Bearly Furcasting S6E20 - Buy One, Get One

Welcome to BFFT! Come on in and set a spell with the cast of Bearly Furcasting. Tick Tock has the Furry News, Cheetaro reviews the 2005 movie Chicken Little streaming on Disney+, Taebyn zens out, Taebyn tells us about the Good Furry Awards nominations now open, we talk about our watching habits and the shows we are consuming, Taebyn gives us some math, and surprising to all of us; we pretty much stay on the rails this episode! So join us, won’t you, for another T-Riffic (that is Taebyn-Riffic) episode of BFFT! Moobarkfluff everyfur!

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Transcript

SPEAKER_06 0:16

Hey folks, how's everybody? I found a great deal on a brand new whiteboard. It's remoteable. Wow, I bet it is. I know. I I I I wanted to let you guys know that I have a Polish friend who is a sound engine engineer. I have a Czech one too. Uh it was nice out the other day, so I took a walk down by the river. I noticed a guy sitting on the bank of the river with a fishing pole, but every time someone walked by, he would ask people questions like, Do you like my shirt? What do you think of my shoes? Things like that. And then I realized he was fishing for compliments. And finally, if an assassin recorded a song, I'm sure it would be a hit, man. But enough of this chili mac. Let's get this show going.

SPEAKER_02 1:01

Well, you know Barely. I mean, you know about the drummer that named his um daughters Anna 1 Anna 2. I've heard that.

SPEAKER_06 1:08

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:10

A couple of times.

SPEAKER_06 1:19

Well, greetings and move art plug to all the creatures in the pot of verse. I am Barely, and you are listening to Barely Furcasting, featuring Tape in the show that asks the question: is a hot dog a sandwich? Depends on what kind of bread you use. I suppose. And it depends on if you cut the hot dog in half or not. Ah, see, that is the question. So we could have an entire episode devoted to that. Rain, TikTok, and Chitaro are all here and putting up with this nonsense. Moobark Fluff, and how are all of you? Moobark Fluff, I'm doing great. Moobark Fluff doing doing wonderful. Awesome. Zinky couldn't make it tonight due to work, but uh but what if Tabin? Will he appear soon? We don't know. Oh, oh, there he is. Tabin. Tabin. Hello. Are you fluff tacular this evening?

SPEAKER_02 2:05

I feel that way. Yes. And thanks for asking. Are you flufftacular this evening?

SPEAKER_06 2:13

I am fluff something, yes.

SPEAKER_02 2:17

Yay! And how are the rest of you fluff tacular stuff things? Doing great.

SPEAKER_03 2:23

Extra fluffy. Fluff tacular, yes. Fluff tacular.

SPEAKER_02 2:27

Oh, fluff tactic. And you know, I think Jesse is fluff tacular for time for walk. Mm-hmm. And how you should fluff about English. I have a note here that that actually originated on the February 15th, 9, 2024 recording. So we've been saying that for over two years. Wow. I've been saying it for over two years.

SPEAKER_06 2:50

It's on a t-shirt now, too. So yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:52

Is it?

SPEAKER_03 2:53

Yeah, it is. If it's on a t-shirt, it's totally famous now.

SPEAKER_06 2:56

Yeah, and of course, no one's bought anything from our Dashery site, but it's is on a t-shirt.

SPEAKER_02 3:01

So it is an official thing.

SPEAKER_05 3:03

Well, I would have bought something, but I don't think they ship to here. So well, anyway, they would probably have eight months to get there. Yes. Yes. By the way, I'm glad you all got my my uh postcards. It only took five months to get here, yeah. Five months, yeah. Super fast service.

SPEAKER_02 3:22

Yeah. So that your mom was gonna then get her Christmas card on like her birthday. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_05 3:28

My Christmas card will be here. She sent my Christmas card out on my birthday, which should be here like in April.

SPEAKER_06 3:35

Okay. So I figure I'll send you my Christmas card in June. That way you should get it right around Christmas time. Just about, yes.

SPEAKER_02 3:43

We've got to plan these things very carefully.

SPEAKER_06 3:46

Very carefully, very carefully. All right. So, Tabin, is there anything you don't understand before we get into the episode proper?

SPEAKER_02 3:52

Well, I don't know what the episode proper is, but I don't think it's this one. Um definitely not. I don't know. Well, something I don't know. Who is Peter Dinklage? Who is Peter?

SPEAKER_03 4:05

You don't know who Peter Dinklage is?

SPEAKER_02 4:07

Oh my god, I know who Peter Dinklage is.

SPEAKER_03 4:09

He's been in everything. He's been in Underdog. He was Simon Barr Sinister in in Underdog, the movie. And Game of Thrones.

SPEAKER_06 4:17

And uh he was in uh a couple of holiday movies with uh he was an elf.

SPEAKER_03 4:26

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_05 4:26

He was also in uh one of the Thor movies, actually, I think a couple of the Thor movies now.

SPEAKER_02 4:32

Was he in a movie with Bert Reynolds? No, no, how about Shirley Temple? No, no, oh maybe that's why I don't know him then. Maybe. Oh maybe. So is he one of those that has like one of those faces like you just know, like, oh yeah, yeah, I know that.

SPEAKER_03 4:47

Yes, pretty much plus plus I think he's about three and a half feet tall. Yeah, yeah, he's a little person, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 4:55

Oh, that one! I know I saw the light come on over your head there all of a sudden. Yes, okay, ladies and gentlemen, we have comprehension, we have comprehension comprehension is happening.

SPEAKER_02 5:09

I feel like very productive all of a sudden.

SPEAKER_06 5:13

I was gonna say puppyhension, but that doesn't sound right.

SPEAKER_02 5:16

We'll we'll try it. We'll keep trying. We'll maybe we'll get there.

SPEAKER_06 5:19

We'll workshop that, yes. So under the past today last episode, Rain, you had a throwaway comment uh that you got banned from Reddit. How the heck did a cute raccoon get banned from Reddit?

SPEAKER_05 5:33

Well, political discourse or the lack thereof. So yeah. Uh you know, uh Reddit is not the best place to discuss anything because anything you say will set off some moderator and you will get banned for three days and then seven days and then longer. So I made a come comment about how after the Trump admin had the rainbow flag removed from Stonewall, protesters had put it back up. And I said that we should keep putting it back up every time they take it down. And if that didn't work, maybe bricks needed to be thrown again. And that got me banned. And I didn't say thrown at people, I just said thrown. I was that a permanent ban or just temporary. Uh well, it was permanent enough that I I deleted my account in rage because there were people on there that actually called for physical violence against other people, but uh apparently it's kind of a it's kind of one of those, it's not not what you say, it's who you know uh type of things. I I think certain people get away with a lot more on there because you know they they happen to know the moderators or they're buddy buddies with the moderators.

SPEAKER_06 6:44

Hey, well, talk about your snowflakes, holy crap. Okay, yeah, yeah. Wow. Well, with that, um let's get a little zen and listen to some formation statements.

SPEAKER_02 7:10

Yes, so for all you furs that might or might not know, for a while now we've been doing this segment on the show called Firmations. Affirmations to help you along your beautiful, wonderful life. And these days, IE started a few weeks ago. These are called positive vibes, and on each of these cards there's a little doggy that has something good to say.

SPEAKER_06 7:38

Soofy dogs.

SPEAKER_02 7:41

Hey, woofy dog. So this first one there's a golden retriever, and he says, Every step I take is a step towards a calmer, happier me.

SPEAKER_01 7:55

And on the back of every c boop, boop doop boop, also on the back of every card on the box on the back of every boop, there's a card.

SPEAKER_06 8:09

There it is.

SPEAKER_02 8:10

Yes. There's definitely a card on this back of this boop d tube. I don't even know what to have. On the back of this card, it says daily walks. Just like a dog needs a regular box to stay happy and healthy, so do you. Commit to a daily 10-minute walk, letting the rhythmic steps calm your mind and strengthen your body.

