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- Tell you what, this is unbelievable.
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Hey good morning and welcome to the vlog.
I am down here in Homestead, Florida,
and we are actually at Tom Crutchfield's,
one of the legends of reptiles.
We are here to see a bunch of cool venomous snakes,
Rhino iguanas, I mean all kinds of great stuff.
It's gonna be an absolutely amazing time,
and I hope that guys have an amazing day too.
What do you say we just go ahead on into
this building and see what he's got going on?
So we're in the venomous room right now
and actually got to pack up a pair of Gaboon vipers
and a pair of Rhino vipers.
Big ones too, look at the size of these things
so this should be an absolute great way to start the day,
definitely a big treat.
We're gonna watch the masters do this one
because I'm gonna sit back and let them do it.
That is a big snake right there.
Unbelievable.
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Wow.
- See when you don't scare him, if I grab his tail,
it'll get all pissed off, if I
don't grab his tail, it won't.
- He makes it look easy trust me,
that is dangerous as you can believe,
but he's been working with venomous
for 50 years right Tom?
And again you can see a lot of people get bit
when you're actually bagging the snake.
They have the bag actually pinned to the side
of the garbage can that way you know
the snake is below the part that you're twisting.
You never wanna twist when you don't know
where the head of the snake is,
because there's always a chance though.
That is the safe, professional way
to pack a Gaboon Viper.
Here goes number two.
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- Be a tree, see how I'm not holding it,
but yet I'm holding it? See my hands open?
- [Girl] Hey Puffer, bye Puffer.
- Now we're moving on to some the most
beautiful venomous snakes ever,
of course, Rhino vipers.
Oh my gosh.
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- See how they're not afraid when you pick 'em up right?
Makes it way safer for me.
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- That's pretty epic, I mean,
it's just cool to see all those years of experience.
The calm, like just kinda reading the animal very well.
And that's what it's really about
is just the reading of the animal,
staying unbelievably calm.
I mean that, you can't get more
professional then what we just saw.
It's definitely a big treat for sure.
One of the crazy things here,
is that Tom literally has some
Rhino iguanas that are just free range.
I mean they're just out here and they can go anywhere.
Oh my gosh, this is amazing.
Look at these guys, hey bud.
- This is a Mangshan viper,
Protobothrops mangshanensis.
It's a big pit viper from China.
They actually have a very small
range, about 60 square kilometers
I think, in the wild in the Mangshan Mountain.
And, we're working on a breeding project
with 'em, and have for a long time, have been.
And this one will be 11 years old this next year.
And I've had her since she hatched.
- [Brian] And you're one of the first
private probably people to have these right?
- Yeah, certainty. - Wow.
- We're also sensing the females look a little different
then the males do.
- [Brian] And this is a girl?
- This is a female, yeah.
- [Brian] I found Mothra.
- These things are cool, they trip me out.
Whoa!
Wow!
They're so weird, they're so like, alien like.
Look at those eyes.
Oh!
- [Brian] Well, goodbye Mothra.
- You should of put that next to the Rhino iguana,
be like Godzilla versus Mothra round two.
That would of been so cool dude.
- Just another iguana just running
around the yard.
Oh my gosh.
So Tom, are you the only one that's doing this then?
- That I know of.
- Wow, that's amazing.
And, Tom had told up before that,
ya know with his trips down to Hispaniola,
that he had thought that maybe these animals would
just kinda stay in an area,
so he decided to let 'em loose in the yard.
They could climb out if they wanted to.
- They could, the wall acts as a perimeter
there's a wall around the whole property,
and if they really tried, they could.
But, their range, their home range
is not so much that they would.
You know, and besides, this is where they live.
- Yup.
Oh my gosh, I love it.
Oh my gosh, they're just such incredible animals, wow.
There's so many amazing animals at Tom's obviously,
but one of the things I love
is some of the non-venomous snakes that he works with.
Of course, one of my favorite pythons of all time
are the Angolan Pythons, I guess because I love ball pythons
and this is just kind of a really cool animal
that has a smaller range obviously but,
they're ball python-like,
but they act nothing like a ball python.
Their behavior is completely different.
I love 'em and they get larger,
they never really ball up,
they're always curious.
I mean, they're just such beautiful animals.
Oh, I just love whenever I get a chance
to hold one I'm definitely gonna do it.
Tom has his own line of albino
called the Crutchfield line,
which is really most beautiful line
of Albino Iguanas, but,
these ones here are something else.
These are the Super Crimsons right?
- Well basically it's an Albino Super Red Iguana.
That's what it is yeah.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
And as this gets older you say this--
- It'll just turn solid red all over,
it won't have a yellow belly either.
It's a Crimson like the ones in there
it'll be red on top but with a yellow belly.
- [Brian] Yeah.
- Just like regular red ones are red with the green belly.
- [Brian] Wow.
- But these won't.
- And just to give you guys
a little bit of a contrast,
this is a normal Crutchfield Albino.
Stunning, stunning, stunning animal.
