Biraland
Tinder
8/21/2025 | 7m 37sVideo has Closed Captions
Gene and René try to piece together the trajectory they're on and meet The Tinder Brothers.
Gene and René try to piece together the trajectory they find themselves on and meet The Tinder Brothers who tell them and Kai what tinder is. Biraland (pronounced BEEDA-land) is a 20-part video series from Vermont creator Bira Vanara. A musical comedy about the natural world and our connection to it, Biraland features a host of wacky characters, catchy original music and wild effects.
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Biraland
Tinder
8/21/2025 | 7m 37sVideo has Closed Captions
Gene and René try to piece together the trajectory they find themselves on and meet The Tinder Brothers who tell them and Kai what tinder is. Biraland (pronounced BEEDA-land) is a 20-part video series from Vermont creator Bira Vanara. A musical comedy about the natural world and our connection to it, Biraland features a host of wacky characters, catchy original music and wild effects.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipAll right, so I'm seeing these kind of like an interlocking system.
How do you mean?
Okay.
Interdependence.
Ingenuity and transformative materials.
And taken together, they become a means for human development based on observation and responsible stewardship of the natural world.
That's interesting.
I've been looking at it is more of a timeline of paradigm shifts.
Whoa!
See the three sisters represent agriculture, which is a paradigm shift from hunting and gathering.
Right.
Then before that, you have complex tool development represented by the bow and arrow, which is another shift away from simple tool use.
Wow.
So these are all like major leaps in human development, right?
But I can't figure out what shift the form is from and represents.
Oh, yeah.
Armada is kind of like a cloth.
Could it represent the shift from being naked to wearing clothing.
I'll get it.
Sup?
Hello.
My name is MC Flam and this is DJ for.
We are the Tinder Brothers, the musical guest for the bracket fungi festival tonight.
Oh.
Sick dude.
Oh, but yeah, that's going down in the forest next door.
But you could actually just get to it easier if you cut through our backyard, so.
Yeah.
Why don't you just come through the house?
Oh.
Thank you, mercy.
Hey, guys, this is McFarland and DJ food.
They're performing at the BSF tonight.
Oh, cool.
I'm Jean Renee.
Oh, Shanti.
Hello.
Very nice to meet you, Sally.
So you're the musical guest tonight?
We are?
Yes.
We are so excited to play Amadu night at the Bracket Fungi festival.
Oh, but foam is foam.
Mattress was last night.
What?
No.
Yeah.
Tonight is a turkey tail.
Sacrebleu.
I cannot believe this.
Oh, dude, I was bummed too, because, like, I love deep fried turkey wings, so I thought turkey tail feel like that's going to be bomb, right?
This is a disaster.
I know, I thought the same thing when I found out it was just a bracket fungus.
What are we going to do?
Well, you don't want to deep fry it because it's not actually a turkey's tail for one.
And doing so would probably destroy its medicinal properties, which, as it turns out, are super dope.
I'm sorry.
What are you talking about?
Oh, the turkey tail mushroom.
Or as the Latins referred to it.
Try my kitties.
Versus blubber.
Or kitties.
Like a cat.
He means traumatize versicolor, which is what I said.
Except that it's not.
Yeah.
It is.
Okay.
Say try midis.
Try my kitties.
See?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's the same thing.
No.
Well, it actually is when you're saying it with the proper accent, the way I'm doing.
These guys know what I'm talking about, right?
Not even kind of.
But we are familiar with the traumatize versicolor mushroom.
Unfortunately, none of our songs are about it.
Foam is foam interiors.
Are we?
You have a tinder fungus here?
Yeah, we got it from the festival last night.
SIM.
Magnifique.
Oh, and I see you are tracking the rate of human disconnection from nature in relation to different ancient technological revolutions.
No.
What?
Well, you have agriculture the most recent of the three.
Then before that comes the development of complex tools.
And then, of course, the Big Bang, as it were.
Fire, fire.
For me, for many years is sometimes called the Tinder account because it makes fantastic Tinder, which is the base material for making a fire.
Oh my God.
Wow.
Yeah, that just did not occur to me.
So the disconnect began when we learned to control fire.
When did this happen?
Like, when did humans begin making and controlling fire?
Maybe one half to 1 million years ago.
We are not entirely show.
Wow.
So, like, way before complex tools.
Did they use Amidu back then?
I mean, is it just Ahmadu that can be Tinder?
Oh me?
No.
Do is excel and it is possible that humans used it back then.
But there are many kinds of tinder.
You can go outside and find plenty of it right now.
Oh, maybe I'm confused.
Could you explain what exactly makes something Tinder?
But of course.
After all, we are the Tinder brothers.


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