- Of course, this is Ben and Jerry, the two headed snake,
and you guys know that I have been obsessed
with two headed snakes for my entire life.
And there's actually a story behind that obsession.
I've shared it a couple of times,
but I'm about to share it again.
Of course, Ben and Jerry
are just such amazing animals, right?
Because they're so freaky.
I mean, people come just to see Ben and Jerry,
because where else can you go and see a two headed snake?
I mean, they're just so interesting,
of course it's called polycephaly,
basically just a conjoined twin, right?
When they were in the egg,
they were supposed to be two baby snakes like twins
and they form together into one body,
and as we know,
the vast majority of them don't actually survive.
But thankfully enough,
once they hit adulthood like Ben and Jerry,
they typically do really well,
and I am absolutely obsessed with this animal.
I mean, everyday I come in, I look at it.
I've had them now for over two years
and still every day I am blown away.
By the way, for you guys asking,
this is Ben, that is Jerry,
and if you wanted to know how I know the differences,
Ben is always on the left side,
Jerry's always on the right side, they don't switch.
Ben is the dominant head,
of course he does most of the eating.
Jerry eats every now and then from time to time.
But they share the same digestive track, the same stomach.
So even if Ben just does all the feeding,
they're completely fine.
They are just amazing animals.
And again, that obsession with snakes
actually started when I was just a teenager.
So like I mentioned, my obsession for two headed snakes
really started when I was young
because I actually produced a two headed snake.
It was right here, actually,
it was an albino two headed black rat snake.
Now I was only a couple of years into my business
working and I wanted my business to grow.
I produced this two headed snake,
of course I wanted to keep it,
but I had someone I knew that offered me $15,000 for him.
And when you're a teenager, a late teenager,
just getting your business started,
the last thing you want to do is pass up an opportunity
to infuse $15,000 into your business and grow your business.
So I thought it's just a no brainer.
I have to sell it and listen, I thought, hey,
I've produced a two headed snake in my second
or third breeding season,
I'm going to produce tons of two headed snakes
in the future.
Now, two things actually happened with this deal.
Now the first thing that actually happened was yes,
I did produce several two-headed snakes over the last 25,
30 years, and I even bought a couple of two headed snakes.
Now, unfortunately, none of them survived.
So the first albino two headed black rat snake
actually survived for 20 something years.
The guy that bought it for me actually sold it
to someone else, they sold it to someone else,
I think it ended up at the Venice Freak Show
for like the last 10 years of its life.
It was on Animal Planet.
There was all kinds of different stuff.
It lived for a long time,
every other two headed snake that I either produced
or bought perish until I got Ben and Jerry.
That was a bummer. I tell you.
And so I was on this quest to get that animal
that I had when I was a kid,
I had it in my hands and I just let it slip through my hands
because I thought that that money
that it was gonna get infused to BHB
would actually do me so much good, right.?
But the truth is is that I got $5,000 down on that snake
and the other $10,000, the guy never paid me.
That's right. I never got paid the other $10,000.
Now I don't think the guy was trying to rip me off
or anything like that,
but ultimately after a year of not getting paid,
he actually offered me a 1959 Harley trike.
Now it wasn't in very good shape. It didn't run.
It was beat up and stuff like that,
but I thought to myself, hey,
I'd rather have something than nothing,
and I really intended that maybe one day I'd fix it up
or maybe one day I would sell it or something like that,
but I couldn't sell it as it was.
So it literally sat in my garage for the last 25,
almost 30 years doing nothing, collecting dust.
Well, my buddy Dwight that actually fixed up my other bike,
asked if he could fix this bike up for me
and I thought, why not?
I mean, it's been 30 years, right?
Now, you guys know I don't like spending money on myself.
I don't like buying toys. I'm not that kind of guy.
All my money goes into education, conservation,
building out The Reptarium,
building out animals and stuff like that,
but in this case, I thought,
this is just like a giant paperweight in my garage.
So I thought, why not give Dwight the opportunity,
because he did such a good job on my other bike,
to fix this up.
So over the last six or seven months,
he's been working on this 1959 Harley trike,
restoring it back to original
and today we actually get it delivered.
So that's right. I'm pretty excited about it.
Again, I'm always more excited
about the animal side of things, but hey,
this is something that's been going on
since I was literally late teenager,
and now today I get to see it.
So I'm pretty excited.
So later on, we're gonna be heading back to my house
and we're gonna actually get an opportunity
to see the whole genesis of my passion and obsession
with two headed snakes.
Someone was nice enough to actually drop off a little turkey
that they had left over for the zoo and said, hey,
you can feed some stuff.
So I can't think of anyone else better to feed
than my boy, RJ.
(gentle music)
I think RJ was a good spectator, right?
