- [Brian] Hey, good morning everybody.
And welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is incredible.
My buddy Dev is in town right now and he actually,
remember he brought Taco when she was just a little baby.
A beautiful red throated king cobra.
Getting a little bigger now?
- [Dev] Oh yeah, she's about four feet now and just amazing.
- [Brian] Yeah, yeah. Listen.
He works with her every single day.
So don't expect this to be like Lillith,
like chasing us around king cobra.
But let's just take a look at this monkey.
By God, she's gonna be so beautiful.
- [Dev] Do wannna give a shout out to Midwest Tongs.
- [Brian] Yeah.
- [Dev] For this top, also with, for the stickers.
You can get all of this and this snake hook.
- [Brian] Yeah. Midwest.
I've been dealing with those guys forever.
As a matter of fact, when we did venom hunters
I actually used a pair of collapsible hooks
from Midwest Tongs, so great company.
And she has gotten much bigger.
Look at how beautiful she is. Oh my goodness.
Wow. Look at this.
Look at the red throat on this thing, man. Holy cow.
Just go ahead and get her out right here.
And again, she's really chill.
So you could see, she'll hood just a little bit
but she's probably not gonna hood a whole lot.
Wow, what an animal!
- [Dev] She's calm constantly, mark alert 24/7.
- [Brian] There she goes.
Now she's getting a little bit of hood right there, so wow.
I tell you what, she is just absolutely incredible.
I tell you, what an animal.
You've done such a good job with her.
- [Dev] Thank you, man.
- [Brian] Cause she was just so small.
If you guys remember before, she's definitely gotten
much, much bigger since then.
It's absolutely phenomenal.
Now, I know these guys can be a little tricky
when it comes to eating.
What is she feeding on now?
- [Dev] Right now she's on geckos,
any little lizards right now
- [Brian] Any little lizards?
Again, this is the king of snakes guys.
I mean, this is going to get, you know, I mean, huge.
You know, 15 foot. They can get up to 18 foot actually
and uh - whew, look at this little monkey here.
Again, she's so docile because you know,
Dev just put so much work into this animal
that we don't have to worry about it flying at us
and stuff like that. But at the same time, it is,
- [Dev] It's still a king cobra.
- [Brian] It's still a king cobra.
And what people don't realize is that
it's not the venom of a king cobra
that is really the problem, right?
Well, I mean, it's the problem. Of course,
they always say that a king cobra can kill an elephant.
It's not the toxicity. So if you took
the same amount of venom, for say,
from an inland taipan and you took it from a king cobra,
it would be radically different. You know what I mean?
But the thing is the yield of venom.
So when a king cobra bites, they pump you with venom.
And that's why you don't want to get bit by those guys.
And trust me the bite, you know our buddy Tyler Nolan
knows what that fight is like. I mean, he lost a finger,
ended up almost dying. This is a serious animal, guys.
So we're taking, you know, we take it seriously.
- [Dev] Very, very seriously.
- [Brian] Very serious, but it's amazing, and uh
Wow. I'll tell you what.
So this is incredible, dude.
This is, you've done such a good job.
I can't believe how big she got.
- [Dev] Like I said, it was a struggle
getting her to eat at first.
Cause after the second time she shed it,
have been in my care, she just stopped taking snakes.
- [Brian] Right?
- [Dev] All completely.
- [Brian] So she doesn't take snakes at all right now.
- [Dev] She won't take any snakes unless I
choo choo train the snake (inaudible)
Other than that, she will not take a snake.
- [Brian] Wow.
- [Dev] She won't take any small lizards.
Like I said, iguanas, which we're actually right now,
we're Instagram, we're promoting that she's
helping Florida with them
- [Narrator] Oh so you're gonna be able to
do the iguanas down in Florida, right?
- [Dev] To get an invasive species down there
from Florida, and having her take those,
to take some with no problems at all.
- [Brian] Yeah and, and the truth is,
is that, you know, in the wild,
that's what they're gonna eat mainly.
They're snake eaters, king cobras,
because they eat snakes, and they do eat
lizards in the wild. So in actuality,
a lot of king cobras in captivity that are rodent feeders.
Oftentimes don't live quite as long
cause they're really set up to digest
other reptiles mainly. They will eat rodents
in the wild and they will eat rodents in captivity.
But a main diet of rodents probably isn't the best.
But well, I tell you what, there's just something.
Look at the head on that thing right there.
Phew. What an absolute ripper.
I tell you what, this thing is crazy cool guys.
