- We, we, we, we love this snake.
Yeah, it's beautiful. - isn't it awesome?
(water rushing)
- (mumbles)
(crowd chatter)
(intense electronic bass)
- Hey good morning everybody!
Welcome to the Vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
I am actually heading to the airport to pick up Laurie.
I could not be more happy.
You guys know that Laurie is the one
that kinda keeps everything together.
So the last few days when she's been gone,
it's been absolutely insane.
So we're off to the airport,
and my life will get a lot easier.
And here she is, Hi!
Hello - How was your flight?
Fine, early. - So good to be home.
- (grunting) I missed you so much.
- Oh, (laughs) did you?
- Phoebe misses you too.
(laughter)
- Get home to take care of Phoebe, please (laughs).
- So it is really good to have Laurie back in town,
and kinda have the crew back together.
Andrea's back tomorrow.
I think that Jessica and Bruce are coming out tonight
for the Reptarium, and I think also Eric and Miriam,
not a 100% sure, but regardless,
at least I have a full staff of people
that are gonna be working rather than doing so much
craziness, with having like half the people gone,
so, regardless.
Look at this cute monkey, what are you looking at,
You silly?
Good Morning.
- I heard there are chickens running around.
- I might have picked up a couple chickens
while you were gone.
- (sighs)
- [Brian] Is it okay?
- No, it's not okay--
- [Brian] That I have a little pack of chickens?
- When I open the door and frickin' chickens scatter.
We don't live (laughs) in a damn farm.
- Where's my chickens?
Let's go find my chickens.
- [Laurie] (laughs) They went running that way. (laughs)
- [Brian] Are they here?
- Yeah. There they are.
They need to go.
- [Brian] Hey chickens!
Hi guys. What's going on?
(tweeting) - What's going on guys?
- [Brian] Can I keep them?
- No!
- [Brian] Why?
- You're not keeping chickens.
- [Brian] Look at how cute they are.
Hey guys. What's going on?
Actually I was thinking, we should get a turkey.
- No.
- [Brian] A pet turkey!
- No. Number one, They're not cute;
and number two, heck no! - They are cute!
- [Brian] Who could, how could you say that
that's not cute? - They are not cute!
- [Lauri] I'm pretty sure they have mange.
- [Brian] How can you say they're not cute?
(laughter) - We're keeping the chickens.
- [Laurie] No we're not.
- We need some more chickens.
- I'm letting them loose out back.
(laughter)
- Just got done misting the frogs,
which means they're ready to eat, and you guys know
that's one of my favorite things every morning,
is to feed the froggies.
(upbeat techno music)
- I mentioned that I'm gonna be heading out
to Kevin McCurley over at N.E.R.D's
to pick up some cool new animals
for the reptile zoo, but I had been promising
you guys a tour of the reptile zoo, cage by cage.
So, tomorrow you're gonna get that,
and then I'm heading out to N.E.R.D's
to go get some amazing animals.
Should be a really cool trip,
all the way to New Hampshire.
It's gonna be a long drive, but well worth what I'm getting.
Now that Chicken Strip is kinda settling in,
and stuff like that, daily, I've been trying to
take him out and just work with him a little bit.
He's definitely still a little bit of a handful,
and you can see, he's kinda in a nasty shed right now.
He's just shed the top of his head off,
and a little bit of his body, right here.
He's gonna look absolutely beautiful
when he finally comes out.
He's got sharp little nails, I can tell you that much.
But, the good news is, he's not a biter, yet.
So, I'm just continuing to work with him,
and trying to get him as docile as can be,
because, like I've been saying since he was a little baby,
you don't want an animal that's gonna be an adult,
that's gonna be absolutely crazy.
But you can see that after awhile,
he actually does chill out pretty good.
Now, I just have to continue to habituate him
every single day like that,
but what a gorgeous little monkey, for sure.
Just doing our last minute preparations
for opening up the Reptarium today,
and I had to look this little monkey right here.
This, of course, is a Superconda Western Hognose snake.
Look at how absolutely gorg it is
everyone's always asking like, Brian,
put more Hognose in! As a matter of fact I need to bring
a Hognose over to the Reptarium,
because they are such cool little snakes.
- [Brian] So are you excited about me going to
Kev McCurley's to get some new animals?
- I'm not sure.
- What do you mean you're not sure,
what part are you not sure about?
- Okay, so... I'm under the impression
that it's one tame monitor.
- [Brian] Yes (pauses) and,
- And what?
- [Brian] And a bunch of other really cool stuff.
