(funky music) – Welcome to Ear Biscuits, I’m Link. – And I’m Rhett. This week at the Round Table of Dim Lighting, we have Mr. Clyde Steese. – Yeah. – He’s the co-owner of Bill’s Bees. – I was going to say he’s a good friend of ours. But he’s one of those guys– – He’s a good friend. – After you have one conversation with him, and now we’ve had two, you just feel like, man this guy’s a great friend, I was he was my granddad. I wish he was my resident beekeeper, whoa, hold on, he is! – He is, essentially. We met him when we filmed the episode 10,000 Bee Beard, where we put the bee beard on Link. The, what was that series called? – Which was a live– – It was the GMM series called – [Both] Back Up Plan. – Yes. – And that was a life-defining experience for me. – Right and so– – Because I didn’t die. I stung, out of all those bees, I only got stung by one. – The very last one, pretty much. – It hurt a lot. – And Bill of Bill’s Bees works with Clyde, and Bill is the one that was actually in the video quite a bit but Clyde was kind of behind the scenes and we talked to him and he was a character. And had a lot of crazy bee stories. So we decided to bring him on to Ear Biscuits and he’s going to tell us a little bit about the crazy things that happen to a beekeeper such as himself. – I think some life-saving advice is going to be coming your way. This podcast could save lives. The lives of bees, this podcast could save the world. I’m gonna go that far. – It could, and no, this is no exaggeration. – Yeah but let’s just leave it at that. Let’s not build it up too much. – Yeah I don’t want to say anything else. – Let’s just nonchalantly say this podcast and what Clyde had to say, could save the world. – Yeah right. – We’re not going to build it up. I mean you don’t have to keep listening. I mean it would be your loss as a world-lian. – Never heard that term. – I am so thirsty at the end of this day. I know you’re resistant to this, but – You’re thirsty anyway. I know you think it’s because we went in the ocean. – We went in the ocean this morning, and– – And I’m not saying that doesn’t have an impact, I’m just saying I don’t seem any thirstier than I normally do. – That’s why, I am so in touch with my personal hydration. And don’t deny it. – Don’t deny that you’re in touch with your personal hydration? – Yes, I’m not trying to make this confrontational. But I know that you’re a hydration denier. – I would just say that– – I am so in touch with my personal hydration that you should listen to me. – That’s the charitable way for you to say that you’re a very, uh, sensitive. You’re sensitive to hydration. – Okay, you know what? I’m sensitive to my body’s hydration levels. – And sensitive to temperatures. – Well let’s not bring temp, this has nothing to do with temperatures. – I mean this could be a good thing. I mean, it can be annoying but it could also be a good thing. – Are you now making a list of things that you’re annoyed by that I’m sensitive to? – No, if one of these days we’re in a situation where like there’s a killer and he’s controlling our hydration and slowly decreasing our hydration… – I’ll be like you know what, he’s killing us slowly by dehydration! – You would be a great asset there, because you would be the one that knew that we’d be having less water. I’m just saying I’m not sensitive to that, I’m not going to tell you that I’m thirsty, I’m just gonna drink the normal amount of water. – And you know what Rhett, I don’t expect you to be. And I will gladly be that for you. – Well why don’t we just tell them– – And I’m being that today by saying– – Why you’re thirsty and why we went to the ocean. – Because we got in the ocean and I’ve been thirsty all day and I think that’s just my point. You get in the ocean and your body… – Maybe you have a leak. I mean honestly. Maybe it’s a skin issue. Maybe there’s like a hole in you somewhere. Maybe you’ve got a hole somewhere that you… – So I don’t know it, but I think scientifically– – What if you have another orifice? What if, what if, listen. Have you looked at every part of your body? – Well I’m not going to inspect myself for orifices right now. – I go to the dermatologist every six months to have them do a full body check for– – For an orifice? – For other moles, and if there’s another orifice, he will see it. He’s never seen it. He’s seen every square inch of my body. Places that I’ve never seen, places that I’ve never ventured to look at in front of a mirror or with a video camera. – Just give it to me straight; do I have another orifice? – No but sometimes you can see a big mole and you might be tempted to think it was an orifice until you got close enough to it, if it’s dark enough. – Hey man we are in total agreement. We’re having one of those arguments about nothing. – You may have an extra orifice and what happens when you get into the ocean is the salt comes in and the good water goes out. – And it’s been, that orifice has been leaking? – Yeah but you could just caulk it. You need to get some like, dermatology caulk. That’s probably a thing, they’ve probably got some. Next time I go, in fact I’ve got to go to my dermatologist in about three weeks. – So shoot it straight, man, you got caulk, right? – You got caulk for an unexpected orifices? (chuckling) – Hey man, I’m here for one reason and one reason only. – I’ve got caulk for days. – I want my orifice caulked. The one, that one orifice. – I don’t know how that happened. – So we went to the ocean and I think it’s because my body’s not used to being in the ocean water. – And you have an extra orifice. – We went surfing. I’m not going to say paddle boarding because there’s a stigma. – There’s a big stigma. – Even though that’s really what we did, but we were surfing waves on paddle boards, but let’s just say we were surfing because there’s no stigma, it’s cool. – And I’ll say aside from– – For the first time in over a year and my body, my body wasn’t, it was, I think it was acting as if I was in a pool, and not the ocean. – You’ve got to give it a heads up. – And I took in way too much salt and I couldn’t, I didn’t know how to tell it… – You didn’t close the orifice. – This is going to be saltier than you’re used to! – Um, and I’ve got to say, the main reason we haven’t been is because I injured myself over a year ago and I kind of reinjured my back. – And I’m afraid to go without you. – And you’re afraid of sharks. – Well it’s a long drive and you’ve got to get up at like five A.M. and put boards on a car and you need like friendship accountability. – But I haven’t been able to, and you know that if there’s a shark attack, they’ll probably go for me first because I’m bigger, they go for the big seal first. – Right and you’re always– – Call me Big Seal. – You’ve always got, you’re bloody. – You’ve got that extra orifice though, which probably confuses sharks. It’s like an octopus with some sort of ink hole. – Ink doesn’t come out of it. – Really? So you know where it is now? (laughing) So I got you, you’ve got one. – You got me! – You’ve got one. And speaking of this stigma, I will say I was thinking about the stigma because of our recent conversation with our friend who we’re both getting to know, who will remain nameless. – You don’t want me to name her, him, whoever? – Yeah but when we told him that we were stand-up, well first of all we found out that he was a lifelong surfer for, grew up in Santa Cruz, lived in Malibu for awhile. – I still go to the Boo every Sunday morning. – And he’s like a legit surfer. He referred to his collection of surfboards as a