SPEAKER_05 8:36

Yes, yes. I I do that most of the time because I don't have a car. It's true. Well, it helps being in a walkable city, though. So, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:46

That makes it so that you are stuck with positive vibes.

SPEAKER_05 8:51

Yes, I get the positive vibes. Sometimes my positives hurt so much that they vibe, but so much walking.

SPEAKER_02 8:58

So much. And this next one, there's a little dog scent that says, I wrap myself in comfort and security. And on the back it says, Create a comfort corner. Designate a special space in your home where you can retreat when you need comfort.

SPEAKER_07 9:20

I like that. Yeah, that is nice, that is nice.

SPEAKER_02 9:24

And on this other one, there's there's a nice husky that says, I am present in the now, at peace with my surroundings. And on the back, it talks about a mindful minute. Set aside one minute each hour to focus solely on your breath. Inhale deeply, hold for a few seconds, and exhale slowly. And the awooness continues. And now it ends for this week.

SPEAKER_06 10:10

Okay. So much for the awooiness. Yes. Awoeness. Tell me more about this beautiful husky, though.

SPEAKER_02 10:19

Right? It's a pretty nice husky. Right there.

SPEAKER_03 10:22

How fluffy is he?

SPEAKER_02 10:23

It's pretty fluff. He's wearing a bandwidth. It's a curl. What color? It's only a bust. I don't see the curl. Oh, okay. We can just pretend it's a pretty good curl.

SPEAKER_06 10:35

Okay. Pretty good curl. It's a pretty good curl.

SPEAKER_02 10:37

It's a pretty good curl. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 10:39

All right. Well, that takes us up to our media section. Okay, well, some of us got our headphones off in time. Um, so I watched a few movies since our last recording. I watched Anaconda with Jack Black and Paul.

SPEAKER_02 10:57

Oh my.

SPEAKER_06 10:58

Oh, awesome. I have to say it was pretty good. It had action in the Jack Black fashion and gross humor. So in typical that. Jack Black fashion.

SPEAKER_07 11:07

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 11:07

Yes. Also watched Pillion with Alexander Scarzard. I didn't watch it with him. He was in it. Oh, okay. And Harry Melling. It's an artsy uh gay movie with BDSM and slave sub underpinnings. And it it's it's worth a watch. Now I know most of the listeners will not know what a pillion is.

SPEAKER_02 11:30

I know there's no idea what a pillion is.

SPEAKER_06 11:34

And I know that there's two in this group besides me that should know what it is.

SPEAKER_02 11:38

Oh.

SPEAKER_06 11:39

Okay. I think I do. Uh does Chitaro, do you know what it is? I think I do. Okay, what do you think it is?

SPEAKER_03 11:45

I I I believe that it is the thing where you get tied on to.

SPEAKER_06 11:50

That is incorrect. Oh. Tabin, do you have a guess as to what a pillion is?

SPEAKER_02 11:56

Um, isn't it that stuff that like after you put um like a big fluffy blanket with other things in the dryer, and then all the other things get the little pillions on it from the big fluffy blanket?

SPEAKER_06 12:11

That that could actually be a good description of what a pillion is, but no. Um TikTok, why don't you tell all our listeners what a pillion actually is?

SPEAKER_04 12:21

Uh well, uh, when you have a motorcycle and you want to have a writer on the back, you can install a pillion, which helps them not come off the motorcycle. Yes. Uh and that that's kind of specific.

SPEAKER_06 12:36

It's very specific. And it's also what is referred to as the person on the back, but if you don't want to call them the biker bitch on the back, um there you call them a pillion. That's actually who's sitting on the back of your motorcycle is your pillion. The basis of this movie, of course, is that uh Harry Melling is the pillion for Alexander Skarsgard. And um he's he's their slave. One of the funniest scenes was kind of lucky. Alexander's kind of hot. He is. Uh he brings him home and he, you know, Harry Melling's standing there, and he says, I'm gonna show you where everything is in the kitchen, and uh you can get dinner started. And that was their first date. He made him cook them dinner, so uh that was you know so nice. Um then I watched him. Uh they didn't show it. Oh missing some plot. I know it's yeah, that had nothing to do with the plot other than the fact that he was being the sub.

SPEAKER_01 13:28

So I see him.

SPEAKER_06 13:30

I watched a movie called Facham Hall, which it's Fakham Hall, okay, which is it's on HBO. Should we believe that? No, no, no, no. Oh, okay. Uh it's kind of like airplane-esque humor meets Downton Abbey. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 13:49

Oh interesting.

unknown 13:50

It had some.

SPEAKER_06 13:51

Does that mean they're British? Yes, very much. Oh, awesome. It had some funny bits, but mostly the humor was more juvenile than Laugh Out Loud Funny. And I was like, oh, that's cute. Oh, that's a cute little aside that they did. And so, you know, there you go. And lastly, I watched Tron Ares, uh, which starred uh Jared Leto, uh, best known for climbing the Empire State Building. Now, I won't say that he's a bad actor, quote unquote, but this role was perfect for him as he didn't take much acting.

SPEAKER_05 14:20

Yeah, um, he's pretty much becoming Persona Nangrata uh in in Hollywood. I think probably the last movie he's gonna make is the new Masters of the Universe because everything he's been in lately has lost studios money big time. Yeah, he is yeah, he's like the death note of a movie.

SPEAKER_06 14:39

He's fairly good looking, but yeah, in an ugly sort of way. I guess that's the only way to describe him. I mean, he's so ugly, he's cute.

SPEAKER_05 14:46

He's gonna be Skeletor in the universe. That's a good one. He's covered behind a mask, so I hopefully it won't ruin Masters of the Universe. I really want this one to be good.

SPEAKER_06 14:56

No, and of course, Aries had a couple of big actors in it, had Jeff Bridges in it, of course, and Gillian Anderson, who you might remember is was um Scully on X-Files. Uh, and it has Evan Peters in the main adversarial of Dillinger, because they brought back the Dillinger role in Ares.

SPEAKER_01 15:14

So Dillinger rolled down the hill.

SPEAKER_06 15:17

He did, yeah. I didn't have high hopes for this movie, uh, and it surprised me that it was slightly above my expectations.

SPEAKER_05 15:26

No, uh yeah, I haven't watched it because I'm just I don't want to ruin it. I don't want to ruin Tron 1 and 2.

SPEAKER_03 15:33

Yeah, it's in my list to watch, but um but it's kind of interesting. I've heard I heard that the that Bruce Boxleitner is not in this movie at all. He's not, no.

SPEAKER_05 15:42

No, they pretty much cut out all of the the stuff from from the second Tron movie. Uh there's it has nothing to do with that, and it's like that never happened, right? Yeah, it was just weird.

SPEAKER_06 15:54

Um and then I watched I finished Eureka. Eureka! Yeah, I have to say seasons four and five were it was obvious by season by the middle of season four that several of the actors were tired of playing their roles in this show, and uh they were just kind of phoning it in.

SPEAKER_05 16:16

Yeah, yeah. Um there were a couple that were yeah, that were really, and I think that's kind of why they switched their um focused more towards Fargo and a lot of his exploits, is because the main actors were just like they were done.

SPEAKER_06 16:31

They were they were done. They were just it was a little too cheesy at the end, also. So I mean, yeah, I'm keeping up.

SPEAKER_05 16:37

But the crossover with Warehouse 13 was good.

SPEAKER_06 16:40

Yeah, and the crossover that Warehouse 13 came to them was good also. So I've been keeping up on RuPaul Drag Race and started watching the new release of Starfleet Academy, which I'll talk to a little bit when in a little bit here. Uh started watching or keeping up on the new episodes of Monarch Legacy of Monsters. I talked about them several months ago. Uh been the new uh Georgie and Mandy's first marriage episodes are coming out, and ghosts are coming out, so I've been keeping up on those shows. Um Rain? What have you been media in?