- No, no, not a bunch, see that's the thing.
- [Brian] No, no, no you're going to be super-excited
about this.
- There's gonna be like, multiple FaceTimes,
and approval or declining, you can't just bring
anything you want.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, so I have to FaceTime you
every time I want to buy something?
- Yeah!
It should be like, one,
that's all you'll need.
- [Brian] No, no, no I've already said
we're picking up like four or five animals at N.E.R.D.s.
- Right, so that could be one FaceTime,
why does it have to be more than that?
- [Brian] Alright, I'll do a FaceTime.
- And then, only what gets approved.
We only have a few empty cages!
- I'm not liking the way this goes,
I'm not sure I like this idea.
So these guys have been with us
for the last couple days, all the way
from Austin, Texas, it's been great
having you guys, number one, I mean,
what do you think, what's the highlight?
- Every time I walk in here,
it's like walking in for the first time,
like I was telling her, I really enjoyed
myself and my time here, and you know
getting to know you better,
and the crew that you have working with you is awesome.
I love them, everything here, I just love it.
And I love how y'all are just willing
to help us out with learning about any reptiles,
and willing to let us handle any reptiles here,
honestly, my honest opinion,
the trip is very well worth it, I loved it.
Every one bit of it.
- I appreciate you guys, I mean literally
we've had a great time, didn't even know
these guys a couple days ago,
now I feel like they're close friends,
and I think that's one of the things
I really love about the Reptarium is it
gives me the opportunity to meet people,
create new relationships and friendships
and share, just again, the passion of reptiles
with people that are coming to visit,
so thank you guys again for coming,
I can't til you come back.
- [Couple] Thank you for having us.
- As Laurie and I were kinda going
through and getting things ready for the Reptarium
to open, we have a couple hours before the open.
A lot of people ask me, like how do you handle
like the kinda stress situation with the animals?
I mean, Perdida is a perfect example here,
a lot of people want to hold her,
so you know a lot of people have been asking,
do you keep them out all the time?
Do you just have it for like 15-20 minutes?
Because it is a little bit of stress on the animals
as well as the fact that there's a lot of energy
when an animal's getting passed around,
so it really depends a little bit on the animal.
Perdida seems to be really good about handling,
she seems to not get worn out,
she doesn't seem to be stressed out.
One of the things that really you can tell
is not only the way the animal behaves,
but also when you put it back if it eats,
you know that it's not that stressed.
If an animal stops feeding, you know, alright
I've been kinda overdoing it, whatever,
so it's a case-by-case situation.
Perdida is really good, Sunrise is really good,
there's a couple other snakes I won't take out
for more than 10 or 15 minutes
maybe twice a night, because if I do more than that
it just seems like they stress out.
So, it's something I'm very aware of,
but certain animals like Perdida here
are absolutely amazing when it comes to it,
and she certainly is a crowd pleaser too.
One of the daily things that I have to do
is Ubusuku, for sure, and she is a little bit
of a monster in the sense that she always wants to eat.
Go ahead, Ubusuku.
She basically lays in this water every day,
and of course like most monitors she also soils
the water every day, so every day I have to
suck out all the water, disinfect the bowl,
and put new water in, but the first thing I have to do
is convince her to keep moving.
Hey, Ubusuku, keep going, keep going.
(Camera slips) whoa!
Get out of there!
Ubusuku, you're not being very good to me today.
Move out, move out, girl.
There, there we go.
Come on, chubbers!
There we go.
(laughs)
- She's something else.
She's such a big lazy thing, she is an amazing animal
though, so, again, I just have to
suck all this nasty water out, disinfect it,
and fill it up with fresh water, again,
every single day.
She does this to me, but hey, that's just all part of it.
(techno music)
(spray)
(water rushing)
- And in the meantime, Ubusuku just stares there
and probably thinks, what an idiot!
(laughs)
- I don't know, this is something I do every day,
but it's well worth it for such an
absolutely amazing animal.
Alright let's go ahead and
get over to the Reptarium, and get this party started.
I'm going to be honest, every time we're about to open
the Reptarium, I'm always a little nervous,
I don't know if it's going to be really busy,
if it's going to be slow, I don't know what to expect,
and I just keep on wanting people to have an amazing time,
no matter if there's 10 people or 1,000 people.
The biggest thing is I just want people
to leave here going 'oh my God, what a great experience'
so (breathes) deep breaths, let's have a good night.
- [Brian] Okay Laurie, you ready?
- Yeah I'm ready.
- [Brian] Jessica, you ready?
