Yalla Yolo (Ep. 1)

Your host is back for another freewheeling session, dusting off the "nihongo" and questioning his decision to retire the OG episode. This time, he jumps from spontaneous social encounters—like walking up to a stranger on the beach for the first time—to a deep dive into the surprisingly intense world of turtles. He recounts his successful 10-for-10 hatching of Red-Eared Slider eggs that he "hit a lick" on from a college pond, detailing the MacGyver home-craft incubator he built out of a cooler and an aquarium heater.

The episode then shifts to his experiences raising his formidable Alligator Snapping Turtle, Godzilla, including the challenges of keeping a reptile that doesn't like warm water (at first) and can eventually grow up to 200 pounds. Learn about the brutal "Turtle Dojo" that led to a last-man-standing situation and the spill containment tank solution for housing a massive freshwater predator. From funny observations about the origin of the phrase "shooting the shit" to the emotional toll of sad dog videos and his chaotic late-night dancing with his own dog, this episode is a journey across life, pets, and the high stakes of reptile husbandry.

Transcript

Konichiwa, ladies and gentlemen, or I guess it's night now, so konbanwa. is that right?I don't, I'm not certain.Sumimasen Ota-sensei ya boy's rusty on his nihongo,But we are back. by overwhelming demand, and by overwhelming demand I mean all like the 5 or 6 views that, I'm pretty sure, were just me clicking on the last one.I don't know how views work on YouTube or what constitutes a view,But you know- and I think I made the executive decision- that I'm going to lock that first one up.It's going to be: let it age like a fine wine. throw away the key.I don't know if I have the guts to watch that stuff back.I'm not quite that comfortable with the sound of my own voice. yetI mean I don't know who is.Does that ever get better for people?That'd be kind ofit's tough. um, we'll see, we'll see someday. turn it to a nft, maybe nfb, no fungus video, uh yeah, but i guess, without further ado. uh, let's go, let's get into it yola yolo. oh, like that had kind of a good ring to it. yola yolo, yolo. so let's go yola. okay, maybe i have to copy mark that or copy mark the hell,trademark or copyright? i don't know what the way you would do which one's more correct. it's a trade secret. well, i'm being a secret anymore, i guess, because i just built the beans. i like that, though, yolo yolo, get that tatted up.Would you put yellow in Arabic and yellow in English?I don't know.I don't know what that'd look like,But I like it.I like it.Rolls off the tongue.So getting back into it, I guess if I lock up the other one, this would be the.I guess if that's day 0, then this may be day one.You didn't miss out on much,I think. I just yep about rules to live by and a lot about me, stuff about life,But never an explanation of what this is, because I'm still figuring that out.It's just me just spitting shit, spitting game.So I'm glad you're here for the ride,Guess, Yeah, let's talk about. it's a little bit easier the first second time around. I guess maybe this is the first one. you see, it's like I Take the first something a little bit nervous, and I feel much. I mean that I thought it was so nervous, But it's like don't know what, what this is gonna be, what I'm gonna do, But I feel a little bit moreComfortably yapping on camera and throwing this shit out there.I Don't know why it's like the first time.Okay, this is actually super recent, like Month ago, first time ever, just like cold went up to a shotty and said: what's good this? Maybe I'll, maybe I'll elaborate more on the details of this and some other thing.Maybe you do it now, I don't know.Let's see, butGuess, that's like a cannon of maybe cannon event. core experience,I don't know, definitely changed a lot like Long story short, and maybe I'll give the the short story long some other time.We'll see The first time you go to a girl and just, yes, it was good, like some fine shit on the beach. try to got the gap so as the obligations are around andEventually it ended up being the day I was leaving. so I was like: well, the stakes were lowered.So I was like. you know, even this blows up in my face- the most embarrassing experience. catching the plane out. I'm going to either way kind of a bummer if things go well, whichThey did. but I was like before this, like I never just like walked up to her.I guess in general I mean I was kind of like been in relationships and it was more like, ended up, kind of people that I kind of knew or friends with met,And wasn't stuff that like. I was like yo, you, you and me, let's go. So I'd like never like. just raw, walked up to a girl and never talked to, had nobody who they are, and said, like yo, What's up, fine shit,Give me old digits,I didn't actually do that.But you know, your boy wasoiled up and sunscreens glistening in the beach.And then, yeah, I just saw Shadi sit on a pool chair and I just, you know, post up next to her and said: what's good.But after that it was more just like. I was like thinking to myself like I ain't ever done in the heaven like this before,And I feel like that's something I need to have done in life.You know, just have to have grown up here at 1 point and should do it.It was definitely I was, I was pretty nervous before it, butguess it was more like the In-between, although like that walk up there was, I decided and just sit down. that was, that was, oh my god, Actually it was like mix.There's a few moments like that.Then what's this kind of in?I'm like, okay, it's go time We're inand then, once the yep started, then it's going good, kind of like. i guess this: once i get going i have a hard time shutting up and i don't know if that's always a good thing. but i guess some people find it entertaining. um, sometimes look funny, sometimes they're just stupid as hell, but i guess that'scan be funny. so that helps out.So I guess maybe that's kind of a similar trajectory here. doing it more,I'm like: oh no, this is not so bad.Talking to shawty's,Yapping about shit, shooting the shit on camera.What a good phrase. shooting the shit.Where did that come from?like. I can't even imagine what shoot you shoot,Maybe like shootin' dog shit with a hose.Is that in like a movie where he's like the dog ate the wedding ringAnd he's like blastin' with the hose?Why is that in my head somewhere?What is that?Is that Marley and Me?I don't. actually I don't know.I don't think I ever watched that movie.I feel like cause. I came out of town when I was like a kid and it was like. I think maybe it was like something in class.Maybe it was pop.I was pretty littleLike. this is so long agoAnd I just remember it was so sad or whatever,And like girls would always cry about it.And I just was like like the. you know the boys like yuck,emotion or whatever. and no, i don't want to see that. i want to watch dinosaurs. i want to see some explosions and some fun shit, although i don't think i got. i think i can ball watching that now to be dead ass like, oh i gotta sad, dog videos kill me. i remember, i think it was likesome like college sports commentator, analyst, whatever you call them, i guess allegedly like. he had like this his pal, his golden tree. they brought everywhere with him and, like this past year, poor buddy is in doggy heaven now he took the flight up the the golden staircase to wherever the.Hopefully, doggy heaven.Hopefully we all go, say what's up again,Give them their belly rubs. But it was like a trippy video and I was sitting like outside of class. Yeah, this was this winter and I was, Tears started flowing and then I was like, no, I gotta wipe this shit up.people started coming out like I'm like. I can't explain this, but she gets me. man, this is so sweet and so I don't think I could watch like Marley and Me, there's like any. I mean, yeah, I don't know. even in general, sometimes a movie, I'm like dangGetting to me. so particularly dogs,I don't, I can't hang, I mean I Got my dog.She's, as I like to say, my main bitch, Only taking side bitch applications at the moment. but the DMS are open And that's, entirely scientifically speaking, nothing about respect for her.She's a queen and the thought that I'm gonna live longer than her, terrible.I might cry right now. anduh, so