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186 Spring Into Action - Update Your Kit Now

March 29, 2025 • Keith Otworth & Rhonda Triggs • Season 7 • Episode 186

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Tonight, we’re discussing how we change-up our prep kits from winter to spring. The gear and preps that we keep in our kits during winter, are somewhat different from the items we keep in our packs for the Spring and Summer Seasons. Now, of coarse, this really does depend greatly on our geographical location. The farther North, or South,… we live from the equator… the more changes in our gear we’ll have to make. For instance,… if you live in Florida, South Texas, Mexico, or Southern California… Your kits may not change as much as let’s say… those of us living in the mid-west or the northern states, or Canada… And the same theory goes for Europe, and parts of Asia and Africa… and… the southern hemisphere… like most of South America, Southern Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.

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The more drastic your climate conditions change for each season, the more drastic your changes will be for your Preps and Kits.

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So tonight we're going to be talking about change up the the the winter to spring change up. And I think, Jeremy, this this was something that you threw out there that this is the time of year to start changing up some of your gear, your clothing, whatever it might be.

00:28:05.18
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:28:05.54
Keith
Um, and you know, I don't want to say ah ah a spring cleanup cause a lot of people would would call it that. Uh, but there are a lot of things that preppers, survivalists, homesteaders for sure have to do in the spring to, um, you know, keep prepared to make sure that they are prepared.

00:28:21.97
Jeremy
yeah

00:28:21.97
Keith
So, uh, Jeremy, why don't you go ahead and, and tell us what you got, man.

00:28:26.30
Jeremy
well i mean you know it the spring is always um i actually do like to do the cleaning part too i don't like to do the cleaning that's a lie i hate the cleaning part but you know springtime last frost is around this you know right around the corner within a few days um And you got to start, and I started thinking about this because we just did the episode about, you know, get home bags and bug out bags and all that.

00:28:53.96
Jeremy
And, you know, being prepared for variances in weather kind of like jumpstarted my thoughts on this one. You know, so how do you get ready to go into spring? It's still kind of chilly though.

00:29:06.99
Jeremy
And i started kind of problem solving with that. And also with food and of course water. So starting with, you know, the, the, the typical threes of survival.

00:29:21.01
Jeremy
um The first thing I came up with in regards to, you know, having to have shelter is your tent is always going to be your tent or your shelter is always going to be your shelter. That particular structure or thing that you use to physically cover yourself and your stuff. If something were to happen, that's pretty much going to be the same.

00:29:39.78
Jeremy
But if you do happen to carry a heavier weight sleeping bag, um it's kind of start time to start thinking about a little bit lighter, little bit easier to manage.

00:29:51.26
Jeremy
um And then i went from there and I went into water. a lot of people, unfortunately, don't drink enough water during the winter or during the cold just because you don't feel that thirsty. It's as important, if not more so, because your body can deceive you.

00:30:08.92
Jeremy
But you got to start thinking about increased water consumption as the weather gets warmer and

00:30:14.14
Keith
as you As you brought that up yesterday, yesterday I spent um a lot of the day out there working on that tunnel. that what what do you What do you like to call that thing?

00:30:24.78
Keith
It's like my greenhouse, but it's a polytunnel.

00:30:26.68
Jeremy
The hoop house. Isn't that what you call it, buddy?

00:30:28.09
Keith
Yeah, and ah they I think he called it a polytunnel.

00:30:32.07
Jeremy
Hmm. Hmm.

00:30:32.83
Keith
But um yeah, it broke down. But I was out there working all day yesterday, pretty much in the garden. And it was a very, very windy day. And I was not thinking about dehydration. It was it was cool.

00:30:41.65
Jeremy
Hmm.

00:30:42.71
Keith
It wasn't terribly hot at all. I drank so much last night, like after dinner, that I got up three times to pee in the middle of night. I must have just like, the wind and everything must have just pulled all that moisture right out of my body.

00:30:56.09
Jeremy
It does, man. It does. And we've been having a lot of wind here and North Carolina and it's sucks, man. I hate having to like fight against the wind and you're right. It, it does, uh, it does deceive you.

00:31:12.10
Jeremy
You know, you might, it might feel good. um but I always noticed the first thing that I start to, well, the first thing I start to notice is I'm like, man, I'm putting on a lot of chapstick. My lips are dry. I'm ashy.

00:31:23.45
Jeremy
You know, I got to get something done here. And, um But the the water thing, man, a lot of people, i know people who have not actually had a drop of water in probably years. And I have no idea how they function in life, but people don't drink enough water.

00:31:39.80
Jeremy
you know this

00:31:40.02
Keith
So they're drinking them with like tea, coffee, soda.

00:31:42.91
Jeremy
coffee, buttloads of soda, you know all that the stuff that they think is you know actually taking care of their thirst, and it's really not. Um, yeah, but, um, so I started thinking about the water factor, you know, in, this is also the time when a lot of people are getting ready to travel, you know, spring break is in a lot of places right now.

00:32:04.12
Jeremy
I know one of my daughters is on spring break and they're getting out there and they're doing stuff and they're having fun. And, you know, you gotta to start increasing your water intake. Um, even if you don't want to.

00:32:15.26
Jeremy
you got to drink water um and so going into food um winter foods are the way i see it is you you need more calorie dense foods during the winter at least ah that's how i feel like you know and during the the the summertime and when it's hot you don't want like soups and stuff like that but all of a sudden during winter it's like man i really want soup You got to think about the adjustment into your caloric intake and the types of foods that you're taking in, uh, while you're doing physical activity and stuff like that.

00:32:47.47
Jeremy
Um,

00:32:48.53
Keith
it doesn't It doesn't help that we have, what, three holidays? ah four Four. We have four holidays. Three. We have three or four holidays, right? You know, if wait got hallow got halloween you got Halloween, you got Thanksgiving, you got Christmas, got New Year's, all in basically the cold months.

00:33:04.52
Jeremy
so many calories.

00:33:05.27
Keith
And all that fattening food. And you know we eat it.

00:33:08.35
Jeremy
Oh, dude, I love it.

00:33:08.45
Keith
All of it.

00:33:09.93
Jeremy
Fucking love it.

00:33:10.22
Keith
Right? Right.

00:33:11.56
Jeremy
I can't help it, man. It's just something about that rich food during the wintertime.

00:33:16.66
Keith
Right.

