- I always say if you saw this in the wild
you would probably think-
Ow! He got me.
- Oh! (laughs)
(Per Anders - Turn my Swag on 2)
- Hey, good morning everybody, and welcome to the VLOG.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
Look how good Toothless is doing.
He is such a chubby little monkey now,
and he is just such a sweetheart.
I am absolutely in love with this animal.
Of course, this is a black dragon,
which is basically a melanistic water monitor from Asia.
Absolutely incredible, and you guys that have been following
know that he started out a little bit rough.
He is doing great now.
And speaking about great,
I actually have something fun going to happen today.
You guys see that I do a bunch of tours and stuff like that.
I decided today, what if I had Eric and Noah give a tour,
instead of me?
So here pretty soon I actually have some people coming in
for a hour long tour,
and I'm just going to let Eric and Noah take it away,
and see how it goes.
Should be pretty fun.
All right guys. You almost ready for your tour?
- So ready.
- I'm actually not.
- [Brian] Have you thought about it? You're not?
- I have thought about it, and I'm kind of nervous.
I've never done this.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
Now remember, these are paying people.
- I know.
- We've got to give them an amazing hour.
- And I don't know anything about the animals.
It's going to be such a bad tour.
- [Brian] No, it's going to be a great tour.
- It's going to be a great time.
- Listen, I'm going to be there helping out too.
It's not like I'm just turning it over to you guys.
I'm going to be there with you guys.
But the three of us have to have this
the best tour we've ever done.
- Oh, it's going to be. We're going to nail it.
If you don't know, you just make stuff up.
- [Brian] All right.
They're going to be here in like ten minutes,
so I'll come back and get you guys, all right?
- Oh man, really?
- Before we get started with the tour,
I wanted to show you guys a few of our
raise up gargoyle geckos.
Take a look at this one right here.
This actually comes from Tiki Geckos,
and a lot of our really beautiful ones
actually did come from Tiki's Geckos,
even though we did hatch some beautiful ones ourself.
These are going to be amazing future breeders.
This is actually from the Dracula line.
This is also from the Dracula line,
and one of my favorite geckos that we're raising up.
I mean, take a look at those eyes and how crazy it is.
When these guys fire up, oh my gosh,
they are ridiculous.
Then this is actually an orange blotch lineage.
Again, a really good animal.
This is actually a male that'll be coming up
that we can definitely pair with a lot of our
really beautiful blotched animals.
And finally, my all time favorite
bloodline of gargoyle geckos,
of course this is the Deadpool line.
You can see why it's called Deadpool.
That thing is absolutely stunning.
I'm raising up like fifty more gargoyles
for future breeders,
so in the next couple years
we're going to have some really gorgeous animals.
Not that we don't have them now,
because the ones that we're working with now
are gorgeous too,
but some of the future ones,
hoo doggie, they are amazing.
Okay. They just pulled up. Are you guys ready?
- Dude. So ready.
- Yeah. I mean, I have a feeling
that I'm going to be telling some false facts.
- [Brian] No, no, no. You're fine.
- Falser the better. That's what I say.
[Brian] No.
Hello.
- Hi.
- [Brian] What's going on guys?
- That's quite the greeting. (laughs)
- How are you doing? Brian.
- All right. You?
- I'm Noah.
- Carol.
- Nice to meet you. It's good to meet you guys.
What we're going to do is
we're going to have all of us giving you the tour today,
not just me.
So we're going to have fun.
- Awesome. I'm a major fan.
I've watched you every day for the past
year-and-a-half.
- [Brian] Let's start with Casper.
- Casper?
- [Brian] Casper.
- Sure.
- [Brian] Okay. So what's some facts about this guy?
- Some facts. This is a reticulated python. That's a fact.
The snake is white. That's a fact.
- It's a black eye Lucy.
- [Brian] Oh, see, Noah got it before you.
- He did, yeah.
- [Brian] It's a black eyed Lucy, which-
- Just a beautiful animal.
