- This monkey from up above in the rafters
pees all over me.
I stand up, I'm like, I'm getting peed on here
and I thought it was gonna make a funny scene
and that's when the attack came,
not from the front, but from the sides.
♪ Fire ♪
♪ The fire on the mountain ♪
- What's going on Coyote Pack and
welcome back to the Base Camp set
and another episode of Howling with The Pack.
HWTP?
Is that the acronym for what it is?
Howling with The Pack?
Yeah, HWTP.
We'll put the little sign up right here.
Love the new name for this series
and I'm excited to be here.
Now bear with me guys,
I'm actually fighting a little bit of a cold right now.
Yes, Coyote Peterson does occasionally get sick.
Actually, the last time I was sick
was when we were filming in South Africa.
I know a couple of you picked it up
in the puff adder episode you said,
Coyote your voice sounds a little off.
Did you have a cold?
I did. I actually had a cold from the whole
first week of that trip and I'm
just getting back from the Midwest tour and Vidcon
and I seem to have come down with a cold.
I liken it's probably traveling too much
and sleeping in too many different times zones
all in a stretch of two weeks.
Either way, I'm here with you guys today
and this is going to be awesome.
One big announcement.
We just recently crossed 11 million subscribers.
How crazy is that?
11 million members of the Coyote Pack.
I know you guys know that when you
hit 10 million subscribers you get the diamond play button.
I'm a bit late to the party guys but,
that case right there has the diamond
play button inside of it.
Mark and I were lucky enough to be
awarded this at this year's Creator's Summit
and this is my first opportunity
that I've had to reveal, are you guys ready?
You guys wanna see the diamond play button, right?
Here it is.
Hold on, it's really heavy.
That, wait, like this, is a diamond play button.
I know you're looking at this thing thinking,
that looks pretty solid.
Guys, this thing is heavy as it gets.
It is about 25 pounds in weight
and every time I hold it,
I'm nervous that I'm gonna drop it
on my foot and crush my toes, but it is pretty cool.
This is an award that obviously
we as the Brave Wilderness team
were given by YouTube for reaching 10 million subscribers,
but we could not have done it without you guys.
This is our diamond play button
and it proudly lives here at the Wilderness
production offices.
Actually, it sits right next to it's box like that
because honestly, the box is just as cool as the button.
Look at that.
It's like a suitcase,
it's got it's own holding spot in there.
I get my workout carrying this thing around.
There you have it,
the 10 million subscriber diamond play button.
Congratulations Coyote Pack.
We have made it to that tier in the digital space.
On the last episode of Howling with The Pack,
I said we were going to give away
an autographed Brave Adventures book.
This is the autographed copy and
congratulations to Jory Kanaan.
You wrote in with an awesome comment.
It's a long one, I'm not gonna read the whole thing here.
We'll put it up on the screen but it
was very heartfelt and we know that
you now have overcome your fear of
insects from watching our channel and that is amazing.
Bugs, insects, arachnids, no matter what it is,
are nothing to be afraid of as
long as you admire these creatures from a safe distance,
you're gonna be just fine.
We are gonna give away something pretty cool today.
Stick around 'til the end of the episode
and we'll announce what's being given away today.
See, this uncut thing, I have flubs.
You guys sometimes wonder and ask,
Coyote, how do you do all this presentation
in the field where the cameras never cut,
you never mess up a line?
Actually guys, I do mess up lines quite a bit.
You fumble over your words and all I do
is literally stop in that moment, take a pause,
and then continue talking.
You catch yourself in that motion
and the editors are actually capable
of cutting around any of my flubs in those moments
and everything works out just fine.
But in this where we hang out for
15 minutes and we don't cut at all,
sometimes I'm gonna have some mix ups.
Anyways, if you guys are ready,
let's dive into the questions.
We got some great ones this week
and I can't answer them all.
Actually the first one,
I just have to address this straight upfront.
This comes from Austin Amos.
Austin asks, Coyote, would you take a punch from a gorilla?
No Austin.
I am not going to take a punch from a gorilla.
That one just stood out to me, it's all in big letters.
A punch from a gorilla,
the strength of a gorilla is so incredible,
if I were to take a punch whether in the head
or in the chest, I'm pretty sure it would either
break my neck or collapse my chest cavity.
At no point in time am I going to
attempt to make a gorilla so angry
that it decides to punch me.
Good question there buddy.
Let's see, moving on.
These ones are a little bit more serious.
I've got one here from Hudson Love 101
and Hudson asks, have you ever had to
cancel an episode because the idea was too dangerous?
By the way, I love you so much.
You're awesome.
Thank you Hudson Love.
I love you too.
Thumbs up.
Have we ever had to cancel an episode?
As a matter of fact, we have.
