1 00:00:04,004 --> 00:00:06,506 And now for an animal joke. 2 00:00:06,506 --> 00:00:10,543 What did the polar bear eat after the dentist fixed its tooth? 3 00:00:11,478 --> 00:00:15,248 What did the polar bear eat after the dentist fixed its tooth? 4 00:00:15,949 --> 00:00:18,685 The answer is 5 00:00:18,685 --> 00:00:21,688 going to be revealed at the end of the episode. 6 00:00:30,930 --> 00:00:30,997 But first, get your ears ready Because it’s 7 00:00:30,997 --> 00:00:31,131 the Happiest Animal Show on Planet Earth. The Happiest Animal Show on Planet Earth. 8 00:00:31,131 --> 00:00:32,399 You want to be sad? No! 9 00:00:32,399 --> 00:00:35,135 Do you want to be glad? No. Wait. Yes. 10 00:00:35,135 --> 00:00:38,405 Well, it’s the Happiest Animal Show on Planet Earth. 11 00:00:44,244 --> 00:00:46,479 Hello and welcome to the Happiest Animal 12 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:51,117 Show on Planet Earth, the podcast that asks the very important question: . 13 00:00:51,184 --> 00:00:53,553 What animal is making you happy today? 14 00:00:53,553 --> 00:00:56,523 I'm Laura and I'm Rob, and we are a sister brother 15 00:00:56,523 --> 00:00:59,526 pair of zoologists, filmmakers and songwriters. 16 00:00:59,859 --> 00:01:03,263 We are here to explore the wonderful world of wildlife and discover 17 00:01:03,263 --> 00:01:05,565 why animals make us happy. 18 00:01:05,565 --> 00:01:08,735 Today we have a song about an animal with claws 19 00:01:08,968 --> 00:01:13,106 and our very special guest is ten year old Oscar from Oregon. 20 00:01:13,506 --> 00:01:16,943 And our apologies to international soccer star Lionel Messi, 21 00:01:16,976 --> 00:01:18,378 who was going to be our guest today. 22 00:01:18,378 --> 00:01:21,648 But we had to bump him because Oscar was available at the last minute. 23 00:01:21,948 --> 00:01:23,483 Here we go. 24 00:01:23,483 --> 00:01:28,188 What animal is making you happy today? 25 00:01:28,521 --> 00:01:33,660 I want to know the theme we gave ourselves is camouflaged animals. 26 00:01:33,693 --> 00:01:35,228 Animals that are good at hiding. 27 00:01:35,228 --> 00:01:39,699 Rob, what animal that uses camouflage is making you happy today? 28 00:01:40,066 --> 00:01:43,536 First clue this animal will fit in your hand. 29 00:01:43,636 --> 00:01:45,839 Ooh, kind of small. 30 00:01:45,839 --> 00:01:46,539 What's next? 31 00:01:46,539 --> 00:01:49,275 I have seen it in Hawaii. 32 00:01:49,275 --> 00:01:49,943 Okay. 33 00:01:49,943 --> 00:01:52,612 And it lives on land. 34 00:01:53,713 --> 00:01:54,481 Whoa! 35 00:01:54,481 --> 00:01:57,050 Big twist. I was going to ask you if it was an ocean animal. 36 00:01:57,050 --> 00:01:59,652 Lives on land. Can fit in my hand. 37 00:01:59,652 --> 00:02:02,655 Does live in the sand. 38 00:02:03,556 --> 00:02:04,991 It does live in the sand. 39 00:02:04,991 --> 00:02:07,994 Ooh. Does have a family band. 40 00:02:08,728 --> 00:02:10,597 Haha. 41 00:02:10,597 --> 00:02:13,666 No, no, not that I've heard. 42 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:16,936 Okay. It lives in the sand. 43 00:02:16,936 --> 00:02:19,005 Is it a kind of crab? 44 00:02:19,005 --> 00:02:21,374 Oh, man, you nailed it, did I? 45 00:02:21,374 --> 00:02:22,275 Yeah. 46 00:02:22,275 --> 00:02:23,843 He got to so fast. 47 00:02:23,843 --> 00:02:26,546 I thought it would take you a while. 