- There we go.
Argus, Argus, oh geeze.
I remember this when it was a little tiny baby,
oh you little silly monkey you.
(upbeat music)
Hey, good morning everybody.
Welcome to the vlog.
Today starts my 819th day without a day off.
So for those of you who are complaining
about Monday through Friday, just wrap your head
around that for a little bit.
But you know what, I absolutely love the grind.
I love doing what I'm doing.
Today we have a busy day.
We have some tours, we have the Reptarium,
all kinds of stuff.
Lori's working on the website.
It's gonna be an amazing day.
What do you say we own day 819 and just get
right into it?
And I don't know about you guys, but I am
absolutely gonna make today incredible
over here at the Reptarium.
Like I said, we have a tour, a birthday party,
Reptarium open, some busy work here and there
to take care of.
Of course, we always have to do our maintenance
on the animals.
So it's gonna be an absolutely incredible day.
Lori's next door working on BHB, so I'll check in
to see what she's doing.
And Lori has me pretty booked up today,
but what are you doing today?
What are you doing to help me, I should ask.
- Help you? - [Brian] yeah.
(laughing)
- I'm helping you by doing my job.
I'm trying to get more stuff on the site.
We sold a ton with the sale,
so I need to get new stuff up.
Today, I'm working on leopard geckos.
I'm gonna let Lori get onto the leopard geckos
on the website, and head over to the Reptarium
and wait for my tour to show up.
And they are here.
So welcome, welcome, welcome.
You guys came all the way from Utah.
- Salt Lake City.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, that is awesome.
And you're like really passionate about reptiles.
You want to maybe make a future in reptiles.
- Yes, I love reptiles, yeah.
- Okay, good.
Well, we're gonna have a good time, kind
of showing them around, kind of just sharing kind of,
our ideas and everything.
I'll help you as much as I can, let's get started.
The first thing we're gonna do is mess
around with Tazzy a little bit here.
Tell me a little bit about you.
So you keep some reptiles.
I think you said you had like 13 or something.
- Yeah, 13 reptiles.
- [Brian] 13 reptiles, and you're hoping to maybe--
- Yeah, I want to start a reptile zoo
to bring good news as well.
- That is awesome, gosh I love it.
That's so cool.
I love it when people come
that have really similar aspirations,
'cause then we can just really share each other's ideas.
And in a couple of days, you're turning 16.
- Mm hm, yeah.
- Oh my gosh, I didn't start my business,
well I was 17, I really got going about 18 or so.
So you have a couple of years on me, so you're doing good.
Stay passionate.
- [Boy] Cool, thank you.
- Next up, Perdida.
Man, she is-- - She is awesome.
- I've had this snake since it was a baby.
It's about 15, maybe 16 months old now,
and I still get shocked every time I see it,
every time I pull her out, I'm even like oh my gosh.
- Yeah, she's so pretty.
- And the thing that's cool is because it's always changing,
it's forever changing, its dots are increasing.
It's always a little bit different.
But, she's a star for sure.
Got out a little alligator lizard, or abronia.
These guys are absolutely cool.
Normally we don't get a chance to take these out,
but thankfully Jessica said one was out,
and so we were able to take it out.
These things are so dragon like.
Of course, everybody has to meet Bella,
my princess, the queen of the Reptarium.
(laughing)
- She's awesome.
- So I'm just giving some new leopard geckos
up on the site, because they sell as fast as
I put them up.
I've got this beauty to start, the bold snow,
with a really nice pattern on it.
It may or may not have keep on it, but it's going
on the site (laughing).
- And I'm gonna let you feed Bella the banana
because she absolutely loves this.
Oh, she's excited already.
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(laughing)
Good job, girl.
(laughing)
Bella loves her bananas.
- So take a look at this beauty.
I've got a Mack raptor, white and yellow.
So that's Mack, snow, tremper albino,
white and yellow, and eclipse all in one.
And boy, this thing is a beauty.
- Time to feed Elvis, go ahead.
(upbeat music)
Oh, there you go Elvis.
Elvis, what are you doing?
Isn't that awesome? - Yeah, he's awesome,
he's so cool.
- That's what we got, bud.
(upbeat music)
Last one, Tazzy.
(laughing)
And again, I always like to think like,
when people come to the Reptarium,
certainly on tours and stuff like that,
I want them to be able to do things
that they wouldn't be able to do if they just go
to a normal zoo or something like that.
So, feeding the animals like this,
I don't know, I hope you enjoyed it.
- Yeah, of course.
- This guy here is really a beauty.
It's a Mack, snow, tremper, albino, patty,
striped, white and yellow I believe,
and man, I think this one's gonna go fast.
It's really pretty.
- And the last thing we're gonna feed,
of course is Argemus prime.
You ready for this? - I'm so ready.
- [Brian] Here we go.
(upbeat music)
Look at that.
That's okay, don't worry about it.
