- Where the heck is Potato?
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Oh wait, wait, oh, my god, we got Potato!
(laughs)
Oh my god!
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Hey, good morning everybody!
Welcome to the vlog and welcome to another
amazing day here at the Reptarium BHB in Michigan.
You know we actually are open up later today
and I am actually bringing RJ over,
so it's going to be absolutely incredible.
I cannot wait for today to, uh oh,
wait a second, what's going on here?
Why is this open?
This is Potato's cage and it was completely open.
What's goin' on?
Where the heck is Potato?
Okay, so this might be a little bit of a issue here.
We're actually, I'm not exactly sure
what's going on here guys.
Alright, I'm gonna call Laurie really quick
and just make sure that find out if she
took Potato out for some reason.
I don't know why she would,
this may be the first escape we have here at the Reptarium.
Yeah, hi Laurie, yeah, I know I came in this morning
and Potato's cage was open.
Did you have him out?
Is he like somewhere else?
No, no, he's, no the cage was just wide open,
like the glass was open and he's not in there.
You don't think anyone else would mess with him?
Okay, well, alright I'm gonna go looking for him.
I mean obviously maybe you just forgot to
latch it or something like that and he's out so,
okay, I'll try to find him.
Alright, alright bye.
So we just have a couple cages that don't have
locks on them, that happens to be one of them.
They're actually coming this week, unfortunately,
so he is a ground dweller so the first thing
I'm gonna do is just kinda look behind everything here,
again this is the Centralian Blue-Tongued Skink.
He is a fan favorite, people love him,
so I'm definitely bummed out.
I mean, I'm just gonna kinda look behind everything here,
again hoping that maybe he just found a nice,
cozy spot that he can get in and hide.
I don't see him anywhere here.
Oh my gosh, it's gonna be a trip.
I'm gonna have to look behind pretty much everything
and hopefully find him.
I can't imagine he went that far.
But I don't know.
See all this area he can't get behind,
but there's things like over here he could
potentially get behind.
There's a lot a places that he can.
One place that I really hope that he didn't find
is if he comes over here, again I'll just look
behind all this stuff first.
If he gets behind here that's gonna be really hard.
I will try to get back there, but we have a lot
to do today to get ready for the open in a few hours.
But one of the things I guess I have to add
to my list is trying to find Potato.
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So guys I have pretty much scoured the entire place.
I cannot find Potato.
There's a lot a little places that he can hide
and this is just kind of a perfect example of why
it's so important for us to never let anything out.
I'm not 100% sure what happens.
We have cameras throughout the entire place.
We definitely know that he was in here after hours,
so we know that he didn't get stolen or anything like that
because again there's only a couple cages
that don't have locks on them
and that'll change in the next couple days.
Every cage will have a lock on it,
but he was definitely here so I can go back
on surveillance because we have every inch
of this place has cameras in it and I can just
find out maybe a possibility of somebody that opened
the cage to do a little maintenance, forgot to lock it,
I'm not 100% sure,
but as for now this just is a bummer, man.
Oh my god, I can't believe Potato's gone.
I sure hope he shows up soon,
but man, there is so many places he could go so
I'm gonna keep looking but in the mean time
I have a lot of work to do.
Still a hand full of preparations before we open
up the Reptarium today, and of course hopefully
find Potato, wherever that little, silly monkey could be.
But one of the things that I get asked probably
more than anything when I'm over there is what's up
with Cookies'n'Cream the two-headed snake?
Is she coming over?
The fact is that she's still assist feeding
but it's really a good thing because as long as she
is accepting food when we put it in her mouth
and passing it, that is amazing.
It's when these guys can't digest that's the problem,
so as long as we can continue to get nutrition in
I feel pretty confident there won't be too long
before she takes her first meal and as soon as she
gets established feeding she will be over at the Reptarium,
I can promise you that, but just look at how amazing
these little girls are, oh, my God, I love them to death.
So I'm gonna go ahead and assist feed her
this pinky head, again we're doing this every
two or three days, she is looking really good,
and she is taking it fantastic, so fingers crossed
she'll start to eat on her own soon
and she can be on display at the Reptarium
and just like that we just put it in her mouth
and I'm gonna set her down and we'll come back
in you know 15, 20 minutes and check on her
and typically she always eats on her own
so this is a good thing.
Gonna ask Laurie if she's had any luck on finding Potato,
wherever Laurie is.
