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Welcome to BFFT! The Injured Nerves Network brings you another exciting and time wasting episode of BFFT!  The gang is all here! Taebyn, Rayne, TickTock, Cheetaro, and Ziggy all have things to say. We play a little This or That, get a story from Taebyn, Zen out a little, and even learn a thing or two.  Taebyn and Bearly have a sit down with Yipee and we have all the news that is furry related.  So join us, won’t you, for another T-Riffic (that is Taebyn-Riffic) episode of BFFT! Moobarkfluff everyfur!

This episode was recorded the week before Furlandia took place. Be sure to tune in next episode to find out all the fun that was had at Furlandia!

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:00 Opening and Welcome

SPEAKER_12

Hello things to do. Hey everybody. So uh my neighbor told me uh just the other day that his friend Jack invented a hot tub that injects bubbles into the water. I said, Jack, who's he?

SPEAKER_04

What?

SPEAKER_12

If you apply a bug if you apply bug repellent, are you putting off on or putting on off?

unknown

Hmm.

SPEAKER_12

Yes. Deep. And uh recently there was a neck decorating contest held at the county fair. It ended in a tie.

SPEAKER_04

Was it a bolo?

SPEAKER_12

Yeah. Just last night I went to a silent auction and uh I got two mimes and a dog whistle. But uh before we get too serious, really? Serious? Do you know what a culinary wizard practices? Well, saucery, of course. Sounds delicious. Yeah, alright, I've I've caused enough groans. Let's get this going. Cue the music. Well, greetings and Moobark Fluff to all the creatures in the potiverse. I am Barely, and you are listening to Barely Firdcasting, featuring Tapid, the show that asks the question if anything is possible, is it still possible for anything to be impossible?

SPEAKER_08

All the deep thoughts tonight, all really, right?

SPEAKER_12

Wow. With Jack Handy. Coming to you from around the globe and across the universe, we have Rain, TikTok, Chitaro, and Ziggy. How are all of you? Preparing for the fluff. Easily. Preparing for the fluff. Easily.

SPEAKER_08

Trying for the fluff.

SPEAKER_12

Trying not to pull my hair out. Yes, because and it's easy for me to grab that hair because you have lots of long hair that you just grab handfuls. I have to actually get in there to pull it out. I did that yesterday. And I should probably introduce my original co-host, Tabin. How the fluff are you today?

SPEAKER_08

Hi. He's woo-woo wooing. I'm woo-woo-wooing. I'm good. Um, you know, I'm I'm I'm that way. That is the way I am, and that's is what I say. Okay, what am I this is? What are you talking about? Haben, what are you talking about?

SPEAKER_02

Haben, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_08

What are you talking about? I really have no idea. But thanks for asking me. Um I do have to say time for Jesse for a walk and how you should do about English. And that is all I will say about

:19 Superfans Shout Outs

SPEAKER_08

that.

SPEAKER_12

All right. Do you want to do a quick shout out to our uh our super fans?

SPEAKER_08

Um, yes. Thank you for keeping us cool on a hot day, super fans. That was stupid. So, yes, Aldrich the Fox and the Otter, and there was another who oh, of course, uh um thank you for the first one.

SPEAKER_05

Embryon caniston, embryon caniston.

SPEAKER_08

And embryon caniston, that's right. Um thank you for all your support and listening all the way to the very end of these episodes. And if there's any for out there that also actually listens to like every uh every minute of the episode, like you don't cheat and like forward to the end and stuff, let us know, and uh we will give you a shout-out on the show and stuff. Awesome. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_12

Yes, I think starting in season seven, we will have uh shout-outs to super fans at the beginning of

:18 Podcast Announcements

SPEAKER_12

the show every time. Alright, some quick notes before we get on with our nonsense. Uh, we have concluded our BFFT Labs segment tests. Uh so be sure to tune in during season seven to find out what we decided on. And then our next episode is our season finale. Woo! Season six is coming to an end. And then we will have a movie watch the week immediately following our season finale, and then look for other specials at the beginning of season seven. All right. So, Taven, before we move any further, is there any Ziggy's gonna be banned? No, he's not. I need to get a hammer. I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna get the bonk noise every time he says anything.

:03 Things Taebyn Doesn't Understand

SPEAKER_12

Alright, Taven, is there anything you don't understand before we move forward in this uh silliness?

SPEAKER_08

I don't understand why are you pine filled mopping plates with vinegar when all they had to do was call the environment suite to check on the golly ash. I mean, it's just so simple. Why not just do that?

SPEAKER_12

I just don't understand. I don't understand either. Because you have to get to the point. Because tomato soup has no bones. True.

SPEAKER_11

That is very true and controversial.

SPEAKER_12

Well, I didn't see anybody put any notes in the past today, which means we've got everything up to date. So, Tabin, it's time for you to give us our affirmations.

:16 Furmations

SPEAKER_12

Which we desperately need. Desperately, desperately need some firmations right now, yes.

SPEAKER_08

And just really quickly, every fur why we desperately need them is because you this episode is being released after Furlandia, but we four of us uh are leaving for Furlandia tomorrow, so we're kind of in the middle of um getting all that packed up and everything. And of course, Chitaro is uh I I am so surprised that Chitaro joined us this evening because, well, he's the con chair and I did give him a pass.

SPEAKER_12

We had a meeting on Sunday, and I said, Look, if you're too busy on Tuesday night to record, it's okay. And he's like, Oh, hell no, that's my respite from the week.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, it is totally my respite. So I want to thank you. Thank you all for allowing me to take two hours out of my day to record this because it need I it was very much needed. So I'm ready for I'm ready for being zen now, Tabin. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_08

We are already apparently your Zen, so we will get an extra layer of Zen right now. Where I do this thing that I do, the affirmations for the week. So the next three cards that I read, one is a pitfold doggy that says, I stand firm in my beliefs and values. And on the back, it says, Define your values. Spend some time reflecting on what you truly value, and write these down. Reviewing and standing by your values can guide your decisions and give you a stronger sense of self. Oh that's the one. And uh on the next one is a beagle. And this beagle says, I listen deeply, attuning myself to the rhythms of life. And on the back, we are bathing because we have a sound bath, it says. I don't know what that is, but oh well it's going to tell us attend a sound bath session or listen to a recording of one. The resonant sounds from instruments like singing bowls can help align your energy and promote deep relaxation. Singing bowls.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, crystal bowls. They kind of go. No, they're usually made out of metal. Metal or crystal.

SPEAKER_12

Yeah, I have one somewhere.

SPEAKER_08

You do? Yeah, I do. So these are actual things. Okay, so all you first make sure you listen to the bowl sink.

SPEAKER_12

You've seen them, Tabin. What they are is they're like a metal bowl and have a wooden club type thing. You hit the bowl and then you run the club around the rim.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_12

Those are called singing bowls.

SPEAKER_08

I I see you earn. Wow. That's amazing. And the last one is a cute little border colleagues that says, I navigate life's twists and turns with agility and grace. And to uh fit in with the agility uh agility aspect on the back of the cards, it says, practice flexibility! Try a new activity that requires physical or mental flexibility. And oh it's no, I thought it said something about a pizza, but no, it says something about a puzzle, so I won't read the rest of that. But that concludes the affirmations for this week.

SPEAKER_12

Unless people are and unless listeners are listening in headphones, they didn't hear that whisperer.

unknown

No.

SPEAKER_12

Or unless they're dogs. If they're dogs, if they're dogs, yes, that's

:00 Media

SPEAKER_12

right. All right, that takes us up to our media section. Ah, I was in time. You guys weren't. I'm deaf. I just got mine off just in time. For listeners, uh, when he does that, we all pull our ear our headphones away from our ears.

SPEAKER_08

Because it's a painful doggy voice.

SPEAKER_12

So now it's gonna be my challenge to uh get him to do that before everybody takes their headphones off. Alright, so if we have a deaf podcast uh coming up in the season ahead, that's why.

SPEAKER_02

We know how to say I know how to say Trump now.

SPEAKER_12

Okay. Yes, that's right. I watched that too.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12

That's American Sign Language for Trump. Is it no Lord? You put your hand on top of your by your forehead and wait and wag your fingers, and that's Trump. Is there a thing?

SPEAKER_05

It totally makes sense, too. Yeah, his hair.

SPEAKER_12

If you watched uh Brad Williams, his latest um yeah comedy special, it's on YouTube. It's called Live from Short Street.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, though you told me about that. Okay, so I have to watch that, yeah.

SPEAKER_12

Yes, it's on YouTube. It's the only place it's on, it's on YouTube. I haven't found it anywhere else.