48 00:02:26,546 --> 00:02:28,681 Yes, it's a crab. 49 00:02:28,681 --> 00:02:31,417 Yeah. What kind of crab is it, a ghost crab? 50 00:02:31,417 --> 00:02:34,354 It is a ghost crab. 51 00:02:34,354 --> 00:02:36,156 Ghost crab? 52 00:02:36,156 --> 00:02:38,491 I think it's called the Pallid Ghost crab. 53 00:02:38,491 --> 00:02:40,894 Or if you're in Hawaii, you call it. 54 00:02:40,894 --> 00:02:41,928 Oh, Hiki. So. 55 00:02:41,928 --> 00:02:45,365 Oh, Hiki, are these ghost crabs that, you know, you think of crabs 56 00:02:45,365 --> 00:02:49,502 as ocean animals, but these live just above the water in the sand. 57 00:02:49,502 --> 00:02:51,304 They usually come out at night and feed 58 00:02:51,304 --> 00:02:54,607 and in the daytime to get out of the sun, get away from predators and all that. 59 00:02:54,607 --> 00:02:56,442 And they hide in the holes in the sand. 60 00:02:56,442 --> 00:02:57,977 You'd imagine 61 00:02:57,977 --> 00:02:59,712 if you're a crab running around on the beach, 62 00:02:59,712 --> 00:03:01,814 there's all sorts of birds and things I want to eat you. 63 00:03:01,814 --> 00:03:04,050 So you got to be happy. 64 00:03:04,050 --> 00:03:07,020 You got to be good at digging, and you got to be good at hiding. 65 00:03:07,020 --> 00:03:09,455 So I was down on the beach one morning. 66 00:03:09,455 --> 00:03:12,158 I was looking for sea turtles because they'll haul up on the beach. 67 00:03:12,158 --> 00:03:15,028 And I wanted to go photograph and film a sea turtle. 68 00:03:15,028 --> 00:03:18,932 And as I was walking along, I noticed ghost crab holes in the sand. 69 00:03:18,932 --> 00:03:22,035 So I laid down and I decided to wait because it was 70 00:03:22,068 --> 00:03:23,736 it was really early morning, 71 00:03:23,736 --> 00:03:26,739 and I saw these adult ghost crabs coming out, 72 00:03:26,739 --> 00:03:30,310 and they would kind of throw the sand out of their home like they were there. 73 00:03:30,443 --> 00:03:32,445 They're sleeping there, their front door clean. 74 00:03:32,445 --> 00:03:32,712 They would 75 00:03:32,712 --> 00:03:35,815 they would come out with armfuls of sand and just yeah, they would throw it 76 00:03:36,216 --> 00:03:38,551 and then they would go back in and get some more sand and come out. 77 00:03:38,551 --> 00:03:40,687 And yeah, so it was really fun to watch them. 78 00:03:40,687 --> 00:03:46,392 But I noticed right next to me was a baby one and 79 00:03:46,926 --> 00:03:51,798 it was the most camouflaged animal I've ever seen in my life. 80 00:03:52,232 --> 00:03:56,536 It looked exactly like the sand, 81 00:03:56,536 --> 00:04:00,406 all of the different colors in the grains of sand, the white and the brown. 82 00:04:00,406 --> 00:04:02,809 There were even, like, little specks of red. 83 00:04:02,809 --> 00:04:07,280 And this little baby ghost crab looked like a pile of sand grains. 84 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:11,684 Oh, the camouflage color was so perfect it was invisible. 85 00:04:11,985 --> 00:04:14,754 And the whole, you know, this little baby crab was 86 00:04:14,754 --> 00:04:17,857 maybe the size of my thumbnail, maybe smaller. 87 00:04:18,291 --> 00:04:21,961 It was so small and it it was perfectly camouflaged. 88 00:04:22,595 --> 00:04:24,998 Wow is what is making me happy today. 89 00:04:24,998 --> 00:04:26,733 I bet you're so glad you didn't accidentally 90 00:04:26,733 --> 00:04:29,002 put your knee down on it or something. 91 00:04:29,002 --> 00:04:29,902 You know? 92 00:04:29,902 --> 00:04:31,170 So if you want to see it 93 00:04:31,170 --> 00:04:34,274 grown ups, you can go to our Happiest Animal Show Instagram 94 00:04:34,874 --> 00:04:36,075 and check out the picture. 