quiver, I mean this is, this dude is for real. And we were sitting there, and we’re becoming friends with him and I was like, funny thing is, you didn’t even want to tell him. – That ain’t funny. – But that’s, I felt like you wanted to hide that from him, but one of these days he was going to see the big SUP on top of your car or in the garage or something. – Well it’s a fledgling friendship, I don’t want to invite judgment. – No I wanted to break the seal during our like third or fourth interaction because I didn’t want that to wait and become awkward, because I know how surfers feel about stand up paddle boarders. I don’t know if you know this but they hate us, and they call us cooks, and they think that we’re dangerous because we are, because we have basically large boats that we’re standing on that can kill people and we don’t really know what we’re doing. – I have nearly killed myself four times, and other people at least three times. – Is that where the other orifice came from? – Yeah. – Was it accidental? – I gave myself an orifice in a near-death experience, on a stand up paddle board. – In defense of us, is that we know that we’re not good, I mean we’re a lot better than that, we made a video one time as part of the Mythical show, the very first time we ever went on paddle boards, that’s on the internet and we were horrible. In fact, so many people, we were so bad people thought that we were doing it on purpose, we were jumping off for the comedic effect, and no we just sucked so bad. – It was like the board was totally steady and all of us like pew! – Yeah and we’ve gotten much better than that. But we’re still very cognizant of the fact that we’re not liked out there and accepted, so we go to places where it’s more acceptable for stand up paddle boarders, there are other stand up paddle boarders, and we kind of stay in our lane, so to speak, and I got to say, you looked good today. Now, I did look back there a couple times and saw you losing your balance in the middle of nothing and just falling over, so it still does happen. – And then while you noticed that, then you lost your balance in the middle of nothing. – Yeah, once you see the other guy fall, it’s like you lose all perspective. But I feel good about it, it was a soul-fulfilling experience, and we’ve got to do it more, man. – It’s, we’ve got to do it more, there’s a zen-like quality. I mean I’m not going to go so far as to be like the electricity, there’s electricity involved. – But there is, I mean electricity in everything. – Okay so you are going that far. And then, what’s the next step? That there’s a connection? I don’t know, but I’m just saying I’m not, that’s not what I’m talking about. – You’re not going to go with a cosmic connection with the ocean, like it’s a living thing? But it is, it’s full of living things. – I saw a Ziploc bag, but I also saw a dolphin. – I saw lots of trash, man, there’s so much trash. – I’m somewhere in the middle. I saw like a black piece of bag. And I saw a harbor seal. – I saw a Cracker Jack box. – And you saw a, what? A fish? – A rock. – A human, I mean we see all these types of things. So there’s a tension here. But there’s a zen-like quality to being out there, that it just, I mean all day I’ve felt, well dehydrated. But also just like, like I just have more space, I have more space. In my life. – Mm, it’s the water that you leaked. – I have more space, you know. – You’ve been filling it up all day. – But I feel like beekeeping, and we’ll get to that. You know, whenever we talk to Clyde, well we already talked to him but, in that conversation I just feel like this guy has a little bit of zen, he’s got space ’cause he works with bees. And there’s a resonance to it, or something. – So are you, is this leading to you’re going to take up beekeeping, because that doesn’t sound like, that sounds like the kind of thing that I would try to get you into. – Well try to get me into it; I’m very susceptible. – You want me to get a hive? – If you want, if you want me to get a hive, then you… – Then I get a hive. – Yeah you get a hive, and you know… – I get a hive, you come over – In three years I’ll have a hive and then you won’t care about it. – and then you take the hive home. Yeah, I’m open to that. I feel like beekeeping is the kind of thing I’m going to do in my old, old age. You know? – In the meantime we need to surf but what if there was a surfboard that had bees in it? Like you know, if you walk up to a hive like we did at Bill’s, and I’m spitballing here. – I can tell. – You can, there’s a resonance to it. There’s, I mean, Clyde talks about dropping a mic in there and what he experienced. When he like, listened to it on headphones. What if that was in a paddle board. – You mean there’s a hive inside the board? – Yeah. – Well I think that’s a problem when you get in the water. I don’t think the bees would be excited about that. – It’s breathable from the top. – Well how do they get in and out of it? – Don’t, don’t lick the stripes off my candy cane, man. Listen, can you imagine being on, I mean people do yoga on paddle boards. – It sounds more like an art project, honestly. It doesn’t sound like a sport. It sounds like maybe something you’d put up in the back yard as like, I’ve got– – I don’t need you for this. – I’ve got a surfboard that I’ve hollowed out and I’ve put beehives in there. – I don’t need your buy in. – And people love it. – I’m not selling you one. I’m doing it, me and Clyde are doing it. – It sounds like a high school art project. – He’s already in. – It doesn’t even sound like something that would be accepted at the modern art museum. – He’s, I’m texting, he’s texting me now. I just felt a vibration. – I saw his phone, I don’t think he texts. – And he’s saying I’ve got the boards, I’ve got the bees, I’ve got the time. – Clyde literally had a land-line telephone in his pocket. (laughing) That’s not text. – But don’t you want him to be your granddad? – I do. – Did you sense that there was space in his life? For a grandchild? – He seems really peaceful. – A man child? – He seem very peaceful. I think anybody that is in touch with nature in that way, maybe that’s what you’re getting at. The resonance of nature, I mean? Sometimes the only thing, the closest we get to nature is the wooden tables that we do shows on. – Flushing a toilet. – That can be a natural experience. – It’s like a white water rafting experience. Swoosh! – Well good luck with your art project with Clyde. We had a great conversation with him. – It’s not an art project. – But we also wanted to let you know that we’ve got a book: Rhett and Link’s Book of Mythicality. – We wrote it, and here it is. Hold that up, look at that. – Now it looks like this is the book, but this is just the book cover, that’s how books work now. This is what the book’s going to look like and this is what the cover’s going to look like. But the book is still in process. So if I open this up… – Do it, open it. – I don’t even know what kind, what book is that? – [Link] Braised beets with orange and pecans. – It’s just a random cookbook. But this is exactly what it’s going to look like. – It’s the same dimensions as a recipe book. – Rhett and Link’s Book of Mythicality, a field guide to curiosity, creativity and tomfoolery. Full of a lot of stories from our lives. Our shared experiences, 30 plus years of friendship and how we’ve been able to add through those experiences mythicality to our lives. – Buy one for yourself, buy one for your friend, buy one for your people who don’t have friends and the book can become