SPEAKER_05 17:12

Uh I've been watching Starfleet Academy, and uh the latest episode 300 Knight, I really thought was good. Um kind of looking forward to seeing how that plays out. They brought back a plot device, another plot device from Voyager, uh, which I thought was really cool. So the Omega Particle, although this one's a synthetic omega particle called Omega 47, which is a an inside Star Trek joke. Everybody knows there's 47s everywhere in Star Trek.

SPEAKER_01 17:40

Are there?

SPEAKER_05 17:41

That's the yeah, it's because of the Okudas, the ones that make the the computer interfaces, they put 47 just about everywhere for some reason.

SPEAKER_06 17:49

Yes, yes. Now I have to I I have to say Starfleet Academy, I was until this last episode, which is called 300th night, 300th night, I was I was gonna give up on it because all it was to me was glee without the singing. It was just a high school doc or just a high school drama type thing, and it was just like, oh come on, get over it. I don't want to see these teenagers, quote unquote, in high school in space. So um well yeah.

SPEAKER_05 18:20

Uh so Jonathan Frank's directed 300th night. Yeah, and well it would also it also explain he also said uh you know, hey, you guys really need to to chill on the on the hating on Starfleet Academy because the first season of Next Generation was horrible too. He says it takes a while for these characters to get their their feet underneath them, and you know, you really need to give them some grace because it it does take a while to set the story up for you know for the big stuff.

SPEAKER_02 18:54

Can you give them some Frankie too?

SPEAKER_03 18:57

Yes, sure.

SPEAKER_02 18:58

Some grace and Frankie.

SPEAKER_03 19:00

Just a little. I read what Jonathan Frakes said, and he said that in this day and age of of social media, things are flying uh faster than they could ever because back in the day of next gen, it was all done via mail. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 19:13

Right. Yes, really and yeah, so people couldn't, you know, be upset quickly after that.

SPEAKER_05 19:21

Yeah, but the ratings, the ratings for TNG were pretty bad on the on the first season. Uh and yeah, there was some well, I mean, come on, the pilot for TNG was it was bad. Oh, it was terrible.

SPEAKER_06 19:33

It was so bad.

SPEAKER_05 19:34

The only bad news I have from Star Trek really is that there is now no longer any active productions of the Star Trek uh properties. Our active productions have been shut down, and we don't know if they're going to restart them because it depends, I think, how well Academy does during the next uh season and how well the finales of Strange New World go. Yeah, um, so yeah, they've done the second season of Academy already, it's already in the can, they're editing it right now. Um, so same with Strange New Worlds. Uh, it should be starting up here, I think, in a couple months. Yeah. Um, so yeah. It comes out in June. Yeah, it's kind of a scary time if you're a Star Trek fan because it could be decades before we get more new track.

SPEAKER_02 20:26

They should probably like do crossovers. Like uh Bambi goes to space and meets Picard, and I mean, I don't know, just let your imagination run wild, I guess.

SPEAKER_06 20:37

Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, I understand that Starfleet Academy is trying to set us up for new characters to move forward in the Star Trek universe.

SPEAKER_02 20:47

It takes time to do that.

SPEAKER_06 20:48

It takes time to do that. You know, not like in the old days when you had when a show would come out on Saturday night at seven o'clock, and then you didn't get another episode until uh a week later.

SPEAKER_01 21:00

Nah.

SPEAKER_05 21:02

One of the one of the other things I'd seen, I think somebody on one of the the groups on Facebook say was that uh one of the reasons they've gone so far forward also is because technology is catching up at such a fast rate that the stuff from the what we consider the TNG era and Voyager and Deep Space Nine, all that stuff seems so dated now and seems so like just everyday. So they're they're trying to go for a more you know more optimistic, future-y kind of vibe.

SPEAKER_03 21:35

Yeah, I guess I guess I read this one blurb about uh the fact of they talked about Benjamin Sisko on uh Star Trek Catholic. That was a good episode, yeah. He Avery Brooks was not very happy about that because according to his contract, he he was eventually supposed to be brought back, but they kind of killed him off.

SPEAKER_05 21:54

Um Well, he's not killed off, and he actually did give the the when you heard Sisko talking in that episode, it was actually Avery Brooks saying new lines for that. So Oh Yeah, yes, of course and Jake Jake was in the episode too.

SPEAKER_06 22:09

Yeah, but of course, Avery Brooks went a little wacko in his personal life, too. So that's kind of what there's some other issues there. He went a little he went a little off the deep end. But uh anyway, all right. So enough Star Trek talk. Uh TikTok, what have you been watching?

SPEAKER_04 22:24

Uh let's see. One thing to circle back on real quick. The thing that Shitaro was looking for was a pillory, not a pilon. That's the that's the open pause. Yeah, that's the open pause. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 22:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 22:37

But uh as far as my meeting CEO learned.

SPEAKER_02 22:40

Yes, that's today in the same episode. Yes, wow, awesome.

SPEAKER_04 22:46

Uh, but anyway, so for my end, it's the usual Jeopardy and RuPaul. Uh, saw a documentary on Richard Pryor. It was interesting, kind of a general overview of his life and career.

SPEAKER_05 22:58

He is an interesting cat.

SPEAKER_04 23:00

Yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:01

Yes, he is. Yeah. Especially after the fire.

SPEAKER_04 23:04

Yes. Uh, and he didn't, it didn't really slow him down at nearly as much as I thought it did. Yeah, he was parting pretty hard after a little bit of a reflection. Also, uh, we saw a few episodes of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations. Uh, I've seen most of his later series, Parts Unknown, but I didn't know about this one, uh, which began around 2005. It's less polished, more gritty, far more F-bombs, drinking and smoking. And it's kind of more of has more of a surprise. I'm here for that. Yeah, surreal feel overall. Uh, let's see, we'd covered uh Paris, Sicily, Vegas, New Zealand, Japan, Beirut, which was pretty wild because they actually got attacked by Israelis. Or like the city of Beirut got a you know, was that war at the time. Uh, then also we did the chili one, so Ziggy would be proud. And they featured a completo.

SPEAKER_05 24:04

Completos are amazing. Yes. If you haven't had one, a completo italiano is so good. So much avocado, mayonnaise, tomatoes, sauerkraut, everything on it.

SPEAKER_04 24:19

He was only able to eat half of the things.

SPEAKER_05 24:22

Uh what a wimp.

SPEAKER_02 24:24

There's a lot of disgusting things there.

SPEAKER_04 24:27

It's actually quite good, Taven. I made one of those. Yes. Although mine was smaller, sad, but sad, sad, sad. All right.

SPEAKER_03 24:35

Chitaro, what have you been uh watching? Well, the past couple of weeks we've watched a fair number of things. Um, the first was uh Red Notice, uh with Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Godot. Yes, that was really good. Um it's basically um the equivalent of being on the most wanted list, but globally, you know, for Interpol, so to speak. Um I did not know that before I watched this movie, so they actually explain that in the very beginning of this whole entire movie. But it was really good. I I really like the fact that Ryan Reynolds actually plays an art thief, and Dwayne Johnson is a quote-unquote profiler for the FBI. And they get ended up getting paired together for uh an interesting heist of Egyptian artifacts. But I love the scene that when they were in the Russian prison because you know they were sitting there and talking about each other, and all of a sudden, you know, uh Ryan Reynolds' character stands up and says, Attention, attention, everybody! This this man right here is not a cop. He's an FBI profiler that's like a cop, but it's not really a cop. And you know, and then there was a fight that had happened, and it was rather funny. The the whole entire movie is rather interesting because even though there's guns and people shooting at each other and stuff like that, you don't see any blood, you don't see anybody die. Um, and and it's just a rather interesting movie.

SPEAKER_05 25:58

And it's basically Brian, Gal, and and and uh and Dwayne like stabbing each other in the back, uh metaphorically through the entire movie.

