- Well, our Florida adventure has ended
and we're actually in the State of Oklahoma right now.
And I am excited because we're heading off
to a legends collection.
And this is a collection that, to be honest with you,
I've never seen anyone film it.
Now, that doesn't mean that someone didn't,
I have personally never seen it,
and it happens to be Bob Clark.
So giant snakes, we are on the hunt
for the giant snakes today,
and this is going to be really cool.
I've been wanting to come to Bob since I was 17 years old,
I'll share more about that a little bit later on,
we're about two hours from his place.
It's going to be absolutely epic.
And we are here at Bob Clark's Reptiles.
I tell you what, Bob, this is a beast girl here, wow.
- I'll let you take care of her all yourself.
- Oh my gosh, she is, look at this girl,
this is definitely one of the larger reticulated pythons
that I've ever held, and right now I have the entire weight.
She is using me like a tree
and she has me a hundred percent wrapped,
what an absolute amazing animal.
And I tell you what,
Bob has some of the most crazy reticulated pythons,
as along with a lot other snakes here.
So we're going to get an opportunity to see
all kinds of amazing animals today.
But we have to start with one of the largest stakes,
maybe one of the largest snakes in the world.
I don't know, but this thing is an absolute beauty,
and I tell you what, she's got some weight there.
I'm so glad that she doesn't have the attitude like Lucy,
that's for sure.
She is a beauty Bob, so what,
how long have you had this girl?
- That one's eight years old.
- Eight years old, only? - Yeah.
- Wow, she's got some big genes in her.
- Yeah.
- Oh my goodness, she is absolutely gorgeous, so--
- [Bob] And I told you she was tame and you believed me.
- I believed you.
Bob, I know you're not going to lie to me, come on now.
(Brian chuckles)
But it was an absolutely amazing animal,
so, buckle up, guys, it's going to be a lot of fun.
Bob, this snake is an absolute ripper here,
I mean, I tell you what,
this was like the first snake that I saw
when I walked through the door, and I was like,
"oh, my gosh."
So this is a Super Motley--
- Pied albino. - Pied albino
- And what's interesting, is you said,
the Super Motley Albinos are pure white?
- That's right.
- Right, and then interestingly enough,
you add pied and you get more pattern.
Now, so what's basically happening
is that the pied typically has a lot more pattern
than say a normal 90% white pied ball python.
So what's happening is the pied is actually bringing pattern
back into an already a patternless white snake
that I find very interesting.
It's a way you can kind of manipulate
the same way Like you can do
with an Enchi pied ball python breeding into say,
a cinnamon pied that's almost 90% white,
You can breed Enchi into it and bring more pattern into it.
So, it kind of is working the same way
with reticulated pythons, which is amazing,
but this thing is a stunner, oh my goodness.
- Yeah, I'm proud of this one.
- You better be proud of this one,
is there any others out there?
- This is the only one.
- The only one, guys.
- Hoping that next I won't be able to say that.
- I hope that, well I want to get one.
- Golden Child Pied.
Golden Child Pied is white with red eyes.
- Oh, my gosh.
- No albino, but Golden Child pied is--
- A white snake with red eyes. - Patternless and red eyes.
- When I put Golden Child Phantom pied,
then it comes--
(Brian gasps)
it comes with that.
- [Brian] Wow.
- [Bob] And it has red eyes.
- [Brian] And it has red eyes?
- [Bob] Yeah.
- Oh my goodness, that is a,
that is an Oreo snake right there.
- Yeah, black and with with red eyes.
- [Brian] Wow, that is amazing, that is a stunner.
- Those just hatched and we've had, you know,
you don't know what you're going to get.
- Wow.
- But I had the idea that I would get
a white snake with red eyes,
'cause that's what I got last year.
- [Brian] Yeah, before. - [Bob] Before.
- Yeah, but the Golden Child brought out the, wow, crazy.
- So the man, the myth, the legend of course is here,
Bob Clark himself.
Now, Bob, I told you a little bit
about how you really influenced my direction in life,
but I've got a little story to share with you
that you will never, ever remember,
but I want to tell you how much it meant to me.
I was 17 years old,
I was at the Phoenix International Harp Symposium.
You might remember that?
- I do, I remember going. - [Brian] Yep, that is good.
- Bob Clark was a legend to me, right?
And I remember not even wanting to go up and talk to you.
I mean, I was so afraid because I'm like, that's Bob Clark.
You were with Steve Osborne,
and I think Gary Sipperly was there, if I'm not mistaken.
Regardless, I went up and I talked to you
about an albino Burmese python,
it was myself and a couple of friends of mine.
And I said, "I really want to buy
an albino Burmese python."
