(singing) Happy birthday dear Ringo...
Happy birthday to you.
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- Hey! Good morning everybody.
And welcome to the vlog.
Of course I have Flaming Hot Cheeto,
my amazing bearded dragon here, and I'm
gonna be honest with you.
Today is going to a little bit of a different vlog,
because for the first time EVER --maybe the
first time in history --now, I don't know
about that.
But the truth it we are actually having
a bearded dragon birthday party!
That's right, someone actually booked a birthday
party at the Septarium for their bearded dragon.
I think it's absolutely incredible and it's gonna
be an absolutely amazing time.
And I'm gonna bring you guys along on it
and I don't know what to expect, but it's
gonna be absolutely awesome!
We have all of our tables set up and ready
for our birthday party!
Laurie, how did this come about, I mean,
someone just called you and wanted a
bearded dragon birthday?
- Yeah they reached out first via email
on the website, about a birthday party,
and when I called her she was asking if it
would be okay to throw a birthday party for
her bearded dragon... I thought about it,
and I was like, "Why not?"
It's her kid, she doesn't have any kids,
all she has is her bearded dragon, so,
what better place?
- It actually will be really fun, I think
it's gonna be a good time.
She's bringing a bunch of her friends
and stuff like that, so, should be a big
party it should be really interesting.
We have another really interesting one coming
up in a few weeks too.
The Deadpool guy--
- I did not tell him to do that!
- Oh yeah, that's right, I forgot, yeah,
that's coming up in March.
- We have a guy actually doing a tour in a few
weeks but he asked if he could be dressed
as Deadpool?
- Yeah, I don't know.
I guess that's his shtick he goes around
places dressed as Deadpool.
- Well I love Deadpool so it's gonna be
really cool to have him here!!
I don't know if we should dress up or
something like that.
But regardless, today's bearded dragon birthday
party is going to be a hoot.
They should be here any minute.
And the birthday boy made it into the house.
(high pitched) Hey little birthday boy!
Oh my god, that's so incredible.
(all laughing)
- That's totally adorable.
- [Woman] (laughs)
- And the little baby picture, oh god!
- [Brian] So how old is he?
- He is four today.
- [Brian] He is four!
- Yup, see the number four.
- [Brian] And his name is Ringo, alright!
- Yes, yes!
- [Brian] So what made you think of having
a birthday party for your Ringo?
- What better than a reptile place to have
a reptile birthday party?
- [Brian] I love it!
It's the first time we've had a bearded dragon
birthday party, I think it is absolutely amazing.
It's so nice to meet Ringo, we're going to
have a good time.
The place is yours, let's make it absolutely
awesome!
I'm really excited about Uroplatus from Veredas
actually, one of the females actually laid
eggs today!
Unfortunately they were good, this happens to
be the male.
I wanted to leave the female that just
laid eggs alone for a little bit (chuckles),
let her recuperate.
But the fact that she laid her first
clutch of eggs is pretty exciting.
Often times the first collections geckos
can be infertile, but with any luck hopefully
she will lay some more fertile eggs here
coming up, because hatching some of these
captive born, giant leaf-tailed geckos would be
absolutely amazing.
I mean just look at how incredible
that animal is!
Oh my god, it is absolutely cool.
So, I'm pretty excited that at least
we're starting to make progress and at least
one of the females is laying some eggs.
So thing is Rango's present?
- [Woman] New stuffies, yeah
- [Brian] (laughs) Oh my gosh! That is awesome.
Yeah guys, I just think it's absolutely
amazing when people love their animals
as much as Ringo is getting loved, because
you know, I think reptiles deserve a lot more
attention.
It's not weird for people to have a birthday
for their dogs or their cats, why would
it be weird to have a birthday party
for a bearded dragon?
After all they're amazing!
And by the way if you guys don't know there's
actually been some research lately
that say that bearded dragons-- well, some of
them, certainly the blue Tagoos actually go
into REM sleep, so they actually dream.
It's the only non-mammal that dreams!
And a lot of times we think of dreams and
REM sleep as a sign of intelligence...
Pretty absolutely amazing, so this is great.
I wish there were more of these types of parties!
I'm going to have such a great time with this one.
