(techno music in background)
- Take a look at him, oh my gosh.
I think he likes you.
- I don't know!
- The problem is, I smell like processed meat, so...
(laughter)
- There he goes.
(music intensifies)
- Hey, good morning everybody.
Welcome to the vlog.
I was actually supposed to be on my way
to Indianapolis right now, but unfortunately,
I'm not feeling very well, so, instead,
I want to spend some time with this guy right here.
As a matter of fact Owen gave me
this gift of feeling sick, let's go talk to Eric
and see what's going on.
Hey Eric, what's going on dude?
- Nothing, man, it's good to have you back.
- [Brian] You excited to see me again?
- What's going on, yeah!
- [Brian] By the way, I wanted to thank you,
you're such a giving person.
- I am, I am, what did I give you?
- You gave me your terrible cold.
- Yeah, I figured that was what you were going to say.
- You spread it all over the place!
- I'm so sorry.
- No, seriously, I forgive you, it's okay.
- Thank you, at least everyone's sick at the same time,
we can all help each other out.
(both laugh)
- [Brian] But I can't wait to show you what I got,
I got some cool stuff.
- Oh, I know, I'm so excited.
I cannot wait, can we go right now?
- [Brian] Yes!
- Alright, let's go!
- Now that I've blamed Eric for my cold,
I want to show you, last night,
when we actually unboxed and put away
the new monitor lizard, I was in awe.
Literally, even after a long, tiring road,
I stayed here for an hour just watching the animal,
'cause I was so absolutely amazed.
I gotta tell you guys, literally my entire life,
I wanted a pet dinosaur like this one,
so this is what happened last night.
Here is an animal that I've been waiting to get
ever since we started building out the zoo,
I talked to Kevin, and I told him
that I wanted a really nice tame bigger water monitor,
and he said he had this little dude here,
hanging out with, that was kind of a pet of his,
that was really chill.
Now, I think it's going to be an amazing animal,
and I am so excited to see what it does.
Take a look at him!
Oh, my gosh, what an amazing dude.
Hey, bud, do you like your cage already?
Are you already gonna go?
Oh my gosh.
Look at that, that it awesome!
We only got a chance to mess around with him
a little bit at Kevin's place, so to see him out like this,
oh my gosh, how freakin' awesome is that?
It's literally like a little pet dinosaur.
What's up, bud?
What are you doing, you're just chilling out?
And again, I think that we'll give him
a little bit of time to kind of get
habituated to his cage, and then we'll
let people pet him and stuff like that,
he's gonna be another animal that
we're gonna be able to take out all the time,
just like Tazzy and Potato and all these guys,
but, oh my God, you are such a cool dude!
What's up, buddy?
Oh, my gosh, you are so awesome!
Let's go see what Lori thinks of him.
Go see Lori, go see Lori!
- I don't know about all that.
- [Brian] What do you think, Lori?
- Are you sure he's tame?
- [Brian] Yes, he's super, look at him!
He's not even afraid of you!
- [Lori] Yeah, well, that doesn't mean much.
- [Brian] Look at him, you can just
pet him on his head, look at it!
Hey, buddy!
(Brian laughs)
How awesome is that, huh?
Isn't that pretty wild?
- Yeah, well, I don't know him yet,
and he doesn't know me, so we'll see.
- [Brian] Look at him, I think he likes you!
- I don't know.
- [Brian] Oh, my gosh, I think he likes you,
he's just all about, oh my God, he's just totally
smelling you, like, what's up?
Oh, my God, he is so freakin' awesome!
What do you think?
- Well, I'm nervous, that's what I think,
I don't know this animal.
- [Brian] You can pet him, he's super good.
- I don't know.
- [Brian] He's not going to do anything.
- He seems a bit nervous about me, so maybe I'll wait.
- Oh my gosh, look at this dude!
Oh, my gosh, I love him!
What's up, buddy?
What are you doing?
Hi, sweetheart!
So, there you have it, guys, when you come
into the Reptarium, we have another little dinosaur
for you guys to check out.
He also needs a name, again, he is an Asian water monitor.
Let me know in the comments what you guys think.
I could not be more excited about him
joining the animal ambassadors here at the reptarium.
Alright, so this is the part I really like, too,
is letting him go, again, he was in a relatively smaller,
kind of, minimal type of caging,
spent a lot of time out, habituating himself
to humans and stuff like that,
but I'm sure he's never seen anything
quite like this terracing, and this cage has been,
for him, ever since we started, there's never been
anything in here, 'cause this was specifically for him.
I just thought it would be amazing.
Look, he has some area to burrow, here,
he's got areas he can hide, climb up,
right by the basking light, and I wanna see
how he's gonna do, so I'm just gonna go ahead,
let him climb up in here, on his own,
and let him explore his new cage.
