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- Hey, good morning everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
Today, I'm gonna talk about balance.
And I'm not talking about that type of balance.
But what I really mean is balance in life.
You know, I mean, I am so out of balance,
I work seven days a week.
I'm a morning till night type of guy.
As a matter of fact, this is my little notebook here
with all of my ideas.
And literally all of these are ideas
for businesses that I'd like to launch.
Yeah that's right.
And I'm gonna go ahead and give you guys
a little bit of a rundown of this type of thing.
So the first one right here is,
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And those are my ideas guys, and by the way,
if you wanna record this and slow it down,
I'm literally reading fairytales.
I'm not gonna lie.
I'm not gonna tell you what the actual ideas are
in this book.
But my point is, is that I am definitely way out of balance
and I have to somehow reel myself in
and start enjoying life on, you know,
don't get me wrong, I love what I do here.
I love every minute of what I do.
I just do it way too much.
And the hardest part is honestly like
trying to slow down or find that balance in life
without losing the essence of who I am, right?
I mean, the essence of who I am, is a visionary.
And I've always said,
that a vision without action is just a dream,
and I don't wanna be a dreamer, right?
I wanna be a doer.
And of course, spending time with my girl, Bella here
certainly helps a tremendous amount.
I mean, any of my animals are absolutely amazing.
I mean, just look at how absolutely beautiful she is.
And it really does give me this calming kind of feel.
I'm not gonna lie to you,
whenever I get a chance to spend time
with some of these animals,
it kind of slows everything down
because I can just kind of,
you know, just absorb their energy.
And it's quite amazing.
And I'll be honest with you,
Bella and me have a really amazing relationship.
As a matter of fact, Bella,
if you could wish for one thing, what would it be?
Whoa!
Okay, so I guess Bella actually wants her own merch.
Bella Bananas merch.
That's right, they're back.
Bella Bananas merch is available
for only the next couple of weeks.
So go ahead, link in the description.
If you wanna get your Bella's merch
we've got different colored shirts.
We've got hoodies, mugs, all that type of stuff.
Bella's amazing and I think you guys
should be sporting this amazing shirt too.
Right, Bella?
I know, dreams do come true, don't they, baby girl?
Pretty cool that Ivy is just starting to shed
and she's got just her head off it.
And then this guy over here. - Yeah I wanna peal it.
- [Brian] You're not gonna peal it.
- We need to sell it, people want it.
- So Jay wants the head piece right here,
which is really cool cause you can see the two eyes
and stuff like that.
I mean, no doubt, a really cool thing
but she's gonna shed.
It's still gonna be there.
- No, she's literally going to ruin it.
- [Brian] She's not gonna ruin it.
- I guarantee she's gonna ruin it.
- [Brian] You're not gonna go in and peel her head off.
No, you're not.
This would be the worst idea ever.
You're gonna upset her.
Don't.
- Can you just open it? - No!
Leave her be!
Plus we're trying to get a cool time lapse.
You know, this guy here, he's always cutting it,
he's a Mr. Idea man.
- How many time lapses do we have
- Mister Jay, the edutainer over here.
There's certainly no animal that basically represents chill
like my guy Grogo over here.
Hey baby boy, what are you doing?
So again, I use these animals a lot
of times to kind of reduce my stress and anxiety,
when I'm getting really amped up
oftentimes I'll come into Drago
or get an Ivy or, or Bella, whatever the case is.
And it really drops my kind
of blood pressure and it just makes things really soft.
And, and certainly Drogo is this guy.
I mean, how could you not love him, hi Drogo?
Hi baby boy, what are you doing silly.
He's such a good boy.
And that's what it's all about.
After going through the anxiety
that I've been through for the last 10 months
and now as I'm starting to feel better and better
a little bit more and more like myself
I have to really try to find that balance because the lack
of balance is what got me into that mental spot, right?
The fact that I was overwhelmed and constantly going just
from morning, till night, without ever having a break.
That's what got me there.
Now. I want to still be the same person that I
am ambitious visionary, but do it in a way,
where there's more balance in my life.
I get more enjoyment out of the daily thing.
And that doesn't mean
that I'm not going to spend just as much time
with these animals because I love them so much.
I mean, Drago has changed my life
but the fact is I still need to find time to
balance family, friends, enjoyment.
And that's what I'm going to really try to work on
in this whole year.
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Mike, is that all you do, is just mop that one section.
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How about this?
I get my shorts on.
I scrape this up, make it look good
all the algae and make it look pretty for tonight.
- And?
- And, and I'll get you Ivy's head piece.
If she's cooperative,
- Okay, that's fair.
- If she's not, you're not getting it.
- Thank you, best dad ever.
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- [Jay] Thanks dad
(sighs)
We're opening later on tonight anyway,
so I have to climb in here and clean things up a little bit,
just a little algae builds up
and then some of the water stains and stuff like that.
So I'm going to climb in here
and I'll see if I can get Ivy's head shed off for Jay
but I'm not sure if I'm going to or not.
It just depends on how she reacts to things
and stuff like that.
But I was planning on coming in here anyways,
and hey anytime that I can come in with
Ivy's a great time for me anyhow, because I love her.
And again, talking about balance, this is a great way
for me to kind of get balanced because I love spending time.
And even though I'll be working
kind of cleaning the place up
just taking the time with her
really makes me kind of much more calm
and I love this girl to death.
So first we'll do, clean the glass up,
second we'll do, we'll see if we can help her
with her shed a little bit off.