95 00:04:36,075 --> 00:04:40,346 See if you can spot this perfectly camouflaged crab. Wow! 96 00:04:40,546 --> 00:04:43,549 Can you describe what a ghost crab looks like? 97 00:04:43,683 --> 00:04:45,118 Yeah, I love ghost crabs. 98 00:04:45,118 --> 00:04:46,819 They don't spend their time in the water. 99 00:04:46,819 --> 00:04:48,421 They spend all their time on land. 100 00:04:48,421 --> 00:04:50,690 They need to keep their gills wet so they can breathe, 101 00:04:50,690 --> 00:04:53,293 but otherwise they just spend their whole day on the sand. 102 00:04:53,293 --> 00:04:57,797 They're really fun because they have, these two eyes that poke straight up. 103 00:04:57,830 --> 00:04:59,499 That's what I think of when I think of ghost crabs 104 00:04:59,499 --> 00:05:02,502 as our eyeballs sticking up top out of their bodies. 105 00:05:02,502 --> 00:05:05,505 So they could have their eyes, could be looking up 106 00:05:05,672 --> 00:05:08,675 over something without you seeing their heads. 107 00:05:08,708 --> 00:05:10,576 Why are they called ghost crabs? 108 00:05:10,576 --> 00:05:11,544 Yeah. Good question. 109 00:05:11,544 --> 00:05:15,615 I think they're called ghost crabs because they're hard to spot. 110 00:05:15,615 --> 00:05:19,886 They they're camouflaged in a way so that, they're hard to find, like a ghost. 111 00:05:19,986 --> 00:05:22,822 And also, you know, they come out at night like ghosts. 112 00:05:22,822 --> 00:05:26,326 Next Halloween costume, ghost crab. 113 00:05:27,093 --> 00:05:29,062 Just throwing it out there for everybody. 114 00:05:29,062 --> 00:05:33,900 So Rob's pick was ghost crab or Ohio and Hawaiian great pit crab. 115 00:05:34,367 --> 00:05:36,202 What am I gonna pick? 116 00:05:36,202 --> 00:05:37,470 We'll find out right after this. 117 00:05:39,238 --> 00:05:41,741 We fit in the palm of your hand. 118 00:05:41,741 --> 00:05:44,344 We live life on the land. 119 00:05:44,344 --> 00:05:46,412 Digging holes in the sand. 120 00:05:46,412 --> 00:05:48,815 We’re the ghost crab family band. 121 00:05:48,815 --> 00:05:51,484 We fit in the palm of your hand. 122 00:05:51,484 --> 00:05:53,986 We live life on the land. 123 00:05:53,986 --> 00:05:55,355 Digging holes in the sand. 124 00:05:55,355 --> 00:05:57,623 We’re the ghost crab family band. 125 00:05:57,623 --> 00:06:00,626 Crab claw solo! 126 00:06:09,202 --> 00:06:11,471 All right, we're back. 127 00:06:11,471 --> 00:06:15,842 Laura, tell me what camouflaged animal is making you happy today? 128 00:06:16,008 --> 00:06:19,412 This animal has three hearts. 129 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:21,514 Yeah, yeah. 130 00:06:21,514 --> 00:06:23,883 Blue blood. 131 00:06:23,883 --> 00:06:26,586 It is related to squid. 132 00:06:26,586 --> 00:06:30,590 This animal has brains on its arms 133 00:06:32,091 --> 00:06:34,560 and it happens to have eight arms. 134 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:38,030 You must be talking about our old friend, the octopus. I, 135 00:06:40,833 --> 00:06:43,202 octopus? 136 00:06:43,202 --> 00:06:47,407 You know, Rob and I are pretty good at finding animals in the wild, 137 00:06:48,141 --> 00:06:51,978 but we've gone scuba diving with a guide, 138 00:06:51,978 --> 00:06:57,383 and I've had a guide on the coral reef point at a specific spot on the coral. 139 00:06:57,550 --> 00:07:02,321 Make a little octopus shape with their hand and wiggle their fingers. 