- Hey, good morning, everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
Actually got a weird text from Jay.
(text whooshing)
By the way, I'm in, I think Louisville?
Or I don't even know where I'm at actually,
but let's go across the way,
'cause this is really bizarre.
(door unlatching)
(knocking on door)
(door opening)
- Yo, dude!
- [Brian] Morning, dude. - Yo, morning.
- [Brian] What the heck is going on here?
- Yo, you gotta check this out, man.
They left us party--
(door closing loudly)
So I came in here last night to put my water away
and it's filled with beer!
- [Brian] It's filled with beer!
- And yours didn't have anything in it?
- [Brian] No, of course not.
Every hotel room doesn't have like a stock of beer in it.
- Well, you know, sometimes they have alcohol in something.
- [Brian] Like a bar?
- Yeah, yeah that's it.
This is like, just beer.
- That's just beer, so hey, I mean,
it is like before 8:00 in the morning.
I don't drink, so it isn't.
But you know, one man's trash is another man's treasure,
you know what I mean?
So I feel like we're blessed this mornin'.
So we are gonna--
I tell ya, I'm gonna take this beer,
because obviously whoever was here before
just left it behind and hey,
we'll just divvy it up with the
Universal Rock guys or whatever.
Bring gifts of joy.
We've got about an 11 hour drive ahead of us,
let's get on the road.
(whooshing)
It's a beautiful morning, I've got my beer.
It'll be a quick drive to Garland, Texas.
(upbeat music)
And we made it down to Texas and Universal Rocks,
I tell ya what,
it's gonna be an absolutely amazing few days.
What do you say we go inside and check it out?
And of course I just wanna give you the recap of what
we already have goin' on.
We built a lot of these when we were here last time.
The whole idea today is kinda to finish a lot of these up.
Of course these are the three foot by six foot
by five foot cages here.
They're gonna actually be stackable.
This is actually gonna stack on top of this,
so it's kind of around here,
but so you could just take a look at how awesome they look.
We've added some texture here,
almost like a sphagnum mossy type of thing.
Just a little bit more naturally-looking.
Again, you know, working on some of these other cages,
we're gonna be working on a bunch of that type of stuff
while we're here as well.
This cage is absolutely amazing.
Gonna absolutely love it, I mean
there's so many opportunities to put cool animals in here.
And then, the majority of the cages are going in
are not gonna be stackable, they're going to be like this.
Now, they're actually gonna be a foot off the ground.
So, this is actually gonna be a foot higher than this
but, you can see, this one is one of those enclosures
that has glass on this side and glass on this side.
So you'll be able to see through both ways.
Either this way or that way, gonna be absolutely insane.
And again, today I'm going to be working on putting
a bunch of the glass in 'cause it makes
the cage just look unbelievably finished.
Again, look at this.
This is a new thing that we started doing too.
A little bit of the texture in here but also,
look how it looks like it's almost dripping
like the natural rocks are seeping water
like you'd see in the wild.
So that is a really cool, new feature
that we've never done before as far as the other place.
So little things like that.
And this is what the glass is actually gonna look like.
It's amazing when you put glass in.
How it just really finishes that cage off.
Like, unbelievable!
This will be the door and again,
when we're cleaning the cage, we're going to have
to walk right inside here.
But, look how at how much space is in here.
It's definitely incredible.
And I love the way it looks.
So today, again, I'm gonna be doing a lot of this.
Installing these glass and these doors into
a lot of these enclosures.
I love this enclosure here.
Again, another enclosure that has glass
on both sides, doors on both sides, gonna see through.
This enclosure still needs some work for sure.
But, take a look at this right here.
Oh my gosh.
This enclosure is incredible.
Again, we have some of the moss look over here.
We've got the drip over here.
This is what they call a kneel angle.
So, it's going to be glass, glass, glass,
and a crocodile monitor is gonna go in here.
We'll add some more branches and stuff like that.