they need to like get up on them some doggy drugs like,if i don't know, hopefully there's not like a big dog farmer that's gonna like, stop that, because if they're, i don't know, i would do probably heinous to, like, you know, add some more years to her clock, i don't know. but hopefully she lives forever. maybe we can like cut the difference. yeah, i don't know what i got left, but if i could, you know, make a deal with the devil or split some with her,We catch the train out of here together.I'm down with that. Because, yeah, I mean so, I guess I talked about it a little bit In the last one, which you won't see for who knows how long.That I guess I mean I've always been into reptiles and I think part of it, although the ones who had some of them have had shorter lives. so those motherfuckers, just like, live forever like I got some turtles and like,And they're gonna be going on to the next generations. and I find that part of some like parts of pets, like no one, that these guys, Their way they're gonna be past me.They're like actual, like children, and actually I mean they might lives past several generations. So who the hell knowslike? I think that part is kind of fun and Like that you don't have to go through like the, the heartbreak of losing the pegasus. That's,that's horrible, that's like like your first heartbreaks. no, that's, that's gotta be worse, losing dogs. so that's the nice thing about like reptiles. you don't have to deal with that unless you're like some shitty you ain't. you ain't getting them, taking care of them right, you know, getting them good, getting them their right greens and shit, i guess, like.for turtles and stuff they got all sorts of like specific things. they need their special lights, their their supplements. you know they'd be sniffing creatine or whatever calcium, i guess, for turtles, for their shells. otherwise i had them with these like funky looking shells. it's kind of kind of interesting looking. some of them like look like they got like a lego back. it's weird because, like when they, i think it's like well both things, because, like, you need the calcium and you need the uv light so they can actually like, process it. so it's like they're missing one.I mean, I had a homie, I guess.he i don't know how long i don't think i don't think it lived the best life rest in peace this guy had a little turtle that essentially i think just lived in like he must have a divided sink i never saw the turtle i just heard about it and it was living in half of it so like like logistically i don't know how that works like you're doing the dishes and the turtle just watch himi mean i feel like it's a miracle he made it as long as it did because that's like that is not an environment to thrive if you little like teenage mutant ninja turtle but like maybe it's got to be like in between like tropical paradise kind of lean towards if i'm gonna you know be taking care of the homie like he gonna be living right he gonna be eating good and you know basking in the sunartificial Sun but maybe you know someday get that bread way up get an island for them really post up on and you know get that that natural vitamin D that all those solar rays from the big old fusion reactor in the sky but uh where was I going with that oh so that's one way and maybe yeahif you go like below that to in the middle or i guess like the shitty like living in the sink that's not good they ain't gonna thrive but maybe if you like want them to do extra good you gotta go like super shitty they gotta come out the mud out the trenches and i'm not talking about like just not living in the swamp i'm talking about like godzilla teenage mutant ninja turtle like you need some survive some like nuclear testing is that i don't know i feel like that is in some of the godzilla movies where likethose like marine iguanas look like they just were swimming through and like absorbed the radiation some superhero arc and became yo buff but i feel like the more recent movies just like the godzilla was just he always been around he been chilling in this crib before us i don't know i don't know what the the history godzilla is but teenage mutant turtles did they like start from some like i show there's like that slime barrels and then theyThey, I don't know, they got the gift skills.But I guess maybe they needed the rat master splinter.But how'd he get like that?Did he also, was he slurping on that green goo?Or how'd he get that?I don't know, someone dropped some Henny bottles in the sewers.Those New York rabbit devs are crazy when they're like eating a whole piece of pizza or walking away with a box.so I wonder has anyone explored the sewers of New York the Big Apple look for some turtles that would be a be sick I mean I guess to get into more turtle stuff I kind of I had a dojo for turtles there's more like a gladiator Coliseum so I guessIn college, there was a pond full of turtles.And I don't know, you boy just, I always liked them.I always liked to go see the turtles chilling.And then I noticed like, I guess in the springtime, less times you see them digging nests.And then one of my last years there, I decided to hit a lick, couldn't help myself.And I scrounged up some nests.I had some accomplices help me hold the flashlight by like,I mean, I had done some reconnaissance work.I kind of cased some joints, watched these turtles dig their nests on the way when I was meandering around campus.And I'm like, yo, pin that location in the dome.I remembered it.And then came back at night with the crew.Did I even have a shovel?I know I had a shovel at some point.I don't know if though.I think I was trying to like dig, because I had no idea how deep these things were.I was like, this is the right area.I'm just going to like dig like an animal.Speaking of, like a skunk.Skunks eat those shits.Because I know I always wanted to do this when I was little at my grandpa and grandma's.Because I wanted a snapping turtle, which eventually came true.Well, not from that, butMy grandma would always tell me, like, the second thunderstorm after, I don't know, something really obscure.Like, maybe, like, a first or second thunderstorm in June, the turtles, the snappy turtles come up, bust their nut of eggs, but the skunks got a sniffer, I guess, and they come up and just have fucking turtle omelets.And, like, I would be pissed.I'm like, dang, these guys beat me to it because they come up and I just see, like, these holes and all these, like, eggshells.So I was likeMaybe that was the desire to hit a leg on a nest.Anywho, so I was kind of doing that, but trying to be careful.I think I, I did think I did break one egg, but only one.And I think I dug up, I'm pretty sure I dug up ten eggs across the 2 nests.And then I brought them back to my dorm, and I was like, I don't know what the fuck to do with these.Like, how long does this take?So I kind of read a little bit.And I looked at, like, incubators online.They're just kind of expensive.And I had no idea what the odds of these things, like, hatching.But I'm like, this is in California and, like, around L.A.Like, once these guys come out, I mean, that pond's getting kind of full.And if they don't make it there, they're going to get, I don't know.It's not exactly that neighborhood.I mean, I guess they could, you know, join the pond.But, you know.it's like the only option has gotta be incest at that point.And I don't know if that's right, but I guess I don't know if, I mean, I think they all hopefully end up, you know, I guess in diverse or gene pools anyways.So it was like, that's how I justified it to myself for hitting a lick on these turtle legs.but i was thinking or trying to figure out like so what the hell do i do now i got like ten little turtle eggs i mean they're like kind of that's too big i mean they're maybe like like my thumbnail size like the top half like that ish thumb knuckle you call those knuckle are these knuckles or joints i don't know it's like this knuckle i don't know anatomy question for some of y'all uh butI was brainstorming.I was like, well, I probably do need to do something other than just having them sit in the back of my closet.Although, based on how well things went, that might have worked too.But I decided to do some MacGyver Homecraft incubator because the ones I was seeing were kind of