- Oh yeah, Sharers, what is going on?
Welcome to the vlog, welcome back to another super epic day.
So if you couldn't already tell,
John and I left the Sharer family house
as soon as we got home yesterday,
basically because we spotted the pond monster
again at the house so we decided to come
to the West Coast this time and we are at a beach
that used to have pond monster spottings
in the ancient century times but they no longer do.
As you can see, you can kinda see remnants of old grass
where this used to be all swamp land.
And down there. - Yeah.
So I guess that's the top of the marsh
which now has water all over it.
(bird squawking)
- [Stephen] Oh, and there's a big seagull!
(screaming) Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
This seagull reminds me of Baby Otter for some reason.
I don't know why it's so close to us.
Hi.
Don't get too close to us.
We're trynna make an awesome YouTube video.
Maybe you've seen the pond monster a long time ago.
Are you ancient? (bird squawking)
Hello, mister seagull.
Hi.
Mister seagull.
So today John and I are gonna stop by
the Monterey Laboratory to talk to a marine biologist
about how these species got extinct and stuff,
why they would end up in our pond
and how we can prevent them and get 'em out
so we can go back into the pond to start swimming again
and having a bunch of fun.
- Right.
So this is all salt water,
the pond is obviously fresh water.
So we need to figure out from the biologist
how they can live in the pond and what we can do about it.
- Yeah, so there's no more pond monsters
on the West Coast of the United States of America.
The beach house that we were at was on the East Coast,
which is a lot newer and that's why the swamp land there,
we saw a bunch of pond monsters.
And John, we just gotta get to the laboratory
as soon as we can.
We get to this marine biologist, we can talk to them
and figure out exactly how
they went extinct on the West Coast.
And figure out how we can get 'em from our pond
somewhere else safer so we don't
have to deal with them anymore.
- Yeah, we don't want 'em harming us.
- All right, yeah, let's get going.
And Sharers, as you can see, this town is super old,
it's an old fishing town which is why
they used to have a lot of bait and fish in the water
and as you know, when John, Grace and I
threw all that fish back in the bay,
the pond monster came out.
- They were crazy about that.
- They were crazy so that was not a good thing
but that's what originally attracted
the pond monsters to this area.
Whoa there's some cool cars here, John.
- Oh there's a lamb-- - Check it out.
There's a Lamborghini here, it's the Lamborghini SUV,
how cool is that?
There's an orange Mazda back there.
Oh two old Mini Coopers there.
Whoa, look at that! - Whoa, another one, whoa!
- Check it out.
That looks so cool. - It's really loud too.
- Super old car, super old town, how awesome is that?
Oh and check it out, this is the old, ancient
Pacific Biology Labratories.
- Oh yeah, is this where we need to go?
- This might be where we need to go, let's go inside
and see if we can talk to a biologist.
If we can talk to the marine biologist.
Look how old this building is.
It's made of wood.
Oh my goodness, old shipwrecked wood.
Even the door is all destroyed, look at this.
Should we see if it's unlocked?
- [John] Yeah.
- [Stephen] Oh, it's locked.
- Maybe this is the wrong building.
- Okay, hang on, this might be the wrong building.
John, if this is not open, we could be in trouble.
Let's go see, the other laboratory is down here.
Oh that's where we can go too, John.
This should be open.
- [John] Oh that's the new laboratory.
- [Stephen] The Monterey Bay Aquarium.
- All right, the faster we get there,
the faster we can meet this marine biologist.
- Let's do it, hurry, let's go.
Excuse me, pardon me, we gotta get through.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Come on, come on, come on.
Oh yeah, check it out, we made it into the aquarium.
So Sharers, check this out.
This poster right here is the exact road we were walking on.
This was just taken way back in the day.
That looks basically the same, it's just the cars
and the people that look different.
(mumbling)
Yeah, that's definitely now what we wear today.
That is not what I would call share the love merch
but it's still pretty cool.
Check this out, so Sharers, this is the history of it.
So as you know, this used to be a fishing area.
The whole town used to be made for fishing.
These are the giant machines that they used to can tuna fish
and they used to take the tuna fish,
crush them through this thing,
it's called a box printer but what it would do
is it would print the boxes for the tuna fish cans.
And then this used to be the machine
where they would process the tuna fish all through.
Look at this, it's a water tube boiler,
it'd boil all the water and then they would can
all the tuna fish and all the fish
into these cans right here.
And then they would ship all the food
all around the entire United States,
which is why this area used to reek of fish.