Hey Laurie, any luck finding Potato yet?
- No, not yet.
- [Brian] Did you look at that footage?
- Yes, I did. - What happened?
- He was running around like crazy.
- [Brian] Did you see him?
- Oh yeah, yeah, 100%.
- Oh no, so you actually saw him get out
and he was like what, just going up and down
but you didn't see where he ended up?
- Well I saw where he was hiding once everybody got here.
- [Brian] Oh, so where was it?
- It was...
He basically got out and ran this way
and he kept coming and going behind here
and then he was running around here,
coming in the bathroom and then this was the last
place I see him before people got here, so.
- [Brian] Do you think he might still be back there?
- I looked, unless I can't see between
those cages, you know the black cages.
- Okay, so I'm gonna try to pull these cages out
and see if maybe he's still back there.
You can see he's not there oh, is there anyway
to wind it for this morning or anything like that?
- Well, yeah, I have gone through,
I spent all that time finding out.
- Oh my gosh, Potato!
- He's here somewhere.
- Oh oh, let's hope we can find him.
We only have a couple hours before we open.
I'd love to find him before we open up,
so we'll keep lookin'.
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Continue to work, we only have about an hour
before it opens but I did some rocking on this,
again you know you guys know the situation,
it looks like this, after it's all touched up,
but for now it's just the rough, but I love the fact
that we can put like a little plant in here,
it's a little thing.
A big ol' push out right there with rock
it's going over here, of course I gotta finish rocking
this side so like that and then we have the posts
that go on the side that'll really tie it in
and then of course, you know, all the foaming
and siliconing and touching up and stuff like that,
but it's starting to come together, starting
to look like it's a finished, cohesive unit,
hopefully within the next few days it will
be finished and then I gotta move onto this
alligator tank because I am gonna hopefully have
the alligators in the next week and a half or so,
so that will be the last big thing to do
and that's gonna take me a couple days for sure
'cause there is a lot a work to be done on that.
You know there's a million little things that just
kinda make me happy and stuff like that
and Laurie surprised me with this, of course
when people come in and then want to go out
and come back in, we give them a little stamp
and Laurie bought this one.
Take a look at this.
How awesome is that?
You know I'm worried because he can come like
right over here, I mean, could have gotten anything,
if he gets behind these cages over here
we're in big trouble.
- [Laurie] I know this, I was looking but there's
so much crap back here.
Oh wait, wait, oh, my God, we got Potato!
(laughs)
Potato, what did you do you silly monkey?
- [Laurie] Oh, my goodness.
Oh, my gosh, we found him.
I am so happy Potato is back,
oh, my gosh you were out for so long,
I'm so happy to have you, oh my gosh, this is amazing,
I seriously thought he was gonna be out for a while.
- [Laurie] So did I.
- Oh, my gosh, Potato,
you are going back in your cage, buddy.
Oh, my gosh, I tell ya this surveillance camera
stuff helped a lot.
- Oh yeah.
- [Brian] Because at least we knew where he was.
- Exactly. - Oh, my gosh.
How awesome is that guys?
Potato is back and we're gonna have the locks here.
I think tomorrow the locks come in,
so every cage is gonna be locked.
I have no idea how the cage got left open,
but Potato is back for the Reptarium.
We're gonna get him back in his cage, let him get
warmed up and we'll go ahead and give him the night off.
Oh my gosh, I'm so happy to have Potato back.
Alright, time to open up the Reptarium.
Hey guys, how's it goin?
- Hey. - [Brian] Hey, how are ya?
Come on in.
How's things goin?
Hi, how are ya?
- Nice meeting you.
- [Brian] Sorry to keep you guys waiting a little bit.
Hi, hi, oh my gosh, hi guys, hi guys!
Hi, how are ya?
How's it goin'?
- I watch your YouTube channel.
- [Brian] Ah cool, what's your name, man?
- Noah.
- [Brian] Noah, what's goin' on, my son's Noah, too.
How are ya?
- Good, how are you?
- [Brian] How are you?
Hi, how are you?
Hi, it's good to meet you, thank you guys for coming.
Thank you, I hope that you'll enjoy it,
thank you guys, thank you, thanks guys.
Hi. - Saw you on the news.
- [Brian] Oh, why thank you, I hope that you'll enjoy it.
Hi, how are you?
I love that, it's awesome.
Thank you guys, thank you guys.
Hi, hi, how are you, how's it goin'?
