We Now Have TOO MANY Bees (You Read That Right) | Lightning Round 

A local beekeeper told me about this trick when I was setting up my apiari. He said not to import any non local bees into the area, as the local population was already adapted to the weather and the local flora. Instead, he recommended I use lemongrass oil to attract local populations to the hives. I tried it, and it worked. I'm just passing that on to anyone interesting in taking up this crazy hobby, lol.

We had a rating system for RU-vid misinformation, it was called the Dislike Count

6:13 in Europe, there's actually also a problem with bees. We now have too many domesticated honey bees while the several species of wild honey bees are dying out. The increase in domesticated honey bees is causing the wild honey bees to loose their territories. So it's not the same problem per se but it still sucks

One of my earliest memories is of telling my family about a dream I had the night before and being surprised that my big brother (who featured in the dream) did not remember it. It was the first time I realised that my dreams were only in my head, and it blew my mind.

The big foot 🦶 is the local sheriff, he admits to it proudly. It’s how he is serving his town bringing tourism and smiles 😅. I love it 🥰

Don't often comment, but I've been watching your channel with my kids for years. I know it's a grind, RU-vid and all that comes with it. But just wanted to say we are thankful you and your crew are still chugging along. Hope you have a great holiday, Joe.

Joe, your gentle reasonableness, humor, kindness, humility, and ability to lay out facts cogently are such a force of good in this insane time we find ourselves in. I'm not sure how much you are aware of it. You are amazing.

10 years mate!! Congratulations. Very proud of you and this channel for everything you have taught us. Here is to 10 more years! Cheers!

That big foot is a guy in a homemade ghilly suit. I wore mine once to go hunting in the hills behind my house. When I walked outside, I scared the life out of a group of kids who all ran away shouting "Swamp monster" was funny as hell, but I had to get up the hills quickly cause I didn't want to speak to the parents who were all coming out lol😂

What there need to be are more native/wild bees. Its crazy how the problems been so misrepresented.

I feel like the "Is your green the same as my green" thought usually hits somewhere in early elementary school. Alongside "how would you tell someone what red looked like if they had never seen red before" And "what if there are other colors than what you can see" We would swap mind blowing questions during recess like tiny little stoners passing a blunt.

Joe, geothermal for individual housing units is much simpler. You use a heat pump and you bury water tubes in the ground (on your own property). Because the temperature a particular distance (not sure what the distance is) below the frost line tends to be about a constant 55 degrees, the heat pump works pretty well. This supposedly works for both cooling in the summer and heating in the winter.

The part that upsets me most is the bees that commercially pollinate our food never declined. The panic was about colony collapse syndrome which did worryingly take out whole colonies without explanation at the time, leading to worries IF it started to spread faster than the growth of the beekeeping industry. But while individual beekeepers were hurt, every year of that panic saw an increase in colonies. Meanwhile, outcry over those same bees killing off local pollinators was largely ignored or was mistaken for a call to help apiary bees.

My smart phone camera knows if I'm taking a photo of a person, so it adjusts to make a great photo. Likewise it knows if it's a Bigfoot or UFO and makes adjustments to be out of focus!

i had a phase in 7th grade where i was all about that "what if what i call red is what you see as green" question and i thought it was soooo insightful and smart 😂

Joe Scott: you not only have the best videos, you have the best audience, based on your commenters. I love this channel!

My great-grandfather was a beekeeper, he had about 8 hives and he told me amazing stories about the bees, I grew up to love and respect them, and today my garden is full of plants bees love, so in hot seasons it is like an airport there, every split of a second some bee lands and another departure. Happy Christmas.

I used to worry about seeing so many Bumble bees in my garden and so few honey bees until I learned this about the honey bees and it completely eased my worry. I enjoyed seeing all the Bumble bees chilling in my garden, falling asleep on my flowers like sleepy little flying puppies! What a joy to see them in my garden!!! They love butterfly bushes and marigolds!! They were also wonderful for my vegetable garden!

