- [Jay] Fabio, is this cool or what?
(laughing)
Look at that, he's showing off.
- [Brian] That's something you don't see every day.
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- Hey, good morning everybody, welcome to the vlog.
It is before 6:00 in the morning
and we're heading off to the airport,
heading to LA just for the day.
It's gonna be absolutely amazing.
It's gonna be pretty awesome who I'm about to meet up with.
Okay, at the airport, ready to head to LA.
It's gonna be a fun day,
but I'm glad I'm only gone for one day.
So it's gonna be a pretty busy trip.
I'm actually only gone in LA
for less than 24 hours and then I'm back here.
It's a five hour flight over there.
Gonna be hooking up with JM Prehistoric Pets.
Of course he's borrowing some animals
for a couple collabs that I'm doing.
It's gonna be really exciting to see who I meet.
I can't wait to show you guys who I'm gonna hook up with.
It's gonna be really cool.
And with the people I'm meeting up with,
their audiences are huge.
So we'll be exposing their audiences
to some amazing animals.
It's gonna be absolutely incredible.
Regardless, let's get to our gate, get on our plane
and let's have hopefully a nice,
relaxing five hour flight to LA.
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- Hi, how are you?
- [Airline Attendant] Hi, how are you?
- [Brian] Good, thank you.
(soft mumbling)
- Thank you!
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- And away we go.
(upbeat music)
- Thank you, thank you.
All right, here in LA.
I absolutely love Southern California.
So I'm heading over to JM Prehistorics
just to borrow a few of his animals
to go to this video shoot that
you guys are gonna be absolutely like, "What, Brian?"
Literally, when my manager said, "Hey, this guy wants
to do a video with you," I had to do it because
I've always been a big fan of his work and stuff like that.
So, you guys are definitely gonna say
he's definitely not an animal person.
And it's gonna be a kind of weird, interesting video,
but I am absolutely looking forward to it.
So I come all this was just to do that
and I'm actually gonna hook up later today
with Sam and Colby.
Some of you guys may watch them.
They're absolutely amazing.
They've got a really cool YouTube channel.
So we're gonna get with them,
and do a couple little fun things
before heading back to JM Prehistorics
to drop this stuff off tonight.
And then jumping on a plane heading back to the Reptarium.
(distant chattering)
- And we are here at Jay's Reptile Zoo.
Always love coming to this place.
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So Jay's place is obviously so much larger than my place
and it really was a big inspiration to things.
I mean, look at all this stuff.
He's got green anacondas here, he's got monitor lizards,
he's got all kinds of space.
I mean, to have this kind of space can really give
you a lot more species of animals.
And that's one of the things that's probably the hardest
thing about what I'm doing, is trying
to decide like what animals to put where.
I mean, take a look at this right here.
This is actually a carpet python, ball python mix.
What a crazy snake!
Oh my God, and there's a big Haitian boa.
Oh my gosh.
Again, there's just such a wide variety of species here.
Of course, you got the big gator tank here.
I mean this is absolutely incredible.
One day, I wanna definitely have a place
that's as big as this.
It would be really, really cool.
We've got some green iguanas up here,
yellow anacondas down here.
Oh my gosh.
Look at the big old Asian water monitor.
I tell ya again, one day I kinda hope
to have a place like this.
Of course, there's a lot of work in a place like this.
Oh look at this little dude here.
This guy is so amazing.
Last time we were here,
they were just getting started on it.
So it's looking like this has come together.
All three of these cages are gonna be absolutely incredible.
Of course, Greg the pond guy did this whole pond.
Beautiful backdrop right here.
I mean, this is absolutely incredible.
All these snake cages and lizard cages are great.
Look at these.
What a beautiful animal that is.
Oh my God, I love it when I come here.
I get so inspired because I really think of the future,
and what's coming up.
This of course, is the retic python breeding area over here.
Oh look at all the big old Sulcata tortoises.
Oh my gosh, look at these beasties.
These things are huge.
I mean, you think Speedy and Savvy are big,
but when you get around these guys,
you really realize how absolutely amazingly big they are.
Oh, look at this cute little monkey right here.
Hey buddy, what are you doing?
There're more tortoises over here.
Of course, really big pythons here.
Jay's gonna be here any minute.
We'll spend a little time with him
and then we're gonna pack up some animals,
and head over to my shoot.
