As a person with ADHD, I love seeing people with a life-long hyperfocus, who eventually go "eh, I'll open a museum". It's magic little places like these, born of one person's passion, that stores so much social history. Gary is a wonderful guide to his very, very wonderful museum

Another fun fact, Teddy Roosevelt's daughter Alice had a snake named Emily Spinach! I think about that once a day, and obviously Emily was destined to work with reptiles!

The pet history museum looks like MY JAM oh my gosh I could spend all day there. I loved getting to hear Gary talk about all the cool stuff and history.

Finding out Ed makes s-tier brisket is something I didn't expect to learn from this video, but I'm glad I did 😂

As an Austrian when you said ‚Wienerschnitzel‘ I was thinking about our traditional dish of schnitzl out of calf meat. The name was even written the same but the restaurant was as far from a Viennese one as can be. 😂

I'd never really thought about the history of pet care but that museum was SO cool! I also think I could watch elephant seals flicking sand over themselves for hours.

When you realizing egg laying season is days away

The fact that Shane was over at theirs and also liked Ed's brisket better makes me smile. And hungry. It really makes me hungry...

The Monterey Bay aquarium is one of if not the most ethical and conservation focused aquariums in the world, they do a lot of awesome conservation work particularly with their local sea otters. I haven’t been there in a few years the isopods are definitely a new thing, I’ll have to go back there sometime soon and check them out lol!

Gary should make a travelling exhibit with items from the Museum! Like when Tinley or other animal conventions happen he should get booth space to have an exhibit at the convention so people can come in and learn about enclosures of the past and Pet history...also to donate to his museum as well. It sounds like it'd be a good learning experience and be a good way to bring in money to his museum, however I'm not sure how much that all would cost.

I know there's a chocolate shop right outside the Monterey aquarium and I was just waiting to watch Emily notice it! Was not dissappointed. 😎😎

Baby stroller bird cage! We've got people who gather at the nearby park with their birds in cages every weekend. A stroller cage would be a great idea.

Your question of the day has a very interesting answer. Before the "W" existed the letter was written out as either two U's or two V's. They were eventually combined into a new letter, and you can see some fonts use two V's and some use two U's to make the W. Most languages actually pronounce the W as double V whereas English pronounces it as double U.

I've been collecting uranium glass for years and a fishbowl would be like my holy grail find! He has so many! 😍

I have a few pieces or Vaseline glass and I've finally just displayed them with UV lighting. I had no idea that fish bowls made out of it were a thing! Now I have an extra item to add to my bucket list!

The mermaid tank was by far my favorite! I love old vaudeville and circus acts and always wondered how they made mermaids look so real. The air behind the shell makes so much sense! Love it!

The museum is actually pretty cool! I love antique stuff, they have so many interesting histories and backgrounds, that’s really amazing to know. And the giant isopods are one of my favorite creatures, they’re very popular in my country. I wanna get a realistic plushie but it’s pretty expensive!

Oh my goodness! This is my backyard! Monterey and San Luis Obispo is an amazing area to explore. I have been going to the aquarium my whole life its such an amazing place. Im so glad the zoo med folks got you to try Firestone tritip! Its some of the best in the area! It was so crazy to see you guys driving around my hometown! So happy you enjoyed it!

Gary's museum of historic pet keeping items was so interesting to see! Really cool!

Gary is my kinda dude. I feel like I could chat with him for days. Definitely gonna check out his content and hopefully his museum one day!

I just started collecting vintage hamster cages about a year ago and I cannot describe to you how excited I was to see those 1800's mouse cages!!!! My oldest is a 1963 (or 68' I didn't have the packaging next to me) hamster/ mouse cage, still with all the original pieces and box!!! It's a dream of mine to find old boxes of hamster food, after I missed out of a NIB hartz set that came with the original food, bedding, and chew toys that had to have been from the 70's - 80's

As a born and raised Californian all of your California vlogs make me laugh! It’s fun getting to see y’all discover things that are so normal for me cuz u grew up with them 😂

that Aquarium is great!! And now I have added "pet a giant Isopod" to my bucket list! As a German, I got bamboozled by the Wiener Schnitzel. Nice pun!

