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

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After years of panic over the collapse of bee colonies across the world, we seem to have a new problem - in the US anyway. We talk about that today as well as new Bigfoot footage, the problem of misinformation on KZbin, and some interesting insights into how and when humans gain self-awareness.
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0:00 - Intro
1:10 - Bigfoot
4:54 - Honeybees
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[@randallrobertson7190]

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.

[@UdderlyEvelyn]

I've considered doing it someday, and that sounds super interesting as an approach.. and then you ALSO don't have to buy bees!

[@dianedenham5259]

Wow, thanks for the tip. 👍

[@catfeatherss]

That's really neat!

[@Wendy_O._Koopa]

I've been thinking about starting an apiary for years, and the thought never occurred to be to import bees. I just assumed you set up shop, and left out flowers or mountains of sugar and they'd come to you.

[@randallrobertson7190]

@UdderlyEvelyn Many areas, even Urban, have a support network setup for beekeepers. If anyone decides to take up the hobby, I would urge you to Google your local area and find out. I took a free class and met more knowledgeable people there who set me up properly. That method will save you time, money, and frustration, lol. If you don't find any beekeeping groups in your AO, then try your local mercantile. They can usually put you in touch with the local "bee people." From my experience, these folks are usually happy to answer any questions you may have. A couple even came out and toured my property to show me where to set up. YMMV of course.

[@EEVblog]

We had a rating system for KZbin misinformation, it was called the Dislike Count

[@Spectrythium]

They need to bring that back

[@ProgressiveRoxx]

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.

[@robertmarley8852]

Who told you that? I've shared dreams with others before....it's deeper than u think

[@JammesJack-td6gv]

​@@robertmarley8852boooOOoOOooo

[@mckennasweda3614]

It's also when you are awake. Scenarios, images, feelings can be shared among an entire group of people though sometimes we are made to be embarrassed about it so we don't admit it if we are allowed to notice it at all. People are being sent their own individual reality that they are made to fully believe. Synchronicity videos have some awesome comments. There is one I put in one of my playlists that was particularly good but I picked many of the videos because of the comment section

[@clarimm6675]

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

[@jamesbizs]

This is what I keep telling people. Honey bees are awful at pollinating, especially native plants. While they kill off all the good local pollinators.

[@mpadlite2925]

If the "honey bees" don't pollinate"native plants" how do they compete with the "good local pollinators" ? ? Brgds

[@Jay_Kay666]

​​@@mpadlite2925It's a bit more complex. Like we have a native bee that visits bell flowers and other flowers. Domestic bees just ignore campanula plants but empty other easier flowers from nectar thus competing with native bee and being poor pollinators.

[@robertaskuzminskas1356]

In my country beekepers got so much honey, prices dropped in half

[@draw4kicks]

Uninformed people who buy honey and think they're "saving the bees". We need pollinator diversity, honey bees are the leading species causing the decline in pollinator diversity. Great bit of research by Cambridge University on this subject that says we should treat honey bees as livestock, ie massively reduce their populations to avoid ecological collapse.

[@danr1920]

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!

[@gypsyjade7170]

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 🥰

[@catfeatherss]

Ha! I love it!

[@joescott]

Oh I didn't see that! Or maybe that came out after I shot this, I did it several weeks back.

[@0neIntangible]

"I shot the Sherriff"...

[@danfadden]

@@0neIntangible hahaha. You beat me to it! (Coming from a retired Deputy Sheriff). Lol

[@danfadden]

It’s too bad he couldn’t keep the ruse going. Too much pressure and ego caused him to reveal himself. 😂

[@DavidFrostbite]

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.

[@likebot.]

I agree, but I wonder if someone who doesn't posess theory-of-mind would ever independently consider that question no matter their age.

[@tyegordon]

@@likebot.yeah I think there are a whole lot of people that just don’t think about anything very deeply. I’ve asked people simple philosophical questions like “do you ever wonder if plants have consciousness?” And they hit me with the “what do you mean?” Some people really just don’t question things.