SPEAKER_02

So uh I I think I think a lot of comedians I've I've been noticing lately are migrating to YouTube for their specials because the cost of entry is far lower than going with like Netflix or something like that.

SPEAKER_12

Sure. Alright, so media. I've been keeping up on all the new releases of uh Georgie and Mandy's first marriage. I'm keeping up on Ghosts, American Dad, Family Guy, I know that, and Bob's burgers. I know there's some more new episodes that uh uh the hubby and I are going to watch this evening while we're cuddled up in bed. I'm catching, we're catching up on Invasion, the Apple TV sci-fi about uh, well, being invaded by aliens. I started the new episode, the new season of Rue Paul's Dry Grace All-Stars. Oh and uh it's it's pretty good. I'm enjoying it, and I'm also happy that I didn't have to pay for it this time because I had to pay for the standard one because I don't have MTV. And uh so I had to pay for the other one.

SPEAKER_08

I want my MTV.

SPEAKER_12

I did notice though that it is MTV, uh, is the is the main host for RuPaul's Dry Grace, and they used to have a specific song when they plant the flag on the moon at the beginning. They changed the song.

SPEAKER_07

Why would they do that?

SPEAKER_12

They changed the song, it's a different song. Uh TikTok's curious, he's gonna listen to it the next time, isn't he? Uh I thought it was the original song. No, it's a different it's a different uh it's a different starting song for the MTV flag plant.

SPEAKER_05

Okay. Maybe they're updating it for the newer listeners.

SPEAKER_12

Maybe, I guess. Um I did watch a couple of weeks ago Project Hail Mary. Oh, I have to say, great, great movie. If you have a spare two hour and 36 minutes that you have nothing better to do, I don't. And you can find it, uh, watch it. It's not out on video yet, but um, it's it's an awesome, awesome movie, and I can see why the CGI that's in there should be nominated for Best Supporting Cast Member. It is.

SPEAKER_02

Well, also I watched Adam Savage's tour of the set, and the set of his spaceship, uh, all those screens and everything, they're all real. That's not CGI. It's a very practical set. Wow. Uh with with uh Rocky being apparently the most CGI portion of the movie. Obviously.

SPEAKER_08

Was Bull Weekle there in support?

SPEAKER_02

No, different Rocky.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_11

Rocky Raccoon?

SPEAKER_05

No, no, different Rocky. And not the first one. So I'm assuming you saw this in the I'm assuming you saw this in a theater then, right? I flee. I fleeed the fifth. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_08

Uh Tabin, what have you been media ingredients? Hi. Hi. Um, so I've still been trying to work my way through re-watching the first half of season three of these, and I'm still like you you might remember a few weeks ago, I said, well, I'm hoping to be able to finish all of season three before Forlandy, because obvious reasons, and I'm not. I'm like not even done with the first half that was already out a long time ago. So I'm that's not gonna happen. Um we started season seven of Brooklyn, Brooklyn Line 9. And you know, it's really fun how, like, when season four was all done, like everyone we all thought that season four was like the end, and like uh now we're starting season seven. They just keep going. But it's it's that's pretty good. We finished season two of Running Point. Uh, you might remember I talked about that before. It's a great show. Um, they definitely left it open for season three, so I hope they do. Um, because it's a really good show. I really like it. We finished season one of Brockmeyer. Now, I think you might or might not remember me talking about the show Brockmeyer like long ago. No. No. Okay. Yeah, because I didn't even remember that, like, we had watched maybe a few episodes, and then, like, just about a week ago, we're like, oh, maybe we should continue watching Brockmire because, well, we apparently forgot. Anyway, it's a fun little show about a famed Major League Baseball announcer who went a little crazy having a meltdown of sorts on the air, which put him off the air, but then he tried to make a combat comeback a decade later. And it's kind of a fun little um little show, something I think maybe just to watch if you just want something to watch. It's it's humorous, it's good. Um, that's what we've been watching. I've been playing Royal Kingdom, Blue, uh, Monkeys Go Pop, Beatsaber, uh, and I still haven't had time to continue to try and figure out One Deck Galaxy. Last time I talked about a game Dominion, which I still haven't checked out, so hopefully, next recording of our show I'll have actually figured out more of One Deck Galaxy and played Dominion so I can actually talk about it instead of saying, Oh, hey, I'm supposed to talk about it and play it, but no, I haven't done it yet, so I'm kind of dumbhead, so there it is. Anyway, we'll see um what happens. Alright. And that's what I've been meaning for the one.

SPEAKER_12

Alright, I forgot to mention that uh we watched uh Good Omens 3. Oh the new the new season, the new quote unquote season came out, season three. It's only one episode. Yeah. That's a very short season. Well, it's it's it's just like they just buttoned up everything and uh off it went. And uh it was really good. I enjoyed it immensely. But I was just gonna say, well, just watch season we'll just watch episode one and then we can go to bed. And 97 minutes, 97 minutes or two hours later, it was like, oh, wait a minute. So yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Rain and Ziggy, what have you been watching? Well, we haven't been watching anything really. We've been kind of busy. Uh, between Ziggy's mom coming back from her trip to Europe, Mother's Day, yesterday's triple birthday, my dad, my niece, and Ziggy's dad, and then Ziggy's new position at work, watching TV's been kind of on the back burner for us. So I I've been playing some of my old favorite video games, The Darkness 2, Call of Duty Ghost, and Overwatch 2. Ziggy, what about you?

SPEAKER_11

Just been playing the new act of Fortnite. It has been a lot of yes, a lot of peep you. It has been a lot of experimentation experimental changes, which I'm enjoying very much. They are still pushing through Star Wars mode, and apparently they are going to start featuring a lot of more Disney characters. There's already Toy Story and even Rada Dui and Rumor Turk Kingdom Hearts is possibly possibly coming. Oh, and just before recording time, we watched the Fortnite exclusive trailer for The Mandalorian and Broo. It was fun nice.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, John Pavarot even came on at the beginning and gave like a special shout out to all the Fortnite players and and you know it's an exclusive trailer. I'm sure it'll be on the on YouTube probably in the next 20 minutes or so. Of course, yes. I'm sure it probably already is. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

I'm assuming that Bullwinkle supported that one though, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_08

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

I'm sure you did.

SPEAKER_08

Oh my cow.

SPEAKER_11

What's wrong with me? We don't know.

SPEAKER_05

If we knew that. We love you the way you are. Okay. You're just a pup, Tabin. You're just a pup.

SPEAKER_12

I am just a pup. You are just a pup. TikTok, how about you?

SPEAKER_03

Well, let's see. We got Usual Jeopardy, uh, RuPaul, Drag Race, All-Stars. Uh, congrats to Don to making it to the next bracket. You know, I gotta say, Don sure does love some fake fur and anthropomorphic costuming. Yes, she does. Yes, she does.

SPEAKER_08

Well, we were on the same page there.

SPEAKER_03

I did um I did some hunting. Um, haven't found anything about him being part of the fandom so far, but give it time.

SPEAKER_11

Give it time. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Yes. Usually adjacent becomes smack dab in the middle of it within a very short amount of time. Yes, yes, absolutely. We've seen it several times.

SPEAKER_03

Also, uh, Tony Bourdain knows uh no reservations. We watched the Ukraine episode, and during filming in Kiev, I spotted a background bystander at a bunny head partial fur scene. And at first I thought it might have been related to like spring, Easter, because that's when the filming took place. And but while there's certainly festivals related to spring in the region, there's nothing bunny related. Uh however, I did find that Furrence, one of the OG European fur cons, was taking place around that time. So I think an uh attendee probably photobombed the filming. I love it. Yay, Bunny. I love it.

SPEAKER_12

Uh newies are important. Chitaro, what have you been up to? I know you haven't been up to much, but you know, because you've been so busy.

SPEAKER_05

But you've been doing well. Well, you know, I I I have I have been having a small amount of my time taken up by Furlandia, you know, just a small amount. Just but first I want to say, Taban, you would appreciate this one. Oh I wag in anticipation. Because Pink Lemonade and I watched a film called Good Boy.

SPEAKER_04

Oh!

SPEAKER_05

Was I in it? Which one? Um, no, I don't think you were. But this one is about a dog that sees supernatural, not supernatural, supernatural entities lurking around the family home. Um the dog's guardian moved out of the wood moved out into the woods, and that's where all the interesting things start to occur. This dog's name is Indie, named for Indiana Jones, because um this this dog was the director's dog, and we're gonna be. We named the dog Indiana. Yes, yes, exactly. Exactly. But he actually received uh as as ironic as it's gonna be, it's the first time ever that a dog gets top billing in a movie.

