(tense music)
- My girl, Lucy, did it again.
She's got the poop soup in there.
Ooh. That's stinky in here.
I wish you guys had smelled-
No, you don't wish you had smelled-
Don't go to water-
- Noooooo!
- You in the water,
which is gonna be absolutely horrible.
Lucy is 20 foot, two inches wide.
Is she the largest snake in Michigan?
Come on, girl.
Co-operate with me a little bit.
Here, she's coming.
Okay. Look, come on, Lucy.
I gotta get her out.
Get her in.
It is hard wrangling a snake this size,
but I had a friend of mine, Chance,
actually reach out to me and said
that he got a 22 foot reticulated python,
that she's gonna be here in a little bit.
It's gonna be interesting to see.
Is Lucy dethroned as the longest snake in Michigan?
We'll find out.
In the meantime, it's stinky in there.
(making disgusted sounds)
Of course, Gemma here- (triumphant music)
Oh, she is a big snake as well.
She's not quite as big as Lucy.
I thought that she might be close to 20 foot
but when we measured her,
she actually only turned out
to be a little bit under 18 foot.
So she is certainly a big snake.
And that's the thing about giant snakes.
When you look at, I mean,
this has gotta be like 25 foot.
That's why field measurements of giant snakes
often are like, 30 plus foot,
but there's never been a snake
that's ever been measured over 25 in captivity.
Of course, you remember my buddy Dev
has that giant snake, Juliet.
She is a giant snake.
Absolutely amazing.
And she's only about 18 foot and apparently,
this snake is four foot longer.
- I had to come here to find out, to see if it's true.
Talk about a giant snake.
- And Chance is here with this giant snake.
And she is absolutely-
(Chase and making impressed sounds)
What's up?
C'mon, little girl, it's alright.
She's a beautiful snake.
This is supposed to be a lavender mottling,
there actually could be some mocha in here as well.
'Cos she's definitely very light.
Juliet certainly is thicker.
There is no doubt about that.
This girl is a long snake,
so it'd be interesting to see how long it is.
We're gonna actually measure this snake.
We're gonna find out if Lucy at 20 foot, two inches,
is still the longest snake that I know of in Michigan,
or if this snake actually beats it.
I don't know.
Absolutely-
(indistinct mumbling)
Whoa, where am I?
Okay, here I am.
Noah, Bud!
Jump in.
You guys kinda handle-
- Okay, okay.
- Why does Noah always get this?
Like the easiest part?
- 'Cos I know what I'm doing.
(Noah and Brian laughing)
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- Noah, I'm so proud of the way you handle any snakes
like this, I mean-
- I know, it's like no effort at all.
- I know, so good.
- Snakes- - Back to back,
stomach to stomach-
(groaning with effort)
- [Noah] Don't miss the bag.
(laughing)
- And make sure you stick around 'til later in the block.
'Cos we're gonna actually measure this girl,
find out exactly how long she is.
- She's about 12 inches.
- So Chance just didn't bring a giant reticulated python,
brought a bunch of other really cool animals.
This is the blue insularis,
so this is a pit viper from Indonesia.
Yeah, it's a little bit of a runner-
would be solid blue,
which is just absolutely incredible.
This one likes to go a little bit-
Pit viper.
Not really potent venom-
don't get bit by any venomous snake.
Gonna get quite a bit larger.
And when it gets larger and gets really blue-looking,
oh my gosh!
You see pictures on the internet, you're always, like,
"What? A blue snake?"
This is the snake right here.
So Chance and Dev aren't the only ones
that came to visit today.
My buddy JT, he actually came
and he brought some amazing animals as well.
This is crazy, dude.
Purple haze, western diamondback.
I didn't even know there was
a purple haze western diamondback.
So this is actually a T-positive albino
bred to a hypo that makes purple haze.
Right? Doesn't even look like a rattlesnake,
which is crazy.
Definitely a pit viper.
Don't wanna get bit by something like this
because they have absolutely horrible hemotoxin,
that's gonna rot your skin away.
There's no doubt about that.
But look at that head, that typical western diamondback
and that little buttons on the end of the tail here.
This one's a quiet one.
Doesn't wanna rattle at all.
But you said that you gotta be careful.
- [JT] You gotta careful with her
'cos she won't rattle and she'll spaz out real quick.
- [Brian] Oh my God, that is unusual.
And then basically in the same family as the insularis,
is this guy.
Tell me a little bit about this one.
- So this is a Javan flat-nose pit viper.
- Just look at that head pattern on it right there.
See the similarities of that insularis,
just in a different color,
kind of reminds me of a Solomon Island boa,
but would pack a lot bigger punch.
- [Chase] Yeah, yeah.
- You know? So you definitely would-
- [Chase] And apparently they get bigger than this.
- They even get bigger?
- [Chase] Apparently the females can get up to
like three foot.
- Wow.
- That's what I've been told.
They, like, sausage-size around.
- Chunky little monkey.