140 00:07:02,321 --> 00:07:03,656 So I know there's an octopus 141 00:07:03,656 --> 00:07:07,794 there, and I still can't see the octopus until it moves. 142 00:07:08,027 --> 00:07:10,696 Octopus are so good at hiding. 143 00:07:10,696 --> 00:07:14,300 Yeah, not only do they change their color, but they change their texture. 144 00:07:14,300 --> 00:07:15,468 Yeah, they just change. 145 00:07:15,468 --> 00:07:18,871 Like the octopus can go from smooth to spiky. 146 00:07:19,005 --> 00:07:21,908 Can you imagine if you could make your skin spiky? 147 00:07:21,908 --> 00:07:22,642 Be awesome. 148 00:07:22,642 --> 00:07:25,244 And this is bizarre. It's so. It's so bizarre. 149 00:07:25,244 --> 00:07:29,282 And this is all to say that I wanted to set you up, Rob, for talking about 150 00:07:29,282 --> 00:07:32,618 the time that you were working with that octopus at the Henry Dali Zoo. 151 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:37,123 Yeah, we've spent a lot of time with octopus in different ways, 152 00:07:37,123 --> 00:07:40,960 and one of my first encounters with an octopus, I was like, 19 years 153 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,029 old, and I was a zookeeper and mailman. 154 00:07:43,029 --> 00:07:45,331 Omaha, Nebraska, at the Henry Dali Zoo. 155 00:07:45,331 --> 00:07:50,069 And they had a giant Pacific octopus that weighed maybe about 50 pounds, 156 00:07:50,136 --> 00:07:52,472 out of the water. It was my job. 157 00:07:52,472 --> 00:07:55,475 I one day to go up on top of the exhibit, and, we had 158 00:07:55,475 --> 00:07:58,110 we took this plastic grate off the top. The plastic. Great. 159 00:07:58,110 --> 00:08:00,880 Was there to keep the octopus from crawling out and going 160 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:03,749 and, sneaking into other exhibits and eating all the 161 00:08:03,749 --> 00:08:06,586 the fish and crabs and the other exhibits. 162 00:08:06,586 --> 00:08:11,290 So, we took this plastic grate off, and then we were going to feed it as me 163 00:08:11,290 --> 00:08:14,427 and this other zookeeper, the, the octopus climbed up 164 00:08:14,627 --> 00:08:17,730 and slowly reached an arm out at me. 165 00:08:17,730 --> 00:08:21,100 And then it touched my hand and I thought, oh, wow, it's touching me. 166 00:08:21,100 --> 00:08:21,934 It feels so weird. 167 00:08:21,934 --> 00:08:24,337 And then I know that they can taste with their suction cups. 168 00:08:24,337 --> 00:08:26,038 And I thought, wow, I wonder what I taste like. 169 00:08:26,038 --> 00:08:30,610 And then it wrapped more of its arm around my arm and I thought, oh, 170 00:08:30,877 --> 00:08:33,212 it must really like me. I must taste really good. 171 00:08:33,212 --> 00:08:36,415 And then right at that moment I realized, oh no, 172 00:08:37,717 --> 00:08:39,452 I've made a poor decision. 173 00:08:39,452 --> 00:08:42,955 And the octopus yanked, and 174 00:08:42,955 --> 00:08:46,592 I was flying headfirst into this frigid, cold tank. 175 00:08:46,792 --> 00:08:49,829 The other, zookeeper turned around just at that moment 176 00:08:49,829 --> 00:08:53,032 and was able to catch me by my belt and yanked me back. 177 00:08:53,232 --> 00:08:55,868 And before I went into the water, he said, oh, 178 00:08:55,868 --> 00:08:58,170 you got to be smarter than that around these octopus. 179 00:08:58,170 --> 00:08:59,639 So lesson learned. 180 00:08:59,639 --> 00:09:01,607 Don't mess with the octopus. 