July 5, 2025 • 23 mins
What sleepy animals are making you happy today? What animal sleeps 20 hours a day and only eats one thing? Have you ever been porcupine-tired? Hear Laura and Rob talk about some furry animals who like to take naps, a song about sleepy animals, awesome animal clues from 4 year old Willow, and an interview with special guest, comedian David Gborie, who is the current voice of Comedy Central! What animal is making David happy today? Here are some clues: it is a sea creature, it can hold its breath for hours underwater, and it can crawl onto land with its hard shell and its flippers.
The Happiest Animal Show (on Planet Earth) is a comedy podcast for kids and families who love wildlife, with original animal songs, stories, jokes and special guests from comedians to scientists to kids. If you like grizzly bears, koalas, porcupines, moose, tigers or sea turtles, you might like this episode!
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(00:05):
And now for an animal joke.
What should you doif you find a lion in your bed?
What did you doif you find a lion in your bed?
The answer is going to be revealedat the end of the episode.
But first,
get your ears ready because it’sthe Happiest Animal Show on Planet Earth.
(00:28):
The Happiest Animal Show on Planet Earth.
You want to be sad?No! Do you want to be glad? No.
Wait. Yes.
Well, it’sthe Happiest Animal Show on Planet Earth.
Hello and welcome to the Happiest Animal
show on Planet Earth, the podcastthat asks the very important question.
(00:52):
What animal is making you happy today?
Not yesterday,not even last night, but today.
I'm Rob and I'm Laura.
And we are a sister brother pairof zoologists, filmmakers and songwriters.
We are here to explore the wonderful worldof wildlife and discover
why animals make us happy.
(01:13):
Today we are celebrating sleepy animals
and we have a songwith lots of sleepy animals in it.
And we chat with comedian David Gborie,who talks about a sea creature
who can hold its breath and sleepunderwater for several hours at a time.
Here we go.
What animal is making you happy today?
I want to know.
(01:34):
On today's episode,Rob and I are going to talk
about sleepy animals that make us happy.
You know, we have a podcast to do.
No. I'm excited. Oh, here we go.
Laura, what
sleepy animal is making you happy?
And bending the rules a little bit
(01:54):
because it's not necessarilya group of animals I'm thinking of.
I'm. I picked an animalbecause it's a specific animal that we saw
one time
that didn'twant to wake up in the morning,
and it makes me laughevery time I think about it.
Oh, yeah.
But here are the cluesfor the kind of animal.
It's an animal with brown fur.
(02:14):
It's big.
It's got big claws.
Is the one we saw was living in Alaska.
Yeah, butlet me give you some sleepy clues, okay?
These animals do go into a very deep sleepduring the winter,
when they can sleep for upto eight months in their den.
(02:37):
And so they, like they hibernate.
Yeah, hibernate.
Or sometimes it's called torpor.But yeah, they.
And that whole time, like eight months,they don't eat,
they don't drink, they don't peeand they don't poop a whole time.
And somehow that works.
Those are my clues. Okay.
(02:58):
So you are going with a grizzly bear?
Yes. A
grizzly bear.
And, Rob, I know you picked grizzly bearsfor our animal moms episode,
but I don't care.
This is what animals are making me happytoday.
There's no rules for these. Fair enough.
So tell me why.
(03:19):
I guess why is a sleepy grizzly bearmaking you happy?
Well, as you know, Rob,we took a trip to Alaska
to go film Grizzly Bears one time.
Yeah, and we went with a guide.
His name was Chuck.
He used to be a crabfisherman on the Bering Sea.
But Chuck knew a lot about bears.
And we'd follow Chuck around,and he'd show us where the bears were
(03:41):
so that we could film themwith our video cameras.
And one day we were in a big grassy field.
And there are all these bears
eating
grass, and I don't know how many bears doyou think we saw eating grass?
I counted up to 16 bears and bears.
Yeah, 16.
It was a big, expansive field,like miles wide.
(04:04):
Yeah. Right. So yeah, it was early July.
The grass was about kneehigh in most spots, and that was called
hallow Bay, that area,it was surrounded by mountains
and glaciers on one sideand the ocean on the other side.
And there was a spot in the grassin front of us that didn't look right.
It looked a little too brown.
(04:27):
And I stopped and said, is that a bear?
And everyone else looked around
and in the distanceand we could see bears in the distance.
And they said, yeah, those are bears.
And I said,no, no, no, right in front of us.
That probably about 7or 8 steps in front of us.
There was, a brown bear
completely sound asleep,and we were walking straight toward it.
(04:49):
Yeah.
And couldn'tsee it in the in the grass. Yeah.
And I was reading that these brown bearswill make daybeds
where they will diglittle belly holes in the ground,
stick their bellies in the ground,and just kind of sleep.
So, you know, its backwas basically hidden by the grass.
And if Rob hadn't noticed it, weprobably would have walked right up to it.
(05:11):
But what was funnywas that all the other bears were awake
and eating and playing and doing stuff.
There were.
Yeah,I feel like we saw a fox running around.