I mean, I love it. And it's cool to see
when that's so chill, you know,
that, that's just, that's kind of just chilling out.
It's almost like you want to pick it up and play with it
like a corn thing, but I know it's not a corn snake.
So we're going to go ahead and give it a little bit of uh,
a little respect for sure. But you can see this.
- [Dev] Yeah, definitely have to give it uh, respect.
Now, one of the things is, I want to try to break
that stereotype that can king cobras
and most snakes are these just, vicious animals
that are out trying to kill people.
- [Brian] Right.
- [Dev] Just because, you know what I'm saying?
It's a snake quote, unquote,
but they just really want to be left alone out in the wild.
And given the time that I'm spending with this
like I said, day in and day out, she sees me, um
picking her up and you see the end result,
like this snake isn't trying to turn around.
She's not going out after Brian.
She's not going after anyone that's standing around us.
She's looking directly at me
and she's not trying to come at me.
- [Brian] Right.
- [Dev] And any type of progression
she's studying everything that's going on around her.
People fear what they don't understand.
- [Brian] Yup.
- [Dev] That's why we have in Florida, laws.
That's going on right now.
It's because you got a bunch of people
who don't understand the snakes or the reptiles
but they want to push, oh, we have to get rid of them.
Cause you got to think about the next generation
of kids that's growing up, that's going to want
to get into snakes, tagus, monitor lizards,
possibly alligators. So now you're taking
that privilege away from the next generation,
which I believe isn't there.
- [Brian] Yo, I can completely agree in it.
And again, you know, we're not, you know, condoning
people keeping king cobras as pets by any stretch.
But I think that people like Dev that want to educate people
on an animal that is probably very, you know, misunderstood,
you know, thought of as a killer and stuff like that.
I mean the truth is, king cobras can be
some of the most amazing animals,
I've seen them over in Indonesia in person,
and seeing the kind of work that people have done with them.
They're absolutely amazing.
Look at, she's so interested, you know,
so it's such a visual animal that
as soon as it sees movement, it's gonna
actually follow that movement.
And again, a lot of king cobras at this point
would be hooding up, as a matter of fact
when you brought Taco the first time,
she was like, hooded up like a third of her body.
And uh, and now you can see, she's just got
the little bit of threat posture.
Like don't mess with me too much.
You know what I mean?
And the more I touch her, she's just gonna
come up a little a bit more, which is completely fine.
But look at that!
- [Dev] She's beautiful.
- [Brian] Whew! That snake is, I mean,
I love king cobras but this one in particular is ridiculous.
- [Dev] It's amazing. It's absolutely amazing.
- [Brian] Look at the color.
- [Dev] The last time, I don't know if anybody
knows this the last time that she was up here that
her color has completely changed.
- [Brian] Yes.
- [Dev] She went from that black pigmentation
to this nice golden brown color.
- [Brian] Yup.
- [Dev] And if you get closer, Jay,
you can actually see the chevrons
coming in through her skin.
- [Brian] Yes. Ugh, wow.
- [Dev] Absolutely great.
- [Brian] I mean, that thing is beautiful.
What's the plans of the future, you want to get more?
Do you want to get another one to breed
or do you want to -
- [Dev] I want to, definitely find a different locality
of Indos, uh, watching (inaudible) YouTube channel.
I see these different color Indos,
and just absolutely amazing.
He has a Indo king cobra name, but I'll go
with just this white, gold band of chevrons
on it's just insane. So I want,
definitely want to get another Indo king.
I have someone who was breeding Malaysia kings
so I'm waiting to find out
if I will be getting a pair of those later on.
- [Brian] Wow. That's awesome. I love it.
I love that you're so, I mean,
this guy is so passionate about king cobras.
It's not even funny. So I love that you're doing this.
And I know that you're also being super safe.
You know what I mean? He doesn't want to get bit
because he realizes if he gets bit,
it's going to destroy all the work
that he's trying to do to get people to love
these king cobras. And dude,
I love the fact that you, you're, uh close
so you can bring her up and give us updates on her.
- [Dev] And another thing is, people look at snake bites
as oh, that snake was just, you know,
wanting to bite that person. No, a lot of times
what happens is, the person's not reading the animal
and then they wind up messing up.
So it was never the animal's fault.
- [Brian] No, it's -
- [Dev] When a person gets bit
it's always the person's fault.
- [Brian] Always the person's fault.
If you get bit by a snake, it's every fight I've ever had.
