EP-5 Interview with Tim & Hannah Blake with Joseph Rawls | KODIAK FARM BEES - Kodiak Farm Bees

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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Welcome to the Kodiak Farm Bees Podcast. Hey, good evening, folks,
or should I say good morning. We're a little bit
early today, but I don't want to cut into nobody's
time this evening. I just want to make sure we
kind of jumping here and do a little talking and

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do a little fellowship with some of our fellow bee keepers.
This is what I know, y'all. Can hear them talking
over there. They're trying to figure it out. Anyway, I'm
go ahead and bring in our guests. We got Tim
and Hannah from gun Line Bees. They got up early

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this morning and they had to come over here.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
We did.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
We left them out we were on the road at I.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Think, yep, stopping feud on up, put a little air
in the tire and the hammer down.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Don't push the buttons. Buttons, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
We might let him get over here in a little
while and pay a few buttons. That's how it happens.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
I'm gonna tell you all what this thing is. A
spaceship people. I walked in there and it just it
blew my mind that all there is a whole bunch
of pretty buttons you can push. I'm not gonna lie
about that, but the get up is awesome. Le I
gotta give you two thumbs up on it. Man, this
is this place is awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
I do have to kind of play around here for
just a second. Somebody, I think warned us not to
do something, so we just got to see what happens.

Speaker 5 (01:48):
Anyway, I don't like the studios. That's take my living
room where I can hide like three.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
I hope y'all all having a good day out there.
I know it's early, so some people still probably just
waking up on the West Coast, so I don't know
if DC's in here yet or not. I hadn't got
to even check the comments, so so how'd y'all enjoy
y'all's ride over here this morning?

Speaker 4 (02:18):
It was nice, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:20):
Totally different scenery from driving the golf stores every time.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
We was talking about that a while ago, about just
coming through and the whole land changing and everything over
this way. You know, we got our piney woods and
all that, but you start heading over this way getting
into some of these pretty marsh and swamp lands, you see,
And it was a good ride. We we was trying

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to catch up on time because we was a few
moments late. Leaving, but we made up for it. We
might in my gh t h I've been within the
gray area of the speed limits, but we got on

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here with the hammer down.

Speaker 5 (03:10):
Yeah, now it was pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Right though, most of the people that's in the comments here,
they probably know where y'all at because this will probably
be turned into a podcast also, So, I mean, I
didn't want to go through a couple of kind of standards,
simple questions, and uh, it's goin to let you introduce
y'allselves and let us know where y'all from.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
All right, Well, I'm Tim Blake and my beautiful wife
women here, Mss Hannah Blake, and we're gun line bees
from months When's South Alabama down there just north of
Mobile a little bit, uh, northern Mobile County, And I

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don't know what to come. Where are we going? Five
years now?

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah? I think so this will be our fifth here.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yeph just kind of got interested in bees. Besides, we
had to find something else to do with our time
whenever we wentn't working, and uh, we was adrenaline junkies
for many many years on the fire department and ems.

Speaker 5 (04:22):
I don't know if I classify myself as an adrenaline junkie. Well,
I enjoy it, but not a junkie.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yeah, it was a lot of good years doing that,
but we Yeah, I had twenty years of service bre
in ems and she had ten a little over ten years, right,
So but yeah, we got out of it and like
I said, we had to find something to do with
our time, and h ended up turning into beekeeping.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
What was done, Yeah, completely on accident. But yeah, it's
been great though. I mean, anybody that watches our channel,
you can it doesn't take long to figure out how
much we love the bees, so.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
Especially her over there. But she and she's going to
do everything she can make sure ain't no bee squashed.
Everybody's in there. Took away nice and neat, and she's
going to talk to him on the way out.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
How did y'all get into wanting to keep bees?

Speaker 3 (05:28):
It was more him. I guess that, like.

Speaker 5 (05:31):
First had the idea because I thought he was crying.
I thought he hadn't lost his mind when he come
to me talking about it.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
I want to keep bees.

Speaker 5 (05:39):
But then the story you were just telling a little
while ago, when we was in breakfast about the first
little bee calling me. We tried to get and you
were hooked after that.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
Yeah, there was a there was a swarm of bees
that had gotten into an old pop up camper back
behind our church, and the gentleman owned to pop up camper.
He wanted the bees out. So we had the interest,
and I had mentioned it two or three times, I
guess in a year or two before we ever finally

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done anything, and seeing those bees in there, and it
was kind of owned after that. I was telling them
a while ago, I was watching a whole bunch of
videos trying to figure out with how we're going to
do this cut out, and it looked very simple watching

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folks on them videos doing it, and it was a
completely different story with I guess our real first cut out.
But that's pretty well what drew our interest in Like
everybody else, it's come become, I guess, a bit of
an addiction in some ways.

Speaker 5 (06:56):
Definitely, definitely I forgot the comments is right here.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
I ain't see everybody.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, they on another monitor over there in front of y'all.
Two Can I scroll down if I touched this one
from that one? I can't push no buttons over there's
in cody at Farm Studio two point zero. Those will
be set up with multiple computers on that side so
you can do stuff on yours too.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
Let's do a little gunline special thing then while we
hear at Lee's. I know I'm not gonna be able
to get all the way back, but let's see here,
Miss Sarah Grayson, Philip, mister Joey.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
Right, Joe Rols in that chat.

Speaker 4 (07:32):
Seeing him in there, Yes, Sir Jack and the Nay
loving them pictures y'all are sending to us. That is
beautiful up there, Daisy Steve, New York. Appreciate y'all dropping
by on Lee's channel here and visiting with us. Yeah,
past Larry and missus Jams, Lee, Dennis God, I'd love you.
Appreciate everybody, uh, everybody joining in this morning.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
DC is still trying to get me do that little
travel studio.

Speaker 5 (08:04):
Studio three point is a travel.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
Travel hook it up and go.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
That would be a heck of a setup, but I
don't know. I'm not going to say it's impossible, but
I'm just not sure on that one.

Speaker 5 (08:19):
Mister might just give up on.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
I think she's pretty close to that already right now.
So you said y'all's getting into bees was doing a
cutout underneath a little pop up camper. How long ago
was that six year?

Speaker 3 (08:38):
Six years?

Speaker 5 (08:38):
I think so, because because it was like white summer,
wasn't it when we found I know, it was hot.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
Well, when we finally got things in order to do
the cutout, man, it was it was devastation because we
had gotten our boxes together, we got everything ready to go,
and we was going to go do it within the
next day or two kind of thing. Well, an exterminator

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had come back to spray and y'all, he hit that
entrance and we come back there was to be yeah,
I mean that that there was pretty well nothing left
to the colony. So just by a chance, we put
some lemon grass in the box, set it right there

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beside it, and lo and behold they did upscone and
they did go into that box right there, and so
we didn't really have to cut out anything on that.
But our first cutout, let me tell y'all, our very
first cutout was in a hunting stand.