Emily’s flabbergasted face while in the bubblegum alley is hilarious

“Let’s go to that chocolate shop first!!” “Nope, we’re leaving!” 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Very much the same vibe as my husband and I! 😂

May I say how much I appreciate it when the captions have sufficient hang time that I can read them without have to pause the video?

Fun fact, the Monterrey aquarium has live streams here on KZfaq.

There used to be horse bread too before we had horse pellets! It was a lightweight, somewhat predigested food that was good for giving horses condensed energy on the go

When I went to the elephant seal beach, I did see two males having a small fight. Was crazy.

Ed trying to say Monterey was killing me 😂! I'm so glad y'all found my fave aquarium! Cali is home to some interesting history with Marineland and of course SeaWorld 🙄 as well as the San Diego Zoo we are big on some conservation! Look at the Condors💜🦅

this guy is adorable, he enthusiasm is everything

I spot a pupper in that museum! I hope he gets pets - Jasper is his name and he gets pets! Mermaid tank is amazing, I think that's my fav, but we didn't get to see the oldest reptile store!

8:05 ADORED THE BROOKLYN NINE NINE REFERENCE OMG. OF COURSE ED AND EMILY ARE FANS OF THE SHOW 😭

I live about 30 minutes from Monterey and I am glad you liked the aquarium! I grew up going to that aquarium and still love going there even as an adult! Bubble gum alley is gross and weird and minty fruit is probably the best way to describe that smell. It was so cool to see the elephant seals! Ano Nuevo is a wonderful place to visit during elephant seal season!

I live in this area! Ahhh! I always think its so funny when people visit California and realize that its not always perfect weather. 😂

I would have LOVED to visit that museum! So many cool items on such a niche, but interesting subject, not common for museums, but so very relatable to the average person.

Please do an updated meet all our snakes video! It'd be so interesting to see who you all still have vs your newer snakes 🐍 😊

Hearing about the elephant seal population bouncing back is amazing! That makes me so happy. And these babies look like they’re living the LIFE! sunbathing on the beach!

27 and absolutely adored the history behind all those different cages awe loved it so much thank you

I’m so glad you got to visit Monterey Bay Aquarium! I haven’t been there in years but I used to go a bit when I was a little girl, my favorite exhibits were the otters and the batray petting exhibit. It’s a very lovely and educational spot.

I love love love really specific museums, there is so much of human culture, technology, and history that you never even think about. For example my hometown has a sewing museum with thousands of sewing machines and accessories from throughout history

I love seeing you guys vlog on your trips! It's so fun to see you guys travel and explore and get to be tourists in your free time (even though most of these trips stem from going somewhere for work or a reptile show/conference). I know it's extra work to film and edit these vlogs, but I know I'm not the only one when I say that we'd love to see more of your adventures ❤

I hope that a pet history museum like this opens up in the UK - this looks like an awesome experience!

Monterey is always crappy weather, that's why I live inland in Gilroy, its perfect weather yet close enough to go anywhere, the aquarium, Santa cruz boardwalk, San Francisco etc

Ed needs a cooking segment. Food discovery. And his guests will be zoo inhabitants.

I’m just watching this and admiring all the animals in the museum

I'm literally in love with the vlogs! You guys are so funny and always bring us along in your journey teaching us new things but without being boring, and you make every place looks so unique every single time! I just love it!

Aww! I went to see the elephant seals a few years back! I got to see the males sizing up! Oh the noises thay made! You could feel the noises in your chest or when they would slam into each other! It was so interesting!!! I could spend hours there just watching them in their natural habitat! How fun! 🥰

It’s so cool, how your KZfaq channel has grown through the years😊

Thanks for visiting the museum! We had a blast.

And my kids were like "Snake Discovery is at our Weinerschnitzle" I was skeptical.... but yep that's our local one 😂.

This gave me some major nostalgia from visiting the Monterey Bay Aquarium as a kid, so cool you guys got to visit it!

