- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the starter day is absolutely incredible.
I'm excited 'cause I have some friends
coming up from Florida and these friends
are the type of friends that I like to keep.
So let's go ahead and show you who I'm talking about.
- And guess who it is?
Savannah
- Hey!
- Mike, from Gatorland.
What's going on guys?
- Sup?! - Gatorland is in the house.
I'm so excited.
I always come see ya and you being here is crazy.
- I know
- They let you out of Florida.
- This was supposed to be spring.
- This is spring.
- No, this is not spring.
- It's spring.
- There's ice in the parking lot, Brian.
- It's so warm outside.
- There's ice in the parking lot.
- We were literally sunbathing.
So we've got, these guys were in the house today.
We are so excited to show them around.
Ah, you haven't seen the new side.
- So, all I want to do,
I want to see the new side,
I want to see all the new stuff.
All I really want to do is have Mike Hileman
out of his element, right?
So, he's cold, he doesn't know anything about snakes.
- Oh.
- I'm a croc guy, I'm an alligator and croc guy.
(laughs)
- So, that right there is ridiculous.
- So have Mikey in there.
(laughs)
- That's kind of crazy. - She just went into water.
So we got her out of the water specifically
'cause we wanted you to be inside with her.
Dead serious, we did.
And she just went back in the water.
- That's an Anaconda
- But that's okay. It is.
So listen, before we even get started
- You wanted me to go in the water? (laughs)
- Before we get started with anything,
you guys come with me cause I want to show you
Salt and Pepper and see how they've gotten,
how big they've gotten.
- Oh, see I know about Salt and Pepper.
- I know, right?
Yeah. I know.
You've know tons about Albino alligators.
- They're so big.
- I know
- That was so loud.
- Oh my gosh, they're so big.
- So you guys came and now our stuff is
leaking all over the place.
- You know why?
I know why.
- Why is that?
Because it's time for Pepper to come home.
- I know Pepper, Pepper. We've said it.
Pepper is gonna spend some time down at Gatorland.
So what do you think, Mike?
- That is beautiful.
I've only seen the picture, so
- You can pull either one out.
- This is really, really cold.
- Salt is super cold.
Pepper's a little spicy.
- I love Pepper so much.
I mean, I love Salt too, don't get me wrong.
Salt is a showstopper, but Pepper.
- Pepper, but Salt is my baby.
You can take him out.
- Pepper!
- He looks like he's ready for you.
- That is a beautiful alligator.
That's like one of my favorite alligators in the world.
- What do you think, man?
- Wow. That's insane.
- It calms down once it's like out.
You'll see it, now it'll start to calm down.
Well maybe not.
(laughing)
Like I said, I know you guys have seen many, many albinos.
I know that, I know you've seen the black ones,
but I know that I know Savannah follows him,
she loves Pepper.
- I do.
I love Pepper so much.
- I don't know that Pepper thinks much of Danny though.
- No.
- I mean, look.
- I think he likes him.
- Oh yeah, he'd like that nose.
(laughs)
- He's getting used to us
- Why's he so wiggly?
- I don't know.
- Pepper and Salt are two completely
different personality type.
- Well, this is what I need you to do Mike.
I'm going to need you to go like this.
Just like this stance right here, okay?
- Yeah.
(glass door rumbling open)
- Elvis, come. Come on.
- Oh shit!
- Oh, gosh.
- Oh, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, his mouth's open.
(laughs)
- Come on up here, up here. - Hey, man.
Up here, up here.
- Man.
(laughs)
- That thing.
- Mike, breathe, Mike.
- Whoa! His mouth was open and he, did you see?
Oh, you gonna feed him right there?
- Oh!
(laughs)
- Elvis, Elvis, up, hey, up here.
Back up here.
- Whoa. That's crazy.
- What do you think man?
- I, I saw down his throat.
- I don't know how to get him down though.