181 00:09:01,607 --> 00:09:02,375 They are clever. 182 00:09:02,375 --> 00:09:05,311 You got outsmarted by an octopus. 183 00:09:05,311 --> 00:09:07,980 Yeah, I, I absolutely 184 00:09:07,980 --> 00:09:10,850 got outsmarted by an octopus. 185 00:09:10,850 --> 00:09:12,952 We could talk about octopuses for hours. 186 00:09:12,952 --> 00:09:16,122 There's so many crazy cool things about octopuses. 187 00:09:16,122 --> 00:09:17,924 We've got all sorts of stories about them. 188 00:09:17,924 --> 00:09:21,294 But today's episode is specifically about camouflage. 189 00:09:21,294 --> 00:09:24,797 Laura, I think you chose the greatest camouflage artist there is. 190 00:09:25,598 --> 00:09:27,934 Thank you. The natural world. Good job. 191 00:09:27,934 --> 00:09:32,004 Before we chat with our special guest, here is another visit from the Ghost 192 00:09:32,004 --> 00:09:33,439 Crab Family Band. 193 00:09:33,439 --> 00:10:01,968 SONG LYRICS 194 00:10:02,368 --> 00:10:35,801 SONG LYRICS 195 00:10:36,002 --> 00:11:06,766 SONG LYRICS 196 00:11:07,099 --> 00:11:12,304 SONG LYRICS 197 00:11:21,847 --> 00:11:54,580 SONG LYRICS 198 00:12:04,090 --> 00:12:05,024 Before we get on 199 00:12:05,024 --> 00:12:08,027 with the show, here's a quick message for the grownups. 200 00:12:08,894 --> 00:12:11,530 And we are back. 201 00:12:11,530 --> 00:12:15,201 It's that time in the show for the Happiest Fanimal. 202 00:12:15,301 --> 00:12:17,036 We're a fan like you. 203 00:12:17,036 --> 00:12:19,105 Give us clues for what? 204 00:12:19,105 --> 00:12:20,973 Animals making them happy. 205 00:12:20,973 --> 00:12:23,642 Today's submission is from ten year 206 00:12:23,642 --> 00:12:26,979 old Graham from Grayling, Michigan. 207 00:12:27,213 --> 00:12:29,782 Clue number one from Graham. 208 00:12:29,782 --> 00:12:33,219 This animal can fly but often crashes into things, 209 00:12:33,219 --> 00:12:36,222 especially when landing. 210 00:12:36,555 --> 00:12:39,558 Clue number two this animal has a body 211 00:12:39,558 --> 00:12:42,862 that looks like a tiny baked potato. 212 00:12:43,863 --> 00:12:47,133 Clue number three this animal has six 213 00:12:47,133 --> 00:12:50,102 wiry legs 214 00:12:50,402 --> 00:12:52,505 and the answer is 215 00:12:52,505 --> 00:12:54,540 a junebug. 216 00:12:54,540 --> 00:12:57,543 June bugs make Graham happy because they make him laugh. 217 00:12:57,610 --> 00:13:00,579 He likes to have junebug parties at night in the summer, gathered 218 00:13:00,579 --> 00:13:03,783 around a light waiting to see how many will come crashing into him. 219 00:13:04,150 --> 00:13:07,153 Thank you for your submission, Graham, and to all you listeners 220 00:13:07,153 --> 00:13:10,156 out there, what animal is making you happy today? 221 00:13:10,289 --> 00:13:13,159 Grown-Ups, if you or your family would like to submit a happiest 222 00:13:13,159 --> 00:13:16,462 animal, visit our website at Happiest Animal Show. Com. 223 00:13:17,997 --> 00:13:18,597 All right. 224 00:13:18,597 --> 00:13:21,600 Our very special guest today is Oscar from Oregon. 225 00:13:21,867 --> 00:13:26,405 He's an artist, a fan of Zelda and anime, and currently holds the high score 226 00:13:26,405 --> 00:13:31,110 for the Pacer test at his school this year with 86 laps across the gym. 227 00:13:31,644 --> 00:13:34,547 Oscar, thank you for joining us today. 228 00:13:34,547 --> 00:13:36,115 I'm so excited you're here. 229 00:13:36,115 --> 00:13:39,018 Yeah. Welcome to the Happiest Animal Show. 230 00:13:39,018 --> 00:13:42,588 So that's that's funny. 