The one that comes to mind immediately
is the one time we tried to film with squirrel monkeys.
Here's something most of you don't know,
Coyote Peterson does not mesh well with monkeys.
For some reason, I don't know what it is,
monkeys look at me, maybe it's my hat,
and they screech at me, they try to poop on me,
they try to pee on me and occasionally,
if I get into an enclosure with them,
I am actually attacked.
We did try to film an episode once
like I was saying about squirrel monkeys.
We entered into the enclosure.
It was myself, Mark, and Mario,
and we were working at Kids Saving the Rainforest.
Wonderful wildlife sanctuary.
That's where we filmed B-Rad and a
number of other adorable animals.
You can work with the squirrel monkeys if you want.
They're generally really sweet.
I entered into the enclosure with the monkeys
and as we got in there,
the monkeys started swarming around
and making this screeching noise.
The handlers that we were working with,
the people that worked at the sanctuary said hey,
come up on this platform.
It'll be safer for you here.
We'll see if the monkeys will just
gradually acclimate to you guys being here
and then move in and hopefully you can do some presentation.
It's not like I was gonna grab one
of these monkeys and hold onto it and be like,
this is a squirrel monkey!
No, they wouldn't of wanted that,
but I hoped that they would at least come close.
Just as the camera started rolling
and I started delivering my squirrel monkey facts,
I get peed on.
This monkey from up above in the rafters pees all over me.
I stand up, I'm like, I'm getting peed on here
and I thought it was gonna make a funny scene
and that's when the attack came,
not from the front, but from the sides.
Before I knew it,
there were squirrel monkeys all over me.
One jumped out and latched onto my arm,
we actually have this on camera.
We'll show the footage right here.
I start shaking my arm.
I don't wanna be bitten by a monkey.
It latched onto my arm,
ripped my arm open with it's claws.
I shook it off of my arm, it dropped to the ground,
and then it latched onto my leg.
I'm shaking my leg trying to get this monkey off of me.
Finally it retreats.
The monkeys are all screaming and
Mark, Mario, and I are like,
we've gotta get out of this monkey enclosure now.
We dart out of there. I think there's a little bit of
footage of me after the fact,
talking about we are not getting
back into the monkey enclosure.
This episode is over.
There's a perfect example of how
sometimes the episodes don't work out because in my opinion,
that was just far too dangerous
to continue working in that enclosure with the monkeys.
Coyote and monkeys do not mix well together.
Great question Hudson.
Moving on.
I'm gonna take a sip of water here.
Can you hear that my voice is pretty rasp today?
I actually have a pretty bad sore throat.
I don't know if I'll make it all
the way to 15 minutes on this one.
Alright, alright.
Here we go.
Next question, this is a good one.
This one comes in from Dani M and Dani asks,
what was the hardest challenge faced
during your wilderness career?
Great question.
Were you anxious when you first started Brave Wilderness?
I think I mentioned in the previous episode
that there was a whole long journey
that it took us to get to this point
where we have 11 million subscribers on the channel.
I would say one of the greatest
challenges in this career so far
was all the work it took in developing the concept
that ultimately became known as Brave Wilderness, the brand,
and all of the shows that we have on the channel.
In fact, Mark and I along with a couple
of other team members developed the
concepts for these shows for over three years worth of time.
We created what's known as the sizzle reel
where you go out and you film a
bunch of highlight action footage
of me running through forests, jumping into swamps,
catching turtles, catching snakes,
showing you all these different
dynamics of what this series could be like.
We put all that together in a reel
and then we tried to pitch it to television networks to say,
can we get this picked up as a TV show?
Like I said in a previous episode, everybody told us no,
people don't wanna see a TV show like this anymore,
they just wanna see stuff like Planet Earth,
and we refused to take no for an answer.
That was actually a huge challenge
that took us many, many years to overcome
before we finally ended up landing on Youtube.
Was I anxious when we first started
the Brave Wilderness channel?
Absolutely because as you guys know,
when you start a YouTube channel,
you have zero subscribers and growing a channel,
I'm sure a lot of you out there watching
are aspiring creators or inspirators.
Inspirators?
Influencers, creators and influencers.
A lot of you out there are creators or influencers
wanting to start your own channel
to share with the world what it is
that you're good at and for us,
when we launched the Brave Wilderness channel,
we only had a handful of episodes in the can.
That means filmed and through post production.
As we launched it, we didn't know how it would be received.
Everybody may have said just like
the television networks that we don't have
any interest watching this crazy guy
with the cowboy hat presenting animals
and educating the world about them but,
low and behold as the story unfolded,
here were are three and a half years later
and the channel is, thanks to you guys in part,
a huge success.
Yes, it was stressful to launch it
but looking back on it now,
it was definitely well worth all of those sleepless nights.
I love this one.
