- This happens to be RJ, my big alligator,
and this is a piece of chicken;
let's go ahead and feed my buddy.
Come on, bud, come on!
(whispering) Here ya go, bud.
(upbeat funk music)
Alligators actually have the sixth most strong bite
on the planet, at almost 3,000 pounds per square inch.
That's right, a human bite force is a maximum
of 160 PSI, pounds per square inch.
You definitely don't want to get bit by something like RJ.
RJ, come on, bud.
He's being a little bit freaky today,
I don't know what his problem is, come on buddy.
Because he's being so weird, I think that I have no choice
but to get into my skivvies and go in after him.
Don't look, Maria.
(Maria cat call whistling)
I have no idea if this is gonna work, guys.
RJ is actually only six-foot long
and he's about 120 pounds;
believe it or not, alligators can get up to 10 to 12 foot.
Come on, ah there he goes,
he just needed a little bit of enticement here.
They can literally get up to almost a thousand pounds,
but believe it or not, saltwater crocodiles are the largest
in the crocodile world as far as pressure;
they get up to 3700 PSI, pounds per square inch of power;
definitely don't wanna get bit by something like that.
They can get 23 feet long and up to 2,000 pounds.
RJ is definitely a cool animal
and he's not nearly as big as he's gonna eventually get,
eventually topping out at maybe 10, 12 foot.
Females stay a little bit smaller,
but that power that he has in crunching down,
he could break your bones like nothing;
what an absolutely incredible animal.
RJ, what are you doing, buddy?
You're just getting a little bit of food.
But the interesting thing is you think of that
pounds per square inch with an alligator or a crocodile,
that's the reason that alligators and crocodiles
have been around for a hundred million years.
(jaw popping)
You guys hear that pop right there?
And we've all seen those alligator shows
where an alligator actually has his mouth open
and someone puts his hand in it or puts his head in it
or whatever the case may be, and then wham!
They pull it out really quick.
Well, let me explain what actually is happening
and let me start by disclaiming, saying,
please don't do this, this isn't something
that I want you to do, but I do want to explain to you
exactly what the science behind what they're doing is.
First off, alligators can't see directly in front
of their face, so when I go like this, it doesn't see it,
it only sees this way and this way.
So when you go in like this,
it actually isn't seeing that you're inside of its mouth.
Now, when you actually touch its tongue,
it'll actually pop like that, right?
So that's basically what's happening
is that with a larger alligator,
it's a little bit more dangerous, right?
Because if for some reason you get your hand
caught in there, and we've all seen those times
when that's actually happened,
but the thing is you can't hesitate whatsoever.
So once your finger's in there, right immediately out;
you touchdown and you go out
and that's actually how you get the pop
and that's kind of that gator thing that people do.
Again, I don't want you guys to do it,
but if you're ever looking at a gator show
and you're wondering like,
"Oh my gosh, how do they do that?"
Or, "Isn't it dangerous to put your finger in its mouth
like this?" Again, as long as you're not touching
its throat or any of its ISOs, it won't actually snap down.
As soon as you touch it's ISOs or touch its tongue,
immediate it's response is snap down.
Some of the shows actually in the Philippines
and the Indonesians, they'll actually desensitize
their ISOs and desensitize their tongue even,
to where they can actually touch them.
But the truth is that most of the time, that's not the case,
and that's where you see that really cool pop
when you see an alligator show.
So now you know the science behind
what's actually happening, but again,
please don't try this at home,
you could potentially get hurt.
- [Noah] Mom, where you at, mom?
Is mom up there? - [Brian] Yeah.
- [Noah] Oh, perfect.
You wanna come with me after you set up your bouquet?
(Lori laughing)
- Where are we going?
- [Noah] To the Reptarium.
- Oh yeah? What's going on?
- [Noah] I want you to do something
I don't think you ever done.
- Hmm, I don't know if I want to do something
(laughing) I haven't done at the Reptarium.
- [Noah] No, you'll be safe, you'll be safe.
- Yeah? - [Noah] It's gonna be fun.
- I don't know if that I trust you.
- [Noah] You should trust me, it's fine.
- [Lori] Do I let him bite it first? Is that what you do?
- [Handler] So you want to wait for his mouth to open.
So he opens it, then...
- [Lori] Oh, yeah. - [Handler] Let go.
- All right, hold on.
There we go, there we go.
Oh, he just wants to walk. (Noah laughing)
All right, I need a third hand.
(Noah and handler laughing)
Yeah, yeah, he's a little fast.
Well, I'm clearly not very good at this,
but that being said, - [Noah] He's eating!
