1 00:00:05,305 --> 00:00:07,841 And now for an animal joke. 2 00:00:07,841 --> 00:00:11,411 What should you do if you find a lion in your bed? 3 00:00:11,845 --> 00:00:15,849 What did you do if you find a lion in your bed? 4 00:00:16,516 --> 00:00:23,023 The answer is going to be revealed at the end of the episode. 5 00:00:23,023 --> 00:00:23,590 But first, 6 00:00:23,590 --> 00:00:28,695 get your ears ready because it’s the Happiest Animal Show on Planet Earth. 7 00:00:28,795 --> 00:00:30,096 The Happiest Animal Show on Planet Earth. 8 00:00:30,096 --> 00:00:31,998 You want to be sad? No! Do you want to be glad? No. 9 00:00:31,998 --> 00:00:32,098 Wait. Yes. 10 00:00:32,098 --> 00:00:35,101 Well, it’s the Happiest Animal Show on Planet Earth. 11 00:00:45,111 --> 00:00:47,414 Hello and welcome to the Happiest Animal 12 00:00:47,414 --> 00:00:51,918 show on Planet Earth, the podcast that asks the very important question. 13 00:00:52,252 --> 00:00:55,255 What animal is making you happy today? 14 00:00:55,622 --> 00:00:59,526 Not yesterday, not even last night, but today. 15 00:00:59,759 --> 00:01:02,095 I'm Rob and I'm Laura. 16 00:01:02,095 --> 00:01:07,267 And we are a sister brother pair of zoologists, filmmakers and songwriters. 17 00:01:07,300 --> 00:01:11,137 We are here to explore the wonderful world of wildlife and discover 18 00:01:11,137 --> 00:01:13,073 why animals make us happy. 19 00:01:13,073 --> 00:01:15,742 Today we are celebrating sleepy animals 20 00:01:15,742 --> 00:01:18,745 and we have a song with lots of sleepy animals in it. 21 00:01:18,845 --> 00:01:22,615 And we chat with comedian David Gborie, who talks about a sea creature 22 00:01:22,615 --> 00:01:26,786 who can hold its breath and sleep underwater for several hours at a time. 23 00:01:27,153 --> 00:01:27,987 Here we go. 24 00:01:27,987 --> 00:01:32,625 What animal is making you happy today? 25 00:01:32,926 --> 00:01:34,561 I want to know. 26 00:01:34,561 --> 00:01:37,464 On today's episode, Rob and I are going to talk 27 00:01:37,464 --> 00:01:40,567 about sleepy animals that make us happy. 28 00:01:40,567 --> 00:01:43,970 You know, we have a podcast to do. 29 00:01:44,571 --> 00:01:47,340 No. I'm excited. Oh, here we go. 30 00:01:48,708 --> 00:01:49,776 Laura, what 31 00:01:49,776 --> 00:01:52,745 sleepy animal is making you happy? 32 00:01:52,745 --> 00:01:54,647 And bending the rules a little bit 33 00:01:54,647 --> 00:01:57,884 because it's not necessarily a group of animals I'm thinking of. 34 00:01:58,151 --> 00:02:01,921 I'm. I picked an animal because it's a specific animal that we saw 35 00:02:01,921 --> 00:02:03,189 one time 36 00:02:03,189 --> 00:02:05,191 that didn't want to wake up in the morning, 37 00:02:05,191 --> 00:02:07,560 and it makes me laugh every time I think about it. 38 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:08,995 Oh, yeah. 39 00:02:08,995 --> 00:02:11,831 But here are the clues for the kind of animal. 40 00:02:11,831 --> 00:02:14,767 It's an animal with brown fur. 41 00:02:14,767 --> 00:02:16,469 It's big. 42 00:02:16,469 --> 00:02:18,271 It's got big claws. 43 00:02:18,271 --> 00:02:22,976 Is the one we saw was living in Alaska. 44 00:02:23,243 --> 00:02:26,546 Yeah, but let me give you some sleepy clues, okay? 45 00:02:26,579 --> 00:02:32,919 These animals do go into a very deep sleep during the winter, 46 00:02:33,119 --> 00:02:37,557 when they can sleep for up to eight months in their den. 47 00:02:37,957 --> 00:02:39,592 And so they, like they hibernate. 48 00:02:39,592 --> 00:02:41,361 Yeah, hibernate. 49 00:02:41,361 --> 00:02:43,763 Or sometimes it's called torpor. But yeah, they. 50 00:02:43,763 --> 00:02:47,934 And that whole time, like eight months, they don't eat, 51 00:02:48,301 --> 00:02:52,972 they don't drink, they don't pee and they don't poop a whole time. 52 00:02:53,907 --> 00:02:56,142 And somehow that works. 53 00:02:56,142 --> 00:02:58,411 Those are my clues. Okay. 54 00:02:58,411 --> 00:03:01,981 So you are going with a grizzly bear? 55 00:03:02,182 --> 00:03:03,983 Yes. A 56 00:03:04,951 --> 00:03:07,487 grizzly bear. 57 00:03:07,487 --> 00:03:11,558 And, Rob, I know you picked grizzly bears for our animal moms episode, 58 00:03:11,691 --> 00:03:12,559 but I don't care. 59 00:03:12,559 --> 00:03:14,894 This is what animals are making me happy today. 60 00:03:14,894 --> 00:03:17,897 There's no rules for these. Fair enough. 61 00:03:17,997 --> 00:03:19,732 So tell me why. 62 00:03:19,732 --> 00:03:22,802 I guess why is a sleepy grizzly bear making you happy? 