Hyenas, known for weird laughter, famous for weird henchmen stuff.

Nobody thinks much about them, so let's have some fun.

Let's find out why hyenas are secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey there, folks, welcome to a whole new podcast episode, a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is.

My name is Alex Schmidt. And I'm not alone because I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden. Katie.

Yes.

What is your relationship to or opinion of hyenas?

I like them. I think they're cool and they got a good sense of humor.

You know, those hyenas from the Lion King and they're always laughing, making jokes,

trying to kill kids. That was a good movie. No, I actually find them very interesting, and there's so much about their social structures, their anatomy that is interesting.

There's, you know, multiple species of hyenas.

And I do think they very much deserve more, I guess, understanding than what we get from sort of the

Lion King version of them, which is that they are, you know, greedy a-holes that just steal food,

which is not the whole truth.

Yeah.

Okay, good.

This was very revelatory for me and along a lot of those lines, because the Lion King really looms large in my mind, and I think most people's concept of hyenas, and we'll talk about that specific species and others, too.

Also, the Lion King looms large in the sky. Remember that scene where the Lion King is like a big cloud?

With this episode of my mind, now I'm seeing that cloud message is basically,

you need to fight hyenas.

Go fight.

I've come from heaven to tell you.

Hyenas stink.

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