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- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
We are in absolutely beautiful Utah.
What an amazing place we have.
This is a way I could start every morning,
and I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
After we get done with our hiking,
we are gonna actually head over to Jeremy Stone's,
one of the coolest boa
and ball python collections on the planet.
It's gonna be an amazing day,
but for now we're gonna enjoy this beautiful scenery.
We just took a quick stop up here at Sundance,
and it's absolutely gorgeous.
Jeremy, of course, brought us up.
Jackson over here.
So, they're our hosts for the day.
We're gonna head back over to his place in a minute,
look at some amazing snakes.
It's gonna be a great day.
But first, just enjoying this beauty, right Jake?
- It's awesome!
- And of course I'm here with my buddy, Jeremy.
We've known each other for a couple decades.
- Id say so. - Something like that.
Jeremy has some incredible boas,
as well as a lot of ball pythons.
A family affair here,
so were gonna meet the kids
and just have an incredible time.
Let's start with this,
I mean, this is a cool little display tank.
What do you have going on in here?
- [Jeremy] This is actually a leucistic.
Cassie, my daughter over here,
she's earned this 'cause she works for me,
and that was her favorite snake.
And she's named it what, Cassidy?
- [Cassidy] Rosie.
- [Jeremy] Rosie. - Rosie.
So, we've got a few others in here,
and this one's intelligent following me around.
- [Brian] Wow.
- This is a beautiful T-positive.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, that's absolutely incredible.
- [Jeremy] Isn't that a beautiful striped boa here?
Then, we got this IMG gene going on there.
Just gorgeous, its following me around.
- Yeah, look at that IMG.
I wanna go in here and pick this thing up.
- [Jeremy] It has an attitude.
- Ah, it's okay, we got it.
Look at this animal right here!
So, this is actually an IMG Hypo,
is that what this is?
- This is actually an IMG Hypo Fire Diamond.
- [Brian] Fire, oh!
- It's also carrying the leucistic gene behind it.
- Right, exactly.
So, the fire is the stuff that, when bred together,
you can produce the Princess Diamond,
which is the white snake,
which is these guys.
And Jeremy, you're gonna show us
some kind of variety of these, right?
Yeah? - I will.
And they're my favorites, so you'll see this.
Oh my God, they are so incredible.
And you can see this one here,
pure white, the other one's got the beautiful
freckles on it, and stuff, and that beautiful color.
Incredible, again, Jeremy kinda pioneered a lot of
really pretty amazing boas over the years.
So you guys, I know you're always opining for boas
and stuff like that,
so, uh, you're gonna get your boa fill today,
and we'll see some really cool ball pythons, as well.
Look at that one right there, Jeremy, wow.
- [Jeremy] It's just my passion to make
lots of different varieties, and so,
it's just so much fun when you
see your hard work come through,
and look at stuff like that.
- [Brian] Oh yeah.
- There's even animals that we have made through these
that you can see the names in them.
We have one called Gary, it's famous--
- [Brian] Oh you're kidding me!
- Yeah, no, around--
That's kinda like my smiley-pyth, right?
- [Jeremy] You can see his name, Gar, yeah, he's a
yeah,smiley-pyth, exactly.
- [Brian] It's awesome.
- [Jeremy] Bringing out the smiley-pyth.
Let me just show you this really quick.
- [Brian] Oh yeah, let's go see, let's go!
- [Jeremy] Look at the cactus tree!
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, it's a saguaro, what is it,
a saguaro cactus? (laughs)
- [Jeremy] Yeah, it's a cactus.
- [Brian] That is awesome!
- So we named this Tucson, after Jackson, 'cause he
lives in Arizona.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, I love it, that is--
- [Jeremy] And that is also the smiley face,
but that's the Tucson--
- [Brian] Look at, that is incredible.
- And that we live in the state of Utah, of course--
- [Brian] That's awesome.
- [Jeremy] --so we're going to show you the Ute.
- So that's the Ute.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, it's got a huge--
- [Jeremy] What do you think?
- [Brian] Oh, that's awesome! (laughs)
I love how pyth's are like that,
where they can have all kinds of different
emojis and everything else, that's awesome.