It's funny to see that you have the Jackalope in the US. I'm from a rutal area in the South of Germany and people here talk about this cryptid called "Elmetritschle", which is made up of a hare, the feet of a duck, deer antlers and owl's wings and this Jackalope kinda reminded me of that

I remember going extreme with the awareness questions when I was a kid. It went beyond just wondering if people saw a different color than me. I wondered if they experienced different colors, textures, sounds, tastes, etc. than me. If i saw a hairy dog, did they see a big scaly lizard? And did our brains fill in the gaps for us to experience the world so differently. I think what got me on that track is an entire world that we don't get to experience because it is beyond our senses. Things we can't see because we can't see ultraviolet light. Scents we can't smell. Did everyone have these same limitations to their senses? Or did other people's brains interpret the world completely differently? And we'd never be able to describe these differences because the words coming out of my mouth would be interpreted by your brain to correspond to the world that you experience. If I try to describe the hairy dog, your brain is going to interpret me describing a scaly lizard. We'd never be able to describe our world to another, nor would we ever even know others' worlds are different. It's a trippy little rabbit hole of a thought experiment. 😂

Fun game to play. It’s called the “what not” game. Every time Joe says “what not”, you take a shot. I think he said it 8 times in this video. Play with caution. lol. Happy anniversary Joe. Been learning from you for years.

I grew up near the “bigfoot” spotting, and had a good chuckle first time watching. If it had been any creature other than a human in a (very suspiciously well-groomed) fur suit, it wouldn’t have been casually strolling along the rail lines and copping a squat in tiny sagebrush in full view of tourists.

Merry Christmas to you, Joe! Thank you for all your hard work and interesting content. I've learned a lot. Also, thank you for your humility when you get things wrong or aren't sure about the truth of something.

Happy Holidays, Joe Scott & team. Just wanted to say how much I've enjoyed the channel over the (years?!). It looks effortless and is so well produced. The scripts, inserts, etc. All seamless. Well done. Wishing you continued success next year and beyond.

My favourite cryptid is the "honest policitian", many stories included this fabled creature, but no evidence has been found of that creature so far...

Here in Bavaria, Germany, many traditional restaurants present various stuffed animals that got sewed together into one animal. Usually it is a rabbit with wings of a duck and some antlers on its head. It is called a Wolpertinger. The Jackalope looks similar

Sometimes on a train ride it hits me that everyone around me also experience the world. I immediately get an internal "well duh" but still I can't help feeling that it is quite amazing 💫

Colorado was my family's go-to vacation destination too - and then it became mine and my first wife's place (more than once, we drove non-stop all the way from Arkansas to Colorado, and back - all in a Fri-Sun weekend - 20 hours there, sleep, 20 hours back) - and right in that specific area - Durango, Silverton, my wife and I really liked to camp at Black Canyon of the Gunnison but most importantly, Ouray. I just always loved the unique, crisp air/air pressure, temperature/humidity and just the all around vibe/environment/feeling up there - it just felt kind of mystical/magical and made me feel kind of at peace or something. I've lived 99.9% of my life in Arkansas (minus a brief stint in Sammamish/Seattle, Washington with my wife - interestingly, we left like a month before Covid hit) and I love it here but I've always said if I were to live anywhere else, it would be southern Colorado - and I always kind of considered it my second home. And I've been to every state west of the Mississippi minus California - never really had the desire - and even less nowadays. But every trip we made to Colorado, I had to go gold panning - not really readily available here in Arkansas - but we do have diamonds. But it seems like with my family's first trip out west like in the mid-90's maybe, we went to both Colorado and Yellowstone among other places - and in both places, there had been recent, severe wildfires. Like in Yellowstone, most of the trees and foliage were charred and dead - and in Colorado, seems like there was a lot of burned up land around Durango and I remember riding that Durango-Silverton train and it seems like the ride was cut short due to an active wildfire further ahead on the tracks. Not sure what that rant was about... Just reminiscing to myself I guess lol..

I always try my absolute best to remember what was discussed towards the end of the video. Because realizing everyone is going through just as complex of the "human experience". I find it helps everyone with accepting tough things, like mental health problems and but circumstances.

On the Colorado bigfoot video: People know when trains come by and will do all sorts of things. Just taking Amtrak from Glenwood Springs to Denver, I witnessed three different instances of mooning.

I have a 3 year old son and a 1 year old daughter. When his baby sister came along my son realised fairly quickly that the world doesn't revolve around him and even now something as simple as letting her watch her cartoons before he gets to watch his shows me he's learning to put other people's needs before his own. It's a pretty cool thing to see actually.