The birds were awake every day.
All was up there.
Eagles were flying.
It was loud.
And there's one bear with just everyone'swill.
(05:33):
Lift his head and look up and around
like, oh my, supposed to get up.
And then its eyelidswould kind of droop again,
and then it would close its eyesand its head and flop back down.
It would go back to sleeplike every few minutes.
It had suddenly pop uplike the alarm clock went off.
And then and it hit the snooze button
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and then its eyeswould roll back into its head again,
and then it would just flop back overand go back to sleep.
That was really funny. It was so funny.
Grown ups.
We'll put a clip of that bearon our social media because it's funny.
Yeah it's great.
And I relate to that.
I'm not a morning person.
It's hard for me to get up in the morning.
And so that bear really spoke to me.
(06:17):
Yeah, yeah.
You and grizzly bearshave a lot in common.
So Laura picks a grizzly bear.
We'll find out whatI picked right after this.
This episode of the Happiest
Animal Show is brought to you by naps.
If you're feeling tired or cranky,try taking a nap.
(06:37):
Naps are like sleeping at night,but shorter.
Try taking a nap today.
Your friendsand your family will thank you.
And we're back.
Rob, what sleepyanimal is making you happy today?
It is normally found in trees, okay?
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And it is a very picky eater.
Okay?
It tends to only eat one kind of plant.
And even then it's very pickybecause it sniffs
the leaves of that plant and choosesthe correct ones.
It wants to eat. Oh really.
Yeah.
(07:19):
And it lives in Australia.
Does it have a pouch.
It does have a pouch. Yes.
Is it kind of a gray color.
It is a gray color with a black nose.
Is it a koala?
Yes. Ding ding ding.
(07:40):
Koala.
Koala.
So cute.
Great. Yeah. Koalas.
They are adorable.
They're the cutest things.
And they, you know,they're not very big koalas.
They're about 2 or 3ft long.
And they, you know,they weigh under 30 pounds.
So they're they're they don't weigh thatmuch more than a housecat or something.
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And and why are they making youhappy today for people who love to take
naps, the koala is the champion
of the entire world.
There are 24 hours in the day,
and koalas are usually sleeping
for 20 of those hours in the day.
(08:25):
They spend so much time sleeping
and it's it's not because they're lazy,okay?
It's actually really importantthat they that they do that.
Okay.
So koalas eat the eucalyptus right?
Yeah.
They eat the leaves of a eucalyptus tree.
Yeah okay.
(08:45):
And that's the only thing they eat.
That's. Yeah. Exactly. Right.
So they're very picky eatersbecause they pretty much I mean they,
it sounds likethey will eat some other plants,
but mostly it's this one thing.
Eucalyptus and eucalyptus
is poisonous to most other animals.
(09:07):
I did not know this. Yeah.
So koalas are very specialized
because they can eat this stuffand it doesn't bother them.
But there's not a lot of caloriesand energy in those leaves.
And so to get around that,they eat the leaves and then they
go to sleep and they save their energywhile their body digests the leaves.
(09:30):
What a weird thing to have happened, thatthere's this animal that eats one thing,
but the one thing they eat really doesn'thave that much nutrition for them.
So in order to make it work,they have to sleep a lot
because they don't have the energyor they need time to digest it.
Yeah, they have to digest itand they have to save their energy.
So they just sleep.
And that's how they get through life.
(09:52):
They usually don't have to drink water
because they get all of their waterthat they need from eating leaves.
So you almost never see a koala headingdown to the stream to take a drink.
Wow, wow.
Did you get to hang out in treesand eat leaves?
Yeah. And then take naps,
which I
think a lot of listeners outthere can appreciate.
(10:14):
And I think a lot of us wouldn'tmind being a koala.
Yeah, yeah.
So that's my pick.
Koala is a great choice.
Thanks, Rob. And now for a song.
I wrote this song originally as a pitchfor Sesame Street Studios,
but they did not choose it for their show.
So we decided to finish the full song herefor you.
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And also a big
thank you to our parents for helping singthe background vocals on this track.
Enjoy!
Have you ever been dog-tired,dog-tired,tuckered out from your day?
Have you ever felt cat-tired,cat-tired, purring the night away?
Have you ever feltchicken-tired, chicken-tired?
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tired as a donkey or cow or sheep?
Then rest your weary head and go to sleep.
Go to sleep.
Cause it's sleepy time, sleepy time.
Curtains are drawin.
Everybody's yawnin.
It’s sleepytime,sleepy time, such a wonderful time
of day.
(11:20):
Because it's sleepy time, sleepy time.
No need to try and stay awake.
So close those tired eyes and go to sleep.
Go to sleep.
Have you ever felt walrus tired?
Walrustired from rocking a sweet mustache?
Have you ever felt raccoon tired?
(11:40):
Raccoon tiredfrom looking through somebody's trash?
Have you ever felt chipmunk-tired.
Chipmunk-tired,from stuffing so many nuts in your cheeks?
Then rest your weary head and go to sleep.
Go to sleep.