[@LoreMIpsum-vs6dx]

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.

[@mementomori29231]

I honestly believe the majority audience of Joe’s channel are far more wise and smarter than the average KZbin and internet audience. Close minded people and bigots probably avoid this channel.

[@usaturnuranus]

Hear, hear! The comment sections on Joe's channel often feel like safe havens for discovering thoughtful and intelligent insights and opinions on so many issues of importance. How refreshing is that?

[@User31129]

Absolutely right. I'm here as much for how he says things as compared to just what he is saying.

[@borbleborb4586]

we love unbiased content

[@backwashjoe7864]

Well said! That captures why I love this channel :))

[@NerdOutWithMe]

Don't often comment, but I've been watching your channel with my kids for years. I know it's a grind, KZbin 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.

[@thibaultlibat368]

You have a great holiday too, nice internet person

[@coltonmaas]

Sign up for the Patreon and join the discord! It's less than a coffee per month and you can help us hash out topics for future videos/chat with Joe! Praise Zoe! 😎

[@sunshine3914]

@@coltonmaaswas just wishing that I had the time to do that & join Brilliance… maybe when I retire.

[@randommadness1021]

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😂

[@MindinViolet]

There is nothing scarier than a group of angry parents out to tackle the local swamp monster.

[@BeaverZer0]

That's what it looked like to me.

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

I had no idea there was swamps up in them thar hills.

[@desperadox7565]

And you probably didn't want to get shot.

[@NooOneSpecial]

😂😂😂 tell me how you made it. Scaring locals and groups of kids in my area just seems like a wholesome memory to me 😂😂

[@themagic8481]

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

[@jk-video2716]

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.

[@davidconger1987]

The temperature is the absolute annual average for that area.

[@YodaWhat]

Yes, but the system for heating and cooling is known as Ground Source Geothermal, Direct Geothermal or Heatpump Geothermal, rather than the indirect case of "Geothermal Energy" as used to make electrical power.

[@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan]

This is mandatory in new houses in Belgium. It's expensive and not that great

[@SaanMigwell]

Ah yes heat pumps, or rather air conditioners for the outside, what a wasteful way to heat a home. Just like electric cars, they produce more pollution and have a larger carbon footprint than a wood stove or coal powered steam engine. I know, I know, I know, at least you can't see the smoke they are producing, so it makes everyone feel better. Now this underground heat pump idea. I wonder how low we can make the frost line go?

[@YodaWhat]

@@SaanMigwell - >Ah yes heat pumps, or rather air conditioners for the outside, what a wasteful way to heat a home. Just like electric cars, they produce more pollution and have a larger carbon footprint than a wood stove or coal powered steam engine.< So... Are you being silly, or just stupid? Because those are certainly not the FACTS.

[@FatalityPWN]

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

[@dreamcoyote]

It basically comes down to money. The truckloads of overstressed honeybees being trucked into Californian almond farms started dying. That affected production and thus profits. Other crops were at risk. It's bad, don't get me wrong, but it was phrased as "we will all starve in a year" if honeybees die off. In reality, our biggest crops are corn and wheat, which are wind pollinated. Plants like tomatoes won't die off if there are no bees, they will just produce like 1/6th the amount, so we would have to increase production by 6x, and the cost would go up 6x (or however that math actually works out). It would be bad, expensive, we couldn't have pizza as often (which is really, really bad), but not what was described. The real solution is to curb massive monoculture (eg corporate greed), have people not want low cut grass deserts over their entire yards (HOA dictatorships), and to use more native plants and flowers instead of big box store imports (more corporate greed). Honeybees are good, but American native pollinators can do gobs more pollinating by orders of magnitude. They just require native food sources during the bulk of the year. So a huge almond farm might need to have rows of cultivated native flowers between them to feed the native (and non-domesticated) bees during the rest of the year. That "limits profits" so.. honeybees get meds instead..

