WEBVTT - Honey: Nature's Wonder Sugar 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:09.240 All right, everybody, Chuck here wrapping up our Thankspring playlist 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:14.360 with number ten all about Honey, Honey colon Nature's Wonder Sugar. 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:16.760 And if you think you knew a thing or two 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:20.800 about honey, think again, because this is some honey centric 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:23.079 goodness and you're gonna learn a lot of stuff that 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:26.239 you never knew about honey. For instance, you can put 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:29.320 it on toast with butter and it's delicious. So I 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:40.080 hope everyone enjoys Honey, Nature's Wonder Sugar. Welcome to Stuff 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:45.400 you Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:52.000 Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, there's Chuck. 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.200 Jerry's here barely and this is stuff you should know. 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:00.160 Well, we should explain what that means. It's very gi 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:05.119 us and strange sound. Jerry had a poor internet connection, 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:07.320 was a few minutes late. That's it. She's barely here. 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:09.720 Yeah, mystery solved, Joel. 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:11.960 It feels tenuous too. 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:15.040 That she's just barely hanging on by her fingernails. 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:17.559 Well, no, I think I don't know. That internet connection 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:19.039 just sounded dodgy. 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:21.880 That's what I'm saying. She came in like Houston, we 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:23.240 have a problem. 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:24.920 You know that internet connection. 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:27.960 Sound right, sounds like Apaulla thirteen. 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:29.320 Uh. 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:30.680 I'm pretty excited about this one. 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:34.520 Me too. I even ate some honey for lunch today. 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:39.240 I had a little dab atrey at Brecky Okay, which 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:41.360 I don't usually eat, but I ate another toast with 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:43.400 a spun honey spread. 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.360 Good for you, man. So spun honey? Are you talking 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.800 about the creamed honey? Is that what I'm hearing now? 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:54.040 Yeah? Creamed spun or I think there's one more word 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.160 for it, but we always called it spun honey growing up, 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:59.800 and boy is it good. And guess what it is 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:04.480 just as helpful. It has just as many helpful properties 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.440 as regular honey. It doesn't spinning it or the process 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:09.520 of getting it too. That state doesn't change it at all. 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.320 Yeah, it's like honey in a different format. Like if 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:17.600 you had a really great song, like play that funky 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.200 music white Boy, and you had it on eight track, 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:22.800 but you also had it on record. It's the same song. 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:26.200 It's just in two different formats, right, Yeah, same thing. 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:27.240 Yeah, I like that. 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:29.560 I really disliked that song though. 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:33.359 I really do too, actually, although they. 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:37.200 Have a great memory of it. I guess sometime around 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:39.520 Piedmont Park. It must have been Saint Patrick's Day. This 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:42.560 like car full of dudes came up. They were wearing 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.040 like green wigs and everything. They were ready to throw 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.040 down for Saint Patrick's Day. And they were blaring that 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:50.560 song and like everybody in the car was singing it, 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:52.280 having like the best time. 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:55.440 And then it totally was. 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:57.280 And then as they got out of the car, all 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.239 of them are like just like booging down the street, 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.640 still like to the bar, and one of them like 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.480 stopped kind of and like turned around and made eye 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:08.480 contact with me. Was I think he'll be embarrassed for 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:10.440 the rest of his life about that. I didn't even 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:15.440 stare him down. He just he initiated that embarrassing situation. 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.440 So you could tell he felt some shame because you 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:19.520 were just looking at him. 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:22.600 A little bit and again not staring them down. You 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.480 know me, I'll stare somebody down, but not these guys. 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.120 Was this was he initiated it. 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:29.359 But hey, good for them. 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:32.000 I bet they had a blast, So, honey, I think 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.320 is what we were originally talking about, right. 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:36.800 Yeah, And the Grabster helped us with this one. And 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:41.960 this was my commission because Emily is very much into 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:44.760 you know, she's gotten very much into her herbs and 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:48.720 growing herbs and spices, natural remedies and things, and honey 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:50.720 is a big part of that. And although we are 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:53.880 not be keeping yet, that could be on the docket 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:54.240 for us. 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.360 I hope, so, man, I think beekeeping is one of 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.440 the neatest things you can do. I'll bet it's so relaxing. 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:04.920 Yeah, she's interested in it, and so that might happen. 