Come on guys, come on, come on, come.
There you go. There you go, buddy.
He loves chicken legs, but I think he's gonna love turkey,
oh man, oh that cracked.
Oh, that's serious business right there,
that is serious business.
So I think RJ is loving it.
Again, this it's gonna be a little bit bigger
than a chicken leg, so it gives them a little bit more
enrichment because they're an opportunity
to use that jaw power to snap it.
Then he takes it out.
We'll go ahead and keep him a couple more of these,
but tell you what, that was wicked.
Come, up, up, up, there you go, bud.
(water splashing)
Well that was a good meal for RJ,
but did you hear the sound of that power of the jaws
just cracking those bones?
That means you gotta respect that animal.
Listen, I never don't respect the power that RJ has
'cause that thing is ridiculous.
But I think he enjoyed the turkey
and it's not even Thanksgiving yet.
Second clutch season here is well underway.
This girl has this look at eight eggs.
So let's hope that we can get these eggs out of here
before she did it the first time.
So she literally laid her clutch of eggs and then ate them,
so this time we caught her before the monster ate 'em,
which is good.
This is a beautiful clutch.
I think we ended up only having like two or three eggs left.
And like I said, we had noticed that she was laying
and we marked on her laying today,
and at the end of the day we checked
and literally there were only two eggs left
out of the whole clutch.
And that is actually a mosaic Cal King.
You can see certainly with the second clutch,
there's certainly more than two eggs.
So we caught her in time this time, I wasn't gonna wait.
I wasn't like, I'm going to wait until later,
I tell you, I'm like, I'm pulling this clutch
so she doesn't eat them.
And there's actually two, four, six,
eight, ten beautiful eggs.
What a bummer that she ate eight eggs
or nine eggs last time.
But hey, now we've got 10 beautiful eggs in the incubator.
And again, that's a second clutch.
So this girl is done for the season.
Now we've just conditioned her for brumation
that happens here in another few months.
- Are we rolling? Oh we are?
- Roll the tape.
Ouch. (mumbles)
I do have weak hands.
I'm Mike, this is Jay, that's Pepper,
we're about to do some crazy stuff.
- [Brian] Oh I see what you did there.
- I'm gonna take it out.
I don't actually wanna be the one to take it out,
I'm gonna brush.
- I'll take her out and then you brush your teeth.
Wait, wait, wait, okay yeah.
- [Brian] Ew, he is really gross.
- Okay, introducing the one and only white alligator
named Salt, that's tamed and friendly.
And we're going to start off,
we like to ease her into the brushing of her teeth.
So Salt really does love to be brush as you can see.
Here, we are just brushing her.
- Oh look at her teeth.
- Wow. I mean, honestly, they're pretty clean.
So we're gonna just go ahead and keep brushing her head.
She's not really ready.
(mumbling)
You know Salt's getting way too big for that
little brush, this is gonna take us an hour and a half.
- You're right.
- Guys, swap out.
- Where'd that come from?
Okay, maybe, Mikey don't get your face bit off
by the Saltameter.
- Maybe you should try to get a side of her.
- I am right now, look.
Good girl, Salty.
- She's even closing her mouth.
- Good girl.
- She loves it.
- She got a little something on the chin there.
- A little smoosh up there.
- A little smoocha wootcha.
This is how I get freaking rock in the wrist and the face.
Whoa! (laughing)
- Her tail just clipped my left nut.
- Little bit of a tip nut, (mumbles).
Okay, Salty. That is okay, girl.
We have to get this side of you. Stop that.
Mikey, I love you so much,
but you almost got it right.
There you have it.
I think Salt's got pretty clean teeth.
Look at those things in there.
Wow.
And yeah, there you have it.
Salt's getting big, but her teeth are clean.
No, I don't want to kiss her, but,
I love her. I'll give you a kiss though.
- Another second clutch. This is a lavender snow Cal.
Last time she laid seven eggs.
Of course this is a second clutch.
Oftentimes the second clutch is smaller
than the first clutch, but again,
these are those purple Cal Kings
that hatch out all purple and are absolutely incredible.
It looks like another beautiful clutch.
Again, oftentimes the second clutches will be smaller
than the first clutch, but that girl is done for the year.
She's gonna get conditioned up, get a lot of food,
get her back going, and then let's see
how many eggs she has.
If I'm counting correctly,
I have a feeling she laid seven eggs again.
So it looks like that's a rarity
that the first collection, the second clutch
are the same exact amount.
So that's absolutely cool.
So yeah, two, four, six, seven eggs.
Tell you what, that's awesome, and again,
that's so incredible
and these babies hatch out solid purple.
I mean, it's just doesn't even make sense
that a snake can be solid purple
and that's because it's a type of a tyrosine albino
and that's also bred to a chocolate, which is a melanistic.