And Bob 17 year old, long haired kid,
total newbie to the hobby,
you literally invited me and my friends up to his room
to see the albino Burmese python.
- I had him with me, I remember.
- You had him with you, and I saw them,
and that impacted me beyond belief.
So I want to thank you for that.
- That is great to hear that, thanks for telling me.
- Isn't that great?
But that just shows you the character, right?
That a 17, I'm sure you never thought
that I was going to be a lifelong reptile guy,
and yet you took time.
It was a moment of your time,
but it was a lifetime long memory for me.
So is that awesome?
- It is, nice to hear it.
(both chuckling)
- So for you guys out there, just remember,
little things like that can really make an impact,
and that's why I've loved this man ever since then.
Bob, you may remember the first time that I actually saw
a giant white snake was actually
at the Orlando Reptile Show, the National Breeders Expo.
Now this of course is a solid white retic, a Super Phantom,
but you had a giant super white Burmese python.
- 1992 in Orlando.
- Yep, exactly, the Twin Towers,
and the very first at National Breeders Expo,
the very first one, you had a giant,
it was about this size, maybe it was bigger?
- It was about bigger, yeah.
- And it didn't end up working out, unfortunately,
you said you think it was one of those animals
that changed color maybe?
- Yeah, occasionally they change color,
and looking back, I think that was one
that probably started normal and changed,
and that's why it never produced another white snake.
but we don't always know, these things are genetic.
- Exactly, but this is so impressive.
And again, this was considered
like the holy grail back then.
I remember Bob had this white giant snake
and everyone was like,
"That's the holy grail of all snakes."
That was before the leucistic ball python, before,
I mean, really, the leucistic Texas rats
may be the only animal out there
that was solid white at the time.
So, it's cool to see a snake
that's almost the exact same snake,
of course a different species,
but almost the same size back at Bob's place.
Wow, so what's the genetics on this one?
- Okay, this is Sunfire pied to Golden Child pied.
- Okay, so we've got some Sunfire.
These ones look great, actually look like
Sunfire Golden--
- [ Bob] Yes.
- [Bob] Child. - [Brian] Child.
- Golden Child, it's hard to say that, Sunfire go--
(laughing)
Sunfire Golden Child pied.
- [Bob] Yes. - [Brian] Some.
- [Brian] It looks like maybe this one is--
- [Bob] I think I had one, yes, I think these are.
- [Brian] Yeah.
- [Bob] But I have, I think that just one of them shed
right before you got here and I thought,
"Let me take your picture."
And I think it's still back in the photo--
- [Brian] Okay, well, that sounds,
so you can see this one's just starting
to come out to shed here,
and look at the color and pattern on that animal.
Look at the head, half white, half pattern.
And then there's some solid white heads, wow,
these are amazing.
- [Bob] And then these dark ones,
this is Golden Child pied.
- Golden Child pied.
- And they're...
Golden Child pied is very black.
- [Brian] Very, very--
- [Bob] Very black and white.
- Yeah, then you mix that with Motley
and you get a little less pattern to it.
- [Bob] Yes, more white.
- [Brian] More white, exactly, that's incredible,
now you had the first pied too, right?
- Yes. - That's amazing.
- So, as I was saying, it's just, it's crazy.
I don't know if people realize so many of these mutations
came out because of Bob and your effort, so, that's,
again another tub of pied reticulated pythons.
Wow, I tell you what, that is ridiculous, so beautiful.
(chuckling)
I get a chance to play with a big Black Throat monitor
while I'm here too.
You guys know I love monitor lizards, and basically,
I knew we were going to see a lot of burm, and retics,
and stuff like that, didn't know we were going to see
this little monkey right here and,
(sniffing)
yup, he smells like waffles too.
What an amazing animal,
Black Throat monitors are absolutely incredible.
This one's a little bit energetic,
he likes to move, which is fine.
It's okay, buddy, it's all right, you're okay.
I know, I know, I know, I get it.
Okay, okay, come here, boy.
He's just getting a little bit hyper,
but he's a beautiful animal,
absolutely love him.
Okay, we're calm, we're calm, we're calm.
Okay, woo.
What an awesome animal though, I tell you what,
it's fun playing with this little monkey, that's for sure.
Your place is amazing, Bob.
So, tell me a little bit about how it all started,
because I mean, you were a reptile guy,
but then really, you know,
you getting the albino Burmese python in particular
changed the entire course of the hobby.
- Well, it for sure it changed my life.
When I was a kid, I imagined that,
wouldn't it be great if you could breed reptiles
and make a living doing it?
If you were going to breed something,
well that would be great,
but you're competing with animals that were imported
at a cheap price, and I thought,
"Well, it's just never going to work."
