first three eggs that we cut were white
another one was really white looking, so there you have it.
I mean some crazy results
but I wouldn't expect anything different
the way this year has went.
You know again, just because you want something
and you're really thinking about it
doesn't mean that it always works out
the way you want it to.
Take, for instance, Red-Tailed Boa constrictors.
You know that the third or fourth snake that I ever got
was a Guyana Red-Tailed Boa,
this happens to be a Suriname Red-Tailed Boa.
And I always thought that one day
I would like to breed a bunch of true Red-Tailed Boas
because they're absolutely incredible.
But the truth is, thirty years later,
I've still been keeping them, and you know what,
I've never even produced one litter.
Doesn't mean that I'm gonna stop, it just means that
sometimes you get to a point where you are like
I don't know what I'm doing here
I gotta regroup and keep on going for it.
And it isn't just Red-Tailed Boas that are that way
I tell you what, these Calabar Burrowing Pythons
were a snake that I one day
thought that I was gonna have a huge group of these guys.
They're this West African crazy snake that looks like
insane right, I mean look at this, it's like a poop emoji.
Right?
But the truth is, is that I want to raise up
a bunch of captive babies from West Africa
and one day produce them,
because they come in wild but no one ever breeds them
and here we are like ten or twelve years later
and I never bred 'em.
But that's okay 'cause I still maybe one day will.
I never give up on my dreams but every now and then
you do need to pull back
and kind of regroup before you move forward.
Back to the Reptile Tycoon breeding app
that I'm kinda unfortunately gonna tell you a story about.
You know I really loved the idea and I still love the idea
and basically we ended up
teaming up with some guys from Australia.
Really good guys, you know,
but they had never built an app from scratch before.
But they were ready to do it, and I really liked them.
I thought that they had a really great vision
we were on the same page and we got started, you know.
I think it was going to be absolutely incredible
but somewhere down the line, and I'll be honest with you,
I take as much blame as anyone in this situation,
we kind of got off track, and my vision
that I was telling about, where you start with a snake
you raise it up, you breed it, you hatch it,
you keep on expanding and expanding,
kinda changed a little bit and the breeding app
kinda just got away from us a little bit.
But we ended up going forward anyways
'cause we thought maybe we could still salvage it.
You know I've had a life time
of being able to breed and hatch baby snakes
and I thought a lot of people never can keep them.
Whether they can't afford it,
whether their wife or their mother or whatever
won't let 'em have 'em.
The truth is I thought a virtual game like this
where you could breed snakes would be really cool
and I still think one day that will actually happen.
But with that said, before I move on
and tell you the entire thing.
I do have a tour I've gotta do really quick
so let's head over there, do that
and I'll get back to the story.
Have my first tour in the house.
How are you guys doing?
- I'm doing great.
- [Brian] Awesome.
Where are you guys from?
- Ohio
- [Brian] Okay, about how long of a drive is that?
- Seven hours.
- [Brian] Oh my god!
That's a long drive.
All right we're gonna have a good time
let's go look at some animals all right?
- All right.
(upbeat music)
- I had a fun time on that tour
you know that's one of my favorite parts
of my life these days.
Is getting the chance to meet everyone show them around
'cause I get to mess with these animals everyday.
To share that with people is absolutely incredible.
Something really weird I wanted to share with you
is Elvis' reaction over here.
Now Ricky used to be in this cage when Elvis is out
he always crawls around
and just looks around at all the cages.
It's almost like he Is enjoying the zoo and stuff like that.
Well, for whatever reason,
since we put Snazz in Ricky's cage,
every time we bring Elvis out,
he will literally do this for sometimes 15 or 20 minutes.
Where he is just like looking.
I think he literally is looking for Ricky.
And I think it is crazy that a reptile like Elvis
can cognitively understand that something has changed
and he doesn't know where Rick is.
You can see, he does this
almost every single day we let him out.
So, it's just absolutely wild to me.
Again, maybe I'm rading too much into it
but I'm telling you what, every day we see it happen.
He'll sit here for 15, 20 minutes sometimes
just looking around like not understanding
where Ricky is, or at least that's what I think it is.
Let me know in the comments
if you think that I'm right about this
or am I just kinda reading more into it.
But whatever it is every day he comes over
and he just kinda stares in the cage.
And the only thing I can think of
is he must be missing Ricky.
I absolutely love this Leucistic Texas rat snake
and again getting back to the breeding app
I thought we could eventually add all kinds of stuff.
You could continue to work with
as many types of animals as possible.
And I was so excited about it and like I said
it wasn't quite what I was hoping for
But I thought we could maybe make it work especially
because once we got into closed-beta
that we launched a couple of moths ago.
I thought maybe we could make the fixes
that we wanted to do.
Well the truth is a lot of the feedback
wasn't incredibly great in the closed-beta
from my side of things.
Now let me continue to reiterate the guys working on it
were doing a great job.
They were working their butts off
and they were doing absolutely the best they could do.
But they didn't have a tremendous amount of experience
with it and we ended up going through
closed-beta for a good two months.
