- One of the snakes that I love to death
and I'm certainly thankful of is this girl here.
Come on, Perdida.
Come on, sweetie.
Whoa, she got me.
Ow, ow ow ow ow ow. (inhales sharply)
Okay, yep, that's a tasty one.
The food-bite is by far the worst bite you can possibly get.
(breathes heavily) Oh, wow, is that hard.
That hurts so bad, oh my gosh.
I don't know what to do here, guys.
Ow.
Hey, Mike. - Yo, Mike.
- Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.
This one of my favorite holidays.
I hope that you guys are gonna have an amazing day
but you know, it's Thanksgiving,
which means that my animals are gonna eat good today.
(turkey thuds)
(mid tempo mellow music)
And believe it or not, guys, five years ago on Thanksgiving
is when this vlog channel went to daily.
Isn't that incredible?
But our animals are definitely gonna have a feast today.
Come on, Elvis, let's go.
Come on out, come on, come on.
Here we go, bud.
Oh, oh, whoa, careful, careful.
Here we go.
Oh, big old meal for you, buddy.
Oh, he's gonna love this.
Oh, (laughs) might've fed it the other way.
I don't know whether he's gonna-
You gonna fit it down, bud?
You gonna fit it down?
Do you need some help?
You need some help?
There it goes.
Oh, just like a pelican.
He's always like a pelican and now he wants more.
Okay, let me find something else for you, buddy.
This piece?
Want this piece up here?
Up here, open your mouth.
There it goes, bud.
The entire zoo is definitely gonna get fed today
because we are going to feast for Thanksgiving.
And of course that viral video
that went crazy five years ago on Thanksgiving
was of an animal just like Butterscotch here.
Whoa.
Woo-hoo, Butterscotch definitely got it for sure
but that animal was actually Lucy escaping.
People ask all the time, do snakes ever get out?
And the answer is it doesn't happen very often,
but every now and then it does
and I gotta be honest with you,
it's extremely rare for anything large to get out.
Unfortunately, this happened.
Looks like maybe we didn't shut the cage all the way.
Not that hard to find a 19 foot snake.
Keeping in mind she's in a really bad mood,
so this may not be the funnest thing that I've ever done,
but she was pretty easy to find.
Hello.
(sighs) Now the question is,
how the heck do we get her
from up here to back over there?
(gentle tranquil music)
(snake head whips)
That was awesome. - Yeah.
- That's exciting, that was like pros, man.
- Yeah, man, we did that. - We still gotta get her
in her cage though.
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Next up, I'm going inside the cage.
Ooh, it smells like Waffles in here.
Waffles is up on the light here,
just getting a little basking in.
Do you want some food?
Aw, what a cheeky little monkey right here.
And you know, on that Thanksgiving day,
I decided that I was gonna ride the wave, right?
That video got a million and a half views in just a day
and I thought we might as well just keep posting daily
until we get to a point where maybe the channel slows down,
so I just started to daily vlog.
And I am absolutely thankful, right?
And that's what Thanksgiving is about
is about being thankful.
And one of the snakes that I love to death
and I'm certainly thankful of is this girl here.
Come on, Perdida.
Come on, sweetie.
Whoa, she got me.
Ow, ow ow ow ow ow. (inhales sharply)
Okay, yep, that's a tasty one.
Can you take that please,
- Yes, sir. - for me?
Okay. (inhales sharply)
Yep, this happens guys.
This is just part of doing animals.
The downside is that she thinks it's food, right?
So now I have a little bit of a dilemma here
'cause she's got a really tasty part of my arm,
hurts really bad and she thinks that it's actually a pig
so I don't know how long it's gonna take me
to get this off.
Whew, I tell you what, she's got some big teeth, guys,
and it is definitely not a good feeling to be wrapped.
The food bite is by far the worst bite you can possibly get.
Oh, wow, is that hard.
That hurts so bad, oh my gosh.
I don't know what to do here, guys.
Ow.
Hey, Mike. - Yo, Mike.
Quick, he got bit by Perdida.
- [Brian] Get the mouthwash.
- [Mike] Yeah, yeah yeah, mouthwash.
- It is definitely tasty.
It hurts like hell, guys.
Ah, I wish she would let go, but she's not going to.
Mike's gonna come over
and a trick is to sometimes get mouthwash.
Can you see her mouth or no?
- Yeah. - Okay.
So let's just go ahead,
pour a little bit of mouthwash in there
and that oftentimes gets them to let go.
(engines whir)
Ah, she let go.
Ah, okay.
I'm gonna get back for a second.
Okay, it's not your fault, girl.
You didn't know.
Whew, yeah, she got me a good bite there
but let's see if she'll eat now.
Sometimes they'll eat right after.
Come on, you want some, girl?
You want it?
Come on, there you go.
Whew, so it all worked out perfect.
She ended up-
I am thankful that she didn't eat my arm
because let me tell you what, that hurt.
She had her teeth sunk in there,
but you know, the thing is, if you notice,
as soon as she bit me, I didn't pull away, right?
I went with the bite and that bite was actually
all about how I got away without getting ripped up
and having to have stitches, right?
