- Hey good morning everybody and
welcome to the Vlog
and today's the big day,
I'm so excited.
Today is our one year anniversary celebration.
I don't know if anyone's gonna show up
but we're gonna set up a bunch of stuff outside.
We're gonna get animals out there,
we're gonna have things opened up here.
It's a long day 12 to 8 today.
So, it's early in the morning,
we're just getting going.
We got a lot to do
so let's go ahead and
just jump right into it.
First bit of business actually
this morning is to set tents up here
in the parking lot.
We're actually gonna have
people parking in the back lot,
so this is gonna be shut down,
we're gonna have animals out here,
some face painting,
tattoos, all kinds of cool stuff out here.
Temporary tattoos, but anyways,
we're gonna set up all of the tents out here
get tables out where we can put animals
so that is our first bit of business for the morning.
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- First tent is up!
(Chuckles) and we did it without instructions
so it was a little tricky 'cause we weren't exactly
sure how to do it but nevertheless,
this is the first tent,
we're gonna have three tents here,
again, there's gonna be like tables with animals here
as well as some tables down there
with some food and beverages and
stuff like that, face painting,
all that stuff that I talked about.
So, hey, it's starting to come together and
I think it's like T minus two hours.
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- And we're officially all set,
we have everything set up here.
Got all the tents up.
We're gonna have animals here, here, there.
Over here we'll just have like beverages and food,
over here we're gonna have the raffle table.
Hopefully people will show up.
Again, now it's an hour and a half
before we get going.
Gotta get into The Reptarium and
make sure everything's in good and
tip top shape over there.
Definitely nervous,
you guys know
I always get nervous about this.
Hopefully people are gonna show up
and have a good day.
I don't know what's gonna happen
but we're gonna have a fun time regardless.
- [Brian] Are you excited?
- Yes, I'm excited. (chuckles)
- [Brian] You think people are gonna show up?
- I think people will show up,
but it's gonna be a party
whether people show up or not.
- [Brian] Okay, alright.
Oh my god. How are you?
- Great, how are you?
Happy One Year.
Compliments of Steve Basche.
- I'm so--
So you know my friend, Steve.
He's the one who built my
filtration system for the alligators and
you're amazing too. Thank you for coming
all this way and hanging out.
And this has got to be laser cut I'm assuming?
- Laser cut.
- Oh my god! Well, thank you, I'm gonna take this
- You got it? It's heavy!
- [Brian] I got it, I got it.
- Don't eat the whole thing because
of how much weight you'll gain.
- I don't need that, I don't need that! Well thank you
it's gonna be a fun day, it's gonna be a fun day.
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- Guess who else is in the house?
Of course my buddy Scott's in the house, but KB Reptile!
- Hey! How you doin'?
- [Brian] What's going on, sportin' the good shirt,
I love it, Ben and Jerry's.
Thank you guys for coming.
- Thank you, no problem.
Speaking of shirts, we got a little something to
commemorate the one year at The Reptarium, so,
- Let's see!
Okay, here we go
Oh my god, I love it! Make Tokay Awesome.
I gotta do a run of this shirt,
I've gotta do a run of those shirts. That is awesome.
Thank you guys, you guys are awesome.
- Thank you very much!
- [Brian] Make Tokay Awesome, I'm gonna wear that today.
- There you go!
- Just gettin' ready, almost to that time
How you guys doin'? Thank you for comin'! I appreciate
you guys, thank you so much!
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- It's going good guys, look at this!
We got all these raffle tickets, that's a lot of people!
Right? We're busy. We're, uh, we're out here havin'
a good time, we're drinkin' some Coca-Cola, oh wait no,
this is Pepsi. We're drinkin' some, you can't see what
it is, but, mmm,
is it good.
Anyways, you know, I got a lizard right there, right?
You know, we're havin' a good time, one year anniversary
you know, if you didn't come, you should've came.
You missed out, and you'll never be the same. Dab.
