1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp the 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:08,639 Speaker 1: House Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app. Whether 3 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 1: home for you is a castle or a cottage like mine, 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Good design makes all the difference. Every house 5 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: deserves it, every house should enjoy it, because once good 6 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:22,759 Speaker 1: design is at work in your home, that that and 7 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 1: only then, is when your house has a path forward 8 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 1: toward becoming something truly great. Very excited today. I always 9 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:32,880 Speaker 1: love this show. We do it every year every springtime. 10 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: Talking to you about the birds and the bees. Not 11 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:40,160 Speaker 1: those no, I mean the literal birds and bees today, Okay, 12 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:43,959 Speaker 1: no metaphors, just the real things. And to do that 13 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: I always have in studio with me some of my 14 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:51,880 Speaker 1: favorite experts today is no exception. Sitting across the table 15 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 1: from me, I've got Nicole Palladino from Bee Catchers and 16 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: Danny Finkelstein from The Valley Hive. I got it all right, 17 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: didn't I got yeah? Right? This time, guys, say grab 18 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 1: that mic and say good morning, Good morning everyone. That 19 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 1: was Danny. That wasn't Nicole, good morning, and that was Nicole? Okay, 20 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:12,320 Speaker 1: good all right? There we go. Also sitting here or 21 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 1: standing here next to me, the boss, the uh, well, 22 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:22,679 Speaker 1: let's see what are you exactly? My design partner, the 23 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,839 Speaker 1: co owner, co founder of House whisper by, better half, 24 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: and my best friend in all the world. Tina is here. 25 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 2: Welcome home. 26 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 1: So how are you doing today? 27 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 2: Great gorgeous day. Yeah, I've been out in the yard. 28 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:35,039 Speaker 2: I love it. 29 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 1: You were cleaning up chickens or you did that most 30 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 1: of that yesterday. 31 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 2: That was yesterday. That was a lot of work. I'm 32 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 2: exhausted from that. But no playing in the garden. That's 33 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:45,479 Speaker 2: my favorite thing. 34 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: All right. Do we have plans today after the show? 35 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 2: A lot of resting and more resting. 36 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 1: Okay, Oh, we're gonna go see Christy's photo too. Our 37 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 1: daughter in law has a photo entered in It's over 38 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 1: at the Civic Arts Plause on display as part of 39 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: a gallery. She won a thing or a thing, it's 40 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:08,639 Speaker 1: a something. It's up for the public to see. I'm 41 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: gonna go check it out. Okay, sounds good. All right, 42 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: let's get into it. I always get asked, and we'll 43 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 1: see if this year is the exception, because I always 44 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 1: get some nasty attitude email every year every time I 45 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 1: do this show from somebody who's like, I thought this 46 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 1: show was about homes and home design. Why you wasted 47 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 1: my time on a Sunday morning talking about birds and bees. Well, 48 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:39,519 Speaker 1: let me tell you why. I will tell you exactly why. 49 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: Maybe I can just fend that off from the beginning 50 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 1: in the world of design, in the evolved world of design, 51 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: I will say. I'm not trying to be snooty about that. 52 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: I'm just saying that design evolves the world. The design 53 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 1: world evolves. In the evolved world of design, the thing 54 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 1: that has moved more in the last twenty to thirty 55 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 1: years than any other thing is what we call biophilic design. 56 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 1: Biophilic design is just a fancy word that means the 57 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:13,959 Speaker 1: love of nature. It simply means that the time has 58 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 1: passed for designers to ignore nature, for us to simply 59 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 1: show up, PLoP down our stuff somewhere, and sterilize a 60 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: zone for human habitation. Okay, we've done that enough. We 61 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 1: are all suffering from the consequences of doing that too much. 62 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 1: For decades, for generations, that has been our mo to 63 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:39,839 Speaker 1: clear nature out of our way. As if we could 64 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 1: do that and to sterilize a zone for us, it's 65 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: called displacement. And by the way, displacement, this is the 66 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: word that I want you to understand. Displacement is not 67 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: a bad thing. It's not a thing that is unnatural. 