I go with it, I'm making sure that she's not moving,
she's not going,
Mike bailed me out, thank you, Mike.
That mouthwash trick, I tell you what.
I might've been down there for 10 or 15 minutes
if it wasn't for the mouthwash trick
so thank goodness.
Whew, I tell you what,
I'm thankful that that wasn't worse
than it actually could have been.
(mid tempo mellow music)
And I'm thankful that that bite wasn't worse
and what I was trying to get across
before, of course, that vicious bite-
No, it really was just my fault.
I had my arm in her way, silly mistake on my part,
but I'm just so thankful for just the last five years
being able to share my life on YouTube
with you guys every single day.
It's absolutely amazing and I'm thankful for you guys.
I really am.
Come on, Terrence, you ready to eat?
There you go, bud.
Aw, what a sweetheart.
You know, tegus are so interesting
'cause they can be such awesome animals
in the sense that they basically just are so gentle.
You ready for more?
There you go, Terrence.
There you go, there you go, there you go.
There you go, little buddy.
And it's so cool because I get
to do this every single day of my life
and it's such an amazing thing
and there's no doubt that it is a blessed life.
The fact that 3.3 million people follow us on YouTube
blows me away.
I'm just a guy that has some animals
that I'm just really passionate about
and I just can't thank each and every one
of you guys enough for it.
Come on.
Oh, there you go.
There you go, Terrence.
Whoop, oh, you missed it.
There you go, buddy.
What a cool animal.
All right, (laughs) retic again.
What possibly could go wrong, right?
Let's go ahead and feed Al,
ooh, and Al is fired up today.
Don't eat my arm, don't eat my arm, don't eat my arm.
Oh, thank you, Al.
And you know, going back
to that first viral video when Lucy escaped,
again, that video got a couple million views pretty quickly
and it was going, we're thinking,
"Hey, we're just gonna start daily vlogging
until maybe the channel slows down."
And actually interestingly enough,
two days later, Lucy laid that clutch of infertile eggs.
That's why she escaped in the first part,
she was looking for a place to nest,
and we filmed that video
and that video ended up getting millions of views as well.
Take a look at this, guys.
Totally surprised the hell out of me.
Look at this.
Oh, is she mad.
(boxes clatter)
Stop.
Lucy, relax.
You grab the camera and I'll wrangle her.
Whoa.
(he grunts)
I'm so happy she laid because now I know she's in good shape
and she should probably start eating again shortly.
Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh.
(mid tempo mellow music)
Baby gator time.
Come on, guys, let's go.
Oh, yeah, he loves it.
These guys love to eat
and it's always nice to switch things up.
We get them a chicken a lot, we get them beef a lot,
we get them them fish a lot, now they're getting turkey.
Come on guys, go up here.
Let's go, who can get the highest up here?
(he exclaims)
Oh, yeah, like, "I got it."
And this is definitely one
of my favorite things to do at The Reptarium,
especially during open hours, to feed the Gators.
Come on, guys.
Hey, where are you going?
Come on, you get back in there, buddy.
(laughs) Just take a look at these guys piling up here.
They know it's feeding time for sure.
Okay, you're being good up here, I'll give you one,
and I'll give you one back here.
Oh, whoa, this guy came out of nowhere.
And I think everyone has gotten fed.
This little fatty here is trying to get it
so I'm going to try and get this guy in the middle here.
This is the only one that didn't get food.
Now everyone's been fed their Thanksgiving dinner.
And honestly never in a million years did I think-
Drogo, you want a piece of apple?
There you go.
Never in a million years did I think
that five years later we would still be vlogging
almost every single day which is crazy
but you know, what was interesting is that
after those two videos we gained like 200,000 followers
in a matter of like 10 days
and it was kind of hard to stop at that point.
And then you fast forward and of course I'm feeding a sloth
I mean, wow, life has really changed in the last five years.
There was no Reptarium, there was no-
Just all the things that we're doing now weren't even here
and that's a lot about the success that we've had on social,
which is every one of you guys.
So I hope that you're having an amazing Thanksgiving
and are thankful for the things around you
'cause I certainly have so much to be thankful for,
(laughs) so many amazing animals
and hey, we're just beginning, right?
Let's hope five years from now,
we're talking about 10 years Thanksgiving,
but we still have a lot of animals to feed.
Well, I might as well go ahead
and feed Bowsy this nice big old drum stick
and you know what, no need for tongs, right?
I never really get bit
so this is gonna be really easy, right?
After all, this has got a handle right on it, right?
So let's go ahead and see if Bowser wants to eat.
Come on, buddy.
Oh (laughs) yeah, doggy.
See, one bite from Perdida isn't gonna stop me
from doing crazy stupid things.
Don't try that at home, by the way.
That was kind of dumb on me.
Night Fury is up.
I tell you, he's definitely always a very energetic snake.
Come on buddy, come on, come here.
Come on, come on, come on.
Follow the ball, yep, there you go, bud.
Now I'm gonna give you this.
Whoa.
Yeah, okay, that's really good.
Let's come back down, let's come back down.
Let's come back down, now let's not hit my arm.
