- And you can see,
it's not just about the kids at these parties,
It's also about the adults.
- Yeah!
- There's a little baby gecko!
Oh, oh, oh!
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Good morning everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
We have a fun-filled, packed day today.
We're gonna start the day off
with going through a couple Zoo to Yous
where we actually take animals to
places and give presentations.
Lori's coming along.
It's gonna be absolutely amazing.
We're open later on at The Reptarium.
So, what do you say we go along
on an amazing adventure together
and have a great day?
We packed up all the animals that are going to these
two Zoo to You birthday parties.
We're gonna load up the vehicle and head on the road.
We have arrived at our first birthday party for the day.
Again, I like these Zoo to Yous
because it's kinda cool.
You take animals to places.
I mean, when I was a kid,
I wish that someone would've came and done this
for one of my birthdays.
So we're gonna have a good time.
- [Brian] We got Irwin out,
you like holding onto Irwin?
And this is of course the birthday boy,
Happy Birthday to you!
You guys having a good time so far?
- Yeah!
(upbeat music)
- Sunrise is an albino Burmese Python.
She's only two years old.
Absolutely great time.
Now, everyone's just kinda hanging out with Sunrise.
Definitely a great group.
Really full group of kids.
That are super excited about it.
It's absolutely amazing so,
alright, we're wrapping up this one,
and on to the next.
So the first presentation is over.
It went over really good.
I mean, it was so much fun!
As a matter of fact,
there was a kid there that was terrified.
Every snake we took out in the beginning,
he was like "Please, no snake! Please, no snake!"
But at the end he held a snake!
I mean, he was totally into it!
We even had Sunrise out.
He's petting her,
and the next thing you know,
Lori pulls out Honey the piebald Ball Python,
and sure enough,
- Yeah, he wanted to hold it, all by himself.
- He held it.
I mean, I tell you,
I don't care who you are,
if you don't say that educating kids
and that hands on experience doesn't make a difference,
I don't know what else,
because we literally had someone who was
terrified of snakes,
holding it by the
end of an hour presentation so,
it's absolutely awesome.
We do have one more Zoo to You that we're off to now,
and then back to the Reptarium.
We're at our second birthday party,
so let's see how this goes!
Having a little fun at the party here,
We got Maisie out.
- [Party Guest] I thought this was a mouse.
- [Brian] Happy Birthday, by the way.
(upbeat music)
- And you can see,
it's not just about the kids at these parties,
it's also about the adults!
- Yeah!
- [Brian] You're doing great, you're doing fantastic.
- See, sweet.
- Wrapped up birthday party number two,
now we're back off to The Reptarium,
getting our last little things
done before we open for tonight.
Really cool, I tell you what,
I love doing these birthday parties.
They're just so much fun.
I love people coming to The Reptarium but,
taking stuff is kinda interesting
because each presentation is so absolutely different.
I mean the kids,
the environment.
Today was in a basement.
It was just kinda cool.
But what a great time and good kids.
Like you said, we got lucky with
two really cool families today.
- Yeah, no, it was a lot of fun for sure.
- That's for sure.
But let's go ahead and get back to The Reptarium,
and get ready for tonight.
Back from the two birthday parties,
absolutely incredible.
I love this part of my life!
And I've really changed and adapted to something that
I never did hardly at all.
I would do a handful of birthday parties
and school events over the course of the year
and now it's like I am constantly educating,
whether it's tours at The Reptarium,
whether I go to schools
or whether I go to these types of birthday parties.
And to me,
I think that it's the best decision I ever made.
Yeah, sometimes I do things unorthodox.
And even I take a little abuse about people thinking
"Oh, you let people handle everything?
It's not a good idea!"
But to me,
I see the results, right?
I see the results of kids, like the first birthday party,
that were terrified of snakes,
and by the end he's able to handle it
because he sees other friends handling
the animals and then he thinks,
"Hey, it doesn't look that bad,
I'm gonna do it."
So, I know that there are some people that think that
I'm taking some huge risk,
but the fact is,
is that I think that the chances of anything bad happening
are next to none.
I am constantly watching.
Constantly on top of it,
and I just can't imagine some things happened.
With that being said,
I'm not an idiot.
Even my tamest snake is still a snake,
and I realize that it could bite.
So I am constantly aware of that fact,
and looking for any signs that that might happen.
Regardless, I'm not gonna dwell on that type of stuff.
The point is,
is that I absolutely love the decisions
I've made with The Reptarium,
with education.
I am happier than I've ever been,
and I hope that you guys don't mind that I take you guys on
that journey every now and then.
As for now,
we need to get ready
to open up at The Reptarium.
Once again, just opened up here at The Reptarium
literally just a little bit ago,
and it's going off like crazy.
We got Sunrise out over here,
getting some attention.
Perdita over on the other side.
It's definitely a poppin' night here
once again.
Like I mentioned, it's busy here,
but I figured I'd go ahead and give Bella a banana.