- So, things are going pretty great here, I've got
Irwin, our blue tongue skink, and I've got one of
our Woma pythons out that I'm showing off,
and people are loving them, they're doing really well.
Things are going great today!
- This is phenomenal, we're so excited to be
part of it, to be here, the crowd keeps comin' in,
inside's packed, outside's packed, love it.
- It's awesome, we're so, like, thankful that we had
an opportunity to get here. I mean, how can we miss it?
- Absolutely. One year, see the family, we love it!
- Okay, as you can tell, super good turn out,
we're having a really good time, getting to meet
a lot of great people, and couldn't ask for a better day,
really, I mean beautiful day here in Michigan for a change,
and, uh, I gotta get back to work!
- So we're here, it is our one year party
it's amazing, so many people have come to visit
from all over. We have locals, new people, old people,
all of it is so great. Um, we're having a really fun time
over here.
- We're about an hour into the event right now,
we just had our first raffle for the alligator feeding,
absolutely humbled by the amount of people
that came out and are hanging out with us.
Not only outside, but the zoo inside is packed with people.
So, uh, we're having a great time,
and seeing a lot of new faces,
which I'm super excited about.
Again, remember all those times when I was like
"Oh my God, no one's gonna show up!" Uh, I'm just that way.
I'm so grateful, so humbled, and so blessed that so many
people are coming out and hopefully really enjoying
their opportunity to see these amazing animals.
- So, I tell you, one of the coolest things that happened
today, and sometimes this happens when you've got
a place that's open to the public, is you run into people
that you've missed for a long time,
and believe it or not, these are actually my family
that I haven't seen forever!
Now here's the thing, I'm gonna let you guys
follow this through, this is my step-dad's, son's son,
Ryan and their family, and they found me, I'm so happy.
So, I guess I'm actually your great uncle.
I don't wanna talk about that part, but it is so awesome
to see you guys and awesome to meet you, you come
visit any time, alright?
Okay, you guys are awesome. Thank you so much.
- Hi, Jay!
- [Jay] Hey, how's everything going?
- Oh my gosh, it's so busy! It's so awesome.
So many happy people. Thirsty, I'm selling lots of drinks.
- [Jay] That's what I'm talkin' about.
- Keepin' 'em hydrated so they can keep holding animals.
- It's great being here, celebrating Brian's one year
anniversary at The Reptarium, I love seeing everybody
and handling the animals and showing people
what these animals are all about,
and just getting everybody acclimated
and comfortable with everything.
Hope everyone's having a great time too.
- Okay, so a customer wanted to see this
beautiful Mojave Russo male. So I came downstairs
and I found him in the correct drawer,
and I picked him up all by myself. Without any help.
- [Jay] Is this a big deal?
- This is a big deal, I've never done this before.
- [Jay] I'm super proud of you.
- Thank you, I'm proud of myself.
- Alright, so we got RJ out for everyone to meet.
He is always a crowd favorite. He's an absolutely
beautiful animal. I love this guy to death,
and I know everyone else does, I mean, after all,
when can you go hang out with a 6 foot, hundred pound
alligator that's friendly, right?
So let's go have some fun.
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- We met Brian back in March, and we've been here
a few times since. We're just from right outside of
Detroit, in Dearborn Heights.
And uh, we're glad the weather held out,
it's a beautiful day.
- Havin' fun! Celebrating the one year anniversary.
- Beautiful day, beautiful animals.
- Came to town to, uh, celebrate the one year anniversary
of The Reptarium. Took the day off work, and decided
I'm driving in from Dayton, Ohio, man.
And it's everything I thought it was going to be.
Been inside The Reptarium, all around these people are
treating me like a first class citizen here.
It's been awesome, I'm having the time of my life.
Thank you.
- Came a long way from Pittsburgh to see the
first year anniversary of BHB.
Got to pick up this beautiful molly cornsnake,
and just crazy to see how much people came out to show love
and support Brian and The Reptarium, and everything.
- In my wildest dreams, I couldn't have expected it to
be this way, I mean we're, what, four hours into this
or so, and still tons of people outside.
