Tapa Update #5 - Bear Peen

That's right. That's the title. Let's get to it!

Behind the Scenes
Where's the Podcast?

Those of you familiar with my German channel might be aware that I've also been doing a podcast in German for a while now. It's been a few months since the latest episode of Tapacast has come out, though, so there've been a few attentive audience members asking what happened to it. As of now, the podcast is put on ice indefinitely. I might make something like it at some point in the future again, but at the moment it's just not the greatest use of my time.

As innumerable Youtubers before me, I've fallen prey to the desire to do too many things at once. While working on the podcast can be a lot of fun, especially since it allows me to work in a way faster, more off-the-cuff kind of way, it still takes a few days to produce a single episode from start to finish. And since I'm the only one here - looks around the room confusedly - that's a few days per week less I can work on my bread and butter, the way more polished and time-consuming explainer videos. So, left with the choice of continuing the podcast but taking much longer to finish an explainer video or focussing on explainers only, I chose the thing I'm most proud of and the thing that's a big part of how I keep the lights on.

As a small compensation, at least, there's this here update thing I'm doing to leave word of myself and what I'm doing, even if it's in this detestably antiquated form of - ugh - writing.

I might be looking for some help in researching videos in the not too distant future, which could majorly speed up the whole production process, and if that should turn out to be a viable option in the long term, Tapacast might be up for discussion once again. Alas, for the moment, I'll be focussing on getting you more hi-quality videos in the same amount of time.

Qomments and Cuestions
"Fun fact: The heraldic term for the bear being excited is pizzled."

Okay, some context first: Last video, I talked about Swiss coats of arms and their flaggification into heraldic banners. One of those shows a bear with a pretty clearly visible, bright red ... organ. I've never encountered this in heraldry before, but apparently, though uncommon, animals in coats-of-arms are excited in this very special way often enough that - as this helpful commenter has pointed out - there's a term for it. And it's "pizzled".
I couldn't find anything super water-tight proving that this is so, but there are connections of the word to the male genitalia in the dictionary and it pops up on a few heraldry websites as well.

To be honest, it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the arcane and esoteric and hyperspecific world of heraldry had a special term for a thing such as this.

Interesting Stuff
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Look at that! A short-ish update hath been forged! At last! Who'd've thunk it?

Have a good one!
Tapa