SPEAKER_08

Oh nice. You would think a duck would get top billing in a movie.

SPEAKER_05

Uh sorry. And so this dog is also this dog also won an award for for their uh acting in this movie, too. I don't remember what award it was because I was trying to search for it, but I do know they won an award for it. Yeah, so uh it was really cool. The interesting part about this movie is that the human actors and actresses' faces are never seen until the final moments of the film. So so this is all from the perspective of the dog, and you see all the dog's cute little faces and what he sees in the darkness and things like that. It was it was really an awesome film. I I I you know, best performance from a dog ever in a film, to be honest, you know. Yeah. Well, you know, that's a that's a different story, you know, because crispy chicken nummy nummy tots is a classic. It's true. But but you know, I I will say this dog, this dog, they they they said that they spent over 300 hours filming because of the dog needing to have certain things, and and he wasn't really trained to be in this film because he was just the director's dog, so you know it's kind of one of those things. So because you're the director, you get to do everything. Absolutely, hence why the movie was called Good Boy. I will say because of also because of Furlandia, we've been watching a lot, and I mean a lot, of American Dad. And and and and I kid you not, in the last five weeks, we went from watching the first season, first episode, and um and currently since we last talked, we've finished the season 10 and we're currently on season 13. Wow. Wow. Yeah, so that means that we're actually up to 2018 now. In terms of American Dad. American Dad is a nice thing to just kind of drone out to in the at the end of the day when you dead 12 hours at Forlandia.

SPEAKER_12

Yes, he does. That's our go-to-sleep nighttime cuddle time.

SPEAKER_05

I also have been playing more Disney Dreamlight Valley, and let me tell you, they did a great job incorporating Alice in Wonderland. You get to gain um the characters Alice and the Cheshire Cat.

SPEAKER_12

Nice.

SPEAKER_05

And let me tell you, the Cheshire Cat is a pain in the ass. Is he related to my cat? Because my cat's a pain in the ass, too. All cats are pains in the asses. Hey, I take it right from chirp, chirp, meow meow hiss hits. But we love you anyway.

SPEAKER_08

Yes, but with the other edition of the EFFT where the entire staff flies each other.

SPEAKER_05

So I will say, with all of his riddles and his misdirections, he keeps you on your toes for sure. And so it's kind of fun. There are times when you just want to tell him and you get a chance to say to him, I think you've said too much and things like that when you're talking to him. Um, but you know, he doesn't care because he's the Cheshire cat. I've had a few misdirections. Hopefully they didn't end up on the floor. No.

SPEAKER_11

I'm glad you watched the 2018 movie deploy. The one from 2022 is completely different. Okay.

SPEAKER_07

Yep. Good to know. That is very good to do. Good to know. Look for the one that has the dog, not the one with the.

SPEAKER_12

Okay. Yes.

:14 This or That

SPEAKER_12

Alright, we're gonna do a standard this or that from my 3001 this or that questions. Wow. We go throwback. We're gonna go throwback here because, you know, we have 3,001 of these. So uh I'm just gonna go around my my pictures here of who's ever in in in order on my screen. So Chitaro, you get the first question.

SPEAKER_05

Okay. Would you rather have unlimited sushi or unlimited pizza? Well, as long as the pizza was thicker crust and not like paper thin, then I would say pizza.

SPEAKER_08

Because you don't want it to like cut yourself and stuff.

SPEAKER_05

Okay. Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_12

Tabin, you get the next one.

unknown

Woo!

SPEAKER_12

Would you rather go to a concert of your favorite artist but only be way at the back? Or go see an artist you kinda sorta like, but you get VIP seats.

SPEAKER_08

Well, I think I'll do the very important pup seats, cause obvious reasons. Okay. Because I I want to be a very important pub, oh my cow!

SPEAKER_12

Uh, Rain. Yes. Would you rather have one free international trip every year or fly domestically everywhere anytime for free?

SPEAKER_02

Well, since I don't live in the US anymore, that's kinda like not gonna work for me, but the one free international trip per year does sound kind of fun.

SPEAKER_04

Good.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_12

Well, this is another food-related one for Ziggy.

SPEAKER_11

Yay! See senor!

SPEAKER_12

But it's a give up. Which would you rather give up? Would you rather give up pizza or tacos for a year? Oh my cow!

SPEAKER_11

What is that?

SPEAKER_02

What? This is a tough choice for him because he loves both of them.

SPEAKER_11

I think I'll would give up uh pizza because now we have a very good taco place here, and I'm not gonna miss on that.

SPEAKER_12

Yeah. This is a very strange one for you, TikTok. Would you rather have a face-shaped nose or what? A nose-shaped face.

SPEAKER_09

What the cowinius and fair?

SPEAKER_03

Well, I guess, you know, if the nose is where it's supposed to be, like having like the little like second face, you know, in the nose. Yeah. Might be kind of cool.

SPEAKER_08

No, it wouldn't.

SPEAKER_12

You don't want to be just a big nose on top of your shoulders? No. No.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. None of that is good.

SPEAKER_12

I don't Terry Gilliam. Very Terry Gilliam, yes. Okay, Chitaro, your next one. Yes. Would you rather have a magic refrigerator or a magic toilet? Now it doesn't tell us what the magic does, but would you rather have a magic refrigerator or a magic toilet?

SPEAKER_05

Well, that's scary. I I I'm finding that most of these are about food to a small degree. Um true. But I would rather have a magic refrigerator because, you know, it in my mind, a magic refrigerator would like guess what it is that my brain says I might be hungry for and put it in there for me to eat. Awesome.

SPEAKER_12

Okay, Tabin.

SPEAKER_05

Hi.

SPEAKER_12

Would you rather have everything? Sorry.

SPEAKER_08

Okay, on the count of three, every clear. One, two, three.

SPEAKER_12

Okay, Tabin, would you rather have Pay attention, pup.

SPEAKER_08

I'm trying, I'm trying. Okay, okay. I'm listening. I'm I'm here. I'm here.

SPEAKER_12

Would you rather have everything you need with no space to keep it, or a ton of space with nothing you need?

SPEAKER_08

I think I'd go with the first one. I'll I'll make it work. I'll make it work.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. Yeah. Anybody who's seen Tabin's room knows that he makes it work.

SPEAKER_08

I do that's true. That's very true.

SPEAKER_02

That's very true.

SPEAKER_12

Okay, rain. Yes. This is a chicken-based question.

SPEAKER_08

Is it crispy?

SPEAKER_12

Well, yes. Do you want fried or baked chicken?

unknown

Fried.

SPEAKER_12

Fried all day.

SPEAKER_02

There you go. Fried all day.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. Every day. Every day.

SPEAKER_12

Ziggy. Would you rather kill your enemies with kindness or outsmart and embarrass them?

SPEAKER_11

Uh, with kindness, with a machete called kindness. Oh.

SPEAKER_08

Oh wow. So they started out great but when a little dark.

SPEAKER_02

My baby's got some some deep dark tendencies.

SPEAKER_05

We now know why you pay Fortnite, Ziggy. Yes.

SPEAKER_11

I'm gonna hug people. Hug them very tight.

SPEAKER_12

Okay, and finally, TikTok. If you only could choose one flavor of ice cream to eat for the rest of your life, would it be chocolate or vanilla?

SPEAKER_03

Uh vanilla.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12

There's only two choices. I mean, you could always put anything on it, right? Yeah. There's no restrictions on these questions. It just says blah blah blah.

SPEAKER_08

So I mean, I think that the um undertone here is that Boldwinkle would bring it to you, whatever it is. So it would be fine in any case. All right. All right.

SPEAKER_05

Well, Boldwinkle only brings chocolate meat because there's nothing up his sleeve. That's true.

:03 Furry News

SPEAKER_12

That takes us up to our intrepid Super Sleuth TikTok. What do you have for us in the furry news world today?

SPEAKER_03

Well now, the Maryland Renaissance Fair has caused something has caused a kerfluffle for banning fur suits. What a kerfluffle? Yes, uh, and on their fact page, inappropriate, offensive, and non-thematic headwear will not be permitted through the festival gates. Examples of non-compliant headgear face coverings include inappropriate face paint, offensive prosthetics, uh makeup or masks intended to frighten, okay, and fursuits.

SPEAKER_07

Oh what is this?

SPEAKER_12

Well, I mean, you know, the Renaissance really didn't have furries.

SPEAKER_02

Well, it didn't have Star Trek it didn't have Star Trek people either. So that's true. Yeah. What about Robin Hood?