00:33:17.32
Jeremy
oh man. Like, I'm already thinking about getting down on a turkey this Thanksgiving. guess turkey season starts in a week and a half here. So yeah, I'm ah looking forward to that, but it's just all these, you know, minor different things and going back to shelter, you have to start thinking about, you know, clothing, clothing choices. So like right now in one of my bags, I've got a fairly not super duper heavy jacket, but a fairly, ah you know, thick, but it's one of the puffy jackets so you can stuff it and,

00:33:50.15
Jeremy
But transitioning into the warmer months, man, you wear a puffy jacket. If it's cool one night, you get up in the morning and you're like, you're you're dying. ah you're you're You're roasting in in whatever shelter you may have because those things insulate so well.

00:34:05.34
Jeremy
Um, so you got to start thinking about lighter clothing, um, still keeping yourself covered. You know, you still got to protect yourself from the sun and all those things, but your clothing choices, like what exactly are you going to be wearing if, you know, something happens?

00:34:20.25
Jeremy
Um, ah and f for instances is like, The pants that i usually wear every day are that tech material. i like tech material, long sleeve shirts, you know, so I can cover myself from the sun.

00:34:32.99
Jeremy
And, but I also, when I have like my, my to go bag or whatever, have a little bit of a heavier shirt or a heavier undershirt and a very light jacket.

00:34:43.66
Jeremy
So keeping that layer concept um that you use during the winter, but just adjusting it for, you know, your warmer, your warmer climate. So that's kind of what prompted my, ah my thoughts on that.

00:34:56.87
Jeremy
And, you know, it's like, we had the conversation about if something were to happen and we were out, we were talking about that during the winter. Now take that and add about 30 to 40 more degrees on top of that.

00:35:10.61
Jeremy
And you're hoofing it, you know, and you've got weight on your back. Then you really get challenged, you know, how much water do I really need to have in this versus, you know, another 18 magazines for my for my gun?

00:35:24.85
Jeremy
do i Do I need to start thinking about, you know, what makes more sense? You know, and that goes to your EDC as well. Um, I actually have a, this is stupid, but I have a winter gun and I have a spring summer gun.

00:35:38.62
Jeremy
I know it sounds silly, but I do. Um, spring summer gun is because when I'm, when I'm a in index carrying, um, it's a little bit more difficult to not, uh, uh, have a silhouette of the gun in my, underneath my shirt because I'm not wearing a jacket.

00:35:58.54
Jeremy
I'm not wearing something heavy, you know, cause, and I don't want the outline to, you know, to show underneath my shirt. So I have a different gun. That's a little bit smaller and a little bit easier to manage.

00:36:11.48
Jeremy
And that's, that's kind of how I think about that.

00:36:14.31
Keith
Yeah, I did that in in Texas.

00:36:14.59
Jeremy
So.

00:36:15.67
Keith
I started carrying, i had a Glock 17, which is the full size Glock, and I have

00:36:19.33
Jeremy
Hmm.

00:36:20.35
Keith
moved I wanted to move down to a 19, but they didn't have any in stock the day I went. and I was like, let me let me try that 26. It's tiny.

00:36:26.75
Jeremy
Hmm.

00:36:26.80
Keith
Glock 26 is really tiny and holds 10 rounds, one of the chambers 11. But, um you know, it's it's really small.

00:36:31.32
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:36:34.38
Keith
Well, I started carrying that. i bought it and I started carrying that for my summertime because, it you know, it it it won't me you can hide it a whole lot easier.

00:36:42.47
Jeremy
yeah

00:36:42.78
Keith
But, you know, ever since then, I've never i've never gone back. You know, i I just love that little gun. And that's what I'm comfortable with now.

00:36:48.42
Jeremy
yeah Yeah, and and you're you're a lot bigger than me, and I think you probably have much bigger hands than me. I've got small hands, I'm not going to lie.

00:36:59.05
Jeremy
They're like weird kind of ashy sausages is really what they look like right now. But um but i a buddy of mine sold me um a Springfield Hellcat, and I absolutely love that thing.

00:37:13.03
Jeremy
I love it. It shoots so well. And a lot of people are like, no, no.

00:37:15.79
Keith
Isn't that a big gun?

00:37:18.06
Jeremy
Springfield Hellcat's a... yeah

00:37:18.97
Keith
Oh, the Hellcat. Okay, I know what you're talking about.

00:37:19.91
Jeremy
Yeah, they have a Hellcat and the Hellcat Pro.

00:37:20.93
Keith
Sure.

00:37:22.46
Jeremy
I just have the Hellcat because I'm not bougie. But um it is a perfect size for my hand. It's still 9 mil. um It's a double stacked magazine, carries plenty of ammo, shoots straight, shoots well. It's easy to shoot.

00:37:38.46
Jeremy
And people talk trash, you know, on different, oh, I'm um ah um a Glock dude, but you know, Glocks are great and all, but Then you start getting like Glock fanboys yeah or it's got to be this kind of gun. It's got to be the SIG. I don't want it. I don't want a SIG blowing up in my damn face.

00:37:53.34
Jeremy
You know, I like Springfield. I've never, ever once had a malfunction or any issues with my Springfields. And I have several. And I mean, and people are like, oh, dude, it failed after 73,122 rounds.

00:38:02.16
Keith
That's a great but manufacturer, man. Oh, shit.

00:38:09.17
Jeremy
Well, did you clean it? Are you taking on a battalion by yourself? Like, what what do you what are you training for realistically? An average gunfight is going to be two to five seconds, maybe a maximum of seven.

00:38:20.53
Keith
If you're lucky.

00:38:21.28
Jeremy
If you're lucky. And that's like extended. So, okay, 70,000 rounds. Oh my gosh, it had a jam because you didn't oil the damn thing. i mean i don't know what I don't know what to say people who who talk trash on on certain things versus others.

00:38:37.32
Buddy
clean it.

00:38:38.41
Jeremy
Yeah. And also going back to our, our love of, of fanny packs, if it fits perfectly in all of my fanny packs.

00:38:47.97
Keith
ah That would be your love for Penny Facts.

00:38:50.34
Buddy
So are you going, you said you're switching everything. Are you, your accessories or are you going to a more summary, you know, print for your accessories, your fanny pack and, and those kind of things.

00:38:58.73
Jeremy
Now I'm, I'm still very basic in colors. I don't,

00:39:03.42
Keith
doing floral.

00:39:04.55
Jeremy
I mean, I'll just put it to you this way, man. I've seen some guys out there. I don't judge. I am not one to judge. But if the gray man concept was, um how do i say this?

00:39:18.70
Jeremy
Included a little bit of sachet, these dudes would fit in perfectly. They, you would not be able to tell that they're carrying other than the fact that I know, like I have, I have a buddy of mine. He wears, he's got a Louis, is it a Louis Vuitton or whatever that brand is?