231 00:13:42,588 --> 00:13:45,591 All right. 232 00:13:46,091 --> 00:13:47,660 Oscar, Oscar's currently unable to talk 233 00:13:47,660 --> 00:13:50,663 and is just laughing at us. 234 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,603 You guys, you sound so happy. 235 00:14:02,975 --> 00:14:05,444 Oh, what are you. 236 00:14:05,444 --> 00:14:09,281 I didn't expect you guys to be, like, welcome, 237 00:14:09,281 --> 00:14:12,818 Oscar to the happiest animal show. Oh, 238 00:14:13,853 --> 00:14:15,855 this surprised by our joyful laughing? 239 00:14:15,855 --> 00:14:17,489 Yeah. 240 00:14:17,489 --> 00:14:19,692 This isn't the saddest animal show. 241 00:14:19,692 --> 00:14:22,795 That's a that's a totally different podcast. 242 00:14:22,828 --> 00:14:26,999 Oh, this is the giggliest reaction we've ever had. 243 00:14:27,299 --> 00:14:31,403 Well, on the happiest day on the show, we ask a very important question. 244 00:14:32,071 --> 00:14:37,276 And that question is, what animal is making you happy today? 245 00:14:37,443 --> 00:14:40,212 Yeah. You want to give us some clues? Yeah. Okay. 246 00:14:40,212 --> 00:14:42,948 All right. So it's fluffy. 247 00:14:42,948 --> 00:14:45,951 Oh, fluffy okay. 248 00:14:46,218 --> 00:14:48,587 Does that mean it has fur. 249 00:14:49,688 --> 00:14:51,557 Not necessarily. 250 00:14:51,557 --> 00:14:52,024 Okay. 251 00:14:52,024 --> 00:14:53,792 So intriguing okay. 252 00:14:53,792 --> 00:14:56,362 Next clue. 253 00:14:56,362 --> 00:14:58,497 It's found in Australia. 254 00:14:58,497 --> 00:15:00,933 It's found in Australia. Yeah. 255 00:15:00,933 --> 00:15:02,902 Oh my gosh. Oh. 256 00:15:02,902 --> 00:15:04,069 Soft. Fluffy. 257 00:15:04,069 --> 00:15:05,037 Found in Australia. 258 00:15:05,037 --> 00:15:07,139 Does it have a pouch? 259 00:15:07,139 --> 00:15:09,808 No. No pouch. Ooh. 260 00:15:09,808 --> 00:15:11,243 So it's the. 261 00:15:11,243 --> 00:15:15,414 I'm pretty sure it's the only one of its kind that lives in Australia. 262 00:15:15,781 --> 00:15:17,316 Is it a bird? 263 00:15:17,316 --> 00:15:18,918 Yes it is. 264 00:15:18,918 --> 00:15:20,286 It's a bird. 265 00:15:20,286 --> 00:15:23,289 Ooh, ooh. Interesting. 266 00:15:23,489 --> 00:15:24,123 Okay. 267 00:15:24,123 --> 00:15:25,457 Can it fly? 268 00:15:25,457 --> 00:15:28,460 No, no, it doesn't fly. 269 00:15:28,527 --> 00:15:29,762 That does not fly. 270 00:15:29,762 --> 00:15:33,399 All right, let's think of Australian birds that don't fly. 271 00:15:33,933 --> 00:15:37,102 I think it is a type of penguin. 272 00:15:37,303 --> 00:15:39,305 Oh, is it a penguin? 273 00:15:39,305 --> 00:15:41,206 It is a type of penguin. 274 00:15:41,206 --> 00:15:42,274 It is. 275 00:15:42,274 --> 00:15:44,910 Whoa. Good guess. Rob. Nice. 276 00:15:44,910 --> 00:15:47,413 Is it the little blue penguin? 277 00:15:47,413 --> 00:15:48,847 Correct. Yeah. 278 00:15:48,847 --> 00:15:52,184 Oh nice little blue penguin. 279 00:15:52,318 --> 00:15:53,419 That's a great pick. 280 00:15:55,020 --> 00:15:57,222 Little blue penguin. 281 00:15:57,222 --> 00:16:00,225 There are like 17 or 18 different types of penguins. 282 00:16:00,225 --> 00:16:00,960 Oh yeah. 283 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:04,897 So why did you pick the little blue penguin is the animal. 284 00:16:04,897 --> 00:16:06,699 It's making you happy today. 285 00:16:06,699 --> 00:16:09,702 It's just blue. And it. 286 00:16:09,735 --> 00:16:11,303 And it lives in Australia. 