158 - Bees

What's the buzz? Join Aidan, Mitch, Sam, and special guest Michael as they bumble through bee trivia. We can finally be bees! This is good news!

Episode Transcript

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Welcome aboard, Bus 1. We're on our way to Bee Cave,
Texas, and we've got some time to kill.
Let's play some trivia gamers. Introduce yourselves.
Hello everyone, my name is Michael P I'm the newbie on
board and I'm hoping to win the grand belt today.

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Let's get it. I don't know about all that, but
my name is Mitch. And I'm Sam.
Nice. Well, welcome aboard, guys.
Thanks for joining me Today. We're gonna Bee Cave, Texas.
So you know what that means. Today's topic is all about bees,
OK? I love bees.

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Bees nuts. Before we move forward, let's go
over the rules because Michael, everybody welcome Michael.
We have a new guest joining the pod for the first time, so pay
attention because here are the rules #1 no Googling.
Bees don't know how to Google, and so you're not allowed to
either. There will be 3 levels in this

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game, a total of 15 questions. So that's five per level.
Level 1, the correct answers will get you 1 pot of honey per.
Correct answer. Level 2 you'll get 2 pots of
honey per correct answer and Level 3 you will get 3 pots of
honey per correct answer. So the points are going to go up
as we go through it. We are using a buzzer that's

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why, that's why. So make sure you buzz in if you
think you got the correct answer.
And as always, be on the lookoutfor the wasp. so-called the
challenge question. Pete, it looks like a bee, but
it's not. Once per game I will give you a
fake answer to one of the questions.

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Every player gets one opportunity to challenge what I
reveal as the correct answer. If you correctly guess which is
the wasp, I will award you an additional 3 pots of honey.
However, if you incorrectly challenge a true bee, you're
going to get stung and lose 3 pots of honey.
So multiple players can challenge the same question, but

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just keep that in mind, Something's going to be fishy
and call me out. Also, if you challenge in the
middle of the game rather than at the end, I will give you the
points for the question as well as if you had gotten it right.
Fishy. Do do three pots of honey equal
a a jar of honey? You know, I don't know the pot
to jar conversion. That's a great question.
We'll just we'll figure it out in post.

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An extra rule that I'm kind of stealing from Mitch here.
If you think you know the answerbefore multiple choices read,
you can use your Stinger to takean early stab.
If you get the answer correct, you'll get an additional pot of
honey. So, but you have to let me know.
You have to say Stinger before Iread the multiple choice to take

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that early. Yes, OK.
And as always, most honey wins opposite of golf.
Yay. No, honey in golf, as far as I'm
concerned. I don't know.
You guys have some golf. No, we don't play.
We don't play with honey. No, honey, exactly.
Unless I'm feeling frisky, Sam. Which is probably every time.

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So I'm saying, but any questions?
No solid feeling good. Especially you, Michael.
I'm feeling good. Great.
Cool. So if everybody's ready to go,
we're going to start it off withround one, which has a title,
Deep Dive into the Hive, AKA thesocial structure of B.

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We can B. So here we go question one.
Bees are famous for their machine like organization of
their hives but not all bees follow this you social structure
opting to risk it out on their own.
Which of the following types of bees is a quote?
Solitary bee so it does not livein hives with a bunch of other

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bees working together. Is it a a honey bee bee, a
Carpenter bee, CA bumblebee or DA killer bee Sam Dang it.
I feel like I'm just gonna say Killer Bee.
That's like the alpha male. I don't know.
Well, he. Stole my answer so now I can't
choose it. You could double up if you
wanted to. You can.

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I'm gonna go with Killer Bee. I feel like killers are the
king, so they're gonna do it on their own, you know?
Okay, Mitch, I think I know thisone because I've seen them by
themselves. So that's the only reason I'm
saying it's Carpenter Bee. Mitch that is correct.
It is Carpenter bee. They are solitary bees.
There are a couple other speciesof bee that are solitary.

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But while the Carpenter bees, they'll build their own
individual nests, sometimes theybuild near each other.
Like think of it like a neighborhood, but they don't
have like that caste system right there.
Nobody's the boss around a Carpenter bee.
No. Entrepreneur.
I have this wooden, I'll be kindof obscure about it.
I have this wooden structure that I've been near recently and

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I've noticed that like, I'm likesitting there and like there are
carpeting bees in it, but there's only like one or two.
And I'm like, OK, well, I guess this is just how they are.
Which is wooden structure that for I have experience purposes
has purpose whatsoever it's classified.
Sam I Sam, I fear that Mitch is gonna be the winner of this

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game. That's.
Pretty. Good, we've better stuff it up
we've. All that's a point.
I'm sorry, I do need that. There you go, Peter.
You get one point which is not the same as a pot of honey.
So yeah, so completely useless. Wait, what's the?
What's the conversion between points and jars?

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And points are. Just for one.
And what's the honey? Actually, yeah, one minute.
All right, question 2. Not all are equal in B society
LL. While Queens direct the
activities of the hive, workers carry out important building and
forging tasks, and the drones just kind of hang out I guess.

