- And I'll be honest with you,
I am super excited
because my friend Savannah from Gatorland is here today!
- I had no idea how awesome he was gonna look.
- These guys are pretty fast, number one,
and they have a propensity to want to bite.
Not a really good bite.
- Jesus.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
- So obviously, this is a little bit of an issue.
We, as we're trying to--
(laughing)
- [Helper] Little bit!
- There's an old world tarantula
that would love to kill everyone loose in our building.
- [Brian] And today, at least,
he's actually doing pretty good.
Arj, you okay, bud?
(alligator roars)
- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog!
I'm with my girl, Salty, here,
and I'll be honest with you, I'm super excited
because my friend, Savannah from Gatorland, is here today.
She's actually here for the Crawl movie
that's going on tomorrow night at the Reptarium,
that crazy alligator movie.
We're going to have a great time.
But she hasn't been here since the day
we got Salt and Pepper, and as you guys know,
Salt can get a little bit of algae on her.
Both of them get it, but because she's an albino,
you can actually see the little algae tips all over her.
So, I bought her a toothbrush, and to be honest with you,
she seems to love to get scrubbed.
So I'm going to go ahead and scrub this algae off
so that she looks beautiful when Savannah goes,
and then we're heading to the airport
to pick Savannah up.
(heavy bass music)
You know, dentists actually say
you should brush your teeth twice a day
just for good dental hygiene.
Oh, okay, seriously I got two toothbrushes.
Guys, I didn't use the toothbrush I was,
I wouldn't do that.
But doesn't she look absolutely amazing?
Let's go ahead and hit the airport.
There are just some people that you meet
in the course of your life that are just an inspiration
because they love what they do, they follow their passion.
There is nobody that I've ever been around that kind of
antithesizes that point more than Savannah.
I mean, she literally was just focused on
working with crocodilians,
and she was going to do anything in her power to get to it,
and now here she is, a huge part of Gatorland,
living her dream every single day,
and she's just a great person.
So I always love spending time with her
and I love sharing her kind of excitement
and enthusiasm with you guys, too.
So we're just about 10 minutes or so away from the airport,
picking her up, taking her back,
and we're going to have a great time with her
at the Reptarium.
(heavy bass music)
Uh oh, look who's coming!
It's Savannah!
Oh my gosh.
- I was going to do the same thing, but I wasn't ready!
(laughs)
- [Brian] You weren't ready, come on, you're a professional!
How are you, everything good?
- I'm good, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was a long trip.
- [Brian] Oh, it was?
- Yeah. It was a very interesting trip.
- [Brian] All right, well let's get to this place.
- Yeah!
- I am so excited to show Savannah Salt and Pepper.
Of course, she was here the day that we actually got them.
So, she hasn't seen them since that day.
- [Savannah] Oh, whoa.
- So, here's my baby.
- Salt's so big!
- [Brian] I know, isn't she amazing?
- [Savannah] Oh my gosh!
She looks so good.
- [Brian] I know, isn't she pretty?
- Hey!
- [Brian] It's crazy, right?
- [Savannah] You got big, girl!
- [Brian] I know, it's nothing as big as yours yet, but--
- But she doesn't look fat!
She looks amazing!
- I know, I'm so excited.
And again, because Savannah is really a crocodilian expert,
works with alligators like crazy,
I want to get her opinion of
are we doing it right?
You know, how they look, how they act,
and so I can't wait to kind of hear all her feedback.
- Oh my goodness, oh my gosh!
- [Brian] Isn't she awesome?
- She is!
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
- She's so nice and calm.
- [Brian] And I can't wait 'til she gets as big as yours.
I want to show you my training technique with her.
- [Savannah] Okay!
- So I know that I do things so different than you guys
and everyone else, so I'll show you.
Literally, because I want to allow kids and everything
to hold her, right, so just give me one hand.
- Okay.
- So I'll go like this.
I tell people to go like that, hold her tail.
You know I like the whole nose touch thing,
so I touch her nose, I can touch her mouth,
she'll never open her mouth, anything I do,
I desensitize her.
She will not move now at all, ever.
- What!
- You can move her around
and she'll just stay right like that.
She won't try to get away.
- That's fantastic!
- I know, isn't it cool?
And that way kids can actually hold her,
and you never have to worry about her doing anything.
- That's great!
- But the fact that you're an alligator expert,
you can move her around, do whatever you want.