63 00:03:22,902 --> 00:03:27,240 Well, as you know, Rob, we took a trip to Alaska 64 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,243 to go film Grizzly Bears one time. 65 00:03:30,677 --> 00:03:32,245 Yeah, and we went with a guide. 66 00:03:32,245 --> 00:03:33,513 His name was Chuck. 67 00:03:33,513 --> 00:03:36,549 He used to be a crab fisherman on the Bering Sea. 68 00:03:36,549 --> 00:03:38,351 But Chuck knew a lot about bears. 69 00:03:38,351 --> 00:03:41,521 And we'd follow Chuck around, and he'd show us where the bears were 70 00:03:41,521 --> 00:03:43,590 so that we could film them with our video cameras. 71 00:03:43,590 --> 00:03:46,593 And one day we were in a big grassy field. 72 00:03:47,193 --> 00:03:49,128 And there are all these bears 73 00:03:50,196 --> 00:03:50,530 eating 74 00:03:50,530 --> 00:03:54,834 grass, and I don't know how many bears do you think we saw eating grass? 75 00:03:54,867 --> 00:03:58,438 I counted up to 16 bears and bears. 76 00:03:59,105 --> 00:04:01,441 Yeah, 16. 77 00:04:01,441 --> 00:04:04,911 It was a big, expansive field, like miles wide. 78 00:04:04,944 --> 00:04:08,448 Yeah. Right. So yeah, it was early July. 79 00:04:08,648 --> 00:04:12,986 The grass was about knee high in most spots, and that was called 80 00:04:12,986 --> 00:04:15,421 hallow Bay, that area, it was surrounded by mountains 81 00:04:15,421 --> 00:04:18,391 and glaciers on one side and the ocean on the other side. 82 00:04:18,691 --> 00:04:23,529 And there was a spot in the grass in front of us that didn't look right. 83 00:04:23,863 --> 00:04:26,866 It looked a little too brown. 84 00:04:27,133 --> 00:04:30,303 And I stopped and said, is that a bear? 85 00:04:30,303 --> 00:04:31,771 And everyone else looked around 86 00:04:31,771 --> 00:04:34,907 and in the distance and we could see bears in the distance. 87 00:04:34,907 --> 00:04:36,509 And they said, yeah, those are bears. 88 00:04:36,509 --> 00:04:38,378 And I said, no, no, no, right in front of us. 89 00:04:38,378 --> 00:04:42,715 That probably about 7 or 8 steps in front of us. 90 00:04:43,016 --> 00:04:46,019 There was, a brown bear 91 00:04:46,152 --> 00:04:49,922 completely sound asleep, and we were walking straight toward it. 92 00:04:49,922 --> 00:04:50,256 Yeah. 93 00:04:50,256 --> 00:04:53,059 And couldn't see it in the in the grass. Yeah. 94 00:04:53,059 --> 00:04:57,597 And I was reading that these brown bears will make daybeds 95 00:04:57,997 --> 00:05:00,700 where they will dig little belly holes in the ground, 96 00:05:00,700 --> 00:05:03,403 stick their bellies in the ground, and just kind of sleep. 97 00:05:03,403 --> 00:05:07,073 So, you know, its back was basically hidden by the grass. 98 00:05:07,073 --> 00:05:11,544 And if Rob hadn't noticed it, we probably would have walked right up to it. 99 00:05:11,911 --> 00:05:16,049 But what was funny was that all the other bears were awake 100 00:05:16,149 --> 00:05:19,619 and eating and playing and doing stuff. 101 00:05:19,786 --> 00:05:20,887 There were. 102 00:05:20,887 --> 00:05:24,023 Yeah, I feel like we saw a fox running around. 103 00:05:24,023 --> 00:05:26,793 The birds were awake every day. 104 00:05:26,793 --> 00:05:27,927 All was up there. 105 00:05:27,927 --> 00:05:29,295 Eagles were flying. 106 00:05:29,295 --> 00:05:30,363 It was loud. 107 00:05:30,363 --> 00:05:33,633 And there's one bear with just everyone's will. 108 00:05:33,633 --> 00:05:35,501 Lift his head and look up and around 109 00:05:36,636 --> 00:05:39,639 like, oh my, supposed to get up. 110 00:05:39,639 --> 00:05:42,642 And then its eyelids would kind of droop again, 111 00:05:42,642 --> 00:05:45,545 and then it would close its eyes and its head and flop back down. 112 00:05:45,545 --> 00:05:47,914 It would go back to sleep like every few minutes. 113 00:05:47,914 --> 00:05:50,917 It had suddenly pop up like the alarm clock went off. 114 00:05:51,117 --> 00:05:54,320 And then and it hit the snooze button 115 00:05:54,620 --> 00:05:57,790 and then its eyes would roll back into its head again, 116 00:05:57,790 --> 00:06:00,960 and then it would just flop back over and go back to sleep. 117 00:06:01,494 --> 00:06:03,963 That was really funny. It was so funny. 118 00:06:03,963 --> 00:06:05,031 Grown ups. 119 00:06:05,031 --> 00:06:08,201 We'll put a clip of that bear on our social media because it's funny. 120 00:06:08,701 --> 00:06:09,802 Yeah it's great. 121 00:06:09,802 --> 00:06:10,737 And I relate to that. 122 00:06:10,737 --> 00:06:12,705 I'm not a morning person. 123 00:06:12,705 --> 00:06:14,340 It's hard for me to get up in the morning. 