68 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 1: Every creature on this planet that makes a home for 69 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 1: itself in one way or another, displaces something else. When 70 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 1: a gopher digs a tunnel under a field, it is 71 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 1: displacing soil in order to make its little home, right, 72 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: And when it breaks through the surface and it leaves 73 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 1: a little mound behind, it has displaced something that was 74 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:23,039 Speaker 1: there before to make its home. Everything in nature displaces 75 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 1: something else as it finds its way through. That's just 76 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 1: the natural cycle, and humans are no exceptions. So humans 77 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: don't need to feel guilty about displacing nature. However, we, 78 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 1: unlike every other species on this planet, do it so 79 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:42,480 Speaker 1: well and so completely and so poorly in some ways 80 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 1: that we leave behind swaths of a destruction that actually 81 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 1: harms the rest of the biosphere around us. And it 82 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: is time past due time for that to stop happening. 83 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 1: That's our goal. That's our goal as modern designers, to 84 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 1: create homes that and habitations for human beings and then 85 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: do our best to invite back into those spaces as 86 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 1: much of the nature that we have displaced as possible. 87 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 1: I consider it a moral responsibility, okay for us to 88 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 1: do that kind of thing. I read this quote years 89 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: and years ago. I don't even know how long it was, 90 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 1: but it was a formative quote for me. It's by 91 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 1: the philosopher A. Les de Poton. Okay, no, don't try 92 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 1: and pronounce it or spell it, but that's his name. 93 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 1: And he wrote a book, a wonderful book for you 94 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 1: budding designers out there. You should everybody should read this 95 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:41,280 Speaker 1: book if you're a budding home designer. It's called The 96 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: Architecture of Happiness. And he famously said this, He said, 97 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: we owe it to the fields that our houses will 98 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:52,360 Speaker 1: not be the inferiors of the virgin land that they 99 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 1: have replaced. We owe it to the worms and the 100 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 1: trees that the buildings we cover them with will stand 101 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 1: as promises to the highest and most intelligent kinds of happiness. 102 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 1: That's displacement doing its best to recover from itself. Okay, 103 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: So we pour a slab and we build a home, 104 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 1: and then we start hard surface paving over our backyards, 105 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:21,919 Speaker 1: and we make drainage difficult. We stop the water that 106 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:25,600 Speaker 1: falls from the sky from entering our natural aquifers by 107 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:28,720 Speaker 1: directing it out to the street and down storm drains 108 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 1: and out into the ocean, where it does no but 109 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: any good at all. We do, time and time again, 110 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:38,919 Speaker 1: one move after another, to displace nature. When we start 111 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:42,480 Speaker 1: to return it, Guess what happens when we have started 112 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 1: to do things right and we turn the corner. We 113 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:49,559 Speaker 1: start to see things and hear things in our yard. 114 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:54,160 Speaker 1: And I use as a very just rough guide the 115 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:59,479 Speaker 1: presence of insects, especially beneficial insects like bees, and the 116 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 1: presence of songbirds in our yards as a litmus test 117 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: as to the degree that our homes are reintegrating themselves 118 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 1: with the natural world around us. Okay, does that make sense? 119 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 1: There you go. So that's the premise of the show. 120 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 1: When we come back, we're going to talk about the 121 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: state of bees, and we're to talk about it from 122 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 1: two angles. Three. Actually, One, I just want to talk about, 123 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 1: you know, how are bees doing right now? In general? 124 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: Two We always do an update of that every year. 125 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 1: Number two, if you are interested in helping with that process, 126 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 1: We're going to talk to Danny about all the resources 127 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: that are available for budding beekeepers or even just planting 128 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 1: native pollinating plants in a garden that bees love, even 129 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:46,480 Speaker 1: if you don't want to be a beekeeper. And then 130 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 1: we're going to talk to Nicole about the misunderstanding of 131 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 1: what swarms are in the spring and know there is 132 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 1: not a beehive that has moved into the tree in 133 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 1: your front yard. That's something completely different that you don't 134 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 1: need to fear, and why you should not call the 135 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: exterminator even if you have a swarm of bees that's 136 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: taken up residence in your home. We're going to cover 137 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 1: all of that and more. So let's get to it 138 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: your Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper. 139 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 140 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty. 141 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on the program. Today we're talking 142 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 1: about birds and bees. Technically, I'm talking bees and birds. 