I was lucky enough to get ahold
of that first albino Burmese python.
And like I've told you before and told many people,
it just changed the course of my life.
- Well, not just your life, but the entire hobbies life,
because like you said before that,
even when I was in it, younger than that, you know,
I never thought that I could work
with reptiles for a living,
I just knew I wanted to work with them.
And you basically could make a couple dollars,
maybe nothing big.
- I knew you wanted to, for sure.
- Yeah, there was nothing,
but then when that albino Burmese became an,
it was really the person investment reptile, right?
- Yeah, I don't think it was something people thought about
as being able to breed something and make money from it.
- Yeah.
And this is really cool, man.
This is all Neodesha Cages, they're kind of an older style,
but look at this, all retics all along here, all along here,
retics, retics, retics,
and this is just one aisle of a bunch aisles in here.
This is the most feet of snake
I've ever been in a facility of,
and oh, by the way, rock pythons, patternless rock pythons.
That's right, and it is amazing.
I think he has 59 eggs cooking for the rock python,
so maybe we'll have to get that other giant snake
for the Reptarium, the rock python.
Take a look at this right here,
of course, a pied Burmese python.
That's right, we've seen the pied articulated pythons.
You guys know, I love Burmese python.
I always say they're the puppy dogs or the snake world,
the giant snake world,
and this is of course a pied.
You know, it's really weird because I never thought
that we'd see pied burms,
I never thought we'd see pied retics for that matter.
But to be able to be here and messing with this girl,
I mean, look at how interesting.
She's got really dark on her front of her face,
and then of course that beautiful pied pattern.
And you got to remember
that we're just now starting to see people like Bob
working with these animals,
so what the future is potentially could be insane.
Just like they've done so many things now
with the pied reticulated python,
just think what the pipe Burmese pythons
could potentially be another four or five years
when you're breeding them into granite or labyrinth,
or, you know, you name the mutation, caramel.
I mean, there's going to be so much potential in the future
when it comes to Burmese pythons,
and this pied just raises everything
to another level, right?
Because it's a base morph that can be bred
into every other base morph of Burmese python,
that just makes it absolutely incredible, I tell you what.
(snake hissing)
She is an absolute sweetheart,
have to add pied burms to the Reptarium
as soon as possible.
This is actually a Burmese-ball python cross, this is crazy.
And so you've actually now bred burm ball to burm ball, or?
- I have bred them together and I bred them to Burmese.
- [Brian] So okay, so you have two thirds burm,
one third ball python, and they are crazy.
Now, I mean, obviously a ball python has to breed
a Burmese ball male to a Burmese female,
'cause I don't think it would work the other way around,
but that is crazy, and this is about as big as they get.
- [Bob] This one's about 10 years old.
- [Brian] Oh, so 10 years old.
- [Bob] So I'm going to say, yeah,
it's probably about as big as it gets.
- I had no idea that they had him around for 10 years,
so that is amazing, I mean, what a great combination.
Do you have a, I mean, I know they call them burm balls,
I know like Tom Crutchfield turned the Borneo bateaters,
any other term for these guys Or just burm balls?
- [Bob] I just call them hybrids,
I don't like them manufactured names.
- [Brian] Yeah, yeah, I got you.
Understood, I get it.
Well, they're absolutely amazing
it's just saw it's just such a treat to see one in person.
Look at this, guys,
this is just a big Golden Child reticulated python.
What an absolute beauty she is too, I tell you,
the iridescence in this animal is ridiculous.
Now, this is an incomplete dominant animal,
so, if you breed a Golden Child to say a normal,
or something like that,
about half the babies come out Golden Child,
and it's just really beautiful.
This is a pretty big one too, Bob,
I haven't seen one this big.
- Well, you know they say they're a dwarf type.
- [Brian] Yeah.
- Some are, but I had a 200 pounder, so.
- [Brian] 200 pounds?
- Yeah, they can get bigger,
at least some of them can get big.
- [Brian] Well, you know, it's funny you say that,
'cause a lot of people that talk even
about like some of the dwarf not the really small,
like (indistinct) or something like that,
but some of the dwarfs can still get giant.
So, it's about the way you feed them
I think more than anything.
And this is definitely no dwarf right here,
that's a beautiful snake, absolutely.
I've loved Golden Child forever,
and of course, Night Fury is a Golden Child Motley,
which has that solid black,
takes away all of that pattern in here
when you breed them together,
nevertheless, absolutely gorgeous snake.
It didn't stop there because then really the next iteration
that really continued to push the hobby to the next level
was really the albino ball python.
- Yeah and really when I got that snake,
I thought it's not as good as the Burmese python
- [Brian] Right.
- But I think people will buy them.