- Literally just started the tour,
and already Eric has put the snake in the tree.
- Tangled it up.
- Way to go, Eric.
- Oh, excitement, right? (laughs)
- This is Karma, obviously the nosy be chameleon,
and he is blue, as you can tell.
- [Brian] Yes.
- It's a chameleon. They change colors.
- [Brian] No, they don't.
- They don't. (laughs)
They can move their eyes separately. That's a fact.
- [Brian] That's true. That's a fact. That's a fact.
- I think an interesting fact about these guys
is people don't really know,
and I hope I'm right when I say this,
they actually have a bone on the end of their tongue,
Wha-bam. So that's pretty cool.
They've got a little piece of bone.
I thought that was always pretty sweet about chameleons.
- [Brian] So we have Snoop Frog here.
And Noah, you named Snoop Frog, right?
- Yeah. Yes, of course.
You know, I'm big Snoop Dogg fan, of ... Who isn't?
Snoop Dogg, Snoop Frog.
- For schizzle. (laughs)
- [Brian] I was going to say, is there any resemblance?
- [Brian] Mata mata turtles.
You said you kind of love these.
- Yeah.
These are the ones that caught my attention
- [Brian] She came down right to you.
I think it remembers your time with her
in the 24 hours.
- Oh yeah. All the time.
Every time I come over here,
she's waving at me through the glass.
I open it up, pet her.
- [Brian] You guys bonded.
- Oh yeah.
When you spend a full day with a reptile,
they really do remember you forever.
- [Brian] Elvis, why are you biting the rock, silly?
What are you doing?
- [Eric] Monitors kind of intimidate me a little bit.
They're just so smart and so powerful.
- [Brian] Elvis, what are you doing, silly?
- I'm never afraid.
- [Brian] All right. Let's do it.
Watch out!
- Oh god. Oh no.
- [Brian] The hissing.
- No, he's just-
- [Brian] Eric, it seriously is. It's super tame.
- That's crazy.
- I would never, ever, ever try somebody.
Seriously.
- And maybe it's because of the majority
of the ones that I've seen online are wild caught.
Maybe that's why they're so angry.
- [Brian] Yeah, this one is the-
- Wow.
- [Brian] This is the tamest python I've ever seen.
- Isn't this a beautiful animal?
You guys have to check this guy out.
- [Brian] And you guys said you were
looking to get one, huh?
- Yes.
- It would be nice.
- [Brian] Yeah. They're so amazing, right?
So far the tour's going good.
Eric is doing a good job.
Noah was doing really good.
Noah just spotted out for a minute to upload his videos.
He's going to be back in a few minutes.
But so far they're doing really good,
and together we're having a really good time.
- Oh, here ...
- [Brian] Isn't it amazing?
- Oh my god.
- She had mentioned how she absolutely loves the
golden child motleys and the iridescence,
so that's like your dream retic you said.
- Yes, dream retic.
- [Brian] Oh my god, that's awesome.
- [Eric] If you want me to take him, just let me know.
Eric, gator facts.
- Gator facts.
They're really nice animals.
I just feel when there's people here, I'm put on the spot,
I just, everything goes blank.
Don't you hate that?
Everything goes blank.
- He's doing a great job of there tour.
You may not get a second tour.
- That's okay.
- [Brian] Might be your last one.
- [Eric] I'm better at just cleaning cages.
- [Brian] (laughs)
- These are arboreal, so it'll be up in the trees.
I believe they're from like Vietnam, if I'm not mistaken.
- [Brian] You're a hundred percent right.
- Yeah. Forests and jungles, yeah. Yeah.
- [Brian] Is the horn meant to look like
a worm or something?
- [Eric] Look like a worm, or a little grub or something.
Exactly. Yeah.
- On a scale of one to ten, so far the tour,
with Eric and Noah, how are they doing?
- An eleven.
- [Brian] Eleven.
- Yes.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
I was going to rate them like a three.
- Wow.
- No, no, no. They're doing pretty good.