We'll see what happens.
- [Jay] She came right for you,
she came right to you.
- So bizarre that as soon as I stepped in the water
she just comes right over it to me.
I mean, it's not out of aggression at all.
It's kind of like your puppy coming to greet you.
I mean, she is such a special animal
and no way was I afraid at all.
She was just literally coming over
like, what are you doing in my enclosure dad.
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So I'm gonna try something.
You know, again, she's obviously shedding, right?
And I always talk about, you never want to shed a snake
before it's ready to shed, but once it's actually shedding
you can help them out.
I mean, it's not going to hurt them at all.
Matter of fact, a lot of times, if they're stuck in shed
you want to soak them and get that shed off of 'em
In this case she's obviously in water.
So she sheds really good.
I'm going to just kind of gently help her.
Cause you see the bottom jaw and the top jaw
is broken right now.
I want to just see if I can help her slide out of the shed.
Don't know if it's gonna work,
that way I can preserve the head piece for Jay,
and then get the body as well.
So let's just see if we can do it.
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So I'm going to be honest with you.
I just don't want to stress her out either.
There's no reason to do that.
She can shut on her own self and she was really good
about taking that top head piece off for Jay.
So he's happy with that.
You can see the rest is kind of right here.
So I'm just going to let her do it on her own.
No sense of stressing her out or anything like that.
I thought maybe she would like it and it be kind
of a cool bonding experience,
but she didn't seem to like it so much.
I'm just going to leave her,
finish cleaning the rest of this glass up
and get out of this cage,
even though I love being in here with her.
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- Love you.
- Love you too.
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Mission accomplished,
well, at least I got the glass, all cleaned up
looking good for tonight when we're open.
And secondly, I made Jay the edutainer happy.
I know I've been throwing a lot of stuff at you guys lately
but there's just so much going on.
So I don't want you to forget about the coloring book.
They are selling like crazy here.
It's just super cool Reptarium after the dark, 28 pages
of absolutely amazing illustrations that you can color.
So as a matter of fact
if you get one color, send me pictures
tag me on Instagram and I'll share them with my audience
because I think it's going to be absolutely amazing.
And you can get them@therepterrarium.com
Laurie I got something that I'm pretty excited about.
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We were able to roll the biggest joint ever with.
Okay, first off you guys, I'm going to smoke weed.
I wish I could, but
- I want to smoke it.
You guys put your grams of weed.
This id how I roll.
I really don't know.
So actually Royal Hemp Bedding sent us this,
I guess it's just a bedding for reptiles.
It looks pretty cool.
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- I don't think I could wear this shirt
bet I know one who could actually.
- We have a lot of people that want dibs on that.
[Group chattering]
- Thank you guys for sending it to me.
I'll try it out.
You know, I've always been interested
in Hemp when it comes to a bedding type of thing
because it's, you know, it's antibacterial antifungal.
- Is it real good absorbent?
- It's very absorbent.
I mean, I don't know, you know, it might be,
so I'll give it a try
and I'll put a review down in the comments.
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Noah I got you a shirt.
See if you like it.
- I don't think I'm gonna like it.
- Why wouldn't you like it?
- Fabric, I can tell by the fabric.
It's a nice touch.
Royal Hemp Bedding.
- Yap, say it again.
- Royal Hemp Bedding.
- Yeah, that's your shirt.
- Why though.
- Your birthday is coming up right?
- No.
- It's not?
Is something coming up like a holiday,
- Nothing
- I think there's a fat Tuesday just passed.
So that's Easter
- I'm fasting
- Let's see for Easter.
I got that for Easter.
- There's no gifts for Ramadan.
- What?
- You didn't know that?
- I didn't know that
- I can't even take this legally.
- Okay.
- Thank you.
(laughs)
- That's my favorite thing.
Oh, he didn't do it like this when he takes the shorts
and then he lays them out on the birthday party room table
- We're switching up our training a little bit with Salt
or at least starting something you guys know
that we've been getting in with her a little bit.
We also, you know, let people hold or touch your nose.
She stays still, but she's getting really big.
I mean, she's getting to the point now where
like smaller kids just can't hold her
because she's so heavy.
So we're trying to see if maybe we can put her
on the ground and start training this way.
Cause when she's six or eight foot
that's how we're going to have to interact with her.
Don't know how it's going to go.
So let's just go ahead and drop her
on the ground and just see what she does.
I don't know what she's going to do.
Is she going to calm down?
Stay calm girl.
There you go.
She actually is doing pretty good.
So I want to start taking her out,
and putting her on the ground almost every single day.
And seeing if we can't actually interact
with her on the ground where she won't bite us
or do anything else like that right.
Right now she seems to be super calm.
This is what I would like.
Kind of like if you remember that big alligator
named Bubba that was in Chicago, my friend
Jim Nesci had, he had this like 10 foot alligator.
That was dog paint.
That would just sit on the ground, just like this for hours.
So now we have to train Salt this way.
That way, when she gets six foot, eight foot
maybe nine foot,
she can actually come out and just sit just like this.
And people can come up and Pat her
and actually take pictures with her.
So the training starts today
and I couldn't be more happy with the way she went.
Good girl, you're doing so good girl.
Way to go.
This is awesome.
So yeah, this is going to be a daily thing for sure.
The next training for salt.
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So there it is, it's all about balance, right?
And that balance
is something that I'm going to continue to search for
as much as I can.
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