- I was doing a tour next door.
You were touring over here.
We were switching and swapping and craziness.
Okay RJ.
RJ.
Look at me.
(loud upbeat music)
Hey, good morning everybody.
Welcome to the vlog.
It sure is cold out here today and we're going to have
an insanely busy day.
And I absolutely love busy days.
Today we have a friend coming in that's a school teacher.
He's bringing his class.
I have two private tours.
Tons of work to do to get ready for Thanksgiving.
I tell you, it's going to be absolutely an amazing, amazing
adventure ahead today.
But man, I love days like today.
I'm at BHB and I'm actually waiting on my buddy Carl,
the teacher that is bringing like 9 or 10 kids
from his class from Grand Rapids.
It is so cool.
I mean literally he keeps a ton of reptiles.
Literally has like a breeding programs.
So they're coming to tour the place and
also pick up some snakes.
It's going to be absolutely incredible.
And then I have two tours over at The Reptarium today.
Oh my God, we are booked today.
Let's have a great day together.
Just got off the phone with Carl,
actually they're running a little bit late and
I actually have a tour here at The Reptarium.
They should be here any minute.
Laurie is going to spend some time with Carl
over at BHB while I'm doing this tour.
And then we'll see what happens from here.
Again they'll be here any second.
And my friend is back from Traverse City.
You guys are here to have a good time.
Can we do something different this time?
- Sure, yeah.
- What do you think?
Okay I'm going to try to think.
I'm going to try to think of something cool to do.
So last time Owen was here,
we didn't have Ben and Jerry yet.
So I want you to meet Ben and Jerry.
Is it cool or what?
Isn't that thing crazy?
- [Dad] That is amazing!
- Oh my gosh.
- I know it's so cool.
I tell ya.
I just love being able to share this animal.
Again, you guys know I've been dreaming about this forever.
About having a two-headed snake.
And be able to just hand it to someone like this.
This is what I've been dreaming about.
There he is.
The man.
The legend.
How are you man?
Alright.
It's good to see you.
- Absolutely.
- Hi guys how are you?
- Good
- You're going to be with Laurie for a little bit
but we've got lots of fun coming on.
So we'll get a chance to talk.
Of course last time Owen was here he didn't get a chance
to see the little baby alligators.
And you were just talking about the roundness of the snout,
right?
- Yeah.
- Exactly.
And for those of you that don't know,
the little roundness of an alligator's snout
kinda tells them apart from crocodiles.
Crocodiles will have a more V or pointed shape nose.
(Dad laughing)
And of course then we have the albino and black alligators.
Of course Salt and Pepper.
I'm super excited to tell you
I have been throwing pellets in the last day or so
and the pellets are gone.
But I don't know if Pepper's eating them or
if Salt is eating them.
They are such gorgeous little guys.
What do you think Owen?
- They're so cool.
The colors and everything.
(Alligator chirping)
- So while Brian is next door doing his tour,
I'm left here showing Carl's class a bunch of stuff
right now.
Jessica is showing them some of the baby Gargoyle geckos.
So I think these guys are enjoying,
Are you enjoying the tour so far?
- Yes
(Laurie laughs)
- Are you guys learning a lot?
- Yes.
- Alright, I'm trying.
I'm no Brian,
but I'm doing the best I can.
- Got the (unintelligible) python out.
(dad laughing)
- [Dad] It's giving you a little kiss.
- Okay Laurie is giving the tour over here at BHB to
Horfield's class.
You guys doing alright over here?
- Yeah.
- [Brian] What do you think man?
- These are awesome.
I was just telling Laurie
we're looking into getting more of these
because we've got a ton of Cresteds right now.
- [Brian] Oh do you?
- I was hoping you bought those hundred,
I was going to try to buy a couple off of you.
(everyone laughing)
- [Jessica] Laurie.
- No, no.
- [Brian] See this is.
This is the Teach.
- Let's hook him up.
Let's hook him up with the hundred.
(everyone laughing)
- RJ.
RJ.
Look at me.
- [Unknown Man] Becoming the best at it.
Mastering myself.
And seeing what I have within me.
