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These fake tattoos are making sort of, like,
lizardy skin on me, which is, like,
only more appropriate for the Chicago Reptile House.
Michael: What you feeding?
Uh, fresh Gecko.
-Uh-huh. -He's about ready to go.
-Yeah. -He's old.
Oh, is he?
Sorry to hear that, man. Alright.
You can wear those if you want, if you're gonna be near here.
I'm just gonna, yeah. What are you doing?
I got to do the the -- the whities.
What do you get to do with them?
We got a lot of people coming in for feeders,
so, we're splicing feeders now.
-Spicing? -Splicing feeders.
What the hell is splicing?
With this thing. I don't know. It's like a...
Yeah, well, they're just feeders.
They're for people to feed,
like you're feeding your lizard.
Yeah. Yeah.
What are you gonna do with him?
Oh, it's, like, a process. It's a little gene splicer.
Really? Yeah.
So, he goes inside here. See this bottom?
Oh, yeah. That's wax almost like.
Uh-huh.
You know when you have a frog?
Like a taxidermy? Uh-huh.
Or when you're gonna try dissecting a frog?
Yeah. It's the same waxy bottom as that.
Okay, here we go.
[ Energy buzzing ]
[ Buzzing stops ] Okay.
So, because they're single-celled, they'll split.
[ Gasps ]
So, we use these as feeders instead.
[ Mice squeaking ]
It's just a more humane way of doing it.
Alright.
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Come here, little guy.
Yeah. You haven't seen us do this before?
We do the same thing with the crickets, too.
Anything that is a single-cell.
Yeah. Single-cell mammal or insect.
Yeah.
He doesn't want to go anywhere.
No, he doesn't want to go.
There's always one that's like the alpha,
so we'll keep him to grow.
Really? Yeah.
Then he can be split again.
These guys you want to just sell.
But the alpha we always keep.
Here we go.
Feisty, little guy, right?
Got to be locked in there.
Okay.
Yeah, you're standing back, right?
[ Laughing ] Don't be nervous.
No. I got to see this.
[ Laughs ]
Okay. Alright.
[ Energy buzzing ]
[ Buzzing stops ]
Alright.
These ones will be just a little bit small.
[ Mice squeaking ]
No freaking way.
Yeah.
Look at all those little guys.
Okay, hang on one second.
I'll get these guys in here.
Alright.
Yeah, we've been doing this for like the last three weeks.
Have you not been in here to see this?
For feeders, it's more humane to splice them.
Splice them.
You can do it with any simple-celled organism
up to 18 times,
and then they'll start to get a little...
you know, wonky.
We call them "floppers".
But those will work for feeders, too.
But...
Hang on. Let me grab your crickets, okay?
We got to get this guy some crickets.
That is freaking amazing.
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I'll grab those. Sorry about that.
How does it do that? Huh?
How does that do that?
It interrupts the cellular mitosis,
so this laser forces that action.
So, it just interrupts that, and the cells split.
That is freaking amazing. That was cool.
It's cool, right? It's like the Carbonaro Effect.
Do you know what that is?
No. The Carbonaro Effect?
"The Carbonaro Effect" -- it's the name
of a hidden-camera
magic TV show that you're on.
Ohh, [bleep]. My God!
Yes! [ Laughs ] Get out of here!
Yes. Come here, come here.
[ Laughs ]
You son of a gun.
I was like, "No way."
Dude. That was cool.
I'm going like, "There's no way you can do that".