124 00:06:14,340 --> 00:06:17,343 And so that bear really spoke to me. 125 00:06:17,543 --> 00:06:19,045 Yeah, yeah. 126 00:06:19,045 --> 00:06:21,814 You and grizzly bears have a lot in common. 127 00:06:21,814 --> 00:06:23,950 So Laura picks a grizzly bear. 128 00:06:23,950 --> 00:06:26,686 We'll find out what I picked right after this. 129 00:06:28,321 --> 00:06:30,223 This episode of the Happiest 130 00:06:30,223 --> 00:06:33,559 Animal Show is brought to you by naps. 131 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:37,397 If you're feeling tired or cranky, try taking a nap. 132 00:06:37,964 --> 00:06:40,967 Naps are like sleeping at night, but shorter. 133 00:06:41,234 --> 00:06:43,403 Try taking a nap today. 134 00:06:43,403 --> 00:06:46,406 Your friends and your family will thank you. 135 00:06:47,140 --> 00:06:49,075 And we're back. 136 00:06:49,075 --> 00:06:53,546 Rob, what sleepy animal is making you happy today? 137 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:58,751 It is normally found in trees, okay? 138 00:06:58,951 --> 00:07:02,989 And it is a very picky eater. 139 00:07:03,189 --> 00:07:04,424 Okay? 140 00:07:04,424 --> 00:07:08,394 It tends to only eat one kind of plant. 141 00:07:10,229 --> 00:07:13,132 And even then it's very picky because it sniffs 142 00:07:13,132 --> 00:07:16,302 the leaves of that plant and chooses the correct ones. 143 00:07:16,302 --> 00:07:18,471 It wants to eat. Oh really. 144 00:07:18,471 --> 00:07:19,172 Yeah. 145 00:07:19,172 --> 00:07:22,108 And it lives in Australia. 146 00:07:22,108 --> 00:07:24,844 Does it have a pouch. 147 00:07:24,844 --> 00:07:26,712 It does have a pouch. Yes. 148 00:07:26,712 --> 00:07:30,149 Is it kind of a gray color. 149 00:07:30,450 --> 00:07:33,553 It is a gray color with a black nose. 150 00:07:34,053 --> 00:07:36,889 Is it a koala? 151 00:07:36,889 --> 00:07:38,658 Yes. Ding ding ding. 152 00:07:40,693 --> 00:07:42,395 Koala. 153 00:07:42,395 --> 00:07:43,563 Koala. 154 00:07:43,563 --> 00:07:44,831 So cute. 155 00:07:44,831 --> 00:07:47,633 Great. Yeah. Koalas. 156 00:07:47,633 --> 00:07:48,801 They are adorable. 157 00:07:48,801 --> 00:07:50,470 They're the cutest things. 158 00:07:50,470 --> 00:07:53,706 And they, you know, they're not very big koalas. 159 00:07:53,706 --> 00:07:55,641 They're about 2 or 3ft long. 160 00:07:55,641 --> 00:07:58,544 And they, you know, they weigh under 30 pounds. 161 00:07:58,544 --> 00:08:02,515 So they're they're they don't weigh that much more than a housecat or something. 162 00:08:03,115 --> 00:08:07,353 And and why are they making you happy today for people who love to take 163 00:08:07,353 --> 00:08:10,389 naps, the koala is the champion 164 00:08:10,790 --> 00:08:13,793 of the entire world. 165 00:08:14,327 --> 00:08:17,163 There are 24 hours in the day, 166 00:08:17,163 --> 00:08:20,766 and koalas are usually sleeping 167 00:08:20,766 --> 00:08:23,769 for 20 of those hours in the day. 168 00:08:25,471 --> 00:08:28,441 They spend so much time sleeping 169 00:08:28,441 --> 00:08:32,812 and it's it's not because they're lazy, okay? 170 00:08:32,812 --> 00:08:36,916 It's actually really important that they that they do that. 171 00:08:36,916 --> 00:08:37,149 Okay. 172 00:08:37,149 --> 00:08:40,386 So koalas eat the eucalyptus right? 173 00:08:40,820 --> 00:08:41,754 Yeah. 174 00:08:41,754 --> 00:08:44,757 They eat the leaves of a eucalyptus tree. 175 00:08:44,857 --> 00:08:45,725 Yeah okay. 176 00:08:45,725 --> 00:08:47,894 And that's the only thing they eat. 177 00:08:47,894 --> 00:08:49,762 That's. Yeah. Exactly. Right. 178 00:08:49,762 --> 00:08:53,733 So they're very picky eaters because they pretty much I mean they, 179 00:08:53,733 --> 00:08:57,103 it sounds like they will eat some other plants, 180 00:08:57,103 --> 00:09:00,273 but mostly it's this one thing. 181 00:09:00,573 --> 00:09:03,910 Eucalyptus and eucalyptus 182 00:09:03,910 --> 00:09:06,913 is poisonous to most other animals. 183 00:09:07,346 --> 00:09:09,215 I did not know this. Yeah. 184 00:09:10,182 --> 00:09:13,819 So koalas are very specialized 185 00:09:13,819 --> 00:09:16,822 because they can eat this stuff and it doesn't bother them. 186 00:09:16,856 --> 00:09:21,294 But there's not a lot of calories and energy in those leaves. 187 00:09:21,761 --> 00:09:25,531 And so to get around that, they eat the leaves and then they 188 00:09:25,531 --> 00:09:29,969 go to sleep and they save their energy while their body digests the leaves. 