21:46 I had this realization and honestly this afternoon, it’s kind of ironic you’re talking about it. I was standing in the middle of Chick-fil-A. Waiting for my mobile order and I was just kind of watching everybody and just kind of thinking like yeah what all their lives were like you know cause it’s the holiday look like people were going out shopping people that were working people were getting off work they were switching shifts and I just started thinking like they’re going to do I don’t know I just was mind blowing. And it’s crazy expressed it exactly what I was thinking. Yeah it’s very overwhelming to think about everybody having a life is full as you experience. It’s a lot of energy.

21:47 - I remember, vaguely, experiencing that feeling for the first time really strongly: I was travelling with my family by a night train through a sparsely populated part of the country; I saw through a window, in all-encompassing darkness, a lone lit window in distance. Realization that there are people there, each of which are "I" tor themselves, and to them I am just an abstract person maybe there in a distant train rumbling through the night, actually hit me, along with the realization that it was a pure chance that I was _this_ "I", and not some other. I was perhaps six.

Me: Settles down for a 1 1/2 week Christmas / New Year Vacation, “Man, this is nice. There can’t possibly be any more existential dread now, right?” Joe: “Hold my Bees.”

Happy new year Joe Scott i don’t remember how long ive watched your videos but thank you for sharing and thank you for being here, you’re a big part of my youtube experience

The Native American population, already resident when the Europeans appeared in the 1600s called the imported bees "English flies". So European bees have been here for 400 years. That's long enough for the European bee to be termed 'native'. Afterall, the Costal Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) tree and the Monkey Puzzle tree are now deemed native to Europe.

Fun Fact: Here in Bavaria we call Jackalope-like animals Wolpertinger (pronounced Woipadinga). Some have also beaks, wings, or bird claws.

When you brought up ‘sonder’ my immediate reactions was, “Wait… do people actually experience?” Then I thought about it. I thought about all the people I’ve gotten to interact with through life and work… and you know what? I believe it now. 😂

We use a lot of Geothermal in New Zealand. There are challenges. 1: You have to pump the water back after you use it, because you'll be crucified if you release it into a river! 2: Bores stop working after a while, so you must drill new bores, and install large pipes to the new bores. 3: Mineral-rich steam is corrosive. Geothermal is good, and profitable, but it's sure not trivial.

I wanted to let you know I have been watching your show on TV for years now. I love everything about it. I wanted to wish you & your family a very merry Christmas & a wonderful new year! I truly love what you do. 🎄⛄🙋 Thank you so much ❤

Great video! Just need to tell you that I appreciate what you do here and I always get something out of it. Have a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

Here in southern Oregon’s Rogue Valley I frequently see at least four or five species of bee peacefully foraging from the same flowering plant side by side. I will just keep planting more flowers for all of them🐝

Congratulations on your soon-to-be anniversary and thank you for what you do 😊 Have a great year 🎉

Joe my friend, as usual, you share knowledge, and wisdom, with such a humble and sincere desire to teach. Again, I applaud you and wish you the best in the coming new year! Peace, bro, and thanks for being you!

Joe you need to beehave. This buzzworthy video was bee plus in my unbeeliveable grading system. Though, parts of this video were as sweet as honey. Beeware there might be some trolls in the comments, just swat them away. (At least these aren’t wasp puns right) Well I’m gonna continue watching to see if you can make me laugh uncontrollabee.

I love his sense of humor in how he edits his videos. Like how he did a slow closeup talking about him being called jackrabbit. So many little things he does, that don’t have to be there but are. I feel I would do the same thing. Especially that closing in with the camera thing he has mastered.

Happy holidays, Joe! Thanks for another eye-opening year 😊

Love your videos Joe your intelligence and clever wit have everything about what I look for in a channel and you and WhyFiles are my go to guys at the moment. Wishing you and yours a safe and happy holiday season with blessings abundant this year Thanks to you and all who help for creating the top notch videos you’ve shared on this channel Peace and love Cheers

Been watching for years, definitely appreciate the increase in quality, it's been such a noticeable change I find it hard to watch some of your old videos, not even that they're bad, but you've definitely gotten that much better. I hope you keep up the good work and am looking forward to watching you into the future 😁😁

The final segment about the lives of others fascinates me. I think about it often as I watch individuals drive a car from a plane. I think about how despite the fact that they are fully formed people with lives, this one fleeting moment is all I'll likely ever share with them. Yet, they all have hopes and dreams, desires and failures; all while being completely unaware that I am briefly observing them.

