- Hey, good morning everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I'm spending just a little bit
of time with my baby alligators,
of course that came from Gatorland.
Told you guys that we just got these in.
And eventually they're going to go in this enclosure here,
and these guys are going to go back to Florida.
They're not exactly sure when that's going to happen.
They're getting trained up really well,
and look at how pudgy they are.
When they came in, they were really nice,
but now they're really getting the hang of feeding.
Again, we're clicker training them,
so that people can come in and actually feed them.
I think it's probably gonna still be another month,
month and a half with these guys.
But they're absolutely adorable.
And one of the things that's kind of funny,
is that Noah, you guys know Noah has his own channel,
link in the description,
go and show him some love and subscribe.
We were actually looking at these babies the other day,
and I was kind of messing around,
and telling Lori like,
"Give it a little kiss, give it a little kiss."
And of course then I made the mistake of going,
"Oh, I'll kiss it."
And I put it up to my nose,
grabbed my nose and hung on, wouldn't let go.
- [Lori] Ooh! - Ah! Ah!
(crew laughing loudly) Ow! Oh!
Ow!
- Did that hurt?
- You can see the rest of that whole thing
over on Noah's channel.
Again, go show him some love, if you don't mind.
But, you know, I didn't think it was as funny
as those guys thought it was.
You know, that hurt, I'm not going to lie to you.
These guys have little chompers, even at this size.
It was kind of funny, but I think that Lori
took it a little too far with her kind of reaction
to my pain, if you know what I mean.
So I was watching Noah's clip
about me getting bit on the nose.
Why is it that every time I get hurt, you laugh at me?
- So it's nothing personal, that's just who I am,
and it always happens.
When people get hurt, I just laugh, that's my reaction.
- [Brian] Is it your way of coping because you're worried,
or you just think it's really funny?
- Yeah, I think that's what it is. (laughing)
I'm worried, that's what it is.
- [Brian] Oh my god.
- Actually, it's just really funny.
- [Brian] It's no wonder I've got a complex,
How 'bout you, Phoebe?
Phoebe doesn't, she appreciate that, right?
Phoebe carries about me.
- It's not a lack of empathy,
it's just that it's really funny. (laughing)
- I've mentioned before that I'm super excited
about a podcast.
You know, where it's gonna be like myself, Lori, Noah,
maybe all together, maybe we'll do things separate.
Regardless, I've been talking about doing a podcast room.
I need some help from you guys, I'm not going to lie to you.
And today we're actually going to go pick up some gear
to get this podcast and make it a reality.
But I need some help,
I don't know what to call the podcast, right?
It's not going to necessarily be just about reptiles,
it could be about all kinds of different things,
whatever's going on.
I've said, when I have my celebrity friends,
like Kerry King from Slayer,
or Brent Burns from the San Jose Sharks, in town.
You know, we can do a podcast,
talk about our connection with animals,
but also, you know, what it's like
to be a professional hockey player,
or to tour the world as a rock band,
and, you know, things like that.
So what would the podcast be called?
Go down in the comments, let me know what you're thinking.
I need a really cool name to get going.
And the podcast room is gonna to actually be next door.
And like I mentioned in the past,
this is all going to be built out down here in the basement.
And one of the rooms is actually going to be a podcast room.
We wanted to make it really cool, you know,
that we could have multiple camera angles,
we can have, you know, just roll in there,
throw a guest down.
You know, sometimes maybe,
it'll just be the three of us talking about topics.
Who knows what the case is?
So that's what's gonna happen down here.
But we'll probably launch the first podcast
just kind of guerrilla style over at the Reptarium.
Do one or two podcasts just to get our feet underneath us,
so it won't be as pretty and stuff like that,
but it's going to be pretty cool.
So later on we're going to head over to the Guitar Center,
buy a bunch of gear for the podcast, get that started.
And then actually later on tonight, too,
we're going to head over to Steve Bashi,
the aquatic guy that builds all our filtration.
Because he's gonna help with the fish spa.
We're going to go literally right here along this line,
it's going to be one fish spa, two fish spas,
that you can sit on and put your feet in,
and the fish actually eat the dead skin.
And by the way, a lot of people have said,
"Bad idea, there's all kinds of health risks."
The truth is, the CDC actually did a report
on the fish spas,
and there's nothing, as long as you keep things sterile,
that is actually bad for you.
So it's a little bit of wives' tale,
but that being said, we are gonna have UV light,
and all kinds of stuff to sterilize,
to make sure we're not spreading bacteria,
if you know what I mean.
So heading over to Steve's, cool place,
and start to design the fish spas.
But before all of that,
we have a bunch of work to do here at the Reptarium,
and over at BHB.
Eric, this viper boa is monstrous, dude.
- It's on the Eric diet.
- [Brian] Holy, it's literally like doubled its size--
- It's huge, yeah, yeah.
- [Brian] In the last, like month, oh my gosh.