Have you ever felt moose- tired.
Moose-tired from being so incredibly tall?
(12:02):
Have you ever felt octopus-tired ,octopus-tired from having no bones at all?
Have you ever felt archerfish-tired?
Archerfish-tiredfrom spitting at every bug that you see.
Then rest your weary head and go to sleep.
Go to sleep.
Cause it's sleepy time, sleepy time.
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Curtains are drawin.
Everybody's yawnin’.
It’s sleepy time, sleepytime,
such a wonderful time of day.
Cause it's sleepy time.
Sleepy time.
No need to try and stay awake.
Just close those tired eyesand go to sleep.
Go to sleep.
(12:44):
Have you ever felt porcupine-tired.
Porcupine.-tired.
Napping in a hollowed out tree?
Have you ever felt albatross-tired?
Albatross-tiredand living life on the wing?
Have you ever felt muskox tired?
Muskox-tired, from digging around in snowso deep.
Then rest your weary head and go to sleep.
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Go to sleep.
Have you ever felt capybara?
Tired, cabybara-tiredfrom hanging out with your friends.
Have you ever felthuman-tired, human-tired.
Hoping this song will end.
Have you ever felt parent -tired,parent-tired, begging
your kid to fall asleep?
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Oh please please please please pleasejust go to sleep.
Go to sleep.
Please please just go to sleep.
Go to sleep.
Just close those tired eyesand go to sleep.
Go to sleep.
Before we get on
with the show, here'sa quick message for the grown ups
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and we are back.
Before we get to our special guest,it's time for the happiest fan of all.
We're a fan of the show, gives us cluesto an animal that is making them happy.
Today's submission is from four yearold Willow from Seattle, Washington.
Clue number one.
It has sharp claws.
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Clue number two. It eats meat.
Clue number three.
It lives in the jungle.
Clue number four.
It has orange and black stripes.
Oh. Do you have a guess?
The answer is a tiger.
Tigers are making Willow happy
because they are really, really prettyand have wet noses.
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And because they're a type of catand cats have wet noses.
Thanks for your submission,Willow and Grown-Ups.
If you or your family would like to submit
a happiest animal, visitour website at Happiest Animal Show A.com.
Today's special guest is comedianDavid Gborie,
who currently can be heardas the voice of Comedy Central.
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Well, thank you for joining us today.
Yeah. Of course.
So big question for you, David, iswhat animal is making you happy today?
Sea turtles, sea turtles,sea turtles? Yes.
Sea turtle.
I really, really love sea turtles.
(15:13):
Yeah. Me too.
Like a lot.
All of them.The leatherback one. All of them? Yeah.
Something about, the pace that they move.
And I really relate.
Have you ever seen a sea turtlein the wild?
Yes. In Hawaii.
It was amazing.
Yeah, it was amazing raising.
It was in Hawaii, on the beach,and we weren't too far out,
(15:36):
maybe like 20 yards out from the shore.
And it just kind of floated past the bestand kept going, and it was amazing.
Hawaii is probably the best placeto encounter sea turtles
because they're so chill.
They're usually at leaston the popular beaches.
They're so used to peoplethat they just don't care.
Yeah, he he he felt very unbothered,like he didn't feel worried about it.
(16:00):
I, I man, I've been in the waterwith so many sea turtles over the years,
a few different times.
And I, I was working on a video shoot
for PBS kids, and I was actuallyin an aquarium in new Jersey,
and they had, like, loads of stingraysand sharks and things in the tank.
And there's this one huge loggerheadsea turtle.
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And, I was trying to film the stingraysin this tank.
That was that was my job for that day, waslike film getting footage of stingrays.
And so I was down on the bottom and this,like,
200 pound sea turtle kept coming overand just climbing on top of me.
And so the whole time while I was filming,I kept having to shove this
sea turtle off of me.
Like, one
of the weirdest things I've ever happenedis just constantly being hounded by this.
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And it would just slowlystart drifting back toward you,
and then you'd slowly push it away,and then it would slowly come back.
And it's just I found out laterthat when the divers are normally
in that tank, it's just used to being fed.
And so I think he just thoughtI must have had snacks.
And so it's just like,where are the snacks?
And so he just kept moving on top of meis like my daughter.
(17:05):
Don't you have crackers?
Not right now.
Yeah, yeah.
Sea turtle.
See, you like the way their pace.Just kind of that.
They float in there.
I love that they get so old.
They feel old when you.
When you see them.
They feel old.
They feel wise.
Yeah. Yeah,I guess, but also kind of silly.
One of my favorite, favorite times.
(17:27):
The sea turtle wasI was at the aquarium in Dayton, Kentucky.
It's like a really big aquarium.
And I was walking through,you know, they have the bridge.
Yeah. Where it's kind of it.
It's all covered and I was watching himand I was like, wow, he's so beautiful and
so majestic and just, like, so elegant,the way they move through the water.
And I was really, like,just really vibing with this sea turtle.
(17:48):
And then as I'm watching him, he justbeing just goes right into the car.
He's staring right into the glass.