Smelled so strong of fish that it attracted
the pond monsters to come to this area.
I mean check this out, this is super important.
We were looking at this book here.
There used to be a sardine boom here
that turned this small town into a giant fishing population.
But Sharer's, that didn't last long.
Because by the 1950's, this whole town
was basically a ghost town,
except for this one fishing factory.
This was the only fishing factory
and it lasted until 1973 and then that closed down
so since then there has been zero pond monster spotting.
- But this lab does have some specimens
of what the pond monster evolved into.
- Yeah, live specimens.
You can see all of these creatures
that started to evolve from eating the fish here.
- Yeah and they're still in captivity
but they look really neat and they have
some similar traits as the pond monster.
- Ooh, like this?
What are these?
Oh yuck, is this real?
Should I touch it? - I wouldn't.
- [Stephen] Lemme just touch it, ready?
Three, two, one.
Oh it's glass.
It's glass, this is fake.
These are not the live specimens.
- I guess that's what some fish looked like.
- But this used to be, here there's a picture,
check this out.
Look at all the fish on this thing.
This is what they used to chop up, put in cans and sell.
This is crazy.
Imagine, just with this amount of fish,
how bad it would smell. - Yeah.
Look at that, it looks nasty.
- [Stephen] It used to smell so bad and they used to have
thousands and thousands of fish all over the place.
Look at how many fish that is, that's crazy.
- They don't even have masks on.
- Woo, it was probably really stinky back then.
All right, let's go over this way, John.
This looks like it. - All right.
Mission to the deep.
- [Stephen] Oh and check it out, here it is,
this is the holding tank.
- [John] Oh wow, it's a specimen holding tank.
- [Stephen] Oh, a specimen holding tank
and check it out, there's a lot of animals in there.
Wait, I can see a giant fish type thing,
what is that John?
- It looks like it might be a shark.
- Oh, there's a lot of animals down there.
We gotta get a closer look.
This could really help us determine what the species is.
Let's go down this way.
Oh wait, hold on.
No aquarium access, emergency exit only.
All right, hang on, we gotta find another section.
Oh wait, check it out, there's penguins here.
Wait, John look, there is something.
Look at that.
So those types of fish attract all different types
of animals which cause them to snack and stay around.
- [John] They probably smell so bad,
that's how they know they're there.
- The fish smell so bad so that
even the penguins are eating the fish.
That is so cool.
Sharers comment below if you've ever seen
a penguin in real life.
These animals are so cool, look at this.
It looks like Baby Otter swimming in the water.
Hello, mister penguin, how are you?
Okay, so we know if the penguins eat those fish then--
- They must smell really bad.
- Yeah, they must smell really bad.
And that means they see anything, oh whoa.
What is this?
John, those are real.
- They looked like rocks at first.
- They look like rocks but no,
that's a real animal right there.
- And it has teeth. - And that's a real animal too
and those are real.
California moray, what are these things?
- I think they're eels.
- [Stephen] They look like electric eels.
All right, Sharers, take a look at this.
Comment down below how many eels you see,
I see one, two, three, four, five, six.
I see six eels in this tank, how many do you see?
- Oh Stephen, this one has it's mouth open.
They have teeth. - Wait, they have teeth?
- [John] Yeah, look, just like the pond monster.
- [Stephen] Oh my goodness, it has teeth.
Oh my goodness. - It's probably related.
- Ooh, it looks like the pond monster,
it actually looks like the pond monster.
- I wonder if this is what the pond monster evolved into.
- Yeah, okay, so we had a holding tank
that looked scary then we had the penguins that look nice,
then we have those eels which look absolutely,
that thing looks like it's coming after us, John,
let's get outta here.
We gotta go find the other holding tank
and figure out what species these things are.
- Oh, what's this? - Oh my goodness.
That's a real shark, that is a real shark,
why is it coming close to you?
That is insane.
Another shark there too.
Oh and John, what is that? - That is huge.
- [Stephen] What is that fish?
That thing's absolutely huge.
Oh my goodness.
And there's a lot of small fish up there,
but John, we gotta get down to the bottom
because that's where the pond monster species
are really gonna be. - Big one down there.
- Is there really?
You see something big down there?
Oh, I see something really big down there.
All right, let's work our way down to the bottom.
John, you know what I'm thinking?
Let's take this elevator,
let's go all the way down to the very bottom.
- To the bottom floor. - Let's do it.
Elevator down.
Bottom floor, let's do it.
Whoa John, look at this.
This place is crazy.
There's fish all around us.
Oh my goodness.