SPEAKER_03 26:08

It's oh yeah, it's awesome. I I love the part when they finally at the end they they uh start going down this spiral staircase, and as uh Ryan Reynolds' character is is singing the theme of uh Indiana Jones, and then they go into the thing, and it's like you know, all the boxes that are in there, according to IMDB's trivia, were all boxes that were used in Indiana Jones, the original movie. And so it was like rather funny to hear that whole thing. It was really awesome. But we also watched an anime that is called, and excuse me because these are long names, it is called The Daily Life of the Immortal King. It's about this kid who is all powerful, and he's trying to act like just a normal kid in a normal life. And there's things that happen where, you know, he his parents put this thing on his back of his head to keep his powers at bay, so to speak. And he's going to this special school, and everybody's like, oh, he's just this boring person, and but he's sitting behind the scenes doing various things and stuff like that. It's it's a really good anime, and thank you to Crunchyroll for for recommending it to us because it's really actually a pretty good uh series.

SPEAKER_07 27:21

Nice.

SPEAKER_03 27:22

Um, yeah. Uh, we also watch this movie uh from 2022 that's called Prey, and it's Prey as in you know, animal prey, not prey like oh my god to Jesus, so to speak. Um it's part of it's part of the Predator movie saga. Okay. Now this is set in the 1700s, and it centers around the Comanche nation. Oh, it's interesting because the main character is a female, number one, and in the day, females were only supposed to be cooks and preparers and washing of clothes and things of that nature, right? But yet this person, she wanted to actually be a hunter and go out there and hunt things. And so she ended up uh finding, well, this predator that came to Earth and started stalking them and stuff like that. And it was a rather interesting thing that ended up happening. Uh, but I recommend the movie. It it it was one you do end up seeing the predator get killed at the end, but um, but you know, they did a very good job of integrating um uh Native American uh things into this movie. It was rather interesting, to be honest. Then we watched, and please don't laugh, but we watched Paw Patrol the movie and Paw Patrol the Mighty Movie. Okay. We watched them one after another. You know, I have to say Chase and Marshall are my favorites. Uh Chase is the police dog and Marshall is the fire dog, so to speak. But um the Paw Patrol movie introduced a new character named Liberty, and and they basically uh had uh lots of things that went on and uh stuff like that. You know, they had to keep peace in the city and stuff like that. But in the in the Mighty movie, they actually find these crystals from well, outer space that get brought to to Earth, and these crystals end up giving all the pups supernatural powers, and so each one of the pups got a special ability, and it was rather fun to watch. So if you like Paw Patrol, then you should watch these movies because they're they're really excellent in all honesty. Um and then Pink Lemon and I, Pink Lemonade and I started watching, or I should say, started re-watching Peacemaker. It's a DC comic series with John Cena. Now, last year at the end of summer, there was a second season. And so, you know, when whenever we start watching another season, it's like, okay, we've watched so many things. Do we remember what happened? And it's like, no. Okay, let's watch it from the beginning, you know? And and it's a rather interesting series, you know, because the very first episode kind of like does a recap of why they're doing this movie, this uh series, and it's based on uh Suicide Squad, the movie, and they basically talk about what happened during that movie and stuff like that. And it's it's rather an interesting uh set series because they they introduce uh Peacemaker's father, and he is this um let's just say that he is an exorbitant bigoted racist. Yes, yes, and so it's a rather interesting concoction of how they end up doing this this series, but but we're totally looking forward to to the second season. Um the it's interesting when you re-watch a series and you go, I don't remember that, because that's what's going on right now. So uh, but but it's it's I would recommend watching it for anybody who is a DC comic fan because you know they they do a great job. There's this there's this one uh section where John Cena is going uh or Peacemaker is going to see his father, and there's this guy doing yard work, and he's they're complaining about Batman's uh gardener and stuff like that. It's like really hilarious. Yeah. Um, in addition to watching movies, I actually played uh a game on my Xbox um again, don't laugh at me, Disney Dreamlight Valley. Okay, it's it's a a Disney movie integration of a thing, and and I actually finished the main storyline. Now, the interesting part is that this this game actually, I did not expect this, but it's something that I talk about all the time with my friends who are younger than I. They say, How how is it that you are you remain to be um older and and so uh youth-minded and stuff? It's like I because I don't get rid of my imagination. My imagination is always with me. And this game basically is exactly that. It's about it's a it's a game about uh your character getting older and forgetting what happened in their past and and putting it behind them, and and your you know, they basically tear you into two pieces, one who gets older and one who stays a kid, and they're fighting against each other, and then you end up repairing that rift and and uh ending the game. Well, ending the main part of the game, but it continues on to do other stuff. But but it's a really fun thing, and you know, and and and not to to say that I recommend playing this game, but the story aspect of it is, you know, in all honesty, everybody who is older tends to have lost their imaginations and and forgets about things that they did as a kid, and they always complain about the younger people going, you know, hey, you shouldn't be doing that because and so I think that everybody needs to kind of take a look at themselves and remember how they were as a kid and don't forget the aspect of that because moving forward, you're you're just gonna continue to get more adult-ish instead of childish. Hence why I always say I'm 59 years old, but every time I take uh tests to see what my age is uh mentally, it's 14. So nice, it's kind of a fun thing, but yeah, so that's basically my me daying that I've done.

SPEAKER_06 33:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 33:14

Taben, how about you?

SPEAKER_02 33:16

Wow, compared to all of you, I'm just gonna say uh nothing.

SPEAKER_06 33:20

Oh nothing. You haven't watched anything or played any games, really?

SPEAKER_02 33:28

Oh, a little bit, but uh no, I I failed in comparison to all of you. Oh, come on. Okay, you couldn't have done that bad, Tabin.

SPEAKER_06 33:38

You've been a busy pup then.

SPEAKER_02 33:40

Yes, we'll go with that. How's that? Okay, all right, okay.

SPEAKER_05 33:49

All right, so uh Chitaro, um, moving on, do you have a movie review for us?

