The Cutest Hippo

Melissa Forman talks about the cutest hippo. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Listen, we have to talk about mood Dang. Jim, do
you know who mood Dang is? Taken the world by storm.
Now I'm gonna have his own live stream.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
No, the only those words only make sense when I
see you sometimes in the morning, I'm like, you're in
a mood Dang. I mean, otherwise I have no those
words have never come out of my mouth like that.
Mood Dang.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Okay, So mood Dang is this baby pigmy hippo and
it's actually a girl. I'm sorry I called it a boy.
Maybe that's why I confuse you. She's the cutest little pudgy,
little baby hippo and she's now getting her own live stream.
She is at the Thailand Zoo and they're setting up
this thing for twenty four hours or up to twenty

(00:42):
four hour cameras and you could see all of her
adorable antics.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
It's going to.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Start the I think next week. Would that be the
last week of September? Or is that this week?

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, what's the last week of September? This week? I
mean next week, but I mean next week's got some
September and it'scott I guess technically next week is sort
of done because October starts on Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Old, I gotta pull out my keel. You're no, you're right, Well,
September thirtieth is on Monday. Okay, let's just say maybe Monday.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Anyway, they said it's crazy she has Let's see. She
made her debut on Instagram September sixth. Since then, her
personality and many faces have made her famous. They're calling
her the it girl. She is a lifestyle icon. Nobody
expected this little baby pygmy hippo to be such a sensation.

(01:33):
By the way, it isn't endangered species. There's only three
thousand of them left on the in the wild. They
can live between thirty and fifty years old. And she's
so cute, so I had to I just tell you
today in case like work is really boring, you have
a few minutes and you're like, what should I do
when I'm scoping the internet? Look up move that's moo
dang d ng, the pygmy hippo And you can watch

(01:58):
her all day.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
By the way, what little fact for you, how many
toes does a hippo have?

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:05):
This is good? Six six? Well four toes six well,
first of all, but they're not called toes, They're called hoves.
So there, I'm gonna correct you right there.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Second of all, it would be it would be four. Yeah.
Now I don't know if that's four total or four
on each hoof, so that would be sixteen.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Okay, it's four, it's four on each.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Each, because I'm looking at her for sixteen.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, sixteen. Oh Jim, thank you for that fact.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
I appreciate that your Hey, one day, that may come
up on one of those cards and all of those
games you play.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
I know, trivial pursuit.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
I will win.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
By the way, I haven't been this excited since that
giraffe gave birth. I mean, I remember when I was addicted.
I couldn't stop watching. I was waiting for that baby
to come. Oh now I'm gonna watch mood dang all day.
We dang nice. All right, Well, there you go check
her out, mood Dang. I'll try to put up maybe
I'll put up a link on all our social media,
so you have a right there. Okay,