But those Super Crimson's are ridiculous.
But I tell you what, even the normal Albinos
are absolutely incredible.
And you can really tell the difference
with the Crutchfield by just how much yellow they get.
Ya know, some of the other Albinos
are absolutely gorgeous, but these guys
are definitely a step up for sure.
- I had this almost 20 years now, yeah.
And he was this big when I got it.
- Oh my gosh.
What a gorgeous animal.
Not sure what's in this box,
but Tommy said to take it off,
so I'm pretty excited about it.
It's gotta be something amazing.
Aw, some Timbers.
Oh my gosh they are absolutely incredible.
Oh!
And of course, Croc Monitors are absolutely the pinnacle
of Monitors, in my opinion.
Just one step down from Komodos.
So I'm going to follow Tom into the big Croc Monitor's cage.
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- Come on, come on down.
See how he's careful?
- [Brian] Yeah, just so gentle, wow.
- Now my hands been handling all
the rats and stuff, watch.
You wanna lick my fingers?
Don't be scared.
So you telling me it doesn't know the difference?
- [Brian] Oh it definitely does.
- Yeah.
See how he gently took it?
- Definitely one of the things I was really excited to do
when I came down to Tom's is see this girl here.
Oh my gosh, now that is an amazing Reticulated Python.
And just really the perfect
kind of dimensions all around right?
Not only does she got that really big head,
I mean just take a look at that right there,
But also just kind of that perfect as far as size goes.
Ya know, it's big enough to be super impressive,
but not so big that it's overweight.
I'll tell you what, this is unbelievable.
And I'm gonna be totally honest with you,
I don't know if it's because when I was younger,
that, all there was was normal Reticulated Pythons,
But still out of all of the Reticulated Pythons,
I still think that normal Reticulated Pythons
are some of the beautiful ones that I've ever seen.
It's really impressive to see an animal this size.
I just want a puppy, I mean, I love it.
It's worth the trip just to see this animal.
I always talk about how I love
the Florida area where you can
keep so much stuff outside,
and Tom literally keeps like Diamond Pythons,
Dominican Island Boas, Crutious Zebrada,
all kinds of different stuff in these cages.
And it's really amazing, I mean, I just love it.
Ya know, it's cool to be outside,
it's even cooler to see a bunch of animals outside.
The only downside of living in Michigan.
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Oh my gosh that is crazy.
Oh my gosh.
Okay I didn't realize I can give Bella bread.
I guess that we're gonna give that a shot.
Don't eat the rock.
- Can you lean towards me?
- [Brian] Yeah he just wants pets.
- [Girl] He's a sweetheart.
- What you doing huh?
All a matter of just never ever scaring him.
As a baby, this was never touched once.
- Wow. - Ever.
- [Brian] Really?
- Never.
At a few years old, he began to change,
he's about 16 years old now.
I hatched him, and now he just loves people.
- So it's really interesting to see
Tommy and Tai's kind of philosophy
of handling these animals and behavior.
Tai thinks you should handle them right away,
Tom thinks you should wait util they come to you.
Either way, it both works right?
So it's interesting and I love coming to places like this
'cause it always changes my kind of whole philosophy.
I try to adapt to their thinking
and actually apply it to things
that are at The Reptarium, so it's been an amazing trip.
Oh gosh, look at pretty those are.
Wow.
Guys we're about to wrap up, we're gonna check out
some cobras and then we're hitting the road,
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We're now in the cobra area, which you know
I absolutely love.
Oh my gosh.
This one, I remember this snake.
This snake is so beautiful.
(snake hisses) - Whoa!
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What a snake, huh?
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- It's like a dance, you get used to it.
Tom is batting a thousand just so you know.
- [Brian] Yeah I can see it, you always are.
- What I do is I use their behavior against them.
- [Brian] Right.
- I know what they're gonna do before they do it,
or I can make them do things I want them to do.
Knowing how they'll behave depending on what I do.
That's why I've never been hurt by hardly anything.
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You gotta see him.
- See that?
- [Brian] Magic.
- Looks like it but it's not.
It's that, she's watching me,
she's watching me watching me,
all of a sudden she can't see me.
So what she's going to do when she can't see me
is pull back so she can see me and defend.
So if she goes back in the box,
it looks like I did a magic trick but I didn't,
I just used her behavior against her that's all.
- I tell you what guys that was absolutely amazing.
What a bunch of really cool animals,
and hanging out with someone that's been
doing reptiles for 50 years has been
absolutely incredible for me to learn and kind of just see
what he is doing here.
I'll be totally honest with you,
I still love the Croc Monitors, I still
love the Rhino Iguanas.
They were kind of at the top for me.
Oh my god, I hope that you guys enjoyed it.
We actually have to head off because I'm hooking up
with my friend Mario.
He has some really crazy stuff,
I mean lions and tigers and chimpanzees.
So we're gonna go do that then we are back to Orlando
and then flying home.
So one more day on this trip before
we head back home to The Reptarium
and BHB and all that other stuff.
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