Okay, Argus, Argus, (laughing).
It's okay buddy, it's okay, slow down.
(laughing)
- I didn't know he'd be that fast, that's crazy.
- He's fast and crazy, isn't he?
Oh, he's fun.
Argus (laughing), that is awesome.
- So I'm trying to get up all the rest of the 2017s
that we have, and it's really neat to find some
of these beauties in here.
This is just a tangerine, but boy
this is a beautiful animal.
Again, I'm sure it'll sell fast.
They are not high dollar, and the contrast
on this one is amazing.
- So we are wrapping up the tour.
We had a great time.
Thank you guys so much! - It was awesome!
- You guys are awesome!
You're coming back tonight, right?
- Yep, tonight.
- All right, so we're gonna see you guys.
And of course, our birthday party has showed up.
So we've got a birthday party,
we're gonna have a fun time with that too.
So basically, I do birthday parties a little bit different.
This one is gonna be a presentation.
So I do like a 45 minute presentation
about a bunch of animals.
Kids seem to be really excited about being here,
which is really cool.
And then, they end up doing pizza and cake,
and stuff like that.
But this one is an hour and a half long.
We've had parties that have been as much as 2 1/2 hours.
So this one's gonna be a little tight on time.
I'm gonna really try to teach them a lot about reptiles,
and then cut them loose to kind of look
around the Reptarium a little bit,
and then they can open up presents, cake,
and all that other stuff.
I love birthday parties because I think when
I was a kid, I wish I could have come to a place like this
and had my birthday party.
With that being said, Lori, can I have my birthday party
at the Reptarium?
- Absolutely.
- Good, who's gonna give the presentation, are you?
- Yes, I would give the presentation.
- Oh, I am so excited.
Next year I get to have a birthday party
at the Reptarium.
Look at this, this is awesome.
(loud chattering)
That's what I think is cool.
Every time we have a birthday party for a kid,
they always have really creative cakes.
- I can't believe I still have some super snows here.
And when I find them, I put them up,
and they sell really fast.
So guess what?
I found a couple more, they're going up.
So if you're on the lookout for them, these are beauties.
- I just wrapped up the 45 minute presentation.
Literally, I've done a bunch of these.
This was one of my funnest ones I've ever done.
I mean, the kids were absolutely incredible
for this one.
They were really attentive.
They kept quiet, but they were super excited,
held everything.
I couldn't believe how many of them held a tarantula.
oh my God, that was amazing.
Lori's just taking care of the party.
They're eating pizza and stuff like that.
So I figured I'd head over to BHB and I
actually was looking through stuff
and found a couple of snakes.
I remember this when it was a little tiny baby
because, oh you silly monkey you.
Because it's scaleless Texas wrap,
but it had some interesting white
in it's side, and it was just really beautiful.
And then I couldn't find it for like the last three months.
Well, sure enough Eric was hiding it on me.
Well, he wasn't hiding it, he just changed it over
to an area that I didn't expect it to be.
And I was wondering what happened to this
and another one that we were raising up
that was super cool.
I couldn't be more happy now that its got three
or four months of size on it.
This thing is gorgeous.
And this is the other one.
Take a look at the pattern and the white
in this thing.
This thing is so incredible.
Anyways, really cool that I found these.
I guess I'll get over and help Lori
out next door with that party.
All right, Lori, so how's it going over here?
- Oh, it's going great (laughing).
- [Brian] Controlled chaos.
- Yeah, exactly.
I couldn't have explained it better.
- I kind of like though, they were really good
for that presentation.
I mean, they were super well behaved,
super input though, I think this is one
of the funner parties we've done, to be honest with you.
- I agree.
♪ Happy birthday to you, Pikachu ♪
- I am so excited.
I got a new pair of shoes.
I've actually been waiting on these shoes for awhile.
You know, when these first came out,
I was like man, I'd really like to get them,
but they are a little bit, you know,
they're a little bit crazy, a little bit loud.
So I didn't know if I wanted them and finally
I just said, let's get them because I like them.
I know you're gonna love these ones Lori.
Out of all my shoes--
- And by love, you mean hate?
Geeze.
Who do you think you are, Ronald Macdonald?
'Cause that's who would wear these ugly shoes.
- [Brian] Those shoes are fire, come on.
- I'd like to set them on fire.
(laughing)
- [Brian] Well, you got to admit they're pretty cool though?
- No. - No?
- No.
- [Brian] This one says hear, and this one says mind.
- What does that mean?
- It means they're awesome.
(laughing)
I'm gonna wear those tonight at the Reptarium.
I'm putting these guys on right now.
(laughing)
Look at these things, Lori.
(laughing)
- oh my God (laughing).
- [Brian] What?
It's not funny!
What do you think, I'm...
- Thank you, (laughing), thank you for getting those.
I needed that laugh (laughing).
- These are, all right, I'm done.
