- Good morning, everybody.
And welcome to the vlog reptile army.
I hope the start of your day is amazing. You know,
I have a lot of company
that comes through reptarium obviously,
but today is a special day
because I have a bunch of my colleagues
that are in the reptile industry coming to visit.
So we have a few different groups coming today.
We're just going to show them around and have a great time.
I'm going to bring you guys along.
Hopefully you can learn a little bit about them
and just have a great time together.
It's going to be an absolutely awesome day. Let's jump in.
So what is going on, guys?
How are you guys?
- (everybody saying hi) - [Brian] It's good to see you guys.
It's so awesome to have you.
Lily, this first time you've been here.
- First time here.
- [Brian] So, how do you think, what do you think?
- Mind Blowing so far.
- [Brian] All right. Is it the skeletons statues
that you are the most happy about or...
- Aye, I mean they help.
(everybody laughing)
- So today we're going to have a good time.
Actually, my buddy, Jeremy
and Lucas are also going to be here in a little bit,
but for now, we're just going to look around
and have a good time until they show up.
- [First Colleague] What are you doing girl?
Slow down a little bit.
- [Second Colleague] Slow down. You can get some pets,
get some pets.
- She's liking that.
- Yeah she likes to get patted on the head.
- Isn't she crazy?
- [Lily] Its so cool.
- [Brian] So wild.
You know, she's going to be four times the size one day
- [Lily] WOW
- [Brian] Doesn't even seem like something like this
should exists, right?
- No.
- [Brian] It's like amazing.
- [Lily] It's like straight (indistinct) story
- [Brian] It is. So dinosaur, right?
- [Lily] Oh yeah. Get it girl.
- [Brian] Something's so special about this animal.
You know?
- [Colleague] The fact that they could be on this earth
for so long.
- [Brian] It's crazy. Right? Get scared girl?
(upbeat music)
- You can go up in the air. He'll stand up.
(people laughing)
Isn't it crazy? Look at that tongue. Right?
(laughs)
- [Colleague] He's so happy right now.
- [Lily] (chuckling) He's loving it.
- So Brian? How old is he?
- [Brian] He's only about three months old now
only about five, six pounds. He'll go up to 20 pounds.
So he's going to get quite a bit bigger,
but he is a sweetheart, isn't he?
- He's so cute.
- Could some of these be aggressive or...
- [Brian] Not really,
these guys don't have teeth in the front.
They only have molars in the back.
So there's really no aggression with them whatsoever,
but this guy is extra nice. Right?
You know what I mean?
You know, not all of them are this friendly,
just because he's been babied
since he was a little tiny baby.
- [Colleague] See, he's packing some heat too.
- [Brian] Oh yeah. Yeah. He is.
(man laughing)
- [Colleague] It's not even catholic. (all laughs)
(mumbling)
- [Brian] Is this the first armadillo you have met?
- Yeah. (Brian laughs)
Of course, I have seen.
(Brian laughs)
- MJ. San Diego, California. Alpacas.
Oh, reptiles. Yeah. Yeah.
I thought you meant like favorite animals to sleep with.
Primarily ball pythons is like my passion
when it comes to breeding.
But man, I have Timor's white-lipped, you know,
scrub pythons, mangroves, you name it.
I have a lot of different types of species of snakes.
My favorite though by far is the Green tree python.
Tinley sure is amazing. I mean,
I waited a long time to attend Tinley
because I heard nothing but great things about Tinley.
It being like the super bowl and like the Mecca of shows,
it really lived up to the name, man.
I couldn't believe how many people I recognized.
And when I say people,
I don't mean like YouTube fame people.
I just mean people who've been doing this
reptile hobby keeping for quite a while.
And it was just breathtaking, man.
It was awesome.
I always feel like it's my first time here when I'm here.
It's awesome. You know, it's never a dull moment.
It's cool. Cause I had my wife along with me now.
Now all of a sudden
she has a list of things she wants to start to keep.
It's funny how that happens
when you walk into the reptarium.
Oh the Armadillo, hundred percent.
- [Brian] Really. He loved you too.
- Yeah, I know he does.
- [Brian] What was the experience like
when drillo kind of showed you some love?
- It was a lot. It was soft.
- Drillo. What are you doing drillo? Oh, he likes hanging.
(people cheering and laughing)
- [MJ] Oh, it's touching me. It's touching me.