expensive.And, umThey didn't really see, well, I guess the reviews were all hit or miss, and I was like, oh, so I'm not trying to blow a bag on this.I mean, they're not crazy expensive, but I was a college kid.I didn't have red thrown around like that.So what I ended up doing, and this worked very well, so I was proud of myself.I bought a little lunch cooler, like a little bring youryour your lunch the construction site those like igloo coolers i think i don't know if it's igloo that brand no free promo can't can't be shouting out browns like that unless they give me the bag but you get the gist one of those little red ones so that was the the housing umAnd then for the heat, I decided, because it seems like the reviews from what I was reading on some of these cheap incubators was like things weren't super consistent, was I decided to fill it with water and add an aquarium heater.um to kind of get this little make a little hot box or kind of moist box little sauna i mean it's not that hot and then i bought some like little like pencil organizer like mini crate something i don't know some jank whatever alibaba shit i found on amazon like um i don't know really jank thing just so hold these eggs up and i guessI had the eggs in a Tupperware that I filled with, oh my gosh, what's it called?Vermiculite?I don't know if that's the right word.Something like that.I think so.I don't know.Something that sounds kind of like a mineral or something.Sounds like you could, I think it might sparkle if it was on a ring.Someone could tell me that shit.Oh, this is, you know, whatever.if I didn't know better.It's kind of like the, it's just kind of like white beads.I don't know what to describe it.What's it similar to?It's reminding me of something.I don't know what.I don't know if it's the same thing that's, if y'all ever have like had like potting mixes where they got like the white dash in it, you know?Is that the same thing?What even is that?I feel like some mixes got some weird shit in there.I'm like, I don't know what this is, but flowers be blooming, grass be green.Well, I guess you're probably not growing grass in that, but.Anywho, so I had this little Tupperware, filled it with vermiculite, laid out these eggs, made a little rose, and then put it in this heat incubator, and they just sat in my closet.Although this was spring, and then I graduated, so I was like, had to drive across the country to go home after graduation.So, this rose, like, really not certain if, like, this was the end of the road.So I had, like, someone decide, well, I'll, I don't think anyone's gonna wanna, you know, foster theseI was like, well, we're going to see, they're going to go.This is all alleged actually, because these turtles are maybe, you know, technically invasive and that might be some sort of legal trouble.I don't know if you're not supposed to drive with those.So this is all hypothetical.This is not, didn't happen.I feel like, yeah, I don't know.I don't know if there's some laws now that I think about it.Cause sometimes I watch all these, well, not as much recently, but I used to always growing up, like watch all of these.like reptile youtubers there was like shot out this like foundation us arc I think that like it's like kind of like the NRI for reptiles so I fuck with them heavy and there's like something with a pissed off like I think particularly in Florida Florida wildlife be doing some fuck shit killing people's critters I don't fuck with them um but somewhere I don't know if it's like a national thing there's some bill where it's like if you drive a thick-ass Python across state lines you're a felon you going to prison something like outrageousSo I don't think this is in the same category. but you know, allegedly I was like: hmm,how do i get? i guess no one's gonna do so i gotta bring them home. uh, so what they did is they just sat in some like kind of compartment in like the middle of my uh truck, and they they hoofed it. they sat. i was like- i don't know. this is not gonna be the most stable ride, i you know,and probably not the most motion sickness friendly driver.And it was like through the mountains and stuff. but they sat there and then the hotels spent like 2 nights.I don't know. it was more than that.But that was the first thing that came in.I probably looked like I was bringing this weird pile of shit and like turtle eggs.I don't know how I carried them in.I don't know if I had them in the bags or a little bit more concealed, and then had to reassemble my incubator, fill it back up with water and put the heater in it and let them sit, let them cook,And then eventually, when I got home, um, I did the the candling.Is that what you call them?I don't know.I feel like that's what they call them.So this is what my grandpa's talking about with, like chicken eggs or whatever,Cause he's all into those where you like, pull the light behind it.But you know the the first century method of my phone flashlight.Or maybe it's an actual flashlight?I don't know.Same difference.We shined it up to the egg to see if there's some veins in there.All ten of those things looked veiny.So I was like this is okay,That's different.There's something going on in there.I just had no idea the process.It didn't seem like there's any instructions.I thinksome i don't know. critters are all different, like birds. you gotta like keep them whole spinning. you gotta have them on like a seven, eleven blizzy roller. i wonder if that would work for them, although i feel like it's like my mom's, switching like once a day. maybe maybe it's less often, i don't quite know,but I think a lot of reptiles are pretty just they just sit and let them like. well, I guess if you bury them unless, like you, have crazy earthquake motion unless they've got hella motion, that where you're at, I guess, happens in California. but I don't know where these guys are from. where are red eared sliders? from what are they originally named? I don't know. I don't know how I got here, I don't know if they're North American. are they from across one of the ponds? but um.So I just had them incubating and I don't know what temperature cause. I think, like a lot of reptiles also like are like temperature dependentAnd I think it's like I don't know which one's which like. sometimes, like you know, if you get it, if they in the sauna you got boys coming out, it's a little bit chillier as girls or vice versa.And I think it's not even the same for all turtles. or maybe all turtles are, but maybe crocodiles are different and maybe all reptiles are the same.It's like always hot as girls and or guys, I don't know. butThat's all totally kind of irrelevant.Anywho got home? things looked veiny and like okay, sick.And then, like a few weeks later, saw some cracks starting, some little slats starting to pop out, and they were cute as hell.So I had like a little tank.It started off like this, like they got a big barrel gut, which is, I guess, the yolk sac.I wonder what happens. is that? so I think, like I always like, assumed in like a chicken like the yolk, is the the chick? or what would be the chick if it were like fertile? but I guess it's probably not. I don't try to think like for like. how that compares to human, I don't know, I have no fucking clue. but I guess I don't know if that's the yolk. they call it the yolk sack. but it's like this kind of pink big old belly where, like,it's like they could actually spin on that thing. if you've ever seen the um, the clip of like, well i don't think it's legit. but maybe this lady who's like spinning, break, dancing on her, like pregnant lady on her belly, can do this with these things, because these guys are like around got that thing on them or on their belly. so it's kind of like i'd like. kind of, i don't know. it's kind of hard for them because i like they actually can't even like, hardly move with that, or not? well,So eventually all ten hashed. your boy went ten for ten on hashing these turtles. despite all the challenges we overcame,We cleared those hurdles, climbed that mountain. nothing stopped us.So I just had them in some like little, like wet container. keep it humid for them. so they could like, because I think they don't eat allegedly like they, I guess from what I read, it's like they'd be soaking that up for like a few weeks. so they got their meal ready to go.Um, that's what you do, I guess, when you don't got some teats to suckle on.Um. eventually they had like a little tank and you know it kept growing.They grew pretty quick.Uh, although I mean I figured that they might not all get along for long, but it was like way younger than I thought that these hoses started scrappingAnd like, they kept growing pretty quick,Um. and then I was going back to grad school, just kind of back home and forth and checking.I'm like, oh gosh, likeMy mom was kind of supervising me, like yo, these boys they're getting rowdy.We're going to have to do something about this.So I was like getting a bigger tank.So I'm like still, like these guys are like they want all the smoke,Like this was definitely Turtle Dojo.I was like the final 4 would definitely be Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo and not Socrates.Oh my gosh,Some other.Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo and Raphael.I don't know if I'm saying all 4,I mean I know all of them deep in my heart. but I'm just my short attention span is limiting me remembering which ones I saidAnywho. but it was like okay, she took some to the pet store to kind of thin them out.So I was like cause, like there was some of them with the toes and like their tails were chomping off.It was a little bit gruesome.I felt bad.I'm like kept thinning them down and then eventually she just cut it down to one,the the last survivor. so, like he's got to have some skills and honestly, like recently, like he, he looks quite pristine, like i don't know that he's missing anything. so i don't, well, i think, what my mom was doing when she, because she was the one that i was like, i let her pick. she was kind of watching like, well, you can get rid of some of them. see if they'll take them at the pet shop or see. if at first i was like trying to like, i was like maybe wanted to give people a news. so it's like they go to good homes and likebe like real picky, because i was kind of you know, you know, i want, i want them to be swimming in their own little pond while taken care of. but i was like, okay, at this point anything is probably better than being in this like hellhole dojo, where they're getting just absolutely beat to.So I think she was maybe taking the little runs.Well, I think she was taking the ones that looked nicer, which she thought maybe meant they were not fighting.But I think it was the opposite,Because I think it got worseEven when she thinned it down. the ones that were looking good were the ones that were the real goons that were fucking everyone up.They were taking all the smoke.The guys that were made more peaceful were just beat to shit.And there's ones that got out.so in the end, the one that's we still have, the ones from our pizza actually like- I don't know how he is the missing shit based on like what it sounds like. it was like damn, I don't know some war zone, nom Afghanistan. one of them, I don't know which is the most you know relevant. this is no political reflection of the situation, I'm just saying a war zone for anyone. you knowGets their panties in a bunch or a wad,But bro seems to be living life.Recently, you know, kind of gave him some upgrades to the enclosure, some natural light,So he's getting, you know, really sprawl out in the sun, get his seeds and dry out,Because I think they get kind of like mossy shells if they don't, or like fungus-y. so you want them to be able to cook out.Although I have a snapping turtle alligator, snapping turtle,And those are kind of funky, funky specs.I think the Kenlike go lay in the sun, but I don't think they often do like other turtles.They kind of just like sit on the bottom and like Oh their tongue,Cause, like it's kind of. it's a, it's a pretty funky thing.It's like they wiggle it and it's like a worm and a fish like Oh, yo, let me slurp that shit up,Gawk on that thingAnd then snap.And that's game over for the blue fish.It's kind of insane.I've given him fish before,Not a whole lot. because okay, well, if I have a debate job in townAnd I think his water that's heated, I don't think they like that.So pretty cool that they just die.And then that shit reeks to high heavenswhen you have a bunch of like dead minnows in there. it's like not even like. I left there for like a few days and they were like rotting. it's like pretty quick where I'm like, oh god, it smells horrible, like rotten fish, smells like a shitty fish market or something like cats be coming clawing at the windows trying to get in um. but yeah, I think I don't know if it's the warm water or what, like the tank's decentum. but yeah, i don't. i don't know why. i guess yeah, honestly, originally maybe he was just like immune to disease, this guy. his name's godzilla, because you know it kind of looks like it, although now it's like super cliche. so i'm like wow, it's like kind of like the people that named their list. well, we had one.uh well, it's from a homie, a bearded dragon named spike, um so kind of like. i realized that i've seen people. it's like godzilla or bowser. um, then i realized there's like a like a godzilla turtle named gamera. i'm like. maybe i should have done that, and i kind of decided, like said i was gonna do that and i called him that and i just kept calling him godzilla or zilla. i mean it's a tough name, but i feel like it, like you know, fit in like an iguana. i kind of want one of those too.They look more like Godzilla,But maybe I'll flip it on them.I got Godzilla the turtle and Gamera the iguana.I don't knowFood for thought.We'll see what happens,Inshallah.Oh yes,I was going with the water temperature.I didn't heat that water for a whileBecause all the things I was seeing is like: gotta be careful with these guys when you get him. well, Actually he wasn't the first. the first turtle I had was some little baby, regular snapping turtle which Ior found around my home.I think it was a cross-country practice where I found one or someone did, and I was like I'd always been wanting one and I was like sick. I have to rescue it, Mom,It's totally necessary.And I went to Walmart and I think it waslike my senior or junior year of high school. and then I bought a little aquarium and came home and I was like, okay, whatever, like, what the fuck? and then, um, I guess, yeah, I think I talked about this previously, but like I have, like you know, some you know- top-tier wild reptiles that I always wanted, like I've been begging for crocodiles, um,but I guess- to reiterate, because I think this is ancient lore, but we'll rehash this-I always been wanting a saltwater crocodile that's like kind of the top of the mountain. alligator snapping turtle, a Galapagos tortoise and a Komodo dragon.That'd be tits.So I was like, oh, I got the regular snapping turtle, the basic bitchesI'm like. well, I have the tank set up.Might as well add an alligator snapping turtle to it.So I found this like,I guess, turtle farm in Missouri, ordered one up and eventually showed up: add them to the tank.Um, eventually found another regular baby snap turtles.It was kind of like a turtle party in there.They were like they all chilling, um, hanging out,Um, and for a while I had them. for a few months things were going well. I was feeding them all and they're all kind of hanging out.And now the 2 just died,The 2 basic bitches, which was sad,It wasn't. it didn't seem like these guys were beefing like the other sliders.Don't know what happened.I don't think I named that today,I don't know.I Mean. I wasn't so invested in them.I mean it. I Didn't want to see them die.I mean I was- although I think I was kind of like, aware of that.I don't know if I should know. Deal with 3 biggest and turtles the moment or my parents at that point pissed off. so Maybe he just like oozes some like toxin that kills fish and other turtles.I have no idea. Godzilla is just,Or he's just immune to whatever disease there are?I don't know.But shit does not survive around him.So I keep him away from stuff.And I think that's in general what you're supposed to do,And probably I mean for his own sake, that I've had him with just wild-caught snapping turtles.They easily have like worms or shit.Maybe he has, I don't knowSomething's going around, but can't touch him.He built different for real, for real.So yeah, I don't know if there was a