- I feel like it would be a better, smoother transition
if I knew what I was doing.
(upbeat funk music)
(all laughing)
- [Handler] There he goes!
- Elvis is like, "What the heck?"
(all laughing)
Although, I don't think this is a very good meal for Elvis.
- [Noah] We need to have fun.
- This is more fun, it really is.
It's a lot more fun than the poop cleaning
I'm doing over there.
(Lori laughing) - [Noah] Yeah, exactly.
Break it up, spend some time with Toothless, there you go.
- And those ISOs are all around the mouth
of the actual alligator or crocodile.
So we've all seen those shows, right?
Where they desensitize and do absolutely ridiculous stunts
with the animals that don't have as much sensitization
when it comes to the ISOs.
And you've seen people that actually
can hold the mouth shut, literally just with two fingers.
So what happens is that all that pressure that they have
and biting down, they don't have the same pressure
to open their mouths up,
so you can literally just barely hold their mouth shut
like this and that even goes for gigantic crocodiles.
I mean, one person can hold a 15-foot crocodile's head
together, it might shake and shimmy on ya,
but as far as the actual opening strength,
there's not much power in that
and when it comes to crocodilians.
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And another little training session for my girl, Salty.
Hey, you calm down.
Boy, Pepper is feisty.
Up you go, girl.
Now the hard part is...
we're gonna try to get a harness on her.
She's gonna eventually get eight, nine, maybe even 10 foot
and we wanna be able to take her out and walk her around
and have her be able to interact with people,
so we're gonna continue to harness train her;
it's a three-person job.
Watch your hands.
Ooh! - There we go.
- That's the hard one.
Bruce did a good job on that one.
Oh, watch yourself, wait, hold on a second.
(whispering) There we go, calm down.
- That was a good plan.
- And that's how you harness an albino alligator.
So let's just give her a little time to walk around.
(funk music)
For some reason, Salt loves towels, so sure enough,
she walked right over to the edge of the cage
where we have some towels
that are just soaking up that water that's leaking,
and she just grabbed the towel and now she will not let go.
And I got the towel out finally,
but you saw that she did some death roles,
that's how alligators actually rip off chunk
they're eating a big prey.
Like let's say this was a prey item and it needs to be big,
they're gonna actually roll and actually rip off pieces,
then they'll be able to eat it that way.
Salty, you're a good girl,
but you need to stop trying to eat towels, you silly monkey.
With that being said, let's go ahead and feed her.
And just continue training,
we're kind of continuing to think of
what is it gonna be like when salty is eight-foot long?
And we're definitely gonna hopefully be able to put her
on a leash, maybe even do some feeding and stuff like that.
So, we're just kinda working on this idea,
we don't know exactly what's gonna happen.
Bruce is gonna try to feed her while she's on the leash,
just kinda on the floor like this,
so let's see what happens.
(Bruce making popping sounds)
- [Bruce] Up, up, up, up, up, up.
- [Brian] There she goes.
- [Bruce] Come on, baby.
- [Brian] There she goes.
- [Bruce] There you go. - Perfect.
See, that's what I'm talking about.
Could you imagine an eight-foot albino alligator?
Look at how she goes up like this? Up.
- [Bruce] Up, up.
- [Brian] There she goes, good girl.
- [Bruce] There you go. - [Brian] There she goes.
Oh, perfect. - [Bruce] Good job.
- See, alligators are so smart, they train so easily,
it's actually amazing.
Now do the same thing. (Bruce slapping)
- [Bruce] Up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up.
(snapping) There you go.
Oh, there we go.
Good girl, good job. - Good job.
See how awesome it is?
Alligators and crocodiles are truly
some of the most amazing animals to work with,
and we're just thinking in the future listen,
Salt's gonna be with us for hopefully the rest of my life.
And so we gotta make her an amazing animal
and be able to keep everyone safe.
Wanna give her one more?
(Brian making popping sounds) - [Bruce] Come on, up, up.
Up, there you go, girl.
- [Brian] Good job. - [Bruce] Good girl.
- There it is.
So let me know the comments what you guys think;
is we're hitting the right track?
Should we continue to work on this training?
Salty is absolutely amazing.
Have you guys heard of, what's it called?
- Hot cocoa ball.
- Hot chocolate bomb.
(Lori laughing) - All right,
so hot chocolate bomb.
By the way, I have a, what is this called?
This is called a huggie?
- Could be a huggie.
- Something like this is very, very snuggie,
you just put this on and it's like...
So good.
Ooh!
- Yeah, that's it.
- This is how it is, it is so comfortable.