143 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,440 Speaker 1: We'll be talking in the round at eleven o'clock hour 144 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: with my good friend Richard Armording, the owner of wild 145 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 1: Birds Unlimited out here in Thousand Oaks. We'll be talking 146 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: about backyard birds and all of that kind of stuff. 147 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 1: But right now, sitting across the table from me have 148 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: two of my favorite b experts, Nicole Palladino from Bee 149 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 1: Catchers and Danny Finkelstein from the Valley Hive. So, first 150 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 1: of all, I don't know which one of you wants 151 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 1: to grab the mic first, but I'd like you to 152 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 1: both chime in. What is the state We had a 153 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 1: rough year with bees last year. We were talking about 154 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: that during the break, but what does the state of 155 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: bees look like for this year? 156 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 4: I think that they look better. I think that we're 157 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 4: going to have more recovery efforts and we're going to 158 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 4: see hopefully a stronger number of colonies, more resist resilient 159 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 4: and resistant from last year. They look better so far 160 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:25,200 Speaker 4: from what I see. 161 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 1: Last year was a mess. It was a mess, weird 162 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:33,319 Speaker 1: weather patterns, all the fires, all sorts of stuff. Yep. 163 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 4: It disrupts the pheromones, signaling their communication is halted. They 164 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 4: can become sick, they can have issues with remembering where 165 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 4: to go home because those pheromones are not being received properly. 166 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:53,960 Speaker 4: And I'm hoping this year that we see a big 167 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:56,719 Speaker 4: difference because in the twenty five years I've been doing this, 168 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 4: last year was very, very, very different in the strength 169 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 4: of the colonies that we saw. 170 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and Danny, you were saying earlier, just nationwide. 171 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 1: I mean, this was a thing that took place nationwide. 172 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 1: Bees or honey bees are so dependent on they're so 173 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:17,960 Speaker 1: trusting in the patterns that they know, and we had 174 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 1: some very very disruptive weather patterns last year. 175 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:23,680 Speaker 5: That is true. We had a very rough year last 176 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:27,680 Speaker 5: year across the nation. There were more losses last year 177 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 5: for commercial beekeepers than any other year prior, and the 178 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,839 Speaker 5: numbers are terrible. But having said that, this year does 179 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 5: seem to be much better, coming out of a very 180 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 5: strange winter that we hit some nearly one hundred degree days, 181 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:45,439 Speaker 5: and not only the bees, but the plants are confused, 182 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:49,080 Speaker 5: but they're opening nectar flow now and things. You seem 183 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 5: to be strong and doing pretty well to get started 184 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 5: this year. 185 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: Are there any concerns that we've just skipped over spring 186 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:58,200 Speaker 1: and we've just gone from winter right into summer summer 187 00:10:58,240 --> 00:10:58,920 Speaker 1: temperatures here? 188 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,199 Speaker 5: Yes, there is, but that's not something we can control now, 189 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:02,840 Speaker 5: is it right? 190 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 1: No, No, it's not. I mean I've noticed that just 191 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 1: that that you've seen rattlesnake activity in southern California in 192 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 1: the last two weeks that is really abnormal. You know, 193 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: we've had out here, we had a woman lost her 194 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,720 Speaker 1: life I think three weeks ago to a rattlesnake bike 195 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 1: in wild Wood. We had another rattlesnake bike in newbury Park. 196 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker 1: There was one in Orange County. It just hitting the 197 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 1: news like never before. I think it's just the weather 198 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: changed and came on so hard and heavy that a 199 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 1: lot of animals disrupted and they're just kind of their 200 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 1: typical patterns. 201 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 5: Yes, it's totally obvious as it relates to bees in 202 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 5: that and that that is true for sure. 203 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 1: Okay, so we're probably going to head into a break 204 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:55,320 Speaker 1: with this, but starting with you, Danny, tell us about 205 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: the Valley Hive. What are you guys all about up there? 206 00:11:57,960 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 1: All right? 