I mean, it's so humbling. I mean, it's been a blast, too.
I mean, it's been so much more fun, I was worried about
being stressed out, and honestly, this has been,
I mean literally, way beyond my wildest expectations.
It's been awesome, man.
- Alright, we got some people over here,
we got some people over there,
and we're gonna feed Argumus Prime.
This has been a fun night,
so we're trying to do some fun events.
I'm gonna stand just over here so I'm not in your guy's way.
And have at it.
- [Handler] Is she unlocked?
- [Brian] I'll get down here so I'm not blocking anybody,
I see this all the time.
- [Handler] I'll just like, have the ball,
once he touches it, you can just feed him
but, just, he's gonna be running and stuff.
Right here, right there.
Okay, now we're going to run him.
Alright, give it to him.
Here we go.
- [Brian] Run him on top of me.
- [Handler] Alright, you ready?
- I'm not, I'm probably gonna die.
- [Handler] Yeah, probably.
- I love you guys! Goodbye!
(animal clattering)
- Alright, we're gonna go ahead and feed Elvis.
- Next up is my guy Elvis,
looks like Bella's gonna be a spectator on this one.
So, we'll get Elvis out and we'll have some fun feeding him.
- [Handler] Come here
- [Kid] Whoa! That's cool!
- [Handler] Did you give it to him yet?
- [Brian] We're gonna get him real up and close to you!
- [Kid] No! I don't wanna!
- [Woman] Don't be afraid, he's not after you.
- [Brian] Elvis, up! Up! Up! C'mon, all the way up!
Keep going
And now you can give it to him.
C'mon Elvis, c'mon, down.
Okay, next up!
There you go, you guys did great!
- It's about six o'clock, it's been a crazy long day!
Really amazing, what did you guys think?
- I like it, people make us a lot of stuff, you know?
- [Brian] Oh, yeah. You got all kinds of stuff.
- Yeah, I got... where did it go? Got a little chain.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh!
- Watch out! That's icing.
- Yeah, I mean honestly, it blew my mind.
I did not, I expected people, but wow.
This was a huge turn out.
And I tell you what, it just, it means so much.
It's just amazing so many people came from far, from close,
and yeah, it just really makes us happy.
- I mean seriously, anyone that came, thank you so much.
Anyone that wanted to come that couldn't come,
I appreciate you.
Your guys' support is so humbling to us,
and this day was unbelievable.
Thank you for making it so incredible.
We still have a couple hours to go so who knows
what the night's going to bring, but,
so far, it's been amazing.
- Hey Brian! What you gonna do?
- You guys are awesome.
Alright, so we are gonna feed Butterscotch,
Butterscotch is definitely ready to go!
So the deal is, is that Bruce is going to
keep you guys alive, hopefully.
Can't make any promises, buddy, sorry.
Uh, and then, we're hoping that she'll catch this rabbit
in the air. She's definitely ready to go.
Let's give it a shot.
- [Brian] Ah! She got it before I could get her to stop
So I was hoping to throw it and have her catch it,
but she got it before I could,
she did a little bit of strike.
Anyways, there she goes.
Alright, you ready to go in with her, buddy?
- Well, it's after seven o'clock now,
we have about, I don't know, 45 minutes to go,
there's still a bunch of people over here on the other side.
A bunch of people outside still.
Amazing day. Thank you for allowing me to bring you guys
along, this is a very special day for us.
A year ago, it was life changing,
honestly, what happened a year ago when we opened up
The Reptarium, changed my life forever,
and changed the direction I wanted to go as a business.
More towards education, big habitats that I absolutely love,
and we're going to continue to do this through the future,
so today was incredible. The turn out was incredible.
I'm humbled by it.
And I'm so glad that you guys have supported me
on this journey.
You guys are as important as anyone that showed up
for me today, thank you for watching me and supporting
everything I have. I love you guys so much.
And with that being said,
I'm going to go ahead and wrap things up.
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