their friend. – You can preorder right now at bookofmythicality.com. That is bookofmythicality.com. – I am ready to get into some bee conversation. Create some space in your life for Clyde and us. – Yeah. – It’s going to be amazing. It might save your life and it might save the world. Here it is. (funky music) – So you were showing them pictures of… – You sitting there beginning and during the time you were getting the bees on you. And standing back here going yeah yeah yeah. Mutilate him, mutilate him. – I was actually curious, you know they work here so they’re required to watch all of our videos. – Well kind of. The one young lady said she hadn’t seen it yet. – We’re adding, we add people to the Mythical crew, and I’m joking we don’t make them watch everything, that would be like thousands of videos. – They’d still be watching. – [Clyde] Why not? – But that’s the one I should make them watch, because that’s the one where I seem like a rockstar. And that doesn’t happen many times. – Well I told them you don’t see it on film and everything because you’ve got it back here and you cut and put things together. But I said one of the memorable points was he’s sitting there and the bees are going on him, and I said you know, he loves to chat a little bit, and he’s going well, I said, I remember him stating so clearly “Tell me a story, take me to a happy place.” (laughing) I said I was waiting for him to spring from the chair and run away but he didn’t, he stuck it out. But I said, that was so memorable. – Well you told me not to run because then I would have been ripped to shreds by these bees, potentially. – Well yeah, that’s when you make them aggressive, right? – Yeah, but that filmed great. I mean, bees devouring. – That would have gotten more views, if they would have killed me. – It was pretty epic though and it was also one of the best 20 minute sessions of my life because Link was completely quiet for the entire process. – Yeah I couldn’t talk. The bees were… – They were literally trying to get into your mouth. – Yeah I could feel their little fingers trying to pry my lips apart. – I don’t think they’re fingers, are they fingers? – Legs, uh, fingers, yeah. – What’s on the end of the leg? – Actually you can’t see it with the naked eye but there’s actually little spurs on there. – I know but I could feel it. – You could call those bee fingers. – The bee fingers felt like little spurs and they were prying my lips apart to get inside of my head. – Yeah yeah. – [Link] For the moisture or something, right? – Well that and it’s just a natural thing for them. They see an opening and they want to investigate it. They’re curious. – That’s why you had the nose plugs on as well. – Yeah and we had your ears plugged. – And my ears were plugged, every orifice. – Above the waist. – Is inviting. Yeah I kept my pants on. – You had your belt cinched really tight. Have you done the bee beard before? – Yeah we’ve done them before. There was a short lived TV show on. – No but have you put it on yourself? – Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. – On a short-lived television show? – Yeah they had this dating program, boy meets girl. – You were the boy? – It would have been nice but this was, oh shoot we have a young lady here. (laughing) – And there’s plenty of them listening. – This was one typical silly girl that was silly silly. – She was silly silly. – Oh she just made so many… She acted more like a 14 year old that was going on her first date or something. – But you were not a contestant on a dating show? The dating show came for bees for you to put on, to put on in a date? – Yeah well the boy and girl were dating, he was a beekeeper – Was it that naked dating show? You know that one? – Yeah yeah. – Dating naked, that’s a freaking show. – Naked and Dating? – Yeah, they’re not even afraid, it’s not even Naked and Afraid, it’s just Naked Dating. – I think afraid is implied. – I think I would be afraid too if I saw, people look better with clothes on. – Well it depends on who they are. – Uh, okay. – Of course, man. – So you just applied the bees. – Yeah we just applied the bees. – To a fully-clothed woman who acted like a child? – Yeah well, you have done it. About halfway through it, she sits there and tells the director, the producers and everybody, and we’re standing and she goes “I have to go to the bathroom.” – Well that’s not a possibility. – I said, I looked right directly at her and I said “You’ve got to be joking.” And she says “No I’ve got to go to the bathroom.” I said “Tinkle in your pants.” I said “We can’t stop.” She goes “Oh you must, you must.” I said, they cooperated. – You raked all the bees off of her face? You were giving her a bee beard on a date. I don’t understand. – Well the premise was he was a beekeeper and he brought her out to the bee yards to show her what he does every day and everything like this. – And that was how he was going to show her, which was stupid. That’s not how you get a second date. Let me slather your face with 10,000 bees, and I don’t even tell you to tinkle first. – Yeah, it was all explained to her before the camera started rolling. – I pee before everything that we do, multiple times. – I just peed, I just peed. – Like when we were on Fallon, there was like a nervous pee that happens? You went more than me, this time. Like five times? – I did three or four nervous pees. – Three or four. – Your body naturally evacuates everything, it’s like a fight or flight thing. You get everything out so you can be light, you can be spry, you never know what’s going to happen. – And you don’t want to wet yourself. – On a date. – On a dating show. – Or television. – As long as it’s filmed above the waist, you don’t have to worry about it. – That’s why we sit behind a desk. We’re constantly urinating; we’re like Nascar drivers, we just urinate whenever it hits us. – Do you know about the Nascar drivers thing? They have like, it’s like an external catheter thing. That goes to the bottom of the… – Yeah they have a jar. – And it goes right out. Well the one that we saw was like an external catheter that went down, which is basically like that thing that I wore on the show, the pee-bag thing. We tested a product where it was for like, when you’re at the stadium and you don’t want to get up and go to the bathroom, and you have a literal, like, bag on your leg. – Stadium Pal or something. – Yeah and I have such a difficult time relaxing, while just sitting there next to people. And doing that. But Nascar drivers, those guys that do the Baja 500, they do it but it comes out a little tube and just goes through a hole in the floor of the car. – Well yeah yeah. – Well that’s the part, see with everything he says, there’s a part– – No no no, you think that’s the made up part? – Where you’ve got to be like “That’s the made up part.” And that was it. I mean there’s like an oil slick for the Earnhardt Jr. trailing you? – Yeah it’s like a Batman tactic. – My urine is very slick for weaponized purposes. – Look 200 yards ahead for the wet spots, that’s where we go. – But you can weaponize bees. – Yeah. – Right? – Yes. – Do you know how to do it? – I don’t even know what that means, I’ve heard of like weaponized bees, but is that like you strap missiles on a bee, no? I don’t know what it is. – Okay, here about 10 years ago, in that neighborhood, a very intelligent gentleman out of the University of Montana and some other places, developed a process of training bees so you train the bees like a dog, like a horse or anything like this, but they trained them