Speaker 5 (09:45):
And like it was definitely not for the faint of heart.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
We didn't have no kind of good bee keeping apparel
at all. We went up there blue jeans and just
jack and and veil and if some of that old
you know, the cheap stuff that you get in the
very beginning that comes with the kit and all this
good stuff. So the lasting is pretty well stretched out
on everything. But watching everybody videos once again, this ain't

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gonna be nothing to it.

Speaker 5 (10:16):
Well, we go to putting this mistake we ever made, thinking.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
To it, I'm up in the hunting stand and she's
right there beside me, just handing tools and helping out
on different things. Well, well it comes time to pop
that plywood off. And like I said, it's first cut out.
I wouldn't thinking about bees building on that side of
the plywood. My assumption was that they're just going to

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be in between the wall studs here and everything. So
whenever we we finally got that thing popped off, and
whenever I went to swing at that last time, it
ripped a huge piece of home off of their and
what did it do?

Speaker 5 (11:02):
Had trap and these went everywhere, and he screams at
me jump. I'm like, I'm just standing here, I'm not
the one tripping.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
Yeah, we eventually, Well, the best part about it, it
was so blasted hot out there that day. We just
gave up on it. We had calm separated. We still
had brood up in the box. We just gave up on.

Speaker 5 (11:35):
Food so hot we come out of and base suits
and we had been tore up big time.

Speaker 4 (11:42):
Well, we come back the next morning and we're gonna
retrieve everything. We're new foundation, going to start over and
we're going to get them. Well we pull up and
at the edge of the hunting house up there, there's
a big, beautiful bundle of bees just grouped up.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
It was like, y'all couldn't go in the box.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
Yeah, we had the box sitting up there.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
Then we got to thinking, well we watch everybody, they
just take their hand swiped the bees off into the box.
That we're done hour for. No, we skooped them things
down into the box, got everybody in. We knew we
got the queen at one point, but we took a
break and Hanah looks up about I don't know, five

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or ten minutes into our break. Mm hmm, what'd you
say there?

Speaker 5 (12:38):
I told well, no, before we went to sat down
sit down, I was like, shouldn't we at least put
the lid on that box? If we're gonna go see
it is Na, They'll be fine.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
The queen's in there. We're good.

Speaker 5 (12:52):
I was like, okay, see yea wait. We sat down
for just a minute and I look up and they're leaving.
They gone, they're going for a pine tree. I was like, yeah,
that's it.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
There, not at all.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
I think the first one is always the funnest. It's
a learning experience. But the more you do, at least
for the way I look at it, they seem to
get harder and hotter every time. But you said, y'all done,
y'all the first one, I mean Midsummer basically.

Speaker 5 (13:30):
August or so July August, it was dog days.

Speaker 4 (13:33):
Whenever we was out there working on that thing.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
Doing your first one that time of the year, I
think that would give you the respect and let you
know what you're really getting into, if this is going
to be the hobby or the field you want to
be in.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
It was definitely a makier.

Speaker 4 (13:53):
And that going hunting house was like a sweatbox. It was.

Speaker 5 (13:58):
But even or not, I actually like absolutely fell in
love with cutouts at that point. As bad as that
one was, I was like, yeah, I could do this
for real.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
I enjoy doing cutouts.

Speaker 5 (14:14):
I don't so much enjoy putting it all back together,
but I like doing the cutout part.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
About say, y'are to be able to work together on that, Hannah,
do the cutout, Tim put everything back together.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
I like that, she likes.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
I do, yeah, because I mean, with y'all's construction background,
y'all shouldn't have much of a problem.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
That it would be easy for him to do it,
you know.

Speaker 5 (14:36):
I think that's why I like it, like doing the
cutouts so much so just because of what we do,
because we're constantly it's the same line of work, but
you're doing something different and you're going somewhere different all
the time. And it's it's kind of like that with
a cutout, Like you're not just as much as I

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love just going to the yard and working in the bees,
you're you're not just doing that. It's still something different.
You're going to a new place, a new job, different bees.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
Just I don't know, I like it.

Speaker 4 (15:12):
We're happy to be in the great state of Louisiana,
and I do mean that some of my roots are
are part of Louisiana. And uh, but I gotta tell you,
as soon as we come over the interstate, and I
think it said the Saint Tammy Paris, so soon as

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you come across a many. All right, Well that's the
state line I reckon right there, a Mississippi and Louisiana.
But we got the best greeting anybody could ever have
coming into Louisiana. As soon as we come across that
state line. I guess they knew we was coming. Word
had gotten out. But there was about an eight foot
alligator standing up on side road just waving us as

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we was passing by coming across the state like he.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Was there just to greet us coming in.

Speaker 4 (15:58):
And then when we got to Lee's exit, right there,
right before we got to it, there was a big old,
big old fat neutral rat rubbing two sticks together wanting
to send a direction to go. Well, he was telling
me which way to go. She told me another way,
and guess what happened? We got turned around. If I
listen to the new tu rat point with the sticks

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out there telling me which way to go on the roundabout,
we'd been fine.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
We had enough coffee put up with you this morning.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yeah, them roundabouts y'all went through over there, they a
little bit different.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
Oh man, then it's.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
Too lame round about? Who does that?

Speaker 1 (16:35):
And if you if you don't know before you get
there and you're in the wrong lane. When it does
split the two you you ain't got a choice which
way you got you stuff there?

Speaker 3 (16:43):
I could, I could. People and mobile they fall apart.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
There'll be pile ups in every roundabout like that because
we have just a little single roundabouts and mobile and
they still can't figure those.

Speaker 5 (16:58):
People can't grasp that, let alone a two lane round about.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
The biggest thing I see with the roundabouts around here,
people have a problem distinguishing between a yield sign and
a stop sign. There could be nobody coming if they
get to that yield sign, they still want to stop.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
Day say's with us. He hates the roundabouts or.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
That heat that gets you too, Yes, sir Dennis, you
ain't careful.

Speaker 5 (17:22):
Yeah, that is definitely a con but overall, still love doing.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
I think we're supposed to hit about eighty three to
get today. Well, looking at my watch right now, we're
at eighty two.

Speaker 4 (17:34):
So yeah, we're looking at some bad weather y'all be
getting at first. Yeah, we'll be getting at about midnight
or so.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, I think right about dark or a little after
this evening. We're supposed to get some storms coming in.
So as far as the bee keeping, how many halves
do y'all normally run are like to have.

