- This is RJ, my pet alligator.
And a couple of my crew, Jay and Mike
have a crazy idea.
You guys aren't even going to believe this.
So what are you trying to do?
- Take RJ on a walk.
- He's gonna try and take RJ. So let me just,
let me just, okay so you guys are going to get RJ
out. By the way is that you? Or you?
Or both of you?
- Him.
I don't even know how I got talked into this.
- Okay.
- Again.
- So they're going to get RJ out,
take him up the stairs.
- We'll see.
- And then put a harness on him.
You're going to put a harness on him and a leash,
and you're going to walk him.
- Oh my God.
- Okay. So, right now in the comments
before we even get started
and don't you cheat,
I am going to give this a 30% chance
of happening on any level. 30%
they even get RJ out of the pond.
I'm not helping by the way.
I'm not helping. So, okay.
Let me know in the comments.
What is it? I say 30, over and under.
You let me know what it is. So, go ahead.
Have at it. Have fun.
- Okay.
- I'm going to sit back and watch.
Just don't get hurt because we don't,
we didn't pay our workman's comp.
- Can we tape his mouth?
- [Brian] No, you're not taping his mouth.
He's never had his mouth taped his whole life.
He's not going to start now. What's your plan?
- I'm getting in.
Oh, you're going to get in. Good plan. Good plan.
- Alright.
- [Brian] Now you can grab his tail.
(water splashes)
- Mike, you didn't do anything.
- [Brian] Good work.
- I didn't know I was supposed to.
- [Brian] Don't let him bite it.
- [Jay] Really?
- [Brian] Well yeah, we don't want him to hurt his teeth.
- He's going this way RJ. Come on.
- We're going to push him down.
(laughing)
(water splashes)
- Mike, you're not doing anything.
You're literally doing nothing.
(water splashes)
- Okay. Now's the time.
Get over on this side.
(water splashes)
- Can you help us?
- No.
Remember in the beginning when I said I'm not helping
(indistinct talking)
- Okay, Mike's going in. He's got-
These guys are determined, man.
This is great.
- If you can just hand it to me from the back
- Careful.
- [Mike] Thank you
- [Brian] I'll tell you when to back up.
Noah, come on, he may need help.
- [Mike] Noah will you please help me?
- [Brian] If he comes back at you,
you got to get away, because he will come at you.
Do you think these guys are gonna be able
to get RJ out? I said 30%.
- No, absolutely not. You expect
your employees to be able to handle an animal?
- [Brian] (laughs). I think they're going to
get him out.
I think that Mike is determined.
I think Jay is 0%.
- [Jay] Zero. Absolutely.
- [Brian] There you go. Now you got him.
(water splashes)
- Wow Mike. Wahoo.
- I'm all wet.
- I don't want it. I don't want you to pass him
to me. Okay.
(laughing)
- You're not going to be able-
- Well what do you want me to do now?
- You gotta pick him up now.
Come on, Jay's got him
- Now we're going to go upstairs, right?
- [Mike] Big boy. Watch out, gator coming through.
- We going outside?
- Yup. Is it okay, we can go outside?
- Yeah, go outside. I tell you what guys.
I give them a lot of credit.
I said 30% and they're out here now.
It's a beautiful warm day. Sunny outside.
RJ is probably gonna love it.
Now getting a leash on,
that's a whole nother story.
- Don't do that.
(shoes stomping)
Yeah, RJ.
We did it. I'm not going to let him
go under the truck, man.
- [Brian] You guys did it. I'm impressed.
I never thought- (laughs).
- [Jay] We are not weak. (indistinct mumbling)
- [Brian] I'd tell you what. I'd like.
- Turn the camera to me.
- [Brian] Turn the camera, yeah.
- Laurie, I'll see you at that weight lifting challenge.
Baby. Yeah.
- [Noah] Look at those little look at those
little Slim Jims.
- Look at these arms.
- Those little Slim Jims.
- [Mike] What did you call them?
(indistinct chattering)
- Boom, you wish you all had these guns.
- So, we're actually gonna weigh RJ
while we got him out.
Looks like Jay is uh, stepping up to the plate.
- Yeah, because Mike, Mike move your hand.
- I think uh, I think he's going to weigh.
I'm going to be honest with you.
I think he's gonna weigh 95 pounds.
- No, that is not what you said.
- [Brian] What did I say?