And I can finally tell you who I'm meeting up with.
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- This guy loves his pond.
Where ya going?
You gotta go for a swim.
Oh, you're gonna go over there, aren't ya?
(laughing)
Just 'cause I told ya.
- Best laid plans.
And of course Jay is here and it's just always awesome
to come out to LA.
Whenever I'm out here, I gotta come in.
I've told you guys this a million times,
but Jay has been not only a great friend of mine
for twenty years, but this reptile zoo---
- By the way, you're cutting it short.
It ain't 20 years.
- I never want people to--
- Are you trying to pretend you're younger than you are?
- Yeah, I'm like, yeah, I'm younger, I'm younger, all right?
All right, probably closer to thirty years.
I've said that this reptile zoo was
really the biggest inspiration for what I do.
Of course his place is much bigger.
It's got tons more stuff.
But, when I came here, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
So Jay-- - You've talked
about it the whole time,
which makes me a little bit proud on the respects
that I feel like it wasn't talk.
(laughing)
You pulled it off and I'm proud of you.
- But Jay kind of paved the way.
He's been doing this forever here.
You had to be one of the first guys to kind
of independently do this.
- There's been a couple in malls,
but I think that a true reptile guy
that did it not for money, I didn't have the money.
This is just like a dream of mine
that I started from an orphan and that I, you know.
There used to be a place called the Alligator Farm.
It went out of business when I was young.
And I missed it my whole life, and--
- [Brian] So you wanted to do it yourself?
- And you know what, I ain't done.
(laughing)
- And that's the one thing I will say.
I mean, literally, every year I've been coming here,
It's radically different,
radically improved. - That's what I'm trying,
I gotta just like, tears, blood, and sweat
to get to my dream.
You know all about it, right?
Nothing, you weren't given anything.
You had to work and you got to a point
where you could go, bam.
And now you got this awesome place which,
if you guys wanna come check it out,
I'm gonna go there one day.
And if you wanna come meet me there, it'd be great.
I mean, Brian, we did it here
and had a blast meeting all of you.
And we'd love to meet all of you out
at Brian's new place, the Reptarium, right?
- At the Reptarium.
Absolutely, we're gonna make this happen,
where Jay's gonna come out, do a big meetup out there.
I will say this, I'll probably be the
most nervous having Jay out than anybody,
because of this.
But I know Jay's great about it.
But it'll just be for me, I'll be nervous.
- It's epic, I've already seen enough pictures to know that.
I know what I've seen and it's epic.
This is some of our new stuff.
- [Brian] This is the new stuff you're doing here.
So tell me about this.
- These are some of the big enclosures.
I had a medium enclosure and I'm kind of excited
that we're putting them into these big ones.
They're all dialed in.
He's standing in actually, the egg-laying box.
- [Brian] Oh, so this is gonna be the egg box.
- [Jay] Yeah, there's heating down there.
There's heating over there.
There's heating up there, the lining--
- [Brian] Oh, we've got yeah, a big pond.
- [Jay] Yeah, this ponds here.
This is a big area for filtration.
Another egg laying area, and pumps and waterfalls and--
- That is awesome.
And yeah, for those of you guys that don't know.
Monitors really do prefer to dig deep
when they lay their eggs.
So if you can give them at least a foot of substrate,
it really does help them.
So these are gonna be unbelievable.
This is like, amazing. - Yes, they're two feet deep,
they have heat at the bottom,
and they're designed, because, I used to breed a lot
of water monitors.
And honestly, I haven't been able to
because I don't have the proper enclosures.
And I don't want them to get egg bound,
so I keep them separate.
So I'm kind of excited that I get
to go back and play with monitors,
'cause that's actually, I like big pythons.
But let me tell you, I like big monitors, too.
- [Brian] This is kind of the roughed out one
and this is the finished product here.
- This is Mike. Mike is like, my rock guy.
- Well, you're doing a wonderful job.
It looks absolutely amazing.
That is awesome.
So when you guys come out here
to Fountain Valley California,
you know this guy over here had a lot to do with
how beautiful these things look for sure.
But this is gonna be amazing.
So there's three cages here.
Again, you can see this one's got a lot
of the finish work here.
You can just see this one's kind of rough--
- And we can show them the finished product.
Come on, let's go check it out.