- Apparently I'm playing in poop, too.
Let's get-
(plastic clattering)
- I mean, come on!
- Oh my goodness.
This stinks so bad.
Why does she gotta do this on the most busy day?
Oh, that one wasn't standard-
(Mike making gagging sounds)
It's like,
(gagging) it's like bobbing for fruit-
(indistinct)
I mean seriously,
look at the size of these things!
It is an apple!
- Let me grab that, Mike.
Let me get in there.
(off-camera disgusted sounds)
- Let me grab that real quick,
yeah, put that on in there,
get your hands in it.
I got a Jackpot!
- How did Mike get this job?
- I don't know, half the time,
I'm wondering even what he does every day,
to be honest with you.
(Noah making nervous sounds)
- I saw him texting and now he just-
it's been 27 minutes.
- [Brian] He's afraid of poop.
Dev's in there like a savage,
just picking up poop with his hands.
- He didn't even have to, he grabbed it,
sniffed it-
- I don't know, man, I'll have to have a talk with 'em-
(somber music)
- [Dev] I got a tooth!
- No- - Ooh, it smells terrible-
- No! - Smell that,
it's a poop tooth. Smell it.
(Noah making vomit sounds)
- So if you ever get bit by Lucy-
(Noah making very loud vomit sounds)
(Brian laughing)
Over-dramatic, over-dramatic.
You ever get bit by Lucy,
this is what you're gonna get bit by.
- Can you imagine 200 teeth like that in that mouth?
- My dad's gonna measure it later.
While Mike and I are gonna do the real method,
head to toe.
- Yeah. - Let's go.
- We're about 11 feet long together.
Go ahead.
- [Noah] What's that look like?
- It's about 11 feet right there, other than five feet.
So 16, 18 feet-
- 27 foot.
Then-
- Uh-
- [Brian] Back to one of my favorites.
Agkistrodon stuff.
Tell me what's up with this one.
- [Chase] So this is a hypermelanistic copperhead
that was wild caught outta Kentucky.
- So the hypermelanist just means it's darker, right?
You know, melanism is that, like, dark pigment,
normal copperhead is gonna be really light.
Orange-ish look, yellows through 'em,
you can see how this is almost like two tones dark,
like it's almost shaded with a pencil, right?
- Yeah.
- That's why it's a hypermelanistic animal.
Guys range from, like, pretty much all,
like the midwest all the way to the east coast,
quite a bit south.
Really a beautiful, beautiful animal.
There's a lot of lore about copperheads, right?
You know, people think like,
oh, they're always killers and stuff like that,
but they're actually very timid animals.
There's not a lot of bites.
Even when you do get bit by something like this,
it's typically relatively mild.
Doesn't really cause serious hospitalizations.
You might have to go into the hospital
and get a little antivenom,
but there's probably very few recorded deaths in history
with the copperhead, to be honest with you.
One of my favorite pit vipers is definitely
the temple viper.
These guys are just so incredible.
I mean, look at how insane that animal is.
Probably not quite half grown.
They'll get pretty large for a pit viper.
The pattern in the color of these guys are incredible.
I dunno, there's something about that triangular head,
again a more mildly venomous, definitely front fang,
pit viper.
So you definitely don't wanna get bit
by something like this, but when it does bite,
you typically aren't gonna die.
You're not gonna lose fingers that often,
unless you have a bad anaphylactic reaction.
Absolutely wonderful snake.
Look at that thing.
So I've been talking about
pretty mild venomous snakes here quite a bit,
but this particular one's not so mild.
This is what they call a russell's viper.
And this animal is actually really responsible
for a tremendous amount of deaths
over in the Southeast Asia, especially in India.
I mean, this is the animal that lives in the rice field.
And of course, as workers are working in those fields,
oftentimes they're bitten by these russell's vipers,
'cos they'll literally just barrel into the side
of the actual mounds.
It's gonna get quite a bit larger
probably, you know, two and a half, three foot,
maybe even a little bit bigger.
But unfortunately, these are ambush hunters.
So what happens is people are out working,
just, you know walking around,
typically in areas that don't have very good medical care.
They end up getting bit by these guys,
and their toxin is really, really potent.
So of course they end up perishing,
Again, russell's vipers, beautiful, beautiful snake
but definitely not want to get mucked with at all
because you do not wanna get bit
by something like this, right?
- No, not at all.
- Yeah. I can imagine.
You're like, okay,
that's the one snake I don't wanna get bit by, but us.
- [Chase] Yeah. My bush master.
- [Brian] Yeah.
- [Chase] I'll Bushmaster another one.
There's no doubt about that.
And we've actually seen that.
- Matter of fact, I put a card right here
'cos he's brought in his bush master before.
It's absolutely incredible.
So thank you for bringing stuff.
- [Chase] No problem.
- [Brian] These guys always bring me the coolest stuff
to play with.
Best way to measure a big snake like this,
is one of two ways.