Speaker 5 (17:53):
We want to get like twenty to thirty somewhere in there,
I think, and ride that for a couple of years
and then see where we go from there.

Speaker 4 (18:06):
Our our best years one through three were our best years.
And at our highst we had eighteen I think, and
and everything was running beautiful. We was pulling some just
beautiful honey and calm out of them things. I guess

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the privet was doing well that year on top of
the tallow having a fine season as well.

Speaker 5 (18:32):
I kind of got spoiled our first cop years, we.

Speaker 4 (18:35):
Really did, because everything was just going so good, the
bees were building up so well. We was figuring out
how to kind of start idling down on the high
beatles and I guess them different flows because Lee, there
were several times that it wasn't going to be long
if you didn't put another box on there. You beat
honeybound in a heartbeat. And it's just that good of

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a season. Then, as most of y'all, you know, we
kind of had to put a lot of it to
the side for a little while. But uh, we're gonna
come back strong this year, and that's good. Plans.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
You was mentioning the hive beetles. Usually I find and
most speaking was I've talked to it's like the first
year or two doing bees, they don't have much of
a problem with hive beetles. It's like the Beatles don't
know you have bees there. But once they find out
you have bees and they started laying that larvae and
burrowing into the ground to pepeat, it just gets to

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be a hassle.

Speaker 4 (19:32):
It's game on, yes, sir, So how bad is.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Y'all's hive beetle problem in y'all's area?

Speaker 4 (19:39):
It's infestations literally literally infestations. When we do stay on
that peppermint in that eucalyptus mix, we don't have any problems.
And but the moments that if you're not in at
least applying it about once a week in there, if
you miss four or five days.

Speaker 5 (20:01):
It can be detrimental to us. Now I've heard it's
several people even in the South talking that don't have major,
major trouble with it. But we live in a really
humid climate with insanely sandy soil, so it's just like

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the perfect combination to make them little buggers go crazy.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
The biggest thing that I've found helps me anyway. And
it's not that I'm putting it into the hive, because
it's definitely not approved to put it in hive because
it is a poisoning insecticide. But it's the try as
a sad granules that I get from home depot and
normally whenever I'm setting up a new hive stand, the
bags that I buy is supposed to treat twenty five

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thousand square foot. I build my hive stands about eight
foot long, and I put an entire bag and probably
say a ten foot by four foot eg area, and
then I just soaked the ground with some water and
let it soak into the soil. It seems to help.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
Before.

Speaker 4 (21:09):
Yeah, we've been hitting it hard with what you have
been talking about suggesting throughout the years what you put
in the ground. But I've done the same thing in
a sense, but just instead of loading around at the
bottom of the colonies, I've done that as well, but
just basically doubled what the bag said far as application.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
Well, if you figure a bag's good for twenty five
thousand square foot and I'm putting it in saying ten
foot by four foot air that's forty square foot and
I'm putting twenty five thousand square foot worth of treatment.

Speaker 5 (21:44):
You showing up.

Speaker 4 (21:46):
Good.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
But I'll either get out there and put that on
the ground and then soak it with the water holes
that way it goes down into the soil, or I'll
do it right before a good little rain. I don't
want nothing that was just gonna wash it completely out,
but something that's gonna make it soak into the soil.

Speaker 5 (22:01):
Good.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
The uh. I'll get on a little rent for a second,
y'all know me. But with the smaller hive beetle. This
is just my thoughts on it that the grobex and everything, Yes,
is a great thing to have as a preventative and
all that into ground to stop them things from pupating

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and create more. Yes, one hundred percent on that. But
this is my thinking. Get we got to figure out
a way to stop them things before they get into
the colony, because once they get into the colony and
they pro create, okay, the damage is being done and
by the time the larvae get into the ground, your

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colony is pretty well destroyed. Now. Yes, like I said,
once again, great thing preventative. If they are start getting
into the ground. But I say, my main concentration, what
we try to figure out is how can we keep
them out of there? Because if they don't get in,
then we don't have to worry about occupation of any

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kind of smaller high beedle getting in there. But it's
just in our world how we do it. I'm a
bar from mister Mike Berry on that is being consistent
in how we do it.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
And you said, y'all used a eucalyptus and what else
was it?

Speaker 3 (23:28):
Pep extract extract.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
We just buy a small little bottle peppermint extract. And
you know, got to give hill Billy Earl props on
this because he's the one that helped us out on it.
And just take that little two ounce bottle of you
can lift us extract zero point five milli liters of Eucalyptus.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
All peppermint extract. You said you you calyptus extra.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
I'm sorry, correction, Yes, peppermint extract two ounce bottle with
the zero zero point five mili liters of eucalyptus all
and we just shake that up real good. And oftentimes
Hannah's one that's on top of that. And what do
you do we just take like a little diabetic needle
and fill it up.

Speaker 5 (24:14):
Yeah, it's just it's a three milli liters syringe that
I mean, we had it for I don't giving one
of the dog's medicine or something with I don't remember
why we bought that thing, but we got we just
got at the face store. I mean, it's just a
generic little needle, but that syringe, the needle on the
syringe just helps me get like right behind the frames.

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I'll just run around on the frame rest and put
it in and it that's worked by far better than
anything else we've ever tried for keeping them out.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
I've tried the peppermint candies and all before, and I
mean it does seem to help, but I haven't done
it in a while. I went out there see a
couple of days ago and done some oe treatments. I
didn't go down into the brood box, but I've done
some OA treatments and just kind of looking in the
top box that population and everything was looking good. But

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I did see a couple of small high beetle. Yeah,
and I'm out of peppermints, so I did order a
small bottle of peppermint oil. Extracting all and I believe
I got some eucalyptus left. But the bottle of peppermint
oil that ordered it has a dropper, but it also
has a spray nozzle that goes on it. So I
thought about taking out there and just spreading one little

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squirt in each of the back corners, and maybe just
that'll help run them out the front might try.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
My thoughts on it is I think that peppermint in
a lot of ways as a cover ccent, just the
same way as yously going out deer hunting. All right,
you're gonna put a cover cent on so that deer
don't see you and you can go out there and
get your trophy. I think a lot of it is
the same way with that peppermint. Is that if those
smaller high beetles can't smell that Kyle Honey due to

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a cover cent of the peppermint extract and eucalyptus being
in there, then they're not gonna stop by because they
don't know. This is just you know, my thoughts and
thinking on it, trying to figure out ways to how
we can combat that issue of.

Speaker 5 (26:20):
The peppermints is noble whammie though, because it runs out
the beetles, but it's.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
Good for the bees too.

Speaker 5 (26:26):
Those candies are like we're still working on the seven
pound bag Miss Jens sent us last year.