SPEAKER_05

Isn't that at least Robin Hood is kind of like Robin Hood is kind of like Renfair to a small tree, right?

SPEAKER_03

Yes. And yeah, there's more on that. There's more on that. You know, hold your hats, hold your ears, hold your nosies. Additional statements from the fair include, and this is compiled from a few different sources, um, our decision to specifically prohibit fursuits is based on repeated incidents and patrons wearing said costumes at the festival. Okay. And it was a variety of issues, not complying with festival security, actively performing, engaging with patrons, character interactions, misrepresenting themselves as hired festival entertainment. Okay. We understand that these concerns do not apply to every individual who wears a fursuit, but a pattern has been established and a lack of respect for the festival community is present. Personally, I'm trying to imagine a significant number of fur fursuiters that would be enough to cause as widespread issues at a public event. I'm not buying it, you know, and so perhaps some of our listeners familiar with the affair would like to weigh in, so please get in touch with us. But in any case, here's the real rub in my opinion. It was also stated the fair is trying to get back to the original focus of a Renaissance festival. Now, define a Renaissance festival. Yeah. I mean, other statements imply they're trying to become more of a period, that is to say, historical show. But the American version of a Renfair has very, very little to do with historical accuracy. True. It's just a fantasy fest. As far as fur city not being period, I present to you my dear dear furs, medieval animal mumming. I plan to cover mummy uh mumming in a future report, but in short, it's the tradition of dressing in animal furs and mass, going from door to door, and performing impromptu skits. Often for money or food. Okay.

SPEAKER_02

I mean, what's next? Are they gonna kick Jacques Wipper out too? I mean, because it has absolutely nothing to do with with Renfairs, but he's at every single one of them, it seems like.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, it's it's a it's a fantasy fest. You know, you know, it's cosplay without the commercialism, you could say. Anywho, so the next up, I've been recently made aware of Sacred Beans Coffee, a coffee shop in Denver, Colorado. According to their Blue Sky page, we are a queer and fret and furry-owned coffee roaster that specializes in unique and micro lot coffees. Nice. Okay. And from what I saw in their media, they're very much in the same vein as Slightly Furry Cider in Seattle. Uh the coffee house has furry themed. Uh, along with your cup of joe, expect to see furry art, take part in some table gaming, listen to vital records, and see the occasional fursuit. So wait yeah, way to go sacred beads. And rain. Are you ready for this? Again? Yes, I'm picking on you again. It's not just racks who get to party. In central eastern part of France, gendarme de sol. Oh well. Uh it's drunk season for the local fauna. Wild animals have a tendency to eat fermented fruit and other date decaying vegetation, and then get a little more than tipsy. In the Burgundy region, of course, known for its wine, local authorities posted a video of a drunk deer which had consumed fermented grapes and it found. The uh in the video, the deer spins in circles, staggers, falls down onto its back, and then gets up standing on very wobbly legs. Uh according to the authorities. If Bambi has had a bit too much of that forest a perditif, now might not be the best time to drive as if you own the world. Own the road own the road. It warned drivers to slow down, be aware of their surroundings, and avoid sudden steering maneuvers. Awesome.

SPEAKER_12

Yeah, I know. Uh I have a cherry tree in my backyard, and if I don't pick all the cherries, which I can't because it's too tall, and I don't have a cherry picker to pick the cherries, but uh I know that uh in the in the late fall when the cherries are all getting rotten and the blue jays go in there to eat them, they start basically falling out of the trees and uh and and kind of walking around on the ground going, what the hell? Where am I at? What's going on? Why am I so this way?

SPEAKER_05

The squirrels do that at my cherry trees. They they fall out of the trees drunk off their butts. So it's kind of funny watching.

SPEAKER_03

Nice. But then that's the news for this week.

SPEAKER_05

Awesome.

:20 Cheetaro's Movie Review

SPEAKER_05

All right. Hey, Chatara, do you got a movie for us? I do have a movie for us this week. Um, it's the 2026 movie that's streaming on Netflix uh called Swapped. So it's interesting because when you watch this movie, all of the animals that are in this movie are it's like you're watching it from another planet. Because, you know, there's there's all sorts of animals that are in this. There, there's these deer. No, they are not Bambi Tabin, just so you know. Um, but there's these deers that have these antlers that look like trees on their head, and the whole entire body looks like bark. Um there's wolves that have trees on their head, and you know, and um and and and it's very interesting. It's almost it's very surrealistic in terms of, but um, all of these animals were based on animals that are on our planet, of course, but they're not but this doesn't take place on our planet. But what's really cool is there's this one creature who kind of in all honesty, he kind of looks like a hedgehog crossed with a porcupine without needles, so to speak. Um, and and his name is Ollie. And he is called a I'm gonna try to say this correctly so it doesn't sound rude, a poo-koo. He is this fuzzy little thing, and and he's roaming around in the beginning of the movie, and and and he's like this, you know, his parents tell him, Don't roam away from the spot because you could get in trouble. Well, he roamed away and he runs into this bird who he ends up treating to some of their food, and then the those birds end up overtaking their food and and things like that. And so so basically what ends up happening is it's it's kind of this turf war between these pukoo and these birds, you know, in terms of stuff. Well then they kind of tell you this interesting story about how long ago the puku were a different kind of animal, and they had these pods that when you touch them, you would turn into a different animal. H hence why this movie's called swapped, so to speak, because you're swapping from one animal to another, so to speak. So when you're going through the movie from from the part where you hear the story, what ends up happening next is the young little uh little creature called Ollie uh ends up uh getting ousted to a small degree out of his village because people aren't happy with him sharing all of their food and they don't have food enough to eat. So he goes out and he tries to figure out how he can solve this problem, and he ends up trying to figure out how to do this by using some glass to shine into these birds' eyes from the sun and make them all fly away. Well, they did, but the unfortunate part is that one of them ends up knocking him down a hole and into these pods, and as he was falling, he said this bird's name, and then he immediately turns into this bird. Eventually, the bird ends up turning into a poo, and and then they have this journey to to figure out oh my god, we have to find these other pods to be able to um switch ourselves back. So they become friends and all this stuff, and it's kind of a fun little cute movie. Um But the overall arching message of this movie is rather interesting. It talks about friendship between people, well, specifically these animals, and how cooperation is kind of important. It also talks a little bit about environment and things of that nature, too, because there's a lot of stuff that ends up happening that destroys the whole entire landscape and stuff like that. But but they would be wrecking the movie to tell you more about that, to be honest. But I will say the animation in this is exorbitantly wonderful. If it wasn't for the fact that I knew that it was CGI, you would not know it was CGI. Oh wow. It's kind of that good in all honesty. Well, while watching this movie, you know, there, you know, because of the fact, like I said, these aren't real animals that are on Earth by any means, but but watching it gave me a sense of of inclusion to a certain degree, because you could see yourself as one of these animals and be involved and immersed into this thing. So so, in regards to my my rating for this, my chirp counter, um, I'm giving this four and a half chirps because it is a really good movie. The the music that's in there kind of pairs nicely with it. It's not any of the music like has vocals and stuff like that, but it it really pairs nicely with uh how the movie goes and things of that nature. So, so I I would recommend people watching it because, like I said, the the ultimate underlying message of of friendship and cooperation, you know, um is really deep in the the movie, um, and and of course the environmental message too. So, so like I said, it's on Netflix, it's called Swapped. It just came out this year. Really wonderful movie. Um, so uh go go go and stream it on Netflix.

:05 Upcoming Events

SPEAKER_12

It's time for our upcoming events. Upcoming events! Coming up June 11th through the 14th in Marxheim, Germany is Fervaria. Then, of course, June 11th through the 15th in Le Pine, Oregon is Campfire Tales. Are you still going to that, TikTok? I am planning to. Okay, good. Yay! Uh, Little Island Fur Con is taking place June 13th through the 14th in uh Singapore. Argentina Fur Fiesta is taking place June 19th through the 21st in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Mo Furry House is taking place June 19th through 21st in Qingdao, Changdong Province, China. Texas Fur Siesta takes place in Dallas, Texas, the 19th through the 21st of June. That same weekend, the 20th through the 21st, in Kota, Kinabula, Sabah, Malaysia, is the Borneo Anthro Hub. Portcon Maine is taking place June 25th through the 28th in Portland, Maine. Unforgettable Taiwan Furry Gathering, 2026, because it's unforgettable.

SPEAKER_04

It's taking place June 27th through 28th in Zubai City, Taiwan.

SPEAKER_12

Cesfer, not Sespool, Sesfer, is taking place June 28th to July 3rd at um someplace in the Czech Slovic, because I'm not even going to try to pronounce all those fancy words.