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Which of the following is not a difference between workers and
drones? So 3 of this a negatively coded
question. So three of these are different.
One of them is kind of fake. A Workers are all female, drones
are all male. B Drones are sterile, workers
are not. C Workers have stingers, drones

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do not. Or D drones come from
unfertilized eggs while workers come from fertilized eggs.
Sam. What was the first one that had
genders in it? Because I feel.
Like workers are female, drones are male.
Yeah, I'm gonna go with that. Sam, that is incorrect because
that is a true thing. All workers are.
Oh, shoes. Totally.
I even. I even gave you.

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The No, I know you did. That's totally on me.
Bitch. What was C again?
C was workers have stingers whereas drones do not.
I'm gonna go with that one. Mitch, that is incorrect.
That is true. All workers have stingers.
No, drones have stingers. Yeah, that's correct.
All right, PD down to the Wire 5050.
Yeah, Could I hear both of those?
Yes you can. Drones are sterile, workers are

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not. OR Drones come from unfertilized
eggs, whereas workers come from fertilized eggs I think.
I'm gonna go with DPD. That's incorrect.
That's a. That's the correct answer was
that drones are sterile and workers are not.
So fun fact, all workers are female bees so they are a
fertilized egg because the queencan choose to lay a fertilizer

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and unfertilized egg. Bee genetics is kind of weird.
It's really cool. I did a deep dive but the drones
are not sterile because they're the only male bees.
So they reproduce, but only the Queen gets to.
Reproduce it gets through. That makes sense.
Yeah, that makes sense. So that's kind of how that
works. But yeah, so what's really fun
is a male bee does not have a father.
It only only has a grandfather and a mother because the Queen.

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Just lays an. Unfertilized egg and then you
get a drone. Well, that's a fun fact.
That's a really That's a cool, neat bee fact.
But is that a bee pun? You get a point, a bee fact.
How's that? I get a point.
You get a point. OK, Thanks, Pete.
I'm getting that down. I got one point which is not a
pot of honey, and nobody gets a pot of honey for that.
You need a million puns for a pot of honey.

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Let's see if we can get there bythe end of this hour ish log
episode dance. With puns.
Yeah. Yeah.
We're two puns in and 9 minutes,so that's not but a great
question. Three guys, do you remember the
last Great B Civil War? If you remember the last Great B
Civil War, you know, nobody wants a repeat of that.
And that was terrible. The losses on both sides, just

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just horrific. In order to prevent this, the
hive works to ensure that only one queen is in power at any
given time. How does a hive limit itself to
1 queen? Is it A the queen will never lay
another queen egg? B the queen kills all other
queen larva before they can mature?

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C the workers don't build queen cells while detecting the
Queen's pheromones or AD new Queens leave the hive if there's
already one present. Mitch.
I feel like I've heard D before.Mitch, that is incorrect.
Really. Yeah, OK, I don't want to spoil
why it's incorrect, get the answer, but I'll tell you.

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The pheromones 1. I like pheromone.
That is also incorrect. I also like that one.
Thanks, I like writing that one.It's gotta be. 50 it's gotta be
BI. Think I'm wrong again, but it's
gotta be B. No, that is correct.
You get money for that. So that's the thing.
The queen will kill all other Queen Marva before it can
mature. Sometimes, if the hive is big

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enough, you do get into the situation where there are two
Queens. If that happens, they kind of
send out a little noise and theyduel.
Basically, if one queen touches another one's abdomen, they go
into fight mode. It's crazy, like they have a
genetic response. Bee fight.
Bee fight. That's crazy.
Yeah, but Mitch, with the thing you might have heard for For

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Dee, where the queen leaves the hive, that is a great transition
into question 4. Bee hives can be thought of as a
sort of super Organism, with each bee acting as a part of a
bigger whole entity. They even have a way of almost
reproducing when a if hive gets too big, a queen will leave and

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take half of the hive with her to start anew.
What is the name for this process?
Is it a schisming, B swarming, Cbifurcation, or D super mitosis?
Bitch, I might be completely wrong on this A schisming.

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That is incorrect much. That was the best one.
I know that was the one I enjoyed the most too.
It is crazy I. Think I'm gonna go with Bee?
Bee swarming is correct, Pete. So they call it a swarm.
So if you've ever seen like beeson like swarming around a tree
or something like that, that's because the queen has left the
hive, all the bees have followedand she's leaving to do it.

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And because there are Queens being laid all the time, like
the workers are already kind of refreshing, the queen just kind
of kills them as they pop up when she leaves.
Then another queen can mature and the old hive will still have
a queen, and then the new hive will start new.
Wait, so you say that again, So the.
Queen. Leaves.
Wait, wait, So the Queen? The Queen.

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Leaves, yeah, but because there's no queen anymore in the
old hive to kill the new ones, anew one grows up and takes over,
and then the new hive starts with the new queen.
Can I be a queen? Yeah, you can.
You already are. Yeah, it's actually 5 good pun
points makes you a queen and then you have to have enough
queen points in order to get better.