He's penetrating.
(everyone laughing)
- Oh he's very excited about Matilda.
Corey, what do you think?
- A match made in heaven.
- I don't know about that.
- This is actually how these guys were made.
(people laughing)
- What do you say we go show these guys salts.
Just like that, just like that.
- It's crazy. The pinks and the...
- She has in her skin. You don't really see on camera.
- Just looks like all blown out, right?
- It's so cool.
- This isn't your first time holding a gator, right Lily?
(indistinct)
- No, it's real little. Yeah the Everglade's but...
(indistinct)
not like this.
- It is amazing. This is what it's all about right here.
This is why you should come to the Reptarium.
- I've been working on like this
next training regiment with her.
Every day, I'm just kind of doing all of this
and you know, so that she's used to it.
Cause you know, she's getting heavy now. Right?
So it's hard to, you know, kids,
it's hard for them to hold her now.
- I'm Tyler King. I'm from Wyoming.
I keep ball pythons, scrub pythons and carpet pythons.
I think the place is amazing.
This is really inspiring for somebody like me
because I think the education side, that's really cool,
like breeding snakes. It's definitely a cool thing.
And it's like a cool hobby.
But I think the passion for me is really
like educating people and changing people's minds
about these animals so that they're not
just cold blooded killers
and that they're actually intelligent
and that they think. Scrub pythons are really cool.
I'm glad you got those.
But I really liked the lizards man. Like the Rhino iguanas.
- [Brian] Watch your head guys. Don't hit your head
and you can hand them this real quick.
- [Lily] There you go.
(man laughing)
- That's Cool. What's up buddy?
- You got me. Take a little cigar.
It's like a little maze in here.
- [Brian] Yeah. Hey you got to watch out.
Lots of enrichment for him.
- I am Isabella. I'm from Gainesville, Georgia
and I have
boas,
tarantulas,
a blue-tongued skink
and a frilled dragon. It's awesome.
It is really cool. I love it.
- Oh my gosh she's super strong.
- Hey guys, come over to help
you put it right on the ground, if you want.
- You just feel the strength.
- Bro, look at that.
- [Brian] It's crazy. And now you are kind of thinking
Shed would probably not be the tamest of animals.
She's a puppy dog. I mean, can you can do anything with her,
but you guys gotta feel just like the sure weight, right?
- The strength?
(all agreeing)
- [Brian] This will be crazy if she does,
she does this all the time.
She'll just smoothly go back home on her own. Watch.
She's like, okay, I don't want to be around you guys.
- Bye Ivy.
- [Brian] Isn't it crazy to see? She always does that.
She always will, like this, on her own.
She'll come up a little bit.
And then she just rides up on her own.
- I was really enjoying the water.
(man chuckling)
(rhythmic music)
- Definitely having a blast here again, like I said,
I love showing the reptarium (indistinct),
anyone that comes. Every single person that comes.
It's absolutely incredible, but it's really amazing.
And a little bit more of an honor
when I'm hanging out with friends
that are in the industry that came all the way
from California, North Carolina, yo Montana.
And they came just to hang out with us today
to have a good time. So it's, it's been a great day for me.
And I hope that you guys are enjoying
the kind of adventure too and,
and I'm giving them kind of the cool experience
here at the reptarium.
And Lucas and Jeremy and everyone else showed up.
So now we've got the whole gang here.
All having a good time.
So we'll continue on doing the cool stuff.
(people clicking and chattering)
- It's spider man.
- [All] Spider man.
(people laughing)
- My name is Jeremy Turgeon. I used to be the manager of
new England reptile distributors.
Now I live in North Carolina.
Pursuing some musical opportunities
and pursuing brass band reptiles a little bit more.
Got about 200 between blood Python, short tails,
carpet pythons, ball pythons.
I'm probably forgetting the whole other list of them,
but quite a few. Tinley was great, man.
Yeah, I was, I expected a little bit more people,
but it was great to see those people
that were there just there enjoying themselves.
It felt like the real Tinley family reunion,
Spencer's monitors, there was a pair of Spencer's monitors
that I was really, really digging.
I mean, I think it's awesome, man.
What you guys are doing here, it's absolutely fantastic.
I love checking out the displays. How things changed,
seeing the new animals coming into. It's fantastic.
- Wait, I'm only talking to you.
