- Our friends over at Tarantula Cribs
surprised us with a couple packages.
I have no idea what they sent us
but there's two packages here.
Gosh.
Okay, here we go.
I can't get it out.
Noah, help!
Can't get it out. - What is this?
- Company called Tarantula Cribs,
which by the way, Tarantula Cribs,
thank you so much for sponsoring Animal Con USA as well.
We cannot thank them enough.
I'll put a link in the description.
If you wanna come to Animal Con USA
it's at the end of August in Orlando.
All your favorite traders.
Look at how professional this is.
Man, there's a lot of bubble wrap.
Wow, I tell you what, I'm impressed.
They should sell this at Best Buy.
I mean, look at this packaging.
What's in here, plutonium?
(explosion rumbles)
I'm blown away and I don't even know what's in here.
Cannot believe the professionalism.
There's gonna be no breakage in this,
there's no doubt about that.
Look it.
This box is amazing.
I'm gonna need a PhD to open this thing.
There's a box inside of a box!
Oh, there's another...
This is amazing.
I am so excited about this.
So these guys are like the leader
as when it comes to tarantula habitats,
and you can see why.
I mean, I am unbelievably blown away by this.
Okay, if I'm not mistaken,
this is a Tarantula Crib right here.
Let me see how this goes on.
- [Cameraman] Magnets, dude.
- Magnets!
It's more like magic.
Oh my God, this is amazing.
Look!
And look, you can pick up the entire thing with the magnets.
Can't get it open.
No, I'm just kidding, you just have to do this.
This is the first time I've seen these in person.
Amazing.
We've got another one right here.
If there's another one in here, I'm gonna freak out.
- THere's another one!
- It's like a Russian nesting doll
but for Tarantula Cribs.
We got smaller ones, we got medium ones.
We still have a whole nother box here.
Wow, this is incredible.
I have an idea here, guys.
Noah, what do you think?
- Yes!
- I think we're gonna have a competition
where Jessica and I build out the coolest tarantula crib
up against Noah and Mike.
- What?
No, I don't want Mike.
- You have no choice.
- That's not fair.
- Unbelievable!
Okay, we have four different ones.
Noah, you get the choice,
then Jessica and I will choose one,
and then we'll actually see who build
the most awesome habitat for a tarantula.
You want this one?
- No, no, I want you to do that one.
- You can't choose mine.
You choose yours.
- But I have Mike.
I should be able to choose yours too.
- What does that mean?
You think Jessica is better than Mike?
- Yeah.
(Brian laughs)
- This is gonna be a slam dunk.
Choose right now.
Mike, you guys choose.
- Mike, which one do you want?
Do you want the biggest one?
I don't wanna do the littlest one,
'cause that's gonna be harder. - I like this.
- See what I mean?
This is gonna go horribly.
- He just wants the bubble wrap.
- Let's do the large one.
- That's a lot.
- But it's gonna be fun.
I don't really know what tarantulas need,
so this is gonna be perfect.
- Here's the deal, guys.
We're gonna give ourselves one hour time limit.
We have to build out the most awesome tarantula exhibit
that we possibly can.
They're gonna choose the big one.
You guys ready? - I'm ready.
- Wait, wait, wait. - Okay.
- It's us versus you and Jessica?
- Yeah, dude.
It's not fair, we know.
- That's not fair at all.
- What are you talking about?
- Let's do the cube.
- We're doing the cube.
Okay, time starts...
Hang on one second.
Let me see this a second.
Time starts now! - No!
- Go Jess, go.
All right, guys, comment down below
who you think is gonna actually do the best.
Whoever has a cool comment,
we'll go ahead and send this actual to you.
Thanks again to Tarantula Crib.
Let's get going.
- All right, Mike.
Do you think we can use this
as like a backdrop or something?
- First thing we need is bedding.
We're gonna get ABG,
because ABG is perfect for tarantulas, right Jessica?
- Yes.
Probably just need one bag.
What do you think, should we hide the rest of it?
- Yeah, we can't let these guys...
Definitely.
Let's go ahead.
They know it's over here,
so let's put it over there.
Yeah, put it over there.
Perfect.
And listen, no one said anything about
not sabotaging the other teams.
Okay, we got our ABG.
Let's go upstairs and start building this out.
- Good natural brown on the inside.
What were they doing?
- Do we have to go downstairs?
- Okay, let's get started.
- [Mike] You know the ABG's downstairs.
- The ABC.
I saw them have the ABC in there.
- It's ABG, but I think there's more.