Speaker 4 (26:32):
You sure did got a little pastillary misgion.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
That's one thing that I liked about the peppermint candies themselves,
because if I put them in there, whether I break
them up or not, the bees they're going to collect
some of that and they store that into some of
the cells around their brood and some of the pollen
and stuff like that. So it keeps the small high
buttle larvae are the beetles themselves from crawling around on

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that cone to lay any eggs versus the oil, I mean, yeah,
it's gonna help mask some of that scent and keep
them out. But if they do get in there, the candy,
they taking it in storing it in the comb. I
find that it did work pretty darn good.

Speaker 4 (27:12):
We do both, but I guess the.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
Candies are more like a trade.

Speaker 4 (27:17):
I guess, well, I mean going back to where we're
you was talking about them storing it. Think about that,
then bees are storing that there's something that is beneficial
to that bee in that colony for them to be
storing that candy. Uh, but one day I hope people
are maybe somebod these science folks really look into it, and.

Speaker 5 (27:44):
Folks, it took some a lot of trial and error,
but we did finally find something that seems to work
for us. So we're just, i mean, kind of like
everybody else. And everybody's got their own way of doing something.
It doesn't necessarily mean one way is better over another one.
It just may work better in your area kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
So and like you was saying, I mean, none of
it's a cure all, but if you can reduce what
you have, I mean that helps a lot. That takes
a lot of stress off of your bees. They're not
going to be quite as aggravated when you go out
there to work, you bees, because if they're dealing with
small high beetles, they're dealing with Hannah's favorite mites, stuff

(28:27):
like that. Temperamental, they're already temperamental, and then you're going
into the hive messing with them a lot of times.
I mean, they'll try to light you up quick. But
if you eliminate some of them pest or at least
some of the stresses that the bees have, they're more
relaxed when you work them.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
Well, you can tell the colonies doing much much better
as well as far as they're production, because they can
actually do what they're meant to do at that moment,
whatever stage that bees in, whether it's nursing, cleaning, or
out forging kind of thing. Uh yeah, I think a
lot of that. Like you're saying, it reduces that stress
on that colony to where they can actually work and

(29:06):
not worry about Well, I got to hem up high
beatles all day to day, I can be you know,
getting piling set.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
I mean that would be like us in our own home. Okay,
we got to leave to go to work. The bee's
got to leave to go gather nectar piling or maybe
clean the house or something like that. But if we
have a water pipe bust or something like that in
the house and we're having to work on that, we're
already aggravated. Now we can't go do to things that
need to be done or that we want to do.

(29:34):
To a point, we have to do something that needs
to be done, we're getting aggravated. Somebody says something to you,
we kind of snap. I think to a point, a
bee is going to be the same way. I mean,
if they're busy doing something they don't want to do,
they're going to be temperamental and then they're gonna let
us know. But if they don't have all these stressors
on them, then they can go do what they normally do,

(29:56):
what their bread for, and they're a lot more relaxed.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
Y'all call that.

Speaker 5 (30:01):
That's why I thank God from my Guardian be Apparel
so we can go out there still.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
And do all that.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
Hey, why on these pists can you tell the people
your thoughts on the Aurora destructor Mike?

Speaker 5 (30:17):
I think anybody that knows me knows what I think
of the things. I don't think we need to go
into that on this live stream.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
Leave again.

Speaker 5 (30:31):
Like that.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
She did say the m words sitting here before. She
said it loud and clear. Y'all, y'all make sure she
puts a dollar in that job.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
Hey, he owes it like ten if I owe a dollar.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
A lot. You was talking a second ago a hand
about your Guardian be Apparel of Jack and everything and
being able to go out there and work bees. Now
you had a little episode or look issue a year
or two ago where basically you were required to get
a suit.

Speaker 5 (31:04):
Yeah, I had no choice after that, that one little
bee sting just flipped my world upside down.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
I don't know why. I mean, y'all kind of know us.
You know, I.

Speaker 5 (31:18):
Used the bettings for arthritis treatments and stuff, and then
that one little bee sting termed me allergic.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
So thank god for Guardian because if.

Speaker 5 (31:29):
It wasn't for them, I wouldn't be able to be
in bees anymore.

Speaker 4 (31:33):
Well, and everybody out out here on YouTube, y'all came
together that evening when we got home. We was just
simply going trying to ask a question on you know, hey,
what do y'all recommend for as being good quality b
PPE and a couple of people had mentioned Guardian and
all this stuff, and before you knew it, buddy, the

(31:55):
chat lit up. God love y'all. Y'all started donating and
got it to where not only Hannah was able to
get a whole suit full suit, uh, I was able
to get myself something. And we're still greatly in debt
to everyone out there that done that, but that's the

(32:16):
only way we can continue with, you know, just be
keeping community come through for us.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
So I know y'all had a problem with Beatles and everything.
So and y'all lost some hives. What is y'all's colony
count right now?

Speaker 5 (32:32):
Or we lost everything? Yeah, we lost everything this year.
That's why we're we're looking forward to a strong comeback because.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
It was just we we had obligations to be gone
a lot this year.

Speaker 5 (32:51):
And nothing really worked out. That's what he was talking
about with the consistency. If we stay on our treatment plan,
then we're good. But yeah, it doesn't work this year,
but we're working on it.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
We're gonna come back.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
This My buddy Lance I mentioned on our live Uh,
he's still got some colonies over there, so we're gonna
split off them. That'll get us started at least getting
a couple back into yard. Then Uh, swarm traps are
gonna be put up in several locations. We've got some
Lord Willis some good spots to have some swarms this year,

(33:30):
So we're the year. The goal is just to get
the bees built back up. Then next year we'll take
and start working off the honey. But we want to
get everybody back up and established ready to go. Basically
for the next season. We're not going to try to yeah,
I guess pull anything from them. We want to build

(33:51):
these colonies and build them strong.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
Y'all got a number in mind that y'all are looking
to get to this year.

Speaker 5 (34:00):
I'd love to get to, like at least fifteen this year.
I would really love to get there, because if we
can do that and get them built up, then next
year we should be able to split and hit our
goal of thirty and then you know, off of those
original hives at least pull some kind of honey crop

(34:22):
by next year, Lord willing, Oh, we got the world
famous Mike Barry in the house.

Speaker 4 (34:32):
Uh, where's that going? Derail? My first derail? I derailed
already when mister uh meeting with mister Russell Coopman, when
him and Miss Sharon come down the other week. They
had come to go shores and sitting, and we was
talking about this earlier May. God Loving Lee hooked us
up with some good biscuits, bacon.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
Speaking of Russell Coopman, we got some of the cream
honey right here.

Speaker 4 (34:59):
Yeah, some good stuff too.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
We've been taking some samples this morning.