00:39:32.69
Buddy
Yep.

00:39:32.79
Jeremy
And it's, it's the, it looks like an enlarged fanny pack that you wear across your chest or your back.

00:39:32.86
Buddy
yep

00:39:38.97
Jeremy
And I saw it and I was like, dude, that is so, so dumb looking. And I was like, wait a minute. Because I looked and I saw this edge on the on the outside of it. and I looked and I was like, we got in there, dude.

00:39:51.95
Jeremy
And he had a full size, ah what is it? don't know it was a, can't remember was Glock or whatever gun, but the whole thing was in there. And plus two or three extra magazines. And I was like, you know what?

00:40:04.77
Jeremy
I don't hate it. I don't hate it at all.

00:40:07.81
Keith
So when you say, faint and i and by the way, I do like to judge. It's fun. But um when you say fanny pack, are you talking about like the things you used to use like in the 80s, in the 80s the early 90s? Are you talking about like tactical, you know, you can put them on your side, your back, and they've got molly and all that. What what you exactly are you talking about?

00:40:26.93
Jeremy
Dude, I'm going tell you, man, my love of fanny packs has never died from the eighties. I love them. um

00:40:34.97
Keith
Wow. Okay.

00:40:35.77
Jeremy
I do, but yes, you are correct. They, and I prefer to wear mine. i have several, uh, one black, one Odie green, one coyote. I have all the normal colors. um The only one that I have like that has a bunch of like either Velcro or Mali on the outside, I actually i use it a lot on my on my contracts, but I re-rigged that um where I have a on the backside of it, there's Mali loops, and I actually attach two M4 magazine carriers on the backside.

00:41:08.27
Jeremy
And then i kind of reconfigured the front to where i can hang stuff off of it. And that one's large enough where wearing it on the back just makes a little bit more sense and and unless you have to get into some kind of action.

00:41:21.91
Jeremy
um

00:41:22.09
Keith
Right, right.

00:41:22.69
Jeremy
And then I liked it so much about another one. And then I included that on the back of my battle belt. So I actually ri i i removed the excess webbing around the straps, and I actually attached that to the backside of my battle belt, kind of like an old butt pack.

00:41:37.93
Keith
that's smart, yeah.

00:41:39.10
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:41:40.37
Keith
ah Rhonda bought me three packs recently. I guess was for my birthday or whatever, but the ones that there but one's a sling. Another one is kind of a sling. The other one is is a fanny. And I looked it and was like, that looks like a fanny pack, but it's so big that it fits on my battle belt. So it's like, you know, works great. You can put it on around your back. You can put stuff in it that you wouldn't usually need to use, but you want to carry with you.

00:42:04.53
Keith
You know, you can just write on your, on your belt, but the, and and I love slings that go across your chest or across your back. But she also gave me this other one. That's kind of a sling, but it fits like sort of under your like right or left chest, almost like a, like a shoulder holster where it fits like kind of on the side under your arm a little bit.

00:42:24.98
Keith
And I can't, I just can't be, I'm not comfortable with it. So, know, I'm not going to, I'm not going wear but yeah.

00:42:27.91
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:42:30.33
Keith
I had to ask because one of the ones that she got was, I consider it a fanny pack because it goes on your belt. or It doesn't wrap around your body, but it definitely goes on your belt.

00:42:39.05
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah, I...

00:42:39.94
Buddy
Man, I'm wearing um wear one every day.

00:42:42.50
Jeremy
Yeah, man.

00:42:42.61
Buddy
I wear a 511. A 511.

00:42:44.56
Jeremy
Oh, yeah. Yeah.

00:42:46.15
Buddy
And it's for my compact gun. It's Glock 43X. um

00:42:50.70
Keith
Oh, wow. Nice.

00:42:52.28
Buddy
And then i have, I'm not going to lie, I got four.

00:42:55.33
Keith
So the is 40 cal? Yeah.

00:42:58.11
Buddy
No, it's just a 9mm.

00:43:00.26
Keith
The 43X is the 9 mil. Isn't the 43 the same

00:43:02.15
Buddy
Yeah.

00:43:04.48
Buddy
At least I hope it is. If I'm putting one in the wrong ammo, I might be in trouble.

00:43:07.89
Keith
is it is isn't the forty three the isn't the forty three the same size the

00:43:13.63
Buddy
it It is about the same size. I think the 26, maybe a little bit bigger. um

00:43:19.13
Keith
ah interesting

00:43:19.40
Buddy
But it's it's small. It's it's very small.

00:43:22.54
Jeremy
I don't know one Glock from, I just, it's kind of like the iPhone. They're like, yeah, man, the iPhone 753 XL, freaking things as big as your eyeballs or, you know, whatever it is.

00:43:37.11
Jeremy
And then i they're like, dude, the Glock gen whatever is out. And I'm like, but what does it do differently than the last Glock whatever? I just, I look at them, they're all Glocks.

00:43:46.13
Buddy
and

00:43:48.59
Buddy
I'm not a Glock guy either. Um, a buddy of mine had it and i kind of like, you got your Hellcat and I was looking for a Hellcat and, this came about and I thought, you know what, I'll pick it up cause the price was right. Uh, maybe give it to one of my daughters and, uh, liked it so much. I kept it. The only thing I don't like about it my sausage fingers. I have a hard time getting in the mag well.

00:44:10.05
Buddy
I mean the, uh, in the trigger well and, uh, mm, you know But it still, it fires good. It fits my hand good. it's It's a good weapon, but...

00:44:19.46
Keith
I am a total Glock fan, ah but I'm not a Glock boy. you know where I like all guns.

00:44:23.86
Jeremy
way

00:44:25.40
Keith
I'll shoot them all. and There's so many that I absolutely love out there. But I started shooting Glock. And I started shooting Glock because I started training by watching Hickok 45 videos a long, long, long time ago, back. when you know way back And, you know, Hickok 45 is a Glock guy.

00:44:42.98
Keith
It's got every single Glock you think of, probably two of every one of them. And I just loved it so much that that's what I started with. And now that's what I'm comfortable with. so that's what I, you know, that's basically what I carry.

00:44:53.57
Buddy
Yeah, they're they've gotten better.

00:44:53.91
Keith
But um

00:44:55.05
Buddy
They're good.

00:44:55.86
Keith
Yeah, I mean, and I've never had a ah single a problem with my Glocks. I mean, I can run them dirty, clean, whatever I want. Just I don't have any problems with them. That 43X, I'm looking at it right here. on it's ah It's slightly bigger than the 26, what I have.

