- This one first...you're fine!
Oh, they are so fast!
Oh oh!
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- Good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog
as you can see it's pretty windy out here
and we are heading to the airport to fly back home
and you guys know that I don't like flying
and it is definitely windy
so I'm a little bit stressed out right now
hey let's hope it'll be absolutely incredible
and I hope that your day is incredible
I am so looking forward to going home
it was an amazing adventure down here
but it is time to get back to my family,
my friends and my animals,
whaddya say we hit the airport?
Good thing we got here a little bit early
but look at the security line.
Oh my god, that's the longest security line I've ever seen.
- Dude, why is Orlando always this way?
- Orlando is bad.
- Always!
- But this is the worst I've ever seen.
I guess it's holiday travel.
Well we made it through security.
- Yah.
- We have maybe an hour or so before we board.
Noah's gonna have some really good videos
coming out over the next week or so
he filmed a ton of really cool stuff
definitely go check out his stuff as we go for now
let's go ahead and get to the gate
and hope for a smooth enough ride,
the first part's not gonna be fun.
We're on the plane.
Noah's gonna keep me calm for the next hour
it's the first hour of the flight
looks like there's some storms for sure
So hopefully it'll go smooth
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I cannot wait to get back to the Reptarium
tonight's gonna be open so it's gonna be awesome
definitely a little bit tired we have a pretty bad schedule.
- Yeah I'm so tired.
- Heh, but it was worth it.
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Definitely a pretty bumpy takeoff so hopefully
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- [Steward] Have a nice day.
- Hey, take care bye now.
Alright we are back in Detroit
I cannot wait to get back to the shop
let's get on the road.
- So happy to be home.
- I know, it's so good to be home.
It's cold though!
- It is, it feels good though, it's been too hot
in Florida, I'm ready.
(laughter)
- I'm so excited to be heading to the Reptarium and BHB
just to see the animals see obviously Laurie
see Phoebe, Zoosi, all that type of stuff
not to mention we have our l'il baby rhino iguanas
that I haven't seen since I was at Tai's
and we had the cool Reptarium sign put up when I was gone!
Oh my gosh I cannot wait to see it
it's so exciting to be home!
It's just like a half and hour from
when we're actually open for the night
we're gonna hit the Reptarium so
I'll be honest with you I'm a little exhausted
we haven't slept more than three hours a night
in the last week but hey listen
it's gonna be absolutely an epic evening.
Alright guys I'm here and here is the sign!
Oh my god!
That is freakin epic look at that!
Oh god!
That is so freaking cool, I absolutely love it!
Oh holy moly!
It's crazy to just see this dream continue to come true
over and over again.
Oh my god I love it!
Let's go ahead and go and see what's going on.
Oh it is good to be home!
We've got our tarantulas looking good
which means that here in the next coupla days
I have to build the Arachniball
and get that thing completely done.
It's so good to be back
I didn't even realize how much I missed this place
Hey Noma what's going on?
Ben and Jerry what's up?
Helen how are you?
Salt is out over here, and Pepper oh my gosh.
The emerald tree bug
(laughter)
Oh my gosh I am so happy to be back.
Oh Perdita you look so beautiful!
She shed while I was gone!
Oh god!
Sometimes when you leave you don't realize
how much you miss something.
Looky we got one of the alligators out floating here
and the other one is up top basking
and my girl Bella, oh there's Elvis
and Bella, hi Bells what's going on?
Bruce, what is going on man hi there!
- How're you doing Bryan welcome back!
- Everything going okay?
Oh its so good to be back!
I tell you what I love it!
And we're about to open up here pretty soon.
I just realized I got so excited about the Reptarium
I didn't say hi to Laurie, let's go do that.
Deedee!
Deedee come here girl!
Hi sweetheart, I missed you!
(kisses)
How are you doing sweetie?
Oh my gosh.
Hi Laurie!
- Hello, who are you stranger?
- It's so good.
Mm how are you doing?
- Doing good.
- I missed you.
- Did you?
- Yeah I did miss you!
Oh yes!
- Did you miss me off having all your adventures?
- I did.
I forgot we got the Rhino Iguanas how did you like em?
- Oh yeah they were real cool.
- Were you happy or were you upset?
- I mean, whatever.
(laughter)
- Where are they set up, they set up here or next door?
- No they're next door.
- Oh my gosh I can't wait to go see them too.
- We just set em up yeah.