- They're swimming in circles too.
- They're swimming in circles, this is insane.
Look at these things.
What is all this stuff?
What is this? - They're like glowing.
- It's like glowing jellyfish.
Whoa.
Take a look at these creatures.
That's absolutely wild.
Check out all these jellyfish, they're absolutely crazy.
- Look they're so small.
They're mini baby jellyfish, like the size of my finger.
These are wild.
- [John] If you zoom in they look like real big ones.
- [Stephen] Whoa, John.
These are not jellyfish.
Sharers, check this fish out.
Look at that thing.
That fish is giant, what is that?
- Oh, there's a ton down here too.
- [Stephen] Whoa.
There's a lot of giant fish in this thing.
Look at this (gasping), there's a hammerhead shark too.
Whoa.
- This fish is like swimming sideways.
- [Stephen] That is so cool, the fins go up and down.
What kind of fish is that?
That's so awesome.
- It looks massive and it looks really weird.
- All of these fish and all these species
are really, really cool but John,
we're getting a little bit off track.
We gotta go talk to the marine biologist
to find out more clues about the pond monster
and why they're no longer on the West Coast
and how we can keep them out of the pond back at home.
So before that shark comes, let's get out of here.
John, come here, wait, check this out.
Look at this.
Check this out, right here.
First sightings they had of the pond monster.
That bridge, d'you know what that bridge is?
- [John] What's that?
- That's the San Francisco bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge.
- [John] Oh, that's one of the biggest bridges in the world.
- It's one of the biggest bridges in the world
and they used to, look, their pond monster's
this octopus thing, look this thing.
That's crazy.
All of this stuff is evidence, hard core evidence
about what they used to experience here on the West Coast.
- [John] Oh and then there's it up against a ship.
- Up against the ship, that's absolutely crazy.
- [John] This thing must have been massive.
- This thing must have been so big.
We need to go find someone right now,
find out how they got rid of this species.
That thing was giant, John.
- All right, let's go this way.
- Which way do we go?
Do you have a map?
- [John] We need to go up the steps here.
- [Stephen] And then go where?
- [John] And this is the second floor up here,
so we need to get to the second floor
which should be up these steps right here.
- Perfect, bingo.
Second floor, last one there is a rotten egg.
Let's go, come on.
Oh John, wait, here's the marine biologist right here.
- All right, you go run off to talk to them,
I'll wait here.
- Wait, you aren't gonna come with me?
- Well they only talk on an anonymous basis
so it's pretty private information.
- I'm gonna go talk to the marine biologist right there.
John, you stay here, okay? - It's classified.
- All right, Sharers. - Tell me what they say.
- Keep an eye on me, okay? - All right.
- I'll be right back. - All right.
(upbeat music)
So it looks like Stephen's off talking to the expert.
I don't know what he's saying right now
but it looks like he's getting some good information,
we'll see what he says.
All right, he's pointing to the water.
Maybe she's telling him where to go.
Oh back this way, what is that?
See if we look at the map, I can't tell what's over there.
I think we're up here.
And then they're pointing this way so...
Maybe the bridge to special exhibitions.
All right, there's Stephen.
Let's go see what he said.
- Okay, I got the information.
- [John] What do we need?
Where do we go?
- There's a store that sells the book that we need.
- [John] Okay.
- So we gotta go to the store and grab this certain book.
- [John] Okay.
- She hid it in the back.
There's the bridge, she said across the bridge.
Quick, quick, quick.
Excuse me, pardon me.
Go, go, go.
The aquarium store, this is it John.
All right, inside here there should be
the book that we need.
We gotta search high and low.
It should be somewhere in the back, right corner.
I don't think it's here,
there's some more through here, check over this section.
It should be somewhere around here, we gotta look for books.
Oh wait, hold on.
It's these, it's these books.
- [John] Which one?
- [Stephen] It's top left.
Top left, it's gotta be this one.
Open the cover, open the cover.
No, not that one.
Hold on.
- [John] Here, open the cover on yours.
- Boom, PMTG. - What's PMTG?
- Pond monster termination guide.
This is the book. - So it's a special one?
- All of these ones are actual ones from the book store,
this is the one from the marine biologist lady
that I just talked to.
This is the evidence we need.
Look, John, it's got everything inside that we need.
- [John] Oh perfect, look at that.
- This is perfect.
Okay, you know what?
Before we open any more of this,
let's head back to the hotel
and we'll go through all this evidence.
Come on, let's get out of here.
Back to the hotel, let's go. - All right.