- I give it eleven
because Eric's facts are actually accurate this time.
- And of course, just like so many people,
Perdita is always one of your favorites.
You said that that's like one of your favorite animals.
She is a gorgeous animal.
Put it right around her neck. There you go.
She is a perfect handling snake.
- You are stunning.
- Correct me if I'm wrong.
The cow reticulated python is say a little bit smaller.
Right? They don't get as big as like a mainland.
- [Brian] There you are. A lot of great facts.
This guy is ... He's on his A game today.
He's on his A game.
- Got something special for you guys here.
- Oh my god.
- An albino alligator. His name's Salt.
Yep, you can hold him.
- [Brian] He's not as wiggly as Chomper.
- Yeah.
- Oh my dear.
- [Brian] Isn't it a gorgeous animal?
- Oh my god.
- That's insane.
- [Brian] Pretty much a unicorn.
- It is a unicorn. Yeah, it is. Yeah.
- Eric's proudest moment, when he fed Tas with his mouth.
Noah made him do it.
- Proud.
- [Brian] Oh yeah.
- I didn't make him. He loves the challenge.
I would have done it if I lost, but I was better than him.
- Never a dull moment with these guys.
It is the end of December,
and it is like 55 degrees and sunny outside in Michigan.
This is absolutely crazy.
It feels more like sometime in May rather than in December.
I wish the rest of the winter would stay this way
but I have a feeling it's not going to happen.
We're going to end the tour here with Eric getting RJ out.
Let's see how this goes.
- [Eric] Trick is, you want to keep him underwater,
so you can't get splashed.
Oh, hey buddy. Hey.
Ta-da.
- [Brian] RJ is out. RJ, you be good? You be good?
Keep calm, calm, calm. Calm for me. Stay calm for me bud.
All right. Good. Thanks bud.
- (laughs)
- [Brian] All right, so there it is. RJ.
We don't take a lot of tours over to see RJ,
but because it was a special tour with Noah and Eric,
we figured we'd come over and see RJ.
Not to mention this is the animal you requested,
and you wanted to hold him.
- Yeah. The number one animal. Yeah.
- [Brian] Got to do that. Absolutely. (laughs)
- Whatever you tell me to do.
All right. So, this is what we're going to do.
All right. You can stand right over here.
Right there.
And then I'm going to calm him down,
just keep underneath, underneath.
Yep. And then I'm going to keep him calm.
RJ. Hey.
- God, he is heavy.
- Baby-
- Isn't he heavy?
- Yes.
- You be good. All right. Good boy.
Over here, you could take pictures this way.
Whatever way you want.
- Yeah, you better hurry up, because he's really heavy.
- [Brian] (laughs) So what do you think?
- This is amazing. Thank you so much.
- So we're going to go ahead and take Rico out,
because you said you love cobras, right?
- Yeah.
- [Brian] And this is kind of like
the closest thing you can get to a cobra
that's not venomous, in a way.
I always say, if you saw this in the wild,
you would probably think-
Ow! He got me.
- [Noah] Oh!
- Rico is normally really docile.
- I'll take him back. I'll take him back.
- (laughs)
- I think we woke him up there.
- Rico got me good. He was chewing.
Oh my god. That is absolutely epic.
So what do you think? (laughs)
Was it everything you hoped for?
Way to go, Eric. Way to go.
No, he's fine. He's fine.
All right. That's it. The tour with Eric and Noah.
You guys did good, I think.
What do you guys give them?
Eleven was halfway through the tour.
Where did we end up with?
- Eleven point one.
That bite was spectacular.
- All right. I get the point one. You guys get the eleven.
You guys did good.
Thank you guys so much.
Seriously, you guys were awesome.
I hope you guys don't mind
that I brought the two knuckleheads in for the tour.
- Not at all.
- [Brian] It was absolutely fun. We had a great time.
We'll see you soon, okay? Safe travels.
Thanks guys. Bye.
- Yep. Thank you very much.
- What do you say we go ahead and open up
the reptarium for the night.