I'm gonna go over and open up the Reptarium,
go around people that are gonna appreciate my fire shoes.
What do you guys say we go ahead and open up the Reptarium
and get this party started?
- [Woman Off Camera] Hi, hi, thank you, thank you.
- [Brian] Good to see you guys, hi, how are you?
Hi, hi guys, how are you?
- [Man Off Camera] How you doing?
- And look who showed up.
Look who came off the streets here.
Uncle Chew Chew's in town.
What's going on, Chewie?
- Nothing.
Checking out the Reptarium again.
Going shopping at the shop.
- [Brian] What are you getting?
- Scaleless Texas. - You're getting a scale--
- T Virus Jr.
- Chewie had a scaleless Texas rat way back
in the day, called T Virus.
So you're replacing T Virus, huh?
- T Virus Jr.
- T Virus Jr., okay, let me know what you pick out.
Things are popping here at the Reptarium
just 10 minutes into open.
Lots and lots of people.
(loud chattering) We've got Pepper out.
Again, we're slowly able to bring Pepper out
to show people.
We want to get it habituated
to it without stress, of course.
Right now, she's doing really, really well.
- [Woman In Sweater] Oh, she's great.
- We've got a lot of people in the house tonight.
We've got people from Maryland, we've got people from...
- Cleveland.
- Love Cleveland, it's a great town,
a bunch of people from all over the place.
It is absolutely an epic night already,
and we've only been open like 10, 15 minutes.
So it's gonna be a great, great night here.
- That one's very cool.
- What are you doing, bud?
So we always get a lot of people traveling in
from all over the place, but today in particular is a
very crazy day for travel.
You guys are from?
- Salt Lake City, Utah.
- Baltimore. - Western New York.
- Minnesota. - Maryland.
- Milwaukee Wisconsin.
- So as you can see, we have some people
from Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus Ohio,
and I think there's even someone from Chicago.
So it's been a crazy night of travel.
Oh my gosh, it's so awesome tonight.
- Again, I can't believe some of the beautiful geckos
I still have from 2017.
Like this guy here, is a super hypo tangerine baldy,
which always makes me laugh at the name.
But, it's really cool how they've got
that cool head on them, as well as these bright colors.
We're about three hours into the night,
and it hasn't slowed down.
I mean, people everywhere.
We've got snakes out, we've got Sunny
out over here, the ball.
We've got Sunrise out over here.
Casper's out way over there.
Down in the back, I don't know,
there's like five snakes out, some lizards out,
and stuff like that.
What a great night this has been!
I tell you what guys, I mean, I am not gonna kid you.
It's really kind of emotional to see this coming
together like it has, and here we are now, 3 1/2 months in,
it's not just new and people are coming to see.
Everyone still comes to support it.
I can't thank you guys enough.
There are nights like tonight where there are 150,
200 people in here, that I almost want
to start crying, because I'm so emotional about it.
And seeing people just fall in love
with these things has been amazing, so.
Okay, just about an hour left before we close the Reptarium.
So you said you've never held a snake?
- Yeah.
- Okay, so it's really simple.
I mean, just hold your hands out like that,
I'm gonna set it down real gently.
And basically, your just gonna be kind
of its support, right?
- [Girl With Snake] Okay.
- [Brian] So don't feel afraid to, you're doing perfect.
Just give it a little bit of pressure,
but that's it, I mean, that's it.
So what do you think?
- It's I love it.
- [Brian] Is it different than you expected?
- Yeah, kind of.
I thought it was gonna run over, all over the place.
- No they really chill out,
this one is such a sweetheart though.
Handle her as much as you want, enjoy,
do whatever you want, and when you're ready
to handle the next thing, I'll keep going, all right?
- Okay, thank you so much!
- Before we wrap up at the Reptarium, Chew is here
with his new pet snake.
- T Virus Jr.
- [Brian] T Virus Jr.
The scaleless Texas rat snake.
It does look like T Virus.
- It does, it looks just like T Virus.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, that's awesome.
What are you gonna do with it?
- Put it in a cage and feed him.
I know how to take care of snakes.
- Do you? - Yes.
- Where'd you learn that?
- Hendog, Brian Barczyk.
(laughing)
Senior.
- Oh my gosh, that was insane night.
But it was absolutely incredible.
Now we're just gonna go out to dinner
with some of the people that came in from out of town,
have a good time, and end the vlog here,
and wish you guys an absolutely amazing day.
I hope that your day will be anywhere near
as cool as my day was.
'cause it was absolutely incredible.
And that's my wish, is that you have an incredible day too
because I really appreciate your guys' support.
And you guys mean the world to me.
I truly do love you guys so much.
Can you do me a couple of favors before we get out of here?
Can you smash that like button?
Turn those post notifications on, make a comment.
Because I want to read about your beautiful faces.
Be kind to someone.
And I promise, I will see you guys tomorrow.
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