189 00:09:30,937 --> 00:09:35,808 What a weird thing to have happened, that there's this animal that eats one thing, 190 00:09:35,808 --> 00:09:38,945 but the one thing they eat really doesn't have that much nutrition for them. 191 00:09:38,945 --> 00:09:41,280 So in order to make it work, they have to sleep a lot 192 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:45,151 because they don't have the energy or they need time to digest it. 193 00:09:45,751 --> 00:09:48,721 Yeah, they have to digest it and they have to save their energy. 194 00:09:48,854 --> 00:09:50,523 So they just sleep. 195 00:09:50,523 --> 00:09:52,091 And that's how they get through life. 196 00:09:52,091 --> 00:09:54,193 They usually don't have to drink water 197 00:09:54,193 --> 00:09:58,164 because they get all of their water that they need from eating leaves. 198 00:09:58,164 --> 00:10:03,603 So you almost never see a koala heading down to the stream to take a drink. 199 00:10:03,603 --> 00:10:05,504 Wow, wow. 200 00:10:05,504 --> 00:10:07,773 Did you get to hang out in trees and eat leaves? 201 00:10:07,773 --> 00:10:09,141 Yeah. And then take naps, 202 00:10:10,843 --> 00:10:11,410 which I 203 00:10:11,410 --> 00:10:14,413 think a lot of listeners out there can appreciate. 204 00:10:14,614 --> 00:10:18,985 And I think a lot of us wouldn't mind being a koala. 205 00:10:18,985 --> 00:10:19,952 Yeah, yeah. 206 00:10:19,952 --> 00:10:20,920 So that's my pick. 207 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:23,923 Koala is a great choice. 208 00:10:24,290 --> 00:10:27,059 Thanks, Rob. And now for a song. 209 00:10:27,059 --> 00:10:30,663 I wrote this song originally as a pitch for Sesame Street Studios, 210 00:10:30,663 --> 00:10:32,632 but they did not choose it for their show. 211 00:10:32,632 --> 00:10:35,835 So we decided to finish the full song here for you. 212 00:10:36,002 --> 00:10:36,969 And also a big 213 00:10:36,969 --> 00:10:41,407 thank you to our parents for helping sing the background vocals on this track. 214 00:10:41,707 --> 00:10:43,009 Enjoy! 215 00:10:43,009 --> 00:10:49,181 Have you ever been dog-tired, dog-tired,tuckered out from your day? 216 00:10:49,181 --> 00:10:55,287 Have you ever felt cat-tired, cat-tired, purring the night away? 217 00:10:55,287 --> 00:10:59,258 Have you ever felt chicken-tired, chicken-tired? 218 00:10:59,291 --> 00:11:02,061 tired as a donkey or cow or sheep? 219 00:11:02,061 --> 00:11:05,898 Then rest your weary head and go to sleep. 220 00:11:06,265 --> 00:11:07,967 Go to sleep. 221 00:11:07,967 --> 00:11:11,337 Cause it's sleepy time, sleepy time. 222 00:11:11,470 --> 00:11:13,105 Curtains are drawin. 223 00:11:13,105 --> 00:11:14,106 Everybody's yawnin. 224 00:11:14,106 --> 00:11:16,676 It’s sleepytime, sleepy time, such a wonderful time 225 00:11:18,844 --> 00:11:20,079 of day. 226 00:11:20,079 --> 00:11:23,282 Because it's sleepy time, sleepy time. 227 00:11:23,315 --> 00:11:26,252 No need to try and stay awake. 228 00:11:26,252 --> 00:11:29,989 So close those tired eyes and go to sleep. 229 00:11:30,556 --> 00:11:31,657 Go to sleep. 230 00:11:31,657 --> 00:11:34,360 Have you ever felt walrus tired? 231 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,830 Walrus tired from rocking a sweet mustache? 232 00:11:37,830 --> 00:11:40,332 Have you ever felt raccoon tired? 233 00:11:40,332 --> 00:11:43,903 Raccoon tired from looking through somebody's trash? 234 00:11:43,903 --> 00:11:46,572 Have you ever felt chipmunk-tired. 235 00:11:46,572 --> 00:11:50,710 Chipmunk-tired, from stuffing so many nuts in your cheeks? 236 00:11:50,710 --> 00:11:54,213 Then rest your weary head and go to sleep. 237 00:11:54,847 --> 00:11:55,981 Go to sleep. 238 00:11:55,981 --> 00:11:58,651 Have you ever felt moose- tired. 239 00:11:58,651 --> 00:12:02,088 Moose-tired from being so incredibly tall? 240 00:12:02,121 --> 00:12:08,160 Have you ever felt octopus-tired , octopus-tired from having no bones at all? 241 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:09,995 Have you ever felt archerfish-tired? 242 00:12:09,995 --> 00:12:14,867 Archerfish-tired from spitting at every bug that you see. 243 00:12:15,267 --> 00:12:18,537 Then rest your weary head and go to sleep. 244 00:12:19,171 --> 00:12:20,906 Go to sleep. 245 00:12:20,906 --> 00:12:24,243 Cause it's sleepy time, sleepy time. 246 00:12:24,443 --> 00:12:25,945 Curtains are drawin. 247 00:12:25,945 --> 00:12:27,313 Everybody's yawnin’. 248 00:12:27,313 --> 00:12:30,082 It’s sleepy time, sleepytime, 249 00:12:30,082 --> 00:12:33,018 such a wonderful time of day. 250 00:12:33,018 --> 00:12:35,321 Cause it's sleepy time. 251 00:12:35,321 --> 00:12:36,222 Sleepy time. 252 00:12:36,222 --> 00:12:39,225 No need to try and stay awake. 