Thank you guys, thank you guys so much.
- Your biggest fan here, she watches your show all the time.
- [Brian] Oh what's your name? - Audra.
- [Brian] Audra, it's so good to meet you.
What do you want to see today? - Lucy.
- [Brian] Lucy, oh my gosh,
yeah she's up in a tree right now.
- We watch every one of your videos, don't we?
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, well thank you, well welcome, welcome.
So we've been open for maybe an hour or so.
Bella is of course another star of the show.
She is just sucking up all the attention.
People are loving her, but absolutely, definitely
the craziest day so far at the Reptarium.
There is so many people, it's crazy.
It's almost, it's more like a controlled chaos
or maybe just chaos, I'm not 100% sure,
but it's absolutely incredible.
Today Bella decided she wanted to come out
rather than staying in the cage, so she has
been out a lot with me but she's,
what do you guys think?
- She's beautiful.
(laughs)
- Are you getting your very first snake?
- Yeah.
- Oh my gosh, are you getting ghost snake?
- Yeah, a female.
- Oh, my gosh, what made you get a snake?
- Being here actually, seeing them all well tempered.
- Oh, my god, that is so awesome, it's been a great night,
and welcome to owning snakes.
- Thank you, we appreciate it.
- We got Daisy out, just kinda chillin' now,
she's being a sweetheart.
What do you think, is that cool?
(laughs)
I think he likes it, you like Daisy?
Isn't she amazing?
She's a beauty.
Alright it's six o'clock and as I promised
I am gonna go get RJ, this'll be the first time.
I'm not exactly sure how this is gonna go
but we do have Andrea and Laurie are both gonna
help me to make sure this goes completely smoothly
so that no one gets hurt, so we know RJ's a
puppy dog, he's been around tons and tons of kids
and everything else, but this is a little bit of a
different situation so we want to definitely
err on the side of caution.
Okay, alright, okay you can come just on this side,
stay on this side guys and you guys came come and pet RJ.
Get a feel of his back and his tail, he's pretty amazing.
I'll keep his head on this side so I'm protecting everyone
on this way, so if you guys come in this way you're fine.
It's crazy, right?
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You see RJ's over, and you can see I'm kinda protecting
his head so he can't swing around and that everyone
else over here is on this side of it
and they're getting an opportunity to see RJ.
He is strong, he is big, he wore me out coming over,
but RJ's starting to calm down now,
so I think we're in good shape.
- Somebody that knows me get a picture, please.
- [Woman] It's on video.
- Okay, is it goin on the vlog, alright, good.
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RJ went absolutely amazing, I mean he was really good,
he calmed down, tons of people got to hold him.
I mean I wasn't expecting to really let people hold RJ,
but it worked out just fine and he was really good.
Just have to really keep an eye on the actions
and by the way, that's what were doing here with letting
people hold stuff is that every time we have something out
we either have myself, Laurie, or someone else that's
here that is really hawk eying the animal to just see
the action cause we don't want anyone to get bit
or anything bad to happen, so it's really important
for us to really keep an eye on the animal so that if
it's starting to get a little stressed out, for the
animals sake or if it's starting to get to the point
where we think it might bite we have to pull back,
but RJ did absolutely amazing.
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And there it is, wrapping up the weekend.
Oh, my gosh, you know, I always thought that the Reptarium
had a chance to be successful and I don't know what
the future has to hold, but I tell ya what, it is
beyond my wildest dreams how incredible it has been.
Not only the amount of people through the door,
but the reactions, the way that they've been holding snakes,
changing people's minds, the amount of people that
have come that have never held a snake before and held
their snake for the first time has blown my mind.
And it is amazing to see people go from like kind of a
little tentative and fearful, and all of a sudden
they explode with excitement, they're like oh, my god,
they don't want to stop holding.
They want to hold the next one, the next one, the next one.
This has been the most incredible thing that I've
ever done and I cannot thank all of you for your support.
Whether you're watching, you're visiting, whatever
the case may be, this has been amazing, and thank you
so much, with that being said I am going to go ahead
and end the vlog here and wish you guys an amazing day,
evening, whenever you happen to be watching.
Again, your support means the world to me
and I truly, truly, truly do love you guys so much.
Can you do me a couple favors before we get outta here?
Can you smash that like button, turn on those post
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make a comment, let me know something awesome about
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be kind to someone and I promise,
I will see you guys tomorrow.
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