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But that's what it is. That's that's the.
Conversion. Right, the conversion.
Is very messy. Finally found the.
Conversion. We finally did.
Yep. The swarms can be very dangerous
due to the the queen being currently unprotected in a hive.
So don't go near bee swarms. Call a professional, they'll
come deal with them. I've seen where like if you're
like trans, like if you don't, if you don't feel like a nest on

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your property, the person will come and move the queen into a
container and then the rest of the bees will follow the queen.
Yeah. So they kind of create a
swarming in their basic interestin that sense, yeah.
Artificial swarming. Interesting.
Yeah, very interesting. So Question 5.
While bees can take orders from their queen through pheromones,
communicating directions such asthe location of the nearest

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pretty flower field can be a little tricky.
To do this, they perform a sort of dance that directs other bees
to a point of interest. What is the name of this dance?
Never heard of it. No one to tango.
Dang dude it was it was on a bus1 episode.
I'll give credit after this. It was on the IT was on the bugs
episode. Shout out Logan.
Is it A the jiggle dance, B the waggle dance, C the juggle

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dance, or D the wiggle dance Sam?
Waggle dance, right? That is correct, Sam.
It is the waggle dance. And once you said it, it jogged
my memory. There you go.
What's actually really cool about the waggle dance is bees
kind of have like an electric field because they're so fuzzy,
like the static electricity. So when they move, it modulates

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that electric field and the other bees can feel it.
And then that they have a very, very good sense of direction
because of that. It's so neat.
That's pretty. And they have really, really
cool. Yeah, that's.
Actually really cool. I have no idea.
It's really neat. And they can also.
They've been shown to be able todetect magnetic fields from the
Earth for directions and the sun.
Yeah, they're so smart, but. They got like a built in compass

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they. Got a built in compass.
It's pretty neat. I did want to shout out Logan
because he asked a very similar question, but on that episode he
asked everybody to do their bestwaggle dance.
But it was an audio only episode, So now I'm gonna have
everybody do their best waggle dance for bonus pot of honey.
Ooh, I like it. Wait.
Is it like the best? You have to like get up like.

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That's not the best, it's just agood try.
Oh yeah, okay, that deserves thepot.
Be honest. Dude, here's the field.
There's the field. Go over there.
That's what, yeah. There's the feed.
Hit it, hit it, hit it. Hey, good job guys.
Wait, wait, wait, wait. You're not off the hook, Aiden.
You're not off the hook, Yeah. Mr. Host.

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Get up and do it. He can't give himself the point.
That's pretty good. Oh, that is actually.
Really good More. Open more hip into it.
Yeah, yeah, there you go. Say put more acid.
Go. Oh, OK, sure.
Where that? There we go.
Oh. I'm making myself the bonus
point for that, yeah. I feel like.

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You can take a bonus pot of honey in that.
Case so I'm at 2. Points right now, OK, I'm
winning in points, in points andthat is the end of round one, so
nice job. Who actually won?
Who is the best? All right, like, let's be real.
You know, everyone's the best for trying.
So I. Get another.
It's a for. Dancing.
Everybody gets a pot of honey, but I get to get to this point

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because mine was the best anyway.
Can we get a score check here atthe end of round one of where
we're at? Honey check.
Three pots of honey. Three pots of honey.
So are you really counting the one from the dance?
That's not a joke. OK, so.
Two, of course, 2 pots of two aswell.
Nice job guys. That's pretty, pretty close.
A lot can switch up going into round two.
But before we do a little buzz buzz, a little bee told me that

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we have to go to an audience question.
So I'm gonna waggle dance on over there and we'll see you
next time. Buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz
buzz. Oh hey there human, welcome to
my hive. I'm just chilling in here
listening to my favorite podcast, Buzz One Trivia.

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It's really fun, you should definitely check it out.
See, I always make sure to tell my friends and acquaintances
about the podcasts I like because it helps the creators of
the show. Anyways, I was recently thinking
about Aura Maxing and what songsmight be best for it.
What's that Mister NYLT? You say funk music is good for

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aura maxing? What a great idea.
You deserve a point for that. Speaking of points, us bees tend
to make our hives using a lattice of special pointed
shapes. What shapes do bees use to
create the lattice of their beehives?
Again, what shapes do us bees use to create the lattice of our

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beehives? Tell us your answer in the
comments on Spotify, YouTube or on the latest Instagram post for
a chance at earning a point fromme, Fuzzy the Bee.
And we're back. Welcome back, everybody.
I hope you like that audience question.
Remember to put your answer in. But now it's time for round two,
which also has the title husbandry, more like Buzbendry,

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also known as bees and agriculture.
We can bee bees. So we're talking about kind of
domesticating bees in this one. So question 6.
In order to raise bees to produce all their good stuff, we
need to keep them well fed. Which of the following is not a
food source for bees? Is it a nectar, bee pollen, C

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leaves, or D royal Jelly? Petey Oh, it's got to be CC
spoke to me like before you evenread the question.
That's incorrect. What was?
C Bees eat leaves, dude. They eat leaves.
You ever hear the Leaf Eater bee?
No, my bees don't eat leaves. Dang, you got a different type
of bee there dude. I guess I got a Carpenter bee,

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Mitch. I'm gonna say pollen.
Mitch, that is correct. Bees do not consume pollen.
They use it as a building material.
They turn into wax, so they don't eat it.
Little do our contestants know that this was the fake answer.
Looks like they were fooled thistime.
Royal Jelly, however, is a substance that's excreted,

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excuse me, by worker bees. They feed it to all the larvae
when they're growing up, but they continue to feed it to the
queen. And that's why it becomes a
queen, because it. Eats this good stuff.
A ton of that stuff. Yeah, so it's weird.
And then like, people started eating it for alternative
medicine purposes, which is a little shady, but we're not
gonna go into that. Part.
What is it called again? Royal Jelly.