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:06.880 Tell me how it goes. If she does that, I 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.600 will Okay, yeah, I'll follow it. We've actually done an 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:13.600 entire episode on beekeeping. It was one of our best 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:17.159 if you ask me, certainly our most homespun episode by far. 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:20.200 So we're not going to talk too much about beekeeping, 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:24.159 but you pretty much can't discuss honey without also talking 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:28.839 at least a little bit about beekeeping. It's so beekeeping adjacent. Yeah, 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.480 it would be weird to not mention it. But I 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:32.960 just want to say, if you have not heard our 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:35.160 beekeeping episode, or you haven't heard it in a while, 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:37.960 go listen to it because it's a really, really good app. 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:40.280 Did we do bees and beekeeping? 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:44.160 Yes, yeah, we've done bees. Beekeeping now honey. 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:48.200 Yeah, and one of our TV show episodes was about bees. 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.960 It was one of the sillier episodes. 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.320 I think it was. I note that episode. 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:55.480 Yeah, that's probably what was silly. I think you had 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.640 a good eye for the absurd for that show. And 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.440 it's a lot and in a complimentary way. 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:02.520 Oh I took it that way. 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:04.960 Okay. I love absurdist comedy and you nailed it. 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.400 So let's talk a little bit about honey. Ed helped 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:10.520 us with this one. I think you just said, and 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:15.480 I think he did about the best most clinical description 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:17.560 of honey that you could possibly come up with. 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.320 Where's that was that? Like? His definition? 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:24.560 Yeah? I mean he talks about basically what honey is 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:25.719 and how it's made. 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.240 Oh so you just saying start from take it from 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:29.240 the top basically. 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:31.159 But I thought the way he did it was like, 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:36.400 here's here. It's totally unambiguous. Yeah, completely understandable, agreed, and 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:39.039 it's just a it's a good descriptor of honey and 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:39.800 how it's made. 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.039 Yeah, this is this is good stuff by the Grabster. 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:45.159 So yeah, a bit of a refresher though. But we 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.920 all know that bees like to fly around to different 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:51.040 flowers and stick their face in them and dance all 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:55.000 over them and do kind of fun things. And there 0:05:55.120 --> 0:06:00.000 is a sugary liquid called nectar in flowering plants, and 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.600 bees are wild about the stuff for a lot of reasons. 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:07.599 One reason is, like you know, sometimes they just drink it, 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:09.760 Like they want to save that stuff and what's called 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.240 their crop or their honey stomach to bring back to 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:14.520 the hive. That's their main job. But when they're out 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:16.320 there working all day, they're also like, let me take 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:17.960 a little bit of this sweet stuff down for me. 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.520 I wonder if there's any bees out there seriously that 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.360 have like a bit of a problem with nectar. 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.760 Yeah, it goes from one for me, three for you, 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:28.760 to three for me, one for. 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:30.760 You kind of. I wonder if there's some that like 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.679 just kind of drink it more than others. There's gotta 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:37.320 be maybe sure, yeah, so yes. But for the most part, 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:41.400 when they're out there harvesting and foraging for nectar, they're 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:45.719 using their crop a honey stomach, which they can store 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:50.039 I think a thousand flowers worth of nectar in that 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:54.000 is a lot. A lot is nectar, which is weird 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.320 because I saw that it can grow to about one 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:59.720 hundred times at size so a hundred times it's a 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:03.800 niche size holding a thousand flowers worth of nectar. That's 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.440 just a that's a very efficient organ and it just 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.960 sits there. It's not doing anything. It's not digesting, it's 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.480 just basically for carrying back to the high. 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.520 By the way, I had the most amazing dad joke 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:18.560 that I failed to tell. 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:19.200 What was it? 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.960 Should I tell it now? Of course when you said 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.200 it just popped into my head. That's why. That's why 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:29.640 I know that I'm just on the way down comedically. 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:32.080 Well, that means the podcast is on the way down too, Oh. 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.880 Yeah, for sure. Okay, you were talking about the bees 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:38.320 having the problem with drinking too much, honey, I said, well, 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.520 you know, they could always just go to a bb meeting. 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.280 Oh boy, that was good. That wasn't bad. That was 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:45.160 a really good one. 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:47.840 I don't know, all right, Well, I would love to 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.960 hear from people terrible or borderline genius. 