- There you go. (makes warning noise)
(exciting upbeat music)
- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome
to beautiful Orlando.
What an absolutely incredible day.
We're actually gonna head over to Playlist really quick,
I'm gonna get checked in, but then
I am going to meet up with Savannah over at Gatorland,
we're gonna have an amazing day over there.
And let's just have a great day together.
I absolutely am so happy.
This is a big improvement
from Michigan weather for sure.
Let's just go ahead, get over there,
and have a great time.
I finally made it to Playlist,
but today is kind of a mellow day.
Tomorrow's the day that is insane here
as well as the fact that we have all the collabs.
So I'm just gonna go ahead and get out of here,
go over to Gatorland, have a great time there
because after all, I'm here to play with animals
more than anything else.
But we're gonna have a good time
at the Youtube convention as well, so.
People are starting to roll in.
(crowd talking)
We're gonna go see Chester, the big, huge alligator
that actually used to be naughty and eat dogs.
Regardless, we are with Danny over here,
- Say hi, Danny! - What up?
- I'm gonna put Danny on the spot,
apparently he gets the best selfies with Chester ever.
- You can't say that now. (Savannah laughing)
If this doesn't work out, it's gonna be horrible.
- So if it doesn't work out, it's all Danny's fault,
all Danny's fault.
- [Danny] Get down.
You getting in there with her?
- Oh yeah. - Okay,
get on that side though.
- I'm gonna make a video, and then I'll just--
- Oh, yeah, that's how I work with her.
Try it again, line up in the middle.
- You mean his head? - Yeah.
Right there, stay, stay on this side.
- Try to get his head right there.
- I know, I got you.
- All right, we ready? - Yep.
- Chester, come on Chester! (Chester hissing)
- Chester, come on buddy, up!
Chester, come on buddy, up!
Chester, let's go, up!
Come on, Chester, Chester, smile buddy, smile!
- I think we might have gotten it in the beginning.
- I think the beginning of it might work.
- Chester! (Savannah laughing)
Come on buddy, smile big!
- He's gonna get eaten.
- Come on Chester, come here.
- I know, but it's the best selfie if it works!
- I think we got him, Timmy.
- I think we may, I think I might've gotten it
in the very beginning.
- Okay, so I think we might have got the selfie
that we wanted.
You did good, Dan, you did good.
So I'll insert the picture right here.
So we are in one of my favorite places
in Gatorland, of course, adventure hour.
You guys recognize this dude here
that kind of controls things. - What's up guys?
Peter of course,
Savannah, this is your home. - Hey!
Savannah, you've got some nice
chicken-- - I did, you know what?
I cut this chicken up for you yesterday
but I accidentally left it out overnight.
So it's pretty smelly.
- Thanks, Savannah. (Savannah laughing)
- [Brian] Is he supposed to be up here?
- No!
- Didn't you draw, oh Peter, you forgot to draw the line!
- Oh, well, I mean I drew it,
but they already crossed it. (Savannah laughing)
I can draw another line to make us
seem even safer. - That's what you should do,
probably. - Oh, and let me see if,
let me move this guy
'cause if we just tickle him a little bit, he's gonna go.
Come on boy, to the water, let's go.
Coochie-coo.
- To the water. - Come on man, come on.
Time to go.
All right, little more, little more,
and that's good.
He's like, mmm, that felt better,
I'm in the water now, nice and comfy.
Likes to be at the adventure hour
pretty much every single day, even if he's not hungry.
- Blackwater?
- [Brian] Ah, Savannah's gator.
Why do you play favorites like that?
- Well, I don't mean to play favorites,
but when an alligator thinks I'm their favorite,
I like to, I like to encourage that.
- [Brian] Ah nice, I like it.
- Come on, let's go!
Come on, come on I got some chicken!
- [Peter] And, look who just showed up,
little Slasher's here.
- [Brian] Hey guys, what's going on, guys?
- [Peter] Slasher!
- Come on, no, come up here with me, come on.
(Blackwater hisses) - Uh-oh.
Come up here with me, come on, big boy.
Walk.
Big boy, come on, there you go.
There you go!
Blackwater, what are you doing?
Come on, buddy.
There you go,
come on.
Come here.
Look at me, there you go, there you go.
- Again, I absolutely love this part of the park,
because you can actually get in here
and feed the animals.
I'm really excited to bring some
of the collab from Youtube tomorrow,
because you know, for us,
this is just another day, so to speak.
I mean, certainly for these guys, it's another day.
I mean, look at Peter the crazy man over here.
(Peter laughing) But for people
that aren't around alligators and crocodiles a lot,
this is amazing.
So I'm really excited to see how they're gonna do.
- Hey.
I know he's, this is how they ask for another one.
It might look scary on camera, but.