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Royal Jelly. Wow.
Yeah. I feel like that's something you
would get in like Zelda, yeah. Right.
Exactly. Yeah, it's like this, like
creamy stuff that comes out of the worker bees.
OK, Yeah, give me some of that royal Jelly.
Yeah. Let's anyways question 7.

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During their trips to drink thatsweet, sweet nectar out of
flowers, bees also need pollen to bring back and build their
hives. Which of the following is not a
way that bees collect pollen? I'm now realizing that a lot of
negatively coded questions don'twork very well for the snipe
mechanic, but that's OK. Hey?
Tiny hairs on their legs, B cheek pouches CA static charge

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built up by flapping their wingsor D Pollen baskets on their
hind legs. Mitch.
Go with cheek. Pouches, Mitch, that is correct.
They carry them all otherwise, but cheek pouches, they do have
mandibles, but they don't reallyuse though.
They're more for like cutting. They don't have any mouth
storage. So they have their proboscis to
suck up the nectar, but the pollen is carried on the outside

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of the body with all that hair and static electricity and then
these big concave surfaces on their hind legs that they like
pack all the pollen into. So if you ever see like a bee
with a giant ass, yeah, that's what they're doing.
Well, that's gonna. That's what I was gonna.
I've always seen like pictures of bees with pollen.
It's like all back loaded like it's all in the back.
Yeah, they got that junk in the trunk.

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Junk in the trunk is right. Yeah, anyway, moving on to
question 8, I guess. Before we move on though, I do
want to give a moment of silencefor the first guy to crack open.
And beehive, please. Thanks.
Yeah, well, he probably got stung a bunch and probably died.

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At least we figured out that their gross little gunk is
delicious. After we tried that sweet, sweet
honey, we figured out how to create artificial hives and farm
bees. When was the first recorded
instance of domesticated beekeeping?
And if anybody wants to snipe here, I'll give you.
I'll give you a 200 year on either end window.

(20:42):
Whoa. So is this specifically like is
this defined as artificial hives?
Just a domesticated beast. I think it's artificial hives
but I bet just like husbandry super.
And you're giving us a 200 year window, 100 year size.
Window. Yeah, yeah ±200 years.

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Here's the thing, I think in thelike context of history, 400
years is not no. So I don't feel like I want to
go that's. True.
All right. Like I don't think the answer is
like 1912. And then it's like, well, this
is actually 2020. 56000 BCE in Spain, B 3100 BCE in Egypt, C

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1900 BCE in Greece, or D900 BCE in the Jordan Valley.
Damn. I'm going to say Egypt.
Damn, that is correct. That'll get you the pots of
honey. So fun fact, 6000 BC in Spain
they discovered cave paintings of people harvesting honey, but
not like farming it. So they they would take the

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beehives and and eat it. But the first domestication of
bees. Yeah, exactly Like in Zelda, but
the first domestic and like peak.
But the first investigation of bees was in Egypt in 3100 BCE.
But like ancient Greece did it. Everybody's been doing bees for
a while. I think the Egyptians first
figured out that if you like usesmoke, it calms like puts the
bees to sleep and then you can. Rise the honey.

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Yeah, that thing Well, and I think like it was the it's like
a really good artificial or likea sweetener or it gets a
national yeah yeah, natural sweetener.
But it also doesn't it like hopefully I'm not stealing any
Thunder from you. No doesn't it like keep forever?
Yeah, yeah. A question about that, but I
didn't yeah honey and beeswax too they both have no expiration
date their chemical compound is entirely stable so it's very,

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very good people used a lot of beeswax we'll.
Talk. The reason I know that well just
from learning that on the side, but I bought some Snapple and I
was looking for the expiration date and it didn't.
Have one Snapple doesn't expire.Does not expire.
That's crazy. Now that I wonder what they're
doing, I don't. Know what are they doing all?

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It's all beeswax. But apparently Snapple does not
go bad. That's great, that's awesome.
That's. Awesome, did they get rid of the
facts or do they still have the Snapple facts on the cat?
Oh, they've got. I have no idea.
I thought I heard something about people getting rid of them
and it was like super mad but Ohwell.
Yeah, I feel. Like, that's their funeral.
It never goes bad. They can.
They could ride out the market. They can.
Run their exact exactly. I mean, yeah.

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Yeah, good business plan. I first learned about the
campfire thing from Minecraft. Thanks, Mike.
Thanks, Minecraft. Anyway, question 9.
Shout out to Minecraft. Question 9.
Bees work pretty hard in order to keep up with the demands of
their own hive, but also the demands of humans.
How many flowers does a colony need to visit to produce 1 LB of

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honey? And I'll, I will again give you.
Never mind. I don't want to pick a number
out. Yeah, that's.
Gonna clue us in that's. Crazy if you're close enough,
I'll give it to you if you're feeling ballsy, but here we go.
Hey. Oh, do you wanna?
Are you feeling ballsy image? Can you repeat?
I might How many pounds of. How many no how many flowers

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does a bee need to visit to produce a pound of honey?
That's. Gotta be a shit ton ball snipe
or singer. I'm I had to say I'm gonna go
with 1,000,000 flowers. OK, it's.
Kind of what I was thinking too do.
You guys want to turn this into a into a closest?
Stinger, we're Sam. You better do it.