- Yeah, no, but Hey, that ball thing,
I need to turn a little more this way.
(laughs)
- Mike you need a few more foods.
- Yeah.
- What the heck, buddy?
- Whoa, hey, hey, hey
(laughs)
- Right there, there's the food, get it.
- Turn that way.
- Hey, hey, hey.
- Up here, up here.
(laughs)
- No, it don't get much use, but I still care about it.
(laughs)
- Good job Mike.
- Whoa
- Way to go
(laughs)
- That thing was crazy, he's fast. Can I pet him?
- Yes, you can pet him Mike.
- Oh wait a minute, he's still eating.
- There you go, bud.
- Aww
- You're okay, baby.
- Pretty cool though, huh?
- Dang gone. That ball is serious business.
- Oh, I better put this away.
- Yeah!
- The fish pool thing.
Oh, oh, no, no, no.
- Oh! That's awesome.
(gagging noise)
(laughing) - It's like by your ear.
- That's disgusting.
- It's looking at your ear.
- I can see its reflection in the mirror. Ewww.
- So it's, let's put it on your head dude.
- Don't. - I'm sorry, man, I'm sorry.
(screaming)
- Oh, no.
- Oh my God.
- That's so bad.
(laughing)
- It's coming, he's coming.
- Is it gone yet?
(laughing)
- Again, this is just what I needed.
I needed my friends to come up from Florida,
from Gatorland and have an amazing time.
And you know, Savannah has been up before
and we love her to death and definitely I'll put a link
in the description to all their stuff.
Go follow them, show them some love.
It is so amazing.
And then of course, Mike,
this is the first time Mike, is the man.
I mean talk about a crocodile expert.
It's unbelievable.
This guy has had 30 plus years of unbelievable experiences
with crocodilians just so, so honored to have him up
but he's not as much of a snake guy.
So we are going to do Lucy today, but unfortunately
Lucy is in that stage where she just cleared up,
but hasn't shed.
I know if I take her out, I'm going to break her shed
which is just not that good for her.
So I think what we're going to do is go ahead
and take Ivy out and at least get one big snake
for Mike to have a little bit of an experience with.
And who knows, maybe Savannah and I can crawl in
and have a little fun inside her cage to.
A little bit of snake time with Brita here.
So you guys have a cow?
- We have a cow and we have a paradox.
- A paradox? Oh, okay, oh, so it's like
the calico ones?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Don't we have the tiger one too?
- We do have a tiger one, but it's a small one.
- Okay small, I got you.
- But this one is really chill.
- This one is really chill.
- It's like a Sunfire tiger or something like that.
Either way, they were all illegal pets that someone had,
in the state of Florida.
They didn't have permits and they posted all kinds
of pictures of them out in their front yard
and you know, FWC watches that stuff.
- Yeah, they do.
- So if you're going to do stuff like that
that's the kind of thing that happens.
- But the, the big yellow one,
- Not so nice.
(laughs)
- It was nice when he came to Gatorland.
- I don't know about that.
- We had it outside and played with it.
- I think it was abused, at first.
- Nah, it was nice.
- That's it, I'm going with Danny, it was displaced.
- Nah, I think it was good.
Now it's probably not.
- It'll show you what a four and a half
five foot strike looks like.
(laughs)
- Hey RJ, remember me?
What you guys need to see Danny and Mike, is how Brian
trained RJ,
- Look at him, he's grabbing him.
- It's visual
- Yeah
- And it's not anything that,
- Yes, yes.
- It's nothing, we, when I saw him doing it, I was like,
"How are you doing that?"
So he has him trained, but in a completely different
way than I've ever seen alligator training.
- Yeah, no, I didn't know, so I just did my own thing,
- By visual train, What do you mean?
- So he can look at him and go RJ no and he'll stop.
- Yeah, so if he looks in my eyes, that's like,
I always have to have him have like an eye contact with me.
(hissing)
- Come on, bud.