to the scent of gunpowder. And they would put gunpowder. – Trained them to do what to the scent of gunpowder? – They would follow gunpowder. – They would go to it, like tracking, like a dog tracking a scent? – Correct, so they will track that gunpowder. It takes quite a long time and you add a little bit more and more til they start doing it, then you take it out in a field and you put gun powder down on the ground or something like that, you release the bees, and they will fly around, and instead of going to the flower, they go to the gunpowder. – So what’s the application for that, they explode? – Now the fellows are sitting in more time and they’re in Afghanistan and all around, and they’ve got these land mines up and down the roads and all around like that. So they’ve taken these bees and now they release them. They fly down the road and they will hover over these land mines. – So like, okay. There’s gunpowder in a land mine or the same type of stuff. – Yeah and they pick up the scent. So you’re driving down there, and uh oh, we have one in the middle of the road, we have one over here, one over there. Put the brakes on, stop, get back, people can go up, take care of that situation. Or drive around it. We’re looking for bees to make honey and delicious, but they’re beneficial to the military. – Do you know how they’re training them, specifically? – Yeah, how do you get them to like gunpowder? – How do you get them to like gunpowder, or be attracted to it, do you know? – Well let me guess. I’d say you put it in a flower. You get like a little flower. – Very much that, from what I’ve understood, you start off with honey itself, a little drop of honey. You add a peppering the honey with a little gunpowder. – Like a little salt bae? – Yeah, a little salt bae. – You know about salt bae? You know who he is? – Yeah yeah, but. – I know you don’t. Let me tell you who he is if you don’t know who he is. – Who is he? – Some dude. – He’s a Turkish butcher. – And he… – He’s famous for putting salt on things. – He cuts meat, he’s a butcher that, like, is a performance artist on the internet. – He sprinkles the salt and at the end it hits his elbow and it goes all over the meat. – Oh, he’s a Julia Childs, of meat. – Yeah he’s the modern-day Julia Childs of meat. – So you didn’t know who he was. That was your thing. – But it’s always best to say you do. – I’m not much in Turkish meat. (laughing) Turkey comes at Thanksgiving. – My wife puts turkey meat in the meatballs and I’ve eaten it and she’s like, well you know there’s turkey in there. Well thanks for telling me. – Oh she tells you? – Afterward. – Well it could be worse. – I didn’t mean to derail us. – But you did a little bit. – Um they put a little honey… – Honey, gunpowder, and then they just, the bees will naturally go to the honey. Fantastic. – Why do the bees go to the honey? I thought they made the honey. Why are they also attracted to honey, because I thought they were attracted to pollen? – They are attracted to pollen, they are attracted to the nectar that’s in the flowers they want to go to, but the bee has never learned to not make honey, she will go to anything sweet. Just like she, she’ll go to you guys. – We talking about the queen? – They go to the queen, too. – They go to the queen. They’ll go to pop cans, soda cans, because they’re sweet. So they know if they put honey there, the bee is going to come there, put the gunpowder with it, and they come there. – But what does a bee do if it encounters honey? If I just like, took honey and just. – Hoodies? – Not a hoodie. – They don’t care about hoodies. – If you just put honey on like a bench, all of the sudden you’re going to have bees all over it? – You can, you set out there. – But what are they thinking? – Or a soft drink. – Are they like this is what we need to use to make what we need, it is the thing that we need to use to make the thing that we have. – Right. They go to the easiest source. So you have a setting here on the bench, a tray or whatever, and there’s honey there. Why should I drive five miles to get a little bit when I only have to a couple of hundred yards? – Right because they’re just making honey to feed all the people, or bees actually. – Yeah so they fly over there and they pick that honey up just like they would pick up the nectar and they come buzzing back to the hive and they go back over again. – They don’t discriminate, it’s not like ah we didn’t make this. – They don’t care as long as it’s sweet. – Then how do you get the bees back into the hive after they’ve spotted something? – The bees will collect themselves when the sun goes down. So you just leave them where they’re at. – Really? – But if you move the mine, they’re not going to gather around that anymore. – Just leave a collection box there with what they’re familiar with, gunpowder. When it gets dark, they all collect right back into the box. – You could be making all this up and we wouldn’t know. – Don’t tell him that, that’s like opening a door. – Somebody’s going to hear this, and they’ll go he’s lying! – And here’s the interesting thing, is I know this from Bill, explained this to us. That you guys have also been used as like consultants on freaking movies. Weren’t you guys used as consultants on The Bee Movie itself? – Yeah, Mr. Seinfeld. – Yeah I’m not making this up. They needed bee consultants for The Bee Movie, and you were the guys. – Did it go well? – It went fantastic. – Was JR asking you questions? – No. – Elaine, was she there? These are characters. That’s also his real name, though. – We directly worked with the sound men, camera men. And people like this were, I was super intrigued when the sound man came out, and he set there, or stood there I should say, and he puts mics inside the hive. We know that the bees make different sounds at different times of the day, we know they make different sounds at different levels in the hive and this was one of those very few times in my life, I’ll ever again, I was able to put a headset on and listen as he recorded the sounds of those bees at different levels, it’s just overwhelmingly exciting. – That was the best thing, best sound you’ve ever experienced? – Uh, one of them. – You had to think there for a second. – What’s another one? (laughing) – Well when my wife said yeah I’ll marry you. – Okay, that’s sweet, that’s a sweet one. – Great answer. – From the honey man. She’s not listening. – This last year she said yeah it’s been good after 50 years I think we’ll make it a little bit longer. – 50 years, man. That’s like a milestone. You’re bringing home the honey. She likes that. – Well you bring honey for your honey and you’ll be happy, happy happy. – Yeah she likes that honey. Clyde’s honey. – You know, why don’t you just think those things? – Trying to make it weird. – But wasn’t there like some major detail, I think I remember Bill telling me this. There was some like major choice that they made. – Yeah Bill was like frustrated about something. – It was like wrong. – Wrong. – One of the characters was a female and it was actually male? – Yeah we gave them the 101 class teachings about bees, and when the final episodes are all colored up and put together, they’ve got drones flying out there and the world becomes blossoming again and honey is being made, and it’s happy happy time again. – It was great, and accurate? – Drones don’t do anything, they don’t make any honey, they don’t, they just walk around and eat. And the worker bee, the lady bee, does all the work. According to them, mom just sat in the house and made