So Ringo is just going around, kinda just getting
a tour of the zoo.
- [Toddler] (babbles)
- [Brian] Ringo, how ya doing buddy?
Is he doing good?
- [Woman] (laughs) He should have his
birthday shirt on.
- [Brian] He's so cute.
(water trickles)
- How adorable
Are you guys enjoying it?
- [Girls] Yeah!
- [Brian] That's awesome!
What do you think about this birthday
party, pretty awesome, huh?
- I think it's pretty neat, I saw the cake
and it's really cute (laughs)
- Hi...
- [Brian] (indiscernible)
What happens with Nova, actually will see
something like a bearded dragon and
he gets a little defensive, so he'll kind
of pop up and kind of run around a little bit.
So from distance though, Ringo likes Nova though.
Like I mentioned the other day, it seemed like
Colubrid were just down a minute ago, and
they are already starting to get ready to
come up out of hibernation.
I am so excited, I mean, this is one of next
year's breeders.
This is an Abbott's Okeetee I've showed you
guys before, one of the prettiest, classic
phases of corn snakes I think there is
out there.
Again, just a locality and specific eye that
bread those unbelievable black bars around
the saddle, so they're absolutely incredible.
So many cool Colubrids this year it's gonna
be absolutely insane!
So get ready you guys!
We're not far off from feedings tons
and tons of snakes, getting tons and tons
of eggs, and hatching tons and tons of
baby snakes.
And although the educational side with
the Septarium, and ZooToU, and tours,
and birthday parties, and scout parties
are something that's such a huge part
of my life, I will still always be a
snake breeder at heart.
I mean, things like this: Gold Dust Motley
Corn Snake, I mean, woo doggy, that thing is
absolutely stunning.
I will never get sick of breeding these
guys and producing such amazingly cool
paint jobs.
I mean just take a look at that animal
right there, and I can't wait to be hatching
these again, just in a few short months.
Although this is kind of a unique birthday
party, everyone is still having the same fun.
(indiscernible)
- I love it!
- So hopefully Rango's having a good
time do you think?
- I think so!
Is you having a fun?
Is you having a good time big boy?
Yeah...
- That is awesome!
Like I said, I love when people look at
their reptiles like other people look at
their dogs and cats, because they should
have the same love and care and attention.
A handful of people have been asking,
remember when I unboxed that shipment
and there was actually a gecko egg in the box
which was really unbelievable!
Unfortunately the gecko egg doesn't look like
it's going to make it.
You know, I think that just probably getting
tumbled around you know getting shipped all the
way here across country.
And going through the highs and lows of
the temperatures and all that it just
didn't make it.
I was really curious to see what kind of
animal was going to hatch out if it
did make it, but unfortunately in this case,
we're never gonna know.
So your guess is as good as I am.
Unfortunately, the gecko egg didn't make it.
- So we're here at the Septarium with Rango's
birthday party.
I'm sitting here helping these guys hold
some animals and out of the corner
of my eye I see this frog tank and I'm
like "What the heck is going on?"
Look at this little guy.
He is just scaling the corner of the walls,
doing some crazy acrobatic stuff.
And there he goes, up higher and higher.
I just thought that was hilarious
and thought I'd share!
So it's time to sing to Ringo!
- (singing) Happy birthday to you,
happy birthday to you, happy birthday
dear Ringo, happy birthday to you!"
(cheesy applause sfx)
- Oh my god!
Oh my god guys, this is so awesome (laughs)
Well we just wrapped up Rango's birthday party
and I can't tell you how much I enjoyed that.
That was so cool to be able to see and
celebrate with them.
Ringo is four now and I just love it, we had
some much fun!
Now we got to take the last remaining time,
get everything cleaned up and ready to open
to the public.
- Bruce and I actually had to do a "Zoo-To-You"
birthday party, went really well, so I left
the camera here with Lori and I guess the
end of the birthday party for bearded dragon
Ringo went really well.
It was definitely a first and absolutely
amazing, so if you guys ever want to do a
birthday party for your animal, come on,
we love it!
As for now, we got back just in time, put the
animals back, and now we're open for the Septarium.
- Let's do this!