[@geekdivaherself]

​@@dreamcoyote_[applause!]_

[@paulmurphy8549]

Native and wild doesn't mix with American agriculture. Most American food would be illegal to sell in Europe. Even some of American byproducts can't even be fed to european animals and poultry

[@grmpEqweer]

What gets rid of wild bees? Mowing grass. They live in undisturbed areas.

[@ryanpenrod1859]

It's because the money behind the scare was probably from agriculture, where they *just need bees*, they don't care about the environment.

[@Merennulli]

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.

[@lunaticbz3594]

I do remember some of the most shocking and devastating photos coming from commercial bee keepers in California. Though it always confused as me as to why the mass deaths were treated as a mystery. As if you schedule the bees, and the herbicide on the same fields at the same time. Your going to get a lot of dead bees. Definately made for great scare mongering, but I imagine at some point farmers and the bee keepers communicate on when the herbicide, or insecticide is getting sprayed and don't put the colonies in the fields at those times.

[@ferretyluv]

But it did result in lots of places banning glyphosate, which is good.

[@whitedragoness23]

Maybe people should stop messing with nature and let it handle itself. The more we interfere the worse we made it. Also we need to decrease human population and let nature have room on this planet.

[@lunaticbz3594]

@@whitedragoness23 I know Malthusian philosophy has been making a comeback over the last couple of decades but I'd just like to point out Malthus was wrong in all his predictions in his own life time. And has been wrong ever since. World population has gone up over 6 Billion people since his dire predictions that the world was getting too crowded and was unsustainable.

[@Merennulli]

@@whitedragoness23Let me be abundantly clear - no matter what way you envision that plan of yours playing out, you ARE talking about genocide. The developed world is below replacement levels of births and has been for a while. When you talk about reducing the human population, you ARE talking about the genocide of people less fortunate than yourself for no other reason than you had an idea and felt other people's lives are less important than your idea. Even if you were completely delusional and thought you could just convince billions of people to go along with your plan, the people who are disproportionately affected by your plan is inherently a form of genocide. Do not expect another reply. I have zero tolerance for people with "ideals" that put human lives below a badly thought through plan that even attempting to act on would destroy the environment as a byproduct of the wars it would cause.

[@tsulong]

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 😂

[@Commonsenseisnotcommon8]

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.

[@dpop8378]

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.

[@captnwinkle]

Beeport... I'll be here all night

[@brianbishop4753]

I have seen that Russian sage attracts all the pollinators, especially bumblebees and honeybees. I want to get 7-9 more plants around the yard and get rid of a couple of invasive trees and some rotting ones and try my garden again.

[@dpop8378]

@@brianbishop4753 I usually buy bee seed balls.

[@fenrirgg]

There's this plant "Antigonon leptopus" known as "San Miguelito" a vine with pink or white flowers that is a giga magnet for bees and all pollinators. Do you have it? 😅

[@dpop8378]

@@fenrirgg Nah, I do avoid plants that need too much care, trimming, etc:P

[@anthellis]

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.

[@grn1]

That's a very dangerous game, if I played with my preferred liquor (some sort of whiskey or scotch, usually 80+ proof) I'd be shit faced right quick. If I played with schnapps (we have some butterscotch here) I'd put on 20 lbs.

[@chrisstott3508]

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.

[@clarimm6675]

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

[@AzraelThanatos]

Your area also has the Wolpertinger...

[@robbd9935]

That's super interesting, thanks for sharing :)

[@clarimm6675]

@@AzraelThanatos never heard of that one before, sorry

[@AzraelThanatos]

@@clarimm6675 It's one of the odd ones through germany and other areas...it's a horned, winged rabbit with fangs. For some reason, it gained an association with Octoberfest with a more recent variation also being that they caused mischief and you could only find/stop them when drunk....which was a version that got stuck into World of Warcraft as their brewfest mascot thing which irritated a few people I know from various parts of Germany because, traditionally, that's not what it was associated with and had a thing of it playing tricks on those who were drunkards

[@clarimm6675]

@@AzraelThanatos just asked a friend from Bavaria, so one of the two most Southern Federal states and apparently it's from this region. The Elmetrischle (or Elwetrische) also has some lore to it. You can only hunt them during a full moon night, you have to wear Lederhosen (they might bite) and you should bring a sack and a torch (some also add a club) to catch them.