It's all right, girl.
(children laughing)
- Come on,
you wanna eat banana.
- [Child] Oh my god!
(children laughing)
- [Brian] What do you guys think?
- [Child] Can we pet her?
- There you go girl.
(children laughing and exclaiming)
Oh, where'd you go Bella.
(upbeat music)
Bella's the best,
She's absolutely adorable.
(woman laughing)
- Oh, she's crawling!
- [Woman] Look at, look at, look at, look at!
Wow!
- Update, over here at BHB,
I tell you what,
the Blue-Tongued Skink season is moving along really well.
I've talked about it before,
without Jessica,
I would be completely lost.
I mean, just take a look at this,
what they would call a Coffee Northern,
which is just a polygenic line,
bred for some specific coloring.
We have all kinds of really cool red ones,
yellow ones, orange ones.
All kinds of really cool stuff.
And finally,
the majority of our females have bred at least once
and a lot of them have bred twice,
So I've told you guys before,
once they breed about three times,
we basically shelve them
and most of the females actually produce babies.
So, with any luck,
we're gonna have another really good
Blue Tongued Skink year.
It is so amazing when we find these
cute little monkeys as babies so,
with any luck,
here in about two and a half months or so,
we're gonna have a bunch of vlogs on baby Skinks.
Jessica came to get me because
she was going in the Gargoyle Gecko's cages here,
and she found something special!
- [Jessica] Do you see that back there?
- [Brian] There's a little baby gecko!
- [Jessica] Oh my goodness!
That's so cool!
- So it's pretty cool,
We happened to set up a natural set up.
They literally laid the eggs,
and hatched in the actual terrarium.
- [Jessica] I didn't even know it was in there!
They were supposed to be done!
(laughing)
- That's awesome.
Like I mentioned,
it's still absolutely going crazy here.
We're having a great, great, great fun night.
Casper is, uh, you guys are
getting closer together all the time.
And again, I think this is what people keep saying,
is the same thing, like, you know,
where else can you go and hold animals like this
and get hands on?
And that's what's bringing all the families in.
Kids getting an opportunity to pet their first snake.
Touch their first animal.
Hold their first Tarantula.
That's what this place is all about for me.
And that's why I love it so much.
Got Bruce helping out with Daisy here,
so, we brought out the big girl.
- [Bruce] Oh, goodness girl.
- [Brian] She's on the move today, right?
- [Bruce] Yeah, she's got some energy!
- It's one of those things where we always wanna have
like two people here so that we can kinda keep on
eye on just what she's doing and stuff like that.
But she's a gentle giant, I mean, come on.
- [Bruce] I think a lot of people are excited to see her.
You guys can all meet her!
(crowd clamoring)
(upbeat music)
We've got Daisy out for just like a little photo op.
We've got everyone kinda rallied.
You're doing amazing,
- Thank you!
- [Brian] You're doing so good,
you kinda calmed her down,
you calmed the beast,
so that's really good!
What do you guys think, huh?
- It's awesome.
- [Brian] It's awesome, isn't it?
- Sure is awesome.
- [Brian] Man, if you guys thought you were sweating before!
Good job guys!
A bunch of people recently have been asking me like,
"Hey, can you give us an update on some of
Lucy's babies that you're holding back?"
Well, these are a couple of them,
coming up right now.
They are absolutely doing well.
They are beautiful,
and they're absolutely tame.
They certainly didn't take after their mother
when it came to attitude.
I'm absolutely loving these guys.
So, if I'm not mistaken,
we still have one or two possibly available,
maybe just males.
I'm not even one hundred percent sure,
but nevertheless,
they are still doing good.
So, for those of you that have been interested in
what's going on with Lucy's babies,
as you can see,
they're doing absolutely incredible.
And this is the last female I wanted to
show you guys from that clutch.
Look at how beautiful she is.
She is definitely a gorgeous animal.
I'm so excited to see as she grows,
because that citron actually makes them even prettier
as they get bigger and bigger,
so it's gonna be really cool.
Oh, and for those of you that are
watching the vlog that said,
Brian, you promised to tell us what was
in those boxes that you got!
Those four hundred boxes product.
Guess what.
I'm about to tell you.
I heard you really wanted to
meet Ben and Jerry.
Is that true?
Alright, good, well there you go.
- Me too! This is my first time being here!
- [Brian] Alright, well that's...
- And I'm almost five!
- Like I promised,
I was gonna tell you guys what are
in that four hundred boxes.
That product that I was...
What are you doing, Bruce?
- Uh, nothing!
- [Brian] What in the world is that that you're doing?
Holy cow!
Alright guys,
so you just had the sneak peak
of what I'm talking about.
Let me go ahead and break it down.
I've got a lot to tell you about so,
buckle up, get some popcorn,
I'm gonna tell you what Bruce is doing right now.
That's right guys, so this is my product
that I told you about.