Enjoy your holiday season Joe. Appreciate your varied and meticulously researched topics. Cheers

thank you so much for your wonderful content and i hope you and your loved ones had a safe festive season.cheers from melbourne australia

Geothermal carries a lot of other risk factors. There is a shifting nature to the thermal vents in that they shift position over time, also there can be a loss of output to the thermals vents and adding water in makes even more problems down the line. Here in NZ some of the geothermal plants were decommissioned due to the damage to the natural thermal environment.

OMG ten years I’ve been watching for almost as long as I can remember when you had less than 50k subscribers! First RU-vid channel I subscribed to before that I thought YT was a waste of space.

Joe you never seem to just repeat my thoughts back to me. Infact you always seem to make think a little bit. I’m not sure how I feel about that. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

I really like your channel. It's informative, entertaining, and covers stories off the beaten track. I even liked your ad this time. I usually skip over them, but I was happy to see your ad for GiveWell because I've been donating using their recommendations for several years. Their research estimates that some of the most efficient charities save lives for a few thousand dollars each. I love a bargain, and I can't think of a bigger bargain than that.

I always thought the jackaloupe could have spawn from sighting of the pigmy deer that are about the size of a quite large rabbit... and they have fangs!!! (no joke)

Thanks for another year of hard work Joe! Hope you and yours have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year

You can get those bee houses for native Mason and Leaf Cutter Bees. However, after a couple of years they can get mite infestations that will actually kill the bees, so you have to swap out the drilled blocks or occasionally, or use the paper tubes you can swap out when they don't have eggs in them. I use the one's with the layered blocks that are rubber banded together, where you actually harvest the pupae in the fall and take them out, clean the blocks and actually put the pupae in the fridge for the winter. Then put them back out in the Spring. A lot of people don't realize too that the native bee hotels can become feeding stations for birds, so you need to put like a wire mesh bird guard. So there's some minor work involved, but it can make a difference in local bee populations.

Great quote....it's a problem now, "because of course it is!" Instant classic!

My father was red green colour blind, I knew from him getting bent out of shape, when mum, my brother and I had a huge argument over a turquoise comforter, with my dad. The reason he was so bent out of shape, was that he thought green was "unlucky". Don't ask me, he never explained it. Strangely, dad worked as a store window dresser. A very well thought of one as well.

Merry Christmas Joe and keep up the great work!

21:45 Reminds me of a favorite bit of flavor text from Oxygen Not Included _"This Celeste is paralyzed by the knowledge that others have memories and perceptions of her she can't control."_

Iv worked as a medical scientist in histology and my experience was that I saw more differences in colour specifically in the red and blue ends of the spectrum than other people to the point where colleagues would tell me that something was pink when i saw it as a light purple, oddly i had less ability to differentiate shades of green, although I am not colour blind by any measurable standard it was interesting to me that my vision was so different than others, and served me well in my medical career. ironically I can see very well down a microscope but im not too good at short distance vision so often cant see peoples faces too well, altho this may be that iv spent so many years looking down laser microscopes that iv probably burned parts of my cornea to shreds 😂

If you want to help the bee problem create "bee hotels" for wild bees. They will move in on their own, you don't have to do anything just put it in your backyard. Most wild bees live alone and not in hives, and also rarely sting, but they pollinate most of the flowers

I decided to try and raise bees a couple of years ago because there were MANY accounts a couple of years ago from vegetable gardening groups asking what was wrong with their vegetables. The answer was commonly not enough pollination. I'd also noticed that I rarely ever see pollinators on our local flowers in the area. My pear tree only makes a few pears a year as well and I suspect not enough pollinators around to pollinate all the flowers (also requires another pear tree in the area). Large farms pay big money to beekeepers because their crops are not getting enough pollination. You would think they wouldn't do this if they didn't find value in it. I don't know if this is an issue of these farms just wanting to guarantee pollination or they have done studies showing they are not getting enough pollination. The bigger question is: are there actually enough local pollinators? Are those population declining? Are they declining because we are importing european honeybees or is it a larger issue?

Its being suggested, that the opposite of the algorithm feed of the "filter bubble" may be true, because as algorithms go towards interaction, and we are more likely to interact with things we disagree with, a platform may continue to feed you things you disagree with. You may still mentally isolate from it, and say no the whole time. Then again, some of the algorithms are based on watch time, and if you stop watching something when you disagree, or swipe to the next video, then it could "filter bubble" again as it reduces content like that. It is interesting how the Algorithms are blamed, but they are only actually as good as the design and implementation, as well as my understanding is that the platforms aren't specifically trying to lean the algorithm one way or another, but rather achieve a balance that keeps viewers watching, interacting, and staying on the app/platform. Absolutely mind blowing stuff.