253 00:12:39,225 --> 00:12:43,095 Just close those tired eyes and go to sleep. 254 00:12:43,462 --> 00:12:44,563 Go to sleep. 255 00:12:44,563 --> 00:12:47,133 Have you ever felt porcupine-tired. 256 00:12:47,133 --> 00:12:48,667 Porcupine.-tired. 257 00:12:48,667 --> 00:12:50,703 Napping in a hollowed out tree? 258 00:12:50,703 --> 00:12:53,139 Have you ever felt albatross-tired? 259 00:12:53,139 --> 00:12:56,776 Albatross-tired and living life on the wing? 260 00:12:56,776 --> 00:12:59,311 Have you ever felt muskox tired? 261 00:12:59,311 --> 00:13:03,682 Muskox-tired, from digging around in snow so deep. 262 00:13:03,716 --> 00:13:07,153 Then rest your weary head and go to sleep. 263 00:13:07,753 --> 00:13:08,854 Go to sleep. 264 00:13:08,854 --> 00:13:10,823 Have you ever felt capybara? 265 00:13:10,823 --> 00:13:15,060 Tired, cabybara-tired from hanging out with your friends. 266 00:13:15,060 --> 00:13:19,031 Have you ever felt human-tired, human-tired. 267 00:13:19,131 --> 00:13:21,066 Hoping this song will end. 268 00:13:21,066 --> 00:13:25,638 Have you ever felt parent -tired, parent-tired, begging 269 00:13:25,638 --> 00:13:27,940 your kid to fall asleep? 270 00:13:27,940 --> 00:13:31,477 Oh please please please please please just go to sleep. 271 00:13:32,011 --> 00:13:33,946 Go to sleep. 272 00:13:33,946 --> 00:13:38,117 Please please just go to sleep. 273 00:13:38,117 --> 00:13:39,952 Go to sleep. 274 00:13:39,952 --> 00:13:44,123 Just close those tired eyes and go to sleep. 275 00:13:44,123 --> 00:13:45,491 Go to sleep. 276 00:13:46,458 --> 00:13:47,226 Before we get on 277 00:13:47,226 --> 00:13:50,229 with the show, here's a quick message for the grown ups 278 00:13:51,063 --> 00:13:54,033 and we are back. 279 00:13:54,166 --> 00:13:58,971 Before we get to our special guest, it's time for the happiest fan of all. 280 00:13:59,338 --> 00:14:03,509 We're a fan of the show, gives us clues to an animal that is making them happy. 281 00:14:03,843 --> 00:14:08,614 Today's submission is from four year old Willow from Seattle, Washington. 282 00:14:08,881 --> 00:14:10,082 Clue number one. 283 00:14:10,082 --> 00:14:11,984 It has sharp claws. 284 00:14:11,984 --> 00:14:14,987 Clue number two. It eats meat. 285 00:14:14,987 --> 00:14:16,355 Clue number three. 286 00:14:16,355 --> 00:14:18,557 It lives in the jungle. 287 00:14:18,557 --> 00:14:19,825 Clue number four. 288 00:14:19,825 --> 00:14:23,128 It has orange and black stripes. 289 00:14:23,896 --> 00:14:25,097 Oh. Do you have a guess? 290 00:14:25,097 --> 00:14:28,100 The answer is a tiger. 291 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:29,902 Tigers are making Willow happy 292 00:14:29,902 --> 00:14:33,072 because they are really, really pretty and have wet noses. 293 00:14:33,105 --> 00:14:36,375 And because they're a type of cat and cats have wet noses. 294 00:14:37,142 --> 00:14:39,511 Thanks for your submission, Willow and Grown-Ups. 295 00:14:39,511 --> 00:14:41,280 If you or your family would like to submit 296 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:45,351 a happiest animal, visit our website at Happiest Animal Show A.com. 297 00:14:47,019 --> 00:14:49,855 Today's special guest is comedian David Gborie, 298 00:14:49,855 --> 00:14:53,459 who currently can be heard as the voice of Comedy Central. 299 00:14:53,792 --> 00:14:56,061 Well, thank you for joining us today. 300 00:14:56,061 --> 00:14:57,363 Yeah. Of course. 301 00:14:57,363 --> 00:15:01,934 So big question for you, David, is what animal is making you happy today? 302 00:15:02,635 --> 00:15:06,639 Sea turtles, sea turtles, sea turtles? Yes. 303 00:15:08,274 --> 00:15:10,609 Sea turtle. 304 00:15:10,609 --> 00:15:13,846 I really, really love sea turtles. 305 00:15:13,846 --> 00:15:15,214 Yeah. Me too. 306 00:15:15,214 --> 00:15:15,848 Like a lot. 307 00:15:15,848 --> 00:15:18,484 All of them. The leatherback one. All of them? Yeah. 308 00:15:18,484 --> 00:15:23,222 Something about, the pace that they move. 309 00:15:23,222 --> 00:15:25,224 And I really relate. 310 00:15:25,224 --> 00:15:27,026 Have you ever seen a sea turtle in the wild? 311 00:15:27,026 --> 00:15:28,294 Yes. In Hawaii. 312 00:15:28,294 --> 00:15:29,428 It was amazing. 313 00:15:29,428 --> 00:15:32,431 Yeah, it was amazing raising. 314 00:15:32,865 --> 00:15:36,402 It was in Hawaii, on the beach, and we weren't too far out, 315 00:15:36,435 --> 00:15:40,172 maybe like 20 yards out from the shore. 316 00:15:40,539 --> 00:15:45,678 And it just kind of floated past the best and kept going, and it was amazing. 