My name's Jay. I'm from the reptarium.
I keep a lot of stuff, at my house, are we talking?
(people laughs)
I keep a couple of retics.
I got some ball Python (indistinct).
I have an Irish wolfhound.
Rain man.
(laughs)
- So Tyler's definitely into scrubs, loves scrubbies
and so he figured he'd have to take out
our new scrub pythons. What do you think?
- I think they are amazing. Bar necks my favorite.
I don't have any bar necks.
- Yeah.
- So it's really cool to get my hands on one.
This is the first time I've seen one in person.
- Really? That's awesome.
And these guys are chill. You know,
not all of them are chill. These guys are super chill.
- The thing about scrub pythons is that
they are just so confident.
There's not a lot of intimidating them. So yeah,
they're just, they're great animals.
I love that they are arboreal.
They have that prehensile tail
and just the gold and the brown on these snakes
is absolutely incredible.
- I know. They hold tight and see right here.
- He's got a lock on my fingers.
- See your fingers are turning purple.
- Yeah. That's awesome.
- Amazing snakes. They're definitely some of my favorite.
The Somalia genius in general just has some amazing species.
- Oh my gosh. Speaking that
we'll have check out the bowlines.
- Bowlines for sure.
- [Man] Jeremy and MJ are bringing up RJ by herself.
- By herself. Let's go
- All right. Right now.
- Yeah
- Hi, my name's Matt. I'm from California, near San Diego.
I keep white-lipped pythons, sauls, reticks and carpets.
Amazing. It was kind of mind blowing.
I'm used to like the California shows or it's big,
but not as many big breeders or is it,
this was just anyone who's anyone was there.
I felt like every time I come here,
I want something different.
So it's like, first time I came here want a bowline.
Second time I came here, I wanted Matilda.
And now the Armadillo. The Bowlines for sure.
That thing is like a dream snake.
- [Brian] What your plan. Did you guys have a plan?
- No, we're just going to get them out.
We never have a plan.
- [Brian] Who is we? Who is getting what part of RJ?
- I'm going to take the tip of the tail
and then MJ is going to have around the neck
and then whoever else fits in wherever.
- So I am the one that's going to get crushed first
before anyone else.
- [Brian] So what's going to happen?
What's the worst that could happen guys.
- They're just hands.
- It is so mad. (laughs)
Look, wait, can you get that right there?
(everyone laughs)
- MJ you ready?
- I'm ready.
- I'm going to push his head towards that wall,
which will kick his tail towards you. Grab the tail.
- [Brian] Okay. You're doing great, dude.
- This is what you taught me, right?
- Oh God.
(everyone laughing)
- I don't really know what to do now.
(people laughing)
- I am going to pass this off to Mike.
Mike, just turn him around. Do your magic.
- Here comes Alabama, baby.
(crocodile roaring and splashing)
- You know what it always comes down to?
Is I'm getting in there.
(everyone laughs)
- Be careful getting in there.
(crocodile splashing)
(people laughing)
- MJ get in there man.
- [Brian] Okay. Take this camera.
(crocodile splashing)
(everyone laughing)
- I don't really think I did a damn thing.
(everyone laughs)
- Move to the other side.
- He's heavy.
(everyone laughs)
Give me one second. You're fine.
- I'm tired. I'm like winded a little bit.
- Anyone else.
- Mother of goats. I can't even smile.
(everyone laughs)
- Yeah. He's a tank man.
- My name's Lucas Masso. I'm 17 years old
and I am from Florida. Currently live in Georgia
and I keep the Emerald tree boas, green tree pythons.
First ever Tinley.
Really big compared to like Daytona
or any other kind of show. Really fun.
Picked up some cool stuff too.
An adult male emerald tree boa, a cow cane,
a gopher snake and a ball python. It's honestly amazing.
I like how different some of the animals are
compared to like the reptiles. So such as the Armadillo.
Amazing.
- He's cool. I tell you what, isn't he amazing?
Do they keep this banding into adult?
- [Brian] Oh yeah. Usually it gets more yellow.
I just love that striping on a face, that big head.
- Oh the characteristics of this animals. This is,
it's not like anything else.
- [Brian] It's completely different.
- It's just way different.
- Just curious thing roaming around.
- [Brian] Yeah. Very smart.
You could tell they're very, very smart.
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