Huh, i always thought your lightning round were just supposed to be faster videos.. this makes a lot more sense! 😂 great content as always

Oh Joe I just love when you get deep and all introspective and stuff

Not a father, but I am an uncle and the most fascinating thing about watching my nephew has been seeing him go from this newborn lump of flesh with clearly no awareness of what is going on around him, and day by day turning into an actually alert entity who while he still doesn't really understand the world is at least trying to engage with and figure things out. At 8 months old, I don't know if he is a "person" or not yet, but he's more of a person now than he was on the day he was born.

Another great video! On your topic of "Human Awareness" There are definitely way too many people with that "main character syndrome." They believe the rest of us are just NPC's for them to misuse and abuse like they do in their video games. I've tried a few times to poke a bit of fun at these types with the following statement "Hey I'm just like you, only more important and better!" Sadly I don't think anyone's gotten it so far.

Something most don’t know, but South Louisiana is incredibly geothermal. I had no idea until I had to work on some oil wells there, which were incredibly hot at all times.

Merry Christmas Joe and thanks for all the enlightenment 😊

Happy holidays, Joe!

Here in Brazil we have dozens of local, stingless and slow growing bee species, and there are many plants that the European Honeybees can't phisically pollinate, so there are plants on the risk of disapearing because they are barely being pollinated anymore

Joe, i love your program. Thank you for your content. and I love bees. I helped some bee keepers but on our acre we had local bumble bees.

Actually pretty much every state has a Sasquatch of some kind (in the south some are called Skunk Apes). Years after a weird experience I had in my childhood in Pennsylvania, I was reading a book on Bigfoot, and it has a chapter dedicated to Bigfoot in Pennsylvania... 😮

I was 12 years old when I realized that other people might see colours differently... Because my right eye sees slightly different colours than my left. I have astigmatism, and one day in bright sunlight, I was closing one eye and then the other, for some reason, when I realized that my eyes were seeing the colour saturation of the world differently! I didn't connect it to my astigmatism immediately, but my right eye needs Significantly more correction than my left. Also, I can only notice this effect in full spectrum sunlight, not artificial light

In my near 45 years in the Southeastern USA, I’ve literally never seen a feral honeybee hive. I’ve seen them in SoCal, but not Georgia, Florida, etc. Furthhermore, the bees themselves don’t seem to be super-common. I only ever came across them near beekeeper boxes. Heck, I lived on the same side of the neighborhood as a beekeeper back in the ‘80s and ‘90s and I only ever saw wasps, dirt daubers, yellow jackets, hornets, bumble bees, carpenter bees, and something we called “sweat bees” (smaller than honeybees) unless I went over to those honeybee hives to check them out. Granted, I wasn’t exactly growing anything to attract them but I still saw plenty of other pollinators on the clover, daffodils, dandelions, hibiscus, roses, ragweed, marigold, etc. My point is, it’s always weird to me to hear people talk about them like seeing honeybees around is just a fact of life for people in the USA. They simply aren’t that ubiquitous.

16:20 Same here in Alberta. Not only do we have all these people and businesses who could easily transition from putting pipes underground for oil and gas to putting pipes underground for heating water, but the geology of the whole province has been extensively mapped. All the exploration for oil and gas has given us a very detailed 3D picture of everything under our feet all the way down to the pre-Cambrian basement.

48k comments in 2 hours w/o sex, violence, conspiracy theories, or blatant lies. Just solid content, excellent delivery, world class editing & well targeted humor. Be interested to know if the bigfoot clickbait bumped the metrics, (just a skosh). As always, great work Joe. Thank you

Great episode. Love the plug for GiveWell, I will check them out for sure.

The final piece about "human awareness" reminds me of when I first moved to California for work. I would say that it's really focused in the Bay Area/SoCal parts of the state, but having lived most of my life in the Midwest, I was shocked when I came into contact with native Californians who had an overwhelming sense of entitlement and self-importance. Working as a manager in a huge company with a large amount of people from all over the country, we developed a shorthand reference to those native Californians that displayed this propensity most flagrantly as "California Entitled" or "CE" for short. (Yes, I know it's also an abbreviation for "Church of England" but one of the managers was Irish and don't get me started on his issues with the English) So, if there was a possibility to lead a team or a project and we had a handful of people to choose from, the arguments consisted mostly of who would be the best leaders, and invariably someone would chime in with the comment "Well she does do a good job and is creative but her CE is never going to allow her be a good leader".

