- [Brian] Today, we're driving 17 hours to Texas.
- What's so great about dumb old Texas?
- An amazing animal adventure.
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And we're already five hours down the road
to Indianapolis, Indiana.
But our first destination is actually Texas.
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And we're in Texas.
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And our first stop is at the Dallas World Aquarium,
one of my favorite places on the planet.
This place is absolutely incredible.
Let's have some fun.
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And of course, I'm here for getting ideas.
I mean, just look at this place.
I always say, I want you to walk into an exhibit, right?
This is an exhibit.
I mean, there's cool things all around us
but you're actually, like, in this rainforest
in the middle of the city of Dallas.
This place is amazing.
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And right behind me is an amazing animal.
This is an a Oronoco crocodile.
These are critically endangered.
And here at the Dallas World Zoo
they've actually been able to breed these in the past.
So, it's amazing that they're working
on conservation like this.
A giant crocodile with that slender snout,
absolutely wonderful.
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My brain is just spinning when I get in this place.
There's so many ideas. They are so incredible.
I mean, obviously this place is absolutely a mammoth
and you can't do everything.
You can't do a three story waterfall and stuff like that.
It's so inspiring to be here.
One of the coolest places I've ever been to.
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Obviously, with the aquarium that I'm trying to build
there's no way we could do something as grand as this,
but I promise you, sometime in my lifetime
this is what I'm working for is to have something like this.
I will sit here for hours, and hours, and hours,
and just watch.
I mean, this is absolutely ridiculous.
And this inspires me so much.
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What's amazing about this place
is this guy is just like me, really.
It's a person that's started aquariums by himself.
There's nothing backing it.
The city's not backing it.
Just a guy that was passionate,
that started small
and continued to grow, and grow, and grow.
So it's amazing that a private individual owns all of this.
It gives me the inspiration to do it myself.
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Talk about inspiration, this place is unbelievable.
Had an amazing time, but we're here to go to Aquashella,
so let's head off and see what that's all about.
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- Oh, my gosh, it's so wild!
- Of course, we're at Aquashella.
This place is absolutely bumping.
It's a cool fish show that happens all over the place.
And later on, we're actually heading
to an after party at a super cool fish store
that I hear is absolutely amazing.
We're just gonna have a fun time at the show for the day
and then go head over to this VIP after party.
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And we're at the after party.
This place is absolutely amazing,
it's called The Fish Gallery.
Take a look at this place right now,
it's like the Apple Store of fish.
I've never been to a place like this.
I mean, look at how cool this is.
The thing that I think is amazing
is that every bubble seems to be synchronized.
Fish are unbelievable.
Take a look at this. Come over here.
I love Discus fish.
I think about this for the aquarium a lot.
And again, these are giving me lots of ideas.
Take a look at these Discus here.
These are absolutely amazing.
The Discus up here.
This place is fricking awesome.
Come on, keep coming.
That fish tank right here, how freaking cool?
Have you ever been to a fish shop that's like this?
And it's really cool, 'cause this is just a VIP after party
for Aquashella.
And there's so many cool people here.
It's just great to meet everyone.
And it just inspires me 'cause Animal Con USA ,
it's just literally a week and a half away,
and we're super excited about that.
And there's gonna be a ton of after parties.
It's really getting me geeked up.
So, this is just absolutely amazing.
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Aquashella was absolutely amazing.
But we're back down here at Universal Rocks,
they're talking about expansion.
And of course, every time I come here
this place changes 100%.
It's absolutely incredible.
Of course, now they have all the jacuzzi.
Look at how cool this is.
I mean, look, it's got a waterfall.
It's got a hot tub down here you can hang out in.
Look at this tree.
Wow, cool.
I could imagine something like that. Certainly.
These are the types of things that I'd love
in the expansion, for sure.
Let's go find Stewart.
And I'm here today to talk with Stewart at Universal Rock
all about the expansion.
He has such a great, creative mind.
He's gonna be such an asset to me.
And I know we're gonna come up
with some amazing ideas together.
Look at his place, guys.
This has changed so much since I've been here last time.
It's like the coolest place.
This is like the Disneyland for people like me
that love rock stuff.
- There's rock pools there
that look, you know, similar to this.
- Yeah.
- And that's what this is gonna be.
- It's beautiful, man.
- Yeah.
- Unbelievable.
If I ever have a place that's big enough,
I want to put something like this in there.
I mean, this is amazing. Look at this.
This is absolutely incredible.
There's just so many things that I love at Universal Rock.
And trust me, we have a lot going on with this expansion.
Stewart's gonna be a huge part of it.
More to come.
This was a fun trip.
We talked a lot about the expansion.
It's gonna be really awesome.
Always great to hook up with Stewart at Universal Rock.
But now I'm at SeaQuest, an interactive aquarium.
It's gonna be amazing.
Yeah, these are all rays and a bunch of other cool stuff.
Definitely going swimming with these guys in a few minutes.
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While I'm at SeaQuest I get to swim with a capybara.
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And now we've made it to sunny, Florida.
With Animal Con being less than two weeks to go,
we are at the resort.
This is where it's gonna be held.
If you guys want to go and see your favorite creators
you can go to AnimalConUSA.com.
Link in the description. I'm gonna pin a comment.
Definitely check it out.
We're gonna go see the convention right now.
Well, look who we found. Lori's here.
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And this is the room
that the main area is gonna be for Animal Con.
I mean, I'll be honest with you,
it's bigger than I thought it was gonna be.
So we're gonna need some people to come.
So hit that link down below
because there is a lot of room in here.
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This is insane.
This is actually where the VIP party room's gonna be.
So if you wanna get a VIP ticket
you're gonna be able to hang out with creators
in this room after hours,
it's gonna be absolutely bonkers.
That link is in the description, AnimalConUSA.com.
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And we didn't just come down here to talk about Animal Con.
We wanted to visit some friends.
We're over at Primitive Predators.
Link in the description.
Our buddies Kyle and Ryan are here.
Look at all these Nile crocodiles here.
So we're gonna have some fun here for the day, as well.
There's still plenty of adventure to come.
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And of course, the last stop on this trip
has to be Gatorland.
We can't come to Florida
without going to our good friends over at Gatorland.
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This has been an amazing adventure.
I hope that you guys have enjoyed it.
We only have 17 hours and zero seconds.
I tell you what, that went fast.
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