207 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 5: Well, we are in Chatsworth on Topang in Chatsworth. We 208 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:07,839 Speaker 5: have a nearly two acre facility, the Valley Hive. We 209 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:12,559 Speaker 5: are specialists in honeybees. We do classes. We've got advanced 210 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 5: classes going on today. Actually we've got beginning bee keeping 211 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 5: classes as well as we sell equipment. You can do 212 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:23,959 Speaker 5: honey tastings there. We've got local variety honeys and some 213 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 5: specialty honeys. It's all located inside an acre or two 214 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 5: nursery called the Tapang Nursery. Really peaceful and beautiful place 215 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 5: to come and hang out. And there's many things going 216 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:38,559 Speaker 5: on there, including we have a new coffee place there, 217 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 5: a little oh yeah, a little mobile trailer called Just Vibes, 218 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 5: and you can get coffee and sandwiches and smoothies and 219 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 5: whatnot and hang out in our nursery. We've got great 220 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 5: places to sit there and observe things, and it's really. 221 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 1: Beautiful and nice. You guys have a view hive too, 222 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:54,960 Speaker 1: we do. 223 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 5: We have an observation hive inside the shop behind glasses 224 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:02,360 Speaker 5: is very cool. It's several feet tall and you can 225 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 5: get up close and personal with no risk of getting 226 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 5: stung because they are behind glass. Yet they're not trapped 227 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:09,960 Speaker 5: in there. We have them piped out to the outside, 228 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 5: so they're free range bees that you can get up 229 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 5: close and personal. 230 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 1: And check out. That's awesome. It's kind of like a 231 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:17,960 Speaker 1: Uncle Milty's ant farm for bees where you can see 232 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 1: what's going on. All right, more on bees when we 233 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 1: return your Home with Dean Sharp the House Whisper. 234 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 235 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty. 236 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:33,200 Speaker 1: We're talking bees and birds, Birds and bees today and 237 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:36,440 Speaker 1: I've got two very special guests sitting in studio with me, 238 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:42,320 Speaker 1: Nicole Palladino from Bee Catchers and Danny Finkelstein Finkelstein steam 239 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 1: Stem from the Valley Hive and Danny, So you guys 240 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:49,559 Speaker 1: have a view hive that we kind of right before 241 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 1: the break, we're talking about the view hive, which is 242 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 1: really really cool. But when you say you sell equipment 243 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 1: and classes, we're talking about people who might be interested 244 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 1: in beekeeping, back yard beekeeping and that kind of thing. 245 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:03,320 Speaker 1: That's correct. 246 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:06,240 Speaker 5: Yes, we are the foremost teachers of urban beekeeping here 247 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:09,520 Speaker 5: in southern California. We have classes going on regularly, pretty 248 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 5: much every weekend, teaching people how to keep bees in 249 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:15,680 Speaker 5: their backyard legally and properly and. 250 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: All of that. We also do. 251 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 5: A really fun thing for those who may want to 252 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 5: learn how to keep bees but aren't sure because they've 253 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 5: never actually had the experience of holding a frame full 254 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 5: of stinging insects and seeing how that actually feels. We 255 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 5: do a beekeeping experience, which is a really fun thing 256 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 5: to do. It's just a few hours on a Sunday. 257 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 5: You can sign up online and we teach you about 258 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 5: honey bees. We share the observation hive with you, and 259 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 5: then we get you into some be suits and get 260 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 5: into the hives. And once we do that, and you 261 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 5: will not be stung. No one's been stung yet, you 262 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 5: will not. 263 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 1: Be So when you say, you know how that feels 264 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 1: to be around a bunch of stinging insects, nobody's getting stung. 265 00:14:57,680 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 1: No one's getting stung. 266 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, it's counterintuitively, I'll tell you 267 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 5: that it is a very therapeutic and zen like experience. 268 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 5: It is as it is, as you you both know, 269 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:12,240 Speaker 5: and as a matter of fact, we find that it 270 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 5: is helping a lot. 271 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 1: With another program we have. 272 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 5: We started a nonprofit last year or the year before 273 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 5: called Share the Buzz and the Veterans. 