supper and knitted and took care of the kids, well a point yes, but when all those drones line up like soldiers and revaluate the whole Earth in colors and everything I sat there and I went “no!” – That’s the exact opposite of what happens. – Opposite, opposite. – So you’re saying it was bee sexist. – Seinfeld’s character, who was a drone, because he was a dude, he should have just sat there and ate the whole movie and that would have been accurate, and it probably would have been a better movie. – Well that and he should have been looking like wow, where is there a beautiful young lady around here that I can mate with, I’m looking for. That’s all they’re good for, mating. – That could have been a different kind of movie. – Let’s be honest. – We should call Seinfeld. You got his number? – 1-800 something something. (laughing) – I think he gave you the dummy number. – Yeah I don’t think that’s it. – You can say it isn’t accurate, but it worked out very well, we made money from it. They did, I should say. – Yeah yeah, you got paid something, I mean there’s got to be some money in bee consulting. – Don’t answer that. – Thank you. – Don’t tell him how much money you make, because they we have to tell him how much money we make. It’s not fair. – Well they were very reasonable, very reasonable. – Okay, tell us if you want to tell us. – [Rhett] No don’t tell us. – Cheap. (chuckling) – Were you stung today? – Yeah I was, three or four times this morning. – Really? – Yeah I got out of the truck to put my bee suit on, and before I knew it, I had a tap in the back of my neck and a couple on my hand, and I said thanks ladies, you’ve welcomed me here today, I appreciate that. – So what’s the average, what’s the average on a day? – There’s days I’ve worked and not had a sting, there’s days I’ve worked and had a dozen. – I seem to remember you hanging around with no bee suit on. Of course I had a beard full of them. – And I was not protected while you were doing that, but I also will say something we learned while we were there is that that particular hive was at a certain stage where they were like the least aggressive that bees can get. The beard bees are not your typical bee. – Yes we selected, we hand-selected those out. – ‘Cause different, well you selected a different, like a certain hive. – That was very gentle, very mellow. – You know the personalities of a hive? – Yeah. – You ever had any nasty run ins with a nasty personality hive? – Oh yeah. – Tell me a horror story. – Well a couple of years ago we were working the hives and I knew this one hive was fairly aggressive, mean. We referred to it as an Africanized hive. We knew that. And I wanted to find the queen, destroy the queen. – Destroy the queen? – It’s like a movie, man. It’s like Narnia. – But Africanized, tell us what that means? – It means from Africa. – Yup, they’re from Africa. – Or they’ve interbred with African bees and it’s a new thing? – It’s a new thing, yeah. – They’re not African bees, they’re Africanized. – We had some people that were geniuses, so they got bees from Africa, took them to Brazil, and they’re going to make the super bee. Not the super beetle, but the super bee. They ran out of funding, they said okay, they packed their clothes and they left. They left everything set there. Well the bees, including the bees. The bees were fairly aggressive already. – How long ago was this? – Uh, 20 years back, at least. – What would a super bee have been? – That was the question, nobody knows. – But they got mean in Brazil? – They got mean, they migrated, they crossbred with the bees in Brazil and everything, and then they started traveling. And they just traveled from Brazil, right up central America right up into the United states, and they’re here in California. – What would they do, like? What is their M.O. what makes them so mean? Are we talking like wedgies? Indiscriminate wedgies? – Yeah they could get that bad. – They could kill people though. – Yes. – That’s why they call them killer bees, man, don’t you remember the 80s? – Lot of documentation where animals and people have died from it. – Like how big of an animal a horse? – Yes, three years ago, we lost two horses down in Temecula. – Three years ago? – So they’re not any more venomous? – Oh yes. – They are more venomous? – They’re venom is a little stronger. – But the main thing is they’re more aggressive and easily agitated, or like what? – Very easily agitated. You can walk by them, knock on the hive box, the tree or the building they’re in and they will come. They come by the thousands. – And they follow you for how long? – They follow you. They can go with you up to a half a mile. – In order to attack you? – Attack you, they attack. They attack you, attack animals, attack. I have literally, I wish I had taken pictures of it, I was using a motorized weed-eater, cutting weeds. The grass and things hit an Africanized hive. – In the ground? – They were in a tree and I didn’t know it. – You weed eat a tree? – Yeah. – I mean if you do it for long enough, it will come down. – Yeah like Paul Bunyan. Anyway, I realized, I left the motor running and laid it down on the ground, and they hovered over it, literally hitting the manifold and frying themselves, but they are that aggressive. They didn’t care. – That was genius, you left a decoy. Like a, what’s it called, red herring, or not a red herring. – A decoy. You were right the first time. – I mean, you know. – A diversion, it was a diversion so you could run away and they all attacked your weed eater? – Yeah, I mean you stood there and you just went like, you’re committing suicide, but they didn’t care. That noise, a lawnmower or things like that, a tractor driving by, a car, can set them off. – It made them so mad. But you had a run in, what happened with the hive? – Well I went in that hive and saw– – And was this like you were being, this was an Africanized hive that had gotten into one of your hives that you were working on? – One of my normal hives. – Oh they took it over. – It took it over, correct. Well I had a full bee suit on and everything and my gloves, so I’m working and I’m working and I’m working on it, and I’m getting stung. – Through the suit? – Yes, one of the cute things in life is when you buy a bee suit, you open it up and you say oh I have a nice new suit here, but they give you a little piece of paper on it, and it says this suit will not protect you from stings. And I always go then when did I buy it? – I don’t remember being told that as I was putting on the bee suit earlier in the episode. – I’m not feeling totally safe. – Well some things you don’t need to know. So I was working there and I was getting stung, getting stung and getting stung, and I walked over to Bill, my partner and I said uncle, I quit, get me out of here, I’m done, I can’t. I said, man, he goes oh my God. At this point in time, I’m hot. You’ve had a sunburn? That’s the hot I had. I was blistering hot, and I was wringing my hands because they burned through the gloves. He took me down the hill from where we were working, took me over to the Verduga Hospital. At that time we’re in the parking lot, I take my bee suit off. I’m in my t-shirt and shorts like I normally are. I’m beet red. – [Rhett] Everywhere? – Everywhere. – And you’re burning, are you in other pain? – Not pain, just hot. – How many stings, you think, you experienced at this point? – Well when I finished up with all of this they, Bill and the doctor sat there, they counted over 350 stings on one arm. – On one arm? – [Clyde] On one arm. And I had