317 00:15:45,711 --> 00:15:48,881 Hawaii is probably the best place to encounter sea turtles 318 00:15:48,881 --> 00:15:50,115 because they're so chill. 319 00:15:50,115 --> 00:15:52,651 They're usually at least on the popular beaches. 320 00:15:52,651 --> 00:15:55,654 They're so used to people that they just don't care. 321 00:15:55,688 --> 00:16:00,225 Yeah, he he he felt very unbothered, like he didn't feel worried about it. 322 00:16:00,259 --> 00:16:03,963 I, I man, I've been in the water with so many sea turtles over the years, 323 00:16:04,129 --> 00:16:05,698 a few different times. 324 00:16:05,698 --> 00:16:09,601 And I, I was working on a video shoot 325 00:16:09,601 --> 00:16:13,605 for PBS kids, and I was actually in an aquarium in new Jersey, 326 00:16:13,605 --> 00:16:17,710 and they had, like, loads of stingrays and sharks and things in the tank. 327 00:16:17,710 --> 00:16:21,380 And there's this one huge loggerhead sea turtle. 328 00:16:21,647 --> 00:16:25,084 And, I was trying to film the stingrays in this tank. 329 00:16:25,084 --> 00:16:28,554 That was that was my job for that day, was like film getting footage of stingrays. 330 00:16:28,554 --> 00:16:31,724 And so I was down on the bottom and this, like, 331 00:16:31,724 --> 00:16:35,828 200 pound sea turtle kept coming over and just climbing on top of me. 332 00:16:35,828 --> 00:16:39,298 And so the whole time while I was filming, I kept having to shove this 333 00:16:39,298 --> 00:16:40,566 sea turtle off of me. 334 00:16:40,566 --> 00:16:41,066 Like, one 335 00:16:41,066 --> 00:16:44,770 of the weirdest things I've ever happened is just constantly being hounded by this. 336 00:16:44,803 --> 00:16:47,306 And it would just slowly start drifting back toward you, 337 00:16:47,306 --> 00:16:50,809 and then you'd slowly push it away, and then it would slowly come back. 338 00:16:51,143 --> 00:16:55,014 And it's just I found out later that when the divers are normally 339 00:16:55,014 --> 00:16:57,349 in that tank, it's just used to being fed. 340 00:16:57,349 --> 00:16:59,885 And so I think he just thought I must have had snacks. 341 00:16:59,885 --> 00:17:02,388 And so it's just like, where are the snacks? 342 00:17:02,388 --> 00:17:05,491 And so he just kept moving on top of me is like my daughter. 343 00:17:05,791 --> 00:17:06,725 Don't you have crackers? 344 00:17:07,693 --> 00:17:08,861 Not right now. 345 00:17:08,861 --> 00:17:10,062 Yeah, yeah. 346 00:17:10,062 --> 00:17:10,562 Sea turtle. 347 00:17:10,562 --> 00:17:13,132 See, you like the way their pace. Just kind of that. 348 00:17:13,132 --> 00:17:14,400 They float in there. 349 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:16,035 I love that they get so old. 350 00:17:16,035 --> 00:17:18,904 They feel old when you. 351 00:17:18,904 --> 00:17:20,072 When you see them. 352 00:17:20,072 --> 00:17:21,173 They feel old. 353 00:17:21,173 --> 00:17:22,641 They feel wise. 354 00:17:22,641 --> 00:17:25,144 Yeah. Yeah, I guess, but also kind of silly. 355 00:17:25,144 --> 00:17:27,112 One of my favorite, favorite times. 356 00:17:27,112 --> 00:17:30,716 The sea turtle was I was at the aquarium in Dayton, Kentucky. 357 00:17:30,749 --> 00:17:32,584 It's like a really big aquarium. 358 00:17:32,584 --> 00:17:35,187 And I was walking through, you know, they have the bridge. 359 00:17:35,187 --> 00:17:36,655 Yeah. Where it's kind of it. 360 00:17:36,655 --> 00:17:40,926 It's all covered and I was watching him and I was like, wow, he's so beautiful and 361 00:17:40,926 --> 00:17:45,330 so majestic and just, like, so elegant, the way they move through the water. 362 00:17:45,330 --> 00:17:48,434 And I was really, like, just really vibing with this sea turtle. 363 00:17:48,767 --> 00:17:53,372 And then as I'm watching him, he just being just goes right into the car. 364 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:56,175 He's staring right into the glass. 365 00:17:56,175 --> 00:17:59,044 Yeah. 366 00:17:59,044 --> 00:18:02,648 And it was just like, oh yeah, I, I don't know, I feel, I felt 367 00:18:02,948 --> 00:18:07,019 I get that when I see that I was just like, yeah, I relate to it just in his own 368 00:18:07,086 --> 00:18:08,020 brain space. 369 00:18:08,020 --> 00:18:11,490 Just like, yeah, just not worried about anything else. 370 00:18:11,490 --> 00:18:14,326 Just thinking his turtle thoughts and bonk. 371 00:18:14,326 --> 00:18:16,762 Yeah. I think he was just so relaxed. 