SPEAKER_02

How did I know those symbols?

SPEAKER_05

I know. If anybody in our listening path knows how to say that, please put it in our in our BFFT chat.

SPEAKER_12

Uh Lakeside Furs 2026 takes place June 28th through July 5th in Austria. Anthrocon 2026, of course, over the July 4th weekend in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Indonesia weekend anthro gathering takes place in Kabuta Paten Tangerang in Indonesia. That's July 4th and 5th. Tangerang! Sounds like a type of alcohol. Tangerang. It sounds like what the boy, the Lost Boys said on Peter Pang. Bangerang, yeah. Bangarang, yeah. Bangarang. July 10th through the 12th in brand new. Not brand new, but brand new, Norway is Furway 2026. Moonfest takes place July 10th through the 13th in Colombia. In Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on July 16th through the 19th is Fur A. Furray! July 16th through the 20th in Helena, Montana is Big Sky Camp Pa. Brazil is hosting Brazil Furfest July 17th through the 19th, and Noctfernal takes place in Carsonville, Michigan on July 17th through the 19th. Also that weekend is Purple Clouds Festival in Germany. Awustria takes place in Austria on July 22nd through the 25th. Also that weekend is Euphria In Albany. Yeah, Euphuria, which we think would be Europe, but it's actually in Albany, New York.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, that is very counterintuitive.

SPEAKER_12

Very counterintuitive, yes. I was expecting the next line to say somewhere in Europe, but no, it's not. It's Albany, New York. Fur East takes place July 23rd through 26th in Strasbourg, France. Aurog. Aurora? Aurora. Aurora. That's it. Yes, Aurora.

SPEAKER_05

Aurora.

SPEAKER_12

Takes place in uh Australia, July 24th through 26th. That same weekend is FurestCon in Ukraine. Um that's where there'll be lots of uh furries there. Yeah, there you go. Well, please pass. Hopefully they'll be safe there. I hope they're safe. Safe to all the Ukrainian furs out there going to that fur con. FuderCon takes place July 19th through August 2nd in Osa, Poland. And finally, Anthro Weekend, Utah, or AWO takes place in Leighton, Utah, and that is where Taven is going. Are you not?

SPEAKER_06

I am going to my first AWO this year. Yeah, that's very exciting. Very exciting. Nice, nice.

SPEAKER_12

Awoo. So, furs, if you have a local event or gathering or meeting that you would like us to promote, please send us an email with the dates and the deets.

SPEAKER_00

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:22 Yipeee Coyote Interview

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link to help support the show becoming a reality.

SPEAKER_12

Well, uh Tabin and I had a chance to sit down with Yippie Coyote recently, so let's take a listen to what Yippie has to say. Well, hello, Evernote. We are sitting down with James Chin Jimmy, uh aka Yippie Coyote. Welcome to the show.

SPEAKER_10

Hi, how thanks for having me. James is what my dad called me. Uh-huh. Usually to people I would go by Jimmy.

SPEAKER_12

Jimmy. All right. Yppi among fandoms. Jimmy Yippy, whatever we want to call you, but um Vladimir. So you're Vladimir? I don't think we want to call him Vladimir. That's got some negative connotations right about now.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, actually, that is a true statement. So never mind.

SPEAKER_12

So never mind. Let's not stick with Vladimir. So so you're a furry? Yep, you are. Okay.

SPEAKER_10

35 years now. Okay. All right.

SPEAKER_12

So well that kind of answers the question. When did you enter the fandom 35 years ago? So that would be 1980 or 1990.

SPEAKER_10

1990. Um August 4th. Nice. Oh.

SPEAKER_08

To the day. What happened on August 4th that uh turned you furry? And then when and how did you get into the fandom?

SPEAKER_10

That was kind of my uh initial word that set me on the uh the path. Uh I was at a sci-fi convention and a cartoonist artist uh by the name of Ken Mitcheroni had just come back from LA working on Tiny Tunes.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, cute.

SPEAKER_10

And had seen my artwork and said, you should check out Robrazzle. And when I got back to college, uh after the convention was over, I asked on uh the Usenet group, uh Rec Arts Comics, what's Rob Razzle? Sure enough, that led to uh discovering Robrazzle, and then uh the guy who answered was the edit one of the editors of uh the fanzine yarf, and next thing you know, I've got the first six issues uh in the mail for me.

SPEAKER_08

Nice, very nice. Nice, nice. You just never know. There that's good, good, great, great.

SPEAKER_12

Why are you considering yourself a retired pop you fur?

SPEAKER_10

Well, to some extent, uh I consider myself as being pop well, in the basic, basic terms of it, is I'm popular within the fandom. I'm known and so forth. But I'm not the pop you fur with a P capital P. I don't go chasing the fame, I don't go really out looking for uh cred and trying to uh promote things and uh dictate to people about how they should uh act and behave and what they should do to have fun and how to be a furry.

SPEAKER_08

And you don't throw crayons at other furs. No, no, of course not.

SPEAKER_10

I'm a good I'm a good kid in the playground.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, good, good, good. Barely crayons. I know that look from barely. He gets that from the other. I like how Yippee didn't even blink when I said that, and then barely spike even but that's a common thing that happens around these parts.

SPEAKER_12

It it it is around these parts here, yes sir. Um so okay, so you have a YouTube channel?

SPEAKER_10

Uh I do kinda, but I don't really post there. Okay. Oh.

SPEAKER_08

What do you post there when you do or when you did post there?

SPEAKER_10

Actually, not really sure what I have up there. I think I have uh a few old videos from uh like I have my old uh Phoenix Coyote's uh audition video from 1998. Oh, very cool. And uh a clip of uh where I played a blue dog and walked off the front of a stage.

SPEAKER_08

Oh and I want to see that.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, a friend of a friend had inserted the uh Wilhelm scream, so I'll send you the link later.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, definitely. So uh so all you first uh make sure to check out the uh Yippies YouTube channel because I I want to see the blue dog where it comes. And 1998, so there's like some vintage furry stuff there, so that's very exciting. So we'll post the link on the um uh BFFT webpage, so make sure to check all that out.

SPEAKER_10

If I think if you look for Yip Coyote and you should find it.

SPEAKER_08

Or you can look for Yip Coyote and you should find it. So that might be actually a little bit easier. Um so something about you have ratings of the mascots.

SPEAKER_10

That was a separate someone else's article that uh is how uh I brought you brought you into me here.

SPEAKER_08

That relates to like my question that I have later. I as soon as I said that, I didn't know what that meant, so I was gonna have barely read it. But now, so all you first can listen to my thought process here, and that's very exciting. No, it's not. So I wasn't sure what that meant, and so I was gonna have barely asked you that question, but then I just started asking it, and as soon as I started reading it, I realized, wait, that relates to something I'm going to ask later. So this is a great part of our story, and this is great. So forget that I said that, but and all you furs out there forget I said that because I'm that's that's coming up. So I will then say, you have a veritable plethora of fursuits. Tell us about them all. How how many of them do you have? How many of them have I hugged and seen? Because I know at least two or three.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, I've uh got twenty now. Oh my goodness. That's it's kind of variable because some of them are rate, some of the older suits are retired, uh, not really in circulation. Uh first off, there's Yippie. Yippie Coyote, you've met him.

SPEAKER_09

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_10

Fuzzy brown coyote, first invented in uh 1996. Oh, is he is he the first? Uh no, he's actually my second first suit.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, I have this uh sort of uh simplistic looking wolf uh named Woodruff, and he's kind of buried in my garage somewhere. Oh, okay. Woodruff. Or Woodruff. I don't know if you want me to run down all 20 of them.

SPEAKER_12

Well, no, so so so why 20? Why do you have 20? What's just uh just over time they wear out, you get another one, or well, it's more like uh I like uh adopting characters.

SPEAKER_10

Um I've m made a few of my own, including Yippy and Twilight and a few other.

SPEAKER_08

I like Twilight.

SPEAKER_10

Yep. And I seem to uh accumulate them uh over time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Oh look, there's another fursuit there magically amazing.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, they just kind of uh find their way to me uh one way or another. I I know of a friend who's like looking to sell a suit and uh when I had money, and uh it just happened, uh yeah, I'll adopt this one.

SPEAKER_06

Nice.

SPEAKER_10

A few of them are part of uh part of history. Uh I Pachinko, a bunny gal built by Latin Vixen, uh Mixed Candy from 2005. So she recently turned uh uh 20.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, wow, she's getting up there.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, but never ask a girl her age.

