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Hey all! As promised, I’ve put together an updated Musical Mondays rotation. Nothing really has changed, in terms of order, except I’ve excised the people that can no longer participate. This should help eliminate the need to track people down when it’s their week. Of course, we welcome all our old friends to come back any time they can (as well as welcome new friends as they come ) Below is the current list of participants. If your name is not on the list, it’s because you have either asked to be removed or didn’t respond when I asked people to re-up. If you would like to be added (or re-added), feel free to say so Musical Mondays Cameron H TomSpanks Cam Bert Quasar Sniffer Cinco DeNio JammerLea Grudlian SlidePocket Gigi-tastic Theworstbuddhist AlmostaGhost Graham S

OK, as what appears to be the resident Disney fan, let me clear up a few things: 1. Paul, The Country Bear Jamboree still plays at Walt Disney World, why are you so fixated on it being in Tokyo? Why? 2. Trixie. oK in the theme park show, there are two women and one girl group made up of three younger female bears (Bunny, Bubbles, and Beula). Trixie, in the attraction, is heavier and tends to sing songs (in all three different shows) of lost love. And Tedda Berra (who comes down from the ceiling on a swing) is more...seductive? She has chemistry with Henry, certainly. I feel like film Trixie was a composite and the younger bears were just cut. So...yeah, let's just cut as many females out of the Jamboree as possible. 3. The main difference I don't like here is the feeling about country music. When the original show was produced, country music was more of a Johnny Cash/Hank Williams kind of style. Trying to transpose it to this country rock thing just DIDN'T work for me at all. I think if this movie had been in development a few years later when Walk the Line hit, it might have all gone differently. 4. Yes, I'm one of the people who loves the attraction. I love the characters and again, that old school country music vibe. That's NOT what this movie is. 5. You know Don Henley was just NOT happy to say that line about the Country Bears being better than the Eagles. You can see the pain in his eyes. OK, if anyone has more Country Bear attraction questions, go ahead and ask! I avoided this movie after seeing the trailer because I knew it would be awful. Thanks a lot, guys, you proved me right.

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So one of the thoughts I had during the movie was on bears and their lifespans and would these bears be dead or not. I was glad they brought it up on the podcast but then I started doing the abstract math. Based on their coats, these are brown bears which have an average life span of 25 years. If we stop there, yes the Country Bears should be dead. However, these are evolved bears so they age differently. When the state troopers are looking at Beary's photo they say "What is he, in the forth grade?" His adopted mother confirms this so that would place Beary at 9 to 10 human years of age. We know from his size he's not fully grown and not matured. Brown bears don't fully mature until around the age of 4. So we can assume based on this that at the age of 9 or 10 Beary is less than 4 in bear years. If we assume that bears reach adulthood roughly the same time bears do that means bears age roughly at four and half times that of humans. This would put the bears in this world with average life spans of 112! Now, if we count adult maturity the age at which we enter puberty that would age them closer to three times that of humans putting their life span closer to 75 to 85 years. At best, bears have about average human spans in this movie universe. Now for the truly terrifying thought. That 25 year life span is based on bears in the wild. In captivity, or you know having a comfortable living, they have been on record as to living up to 40 years meaning these bears could possibly live to be 180 in our years!!

Yes. Yes it would have.

I'm confused. This looks nothing like Vanessa Williams.

My friend lives between Cardiff and Swansea. If I had gone two years ago like I was supposed to there was a big Dr. Who exhibition going on. (Doctor Who is now produced by BBC Wales and films around Cardiff often.) I am not going to make a big touristy thing this time. Mostly soak in the local culture, go for some hikes and hopefully visit Aberystwyth. My friend visited there several years ago and sent some amazing pictures.

Um... shoot... uh... save rent? I'm just trying to prevent the roasting. My parents ain't got much meat on 'em and I'd hate for you to waste a good spit.

I think that brings up the even deeper question, do these bears hibernate? If they don't and there are no Pluto bears to their Goofy bears then that is yet another reason "Hiber Nation Tour" is just incredibly stupid.

Great 666th post pal!

So are these bears eating enough? In order to find out we need to know if the bears in this world hibernate. If they do they need to be eating A LOT to put on the much needed weight to survive the winter months. If they are are brown bears then according to the National Park Service Alaskan brown bears eat up to 80 to 90 pounds of food a day in the summer and fall. They can gain anywhere from 3 to 6 pounds A DAY.

I know it was supposed to refer to hibernation but would it have been any better if the tour was called "Hi Bear Nation"?

This was a timely movie for me. Mostly because I had students who didn't go on a trip and they needed entertained. Country Bears it was. They seemed to enjoy the film, and we had very interesting conversations about whether Beary was kidnapped and if the adult bears were responsible for him and not doing their due diligence.

Welcome back!!! You've been missed. I'm so happy to hear that you are doing better! Happy very early birthday in advance I hope you have an amazing time and get to do ... I'm honestly not sure what there is to do in Wales. I honestly only know of Cardiff and a vague sense that Wales was somehow important in the War of the Roses... I clearly need to read up on Wales. Whatever fun things that the Welsh do I hope you get to do and more importantly that you get to enjoy spending time with your friend!

show me a word that rhymes with pavement and i won't kill your parents and roast them on a spit

Awesome news! Wales is a beautiful place. I hope you have a wonderful time.

I can't believe Kulap didn't mention Scott was a Country Bear. I demand he appear on the mini to speak about the Country Bears.

Are you telling me that we have a lead in getting Paul a Country Bear Costume? Surely Scott must know someone from his bear days!

Great episode! Just a quick nitpick, at one point in the episode, Paul describes Dill as being “their rich friend,” but I’m pretty sure everything he was saying about his wealthy father was a way of hiding the fact that he didn’t have a father which I’m sure would have been absolutely scandalous at the time. I also didn’t think the judge’s feelings were all that ambiguous. I think it was pretty clear that he felt like Tom was innocent from the get go. That’s why he personally chose Atticus to defend him. He figured Atticus was the maybe the only lawyer in town who would put up an honest defense for Tom. He could have picked anyone, but he chose Atticus. So him storming out of the court wasn’t because he was swayed by Atticus’ defense and upset that he lost, so much as Atticus did exactly as he hoped he would from the beginning and it still wasn’t enough.

She’s like Elvis that way. She’s straight up iconic.