- I had an absolutely amazing time with Marshmello here.
Thank you so much for loving my snakes.
Now that's Mitchie, I mean, look at how big he's gotten.
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Hey, good morning everybody, welcome to the vlog.
We are going on an adventure today,
and that adventure starts here
at Critchlow's Alligator Sanctuary in Athens Michigan.
Each year, he actually has all the alligators outside,
and we have to bring 'em inside for hibernation,
and then, in the Spring, they go
from outside back to inside,
so we are going to have a great time
movin' some alligators today.
Of course we have Jessica, Andrea, and Bruce with us.
You guys excited about snatchin' up some alligators?
- [Kids] Yes.
- I don't really know what we're gonna do.
Sometimes I come here and they literally
let me in the water and grab alligators.
Other times I'm just helpin' out.
Regardless, it's gonna be an amazing time,
and, again, I think it's really weird
that there's actually an alligator sanctuary in Michigan.
This place is awesome, check this place out.
How cool is this?
- Hey, there he is, Brian.
- [Brian] Hey, there's the man, the legend.
- I didn't know if you were filming today or not.
- [Brian] Yeah, what's goin' on, Brother, How are you?
- [Dave] We have an agenda all set up for you.
- Oh, yeah. - Welcome back.
- [Brian] It's so good to see you.
I'm always so happy when I'm here,
because it's just cool to see all these alligators.
Basically what David has here is
he has small ones, he has mid sized ones,
call 'em Kindergarten, Grade School, High School,
all the way up, whatever it is.
Godzilla is the biggest alligator here,
so we're gonna go check out
the new enclosure that he just built.
Look at all these crazy, like shifts.
We used to have to actually snatch up a lot of the big ones,
but now they shift 'em quite a bit.
These things are cool, this is all brand new.
This is great. - This is for...
We have so much trouble with our teenagers.
Once puberty kicks in, it's chaos all the time,
as far as social hierarchy,
animals not getting along with each other,
and we have several animals that are
at our Middle School exhibit, that need to get promoted.
They're getting too big for their exhibit.
I can't put 'em in, 'cause they
have dominant animals in the High School.
They won't let 'em in there,
so we're gonna pull 'em and work with 'em
for a couple of years, get 'em to settle down,
and then I can put new animals into an exhibit.
- That's awesome. - So they're kind of,
this is their naughty spot for a couple years.
(few people laughing)
- I think what they specialize here, more than anything is,
not only, obviously, rescuing alligators
from all over the country, but also the fact that
they're unbelievable with the behavior.
I mean, these guys are amazing with the behavior
of all crocodilians, and alligators in particular,
and it's really cool, 'cause it's a family run business,
so it's just awesome.
You can see this guy's still in here.
(sighs) Oh my god, they're so awesome.
Gonna get the birds eye view of the place.
Oh god, look at how cool this is, oh my god.
(Brian chuckles)
I really... I tell you guys.
I don't know, maybe there's something wrong with me.
I just get so giddy and just so excited
when I see stuff like this, I mean, I love it.
I want a backyard like this.
Look at all of these alligator enclosures, oh my gosh.
(Brian chuckles) And again,
something you just wouldn't think to see in Michigan.
We're gonna go inside and see Godzilla,
the big dog's enclosure here.
Oh my god, this is awesome.
This is where they come during the winter months.
You got the heaters, you got the big ponds in here.
What temperature, David, do you guys keep these things?
- The container is about 60, well probably about 65 to 68.
This is the brand new set up.
I was telling your folks here,
we have a deck on top, that you were just on.
We're hoping that insulates this building a little bit more,
so I don't have to have five heaters running.
Maybe I can have two heaters,
and I'll end up with 65 degrees.
We'll have you touch the water,
it's about 65, 68 degrees now.
- Oh, that's nice. - It's comfortable.
That's all I wanted.
- I mentioned earlier that I had R.J.,
and I had two other gators, and that they ended up here.
Of course Mitchie was one
that had a big divot out of his tail,
so we know exactly what Mitchie is.
I haven't seen Mitch in probably a year and a half or so,
so we are on the way to go get reunited with Mitch,
and bring him in for hibernation.