- Yeah, so let's go ahead and take a look
at what one of these is gonna look
like when it's completely done.
- This is a big enclosure.
This is one of our main big ones we put in.
And you know we got glass.
It's funny how many people don't realize
that we got glass see-through for the gators.
You can see them from the belly.
You can see the snapping turtles
from the bottom and the top.
Whoa, the male is, whoa, look at the male.
Look at that,
he's showing off. (laughing)
- [Brian] That's something you won't see every day.
(laughing) - No, it isn't.
I honestly, I've never seen them do that.
Look at him, he's still doing it.
Oh my goodness.
- [Brian] Holy moly, what in the world?
(laughing)
- [Jay] You don't see that every day.
He must be excited that we're here.
(laughing)
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, that is crazy.
- Yeah, so this is my big python enclosure.
This is actually the first big enclosure that I built.
- [Brian] Yeah, it's beautiful.
- The design is made actually more than just for looks.
Every shelf is designed for the animals to lip.
He usually sits up top and it's got a pond on one end.
- This is amazing.
And again, I just love coming here
because it gives me so many ideas.
It inspires me.
This is incredible.
I mean, look at this.
I mean, this is just such a great, you've got the alligator,
he's got space up here.
He can climb.
He can just do everything.
This is a freakin' awesome gator tank.
- So you know at the end of the day, if you love animals,
you wanna make them look good, you want them
to be in nice looking enclosures, basically,
this was a pet store and I turned it into a zoo.
And there's a lot of transition from a pet store and a zoo.
And hey, I can't build a bunch
of hundred thousand dollar displays at one time.
So I gotta build a whole bunch of what I can, as I can.
And so I'm excited because
I'm gonna be working on another zoo.
And when I do, it'll be from scratch.
- Uh oh, I think we just got a scoop right here.
So you can keep a lookout.
I definitely will be loving the zoos.
And by the way, before we get going,
I have to get out to my thing.
But I did want to say, down in the description,
show Jay some love.
I'm gonna put his links to his Instagram,
YouTube channel, everything.
- And I really appreciate it, you guys.
- Show him some love, tell him Brian sent you.
Amazing person, great friend, always been there for me.
And I'd really appreciate if you guys show him the support
that he truly deserves.
- And I appreciate it, thank you very much.
All the fringe benefits of having a zoo,
you get to play with the animals.
This one thinks he's a dolphin.
His name's Fabio.
Come on, Fabio.
Is this cool or what?
(laughing)
I'm seriously gonna do the dolphin show and use Fabio.
Whoa, Come on.
We can't tease him too much.
but the good idea is that it's actually enrichment.
He gets fatter, he gets exercise,
he stays strong and lives longer.
- As you guys knew, I flew all the way to LA
'cause I was pretty excited about a project.
But, I can't really tell you much about it right now.
I cannot wait to be able to share that footage
with you guys.
Unfortunately, it's gonna be a few weeks
before it goes out.
When you're shooting with certain people,
obviously you have to be professionally courteous to them,
and not release footage because it's really
their big channel.
I'm just kind of visiting them, you know what I mean?
So regardless, it was absolutely amazing,
and well worth the trip out here.
Now I'm gonna try to go link up with Sam and Colby,
just hang out, show them my animals,
have some fun with those guys.
And then we're gonna basically call it a night,
hit the plane in the morning, and head back
to BHB and the Reptarium.
All right, my next stop of course,
we've got Sam here from Sam and Colby's.
- His roommates, everybody.
- What's up?
- Yeah, all right.
So what are we doing here today?
- Today we're gonna scare the crap out of them.
- Oh no, we're gonna get you guys to love snakes.
You said you're scared.
So we're gonna work on him.
I can tell he looks scared.
- I can't feel my face.
(laughing)
- No, we're gonna work on you.
These two actually, you have a snake.
You like snakes, you've had snakes.
- I've had, yeah.
- [Brian] And you, where are you at?
- You know what, I'm right in the middle.
- Right in the middle, so, okay.
So this is a perfect little scale here.
And I didn't ask you.
How do you feel Sam?
- I'm along for the ride, but I'm pretty horrified as well.
- All right, so my mission today is
to convert some people into snake lovers by the end of this.
I think we can do it.
(loud chattering)
- When you say snake, do you mean like a small, like...
- [Brian] Yeah, just a little, little.
It's not even that big.