There should be like two boxes of it downstairs.
- Let's go, let's go.
- All right, so what's the plan?
We're gonna do ABG in the bottom
and then what do you think?
- Yeah.
Do you think we should leave it clear on the sides
or should we cover something on the sides
so you can't see all the way in
and do maybe something in the middle?
- Whatever you think. - Okay.
- Let's do that.
We'll get ABG in,
the boys are never gonna find the other ABG,
and then start to build out a cool center piece, I guess.
♪ Come on ♪
- Do you know where it is?
- [Mike] It was right here.
- [Noah] It was right here?
- [Mike] I think they hid it.
Dud, it was all right here.
- [Noah] Well, can we use leaves or something?
- I was also thinking we could use some of this stuff.
Some cork bark, dried leaves.
- [Noah] I think I've eaten this stuff before.
- That should be good.
I'm gonna take this ABG and put it back here
because I do not want them to find it.
What else do we need?
- Gonna need some plants, some moss,
some sort of cool piece of driftwood, or cork,
or something cool we can find.
- Let's go to the basement.
- They hid it.
They had it in their box.
Oh, dude, perfect.
This is too small for us, isn't it?
We'll make that work for a background or something.
We could cut this thing up.
- Oh yeah. - Look at it.
Maybe even this will work.
This looks kind of cool.
Wow, dude, it's like perfect. - What are the chances?
- We're not need the whole hour
'cause I've got the dream team over here.
And when I mean that, that's Jessica.
She's the master when it comes to designing things.
Oh, look at that.
We got all kinds of little pieces.
How much do you wanna break off?
- [Noah] Dude, that's perfect.
- [Mike] We're so smart.
- [Jessica] A pretty piece of rock.
- [Brian] I'll take that.
- [Jessica] Take this just in case.
- And we need plants.
- I found it!
Found ABG.
Oh, I got a new, even better idea.
Oh, this might be too much.
They'll drown in this, right?
- [Mike] Yeah.
- So I've got some plants rooted out right here.
Perfect.
- Yeah, perfect.
So, I think we have our base materials now.
So, now all we have to do is build this thing out.
This is gonna be a piece of cake.
Here's some tarantulas right here, as a matter of fact.
Oh my God, look at that big tarantula.
Oh my God.
We're not putting that in there.
Let me know down the comments
which tarantulas you'd like to see us add,
'cause I love these enclosures.
These are super cool.
Gotta break this piece right here.
Hopefully I can break it right there.
Not as easy as I thought.
Need a little more breakage.
Ooh, look at that, and it fit.
Perfect.
- Reuse, recycled.
(Mike chuckles)
- [Brian] So you thinking an arboreal tarantula
or you thinking-
- With all the sticks and stuff, I would say yes.
It's gonna be semi-arboreal.
Juvenile pink toe or something.
- [Brian] Oh, okay. that would be good.
- Nice try.
- What, you guys found...
They found it? - What, you guys found it?
- We didn't even hide it.
That's where it was from.
That's where he found it.
We didn't try to sabotage you.
- All right, Mike, they wanna play dirty?
I'm the kind of dirty.
- I see myself as someone that's just observing.
Observing the master of how to make these things work.
We're like 90% done already
and we're only like 10 minutes into the challenge.
- I know, I told you we weren't gonna need the whole time.
We could probably do two in an hour.
- Oh, we could probably do that.
What if we built two of 'em out
and then we really blew 'em away?
I think that's a good idea.
Let's do that.
While Jessica's doing this,
I'm gonna go get another Tarantula Crib
and I'm gonna put some ABG in it.
- That's way too much, huh?
- Are we actually putting a tarantula in here?
- [Cameraman] You hid it back here too.
Cheater, dude.
- I don't know how that ABG got hid like that.
I don't know what happened.
I got the next one up.
(Brian grunting)
Could put that stick right there, a plant in here.
- [Mike] Pack it down, 'cause that's what
tarantula keepers do.
- [Noah] They do?
- I watched a YouTube channel one.
- [Noah] So we're basically professional.
- I'm gonna hide this from your dad.
- [Noah] That's a good hiding spot.
They'll never see that.
- Nature's not like uniform or anything like that.
- Hey, don't cheat!
Get outta here.
- No peaking, no peaking. - Get outta here.
- These guys will cheat about anything.
Put a little bit of this in here.
Don't you look, Noah.
- Oh wow.
Look at all this stuff.
I stole a stick from them.
- I got a water dish. - A water dish.
- Real plants always seem to win, right?