SPEAKER_03 33:56

I do, as a matter of fact, and and I I I have to say, before I actually say what movie it was, um, I was planning on actually watching uh another one of the uh Ice Age movies, to be honest. But as we were going through our list of movies, my partner Pink Lemonade said, Oh my god, oh my god, we just have to watch this movie. So he insisted very, very much. And so it is the 2005 movie uh from streaming on Disney Plus called Chicken Little. As we may or may not know, there is an interesting fable about Chicken Little, you know, uh screaming, the sky is falling, the sky is falling, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's it's kind of like the the updated version of the boy who cried wolf, so to speak. Well, in the story, Chicken Little is a female, but in this movie, s for some interesting reason, they made Chicken Little a boy. And I think it's because of Disney's aspect of needing to have a love interest in here. And so they had to have the love interest where Chicken Little has a crush on the ugly duckling. But that's a different story. The interesting part is that this movie, when it starts out, it's rather hilarious because the narrator starts with saying things like, Once upon a time, and they goes, wait, stop. No, you've heard that before. Let's do something else. And then all of a sudden he says, Let's start with something spectacular. And then all of a sudden they bring up the the uh the intro to The Lion King, where it goes, where where the sun comes out and uh depend yelling, you know that. And it's like, oh wait, no, no, no, that's not it. And and so then he he says, let's start it a totally different way. Well, then they basically show the story of how you know Chicken Little is ringing the bell and crying to the town and saying, the sky is falling, the sky is falling, and you must listen to me, and things of that nature. But the interesting part is that the town doesn't believe him and says, Oh, you know, you're just being you, and you know, we don't care about you anymore, blah blah blah. Well, the the the rest of the movie is him trying to at least prove to his dad that he's not some form of a boy who cried wolf. Boy who cried wolf, yeah, pretty much. And and the ironic part is is that the that some of these people who are playing these these uh voices, like Chicken Little is played by Zach Braff, um, and his father is played by believe it or not, Gary Marshall, who was very much into you know, did Happy Days and Vovern and Shirley and Morgan Mindy thing. Or well, ex-husband. Uh actually, I think it was her father. Wasn't it father? Anyway, anyway, we're married, I believe. Um but uh but the the thing is is that they end up doing this thing where where Chicken Little ends up wanting to be kind of like his dad because uh something happened in school and he sees all these pictures on the wall of his dad being this happy baseball person and so on and so forth. So he says to his dad, I want to play baseball. And so he finally gets, you know, says, okay, fine, and he goes to play baseball. So he's in the in the baseball, and and the coach will not let him play because they think he's gonna be a horrible player. And finally, one day uh he ends up getting put on the team, and you know, the ball comes and he swings and miss, ball comes, swing and miss, and then he's like, oh my god, what's going on? And and then he like says, Okay, I'm not gonna be a uh a screw up anymore, so to speak. I'm gonna do something and be make my dad proud. And he he like closes his eyes and he he he uh ends up getting ready and the ball comes, he swings, and the ball goes out, out into the field, and the the the players or other team are like all over the place, and he ends up getting a home run, making everybody happy and forgetting about his his thing. A few days later, he's ended up celebrating at his room and stuff, and and something ends up falling from the sky and hitting him in the head and lands in his room, and it and it turns out to be an alien spaceship. So he ends up finding out that the sky is falling because of an alien spaceship, and uh they basically uh have lots of fun trying to figure out what's going on and and getting chased by robots and things of that nature. It's it's a really fun movie. It has some a really great soundtrack, and I I kid you not when I say it's it's got uh a lot of songs from specifically the 90s, you know, that are very up and coming. But like I said, it had a lot of famous people in it. Like, for example, it was one of Don Knott's last pieces of movies that he actually worked on before he died. He he played a turkey, the mayor, the mayor turkey. Um, and Patrick Stewart was in it. Um, Amy Sederis was in it. As a matter of fact, Wallace Sean was in it, uh, and Catherine O'Hare uh uh was in it. O'Hara was in it, and and of course, the best of them all was Adam West. He ends up at the very end of everything, they end up making a movie of all of this stuff because the town finally realizes that Chicken Little was not this cuckoo crazy person, and they end up making this movie, uh Hollywood Production, and and Adam West is the voice of quote unquote Chicken Little. Um but they called him they called him Ace because they didn't want to really call him Chicken Little in the movie, so it was rather hilarious.

SPEAKER_05 39:35

Which is also funny because that's a that's a that was the name of Batman's dog.

SPEAKER_03 39:40

Yeah, yeah. And so, needless to say, there's a lot of interesting references to, and as ironic as this is going to sound, a lot of interesting references to Raiders of the Lost Ark. As a matter of fact, there's this one scene where where um you know when they're going through this whole mess of chicken little complaining, going, Oh my god, this guy's falling, and and they end up having this chaos, and somebody runs into the this big water tower, and this water tower is a big, gigantic ball, and the ball comes comes uh rolling, rolling down the city, and it ends up going down the street and hits a theater. Now, inside the theater, they're actually watching Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the scene is when Harrison Ford is running from that big gigantic ball, you know, rock, and the the water tower comes right through the building at the same time this rock is coming and it like flattens the theater and stuff. Like I said, there's there's all sorts of little interesting Easter eggs in this game, in this uh uh movie, not game. Why did I say game? Anyway, um, so it's it's really fun. I I I personally enjoyed it. Yeah, there are a couple of things that are kind of like out there in terms of like not believable in the movie, so to speak, but you know, I think that's unimportant based on the fact that the rest of this movie uh was fairly good because the the soundtrack, the actors that were in it, the voicing and all that stuff, it made me like the movie. There's actually a a sad part in the movie, my uh, you know, that I'm not gonna talk about. It's I'm gonna let you guys watch the movie um and see. But it kept me entertained, and I am giving this four and a half chirps because it it deserves better, but there's just a couple of things for the reason why I couldn't, and like I said, it has to do with uh uh some inaccuracies of things, and maybe I'm being too uh hard on Disney, but so go out and watch Chicken Little on Disney Plus. You guys will be totally entertained.

SPEAKER_06 41:41

Yay. Okay. Uh Tabin, I see that you made a note here that you remembered something for media.

SPEAKER_02 41:47

I did just that uh this last round I got um first place in in the arena in Royal Kingdom.

SPEAKER_06 41:55

Oh, very nice.

SPEAKER_05 41:57

Congrats for you.

SPEAKER_06 41:58

Good for you.

SPEAKER_02 41:59

So now on Did you get crowned? I I do get a crown of so I get uh I like you have a little profile thingy of all your achievements, and one of them is now I I have um number of times got first place in arena, and so now that says one instead of zero. Nice.

SPEAKER_06 42:18

Okay, so that brings us up to our intrepid news reporter, TikTok. What have you got for us?

SPEAKER_04 42:29

Let's see. Well, we got a few scoops for you furs this week. First up, the medical drama TV series, The Pit, which is based in Pittsburgh, USA, had a recent episode revolving around July 4th weekend. In addition to the various ER emergencies, there is a heat exhaustion patient who was involved in Anthrocon. Yay!

SPEAKER_05 42:51

Yes, I saw the clip. It was actually pretty good.

SPEAKER_04 42:54

Yeah, the fursuiter was said to have overheated in the summer weather and was treated at the depicted hospital. Scanned through the show, it was a decent portrayal of furry who loves the fandom, recommends to the attending doctor that they should check out the convention. It's just a bunch of nice people. But our weasel-eyed informants, Ziggy, pointed out the fursuit on the show is the same as the one used in the German series Next Exit Happiness, which I covered a few months ago. Did a little research into this, and it's the fursuit in question. The original is owned by Ravallo Wolf. The design has the dubious distinction of probably being the most copied character in fursuit history. Yeah. It's been copied endless times through cheap fursuit importers. Uh Ravallo has made public statements requesting people to discourage others from buying these knockoffs, but also to not harass others that have bought them because the vast majority bought them without knowing that it was a copy. So, you know, help get the word out if when you can. And next up, as Furries, we're often large consumers of tech, even if we don't work in tech. As a highly online community, we depend on tech, and many furries that I know personally have very tech oriented homes and living spaces as well. And we all know too well the process known ashidification. The term was coined by Corey Doctoral in 2022, although the phenomenon was well known before then. As quoted by Doctorow, a platform will first they are good to their users, then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers. Finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. We see this all the time with platforms like social media, software editions that change stuff, eBay services, and then there is Internet of Things, IoT, home systems charging subscriptions, car companies requiring extra monthly payments to unlock features on their vehicles. However, the European Union has taken steps towards preventing this, doing things like forcing Apple to standardize their charging systems to USB C. France in particular has passed recent legislation for right to repair laws and to prevent forced obsolescence in order to prevent e-waste. And in addition, and as said on their website, which we will include in the show notes, the new report Breaking Free Pathways to a Fairer Technological Future. Nice. But as furries, what can we do? I mean, I have like a revulsion to the term app, and actually hurt me a little bit just to even say that term. But what do you actually gain from like signing on with every new thing? Does your clothes washer really need to be on the internet? It's using and consuming these mostly useless services adds to this reading frenzy of inshidification. So consider unplugging a bit. Cancel services and remove phone software you don't need. Sci-fi writers such as Derek Bayer have written detailed articles, uh which we also included in the notes, on disconnecting from an overly plugged-in life. So a little step at a time, a little step at a time first. And quick mention about Oxfurs, the Oxford University Furry Club had a nice article in the Oxford Student, which is, well, they're a student in the newspaper. Usual fluffy highlights, a way to express one's hells, be social, be artistic, the fun of putting on fur meets, and the challenges of fur suiting. So Bravo to the Oxford furries. Bravo furries of Oxford Bravo! And lastly, the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation reported that the Swiss Canton government of Bern responded to a written question from Liberal Green parliamentarian Thomas Ronanen if the Burney's coat of arms should continue his display its bear with his legendary red penis and his body to face left to right position as a symbol of progress.

