- Hey good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is amazing,
my day is gonna be pretty awesome
because it's starting with this beautiful girl here
who of course, shed out, blew her cage up,
pooped in her water like she always does.
Now, to be honest with you,
I know this girl so well.
She just doesn't look like she's in a good spot right now
and she looks like she's got a little bit of an attitude.
We'll see what happens, right.
I've got Eric here to help me out, so.
Come on Lucy, you ready to go girl?
Let's have some fun.
We'll get you in a soak
and we'll make you all happy, okay girl?
Okay!
She's not as bad as I thought actually.
I was kinda figuring that
I was gonna have a little bit of a struggle with her
but maybe I'll get lucky.
I'm just gonna slowly work her out this way.
Come on baby.
It's just a big heavy snake guys.
Get that end?
- [Eric] Sure.
- [Brian] From me?
I got the back end.
We'll just slowly get her out here.
Ugh!
What an absolutely gorgeous snake she is.
I'm so lucky to have her
and she's definitely gonna be ready for a meal now
after that big shed right there.
That's an impressive snake.
And you guys know that I've been wanting to get
that bigger snake than Lucy
that's super docile for The Reptarium expansion.
I think it'd be amazing because again
Lucy is a great snake,
but she's not as trustworthy as I'd like her to be
so I can't really take her out.
But with that bigger snake,
I think that she'll be good here.
Just a matter of convincing Lori,
and let me tell you what guys.
Until you do this, you don't realize
how strong of an animal a girl like Lucy is
and how she can wear you out.
Just messing with her for even a couple minutes,
already my cardio is gone.
I tell you what, that is just awesome
and her weight and her just full force is unbelievable.
I love this girl so much.
I'm gonna go ahead, get her in the soak.
Clean her cage up and get this day going.
Lucy loves the water
so she's usually pretty easy to get in a soak.
Usually as soon as she gets in there,
she'll just curl up.
Just gotta kinda keep her head in and stuff like that,
but she's always in a good mood
when she's in her water, so.
Don't have to so much worry about her
biting or striking or anything like that.
But once again, she was in a pretty good mood.
This time last year,
she was starting to gear up for that ovulation
because we bred her
and she got really cranky that time of year.
So this time no breeding for her,
she's done forever.
Hoo, thanks Eric, I appreciate it.
- No problem!
- This is just part of keeping big animals,
I talk about it all the time
that it's not as glamorous as people think, you know,
they definitely have big poops, big sheds,
all that other stuff, so.
There's a lot to clean up.
And you know what's kind of an interesting thing
and I find it kinda of an irony
is the fact that a lot of times
I'll film cleaning a cage like Lucy's here
and then what ends up happening is
that some of those internet trolls, you know,
they like to take screenshots of the cage
being all dirty and then talk about
how our cages are so filthy.
Like I find it interesting like,
like obviously we clean dirty cages.
We don't clean clean cages,
yesterday this cage was spotless.
Today it's dirty and I just think that's funny.
And I'll be totally honest with you guys,
that's part of kinda putting yourself out there
is that there are gonna be people
that obsess on trying to make you a bad person
and I always think it's so bizarre that like,
out of everyone out there
that sometimes I get tagged as the guy
that like doesn't love animals
or I don't know how to take care of animals
even though I've been doing this
as a business for 32 years
and obviously I'm always learning.
That doesn't mean that we can't get better
at what we do and stuff like that,
but the truth is and my advice to you guys is
if you ever wanna do anything,
whether it's something in the public eye or anywhere,
you're gonna get people that are negative
and you're gonna get people that make stuff up about you,
you're gonna get people that
just kinda say horrible things about you
that you would literally die to go against
but the fact is, you just can't worry about it.
You know what I mean?
You just gotta know that
you're doing the best that you can possibly do,
I know I love these animals,
I know I sacrifice every day of my life
for these animals
and I can't be concerned about some people
that make things up about me
and try to make me look bad.
I honestly don't care anymore,
it used to bother me, it really did.
Because obviously as an animal lover,
you wanna be like, "No, really,
I love these animals!
I can't believe people would think anything different!"
But the fact is is that
I can't worry about their opinions
and I really think you guys have to have
that same mentality is that
if you're worried about pleasing people,
you're never gonna be able to
kind of fulfill your dreams, right, so.
Just do your thing,
don't worry about what people have to say
and you know what, in the end,
I guess truly is that saying
you're not doing something right
if you don't have a bunch of haters, so.
It happens, so.
For you haters out there,
feel free to take a picture of this right now.
It looks pretty disgusting.
Don't worry, yesterday it looked great.
In about 10 minutes it'll look great again,
but this is the shot you want to make me look bad.
(laughs)
The truth is that, you know,
I wish it wasn't that way, but it is.
As for now, I'm just gonna clean this cage
and go about my merry way.
