- We have six hours (upbeat music)
until the reptile zoo is open to the public,
and we've gotta get this place cleaned up.
So I'm challenging these guys behind me
to get this place cleaned up.
Whoever cleans it the fastest,
actually I'm gonna take you guys out to Dairy Queen.
- What?
- Really? - Yeah!
- Let's go!
- Bruce, this is your aisle.
Mike, this is your aisle.
And Noah, this is your aisle.
- I get all the big ones?
- [Brian] Go at it.
(upbeat music)
- Oh!
- As you guys know, I really love Elvis.
He's just like family.
He annoys the crap outta me with this stuff.
He poops every day, every five seconds.
I clean it, he poops.
I clean it, he poops again.
- Just like Elvis, we got more monitors.
- This is Grits, our white throated monitor.
He's super cool, super awesome.
But he makes a mess.
Come on, buddy.
I love you, today's not the day.
I got stuff to do,
'cause there is no way they're beating me for ice cream.
Y'all know how much I like ice cream.
- Can't believe my dad gave me three animals in one.
I don't think those guys
have three animals in any of their cages they have to clean.
Ah.
Anacondas, the poop.
All right.
Be good anacondas.
- Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, guy.
You gotta pull this all off to get this done.
Get outta here.
You know, this is worth it though
when you get a good hug like this.
I hear a lot of you thinking put him in a tub, right?
Yeah not him, he'll get out.
(upbeat music)
- Scrub a dub dub in the tub.
Hey, how's it coming?
Hey, Dolittle.
Gonna get a little scrub a dub dub in the tub.
That ice cream will be mine.
- Ooh, my cuticle!
The illustrious anaconda.
- I got poop in my mouth.
Dang, Grits.
It does not taste like grits.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Why is it shooting water out?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Dad?
- Hose isn't hooked up.
- Oh. (laughs)
Can't waste the time.
I'm wasting time!
(upbeat music)
- Looks like Bruce is making some headway over here.
Almost done? - Oh, man.
Elvis is a pain in the butt, man.
- [Brian] All right.
He keeps getting in the water.
He's getting all over the tracks.
We're gonna clean his case twice,
and I'm not gonna finish this.
- Yeah, he's got one cage down,
and he's got a long way to go.
Let's check on Mike.
Mike, you almost done with the first cage?
- Yeah, yeah, putting the glass back on now.
Doing some finishing touches.
Got Grits ready to go back.
I'm ready to get that ice cream!
- Better pick it up, buddy!
- Where's the paper towel?
- Here's the paper towel.
- Thanks.
- The one thing I know, guys can't find anything.
What are you guys doing anyways?
- So, basically we have a challenge going on
where Bruce, Mike, and Noah are actually trying to clean,
whoever can clean the fastest
to get this place cleaned up.
- Are you kidding me right now?
- What do you mean?
- These guys can't clean anything.
I'll clean circles around them.
- Challenge accepted.
And you guys know that our anaconda,
and in particular our anaconda enclosure,
is really kind of the focal point of The Reptarium.
And they're just absolutely incredible.
Look at Arianna here.
She is such a wonderful snake.
I mean, absolutely incredible.
She's always super curious.
Anacondas are such amazing animals.
But we do have to keep this enclosure looking really good
because listen, it's the largest,
most focal point in the entire place.
So guys, I have a $50
Buffalo Wild Wings gift card right here.
I'm gonna actually hide it somewhere in Lucy's enclosure.
I'm gonna stop these guys and whoever finds it first,
actually gets to keep it.
(upbeat music)
Stop what you're doing guys!
Get up here.
I've got something to tell you.
Guys, I actually hid a $50 Buffalo Wild Wings card
in Lucy's enclosure.
The first one that finds it, gets it.
Go at it. - It's under her heat flat.
- Oh, God.
- No way, there's $50.
- Don't hold me, I need my agility.
- Somebody's gotta find it.
- It's not in here.
- It might be easier to get in the corner.
- Noah, what's he doing, the Spiderman on the window?
Come on now!