Love your stuff Joe, I hope you and your partner have an excellent Xmas :)

Side note about the mirrors. I always hear "the mirror test is one that dogs AND cats fail" but there's sooooooo many videos online of cats seeing themselves in a video with a video filter applied to the person holding the cat. And the cat, seeing the filter on the holder's face, immediately looks over its shoulder to the person holding it. They seem to all completely recognize that the cat in the video is a live feed or 'reflection' of its actual self, and that the person holding the cat, itself, in the video, is the person holding it. They look over their shoulder, or up, at the holder, to confirm if the video filter is real. It's fascinating how good cats seem to be at this.

Joe Scott is awesome.. his sense of humor & the way he comunicates science to average "joes" is truly a nice change of pace to the crappy clickbait that seems to dominate the youtube landsvape.. Thanks Joe!

I have installed a few geothermal systems in the past, and the main concept is that below several feet underground or underwater, the temperature is pretty stable year round. There3fore in the summer, heat can be pumped into the ground for cooling and in the winter heat can be extrac6ed from the ground to provide heatto a building. The primary configurations are the lake loop (under 10 ft of water), the vertical ground loop and the horizontal ground loop. The systems are more expensive to install, but are extremely efficient and with proper insulation can reduce the heating/cooling bill significantly and the savings make up for the expense of installation.

I absolutely love 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 The more the better I say!❤❤❤

Love all your videos, but my trypophobia caused me to close my eyes during the entire bee section! 😂

You had me at "dogs and cats living together." btw when you actually DO say something that I think, it just bowls me over!

"Main character syndrome" I love that. I'm gonna start using it. Although it should probably be reduced to an acronym: "Stay away from him. He's got a bad case of MCS."

Merry Christmas and happy New Year to you and yours! Thank you for informing and entertaining us all year. God bless you and all your family! Your channel is top five in my RU-vid hierarchy and I appreciate you!

I consciously remember contemplating the idea that every single human being has a subjective experience and I wondered how I would feel and if they had different feelings if we were to exchange places just change consciousness in each other's bodies I remember thinking about this when I was eight or nine during like 3rd grade. So based off of that I would assume around the ages of 7 to 10:00 is when the brain starts to develop enough to understand that aspect of consciousness.

About Bigfoot: What kept the helicopter crew to get closer and investigate? Well, I assume, getting closer and zooming in would reveal the zipper attaching the costume at certain spots.

You missed a aspect of geothermal. Heating and cooling via heat pumps. Heat pumps are way more efficient than say resistive heating and geothermal heat pumps more efficient than "air conditioner" on the wall. See if you go down a bit, not enough to get hot, temperatures get more stable. During hot summers you can heat pump in the coolness of the ground. During the winter you can heat pump in the heat of the ground. See if a heat pump is pumping in heat from outside in the winter, the problem isn't directly "lack of heat", there is plenty of heat to extract from already cold air. The issue is the fluid being pumped around to move the heat freezes and vents get clogged with ice and snow. But if you go down in the ground you don't have to worry about freezing unless you are pretty far arctic.

I live in Chemung county, upstate NY. This past Veterans Day I was with my dad cooking a rack of ribs on the grill, it started to get dark so I flipped on the porch light. Next thing I know there's one of those Asian hornets attacking the glass dome right beside me. I reached up with my Zippo to kill it, and almost stopped when I realized its abdomen was larger than my thumb. The top half by itself was still larger than any bee I have ever seen. It was more orange than yellow, & it was mid Nov.

Squirrels are also an invasive species that we brought all over the world. Specifically for the beautification of parks. Kinda funny to think about. P.S. I heard someone call squirrels "fancy rats" once. They were so right!

Randomly stopped at an energy plant in Iceland and it was honestly one of the most interesting parts of our trip. So if you’re going to Iceland, I highly recommend it!

Thank you Joe for a terrific eye opening 2023! 💫

Re: clickbaity titles - an otherwise good video with clickbaity title will get downvote from me, but also an "engagement" (a comment where I explain the downvote). So, I guess it is still net positive for the creator...