274 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 1: We have a situation where the. 275 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 5: Military vets from the VA and Supulvida as well as 276 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 5: in West LA are coming to our place every other 277 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 5: Thursday and they're getting into bees and they're in they're 278 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 5: registered in the program, they have PTSD and as you 279 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 5: can imagine, they find it to be incredibly therapeutic. So 280 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 5: it's really wonderful that we're doing that too. It is, 281 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 5: it is, it's amazing. 282 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 1: I wish that that that I could visit my hive, 283 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:51,440 Speaker 1: you know, more often than I do, just because the 284 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 1: time out there spent with them is just really, really amazing. 285 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 1: It is a very zen thing. It is without you. 286 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 1: You don't have to you don't have to get yourself 287 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 1: in that headspe either. It just happens. You just go 288 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 1: and it starts to happen as you just work with 289 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 1: them and you're looking at high frames and you're just 290 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 1: checking on everybody, or maybe you're gonna, you know, borrow 291 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 1: a little honey, whatever the case may be. It is 292 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 1: just such a wonderful thing, it really is. 293 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 5: And what a lot of people may not realize also 294 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 5: is that unlike you know, our normal pets, our dogs 295 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:26,240 Speaker 5: are cats we deal with every day of course, and 296 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 5: horses and whatnot. We're feeding them and we're cleaning up 297 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 5: after them and walking them and all of that. And 298 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 5: honey bees, you're not dealing with them every day like that. Ye, 299 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 5: it's a two three times a month thing that you're 300 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:42,360 Speaker 5: dealing with. But you do need to learn how to 301 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 5: keep bees and to have proper husbandry of those bees. Yeah, 302 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 5: and we teach that at the Valley Hive and urge 303 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 5: you to take advantage. 304 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 1: That's fantastic. I love everything that you guys do over there. 305 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 1: I was there the week that Keith had me come over, 306 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 1: the week that you actually moved to the nursery, and 307 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: I was so excited about all the possibilities. You guys 308 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 1: have just made full work of that nicole. You do 309 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 1: something a little different also, Beekeeper be Rescue, but your 310 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:17,159 Speaker 1: company deals with kind of the the urban interface of 311 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 1: bees in the way that that most people don't want, 312 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 1: which is, oh, a, you know, a high a colony 313 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 1: of bees has taken up residence in my house, in 314 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 1: my chimney, in the corner of my attic or whatever, 315 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:35,679 Speaker 1: and the temptation is to just get on the phone 316 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:38,880 Speaker 1: and call an exterminating company. It's not the right move 317 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 1: for a number of different reasons. This year especially, we 318 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 1: were talking about the cost that exterminators are charging to 319 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:51,199 Speaker 1: get rid of bees is unbelievably exorbitantly high. I'm not 320 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,520 Speaker 1: even sure why that is. Do you have any idea 321 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:54,280 Speaker 1: why that is? 322 00:17:55,240 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 4: Because they can't because they can because people don't maybe 323 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:04,280 Speaker 4: necessarily know a lot about bees, and they get nervous 324 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:08,879 Speaker 4: because they are stinging insects, right, and so they believe 325 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,199 Speaker 4: what they're told okay, and I have been working, like 326 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:13,240 Speaker 4: I think I mentioned to you some time ago, on 327 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:15,960 Speaker 4: trying to get another bill to the Senate floor, legislation 328 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:20,680 Speaker 4: to protect honey bees on a larger scale, especially California 329 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:25,239 Speaker 4: that you know, the nation's leading farm state. And I 330 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:26,960 Speaker 4: hope that that's something that we can see in the 331 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 4: near future so that this stops. But the amount of 332 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 4: money that these companies are charging for five hundred dollars 333 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:36,919 Speaker 4: one thousand dollars to come and spray poison inside of, 334 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:39,200 Speaker 4: you know, a hole into the sofit of your roof 335 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 4: or your wall, and to leave a colony left in 336 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:47,800 Speaker 4: there to rot and die and ferment is not acceptable. 337 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:50,440 Speaker 1: Okay, So let's flesh that out a little bit. Number one, 338 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:53,959 Speaker 1: it's not just the bees. It's the fact that they 339 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 1: they they're building their home in there. There's comb there's 340 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 1: all sorts of there's the entire structure that the bees 341 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:05,399 Speaker 1: used to live inside the wall, up in the attic, 342 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 1: in the chimney, whatever the case may be. So first 343 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 1: and foremost, bees are not the enemy. They're not the enemy. 