Yeah.
And it was just like,oh yeah, I, I don't know, I feel, I felt
I get that when I see that I was justlike, yeah, I relate to it just in his own
brain space.
Just like, yeah,just not worried about anything else.
(18:11):
Just thinking his turtle thoughtsand bonk.
Yeah. I think he was just so relaxed.
Just having such a good timeas I like to think about, you know,
the first time I ever saw a sea turtle,
I was with a friend on a beachin South Carolina when I was a teenager.
And it was like.It was like a magic trick.
We'd been walking on the beach for,like, a half hour,
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and I just said randomly, you know,I've never seen a sea turtle before.
And like a magic trick, a sea turtles head
came out of the water and took a breathand went back down and disappeared.
It was the coolest thingI've ever done in my life.
Was some of the sea turtles.
Yeah, like a Sunday. Best.
Yeah.
So I'm just realizing that aquarium is onethat Rob and I have been
(18:53):
to the Newport Aquarium.We filmed there. Yeah, yeah.
We filmed. Oh, really? It's it's a great.
It was fun.
Yeah. Yeah, I really liked it in there.
We got in the tank to film.
There are shark rays. It's like,are they a shark? Are they? Or.
It doesn't matter.They're shark. They look like both.
And we got in the tank filmed those also
these big ragged tooth sharksor grain nurse sharks.
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And so we got in with thoseand there was a safety diver with me
that was makingsure the sharks didn't get too close.
And so every time a shark would swim by,I think it was always curious
about my camera.
It would sort of veer into me,and the guy would stick this PVC pipe out
and poke the shark away.
So he didn't smoke it to me.
But it was, it was a really fun tripgoing to get to do that.
(19:36):
And I really like that aquarium a lot.
Yeah, that's a good one. It's up there.
Do you get to see a lot of aquariumswhile you're doing stand up or zoos?
Not as much as you I would see,you would think, actually,
but I really like the, was the Madison,
Wisconsin Zoo last time I was there,they gave us a tour.
So we got to go kind of behind the scenesand everything.
(19:57):
That's a topone for me and the Monterey Bay.
Oh of course.
Yeah. Also, that's a fun oneI really like.
Especially talk about turtles.
The one. I'mnot sure what the room's called.
I think they call it like a Peterwhere it's like a giant.
Yeah, the giant tanks are open ocean.
You're kind of in it.
Yeah.
Oh, man, I, I love that. Yeah,I love that.
There's something really freeingthinking about a sea turtle
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just riding the currents, goingwherever the currents are going.
I guess I'm going that way.That sounds great.
Just something. Right. So peaceful.
Kind, romantic.
Yeah. This is romantic.
Yeah. The.
We went to Laura and I went to see Panand filmed a story about sea turtles.
Oh. Wow. About nine years ago, I think.
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And then we got to watch them as they cameup on the beach and laid eggs there.
Because the cool thing is
that the females will come
back to the beaches where they were bornto lay their own eggs.
So even though they go driftand follow the currents,
they make their way back to the very beachwhere they're born.
Isn't that beautiful?
Isn't that great?
Is you're making mewant to take a trip back to Hawaii
(21:01):
just to hang out on the beachwith those turtles?
It's one of the one of the coolest animalsI've ever seen.
And that same trip, we saw whales as well.
And I still the turtle was still moving.
Oh, wow. That's cool.
I mean, the whales,the size really kind of was like, wow.
But the the sea turtle was up close.
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Yeah for sure.
Did the sea turtle did you seedid they ever come up onto the beach
near you or were they on the water?
It was just one.
And it was justit just kind of floated by.
You just kind of floated. So cool.
It's a special thing to get to seea sea turtle out in the wild.
I felt really lucky.
Yeah, I got really lucky because that'sthe only time I've seen one in the wild.
The rest I've kind of seen in aquariumsand stuff like that.
(21:44):
Well, David, sea turtles.
Yeah, that's a great pick. Thank you.
Yeah.
Thanks for joining us on the HappiestAnimal Show.
Thanks so much for having me, guys.
And now the time we've all
been waiting for the answerto the joke of the day.
What should you doif you find the lion in your bed?
(22:04):
Do you have a guess?
The answer is
find someplace else to sleep.
And before we go, remember,we live on a beautiful planet.
So go out and findwhat makes you happy today.
Hey, grown ups, we know you're busy,but if you like
(22:27):
our show, we'd love for youto tell your friends and family about it.
It's the best way for our podcastto grow and grown ups,
you can also follow us on social mediaat Happiestanimalshow,
or check out other fun thingson our website,
like how to submit an animaland how to get merch.
Visit Happiestanimalshow.com.
The Happiest Animal Show is createdby Laura Sams, Robert Sams, and Dave Cain.
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Produced by Sisbro Studios, hostedand directed by Laura Sams and Robert
Sams, and written by LauraSams, Robert Sams with story editor
Dave Cain, and with only a little helpfrom our cat walking across the keyboard.
Now let's talk music.
