- While we were redoing the floors over at the Reptarium,
obviously we have to take the tortoises out
'cause we're doing the floors.
So, they were actually cruisin' around BHB
the last couple of days.
And I'll be honest with you,
Matilda had an absolute blast.
I mean, she was definitely wreaking havoc over there,
I mean a giant, 150-pound tortoise runnin' around,
knockin' everything over,
tryin' to get everything.
But now they're going back over to the Reptarium,
but we're gonna give Matilda a little time
out here in the sun just to walk around.
I think she's gonna love it.
Just give her a little bit of space.
She's such a great animal, I love her to death.
But then we'll give her some time out here,
and then get her back at her pen for today, so.
Look at this!
It is crazy to think that there's a tortoise on the planet,
that's this big.
And again, she's gonna get three times this size,
so it's just crazy!
I mean, I love this animal.
Take a look at how beautiful she is.
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Pretty cool.
Matilda actually walked over to the trees over here,
and she's just getting,
she's just helping herself to a smorgasbord over here.
There's all these trees over here.
So, like I said,
I'm gonna leave her out here, and you know,
she can eat all these leaves.
It's just like trimming the branches for free.
You know what I mean?
If you want a lawn service, by the way,
you need some trimming,
just go ahead and hit us up over at the thereptarium.com.
And we'll send Matilda out,
and she'll clean your whole yard up.
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But my day actually started a couple hours ago.
I always launch my vlog each and every day
at 9:00 in the morning, Eastern Standard Time.
And then I spend about 30 to 40 minutes
just kind of commenting you back.
I love reading your comments,
and I love commenting back to you guys.
So, it's kind of a ritual
that I've been doing now for almost five years.
And I don't know how I would start my day any other way.
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The next thing I do every morning is come downstairs,
admire my Fly River Turtles
as I'm walking into the office room here,
and we actually discuss
what we're gonna to actually film for the vlog today.
So.
Busy day. So obviously, I have a tour today.
- Okay. - We have podcasts tonight.
I know that we have to get tortoises back over from BHB
because of the floor. - Right, for the floor.
- Then we have, I obviously gotta go through
and check on my ball pythons, pythons.
I've got a couple of meetings.
But that's, you know,
not gonna be good to film. - And I can grab
some crew hits while maybe - Yeah.
- While you're in the meetings.
I can grab a couple of things with the crew.
- The crew hits. - Oh, I know Jay said
that he needs us
to brush Drogo's teeth. - Oh, the sloth.
- Yeah. - Yeah, that's right.
He told me about that.
Yeah, Drogo's teeth are gettin' grody.
I have no idea how that's gonna go.
- It's gonna be crazy, dude.
- Yeah. - 'Cause it's, you know,
it's just you guys.
- What do you think, Ella?
You think that we should brush Drogo's teeth?
- Yeah.
- (laughs) Does that sound fun?
- And then let's just see what else is goin' on.
As far as, you know,
what other animal stuff going on.
I don't know if there's any (indistinct) stuff happening,
- Okay. - Any babies or anything.
- Yeah, we'll get together with any body
and see what's going on. - Yeah.
Just look around. So cool.
So cool.
So why don't we get started with the tortoises?
- Sweet. Let's go. - All right.
Now all we have to do is grab our gear and start filming.
I'll kind of keeping them kind of a little bit like this,
you know, you can do nar, nar, nar.
- And a (indistinct). - I think it's
a terrible idea personally.
- I think it is, but they need to be brushed.
- Well, we do what we have to do here.
- I think that, what is it next week, will be a year.
Are we gonna- - get out of here?
- Are we gonna to
do like a gotcha date? - A year? A gotcha date?
- Do you know what that is?
- It's a birthday. - Yeah, it's like a birthday.
- It's a gotcha date. - When people get their dog.
- Oh, the gotcha date. - And it's like gotcha date.
- Oh, like we got ya on this day.
- Yeah, we sing and maybe
make them a cake or something.