344 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 1: And your company specializes in live be removal. In other words, 345 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:19,679 Speaker 1: you don't want to destroy those bees. You want to 346 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:24,159 Speaker 1: make every effort to rehome them. Okay, but in the 347 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 1: rehoming process we're not ignoring the homeowner at all. We're 348 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 1: actually giving them the fullest possible service because an exterminator 349 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:36,600 Speaker 1: and correct me if I'm wrong, is just going to 350 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 1: come out and gas the bees dead dead bees and 351 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:43,680 Speaker 1: they're out. Okay, But there's a problem with that one. 352 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 1: Their pheromones are all over that hive, and they saw 353 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:49,360 Speaker 1: fit that that was a good place to build a hive. 354 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:53,120 Speaker 1: Any other passing bees looking for a home with all 355 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:56,199 Speaker 1: of that infrastructure still in place, are going to see 356 00:19:56,359 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 1: a free housing to move into. So it is not 357 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:04,680 Speaker 1: a once and done solve to do that. Number Two, 358 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 1: Let's say that another colony of bees doesn't find the hive, 359 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:14,280 Speaker 1: the hive, the comb, all of that. That is something 360 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:18,600 Speaker 1: that needs constant maintenance. Otherwise, without the bees there to 361 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 1: maintain it, the wax starts to melt, the temperature goes 362 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:27,080 Speaker 1: out of control. Now we've got honey running down the 363 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:30,200 Speaker 1: sides of our walls inside, and now we've got mold 364 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:34,200 Speaker 1: and mildew and every other imaginal problem. And we've opened 365 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 1: up walls and seen just unbelievableness. 366 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 4: I mean, or it's become so heavy because it's broken 367 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:43,479 Speaker 4: and that you know, the bees are not able to 368 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:46,440 Speaker 4: control the temperature of the colony, and it's fallen through 369 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:49,719 Speaker 4: and broken through you know people's ceilings and you know, 370 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 4: all over their kitchen floor, in their bedrooms. 371 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 1: So let me just make this really clear. If you 372 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 1: have bees in your home where they don't belong, you 373 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,399 Speaker 1: need to call a bee catchers. Okay, you need to 374 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 1: call a company like bee catcher. If you're in southern California, 375 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:07,239 Speaker 1: you call bee catchers, or you call a company like 376 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 1: bee catchers. And the reason is it's not because you 377 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:12,720 Speaker 1: don't even have to be, you know, a lover of 378 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 1: bees or a bee hugger. Okay. The reason is you 379 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 1: have to have that that be situation completely extracted from 380 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 1: your home completely and the pheromones neutralized in order to 381 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:31,120 Speaker 1: guarantee that somebody else doesn't show up and start using 382 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:33,360 Speaker 1: it and so that the problem doesn't return. 383 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:35,359 Speaker 4: Or that you don't get moths or ants or flies 384 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:38,200 Speaker 4: or roaches or rodents. And so many people have rodent 385 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:42,040 Speaker 4: problems because they have a huge active beehive. It's just 386 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:44,960 Speaker 4: exacerbating the issue. They're coming and stealing parts of it. 387 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 4: You know, they have some free food. So we take 388 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 4: care of everything, start to finish. You have a problem, 389 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 4: you have questions, call we. You know, bees don't discriminate 390 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 4: on where they build colonies. They can be inside your roof, 391 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 4: your wall, your fence, your tree, your chimney, a sign, 392 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:04,879 Speaker 4: It doesn't matter. But there is a process to handle it. 393 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:06,399 Speaker 4: And this is one of those things in life that 394 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:08,120 Speaker 4: you really don't want to make your mouse because if 395 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:10,199 Speaker 4: you do, you will just waste your money and have 396 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 4: to deal with it in the future and it's more difficult, 397 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:16,679 Speaker 4: and so we take it. We remove the bees alive 398 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 4: from all the structures. There isn't a job in all 399 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 4: these years that we haven't been able to accomplish yet. 400 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 4: Clean it out, thoroughly, treat it thoroughly. It's really important. 401 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 4: We use a natural you know, chrisanthemum based treatment that 402 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:33,240 Speaker 4: we've perfected over the last twenty plus years that neutral 403 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:36,720 Speaker 4: neutralizes the pheromone. It cuts that smell, it stops. 404 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:37,520 Speaker 1: It kills the message. 405 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,200 Speaker 4: Right, We fix your structure, We put it all back, 406 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,200 Speaker 4: We guarantee everything and there you go, you know, and 407 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:45,880 Speaker 4: you're good to go, and hopefully you've had a good 408 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 4: time along the way, and you know we've taught. 