If you decide to drop your buckets where you are
and develop your gifts.
I bet you would never ever be without.
- First we've got Teach with us here.
He's got RJ.
I'm going to let you release RJ back.
- Alight, alright.
Slide him in.
- [Brian] Yep.
There you go.
- There you go RJ.
- [Brian] Is that thing cool or what?
- That is outstanding.
- This is actually Cronus.
And he's a little bit hungry today.
- [Unknown Woman] I couldn't tell.
(multiple people talking at once)
- [Brian] Are you okay?
- [Male Voice] Oh wow!
- He's has a really gentle demeanor.
- [Carl] Here we go Joe.
- [Unknown Female] That's such a gentle snake.
- [Female Student] It's so long.
- You ready?
Good job.
Now we're bringing Carl's class over to The Reptarium.
Just going to kind of show them around over here.
A little bit different over here.
- This is so cool.
- Wow.
(students talking all at once)
- [Brian] What do you think?
- Brian this is amazing.
This is absolutely, it's amazing man.
(Students all talking at once)
- Oh my gosh.
Why don't we have one of those
- Oh my God I want one.
- She gets the enclosure since
- Is it a boy or a girl?
Is it a boy or a girl?
- [Brian] It's a girl.
- She's just so sweet.
- So we have multiple tours going on today of course,
so I'm looking for some help.
Would you guy?
What would you guys do if you were the tour guides?
Would you help me out with this?
- I'm a great tour guide.
- Tour guide?
- [Brian] Yeah, you know show people around.
- Yeah, I've been practicing.
- [Brian] What are you going to do?
- I've been practicing.
- [Brian] Practicing how?
- This is the thing.
I've actually picked up miming.
On the side.
[Brian] What!?
- Yeah
- [Brian] You can't do miming!
- That's my whole tour.
- The rope thing and then they're in the box.
- Yeah my tour is just like.
- This is a horrible.
No one is going to want to come to.
- No
- [Brian] Eric you've got to.
- This is going to save (unintelligible).
Little cassette player, headphones.
I'm going to say,
"you start here and work your way around."
I'm just going to start recording on tape.
- You could, a little Walkman and it's like a throwback.
- So and so snake.
That's right.
So I don't have to do anything.
I can just sit down.
- These guys, every time I come to them.
Every single time I come to them.
I think maybe they'll redeem themselves
and they just come up with the craziest stuff.
The best you've got is a Walkman and a mime!
- Okay, alright.
I'm going to get back to the tours because
obviously I've got no help coming from these guys.
So I have my family.
You said you're from Vermont?
- Delaware!
They're from Delaware not from.
(laughs)
It's off that way anyway.
So thank you guys.
Welcome to my world.
What do you think of Snazz?
- He's heavy.
- [Brian] He is very heavy.
- Very heavy.
- [Brian] Well I can't thank you guys enough.
And you said you do some gaming on YouTube?
- Yeah
- [Brian] What's your account?
- Fyzik. F-Y-Z-I-K period.
- Awesome, go show him some love please.
(upbeat music)
- I don't always take out Salt and Pepper,
the albino and black alligators
but you guys came a long way.
So I thought that I would show you.
Isn't he amazing?
- [Older Boy] Yeah
- [Brian] And this cute little one right here.
Unbelievable, huh?
- Yeah.
- I figured you'd at least have something
that you can't do anywhere else.
- [Younger Boy] Yes.
[Brian] You said you just held your first alligator.
- Yeah.
- [Brian] And now you're holding an albino alligator.
How do you feel?
- Happy
(laughter)
- Okay so we have the tour.
We just got together with a little group photo.
You guys are heading off.
- [Brian] Thank you so much.
I appreciate you coming.
Thank you so much.
I really, really appreciate.
Thank you, thank you.
- Thank you.
- [Brian] You guys drive safe.
You're welcome back any time guys.
- [Mom] Thank you.
(chorus of goodbyes)
- Wow, I tell you that was absolutely insane.
I've never done like six hours of tours,
back to back to back.
That was really a good time.
We still have so much stuff.