- I'm telling you it's under her heat flat.
- I don't wanna, like, do any like,
quick movements around her.
- Yeah but Noah,
but there's like, $50 in here somewhere.
- Oh, wait a second, I got it! (upbeat music)
- What? (laughs)
- I took the high ground.
Woo!
B-dubs!
- [Brian] Oh no.
Noah's stuck in there.
- Get outta my way.
Hey!
- Good luck winning the challenge now, Noah!
We gonna get this ice cream and the B-dubs!
Here's to Brian.
This looks like it's got like, $2.50 on it.
I get like, a free Mountain Dew.
That's about it.
- There's no way they would beat me in cleaning.
(upbeat music)
- All right, so I need to clean the glass on Tabasco here.
He spit on it.
So, I'm gonna go and steal Mike's
because I don't have the supplies that he does,
and I gotta win this challenge.
You see the baby gators over there?
Ow!
Perfect.
- Since Tabasco has kind of reached sexual maturity,
obviously it's really changed his personality.
Its really caged defensive.
Once you open it, I mean, look at this animal.
I'm petting it,
and it's literally putting all of its body weight
into that pet.
So, it's really amazing how iguanas are, you know.
Once a male hits sexual maturity,
they change completely.
Unbelievably cage dominant.
So, when we close the enclosure,
it literally will like, kind of whip its tail,
it'll like, puff up at us.
But as soon as we open its enclosure,
it wants love,
which is really, really bizarre,
but that is one incredible animal.
- You know, this is an enclosure
that I don't typically clean all the time,
but it's in my aisle, so I got to.
Ice cream's on the line.
You know, cleaning enclosures with animals
they can be a little frisky.
Kind of a little crazy sometimes.
So, I'm hoping Chicken Strip just stays in there.
Oh look, chicken nugget. (laughs)
- This guy's taking forever.
I've gotta move on 'cause I need to win this challenge.
- Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
I need it!
No, no! - What are you doing?
- I need it! - No man.
This is mine. - I gotta clean though.
- Majority rule. - Move.
What are you doing?
- Beauty before age.
- I'm older than you!
- Beauty before age!
- I'm a United States Veteran, sir.
- He's pissed, dude.
And he was just super happy.
We need to get him into some therapy.
He's bipolar.
(rock music)
- Well, I just cleaned five enclosures
in the time it took them to do one.
(Mike squawking)
- I'm coming in Chicken Strip!
Hi, buddy.
I'm just trying to get the little,
gonna get the little sheddy poo off your day.
Oh, sheddy poo.
Shed and poop. (laughs)
That ice cream's mine!
Oh God, he's hissing so bad.
- [Cameraman] I think you missed a spot up by him.
- I hate you sometimes.
Ooh doggy, I found him.
He is gorgeous.
I mean, it's Chicken Strip.
He's awesome, he's friendly.
Kind of.
Literally one of a kind.
He's the only albino Nile monitor
in the world that we know of.
And now I get to clean up after his poop.
- I get stuck with Lucky.
So obviously, oh, god dangit, all right.
So obviously,
oh, not the face, not the face.
Obviously, Lucky is always gonna be a pain in the butt
to clean all the time.
But I have to pull him out.
I've gotta do it.
This is the quickest way to do it
'cause like, typically
you'd want to stick him in a tub or something like that.
But for a lot of snakes like this,
if they're small enough to hold with one hand,
I'd rather get nipped. (laughs)
He's trying to do it for sure.
I'm trying to win this challenge.
Oh, Jesus.
Woo! That was ripe.
I smelled that one.
All right, all right, all right, all right,
All right, all right, guy.
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.
Oh, oh.
Easy, easy, easy, easy.
Not the face, not the face, not the face.
Man, look at him.
I gotta get him off me.
Come on Lucky, you're not, you're really trying your hardest
to keep me from winning this.
I forgot water.
I gotta get water.
Ow, that was my thumb!
Ow.
I was trying to give you some water, bro.
I was trying to just give you some water.
That's all I'm trying to do.
I just gotta wipe down windows, and I'm done with him.