You see what I'm wearing today.
I consider these street clothes for Coyote, right?
I still have on my adventure vest, I wear this all the time,
but I have on a normal shirt,
I have sort of gray colored jeans,
not my normal hiking boots, and my cowboy hat.
I don't wear the cowboy hat everywhere.
If I'm going out to a restaurant with my family
or I'm just shopping at the grocery store,
I'm not wearing all of the adventure attire in public.
I do wear normal clothes.
I consider these normal clothes for me.
It's not just my adventure clothes.
official_kaiden1176 asks,
Has Coyote ever lost his hat during an adventure?
I was glad that someone was going to ask this.
This hat, this specific hat right here,
has been in every single episode
on the Brave Wilderness channel.
I have several of these hats.
I actually have a stack of them in my closet at home
just in case this one is ever lost,
but this hat has been in every episode.
When I answer the question has it ever been lost,
no it's never been lost in the
sense that I can't get it back,
but it has fallen off of my head a few times
whether in the wind being on a boat
and then we've had to turn the boat around
and go pick it up or one time specifically,
I think you guys remember this incident
where the hat actually saved my life.
I fell off a cliff while filming in Arizona.
This episode came out in 2016 so
some of you may not have seen it.
I think it's called Tragic Cliff Fall
or something like that or
Cliff Jump, He Doesn't Make It, something.
We were filming B-roll shots and
I was jumping from rock to rock.
As you'll notice, now we use drones
and there is very little of Coyote
jumping from anything these days for safety purposes.
I slipped guys and I fell 15 feet,
head over heel, off a cliff, onto the rocks below.
What happened, I don't think I explained
this in that episode, is that my hat fell off of my head,
you can actually see it in the video, it falls off.
The hat was spinning and it landed like this.
When I landed, my head landed inside of the hat
and it created an air pocket that caught my head.
A one in a million shot that ultimately,
thank you hat, saved my life because if I
had not landed in the hat,
my head would've landed on the rocks,
that would've been the end of Coyote.
In that episode, I technically lost my hat,
but then I then in turn found my hat
which saved my life.
Pretty crazy, right?
That was a wild episode.
Let's see.
How are we doing on time?
Got a few minutes left here.
I think I have time for one more question.
This is a good one.
Coyote, any plans on coming to Europe or Scandinavia?
As a matter of fact,
we are scouting locations in Europe right now
and I promise you guys that in 2019,
we will be making an expedition there.
However, for the rest of this year,
'cause I know a lot of you wanna know what's coming up,
we have some really exciting projects in the works
and specifically we are scouting
locations in Japan right now to hopefully
head out to search for giant Japanese salamanders.
You guys know that we've done an episode on hellbenders,
the largest salamander species in the United States,
but I would love to try to get the
chance to catch a giant Japanese salamander.
Mario is currently working with some
experts to plan that trip, scout the location,
and hopefully we will get out there
and catch one of these giants.
I am excited for that one but,
I'm also told that it is also freezing cold water
so just like the hellbender episode,
it's gonna be a cold dive into
some fast moving water but with any luck,
we'll get one of these giant amphibians
up close for the cameras.
We did the book giveaway in the
beginning of this video but, wait for it.
Who would like to win an autographed
Brave Wilderness Coyote Peterson Gila monster poster?
We just recently launched these
on the Brave Wilderness store.
I love these.
They were created by one of my really good friends,
a phenomenal illustrator named Patrick Brickman,
and this one is reminiscent of
my close encounter with the Gila monster.
As you can see here,
I have the GoPro on an extendable pole,
I'm not holding it with my fingers therefore,
I'm not gonna get bit in this picture
like what happened in real life.
This is a super cool poster.
If you wanna win it for yourself or one of your friends,
write in the comments section below
and tell us where in your house you would hang this
and why you think it would look
so good up there on the wall.
Well, I'm loving doing this series Howling with The Pack
and we've gotten so many comments
from everybody out there watching.
In a previous episode,
I said we try to keep some of these theme paced
so how about for the next round,
you guys write in the comments section below
a theme that has to do with film making, with video making.
Ask me questions about the process of
what we have to go through to make
some of these episodes or to construct the YouTube channel
and I will answer them to the best of my ability.
In the mean time,
enjoy all of the episodes that we
have coming up on the Brave Wilderness channel.
The month of July is jam packed
with some incredible content and I'm
looking forward to getting you guys
up close with all these animals.
I'm Coyote Peterson.
Be brave, stay wild.
We'll see you on the next adventure here at Base Camp.
Alright, and that's a cut.
If you enjoy this episode of Howling with The Pack,
make sure to go back and watch the last one
where I share some of my inspirations
for a career in everything animals.
Don't forget, subscribe so you can join
me and the crew on our next big adventure.
(coyote howling)