You hold her however you want.
- She looks awesome!
I can't believe she's not trying to bite,
she's not trying to do anything.
- I know, she'll never do it.
And like I said she'll never open her mouth,
she'll never do anything.
- Oh my goodness!
- I know, isn't she a beauty?
- Yes!
- Now, Pepper might not be quite as trustworthy.
- I'd like to meet her once.
- [Brian] You want to see Pepper?
- [Savannah] Yeah!
- Next up, is my guy Pepper here.
He's a little bit more wiggly,
not quite as placid as Salt is, for sure.
But I think Savannah is going to be really happy to see him.
You'll be surprised
how big this little monkey has gotten, too.
- What! Oh my god!
He's so much bigger!
- [Brian] I know, he's a little bit more crazy.
- Oh my god, look at you!
Wow!
- [Brian] I know, look at this.
- Oh my gosh, woo! Get him!
- [Brian] You shut your mouth, you shut your mouth,
you silly monkey, you.
- Get him!
(laughs)
- Oh my gosh, that is--
- [Brian] I know, they got huge, right?
- [Savannah] This is like the happiest day ever, right now.
- [Brian] I know, I bet you they're happy to see you, too.
I tell ya.
- Hey!
- [Brian] Isn't it crazy,
because you were here the day I got them.
- Yeah, they were so little!
- [Brian] I know, it's so--
- How long ago, that was only a year ago?
- [Brian] Yeah, not even, because I think that was like in,
I want to say, maybe about a year, November, December,
I think it was.
- Wow! Yeah, I was talking to Salt,
but she wasn't talking back.
But she did show me that she was listening.
- [Brian] Good.
- Can you hear me?
- [Brian] I bet you she can.
(Savannah cooing)
- [Brian] Look at how well-behaved she is,
and then this little monkey here with his little, a--
rah!
- Oh my gosh!
Dude, he's so cool.
Honestly, when they were little, I had no idea
how awesome he was going to look.
- [Brian] I know, I'm so, those eyes, right?
- They're just jet black.
- [Brian] Look at Salty, she's just hanging out there.
Oh my gosh.
I'm so happy you got a chance to see them.
So excited you're here.
- Me too, what are you doing?
You're going to get us?
- We're continuing our working on the stickers
here at the Reptarium and of these animals
that we really wanted to get a picture of
was the Gooty Sapphire Tarantula
because it's just absolutely gorgeous.
The problem is Bruce has to get the Gooty Sapphire
out of the cage, into this cup, so that we can get her
over to a place where we can take a picture.
Not always the easiest things
because these guys are pretty fast, number one,
and they have a propensity to want to bite.
Not a really good bite.
So we're going to do the best we can do to be safe
with the animal and also safe with Bruce.
As you can see, Bruce is daringly going in there.
Where is she at?
- She's right there in the back.
She's hiding really low right now.
(dramatic music)
Well, I've been meaning to remove this anyways
because there's two of them here.
So we need to separate them anyway
and I'm going to go ahead and do that.
That makes it a little easier to grab her
without having to stress her out over too much.
- [Helper] I got that for you.
- Yeah, thank you, thank you.
(dramatic music)
- All right, very good hider.
I'm trying to be as gentle as I can
because actually if she'll like it, as you can see
if she doesn't like it too much
she just kind of feels the vibrations
and sort of comes on out.
- [Helper] Oh my god.
Jesus.
Oh, no, no, no, no!
- She can go up high.
- We're in trouble now.
So the Gooty Sapphire got out and is up high.
We can probably, I don't know
if we can take that out or not.
We can probably get it out.
- [Bruce] Give me that cup, please.
- [Brian] She's up top, I see her, I see her,
she's at the top.
She's at the very top, don't forget the back.
Okay, there she is, she's scared back up top.
- [Helper] Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no!
- [Brian] I got this.
- [Bruce] There you go, it's a lot easier.
- [Brian] Okay, here we go.
- [Bruce] Got a little too cocky with that, didn't I?
- [Brian] Yep!
(laughing)
- So obviously, this is a little bit of an issue.
We, as we're trying to--
(laughing)
- [Helper] Little bit!
- There's an old world tarantula
that would love to kill everyone loose in our building.
Obviously, as Bruce was trying to get it out,
it just kind of escaped behind things.
We've now taken some of the cages out.