00:45:10.78
Buddy
Okay.

00:45:11.61
Keith
What I do notice about it, though, is it has a way bigger grip. So you must be able to hold a lot more rounds in it than mine.

00:45:19.05
Buddy
Yeah, I had a Wather that had a really nice, and I forget the model, and I got a good deal on it.

00:45:22.04
Keith
That's a nice gun. Walter's nice.

00:45:25.09
Buddy
i mean, that's kind of how I get my weapons. i again um If it's a good deal, I'll buy one just as an investment. And it had a nice big fat grip on it. I love that gun. And brother-in-law needed one.

00:45:40.17
Buddy
I needed some money, so we made a little deal. And, man, I've been trying to buy it back ever since. But I think it a...

00:45:44.38
Keith
yeah

00:45:45.80
Buddy
PPK or PPQ or PPK, something like that. It was 9mm.

00:45:50.89
Jeremy
Are you

00:45:51.00
Keith
sounds familiar it's another good gun oh yeah

00:45:52.53
Buddy
9mm nice, man. Shot well, felt good in my hand. Trigger was nice on it. Yeah.

00:45:58.13
Jeremy
talking about the Walther?

00:45:58.21
Buddy
Yeah, yeah. yeah

00:46:00.46
Jeremy
Yeah, I have a Walther P-22.

00:46:03.72
Jeremy
Oh, man, I love that thing. And it's, you know,.22 ammo is is just, it's it's not as and inexpensive as it used to be, but it's a lot of fun to shoot. But I'm gonna tell you, man, if you do not oil that stupid pistol like crazy, oh my God, man, it jams.

00:46:13.15
Keith
oh yeah

00:46:17.71
Keith
Clean it and oil it, yeah.

00:46:20.11
Buddy
Kind of like a Ruger, those Ruger LCPs or whatever they are.

00:46:21.61
Jeremy
So, yeah, yeah, man.

00:46:25.95
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:46:26.38
Buddy
that's Those are crazy. You got to oil to piss out of them. and they you know you Just expect a jam.

00:46:29.32
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:46:31.67
Buddy
They're not very good.

00:46:31.83
Keith
How did we get onto guns?

00:46:31.91
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:46:32.41
Buddy
Because that's what we always do.

00:46:35.20
Jeremy
Yeah, that is actually. So yeah. So back to fanny packs. No. um um But I, I, I typically have a backpack and I typically have a fanny pack because I like them so much.

00:46:49.38
Jeremy
um But I also like, depending on, you know, the time of year and whatever it is that I'm doing, I will travel with a plate carrier and a chest rig. um It's a very simplified chest rig. It's very simple.

00:47:02.29
Jeremy
But that would be like, you know, the the proverbial shit has hit that fan and I got to get home on my feet. And I'm going to, you know, have to hoof it and fight it all the way back home.

00:47:14.82
Jeremy
So um those are kind of, the you know, the things that I thought about. And it's not just... You know, springtime isn't just about your EDC and it's not just about this. You know, we we do a lot of stuff about gardening and that's kind of what really started of prompting all of this. And, you know, I'm outside working and we got stuff going in the greenhouse and i was like, man, it's hot out here. But then that night it was down in the 40s. I'm like, freaking hell, I'm cold. And then I got back up and it's up in the 60s and 70s the next day. And like tonight, we got to make sure everything's in there and good and tucked in because it's supposed to get down to like 35 tonight.

00:47:50.59
Jeremy
So these are those variances, especially during the springtime when it gets really weird that you have to think about, you know, i could be cold and I could be hot. You know, you have to you have to have that in between during the springtime.

00:48:03.62
Jeremy
Summertime is kind of easy. Um, cause you're, you're dressing for warm weather and protecting your, your skin. But, you know, springtime, there are people, you know, especially, we get you know, military schools, there's, there's a, there was a soldier who was in ranger school and as many years ago, and it was summertime down in Florida and, um, they do a lot of water crossings and stuff like that. And he ended up getting hypothermic and died.

00:48:28.86
Jeremy
And that was during the summer. So.

00:48:31.21
Buddy
Yeah, I had a buddy that was in that class.

00:48:33.75
Jeremy
Mm-hmm

00:48:34.65
Buddy
Yeah, it was it was a thing for sure, man.

00:48:36.88
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah. um So, I mean, stuff happens, you know, but it's trying to be prepared for a lot of different changes. And that's that's the big thing about spring. It's all about change during spring.

00:48:51.64
Jeremy
um You know, the the earth is renewing itself. Your body is renewing itself. It's coming out of that fat slumber from the winter. And, you know, and um this is also a time to really start looking at yourself.

00:49:05.69
Jeremy
Um, and if there are things about your actual body, uh, that you, you need to start correcting like more exercise and stuff like that, this is really the, lot you know, the time that a lot of people actually start doing that, you know, cause it's not just about summer bod.

00:49:21.38
Jeremy
It's, it's about maintaining a level of health and fitness that if you do have to get out and get your family out, you're able to do so. So, yeah, man.

00:49:32.77
Keith
Yeah, I took a little short hike through the woods um yeah two days ago. I guess it was probably about a mile, but I was definitely feeling it. There's no doubt about it.

00:49:44.44
Keith
ah The winter has destroyed me.

00:49:49.15
Buddy
Yeah, it's time to get back out there and road march a little bit for sure.

00:49:51.59
Keith
Road march.

00:49:52.78
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:49:52.83
Keith
So, buddy, what do you thinking about for spring?

00:49:55.78
Buddy
Man, ah Jeremy hit a lot of the the points there. You know, I'm going to rotate my water out of my truck. I'm going to add electrolytes, a lot more electrolytes.

00:50:07.40
Buddy
Man, I'll drink two or three electrolyte drinks a day just because i i so I'm a sweater. I just...

00:50:15.73
Keith
use powdered

00:50:16.90
Buddy
Yeah, the powder type. i usually Liquid IV I va found, that's just my stuff, man. I like the way it tastes. It it it works for me. ah I used to buy some cheaper stuff, and just didn't.

00:50:28.21
Buddy
I tend to cramp a lot, and with the electrolyte drink, with the liquid IV, it's it's got what I need. Whatever the formula it is, it works for my body, so stick with it. um um I'm dumping that heavy sleeping bag ah from the truck like Jeremy did, throwing in a poncho liner.

00:50:46.40
Buddy
And putting in my poncho for, you know, makeshift shelter. And then, ah you know, makeshift shelter.

00:50:55.79
Keith
and Don't say that too fast, man. At least not in church.