They really don't have another way
to say hey, can you give me one more piece?
I'm real excited about it. (alligator hissing)
(exciting upbeat music)
- What you have to be careful in here
is females on nests.
- [Peter] And see, there's a nest and there's a female.
- And that's when they get the most protective, so.
- [Peter] That's why I'm gonna let Peter lead.
- That's why you're gonna
let Peter go first. (Savannah laughing)
- [Peter] That's right, I get eaten first.
- This is kind of a scary area.
- Why? - 'Cause it's new for us
and it's new for them.
- [Brian] So you guys just put this in?
- Yeah, we just put in this whole new beach.
- Oh my gosh. - Because the gators
had wallowed out so much of the beach,
that there was almost none left.
So we built this whole new beach
all the way down to here.
- [Brian] Nice.
But they're just figuring it out.
- Yeah.
- Wow, it's nice.
So like I've mentioned so many times, you know,
crocodilians, alligators obviously,
are kind of repetitive animals.
So the fact that these guys really don't know
about this new land here,
they don't really know what's going on here, so.
We've got some coming in, - Is that Doss?
so it won't take too long - No, that's Bandit.
before they get the hang of it, look at that.
- Bandit.
Open. (exclaims excitedly)
- [Brian] Ooh, that's coming in hot.
- That might have been a little anger, there.
- That's pretty cool.
That was a bit of a snake's eyes trick,
splash with the tail, bite with the mouth.
Open. - I'm gonna move the bucket.
- Hey, open.
I know, he came in hot, - Yeah he did.
- real hot. - They all do over here,
'cause they don't know.
- All right, stay.
Good gator. (gator hissing)
(Brian laughing) - Lamar.
Is that Lamar? - Yeah.
- Lamar, Lamar.
- Open. - Come on, Lamar.
Come on, Lamar.
Lamar, up!
Lamar,
Lamar come on.
Lamar, come on, Lamar.
Hey buddy, can you get up here?
- Open.
- Again, as of this point, you know,
they're just trying to figure out what's going on
'cause they usually get fed over in adventure hour.
In time, they'll really get used to what's going on.
They're pretty anxious right now.
Blackwater is like Savannah's favorite alligator,
she plays favorites.
Literally, it was like swimming away,
she called it, it immediately turned
and it's coming right at you.
That's crazy. - Come on!
- It is crazy the relationship
that Peter and Mike and Mark and Savannah
and everyone else here has with these alligators
is absolutely incredible. - Look we got you!
Look, we brought you something,
we brought you something.
Come on, come here, get up here.
Come on, hurry, you're excited, yeah!
That's a good boy.
You're excited now, huh?
I gotcha, I gotcha, I gotcha.
Open.
There you go, there you go!
(bright cheerful music) - You could get onto Youtube.
Okay, come on, open up.
Open up, good job, all the way.
All the way, hold.
- So, I wanted to work at Gatorland
because, most of my life, I lived in Florida
and then, I was working at a reptile zoo in California
and I was applying, all the time.
Every time there was a job opening,
I was applying.
I applied for ice cream,
I applied for maintenance,
I applied for zipline, I applied for everything.
No one was calling me back and I was like,
what the heck?
I'm the greatest person to work at Gatorland, I think.
'Cause I love Gatorland, like, it's in my blood
and like I was telling you earlier, like,
I knew Pearl when Pearl was this big.
I met Pearl when Pearl was little, teeny baby.
She was about that big the first time I met her
here at Gatorland.
I had come for a tour, I got to meet Pearl,
I got to hang out with her.
I even have pictures from way back then
when she was teeny and now she's 16.
We just had her 16th birthday party last year.
- 16, you're getting old girl. (Brian and Savannah laughing)
And she's just gotten so big, like
it's crazy how big she is.
So, I kept applying, I kept applying, I kept applying,
and then finally, when I moved back to Florida,
like I just kinda,
kind of ran a campaign to work at Gatorland.
Like a radio campaign, a social media campaign,
like so, everything Savannah was coming
at Gatorland from all different directions.
So finally I got an interview. (Savannah laughs)
I think after all the years of applying,
they just finally called me in to say,
that's enough, we're not gonna hire you
but, because I had learned so much,
and because I could speak their lingo
and because I knew so much about reptiles at that point,
they kinda caught on and they were kind of like,
you know what, hire her.
Actually my boss said hire her,
I don't think everyone in the room did,
but the one person that mattered did.
- The position that I'm working I created myself
when I came to work here.
There was no position.
There was, we'll have you come into the park
for 20 hours a week and let's see what you do.
And I would come in every single day,
as early as I could come, I would film everything
that was going on in the park,
I wasn't in charge of the social media then
so I would just ship it through my social media.
And numbers don't lie.
