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00:00If no one has ever seen our show before, the first thing that we would say to them, it's
00:06Golden Girls meets Murder, She Wrote with Big Hairy Gay Men.
00:12So I'd had this idea where the Bears are because I've always wanted to do something for the
00:16bear community.
00:18It's amazing the impact that that show has had on people's lives.
00:21And it's just this silly show that started in a hot tub in Palm Springs with some drunk
00:26gays.
00:31We couldn't sell this show to a network.
00:32We couldn't sell it to cable.
00:33No one would buy it.
00:34Nobody could stop this show because we didn't ask anyone's permission to do it.
00:39The show's provided a window to bear culture without trying to be too much about bear culture.
00:44It's actually just about guys and how diverse we are.
00:47The characters like us in network shows are the butts of the joke.
00:53We're the object of desire.
00:56We're the thing that people want.
00:57We're back with the cast of Where the Bears Are Season 2.
01:01How excited are you?
01:02Becoming like a sex symbol at 50 is crazy.
01:06Bears as sexy icons are now accepted in popular culture.
01:12Dad bods have become sexy.
01:14We don't have to be hairless and thin to be beautiful.
01:20Following Season 1, we only had one camera.
01:23Sound was shit.
01:24It was a very fun, kind of loose atmosphere.
01:26I don't know any other web series that went seven seasons or were able to raise the kind
01:32of money we were able to raise and have a budget.
01:34Our total money raised on Kickstarter was almost, I think, $800,000.
01:39The whole show now is almost up to 60 million views.
01:43Once we started getting the Kickstarter money, you felt we owed it to the fans for these
01:47huge, I mean, exploding boats and planes and, you know.
01:53People were like, ugh, finally, thank God, let's do this for seven seasons.
01:58We almost died several times, by the way.
02:02I'm exaggerating.
02:03No, you're not.