[@ashleykabbes9316]

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!

[@tara5742]

Sleepy little flying puppies 😄 Oh my gosh, this ads a whole other layer of my love of the Bumble bees in my garden

[@cytherians]

It is amazing how docile and benign they can be around humans. I've seen this woman who rescues bees and very often she's dealing with them without any protective gear. She is just so adept at how to interact with bees. Of course, this all falls apart when it comes to wasps. The yellowjacket wasp (not a bee!) in particular.

[@Alondro77]

We have a lot of those dumb carpenter bees that stab holes in the base of tubular flowers, stealing the nectar and not pollinating the flower! And they drive off the good bees! I swat those annoying things out of the sky!

[@dkajj]

​@Alondro77 I use a salt gun. It takes a few shots, but dang if it isn't fun!

[@heatherduke7703]

Bumble bees are such cuties, love to see them work

[@AlessandroRodriguez]

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

[@shydead1392]

So true😔

[@L33Reacts]

That's not even a cryptid that's just a mythological creature 😂

[@juliao1255]

@@L33Reacts Objection, Your Honor! Argumentative! (even if it was a good point). 🤣🤣🤣

[@L33Reacts]

@@juliao1255 sustained. Point stands. 🤗😆😆😆😴

[@Vaeldarg]

How would you know if you've come across one that is actually honest, if you think there are none that are honest? You wouldn't trust an honest one either.

[@rednoble275]

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.

[@Blalack77]

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..

[@UATU.]

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.

[@richardshippful]

And it sure made a bunch of furtive movements for something trying to blend in. But hey maybe Sqautch just like to wave while hiding in plain sight.

[@joescott]

Yeah for the greatest hide and seek champion of all time, that was pretty visible.

[@Arkantos117]

@@joescott To be fair it's not like they wouldn't have individual personalities if they existed.

[@SpeedOfThought1111]

@@joescott i agree it's certainly just a guy in a costume, but i thought it was strange when you said who knows how tall it is because we have no idea how tall the bushes are. i get you're saying there's no absolute scale to go by, but isn't that something that can easily be determined? the basic average height of that bush/shrub?

[@UATU.]

@@SpeedOfThought1111 I’m 5’ and most all sagebrush is at my chest height or lower (at least the brush in NM and southern CO. That’s what made me laugh, a coyote couldn’t hide there very well.

[@EarnestBunbury]

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

[@elephantsarenuts5161]

Wolpertinger ... my new German word for the day.

[@EarnestBunbury]

you should definitely remember it. It will come useful, once you come to Bavaria and face problems with this annoying pest. They watch you with their dark eyes and as soon as you leave, they come to life and tear you back to your seat to order another beer@@elephantsarenuts5161

[@Gooberpatrol66]

I've never heard of this before but that's the most German thing ever

[@MrChristianDT]

Is that all it is? It's not a traditional thing?

[@EarnestBunbury]

according to German Wikipedia the first Wolpertinger appeared by the 19. century. Taxidermists had started making and selling them to tourists. A famous method to catch a wild Wolpertinger ist to go into the wild with a beautiful girl to attract the animal. In order to not frighten it, there must not be any more people nearby. Similar to the unicorn, Wolpertingers are only attracted by the fairest of them all. the hunting museum in Munich states, that the animal is very shy and eats only the "soft brains of the Prussians" (Germans from further north, Bavarians and Prussians usually dislike each other) @@MrChristianDT

[@the3cl3ctic]

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 💫

[@jshkrueger]

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. 😂

[@truthwatcher2096]

Hey maybe you would enjoy "One, no one and one hundred thousand" by Italian writer and Nobel prize winner Luigi Pirandello. It's a short novel about the subjectivity of communication and the different "you" each person sees when they look at you

[@jshkrueger]

@@truthwatcher2096 That sounds interesting. I'll look it up. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@jeannefoster5594]

I recommend An Immense World by Ed Yong. It’ll blow your mind.