- You're guessing low, now.
- What did I say?
- Cause I guessed low.
You said like a hundred and something.
- Alright. I'll say 102. How's that sound?
I'll go 102.
- I'm saying 93.
- I don't know. It's so hard because
Bodger is only 83 but he feels like he's a hundred.
But he's big.
- Can you just answer the question?
- [Brian] Yeah.
- Got to think about it. Uh, I don't know.
- [Brian] Yeah. We didn't ask for a dissertation.
We just asked for a guess.
- I'm going to guess, like right, right at 100.
- [Brian] A hundred? Okay.
- Can you zero it?
- [Brian] Just zero- Just press it once.
All right.
We were all between 93 and a hundred.
And what I say 103, here we go.
86!
- 87. I knew he wasn't that heavy.
- 87 pounds. So, 87 pounds.
I thought for sure he was over a hundred pounds
but he's only 87 pounds.
- That's 4 pounds heavier than Bodge.
I know he's almost the same size as Bodge.
So, there you go.
Now that you want to know how big is RJ.
RJ, 87 pounds. There you go.
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So a lot of people have asked,
you know, where did I get RJ?
How long have I had RJ? All those things.
I actually got RJ when he was just a couple of weeks old.
It was actually a confiscation from a house
that was not allowed to have it.
And actually, when he was just a couple weeks old
another alligator today, who's in bit his leg off.
Believe it or not.
And that's why he is three arms, all the charm.
Right? I mean, he's absolutely amazing.
And listen, it healed really well.
And he's done super good. I mean, he can climb-
He can do all the things that normal alligators do.
(blows kiss)
And I love this guy so much.
So there's the story of RJ and he will go
into Repterrarium 3.0, 4.0, something like that.
He's going to be on display so people can get
up and close and actually interact
with him just like this. Cause I mean,
let me tell you what there is no cooler experience
than messing with an alligator this size.
Well, I gotta admit, I'm pretty impressed with
you guys know who really gets the credit though.
- I actually think that that was the most fair thing
me and Mike has ever have ever done.
- Yeah, that's true.
- [Brian] About 50/50?
- 50/50.
- [Brian] 50/50, you did carry him up.
I appreciate that. So RJ had some-
- Wait, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa.
So what you're trying to say
you think that Mike did more work just cause he
went in and got him out?
- [Brian] Well, it was more dangerous.
- I could have carried him out. I was being nice.
- Oh, okay. I got it. Yeah.
Well you guys did good.
I'm proud of you and RJ got a little time outside
in the sun. He loved it. He's a, he's a rockstar.
So you guys did good.
Seriously.
- Thanks.
- I'm very impressed, I really am.
- See this. Wow.
- Boom, gone. Not even flexing.
(Brian laughs)
A little speedy update,
my little boy here is doing really well.
He's still here at VHB hanging out
because it's just not been warming up
to let them out in the backyard yet.
But finally, I think we're going to get
to a point where we can let him
out here in the next week or so
and then he can be free for the summer.
Basically what you don't want
is the temperature to drop below 50 degrees at night.
It's been like thirties and forties at night here
but finally the extended forecast looks
like it's going to be above fifties at night.
So maybe if we can keep this going
we can actually bring him home
and let him run around. Cause I know I love
seeing him in the backyard
every day when I'm home.
It looks like Peaches the hypnohunter and milksnake
has a nice, beautiful shed right here.
You guys know we always collect the sheds.
But look at how beautiful this animal is.
I mean, Hunter and Milk snakes are incredible.
And Peaches is amazing with that
hypomelanistic. I mean that thing,
just looking rocking
now that it has a fresh shed of skin.
Absolutely wonderful.
How are you doing buddy?
Hi.
What are you doing Patty.
Of course, this is my Ackie Monitor.
I mean look at how amazing they are.
He just ran right away.
This is actually a red Ackie.
There's actually yellow Ackies too.
These are dwarf monitors. That's as big as they get
right there and that thing is coming
out like a little monkey.
And believe it or not we have this guy
ball trained as well.
So you can actually use a blue ball.
He'll come up and eat.
I mean, I tell you monitors are so fricking dope.
And Python eggs and Python eggs.
That's right.
We have another clutch right here.
And this is actually a really nice
Pinstripe female. Really beautiful animal.
Again, I love pinstripe.