00:50:59.38
Buddy
Yeah. So, you know, just downsizing a lot of things. I'm going to go ahead and keep my, you know, packable down jacket and watch cap and gloves in there.

00:51:10.40
Buddy
Now my big thick winter gloves will go. I'll just keep, you know, a pair of thinner gloves. Uh, just in case at night I get, you know, have to hoof it and I'm on the way home and it gets a little cooler at night where I can, you know, put it in the pack and still use it. If I have to, you know, we call it a run in the military rest, rest overnight.

00:51:30.03
Buddy
Uh, I'm taking my wool blankets out, uh, that I had in there, putting him back up in the closet. Uh, snacks, snack wise, time to rotate them out, get your power bars. It's been sitting in there all winter and my jerky and, uh,

00:51:46.01
Buddy
put those to good use while I'm working outside and put some new stuff in there. I'm going to change my wipers out on my truck, ah rotate the tires of the truck. Noticed looking at my tires, man. I noticed I had picked up a lot of nails and stuff. Luckily i haven't had any flats or slow leaks, but I picked up a lot of stuff in my tires. So time to get that stuff fixed, change the oil, those kinds things. um Let's see what else, what else?

00:52:17.07
Buddy
Also, I'm going to add my, uh, boonie cap in there, uh, just in case I do have to hoof it. You know, one of the things people don't think about, it's like, uh, well, I got my tennis shoes, my, you know, to walk home in, or, you know, we talked about that in the other episode where you want to, you know, have something over your ankles and stuff, but what people don't think about it's cap.

00:52:36.01
Buddy
You know, you need to keep that sun off your face because, uh, you know Those are the kind of things that you know you just don't look at. and it's It's going to take its toll on you if you get out in the sun you know eight hours or so and you're not used to it.

00:52:47.63
Keith
Yeah, take a look at any pro, ah like, fisherman, angler. Not somebody who does a hobbyist, but actual pros. They're wearing long sleeves and hats out in the sun.

00:52:57.59
Buddy
Yeah.

00:52:58.40
Keith
you know Now, these these might be, like, really thin, you know, like, moisture-wicking, super lightweight shirts. And they're, you know, they're, they what do they call those, you know, performance-type material.

00:53:09.16
Keith
But they're still long-sleeve.

00:53:10.98
Buddy
Yeah, that the 50, rateable 50, what do they call that? where he but

00:53:16.82
Keith
s SPF.

00:53:17.53
Buddy
s SPF 50 shirts. and

00:53:18.79
Keith
Right. Mm hmm.

00:53:19.51
Buddy
I migrated to those a couple years ago. I'm that guy at the beach that has that on, you know, looking like an old man with my Crocs and socks with my SPF shirt on.

00:53:27.62
Keith
Oh, I got a camera one that I love.

00:53:29.71
Buddy
Yeah, and i' wear i'm wearing em every I'm wearing one right now. I wear them every day, all day long. It's it's just, I don't know. um I don't need to go out there and and suntan anymore, you know what mean?

00:53:40.62
Keith
Yeah, me neither.

00:53:41.30
Buddy
uh, it's just, those days are past, man.

00:53:42.14
Keith
Now, and I like the Carhartt for somewhere in the long sleeve Carhartt force right now, which is ah

00:53:46.21
Buddy
I love those.

00:53:47.23
Keith
Moisture Wicked. You like them, right?

00:53:48.48
Buddy
Oh man.

00:53:48.49
Keith
They're good.

00:53:49.34
Buddy
I found those this winter. I got one on sale at, I think it at tractor supply. Shameless plug there. But, uh, yeah, those are bad-ass. I love Um, yeah.

00:54:01.82
Buddy
What else? Uh, you know, like you've saying that, you know, spring is that time where we need to start, you know, we change, we're changing things up. Um, it's another time, you know, when, and I use the, uh, you know, spring forward, fall back. I use that time change as a kind of like a a springboard for doing certain things like changing out your nine volt batteries and your, uh, uh, fire alarm.

00:54:29.65
Buddy
And, uh, you know, just certain things i it it sets a trigger to me to do because it's a changing season. So, um, I just use that to to change up a lot of things, but there's not a, not a lot of drastic stuff that really, I carry the same stuff in my get home bag, bug out bag, whatever you call it for the most part, but it's just a matter of dumping it out, you know, putting some more things in, taking some things away. Uh, really the weight doesn't change so much. Uh, you know, you can take more, uh, water in your bag now that you've got that, you know, sleeping bag out of there.

00:55:06.13
Buddy
Um, Still going to carry 18,000 knives so and a hatchet and a saw and all that good stuff. No,

00:55:12.75
Keith
I agree with you on all that. And I knew that you guys would come up with a, you a great list of items to change up for the, for the spring. The one thing I wanted to mention on my end, and I'm assuming you were finished buddy. because i just cut you off.

00:55:26.32
Buddy
and I'm good.

00:55:27.25
Keith
Um, but, um, beekeeping, I wanted to mention that. I'm not going to go into the whole thing it. I'm just going to real quick. Um, This is the time you spring is the time of year you want to get this thing going. Now, I know a lot of homesteaders. I'm a beekeeper.

00:55:41.05
Keith
I know a lot of homesteaders and a lot of preppers. um Some preppers are doing beekeeping. and There's a lot of us who really want to get into beekeeping. Well, right now, this very moment, this is when you want to do that.

00:55:53.15
Keith
um You want to place your order for your bees. You can get bee packages for anywhere from like 150 to 190 bucks. You can get live nukes, which are like fully established bee boxes. And they come with they come with frames of eggs, larva, ah capped brood, which are you know babies but about to come out.

00:56:14.35
Keith
um They come with a queen that's already been bred, which is really good. and They usually cost about $190 to $250 a piece. of But those, they're going to be established. You're going to able to get honey out of them, most likely get honey out of them probably in July or even August, which is really great.

00:56:30.04
Keith
um You want to maybe take some beekeeping classes? I did. It's very, very helpful. Of course, jump on YouTube because there are tons of beekeepers out there that are just training people all day. So much to learn.

00:56:42.40
Keith
Um, I would say order, start looking at equipment. You want to order your equipment cause you want your equipment to be here by the time your bees get here. So you can have your bees, uh, shipped in like I did in the mail.

00:56:57.29
Keith
Uh, nukes can't be, you have to pick those up. Uh, they can't ship nukes because they've got honey and they've got, um, they've got things like, um, ah pollen and different things that I guess are not allowed to cross state lines and things like that.