So it's a double mutation with the lavender tyrosine
and positive albino and then the chocolate,
which is kind of a darker animal.
Together, you can combine,
you produce the solid purple snakes.
And again, I wanna continue to keep it real guys.
When I get a new animal
or I do something like a build out at The Reptarium
or this expansion that I'm doing,
because every dollar I'm making right now,
I wanna put into this expansion.
And I really do feel guilty when I spend money
on things that aren't animal related
or expansion or education or conservation related.
I'll be honest.
I just, I don't like that feeling to be honest with you,
but at the same time,
it wasn't doing any good sitting in the garage.
The truth is now that it's fixed up,
maybe I'll even sell it and use that money
towards the expansion, I don't know.
I just get so much more enjoyment when I get an animal
or a new ambassador that we can show off to other people.
That's what really gets me excited.
But at the same time, hey, listen,
this has been a long time coming guys, and I work hard.
So I shouldn't feel guilty about it, but I still do, right?
So let's go ahead and just gear up,
get in the car and head over to the house
and see what Dwight did with this trike.
One of the things that's interesting
is whenever I do a project like this,
it happened with the first bike and now this redo here,
I didn't want to see any pictures of it, right?
I didn't wanna see any progress.
I just want to be surprised when I actually see the bike
itself, so this is gonna be pretty exciting, for sure.
Again, it was a wreck for the last 20 something years.
I mean, it didn't run, it looked horrible.
It was rusty. So this is a pretty major redo.
I can't wait to get there and see what he did.
Again, Dwight is great with stuff like this,
so I know it's gonna be absolutely incredible.
And again, I want it to look just like it did in 1959
when it rolled off the Harley line.
So gosh, definitely excited about it.
I know I'm gonna love it.
I know it's gonna be amazing, but a little bit nervous,
I'm not gonna lie.
All right guys. So here it is.
Oh my gosh. You've gotta be kidding me right now.
This thing looks so different. Wow.
Dwight, man.
Let's come on up, man.
- [Dwight] She got a little dirty on the trip,
we'll wipe her down.
- [Brian] Oh my God. Don't worry about.
Wow. Does that look different?
Holy moly.
It doesn't look anything like it, man.
Look at this thing, man.
- [Dwight] She looks like the original police plate
when she's close to.
- [Brian] Yes, she looks, it's just good.
Oh my gosh. That is crazy.
- [Dwight] I've found this.
It's a Michigan police badge.
- [Brian] Get out, a Michigan police badge?
- [Dwight] Yeah, look, State of Michigan.
- [Brian] Oh my God. That is so dope, man.
Dude, it looks great, man.
It looks phenomenal.
Like you said, a little dirty because of the drive,
but that's going to happen, but wow, this is awesome.
- [Dwight] Detailed her up real quick.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
- [Dwight] I need to wipe her down.
- Oh my gosh.
There it goes guys.
We'll get it off the trailer, take it for a little spin.
You know what I mean?
This thing looks absolutely incredible.
I wish I had a picture of what it looked like before,
'cause it was a wreck.
Looks amazing.
(engine roaring)
(bright music)
So that was definitely a lot of fun, Dwight.
Thanks again for this, man. It's absolutely incredible.
Another little toy to mess with.
Well, I tell you this bike is, it looks absolutely gorgeous,
and again, just like it looked in 1959,
when it rolled off the Harley Davidson line.
Look at my girl Pernida.
I mean look at how absolutely incredible she's looking.
She had a really big meal the other day,
but she started to get so thick and so beautiful.
And the truth is guys is that,
there's a good chance I might sell this trike
because I'm gonna need every penny
I can get to do this expansion and I'm not sure.
I'm not going to make any snap decisions about it.
I'm just going to spend time with my animals
and maybe over the next week or so when the,
I can get a level head about things,
I'll decide what I do, right?
I mean, it turned out absolutely incredible.
It looks so amazing to think a 1959 Harley trike
can look almost like brand new is incredible.
Dwight did such a good job on it, but again, I don't know.
I wanna keep it because of the sentimental value
and that tie back to the two headed snake,
but at the same time I need every dollar
that I can possibly come up with
to do this expansion 'cause it's gonna be so expensive.
So I dunno, guys, let me know down in the comments,
what do you think I should do?
Should I keep it as a keepsake, I'll tool around
every now and then.
Should I sell it?
Use that money towards the expansion.
I mean, I'm a little torn,
so I do need your advice on this guys.
So down in the comments, let me know what you guys think.
Hope you enjoy today's video.
Pretty awesome. I mean, right?
It's cool that I got the bike
that's been sitting in my garage for 30 years or whatever
back on the road,
definitely need your advice down in the comments
what I should do with it.
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