- [Brian] Are you ready?
- Yes!
- We're ready
- [Brian] Let's do it!
Hey guys, how are you?
Come on in, come on in!
Hi, how are you, nice to see you.
Welcome, welcome!
Come get warm it's summer in there.
As you can see we just opened up and it's
going to be really crazy unfortunately,
I would love to stay here and hang out at
the Septarium but my buddy Brent Burns from the
San Jose Sharks professional hockey team is
in town, he's playing the Redwings and he
invited us to come over, so Lori, myself, and
Noah are heading downtown, we're gonna go
see a hockey game.
And leave this up to you guys!
Do you have this under control?
- I don't maybe?
- Wait this doesn't sound very confident.
I'm going to ask Jessica.
Jessica, you have this under control right?
- Of course!
- Of course, yeah, I can rely on them,
they're great people.
So I'm gonna leave it to them and get
on the road and go see some hockey.
So we are off to the Redwings game.
This is the first time you've ever been
down to this arena, I think me and Noah
have just been once or twice.
- [Noah] No, I've been a lot...
- Well yeah we went to a lot of Pistons games
and stuff like that, so I'm excited.
It's been a while since we've seen our boy
Burnsy play, so it's pretty exciting to
kind of see him.
Unfortunately those guys are just in and out
so we're not gonna be able to hang out.
He wanted to come and check out the Septarium,
but they're literally flying in, playing the game,
and then flying out tonight so it's kind of a
bummer.
But hey, it should be pretty fun!
Are you excited/
- Yeah, yeah.
I'm excited to see him and see the new
Little Caesars Arena.
- What about you Noah are you excited
- Uh, no.
Just kidding, yeah I'm super excited I missed
Burnsy haven't seen him in so long.
Hopefully we'll be able to go down
to Texas to visit his ranch this summer!
- Absolutely, yeah he literally has a ranch
with wildebeests, zebras, all kind of stuff.
So we're definitely going to take the trip
down there this summer and go visit him
when he's on his off season.
- That was cold.
We had to walk like half a mile, it's like
50 mph winds, super cold, it's going to
be terrible on the way out, but we got
here, second period is about to start,
but hey we got here for at least two thirds
of the game.
So far we're down three to one and the Sharks--
the only time I root against the Reds is when
the Sharks are playing...
But we're losing guys.
Just like that it's three to three!
(music plays in the stadium)
- Four to three!
- Sharks are up now.
- Three goals in one minute.
- That's crazy!
(cheering and yelling)
- So we're just hanging out here.
The Sharks came back from a three to one
deficit to win the game, and Burnsy
scored so that's pretty cool.
So we're just hanging out, we're waiting
to go down to talk to Burnsy, I think he's
just got about 10-minutes (indiscernible)
Then he's gotta get on a plane and fly
out of here.
And then we have to walk back abut a mile
in 50 mph winds.
- That's cause your bad parking!
His bad parking.
- All you.
- It was all my idea.
This is basically what the Arena looks
like with no one in it.
We just had a few minutes with Burnsy--
- WHat're you doing, vlogging in the bathroom?
- He was telling us about his crazy animals
on his 400 acre farm.
So we're definitely gonna be vlogging about that
in the summer.
We're gonna head down into that area and
go see his craziness.
- And their family.
- And their family, of course.
So you guys ready to brave this 50 mph wind?
- No...
I'm just ready to die, let's do it.
- C'mon.
- Let's do this.
- We'll be home soon.
And guys we are finally home, let me tell you what
there is quite a winter storm out there.
It was really nice to get away again, to see
my buddy Burnsy, haven't been to a hockey game
in a while it was really great to just
have some family time.
We had an absolutely incredible time.
And that bearded dragon birthday party,
that's a first.
I hope we have other ones at the Septarium,
cause I think it was absolutely awesome,
Incredible.
Let me know in the comments if you guys
enjoyed that.
As for now, I'm going to go ahead and shut
down the vlog and wish you guys an
absolutely amazing day, evening, whenever
you happen to be watching.
Can you do me a couple of favors before we get
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Can you smash that like button, turn those post
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Be kind to someone and I promise, I will see
you guys tomorrow.
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