- The sign looks amazing!
- I know, doesn't it?
- Oh my gosh.
- Doesn't it look so cool?
Especially at night all lit up it's so neat.
- Oh I cannot wait to see it at night!
Okay so it is good to be back
I'm gonna go see what's going on with Eric
the rest of the crew and then get a few things
we'll visit with some animals
get the Reptarium open tonight
have a great time so, it's good to be home.
Eric, what is going on dude?
- What's up man?
How are ya?
- Whaddya think of the baby iguanas?
- Dude, so sick man.
God they're so cool!
And it's crazy how one's a lot darker
and one's a lot lighter,
you think they'll stay like that or...
- Did you hear the name of the male?
- No.
- Okay get this, the dad is named Donkey Kong.
- Donkey Kong!
- So the male is either gonna be Donkey Kong Junior
or Noah wants to name it Diddy Kong.
- Diddy Kong, hey I think that's cool.
Whatever, it's a cool iguana regardless of the name.
It's a cool animal.
- Did you get key things together while I was gone?
- We got it together, did some revamp, almost
I'm almost to the end, I just gotta get some waters in here.
- Alright good well don't go home before it's done alright.
- That's oh yeah sure that's fine.
- Alright it's good to be back.
Kelsey I'm back.
- Heya what's up?
How was your trip?
- Yeah it was really really good,
everything good in the dungeon?
- Oh yeah everything spick and span.
- Alright good good, I gotta get your list by
after christmas, we'll start breeding.
Okay, I didn't forget about you.
- Alright good to know.
- Did you see the iguanas?
- The what?
- The baby iguanas?
- Baby iguanas?
- You didn't see em?
- I haven't seen them!
- Oh we gotta go look at em
you wanna go look at em before I leave?
(gasps)
- Yes yes!
- Alright cool.
Well here's the little baby rhinos
originally I was gonna put em in like a four by four
but Tai was like no, put em in something small
until they get a bit of size cos he said that
too large a cage is gonna probably stress em out
so this is what we ended up doing right now
and oh my gosh they look absolutely amazing!
Little tiny rhinos, oh!
What's up guys, oh!
They are so fast!
Oh oh oh!
- Oh!
- There you go buds!
There you go!
- Hi honey, oh my god!
It's like a mini Bella!
- They were a lot tamer when they were cold!
- Yeah I know we brought em out the bag and I was like
these things are hand trained!
- Down at Tai's they were like puppy dog tame but
you gotta remember it was pretty chilly out there.
And look at Bella!
Bella's over here like what is going on?
I gotta definitely go back and see my Bella.
Come on little monkey, come on.
Come on, oh!
Oh my gosh!
We gotta watch those feet, Jesus, crazy legs.
- Ahhhhhhhhh
Oh my god!
- These guys need a little bit of taming!
- [Eddie] I was scared to grab it by the tail there!
- [Bryan] Andrea you've got your work cut out for you.
- Look at this!
- [Brian] Look at it, the little monkey!
Oh my god they are so adore, aren't they adorable?
- They are so cute!
- I told Eric that the dad, this one's dad
is named Donkey Kong,
this is from a different bloodline
so we're either gonna go with Donkey Kong Junior
or we're gonna go with Diddy Kong.
- Diddy Kong.
- I like Diddy Kong.
- [Bryan] Diddy Kong?
- Yeah!
- Okay, DK, Diddy Kong.
Alright so this is Diddy Kong, we need a name for the female
let me know in the comments what we should name
this little monkey right here
this little crazy there
definitely gonna have to be worked with a little bit
to get to Bella, speaking of Bella,
let's go say hi to Bella.
My girl Bella, literally as soon as she saw me
she came running up to the front of the cage
hi sweetie, what are you doing honey?
Oh I miss these guys so much, I tell you what
it is so so good to be back, I keep saying that
but it really is, I tell you what
as much as I love traveling, and we had a great time
with everybody that we visited, everyone that was with us
was absolutely incredible
but it is so good to be back with my loves
like my girl Bella here.
And Bella don't worry we're not replacing you sweetheart
I promise you're the one and only Bells.
Let's go ahead and check up on a coupla things
next door at BHB
and then get the Reptarium open for the night.
If I have to be truthfully honest
my happiest time of the year
is revamp, just before the animals go into hibernation.
And that's because it's the only time
that the cages are truly truly clean.