- So, as you notice, Brian, over the times,
you can get bored with having thousands of snakes,
so my daughter, my son, and a couple friends
have helped me, and we start to name 'em and we--
- [Brian] Yeah, we have a lot of names here, right?
- [Jeremy] Yeah, we have a lot of names on here.
Have you ever watched that 80s video
"88 Lines About 44 Women"?
- [Brian] Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah!
- Yeah, "88 Lines About 44 Women", whatever,
"Dinah drove her Chevrolet
Into the San Francisco Bay"
- [Brian] (laughs) so this is, this is--
but that's Daryl Hannah, because she's just so fabulous.
- [Brian] Daryl Hannah, look at that.
- [Jeremy] So that's a good name.
- [Brian] That is cool.
So what exactly is the mutation here?
- You're going to flip,
this is a double-dominant hypo gene,
but it's also carrying the blood gene,
and it's het sharp albino.
- [Brian] Wow.
- [Jeremy] Now I'll show you what they produce.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh!
- [Jeremy] Yeah, you're gonna like the Dragon,
- [Brian] What?!?
- [Jeremy] in fact, that's a world's first.
- [Brian] Wow! That's so, is absolutely, it's--
- [Jeremy] How are we going to be able to film that?
People aren't even going to be able to see that thing!
So that's got the blood boa gene,
it'a also a jungle,
and a sharp albino--
- [Brian] Wow!
- [Jeremy] Isn't that gorgeous?
- [Brian] That thing is insane, dude.
- [Jeremy] Took long, hard work to make that.
Many years to--
- [Brian] Oh my God, that is incredible.
- So double (mumbles) recessive, a couple codons in there.
- [Brian] He looks like he's happy!
- Well I was going to have Brian tame down Jason,
but this is Gary Jr., Gary's kind of famous
in the Stone family, Jackson does a lot of videos.
Everyone wants to come and hold Gary because he's
so tame, but Gary Jr. is not tame.
- [Brian] (laughs)
- He's acting like he's upset with me.
He's just hissing, it's all bark, no bite.
- [Brian] He's just being a silly monkey,
it's okay, little monkey, it's all right.
- Now, I like that Brian did that--
- [Brian] Yeah, she's--
- Very few people that would do that.
He'll tame right down, actually.
- [Brian] That's what I'm saying, you know,
it's like, all hiss, and it's all bark,
but you can see that it's absolutely never
taken a pop at me.
It's really a beautiful, beautiful snake,
I mean, what an incredible,
and this one has a bunch of the freckles on it.
- It does, actually. - I love that.
And it looks like his dad,
and his dad has his name, Gary, written in there.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, that thing is gorgeous, dude.
I love it.
It's just a little defensive thing,
it's not like it's an aggressive animal,
or anything like that,
it's just defensive, and that's something that it'll
probably grow out of, for sure.
- It does.
Absolutely incredible, and again,
never once did it actually strike at me.
That's one of the things about boas,
often time they'll just kinda huff and puff,
and say stay away, stay away!
But they're never really strikers,
now look at how he's starting to--
- Now watch, when he gets to (mumbles)
and I'll pin him down, but I don't think Brian's
going to be able to tame Jason down.
- [Brian] Jason is the top one--
- Now Jason, when he gets older--
- And this is Jason from--
- He will calm down, he will pop at you--
- This is Jason from--
- We named him Jason after Halloween,
'cause he's a little, he's a little evil.
- So this is Jason Voorhees, right?
- Let's see Brian tame that one down.
- [Brian] Aw, yeah, we got him.
- [Jeremy] By that time--
- [Brian] That's okay, buddy,
it's okay, buddy, ow!
- [Jeremy] --but later he will,
I told you he'd--
- [Brian] Oh! Oh! (laughs)
- [Jeremy] Bri, come on now!
- [Jeremy] We don't want anybody bit,
you don't have to put your hand in the rose bush,
you don't need to--
- [Brian] It's okay!
Jason's all right, he's just a little bit feisty.
Uh, listen, I love snakes like Jason,
look at that animal right there, woo!
Jeez, what the heck!