00:57:11.95
Keith
So they they don't, they don't allow that, but the bee packages, they do. And I had mine shipped to me and you want to have all your bee equipment, your, your boxes, deep broods, your, your supers, all of your, your tools, queen excluders, your clothing, want to get your bee jacket or suit, whatever you prefer to wear, get all that ready to go before your bees come.

00:57:33.97
Jeremy
Thank you.

00:57:34.81
Keith
And you want to set up your highs before they get there as well. So we'll do a lot more on beekeeping because I know it's a, it's a popular thing. And honey is one of those things that, you know, if you're a prepper survivalist or a homesteader, you've got to have it's, it basically lasts forever.

00:57:50.53
Keith
It does not go bad and can be used for many, many different things. So, yeah, I just wanted to mention that about beekeeping. If you're going if you're going get into it, now's the time to do it right now.

00:58:01.35
Jeremy
i don't know why it seems weird. You know, when you, when I, when I hear you talk about ordering bees, you know, I don't know why that's a, I don't know why that's such a foreign concept to me.

00:58:09.45
Keith
Yeah.

00:58:13.82
Jeremy
Like, I'm going to order this thing that makes super awesome honey, but can also sting the living shit out of you. Like, like, I don't know why.

00:58:22.07
Buddy
did you Did you ever order ants out of the back of the comic book when you were a kid?

00:58:27.50
Jeremy
No, I'm from South Texas, dude.

00:58:27.60
Keith
I never did.

00:58:29.75
Jeremy
They, they, we don't,

00:58:30.55
Buddy
Well, we caught ours, but I mean, they were in there and I always want...

00:58:33.66
Keith
i remember that. Yeah.

00:58:34.84
Buddy
No, wait a minute. I did do it once because I wanted to see if my...

00:58:37.17
Keith
Because you can get like the bee farm and then order the bee, um I'm sorry, the ant farm and you can order the ants and everything.

00:58:40.57
Buddy
Yeah.

00:58:41.29
Keith
Yeah, I remember that. I didn't do it, but I remember it.

00:58:43.59
Buddy
Yeah, they'd send you these black ants and then I had these big red ants.

00:58:43.68
Jeremy
yeah

00:58:46.94
Buddy
So yeah, I'd let them battle it out. So...

00:58:50.19
Jeremy
We used to just take a, we used to get a jar and take a scoop from one ant pile and take a scoop from another ant pile and just watch the carnage. And that's, that's actually a great way to get rid of ants too.

00:58:58.34
Buddy
Oh, yeah.

00:59:01.19
Jeremy
and They'll just, they'll slaughter each other for no good reason. um

00:59:03.94
Buddy
and

00:59:05.16
Jeremy
But yeah, I don't know why ordering ants is just foreign to me.

00:59:05.46
Buddy
good

00:59:08.75
Keith
Ordering, ordering bees is very, it's a very strange thing.

00:59:10.15
Jeremy
Or bees.

00:59:11.43
Keith
Um, and I ordered, um, I ordered, uh, let me see, uh, 15 pounds of, they come in three pound boxes, uh, cages, and they are double lined.

00:59:17.83
Jeremy
yeah

00:59:22.45
Keith
So they can't handlers can't get stung by them, but they are coming in the mail. And, um, that, you know, they, they call the,

00:59:27.13
Jeremy
Wow. So,

00:59:29.77
Keith
I call, I went, I actually called the post office and, Hey, I got bees coming in this and that. And I said, you we'll let you know, we'll let you know when they get here. And we we do this a lot. So we'll take care of them. And I went down there and they're like, yep they're around back.

00:59:41.04
Keith
So i just drove around the back of the thing and they're sitting there on the dock and threw my truck.

00:59:44.23
Jeremy
so

00:59:44.26
Buddy
Amazing.

00:59:45.64
Keith
Yeah.

00:59:45.89
Jeremy
Now, if you told me it's time to order some sea monkeys, I'm down, dude.

00:59:50.38
Buddy
Ha ha ha.

00:59:50.56
Jeremy
You reminded me of like, you know, in the, in the, in the old cart, when you got comics and they have the ads and stuff, it's like, order your sea monkeys. My, my mom actually got them for us once. And so you put them in the water and I start doing the thing. All they are is this brine shrimp.

01:00:05.28
Jeremy
That's that's, they're just brine shrimp. And I remember I was like, so where's the little King dude? Where's the queen? Where's the, I don't see any of that in here. They're squiggling around. they look like They look like mosquito larvae.

01:00:16.99
Jeremy
Like, this is dumb, dude.

01:00:18.22
Keith
but Well, I would encourage everybody to get into beekeeping if you can. We really do need it. Bees are having a really tough time this year. um And I can so tell you that from firsthand experience, but the commercial growers are 80% losses over 24, 25 and over twenty four twenty five and

01:00:38.00
Jeremy
Oof.

01:00:40.09
Keith
hobbyists and, you know, backyard beekeepers like myself are at 50% loss this year. And that's exactly what I i lost 50% of my bees this year.

01:00:46.03
Buddy
Wow.

01:00:48.69
Jeremy
Why is that?

01:00:49.78
Keith
They don't know. They, they have been studying it every single university. They're all studying it, trying to figure it out. And they, they just can't figure it out.

01:00:58.78
Buddy
Is it likeco is glycophosphate?

01:00:59.24
Keith
Uh,

01:01:00.38
Buddy
Is that killing them out? Or, you know, what is it?

01:01:02.44
Keith
like I said, they don't, they they don't know. They could be, it could be like a bunch of different things that just not sure, but it's completely in line with what happened. I had four big hives and I lost two of them. And, uh,

01:01:13.79
Keith
ah So yeah, I've got mine going. But you know when you get bee packages, one thing to remember is that when you when you get bee packages delivered, those are unestablished bees. So they have to work before they can produce. You're not going to get the packages and have honey two or three months later.

01:01:28.62
Keith
You're probably not going to have your own honey for the first whole season. You're going to get until the following year.

01:01:33.27
Jeremy
All right.

01:01:33.49
Keith
Because they've got to build out the comb. They've got to... You know, they got to do all that. It's ah it's a whole process. So if you want like established bees, you buy the nukes, but you have to go pick them up in person.

01:01:39.69
Buddy
man.

01:01:44.21
Keith
So it's just something remember.

01:01:45.89
Buddy
I got a buddy that started his, uh, this, it, his, he's going on a second year now.

01:01:45.99
Jeremy
<unk>e

01:01:51.28
Buddy
So I'm anxious to see, you know, how his comes along and get some honey out of him.

01:01:55.51
Keith
<unk>re And he's in Oklahoma.