(splashing)
- And then that's where all the water starts getting to.
(splashing)
He's like I don't want to come out, dad.
(laughing)
- It's cold out there.
- Leave me alone.
- So when things are right, you use food and he'll
climb up here for you when?
- What's that?
- So when things go right, he climbs up here?
(giggling)
- Are you getting in your underwear?
- Oh!
- Take it off!
- Yeah, baby.
(laughing)
- Oh, it's going to be that kinda visit? (laughing)
- Told you it was visual training man.
- Visual training.
(laughing)
- This is the part where he goes, no Brian's
in his underwear again!
(laughing)
- So what now you're presented with the target?
- Yeah, exactly.
(laughing)
- We told you use the blue ball.
(splashing)
- Oh, he's getting big.
- Oh, he's a heaving guy.
- Oh my God, Brian, how heavy?
- Okay
- RJ!
- You silly monkey, you. You made me get naked.
- He doesn't even care.
- You made me get naked, you made me get naked.
Come on, baby boy.
Oh!
- You want help or you got it?
- Got it.
(grunting)
(laughing)
- This looks very dangerous.
- I mean, I don't know if OSHA would approved.
(laughing)
- There we go.
- There, you got him.
- There you go.
- There you go RJ.
- That was a lot of work man. (kissing sounds)
- My baby. Uh, oh. He broke my thing.
- RJ.
- What you doing silly monkey?
- Pretty.
- So, this is where Brian does this thing where
he goes, (blowing noise)
- Yeah, just like this.
This is how I go, I always just come back and stay good.
Stay good for me.
Stay good.
Thank you.
Thank you, RJ.
- Danny, Danny.
- Yup.
Yeah, that's actually my touch.
- Wow
- I always use touch.
I always use touch when I'm going with it.
I don't know why I do it.
It's how I've done it, since I started alligators.
- Salt does the same thing.
When I put her in his hand, I always touch her nose
and that's, that's like my like I'm letting you
go stay in touch.
And so with him,
- That impressive.
- I always make sure that he has eye contact with me.
And cause when he loses eye contact with me
then he'll get a little bit more wiggly, you know?
And I know that's probably totally not right
but this is how I've trained him since he was a little baby.
- I mean the fact that you're touching him right there
on his mouth and he's not even flinching
or turning or doing anything.
That's impressive.
- He likes you, Danny, he loves you.
- So it's like the only thing that likes me.
- You got a mouse in your pocket
or you just happy to see me?
(laughing)
- Aww, whoa.
- Come on out here.
- It's beautiful.
- Isn't it beautiful?
- I've been watching videos of him.
- Definitely outside my wheelhouse.
(laughing)
- The worst that happens, you'll get bit.
- Look at Mike, look at Mike being a Mama.
- What's up buddy?
That's cool.
- And basically, if you just rock it.
- Oh, he's squeezing now.
I can feel his leg.
- I know what Mike is thinking, is what size
crocodile could eat this?
(laughing)
- I want to know what he's looking at,
I feel like something sneaking up on me.
(laughing)
- Look at that, he's so cool.
- Okay. So Jay has been so excited Savannah to
show you something.
- Okay. Alrighty.
- All right.
- Yeah. He's so excited.
He's been talking about this for a week.
- I know, I'm so excited.
- Two weeks actually, ever since you said you
were coming, are you ready?
- Yeah.
- Tell him who it is first.
- I know I got this. I got this.
Okay. So first I want to introduce you to Dwayne,
Dwayne, the Croc Johnson.
- Okay.
(laughing)
- He's an alligator, but you know the joke works.
- Right, right.
- Okay, but I taught him something crazy cool.
- Okay.
- Crazy, this was hours of dedication.
- Okay.
- Ready?
I need your help though, okay? - Okay, what do you need?
- So the key word is bang.
So when I looked at you to say it
- Okay - Okay, are you ready Dwayne?
Play dead.
