- Why do I have animals like Ben and Jerry,
and Mario and Luigi, the two headed animals?
Because obviously it causes a lot of stress for me,
and it is kind of a lot more risk.
What are you guys doing?
- Not loading up any snakes in the back of a truck.
- Kind of literally touching him on the tip of his nose,
there's no other good way to get bitten than that.
- I think there might be a couple other
gravid ones, this one here looks like she's pretty puffy.
Putting the building up for sale, guys.
We're out of here.
Wild caught, mean as could be,
I think it was the first bad bite I ever actually had.
It's absolute mayhem.
Hey, good morning everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
You may remember my two headed snake here Ben and Jerry,
a week or so ago regurgitated,
so I wanted to give you a quick update.
They are doing absolutely incredible,
we skipped meals this week,
we haven't had a lot, other than right now, handling,
been leaving it alone.
We're gonna feed it in a few days,
but it's looking incredible.
I think it's gonna be completely fine.
But people ask me, and even I sometimes wonder,
you know why do I have animals like Ben and Jerry,
and Mario and Luigi, the two headed animals,
because obviously it causes a lot of stress for me,
and it is kind of a lot more risk
when you have an animal that is polycephaly,
which is conjoined twins,
so I'm gonna talk a little bit about that,
but before that I wanted to show you the new merch,
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Again, only about 10 days.
Will ship before Christmas, so hey,
these make great Christmas presents as you know,
but back to two headed animals.
We all know that I've had my tragedies
when it comes to two headed snakes,
I mean, you know, we had Laverne and Shirley,
we had Cookies and Creme,
and then of course we had Rick and Morty
the two headed turtle,
now I'm happy to say that Mario and Luigi
the two headed snapping turtle are doing so well,
they're eating like crazy,
they're growing like crazy,
they are absolutely adorable.
But you know, it is a risk when you have a two headed animal
because obviously when they're conjoined twins,
there's a lot of other things going on,
and a lot of times the attrition rate,
or just the survivability rate is really really low
because the majority of them don't make it to a year old.
Now I will say that I'm pretty optimistic
about these guys here because of
how unbelievably hardy they are.
I mean they eat like crazy, they move around like mad,
so I'm pretty pretty confident about these guys.
But the reason I do two headed animals is,
no matter how much a cool animal like Honey
the piebald ball python, and don't get me wrong,
this animal does attract a lot of people,
because it's piebald, look at the big white splotches on it,
and it's incredible, but the fact is,
is that it's only gonna attract so much curiosity, right?
People are gonna be like "That is a beautiful snake",
but when they see a two headed turtle,
they see a two headed snake,
it's a completely different reaction.
I mean last night we had like 50 kids in here
at an event, and literally every kid
was freaking out about Ben and Jerry.
We didn't pull it out,
but they were looking through the cage
and that's all they could talk about.
And then they saw Mario and Luigi and they go
"Oh my God a two headed turtle!"
it created a ton of excitement and curiosity,
and that's what's it's all about.
Yes, there's a lot of risk and I put myself
through a tremendous amount of stress.
I mean obviously when something goes wrong
with Ben and Jerry like a regurgitation a week ago,
I am flipping out, whereas if it was just a normal Cal king,
I'd be like "Yeah, it happens, no big deal,
"we'll be fine, next week it'll eat,
"and it'll be all right", you know?
So I go through a lot more stress,
the animals always are a lot more delicate,
so we're always stressed out about it,
but I think it's worth it, right?
Because, I mean they are such a draw,
and if that draw can get people in the place
and we can teach them about reptiles,
it's a complete win.
Usually pretty quiet around here because
Eric and Mary are off, but I hear them downstairs.
No idea why they're here, so let's go take a look.
Hey!
- Hey!
- [Brian] What are you guys doing?
- Not loading up any snakes in the back of a truck.
- [Brian] I know, I was just telling you,
I know for sure you guys are stealing everything.
- No we're just, we're actually gonna take a quick break,
you know, against the law, take a break.
- [Brian] Take a break?
- No, I know, we're here to work, we're here to work.
We just had to get caught up, you know,
with Kelsey being gone,
we just wanna make sure everything still gets
100% of the attention it deserves.
- I already got bit by a retic.
- What? Which one? - Yeah, you missed that.
- Lucy's baby.
- [Brian] Lucy's baby, she's supposed to be tame!
- I know it, I know it.
- It was just a little bite.
- Just going to check it, and wham, so.
- [Brian] I hope you guys are enjoying your day off.
- Oh yeah, no it's pretty nice.
Always snakes, good time, man.
(laughing)
- Got my tour in the house, how are you guys?
What's your name?
- Charles Carter.
- [Brian] Charles.
- I'm Kelly.
- [Brian] Hi, it's so good to meet you guys.
And you're from?
- West Virginia.
- [Brian] West Virginia, oh my gosh,
you guys are awesome, so excited to have you guys.