And what I mean by that is they are bleached out
perfectly clean, because as soon as they come
out of hibernation and you feed em,
they start to use the bathroom,
they start to get the cages kinda messed up
its just what it is, no matter how much you spot clean
and revamp and stuff like that,
this is the only time that every single snake
in the entire collection is just spotless.
Look at this Texas rat snake here.
That thing is an absolute beauty!
And speaking of beauties, look at this
chinese beauty snake, oh my gosh.
But again it's like I said, just kind of pulling out
cage after cage after cage and just seeing this
absolutely kinda almost sterile clean environment
where everything is perfect.
Fresh water, fresh bedding, the sides of the cages are clean
for whatever reason I don't know it just makes me happy
but unfortunately these guys are going to sleep next week.
Look at this scaleless leucistic texas rat snake
oh my gosh I absolutely love this little monkey right here.
Taking a quick break really quick because of course
I was gone for almost a week
and now I got a couple of things in
let me go ahead and open up this one right now.
This is actually from Nicholas,
and he's out in Denver Colorado,
so let's see what this, oh wow what, what is this?
This is cute, it's like a little RJ.
I love it a little alligator, and there's a bunch of...
- Yeah did you see, look it, he actually is missing an arm.
- Oh my gosh!
- So they made it into an RJ.
- Oh my gosh!
You made it into an RJ!
Oh my gosh I absolutely love it!
And of course there's a bunch of pictures here
ones of RJ, ones of the cobra that I was playing with
oh look at this one this is absolutely incredible so
Nicholas thankyou so much!
Thankyou my best friend and I visited the Reptarium
last Sunday and thanks to you
they had an absolutely incredible time,
I came all the way out from Colorado
I remember you very well so thankyou so much
and we actually went downstairs and we saw RJ
and he came in so, regardless Nicholas thankyou so much
I appreciate all the pictures, I appreciate RJ
and I appreciate the letter so you're
absolutely wonderful.
And then we actually ended up getting this snapfish
which I guess is like what a picture type of thing or
- Yeah you can do photo things online with it,
it doesn't have a name on it so not sure who it is...
- Inside it does.
Hey what's going on here?
Oh wait a sec what the heck is this?
- Oh a calendar!
- Oh my gosh it's a calendar!
- It says The Reptarium and has all kinds of stuff on it
- Oh these are our friends from Georgia that came to visit!
- Is that who it's from?
- Yeah the ones that came like the second weekend
we were open or something like that.
- What a great idea and a awesome gift.
- This is a great gift and we...
- Oh it's a book.
Of their trip!
- It's their trip oh my gosh
and we had such a great time with you guys
so thankyou so much!
Now we'll be able to have like some memories of this.
Oh my gosh this is awesome.
- Have you never used a book?
I know I...look this is all the pictures of them
when they were here oh my gosh
these are absolutely incredible.
(laughs)
Well thankyou so much!
It's a great way to come home
and open up a couple of gifts from you guys
so thankyou wonderful, you made my christmas
so I really appreciate you guys.
You know I never want people to think that
all I did was miss the Reptarium
you guys know that I love BHB reptiles as well!
And I tell you what, I have the best crew on earth
because I came back, and I don't know if they were just
extra extra clean this week, or what the deal is.
It even smells unbelievably clean here
everything is just spotless, both upstairs and downstairs
again I don't know if they were just feeling
extra ambitious?
And the truth is it's always really really clean
but it's like extra clean now
or they were maybe trying to impress me, I'm not sure,
I'm gonna try to think that it was they wanted
to make me happy when I came back but the truth is
it's probably the fact that they just wanted to
clean things up even a little bit extra for the holiday.
Regardless, I am so happy to be back
and spending time with my boy Rico here
hopefully he's gonna be a daddy here pretty soon
we'll probably put him in with Maya in the next
probably three or four weeks start to breed these guys.
Speaking of breeding it's only a week, week and a half away
before we start putting our blue tongued skinks together
just take a look at the yellow in this sunrise here!
We have some stunners up to size this year,
of course we have all the animals we bred last year
and we produced some crazy nice animals
but then we have a new batch
not to mention the young adults
that just didn't produce last year so oh my gosh
with any luck we're gonna have an insane
blue tongued skink here and you guys know
that I still think blue tongued skinks
are one of the coolest reptile projects out there.
RJ I missed you too,
I saw a lot of alligators while I was down there.
Stay, you're good, stay.