So I have a bunch of pinstripe females that I breed
to different things,
but we always want to breed them
to things that are going to produce
awesome babies. And in this case
the male was this black pewter Cypress Ball Python.
Of course. These were the ones
of course that had those purple babies
without hardly any pattern.
So of course I wanted to breed him
to a couple of the same females this year.
Let's see what mama has.
All right, mama.
Let's see what you have going on here.
Okay.
Uh oh, not that great of a clutch unfortunately.
Which is weird because this male
has actually is already fathered two other
clutches that were a hundred percent fertile.
Gosh, I hate the fact that we're going back
and forth this year on fertility, but all in all
it's still been a really good year.
Again, a bunch of boob eggs,
which I find interesting.
This whole clutch was kind of-
Ooh mama is all of a sudden mad at me.
Okay mom, but we've got this right here.
We've got two, four, five good eggs
and two, four, five bad eggs.
Oh gosh. Wow. Mama.
Relax girl. It's okay.
Get these eggs outta here.
We'll feed these off to some monitor lizards.
They'll be happy about it.
So a 50% fertility, gosh, I tell you what.
Up and downs for the year, but overall.
Still a good year, but every time
you get a clutch of eggs like this I'll be honest.
Even as long I've been doing it.
You start that your heart sinks.
You're like, Oh my gosh
is there going to be fertility issues?
But then we have tons of horrible clutches.
So you know what? It's all gonna work out
and he should still have some pretty awesome babies.
You guys know
that we've been experimenting
with reptile fatheads, As a matter of fact,
launching soon reptilefatheads.com.
Obviously we have our first one here.
We're going to do some other ones
but I want to know down in the comments
what animals would you like to see a fathead
like this. Salt, Pepper, Perdita?
I mean, tell me what you want to see.
What would you want to put on your wall?
Again, these are kind of cool sticker type things.
You can stick them on the wall.
You can peel them off
and put them somewhere else for sure too.
So they're kind of cool. You know, they work well.
They were going to make them this size
and then kind of half that size as well.
So coming soon, reptilfatheads.com.
You guys know I've been talking about Black
and White Cal Kings and how much I love them.
But look at the pattern
on this Black and White Cal King.
I mean, it's so weird.
And so abear, it usually you have striped
or banded or high white or something like that.
This one's just
like dot dash weird slash and stuff like that.
I love Black and White Cal Kings.
And like I said
I think that really making a resurgence where
people love them to death.
And this one is super cool.
You guys hear that?
♪ Egg time, egg time, egg time. ♪
That's right. It's egg time.
And what we have here is actually
a half Strawberry Sunkissed that's bred
to a tannery that's head
for strawberry Sunkissed as well.
So has some potential
for some pretty cool things
with a Sunkissed gene involved
a Strawberry gene involved the Anery gene involved.
Nice big female, good animal right there.
We'll get mama all cleaned up.
We'll get her some fresh water
and look at that clutch right there.
Wahoo doggy.
I tell you, that's what, that's what I wake
up in the morning for our right here.
Guys, look at this.
I mean just an absolutely gorgeous collage
all stuck together.
None of them rolled around.
Mama did really good with this one.
We've got two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, 14
15 beautiful eggs.
And again, lots
of different combinations with this particular
breeding. Should be some really beautiful babies.
Next clutch is actually a pretty good one.
This is actually a Head Ghost Plasma
which is the hypo lavender corn snake.
And it's actually bred to a Head Ghost Scalis
which has pretty absolutely incredible.
Smaller girl, not a big clutch here
but some really beautiful egg.
You can really see that sometimes the influence
of particular genes can really change the color
of corn snakes.
This one's much dark, almost like a chocolatey
color where some are red, some are orange,
stuff like that. So it's pretty cool.
But nevertheless, she did lay a beautiful clutch of eggs
not a ton of eggs
but still really nice big eggs looking really good.
And again, if we can get some of that, you know
Ghost Plasma, you know, Oh my gosh, there's just
so much stuff
that could potentially come out of this.
And then ultimately scalis down the road.
Unbelievable. Two, four, six, eight eggs.
That's a great way to start.
These are probably going to be some animals
that we hold back
because we want that Scalis gene
the next generation, right?
So some of the stuff that we breed,
we breed the sell.
Some of the stuff we breed to keep back
for next generation stuff.
This is definitely a next generation breeding.
And it's going to be a banger.
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