- Yeah.
I know where those are.
- You gotta find another plant
'cause my plant sucks.
- We could put leaves.
- [Brian] Oh yeah, we could.
- Uh-oh.
I'm stealing another one of their plants.
- [Jessica] Are hey stealing my stuff?
- I don't know.
- [Brian] Get away from the plants!
You can't, these plants are from the New Caledonia room.
- Here, wait, we can sabotage them.
They're not there.
- So what do you think, something taller, something...
- [Brian] I dunno.
- Let's steal a stone or something.
(Noah laughing)
Close it, lock it.
- Get this one untangled.
- They're all tangled. - I'll just take 'em all.
- Okay.
All right, we got some options.
Let's get back upstairs and we'll see what's going on.
These competitions are the best.
- I got a stone. (Mike laughing)
- You're so stupid.
That was great.
We got a water bowl.
- [Noah] Nice.
- And then maybe take this plant here-
- [Noah] That has to get planted in there.
- I definitely got the better end of this deal,
there's no doubt about that.
- [Cameraman] They locked me out.
Come on, I gotta get the footy.
All their stuff's unattended right now.
- Yeah, we destroyed it all.
- We took it back outta their cages.
- Yeah, we messed it all up.
- Most of it's theirs.
- Go away! - Ooh,
they're putting you a backdrop.
- Go away! - They got a backdrop.
Oh my gosh.
- Where did they find that backdrop that fits so perfect?
Did you see this?
They're cheating.
- Oh, they found one that's the same size.
Go get a piece of universal rock for the little one.
- Okay, I'll get a little one.
All right.
- Mike, we need another plant,
but we cannot leave this unattended.
- Oh, it's coming with us.
- So we gotta bring it with us.
- It's definitely coming with us.
- Okay.
It's in the- - Gecko room?
- Gecko room.
Go this way, go this way.
- [Mike] Did you hear them complaining about
how we sabotaged then?
(Noah laughs)
- There's real plants- - Right here.
Maybe we should- - Here, hold this.
- This? - GoPro.
- [Mike] Okay.
Maybe we go right there between that and those branches.
- [Cameraman] Did they take stuff outta your thing, huh?
- Maybe they did.
We we're actually gonna redo this one,
so they kind of helped us out a little bit
by taking everything out.
- [Cameraman] I gotta go tell them.
They're gonna lose it.
- Since those guys have a backdrop,
I have no choice but to get some universal rock
and do a backdrop on the small one.
Let's go.
This guy stole our rock!
They went in our enclosure and stole our rock.
I got a knife to stop 'em now.
I don't know where those guys went.
- This plant needs to be in water.
Oh, this one looks not terrible.
There's so much stuff.
Are you a professional planter?
'Cause I'm not.
(fun music)
- I feel like I'm wasting too much time here.
The boys could be doing anything.
They've disappeared and I have a feeling
they've been doing everything they can do to sabotage us.
I hope Jessica's making up for my loss of time.
- [Mike] That's how that works?
What do you guys think?
Water, place a hide, place to web.
- Got it.
Let's get in the cage.
Now we got aa backdrop.
Boom.
- [Cameraman] The one cage you actually helped them out on.
- How
- [Cameraman] They were gonna redo it anyway
so you took all those stuff out.
- Dang it.
- But the other cage they weren't going to.
- [Cameraman] The rock.
They were mad about the rock.
- Where you guys at?
I want my rock back!
Gimme my rock back!
(dramatic music)
(serene music)
(dramatic music)
They locked me out.
(serene music) (Mike laughing)
(dramatic music)
(serene music)
- I think we got him.
(dramatic music)
(serene music)
- [Noah] Maybe he'll go away.
(dramatic music) - Betcha they're in there.
- [Cameraman] Where'd they go?
- Disappeared like a fart in a fan factory.
- This is good.
This was scary.
(fun music)
- Yeah, you're good.
You guys want ice cream?
- [Cameraman] Mike does, yeah.
Wait, that's how we can find Mike.
- I can't find 'em,
but I can draw 'em out with an ice cream sandwich.
- [Cameraman] I don't know where they went, dude.
- Boys! - Ice cream!
- I have ice cream!
Mike, I have ice cream!
Ice cream, ice cream, ice cream!
We all scream for ice cream!
- [Noah] Lock her in.
No!
- [Voiceover] It was at this moment that he knew
he (beep) up.
- Oh! - Oh shit!
Are you okay?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
- (mumbles) sure the ice cream would work.
Have to be downstairs.