I saw a lot of alligators when I was down in Florida
but that just made me miss RJ even more.
Okay buddy, I'll see you soon boy, okay bye.
Bella, guess who's got some banana for you?
- Hi Bella!
- Do it silly.
- Ohh I'm scared.
(laughter)
- So I get people that travel all over the place
and it's always so amazing.
You guys came from the Columbus Ohio area
and you are the first person that came that is from Germany
so that is absolutely incredible.
She was down in Indiana and came up
before you head back home to Germany.
So I'm so grateful for you guys all coming
I hope you have a great time
anything you wanna see we'll take care of you okay?
- Thankyou.
- Thankyou so much.
- My pleasure.
So I have a couple of victims here
that have never held snakes
both of you haven't held snakes?
- Yeah.
- Have you ever held snakes?
- I've held a snake.
- Okay good.
Alright so I'm gonna start really small
and then I'm gonna let you guys decide
if you wanna go bigger or not okay?
- Okay.
- Alright you ready, ready?
So this is a beautiful snake
it's a piebald ball python
and look at you!
You're just like yes, good.
- Oh my gosh.
- So whaddya think?
- It's very warm.
- Yes it's very warm.
It's not slimy, it's soft, it's cool huh?
- Yeah.
- Oh my, it's squishy.
- And you did so good, I mean you didn't even need to
she was ready, she was like I'll take it give it to me!
- Well it's small you know, so not that bad.
- Well I've got some bigger ones if you guys are ready
but y'know, are you ready, you wanna try?
- Sure!
- Alright we'll give you this one first.
You're fine, you're fine, you're fine.
Look at babasouk behind you like give me something!
- He wants some attention too.
- They did absolutely amazing holding their first snake
so why don't we go ahead and move up to Sunrise
and see if they wanna hold this one.
You guys ready?
- This is a lot bigger than the other one.
- This is a lot bigger!
But you guys are gonna be okay I think
but I never push you guys,
only if you think you're gonna be ready.
- No I need to do this.
- Okay good, ready?
Over the head.
- Okay here we go.
- There you go, if you put your arm out as far as you can.
There you go.
- [Brian] That is awesome, oh my god.
You guys did so good, look at this!
- Shall we take a picture of us?
- Yes, take a picture, please take a picture.
That is absolutely awesome,
again just back to the Reptarium
already I'm just I'm smiling ear to ear I love it.
- [Woman] Hiiiii.
- Really rough.
- I absolutely love that.
- I spent so much time around alligators on this last trip
including down at Gatorland which I absolutely love
they have the albinos and leucistics
so it's really good to get back to Salt and Pepper.
Salt is definitely looking amazing
maybe tomorrow I'll weigh her
and see if she's gained anything
in the week that I was gone or so,
she definitely looks really really beautiful.
And then of course there's Pepper,
I thought Salt looked like she was actually doing
pretty good but Pepper is a chunky little monkey!
He definitely grew, when we weigh him tomorrow I guarantee
he's put on at least another ten or twelve grams.
I have a feeling Salt probably didn't gain too much
she looks really good but she doesn't look like a lot bigger
but when I pulled Pepper out I was like hoo doggy!
That thing definitely got some size to it
what a beautiful animal!
Oh it's good to come back,
we got Bruce's corner over here, Bruce's storytime
you guys enjoying it?
- [All] Yeahh!
- Bruce's story time hahaha!
Well guys I'm not gonna lie to you
I am definitely losing energy here
but I absolutely love spending time with everyone
as I've said about a hundred times this video
I really missed being here
but at that point,
I think I might actually cut out of the Reptarium
a little early cos I'll be totally honest with you
I have slept hardly at all the last seven days or so.
The truth is until you go on one of these trips
you have no idea how unbelievably fast paced we live on it
everyone that came along, Brian Cuzco, Boris Vanning,
my son Noah, Miguel over at Always Evolving Pythons,
I think they all realize that I keep a pace
that is very hard to keep up with
and it is even taxing on me today.
So I'm gonna go ahead and end the vlog
and thank you guys for joining me on this latest adventure!
Let me know where you want me to go next
let me know what you liked about it
go ahead and just hit me up in the comments
as for now I'm gonna wish you guys
an absolutely amazing day, evening
whenever you happen to be watching
like I mentioned, your support means the world to me
and I truly love you guys so much.
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and I promise I will see you guys tomorrow.
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