- [Brian] Yeah, it didn't really--
- You know, and I'll tell you
the first ball python I ever bred was the albino.
The Burmese thing had been running for, I dunno,
five or six years.
- And again, the ball python game changed at that point.
Now I heard the story so I'm going to ask you,
'cause I don't know if it's even true,
which by the way, this guy is absolutely amazing.
Look at this little monkey right down here.
- [Bob] That's Steve.
- This is Steve, hey, Steve, what's going on buddy boy?
I want that dog too, but, so I heard the story
that when you bought the albino ball python,
they forced you to buy the genetic striped.
- I told him, "Yeah, I'll buy it."
And he says, "Yeah, I'll sell it,
but I got to sell you this other ball python too.
If you want that one, you get them both."
- [Brian] Wow.
- So that was the first striped ball python.
- [Brian] Yeah.
- And I, you know, I saw that and in those days,
we didn't know that these traits were even inheritable.
- [Brian] Right?
- Every time I get something new, I thought,
"Well, hope this works."
- [Brian] Yeah.
- So, fortunately--
- And it's crazy, cause at some point,
even though the albino ball pythons were the start,
at one point genetic striped were actually more expensive
than the albino ball python.
- Yeah, it was, it's been a crazy, crazy ride there.
- This is pretty interesting because it looks
just like a Mochino, but it's actually a Purple Sunfire,
but it looks exactly like a Mochino
reticulated python like hell,
but what a gorgeous snake.
I tell you what, she's long too, huh?
- She is long.
- She's got some length to her.
- That's the thing-- - Longer than I thought.
- That's the thing it is about retics,
is that when you get them out of the cage,
they're just so much bigger.
They just keep coming, I tell you what,
what a gorgeous snake though.
It's bizarre that the mutation can look so similar
to a Mochino like this.
(Brian sighs)
What a snake, I'm having the time of my life, guys,
This is absolutely incredible.
You know, the 17 year old Brian
never thought in his wildest dreams
that I was going to be hanging out with Bob Clark,
feeding giant snakes at his place,
so this is like a dream come true, guys.
The whole day has been absolutely amazing.
(funk music)
Tell me about this, what is this now?
- Blue hypo.
- [Brian] That's a Blue hypo, where'd it come from?
- Came from Indonesia,
I imported it really 10 years ago or more.
- [Brian] Okay, wow.
- And then I finally got the project going
about five years ago.
- [Brian] Now is it recessive, or?
- It is, it's recessive. - [Brian] Okay.
- [Brian] It's very pretty, it's very, very pretty.
I mean you have a grays and blues in the side, unbelievable.
So this of course is a patternless African rock python,
a little feisty monkey too.
So this is a recessive mutation, wow, look at that thing.
And, of course, rock pythons
are one of the giant snakes as well.
My goodness gracious.
- That's when Jay Brewer started.
- [Brian] So Jay got the first...
- Yes. - [Brian] Patternless.
- [Brian] So again, I get the first one, right?
Not the first one, but one of the ones.
I've got to get it, I definitely got to get it.
And we're going to try to see
if we can get one that tames out,
that's always fun.
I had one that was pretty docile for many years,
but they are definitely cantankerous,
there's no doubt about it.
This little monkey here, It's looking at me like,
oh, it's about to get me.
Oh, I got the heebie-jeebies about that and just,
oh, there we go, thank you, Bob, you saved my life.
You always get those, like, those goosebumps
just before a bite, you know what I mean?
Like, oh, you know it's coming,
so, that's absolutely incredible.
So I can't wait till you've had some of these guys,
you said anytime, huh?
- Yeah.
Next week.
- Next week? - Yeah.
- All right, coming soon.
This is 2,000.
- [Brian] This is 2,000. - [Bob] That's 2,000.
- [Brian] So she's 21 years old,
and this one is 40 years old.
- [Bob] And that's her mom.
- [Brian] And this is just, it's going to be giant, so.
These are Bob's Aldabra tortoise.
And you said that she's produced
like a hundred and something eggs?
- Over 150 babies.
- [Brian] 150 babies, oh my gosh, and they love it out here,
they love the mud grass.
- [Bob] They ate all the grass.
- [Brian] Yeah, they...
(laughing)
They love, that's the thing about Aldabra tortoises,
they eat a lot and they'd love to muck around in the mud.
As a matter of fact, our is name Matilda,
but its real name is Muddy Matilda
because she loves to get muddy.
Guys, I hope that you enjoyed today, again,
I'm going to put a link of everything with Bob over here,
go show him some love, tell him I sent you.
What an amazing time, I mean, this is absolutely--
- It was fun, I'm glad we got to do it.
- Oh my God, I appreciate you guys watching.
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