SPEAKER_05 48:02

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 48:03

The uh executive committee soundly rejected both proposals. The bear on the coat of arms of burn will continue to display its red phallus. The direction in which the animal faces will also remain the same, going from right to left. The committee ruled the bear has been depicted in this fashion and a tradition that goes back 600 years on coins, seals, and government documents. Okay. Barely you can breathe a little sigh of relief if you're planning a trip to Switzerland. No mandatory vet visit for you. Oh goody.

SPEAKER_05 48:38

I'm so happily waggle your penis wherever you like.

SPEAKER_06 48:42

I don't think that's going to be something I'm going to do, but thank you for giving me the permission to do so. Yes. And that's the news for this week. Awesome. All right. Well, Tabin. Hello. Hello. Would you like to talk about the Good Furry Awards?

SPEAKER_02 49:04

I could talk a little bit about that. You any of you first may or may not know uh that Papa Bear, um, Ask Papa Bear uh hosts the Good Furry Awards and has done for so for um since 2019. And uh the nominations are open again. So in case you don't know, what is the Good Furry Award? That's a really good question. So the Good Furry Award is an annual award that where furries can nominate and select other fellow furries or or a furry. You can actually nominate as many as you want. They want to just recognize for being outstanding in their furry community. So this is a way to not like sh um highlight pop you furries or anything like that. That there's a lot of us furries out there in the community that just really do good things, and and it would be nice to highlight and and recognize these furries for all they do. And so this is a good way to do it. And uh that you get oh, there's awards and everything. Um winners receive a handsome trophy and a cash prize of$200 each, which by the way, as Papa Bear actually this is his own money. He he contributes to this, so this is really great. These days there are several categories. There is a lifetime achievement award, but besides that, there's the good egg award, which is for furries who do a charitable or other volunteer work. There's the image award, which uh goes to furries who present a positive image and the fandom through media uh videos, documentaries, those types of things, and the Fertastic Award, which is basically for furries doing just good works that don't kind of fall into these other categories. Anyway, it's a really great way to just help out and be part of the firm uh the community and to just highlight the wonderful things that all us furs are out there to do. Nominations close in June, I believe, but you can go to Ask Papa Bear or sorry, you can go to Uncle Bear Publishing.com slash Good Furry Awards, or just Google actually just Good Good Furry Awards in it and it comes up. So all you furs go out there and support your community and the furs that make it so great.

SPEAKER_06 51:02

Papa Bear's been doing this for a while and he's been on the show a couple of times to promote the Good Furry Awards, and I will put a link to the in our show notes as well as a link to the nomination form. If you go to the Good Furry Awards, there's a link at the top, but if you click on that link, it says it's an error 404 thing. I reached out to Papa Bear and said, hey, you got a broken link there. But down at the bottom of the website, there's a little tiny blue thing that says click here for making a nomination. So you gotta go to the city.

SPEAKER_02 51:32

Is that what I couldn't find? Okay, so Papa Bear, if you listen to this, make your link a little bit more obvious because I couldn't find it. But and also probably barely, I'm sure you remember at BLF BLFC one year, what was it, 2019? Maybe we helped Papa Bear present his awards.

SPEAKER_06 51:48

Yes, we did. Okay, uh that takes us up to our pup-coming events.

SPEAKER_07 51:52

Pop coming events.

SPEAKER_06 51:54

So starting in uh April, the second through the fifth in Durham, North Carolina, is Bewiskered. That same weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada, is Las Vegas FurCon, where our good friend and podcast person with us today will be there, Tabin. And uh Furling Game is taking place in Burlingame, California that same weekend, the third through the fifth. The third through the seventh, that's a long con, is Fontastique in Braun, France. The 8th through the 12th in Schweinhert, Germany is Spring Furcon. Vircation Land 2026 is taking place April 9th through the 12th in Portland, Maine. To Dance 2026 is taking place in Ham, Germany, April 10th through the 12th. That same weekend in Spencer, Tennessee, the 10th through the 12th of April is Woods Flock 2026. The uh Dublin, Ireland one, I mean he be Handchan, is taking place uh April 11th through the 12th. Uh Furry Down Under takes place April 17th through the 19th in Suffer's Paradise? How about Surfer's Paradise? Queensland, Australia. Suffer's Paradise probably sounds better.

SPEAKER_02 53:03

It depends on how bad you are at surfing, I guess.

SPEAKER_06 53:05

That's true, then you're gonna suffer, that's for sure. Forget about it is taking place in Fairfield, New Jersey on April 23rd through 26th. Wild Nights 2026 takes place the 23rd through 28th of April in Wilburton, Oklahoma. Furry Weekend Holland takes place in guess where? Holland in the Netherlands. Actually, it's in Barlow, Netherlands, in April 24th through the 27th. The 25th through the 26th in Somerset, New Jersey is the bigger one. That's the competing Vircon to forget about it. KRAS 2026 takes place April 9th through the May 3rd in Boscavice, Czech Republic, where one of my friends that's an engineer is there. And then uh Ibracon takes place in Madrid, Spain, April 30th through May 3rd. Volley Weekend takes place in Switzerland, April 30th through May 3rd. And that same weekend, April 30th through May 4th, in Suki, British Columbia, Canada is Camp Fuzz 2026.

SPEAKER_02 54:07

Fuzz Kitty Cow Kitty Cow.

SPEAKER_06 54:21

Okay, uh Tabin. Hello. We have put off math for several episodes.

SPEAKER_01 54:27

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 54:27

And I think it is time for you to math us.

SPEAKER_02 54:30

Okay, well. So you first might or might not remember the last time I did a math segment was which was season six, episode 16, I believe. Let me see. Yes. Yes. Um, I talked about this really big number called Graham's number. And so let me let me review that this really quickly. It's like this massively huge number. I'll go back to the episode and you can listen to it and we talk more about it. But basically, it is a number so large that the observable universe is literally too small to contain a decimal digit representation of it. It's like huge. Even the number of digits in this thing called Grams number is still too large to be represented in the observable universe. Even that number cannot be represented in the observable universe and so on. It's like just so massively huge. And but what's actually really interesting is that this isn't just a number, like, oh okay, there's this really huge number out there. This is a number that actually arises from counting some geometrical object. So this is an actual, like it means something. It's it's this huge number that is not imaginable. Like, just think about that for a second. You can't even represent it in our universe. Literally. Like you can't, it's just that big. It's it's unfathomable. Anyway, so that's why I talked about that last time. And um, then I said uh next time I talk about math, I would talk about an even bigger number. And so now I will talk about that bigger number. Every first say, Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay, and and this this number comes from well, so let me say it really quickly. The Grams number, I didn't really describe how what it comes from because you really need some visuals to see it. It's not hard to construct once you see this sequence, but um it's just this easy to so this other thing comes from a sequence that it's something called the tree sequence, and you do also really need visuals to describe it. So I won't actually go into that, but I'll just tell you something interesting about it. And indeed, actually, that you can go on YouTube or whatever and and um ask for the tree sequence, and and they'll um start showing you the draw the little pictures and stuff. So let me tell you something about it. So for each integer n, there's a number tree of n. So like there's tree of one and tree of two and tree of three and tree of four and tree of five, and so on and so on. And it's the sequence. And for each element of the sequence, it's constructed in a certain way, and the number that you get from that that's the the tree sequence. So, for example, it turns out it's not hard to compute tree of one. It turns out that tree of one is one. Isn't that amazing and exciting? I am rude. Yes, amazing. So, and then you can look to compute this thing called tree of two. It turns out that it's not hard to compute tree of two is three. Okay, so we've got this one, three, okay, great. Okay. Tree of three, you would imagine, well, okay, it's just gonna be like the number five or seven or ten or something like that, right? Well, sure. It turns out that tree of three has not actually been computed, but a lower bound is known. That is, we know how small it is. Now, this lower bound turns out to be astronomical. This lower bound is even bigger than Graham's number, and in fact, it's so much bigger than Graham's number that it cannot even be imagined how much bigger it is than Graham's number. So we've got one, three, this, then this really huge, crazy number that is literally you can't even imagine how big it is. Okay. So that's so that's unexpected. Um and just something else that is interesting to think about. It can be proven that, and it has been proven that this number, called three, is finite. To prove that this number is finite, you can talk about this thing called finite arithmetic. That just means arithmetic where you can write down numbers and symbols and exponents and stuff. So you can actually just write this stuff down. Now, if you were to prove that this number called Truve3 is finite, using finite arithmetic, it is known that the number of symbols you would need is huge. The number of symbols you would need is a tower of 1000 twos. Okay, what does that mean? Let me tell you what that means. So for example, two squared, two to the second power is four. Are we okay with that? Sure. Yes. That's just two times two. It's four. Okay, yes. Two to the second power, and that raised to the second power, so that's three twos. That's two squared is four, four squared is sixteen. So, okay, we've got sixteen now. That's three twos. Now, four twos. So two, two the two, two the two, two the two. All of a sudden we're at sixty-five thousand five hundred and thirty-six. Okay, okay. Now let's let's do five twos. And you can just compute this actually. Two, two the two, two the two, two the two, two the two. So that's five of them. This is a number that has 19,729 digits.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:02