[@mckennasweda3614]

I recommend reading the comment section in this video on synchronicities kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaeuhayHg8aFrNksi=XwgK3pP4T7QAiUu_ While everyone seems to be being sent their own reality mine suggests that our consciousness is a projection and the reason we might see things differently, as you are wondering, is because of this.

[@mckennasweda3614]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaeuhayHg8aFrNksi=XwgK3pP4T7QAiUu_ I recommend reading the comment section for this video on people experiencing synchronicities. It ain't woowoo if it's actually being experienced. It's like every person is being sent their own version of reality.

[@lisadioguardi5742]

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.

[@b3astlyify]

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.

[@juliao1255]

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

[@EasyWind013]

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

[@darcieclements4880]

It was actually a problem before the honey bee crash too. So basically biologists were worried about honey bees destroying diversity for several years, then something started wiping out the honey bees at an alarming rate and we had to worry about that because we had already lost a bunch of the native pollinators and some of the parasites and diseases that were affecting the honey bees were also attacking the natives, then the honey bee started to recover and of course the problem of the crowding out the natives immediately came back again, lol. So it's not entirely like it was one problem that was confused, it's two separate issues that are problems for slightly different reasons. Native pollinators are important for diversity so that should honey bees completely collapse there is another pollinator, however we also depend a lot on domesticated honey bees for specifically pollinating our crops. What we were doing before people decided to start home apiaries everywhere, was we were keeping truckloads of honey bees that we would just move seasonally with crops which also contributed to the death because we were moving around diseases but you get the general idea. Also in the end it looks like it was a couple of specific pesticides that were causing the problem so when we stopped using those the bees started to recover, but I do believe that those pesticides have been re legalized in the United States at least so say hello to the problem coming back again guys😅

[@bazoo513]

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.

[@eleonarcrimson858]

Shit that must have been powerful

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

Your first existential crisis, hope you enjoyed it. If you can be said to enjoy an existential crisis. 😐😳🙄

[@SmickyD]

Now try shrooms and apply that thought process to the entire universe. Get back to me!

[@SneedyKetler]

I’d love to be on a night train. Not exactly applicable where I live in the US. But I’ve had a smattering of epiphanies in my lifetime and they are golden moments in my existence.

[@julius43461]

Meh, I can't prove that, so solipsism it is.

[@pillmuncher67]

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

[@obsti]

I had to think of the Wolpertinger as well xD Greetings from a fellow bavarian^^

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Didn't World of Warcraft have a Wolpertinger pet inthe game?

[@pillmuncher67]

@@Thurgosh_OG Did they? I don't know such things because I'm not a gamer.

[@paradisepipeco]

I live way out back in the outback, and your comment frightened me at first. But the local sasquatch told me that the wendigo told him that fortunately, the Wolpertinger isn't a real animal. So I asked him if the Wolpertinger is some kind of vegetable then, but the big galoot climbed onto his unicorn and rode away into the sunrise _(he's a little dyslexic)._ I just hope dem dam furshlugginer Wolpertingers don't show up around here, boy howdy. I got me some plenty enough varmint trouble already, because every time I plant a row of Cheerios out back _(here in the outback),_ the chupacabras and drop bears raid my garden before I can harvest my crop of delicious donuts. *_"Too much planet; not enough yetis."_* ~~ A Lonesome Bigfoot 🙊🙉🙈

[@desperadox7565]

@@paradisepipeco Wolpertinger are harmless.(And totally real)

[@DavidFrostbite]

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."_

[@dwmichaels]

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.