The Aquarium was one of the places I went several times a year. The Jellyfish and Sea Otters are my favorites. Those pet items were really cool! I'd love to be able to get lost in there.

1:15 Star Trek: the Voyage Home filming site for all us trekkies in the audience, where Spock mind melds with Gracie

I love the elephant seals! Thank you so much for stopping and showing them to us! Also, for telling us about their conservation. That’s amazing!!!!!!

Love seeing travel vlogs and from Snake Discovery just makes my day even better. Love the fact that they’re in Monterey and went to the aquarium I grew up going to when I lived there.

Monterrey Bay is my favorite place in the world. That brought so many memories from living in CA. The aquarium has a bunch of new exhibits. I’m so glad you went there.

Man i love that museum! All his knowledge and passion and his voice are perfect. I saw the website but gonna check to see if theres a YT bc i could spend hours watching him and listening to his voice

I'm from north of San Francisco and Monterrey is one of the coolest places in all of NorCal! I'm sooo glad you got to experience the fun and wonder the area has to offer, and thanks so much for sharing it all with us!

You promise to make brisket, you make a brisket. 😂 I love it, thank you for the awesome educational videos! I've never enjoyed learning so much!

I liked the museum of all of the old things that we kept our pets in. When I got a parakeet back in the early 70s, my father gave me a birdcage that was from the 50s and it was beautiful. It had Stainglass. It was a brass cage with Stainglass around the bottom, I really like that cage. Thank you for bringing back some of my memories.

I remember that Aquarium very vividly, it was my favorite aquariums when I lived in California. That and Long Beach Aquarium are a must-go.

Yay best time of the week, SNAKE DISCOVERY VIDEO

Y’all talking about how you always bring the cold with you whenever you travel is the complete opposite of my family. As a Texan with family in the Midwest, we have always brought the hot humid with us on vacation

Oh wow! Cool trip! I loved the museum, and could have spent several hours scouring all the shelves and corners. I lived in Santa Cruz when the aquarium was built and still list it among one of the best places to visit, on earth! Glad you had an opportunity to see it.

Seals always look so happy and cozy when the bask in the sun 🥰

I LOVE the adventures of Emily and Ed shows! The Museum of pet care was so cool! I grew up on Long Island and loves to visit Sagamore Hill, Teddy Roosevelt's home aka the summer White House!

This is _amazing!_ I could easily spend hours listening to this guy show us his cool collection!

This is so heccin neat! As a lifelong lover of antiques and oddities (and have the ADHD strong enough to lecture you enthusiastically about why each and every one of those things is cool)... I hope to someday open a museum like this gent! Or at least or visit this amazing tribute to history someday ✨

What a great museum. Thank you, Ed and Emily for showing us your trip to California. 😊❤️🙏🇦🇺🐍🐊🦎🐢🐸

If you guys ever head out to Chicago, I'd love to see you check out their aquarium too! But more importantly: the Field Museum for their dinosaurs!! Plus the massive amount of taxidermied animals to see really interesting reptiles and even bugs there, that'd be cool If you had time, their museum of science and industry isn't particularly channel related buuuttt it's unforgettable for sure, major fun with an indoor landslide, indoor tornado, coal mine tours, half a plane, and a Tesla coil!

I don’t live in California but I go there all the time and the Monterey aquarium and the elephant seals have a special place in my heart. I’m so glad you guys enjoyed them! 🥹☺️

Its so fricken cool to see you guys in monterrey, im born and raised CA and to see you guys in areas that ive been too 100s of times before is just unreal! I hold you guys had a great time!!

Brisket comes from the front end of the cow, from the chest area. Tri-tip comes from the rear end, where the meat is more tender. As a pampas habitant I would argue tri-tip is superior, but each country values different cuts.

Out favorite part was the bird cages you showed. Thanks for the fun video!