SPEAKER_08

No, no, no, no, no. Uh I'll blame when when when she slaps me when I say something about it, I'll blame Yippie.

SPEAKER_10

Blame the coyote. Uh uh one is Champ, he's a little black doggy from uh Aaron Studios, aka um uh the main guy there is Whitey Fox. Okay, pioneer fursuiter, he's been doing this stuff for 27 years at least. Oh, wow. He has a distinction, he was um built in 2005, uh commissioned by Lacey, and then uh Latin Fixen adopted him in 2006. She took him to AnthroCon 2006, and they got studio photos, uh including one that ended up in the Guinness Book of World Records from 2000 2008.

SPEAKER_08

Wow. What category did it uh?

SPEAKER_10

Largest furry gathering.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Okay, oh yes, yes, yes, exactly. Wow, very cool. And so you have all this fluff and everything. So does that mean that do you consider yourself to have a main persona and or do you consider yourself to have multiple personas?

SPEAKER_10

Uh I have multiple. Um my main, I would say uh, of course, Yippie. Uh he's the mascot I always wanted to be. Cool. So it's like I've had a love of mascots and cartoon characters, and never had quite the opportunity to uh be one until uh much later. Secondly, is uh Twilight. I love Twilight. I consider he's he's uh more of my personal uh personal affectionate side. Okay.

SPEAKER_08

For all you first that don't know, Twilight is this big beautiful bunny.

SPEAKER_10

He's a uh big purple and white bunny. He's got seven white stars on him. I thought seven is magical, and I made him at some point I found out later that there was a book called Twilight, and it was just before the movie had come out, and it's like no. And it was this is before the G4 of the My Little Pony, so he predates Twilight Sparkle.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, okay. So Twilight Sparkle actually is uh like ripped off of your bun, I think.

SPEAKER_10

I don't know. They probably have had her in production in from before then, and I just didn't know about it. Parallel Evolution, as they say.

SPEAKER_08

Parallel evolution. So uh we kind of um well, you kind of hit on this before, so now we'll really get into it. So on our show, on the BFFT show, um, season six, episode 22, for all you first that would like to hear us talk about it. We talked about Richter on your show be on our show because of an article from Coyote Media, which is a weekly newspaper based in San Francisco Bay Area. The article was titled Bay Area Sports Mascots, ranked by the Ultimate Experts. Furries! Woo! Well, the the the title didn't have woo woo in it, that was just me. Anyway, so Richter was rated number one. Woo! And um, so tell us more about Richter and how it felt to be rated number one.

SPEAKER_10

I'm really surprised that uh people remember him because he was only the he was the mascot for the earthquakes for only two seasons, 2000 and 2001. It came about in 2000 that the San Jose Clash, uh, one of the original teams of the major of Major League Soccer, uh, wanted to reinvent themselves, so uh rebranded as the San Jose Earthquakes, harkening back to the San Jose Quakes of the National American North American Soccer League uh from the 70s. And with that, they uh wanted a whole new identity and the what they went with as far as mascot is uh they went with a puppy. He's just an overdriven puppy in cyber gear, cyber armor. He looks like a open-faced stormtrooper with puppy face. I had uh just come off of uh in 99, I was the backup and game day escort for the San Francisco Giants mascot, Lu Seel. Uh after that, I was looking around for uh this is after that in 2000, I contacted Earthquakes and asked them what the new logo and team name do you have the mascot? And they brought me in. I got to check out their uh mascot. It was a surprise just seeing this really cute face with this pretty cool snazzy sci-fi armor on him. And I just like fell in love with him. But the cute face and the fluffy tail, and uh, it was uh just he was a lot of fun. I'm gonna say that he really struck a chord with me that uh I get to invent this character uh because he's just a just a face on paper and it's just a figure I had to breathe life into him. And over two seasons, uh it it just uh was magical, just creating this character, establishing him in the community. Uh for a season we ended up finishing last and we were almost eliminated from the league because they were they were losing money. And San Jose is a very tough market with all the sports teams in the area. Uh soccer is a tough sell, especially because you they don't stop the action, you can't put commercial breaks in there. Yeah. And I was almost going to quit. And the Sharks organization kind of adopted the earthquakes and uh brought in some new new direction, new talent, including soccer star Lendon Donovan, who went on for Team USA and other great things. And we turned things around in the 2001 season, uh, we're the champions. I got and I've got a picture of Richter hoisting the MLS Cup, which is not actually a cup.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_10

Okay. Then again, neither is the World Cup. It's a big lump of gold.

SPEAKER_12

Yeah. Is it is it more work to be at a con as a furry or to be as an escort for a sports team or a mascot for a sports team?

SPEAKER_10

Uh they're they're a lot different. Uh when you're uh sports mascot, you're you're either at an appear uh at a game doing the entire game uh of and the set appearances that you do, and it's it's down to different things that uh you do for in baseball. You uh go out, you're often involved in the between inning breaks. I had uh as an escort, I held a radio that is in contact with the promotions department so I could get uh Lu Seal to where he needed to be during the course of the game uh to do whatever promotions or or or whatnot. And it also made me I got to dress up and be kind of the stooge to take the Pratt fall. Uh opening day in '99, he asked me to bring uh bring Yippie and deck me out with some cowboy boots and big foam cowboy hat. And I was like the fake San Diego Padres mascot who uh was dressed up as uh uh a country star because I I think uh during that season uh who's the one who sings uh got friends in low places? Garth Brooks? Yes. He he was actually playing for the uh the Padres at the time, so that became the root of that parody there. And uh playing for the par he was on the Padres team? Uh I believe so. Really? I don't know if he's like a regul was a regular at the time or just like uh you know honorary one game, one one game to say that he was part of the team. Uh one game wonder.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_12

Oh, be darned.

SPEAKER_10

But uh Lucille's a big uh wrestling fan, and so he delivered stone called Steve Austin's finishing move, The Stunner, and I got to take that multiple times in multiple games. I even even built a uh fake Philly fanatic who took uh who took it as well in the rare time that the Phillies played. He brought it back in 2012, I think, during the playoffs when they were up against Philly.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, you first um go um do some digging and check all that out. That sounds very, very uh cool and exciting.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, I should write articles about this sort of thing.

SPEAKER_08

You really should. You totally should, because this is you mentioned something about furry history and stuff, and and definitely you're you're definitely part of that. It should be recorded. Uh barely kind of hit on this, and so I'd like to explore this a little bit more. So, what fur cons then do you typically typically go to and what do you typically like to do with them?

SPEAKER_10

Well, uh further confusion, fur con is uh in my backyard here in San Jose. That's where I met you, I think. Yep, yep. I also go to PawCon, which is uh at the old San Jose Double Tree by the airport where FC used to be up until 2009. Yeah. And it's a fun party con. Just go and enjoy the the epic room parties they have there with a shared balcony. And beyond that, I just started attending uh the new furring uh the new Furlingame convention. Uh from uh yeah, it's it based in Burlingame, California, which is just in the shadow of the SFO airport. And it's it occupies the time slot that uh uh uh a Brony convention had uh taken up on Easter weekend, which I've never gotten to do because I'd always been busy with Easter stuff. It just uh so happened that I I got the chance to go this year and uh had a great time. Nice. Nice.

SPEAKER_08

And I that's it, but I've seen and met you and seen you and everything at other cons. Where else have is it only FC?

SPEAKER_10

For the moment these days, my day job got downsized in uh a couple years ago, and uh it's been tough trying to find work. I've been living off of savings and uh pretty much in a uh almost a forced retirement kind of thing. The job market is really rough right now. Also, I am I'm taking uh art commissions. I have a few slots available, just doing kind of odds and ends, a little first repairs for people, that sort of thing.

SPEAKER_08

So I have to ask then. So tell all our listeners what where can we find examples of your art? How can we commission them, and how can we find information about how to uh get some refurbishing for um suits and stuff?

SPEAKER_10

Well, I haven't like officially taken open for uh refurbishing commissions, it's just I'm doing stuff for friends. Okay. Uh some of them uh in in trade in barter for like you know, buy me lunch and I'll I'll uh fix that hole in your paw there. But as far as artwork, uh I haven't updated in a while, but uh I've got a uh fur affinity account. Okay. It's under fur for fur affinity. or it's under the the the name Yippie. Y I Y Double P double E.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. And so um if furries are interested, they can just go there and hit you up on there and um take it from there. Very, very exciting, good stuff. So that naturally segues into my next question, which is what is your favorite furry movie and TV series?

SPEAKER_10

Hmm. The movie that most affected me at the time that I found furry was Who Framed Roger Rabbit. From from eight from '88, and I found Furry in 1990. And uh that's kind of what's led me to start my journey as a rabbit character. Oh, okay. Only portrayed him on the on the game online game FurryMuck.

