Deep In Bear Country - A Berenstain Bearcast
Phil Gonzales takes listeners on a chronological journey through the history of Bear Country.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Episodes
- 520
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Episode 373 – The Berenstain Bears Blessed Are The Peacemakers
“Did he say ‘Blessed are the chee-‘” you know what? I’ll let the episode do the joke. It’s “The Berenstain Bears Blessed Are The Peacemakers!”
Sat 28 Jan 2023
Episode 372 – The Berenstain Bears When I Grow Up
I think we put too much pressure on kids to figure out what they want to be when they grow up. What about when they grow *down*? Why does no one ever talk about THAT? It’s “The Berenstain Bears When …
Sat 21 Jan 2023
Episode 371 – The Berenstain Bears are Superbears!
How do you like your superheroes? Bear style? In “The Berenstain Bears are Superbears” that’s what you get! And, you know what? I kinda love it.
Sat 14 Jan 2023
Episode 370 – The Wild, Wild Honey Saga
Decades ago, the Berenstain Bears’ Saturday Morning Cartoon secretly presented a multi-part saga that only reveals itself when you’re bored and watching a Berenstain Bears Saturday Morning Cartoon. I…
Sat 07 Jan 2023
JUMBO RERUN Episode 255 – The Berenstain Bears’ Birthday Boy
One last rerun! It’s “The Berenstain Bears’ Birthday Boy” with BONUS CONTENT!
Sat 24 Dec 2022
JUMBO RERUN Episode 250 – The Berenstain Bears and the Wrong Crowd/Rowdy Crowd
Another JUMBO BONUS! In 2020, Megan Sunday joined me to discuss “The Berenstain Bears and the Wrong Crowd.” Well, I’ve added twenty minutes to the end of BONUS content about the religious rewrite. En…
Sat 17 Dec 2022
JUMBO RERUN Episode 249 – The Berenstain Bears and the Soccer Tryouts/Too Small For The Team
It’s a rerun from 2020, but with BONUS content! Christy Admiraal and I talk about SOCCER BALLS!
Sat 10 Dec 2022
Episode 369 – The Berenstain Bears The Wonderful Scents of Christmas
Christmas is coming (slightly) early this year! It’s the Berenstain Bears’ first scratch-and-sniff book since “Papa’s Pizza” and it’s got TWELVE scents and they smell… sometimes. Sometimes they smell…
Sat 03 Dec 2022
Episode 368 – The Berenstain Bears Meet Bigpaw (2022)
You might think you’ve heard this story before, but… well, you have. But you’ve never seen it like this! 2022 brings us a whole new edition of “The Berenstain Bears Meet Bigpaw” featuring previously …
Thu 24 Nov 2022
Episode 367 – The Berenstain Bears and the Biggest Brag
Whaddaya get when Brother and Sister won’t stop bragging? You get Grizzly Gramps throwing a lot of Bible quotes at them and then yelling that they’re fool! That’s right, the worst bear in Bear Countr…
Sat 19 Nov 2022
Episode 366 – The Berenstain Bears Gone Fishin’
Is this my shortest episode in years? Yes. It’s “The Berenstain Bears Gone Fishin’.”
Sat 12 Nov 2022
Episode 365 – The Berenstain Bears’ Lemonade Stand
My co-host from It’s Del Toro Time, my own Willow, is back to talk about the hottest bears in Bear Town. It’s “The Berenstain Bears’ Lemonade Stand!”
Sat 05 Nov 2022
Episode 364 – The Berenstain Bears’ Phonics Fun
What’s more fun than talking about a Berenstain Bears book? TWELVE. Twelve books. It’s “The Berenstain Bears’ Phonics Fun” and… is it? Is it really?
Sat 29 Oct 2022
Episode 363 – The Berenstain Bears Go Green!
The Bears care a lot for the environment, but in “The Berenstain Bears Go Green!” we’re not given an environmental tale so much as a treatise on the importance of having a decent municipal dump and a…
Sat 22 Oct 2022
Episode 362 – The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble With Things
You know what stinks? THINGS! This week, Brian Skinner from Center of Weirdness is back to talk about how terrible it is to buy toys for your kids? Or King Solomon? Or something? It’s The Berenstain …
Sat 15 Oct 2022
Episode 361 – The Berenstain Bears Thank God For Good Health
The Bear Family is typically fairly healthy, and who do they thank for that? GOD. It’s “The Berenstain Bears Thank God for Good Health!” It’s a rewrite if that means anything to ya. No? https://ia601…
Sat 08 Oct 2022
Episode 360 – The Berenstain Bears God Bless/Loves the Animals
No, not the famous English rock ‘n’ roll band The Animals, but the actual animals walking around on the Earth! This week, we look at TWO Berenstain Bears books, but really? They’re the same book. But…
Sat 01 Oct 2022
Episode 359 – The Berenstain Bears Get Involved!
There’s a flood in Bear Town! Oh no! And it’s up to the Bear Family, and the entire town, to help out! Elana joins me for a book that actually involves the Bears… getting involved. It’s “The Berensta…
Sat 24 Sep 2022
Episode 358 – 60th Anniversary Interview w/Mike Berenstain!
Happy 60th Anniversary to the Berenstain Bears! In recognition of this incredible milestone, I’ve invited Mike Berenstain on the show to chat about those bears, his parents, his childhood and anythin…
Sat 17 Sep 2022
Episode 357 – The Berenstain Bears God Bless Our Home
This week, my voice is SHOT. Also, we learn a lot more about the Bear Family’s house, like the layout and structure and also how God fits into it, apparently? I like it! It’s “The Berenstain Bears Go…
Sat 10 Sep 2022
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