372 00:18:16,762 --> 00:18:19,865 Just having such a good time as I like to think about, you know, 373 00:18:19,932 --> 00:18:22,935 the first time I ever saw a sea turtle, 374 00:18:23,268 --> 00:18:26,872 I was with a friend on a beach in South Carolina when I was a teenager. 375 00:18:27,272 --> 00:18:30,075 And it was like. It was like a magic trick. 376 00:18:30,075 --> 00:18:32,377 We'd been walking on the beach for, like, a half hour, 377 00:18:32,377 --> 00:18:36,448 and I just said randomly, you know, I've never seen a sea turtle before. 378 00:18:36,448 --> 00:18:39,651 And like a magic trick, a sea turtles head 379 00:18:39,651 --> 00:18:43,322 came out of the water and took a breath and went back down and disappeared. 380 00:18:43,589 --> 00:18:45,524 It was the coolest thing I've ever done in my life. 381 00:18:45,524 --> 00:18:47,126 Was some of the sea turtles. 382 00:18:47,126 --> 00:18:49,661 Yeah, like a Sunday. Best. 383 00:18:49,661 --> 00:18:49,862 Yeah. 384 00:18:49,862 --> 00:18:53,165 So I'm just realizing that aquarium is one that Rob and I have been 385 00:18:53,165 --> 00:18:56,135 to the Newport Aquarium. We filmed there. Yeah, yeah. 386 00:18:56,135 --> 00:18:58,303 We filmed. Oh, really? It's it's a great. 387 00:18:58,303 --> 00:18:59,238 It was fun. 388 00:18:59,238 --> 00:19:01,673 Yeah. Yeah, I really liked it in there. 389 00:19:01,673 --> 00:19:03,876 We got in the tank to film. 390 00:19:03,876 --> 00:19:06,745 There are shark rays. It's like, are they a shark? Are they? Or. 391 00:19:06,745 --> 00:19:09,148 It doesn't matter. They're shark. They look like both. 392 00:19:09,148 --> 00:19:11,850 And we got in the tank filmed those also 393 00:19:11,850 --> 00:19:15,220 these big ragged tooth sharks or grain nurse sharks. 394 00:19:15,220 --> 00:19:18,457 And so we got in with those and there was a safety diver with me 395 00:19:18,457 --> 00:19:21,493 that was making sure the sharks didn't get too close. 396 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:25,531 And so every time a shark would swim by, I think it was always curious 397 00:19:25,531 --> 00:19:26,265 about my camera. 398 00:19:26,265 --> 00:19:30,502 It would sort of veer into me, and the guy would stick this PVC pipe out 399 00:19:30,502 --> 00:19:31,703 and poke the shark away. 400 00:19:31,703 --> 00:19:33,839 So he didn't smoke it to me. 401 00:19:33,839 --> 00:19:36,808 But it was, it was a really fun trip going to get to do that. 402 00:19:36,808 --> 00:19:38,977 And I really like that aquarium a lot. 403 00:19:38,977 --> 00:19:41,280 Yeah, that's a good one. It's up there. 404 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:44,616 Do you get to see a lot of aquariums while you're doing stand up or zoos? 405 00:19:44,616 --> 00:19:47,953 Not as much as you I would see, you would think, actually, 406 00:19:48,253 --> 00:19:50,956 but I really like the, was the Madison, 407 00:19:50,956 --> 00:19:54,159 Wisconsin Zoo last time I was there, they gave us a tour. 408 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:57,763 So we got to go kind of behind the scenes and everything. 409 00:19:57,996 --> 00:20:00,432 That's a top one for me and the Monterey Bay. 410 00:20:00,432 --> 00:20:01,066 Oh of course. 411 00:20:01,066 --> 00:20:04,069 Yeah. Also, that's a fun one I really like. 412 00:20:04,102 --> 00:20:05,470 Especially talk about turtles. 413 00:20:05,470 --> 00:20:07,606 The one. I'm not sure what the room's called. 414 00:20:07,606 --> 00:20:10,609 I think they call it like a Peter where it's like a giant. 415 00:20:10,609 --> 00:20:13,145 Yeah, the giant tanks are open ocean. 416 00:20:13,145 --> 00:20:14,146 You're kind of in it. 417 00:20:14,146 --> 00:20:14,680 Yeah. 418 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:17,549 Oh, man, I, I love that. Yeah, I love that. 419 00:20:17,549 --> 00:20:20,552 There's something really freeing thinking about a sea turtle 420 00:20:20,552 --> 00:20:24,623 just riding the currents, going wherever the currents are going. 421 00:20:24,623 --> 00:20:26,425 I guess I'm going that way. That sounds great. 422 00:20:26,425 --> 00:20:29,261 Just something. Right. So peaceful. 423 00:20:29,261 --> 00:20:30,262 Kind, romantic. 424 00:20:30,262 --> 00:20:33,131 Yeah. This is romantic. 425 00:20:33,131 --> 00:20:34,132 Yeah. The. 426 00:20:34,132 --> 00:20:38,036 We went to Laura and I went to see Pan and filmed a story about sea turtles. 427 00:20:38,704 --> 00:20:41,006 Oh. Wow. About nine years ago, I think. 428 00:20:41,006 --> 00:20:45,077 And then we got to watch them as they came up on the beach and laid eggs there. 