SPEAKER_08

Okay.

SPEAKER_10

I don't know if y'all have heard about that one.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12

So uh so Yippie, what uh what is it about the fandom that uh that keeps you active in the fandom?

SPEAKER_10

Well, I found furry originally through uh through my artwork. I've done cartooning from for a while. And in '94, when um Robert King had started the fursuit mailing list, I was one of the first people on it. That uh kind of sparked my love of uh of uh fursuiting. Since I hadn't had the chance to be a mascot or a theme park character, aside from auditioning at uh the University of Florida uh as Albert the Alligator. I didn't get it at the time. It's probably just as well because uh I'm almost flunked out of engineering. So uh in 96, that's when I built Yippie. And that that love of just becoming this this mascot character, when I get into first suit, it just it just be I become the character. I a good thing is to look at yourself in the mirror, see who is staring back, what they're all about. And I love just doing that and telling people about doing that, how did how that happens, and you get character inspiration that way, and see things yes, the magic.

SPEAKER_12

Now, a lot of people that are furry are what I like to call closeted furries, they they're not out to their to their friends or family. So, what's the strangest reaction you've had from somebody when you told them you were a furry?

SPEAKER_10

Think I've mostly sidestepped the question for for a lot of folks. And uh I um probably best. I have told people I do uh freelance mascotting in the Bay Area. It's kind of that kind of covers it. And people ask, where are you going this weekend? And uh I tell them, uh, just going out of town, see some friends. Yeah. Yep. At this convention, but I don't say that.

SPEAKER_07

Quote unquote, at this convention.

SPEAKER_12

Yes, yes, yes, yes. Tabin, any other questions uh for Yippy before we ask for his parting shot?

SPEAKER_08

Um, one question I would love to know, and I'm sure all our listeners would like to know. What is your absolute favorite song of all time? And I do you love how I gave you no chance to even think about that.

SPEAKER_10

It's by the Electric Light Orchestra. The song Twilight.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. That is so okay. That that makes so much sense. I'm gonna write that down and check it out. It's by uh what did you say by the electric orchestra?

SPEAKER_10

E electric light or uh orchestra. Yes, awesome.

SPEAKER_08

Okay, I did it. I did it. Okay, okay. Yes, you did it.

unknown

Good boy.

SPEAKER_12

So what we ask we ask all of our guests what your parting shot is. Your words of wisdom to the fandom. If you had to give everybody some words of wisdom, what would it be?

SPEAKER_10

Uh be safe, have fun, enjoy fan enjoy what furry has to offer. Try and try everything. I think furry is a relatively safe place to explore, discover, and event who you are. That's pretty much what life is about. Very true. Figuring out who you are.

SPEAKER_12

Very true, very true. I don't think anybody ever figures it out until well, I don't think anybody ever actually ever figures out who they are or what they are. So you're constantly we're constantly reinventing ourselves. Yeah. So but yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_08

Especially Yippie with uh 21st suits.

SPEAKER_10

That's I still haven't figured out who I am.

SPEAKER_08

Apparently not. Wow. Uh you you gotta work on that there, uh Yippee.

SPEAKER_10

They're the faces of the strangers, and we love to try them on. Oh, I like that line. I like that line.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, we'll make uh barely make sure to put that as a quote on the website. That's a very nice quote there.

SPEAKER_10

There we go. Uh it's by Billy Joel from the song The Stranger.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, I was that makes me so sad. I thought it was like a yippie original, but no. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_12

I knew that was I knew that was Billy Joel as soon as he said it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Okay.

SPEAKER_12

Barely knows what's up.

SPEAKER_08

My dreams have been shattered, but that's okay. That's okay.

SPEAKER_10

You can have more dreams. You can have more dreams.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, good. Dream all you want. Dream all I want. Okay.

SPEAKER_12

Well, thanks for joining us on the show. Uh, it's uh great to talk to furries out there, especially um I'm gonna call you an old school furry because you're clearly from beginning days, so to speak.

SPEAKER_10

I I use the term silver muzzle. Silver muzzle.

SPEAKER_12

I like it, yes.

SPEAKER_10

Not grey, distinctly from uh gray muzzle, because it's uh yeah, people have varying definitions. Some say it's like, you know, you're 27. You're you're a gray muzzle. And here I am. I'm uh 58. Kid, I got fursuits older than you.

SPEAKER_12

Yeah, yeah. I don't have any fursuits, but I'm definitely a gray muzz, that's for sure. Well, thanks again for coming on the show. Hope that you had a good time. Uh hope you listen to the show when you can.

SPEAKER_08

I just want to say yes, so uh really, really good to see you again, uh Yippy. Um, it's been a long time. I was looking back at our telegram chat. You first said hi to me like in 2018 or something. Yeah, it's been a while, so it's really good to uh catch up and see you again and see how things are going. And um, I can't wait to hopefully see you at a con again someday.

SPEAKER_12

Keep in touch

:05 Storytime

SPEAKER_12

interesting interview, I would have to say. Taben! Hi! Do you have a story for us? I do. Would you like to read it for us?

SPEAKER_07

I would. Okay, that'd be great. That'd be awesome.

SPEAKER_12

That'd be awesome. Otherwise, it's just gonna be the next uh eight minutes of dead air for people to listen to this.

SPEAKER_08

I mean, I do.

SPEAKER_02

He's reading it right. He was reading it and uh he's gonna be like the end. Allowed.

SPEAKER_11

Allowed, allowed.

SPEAKER_08

So this uh is um well so Barley recommended a few uh books for me to read, and this is um an offshoot of one of them. I don't really know what I mean by that, but there it is. Anyway, this book is called Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus. No, don't just don't do it, don't do it.

SPEAKER_09

And it starts out by saying, hi, I'm the bus driver.

SPEAKER_08

Listen, I've got to leave for a little while, so can you watch things for me until I get back? Thanks. Oh, and remember, don't let the pigeon drive the bus.

SPEAKER_12

Good advice.

SPEAKER_08

So that is all of ours. So this is interactive here. So this is all of our job to not let the pigeon drive the bus. Are we ready? Okay. We're ready.

SPEAKER_07

Awesome.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. So uh the bus driver's uh leaving, and pigeon comes in and says, I thought he'd never leave. And he's just standing there minding his own business, and then he says, Hey, can I drive the bus?

SPEAKER_05

And we say No No, you cannot drive the bus.

SPEAKER_08

And then Pigeon says, Please? And we say, No, no, but I'll be careful.

SPEAKER_05

No, no, no, no. Definitely, I'll tell you what.

SPEAKER_08

I'll just steer. No, steer. Well, my cousin Herb drives a bus almost every day. True story! No So Pigeon's just kind of just standing there looking all like frustrated. Oh, then he starts running around broom vroom vroom me vroom we vroom vroom pigeon at the wheel. And we say no Pigeon does not get to drive the and pigeon says no. I never get to do anything. He looks all sad. Hey, I've got an idea. Let's play drive the bus. I'll go first. No. We say no, no. Come on, just once around the block. No. Okay, now he's actually really getting desperate. We've gotta hold our ground here. I'll be your best friend. No! How about I give you five bucks? Not even if you gave me seven uh deer there, pigeon. No. No, no, no, no, no, no. No, no. Pigeon says, No fair. I bet your mom would let me. I mean, what's the big deal? Out it's just a bus. I have dreams, you know. No. Pigeon is down. It's there huffing. It's just fine. And then. And then Pigeon goes crazy, flapping all around and tweeting and yelling, let me drive the bus!

SPEAKER_12

No. No. No, no. Good for us.

SPEAKER_08

We're standing our ground. No, pigeon. So pigeon is just standing there looking all yeah. And then the bus driver comes back and says, I'm back. You didn't let the pigeon drive the bus, did you? No. And we say not. And bus driver says, Great. Thanks a lot. And Pigeon, Pigeon is thinking, what's he doing? Pigeon is thinking, uh-oh. Because then the bus driver drives away with the with the bus and says, bye. And pigeon looks sad, but then Pigeon sees a big red shiny truck. And Pigeon says, hey! And then he's got all these dreams of the big red shiny truck. And that concludes, I guess it's up to our imaginations to see what happens next. But that concludes not letting the pigeon drive the bus. And we did a good job. Yay!

SPEAKER_02

Is there a second volume? There's actually several of them. So uh yeah. Tabin Tabin only has one volume loud.

:07 Shameless Plugs

SPEAKER_08

That that is that is true.