Bruce is trying to get her to kind of come out,
and then hopefully we can get her in a cup.
- [Brian] See her, she's in, she's coming in the cup!
- [Helper] Oh my god!
- [Brian] Oh, no, no!
Uh oh.
- [Brian] Now we're really--
- Let's get down.
Man, I am sweating like a son of a gun.
- [Brian] Okay, there we go.
I feel much better about that.
- [Bruce] Oh my god. Woo!
- [Helper] Good job, Bruce.
- Okay, I tell you what, that was heralding.
I was worried about when Bruce had it on his hand,
those things can sometimes just bite out of nowhere,
and it's a pretty nasty bite.
So, okay, all for a picture,
didn't think it was going to be that big of a drama,
but we got her and we're going to go ahead and get a picture
and then get her back in her cage.
- Oh yeah, we got it.
(heavy bass music)
- Okay, that's a wrap.
We got the picture, Bruce has got the spider.
We're going to go ahead and get her back in her cage.
Woo!
Bruce, that was good stuff.
- I was trying to make this a little more smoother.
- A little more smooth, let's keep her in the cage.
All right, so, I tell you what.
Heart rate's up on that one.
This part was much easier.
- Like, oh my god, so much more simpler.
- All right, back in her cage.
It's that time of the year again,
where we have Halloween coming up.
So it's time, you guys excited?
- Yes.
- [Brian] You excited? You excited?
- Yes.
- [Brian] All right.
- Yeah! (cheering)
- All right, so we're going to be decorating the Reptarium
with a bunch of scary ghouls and goblins for Halloween.
- Woo! Spooky season, baby!
(spooky heavy bass music)
- Of course you guys know
that I've been having a few issues with RJ
and his attitude.
RJ, you feeling better today, buddy?
You work with alligators every single day--
- And I did see the video.
- [Brian] And what do you think?
What do you think?
- It could be a couple different things.
It could be he's in a bad mood.
You know, sometimes they just don't want to play that day.
- [Brian] Uh huh.
- And maybe that's what's going on.
- Yeah, he seems to be in little bit better mood today,
because honestly, the last week or so,
even if I stood here he would snap at me.
- Yeah?
- [Brian] Just out of nowhere, he would snap at me.
And today, at least, he's actually doing pretty good.
Arj, you okay, bud?
(alligator roars)
What is he doing?
- That's frustration.
- [Brian] Yeah.
- I don't know if it's sexual frustration,
but that's definitely frustration.
The bubbles in the eyes, that's how you know.
I mean, and of course the behavior.
- [Brian] Yeah, he's just real--
- I mean, last time I was here he didn't behave like that.
- [Brian] He would never behave like this
up until a couple weeks ago,
he never acted this way, ever, to anybody.
- RJ, what's the matter, bud?
- [Brian] Hey.
- [Savannah] Well, he's not going after me.
(laughs)
- [Brian] So, he's upset with me.
(alligator roars)
RJ, knock it off, buddy.
You be good.
I know, you notice that, he's mad at me, right?
- [Savannah] It's directed at you.
Does he always eat the same diet?
- [Brian] No, we vary it up a lot.
Yeah, we do all kinds--
- [Savannah] So sometimes alligators get gas.
- [Brian] Really?
- Yeah, like they burp and fart.
And I've seen and done, where if you massage here,
get the gas out, because you know, gas is pain
like a baby, right?
And if nothing is getting that gas out, I don't know.
What have you been feeding him, tacos?
(laughs)
- [Brian] No, we'll do sometimes full rodents,
we'll sometimes do chicken, sometimes turkey,
sometimes just pieces of meat.
- See, none of that seems like it would, yeah.
Come on, buddy.
Come over here with me.
It's okay!
Come here.
Aye, aye, aye, aye.
Maybe you should get him a ball?
Like a boomer ball.
- [Brian] Okay.
- And put it in there.
And that will at least get him back used to things
being in there, bumping into things,
things moving around him.
And he can't bite through it, he can't swallow it.
Good boy.
- [Brian] RJ.
- [Savannah] RJ, you okay?
Don't be mad at me, I didn't do anything.
(Brian laughs)
- [Savannah] It's okay. Easy.
Easy.
- It is always great to have Savannah here,
and I tell you what, having that tarantula escape,
definitely got my blood pressure up.
Thankfully, everything worked out well.
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