Speaker 4 (35:02):
Yes, sir, along with those biscuits and bacon. Oldly had
ready to go for us, but speaking to him and
getting some insight on things, and I we should, I
guess taking approach the cream honey and running honey and

(35:24):
look into some hot honeys and stuff like that. Lord Willing,
that'll be our next next step to try to go
a little bit further.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
But I know you said y'all going to try to
build up this year, and y'all had mentioned something a
while back that maybe even trying to go to a
full time be keeping.

Speaker 4 (35:44):
No I'm not talking, I'm being serious, right.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
Are y'all want to go full time or like a
full time sideline and still run y'all's business as well?

Speaker 4 (35:53):
No? Uh no, on the running the business business, I
thought I thought it was something else there not. But
what I really like to do is put the tool
bags up, retire. You go ahead the coffee that a minute,

(36:21):
But yeah, our whole goal would be to just do
full time be keeping and get out of construction work.
I am about burnout on construction work.

Speaker 5 (36:32):
We're getting old, y'all working, really, but I forget.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
There's a camera. Somebody needs to looking at you like
he's sitting by you and talking to.

Speaker 5 (36:45):
It's weird being on two different cameras.

Speaker 4 (36:48):
He got some good time and.

Speaker 3 (36:52):
Mister j W was telling me in the chat earlier.

Speaker 5 (36:55):
Hand on that chair is a fine rocking chair, like
a testing it out j W.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
Dune from rocking in that chair he did.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
It's comfortable, yes, sir, Absolutely, mister Mike, what's that Brian Castle?
I appreciate everybody.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
I didn't see him come in.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
Yeah, I appreciate everybody coming in. Like I said, it's
kind of unscheduled. We didn't have no plan ahead of time.
We knew we were going to do a live today,
we just didn't know what time or what any plans were,
so it was just kind of we sat around. Y'all
got to hear what probably about nine o'clock.

Speaker 4 (37:32):
About eight forty nine.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
You better take that call, Yes, sir.

Speaker 5 (37:42):
He got somebody world famous ring in his phone right now.

Speaker 4 (37:45):
Can you hear me? Now? I think he butted out me.
He did, he butted me.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
He couldn't have butted out.

Speaker 4 (37:56):
Gee.

Speaker 5 (37:57):
He's in the chat talking on his phone and they said,
what is chumping into the.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
Now? We did make Tim one promised over what the
past couple of months that uh, everybody knows Tim's lood
nickname on the lives buttons because he sings sometimes when
he presses the buttons, he hits the wrong one and
he either shuts the live down or kind of removes

(38:32):
somebody or things. Just so we got to talking. And
I'm sure most of y'all know here. I've got a
few buttons in the studio. So, I mean, we were
just wondering what happens in here, and we told him

(38:54):
would let him run everything for a little bit.

Speaker 5 (38:59):
You're on a line of stream.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
I can stay in. It's incredible.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
There we again.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
All right, y'all, this is awesome.

Speaker 5 (39:13):
It's like they've never seen your studio.

Speaker 4 (39:15):
Well, but we're actually in here in it, so I
can give them a little bit more.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
Yeah, checking out that.

Speaker 5 (39:26):
That's why he stole stick or he got so excited.

Speaker 4 (39:29):
Anybody that comes the stickers here if you need one.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
Trying to get that label holder from me, he got
one legging he said he needs a second one.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
Yeah, okay, Look.

Speaker 4 (39:50):
Is there a shine down button over here at the
shinn to show everybody out a pretty color?

Speaker 3 (39:55):
Pretty color?

Speaker 4 (39:58):
Look, well, y'all can't send them. There's a whole bunch
of pretty ones over here too, But give me permission,
I can put some butts.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
So what we talked about earlier, you hit this and
then hit that press on press one that one of this, yep,
that changes to that, can.

Speaker 4 (40:18):
Do this on every other one, just yes, just like this.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
What are you? He gets go through all these buttons
and we just hope you don't hit no red ones here.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
Yeah, he said, don't hit.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
Red No, no, not that one.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
Man, Brian said, hit the pretty boat.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
We had to call some back up because tim pressing
wrong buttons. I mean, we just needed we needed more
help in here. So look who we got that gets here.
That man doesn't come in here, man, he just jump
right in heuring the exclusions.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
Last thing I knew, I was in my honey house
bottling honey right over here with.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
Blew him all way in said he blew it up.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
Yea, hey, y'all, it's me again, Joey.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
It'd be raining Joey's and Lee studious.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
So how you doing to day?

Speaker 3 (41:26):
Joe?

Speaker 2 (41:27):
I was better, but I got over it.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
I'm doing good.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
It's been a good day. It's good, it has been.

Speaker 6 (41:35):
We sat here and fowship, finally got to meet mister
Joel Rawl. Y'all had a y'all had a good chat going,
and y'all messed it up. You're gonna everybody out there
in the chat.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
World, Joey said, be me up.

Speaker 5 (41:53):
Good times.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
You see them.

Speaker 5 (41:56):
I know that I had to pull my phone out.
I can't read them from over there.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
That's why, like I said, uh, studio two point oh,
there's going to be multiple monitors on that side with y'all.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
Between y'all a little bit, two teams. I know he's everywhere, y'all.

Speaker 4 (42:21):
Don't let me confuse y'all win my double screen right here, y'all,
y'all stay with me. Look here, mister Jolly, where am
I at?

Speaker 3 (42:29):
You don't even know that.

Speaker 4 (42:32):
Looking there on the.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
Camera, we got some Joey rawls cream.

Speaker 4 (42:37):
Yes, and man, y'all talk about something. I'm not just
saying that because the man is here. This is some good,
good cream, honey. I told him, I said, where you leave?
I need that recipe. Man.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
I heard them saying, Joey rawl something.

Speaker 4 (42:58):
Watching it.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
Carry there, I'm trying to catch back up with the comments.

Speaker 4 (43:05):
It's rolling pretty good.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
This must have been when Tim come over here to
plus buttons.

Speaker 4 (43:13):
To him, I said, what's that red button? Dude?

Speaker 5 (43:16):
I told Tim that this live was gonna be like NASCAR.
Everybody just gonna watch to see Tim crash it with
all the buttons.

Speaker 3 (43:24):
He just can't resist.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
Don't let buttons touch stuff. Look out, it's tempting to
reach over there and.

Speaker 4 (43:35):
See what they do.

Speaker 3 (43:36):
Joey's got your pand in.

Speaker 4 (43:38):
Well, I can't go. I got my sank right here.

Speaker 1 (43:42):
There's your comments from Mike.

Speaker 5 (43:45):
He had said a little while ago, y'all better stop
and see me and Joeye on the way.

