Have you ever witnessed a room full of 50 first-graders suddenly go pin-drop silent?
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For this presentation, Barden also extracts venom from cobras and rattlesnakes.
So we allow him to bite.
But how does he get the snake to do it?
People come in all the time and say, What time are you milking the snakes?
Because thats the term, and thats fine we get it.
Its almost on the level of an obsession, he says.
In a sense, its been wonderful, because it has literally given my entire life a direction.
Barden started collecting snakes when he was 7 years old.
Barden may have known what he wanted to do, but he didnt knowhowhe was going to do it.
By 1999, he had made enough money to buy land and build his serpentarium.
And thats not the worst of it.
Hes also allergic to venom as in, 10-minutes-or-less-and-hes-dead anaphylactic allergic.
Thevenom contains foreign proteins that enter the body.
Depending on the snake, a bite can kill you.
So lets say you get bitten by a cobra.
He injected himself with two EpiPens before passing out.
Guided by the 911 operator, Bardens girlfriend performed CPR until paramedics arrived and intubated him.
And Barden no longer sticks around for help to arrive.
We dont wait for an ER evac anymore, Barden says.
And then what we usually do is meet the ambulance or the fire truck on the way.
And were on the phone with 911 they know us, as you might imagine.
Researchers also study venom for its potential medical uses, such as the treatment ofcancer,arthritisandAlzheimers disease.
Based on the amount of research being done, the demand for venom changes from year to year.
Venom is very uncertain it is a very tricky market.
About half of them are international.
So what do clients pay for his product?
You cant concentrate that well that long.
So now I do groups of 30, 15, 21, and I can really focus.
And consequently we havent had a bite in 12 years.
To amateur collectors dreaming about starting their own venom business, Barden has some advice.
My answer is always, Dont quit your day job.
I come here in this great mental place, he says.
Im never freaking out… Its a safety thing.
If Im thinking about 800 other things, its just no good.
It is, but I dont ever come here thinking this is dangerous.
I always think it I have the know-how and the skills to make this completely safe.
If you were terrified, this would be a disaster.
Tiffany Wendeln Connors is a staff writer at The Penny Hoarder.
She has what she considers a healthy fear of snakes, alligators and platypuses.
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