them on arms, back, and chest and everything. – So you stripped down to just your shorts and shirt in the parking lot, and then you stroll in there like I’m like a beet in the emergency room. – And the young lady says, I said I’ve been bee-stung, I need to see a doctor. – And not just once, you didn’t have to clarify. – And she said very well. You know, you didn’t have to give them any paperwork. Gentleman walked out and he said follow me. I pulled the big lotto numbers, because I walked to the next door and a doctor is standing there. He had just come back from central America after six months studying of what African bees and the bee stings will do to a human body, and he looked over at me, and he says you’ve been bee-stung my God. He says 250 milligrams of this, 250 milligrams of steroids, and I go my wife’s going to be happy, and he goes, no it’s not that. – You’re not going to bulk up. – No, I was praying. So they hang bottles, they stick you with these things and tabs you with that, and I joke with two of them, oh you’re bringing in the microwave to serve lunch? And the nurse says oh no, that’s the cardiac resuscitation I go oh well we don’t need that. – They thought you were gonna die. – At this point of time I said gee whiz I feel tired, I’m so sleepy. She says you’ve had 300 milligrams of some sleeping thing, and I said oh okay. I went to sleep. Occasionally they would wake me up. About 10 hours later, I’m waking up, I’m thirsty, I’m ready to go, my body is cleared out and everything and they go through the rigor of telling me how things went and they said it was this way, that way, we gave you a shot of this, and yeah, your blood pressure started to come down and this started to happen. I said oh well fantastic, doctor says whatever you do, continue it. I said, well I hope to. He goes no, I’ve seen men, women, children. 30 years younger than you, your age, and they come in, within minutes they were dead. – Whoa. – I never realized it was that serious. I go you’re kidding. He goes you’ve had bee venom within your body, it must be pretty decent. We can’t explain the exact why, but he says you got a guardian angle and he said keep him happy because he’s keeping you happy. And I put my shoes on and I left that day. – And you never had anything to do with bees again, right? – No that was my fear, that I would become highly allergic to it, because that’s what happens. – Okay so that is what happens. It isn’t like you get some sort of immunity to it if you get a lot of venom, you actually become more susceptible to it? – More susceptible. Many beekeepers have worked for many years and they’ve used Benadryl and things like this to help but they’ve become highly sensitive, and they had to quit the industry because of that. So we waited a couple, two or three days, I went down, Bill and I took some bees, stung me a half a dozen times, we stood there– – You conducted a test? – Yeah we had to find out what was going on. – Right, you’ve got to know if you can keep your job. – You’re like a flat-liner, man. – There was no science to it, just get stung by bees. – Say that again. – If you keel over, I’ll put you in the truck, take you to the hospital again. But nothing happened, we looked at each other, I said I’ll get my bee suit, let’s go to work, and that’s been it. – Really and what’s the worst incident since then? – Worst incident since then. Oh gosh we’ve had numerous funnies, excitement things. Dumping bees on the ground at two o’clock in the morning and then trying to set them up when you’ve got, oh, 300,000 bees flying all around you. – They don’t just spill on the ground like, cereal? – Bill was picking up a pallet that had four hives on it, and he turned and all four hives fall on the ground. And he turns to me and says sack ’em up, I’ll get the rest of ’em. And now you have bees running up your pant legs, and all over you. – No bee suit in this situation. – Well I had a bee suit, but they weren’t a happy bunch of ladies that got dumped on the ground from 20 feet in the air. – If you set everything back up, they just come back together? – Yeah they came back together. – Or you’ve gotta use a broom, or? – No, I just used my hands, picked them up, and put them in different boxes and prayed that everything would work out. We delivered some bees here last summer, up in the high desert, up to the alfalfa fields. – And you’re delivering these bees in order to… – We had two processes there. One was to make alfalfa honey and also do pollination for the seeds. – Right because all the farmers use the bees. – Yeah, so it’s late at night, after midnight, something like that. And we hadn’t told the farmer that we were coming in, but we had been doing this for eight, nine years at his place. We pull in, get out of the truck, and his truck comes flying up there real fast, jumps out of this thing, he pulls out a gun, and I went oh, hey, yee, what’s going on, what’s going on?! And he goes oh, I thought someone was trying to steal my hay, well he had a problem with that, and we didn’t know it. And I’m standing there. Well at one o’clock in the morning, you stand there and headlights are in your face, and a man’s got a gun pointing at you, you ’bout tinkle in your britches. – I was about to say, did you? Because I’ve always thought, I’ve never had a gun pointed at me. – Yeah me neither. – You know, you see the movies and there’s the one guy that gets the gun pointed at him and then he pees himself and I was like nah, I wouldn’t be that guy. But I think I might be that guy. – Well fortunately I wasn’t that guy, I kept going (stammering) it’s me, it’s me, it’s me! And he goes oh yeah. I went, yeah, wow. And he relaxed and I stood there and I looked over to my partner Bill and he goes, I said ah, and he goes, yeah, right. I mean we about 12 octaves higher in voice and I said that’s enough of this. – That guardian angle, you keep having brushes with death. – Well I mean, you know, eventually it’s going to happen, but I’m kind of prolonging it right now. Just stretching it out a little longer. I hope, anyway. – I don’t think you’re at risk here tonight. – These Africanized bees, I want to talk about that a little bit more because I was actually hiking on a trail in the Verdugo Mountains. And I was, I get a little bit worried sometimes especially when I’m with my kids. I’m like okay, and we meet somebody on the trail, and there’s like about a mile up, we think we heard rattlesnake so be careful. So you think about rattlesnakes and then I’m thinking about you know the ticks have Lyme disease around here. Now that’s something that’s starting to happen, so check yourself for ticks. And then I’m like maybe we might run into some killer bees out here, some Africanized bees. – You were thinking about that? – I was, I worry about these things. – Well I’m going to now. – Especially when I’ve got people that I’m responsible for like my eight year old son. So could there just be like a hive out there in the mountains and on a trail somewhere? Like are they everywhere now? – Everywhere from Texas, southern California, border, far north as Fresno, the last reports are. – And if you see a beehive in a tree, you don’t know, could you look at the hive and know immediately which one it was? – No, no. – So it’s the behavior of the bees. – The behavior of the bees is our first indication. Their second indication if you want to take the time and I don’t know that has, you can catch a handful of them and check the measurements of them. They’re smaller and darker in color. – They’re smaller? – I doubt I’m