(24:22):
We're doing it. I will.
I will. I I think I'm gonna scale it
down a bit. I feel like a million is like
too much in my brain. Too many flowers, too many
flowers. I can't even.
Imagine I've seen a million flowers.
I don't think I've seen a million.
Flowers in my lifetime. Didn't they grow?
I wonder how many flowers they grew for Wicked.

(24:43):
I'm gonna look that up. All your hands, yeah.
I think I'm gonna go 250,000 flowers.
Wow, I love it. Sam, are you getting in on this?
Yeah, Stinger, I'm just trying to envision what a pound of
honey would look like. Like I.
Don't imagine like a jar. Oh, true.
Like, is that a pound of honey? Like a A that has a Mace to a

(25:03):
jar? Yeah, yeah.
Watch it. It's probably more than a pound.
It's gonna be for a wicked I. Watch.
Million tulips, so if that givesyou a reference.
That's how much like for Wicked 9 million.
Yeah, that's 9 lbs of honey. Right.
Or more. I don't want to be rude and say
1,000,001 so I'll say. Yeah, don't be real.

(25:24):
Say 10 million. 2.0 wow but not OK sure. 2.5 million.
Sam, that's gonna give it to you, because the correct answer
is 2 million flowers, roughly. Yeah.
So that's it. That's two pieces or two jars of
honey plus an extra jar of honeybecause he sniped and we
everyone just kind of went for it.
But a single worker produces about 112th of a tablespoon in

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their lifetime. So think of how many worker bees
have to come together to get to all those flowers.
Remember that next time I eat a tablespoon of.
Pound of honey, right? It's 2012 of a teaspoon.
Next you have a teaspoon. Of money, that's 12 of a.
Bees Life. Score.
That's crazy, they said. That are so insignificant.
Yeah, my cup of tea in the morning kills 12 bees.

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Make sure to thank thank your bees when your bees when you
drink your. Yeah, Yeah, exactly.
All right. Question 10.
Outside of producing honey and other products like beeswax,
bees provide an extremely important function as one of the
world's best pollinators. With all that pollen hanging on
the outside of the body, they carry it from place to place
while they naturally pollinate in their areas.

(26:31):
Surges in farming demand as wellas declining mild bee
populations have led to bees being shipped in to help with
crops on big agricultural operations.
Approximately what percentage ofhumans food supply is currently
reliant on pollination by bees? Is it A 1/2, B 1/3, C 1/4 or D

(26:55):
1/5? Do bees pollinate corn?
Like I feel like that. They only really.
Pollinate plants that. Flower.
I don't know. Do they let the corn get to the
flowering stage? I don't actually know.
I don't know. I should know that I know.
From Indiana, you feel like we should know that, Yeah.
It can't be that many. I'm gonna go 1/3 even.
Sounds like a lot. I'm gonna go with the third.
Why not? That's correct. 1/3 of the food

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supply is currently reliant on pollination.
It's a little bit less than I just wanted to do the nice
fractions. 1/3 is the total number with like bees and birds
and stuff like that. But the bees are, bees are
carrying the load of the work there.
You know, they they got the junkin the trunk, they're carrying
it around. Yeah, birds ain't when.
Was the last time you saw a birdwith pollen ass?

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That's what I was saying. Big Bird I don't like.
No, yeah, it was like a bird. Covered in pollen because he's
all yellow. Oh, you're a pretty.
Sizable gut too. Like I feel like that's.
All Wow, Big Bird is really carrying the pollination.
Yeah, he, he should have the bigspecies.
Yeah, he's he's. Your kids deer.

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Sesame Workshop. Why is he not named Big Pollen?
Big pollen sounds like, you know, big AG like.
Big pollen doesn't want you to know it's.
Like that's like beer girl big. Pollen.
Anyway, that's the end of round two.
Round two, which wasn't titled Husband Dream, more like Buzz

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and dream, Bees and agriculture.So congratulations, we've
finished it. Can I get a honey check?
No. OK.
So that's it. Thanks for tuning in.
The buzz one really come. On.
I'm proud of my number. You'd be proud of your number 2.
I have 3, three, I gained 0. Nice for the viewers out there
who are following me. Consistent, one might say.
I have 8:00. No big deal, no?

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Big deal and I have 70. Now here's the thing Peter,
we're about to move into Round 3and Round 3.
They're all worth 3 points, so it's time to teach you the
classic Bus 1 catch phrase. Round 3 is where I come a lot.
That is a classic. Guy, I say it in every episode,
yeah. Hey guys, round 3 is where I
come alive. Let's.
Go. Obligatory.

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Obligatory routers where I come live.
Anyway, Speaking of round three,we're about to start it and
round 3 is called the Bee's Knees or Cool Bee.
Facts that I found that I wantedto talk about.
But we can bee, bee. Come here, we're gonna have Bee
Bee's knees when I grow. Up gonna have bee's knees I'm.
Gonna have bee's. Knees.
Is that a medical condition? Aiden, are you actually
interested in bees or does this just AI wrote it down?