Original music is writtenand performed by zero time
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Grammy Award winning songwritersLaura Sams and Robert Sams.
Except for the end credits, musicwhich was written by Laura and Robert's
Grandma Max and the joke answersuspense music written by David Schultz.
The theme song was written and performed
by Laura and Roband mixed by Jason Wells of Audio Wells.
Thanks for listening. You're the best.
And now for an animal joke.
What should you doif you find a lion in your bed?
What did you doif you find a lion in your bed?
The answer is going to be revealedat the end of the episode.
But first,
get your ears ready because it’sthe Happiest Animal Show on Planet Earth.
(00:28):
The Happiest Animal Show on Planet Earth.
You want to be sad?No! Do you want to be glad? No.
Wait. Yes.
Well, it’sthe Happiest Animal Show on Planet Earth.
Hello and welcome to the Happiest Animal
show on Planet Earth, the podcastthat asks the very important question.
(00:52):
What animal is making you happy today?
Not yesterday,not even last night, but today.
I'm Rob and I'm Laura.
And we are a sister brother pairof zoologists, filmmakers and songwriters.
We are here to explore the wonderful worldof wildlife and discover
why animals make us happy.
(01:13):
Today we are celebrating sleepy animals
and we have a songwith lots of sleepy animals in it.
And we chat with comedian David Gborie,who talks about a sea creature
who can hold its breath and sleepunderwater for several hours at a time.
Here we go.
What animal is making you happy today?
I want to know.
(01:34):
On today's episode,Rob and I are going to talk
about sleepy animals that make us happy.
You know, we have a podcast to do.
No. I'm excited. Oh, here we go.
Laura, what
sleepy animal is making you happy?
And bending the rules a little bit
(01:54):
because it's not necessarilya group of animals I'm thinking of.
I'm. I picked an animalbecause it's a specific animal that we saw
one time
that didn'twant to wake up in the morning,
and it makes me laughevery time I think about it.
Oh, yeah.
But here are the cluesfor the kind of animal.
It's an animal with brown fur.
(02:14):
It's big.
It's got big claws.
Is the one we saw was living in Alaska.
Yeah, butlet me give you some sleepy clues, okay?
These animals do go into a very deep sleepduring the winter,
when they can sleep for upto eight months in their den.
(02:37):
And so they, like they hibernate.
Yeah, hibernate.
Or sometimes it's called torpor.But yeah, they.
And that whole time, like eight months,they don't eat,
they don't drink, they don't peeand they don't poop a whole time.
And somehow that works.
Those are my clues. Okay.
(02:58):
So you are going with a grizzly bear?
Yes. A
grizzly bear.
And, Rob, I know you picked grizzly bearsfor our animal moms episode,
but I don't care.
This is what animals are making me happytoday.
There's no rules for these. Fair enough.
So tell me why.
(03:19):
I guess why is a sleepy grizzly bearmaking you happy?
Well, as you know, Rob,we took a trip to Alaska
to go film Grizzly Bears one time.
Yeah, and we went with a guide.
His name was Chuck.
He used to be a crabfisherman on the Bering Sea.
But Chuck knew a lot about bears.
And we'd follow Chuck around,and he'd show us where the bears were
(03:41):
so that we could film themwith our video cameras.
And one day we were in a big grassy field.
And there are all these bears
eating
grass, and I don't know how many bears doyou think we saw eating grass?
I counted up to 16 bears and bears.
Yeah, 16.
It was a big, expansive field,like miles wide.
(04:04):
Yeah. Right. So yeah, it was early July.
The grass was about kneehigh in most spots, and that was called
hallow Bay, that area,it was surrounded by mountains
and glaciers on one sideand the ocean on the other side.
And there was a spot in the grassin front of us that didn't look right.
It looked a little too brown.
(04:27):
And I stopped and said, is that a bear?
And everyone else looked around
and in the distanceand we could see bears in the distance.
And they said, yeah, those are bears.
And I said,no, no, no, right in front of us.
That probably about 7or 8 steps in front of us.
There was, a brown bear
completely sound asleep,and we were walking straight toward it.
(04:49):
Yeah.
And couldn'tsee it in the in the grass. Yeah.
And I was reading that these brown bearswill make daybeds
where they will diglittle belly holes in the ground,
stick their bellies in the ground,and just kind of sleep.
So, you know, its backwas basically hidden by the grass.
And if Rob hadn't noticed it, weprobably would have walked right up to it.
(05:11):
But what was funnywas that all the other bears were awake
and eating and playing and doing stuff.
There were.
Yeah,I feel like we saw a fox running around.
The birds were awake every day.
All was up there.
Eagles were flying.
It was loud.
And there's one bear with just everyone'swill.
(05:33):
Lift his head and look up and around
like, oh my, supposed to get up.
And then its eyelidswould kind of droop again,
and then it would close its eyesand its head and flop back down.
It would go back to sleeplike every few minutes.
It had suddenly pop uplike the alarm clock went off.
And then and it hit the snooze button
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and then its eyeswould roll back into its head again,
and then it would just flop back overand go back to sleep.