01:01:57.03
Buddy
Yeah. Yeah. Um, I, I was going to get into it, but I've moved 30 minutes away from my land. So I don't know that I'd want to make a daily trip out to check them.

01:02:06.67
Keith
Oh, you don't have to make a daily trip.

01:02:06.97
Buddy
Um,

01:02:07.91
Keith
yeah I mean, you you check in probably once every couple of weeks. so

01:02:11.21
Buddy
And I might, I might go ahead and do it and have him maybe, you know, keep teach me as, as we go along with it.

01:02:11.42
Keith
Yeah.

01:02:17.99
Keith
Yeah.

01:02:18.63
Buddy
So we'll see, but he's, he's only on his second year, so he doesn't know what he doesn't know yet.

01:02:18.76
Keith
Yeah.

01:02:23.09
Buddy
So, but.

01:02:24.02
Keith
Sure, yeah. And they takes they say it takes at least three years of beekeeping to actually really get your feet on the ground, you know to get your sea legs, so to speak. um Because there's a lot that happens in beekeeping. in you know It's not an everyday chore, but the things that do come up ah you know throughout the year, you've got to do, or you're going to kill them, or they're going to leave.

01:02:45.12
Keith
They're to just get pissed and they're going to leave. yeah. But, you know I'm comfortable now going out without my suit and without gloves and just working with the bees ah now. um I still wear my my jacket every once in a while and stuff like that, especially depending on what day it is. but it's really hot and it's like late in the afternoon. I'll wear it because it can get pissed off pretty easily.

01:03:05.61
Keith
But you'll get there and it's, you know, I can't wait. I'm going to have some honey in a couple months. So, yep.

01:03:12.36
Buddy
Man, um o I love honey.

01:03:16.64
Keith
And then next year, I hope to have a stand at the... ah ah we call it the farmer's market. So that's the that's part of the business plan.

01:03:25.73
Buddy
Yeah, just look into what the local, you know, cottage law is or whatever, you know, whatever the governing body is to see what, you know, how, what's going to make you legal for the, you know, for that local market.

01:03:39.22
Keith
Yep. done Done all that for Missouri already. Yep.

01:03:41.28
Buddy
All right. Yeah, it's probably pretty lax. Oklahoma gets kind of crazy on shit, so...

01:03:45.15
Keith
Some of them do. Some states do. Yeah, but you know. You know goes. Just follow the rules. You'll be fine. All right. Well, that's it, guys. yeah Anything you want to say just ah to close it out?

01:03:57.09
Keith
or yeah know

01:03:58.01
Jeremy
Well, we, uh, and I didn't even realize I was on mute I'm over here yapping and absolutely nobody.

01:04:02.66
Keith
We didn't hear you, man.

01:04:04.00
Jeremy
Yeah. I was going to talk about bees a little bit. We want to, we really want to get into bees too. especially after finding those wild honeybees, um, in our, honeysuckle. Um, but,

01:04:16.54
Jeremy
I really, don't know why I'm drawn to this particular product is from flow. It's a, it's a father, son, company from New Zealand and it's a pre-made box, pre-made combs.

01:04:29.11
Jeremy
So you introduce your bees, they go in, they build the wax. And then when it's time to harvest the honey, you just turn the key. We really, we really want to try those, but they are quite expensive.

01:04:43.48
Jeremy
Um,

01:04:43.65
Buddy
wow

01:04:43.91
Keith
the yeah The flow hives are are really, really cool. They're extremely expensive, which is why I don't have them. But they're really, really cool. And once they say once you get established, man, you can get you get you just walk out there and you turn the key and all of a sudden the honey just starts pouring right out.

01:05:00.27
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:05:00.79
Keith
<unk>s It's amazing how how the he it works.

01:05:00.97
Jeremy
yeah

01:05:02.59
Keith
it's It's actually ingenious how the how this father-son team built these things.

01:05:02.69
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:05:06.54
Keith
But they are very expensive, man.

01:05:08.06
Jeremy
Yeah. I think though, for like, for me, ah just getting into it would be, that would be so much better for me personally.

01:05:19.27
Jeremy
than having you know to go through the process of the box, lifting you know each individual's cell and doing all those things. But I really want to do it because I really want to have our own local honey um you know without having to spend gobs of money if for every jar when we can spend a gob of money up front and then you know potentially have access to our own honey long-term.

01:05:41.18
Buddy
Damn.

01:05:47.62
Jeremy
long-term that's kind of But I mean, they are even the most basic one is um it's over a thousand US. So, well, yeah.

01:05:56.98
Buddy
damn

01:05:58.38
Keith
For what? Oh, you mean for the for the Flow Hive?

01:06:00.43
Jeremy
Yeah. For the Flow Hive.

01:06:01.20
Keith
Yeah.

01:06:01.79
Jeremy
and And then they have different bundles and, you know, they have a starter bundle and I'm going to correct myself.

01:06:01.87
Keith
Yeah, yeah. They're expensive.

01:06:07.21
Jeremy
The starter bundle is US 888 bucks.

01:06:12.30
Buddy
That's still close.

01:06:13.24
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:06:13.34
Keith
Yeah.

01:06:13.44
Jeremy
And then they've got several different variances. They don't, they, yeah.

01:06:16.93
Keith
It's mechanical. it's It's a whole mechanical system. Everything is plastic and it's got, they got the, the, the comb all plastic and everything. And the bees sort of, you know, draw out comb from it.

01:06:28.32
Keith
And it's just a whole process. It's a really interesting how they, how they did these things. And I will, I want to own one one day just to see how it runs, but it's like a machine rather than a, than a hive, you know, it's like a machine.

01:06:36.17
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:06:39.05
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:06:39.34
Buddy
look

01:06:39.61
Keith
Cool.

01:06:40.17
Buddy
So, Keith.

01:06:40.22
Jeremy
Go ahead. go ahead

01:06:42.83
Keith
Yeah.

01:06:43.48
Buddy
I was going to ask Keith, what do you have for like the pollinators around there? you have, are you planting flowers or you, is there a wild flower field out there? i mean, what's what's what's feeding those bees?

01:06:57.07
Buddy
Yeah.

01:06:58.32
Keith
Yeah, so I've got three acres. My bee yard's three acres. And I just, luckily when we bought the place, there happened to be a three acre field that I guess was something at one point way back when, when they you know built this property.

01:07:11.43
Keith
The rest is is is all woods. But um I've got that field. And we did plant wildflowers out there. But the bees don't need that. You don't have to plant pollinators. We are planting pollinators for the garden.

01:07:24.77
Keith
And the bees love it. But bees fly anywhere from three to five miles every single day to forage.