429 00:20:45,077 --> 00:20:45,877 Because the cool thing is 430 00:20:45,877 --> 00:20:47,479 that the females will come 431 00:20:47,479 --> 00:20:50,649 back to the beaches where they were born to lay their own eggs. 432 00:20:50,782 --> 00:20:53,785 So even though they go drift and follow the currents, 433 00:20:54,152 --> 00:20:57,055 they make their way back to the very beach where they're born. 434 00:20:57,055 --> 00:20:58,657 Isn't that beautiful? 435 00:20:58,657 --> 00:20:59,491 Isn't that great? 436 00:20:59,491 --> 00:21:01,994 Is you're making me want to take a trip back to Hawaii 437 00:21:01,994 --> 00:21:04,329 just to hang out on the beach with those turtles? 438 00:21:04,329 --> 00:21:08,033 It's one of the one of the coolest animals I've ever seen. 439 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:11,203 And that same trip, we saw whales as well. 440 00:21:11,536 --> 00:21:13,872 And I still the turtle was still moving. 441 00:21:13,872 --> 00:21:15,474 Oh, wow. That's cool. 442 00:21:15,474 --> 00:21:19,811 I mean, the whales, the size really kind of was like, wow. 443 00:21:19,811 --> 00:21:22,047 But the the sea turtle was up close. 444 00:21:22,047 --> 00:21:22,981 Yeah for sure. 445 00:21:22,981 --> 00:21:26,251 Did the sea turtle did you see did they ever come up onto the beach 446 00:21:26,251 --> 00:21:27,786 near you or were they on the water? 447 00:21:27,786 --> 00:21:28,754 It was just one. 448 00:21:28,754 --> 00:21:30,756 And it was just it just kind of floated by. 449 00:21:30,756 --> 00:21:33,692 You just kind of floated. So cool. 450 00:21:33,692 --> 00:21:36,662 It's a special thing to get to see a sea turtle out in the wild. 451 00:21:36,662 --> 00:21:37,729 I felt really lucky. 452 00:21:37,729 --> 00:21:41,199 Yeah, I got really lucky because that's the only time I've seen one in the wild. 453 00:21:41,199 --> 00:21:44,202 The rest I've kind of seen in aquariums and stuff like that. 454 00:21:44,269 --> 00:21:46,772 Well, David, sea turtles. 455 00:21:46,772 --> 00:21:49,708 Yeah, that's a great pick. Thank you. 456 00:21:49,708 --> 00:21:49,975 Yeah. 457 00:21:49,975 --> 00:21:52,110 Thanks for joining us on the Happiest Animal Show. 458 00:21:52,110 --> 00:21:53,545 Thanks so much for having me, guys. 459 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:56,715 And now the time we've all 460 00:21:56,715 --> 00:22:00,819 been waiting for the answer to the joke of the day. 461 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:04,122 What should you do if you find the lion in your bed? 462 00:22:04,990 --> 00:22:06,692 Do you have a guess? 463 00:22:06,692 --> 00:22:09,394 The answer is 464 00:22:09,394 --> 00:22:12,397 find someplace else to sleep. 465 00:22:14,733 --> 00:22:18,503 And before we go, remember, we live on a beautiful planet. 466 00:22:19,037 --> 00:22:22,040 So go out and find what makes you happy today. 467 00:22:24,643 --> 00:22:27,279 Hey, grown ups, we know you're busy, but if you like 468 00:22:27,279 --> 00:22:30,515 our show, we'd love for you to tell your friends and family about it. 469 00:22:30,882 --> 00:22:34,353 It's the best way for our podcast to grow and grown ups, 470 00:22:34,486 --> 00:22:38,290 you can also follow us on social media at Happiestanimalshow, 471 00:22:38,790 --> 00:22:41,093 or check out other fun things on our website, 472 00:22:41,093 --> 00:22:44,096 like how to submit an animal and how to get merch. 473 00:22:44,296 --> 00:22:46,732 Visit Happiestanimalshow.com. 474 00:22:46,732 --> 00:22:50,902 The Happiest Animal Show is created by Laura Sams, Robert Sams, and Dave Cain. 475 00:22:51,069 --> 00:22:55,807 Produced by Sisbro Studios, hosted and directed by Laura Sams and Robert 476 00:22:55,807 --> 00:23:00,512 Sams, and written by Laura Sams, Robert Sams with story editor 477 00:23:00,512 --> 00:23:04,883 Dave Cain, and with only a little help from our cat walking across the keyboard. 478 00:23:06,084 --> 00:23:08,253 Now let's talk music. 479 00:23:08,253 --> 00:23:11,189 Original music is written and performed by zero time 480 00:23:11,189 --> 00:23:14,326 Grammy Award winning songwriters Laura Sams and Robert Sams. 481 00:23:14,493 --> 00:23:17,662 Except for the end credits, music which was written by Laura and Robert's 482 00:23:17,662 --> 00:23:22,067 Grandma Max and the joke answer suspense music written by David Schultz. 483 00:23:22,134 --> 00:23:24,035 The theme song was written and performed 484 00:23:24,035 --> 00:23:27,606 by Laura and Rob and mixed by Jason Wells of Audio Wells. 485 00:23:28,106 --> 00:23:30,142 Thanks for listening. 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