- Yeah. What do they do?
♪ Happy happy birthday, happy birthday (clapping) ♪
No? - No, you've got
to practice some more.
So the idea is obviously we're gonna brush his teeth
because his teeth are getting a little bit grody,
but it's definitely gonna be interesting,
'cause he's not gonna be happy.
And I'm the one that's in the spot where he's gonna want
to try to bite me.
All right,
just gotta get your front. - There we go.
Oh my gosh. He seems to like it.
Are you kidding me right now? - Gosh, he does like it.
Look at that.
- This one?
Maybe this side.
Want more water maybe.
Here you go. Here you go.
Here you go.
Oh, there it is. - Open your mouth.
And open.
- Oh, well it seemed to work at first.
Now. He's not so happy about it.
There he goes.
Yeah. Nice fresh teeth.
Oh yeah. There you go Drogo.
- Good job. - Oh my gosh.
I cannot believe it's going so well.
It's is, it's going great.
I thought for sure this was gonna be the worst idea we've
ever had, but like you said, his teeth was getting grody.
So you got no choice.
- I wish he would try to bite you.
That would help me out a little bit.
- No, I don't want him to try to bite me.
Wait, you're brushing the outside of his mouth real well.
- His lips are super clean.
- I'm gonna try it, I'm just gonna try it.
- You're okay, buddy.
- Dan. - Yeah?
- I trust you. - Okay.
- There you go.
There you go.
There he goes.
- Here we go.
Good boy.
- All right, get those teeth all good.
- And now just get this side one more time.
There you go. - There you Drogo.
- Oh, see, I think he does like it
- I think he does. He seems to be loving it.
- Okay. I think that's good.
Oh my gosh Drogo you did so good buddy.
See, he's not even upset or anything.
I can't believe it.
I thought he was gonna bite me so bad.
- Yeah.
He did way better than I expected.
- Drogo you did so good. Give him a kisses now.
- Yeah.
Next thing on my list today is actually got a tour,
a Brian tour.
So I'm gonna go ahead and let them in,
meet them, figure out who they are and have a good time
showing them around the Reptarium.
How are you guys doing?
- Good how about you?
- Where are you guys from?
- Ohio.
- Ohio. What part?
- Well, from Randolph, but no one knows
where that is. - Oh, where is Randolph?
- So we're close to Canton.
- [Brian] Oh, okay, by, that's good.
Well welcome. Welcome guys.
I appreciate it.
We'll have a good time showing you guys around
and stuff like that.
Who is the reptile lovers here? Okay.
So you're you, you reptiles here?
- We all do. - We all do, all right, good.
Then I'm happy. We're gonna have a good time.
- Except for spiders. (group talking at once)
- He doesn't like spiders. - Okay, no spiders.
- I don't like those. - So did you, did you read
that it says you got to hold this spider
before you can leave?
- I told her I would divorce her.
- [Brian] Oh wow.
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Well, thank you guys so much for coming.
You guys are absolutely amazing. I appreciate you.
And we're gonna be doing a bunch of things
in the future together,
so I appreciate you guys, drive safe on the way home, okay?
- Thank you, bye. - Bye bye.
- And it's crazy how things work out.
Felicia actually does cool gemstones and stuff like that.
And we're gonna actually be working with her 'cause she
has a company called Treasure Buckets Company.
You can check them out on Instagram and they do a bunch
of stuff for the mine that we're gonna be doing
in the basement.
So she can provide us with all of the cool,
you know, kind of packets we're gonna have
and all this stuff.
So it's just cool.
I mean, not only were they great people,
but it's really cool that I now found a great connection
that can help me out.
And kind of make that whole vision a reality.
You know, with Matilda really enjoying running around,
not only outside,
but around VHB we always knew she's gonna get too big
for the enclosure she's in now.
So with this expansion, that's another kind of enclosure
I've been really thinking about.