going to have time to do that. – That’s, me, too, I split. – I’m going to be really vulnerable with you here because, Shepherd and I started having this conversation, it was my eight year old son Shepherd and I, and our dog, Barbara. – Okay. – Barbara? – Barbara, yeah, she’s named after Barbara Mandrell. And my son was like dad what are we going to do, if we run into one of these hives of killer bees. And I was like well the thing is they will follow you and I told him I think they’ll follow you for like up to a mile so I was a little bit off on my math. – [Clyde] That’s okay. – I said so the thing is we have to run, because you can’t just stay there, we got to run. And I read in that worst-case scenario handbook that you can’t just like go and get underwater because they’ll just stay above the water until you come back out and keep stinging you. – Really? – Yeah. – So then Shepherd and I started talking about at what point would we leave the dog behind? Because when it comes to me and my son and Barbara, I mean, I’m sorry, I love Barbara to death, but if somebody’s gotta go, it’s gonna be the dog. – But Barbara’s a lot lighter than Shepherd. – I was like Shepherd, it would have to be, I would have to know that you were in mortal danger before I would leave the dog behind, like it would be seriously be like a moral equation where I was like I have to lose the kid or the dog, I’m going to give the dog up. – Well as you’re running down across there, your son’s gonna pass you up. Because you’re going to be reaching for the dog, and he’s going to say bye dad, I’m gone, and he splits. – But is that what we’re supposed to do? Just run like crazy? – You cannot. – It’s not like a black bear where you just get real big and boogity boogity boogity booga! And they run away from you. – Yeah well 95% of us aren’t in any kind of physical shape to run a mile at any speed. – That’s true. – We could jog, maybe, a mile, but to go full-blast out and run? – Speak for yourself, and me. – To run full out for a half mile or mile? We’d probably get about 200 yards and we’re on our knees panting like Hootie, so yeah. – Like Hootie? – Hootie and the Blowfish? – Yeah, you’re done. – But how does Hootie pant? – Talking about Darius Rucker? – I’ve never heard the saying. – You haven’t? – [Link] No. – Well I’ve used it for years. – [Link] Panting like Hootie? – Panting like Hootie. – You know about Darius Rucker, though, right? He’s into country now. – Yeah, yeah. – Don’t say yeah if you don’t know, though. – Well I listen to the music. – Okay, he does know. But is that who you’re talking about? When you say Hootie. – Well it’s a very polite way for me to not use any other language that’s offensive. – [Link] Oh, thank you. – [Rhett] Yeah yeah yeah. – So I always, add Hootie to something where somebody would say. – [Rhett] I like that. – Thank you, I’m going to start doing that. – I haven’t thought about Darius Rucker in a minute. (laughing) – So it works real well. – Right so you’ll be panting like Hootie. And they’re stinging you because you’re not far enough away. – So what do we do? – You stay away. – It’s too late. – If you look up there in the tree and you see bees flying around, take another avenue of hiking. – So you’re saying that as long as you don’t do something to directly agitate them, it’s unlikely that you will have a problem? – If you don’t agitate the wife, everything is happy happy. If you come in there and you agitate, you know, could be a whole week before it calms down. – 50 years man, 50 years of wisdom speaking right there. – Well practical knowledge. – Either that or carry a running weed eater with you at all times as a diversion. – You should do what we did as kids which, we would find a hive and we would throw a stick at it. And then run. – Across the Cape Fear river, and up, yeah it wasn’t bees, I guess we knew because we could see them, it was one of those big… – It was a hornet’s nest, and it was in the crack, it was in a hole in the tree. And I took a stick and threw it, and it wedged right in there. – But what you would do is, like we were like all ready, so it was like we would all creep up and you know there was like, probably 30 minutes of planning, and then it’s like there’s a countdown. – A little overkill though, you know? – And then it was like here we go, one, two, three. And then you throw it and we ran, we bolted. Nobody got stung, me you and Ben. – No, hornets are mean and the sting hurts worse, but. – You did the one, two, three, you lost all the thrill. You should have just stuck around for another five minutes. – For four five and six. – Yeah and say ah, and go home and tell mom and dad, look at me, I’m dimpled all over from stings. Help! Calamine lotion all over my body. – So, do you like Honey Nut Cheerios? – Yeah, yeah. – Just because they’ve got a bee on the box, you’re going to talk about Honey Nut Cheerios? – Do you eat them, like eat them every day? – No, no. – Do you got them on the shelf at any given time? – Yeah they’re there. Couple times a week, maybe. – A couple times a week. Now do you think if you weren’t a bee man, you would eat them? – Oh yeah, I like them. – They just good, I mean. – That’s it, I like it, they’re good. – So they came first? – Yeah. – They came before the job. – So they’re doing this thing now, now the bee’s gone, they don’t have the bee on the packaging because they’re trying to tell people about all the bees that are disappearing. – Right, uh huh. – Well what’s there, if there’s not a bee there? – It’s just a space, just a white space where Buzz, I didn’t even know this, I didn’t know his name was Buzz, did you know the Bee’s name was Buzz? – Yeah because we almost had them as a sponsor, but they wanted us to do like a rap, like a Cheerios rap and we weren’t in a position to do that. – Wasn’t like Ludacris involved in this? – Uh, no it was, uh… – [Both] Nelly. – Yeah, ’cause Nelly had uh, Cheerios rap, yeah. – You know Nelly. – Why didn’t we do that? We could have collabed with Nelly. So they’re doing this thing where they don’t have Buzz on there because of the plight of the honey bees, and they’re doing this thing where if you sign up, and we didn’t do the sponsorship deal with them, I’m just saying this, I know about this… – And we’re not currently doing it. – And we’re still not sponsored by them. – Neither am I. – They’ll send you wild flower seeds because they want to plant like a million whatever wild flowers, or a hundred million or something crazy like that. So I’m sure you’re studied up on this bee problem. What’s happening? – Well it’s affecting every bee and beekeeper throughout the United States. We’re, minimum, we’re losing 35% of our hives, every year. Some areas of the United States are a little higher than that. – The bees just die? – They’re dead, gone. We as progressive people, we have learned how to use insecticides and sprays and APA has reidentified things that killed, now they don’t kill, where they would kill insects and things like this, they reidentified them this past year and said no they won’t do any harm. Well that’s correct, it doesn’t kill the adult bee. But the spray they use, then the bees bring in the pollen and nectar and they store it within the hive, and these neonicotinoids they’re reusing and fungicides, they are in the honey. They feed the pollen and that to the growing larvae, they die because they have no resistance to this. – So these are sprays that are insecticides, weed killer type of stuff, fertilizer? – Fungicides. – They probably originally tested them on adult bees and