[@wendyn9780]

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🐝

[@Nobe_Oddy]

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)

[@mnemosynevermont5524]

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

[@EmeralBookwise]

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.

[@legomojo]

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. 😂

[@hecklepig]

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.

[@mb-3faze]

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.

[@manic1712]

A man of culture! The wolpertinger is my second favorite cryptid, selkies narrowly winning out! There was a period where I'd ask everyone what their favorite was and collect responses. Of 75 respondents, the most popular was "whatsacryptid" with 16 respondents, followed by the "Idontknow" with 9! I'd never even heard of either creature before. In all seriousness though, the Mothman was the most common favorite at 7/75 followed by the Wendigo (my husband's in this camp) and Bigfoot at 5/75. Heard of some great ones like the Hungarian Copper-dicked Owl, the Hantu Tetek, the Ningen, "bitcoin" (a hilarious misunderstanding of the initial question), Steve Buscemi, Jesus, "the blue one, and "my girlfriend." ...I think I need to revive the quizzing. It's a very stupid icebreaker, I love it.

[@bigboxofstuff]

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!

[@joescott]

Thanks, and same to you!

[@shinrapresident7010]

@@joescott Stop spreading lies and misinformation. Just because you read an oped doesn't make it truth. As an entomologist I'd be happy to educate you but apparently facts don't really matter to your channel.

[@user-zo2pc5lu5q]

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

[@abbyhillman769]

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.

[@donatehilltop]

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

[@MainBattleRobot1701]

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.”

[@AlexThompson1981]

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.

[@TheUberWise]

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.

[@timefoolery]

My ex-bff has Main Character Syndrome. She actually thought that whatever showed up on her main page of posts by others (not necessarily to her), were being seen by anyone who came to her personal account page 🙄 She got upset about something posted by someone else and began shrieking that she didn’t want her friends seeing that on her account page. I’m like, uhhh, if that were true, you’d see everyone else’s posts on just one page, not theirs on one and posts by and to you on another. This was about the time I started seeing how much she thought people were utterly enamoured with her. I mean, I’d seen that in her all our lives, but never had a term for it beyond simply calling her a narcissist. It was only after I moved to another country and wasn’t seeing her every day that it started to sink in how much she thought she was the star of her own show and I even told her that. Now I know there’s an actual syndrome, I know what to think about her.

[@joeyhoy1995]

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.

[@operating]

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.

[@maillardsbearcat]

He always does the quirky awkward thing, never cringe but it gets old sometimes

[@sifridbassoon]

"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."

[@jeanneames9924]

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 ❤

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

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.

[@catfeatherss]

My dad said my nana thought green cars were unlucky and wouldn't ride in one. I wonder what it is about green.

[@cynvision]

@@catfeatherss At some point I must have gotten ungratefully sassy and asked my dad why he bought me a green car for my first car. At the time there was not Carfax so you could not know if a car was a one owner car. He was a car mechanic and he spun out some reply to me that green cars very likely were one owner cars. And to read the VIN number and not buy a car made on a Friday or a Monday. And of course the following year my sister got a sportier trim package on a burgundy red Oldsmobile Cutlass Brogham. I was so damn jealous. So really... maybe he just thought I never fit in socially for sixteen years I could just deal with being the weird girl with a pearl green honking barge of a car? And I didn't have funds to go get my own car so I drove it for years. Best brick of a car for Wisconsin roads where they just threw down sand; it would plow right through the slush in the worst snow storms.

[@Edward-THC]

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

[@anthonycamilleri7297]

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

[@sarahallegra6239]

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

[@dominiklukacs7677]

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

[@soil-play]

I put one of these up and I think it did more harm than good... Turns out it made a convenient feeding station for a woodpecker. If the bees would have spread out their babies instead of concentrating them there some may have survived...