(upbeat music)
Like I mentioned, I think we're 10 days, 11 days,
whatever it is, it's coming up really quick
for the install for the new Reptarium
which means that we have the day set in stone,
well kinda set in stone.
Friday the 13th, March Friday the 13th
is our opening night here at The Reptarium.
It's a Friday, gonna be open 4 to 9,
gonna have an after party.
I'll have tickets available soon for that.
From 9 till midnight or whatever time we do it,
probably gonna do a Saturday VIP thing
from 9 till midnight or whenever as well,
let me know in the comments
if you guys want me to do one Friday and Saturday.
For those of the people that wanna come up,
I can't make it Friday,
we can have something together on Saturday.
Let me know in the comments what you think,
but again if you're planning on making a trip,
Friday the 13th we will be open.
I am so excited!
I've got Andy Gazman, buddy in town.
- What's up guys.
- He's gonna help us out with Butterscotch,
because guess what, today is the day
of big snakes destroying their cage apparently,
so Bruce is on-hand, too.
Bruce works with Butterscotch more than anybody,
so let's go ahead, just get this little monkey out.
She definitely seems like
she's kinda interested in food right now.
Which is not what I want.
We're not feeding you baby girl, we're not feeding you.
It's okay.
She's very aware of food time.
Whoa, come here.
Up we go.
- [Andy] Jesus.
- She's like a miniature version of Lucy
in the sense that she's almost the same-looking snake,
she's just a little bit smaller
but much like Lucy she kinda destroyed her cage,
she pooped, she shed.
So she's definitely high energy, much like Lucy is.
Where she loves to move around,
fortunately she typically doesn't have
too bad of an attitude but when she does,
definitely don't wanna be on the bad side of that,
but you can see she is a workout.
What do you think, Andy?
- I think she's definitely a workout
but I'm glad we're doing it with her and not Lucy.
(laughs)
- Yeah, Lucy is like her
just about 100 pounds heavier.
- Yeah.
- So it's definitely a cardio workout.
I've got the easy job now,
now she's just hanging onto me
like I'm a branch or something like that
but as you can see she's got a lot of stuck shed on her,
just like Lucy.
Dries out a little bit,
plus big snakes have a hard time
shedding in one piece all the time,
so we'll just get her in soak.
She's kinda similar to Lucy where she does like water,
which is good, so.
We can just slowly get her back in the water there.
- All right.
- There you go baby.
Now you're hanging on, she's good to you now.
We like to get her out a little bit,
been pretty predictable,
the only time she ever took a pop at anyone
was Eric and Noah once.
Other than that, she's been pretty good.
Once she's out of the cage,
she knows you're not food,
she's actually pretty docile and pretty good about it.
(water splashing)
So we'll just get in the water,
doesn't look like she's quite as excited
as Lucy normally is so we'll get her in there,
set her up for a little bit,
let her soak for at least probably 45 minutes or so,
again, the day of cleaning big cages.
(upbeat music)
(door opening)
- Turned out real good.
- [Brian] Hello Eric!
- What's up man?
- [Brian] So man you guys are excited,
you guys are podcast tonight?
- Yeah! - Yeah!
- I love the podcast, it's a lot fun.
- [Brian] I know you guys, Noah and Eric podcast Choices.
- It just sounds good.
- [Brian] Anything special?
Anything special tonight or?
- Well we like to keep it a little bit of a secret.
- [Brian] Little bit of a secret.
- But I'll give you a little hint, okay.
- [Brian] Okay, go ahead.
- Corona.
- I know, it's interesting you talk about Corona,
you know because I saw you guys
shotgunning beer while at work.
- Me? - Who, us?
- Us?
- [Brian] On your video, on your video.
- No!
- I'll put a link in the description to Noah's video.
- You saw that?
- [Brian] I'm pretty sure I saw you guys chugging beers.
- You watch those videos?
- [Brian] Yeah, and you guys were-
- No!
- I think that's, oh that was Bedtress Lucas.
- Oh that was back, yeah.
- [Brian] All right well,
you guys can talk about
where you're gonna be applying for jobs
on your podcast tonight.
- No, hey listen, no!
But we're still friends right?
- [Brian] Okay, I'll listen in.
Oh we're still friends,
you just have to find another job.
- I, but it was-
- [Brian] Okay, see you guys, bye.
- All right.
- So this is the almost finished product of the floor,
look at how shiny it is.
It's just kinda cool,
I think it's gonna match really good.
We got obviously the birthday party room all done,
looking good.
So now they're actually just kinda going up,
touching up a few things
and then they put one last final coat.
Again this is really kinda more slippery and slick,
this doesn't have that kind of grit in it
so if it's got wet,
I mean it'd be like an ice rink in here.
As a matter of fact it kinda
looks like an ice rink to be honest with you!
But what a difference the floor makes, huh.
Once you get this in here,
it is looking amazing,
again it'll be done later today
and tomorrow we can walk on it
just like it's a normal floor.