moral to that story or some point I was going to, but I guess we'll just keep rolling.Oh, I keep, oh my gosh. I think I was just gonna mention. so that's how I started off.And I think like I didn't heat the water for anything, because like these guys aren't at least the regular snapping turtles. they can handle it pretty cold,um. and from what i've seen about the alligator, guys like these guys get massive. they can be like a hundred fifty pounds, two hundred pounds at least, like the big males, i think, and like there's people, if you google them, pull them out of swamps or some, like crazy rednecks and the style that'd be pulling out these guys. and i'm like i wouldn't want to get in there, especially with the jaws they got. take off your goddamn leg like dead ass. um,but the things like these guys grow really quick. you gotta just be warned, or whatever. you gotta have to be upgrading their tanks and shit, which i eventually did. but like 3 years like this dude did not grow. and then i'm like, maybe it is the water, because they are whatever i was trying to think of a scientific word for, like cold-blooded, what is itendothermic? that's like reactions, I don't know I'm not coming up with it. um, but it's cold-blooded. they they need the extra heat, you know, get them revved up, get the juices flowing. and the second I put a heater in there, bro, just like sort of grown before my eyes, like. he quickly grew his little tank that he was in.And yeah, I've upgraded several times since.So make sure you keep the temp right.So I don't know if he was, just like you know, Captain America, in the ice for that time, when he's just alive but like not doing anything.I mean it wasn't even cold,It was inside,It was in a warm basement.But when it wasn't, you know, spa waters, he was just not trying to do anything, just trying to stay little.He wasn't trying to, you know, hit that Godzilla potential.But Sega got heated,took off after the races has been growing since,uh, i have no idea how big he, or i mean well, how he's big now, i mean not. honestly, i don't know. i haven't taken him out of the water. it's a little well, okay, when he, he's definitely got more advantages. he grew up when he was little like he just would. he can't really turtle because his head is fucking jaws of death. they're like so fat in his neck, that's. they're kind of nicer to handle because of that than like regular snapping turtles, because they got the long snaky neck that can, like snap back, bite you in the face. i mean you gotta be kind of stupid to do that.Like I've seen some people in dumb videos,I'm like: why are you? what are you doing?Like you asked for that?It was like a bit in the face,Um, but so you can kind of hold them on their back and he can't really like he'll move his head around.I mean it'd be like us.We're not going to bite someone,Um, but PSA, don't pick them up by their tails for their own sake,Cause I think it's like hooked up their spine.So be nice to turtles. guys treat them right.You know. golden rule all that,Um.But so I haven't taken him out in a while because he's definitely gotten more feisty.Although you can grab him right,It's just he's like this big tank is a little bit harder to get into.When he was little like, he was just real, like turned into a rock where you pull his arms in his head as much as he couldn't wrap his tail up.But then, once he got that water. he was grown, he got feisty.He'd be jumping around, snapping.I'm like sheesh. where'd your manners go?He was going through that teenage phase, didn't want to talk to his dad.He was pissed all the time.I got some good pics of him, just like the second you grab him out of the water.He used to just be like: I'm dead,I'm a rock,You don't see me.He was playing possum, but now he wants all the smoke.don't care. uh, the other guy, he's the best gladiator of the rest of them. he's, he's. he's launched for godzilla, godzilla, you know, he, he on demon time all the time, most time actually just sitting there like like a rock. um, but he's definitely gotten bigger and more active and it's kind of a challenge to find tanks for them as they get big, because i guess the nice thing, as opposed to like the sliders, they don't need to go crawl out of the water. but uh, these guys, um,they need a big tank but they also can't swim very well like it's kind of they. they got a weird build off of evolution, like they found a weird meta, like if you put them in like a steep tank, that's too deep, they just drown because they can't swim. so you gotta find, like kind of a, a big tank that's big enough for them as they keep growing. um, that is alsonot too deep or like. so you want it to be like you want to have a good amount of like surface area, but something that's like where they can still reach up as i keep growing. and that's kind of hard because, like, that's not your standard aquarium sizes, although even if they did like, it's getting big now.So he's kind of outgrown, at least in the standard big aquarium sizes.I think I have the turtle, the little guy, relatively the slider, who's? I don't know if he's. I have no idea what any of my turtles' genders are or whatever.I don't know.They haven't told me what they identify as and I don't think I can tell what their assigned birth genders are.I think for the sliders, I think the girls are bigger.I think the babies got back for those, but for some tortoises and other snapping turtles, I think the males are bigger,i don't know. um, i was going somewhere before i said that. okay, i don't know. i think i was just talking about his tank, anywho? um, uh, oh yeah. so he's kind of like outgrown, like because of the biggest thing that you can really get at petco or pro tip,PetSmart, and they got their sales.And there's also, like this app where you can get like play this weird game, to get like 25 percent off.So I was, you know, on that hustle, trying to, you know, pinch those panties. you know, keep that, keep that bag secure, get the cheapest tanks on their sales.It's like a dollar a gallon, or whatever they call it,But he's too big for those at this point.And then there are like stock tank options that have like a little one for like maybe the pigs or some smaller livestock.But then he's kind of outgrowing that.I mean that was like a fifty gallon one.So actually it was 50 gallons, but it was like more, like wide and flat.So it was like, you know, better snapping alligator, snapping turtle habit,Habitat, not habit.But he's outgrowing that. and then it's like there's no good sizes of like things to like, keep them inLike. I'm like, how do I,like how do I give my boy a pond and keep him right?So I just I have no idea what the fuck I was doing.I think I was looking at stock tanks for livestock, for the water supplies. all overfind thingsAnd the main things are like these big tin ones which potentially work. potentially work.They're kind of expensiveAnd a lot of them also have these like drain valves, which you know are practical if you're using it as a stock tank, like you want to be able to drain it pretty easily.But uh,they're also like prone to, like leaking. I think even also the seams of these big tanks that are like metal and welded together. so I was like my ass is toast Godzilla is getting thrown out baby in the bath water if I have like a huge hundred gallon tank of water just dump into my basement with turtle like parents gonna be pissed.so I was like not too jazzed about that idea. so you know, I kept grinding on the internet, looking for looking for some real estate for my boy and eventually came across a solution. so for any of you who are in the similar predicament out there, I got, I got a good ticket for y'all. um, I don't know if anyone is or will be, but you know I'm sharing my wisdom. what they are? it'sSpill containment tanks.I think it's like for like farms or like factories. shitWe got like some maybe Chemicals that ain't great for the water that you don't want the fishes swimming in or to be drinking from. it's like basically just a big Plastic tub. that shall that you maybe have, like a big container of some pesticide fertilizer in Where like. it's kind of like a secondary backup. if that shit,If that leaks, that goes, this is gonna catch all of it.It's not gonna be like ideal to work with, but this is like a one-piece