And I want to kind of draw it out for you guys
what I'm thinking is that basically you would have an
enclosure that's about the size that she's got right now,
but then there would be a run.
That would go like this, like this,
and then into a bigger kind of circle like that.
Now there would be an octagon cage here that would actually
be maybe like tree monitors or something like that.
So essentially she can like run
around here, here, here, here.
Now this would be all glass on this side,
all the sides, except for one side,
this side right here would actually be a waterfall
that goes into this, you know,
tree monitor cage or whatever we decide to put
into that center cage.
But on the other side,
we'd actually have a waterfall,
almost like a weeping wall that goes down into kind
of a little pond area that's out right here, right?
So that she can actually climb into it.
All the tortoises can climb into it.
So basically it gives them an opportunity to run around this
entire thing over and over and over again,
lots and lots of exercise.
You might put some kind of,
you know, some hills and some different things in there,
but also, you know,
they really do like to go and soak and stuff like that.
Now they don't really need the water because they get the
majority of the water through what they eat.
But at the same time, you know,
Matilda loves being in the water.
So we'll have a nice little pond for her,
with that weeping wall of water coming down.
I think it'll look really cool.
You know, obviously this octagon cage
will really be just a display
enclosure because you won't be able to get to it
'cause there'll be surrounded by a tortoise pen.
We'll have the same size kind of boundary, you know,
wall that goes all the way around this whole thing.
Maybe have a couple of doors in here so that we can open up
and stuff like that so that, you know,
kids can go inside there or we can bring them out
and so on like that, but I just think that would be amazing.
Now this entire thing from end to end,
I'm thinking about 20 to maybe even 25 feet, right?
So that's gonna be huge for her,
that way when she does get, you know, 350, 400 pounds,
she still has plenty of space to continue to walk around
and walk around and walk around.
So again, exactly where it's gonna go in the expansion,
I'm not a 100% sure.
You gotta remember this wall
here is going to be bumped out almost 20 feet.
So I'm gonna have lots of extra area over here
that I can fill up.
But I think that this will be really good.
Not only for all the tortoises,
but in particular for Matilda.
'Cause again, she's a hundred and almost 50 pounds now.
She's gonna get a lot larger than that
and she loved running around BHB and outside and it starting
to get cold outside.
So we're not going to be able to let her go outside.
But anyways, this is kind of the idea of the tortoise pen
for the expansion of 3.0.
As with most days,
I've got to go through some snake stuff and I'm starting
to gear up to think about what we're gonna
be breeding here in the coming season.
So I'm just gonna kind of go through my ball pythons,
make sure everything looks good and start to get an idea
of the weight of the females and which animals
are gonna be ready to go here
in just another six weeks or so.
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Moving through the day guys.
Next up we actually have the podcast. I love podcasting.
If you haven't followed yet,
go to "Checking In" podcast on YouTube.
You can also get it on Apple Podcast, Spotify,
all that other stuff.
So let's go do this podcast.
- Yeah, it's got to be battery.
Okay. It's got a battery in it, motorized.
- And it actually
walks around? - Bing bing bing.
- And it's got a hump? - And it's gotta hump.
(group talking at once)
- Today I had a tour in the, and the guy got humped.
- It's getting,
it's getting bad. - The girl did too.
- Like we need to figure that out.
- It's not a problem.
- No it's hysterical.
- It's good. - Is it a problem?
- Not unless you're a female Armadillo.
- I feel like that's not the experience that people want.
- Oh my God listen. - I think people love it.
- I think they
might pay extra. - I mean who
doesn't love when the little puppy humps your leg?
- I don't like that either.
- You don't like that?
- So that was my day guys.
You know, everyday is a busy day here.
I wanted to take you guys along on the journey.
Let me know what part of the day you enjoyed the most.
I'm gonna go home now and spend a little bit of time
left I have with my family before it's bedtime.
And then we start it all over again tomorrow.
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Have an absolutely wonderful day Reptile Army.
Remember, be kind to someone and I promise,
I'll see in the next one.