287 00:16:11,303 --> 00:16:13,772 Like when people normally think of penguins, 288 00:16:13,772 --> 00:16:16,208 they think, oh, they live in the Antarctic. 289 00:16:16,208 --> 00:16:17,276 Yeah. 290 00:16:17,276 --> 00:16:20,045 Most people, most people think icebergs. 291 00:16:20,045 --> 00:16:22,247 Yeah. And yeah. 292 00:16:22,247 --> 00:16:25,784 Cold cold swimming water and fish. 293 00:16:26,051 --> 00:16:27,953 Yeah. Okay. 294 00:16:27,953 --> 00:16:31,657 So the little blue penguin is it little and is it blue. 295 00:16:31,690 --> 00:16:32,157 Yeah. 296 00:16:32,157 --> 00:16:35,861 Do you know where the blue color comes from? Hey. 297 00:16:36,495 --> 00:16:37,930 The sun coming off their feathers. 298 00:16:37,930 --> 00:16:39,331 Yeah, it's exactly right. 299 00:16:39,331 --> 00:16:42,901 So it just is sort of like a shimmer on the feathers, 300 00:16:42,901 --> 00:16:45,738 and it's like a refraction of light a little bit. 301 00:16:45,738 --> 00:16:47,172 They're adorable. 302 00:16:47,172 --> 00:16:49,141 Yeah. Oh, yeah. How cool is it that there's, 303 00:16:50,242 --> 00:16:52,111 a shimmery blue penguin out there? 304 00:16:52,111 --> 00:16:53,746 Yeah. That's awesome. 305 00:16:53,746 --> 00:16:54,446 You're an artist. 306 00:16:54,446 --> 00:16:55,814 You like to draw? Yeah. 307 00:16:55,814 --> 00:16:58,117 Have you ever drawn a little blue penguin? 308 00:16:58,117 --> 00:17:00,753 No. I should actually try that sometime. 309 00:17:00,753 --> 00:17:06,158 I got some cool painting canvases, and I should do a little blue penguin on one. 310 00:17:06,291 --> 00:17:08,527 Totally get a little portrait. 311 00:17:08,527 --> 00:17:10,496 A portrait of little blue penguin. 312 00:17:10,496 --> 00:17:13,165 My body and its face. 313 00:17:13,165 --> 00:17:14,800 I know my face on it. 314 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:18,670 Oh, now you're talking your face on a little blue penguin body with. 315 00:17:19,171 --> 00:17:22,174 With a rock and roll penguin head. 316 00:17:22,841 --> 00:17:24,777 Yeah. 317 00:17:24,777 --> 00:17:29,114 You were telling me one time that like penguins, when they bite, they bite. 318 00:17:29,948 --> 00:17:31,216 And so it's like a pinch. 319 00:17:31,216 --> 00:17:33,285 And then they twist. It is. 320 00:17:33,285 --> 00:17:35,988 I know this because when I was a zookeeper 321 00:17:35,988 --> 00:17:39,825 in college for a for a summer, I worked with little blue penguins. 322 00:17:39,858 --> 00:17:41,460 Oh, and they are. 323 00:17:41,460 --> 00:17:44,396 They're very small compared to most penguins. 324 00:17:44,396 --> 00:17:47,132 Oh, yeah. They had these burrows in the ground. 325 00:17:47,132 --> 00:17:49,868 Oh, with their nest boxes where they would lay their eggs. 326 00:17:49,868 --> 00:17:52,337 And the moms were very protective. 327 00:17:52,337 --> 00:17:55,474 And because sometimes my job was to go clean the nest boxes, 328 00:17:55,474 --> 00:17:57,843 they look kind of like, litter boxes, you know? 329 00:17:57,843 --> 00:18:02,081 And, if I reached in, sometimes I would get bitten by a very angry penguin. 330 00:18:02,114 --> 00:18:04,349 Oh, it hurt really bad. 331 00:18:04,349 --> 00:18:07,019 They're they're very good moms. They're very good at what they do. 332 00:18:07,019 --> 00:18:08,887 And this is, so. 333 00:18:10,923 --> 00:18:12,057 Yeah. 334 00:18:12,057 --> 00:18:13,325 So here's my story. 