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Radio. Music. Storytelling.
Every great song has a story. The Bear is here to tell it.
The true stories behind the songs you love. Music history, told the way you'd hear it around a campfire.
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01 / The Song
You know every word.
02 / The Legend
You've heard the rumors.
03 / The Truth
Here's what really happened.
04 / The Bear
The Bear is here to tell it.
The channel
Bear Cave Stories
Every Bear Cave Stories video is one true story from music history. The deals, the disasters, and the songs that almost never came out. I do the research, I sort the legend from the facts, and I tell it to you straight.
Creating on YouTube since 2020. Formerly Bear Reacts.
I hadn't really listened to the Beatles before, but I knew this song's connection to Charles Manson. I wanted to hear it for myself and ask how anyone could read something so dark into a piece of music.
The video pairs my first reaction with the history, so viewers can work through those questions with me. It took more than five hours to make.
What I took from it: listeners can attach meanings to a song that the artist never intended. It reminded me to question interpretations and always look at the context.
On the air
The Bear Cave
KTSC Rev 89.5 FM · Tuesdays & Thursdays · 4 to 7 PM (Mountain)
Three hours of music and conversation every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, live from CSU Pueblo.
Host, The Bear CaveKTSC Rev 89.5 FM · Current
Assistant Station ManagerKTSC Rev 89.5 FM · Current
Co-host, Big Mama & The BearKTSC Rev 89.5 FM · Fall 2025
I write, record, and edit my own shows, interview people at campus events, and go live on air.
Interviewing a real-life Marlboro Man in Tombstone, ArizonaWith the Rev 89 crewRev 89 out on locationSoCo Student Media at a campus event
Air-check
Air-check coming soon. Program directors: email for a copy.
My goal: an on-air music personality, talking music with listeners every day.
About
Hey, I'm Bear.
I'm Nicholas Alexander Casias Jr., but everybody calls me Bear. I'm a dad, an Army veteran, and a radio guy from Pueblo, Colorado.
Music grabbed me early. Michael Jackson's Thriller and Bad changed my life, and I spent every week waiting for Casey Kasem to count down the Top 10. When I got older, I'd race home to catch TRL.
Now I host The Bear Cave on KTSC Rev 89.5 and run Bear Cave Stories, where I tell you the true stories behind the songs you love. I'm studying Media and Entertainment at CSU Pueblo, and I do it all myself: the research, the writing, the audio, and the video.
Off the mic, I love concerts, horror movies, and Star Wars. Marcia Lucas's editing on Star Wars is a big reason I wanted to edit film. My favorites? Queen and Michael Jackson, always. But the best part of my life is my kids.
Integrity
Selfless service
Faith
Family
Never stop learning
For stations & employers
Experience
Experience
Assistant Station Manager & Host, The Bear Cave
Fall 2025 to present
KTSC Rev 89.5 FM, CSU Pueblo
Creator
2020 to present
Bear Cave Stories (YouTube), formerly Bear Reacts
Trustee
September 2026 to present
Fraternal Order of Eagles
Manager
2010 to 2012
T-Mobile
U.S. Army, Military Police
2001 to 2008
United States Army
Education
B.S. Media and Entertainment
Expected December 2028
Colorado State University Pueblo
Projects
Bearfin
An independent media app I designed and built for iPhone, Apple TV, Android, and Google TV (Swift and Kotlin).