Say it.
- Bang.
- Oh, boom!
- Oh my gosh
- Skills
(laughs)
- Come on, come on.
(laughing)
- Come on, Savannah. It was good.
I taught him that.
(laughing)
- I mean, if there was a gong it would be
going off right now.
(laughing)
- So the thing is, I said, I said, this is what I said,
I said, Savannah, would, you reacted the way I thought
you would feel, but
(laughing)
I thought you were going to get like, Oh my God
Jay that is so cool.
And then in your head, you're like, this is so,
crocs, alligators do that.
(laughing)
- We know, but its good.
- It didn't work, it didn't work.
- It didn't work.
So, you're not impressed with my trick?
- A little more delivery.
- I mean, I like you, Jay.
(laughing)
- Aw, yes.
- Yeah. Just pick up.
- Oh, hell yeah.
(mumbles)
(laughing)
- This is Chevelle and this is my favorite snake
at Brian's, with the exception of your Cribo.
- Aw, I love that, yeah.
- Rico?
- Yeah, Rico.
- So the great thing about Mangrove snakes is they're
kind of like a weapon, right, as long as you got
them aimed in the right direction.
Aww, but he's so much calmer than he used to be.
- He has calmed down a lot.
- Oh, now you said it.
- Oh, are you sure?
(water splashing)
(gentle music)
- Better watch out.
- Oh, God. What is that? Whoa, What is that?
Why are you holding it like that?
- Get him Mike.
- What is that? - Mike , you don't know.
- That's a Mangrove snake. - This is a Mangrove snake.
So it's rear fang venomous.
- Their bitey though.
- Are you going to try to catch, you gonna try to hold it?
- No, Why you putting it at my face?
(laughing)
- 'Cause it likes, it likes faces.
- Well, I mean that thing's crazy looking.
Get it outta my face for. I see what your doing.
- I just want you to see it. I'm not doing anything.
- It's like a 3D movie.
(laughing)
- It's like one of those flicker films.
- Oh, Whoa, whoa, whoa, hey, all right.
(laughing)
- You better, you better stop now.
- It's okay.
But I do love this snake so much.
- What's with you guys putting the animals
by my crotch?
Haha! Easy!
- So, Mike's getting a little bit
of experience here with like my girl Ivy.
And like, if you didn't know this snake and you think
of an Anaconda, you know what she's doing right now
you would almost be like, what is she doing?
Like, why is she, she'll crawl right up to ya.
But he's just like a curious animal.
- Well
- And this is one of the experiences that I love more
than anything that I do here.
It's just letting her kind of, you know
just check the place out and can kind of crawl around.
- Yeah, I mean, she's not being aggressive or anything.
She just, it's her house.
- Yeah and it's just, she's just, see how
she'll like sniff on you?
- Mmmhmm.
- But, she thinks, she doesn't know who you are.
She's just kind of super curious and I've never
seen another snake like this, you know what I mean?
Like normally a snake, like this'll crawl away from you.
- Right, right.
- And here she is. She's like crawling on you, you know?
And just like, it's like it's just uber
curious about people.
And sometimes I'll sit in here for like
a half hour, 45 minutes and just let her crawl.
- She'll crawl all over ya?
- Yeah, it's just so, so cool.
- That's awesome. Oh, what did you do this afternoon?
Let my green Anaconda just give me a hug.
- Yeah and it's just, you know, I always thought green
Anacondas were kind of aggressive
and until I met her.
- That's what we're always told, right?
- Until this girl, I mean, I, she's totally changed
my entire mind on these animals.
- I think it's very individualistic, you know,
personalities, just like people.
- What an incredible time having Gatorland out.
It's always great to hang out with my friends.
Usually I'm down there in Orlando.
They're up here. So it was a really good time.
Again. I'm going to put the link in the description
because Savannah shot some stuff on her vlog as well
as just go give them a follow because
they're amazing people.
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