There, you go, bud, what do you think?
There you go, buddy.
Again, the area right over here is his basking spot,
but he can come over here and cool down,
he's got UV light.
It's gonna be a cage that'll be pretty
easy to go in and get him out,
and I wanna just let him have his own fun.
Oh my gosh, it's like a little dinosaur!
I'm so happy.
Oh my gosh.
I tell Eric, I was dead serious, I have
wanted this animal, an animal just like him,
for years and years and years, you know.
Oh my... I can't even believe I got him!
Oh my gosh, I...
I'm freaking out right now, I'm not gonna
lie to you all, gosh, look at this!
Oh my gosh, what's up buddy?
He loves it!
Look at him.
This is the coolest thing ever.
Oh my gosh, Lucy looks amazing today.
Look at her, I love when she's
just right out here in the front.
You're looking gorgeous, girl!
Now I get to show the crew my new monitor,
I love this guy.
We need a name for him by the way.
We gotta come up with something,
you guys got any ideas?
- Nothing yet.
- You're putting us on the spot!
- Yeah!
- You guys think, oh, we can't just
call him a monitor, we need a name for him!
What do you guys think, is this
thing ridiculous, or what?
Look at his just...
- [Eric] Yeah, get out, so...
- [Woman] He's so curious about everything.
- [Brian] I know, it just kind of hangs out,
it's just weird to think that there's
a monitor like this, that's like a puppy dog.
I mean, you can see he's just...
He's not upset, he's not nervous,
he doesn't run or fly, he's pretty cool.
- Yeah, he's pretty cool, I'm still
warming up to him, that's why I'm
standing back a little bit.
- [Brian] Get up here Eric, get over here.
- [Eric] You're definitely a little intimidating,
but man, he is so cool!
- [Brian] Get over here Eric,
(Eric laughs)
get a little farm time with him.
- Oh, I touched him, we're good, no I'm just kidding.
He seems really cool, I can't wait for
him to warm up to us, and I know that
being so intelligent, I'm sure once he's here for
a little while and around the people, he'll really warm up.
He's so big!
I didn't realize he was so big.
- [Brian] I know, he's so awesome!
I have wanted something like this for
really my whole life, I mean it's like
having a little pet dinosaur, you know?
- [Woman] It really is. - [Eric] He's so tame!
- [Noah] Nice jaws, man.
- [Brian] (laughs) He's alright.
Oh my gosh.
- Hey, buddy!
Problem is, I smell like processed meat,
so he probably...
(all yell)
- [Brian And Eric] There he goes, there he goes.
- [Noah] What the heck, Eric?
- What did I do, what did I do,
did I hit the wrong button on this thing, or what?
That looks like, I don't know.
He's comfortable, at least he's nice
and comfortable around us, enough to just spill it out.
I'm glad I'm not cleaning this stuff up,
or do I have to clean it up, I don't know.
- [Brian] Can you get that?
- I'll get that, I'll get that.
(all laugh)
- I know this guy's only been in here
for literally about 12 or 14 hours,
but I'm gonna go ahead and see if he wants to eat.
(lizard snaps)
- Oh yeah, oh, there it is.
Oh my gosh, that was quick, buddy!
Do you want another one?
Calm, calm, there you go.
There you go sweetheart, way to go, way to go!
Are you good, are you good now?
There you go bud, don't bite.
Good job, buddy, good job, way to go.
That is awesome!
That is great news when they eat like that,
that means that they're getting some...
He seems to love his cage, he loves crawling around,
I mean this is absolutely exactly what we're hoping for.
Oh my gosh, that is awesome.
So again, that is absolutely great news.
When an animal comes in and eats right away,
that really means that it's settling in.
Well, we knew we had to beef it up a little bit.
Kevin even had said that they were keeping
it a little bit on the slim side,
'cause they didn't have a really big
cage for it to move into, so we're probably
giving it a little bit of a meal.
But listen, with big snakes, and with big monitors,
you don't want them, to be fat.
Definitely want to keep them on
the lean side, because when they get fat,
that's how they die.
So we definitely are gonna keep
this guy a little bit smaller, but he definitely
could use a little bit of weight,
and the fact that he ate,
that is absolutely amazing.
So I have two other animals that
I'm gonna show you tomorrow.
That's right, I'm gonna continue to tease you guys.
Two more animals I picked up from
Kevin out at Nerd Den.
Again, I am gonna let you guys see 'em tomorrow.
But for now, I did want to show you
one other animal that I think is really cool,
take a look at this dude right here.
This of course, is a Cuban knight anole,
and my buddy Michael over at
Boas and Balls actually gave it to me.
And typically these guys are a little
bit crazy when it comes to attitude,
but this one is absolutely amazing.