And thankfully nothing from a venomous snake,
every bite I've ever had has been my fault,
not the snake's fault, you know?
And so if you're like you said, you know this animal,
you're reading it. You know every move
it's gonna make and -
- [Dev] Constantly you have to, constantly just have to,
having to pay attention to the head,
paying attention to the eyes, reading an entire
snake's bite length. I do the same thing with alligators.
You have to just be so in tuned and keen
with these animals. You can't,
you can't take your eyes off of him for one second.
- [Brian] Tell you what guys. I'm excited.
Great way to start the morning, right?
Beautiful king cobra. Thank you so much
- [Dev] Oh absolutely.
- [Brian] for bringing Taco, man.
As a matter of fact, there's going to be some
Taco merch. So I'll put a link down the description
to his Instagram and all that stuff.
And you can get your Taco merch if you want to support it.
Cause I think it's actually, I've seen it.
It looks really badass, but again, links in the description.
Go show him some love, tell him I sent you.
- [Jay] (inaudible) Anymore. Please.
- [Brian] No, no, no, no, no, no. I've got a play
that anyone can listen to.
- [Jay] Listen. You don't -
- [Brian] Do you, do you, what a second.
Do you have any girls that, do you have,
I don't care about zone stuff.
Do you have one girl that can do a layup?
- [Jay] (laughs) One.
- [Brian] Okay. This is what it is.
- [Jay] (inaudible) You get the rebound.
You send the one that -
- [Brian] No, no, no, no, no, no.
Okay. You're going to inbound the ball.
- [Jay] Yes.
- [Brian] Right. Got the girls at the line
to inbound the ball.
The other three players, the layup girl stands still.
The other three players drop down and start barking.
(makes barking sound)
- [Jay] But that play only works like one time.
- [Brian] You can do it every time. Every time.
- [Jay] (laughs) Absolutely not.
- [Other guy] What do they do
with different animals each time?
Then it's, uh, it's gonna throw a ball.
- [Brian] Do the snake.
- [Other Guy] Do the worm.
Do the worm? Do the elephant.
(all making animal sounds and talking over each other)
- [Brian] Do you need assistant coach? I got ya.
- [Jay] All right, yeah, you know what,
yeah I need you at practice on Monday. (Brian laughs)
(jazzy music)
- [Brian] So we get asked all the time
what are the length of our animals are
and a lot of times, we just guess, you know what I mean?
Right now Jay's obviously gonna do the string trick
where he basically just run a string
from the snout of the nose all the way down,
you can kind of follow along the curve.
That's the most accurate way, unless you actually build
like a box that it actually covers all straight through,
but just is a pain, right?
So he's actually going to go ahead
and measure up Al and a bunch of our other animals
so that when people do ask
we can actually give accurate information.
A lot of times when people ask me how big Al is,
I'll say yeah, it's about 11 foot.
I have no idea. Maybe it's 12 foot.
Maybe it's 13 foot, maybe it's 10 foot.
So we're going to do the exact same thing
with a bunch of other animals here today.
Just so that we have a pretty good idea.
And it looks like Jay's gonna require some help
from Mike. Wait, what's the matter, Jay,
you can't do it yourself?
- [Jay] No, I can't actually, even -
- [Brian] What's the problem?
I thought you said you, you've done this before.
- [Jay] I have, I have plenty of times.
- [Brian] You have plenty of times. Okay.
So it's like, just kinda inching down,
kind of following if there's an S or a curve,
you kind of follow that curve and stuff like that.
And uh, it looks, it works out.
And then you measure the string.
You know, you don't measure the snake,
you measure the string when you get to the end of it.
And uh, it'll be interesting to see some of the sizes
of animals we have that uh, we've been guessing for awhile.
It's like, I've talked about when we actually
weigh our animals. A lot of times we'll think,
oh, it's like 60 pounds. We weigh it.
Sometimes it's 35 pounds. Sometimes it's 80 pounds.
So uh, we'll get the first measurement with Al here.
And then we'll just do all of our animal ambassadors
so that everyone here can actually
have accurate numbers in their mind.
All right. So the verdict on Al is, let's see,
9 foot, 10 foot, 11 foot, 12 foot, 5 inches.
- [Jay] Oh, I was right!
- [Mike] (laughs) Jay called it.
- [Jay] I was right!
- [Mike] Jay called it.
- 12 foot, 5 inches. That's surprising
to be honest with ya. I would think it like 11 foot.
- [Jay] So I said 12 foot, 6 inches.
- [Brian] Uh, what?