That's absolutely incredible.
What a cool snake, though.
Again, I tell you what, number one,
I don't mind the fact that it's a little bit feisty
right now, when it gets bigger it might be a little
bit of a challenge,
but as a baby, it's no big deal.
Those bites hardly even, you can hardly even feel 'em.
But what a gorgeous snake, I tell you what.
- They're intelligent, too. - Unbelievable.
- He'll pop around you, so he follows me.
- [Brian] I can see that he's like--
- If I go this way--
- Yep he's all over the place, what a great animal,
I tell you, woo, that's okay--
- Gary's taming right down.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, yeah, it's all right,
Jason, it's all right, buddy boy.
Still again, I would take this any day, I mean,
to hold a white boa, its' like, you know,
again, these white boas, these Princess Diamonds,
are things that we dreamt about when we were younger,
so to have an opportunity to hold an animal like this,
even if it is a little bit feisty,
I tell you what, I don't mind at all.
What a cool snake.
What's up buddy, you okay?
Aww, he's just a little misunderstood.
This is a beautiful snake,
love him to death.
Boas are just awesome animals - tame right down.
- Again, just as youngsters they get a little bit fired up
like that, but they always calm down,
I guarantee, Jason and Gary Jr. are gonna be absolutely
placid by the time they're adults.
- Forgot about these,
their coat from the casting was not in shed.
- [Brian] Whoo!
- [Jeremy] Now what do you think of that puppy?
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, so this has to be the blood gene?
- That's actually the hypo leopard.
- [Brian] This is a hypo leopard??
- [Jeremy] Yep, hypo leopard.
- [Brian] So there's no blood in this?
- [Jeremy] There's not, well, it's het blood.
- [Brian] It's het blood, oh my gosh.
- [Jeremy] Het blood, and I'm gonna show you that soon,
- [Brian] Wow, I mean,
just take a look at that boa right there.
That has got so much orange and red in it,
my goodness, that thing is crazy cool, man.
I love it, dude.
- So the reason it's a hypo leopard,
is the hypo gene takes out the black.
This is your leopard that you're looking for that,
that pallet, the color in that, so--
- [Brian] Oh, man.
- The hypo gene took the other one away from that,
- [Brian] Exactly, so yeah, you got the belly's are
amazing, and again,
that leopard gene is so cool with the patterns,
extremely variable, I mean,
your leopards are unbelievably variable.
That is a beautiful leopard.
The thing I love about leopards, too,
is those jet-black eyes.
- I know.
- [Brian] They just are so cool, man.
- They're beautiful boas.
- [Brian] Jeremy, that's awesome.
- [Jeremy] I know, and I found that some of the Centrals,
and more Mexican boas are more easier to breed than the
true Colombians-- - [Brian] Right, that's what
I've heard, yep. - [Jeremy] They really are
a little bit heartier.
So this is a Motley Boa,
co-dominant gene.
This is the animal that I started,
that really started me out when I was a kid,
and I spent a lot of money on this.
And so everybody's got a Motley all over the world,
so that's one of the most popular genes in boas.
- [Brian] Yeah, and sometimes when you're kinda growing
a collection, you need that kinda, that,
that jumping off, right?
We had albino Hondurans, hog-nosed snakes,
and then ultimately pin-stripes,
and a few other things to really blow up BHB,
so Motley boas were your kind of ticket--
- [Jeremy] I was motleyboa.com before I bought
boaconstrictor.com 20 years ago.
- [Brian] Exactly, so that's awesome.
It's good to see the origins of a project like this.
This is a DPI--
- [Jeremy] D positive jungle.
- [Brian] Jungle, gotcha.
Beautiful, that cleanliness of that animal--
- [Jeremy] Ours have these little patterns that are
just really cool.
- [Brian] Oh my God.
- [Jeremy] And some jungle's are fully striped,
some are not, it's that tail coloring.
- [Brian] You can definitely see the jungle in these,
- [Jeremy] Yeah,
- [Brian] That the saddles combined, and wow,
that thing is gorgeous, man.
- [Jeremy] Then I have some IMG sunglow jungles, too.