And in the end guys, I want to be totally honest with you
and again, I'll take the majority of the blame here.
I didn't want to put out a game
that I wasn't 100% thrilled about
that I personally wouldn't wanna play
that I didn't think you guys would want to play.
I wanted this to be exactly what I wanted to do.
And in the end I'm gonna be totally honest with you guys
both parties decided that it was best to just
probably take the project and shelve it
and not move forward with this particular version.
Next tour is in the house and you guys came a long way.
- Just a bit, yeah.
- [Brian] Just a bit?
Where are you guys from?
- London.
- [Brian] London, oh my god.
Your names?
- Thom.
- [Brian] Thom.
- Claudia.
- Claudia, all right.
Well Thom and Claudia are in the house from London
so we're gonna have an absolutely amazing time.
(funky music)
Again, I said it earlier, how awesome tours are.
It was really cool to meet those guys
all the way from the UK.
I mean how awesome is that, to be able to have people
from all over the world to come out.
And it's all because of you guys
helping me kinda reach people.
Without you I wouldn't know them
and they would never have come.
So thank you all for your support.
This has been an incredible day so far.
You guys remember the other day we had.
Lucy had destroyed her cage.
Well guess what?
Her sister Daisy decided to share it
and because I have some friends from the UK in, guess what?
They get to help me with Daisy.
So what do you say guys?
- Let's do it.
- All right let's do it, let's go.
Hopefully she's gonna be in a good mood, she usually is.
That's a girl.
And you can see she has some shed on her just like Lucy did.
Not only does she need to soak a little bit.
But also there's a mess in this cage that I need clean up.
So I'm just gonna hand her to you guys.
Go ahead and pull that. (grunts)
She's a big snake right?
- Yeah, right!
(laughs)
- [Brian] What do you guys think?
- She's impressive.
- She's a big girl.
- I know, she's amazing and of course (laughs)
she'll just pull you around, won't she?
But of course we're gonna get her in the soak
she'll get all that little stuff shed off of her.
I'll clean this cage up.
I'll let you guys mess with it for a little bit.
And I'm just gonna leave.
I'm gonna let them
So you guys (stutters)
Whoa, she got me.
You guys stay alive, guys, all right bye.
- See ya.
- All right, I'm back.
Just gonna go ahead and get her in some nice warm water
Daisy doesn't like the water like Lucy does
so she usually wants to fight me going into the water
but it's pretty important to get her all shed out
so no doubt we have to soak her for sure.
So I just have to kinda get her into a position
where she decides she wants to cooperate with me.
Come on girl.
That's a girl.
All right, Whoops.
Whoops.
All right so she's all set, we'll leave her.
I'll go ahead and clean this cage up
and then you guys can help me put her back.
(funky music)
And I think Daisy is ready to go.
So let's go ahead and take a look, see what's going on.
Again, just gonna help her get out of her shed
if there's anything on her.
But it looks like the vast majority is already off
just little pieces.
And again if you soak these guys long enough
and that's just a little trick for you guys.
If you ever have a snake that is stuck in shed
if you soak it long enough,
it will absolutely just peel off like nothing.
I mean it's that way.
A lot of times, people soak them for like 10 or 15 minutes,
"well I can't get the stuff shed off".
It's just a matter of getting them in the water long enough
and they'll completely come off.
You can see how easy it's coming off of Daisy right now.
I mean just peeling like nothing at all, look at that.
- Look at that.
- She looks gorgeous too like that.
What a great snake.
I don't want to get you guys too wet here
but why don't you take the front end
and you can just kinda guide her in.
And then I will work on the shed part on the back end.
- [Thom] Gotcha, kid.
- I'm still in awe of how beautiful this snake is.
Oh, look at that.
- Oh, would you look at that.
- Whoo.
pretty snake.
Look at her.
Looks beautiful, huh?
Wow.
Daisy's cage is clean, shed out, looks good.
I guess I'll have to feed her the next day or two.
But I'm not giving up.
There is a saying that says when you fail, you fail forward.
You learn from your mistakes and you move on.
So I definitely still want to do this breeding game
app Reptile Tycoon.
I just gotta start from scratch and kinda start over
which is completely fine, that happens all the time.
Take for instance The Reptarium,
There was a ton of hold backs that started The Reptarium
and then ultimately when we got going we were even
gonna open up a week earlier but I realized
that we couldn't open up the way I wanted to
so I pushed the grand opening back a week.
It's okay to take your time, it's okay to step back.
My point is that we will do Reptile Tycoon
and by the way for you guys out there
if you know someone that can help me develop this game,
I would love to get another crack at it
to be honest with you.
But also, I want you guys to understand that you can fail
as long as you're failing forward.
Never give up on a dream because one day
that dream becomes a reality.
Again guys, I don't really look at it as bad news
yes, it's a set back.
Yes, I wish things would have worked out
but the truth is you gotta keep going for it.
And I promise you there will be a
Reptile Tycoon breeding game at some point in the future.
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