- They've been blowing up lately, I don't know what it is,
I mean I just kinda feed 'em on a normal schedule
but they're-- - [Brian] Oh my gosh.
- They hold that food, man, I don't know.
- [Brian] Did you hear Miguel ended up having seven babies?
- No way!
Good for him. - [Brian] Yeah, yeah yeah.
- That's good, 'cause I was kinda worried about him,
you know, they said while he was here,
he looked a little stressed out.
- [Brian] So you've heard,
so we're gonna get those seven babies too.
- Oh very cool, very cool, awesome.
- [Brian] We're gonna have like a million viper boas.
- I like them, I personally like them.
- [Brian] They're so awesome.
- We have a ton of feeding to do,
I have Elijah here helping out,
showing him kinda how things work.
Gonna feed a bunch of stuff, like chameleons,
alligators, a whole bunch of other, like geckos
and stuff like that, so let's get started.
(uplifting music)
- Andrea's doing a good job with Elijah over here,
just kinda knocking out all the feeding
and the normal maintenance that we have at the Reptarium.
Next up, we're actually gonna feed
this little monkey right here.
This is actually a mata-mata turtle from the Amazon.
They're so incredible, 'cause they look like a leaf,
you know, I mean they're such an unusual animal,
and they can get like 30, 32 inches big,
so this guy's got a long way to go.
And one of the things that's really amazing about them
is the way that they actually eat.
They'll actually open their mouth and create a vacuum,
and basically just suck up whatever is in their way
including their food.
So hopefully, with any luck,
we'll get a chance to see how this guy does it.
It's definitely something that you don't see
any other animal do,
so let's just feed this little monkey.
(uplifting music)
How absolutely epic was that?
I mean, mother nature blows me away all the time,
these guys are ridiculous.
How's your hamsters doing, dude?
- Oh dude, they're doing so good.
Well I sold you hamster act, we just have the one.
And then I got Mary excited, and I'm like,
"Oh, I'm gonna buy a male and we're gonna breed 'em."
'Cause I just, little baby hamster would be cool.
I go upstairs and then we like,
we order a pizza Saturday night.
Typical Saturday, we're eating, I'm like,
"Oh man, I don't think I put the hamster away, Mary."
- [Brian] You took the hamster out and didn't put it away?
- Yeah, I like put it out on our bar
and we were sitting there with friends,
you know just hanging out with it, it was running--
- [Brian] Were you drinking?
- I had a couple of drinks.
I'm not proud of that
- [Brian] The hamster got out?
- The hamster got out.
But I'm like, "Listen, the pizza's gonna get cold,
"the hamster is down there somewhere."
- [Brian] So you just ate the pizza?
- We ate the pizza.
We figured, we'll let the little hamster regroup,
okay, we'll find him.
(Brian laughs)
So we ate the pizza, we went down,
I turned all the lights out before I went upstairs,
he was right there, he was just running around.
Hey, he was gone, we came down, he was off the bar,
'cause I went upstairs, I came down, he's gone.
I'm like, "You know what Mary, we got pizza.
"There's more important things to life.
"There's little scraps of food, he can survive, okay."
- So this is the,
this is responsible hamster ownership here.
So you're like a role model, dude.
- I, you know what, I like to lead by example.
Okay. (laughing)
No I'm not ready, stop, walk.
Yo, what's going on guys?
Very excited, why wouldn't I be?
Because we're feeding snakes, did that make any sense?
I don't think so.
Let's get started.
So as you can see here,
usually I separate these guys in the bucket,
today I was in a little bit of a hurry,
jumbled them all together.
So I have to kinda go through here
and see what snake gets what.
But taking about that, it's kinda funny,
some of these snakes, you can hand feed them
and you almost have to make sure
they take it off the tongs, so you know they'll eat
and it'll be gone by the next day.
Other snakes are very shy, I have to drop the food in
and just kinda leave 'em be until the next day.
So it's really interesting, getting to know the snakes,
especially the stock snakes
that we're raising up for breeding and stuff.
We just have to make sure they're gaining weight,
they're eating properly, they're eating the right thing.
We have micers, ratters, kind a things like that,
that'll go off in different sets.
So, yeah. (laughing)
So for example, I'll show you guys some,
you know, cool strikes and stuff like that.
There're certain snakes that I like to offer them the food
with tongs, or my hand, that way they can grab it,
I know they're eat the next day.
Some I have to be a little careful,
'cause I get a little couple nicks here and there,
they will go for your hand.
And then it's funny, you have the other snakes
that are just so shy, you quickly open it,
set the food in, and leave 'em be.
And you definitely don't wanna disturb 'em
until the next day.
Or, my little thing I got going on.
Who is coming through the door?
Can't work like this.
(uplifting music)
All right guys, so as you can see,
that's actually really cool, I'm really,
kind of proud of that moment right there,
because we just got this false water cobra in last week,
and just with different animals, we wanna make sure,
you know, will they feed off the tongs, will they hand feed?