[@Buster_Piles]

How much can you charge them per night? 🤔 this is a business venture I'm keen to try. Also; do you need to hire little, tiny Bee cleaning staff and desk clerks or is it more of an "air Bee & Bee" type scenario?

[@jacobrodrig8]

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 😁😁

[@joescott]

The point is to make past me look like a schmuck. 😄 Thank you!

[@lardylars6743]

​@@joescottoh, no effort needed for that. Just kidding man, you're one of the few youtubers who I genuinely appreciate.

[@Rooblemax]

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

[@lwbaum1]

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.

[@Christina-ge3xr]

Merry Christmas Joe and thanks for all the enlightenment 😊

[@daniellarsson3118]

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 😂

[@Skinflaps_Meatslapper]

The thing is, photoreceptors in our eyes all do the same thing...they're hit with a particular wavelength photon and they relay identical signals. Whatever difference, if there is any, would be how the brain interprets a particular stimulus from those signals. Basically, assuming our retinas are more or less the same (which they are except in divergent cases), our eyes will see the same thing...so the only possibility is that our brains may or may not interpret the same thing differently than another. Same would go for every other sense that we have, chocolate might smell like skunk, heat might feel like cold, bass might sound like treble, etc. The odds of everyone interpreting stimuli in opposites and whatnot simply doesn't have much substance beyond a tongue in cheek "well how would you know they don't" response. It's a collective "what if" thought experiment more than anything by those trying to understand how others experience the world.

[@daniellarsson3118]

@@Skinflaps_Meatslapper That is mostly true, every person has a slightly different proportion of rod and cone receptors, and rate of end terminal shedding on the receptors, and the wavelength of light reception is more broad in terms of detection, but the really interesting and impactful part is actually the differing proportions and distribution of eumelanin pigmentation in the retinal pigmented epithelium layer superior to the photoreceptors. The differing lattice of the melanin can spread those wavelengths out more for some people allowing higher differentiation of the signals as well as in youth the melanin deposits are arranged more homogeneously throughout that RPE layer which is why kids see much brighter colours than adults, and why colours get less distinct with age. I worked in research into ocular degeneration and the eye is an amazing body part, the scariest thing i learned is that the melanins interaction with light actually causes some of the light to split into infrared producing heat as a result, which means ur eyes to a degree are basically burning when seeing light, the human body is crazy haha 🤣

[@iguanac6466]

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?

[@user-tc5pl3zw3h]

You know, of course, how Winnie the Pooh got tangled up in espionage. He was caught in a honey pot. Also, we had a crop of catelope that came in rather large one year. They were the size of pumpkings. My mother in-law carved a face into one, and callet a "Jack O'Lope". I laughed so hard, I passed out. I made her put antlers and bunny ears on it. She's one of my favorite people.

[@user-qp6lx4zc6v]

Merry Christmas Joe and keep up the great work!

[@realbadger]

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... 😮

[@tdoran616]

The equivalent in the UK is called Purple Aki, it’s a frightening monster who targets young lads with muscles

[@juliao1255]

@@tdoran616 You got me good! I thought, "Oh, really? I've never heard of that one." Did a proper Wikipedia search on that one, Oi did. (That's me best Bri'ish accent, Mate!) 🤣🤣🤣

[@emmettturner9452]

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.

[@eric2500]

Happy holidays, Joe!

[@mrfoodarama]

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

[@SoulSonder26]

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

[@gregswank4912]

As a native Coloradan, who has been on that train both in the 80’s, and in 2022, I can say that the Durango-Silverton Railroad is exactly the type of place someone would go to both be far away from any road while also in a spot you’d be guaranteed to be photographed and recorded by a bunch of tourists at a distance. There’s no way that’s not a person in some type of costume. I love Bigfoot the same way I love dragons, mummies, and "El Chupanibre". Fantasy creatures.

[@eric2500]

Cats are invasive also. Keep kitty inside or but a bell on the collar, boy kitties need an operation so they roam less.