I am so excited to see him.
What's up my man?
It's been a while, Buddy, how you been?
Oh my gosh, you look so good, Buddy.
He's gotten so big. - I don't think he likes it.
- [Man] Nope, you're perfect.
Roll the tape about five rounds, four or five times around.
Make sure don't cover those nostrils.
- You're all right.
Mitchie, see look at you.
- [Man] Then you gotta pick him up.
We're gonna head that way.
(majestic music)
Don't fall into the water.
(water sloshing)
(majestic music)
(girl chuckles) - Mitchie, oh my god.
So that's Mitchie, I mean, look at how big he's gotten.
Oh my gosh, I'm so happy he's had such a good life here.
Aw, it's so good to be reunited with him, my buddy.
- [Man] His tail, go ahead and grab his tail right there.
(Water sloshing)
She's got some tape, right?
- [Jessica] Am I?
(Men indistinctly instructing)
- [Andrea] Okay.
- Good job, guys. (Bruce laughs)
(alligator hissing) - it's okay, buddy.
You're all right. - Around the back like that?
- You're all right, Bro. - Just like that, yep.
Then just wrap it back around and stick it to itself.
Just don't cover the nostrils, okay.
(alligator hissing) - Same preference?
- [Brian] Perfect, Andrea can...
- Yes.
- [Brian] Now you just carry the alligator to your car.
Reunited with my buddy, Wild Charles here.
- Awesome, we're gonna catch some alligators,
guys, can you believe this?
- Our job right now is to corral all of these little gators
over there, and then they're gonna start catchin' 'em.
You ready for this?
- I'm ready, you ready? - Let's do it.
Tail... (alligator growls)
(water swishing) - I'll get one, you get one.
- [Man] Make sure that you are drying and taping.
- [Woman] Taper?
- (giggles) This is the coolest.
This is a little buddy over here.
Oh, I got turtle. (water splashes)
- [Charles] Just don't let bite you on it.
(nervous chuckle) - Bring him here.
Get in here. (water swishing)
- [Man] That's right, now we'll just hold on for a minute.
- Okay.
This is too much fun.
Good? (water swishing)
- [Man] Got the tape? (alligator swishing)
Good job, Bruce. (people remarking)
All right, now hold up, your attention for a second.
- [Brian] How you doin'?
- Good, it's fun, yeah. (laughs)
- Yeah, it's awesome.
- This is where they end up during the winter time.
You can see these guys have 68 degrees right in here,
so they're cool enough to kind of cool down,
and kind of go dormant, but not so cold
that they're gonna get sick or anything like that,
and I think this is an absolutely cool thing.
You can see some the ones that we just caught up
are down in here now, these guys over here,
so now we're moving on to slightly bigger ones.
What's cool here is that, again,
all these people come out for this event,
and they get to actually carry the alligators
after they're taped up and stuff like that,
off to the hibernation,
so it's kinda like a whole big group thing.
We catch 'em up, tape 'em up,
and then they get a chance to carry 'em over.
How fricking awesome is that?
Oh my god, this event should be so much more busy,
because it's so awesome.
There should be a thousand people here,
because it is so frickin' cool.
- [Man] Has anybody not taken an alligator down there yet,
that wants to?
They're able bodied. (man indistinctly instructing)
Have her scoot over a little bit, because...
- That's awesome.
- [Man] Nice to see you, Elementary, right?
- Yeah.
- [Man] Okay.
- [Brian] Through the woods, Bruce.
- Yeah.
- I love, the best part about trying to find these gators is
just kind of walking around, just kind of feeling around.
I can definitely feel 'em, and if I feel 'em,
I know they're there, but it's absolutely awesome.
Charles over there, he's got one right over here.
- I got an alligator.
- It's cool enough out here, probably in the mid 40s or so,
that they're not moving around a lot,
so, if I just kind of move around,
I should be able to find 'em,
but we're definitely gettin' down
to the last couple, maybe, alligators in here.
You gotta note on the comment,
if you guys would be up to your knees almost in water
that you can't see, trying to find an alligator.