Look at Ubusuku!
Oh my gosh.
Slow down girl.
She is absolutely crazy.
We definitely got to pull out stuff
we don't normally pull out.
Which is really cool.
We had such a good time,
but what an absolutely crazy, busy day.
That was pretty crazy Laurie.
I mean literally,
I was doing a tour next door.
You were touring over here.
We were switching and swapping and craziness.
Thanks a lot for that crazy day.
What were you thinking?
- Listen, it just happened.
It was just like,
you know when the planets align.
- [Brian] Oh my God.
- That's exactly what happened.
Like, I had no control.
They just kind of all.
Yeah and whatever.
We got through it.
- And the reason why we had some people over at BHB
is actually it's Carl and his school class because again
they do a breeding projects and stuff like that.
So we actually,
They were picking out snakes.
How many snakes did they pick out?
- There was three boxes,
I don't know.
- I think they said like 40-something snakes.
So how cool is that?
How would you like to be In high school
and have hundreds of snakes to care of.
I mean that was cool.
So it was a lot of fun.
But that was a crazy, crazy day.
It was crazy but it was a lot of fun though.
I mean it was a lot of fun.
- You know what,
the people were awesome.
And that just makes it that much easier.
Like these kids were amazing.
They listen and they ask questions.
They behaved great.
And that just makes a world of difference.
- Exactly,
but next time lets take a little bit less insanity.
Anyway we got done with that.
We survived it.
It was great.
I did want to give you guys
a quick update on Salt and Pepper
because we saw them earlier obviously out earlier.
They seem to be doing pretty good.
I do see a little dark spot right here,
which is actually food.
Which means the albino has eaten a little bit.
I definitely think that Pepper has eaten more
but I'm still a little bit stressed out.
Until these guys are really well established.
I'm definitely not overly excited about it.
I'll be totally honest with you guys,
I've never been this nervous about
a particular albino alligator.
I just want this thing to thrive.
So I'm definitely stressed out.
But it seems to be doing really well.
And then of course Pepper is absolutely doing good.
Definitely starting to eat and starting to chunk out.
Look how fat his belly is.
It's doing extremely well.
I tell you what.
I think I can almost put Pepper back on display
so people can come and see it relatively soon.
Maybe even this next coming weekend.
If not, certainly within the next couple of weeks.
Still probably another two or three weeks away from
the albino coming on,
just because I really want to make sure
that she's about this size before she goes back on exhibit.
Because there will be some stress
with people kinda coming around walking.
Not that we're going to be pulling these guys out a lot
in the very near future,
but still you want to be really well established
because after all we want them to thrive and
live a very long, long life.
As I'm winding down the day.
It's pretty interesting as I do these tours
or ever for that matter when the zoo is open.
That certain animals have kind of surprised me
with their kind of popularity or
how many people are like "oh my god. That's amazing."
Take for instance this Mandarin Rat Snake.
I'm going to be totally honest with you.
Number one.
Did I not think it was going to be one of
the big hits of the Reptarium but
also I didn't think it was going to do so well over here.
You know, they are a relatively secretive animal
and I thought maybe I'd put it on display
and within a pretty short period of time
I'd probably have to pull it off display.
Not only has the animal been thriving here.
Eating like a champ every single week.
But being handled it seems to do so well.
And again people just seem to really love it.
I mean I'm super happy
with the kind of response I've had
with a beautiful animal like this.
Cause after all I don't know of any other reptile zoos
that you're even going to see a Mandarin Rat Snake.
Let alone be able to handle one like this so I am so pleased
It's just amazing how the animals
just like this Mandarin Rat Snake.
This kind of surprised me.
I am so happy about it.
And that's it.
I'm going to ahead and end the vlog.
Yeah it was an amazing day.
A super busy day.
Unbelievable.
But man was it so much fun.
Sometimes I do have to pinch myself
and think am I really living this life
because it's absolutely amazing.
And I hope that you guys have an absolutely
amazing evening, day, whenever you happen to be watching.
And as always your support means the absolute world to me.
And I truly, truly do love you guys so much.
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(Amaze Yourself is playing)