Let's jump in and have a good time, all right?
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- And one of the things you guys know I love about my job
and what I do here is we get people
to have experiences with reptiles,
and you came in, now you're not afraid of snakes,
but you just weren't a big fan of 'em.
- Yeah, I'm not a fan, not a huge fan.
- So he wasn't sure if he ever even wanted to touch one,
let alone hold one, and are you proud of him?
- I'm so proud of him.
- That's so awesome, holding Pinocchio.
So, I tell you what,
it truly just made my day,
the rest of the day's gonna be amazing
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- Pushing my luck, basically at this point.
I know he's not too happy about me doing this, but,
you know, one big thing about these guys is that like,
you know, constant touching and constant,
sort of those, those little uncomfortable moments
that essentially would think that
would make you get bit, I kinda have to test that,
to be willing to get bit just to prove that I can't get bit.
- [Interviewer] So pretty much,
you're making the lizard slightly uncomfortable
more and more so, pushing it in a direction
to where that no longer becomes uncomfortable.
- To a point where he doesn't associate with this
as stress and anxiety,
he associates it with this is just part of being handled.
- [Interviewer] That thing used to bite your fingers off.
- He's still thinking about it.
I mean look at his face, he's still mad.
It's still funny.
After you present your finger under them like that,
now outside of that,
outside of literally touching him on the tip of his nose,
there's no other good way to get bit than that.
- [Interviewer] He's getting there, for sure, man.
- He's still thinking about it,
he's still upset, he's still trying to find his way off me,
he's trying to like, you know,
but it's tolerating it now, he's starting to tolerate it.
- [Interviewer] Obviously I've seen you getting him out,
he's still a little rambunctious when you're getting him out
but he calms down pretty quick now.
Used to take kind of a few minutes,
- Honestly it's the biggest puzzle to crack
with him right now is getting him out of the cage
to a point where he associates it positively
and stops associating it with like,
every time we open it, I'm getting out, oh no,
I gotta freak out, I gotta show my chest,
and be big dog now, you know?
- [Interviewer] So have you been taking any like,
steps to kinda get that away from him,
so that when you come up to the cage
he's not immediately combative?
- So I do things like,
I literally will come up to the cage
and like rattle the lock like this,
and then walk away, you know?
Do things that, anything that he thinks to himself,
oh they're about to open the cage,
I kinda wanna confuse him.
'Cause I wanted to get him back to square one,
where he doesn't even think anything when that lock opens,
he doesn't think anything when that glass opens.
So like, every time I rattle the lock,
sometimes I don't even open the cage.
Sometimes I open up the cage,
I'll close it back up again and walk away
and do nothing with him.
All those sort of things he hears it,
he notices it, and I wanna make sure
that he doesn't think that's oh I'm getting out every time.
So, 'cause obviously he's not happy about being out,
but he's tolerating it enough
to the point where we can hold him.
- [Brian] So what are you guys doing again?
- So today, you know, we got this green anaconda,
Ivy, everybody knows that.
- [Brian] Of course, yeah.
- And we don't, I haven't messed with her too much,
only a few times, you know,
- [Brian] So you guys are gonna take her out?
- Yeah,
- [Brian] Did you hear about her
biting a couple people recently?
- No! - I did, yeah.
- [Brian] Yeah, no it's serious.
- It was like a three year old kid during a tour.
- No, that's not true.
That's not true, that's not,
but seriously be careful.
I'm gonna go ahead and put a link at the description
to these guys, they're gonna do it over on Noah's channel.
I'm busy, I've got a lot going on today,
be careful, treat my snake good,
don't hurt her at all,
and if she's gonna bite just take it like a man.
- Just take it.
- I'll freakin' let her have one if she bites me.
- No you're not. - I won't, I won't.
- [Brian] Okay, you better not, be good to Ivy.
- Don't let her have one bro, we'll be good.
- Okay guys, all right, link in the description.
Now that we've had the viper boas here
for a few weeks we're just kind of going through,
a lot of them have been feeding really well.
Again we found that one baby,
we didn't find any others yet,
I don't know if they're down here, it's a big basement,
we might come across them, totally a bummer,
but I will say that I think there might be
a couple other gravid ones,
this one here looks like she's pretty puffy.
You can see how bulgy she is right here,
definitely a very beautiful animal,
so I definitely have to somehow get a
different system to where if these guys have babies
they don't have them all over the place.
Again, look at the size of that animal right there.
And you can see just how unbelievably
swoll she looks right now,
I would say for sure that she's gravid,
but again it's really hard to say,
'cause I don't know a whole lot about viper boas,
and then this girl for sure,
I mean look at that thing, that is just ridiculous,
you can see the bulges just popping out right here.
So this one looks like it for sure.
So I'm gonna have to definitely switch these
outta these cages so that we have a place where,
you know they don't get out,
we don't want that to happen,
another litter of babies and have 'em all loose over.