Speaker 4 (43:51):
Right out five twelve. Where are you at there? All right?
You know where he's at? Yeah, what's if we can
get back there and at least shake your hand maybe
on the way way out of.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
Here, see how many people we can meet in one day.

Speaker 4 (44:06):
We're gonna try to stay for a good little while
and visit fellowship with everybody. But uh, y'all gonna get
a taste of that weather before we do. Mm hmmm, we're.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
Gonna we do need to outrun the way.

Speaker 4 (44:18):
Yeah, we're gonna. We're gonna. We're gonna be in the
gray area again for the steed limit. I know that.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
How about say, well, y'all be heading back east. Rain
I believe is coming out of the west again this time,
so it should stay at y'all's back door all the
way home. Hopefully.

Speaker 4 (44:32):
Yeah, I think we will. We leave here about four
or five. We should be plenty ahead of it.

Speaker 5 (44:38):
You got a midnight curfew and you're leaving eight hours earlier.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
But it's what probably about three three and a half
hour drive for y'all here.

Speaker 4 (44:48):
It was.

Speaker 5 (44:49):
Yeah, if we had in a style, it would have
been right at three hours.

Speaker 4 (44:54):
I forgot ice fre my tea. We got in the Mississippi,
crossed the Alabama state line right there, got in the
mississ Hippy little Otown, Loosdale, and I was like, I
forgot my dog on ice for my teeth.

Speaker 5 (45:07):
DC said, next time, buttons touches something, Mike's gonna show.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
I don't know if that.

Speaker 4 (45:20):
Well. By this time, I was, Oh, who.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
Was booking it today? To make up for that lost time?

Speaker 4 (45:26):
I told her, I said, we're going in with the
hammer down this time. Any other time, Yeah, it'll be
put it on whatever speed limit is, and.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
He's driving the fast car instead of the work.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
Trop Julie health your beads looking so far this year.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
I hadn't really been in a whole lot of what
I've looked in looks pretty good, actually, better than I expected.
That last video I did if you I don't know
if y'all seen it, but it was a three deep
and I was gonna pull what should have been an
empty box off the bottom and mostly empty, maybe with

(46:02):
a little honey and brood in that middle one, and
it had a couple of frames of brood and some
nectar and then full of honey. So I ended up
just leaving that bottom box on there. I was scared
to cram them up.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
Too tight, get them too tight too soon, and they're
going to be ready to swarm before anything starts coming in.

Speaker 4 (46:21):
Who Like I was telling y'all, Yeah, y'all fixing have
a good run with that maple running down the interstate, buddy,
yeah everywhere.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
I had a neighbor called me yesterday, I think it
was or day before, said he lives about three or
four miles from me, and he said that it's just
starting to bloom the red maple is.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
I know when we was at the abbey a couple
of weeks ago, that's what about three weeks ago, we
were down there at the abbey with mister ed j
W and Tom come down there and they had a
couple of maples you could see some tiny buds just
starting on them. Then you said, mister Eds had that
little frieze that come through. That's what burned it off.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
That's what he told me last week when I was
talking to him. He said, it is burnt.

Speaker 4 (47:09):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (47:10):
That's what I saying.

Speaker 5 (47:11):
It's supposed to freeze at the house, like Tuesday night
or something like. Everything that's popping out, it's gonna get
frozen off.

Speaker 4 (47:18):
Yeah, our poor little peach tree. I hope that thing
just she is going crazy. We got two white peach
trees and it's pretty blooming, but I'm.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
Afraid they're gonna get froze off from there.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
Yeah, so I hope not what you need, Jill.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
I was gonna pick up my phone and look at
the look at the weather for here, and it was
I picked his We.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
Still at the eighty eighty two right now.

Speaker 4 (47:45):
Fix that we're not in mobile.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
What times rain's supposed to get here?

Speaker 1 (47:48):
I think it's supposed to ride around dark last time
I had checked. But you know how the weather forecast
goes here, They'll tell you one thing, five minutes later
it changes. Yeah, hope hopefully if it ain't raining when
we get done, with We're gonna take a walk into
the backyard, maybe look at a few bees.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
I've brought on bee suit or he brought sus about.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
Say, I got appipens too, just in case, make sure
we had them. I got two of them sitting right
on top shelf, right next to the labels.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
I've been saying, I'm gonna get me some of those.
You never know when you might need them exactly.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
Well, what made me get on a couple of years
ago went well, I can't remember if that was last
year or the year before. I believe it's the year before.
Now I'm losing track of time. But uh, Ricky Rourke
and Mss Ruth stopped by here from horizontal bees and
she took two or either three stings in the back
of the head. And they said, she's had time where

(48:41):
she's got stung, no problem. Other times she gets stung
and has a reaction. And that time we ended up
in the emergency room and they had to give her
a couple of shots with epipenn there and she was
having trouble breathing. So I said, even though I hadn't
had a reaction yet, you never know if I will
have one, Just like Hannah here, Hanna been stone before,

(49:02):
no problem. Then she gets stung and has reaction. I mean,
I said, I want to have some on site. That way,
if somebody does come visit something happens, at least I
got a pen to get a shot until you can
get to a doctor or what have you.

Speaker 4 (49:15):
Definitely recommend it because with her, like we was talking earlier,
I guess we get into this far as the safety
reason to help folks. Yeah, I mean, she'd go out
there and intentionally get stung to help with arthritis and stuff.
Then we was just simply checking the boxes that day
and she got stung and I literally turned around set

(49:37):
a box down, and I heard her say something and
when I turned to look at her, her face was
literally just beat red. And I was like, you okay,
And she looked at me and started shaking her head,
And immediately I knew we got to take action. To
take action. Now this ain't you know, sit down a

(49:58):
few minutes, you're gonna be okay. We're gonna get you
some help.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
Yeah, it was bad. So I don't go anywhere near Bee.
As much as all of them, I don't go anywhere
near them without an f you pen anymore in my suit.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
Well, Renee told me one reason she never really went
out there to bee's number one, she was scared of bees.
But I think the main reason she didn't know if
she was allergic to him or not. She says she's
never really been stung by bees. She been stung by walls,
but the bee she ain't never been stung or anything.
So she was worried about that. So I finally talked
her into going to help me out one day move

(50:35):
some bees from one yard to another. And that was
the first time she ever helped me, and that was
the last time she.

Speaker 4 (50:40):
Ever helped me.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
To deal with that, She got out the truck and
was reaching to get her bee sued. I mean, we
wouldn't even buy the bees yet, just stepped out of
the truck. She opened the back door to get her
sued out, and three of them popped her on the
neck at the same time. And she wasn't too happy
with me that day.