Holy micro. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:04

That got that escalated quickly. Yeah, right. Now, okay, so that's five twos. Think about one thousand twos. Oh my god. Okay, yeah. That is the number of symbols you would need to prove that tree of three is finite.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:26

Holy mackerel.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:27

Okay, oh my lot. So that gives a really good indication to what we're actually talking about here. And it's just amazing. And so then, of course, some that just pro says that okay, well, how can we actually prove this then with like writing down things? And this is some uses something called transfinite arithmetic, not finite arithmetics, because this is where you have to use like levels of infinity and things like that. It's just crazy. So it's crazy to think about, and also remember, these are just like not just big numbers, these are numbers that actually come from counting the number of geometric things that you know arise out of a certain construction. So that's just crazy and mind-blowing to think about, and it's just very interesting to see how they come up and used. And I just found out just recently that there has been a number even bigger discovered than three of three. And I haven't even read about that yet, but maybe I'll talk about that sometime.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:30

How did they discover it if they can't imagine it?

SPEAKER_02 1:01:33

I mean, that's a really good question, right? I mean, you can't even so the thing is in math, a lot of times um things come about from uh constructing a sequence of things, like you just say, add, you know, take this number to the second power or whatever. And you you can construct sequences of things, and from that you get uh all these big numbers and stuff, and um, that's actually how Tree 3 and Cramsum number came about, and it is just crazy to think that it the the construction of these things is actually not too bad, but then you just get these infinite amazingly huge numbers, and it's uh really crazy and and stuff. So wow, and so that is my math for the week. Wow.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:24

Wow, that's some that's some big math.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:27

That's some big math. Can't even think about it.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:30

So let me let me pose a question to you about this number. How do how do mathematicians use these numbers so in in math? And what do they use them for?

SPEAKER_02 1:02:41

That is also a very good question. I wanted to come up with something before the show that I could say something about that in case someone asks. So thank you, Barely, for asking, and I'm not ready for that. But okay, um, so these numbers are actually, as I say, and as you were noting, are used in math for things that are of substance and used, and they are used to prove other things and stuff too. So they actually have use. I think maybe either next time or sometime in the next few episodes, I will talk a little bit about that. So this would be a good pass uh today for next time.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:16

Awesome. Okay. So Tabin, could you use tree of three to prove how hot seven of nine is?

SPEAKER_02 1:03:24

I actually don't think so. That's just unless that's we're not doing it.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:29

Could we get a mathematician to prove that six, seven is a number that should be gone away? Yes. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:36

Okay. I I think they're working on that using tree of three axes. Awesome, awesome. Thank goodness. Thank goodness.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:43

It's about time. Yes, yes, yeah. Okay, well, thank you for that uh mathematical uh description.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:50

That was a lot of fun. That's fun.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:52

Yeah, uh, that takes us up to our plugs. So, our shameless plugs, as we say. Uh, one of the other podcasts on our network is the Royal Highness Podcast, where the hosts enhance with cannabis products, watch a television show, and then chat about chat about it while they're still enhanced. The podcast releases every Wednesday. They are currently watching the Viking historical docudrama, The Last Kingdom, after having finished Dunk and Egg series on HBO. If you haven't listened to the podcast, you really should, because these two are great podcasters, and they are so funny and so irreverent on the takes they take on these serious shows. Uh, it's it's so much fun. I laugh so hard whenever I'm listening to them to produce it. Um now, only if we could get some more listeners, other than the six we have uh for that podcast, which is really kind of sad.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:40

Yeah, it's it is because it's so damn funny. Every time I I have to sit in for you and produce, I am in stitches by the end of it. Like I am like crying tears because I'm just like they have cracked me up so many times during that podcast. And it's just it's so good. People go listen to it.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:58

Are you first go listen to it? They need more than six listeners, and apparently they deserve it.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:04

They totally deserve it. Rain, what are you promoting these days?

SPEAKER_05 1:05:09

Uh well, I'm just promoting Three Doo Who, the monthly Doctor Who podcast, where Barely, James, and myself discuss all things Doctor Who. The episode coming out at the end of March is all about River Song, and we're talking about Bad Wolf for the April episode. So check it out on YouTube if you like to watch. Uh if you're into listening, uh BuzzSprout or your favorite podcatcher.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:31

And Rain.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:32

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:33

Has there been or will there be a canine episode?

SPEAKER_05 1:05:38

There has been. It uh uh unfortunately it is one of our least uh watched episodes.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:45

Oh, so Augurs, uh K9. Hello.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:50

Yeah, I I happen to be a enjoyer of K9. I think Kantix hilarious. Uh however, a lot of people find him to be annoying. What?

SPEAKER_06 1:06:03

Well, you have to remember that when K9 came out, the show was primarily focused on. the younger generation and and and children. So they wanted something cutesy for the children. The later iterations of Doctor Who have really more catered to the adult yes.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:21

Because those those kids have since grown up there.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:26

And they don't care about a robot dog anymore. No.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:29

Yeah, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:32

Cool. TikTok, how about you?

SPEAKER_04 1:06:34

What are you plugging these days? Yeah, just get the hugs at Furlandia, which leads us up to Chitaro? Yes.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:41