(all laughing)
- [Lori] That's what you call it, comfortable. (laughing)
- It's so good, it's like you feel like you're getting
hugged and stuff like that.
- [Noah] It looks like what a mummy goes in.
- (laughing) Exactly. - Looks like a hot dog.
- Sarcophagus. (Lori laughing)
But it's cold, it's Michigan.
- We're boiling some milk.
- [Brian] So you don't use water?
- No.
- Do you do like, do you put hot chocolate in it first
or just the this?
- Just the ball.
- So this is like a bath bomb, but for hot chocolate?
- Yeah, and I don't know how we're gonna do it
to share, though.
Should we drop the ball into the boiling pot?
- [Brian] Just make one and I'll just take a sip.
I don't want much.
- I don't want it either.
- So yeah, so we'll just have one for you.
- We just need a big mug.
- [Brian] A big mug
- Oh! I have a big mug right here.
- [Lori] That's too big.
- [Brian] Ooh, that's a good mug right there.
- [Lori] That's too big. - It's see-through too,
so you can see all the action that's going on.
- [Brian] Ooh, that's a good idea, Lori,
let's use that one.
- (laughing) Yeah. (Brian laughing)
The rim is a little dirty.
- (laughing) Great.
Put this in there first
and you pour the-- - [Brian] Put it in there
first and then pour the milk on top of it?
- Yeah.
- [Brian] And does it go crazy? Like a bath bomb?
- Not really. - Not crazy.
- [Brian] No?
- It melts and then it turns into hot chocolate.
- I was thinking like the bath bombs were gonna be like,
(making whirring noise) like an eruption of chocolate.
- And who's gonna drink that? What would make it erupt?
(Lori laughing) - That would be cool,
but I think there's marshmallows in it.
- [Brian] Ooh, really?
- So that's good. - The one that we did was.
- Caramel, milk chocolate caramel.
- [Brian] What? - Yeah.
- Oh my gosh.
- I just wanna eat it.
- Drop the ball, no!
- [Brian] All right, that was very hard. (laughing)
(ball rattling)
- Ooh, that's sweet. - It's a teaspoon.
- That's a nice spoon right there. (clucking tongue)
- Yeah, definitely stole that from my grandma's house.
(Noah yelling)
- [Lori] Well, it's so steamy you can't even see
(laughing) what's going on.
- [Noah] That it looks so delicious.
- [Lori] Does it? - [Noah] No.
(Lori laughing)
- [Brian] That's like, kinda gross, I'm not gonna lie.
- It's the milk, it was fake milk.
(spoon clinking)
(Noah yelling) (Lori laughing)
It's so hot!
- Going great. (laughing)
- [Noah] It burns!
- You know, Barczyk family fun.
- Do you see how hot this is?
There is marshmallows, do you see?
The marshmallows are popping out.
There might be some of Noah's blood in there, too.
(Lori laughing)
- [Brian] Have you had these before then?
You've tasted them? Are they good?
- May had one or two. (laughing)
- We got gifted like, eight of 'em.
- [Brian] And there's only one left?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- And I haven't even tasted it?
- You've been gone. (laughing)
- [Brian] Oh my Gosh, that's crazy.
- The white chocolate peppermint wasn't good.
Ugh, I didn't even drink it, it was disgusting.
- Yeah, I had a lot of good ones.
You looks so cute. (laughing)
- [Noah] It's like a tube top.
- I know, right?!
(all laughing)
- It does, it looks like a summer dress.
- [Brian] And look at my feet, you can't move.
- [Noah] But you can get your feet out of this pocket,
have you ever done that?
- [Brian] No, I don't like to take my feet out.
(funk music)
- It's not quite melted yet.
- [Brian] You're chewing, I don't wanna chew
my hot chocolate. (Noah laughing)
- The COVID canteen. (Lori laughing)
- We like to share.
I mean, it's just nice hot chocolate.
- That's actually really good, it's like a smooth chocolate.
- [Brian] Yeah this does taste good.
- It's a good one.
- Yeah, that was better expected actually.
- All right, so there you go.
I don't know what brand it is,
I don't know what style it is,
but thank you, Facebook or Jellysmack, whoever sent this,
'cause it was really good.
- Someone else gave this one to you.
- [Brian] Someone else?
- Thank you to everyone.
- So thank you to everyone that's selling this.
Send more, because obviously Lori did them all without us.
- It was a popular gift this year,
I didn't even know they were a thing before this year.
- Neither did I.
- All right, so everyone on our list next year
is getting a chocolate bomb.
I tell you what, crocodilians are absolutely amazing.
I hope that you enjoyed today's video,
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