S2 Special 5: My First Fursuit

Almost one year ago a mish-mash monster in the Salt Lake City furry scene embarked on a journey which would change his life.  Join the Fur What It’s Worth cast as they follow the journey of Hayrider, who receives his first fursuit and goes to his first cons in costume. Learn why someone would want to put on an animal costume and parade around and what its like inside. Done in the style of the famed NPR program This American Life, we bring you the most powerful episode and final release of Season 2. NOW LISTEN! New episodes resume on June 2nd, 2013! We will re-release two fan favorite episodes during the month of May. Show bonus: Fursuit swapping, misdeliveries, and hot tub action – Syd Stoat & Monk-A share their fursuit stories. Special thanks – this show would not have been possible without the love and support of the following: Hayrider, the star of this episode. Matty, his boyfriend, and primary supporter of Hayrider during this journey. Enigma, for his support and letting us into his home to record the pickup event. Haku Pamfer, for his fursuit story. Circa, for sharing his fursuit creation insights. Overzen/Barnaby for his fursuit story. Kuddlepup/KP for his touching and personal fursuit story. He does charity work for children as a fursuiter. Syd Stoat for some of his original guitar music and his fursuit story. Monk-A for his fursuit story, which is a show bonus on this page! Check it out! Josh Woodward for some of today’s music. Check him out at www.joshwoodward.com. This American Life, the NPR radio program, for inspiring today’s show style. If you are interested in similarly told stories, check out www.thisamericanlife.org and consider a donation. HK Skunk and Lazer Elena, for their fursuiting insights at RMFC. Koru, our sound engineer, who produced our in-studio recordings. Music and Breaks Josh Woodward provided many tracks for today’s music. Used under Creative Commons. Check www.joshwoodward.com for more details. Syd Stoat, who provided original guitar music. DJ Keri – Baby Elephant Walk from the album Upstairs with Larry: 2009, USA. Used with permission of Vanguard Records. Album available on Amazon.com.