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'Cause I was like, I felt like bees have like a lot of weird
things about them and it's like they're kind of neat.
And so I was like, I kind of hedged my bets that there was
enough interesting stuff out there to write an episode.
And then I spent like a day researching bees and they're
cool as shit. Yeah.
And it's like, here we are. No, I, I did not know anything
about bees before today. So here we go.

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Question 11. It's time for the spelling bee
question. So the point of this question is
you have to answer using spelling bee rules, which would
be like say the word Aiden. Cool, so question is the fear of
bees is called apophobia. But I don't see any reason why

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people should be afraid of bees.They're so cute and virtually
harmless, unlike Wasps which aretotal Dicks and really scary
actually. Yeah.
What is the fear of Wasps and their stings called?
And this is multiple choice, butyou do have to spell out the
answer that you want to unless anyone wants to take a step.
No, I've never heard of this. No clue, no cool.

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A Melissa phobia, B specs phobia, C vespophobia or D
entomophobia. Is Melissa phobia the fear of
people named Melissa Melissa? I'll tell you what the other
ones are after. We finished.
When you said vespophobia, I just thought fear of Vespa.
Oh my. God, the Italian accordion music

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starts playing. OK just cuz I like the way it
sounds so wait before I say anything I have to say it in
spelling me fashion you. Have to say in spelling me.
Fashion. Yes.
My answer is Oh my gosh, spexophobia.
OK. I can use it in a sentence if
you want. No, that wouldn't help.
So spexophobia SPHEKSOPHO the IA.

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Sam, that is of 100% correct. Wait.
No, what? Oh, spexophobia there.
You go 100. Percent.
They ring the bell when you get it wrong.
When you forget to do it. But that is 100% correct.
Spexophobia is the fear of WaspsI.
Just like the way that one sounded.
I am spelling. Melissa phobia is actually

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another name for the fear of bees.
It comes from the Greek word forbee instead.
Of the last word for bee, Yeah. That's vespophobia, like Vesps
is like the genus of Wasps. So if you know the Pokémon Vespa
queen, that's where that comes from.
And then entomophobia is just a general fear of bugs.
So it's like tomorrow, see this.Yeah, exactly.
But yeah. Figure that one.
I am a proud spexophobe. That's my first time saying that

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out loud. I'm gonna get a shirt with that.
There you go. New merch.
New merch. Yeah, bees are cute brown spec
someone is actually crazy merch,but you know, bees are cute and
stuff. But if like, like me, if you've
been stung by a wasp or something before, you know that
that hurts like shit. And so I have a very, very valid
fear in my opinion. So I'm gonna give a bonus pot of

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honey to anyone who's been stungby a wasp or bee before.
I have. Well, I I actually have too.
Yeah, all three of you. Yeah, great.
Both spots of honey I cause. I've also been stung by a bee
and Animal Crossing. So well, well, that's.
Saying that's, I don't know how you ever recovered from that.
That's more traumatizing. Than this.
Right here's my my classic bee wasp story is I was like a small

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child. I was riding my bike around my
neighborhood and a bee landed onme.
And I was like, OK, when a bee lands on you, you freeze, right?
And so I freeze and my mouth wasopen and the bee starts to crawl
towards my mouth. And so I shut it.
It stings my lips and it flies away and I like kill it on my
bike seat, but my. Lip went like, I'm gonna

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challenge that story. Why?
Why the hell would you do that? Because.
I'm a fucking idiot I guess. Please tell me there's a picture
of that somewhere. Either what the stories, you
know. So I think I have a very, very
valid fear of Wasps and bees andthat kind of stuff.
OK, do you need help? No, I'm traumatized.
I what? I can't stand.
The reason I gave a bonus point is I can't stand when people are

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like, well I've never been stoned by AB.
I don't get what the big deal isbecause it's like they're scary
of shit if you felt it anyway. Can we, can we take a moment to
appreciate what Sam just did? Like I don't think I.
Have the spelling. Yeah, that.
Was like that was like I. Thought that's the.
Hardest one to be something I know it's.
SPH. All that, like 5th grade
spelling bee practice suddenly helped.

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Coming in, but he was like, what?
Suddenly he was just picking random letters.
I'm not gonna. When I was a kid and the
spelling bee was like mandatory at my school, I would purposely
spell a word wrong so that I. Didn't have to, that's crazy.
No, I was a total sweaty boy when it came to spelling bees,
of course. Sweaty bee, if you will.

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A sweaty, A sweaty bee. Yeah, that's good.
That's one point. Yeah, my traumatizing spelling
story is I had to spell fuselage, and that was the first
time I had heard that word. And I was like, what the fuck is
that? Yeah.
And then they're like, you're out, OK Anyway, screw you.
Yeah, I don't remember asking. Anyway, question 12.

(34:44):
We spent way too much. That's OK.
Speaking of Wasps, these bitcheskeep pretending to be bees and
I'm sick of it. Sometimes you see something,
you're like, oh, is that a bee? And it's a watch, and I hate it.
Yeah. Hornets and yellow jackets are
especially the worst because they're often confused bees due
to their similar color scheme and certain other similarities.
Which of the following is not a difference between Hornets and

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bees? So three of these things are
different between Hornets and bees.
One of them is not A Hornets arecarnivores.
B Hornets are not eusocial, which is the hive structure
thing. C Hornets will sting unprovoked
or D Hornet hives. Use paper instead of wax.
Bitch shoot. That actually falls for the

(35:28):
negatively coded question thing.Again, which one is not a
similarity between the two? Which one is a similarity?
Which one is not a difference? I'm gonna go with the communal
structure. You think that Hornets do have
eusocial? Yes, that is correct.
Mitch, that's three pots of honey to you.
Hornets and yellow jackets are you social and have a very
similar hierarchy. They don't produce honey or wax
though, and they're really aggressive.