Oh, there they are!
Ice cream, Mike, ice cream!
- They made me fall, Brian. - Ice cream.
What?
- She fell.
- [Brian] You fell?
- Chasing him.
- Oh my God.
You okay?
Mike, you should feel bad for yourself.
- We do. - We do feel bad.
- I want that ice cream, thank you.
- Jessica gets the ice cream.
All right, let's go.
Wow, I'm kind impressed, I'm not gonna lie to you.
- We won.
Got the Reptile Army swag on.
- Yeah. - Appreciate that.
- I'm gonna be honest,
the first peek that I had at your guys' stuff
looked pretty darn good.
This is nothing like the last challenge.
We still have like 20 minutes left.
These guys ended early.
The thing that's cool is that
I want you guys to comment down below
what you think is the best.
Honestly, the boys did way better than I expected.
But we also have some people in the house from...
Where are you guys from?
- Philly. - From Philly?
- From Michigan.
Regular Michigan.
- So these guys are from Philly and then Michigan here,
and they're actually gonna help judge as well.
They're gonna tell us which one
they think is the best too.
We're almost done.
Jessica's just putting the final touches
and all I really did was make the backdrop.
- [Mike] All right, guys.
- [Noah] There we go.
Look it right here.
- [Mike] Wow, guys, so we got-
- Three plants, all live.
- Three.
- Various bendable sticks.
- Background.
- Real rocks, real mountains
we asked God to create.
- Mike, what the hell is going on?
I gave Jessica that ice cream.
You took it from her?
What kind of a gentleman does that,
steals an ice cream from a lady?
- She gave it back.
- Yeah, I'm sure she gave it back.
- Oops.
- Remember, before we get into the voting,
down below, go ahead and comment
and we're gonna pick one of you commenters,
we're gonna send one of these enclosure to you
at no cost to you.
I'll tell you what, the boys actually did a pretty good job.
I'm not gonna lie.
- They cheated though.
They got a pre-made backdrop.
- That is true.
You guys not only got a pre-made backdrop
but it fit perfectly.
You didn't have to cut it. - Yeah!
- How do you know?
You weren't with us.
- Because I saw it yesterday
when I was looking at backdrops.
- We had to trim it a little bit.
- We had to cut and trim and mold.
- There is no way you trimmed that.
- What did you trim it with?
- Yeah, what did you trim it with and how?
Did you have that on tape?
- Hacksaw.
- Roll the film back.
I wanna see the cut part.
- Dude, it's like perfect. - What are the chances?
- Oh, I guess you guys turned the camera off for that.
We did two for their one,
so we worked twice as hard.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- There was two of you.
- This is the small one here
with the backdrop that wasn't precut,
that we had to actually custom make
just for this enclosure.
- Liar.
- Her 15 years of experience really proves in this one here.
This one here is the boys' right here.
I'm gonna be honest with you,
the backdrop is beautiful.
Yo, credit Universal Rock for that
because they did a great job with the backdrop.
- They also took my plants that I grew and propagated.
- Exactly.
Not to mention they stole the stone from us or rock from us.
- It does look good though.
It does look good. - It looks good.
A little amateurish, but it's all right.
And then this is our last one here
and we decided to go a little bit more sleek, right?
We didn't want the backdrop.
Wanted you be able to see through in all sides
so you can get immersive experience
by having this particular one.
So down in the comments,
go ahead and let me know who is the winner,
Jessica and I or is it Noah and Mike?
- Well, I think for them to decide.
- With that being said,
we're gonna have our guests in the house
and you guys go ahead and judge individually
or you can judge these two together and this one.
Whichever you prefer.
Out of the three, which one do you like the least?
- This one. - That one.
Sorry.
- Reason being is that...
- Okay. - Cause of why?
- Okay, let me just... - I'm fine, I'm fine.
- I like this one a lot
because it offers the animal some privacy and some room
and there's some water.
- Yes.
- And then this one's nice
because everyone else can experience it.
- Where's your water bowl?
- Like she said, where's the water dishes guys?
- Well, there's no animal in there.
- There's not an animal in there, is there?
- Well, it's supposed to be.
- This one, I feel like this was definitely pre-made.
There is no way, no offense guys.
- No, we did it.
- [Cameraman] You just got here right when they were done.
- We'll go with that.
But I do like this setup and everything.
I do like this one.
Honestly, I think my favorite one's this one though.
- All right, so what we have have here with our guests
is we have Mike and Noah's gets one
and ours gets the second vote.
So down in the comments, let us know.
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