You can build two boards
and actually let them crawl through it that way.
Or you can use the string effect.
Now the string effect's a little bit more dangerous,
especially with a big retic like this.
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to the channel!
(channel echoing)
She's cooperating really well.
She's just kind of climbing straight through the things,
just keeps on crawling through.
I just have to keep on going here.
This is definitely one of the easiest times
I've ever done it.
(indistinct) enough.
Look at that line right there.
That's Gemma!
And we have just the tail left.
So she's definitely bigger than Gemma.
There's no doubt about that.
So we're gonna make a mark here
and then we're gonna measure it up with the tape measure.
So Mike actually said Gemma is actually what?
16 and a half foot. - 16 and a half.
- So I thought she was almost 18 foot.
So if that's the case, this is the difference between Gemma
and this snake right there.
Almost two foot.
But there's only one way to find out, let's measure.
- Oh I gotta get this thing.
- [Brian] Hurry up.
- Stop. Gotta get the exact-
(indistinct off-camera shouting)
It's coming at 11:30.
- I like hot dogs.
- That's fine?
(indistinct off-camera mumbling)
- I didn't hear anything about this.
- That's what everybody called me.
- Really?
- Six chocolate cake shakes.
- Six of em?
That's two more than the last time!
- Beth goes " Really, Mike? That's it?"
I was like, okay, fries.
Ow!
(water sloshing)
Pee water, poop water?
We're there for now.
- (indistinct)
- I'm gonna use the 30 foot tape measure
'cos one day I am gonna measure a snake
that is 30 foot long.
I sure hope so.
I hope in my life I find it.
Let's find out how big this girl is.
Noah, you wanna hold this end?
- Yep. Pull.
- [Brian] Oh, let's see.
We're at-
10 foot,
15 foot, which is a big snake.
It was almost 17 foot.
And this girl is, oh my gosh,
19 foot, three inches long.
That is a big snake.
Not quite 20 foot but, honestly bigger than I thought.
19 foot, three inches long.
That is pretty close.
That's only about 11 inches shorter than Lucy.
But Lucy still is the longest snake
that I know of in Michigan.
- We win.
- [Brian] We absolutely love this snake.
And it's a very familiar snake
because I see it almost every single day,
because I have a tattoo of it on my arm.
That's right.
These guys are a little bush vipers.
Absolutely incredible.
Tell me a little bit more about this one.
- This is a new male I just picked up.
So now I have a group of 1.3,
I got the one blue female that I got from the babies
from last year.
Now I got another blue female
and she's got this really nice black speckling
on her back and stuff.
Yeah.
And then I got him now.
So I'm hoping that I'm gonna pair them up here soon
and maybe get some babies out of them.
- That's amazing.
- Yeah.
- And again, males stay a lot smaller than females
but they have those interesting scales
that actually protrude out
that almost looked like they got like little spikes
all over.
Just a really cool snake.
Love these guys to death.
It's just always a pleasure
to see all these amazing snakes
that I don't get to see every day here at the Reptarium.
You guys may not know this, but when I was 17 years old
my first venomous snake I ever got was a copperhead.
Didn't look anything like this copperhead.
Tell me what is going on.
'Cos this doesn't even look like a copperhead.
- [JT] Okay. So she is a red phase ankistrodon, which comes
in the spotted and tiger brand.
This kind of like a mix of the bold.
- Oh my gosh.
It's crazy, because of course copperheads look,
nothing like this.
They're very banded.
As a matter of fact, a lot of times you'll see
that trans-pecos ones are the most, you know,
kind of interesting banded one.
This one literally has dots and dashes,
reminds me more of like a viper you would see
over in like Southeast Asia or something like that.
Talk about chill, huh? - [JT] Yeah, she is.
- [Brian] This thing is as chill as it gets.
Look at this animal.
- She's super chill.
This has a wild-type morph that was found in the wild.
- Wow. That is absolutely amazing.
And look at that.
When I first saw this, I literally asked JT,
I said, what the heck is it?
'Cos I was like, it didn't look like any venomous snake
I had ever seen before.
Let's get my girl Lucy back,
still what I think is the largest snake in Michigan,
as far as lengthwise goes,
although that was an absolutely monster snake
and I loved it to death.
Come on, girl!
Difference between Lucy is,
she loves to run.
That snake was definitely a lot more mellow,
but an absolute beauty.
- Noah never does anything.
- Look at this!
- [Brian] Hold her head up!
Look at it.
- See that, Mike?
- [Mike] That's that much of a snake.
- I'm doing all-
- [Mike] Oh, here she goes.
- Huh?
(Brian laughing)
- Lucy, now that she's back on food,
she's gonna get that girth back.
She's gonna even grow more this year.
We'll have to measure her,
maybe in the fall to see if she's grown at all.
The hard snakes like that,
just make it so incredible.
It was cool when we got that snake out,
speaking of out!
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(Noah making gagging sounds)
(Mike laughing)