- Mm hmm.
- [Brian] Noah?
- I'm hungry.
(laughter)
- Okay, let's go ahead and open up the doors.
- [Brian] Hey guys!
Ooh, Packers fans, I'm sorry, I apologize.
- [Father] It's been a rough day for us.
- [Brian] Come on in guys.
It's good to meet you bud, how are you?
Good!
Hello!
(Greeting attendees as they enter)
- [Little Boy] I've seen you!
I've seen you on my dad's phone!
- [Brian] Oh, sweet, awesome!
Thank you so much for coming out, guys.
Thank you guys.
- Another crazy day at the Reptarium!
(greets several attendees)
- Having a great time, we actually have Perdida
out over here, she's getting some love from everybody,
which is absolutely amazing.
Always the star of the show, we're having a blast tonight.
(techno music)
- We we we love this lizard.
- So, it's week three, here at the Reptarium
and it is really, really packed.
Seems like everywhere I go, there's lots of people
and lots of interaction, like Karma's getting some love
right here, which is really cool.
That's one you don't see too much,
but yeah, I'm not going to lie, I'm still
pretty blown away, uh, with the amount of people
that are coming, uh, I don't know how it's going to
shake out, and what the norm is going to be,
but I can tell you right now, it's pretty amazing,
and makes me really happy, I mean honestly
I never really had a doubt, I knew this was a thing to do
and it was going to be really cool, but
it's so neat to actually sit here
and see our dream
like, come true, and see how it's affecting
all these people.
Like I said I couldn't be happier, and I just
yeah, it just really makes my week.
You know it's kind of like Brian said,
a lot of times my Monday through Friday is a lot of work,
and being here on the weekend is work,
but it makes it not feel like work
when you actually get to see all these people
and all the cool reactions, and how much they love it.
Sometimes even more than I think we do,
which is really amazing, so yeah: I'm pretty stoked!
- People of all ages come to the Reptarium,
we tons of cool kids.
- [Brian] How old did I hear you were, can I ask
or is that rude?
- No, that's okay; I'm almost 91.
- 91, so you are officially the oldest patron
to come to the Reptarium, I love it.
- [Brian] And what do you think of the snake?
- Love him.
- [Brian] Isn't it awesome?
- He's beautiful.
- Oh my gosh, she is the coolest, I love you.
- Tell them, what's your name again?
- Jaden.
- And you told me that today was your first day that
you've held the snake?
- Yes.
- And now you've got Sunrise, what do you think?
- Um, I mean, this is my first big snake I've
really ever held.
- I love it, this is what the Reptarium, I love this place!
This place is so awesome.
Again, having an amazing night, crazy busy,
it's been absolutely incredible, but uh, I tell you what,
- [Brian] what's going on here?
(muffled)
(crowd awwws)
- I love you.
- [Brian] Okay guys, everyone in here, these guys
just got engaged!
(cheers and applause)
- That's just amazing. (laughs)
It really is.
- Oh my God, that is absolutely incredible.
- That was not something I expected to be happening
at the Reptarium! (laughs)
- Alright all these guys wanna be on YouTube,
what to you have to say to YouTube, guys?
- Hey guys!
- Okay, so we are gonna feed Tazzy,
he's already smelling the mice, he's like wait a second,
where's the mice?
Put it right by his mouth,
(kids oooh and ahhhh)
- [Child] Let me do it!
(crowd murmuring)
- [Child] Can I?
- [Brian] Okay, you're up next.
- Yep, even tarantulas.
And there it is, the weekend is over here
at the Reptarium, and it was pretty eventful!
We had tons and tons of people through,
we had an amazing amount of people that were
fearful, and got over their fear, and we even had
someone get engaged at the Reptarium,
what more could possibly happen?
I think we've peaked already, after three weeks,
but it was absolutely amazing, now we reset,
we get all the things done that we want to
get done, these cages will get set up,
we start working on the gator tanks to get those ready,
all of the little things we've been needing to do
but been busy because we been open this weekend,
thank you to everyone that came, thank you
to everyone that has been watching, you guys are amazing
seriously without your support I wouldn't be able
to do this, it has been beyond my wildest dreams
so thank you, thank you, thank you
I love you guys so much.
Can you do me a couple favors before we get out of here,
can you smash that like button,
turn those post notifications on,
leave a comment, let me know what's up in your life
because I love reading about you guys.
Make sure you're kind to someone today
and I promise, I'll see you tomorrow
because we're headed on an adventure.
(techno music rises)