409 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,399 Speaker 1: You something exactly. Maybe keeping bees in the right, that's 410 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:50,920 Speaker 1: what you're saying. 411 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:52,680 Speaker 4: Or you learn and then you can tell somebody else 412 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:53,479 Speaker 4: why it's so important. 413 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:55,000 Speaker 1: All right, when we come back right up the break, 414 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 1: I want to talk to both of you about spring 415 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:01,920 Speaker 1: swarms and how misunderstood they are and how people need 416 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,919 Speaker 1: to see them properly. We'll do that when we return 417 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,440 Speaker 1: your Home with Dean Sharp the House Whisper. 418 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 419 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:14,320 Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty. 420 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,120 Speaker 1: Dean Sharp the House Whisper here to tell you every 421 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,639 Speaker 1: home deserves great design. Do you know what design is? 422 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 1: Design is the is the outworking of intention in anything. 423 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 1: When you design a thing, you are expressing a particular intention. 424 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 1: And so when we design a home, when we are 425 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:38,960 Speaker 1: talking about redesigning your home, we're talking about reorienting our intentions, 426 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 1: our intention for your life, our intention for what you 427 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 1: take in through your eyes, through your ears, and so on. 428 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: And then we manifest that in design, and then the 429 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 1: design then feeds back that intention to you every day. 430 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 1: It's a loop, it's a circuit. That's what really good 431 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:04,760 Speaker 1: design nine is Uh. Winston Churchill famously said, my, you know, 432 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:06,119 Speaker 1: if you're a fan of the show, you've heard me 433 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:10,400 Speaker 1: say this one hundred times. But it's so fundamentally good. Uh. 434 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 1: When Winston Churchill famously said that that, you know, we 435 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:21,360 Speaker 1: alter our buildings and then thereafter they alter us and uh. 436 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 1: And he wasn't even an architect, but he understood, he 437 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:27,679 Speaker 1: understood what it meant for good design. So we were 438 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:32,439 Speaker 1: talking during the break about bees. Bees. Bees buzz in 439 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:35,959 Speaker 1: roughly in the the key of C. Some some bumble 440 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 1: bees go a little deeper, but uh, but uh, most 441 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,960 Speaker 1: bees beat their wings and that buzzing that you hear 442 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 1: is in the key of C. And I was just 443 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:48,280 Speaker 1: pulling up some interesting facts about that the consistent hum 444 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:53,440 Speaker 1: of honey bees activates the parasympathetic nervous system. Uh, brings 445 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,720 Speaker 1: on a meditative state. Danny, you were talking about veterans 446 00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 1: and PTSD. So the resin resonance sound the key of 447 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 1: C helps retune cognitive dissonance in individuals with PTSD. 448 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:07,480 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's great. I didn't I did not know that, 449 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 5: but it makes an awful lot of sense. And it's 450 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,960 Speaker 5: part of why that and just the calm. I mean 451 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,679 Speaker 5: when you're when you're handling bees, you have to be 452 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:16,720 Speaker 5: all in. It's just one of those things, you know, 453 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 5: I talk about all sorts of meditative activities. People think 454 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:22,159 Speaker 5: about meditation. They think you have to you know, you 455 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:23,960 Speaker 5: roll out a mat and you sit there and you 456 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 5: and you know, and some people do. But meditative activities 457 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 5: like woodworking, for me, it was always something you have 458 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 5: to physically, mentally emotionally, you have to be all there. 459 00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:40,359 Speaker 5: You're all there in that moment and when you're interacting 460 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 5: with bees and a colony and you're pulling out a 461 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:45,880 Speaker 5: high frame and you're being careful not to hurt anybody, 462 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,720 Speaker 5: and you just need all of that happening with all 463 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:50,880 Speaker 5: that music around you all at the same time. It's 464 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 5: very very easy to slip into that state. And it's 465 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 5: a wonderful thing. Yeah, it definitely is. And for those 466 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,520 Speaker 5: who have not done it before, as you can imagine 467 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:03,399 Speaker 5: if you are holding when you are holding a frame 468 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,400 Speaker 5: full of bees. In addition to everything Dean just said, 469 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,680 Speaker 5: you really don't have room for thinking about anything else 470 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,639 Speaker 5: that's been going on in your life. It's it's just 471 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,800 Speaker 5: not happening right now. You're paying attention to the moment 472 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:17,880 Speaker 5: that is by itself very therapeutic. 