Take a look at that right there.
How awesome is that?
Where you going buddy, it's okay!
So I am super excited to have this guy on display,
and apparently, it eats right off of tongues,
which is gonna be really cool as well.
This guy's cool, so thank you Mike,
this is a great addition to the reptarium.
I knew Kelsey and Mary would really
be into this one here, I mean,
do you love him, or what?
- [Kelsey] Amazing. - Beautiful, so beautiful.
- [Brian] And you said name should be Pearl?
- I like Pearl.
- I told you guys I needed a name
for this little one here,
let me know if you like the name Pearl,
if not, comment down below.
But I have to show you these ones,
but there's another animal that
I really wanted to show you,
it's my new pet dinosaur.
You guys are gonna love this one.
It is so cool.
Isn't this guy crazy?
What you doing silly, where you going?
Don't leave us!
- [Kelsey We just met!
- [Brian] Bye!
- [Kelsey] Hey buddy!
- [Brian] Noah, Eric, what the heck?
I got a couple things to talk to you guys about.
You had a vlog that you just posted,
I just watched, Noah, and there's a couple
of things that wanna say.
Number one...
- [Eric] Are we in trouble?
- So these guys are supposed to,
when I'm not around, they're supposed
to be educating people and stuff like that.
- We do!
- So a couple things I wanna say.
Number one, you said that live birthers...
- Live birthers, reptiles, you know, bunnies, live birth.
- [Brian] Live birthers can take a long time.
- A long time.
- I don't know what live birthers.
The other thing you said, is you know a lot,
but you don't know too much.
- That's right.
See, it makes you think, I want you to think.
- [Brian] And Noah, you didn't help
out teach anybody about-
- What?
- [Brian] You're saying you want
to put 90 chameleons in a cage,
the cage is bottom loose.
- Free range, that'll be sick.
- That'll be sick!
- We got millions coming out everywhere,
you dump a thousand crickets, you sit back and watch.
- Oh my God.
These guys, I mean literally,
I'm gone for a couple of days,
and these guys have pretty much taken away all the education
I've done for the last ten years.
It's worth the watch, it's a pretty good laugh.
Go ahead, put the link in the description,
check it out, leave a comment,
how many things that these guys said wrong in eight minutes.
- I like to think of myself,
we're animal educators, okay, I'm certified.
- Yeah, I know, I don't get why it was wrong.
We didn't say anything wrong.
- We're shaping the youth of America.
- Okay, okay, you guys keep it up,
you guys keep it up.
I gotta be honest with you guys,
I have been feeling terrible the last few days.
You know there's been a bug going around,
BHB, I jokingly blamed it on Eric,
but the truth is, the bug's been going around,
and almost everyone's been sick,
and I have been running like crazy for
the last three months or so, without any
kind of light nights, and working 20 plus
hours a day, many days, so I am
gonna definitely shut the vlog down here
in a minute, but I wanted to tell you guys,
thank you for everything that you do for me.
I cannot even express how happy I am
right now, I mean,
this reptile zoo has literally changed my life.
I am so unbelievably grateful, and so happy,
I come in and I am just overwhelmed with happiness.
Without you guys, that wouldn't have been possible.
I know a few people have said,
"Brian, it's getting kinda boring,
we know about the zoo, you need to
change your content up."
Listen guys, this is my life,
I wanna share with you my life.
Let me know if you guys are starting to get bored,
or whatever the case is.
I do the best to show you different things every day.
I don't want it to be boring for you guys,
and I certainly don't wanna lose you
guys as supporters, because you are
such a big part of my life,
and such a big part of everything that I do.
I really truly do thank you guys for everything,
I love you guys so much.
But I'm telling you, it is amazing.
For everyone that's come to visit, thank you.
For those of you that are just watching, thank you.
For those of you that might come
in the future, thank you.
It has been amazing, and every time
we add more and more animals,
it gets even more exciting for me.
And I've got a couple big surprises.
Yes, tomorrow, I'm gonna show you
a few things I already picked up,
but I've got a couple things coming over
the next few weeks that are gonna blow your mind.
I mean, things that are like, oh my gosh,
animals that I've wanted forever,
and I cannot believe they're on their way!
So stay tuned for some pretty exciting times coming up.
With that being said, I am gonna go ahead,
shut the vlog down, get home a little early tonight,
get some rest, and hopefully feel
right as rain tomorrow.
Thank you as always, and I hope that
you have a wonderful day.
Can you do me a couple favors before we get outta here?
Can you smash that like button,
turn those post notifications,
so that you know when I upload a video.
Make sure to comment down below,
I wanna read about you guys, I love reading about you guys.
Be kind to someone, and I promise,
I will see you guys tomorrow.
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