- [Mike] No but I undercut you, price is right style
stops at 12'5" -
- [Jay] That's basically my animal I handle him every day.
You're fine, yeah.
- [Brian] Okay, so we're gonna go ahead
and measure the rest of em.
We'll get back to you with the verdict on everything.
- [Brian] Oh Speedy, what exactly
do you got going on here, buddy?
I don't think that this is- you are a mess, bud.
Oh, he's stuck. (laughs)
- [Lori] He's got it pinned. (laughs)
- [Brian] Here, Lori. Can't get you.
Can you hold this?
Speedy, what are you doing? He's stuck.
- [Lori] Because he's got it pinned.
He's pinning it with his shoulder. (laughs)
(stepstool clanks and bangs)
- [Brian] Speedy. You crazy monkey you. Okay.
Tell you what, this guy, he's insane.
(jazzy music)
- [Brian] It's ridiculous.
- [Jay] All right. Let's see what we got. Drum roll please.
1 foot, 5 inches!
(laughing and gasping)
- [Brian] Oh my.
- [Jay] Almost a foot and a half.
- [Brian] Almost a foot and a half ponytail.
Take that, Sebastian Bach. (laughs)
And the verdict was, what did you measure
and what were the verdict?
- [Jay] All right. So we've got Jeffrey.
- [Brian] Jeffrey?
- [Jay] 8 feet, 2 inches
- [Brain] What?
- [Jay] Marshmallow, 5 feet, 3 inches.
- Brian] Oh my gosh.
Little Marshmallows's 5 foot, that is crazy.
- [Jay] Perdita, 10 feet, 3 inches.
- [Brian] 10 foot, I woulda said about 10 foot.
- [Jay] What's your guess for Sunrise?
- [Brian] Um, 11 foot.
- [Jay] 10 feet, 4 inches. They're almost the same-
- [Brian] So that's uh, we usually tell people 10 foot,
So that's about right.
- [Jay] And we've got Salt.
- [Brian] Salt.
- [Jay] 3 feet, 5 inches.
- [Brian] 3 feet, 5- that surprises me.
I'm gonna be honest with you.
- [Jay] And this is a good one, my boy doing Dwayne,
- [Brian] Dwayne?
- [Jay] 1 foot, 6 inches.
- [Brian] He loves Dwayne, the crock guy. (laughs)
- [Jay] And then the last one we got Aries
at 8 feet, 2 inches.
- [Brian] Wow. That's actually good, Aries is bigger
than I thought as well.
I thought maybe seven foot. So, so that's crazy.
So now we can actually tell people and
it's probably the two things that we get asked
the most is, how old are they?
And how long are they now?
Now we have both those answers.
What do you think about doing Ivy?
- [Jay] Let's do it.
- [Brian] I'm really curious. I mean,
I think last time she was like 10 foot, 2 inches.
- [Jay] Yeah, she's gotta be at least 28 and a half feet.
- 28 and a half foot, okay. (both laugh)
- We got 30 inch, uh, tape measures.
Now I'm saying 11'2".
- [Jay] I'm gonna say, 12'4".
- [Brian] Whoa. Okay, well, let's get Ivy out.
So the interesting thing is that anacondas
look much larger, right?
I always say that, you know, they get bigger.
They don't get long. And that's why, you know like,
she's almost the same girth as Lucy that's 20 foot.
And I said, what? 11 foot, 4 inches, I think,
or something like that. You said 12 foot, 4 inches.
So I think I said 11'2",
- [Mike] 11'2".
- [Brian] 11'2", 12'4", let's see what we got.
- [Jay] All right. We're at 9,
- [Brian] Hang on, hang on, hang on.
Okay, go ahead.
- [Jay] We're at 9, 10, 11, 2!
Get the hell out of here!
(cheering)
- [Jay] You cheated! You cheated!
- [Brian] How would I?
- [Jay] You spend so much time with her.
- [Mike] He knows, bro. Ah!
- [Brian] 11 foot, 2 inches. Is that crazy?
- [Jay] That is crazy.
- [Brian] That is wild, oh my god. Look at I... (inaudible)
(all laughing)
So Ivy's 11'2". Dude, like I said,
they get really big. She's probably gonna
outweigh Lucy at some point, and still be
probably 5 foot shorter. So uh, there you go.
11'2". Hey, yeah, I still got it, I still got it.
Always a great time to see Taco the king cobra.
I mean, how cool is that?
Also it's cool to get some good measurements of everything.
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