[@JonMartinYXD]

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.

[@05Matz]

I just wish our government wasn't totally committed to 'defeating', 'destroying', 'disrupting', etc. the environment/environmentalism/anything that competes with fossil fuels by any means they can, no matter how many lives they destroy in the process. Until that changes, geothermal has no chance here, which is a shame given how much relevant expertise we have. My condolences that you have to live here too. Take care of yourself, and don't fall afoul of the Inquisition (Energy War Room)!

[@185MDE]

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.

[@MIkkoBaffo]

This comment was the bee's knees. Perfection!

[@thesmockinggunYT]

Tried way too hard, bro.

[@pokepoke1889]

Someone arrest this fiend

[@y0sarian]

Yeah…a bee WOULD say some ish like this

[@CedDRriC]

Bee leave?

[@matejapavlic8519]

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

[@martyfrey2525]

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".

[@lisat776]

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.

[@joescott]

Thanks!

[@leehappy3259]

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

[@mjrippe]

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

[@SellaturcicaArt]

If you want to help your native bees, you can get those little bug hotel things they sell at garden centers! They are upright boxes with a bunch of small tubes in them where solitary bees like mason bees and many others lay their eggs in and seal up the ends of the tubes. They are fun to stick in your garden!

[@PizikSpaeth]

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

[@vaszgul736]

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.

[@MrChristianDT]

Some of the smarter ones will figure it out, yeah.

[@albummutation2278]

it's 100% dependent on the individual in the case of dogs and cats (and the smaller parrots). I've had a couple dogs (both german shepherd) that 'passed', and though I've never owned cats I've seen it just like you have. But the rest of the dogs i've had did not pass the mirror, and i've seen many vids of cats failing just the same. Same thing with parrotlets, some pass, some don't.

[@jamesbizs]

Its about the rule, not the exceptions

[@hashkangaroo]

2:40 My immediate thought was "Somebody's messing around with the ghillie suit again."

[@RalfOltmanns]

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.

[@jamesdaniels3699]

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

[@Carolynnie]

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

[@robertbejarano9747]

Thank you for your program. Merry Christmas and bless you and your family.

[@madmaxfzz]

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.

[@saltdaemon4453]

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.

[@vyvianalcott1681]

You did not see an Asian giant hornet in fucking New York, they're European giant hornets and they've been here a long time. Their sting isn't even as bad as a yellow jacket.

[@GoCoyote]

I hope you reported it to the local agricultural department. Those suckers are nasty.

[@evanwetzel8641]

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.

[@juliao1255]

I'm glad you shared that. I wondered all my life if other kids thought about such things. Even if we didn't use today's vocabulary, we had the concepts. I think I was 6 or 7 when I asked my Dad whether, if I had been born to different parents, would I still be me? I was struggling with questions of identity and soul, (i.e. is there a core "self" apart from the body?) even if I didn't have those words at the time. I'm still working out the answer to that one.! What a ride! LOL

[@the3cl3ctic]

Thank you Joe for a terrific eye opening 2023! 💫

[@dancampbell189]

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

[@bradley-eblesisor]

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 KZbin hierarchy and I appreciate you!

[@joescott]

That's incredibly kind, thank you. And same to you as well!

[@juliao1255]

I had to Look at Joe's reply, to see if he said, "Why not #1"? LOL. But he is too humble and wise to even say that as a joke. I hold him in the same high esteem as you do.

[@idontwantahandlethough]

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!

[@SoulsJourney]

There was an episode of "Sex and the City" where Carrie declared, "A squirrel is just a rat in a cuter outfit!"

[@fumblerooskie]

I call B.S. on this. There are many kinds of squirrels, and the common ancestor comes from North America.

[@Eden_jasper]

I have never heard the word “sonder” before, but I’ve tried to use that realization as a thought exercise to nurture empathy and curtail my road rage. Cool that it’s enough of a thing to get a word

[@creech444]

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.