That was really funny. It was so funny.
Grown ups.
We'll put a clip of that bearon our social media because it's funny.
Yeah it's great.
And I relate to that.
I'm not a morning person.
It's hard for me to get up in the morning.
And so that bear really spoke to me.
(06:17):
Yeah, yeah.
You and grizzly bearshave a lot in common.
So Laura picks a grizzly bear.
We'll find out whatI picked right after this.
This episode of the Happiest
Animal Show is brought to you by naps.
If you're feeling tired or cranky,try taking a nap.
(06:37):
Naps are like sleeping at night,but shorter.
Try taking a nap today.
Your friendsand your family will thank you.
And we're back.
Rob, what sleepyanimal is making you happy today?
It is normally found in trees, okay?
(06:58):
And it is a very picky eater.
Okay?
It tends to only eat one kind of plant.
And even then it's very pickybecause it sniffs
the leaves of that plant and choosesthe correct ones.
It wants to eat. Oh really.
Yeah.
(07:19):
And it lives in Australia.
Does it have a pouch.
It does have a pouch. Yes.
Is it kind of a gray color.
It is a gray color with a black nose.
Is it a koala?
Yes. Ding ding ding.
(07:40):
Koala.
Koala.
So cute.
Great. Yeah. Koalas.
They are adorable.
They're the cutest things.
And they, you know,they're not very big koalas.
They're about 2 or 3ft long.
And they, you know,they weigh under 30 pounds.
So they're they're they don't weigh thatmuch more than a housecat or something.
(08:03):
And and why are they making youhappy today for people who love to take
naps, the koala is the champion
of the entire world.
There are 24 hours in the day,
and koalas are usually sleeping
for 20 of those hours in the day.
(08:25):
They spend so much time sleeping
and it's it's not because they're lazy,okay?
It's actually really importantthat they that they do that.
Okay.
So koalas eat the eucalyptus right?
Yeah.
They eat the leaves of a eucalyptus tree.
Yeah okay.
(08:45):
And that's the only thing they eat.
That's. Yeah. Exactly. Right.
So they're very picky eatersbecause they pretty much I mean they,
it sounds likethey will eat some other plants,
but mostly it's this one thing.
Eucalyptus and eucalyptus
is poisonous to most other animals.
(09:07):
I did not know this. Yeah.
So koalas are very specialized
because they can eat this stuffand it doesn't bother them.
But there's not a lot of caloriesand energy in those leaves.
And so to get around that,they eat the leaves and then they
go to sleep and they save their energywhile their body digests the leaves.
(09:30):
What a weird thing to have happened, thatthere's this animal that eats one thing,
but the one thing they eat really doesn'thave that much nutrition for them.
So in order to make it work,they have to sleep a lot
because they don't have the energyor they need time to digest it.
Yeah, they have to digest itand they have to save their energy.
So they just sleep.
And that's how they get through life.
(09:52):
They usually don't have to drink water
because they get all of their waterthat they need from eating leaves.
So you almost never see a koala headingdown to the stream to take a drink.
Wow, wow.
Did you get to hang out in treesand eat leaves?
Yeah. And then take naps,
which I
think a lot of listeners outthere can appreciate.
(10:14):
And I think a lot of us wouldn'tmind being a koala.
Yeah, yeah.
So that's my pick.
Koala is a great choice.
Thanks, Rob. And now for a song.
I wrote this song originally as a pitchfor Sesame Street Studios,
but they did not choose it for their show.
So we decided to finish the full song herefor you.
(10:36):
And also a big
thank you to our parents for helping singthe background vocals on this track.
Enjoy!
Have you ever been dog-tired,dog-tired,tuckered out from your day?
Have you ever felt cat-tired,cat-tired, purring the night away?
Have you ever feltchicken-tired, chicken-tired?
(10:59):
tired as a donkey or cow or sheep?
Then rest your weary head and go to sleep.
Go to sleep.
Cause it's sleepy time, sleepy time.
Curtains are drawin.
Everybody's yawnin.
It’s sleepytime,sleepy time, such a wonderful time
of day.
(11:20):
Because it's sleepy time, sleepy time.
No need to try and stay awake.
So close those tired eyes and go to sleep.
Go to sleep.
Have you ever felt walrus tired?
Walrustired from rocking a sweet mustache?
Have you ever felt raccoon tired?
(11:40):
Raccoon tiredfrom looking through somebody's trash?
Have you ever felt chipmunk-tired.
Chipmunk-tired,from stuffing so many nuts in your cheeks?
Then rest your weary head and go to sleep.
Go to sleep.
Have you ever felt moose- tired.
Moose-tired from being so incredibly tall?
(12:02):
Have you ever felt octopus-tired ,octopus-tired from having no bones at all?
Have you ever felt archerfish-tired?
Archerfish-tiredfrom spitting at every bug that you see.
Then rest your weary head and go to sleep.
Go to sleep.
Cause it's sleepy time, sleepy time.
(12:24):
Curtains are drawin.
Everybody's yawnin’.