Rotational, molded or something.I don't know what that means. I think it's like you watch some video on point cuz, I'm curious, really like. have these like spinning molds and just being squirting hot plastic in it? Something I don't know, but it's like one piece of solid plastic. I,and that's what i settled on and that ended up being much cheaper than like any, like the stock, i mean, okay, it wasn't like cheap, but like relatively is if, like an aquarium, that size of glass or acrylic, whatever. that's like racks on racks on racks. i think he's like in something that was like five hundred gallons. maybe it's more, maybe less, in the ballpark of hundreds of gallons. i don't think it's a rack of gallons yet. but so i think i've gone through like one of those and then a second one, 11 i picked up. i found,Yeah, I think, at some distribution place near-ish where I lived.It was maybe like a 2hour driveAnd I pulled up to this like fucking warehouse in the middle of nowhere, with like these, like semis coming upAnd these people, like I, pull up and they're like what the fuck is this dude on?And I'm like, I'm here for this order.I had my receiptAnd I'm like, oh okay,Go to the backAnd pulled into this like big, like receiving area where all these semis were pulling up,And then, like had to,I had some guy like drag off this big plastic tank off a shelf and like throw it in the back of my truck.I'm like thanks, G. So that was an experienceI've definitely on my quest for. you know, giving my creators the good life found myself in interesting places.So that was, you know, a new experience, I guess,And took that shit homeAnd it was like the perfect size that would still fit in the bed of a pickup truck.But then his more recent upgrade was when he had to pay a little bit to get delivered.I don't think it was that bad, but I've had some wild shit delivered.My parents were like what the fuckI mean that was maybe a more mild thing.One of the more exotic things was like a thousand pounds of like fur bark,I guess where do I begin with that?Maybe I'll get into that later.i guess we'll stay on the snapper. um yeah, so i got that. uh, he's just posting up in there. i eventually, i guess, the bigger one i had to put in the garage because it like- i don't even think it would fit through like a doorway to the house. maybe it would. it's a little bit a little. it'd be close because we have like a bigger, like entrance. but okay, never mind, i don't think you get it like down through, like a staircase. uh, butanyways, put in the garage and the amount of like water that thing was putting off was like it was like the ceiling was like dripping. so i was in hot, so i had to like build some. i found some like cheap little greenhouse kit that i like built over. it eventually upgraded just a lid, which was the simpler option, but i don't know why it was. i'm not gonna go through every train without a head, um,But that did help.So another PSA: if you're dealing with your own Godzilla, your own alligator snapping turtle, that you're just trying to have him grow up, eat his veggies, be strong and healthy. if you have him in a big tank, that shit's going to have a lot of evaporation, especially because it's warm.Maybe it's because it was in a cold garage in the winter.I mean it was heat at the garage, but not like.not to. it's not to 80, like the water is. so it was. we had kind of like a sauna garage, like, especially in the winter. I think there's like getting some ice in the windows, cuz it was like condensed. well, I don't know. she happens interesting things,But spill containment tanks, check it out. if you're trying to find a crib for your alligator snapper,I'd be curious about his weight, thoughI want to know what he's at,And I want to feed him more likefeel like if you've ever seen those videos, they even just give them like a watermelon just to show their jaws. they got like. i want to say it's like the second strongest bite of at least reptiles, i don't think like everything like make me i feel like that's probably not accurate- of like all reptiles, but like the broad classes like, i mean i think like salt water crocodiles, liketop dog, the biggest bite, but i imagine all the other, most of the other cracks would have like a similarly strong. but i mean there's gonna even be more, though, like in terms of pressure, because it's like such as it's like a small area where they're really that big is just destroying. i don't even know. i feel like, and i don't know how it compares to other stuff, i mean like even dogs got a strong bite, like if you, if you had a bad dog, go crazy on you, that would you up even.But I think I think it's something like orcas.Although, yeah, they've never measured it, because who the hell is going to go? you know, give the orca, the mouth guard thing to chomp on and see how I mean. I don't even. yeah.Maybe they do at SeaWorld, but I don't know.Hopefully SeaWorld doesn't still have orcas.They probably do somewhere, unfortunately,Yeah, but I think that's what I feel like. the current state of affairs is this: the current chomp and pecking order is?I think those are top dogs.I don't. I don't know how I mean. I thought it's gotta be crazy relative to anything elseLike. I mean orchids are scary.I want to see what I want to swim with one or kayak.It was really nice ones. thoughIf y'all ever seen the video of the Orchid just fucking obliterating those seals, they don't even give a shit. they're like a cat. they're kinda fucked up. they're like I don't know, they go full sicko mode and just throw that poor seal in the air.There's just no coming back from that.But if I'm going out I'd rather not just get. I mean I guess, probably realistically, you'd rather just get obliterated instantly. but maybe I wanna fly before I go.Essentially you know whatI'm gonna. I'm gonna go on if I, if I had to pick a way to go, Orca, flinging me up and then suited armor, so I get struck by lighting in the air.That's it.I'm like My golfing in a thunderstorm.I hope, maybe maybe if I'm, like you know, Getting up there.I don't hope that's a long ways away.Hopefully we got, we got some time left on this green earth andhopefully it stays green. who knows crazy world we're living in? but that's a lot of the adventures of turtles that i've had. and well, that's not even all of them,but snapping turtles and regular swimming turtles talk way more about tortoises, which I don't know if I want to get into right now, but it's interesting. I'm kind of curious like what this,because I've bought some reptiles online that just show up and I want to see what this operation is like.I feel like maybe inflation's gone up. maybe these guys are a bag now, but I think I paid like 3040 bucks and maybe I had to pay that much again in shipping too, but got Godzilla on the cheap. relativelysome things like you would think be like some crazy animals. i feel like you should be more expensive or like you think it should be harder to get, but it's not really. i think it. i don't know. there's like laws and like which states they can go to, so there's that. i think i saw something recently like there's one around, like seattle that someone found, and i don't think these guysSwim around here like I don't. they would probably come work food if they made it that far out. But I don't think I think they got it.They like it warm,want to be. there's some bayou boys, you know,staying not too far from the, the cookout, the, the swamp, the everglades, the. yeah, is there a difference in the bayou? in the everglades it's like one just florida. in louisiana it's by you, just swamp. i don't know what that means. i kind of like the ring of it, because, like in the everglades, like a river, is that right? it's like just like some water. that's just like slowly trickling all the way down florida andThem Gator boys just be hanging out.I don't knowMysteries of the world.I guess I'm kind of curious now, but maybe I can do some digging later.what is by you? is it like? is that? yeah? i don't know if it's like a technical term or just like some local, uh, local slang, like a calc, if you know, you know, um, but yeah. so rest in peace. i mean hopefully that girl's alive. hopefully they found it, got it, took it home, but i think they're illegal. also in like washington state itself. so someone was