What are you plugging? Well well let's see. What should I plug? You don't think anything Chitaro? Yeah, I I I don't know. Maybe maybe I don't. But maybe I'll just throw out this little something called Furlandia 2026. We're still taking registrations. They're still$60 for the weekend. Our website is fully immersed in terms of our dealers den list and the layout for them as is the artist alley. We have maps of the convention space so you might want to familiarize yourself with that. But we are going to have a lot of signage for uh our new space because well we don't want anybody to get lost from the three floors that we're going to have or forlandia this year. Three floors. Yeah. And um I also wanted to do two reminders uh the first I was will talk about is in regards to getting your hotel room if you want to get it under our hotel room block go to forlandia.org and go to the hotel section and it has a link to go to the hotel to reserve your room. And how much is the hotel room per night in the block? It it should be 175 but of course when you add all the other things that hotel things and you know it ends up being like 190 something or other per night because of how that works. But but that's kind of where hotels nearer to downtown are. That's still not too bad. Let me just say that I'm looking into uh an interesting situation because I'm being told that there's only one kind of room available and that's one with one bed and I need to verify with the hotel that uh there are no two room rooms available anymore. But um still go do the link and um and get your your uh reservation because let's just say our hotel has 600 rooms in it completely. However we in our hotel room block have only 500 of those rooms because the rest are slated for other guests that might actually want to show up to our hotel uh for the weekend that we are. And uh and and we're getting very close to being at record numbers of hotel rooms that we have booked. I can't really talk about numbers uh specific but I can say that we are breaking all sorts of records in terms of uh the the rooms that we have for I should make sure I have my hotel room yes you should yes Taven you should definitely make sure you have your hotel room I think I do but you're making me nervous so I I think I'll go check. Yeah don't look at us from the case Tabin please oh yeah yeah it i i if if you happen to book another uh another room you know just let me know so that I can uh give it to somebody else in our room block that just means that Rain and Ziggy have to come because they now they have a room I don't think we're allowed back in the United States anymore especially if you've been banned on Reddit yeah right exactly yeah now now I do want to say one more thing to to plug for Furlandia and that is just to reiterate who our guests of honor are going to be we're gonna have a a writer whose name is Kyle Gold and he has been doing writing for over 25 years in the furry fandom specifically the gay furry fandom although he does have one straight furry book that he wrote because he did it on a dare from what I've been told we won't hold that against him. Yeah yeah um but uh he and his partner are going to be here for the whole weekend. Um the other little guest that we have for guest of honor for this uh lovely occasion is a a voice actor from the little tiny show called V Stars which has just released its final season I saw that on Netflix go go watch but Jonah Scott who voices Legoshi on the English version is our guest of honor. I and um Wag. I Wag. Oh yeah so I'm so glad that you got him because yeah well well I I I want to say this because I have to say that if it was not for this podcast we probably would not have Jonas Scott uh as our guest. Now I will say that the ironic part of that is is that when I asked for um a person to be a voice actor from VSTars, I was actually hoping for Ben Diskon because of the fact that he was on our podcast and I thought you know he would be a good person because I didn't know you know what was going to end up happening and when his agent said oh I'm so sorry Ben Diskon is busy that weekend but I have somebody else if you're interested how about Jonah Scott would you be interested in that and of course who would say no right we tried so hard to get Jonah on but during the time that we were trying he was booked solid like he couldn't he he couldn't take any time to do anything. If you look at his IMDB profile you can see how busy he's been because he has so many things that he does and I'm so happy that he is able to take some time and and have uh some time at our event this year. So I'm I'm proud and happy.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:14

If any of you first want to see me Tabin meet Lugoshi uh come to Furlandia.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:21

Yeah I'm sure it's gonna be extra special Taban will be wagging so hard that they won't need to turn on the air conditioning in the facility because his tail will just be fanning everybody.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:34

Pretty much the only the last thing I want to say about Furlandia is that go and get your registrations now because you know we do not have a cap on our event but I will say that our numbers are through the roof. And I mean let's just say that we have about an 85% increase from last year at the same moment in time of number of people who have registered okay holy wow so so if that tells you anything if you really want to be at Verlandia and you want to be a part of the event as always the best thing is being at the hotel because you're guaranteed to be able to see all the stuff when you're at the hotel and get your room block. For example yes or or or have story time with Tabin because you know that's also very important you know because it's very important I'd love you to say that yes so so all you furs come to Furlandia just for Tabin's story time and him singing We Are Al. Don't come for anything else just come for Tabin singing no I'm kidding I'm gonna have Tabin yeah yeah so well that that's pretty much all I have to plug because you know I mean at at the time that this comes out uh um we're we're gonna have less than 60 days before our convention so um you'll be a little get out there yeah and and yeah be being a little busy but uh but not too busy to not do this because I have a day set aside for these things so that's why I'm here. Alright cool cool Tabin what have you got to plug?

SPEAKER_02 1:14:09

Oh my cow okay the things so I have a link tree L-I-N-K-T-R-D-E-E slash Tabin which has a link to all of my stuff but for example there's an Instagram which I don't use much but I should use it more but it's Tabin Pup. Um I've merch on fourth wall tabin.fourthwall dot com t-shirt mugs stickers more to come and stuff I'm hoping to actually uh sell some of them at Firlandia but that's a separate story so I'll be talking to Chitaro more about that in the future. Of course make sure to check out my YouTube where there's the crispy chicken saga very very important um of course and uh yeah I mean there's that there's uh lots of good math videos uh I've had furs tell me that they've passed their calculus exams because of my videos so check those out there's a fun but also just fun math videos about movie strips and pine bottles and things like that um there's a history of our barely further casting feature in Tabin podcast um put up there recently that's kind of fun there's cooking with tabin you can learn to make ice and how to open things and things like that lots of fun things product reviews drummings other fun random stuff more things to come uh so make sure to subscribe and check them out my next cons are Las Vegas Furticon I'll I'll be there um and then of course obviously for Landy I'll be at May in Anthro weekend Utah later this year I'll be doing my story time with Tabin and Tabin sings Weird Love some songs I haven't done yet so if you've seen my Tabin sings weirdell before there'll be some new things for you so come check them out and I have some new um not one but two new Tabin chip designs so make sure to grab some of those too get to the chopper get to the chopper now that sound uh means we are out of time here at BFFT That's what that is listeners we know you have a choice actually it's probably no okay I won't say anything um we know you have a choice in podcast and we love that you chose that's the president landing no uh so uh so that sounds means no okay I've lost it now I have it's it's like Orange Crush or something like that right okay we know that you have a choice to listen to podcasts and you we love that you Wow I can't talk now yeah we won't do the choppa again once of the choppa okay uh we love that you listen to our podcast remember you can help support the show on Fuzz Sprout or through Patreon for as little as$3 a month.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:48

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SPEAKER_03 1:17:29

Awesome TikTok the all the fluff the all the fluff chitaro make sure you laugh and pay it forward to others because if we were all laughing this world would be a better place.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:41

Okay and because Ziggy's not here I will say on his behalf if you see him in Fortnite do not pew pew him because he needs the points. So um and pop goes the weasel pop goes the weasel just like don't say the other thing nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope thanks to all the staff at Injured Nerves Podcast Network and to all the furs out there Moobark Fluff and Stay Furry Tabin like all the times before you have the final words.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:09

Hi so yes um I well not I have to say spooky deodor are you actually still listening all the way to the end if you are let us know in the chat and any of you other furs that listen to this crazy thing we call a podcast all the way from beginning to end. If you can actually put up with me that's amazing so make sure to let us know in the BFFT uh chat on telegram or send um uh email or respond on the um website like Burley was talking about and that would be great so I just have to say thank you we've had hope you've had a good time tonight we sure have heaven we had a good time yay yay it's a good time and we're still going strong we are getting close to the end of season six and getting close to starting season seven oh my cow that's crazy so uh are you for seven seasons in heaven yes so we we've got thyme we've got curry we've got paprika we've got them all we've got salt and pepper coriander salt and pepper coriander all the good stuff so yeah so uh thank you for joining us uh we can't wait to bark at you next time so until then moo bark fluff stay furry barely furcasting is an injured nerve studio production and is found on all major podcast platforms.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:36

The furcast is produced recorded and directed by Barely Normal aka Mike Beegan and is edited by Barely and associate producer Rain Raccoon. Opening and closing theme was created for injured nerves productions for the use on the podcast by Regday with Damian Tanuki. Other interstitial and background music is from Epidemic Sound. Podcast cover art provided by staff artist Buncubus. If you would like to send us a message you can do so via email at barelyfurcasting at gmail.com or on our telegram chat at BFFTChat or on the barelyfurcasting.com webpage. You can help support the show through donations at BuzzSprout or through Patreon at patreon.com forward slash barelyfurcasting. Be sure to check out our merch at bffft.dashery dot com Thanks for listening. We hope you return to listen again. Move Bark fluff everyone