It’s sleepy time, sleepytime,
such a wonderful time of day.
Cause it's sleepy time.
Sleepy time.
No need to try and stay awake.
Just close those tired eyesand go to sleep.
Go to sleep.
(12:44):
Have you ever felt porcupine-tired.
Porcupine.-tired.
Napping in a hollowed out tree?
Have you ever felt albatross-tired?
Albatross-tiredand living life on the wing?
Have you ever felt muskox tired?
Muskox-tired, from digging around in snowso deep.
Then rest your weary head and go to sleep.
(13:07):
Go to sleep.
Have you ever felt capybara?
Tired, cabybara-tiredfrom hanging out with your friends.
Have you ever felthuman-tired, human-tired.
Hoping this song will end.
Have you ever felt parent -tired,parent-tired, begging
your kid to fall asleep?
(13:27):
Oh please please please please pleasejust go to sleep.
Go to sleep.
Please please just go to sleep.
Go to sleep.
Just close those tired eyesand go to sleep.
Go to sleep.
Before we get on
with the show, here'sa quick message for the grown ups
(13:51):
and we are back.
Before we get to our special guest,it's time for the happiest fan of all.
We're a fan of the show, gives us cluesto an animal that is making them happy.
Today's submission is from four yearold Willow from Seattle, Washington.
Clue number one.
It has sharp claws.
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Clue number two. It eats meat.
Clue number three.
It lives in the jungle.
Clue number four.
It has orange and black stripes.
Oh. Do you have a guess?
The answer is a tiger.
Tigers are making Willow happy
because they are really, really prettyand have wet noses.
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And because they're a type of catand cats have wet noses.
Thanks for your submission,Willow and Grown-Ups.
If you or your family would like to submit
a happiest animal, visitour website at Happiest Animal Show A.com.
Today's special guest is comedianDavid Gborie,
who currently can be heardas the voice of Comedy Central.
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Well, thank you for joining us today.
Yeah. Of course.
So big question for you, David, iswhat animal is making you happy today?
Sea turtles, sea turtles,sea turtles? Yes.
Sea turtle.
I really, really love sea turtles.
(15:13):
Yeah. Me too.
Like a lot.
All of them.The leatherback one. All of them? Yeah.
Something about, the pace that they move.
And I really relate.
Have you ever seen a sea turtlein the wild?
Yes. In Hawaii.
It was amazing.
Yeah, it was amazing raising.
It was in Hawaii, on the beach,and we weren't too far out,
(15:36):
maybe like 20 yards out from the shore.
And it just kind of floated past the bestand kept going, and it was amazing.
Hawaii is probably the best placeto encounter sea turtles
because they're so chill.
They're usually at leaston the popular beaches.
They're so used to peoplethat they just don't care.
Yeah, he he he felt very unbothered,like he didn't feel worried about it.
(16:00):
I, I man, I've been in the waterwith so many sea turtles over the years,
a few different times.
And I, I was working on a video shoot
for PBS kids, and I was actuallyin an aquarium in new Jersey,
and they had, like, loads of stingraysand sharks and things in the tank.
And there's this one huge loggerheadsea turtle.
(16:21):
And, I was trying to film the stingraysin this tank.
That was that was my job for that day, waslike film getting footage of stingrays.
And so I was down on the bottom and this,like,
200 pound sea turtle kept coming overand just climbing on top of me.
And so the whole time while I was filming,I kept having to shove this
sea turtle off of me.
Like, one
of the weirdest things I've ever happenedis just constantly being hounded by this.
(16:44):
And it would just slowlystart drifting back toward you,
and then you'd slowly push it away,and then it would slowly come back.
And it's just I found out laterthat when the divers are normally
in that tank, it's just used to being fed.
And so I think he just thoughtI must have had snacks.
And so it's just like,where are the snacks?
And so he just kept moving on top of meis like my daughter.
(17:05):
Don't you have crackers?
Not right now.
Yeah, yeah.
Sea turtle.
See, you like the way their pace.Just kind of that.
They float in there.
I love that they get so old.
They feel old when you.
When you see them.
They feel old.
They feel wise.
Yeah. Yeah,I guess, but also kind of silly.
One of my favorite, favorite times.
(17:27):
The sea turtle wasI was at the aquarium in Dayton, Kentucky.
It's like a really big aquarium.
And I was walking through,you know, they have the bridge.
Yeah. Where it's kind of it.
It's all covered and I was watching himand I was like, wow, he's so beautiful and
so majestic and just, like, so elegant,the way they move through the water.
And I was really, like,just really vibing with this sea turtle.
(17:48):
And then as I'm watching him, he justbeing just goes right into the car.
He's staring right into the glass.
Yeah.
And it was just like,oh yeah, I, I don't know, I feel, I felt
I get that when I see that I was justlike, yeah, I relate to it just in his own
brain space.
Just like, yeah,just not worried about anything else.
(18:11):
Just thinking his turtle thoughtsand bonk.
Yeah. I think he was just so relaxed.