When my husband first moved to Reno (we're on the northern California line), that's when I discovered Tri Tip wasn't known all over the country. He's from Oklahoma, and he asked me what it was, I didn't know, I haven't eaten meat in 20 years, plus he was in FFA, so he knew meat cuts, like all of them. So, I think we googled it. It's the piece under the sirloin and top sirloin. But that's when I found out Tri Tip doesn't appear in other states east of here.

Monterey Bay Aquarium is one of my favorite places in the world ❤ so happy you got to go

Emily: If you like Mac-n-cheese, whenever you go to the store and you see those frozen Mac-n-cheese bakes, grab one of those and get some Colby Jack cheese and some mozzarella, crumble some bacon on top and throw it in the oven. Omg it's so good! (Same set-up with twice baked potatos too. Just kinda scoop out some of the filling from each potato and put the cheese and bacon in it, especially thick cut applewood smoked bacon. Mmm... I am totally gonna make some of those tonight.)

What an amazing collection. So cool to see. Thank you guys.

The way the Emily wanted more chocolate and drop the snail funny and picked is so funny

OMG! I wish I had known you were in CA and at my FAVORITE aquarium! I so would have driven up to try to see you! Glad you loved it! and oh my goodness! I didn't know ZooMed was in SLO! Bubblegum alley is the WORST! I feel like I am going to catch something just walking through, but you have to do it at least once!

so glad you got to visit the monterey bay aquarium! it's one of the best in the US and one of my absolute favorite places in california

Awesome video as always

As a native of the Central Valley in California which is about 90 minutes from Monterey, CA, you didn't bring the rain with you. It rains a lot there no matter the time of year. Weird too that what I see as a normal snail is considered a giant garden snail.

Tri-tip is the triangular cut of beef cut from the bottom of the sirloin. It is part of Santa Maria style BBQ. (Santa Maria is about 30 miles south of SLO aka San Luis Obispo.)

Bubble Gum Alley has been in San Luis Obispo since my parents were kids. I’m almost 50 and remember it when I was a little kid. They actually protected it when they made all the businesses in San Luis do seismic retrofitting after the earthquake in 2003, lol. Cool to see you guys visiting and filming places in my home county. The elephant seals and sea lions are actually too much of a success story. They’re quite overpopulated in several areas on the West Coast now and are causing lots of problems with the fishing industry and due to their continued protected status there is no management plan in place to control the population. They’re a nightmare when you’re fishing, they’ll steal your fish right off your hook and you’ll just reel up a head, lol.

How did I miss Ed and Emily being so close to where I live! So happy you guys made it out to the aquarium. Love visiting the aquarium and I got engaged there 😁 glad you guys had a good time!

Oh my goodness you were HERE in my hometown?!?!?! Thank you for visiting!

Awesome video! You guys are too much fun

My college is around SLO, and we had a field trip to see the northern elephant seals in one of my biology courses in addition to the skeleton of an adult male one in the classroom

Monterey Bay is an amazing aquarium! They have a lot of really great educational programs and do a ton of research. They have a KZfaq channel where they post videos from their deep sea submarine research vessel. Super cool!

How interesting that the president of Zoo Med happens to have a museum dedicated to pet history.

Im from the UK but I cannot express enough how much I would love to visit that meseum I bet its such a fascinating place to go to!

Very awesome you guys got to make a trip to Northern California! I really stoked you got to see the East Bay Vivarium, that’s always been my favorite place since I was a kid. It’s also the first place I got my first reptile ever.

Glad you guys enjoyed my hometown, I used to live two blocks from the aquarium and one of my favorite things to do is walk from cannery row to fisherman's wharf and get clam chowder

THE AQUARIUM WAS SO AWESOME I cant beleive that they had tuffted puffins and the museum was also cool

Thanks for the vlog type video, they are fun! All of the things you went and saw were really neat! (Future archeologists finding a corridor of gum.🤔)😝🤣

Fun fact, Giant Isopods likely feel like crabs since they are both deep sea crustaceans.

That museum looks really cool, and seals are fantastic!

I love to all of it it was so amazing love the museum and yes isopods even the stuff when you eat and enjoy food you guys are just good at this