moo deng and the plight of the viral zoo animal
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10/22/24 • 57 min
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She's, with apologies to the Hawk Tuah lobby, the queen of the internet in 2024 -- baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng.
Her fifteenth minute is far from over, but this week Jamie dives into the world of the viral zoo animal. She's far from the first, joining a legacy of viral animals whose life is flattened to a static image, without wondering why we're looking at them in the first place. We go into the ordeal that is becoming famous while captive, and Jamie speaks with zoologist Oliver, aka Dr. Wildlife, about the ethics of zoos and how we can better protect the animals that become a part of our digital language.
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She's, with apologies to the Hawk Tuah lobby, the queen of the internet in 2024 -- baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng.
Her fifteenth minute is far from over, but this week Jamie dives into the world of the viral zoo animal. She's far from the first, joining a legacy of viral animals whose life is flattened to a static image, without wondering why we're looking at them in the first place. We go into the ordeal that is becoming famous while captive, and Jamie speaks with zoologist Oliver, aka Dr. Wildlife, about the ethics of zoos and how we can better protect the animals that become a part of our digital language.
Follow Dr. Wildlife here: https://linktr.ee/drwildlife
See Jamie in LA on November 1st & 20th: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-tiny-man-is-trying-to-kill-me-tickets-1039733048537
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) - moo deng and the plight of the viral zoo animal
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Speaker 2Hi everyone, it's Jamie here with two quick reminders at the top. First, if you are in the Los Angeles area in November, I'm going to be workshopping my new one person show called The Tiny Man Is Trying to Kill Me, of course, and tickets are already running low. I'm going to be doing workshop shows on Friday, November first and Wednesday, November twentieth at the Lyric Hyperi
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