Just having such a good timeas I like to think about, you know,
the first time I ever saw a sea turtle,
I was with a friend on a beachin South Carolina when I was a teenager.
And it was like.It was like a magic trick.
We'd been walking on the beach for,like, a half hour,
(18:32):
and I just said randomly, you know,I've never seen a sea turtle before.
And like a magic trick, a sea turtles head
came out of the water and took a breathand went back down and disappeared.
It was the coolest thingI've ever done in my life.
Was some of the sea turtles.
Yeah, like a Sunday. Best.
Yeah.
So I'm just realizing that aquarium is onethat Rob and I have been
(18:53):
to the Newport Aquarium.We filmed there. Yeah, yeah.
We filmed. Oh, really? It's it's a great.
It was fun.
Yeah. Yeah, I really liked it in there.
We got in the tank to film.
There are shark rays. It's like,are they a shark? Are they? Or.
It doesn't matter.They're shark. They look like both.
And we got in the tank filmed those also
these big ragged tooth sharksor grain nurse sharks.
(19:15):
And so we got in with thoseand there was a safety diver with me
that was makingsure the sharks didn't get too close.
And so every time a shark would swim by,I think it was always curious
about my camera.
It would sort of veer into me,and the guy would stick this PVC pipe out
and poke the shark away.
So he didn't smoke it to me.
But it was, it was a really fun tripgoing to get to do that.
(19:36):
And I really like that aquarium a lot.
Yeah, that's a good one. It's up there.
Do you get to see a lot of aquariumswhile you're doing stand up or zoos?
Not as much as you I would see,you would think, actually,
but I really like the, was the Madison,
Wisconsin Zoo last time I was there,they gave us a tour.
So we got to go kind of behind the scenesand everything.
(19:57):
That's a topone for me and the Monterey Bay.
Oh of course.
Yeah. Also, that's a fun oneI really like.
Especially talk about turtles.
The one. I'mnot sure what the room's called.
I think they call it like a Peterwhere it's like a giant.
Yeah, the giant tanks are open ocean.
You're kind of in it.
Yeah.
Oh, man, I, I love that. Yeah,I love that.
There's something really freeingthinking about a sea turtle
(20:20):
just riding the currents, goingwherever the currents are going.
I guess I'm going that way.That sounds great.
Just something. Right. So peaceful.
Kind, romantic.
Yeah. This is romantic.
Yeah. The.
We went to Laura and I went to see Panand filmed a story about sea turtles.
Oh. Wow. About nine years ago, I think.
(20:41):
And then we got to watch them as they cameup on the beach and laid eggs there.
Because the cool thing is
that the females will come
back to the beaches where they were bornto lay their own eggs.
So even though they go driftand follow the currents,
they make their way back to the very beachwhere they're born.
Isn't that beautiful?
Isn't that great?
Is you're making mewant to take a trip back to Hawaii
(21:01):
just to hang out on the beachwith those turtles?
It's one of the one of the coolest animalsI've ever seen.
And that same trip, we saw whales as well.
And I still the turtle was still moving.
Oh, wow. That's cool.
I mean, the whales,the size really kind of was like, wow.
But the the sea turtle was up close.
(21:22):
Yeah for sure.
Did the sea turtle did you seedid they ever come up onto the beach
near you or were they on the water?
It was just one.
And it was justit just kind of floated by.
You just kind of floated. So cool.
It's a special thing to get to seea sea turtle out in the wild.
I felt really lucky.
Yeah, I got really lucky because that'sthe only time I've seen one in the wild.
The rest I've kind of seen in aquariumsand stuff like that.
(21:44):
Well, David, sea turtles.
Yeah, that's a great pick. Thank you.
Yeah.
Thanks for joining us on the HappiestAnimal Show.
Thanks so much for having me, guys.
And now the time we've all
been waiting for the answerto the joke of the day.
What should you doif you find the lion in your bed?
(22:04):
Do you have a guess?
The answer is
find someplace else to sleep.
And before we go, remember,we live on a beautiful planet.
So go out and findwhat makes you happy today.
Hey, grown ups, we know you're busy,but if you like
(22:27):
our show, we'd love for youto tell your friends and family about it.
It's the best way for our podcastto grow and grown ups,
you can also follow us on social mediaat Happiestanimalshow,
or check out other fun thingson our website,
like how to submit an animaland how to get merch.
Visit Happiestanimalshow.com.
The Happiest Animal Show is createdby Laura Sams, Robert Sams, and Dave Cain.
(22:51):
Produced by Sisbro Studios, hostedand directed by Laura Sams and Robert
Sams, and written by LauraSams, Robert Sams with story editor
Dave Cain, and with only a little helpfrom our cat walking across the keyboard.
Now let's talk music.
Original music is writtenand performed by zero time
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Grammy Award winning songwritersLaura Sams and Robert Sams.
Except for the end credits, musicwhich was written by Laura and Robert's
Grandma Max and the joke answersuspense music written by David Schultz.
The theme song was written and performed
by Laura and Roband mixed by Jason Wells of Audio Wells.
Thanks for listening. You're the best.
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