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