Speaker 4 (50:56):
I can't even get out of dog one truck without.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
Guess she did to get stung, didn't have no reaction.
She did help me finish moving boxes. She walked over
by the bees. She grabbed one side of the box. I
grabbed the other one. We walked on twenty yards out
of the woods or whatever from where they were located,
loaded them in the truck, got everything secured down, brought
them home, and she helped me unload them. But she
wore that bee suit all the way home, even though

(51:21):
the bees were in the truck.

Speaker 4 (51:22):
I ain't taking no more chance.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
She had that suit on.

Speaker 3 (51:26):
I miss.

Speaker 5 (51:28):
In DC, he said. They say part of the reaction
can be from lack of exposure.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
I've heard the same thing.

Speaker 4 (51:35):
It's late.

Speaker 1 (51:36):
Sometimes I guess you don't have an immunity built up
to certain things. And they say the more times you
get stung, some people will get a stronger immunity to
the bee venom. But then in the same thing, the
same turn other people. The more they get stung, the
worse they get with it.

Speaker 4 (51:52):
That's what it did for her. It completely changed our
whole routine and stuff, because I mean, we go It's
like we was talking earlier, you know, just go out
there and put a veil of your face and have
a good time, do you think, so on and so forth,
And we pretty well did the same. And from this
those days we were blessed, and none of our bees

(52:13):
were really hot. We had, you know, pretty good calm
bees for the most part. But it's just one of
them days.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
Where I mean, it could be personal reaction. It could
be sometimes where you get stung and how bad. Because
I mean I've seen some people say, hey, I got
stung and I had a reaction, But then they walking
just in the yard, don't even have beds, and just
a feral bee flies in hits them and then they
don't have a problem. It's like, yeah, you never know. So,
like Tim said, I mean, it's better safe than sorry.

(52:40):
It's always good to have one on hand.

Speaker 4 (52:43):
And I think, if I'm right, you can just go
to your general doctrine yeah or column and say hey, look,
can you write me a prescription or send me one
in for a couple of EpiPen.

Speaker 1 (52:53):
That's what I did one day. I was at work
and rather than having to take off of work schedule
a doctor's appointment, I just called like an after hours
clinic while I was at work and asked them do
they do stuff like that? They said, yeah, just go
ahead and give us your name and everything and swing
by here when you get off of work and we'll
have it at the front desk for you. I mean
they didn't even charge me nothing. I just all said, hey,

(53:15):
I need a prescription for apipens. I got off work,
walked into office, grabbed it one a half mile down
the road to Walgreens and got them there you go.
And I think, I mean sometimes they can be expensive,
depending if you have insurance. But rather than having to
claim everything on insurance, Walgreens and some other pharmacies they
got their little prescription card through their own company, so

(53:37):
they put it on that and for two EpiPens, I
think I paid one hundred and eleven dollars. That's with
tax and everything. And I've heard some people's, man, they
almost two hundred dollars for one when they went that's
what it was about two.

Speaker 4 (53:50):
Hundred dollars for.

Speaker 3 (53:52):
I think it was closer to fifty or something. We
paid for those two.

Speaker 4 (53:56):
It was ridiculous, But I'll absolutely pay that two hundred
dollars to happen. I do value my life, but it
is a good thing to keeping your toolbox.

Speaker 1 (54:11):
As they say, Yeah, Sarah had a good comment here.
I've heard the same thing that basically, if a bee
stings you on your shirt, you're not getting stung but
you still have that venom on you, and if you
get around somebody that may be allergic or are you
not sure and they hug here whatever afterwards, they can
get that on their skin and still have a reaction
and go into anaphylactic shock or anything.

Speaker 5 (54:32):
Yeah, that's why I'm still extremely careful, Like taking my
suit off and putting it up, like I don't touch
it with my bare hands. I'll still wrap my hands
like around the gloves to kind of fold it up.

Speaker 3 (54:47):
And bott it up.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
Brian Lee's saying, Yeah, he's built up in an immunity
to it. He don't swell as much.

Speaker 3 (54:53):
I said, nobody better get by my fast suit if.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
Fast, Yeah, Mike. As far as what the doctor had
told me too, because I mean your epipends, they do
have an expiration date. I believe there was one year
or two years.

Speaker 4 (55:07):
I think it was two years, I think.

Speaker 1 (55:10):
But I had a doctor tell me. He said, look,
you can come back and get an another prescription and
get a refill. He said, but even if you have
the old ones at home. And I'm not giving any
medical advice here. This is just what I had heard
from the doctor, So don't take my word for it,
talk to your own doctor. But he said, even if
it's expired, go ahead and use it. He said, even

(55:33):
if it's like some of the strength has worn off,
it's weakened down over time, he said, at least you're
getting something into your system to help until you get
to the doctor and get a full strength one. Oh anything,
he said, anything would be better than nothing.

Speaker 5 (55:48):
Because like I had, you know, I would kind of
swell up an itch or whatever before, like just the normal.
So usually I would have a bottle of Bend drill
setting out on the table or what every boy the bees,
And if I got stung, I would just take a
little dose of Bena drill, like a half a dose,
just to keep the swelling from getting real bad and aggravating.

(56:10):
So I think that's what helped me make it till
the ambulance got there, because I could feel my throat
starting to swell, and I just instantly reached down and
I just took a big gulp of that Benda drill,
and I was like, just anything is better than nothing.

Speaker 3 (56:30):
I would absolutely use an old EpiPen if that was
all I had access to.

Speaker 4 (56:34):
Oh lord, you start knocking that in reflective down, Yeah,
get that reaction out.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
And even if it's weaker, it's better than nothing at
all the way I look at it. But I used
to do the same thing before I even got my pens.
If I was just going to another yard or I
was going to get a swarm or a small cut out,
I had a little bottle of being a drill with
me just in case.

Speaker 2 (56:54):
Yeah, I keep getting drilling my bag too.

Speaker 4 (56:57):
You would do that? And what takee of tongues?

Speaker 5 (57:00):
Yes, somebody told me I would take toms actually, like
before I even went out to the bee, or especially
on the days I knew I wanted to get stung
for arthritis, I would take two extra strength toms because somebody.

Speaker 3 (57:15):
I remember who was telling us that.

Speaker 5 (57:17):
Somebody told us that the vicinity in the b venom
is what would make you swell so bad and itch
so bad or whatever, so that an acid being in
your system already kind of kicked it in the butt
a little bit before it even started kind of thing.
And I could tell a difference doing that and how

(57:40):
much I would swell.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
That's nice to know, because I mean, well, I normally
take a daily heartburn medicine anywhere for acid reflux, so
I mean, if that's the case, that may help, say,
I would was it an outyard if something didn't have
my oppins with me or my regular chewable if I
needed one, I already take a daily one, so maybe
that'll help me.