This is called The Tipster.
And yes, it's crazy,
and I'm gonna explain why
I had some apprehensions for telling you guys this
and all this stuff.
Now what happens is that,
see these rings actually attach on.
So this is a handle piece here,
and all these rings are just extra rings.
You can go four,
you can go 10.
You can go 20.
You can go 30!
And basically,
this water falls into this.
Water falls into this.
It's kinda like an endless drink type of thing.
Now, of course the reason I was unsure I wanted to
tell you guys is that,
you know, it's outside my brand.
I love animals.
I preach inspiration.
I always want you guys to
go after your dreams,
and that's kinda why I am telling you this.
Is that,
this is something that I thought about.
You know, and the truth is that
I just came up with this idea
and I thought it'd be really awesome.
Now, I don't drink.
I don't do drugs.
I don't like to encourage people to drink or do drugs.
Not that I'm against casual drinking
or whatever the case may be.
My point is, is that
I was a little bit apprehensive,
because I thought people look down on me for promoting a
project that kind of encourage people to
have fun while they were drinking.
But the truth is,
I also wanted to kind of encourage you guys
to go and follow your dreams.
What's the saying that I always say to you guys?
A vision without movement is just a dream,
and I'm not a dreamer.
So a couple years ago,
just out of nowhere.
I don't even know how it came up.
I came up in my head and I thought,
wow, it'd be kinda cool to have this mechanism
where you could have multiple drinks
and it would waterfall into one another.
So I decided to pursue it.
I first kind of came up with some prototypes,
seeing if it would work,
on and on and on,
Then ultimately we found a patent.
We did an industrial design,
to kind of smooth it out and make it work,
producible and all that other stuff.
And here we are guys.
We have what is called
The Tipster.
That's right.
Now let me just back up for a second.
I am not selling The Tipster right now,
yes I have four hundred boxes
of these guys sitting there right now,
but we are actually partnering up with Vat19.
You guys may know Vat19,
the YouTube channel.
I'll put a link in the description.
we're partnering up with them
along with a bunch of other influencers
to launch this.
We're probably not going to launch this product until May.
And some people even said
I shouldn't mention anything until we launch it,
cause you know, you want that big boom.
But I wanted to tell you guys.
You guys encouraged me to tell you.
So, there it is.
Again, and I think it's just a cool little product.
I don't know if you guys would like it.
I don't know if you guys wouldn't like it,
but this is it.
This is how it comes.
It actually comes like this.
It comes in a dishwasher mesh bag,
so at the end of the night,
you put it back in the bag.
You throw it in your dishwasher.
You wash off whatever is in it,
and that's the end.
Whether you wanna drink beer,
hey for me,
I'm gonna probably go like,
orange juice,
chocolate milk,
vanilla syrup, I don't know.
I'm gonna try some really goofy stuff
and do a challenge that way.
You guys could do whatever you want,
if you wanna do it.
Let me know in the comments, number one,
if you think this is a cool idea.
It's gonna be like 15 bucks.
So it's not expensive at all.
Number two, let me know if you're kinda unhappy
or you think that this is beneath me,
and I shouldn't do something like this.
I don't really know.
Again, I'm always trying to pursue my dreams,
and quite frankly,
I have some other products I'm developing right now
as well that don't have anything to do with drinking,
but also don't have anything to do with animals.
So, I want you guys to go out there and follow your dreams,
because the last thing I wanted to do
was one day wake up and see this product in a store,
that someone else developed,
and then they became really successful
by selling something like this so,
there it is guys.
Let me know.
I hope that you guys understand what I'm saying.
I really want to know from you guys so,
please, down in the comments.
As we're almost closed here at The Reptarium,
Lori, I wanted to tell you,
I hadn't mentioned it,
but I did tell everyone about The Tipster just now.
Is that okay?
- No, you gotta cut that out.
(laughing)
- I am a little bit nervous.
I hope that they're not upset.
Do you think people are gonna be upset at me for it
or anything like that?
- No, why would they be upset?
- I don't know, you know I don't wanna
encourage people to...
- Listen
This guy cares way too much.
(laughing)
- Regardless, we are shutting it down here
at The Reptarium.
So, I...
it's been a crazy day.
Really busy.
Thank you everyone that supports us because,
I tell you, you guys, just pouring out to The Reptarium,
and watching and supporting.
You guys are absolutely amazing.
And I do love you guys too much.
And Lori loves you too much.
Don't you?
- Yes. So much!
- I knew she'd say that.
(laughing)
I hope you guys have an amazing, absolutely incredible day.
Can you do me a couple favors before we get out of here?
Can you strike that like button?
- What?
(laughing)
- Can you turn those post notifications on,
so you know when I upload a video,
which is every day,
seven days a week,
at nine o'clock in the morning
Eastern Standard Time.
Remember to comment down below,
and be nice to me, people.
Be kind to somebody,
and I promise, I'll see you tomorrow.
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