SPEAKER_12

That's very true.

unknown

Very true.

SPEAKER_12

That's very true. Well, that takes us up to our shameless plugs. So okay. Uh want to mention the good furry awards. We finally received your nomination for the first time in our existence. Yay!

SPEAKER_09

Yay! Thank you. Any of you folks that nominated us, you're amazing and wonderful Woohoo!

SPEAKER_12

Now go vote for us. Nomination is only half the battle. That's right. That's right. It's an honor to be nominated. Well, it's a win. It is. It's an honor to win, but it's the anyway. Um and then, of course, I have Royal Highness, the other podcast on the network. That's one of the three other podcasts, two other podcasts on the network, where the hosts get uh enhanced with cannabis products, and then they watch a television show, and we talk about it while they're still enhanced, and currently they're watching the final season of The Last Kingdom, highly anticipating the June 21st release of the new House of the Dragon series that's going to start June 21st. So they're gonna rush through the end of the season of this, and then they're gonna watch the movie for The Last Kingdom, and then we're gonna watch that new show as soon as it comes out and talk about it the very next day. So yay! Excellent.

SPEAKER_02

Yay! Yay! Rain, what have you got to plug? Well, uh, 32 Who, the monthly Doctor Who podcast, where Mike James and I talk about all things Doctor Who. The episode out now is all about Osgood from Unit, and next month we'll be delving into the Unit organization itself. You can find all my socials on Linktree at L I N K T R dot E forward slash Rain Raccoon, as well as the shows I'm working on and all that good stuff. Hopefully, by the time this airs, the first couple episodes of a new project I'm working on will have aired on YouTube. So tune in next episode to find out more about that super secret project. I knew Ziggy Why is it super secret? I haven't told anybody but Ziggy yet. Oh, I see.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_05

I see how you are. I see how we are. So, in other words, we just have to crack Ziggy in for us to find out, right?

SPEAKER_07

Ziggy 67.

SPEAKER_12

Okay. Uh Ziggy, how about you? What do you got to plug?

SPEAKER_11

Uh well, uh Reign Super Secret Project is if you don't pew pew me, please in Fortnite. If you happen to see me, I need to get 1,000 eliminations and I'm only at 300.

SPEAKER_08

Um, unless you tell us the secret, we're gonna just pew pew pew you, so.

SPEAKER_11

You have to get me first. I can help you to set up an account so we can pew pew people together. We can hack them. A lot of double pew lead. There you go. Double pew pew and lead.

SPEAKER_03

Right.

SPEAKER_11

Yes.

SPEAKER_03

TikTok, how about you? So come get some Stimpky hugs at Campfire Tales because there's no showers. And also hope to see everyone at Portland Pride. That's right. Portland Pride's coming up. I forgot about that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Oh my god! Well, so first I would like to invite all the local Portland area furs, and that includes people all the way down as far as Salem, or as far up as Longview, Washington, you know, or as far out as Hillsborough, or even Vernonia, all the way out to Gresham or beyond, to come to Portland. The way out to Venezuela. Well, yeah, well, because uh to to join Get Out the Float, Slab Town Scamper, and Plush at Portland Pride on the 19th of July. We're trying our best to gather our the three of us entities together to have a uh uh uh a gathering of people for Marching in Pride. We would like to have people come out and march with us. So if you're wanting more information, please feel free uh to d to DM me on Telegram at uh chitaro underscore spots. If you just search for chitaro, I should come up immediately. But just in case the underscore spots will help. In addition, when this airs, it it will be known that I'm going to be chair again for Furlandia 2027.

SPEAKER_12

Congratulations! Congrats!

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. So please go to our website and I'm going to preface Forlandia.org forward slash 2027, just because there might be a transition between when it comes out and you put forlandia.org from 2026 to 2027, and you will get a splash page of our theme. Alright. Tabin, what have you got to plug?

SPEAKER_08

Well, that's a secret.

SPEAKER_12

Okay. Well then let's move on to our closing. That sound means we're out of time here at BFFT. Oh, Tabin, what have you got to plug?

SPEAKER_08

Yes, um, okay, so uh the typical stuff. So I have a link tree, L-I-N-K-T-R dot double e forward slash tabin, t-a-b-y-n, or you can get a link to all my stuff like um my Instagram, which I don't use as much as I should, but it if you just want to go straight there, it's Tabinpup. I have a fourth wall, I've merged on fourth wall, tabin-shop, dot fourthwall.com, t-shirt, smug, stickers, more to come. Make sure to check out my YouTube. Um, that's just, you know, Tabin Pop on there. Where you can see the crispy's chicken saga, which we uh alluded to a little bit ago, and lots of other cool stuff, um, lots of fun math videos and stuff, calculus linear algebra, just fun math things. Um, there's a history of our BFFT podcast, uh, cooking with Tabin, product reviews. Um, there is a there's we have plans for more stuff, including uh I guess I do have a secret, including something in a certain um genre that might be exciting, but that's um coming up later this year, so make sure to check all this the all this stuff out. Um, as uh barely mentioned before, my next con is Anthro Week in Utah in several months, and I'll be doing my story time with Tabin and Tapin seems weird out, so make sure to come join the fun. There's also new tabin chips, so definitely make sure to come um get some of those things for your collection.

SPEAKER_12

They're very tasty. Are they salted? Yes, they're salted. Are they salted and seasoned with avocado seasoning?

SPEAKER_08

No, they are not. That is not a thing. But yeah, so those are my things.

:14 Closing and Goodbytes

SPEAKER_12

Oh well, that sound means that we are out of time here at BFFT. We listeners, we listeners?

SPEAKER_07

Listeners We listeners? We listen to the We're very small.

SPEAKER_12

We know you have a choice. We're like Lilliputians. Yes. We know you have a choice of podcasts, and we love that you choose to listen to ours. Remember, you can support the show on BuzzSprout or through Patreon for as little as $3 a month. Thank you, Ziggy. And if you become a supporter on BuzzSprout for $5 a month or more, you will receive early access to the podcast release, which you can listen to on BuzzSprout. Typically, this would be at a week, about a week, maybe three or four days before the release. Every little every little bit helps to keep the lights on. Or if you listen on YouTube, why not hit that subscribe button? You can send us an email at barelyfurcasting at gmail.com, or finally, you can hit that send us a fan mail on BuzzSprout where you can send us a text message or voicemail. We promise to respond, and why not join our BFFT listener telegram chat? Be in the know and chat with the staff and other listeners. Rain, any parting thoughts? As always, be kind to yourselves, each other.

SPEAKER_02

Moopar love stay furry. TikTok. Pump up the fluff.

SPEAKER_07

I don't know why.

SPEAKER_05

Shitaro, any final words? Yeah, as always, make sure you make somebody laugh, and if you do, tell them to pay it forward, and Moobark Fluff and see you at a con somewhere near you. Ziggy!

SPEAKER_11

Love always wings, keep faith, off goes the weasel, and B I B I I.

SPEAKER_07

Oh ha ha ha ha ha ha I see what you did. I see what you did.

SPEAKER_12

Well, thanks to all the staff at the Engine Dirse Podcast Network and to all the furries out there, Moobart, Fluff, and Stave Furry. Tabin, would you close us out, please?

SPEAKER_08

I yes, I think that would be great to close you out and let you in to the fluff that is uh not a sin. I guess I don't even know what's going on, but where you don't know where to begin. I don't even know where to begin, so that's why I am petting the hen so that my life I don't know what even is my life. So with that, I'll stay.

SPEAKER_02

And no coffee.

SPEAKER_08

And no, I yeah, no, my my puppy bowl needs to not have any more coffee in it.

SPEAKER_09

But yes, um, thank you all you birds that are listening.

SPEAKER_08

Um, all the way now. Again, all the birds that we chatted out to before. We hope you're still listening and didn't get put off by me, I guess.

SPEAKER_07

But yeah, thank you very much. We had a lot of fun today, didn't we? All have fun. Yay!

SPEAKER_08

Yay!

SPEAKER_07

Times it's just good. There's the pigeon, which we did not let's ride the bus, and that was productive.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, no, do not do not. So that was very productive, and this was great times. Lots of C E o And stuff like that. So I guess just with that, I'll say uh Tieta Khan sometime, can't wait to bark at you next week. So until then, stay furry, blue bark.

SPEAKER_01

Barely Furcasting is an injured nerve studio production and is found on all major podcast platforms. The furcast is produced, recorded, and directed by Barely Normal, aka Mike Vegan, 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 Dani and 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 VFFTChat 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.com. Thanks for listening. We hope you return to listen again. Moo Bark Fluff Everyone!