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Like they will sting you with much less provocation than even
unprovoked. Sometimes they'll just be like,
especially when they're dying, they're like.
I'm gonna go get them. Might as well.
Yeah, right. Exactly as well.
God, Blaze of glory. Yeah.
Where honey bees and other typesof bees really won't sting you
unprovoked unless you like get really like threaten their queen
and then they get a little feisty.

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OK, question 13. According to all no laws of
aviation, there is no way that abee should be able to fly.
It's wings are too small to get it's fat little body off the
ground. The bee, of course, flies
anyway, because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.
This line from The Bee Movie exacerbated a false rumor that
has plagued amateur bee enthusiasts and scientists to

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this day. What caused the myth that bees
violate aerodynamic theory? The previous calculations didn't
account for the B's static charge, which helped to lessen
the air density. B The previous calculations were
based on fixed wing flight like planes or birds.
C the scientist that did the calculations was terrible at
math or D the B movie writers saw the data but didn't

(36:58):
interpret the data correctly. Dan.
What was the terrible at math one?
Because that's just hilarious. Just the guy was terrible at
math and that one that is incorrect the guy.
No. I mean, I feel like I'm gonna go
with. Allegedly not terrible at math.
Petey. What was that?
I think I'm gonna go with actually.
I think I'm gonna go with a actually.

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He changed. Up Petey, that is incorrect.
The static charge, it doesn't really help like it doesn't
really lessen the air density enough for a beat.
I just levitates so bitch 5050. One is the obvious one, but
maybe it's a little too obvious.What do you mean by fixed wing
something? What do you mean?
Wing flight, so like flames and birds where you can kind of it's

(37:41):
fixed, right? Whereas like a bug is like so
they were. How would you mess that up like
that seems? Right, but well, but what
started the myth? Not necessarily from the movie,
but from. Yeah, the movie just made it
more prevalent. Right, I'm gonna go with that
one, then the fixed next wing thing.
That is correct Mitch, the guy who did the calculations were

(38:03):
even like hey this is fixed wingflight so take this with a grain
of salt. But bees weren't able to fly and
everyone was like wow that's crazy how bees can't fly but
they can fly. But how bee flight actually
works is more similar to a helicopter where the wings
create vortices that kind of lift them ad lift.
It's not just the force of theirwing.
Up and down, yeah, that makes sense because I, I will say when

(38:25):
I see like when you watch slow motion videos of bees flying,
it's kind of a more of a circular motion.
Yeah, it's like during the frontC.
Circular flipping motions that create the.
Is that similar to like a Hummingbird to hummingbirds,
Yeah. Yeah, I think they also do very
similar thing and they also havea very, very high wing beat
rate. So they're doing it really,
really fast, which kind of helpswith that.

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But question 14, Speaking of wing beats, the flight of the
bee actually helps to create that signature buzzing noise as
the as the wings move back and forth.
These sounds interestingly happen to align with the key of
C oscillating around those frequencies, which I just
thought was really neat. But the question is, what key
is? Flight of the Bumblebee by
composer Nikolai Rimsky Karsakov, Oh.

(39:07):
My. Gosh, all right, smart people,
are you gonna snipe it? No.
I guess. This is gonna be a pure shot in
the dark for. Me all right.
Is it AABA minor CE or DE minor?Wait, go through them against.
A a minor EE minor and this is what it starts in cuz I think it
changes keys PD. We're gonna go with E.

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He does. Incorrect, I guess.
No Flight of the bumblebee, right?
Yeah. I've got no.
You're in the wrong key. You're in the wrong key, but.
I don't know. What the name of it is?
I could just do it. No, I just, I have no idea.
Sam, I think you're up. I feel like intuitively, I just
feel like it would start in a minor key thinking about it.
So I think a minor I'm gonna go with.

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Sam, that is correct. That starts in A minor.
Wow. Yeah, I was hoping at least you
could narrow down the 5050 because it is like a a minor key
kind of. Yeah, Yeah.
But it's very chromatic and I like that song.
It's very fun. Have you.
I saw I saw a group once do an acapella rendition of Flight of
the Bumblebee and they're like. And it was so cool it.
Was so, so cool. Awesome, yeah.

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But really fun nature effect bees kind of they're they're
buzzing noises have not hit the notes in the key of C It's like,
you know, they had changed species to species.
But I thought that was like a really neat thing.
All right, Post Malone. Get to it, Post Malone.
Cold shot, I guess. That sounds like something Post
Malone would do. Yeah, you know what?