So every day I was bringing back higher numbers
and higher numbers and higher numbers.
Finally, they passed it off to me.
So my first job was animal education ambassador.
My second job was social media.
My third job was crocodilian enrichment coordinator,
which is still my standing job.
But my fourth job and most new title is
international ambassador for Gatorland global.
People that are watching that wanna follow my path,
here's what you do: you never give up
and you never take no for an answer
and you keep on working hard.
You don't quit, that's the favorite quote, right?
If you don't quit, you eliminate 99% of the competition.
I want Gatorland to be the most gigantic, world-renowned
reptile adventure park in the whole entire world
and I want us to go to other countries
and save crocodiles, we're already doing that.
I want us to bring people in
from the time they're little kids,
teach them about alligators and crocodiles
and conservation and ecology and how important
these animals are to the ecosystems they thrive in.
So this is Butters, and I actually got him in south Florida,
and he was not in the best of shape when I got him.
And so I've had him for about three-and-a-half years now
and don't let him not biting me
make you think that it's okay to have one of these
because he is a very, very intelligent,
very quick, amazing animal.
- Most people will say this is probably the smartest
of all the reptiles.
I mean, they are unbelievably,
this is literally a velociraptor.
- Absolutely. - And the penalty
for getting bit by this, is so extreme
because they have the most incredibly razor sharp teeth.
This makes Elvis, my monitor, look like nothing.
So it's amazing.
But you can just see in those eyes,
how he's just looking and trying to figure things out.
You have to have a relationship
with this-- - Absolutely,
and it's very hard to build a relationship
because they're not so much food motivated.
Like, they'll just look at your food
and laugh away.
Like, it has to be a serious building of trust
for a very long time.
- Like I mentioned earlier,
tomorrow we come back with a handful of cool Youtubers
to do kind of the Gatorland experience.
I've done it a lot of times
so I'm kinda trying to show it
through Savannah's eyes to you guys today.
Not to mention, like I said,
she inspires me because she's so dedicated
and so passionate about what she does here.
But I absolutely love this place.
Interestingly enough,
all the times I've been down here to Gatorland,
I've never actually messed with these guys right here.
This is actually Lucy,
the 27-year old Galapagos tortoise.
Oh my gosh, Galapagos tortoise are absolutely
some of the most amazing animals on the planet.
I mean, look at this thing right here,
look at that chomper.
That's what's so good about Galapagos
and Aldabra tortoises are the fact
that they're so absolutely incredible animals.
Oh, listen to that chomper right there.
I tell you what, I don't wanna get my finger in there,
that's for sure because that little beak right there
has got some pressure.
It's okay, little Lucy, it's okay, Lucy,
here, just come up here.
It's okay, little Lucy.
Oh, just listen to that, oh.
And these guys literally will get up to 600 pounds.
Of course, males will,
females will stay a little bit smaller
and about 26, 27 years old,
that's when they're sexually mature.
Believe it or not, these guys won't even lay eggs usually
until they're in their 20s.
So Lucy here, I'm gonna watch my finger,
watch my finger.
Oh, there you go, little sweetheart.
They're pretty incredible but again,
males are gonna get even larger.
That is one incredibly prehistoric animal right there.
Of course we've met Lucy over here.
This is actually Dean, look at the size of Dean.
I mean, do you guys have an idea
how absolutely mammoth this is?
But this is actually an Aldabra tortoise here.
So we've got an Aldabra here and then a Galapagos here,
which are very similar animals.
It's almost like parallel evolution, quite frankly.
And of course, males get much, much larger.
Dean is actually 105 years old.
Is that absolutely ridiculous?
105 years.
Dean, you've been around so long buddy.
But wow, that thing is absolutely incredible.
And just like the Galaps, the males get much larger.
Females do really stay smaller
but nevertheless, 105 years.
And listen, he's got a long way to go.
These guys'll go 150, there's even rumors
of these going over 200 years, so.
There you guys have it, a match made in heaven.
As we're kind of finishing the night here,
I tell you what Savannah, this has been such a great day.
- So much fun.
- It was so cool.
Do me a favor guys, go down in the description,
you can see all of Savannah's links
to her Instagram, Gatorland's Instagram,
everything like that.
Please go give them some love,
they're always so great to us.
And truly, this is an amazing, amazing place
so if you're ever down here,
please come give them a visit
and you can bug Savannah for me
'cause she loves that type of stuff, right?
- And you always tell me that Brian sent you
'cause I like to know where everybody comes from.
- Exactly.
But as for now, I'm gonna go ahead and end the vlog
and just wish you guys an absolutely amazing day,
evening, whenever you happen to be watching,
because as always, your support means the world to me.
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I will see you guys tomorrow.
(exciting upbeat music)