doing some sneaky shit on the dlAnd like. I would imagine that's what it had to have been.Someone, you know, had some Doing some heinous stuff.Definitely shouldn't have them,Just kidding,It's very hypocritical.But actually I'll stand on that.If they're just gonna, you know, throw them in the pond, or It was like by a pier or something.I'm surprised, honestly, that people called it inBecause like, maybe it was like a lifeguard that found it or somethingLifeguard.I don'tdon't even have a lifeguard, but i feel like that's what i saw in the article or something i. this is all dicey, i'm not certain. but like, i'm more surprised. people are like, oh, what the hell is that that's like? i mean it looks. they do look kind of dinosaur-y and like pretty sick as hell. but like i, just i mean you've seen the people, the people, being dumbasses. they're like a tortoise in the water. they're like, oh, we got him back and i'm like them can't swim. you just drown that out. althoughI wonder, I wonder what happened to that video, because at least the big boys, they can float,I guess I think, how they think they got to the islands like they, like the Galapagos, and then there's the Aldabra and the Seychelles,Like, I think originally they, just like I don't know, went: uh, Moby Dick,That's not the, I don't know Robinson Crusoe.Is that a sailing story? where they go on an island?I don't know.but these will just float across the big ocean blue and somehow crash on the island. and then, you know, wait for some ladies to show up once the birds do they, you know, get to cook in and you know, make their next generation. they just keep getting bigger because you know there's lots of green and no one else to to beef with them. and i think they like recently like, i'm pretty sure, like that, it seems kind of crazy,But like. there's one where it was like the opposite, like one from the island washed back up on, like Africa,And that boy had to be like in the water for like a month.He had like barnacles and shit on him,But like he was in rough shape but he made it like that.So it's crazy.So maybe that one turtle-And I think some can like, like some African ones, they swim across lakes and stuff.I feel like I've seen a video of that.So maybe the little tortoise guy got to paddle in turtle, paddle into all animals. doggy paddlers are just dogs. i mean i feel like it's like a pretty basic motion. i don't i don't know how i need to teach my dog how to swim. she hasn't really been in water that much until recently. i took her. you know i was like. i wanted her to figure out it out and like.The first time I saw this was at my grandpa and grandma's and I was a little sussed out because I noticed there was some like funky algae and I'm like. I don't know if this is like the deadly algae, so I was kind of like keeping away from that.Um, I think in hindsight I should not have done anything, but it was okay.I don't think it wasCause when I was trying to find out. I guess just probably keep your dogs away from any algae. waterCause. it's like I always like to say. it's like some deadly, like blue green algae, but that's like the most basic oneAnd it's not actually blue. that's bad, or well? it's like any color can be blue greenAnd like it doesn't even look a specific way.It could look like any way.So long, story short, just be careful,Cause, like you don't know what's going to fuck your pup up.But I did try to get her in and my grandpa and grandma have a golden noodle that they go. they go out in the water and bouncing around, andshe's definitely comfortable jumping off the dock and took out my girl, and she was definitely apprehensive and i took her out like to where she'd have to paddle, because, like they do like the panic paddle, but they're just like taking their paws all the way out of the water and splashing and shit, and i wanted her to like try to break her of that. so she's like learned to like. yo like slowly paddle. so try to hold her up like by the belly. so she'd like learn to swim.But then another dog came, like fucking flying off the dock and growling, trying to like jump out of the water.So then she freaked outAnd I think she was like, maybe like low key, a little bit scarred from that,And I eventually took her back to another lake with her, her sisters.I tried to teach them all to swim.Um, that didn't also go that great.I mean they weren'tHarassing each other, but none of them quite got past the the freakout paddle. I tried for a minute and I really got down there holding her, but I was getting clawed the fuck off, like She was like I had, like so many, like big ass, like claw marks on my legs. It looked like I survived some like random, like wild tiger attack.I thought I was gonna be like ascab, the hell up, but she must have some like nicely worn down dull ass claws. um, because like all those like big claw marks, definitely like turn to cuts or scabs. but my thighs turned like purple for like a good like 2 weeks. they they, she did a number on them. like she was, she was giving her all, just not the right coordination. soThere's work to be done.I believe in her, but she's not quite gotten the confidence to to get to paddle in the right way. but We'll see,We'll see.Well we'll, we'll try again sometime. but I don't want to, you know, push her too much when she's freaking out. but I want her to. you know, I mean I guess I don't know where she would fall in a pool or something. butYou know life skills, you know I'm gonna have her ready for whatever good teacher how to start fire next after that first aid teacher had a. he's a compass. she is lost in the woods,Although I guess she's gonna. well, She's got a nose but She can't smell the magnetic field, at least as far as I know. she could be kind of sick. Take us to that North Pole. Yeah. So if anyone,Those are good ways to teach him to paddle the right way. help a brother out,Because we got work to doAnd I got to let my legs recover,And maybe she does too mentally.It was a little brutal,But actually it was cute as hell.My friends were there and they also have a little dog.I think she's been around the water before.I think they were trying to get her to swim a little bit and she sort of figured it out, or at least better than mine.But she would take a pond splash and then the water that would fly up from her splashing. she'd try to jump up and bite it.So she was totally locked in on it, just splashing and jump up and bite it,which it was pretty cute to watch. she was so into it kind of. we used to have a german ship- girls growing up and she would like attack the waves, like the waves, especially if there's like a dock, like when they'd splash them that she'd bite that. but this was like that. but next level and she like i. i think he probably left her for a few days. she probably would have just maybe withered away, like forgotten to eat. she was that locked in, but it was. it was pretty damn cute. i will sayMy girl is kind of after I took her out a few times. She's like just sitting on the shore and the sand looking at me like hell. not, I ain't getting back in. Fuck, you mean, get the hell away from me.Let's go home, dad.And so I I didn't put her too much. we went back, but We got a. we got a, we got a lock. that in. But yeah, lots to do in the agenda.She's a good girl though, but I want her to figure it out.I don't know how.I don't know how to give a pep talk.If I could speak, dog, that would be sick.Maybe get her a neural link. so we can, you know, link upThat. honestly, I don't know.I don't know if I want to know what she thinks of me.Hopefully it's all good. you know,I mean I feel like sometimesshe's gotta be like what the is going on, but most times she's just pretty lazy, just post up on the bed. but you know, sometimes i like she. honestly i get, i mean she got the. she definitely still gets like the zoomies or whatever if she's in a big space. sometimes in the apartment not really zoomies are running. she's kind of jumped on the couch and rolled over and happy wagging her tail, but sometimes i get them, i must admit, at likeUngodly hours of the night, was blessed with some dembow, or I don't know, Dembow, dembow, whatever. you know that Caribbean music was whatever or like some. I think the technical term is like some old hits, But I feel like I recently learned that it's a recession