But look at this, it's going to be so amazing
when it's on there.
I tell you what, I've seen these things, I'm flipping out.
And then this right here, is actually the corner
when you walk in the reptarium, the first thing,
when you turn left, you're gonna have a turtle pond
that's right here that goes right like this.
And then this is going to be glass
so, you can see over the turtle pond,
into this amazing enclosure.
This will be all glass with a door right here
and again, drips and-oh my gosh!
It looks so incredible.
I've said this before, the reptarium as been
an amazing evolution and this is the next evolution.
I mean, this is next level.
So, again, I couldn't be more excited with the way things
are but, we still have a lot of work to do,
to be honest with you.
But today I am going to be focusing on putting
some of the glass in and some finishing touches.
- The way the whole pattern's set up
isn't ideal for this so, we're going to drill holes closer
so that they're hitting the meat of the wood.
We don't want the door to fall off the transit.
- No we definitely don't want that.
- The screws to come out.
So they're gonna drill some holes
just a little bit of excretion.
So we pre-drill these holes then,
we put some adhesive down, and then
push this down and screw it in place.
- Oh okay, that way it stays solid.
- That stays solid.
Yeah, no, and then the adhesive is a little waterproofing.
They'll do that and then they'll get you in tune with the
installing the gasket.
- Yup, that's going to be the tough part.
(drilling)
(pop music)
Just got a little tutoring on how to do these actual things.
So, obviously, the first thing we do is we actually
put the hinges on the glass, we have to install
the glass here so that we have our door.
That way we have an idea of where this goes in right here
so we have the right gap and all that type of stuff.
Then, ultimately just put like the framing in here,
screw it all in, stuff like that.
Put the glass in and, of course,
this rubber gasket goes on that actually holds
the glass in place so, it seems pretty easy but,
definitely still a lot of work.
And, we figured, this enclosure all we need is the front
but these ones need two so, uh, each one of these
that needs two, we've gotta do double side.
So, uh, definitely takes a little bit of time,
a little bit of effort but, I tell you what.
Once you put this in glass in the enclosures, whew doggy!
These things look gorgeous.
Showed you guys earlier some of the habitats
that were already finished so, here's another one
that I really love.
Again, this will be the double glass one.
Just really kind of very unique type of look.
I'm not exactly sure what's gonna be perfect in here,
but I absolutely love it.
But the cage that I really wanted to show you is this.
That's right, look at this.
Ta-Da!
Oh my gosh!
This is the largest enclosure that we have ever built.
This is mammoth and this is Diddy and Dixie,
the rhino iguana's habitat.
This is going to go right in the window.
So when you walk through the new extension,
right to your right, that entire side is going to be
this mammoth.
I mean look I can't even touch the top of this thing!
Of course, we're going to do some other kind of branching
and stuff like that so they have layers to get into,
basking lights will be up here and stuff like that.
So this is just the (inaudible) of things.
I just wanted to show you the size of this enclosure.
It is absolutely ridiculous!
I am so excited.
I mean I can't believe how absolutely mammoth this thing is.
The only downside is, I don't know how we're going to get it
into the building but, we'll worry about that later.
And again, Stewart here at Universal Rocks has really been
kind of honing his skills with different things like
driftwood, and pieces of wood and all this type of stuff.
I mean it's pretty amazing.
All of these pieces here will be thing that we incorporate
into these enclosures so that, again,
if it's a monitor or a lizard cage or something like that,
you could have these there and they can be sitting on them.
I mean they look so real, right?
And the thing that's nice about this is number one,
they're a little bit lighter weight.
They're going to last forever, right.
You know wood can degrade, all kinds of things can happen.
These are gonna last forever, they can never degrade right.
So, they're gonna be perfect.
Stewart's got a whole bunch of things he's been working on.
I mean take a look at this piece right here.
I mean this looks like something you would find on a beach
but, look at this side.