01:07:31.15
Buddy
wow

01:07:31.18
Keith
Five miles. Think about that. So you don't have to have flowers right out in front of their beehives.

01:07:34.35
Jeremy
I know.

01:07:36.98
Keith
They're going to pass them right up. They'll still use them a little bit. But they're going to pass them up. and they're going keep on going.

01:07:41.87
Jeremy
I know people who wouldn't even consider going anywhere for five miles unless it was in a vehicle.

01:07:47.25
Keith
They're incredible. ah They have incredible facial recognition and spatial recognition, geometric, magnetic sort of brains, and they know how to come back to the hive. That's another thing to think about.

01:08:00.79
Keith
if you get If you get beehives and you buy property, it has to be three miles away or more from your beehives because a beehive It can't be moved.

01:08:13.45
Keith
there's There's a three foot, three mile rule. If you're going to move your beehive, you you can only move it three feet from its original position or three miles away and farther.

01:08:26.02
Keith
Because the bees will never be able to find it. If you moved it four feet away, they'll never find it and they'll leave.

01:08:27.56
Buddy
Thank you.

01:08:30.57
Keith
it's It's the weirdest thing.

01:08:32.32
Jeremy
That's weird.

01:08:32.39
Keith
Five feet away, they won't. Now, I've seen YouTube channels where people have moved them like five inches like every day, little by little by little by little by little, so they get to about 10 feet away where they wanted it to go and it's worked.

01:08:44.09
Jeremy
Hmm.

01:08:44.44
Keith
But for the most part, the rule is three feet or three miles. Anything in between that, you can't. So if you get it you buy a property that's a mile away and move your bees, they're gone. you're going to get all newbies.

01:08:54.83
Keith
they're not They're not going to be able to find, going to leave the hive and they're going to fly away and they'll probably go back to your original place.

01:09:02.65
Keith
It's crazy. Yeah, they they just they just know.

01:09:03.43
Buddy
ah

01:09:03.56
Jeremy
That that's so, that's weird, man.

01:09:04.78
Keith
It's crazy.

01:09:09.00
Keith
And they they travel out like, ah you know, like let's say a mile or two and they find ah a nice grove of flowers and then they come they come back. They do a waggle dance, which is is telling all the other bees, this is what I found, either water or foraging.

01:09:22.67
Jeremy
Right.

01:09:23.02
Keith
And then they stop and point in a certain direction and somehow translate that information to the other bees and the bees all take off out and they find it.

01:09:29.52
Buddy
So they go, they go twerk and then point to, they, they put, they do a twerk dance and then they point their stinger and say, go get some.

01:09:29.73
Keith
It's amazing.

01:09:32.17
Keith
They go twerk. Exactly. That's exactly what they do. They twerk.

01:09:35.69
Jeremy
Man, that's going to be in my mind all night, dude.

01:09:37.98
Keith
yeah the bees work.

01:09:40.20
Jeremy
man.

01:09:42.21
Keith
but

01:09:42.45
Jeremy
ah

01:09:42.64
Buddy
Yeah.

01:09:43.72
Keith
There's some serious beekeepers out there. They're gonna have problems with you calling it twerking, man.

01:09:47.31
Jeremy
oh man

01:09:47.76
Keith
It's it's called the waggle dance and that's what they'll call twerking.

01:09:51.33
Jeremy
Now, don't they also do something like where they're basically like they fly and it almost looks like a figure eight. Like they do, like they have certain flight patterns when they get near their, their nest and they do a thing.

01:10:06.27
Jeremy
don't know I, maybe those are, I don't know.

01:10:07.46
Keith
I'm not heard of that.

01:10:10.31
Keith
um've not I've never heard that before.

01:10:10.33
Jeremy
i I'll have to go back and look at it. But now how far apart do you have to like is each hive like their own, like that's their hood, you know?

01:10:20.63
Keith
Yeah, man they know it. They they know it. i have My hives are 18 inches away from each other. Some people put them right up against each other, just a couple of inches. But they know their hive, and when they get to that area, they can also so smell the pheromone of the queen.

01:10:34.34
Jeremy
Yeah. Now, is there ever like turf wars, gang wars, you know, like…

01:10:38.55
Keith
Oh, yeah yeah. There's robbing. There's all kinds of robbing that goes on and you'll see it. like Bees will come out of one hive and go into another and those bees will kick them out. like You'll sit there and watch the front of your hive and you'll actually see bees carrying a bee out and then crossing it.

01:10:53.97
Keith
It's crazy, man. it's I'm going to film some of this stuff. It's crazy.

01:10:57.04
Jeremy
Damn, even the even the bees are bloods and crypts, man.

01:10:58.35
Buddy
yeah got

01:11:00.12
Jeremy
That's crazy.

01:11:01.03
Keith
Yep.

01:11:01.06
Buddy
You got B bouncers.

01:11:01.18
Keith
Oh, you got bee bouncers.

01:11:02.14
Buddy
You got a B club there. When they start twerking too much, then

01:11:03.83
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:11:03.93
Keith
Yep. Every single, all the bees have a job and the job is decided on their age. So as they born until they die, as they age, they turn, they change jobs and each job has each.

01:11:17.35
Jeremy
Oh.

01:11:18.31
Keith
three So the ones that will sting you are the ones are going to be like, that are going to be like watching the hive. If you're out in the yard and there's bees flying around, They're not going to sting you.

01:11:29.02
Keith
Now, if you went over and grabbed one and tried to mess with it, it'll it'll probably sting you.

01:11:32.77
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:11:32.81
Keith
But you can let them land on your hand. People are so afraid. You can let them um land on your hand, catch them. They will not hurt you, man. not if Unless you try to mess with them or squeeze them or if you know try to slap them away or something.

01:11:41.69
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah.

01:11:43.68
Keith
They're out there to forage. They're not out there to be aggressive. They're out there to forage.

01:11:47.57
Jeremy
yeah I think it's pretty cool. um I like to take pictures of bees when they're actually in the flowers and they're doing their thing. And I think it's, I don't know what it is, but when a bee, especially the, um I never, I can't remember what they're called. We call them bumblebees, but not the,

01:12:01.74
Jeremy
not the wood, um the, the carpenter bees, but the small, the smaller ones, they'll get in there and they'll get into a flower.

01:12:04.25
Keith
Carpenter. Yeah.

01:12:07.97
Jeremy
And it's like, I'm just going to take a nap right here. And then you see a bee, but sticking out of the flower and it's covered in pollen.

01:12:13.52
Keith
yeah

01:12:15.46
Jeremy
I think that's hilarious. so I take pictures of stuff like that.

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