pop.I guess this because from runaway,I Think that's what it's called.I don't know,IShit hits, though.And if you disagree, you're wrong.But, so I'll be blessed in that, in my apartment, or, well, I guess in headphones.I don't know.I mean, the neighbors should appreciate that, but Andyour boy gets pretty revved up and I'm like running around like a maniac hitting ridiculous dance moves and when I start running around she gets excited and she just kind of like runs around me and I'm like trying to get her to dance so I would be kind of interested to know what the fuck she thinks is going on or what she says what she's saying like what the fuck or she's like yo fuck it up fuck it up or she's likeyou need help get some help dad so i don't know but if i could like talk to her and be like yo what's up what's good that would be that'd be tough that'd be tight um but i guess for now we'll have to have ourI mean I feel like the dance battles were not really battles were just you know jam sessions it's like you know universal language she's kind of just running around running through my legs she does like to do that and it's like kind of hazardous I also have a broken foot so I'm kind of like jumping around a lot on my good leg actually I also broke the leg that I broke my foot on so like my right leg is like in calf I've been getting buff as shit becauseI mean, I shouldn't be just laying down, laying on the bed, laying on the couch, putting my foot up, icing it, walking around in the boot, which I've not been.Sorry, doctor.Well, I guess it's me the one that's taking the brunt of it with my foot not healing.But I think I got an appointment soon.In a week.Not even.So hopefully that shit's healed.It's been a long time.but I've also not been nice to it.We'll see.We'll see.We'll see.Um, but it's a good time.I normally, sometimes I forget or like, I mean, my apartment, I'm like looking straight at a parking lot.Normally it's late at night, so no one's there, but I'm like, sometimes I can draw the blinds and I'm like, no one needs to see these moves, you know, they're too good.And,Also, I guess some of them like running around in my underwear doing like ridiculous moves.I probably like I make likeat my best, the tweakers of 7, 11 look like, like I'm talking about, like the pre-fent tweakers that are really grooving, like I look like them.I guess comparing those ones to the the ones doing the fenty fold, that's kind of like the comparison that I'd probably give myself to the the the cracked up tweakers, you know, back in the day before the when they weren't just like dropping dead off of that.It's scary, spooky.I mean, I've seen someShe recently like it's I don't know said like on the train I feel like I watched them like drag someone off and then like I was going for dinner should drag someone off and then Got dinner and came back home to my apartment and saw they just had the motherfucker just a car I just saw there was a tarp and some feet sticking out.So I think it was game over for bro, and I was sad like I'm yeah, it was tough.Although cuz like yeah, homie those yelling and Ii'm pretty sure though he's sparking up after it i'm like bro r.i.p so it's tough out there um watch out for fent gang umAnd I guess, you know, keep that thing on you and by that thing I mean Narcan.I don't know.Don't want no one, you know, getting too zooted like that.That's sad.So stay safe kids.And yeah, I don't know.I think I got too much more at the moment.This has been a good sesh.Covered a lot of brown turtles.There's lots more I can continue, but you know, all the ins and outs of, well, not all the ins and outs of a snapping turtle, but I guess habitats.I mostly feed them like, it's this brand Missouri.They make like special food for all sorts.It's actually, their website's kind of awesome when I'm looking at what they have.It's like a special, like it's basically a dog food.I think it's for crocodiles and snapping turtles.That's the main thing he eats.I've been trying to, more recently, well, I haven't really been, but I try to make some things like fish and stuff, but I think I've seen people do tongs, like frozen fish, so I'd like to do that.There's other stuff where people do mice and stuff, but maybe meat, I don't know.I don't know about that.I don't know if I want to have a freezer full of rats, at least.Once I've got enough and I have a designated freezer for that, then I'm game.but I don't know how the fam would feel aboutthe frozen food next to a bag, you know, frozen pinkies.Is that what they call them?I think they call them baby mice pinkies.It's kind of, I don't know how I feel about that.I feel like the first time I was like, I saw some of the pinkies.I don't know what theBut, oh yeah, that Missouri website, they got like weird food mixes for everything.It's like elephants, zebras, zebra, or zebra, as some might say.It's kind of fun to say zebra, but it's, it's,Dang, I gotta quit shouting out people without getting that bag.I need that sponsorship.I'll take a Missouri sponsorship.They do, I mean, I use lots of their stuff.And I think you basically, if you have, I don't know what animal you don't, you couldn't feed based on their website.It's pretty interesting.I think they were bought out by someone recently.I think it's still Missouri branded though.But yeah, it's like, no, it's like everything.I feel like I've seen like elephants, like shark food, like sea, it's like,I don't know the hell that all that like colossal stuff the the mammoth people they probably already on the bag they probably got that mammoth chow up and ready they probably like yo you need that dire wolf kibble we got you they'd probably like um unlock with anything it's kind of cool I wonder like what this is like I wonder if like you know the gym bros are eating dog foodI wonder if they're going to hit a new wave if they like check out some of this like crocodile food or tiger food.I don't know if all of this like kibble though.I feel like some of it's like more like powders or like supplementy type vibe things.I've only bought in turtle food, tortoise and snapping turtle food.So that's the limit of my experiences.But if you got crazier shit, I mean, if you got crazier shit, you're probably aware.But if you don't and you want to see the crazy shit,Type of shit that you can buy a bag of dog food for.Check it out.It's It's interesting.Like, I think the UPS guy who's had to deliver that shit is like, what the fuck?And it's like, oh yeah, sorry.You just delivered like, three hundred pounds of like, uh Oh, that's some turtle Turtle kibble.And the guy's like, what the fuck?So Although He's He's delivered some All sorts of shit.Like, thousands of crickets at a time.So that's ProbablyWorse for his back, but maybe a little less weird when you get this wire box of chirping crickets.Now that we don't have anything to eat anymore, it is nice that the home don't sound like a jungle from thousands of crickets constantly chirping.Interesting ambience, but don't really miss it, or the dead crickets everywhere.But that's just some of the many things that you might encounter if you're a UPS driver in my area.know, all sorts of adventures.Like, I keep their jobs interesting.That's all what I'll say.So, they don't get bored.And that's all I can say is you're welcome.Don't want you to get any, uh, feel like your job has no purpose or something like that or any existential dread.Like, I'm honestly probably, you know, it's good for UPS to keep their drivers, you know, happy and fulfilled feeling.And, you know, I'll take a bag, too, from them.I'll sell outI mean, I don't know if this was something else.I mean, I'm just, you know, I use their product of shipping.Who doesn't?But, yeah, I think that's been a good yep sesh.It's fun to do.Got a lot off my chest, and I think I got lots of very valuable wisdom out there.If you're, you know, particularly in the predicament of, you know,Getting no alligator stabbing turtle set up with a MTV type crib pond And yeah, that's I mean, yeah I'll go next time on some tortoise cribs.I think that'll be a good topic to kind of continue this this this thread although this is very branching all over the place, but II guess you'll just have to stay tuned because I think that's all, folks.We out of here.Peace.Peace.Oh, I flicked you off.Peace, peace.My bad.