335 00:18:13,325 --> 00:18:16,595 Oh, no, I I was really getting into it. 336 00:18:16,628 --> 00:18:19,798 Yeah, well, my job was to go clean 337 00:18:19,798 --> 00:18:22,801 the nest boxes, and they're all full of penguin poop. 338 00:18:22,968 --> 00:18:25,671 And I took them inside to the sink, 339 00:18:25,671 --> 00:18:28,674 and I was scrubbing the nest boxes, 340 00:18:28,707 --> 00:18:33,212 and it the water in the sink just got black with penguin poop. 341 00:18:33,212 --> 00:18:34,079 It was so gross. 342 00:18:34,079 --> 00:18:35,314 And it smelled really bad. 343 00:18:35,314 --> 00:18:37,983 Very fishy, because that's what they ate. 344 00:18:37,983 --> 00:18:42,788 And, and the the water in the sink turned just like black with penguin poop. 345 00:18:42,788 --> 00:18:46,058 As I was scrubbing with my scrub brush and my soap. 346 00:18:47,059 --> 00:18:50,062 And, it was sloshing around 347 00:18:50,262 --> 00:18:52,531 and I sloshed a little too 348 00:18:52,531 --> 00:18:55,801 hard, you know, and a huge glob of water shot 349 00:18:55,801 --> 00:18:59,204 straight up into my open mouth and right down my throat. 350 00:18:59,238 --> 00:19:02,307 Oh, you got penguin poop water in your mouth, 351 00:19:02,341 --> 00:19:05,310 I swallowed, so I have eaten. 352 00:19:05,511 --> 00:19:08,947 I have accidentally swallowed little blue penguin poop. 353 00:19:09,281 --> 00:19:10,883 And the zookeeper hacks to me. 354 00:19:10,883 --> 00:19:12,651 You have the DNA of a penguin. 355 00:19:12,651 --> 00:19:14,019 Yeah, probably. 356 00:19:14,019 --> 00:19:14,486 That's why. 357 00:19:14,486 --> 00:19:17,923 That's probably why I shimmer so beautifully in the sunlight. 358 00:19:18,056 --> 00:19:22,394 Okay, the zookeeper next to me looked at me and he went, don't worry, 359 00:19:22,394 --> 00:19:25,831 if you work here long enough, you'll swallow lots of different types of poop. 360 00:19:26,665 --> 00:19:31,303 So, like, maybe I don't want to work here, then I, Oh. 361 00:19:31,303 --> 00:19:35,507 Wow. Oscar, thank you so much for joining us on The Happiest Animal Show. 362 00:19:35,507 --> 00:19:36,909 It has been an absolute delight. 363 00:19:36,909 --> 00:19:41,380 And I think your choice of a little blue penguin is perfect. 364 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:43,916 Thank you so much for having me. 365 00:19:46,919 --> 00:19:48,954 It's the time we've all been waiting for 366 00:19:48,954 --> 00:19:51,990 to find out the answer to our animal joke of the day. 367 00:19:52,891 --> 00:19:56,461 What did the polar bear eat after the dentist fixed its tooth? 368 00:19:57,896 --> 00:20:00,899 Do you have a guess? 369 00:20:01,366 --> 00:20:04,369 The answer is. 370 00:20:04,903 --> 00:20:07,906 The dentist. 371 00:20:09,675 --> 00:20:12,878 And before we go, remember, we live on a beautiful planet. 372 00:20:12,878 --> 00:20:15,881 So go out and find what makes you happy today. 373 00:20:18,283 --> 00:20:22,154 Hey, Grown-Ups, we know you're busy, but if you like 374 00:20:22,154 --> 00:20:26,158 our show, we'd love for you to tell your friends and family about it. 375 00:20:26,258 --> 00:20:30,095 It is the best way for our podcast to grow and Grown-Ups. 376 00:20:40,505 --> 00:20:41,373 You can also follow us on our social media accounts at Happiest 377 00:20:41,373 --> 00:20:42,140 Animal Show, or check out other fun things on our website 378 00:20:42,140 --> 00:20:43,342 like how to submit an animal or how to get merch. 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