473 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:22,399 Speaker 1: Exactly. There's no there's no pulling out your phone, you know, 474 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 1: there's no anything. You're just you just have to be 475 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 1: right there, and and you start to learn the value of, 476 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 1: oh my gosh, you know what, I need to spend 477 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,040 Speaker 1: a whole lot more time in my life just being 478 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:38,160 Speaker 1: right here, right now. And so all right, let's talk 479 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,919 Speaker 1: about a problem that is not actually a problem but 480 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,639 Speaker 1: people perceive as a problem. It's springtime and this is 481 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,399 Speaker 1: the time of year that everything is busting out, everything 482 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:53,159 Speaker 1: is multiplying, flowers are blooming, you know, it's that traditional 483 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:55,879 Speaker 1: time of life and growth. That's why, you know, the 484 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 1: rabbit is you know, you know, we talk about multiplying 485 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:02,479 Speaker 1: like rabbits. The rabbit is kind of the international symbol 486 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 1: of fertility, right right. And there's one rabbit, then there's two, 487 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 1: and there's five hundred of them. So bees are really 488 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:13,800 Speaker 1: no different. Bees are coming out of a relatively calm 489 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 1: state during the winter in which they've just been making 490 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 1: do That's why they store up so much stores. That's 491 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 1: why they make so much honey. It's not for us, 492 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 1: for them, they're storing up their carbs, their proteins. They're 493 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 1: making it through the winter. A lot of people don't 494 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,719 Speaker 1: realize it's not just in lovely climates like this, but 495 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,120 Speaker 1: you know, bees in Alaska and in the Arctic, they're 496 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 1: going to be covered over by you know, ten twenty 497 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:40,120 Speaker 1: foot snow drifts in that hive. They've got to live 498 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 1: through the winter on their pantry. And then the melt comes, 499 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,920 Speaker 1: the weather warms up, and not only do the bees 500 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 1: get active again, but as a as a super organism. 501 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 1: And that's really what a bee hive is. A colony 502 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:55,720 Speaker 1: of bees. Don't think of it as a bunch of 503 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 1: little individuals. I think of it as each I always 504 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 1: think of each bee as like a little brain cell 505 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,960 Speaker 1: that when they're all together, you have a thinking, breathing, 506 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:11,680 Speaker 1: very intelligent super organism. And bottom line, colonies will also multiply, 507 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:17,720 Speaker 1: which means a swarm takes place. Explain real quick, Danny, what, 508 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:22,440 Speaker 1: just in basic terms, how a colony multiplies. 509 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,159 Speaker 5: Okay, I'm glad you asked, because the word swarm is 510 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 5: probably one of the most, if not the most misunderstood 511 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:30,600 Speaker 5: or misused. 512 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 1: Ever said that movie way back in I don't even 513 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,879 Speaker 1: know the sworm right of the killer bees. 514 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 5: Okay, right, So anyway, if you if you picture bees 515 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:40,960 Speaker 5: in a classic cavity like a hole in the tree 516 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,040 Speaker 5: or something like that, where they have moved in and 517 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 5: they're doing very well, and they that cavity is finite, 518 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 5: so that space eventually fills up at that point, what 519 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:54,000 Speaker 5: what are their options? They could move completely, which would 520 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,080 Speaker 5: be kind of silly because that space works so well. 521 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 5: So instead they divide into and the old queen will 522 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 5: leave with a chunk of her daughters and leave new 523 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 5: space for a new queen to develop and emerge and 524 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,480 Speaker 5: pick up where the old queen left off in that 525 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 5: old space. 526 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:15,440 Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna stop you right there, because we're gonna 527 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,120 Speaker 1: go to break, So we're gonna leave everybody hanging. The 528 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,360 Speaker 1: old queen and a bunch of her daughters are about 529 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,240 Speaker 1: to make an incredibly perilous journey, and we will talk 530 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:27,080 Speaker 1: about what happens next on the other side. Your Home 531 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 1: with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. This has been Home 532 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,239 Speaker 1: with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. Tune into the live 533 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 1: broadcast on KFI AM six forty every Saturday morning from 534 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 1: six to eight Pacific time, and every Sunday morning from 535 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 1: nine to noon Pacific time, or anytime on demand on 536 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:45,520 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app.