- [Brian] Oh my God, I gotta see those.
So this is a hypo IMG--
- [Jeremy] That is a hypo IMG jungle.
- [Brian] Whoo! Man, I tell you what,
that IMG stuff is insane, huh.
- [Jeremy] And you think that the hypo gene is doing
opposite, again, taking that black out,
- [Brian] Yeah.
- Sometimes some don't look as pretty as others,
but this'll start to turn dark, really dark.
IMG's is increasing melas;
they get older, they turn blacker,
and that red will turn more red and black,
it's a very powerful animal to have.
- [Brian] That's amazing.
What do we have?
- [Jeremy] This is a sunglow motley paraglow.
And it's interesting,
it's hooked to the sharp genetic blood line,
similar to the candino and albino,
they're all three connected.
- [Brian] Okay.
- So this is kinda connected to the boa woman caramel,
that makes an animal that looks very similar to the VPI,
- [Brian] Yeah, this is amazing,
this is, that thing is,
I just can't believe this patterning up here,
is just so cool, like freckling through, wow.
- The genetics behind it are cool, too.
'cause it's a hypo motley,
and whenever you bring a hypo to a motley it
splits an allele as you produce zero normals,
you'll get all hypos and all motleys.
- [Brian] Really? - [Jeremy] But no normals.
- [Brian] I didn't realize that!
- [Woman] Well I don't know, but I tell you what,
but screw that py-re-tig,
you need to get one of these instead.
- [Jake] Okay, I heard it, it's on the vlog.
- [Jeremy] Okay, you guys heard it,
my daughter even heard it.
- [Woman] Let this be at the Repterium.
- [Jeremy] That would be cool.
- [Brian] It's almost like a little perdida,
I mean, you see all the freckles and stuff like that,
beautiful, but in boa,
so she's only gonna get this big.
This might be good for the massage room.
- [Jeremy] It would be really good, and her sister
gets a little bit bigger.
I think they'd give you a massage as long as (mumbles)
- [Brian] I know, right?
- [Jeremy] So they'll even tell you where the pain is at.
(all laugh)
- [Brian] So, that's awesome, that thing is beautiful.
- [Jeremy] So I got this beautiful black snake right here,
an Aztec IMG, quite a rare gene,
it's a double codon.
And Brian's holding a white.
Some people like black, some people like white,
I love 'em all.
- [Brian] That's absolutely incredible,
I tell you what,
I had an absolutely amazing time
seeing all these amazing snakes, Jeremy.
Thanks for opening up your place, I mean.
Let me know down in the comments what you got going on,
and I'm gonna put the link to all his stuff,
like the Reptile Ring,
and boaconstrictor.com,
and all his social media.
As for now, we're gonna wrap up here,
and we're gonna head out to the desert to Moab.
We had an absolutely great time over at Jeremy's.
We're probably an hour away from Moab,
as I have been calling it Mo-hab.
- [Jake] Mo-hab.
- But uh, yeah, Mo-hob, but uh, no (laughs)
- [Jake] That's okay, my mom calls it that, too.
- Exactly, that's okay.
But uh, it's crazy the topography change here.
We went from mountains to, kinda desert.
Absolutely gorgeous out here.
Hopefully, tomorrow morning we can get out,
really want to go snake hunting.
See if we can find some rattlesnakes,
hopefully some king snakes,
I mean, who knows what's really going on.
It's gonna be hot there in the day,
but if we get up early enough we may be able
to find something, and then at dusk again.
So, regardless, we're just gonna have an adventure day.
Hopefully some successful herping,
it's gonna be absolutely wonderful.
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- And I tell you what, guys,
we made it to Moab, and unbelievable.
We're gonna just end the day kinda looking over the,
the sun is going down behind us,
what an absolutely amazing time.
Again, tomorrow morning we're gonna wake up and try
to catch some snakes out here,
it's gonna be an adventure day,
it's gonna be absolutely incredible,
but as for now,
we're just gonna enjoy ourselves,
relax a little bit,
I hope that you have a wonderful day,
I love your beautiful faces,
be kind to someone,
and I promise I'll see you guys tomorrow.
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