Here you go. (laughs)
I'm thankful for that snake right now.
Matilda loves Thanksgiving 'cause she loves sweet potatoes.
Here you go, baby girl.
Bigger mouth, there you go.
And that just gives you an idea how powerful those jaws are.
She just cuts through this raw sweet potato
like it's nothing.
You want more, baby?
I love the way that they pick their hand up too
when they eat, they're so funny.
There you go, baby.
Mike once got bit by Matilda.
If you remember when he was feeding her a little tiny piece,
she got him and he said it was bad and you can tell.
Those jaws are powerful, I tell you what.
She loves her sweet potatoes
and it looks like this little monkey wants some too.
So we'll go ahead and grate some up
because they don't have the power
of the jaw that Matilda has.
- [Camera Person] What is he doing?
In the tortoise pen?
Oh, you're cutting potatoes.
I was wondering what you were doing, bro.
- I think Sunrise might know that it's Thanksgiving
and there's time for a feast too.
Come on, girl, here you go, sweetie.
Bam, she does not mess around, she wants to eat.
She's getting big.
Getting harder and harder to pick this girl up,
I'm not gonna lie, but she's amazing.
And then an animal I definitely do not wanna get bit by
and of course that's Kush.
Just gonna show him the ball,
he knows there's food coming,
then I'll go ahead and give him some food.
There it is, whew.
I tell you what, that animal has got some teeth
and it's got some size to it
so I definitely don't want to ever be
on the wrong end of this one,
but you could see how absolutely delicate it is.
It's really changed his personality so much for us.
It's absolutely incredible.
Again, he's totally targeting on the ball,
I just reward him with a little bit of food.
There you go, Kush.
Man, I tell you, that is a tree dragon right there.
That is an unbelievable animal.
Some more?
Come on, there you go, buddy.
Oh, I tell you what, I love that animal so much.
Every day that goes by, I love it a little bit more.
There you go, gonna have a full belly tonight, buddy.
You know how it gets, you know.
You eat the turkey, you go to sleep, you watch a little TV
and maybe have a little bit of pie.
You know what I mean?
So Kushy's gonna be sleeping good tonight for sure.
A little bit more? One last bite?
No leftovers,
although turkey leftovers are good, right?
But for today we're gonna not have turkey leftovers.
There we go, Kushy.
Oh, it came right out.
If there's one thing I know,
it's Brillo loves turkey baby food,
so yeah, we're gonna have a little turkey feast.
Come on.
Oh, get your whole face in there?
What is wrong with you?
I tell you what, it doesn't smell like the turkey dinner
that my grandma used to make,
but it doesn't seem to bother Brillo at all
because he's just face first all the way in it.
Brillo, you're so silly, you crazy doggio.
Oh my gosh, he is crazy, isn't he?
Oh my gosh.
Look at him, he just devoured half that in a second.
Look at that long tongue of his.
Oh, he's like, "No, dad, you can't make me move.
You can't make me move, I'm gonna eat it all."
This reminds me of my uncle back in the day
when he would eat turkey dinners,
like it'd be all over his face and all over his head,
stuff like that.
Yep, Brillo finished that off really quick.
Okay, Brillo.
Oh my gosh.
(laughs) I love this animal so much.
He is so cool.
It's okay, Brillo, you got it.
It's all right buddy.
It's all good.
I've been feeding RJ turkey for the last five, six years,
so look it, he's coming up.
Come on, bud, up here, up here.
(jaws clack)
Ooh.
There we go, bud.
Oh, he missed it, now get down now.
Come on, down, down, down, down.
Get down.
Come here.
There you go, buddy, finally, whew.
He gave me a little bit of a hard time but he loves it.
If you listen carefully,
he might actually crackle the bones.
(water trickling) (bones crack)
Yeah, you guys heard that, didn't you?
That was ridiculous.
This is actually Maya, the blacktail cribo
and she usually loves Thanksgiving legs here.
There she goes, there she goes.
Just like that, perfect.
She loves it.
That's the thing that's amazing about cribos is
they'll eat snakes, they'll eat eggs,
they'll eat chicken, they'll eat fish.
They'll eat pretty much almost anything.
Come on, Marshmallow, come on.
Let's go.
There it is.
Gotta feed both blackheads.
They're actually very close together
so what I have to do is actually feed one
and then move it all the way to the back
and then we'll feed the female
and we'll move her over to here
just so the roommates don't get into each other's way
while they're eating.
(mid tempo mellow music)
And let's end the video with the girl that started it all,
my girl, Lucy, who is just starting to go into shed
so unfortunately she's not gonna get a Thanksgiving feast,
but boy oh boy she is still a special animal with me,
and thank you guys for allowing me
to come along into your life for the last five years.
I hope and pray you will continue to follow us
for the next five years
because we have so many cool things.
The expansion and all kinds of stuff going on.
It's gonna be absolutely amazing.
So have an absolutely wonderful Thanksgiving, Reptile Army.
I love you guys so much.
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Have a wonderful day, Reptile Army.
Remember, be kind to somebody
and I promise I'll see you in the next one.