Speaker 3 (58:02):
Like tic TACs.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
Now, I used to do the role ads and it
got to the point they didn't even help me. I
could eat almost a whole pack and not feel no relief.
So I had to go to the pepsid completely.

Speaker 5 (58:13):
Yeah, I mean I take, you know, something like that, morning,
day and night.

Speaker 3 (58:17):
But I still keep Rolays and Thomson.

Speaker 4 (58:20):
That's what it is. What Brian Lee is saying there
that I've heard Toms, Yeah helps by breaking down a ventom.
That's what we somebody has said suggested to us on it. Yeah,
like she said, I never done it, but she seemed
to be okay with things.

Speaker 1 (58:36):
Like Mike got into some therapy this morning, dirty written scoundrels.
Sarah is saying tombs with calcium.

Speaker 3 (58:46):
I don't know. I just buy the extra strength Toms.
I don't know if it has extra calcium in it
or not.

Speaker 1 (58:54):
I think that would be something I mean, maybe to
ask a doctor, I mean, just to get I guess verification.
Is it the acid and the anna acid helping neutralize stuff.

Speaker 2 (59:04):
Je I'm gonna have to ask my formancist son that
question one day when I have time to sit down
and listen.

Speaker 3 (59:13):
That girl going to buy her some toms.

Speaker 4 (59:16):
I'm wrong, I was wrong.

Speaker 3 (59:19):
Say it loud and clean. Recording.

Speaker 4 (59:22):
It's on recording.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
Everything that's on video and recorded on the soundboard.

Speaker 5 (59:26):
I can make a clip and just play that back
when I'm in a bath moon.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
Just always remembering, and this is coming from somebody's been
married a long time. Just always say you're right, I'm wrong,
I'm sorry, I'm gone, don't add nothing else to it.
Free after me. You're right, you're right, I'm wrong, I'm wrong,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
I always pick on Renee about that. She'll She'll tell
me every now and then, you know you were right.
I'm like, hold on, you're forgetting the other part of that.
It's like there is no other part. I'm not trying
to get her to say I'm wrong, but she she said, no,
that's the only part. You were right.

Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
That's the best.

Speaker 4 (01:00:07):
Cuts up.

Speaker 1 (01:00:08):
Be lucky with that part. I guess did.

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
Y'all notice all them changing the subject. All those flowers
in the ditches coming.

Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
To leave, Yes, was all them little yellow ones. Yeah,
they're popping up.

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
We say, some clover.

Speaker 4 (01:00:22):
There was a bunch of white clover. I was making
sure I didn't make a wrong turn or something. Stopped
at little Low Church up here, and I was trying
to figure my route and looked out through one of
the yards. But yes, there is loaded with white clover.

Speaker 1 (01:00:34):
Out there, I was telling Tim earlier. I had just
noticed when I walked out the door yesterday, that was
the first white clover that I seen out by the vehicle,
and I stooped down. I took a picture of it,
and I was gonna make a pose, said the first
clover I seen for twenty twenty five. And all I
did was take the picture, went and done what I
had to do, and come back, and I forgot all
about it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
See you later, Mike.

Speaker 4 (01:00:56):
All right, Yes, it's saturday.

Speaker 1 (01:01:01):
Yeah, I'm thinking that's what we might try to get
to here in just a second. Go to the yard
just in case that rain tries to come in a
little earlier or something, or are the clouds one and
the bees not be too happy at that time, so
maybe get it before that pressure temperature change.

Speaker 5 (01:01:21):
Because I forgot my boots. We can put them completely.
I'm gonna tape up.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
I think I'll have to check. I don't know if
they're here or in the car, but they got rubber boots.
I'll call them see where they're at.

Speaker 4 (01:01:36):
We call them to buy you Nikes what we called
them down there, my boys, and buy you the battery
are they.

Speaker 1 (01:01:50):
Used to call them Cajun rebox here the white. I
want to thank everybody for coming in in the comments
to watch the live here today. It was kind of
kind of planning but unplanned at the same time. We
just kind of threw some stuff together.

Speaker 3 (01:02:06):
And the last minute plan.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
Wanted to share.

Speaker 4 (01:02:09):
Well, when you said you was having to go back
to twelve hour shifts and everything, it was like.

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
I didn't hear that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
I don't hear that.

Speaker 4 (01:02:17):
Yeah, if we're gonna go live, we leave, we're gonna
we're gonna have to do it now because he's fixing
a be a busy man.

Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
Yeah. Unfortunately, this will probably be the last live that
I do R run the background of for several months
because starting Monday night, I go back on seven days
a week, twelve hours a day. For three to four months,
is what they telling me.

Speaker 4 (01:02:38):
Shift.

Speaker 2 (01:02:39):
That's all right, you need a bigger cab on your crane.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
Yeah, that's gonna be going towards studio two point oh
because I got some bigger plans for two point oh.
Besides just a bigger room, I got some bigger equipment.

Speaker 4 (01:02:55):
Oh lord Lee, well, I mean you got if y'all
could see all this.

Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
I'm going with a commercial studio switcher.

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
Wild.

Speaker 1 (01:03:04):
It's wild, it'll be fun. It might take me a
while to get it done because time and money, it
don't come fast and it don't come cheap.

Speaker 3 (01:03:14):
Generally, they don't come at the same time either.

Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
Yeah, that's my problem sometimes. But again, I want to
thank everybody for joining us in on the live and
leaving comments in here. And I want to thank our
guests for coming. Mister Joey, Tim Hannah.

Speaker 5 (01:03:30):
I was gonna say our crash guess yeah, I gotta
figure out how to get back home now.

Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
We actually got Joey's wife, Miss Lisa, in the living
room in there. She's kind of like Renee. She don't
like the camera.

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
There's a little camera shot we ever noticed when she's
helping me in the b yard She's kind of just mumbling.

Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
To me, you lucky you more than I give. Rene
comes in with her head all covered up or a hoodie. Yeah,
walking backwards.

Speaker 5 (01:03:55):
I feel it took me a while. I'm still nervous
getting in front of the camera.

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
It took me a while to get where.

Speaker 5 (01:04:02):
I wasn't wanting to wring his neck when he sneaked
me on camera in the yard.

Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
That's what I try to tell Verne. I said, at
least do it a little here and little there.

Speaker 5 (01:04:10):
You do.

Speaker 1 (01:04:10):
Ain't got to do it all the time. But the
more you do it, the more you used to you
get it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:15):
But again, I hope everybody has a good day. Thank
y'all for coming in, and we will catch y'all on
the next one.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
Good to see everybody.

Speaker 4 (01:04:26):
I'll take care

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