I mean, I think it's absolutely a great way to spend a day.
- Oh you're heavy. (chuckles)
(majestic music)
- Next up, we've got the little bit bigger ones here.
These are the High School ones,
not a huge one, but it's still pretty good,
so we're gonna actually carry this over,
to get into the hibernation area.
Oh god, I love these guys.
- [Man] Hands underneath him.
(alligator hissing) - All right we'll handle it.
- [Man] Move to your legs at the back,
on the count of three, one, two, three up.
- Whoo, awesome - All right.
That sun's comin' out. - Move 'im like you love 'im.
(Jessica chuckles) (alligator hisses)
- What basically is happening is
she's putting the rope underneath the tape here,
so that way, when you put the alligator in,
you can actually pull the rope and it pulls the tape off.
It's just a lot better for the alligator,
of course, for the person,
don't wanna get any kind of issue,
so there's pretty much no drama that way.
- Watch the tree roots that way,
and just head along that way,
and we'll go in there, and watch you're step here.
(alligator hissing) (majestic music)
(kids indistinctly conversing)
All right, you got it, and set it kind of there.
(majestic music)
- Once again, we had an absolutely amazing time.
Thank you for all your hospitality.
- Oh, it's our pleasure, Brian, love to have you here.
- It's great, these guys are great, yeah, definitely...
- Glad we can share this with everybody.
- It is unbelievable, and speaking of sharing,
down in the description, I'm gonna put a link
to all his stuff.
Please pay him a visit, if you're in Athens Michigan,
or anywhere, and also if you wanna contribute or anything.
Places like this need our help,
and they are doing God's work.
- Thank you very much. - Thank you, Man.
All right, we'll see you soon. - All right, be careful.
- Take care, bye.
So we are off to the Reptarium.
What do you guys think, was it worth it?
- Yeah, it was amazing. - Yeah, it was awesome.
- I tell you what, it's cold out here,
I'm a little wet, I'm definitely stinky
from being in with the gator pond,
but it was absolutely worth it,
but, hey, let's go ahead and head
to our personal oasis, the Reptarium.
Remember, about a month ago, I traveled out to L.A.
I said, "Hey, I am gonna be
colabbin' with someone really cool."
I kind of gave you a little sneak.
As you guys knew, I flew all the way to L.A.,
'cause I was pretty excited about a project,
but I can't really tell you much about it right now.
It happened to be the DJ, Marshmello.
Well, today that video drops on Marshmello's channel.
It's called cooking with Mello,
and we cooked some tofu with a bunch of reptiles.
It was absolutely cool.
I'm gonna show you just a little bit
of the behind the scenes on that,
and I am gonna link in the description
to that video, if you wanna check it out.
I think it goes live at noon today,
so definitely check it out.
We had a great time.
(slow jazzy music)
- All right, cool.
- I had an absolutely amazing time with Marshmello here.
Thank you so much for loving my snakes.
I will put a link in the description.
You can see what we did, cooking some tofu, right?
Again, it's just about reaching a ton of people.
He has 20 million subscribers on his channel,
and we had a great time together,
so go ahead and check out the behind the scenes,
and then back to the Reptarium.
Hello.
- [Man] What's up, man?
- [Brian] Hey guys, how you doin'?
Hi, everybody.
What's your favorite thing here?
- My favorite thing here is probably gonna be
Sunrise, for one of the big snakes that I can hold,
and then one of the smaller guys is gonna be a python.
The few that I like the most are the ones that
when you pet their back,
they actually go up like a cat kind of.
- [Brian] Oh. - Yeah.
We're well protective of it.
Yeah. - They make a arch, yeah.
- All right, just wrapped up at the Reptarium.
What an absolutely amazing day.
We got to mess with a bunch of alligators.
That was so much fun.
Legitimately, every weekend we'll have some special event.
As a matter of fact, next weekend, we have Saturday,
we have a costume party, and then Sunday is
the Irwin family premier, or whatever,
absolutely gonna be amazing.
With that being said, I am gonna go ahead
and end the vlog here
and wish you guys an amazing day, evening,
whenever you happen to be watching.
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