But nevertheless, looking good,
absolutely loving these viper boas,
and with any luck, maybe we'll get a couple more litters
and have some more babies to raise up.
- Dude, you know how I was talking about those
little house centipedes, the leggy boys?
- [Brian] Yeah, Mr. Leggy.
- I opened up a, slide open a tub,
there's one sitting in there.
- [Brian] Not Mr. Leggy, a different one?
- A different one, in your shop!
- [Brian] In here?
- I have it!
- [Brian] No!
- I captured it.
- [Brian] Is it there?
- Dude, I swear to God, dude.
- [Brian] Oh my God, let's go look at it.
- We have to leave, we have to move buildings.
- [Brian] I know, we're gonna have to leave the,
there's not supposed to be any Mr. Leggy's in here!
- In with the snake, just chilling there.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
- I couldn't believe it.
- [Brian] No way.
- Oh, oh!
But it's like you said, look at that!
There he, it's a baby!
- [Brian] Don't hand it to me!
- I know, it's a little one,
oh I don't like it when it crawls.
- Oh my gosh, I tell you, oh my gosh,
this is, this was in my building!
- Yeah, I know!
- These things are, these things are so freaky.
- Unsafe work environment!
- All right man, we're moving.
Putting the building up for sale guys.
We're out of here.
I have this little rack over here
that I always call like my hodge podge of snakes,
just 'cause it has a bunch of really cool stuff
that doesn't fit anywhere else in the collection
so it's kinda cool stuff, I absolutely love it.
This, believe it or not,
is just a normal Columbian boa constrictor,
but look at the pattern on it.
This isn't a jungle, this is something completely different,
and there's actually a few of them that were
produced in this litter that a friend of mine produced
and I thought "Well, I'm gonna go ahead and raise 'em up"
they're just so cool, and again,
I don't know where it fits in the future plans,
but it is super awesome.
And then of course speaking of boas,
I have this Guyana red tail boa,
these are true red tail boas
and whoo doggie, that is one gorgeous snake.
I just love these guys.
Guyana red tail boas were one of the first snakes
I ever had, I think the fourth or fifth snake
I ever bought when I was a kid
was a Guyana red tail boa.
It was a wild caught, mean as could be,
I think it was the first bad bite I ever
actually had from a snake.
I remember getting railed, and bleeding like crazy,
I think it was like, either maybe the second or third bite
I'd ever gotten ever, and it was a pretty bad bite.
I'll never forget that day.
And this is actually a Suriname red tail boa,
so much like the Guyanas,
these guys get a little bit bigger
and are unbelievably beautiful.
I mean just look at the ridges
and beautiful texture of that tail.
Whoohoo, I tell you what,
I have loved red tail boas since I was a kid,
never once have I produced a true
red tail boa in my career.
So hopefully I'll get lucky
and maybe breed these guys down the road,
because that would be an achievement for me personally
that I couldn't even tell you much about.
And then of course we have Marshmallow
the ivory Burmese python.
Just beautiful, I love it!
Not exactly a white snake,
more like a yellowish white snake,
but nevertheless unbelievable,
getting some size to it, super tame,
this is definitely going over into the expansion
at the Reptarium 'cause people are gonna love handling it,
and again, handful of other things in this hodge podge rack
but I love all of them.
They're all really special animals to me.
All right it's about time to open up at the Reptarium.
Looks like there's a whole bunch of people outside,
a bunch of kids, so should be a really fun time,
that's for sure, you guys ready for this or what?
You guys excited?
- Little nervous.
- [Brian] Little nervous?
- It'll be fun, it'll be fun.
- [Brian] Don't be nervous, this'll be fun.
This is gonna be absolutely amazing.
You guys ready? Tell me when you're ready.
- Ready.
- [Brian] Okay let's do this.
Hey guys!
Hi guys!
Come on in guys, you guys can figure out how to get in here.
Come on in guys, come on in.
Oh my gosh, how are you guys?
Hi, how are you guys?
Hi guys, I know it's cold out here,
it's really nice and warm.
Hi guys, how are you?
Hi, how are you?
- [Parent] Good, how are you?
My daughter found you on YouTube,
she's so excited, she does, yeah.
She's like, "We know him!"
- [Brian] Oh that's awesome, well we'll have a great time.
Hi, how are you?
Oh hi, what's your name?
- [Lucy] Lucy.
- [Brian] Lucy, it's nice to meet you,
go have a good time, all right?
Thank you guys.
I'm not sure if I got that last take Jay,
so this a new one.
So every time we get out the snake
a bunch of kids just kind of swarm around,
it's so much fun, we've got Sunrise out over here.
- Hi vlog!
- With all the kids here,
we're gonna see if we can get a picture with Daisy.
We're gonna take her out and just set everyone up here,
it's gonna be mayhem,
but it should be absolutely incredible.
- [Kids] Cheese!
- This is absolute mayhem.
Just shut down at the Reptarium,
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I mean we had such a good time over there.
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