Hey guys. Hi. Hi. Come on in. Come on in. You're fine.
Hi. It's good to see you guys.
Hi. How are you?
Hi. How are you? How you doing?
Hi. How are you?
Hi. How are you? Come on in.
Hi. Hi guys. (laughs)
You're okay. How's it going?
Welcome. Welcome.
I've got to be honest with you.
Reptarium has been open for maybe, I don't know,
maybe 45 minutes, and it is bonkers.
Just absolutely crazy. Really fun night here.
Having a good time, but this is about as busy as it's been
since the opening weekend that we opened up.
There are just tons of people.
Elvis is out.
(crowd talking)
Are you sure? She's really soft.
Hi. How's it going?
- Say hi.
- Hi. How are you?
It is absolutely a crazy evening.
Meeting all kinds of great people. What's your name?
- Brighton.
- Nicholas.
- [Brian] All right. Cool.
Are you enjoying Pernita?
- I am. She's awesome.
- [Brian] That's awesome.
One word. Sum up what this night.
- Crazy.
- (laughs) Chaos.
So we're a couple hours into the reptarium.
Bruce, that was quite crazy, wasn't it?
- Oh man.
- [Brian] That was about as crazy as ...
That's the best Friday.
First two-and-a-half hours were Gong Show.
It was absolutely incredible.
And Pernita's been out with us the whole time.
She's certainly one of the favorites for sure.
- She was the one on my list that I wanted to see.
- [Brian] I'm so happy you got a chance. What do you think?
- I came from Thailand.
- [Brian] You came from Thailand?
- Yep.
- [Brian] What?
What do you think of the anaconda?
- It's cool.
- [Brian] Yeah. Verde is amazing, huh?
Hey, so you wanted to hold Salt, the albino alligator?
- Yeah.
- [Brian] Okay. Just keep a good hold.
Isn't she gorgeous?
- Yeah.
- Again, I always say this.
I don't know that there's anywhere else you can go to hold
a little albino alligator
and I think it's awesome.
And another thing you're not going to be able to
hold very often is of course Ben and Jerry,
the two-headed snake.
You guys know that I love these types of stories.
Elijah here came in. He was terrified of snakes.
Then he touched a few snakes,
and now he's about to take a picture
with Sunrise by himself.
You all right?
- Yep. I'm ready.
- Okay. Let's do this.
- Okay. All right. Hoo.
- You're okay.
- Where do I hold it at?
- Okay, now this is what you're going to do.
- Okay.
- Up like this.
Now you can control. You can come in like this.
And you're good to go. There you go.
Slowly winding down the day, but what do you think Lori?
That was absolutely incredible.
You predicted it though, right?
- Oh yeah. I totally called it.
- Yeah.
- See? You need to start listening to me.
- I know.
Before the reptarium opened, she said,
"It's going to be a busy night."
Because everyone's off of school, everyone, the holidays
it's basically behind and stuff like that.
Oh, and Bella came down. Look at that.
Finally shut down the reptarium for the night.
That was definitely one for the books.
We're always busy, but tonight was definitely like
more like the second or third weekend,
when everyone just knew that it was new
and wanted to come check it out.
Absolutely bonkers, but so much fun.
Bunch of great people.
Bunch of people holding snakes for the very first time.
People that were scared that left being not scared.
It was absolutely incredible.
Me and Lori are going to get out of here and get some food.
I guess I didn't realize,
when I said we were going to go get something to eat,
that it was already after ten o'clock, and Lori's like,
why don't we just pick something up and eat at home?
So we're here just going to go ahead and chill out here.
Tomorrow I have a really, really busy day.
I have like three tours, Reptarium's open.
It's just going to be absolutely bonkers.
So probably the best thing to do is just hang out here
and have a little bit more of a chill night, get some rest,
because it is going to be crazy tomorrow.
With that said, I am going to go ahead and end the VLOG,
If you guys don't mind,
and wish you guys an amazing day, evening,
whenever you happen to be watching.
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