were like oh they’re fine but they didn’t realize. And this has been going on for years. – Yeah and one of the greatest things in the world is you’re a chemical company and you want to sell your product. So you do the testing. They did the testing in their labs in their facilities, and they came up and said no harm. – And they’re not biased, so we’re cool. – No they’re not biased, they’re cool, they’re cool. They did all of that. And then they filed their paperwork, and the folks all read it and they go oh, the chemist at Monsanto and Bayer, they said this is just perfect and they go okay, go ahead and use it. No outside labs have ever, and when the outside labs or universities test it, they come back with opposite results. – And you’re saying anecdotally or locally, you’re seeing your bees die. – This happening everywhere. – It’s happening everywhere, all throughout the United States. – You guys get together, all you beekeepers. – Is there like a convention? – Yes. – You beekeepers, I didn’t mean to sound derisive. Is that even a word? – I usually say derisive. – You always come up with those. Is that, is this righteous, is that righteous, he’s a righteous man. – You betcha Hootie. – No, we have conventions throughout the year. – I just pictured everybody rolling in with a beard full of bees on like hello Bill, hello Clyde. – Yes. – Hello Tina, nice looking beard, Tina. – We’re very casual guys, so 50 miles in, you say yeah that guy is a beekeeper. How do you know? He’s driving that flat-bed truck towing a fork life, yup, he’s a beekeeper. – When you get there’ you’re sharing your stories that this is not good, we’re in dire straits. – Well we have professors, scientists that are coming in, from throughout the United States, Canada and Europe that are informing us of the studies that they’re doing on these different insecticides that are used. It is ironic, when you look four years ago approximately, they had the same problem going on in France. The farmers and beekeepers of France went to their government. It was a matter of weeks, weeks, they took a vote in their parliament and said fine, the products are banned in France, immediately, take them out of the country. Haul them away. – And what happened? The bees came back? – The bees are starting to come back much better. – Because let’s clarify if that doesn’t happen here, you know, what are the ramifications of that? – And before you even answer that, why is it not happening here? Is it because of the big money and big ad like Monsanto? Lobbying and keeping people from, the legislations from going through, is that what’s happening? – Well that and the pen is mightier than the sword. Whatever you can write on paper and make it look documentively correct, it goes through better. Monsanto was the whipping post for many and they have come on board with several different people in the last few years and they’re changing their attitude, and they’re actually putting their checkbook into play and starting stronger investigation. Bayer hasn’t really jumped on the bandwagon yet. And they are the biggest guys in town. Yeah so we got to get them on board. Will we? By we, will the industry get them on board? Wow, we do not have in the beekeeping industry the power of money that they have. – Well you got Cheerios. – We got Cheerios. – So every little bit helps. – Cheerios is on board. – But it could not be Cheerios. Honey Nut cereals and all of that, only 30% to 35% of the honey that is produced in the United States is actually sold here? 70% or just less is imported from outside of the United States. So the honey nut cereals and the honey granola bars and all that would not be a bit surprising that that honey came from Pakistan, India, Australia, Argentina. 70% of that honey that we have in the store or we consume came from outside of the United States. It is ironic, it’s just ironic. – What would happen? What would happen if this problem isn’t corrected? – Well it’s been stated by very intelligent peoples that if no bees, no food. They say that the Earth would probably last three or four years. I don’t want to test the possibility of the theory of that. We would have to go into grain and grass eaters. And I don’t think our bodies can digest our front yard. – I don’t like grass, I’ve tried it. – We would go into a decline and it wouldn’t make a difference how much money you have in the world or what your position in life is. If there’s no food to eat, there’s just no food to eat, period. – So what can we do, what can our listeners do at this point to help? – It sounds maybe too simplistic. Sponsor the local beekeeper. Go to his store, go to his farmer’s market, and purchase his honey. That will help him maintain his business. We are losing, like I say, 35% or better of our hives. But we’re losing something even more important. That is beekeepers. Beekeepers that have been in the business for the second or third generations. They’re saying gee dad, you and mom can retire, I’m going to, I’m 40 years old, I’m going to go find another job, they’re getting out of the business. That is an even bigger loss. – Well here’s to that, because I think we’ve proven that beekeepers are pretty cool and you know what? I think we’ve got some of your wares here. Pull it out, man. – We should be toasting honey. – Let’s do it, you brought some, right? And it was like, it’s warm, it came out of the, it’s not as warm now. – I think it came out of your warm car. – I don’t know if it came straight out of a bee. – Before we came down, I came down, I bottled this up. – This is so fresh. – This was collected today? – Yeah we ate some of this before with Bill and now we’re going to do it with you. It was cool to hang out with you that day. It’s cool to hang out here. I have the spoons. – So support the local beekeeper. – Show me your spoon technique while you’re talking. – Plant some wild flowers. – Plant wild flowers, yeah. Get out there, plant wild flowers, educate your family and friends out there that you want to get the local honey like we’re eating right now, this very nice local honey. It’s excellent for those who have pollen allergies. – It’s sad to know that the bees had to die to make this. – Yeah because it is the bees’ blood, right? – No, no, it’s just the nectar from the flower. – Oh, no bees died in the making of this honey? – No, the bees don’t die. It’s just like the TV show and movies. No animals die at the filming of this show. – I’m glad we clarified that. – Oh yeah me, too. I couldn’t keep up with them. That’s good, I like that. – You’re not going to be able to convince me that’s not bee blood but I still love it. – Bee blood? – Bee guts, something. – You know bee blood is actually yellow. – Yeah just like that honey. – So that’s kind of a brown, amber. – It’s good. – Yeah it is good, yeah, it’ll put hair on your chest. – I’m good there, thank you. – Yeah well I agree. – What you’ve seen his chest? – That’s why I have no hair on my head, it fell down. (laughing) – Thanks for coming in, man. – You’re welcome, thank you guys. (funky music) – Hope you enjoyed our conversation with Mr. Clyde Steese. You can pick up the honey that Clyde extracts from the honeycomb over at billsbees.com. It’s good we just ate some. – And support your local beeist. – Yes, you should eat local honey. I mean that’s important. You’re supposed to do it for the allergies and stuff, so. – So do both of those things. While we’re out it, asking you to do things, leave a review on iTunes, please, for this podcast. 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