It's just polyurea.
I mean, it's absolutely amazing.
Again, next level.
All of this build is gonna like take the reptarium to
a level that I've been dreaming about
since the day we opened.
Next order of duty for the day.
Taking a break from the glass, I'll get back
to that in a little bit.
Is to put the arboreal cage.
Remember that kind of curved wall that we have
that I decided to put that cage in with your help of course,
you guys suggested I should do it as well.
So we're going to go ahead and build that out hopefully
by the end of the day we'll actually see what that actually
looks like, fixture out and everything so,
let's go ahead and assemble this sucker.
I have all the pieces put together so now
it's just a matter of assembling this and the exciting part,
of course, is getting it over to Stewart,
going over what we want to do, and actually making it
into a cool habitat for Emerald Tree Bars
or Green Tree Pythons.
All right, so that's it.
That it is the littlest, tiniest cage.
It's so cute, isn't it.
But again, this will be the emerald tree bar
or green tree python cage so, we don't need a lot of space,
they don't move around a whole lot.
But, we wanted some kind of cross beams so there's going to
be actually UV light as well as basking light.
This is actually the floor so, it goes the other way.
But, regardless, kind of cool rock fixturing out here.
So, we'll get it over to Stewart and see
what kind of magic he can do.
- You call that iron a knife?
This is a knife.
This is literally like we've gone into nature,
in Australia we call it the bush.
We've gone into the bush and we've found some rocks
and we've literally got a potato peeler,
and skinned the sucker.
Look at this, you know.
It's just incredible but it's only this thick.
And believe me, you can't hurt this.
You can literally drag a knife
(knife scrapes)
across it but for some crazy reason, you can cut
with a knife as well, and you can screw it,
and you can do all these things.
This is a rock panel that I went down to Marble Falls, Texas
I took a mold of it, and voila, we can use it in hundred
cages, one cage, making it a man cave.
We can do a million things, this is so cool.
- Last I checked, Stewart was making some progress
on the arboreal cage so let's go see what he's got going on.
Not today.
One sprained ankle is enough.
You guys know I've been excited about so many of these
enclosures but the center aisle one is the one that like
has kind of been the brain child.
Like I really wanted it.
I had the vision of this one.
Now that the doors and glass are in, holy cow!
So again, you can kind of go in here, go right through,
go through this side, come out the other side.
And the thing that's awesome is that again, if you're
in that center aisle, you can be looking at this side
and there's gonna be people looking on this side.
And again, we can access from this side or that side.
I don't know, I just think that these are unbelievable.
They turned out even better than I had visioned in my head.
So, it's super exciting.
Here's another one right down here that we're just
finishing up as well so, these are gonna be!
I mean this is truly making a dream come true.
The repatarium was certainly a dream and now this is
taking it to a level that I mean I am so thankful.
I cannot believe this is happening.
I'm beyond excited.
All right so, Stewart has the enclosure done.
Stewart this is great, dude!
This is exactly, exactly what I wanted.
I mean it's so perfect.
The tree bars can be down here,
they can be right up by the sun.
They look incredible, the colors are great.
I mean this is-
- They're in the rainforest sunlight.
- There's a rainforest.
- So we've got a little bit of green moss.
We've been working a lot on that, we'll talk more of it
over the next few days on that.
So, we'll make this look like it's an old, old part
of the rainforest with a beautiful snake in there.
- Yeah and I said the colors are going to pop in here,
some nice foliage and stuff like that.
We'll plant it out but I tell you what.
There is the enclosure that we weren't even gonna put in.
It was an afterthought but I think it's gonna be one of my
favorite ones for sure so, great job.
This is beautiful.
Pretty absolutely insane and hey, we've got some work still
to do on this to make it a really great rhino iguana cage.
We're gonna work on that tomorrow but we got a lot
accomplished today and unbelievable.
I cannot imagine what this is gonna look like installed.
Just in another few weeks.
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