With these guys I personally like to feed 'em by tongs,
just so they kind of get used to you,
they know when it's food time,
they know when it's time to come out.
So I'm really happy that that one took food off the tongs.
As you can see, he's mowing that down,
he's here, he's eating, which is a really good sign.
And as you can tell from these other animals,
some wanna rip your finger off,
other ones are a little bit timid and scared,
we have to leave the meal in there,
and other ones will take it off tongs, et cetera.
So it's just really learning and getting to know the animals
but, surprisingly with how many snakes and animals we have,
you actually do honestly get to remember and, you know,
you get to remember and to, remember the patterns
or the habits of the snakes, of what they want,
how they wanna eat it.
And that's what's important to me,
not to sound cheesy, you want the animal to be happy,
to eat food, to grow, and be ready to breed one day.
- All right, we're at Guitar Center,
going to pick up som podcast stuff,
excited to get this thing going.
Like I said, Guitar Center will hopefully hook us up.
Lots to choose from here,
oh we got all kinds of different mics,
we got a couple of people that are gonna be helping us out.
Again, we wanna have audio and video,
we need a video switcher and stuff like that.
So this is more about audio, it's a learning curve,
I don't know what I'm doing here
but ultimately when we get a big studio
we'll have like three or four cameras,
multiple mics, stuff like that.
So we wanna but the stuff that we wanna get now
and see what ends up happening.
These mics here?
- Yes, we got a set of SM7Bs which is--
- [Brian] Whatever SM7Bs are.
- SM7Bs, we got, we're gonna be grabbing
these nice stands right here.
- Nice stands, we've got a mixer, we've got a video thing,
that way we can have three cameras
switching back and forth--
- Exactly. Yep.
- Wide angle and punch-ins and stuff like that,
that's awesome.
- And so we gotta sell some extra Salt plushies.
Pretty much what we've gotta do.
- Yeah, we're gonna have to do another merch drop
just to pay for all this stuff.
It's gonna be worth it because this podcast
is gonna be amazing, I'm super excited about it.
Because you know if you get a chance to do these
like more long form interview type things,
we're just talking and chatting,
I think you know, you guys will get
to know a lot more about us,
not just, you know, 15 minutes of like high energy,
it's gonna be time to sit back and chill,
you know, talk, so I'm super excited--
- Yeah and you've gotta get to know this crazy guy
a little bit because I sure do and it's,
he's an awesome dude.
- Nah, well I appreciate that,
but I am excited for you guys to get to know me too.
So podcast, we ordered, ready to go,
maybe about two weeks, we'll do a test podcast.
So still need to know a name, in the comments,
what our name, so we can decide
what we're gonna call this podcast.
(drums banging) (cymbals hissing)
He's such a little monkey isn't he?
Yeah, let's get back to work.
(uplifting music)
It's just like, maybe like what, two foot by two foot,
like 20 inches tall like this?
And I'm assuming--
- [Steve] I think the filters gotta be in there.
- [Brian] Yeah that filter is bulkier than that,
Yeah I'm assuming the filter is in the back.
- Like built into the chair.
So then how do you, like what do you do with maintenance,
like after how, 'cause I don't know?
- I don't know.
- As far as like, after every person?
- No, no, no.
- Or something like that?
- I know there's one where they have like
a UV sterilizer on there, something like that.
- Yeah, yeah, probably do, yeah, yeah.
- Fricking whatever.
- [Steve] Well if you-- - And then, no, yeah.
And that's it, You know, they don't do anything.
- It just recirculates,
or is it like a legit filter back there?
- I think there's a filter. - Like does it,
So it has to become biological at some point--
- [Brian] So Lori, You figured out your crazy pot?
- (laughing) I, maybe. (laughing)
- So Lori, Lori got this.
(laughing)
Lori got this Instapot and she couldn't even,
she couldn't even open it for like a week.
- I've, a week?
- [Brian] Couldn't figure out how to open it.
- I've literally had this thing for like two months.
- [Brian] Two months--
- I couldn't, I didn't know how to take the top off.
(laughing)
- So she's not exactly Martha Stewart.
She's a great baker, but
(laughing)
but you know cooking here we've got to cope with this.
- Thanks.
- [Brian] So we've got some dinner coming, yeah?
- Something's coming, we'll see if it's. (laughing)
- We'll see how that goes, fingers crossed.
I'm ready to taste Lori's chicken.
I'll give you guys the review, okay.
(laughing)
- What, I didn't have it?
I had chipotle.
- I mean, it tastes like chicken.
- Yeah like what did you expect it to taste like?
It's chicken.
- Yeah it's just chicken, its just,
you know it's not like huge flavor chicken, just chicken.
- Oh my.
(laughing)
What?
- [Brian] It's good though, right?
- I guess.
- All right, so I'm gonna eat, guys,
and I'm gonna end the vlog here.
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