Okay guys, let's go get some animals.
All right, so our first victim is right here.
How did it go?
This the first time you've ever held a snake.
You look--
- Ever, oh my God.
And I always thought my first snake would
be a regular house snake, maybe like a foot or two.
But no, my first snake was a 12 foot snake on my head.
And it's honestly, it's more docile than a dog.
It's really calm, yeah.
- [Brian] You were kinda freaked out,
but it's a lot more chill than you thought, right?
- Yeah, and kind of is a very kind word.
I was really scared.
(laughing)
And now, I'm actually like, I kinda like this.
- [Male Off Screen] Now it's just giving Jake a little hug
right there.
- [Brian] Now it's your turn.
See what he said?
He was freaked out, you can do it too.
I have faith in you.
Let's start this way.
Let's just start with you
like kind of sitting over here
and we'll put the tail on you.
- You know, Kevin's never lied to me before,
but there's a start for everything and...
(laughing)
Um, he's hissing at me and--
- No, it's not hissing, it's just breathing.
- Breathing, okay.
I'm not much of a Harry Potter,
but like I can't really tell what he's saying.
(laughing)
- But it's not bad.
You did good.
See, I told you you were gonna hold it.
And I think you're doing really good.
And I'm proud of you.
- Wow, thank you.
It's kinda like a big scary dog, not like scary dog,
but scary to look at.
- [Male Off Screen] He's ever so chill about it.
- [Brian] You're doing great.
- It's not that bad.
- I know, see I told you, I knew it.
So Colby ended up waking up and coming down
and seeing some animals.
That's pretty awesome.
We had a good time with your guys' friends.
We made some people that were kind of afraid of snakes--
- Sure were.
- into people that actually seem to appreciate them.
I'm not gonna say they're snake lovers yet,
but they certainly did appreciate them.
- I think I might get a snake.
Literally, I went from never touching a snake in my life
to now I'm like, I could get, yeah.
- [Male Off Screen] That snake was cool.
I could sleep with Lemonade every day.
- [Male Off Screen] Well, I don't know about that.
That's a nice step.
- [Brian] This little guy there is
this guy 30 years later.
Yeah, same exact tortoise, just baby, 30 years.
- Are they like, related in any way?
- [Brian] These guys are not related, no.
But this is just a little baby.
- How long do they live for?
- [Brian] About a 150, 200 years.
- So, will it get bigger?
- [Brian] It's gonna get bigger, yeah.
This one is about 40 or 50 pounds right now,
but it's gonna get about a 150 pounds.
- 150 pounds.
- Yeah, 150 pounds.
- Guys, we are gonna wrap it up here at these guys' house.
Again, I will put a link in the description
to their videos.
They're absolutely hilarious.
They do tons of really cool stuff.
Definitely show them some love.
Tell them I sent you, of course.
And you can check out all the stuff
they did with our animals.
We definitely made some animal lovers today.
It was absolutely amazing.
Thanks guys, for being out.
- Definitely, thank you so much.
- Appreciate you, man, appreciate you.
- You're a warrior, dude.
- Thank you so much man, you changed my life today.
- Thanks man, appreciate you guys.
- Thanks for everything.
- And I am back here at Jay's to drop the animals off.
It's hard to believe that my day started early
this morning in Michigan.
And I was able to come all the way out to LA,
did all these collabs with a bunch of cool people.
I can't wait to share the one with you.
Definitely had a good time.
Hey, Sam and Colby were absolutely amazing.
We changed a lot of people's minds,
people that were absolutely terrified about snakes.
And they ended up loving them.
I mean, even wanted to get some as pets.
So today was absolutely amazing.
I wish every day was like this.
Tomorrow I get to wake up to a couple little things here,
then I get on a plane, travel all day.
So I'm gonna heavily rely on the crew
to kind of give you updates what's going on
with BHB and the Reptarium.
But I will be back tomorrow and then we will kick butt
because I think we have like eight days left
before the potential grand opening of the Reptarium.
So regardless, thank you guys for joining me today.
You guys are amazing.
And I hope that you have an incredible day.
You guys know I love you so much.
Can you do me a couple favors before we get out of here?
Can you smash that like button?
Turn those post notifications on.
Make sure to leave a comment,
'cause I like reading about you guys.
Be kind to someone, and I promise,
I will see you guys tomorrow.
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