(upbeat music)
- All right, so I just finished all of these cages,
and they're still working on the same cages
they were on when I started.
So, take that.
- Teenagers.
- These guys are definitely making some progress.
What do you say, we make it a little bit more difficult?
Stop the work again, guys!
Everyone up front.
You guys are doing an amazing job
with only three hours to go until we open.
You guys I think are gonna get there.
So we're gonna make this a little bit more difficult.
You guys are gonna do the next enclosure
with your right hand zip tied behind your back.
- Zip tied?
- What is this?
Where do I work at?
(dramatic music)
- Okay guys, you better get to it.
- Let me just run.
I can't catch myself if I fall.
- For some reason they don't seem very enthusiastic.
- Hey Mike, you need your window cleaner back?
- I do.
Thank you.
- You're welcome, you're welcome.
Here's that.
She got a little urate.
Brush it right off, make everything look real pretty.
I be nitpicky when it comes to cleaning cages.
Every little detail counts.
(upbeat music)
- Can I just like state,
I'm pretty impressed with myself.
I got the glass off.
- [Cameraman] Wait, what?
How'd you do that?
- I'm really good at my job.
You know, the worst thing about this,
you know that like, trend that like, girls can like,
have a low center of balance, whatever,
like, guys pick up their hands.
It's so true.
I can't even reach the stuff in the back
without having to balance on stuff.
Just trying to get this piece of shed, man.
Oh, I don't know how to get back up.
Mr. Brian!
- One thing is is that I definitely, I can't reach down.
I mean, double using my hands.
Everything I have to do
when I'm reaching down to pick something up
when I'm so used to using my right hand,
I've been now teaching my left hand to do it.
It's a pain, and also the fact that it's behind my butt
means I have to get up every five seconds to dry this off.
Ah.
All right, this is a hard challenge.
- I might actually be stuck.
- [Brian] What are you doing in there, Mike?
- I'm stuck.
- Stuck? - Yeah.
- [Brian] You can't get out?
- No. - Okay.
Just keep cleaning. - I can't
Okay.
- I have one arm behind my back,
and she's just crawling on me.
She's like, what's this strange one-armed man
doing in my cage cleaning it?
How weird is that?
It's so hard to do this.
My balance is way off!
(upbeat music)
- You know, running a reptile zoo,
especially something that's open to the public,
it's so important not only for the animals,
but also for the appearance,
that the enclosures are impeccably clean.
The glass is clean.
The water is clean.
Everything is.
And there is so much work that goes into it, you know.
Perdita here is definitely big animal ambassador.
People love coming to see her.
And she is just an absolutely wonderful snake.
But again, if she was in a dirty cage,
it wouldn't be something I'd wanna show off.
So the crew works really hard at it.
Noah's working hard with one hand right now.
If it wasn't for them keeping this place up,
I tell you what, I don't know what I would do, so.
(Brian and Noah laugh)
But definitely, I certainly appreciate them.
Look at Mike, he's got the glass out and everything
with one hand.
He's definitely moving up
to a lieutenant in the Reptile Army.
Speaking of Reptile Army,
why don't you guys go to reptilearmy.com?
You can get your swag.
Again, ten percent goes to USARK.
And every single week,
I'm gonna pick an old subscriber and a new subscriber
and give you some free swag.
Reptilearmy.com.
(country music)
- Lieutenant, I like the sound of that.
(Mike laughing)
I got a hand in!
Woo-woo!
- All right guys, two and a half hours.
Go get back at it.
(rock music)
Two hours until open.
The boys are definitely killing it.
Place looks amazing, and we are ready to open.
I think this place actually might have burned down.
- Oreo, good.
- Haagen Dazs.
(country music)
- It's not Dairy Queen, but this will do.
- Close second.
- [Brian] Hope you guys enjoyed today's video.
If you did, there's a playlist
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You can also hit that subscription button.
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Have a wonderful day, Reptile Army.
Remember, be kind to someone,
and I promise I'll see you in the next one.
- Who ate my ice cream?
Who did it?