So we are getting closer guys,
which by the way, I think, is today 10 days away?
I think it's 10 days away from install.
(upbeat music)
Well this is as far as I can go
on the floor right now
because it is finally the seal coat is on top it,
the grit is on top
so you can see a little bit of texture.
Tomorrow morning we're actually gonna be able to come in
and walk on this floor,
not to mention that cage right over here in the wall,
that's right.
Tomorrow we get to put that in.
I am super excited to
have the first enclosure at The Reptarium
but I think it looks absolutely wonderful,
let me know what you guys think!
For those of you that didn't see Eric and Noah's podcast,
I'll put a link in the description
also pin a comment.
Go check out the Checking In podcast channel.
On Wednesday nights you'll catch the family
and some guests checking in on Fridays,
typically you're gonna get Choices with Eric and Noah.
So let me know if you guys check those out,
I am loving the podcast life,
and in the future we may do way more
than two a week
so let me know if you guys like them,
if you haven't seen them go check it out.
Let's take a break from the big snakes
to go ahead and feed a smaller snake here.
Of course Ben and Jerry.
Come on guys!
(toy squeaks)
Oh! I think they both took it!
Oh, nope, nope.
Just Ben's got it.
Okay.
And we know how that typically goes,
Ben will start to eat a little bit
and then we'll go ahead and be able to feed Jerry.
I'll try to offer right now
because it seems like he's maybe a little interested.
You want Jerry?
Ben definitely took the fuzzy
where he can't quite find the head
so he's kinda moving all over the place
trying to get it positioned right,
hopefully once he actually gets a position right
Jerry will go ahead and eat.
I don't know, it doesn't look like Jerry's interested today.
I don't know why.
I'll go ahead and offer Ben another meal
and maybe Jerry will eat it.
It's unusual because Jerry almost always eats,
I just wonder if the fact that Ben
was having a hard time
getting the kind of the head of that rodent
that Jerry got spooked or something like that.
So I'll go ahead and let him finish the first rodent,
we'll offer Ben another one
and then offer Jerry and see if the other one wants to eat.
If not, hey, I guess it all goes to
the same stomach anyways right.
(toy squeaks)
Alright Ben took the second one.
Let's go ahead and see if Jerry wants to eat now.
Here we go.
Here we go, Jerry!
Oh, and sure enough, look at that!
(toy squeaks)
Yep, Jerry ate!
I tell you what, guys!
I don't know, this animal is so weird
I'm always trying to figure out its behavior,
but I'm glad that they're both eating,
Jerry did eat.
It's weird that he let Ben eat the whole first one
before he was interested in the second one,
but nevertheless they both eat, that's awesome.
All right, let's see if Lucy is done soaking a little bit.
Like I've said, we've had in here for a good hour or so,
just wanna get that extra skin off
so she looks really nice and pretty
when she goes back in her cage.
That's okay, baby girl.
It's all right.
She loves the water so much,
she doesn't even wanna come out.
But she definitely still has a little bit of skin on her,
so I'm just trying to get her to the point
where I can get that skin started
and we'll easily be able to peel her off.
Look at how beautiful she looks now.
Again this skin has been soaking for a while,
doesn't hurt her at all.
I know there's a lot of weirdness on the internet
about people helping their snakes shed
but you gotta remember when they're supposed to come off,
it's supposed to come off.
So to help them is actually a good thing,
you don't wanna have all that bacteria and everything else
trapped in there and actually causing potential illnesses.
But you don't wanna shed a snake early, that's for sure.
When they're not ready, you don't wanna shed them, so.
I'll just let her crawl right back in
and as always I guarantee it
she's gonna climb right up into that tree.
It's funny how many snakes you see like that.
That kinda are repetitious,
every time you take them out
they do the same thing over and over
so she'll climb up in the tree.
She usually spends about, you know,
two, three hours, sometimes even a whole day up there.
Then she'll eventually crawl down.
She'll feed in another two or three days,
but she's looking amazing.
- So Brian actually just left out on us,
so it's actually me and and my boy Andy here's job
to do pull out our girl Butterscotch here,
so let's get started Andy,
we're gonna have a little fun.
- Let's do it.
- As you start pulling her out,
I'll start checking her for sheds.
- All right.
- You want me to just let her go back in?
- [Bruce] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just stick her head up in there,
- There you go sweetie.
Butter's going in there.
- [Bruce] Now contrary to what a lot of people say,
when these guys are ready to shed
there's nothing wrong with guiding it a little bit,
but you should never ever force a shed off a snake.
- Yeah.
Dude, look at the iridescence right there,
can you get that in the camera, Jay?
Like how actually crazy that is?
- [Jay] Well that was pretty drama-free.
- Boo-yah!
- After spending most of her day up in her tree,
Lucy is finally down in her favorite spot.
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