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You're probably right. All right, Question 15, The
final question. OK, one of the biggest to bee
myths is that they can only sting you once and then they
die. This is actually only true for
worker honey bees specifically. Every other bee doesn't have
that problem. But worker honey bees are the

(40:54):
most common, so that's where it comes from.
OK, other types of bees and whops are unaffected.
But why do honey bees die after stinging?
I'm going to try it. I'm going to try it.
He's doing the Stinger, Stinger on the Stinger.
Question. Yeah, I'm a Stinger.
OK. I think that they have AI.
Hope this is close enough. They have a vital organ that is

(41:15):
connected to the Stinger and so the Stinger is removed.
They lose that. Vital organ.
That's interesting, Mitch, that is not correct, but it is
interesting. It's not correct enough that I
want to count it. I should say.
Does anyone else want to stay? No, I have no clue.
It's close, but not close enough, is what he's saying.
Yeah, yeah. A the discharge of venom

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collapses the rest of the nearbyorgans that rely on that
pressure, therefore killing the bee.
B the barbed Stinger gets stuck and is ripped out along with
most of the abdomen. C The venom in the Stinger is
also toxic to the bee and gets slightly injected on contact, or
D the bee starves itself after stinging to ensure it won't
reproduce. PD, BB.

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Is correct PD the barbed Stingerwhen when they try to pull out
of it the barbs get caught and their abdomen basically just
explodes. Wait, am I tweaking?
Have all of the answers to thesequestions been B?
Mitch finally got into that wait.
I was. Not so basically catch on.
I want to shout out to Alec for that because I was like, I'm

(42:19):
going to do AB episode. He was like, you should make
every answer to it. And I thought that was the
funniest thing. Yeah.
Do I get an? Extra point for that.
I wouldn't have even known a point.
You get a point. Point, yeah.
You get a point. See, I was hoping somebody would
catch on earlier. They get all the answers right.
That's why I added snipe. And so that, you know, you could
still kind of get ahead of the if you look like, gosh, but

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yeah. But yeah, the barbed Stinger
thing, it's only on the worker honey bees, queen honey bees
have a smooth Stinger. The rest people have a smooth
Stinger so it can keep going in and out.
Fun fact about the barbed Stinger, it really only effects
mammals because of our thick skin.
So it only gets caught in our skin so they can do it to other
things Pretty easily and not die.
It's just people have relativelythick skin in the butt, kind of

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get stuck. We just kill them.
It's I mean. Yeah, we're murderers.
We're just built different. Me, me and the 12 bees I killed
by having a teaspoon of honey, right?
Exactly. You imagine.
Well, that's the end of our game, ish.
We have a couple more things to do, so let's get a score check
currently. I got 7 pots and three points.
Seven pots, three points. That's crazy, bitch.

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I have 15 pots one point OK. And I have 14 pots I'm sure I
did not keep. Well, I'm sorry, PD, I don't
know if that's in a honey challenge range.
Yeah, but we do still have the the wasp for the challenge
question out there. So which one of those bees
looked like a wasp to you? I'll challenge if you do, Sam

(43:45):
do. We I'm making you both, yeah.
Yeah, you know, I do have one. In mind, I do have one in mind,
OK? I also have one.
I'm making you challenge too, so.
All right. Good deal.
Yeah, OK. Who wants to go first, then?
Well, let's start with Mitch. Because he's in the lead, I
guess. OK, the one that was SUS and I
got SUS stuff. I'm SUS up SUS.
On the bus. I forget what number it was, but

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it was in round one. OK, it's the only one I wrote
down as being SUS. It's what happens when you have
multiple Queens. The queen killing the Queens,
not right. I have never heard that before,
so I think that's what I'm goingwith.
Neat. All right.
Locked in. Thinks it's a wasp.
All right, Sam, what do you want?
Totally off of my intuition, butI'm gonna go with #6 because I

(44:32):
just definitely thought that bees eat pollen.
They don't just turn it into waxor whatever you said.
Well, and Petey, what do you gotlocked in the chamber?
I really don't think the ratio between flowers and pounds of
honey is correct. I don't think it's two and a
half, 2,000,002. Million to pound.
I think it's, I think it's lowerthan that.

(44:53):
All right, drum roll, please. The wasp was you all lean
towards. You're grabbing your bee.
It was question 6, the pollen eating question.
No. Oh my God.
So Mitcha PD, you get stung. I was so funny.
Sam, that's three extra. Pots of running out their
abdomens. Let's There you go.

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But that's. True, He forced me to challenge
He. Forced me.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. But bees do eat pollen.
They eat pollen. They make it into what they call
bee bread. It's part of the thing that they
eat, but mostly they're spreading it around and using it
for building stuff. But they also do eat it.
The completely lied to you. Most bees don't eat leaves.
It's just the one kind of leaf eater bee.
I don't remember which one it was actually called.

(45:38):
Yeah, leaf cut. But PD answered that and you're
like, no, you know, leaf eater bees.
I was like, that's Leaf. Cutter bee.
I got that one rock. But they do leaf.
Cutter bees do eat leaves, so that's not like fully wrong.
But yeah, Beezy Polly. That's that's a damn.
So I think that means Sam's our winner here, right?
Same as the queen bee, if you will.

(45:59):
I'm Beyoncé. You're Beyoncé.
Congratulations to our Beyoncé, Sam.
Yeah, I have a thing to mention that every answer was B if you
guys didn't catch on, but he gotthere right at the end.
And I. Wouldn't have.
Well Hive, it looks like we've rolled in here at B Cave, Texas,
so that's all the time we have. If you enjoyed your ride on Bus

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