Jay: She’s a little bit thinking
about biting me right now.
People ask me how many times I’ve been bitten,
I honestly ask them,
how many time have they farted?
They go, “That many?”
and I go, probably more.
Though I got to be careful.
Come on.
You coming out, aren't you?
Man these guys are giving me a huff.
My name’s Jay Brewer,
and I really like snakes.
You get what I’m saying?
I own this place called The Reptile Zoo,
and it’s been a childhood dream,
and it’s got all kinds of crazy cool,
crazy animals in it.
I said crazy twice.
We got Tarantula Spiders,
we’ve got all kinds of different kinds of snakes.
So right over here are actually my Gators.
This Iguana, is insane.
This is Rex.
There’s so many kinds of snakes,
we’ve got Tortoises.
And then we’ve got some
really cool stuff over this direction.
Look at this.
This wasn’t, this isn’t very thought out.
Okay,
this snake here is actually an Anaconda.
It’s eating its breakfast.
Hopefully this is be rolling, whatever.
Come here.
But those aren’t my biggest snakes,
so I think we need to get on the big snake.
What we are going to do right now,
we’re going to actually measure
my favorite snake.
That’s a Reticulated Python.
I really just want to know
how much she’s grown
in the last six months or year.
So I’m going to pick up the front,
come on girl,
come on.
This is my oldest daughter,
she was literally born here.
Laura: What did I, had two days off?
Jay: Actually, you were born
and the next day you had to come to work.
Laura: One day off.
There’s all these silly little photos of me,
like two years old in diapers carrying
around snakes all around me.
Jay: Laura is like the CFO,
I mean she’s not like the CFO,
she’s literally the CFO.
Aka president
Laura: I joke and I say that I make sure
that the place doesn’t burn down.
Jay: Okay,
The other side.
Other side.
Right here,
let’s pick her up.
Yeah yeah, right there.
Can we go all the way over there?
We will see if she wants to along
with this measuring.
Come on girl, now let’s see
if we can get you to straighten up.
You want to go that way?
This is where it gets a little complicate,
because we want her to do something that
she’s not wanting to do.
Oh, this is where it all goes wrong.
This is where it goes wrong.
Why are you, what are trying to get me to do?
I’m in charge.
When we’re dealing with an animal that's
capable of wrapping around a 200 pound
wild Boar and killing it, and eating it.
How do you aou muscle a muscle?
I mean it’s a solid muscle,
I mean you can see.
Now come back here Laura.
Give her a Chripratic ajustment.
We’re going to have to call it,
19 foot, 11 inches is what about I got out of that.
It’s actually more than that,
because I can’t get that kink out.
Just under twenty feet.
We try a lot of ways to measure
snake and it’s,
it’s not easy. Oh my gosh.
All this started from a childhood dream.
I think I like reptiles because I found a lot of
comfort.
When I was a kid I just, I had nothing.
Coming from an orphan background,
I would spend more time than most kids
would ever spend outside.
Seeing the different kinds of animals was
really fascinating to me.
I just decided that I wanted to
do something different for a living.
And I basically bought a small pet store
that had a little bit of reptiles.
And eventually turning into a reptile zoo.
I found that a lot of people are really
interested in things that they’re scared of.
Come on girl,
come this way.
See, so right there, you see that.
She’s a little bit, she’s a little bit thinking
about biting me right now.
So what I have to do,
in order to prevent her from getting
escalated into a problem,
is that I’ll just take her heart,
take her perfect target away.
And I’ll touch her for a minute.
and now, I’m back to normal snake.
But she would have struck me right in the face
if I’d kept going forward.
Laura: Jay’s to the extreme,
so I sort of reel him in a little bit.
Jay: Laura’s gone, right?
Come on,
you don’t want that, do you?
Come on.
This one’s quick.
Come on.
Good, you don’t want that do you?
Come on.
Come on. Oh hey, that’s my foot.
Come on,
there you go.
Come on.
Yeah.
That is cool.
Anything venomous,
is truly dangerous.
Anything nonvenomous,
come on, we’ll put you back together.
It is.
As we see in this video.
Though I got to be careful.
We’ve had to have few stitches
here and there.
Today we’re actually going to do a
Gaboon Viper video for YouTube
and Instagram.
Have you ever been bitten by one of these guys?
Jay: God no and I hope I never am or anybody that ever works for me.
A venomous snake, you don’t want to get bitten by it.
I almost died from a venomous snake in the wild.
I have to invest all my
years of experience
into staying calm, cool, collect.
Okay guys, so check this out.
Gaboon Vipers have
long fangs,
the longest fan of any venomous snake in the world.
So, I’ll be a little bit careful.
Is that incredible or what.
These are actually one of the fastest
Vipers there are,
especially left to right.
So I’m going to go ahead and block this direction.
Come on girl,
look at that.
A girl like this spot a solid 2 inches long fangs,
and
the amount of venom that they can actually
shoot at one time into their prey is astonishing.
Look how incredible that is.
Is that an incredible snake or what?
The rule of dangerous snakes,
is real simple,
don’t mess with them.
Look cool?
You ready?
Laura: Yeah.
Jay: It can’t come towards you at all,
I don’t want you to get too close to it.
Come on!
Press the damn button.
That’s close [can] get.
Okay, I’m done.
Come on girl,
back in.
we survived.
So right over here are actually my Gators.
We’ve raised these from babies.
So we’ve got, this is [Durf],
right here.
They’re all looking like hmm, hmm, Scooby snack?
Laura: Gator feeding time.
Jay: Come on.
Come on boy. Come on, okay.
Come on. He went down, okay.
Hey! You’re coming out aren’t you? [] for reality here.
Laura: No no no.
Jay: Okay.
I thought we had a little reality series is going to happen.
Now the good news is, if he’d to come out,
that’s why Tim is right there.
Because in the end of the day,
we go to make sure that he doesn’t go that way.
If he does, that’s where I have to jump in and deal with it.
Okay, oh! Okay,
come on.
Come on. Oh!
Wow. How is that for a snap?
Did you hear that laura?
Laura: Mm-hmm.
Jay: That was crazy.
Laura: I’m watching you.
Jay: This Iguana is like,
“Just,
just scratch scratch my back won’t you?”
I never thought I’ll be successful.
I never, I always knew I was going to try,
but I never thought I could do this well.
I mean I’ve been able to work with my family,
it’s kind of funny. This is, it’s a big deal to me.
Another bite?
I’m hungry too.
There you go.
So Bekam is part of the family.
Starting from, what I consider pretty
close to the bottom,
how can a little kid that literally
was orphaned at 14
and have 500 bucks and nowhere to live,
dream that big,
you know what I mean?
Living the dream is literally
allowing yourself take the risk
to find your way in life.
Saddle up guys,
peace out.