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.640 Okay, Well, I'm registering the first vote, and I'm going 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:55.320 to say somewhere in the middle of those. 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:58.000 It's about to say there is no in between, but 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.680 of course there is. Okay, all right, So where'd you 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:01.760 leave off with eating pollen? 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:06.200 That they take the nectar back to their nest, their. 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:08.240 Hot Oh okay, well, then I'll chime in here with 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:13.239 a pollen party. Bees are obviously accidentally transferring this pollen, 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.200 but you know, some of this pollen is getting eaten 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:19.120 and mixed in with that honey too because they love 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.000 it because it's got protein and fat. And so what 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:23.640 you end up with when you go back to the 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:27.760 hive is a gut or crop or a honey stomach 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:31.200 full of this nectar, a little bit of pollen. There's 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:35.199 probably like just dusting things from the air, and they 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:39.280 start puking it up into each other's mouths, chewing on it, 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:43.480 some puking it around, transferring it to one another until 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:48.120 it's ready for storage, right, which sounds gross it is, 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:48.600 But Ed. 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:52.040 Makes a really good point here that they're not actually 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:55.679 it's not actually bee vomit. Honey's not bee vomiting. I've 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:57.880 said that before, So I think I'm kind of being 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:01.920 inadvertently taken to task by ED, because again, did you 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.440 really Oh yeah, definitely, I've said that every chance I've 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:08.760 ever had. But the the again, the the bee crop, 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:14.400 the honey crop is not digesting. So what they're regurgitating 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:17.440 is virtually the same thing that's going in, so it's 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:21.559 not really puke, it's just something else. But yes, they 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.160 are transferring it from mouth to mouth, and as each 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:27.800 bee takes another mouthful of nectar and then passes it around, 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:29.680 they're chewing it for a little bit. And one of 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:33.200 the things they're doing is absorbing some of the moisture inside. 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:37.560 They're also mixing in their own enzymes, and what they're 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:41.439 doing in that sense, they're they're transforming nectar into honey. 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:48.199 So honey is a mixture of b enzymes, flower, nectar, pollen, 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:55.439 and that's dehydrated and combines to form brand new compounds. 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.120 And that's that's what honey is. 0:09:57.840 --> 0:09:59.880 Yeah, and as we'll see there there can be other 0:09:59.880 --> 0:10:02.880 thing things in there because it's nature and these are 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:07.720 sort of messy, all the beautiful processes. So as you'll 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:10.320 see when we talk about like completely raw, unfiltered honey, 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:12.920 there may be some bee legs in there and some 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:14.480 other little beef, but there may be a piece of 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.680 a wing because you know, this is just how things 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:18.880 go out there in the wild. 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.080 And sometimes some bees have really bad days. 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:24.480 Yes, that's when they go to the bebe meetings. 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:29.559 So there's another way that what we've been talking about 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:31.679 is blossom honey what most people think of when they 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.079 think of honey. There's actually one other way to make honey. 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.400 And do you remember in our Aunt episode where ants 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:41.800 are ranchers of aphids, and the aphids suck the juice 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:45.559 out of plants and produce honeydew. Well, bees go find 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.240 that honeydew in some cases and can actually make honey 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:52.440 from the sap of the stems, leaves and like bark 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:56.520 of trees and other plants, and they basically harvest that 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.800 like they harvest nectar from flowers. And so there's a 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:03.280 there's an entirely different way to produce honey that comes 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.920 straight from the plant, not even from the flowers, and 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:06.840 that's called honeydew. 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.400 Honey, honeydew, honey. Have you ever had that? 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:11.640 I don't think I have. I was looking it up 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.400 to see what some types of honeydew honey are and 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:18.600 I couldn't find many, and nothing that I found sounded 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:19.840 like anything I've had before. 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:25.600 Okay, we should point out that not all bees produce honey. Obviously, 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.160 there are a lot of different species of bees and 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:31.280 we went over those in great detail in the b episode. 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:36.920 But the honey bee is from the genus APIs, and 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.520 there are some other bees that do make honey, but 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:44.880 like the chief honey bee is the western honeybee. This 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:49.080 is the stud when it comes to making great honey. 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.920 This is the one we domesticated. This is the one 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.960 that makes so much honey. They have enough for them, 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:59.640 they have enough for us, and everybody is happy basically, 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:01.800 which is one of the things I love about beekeeping. 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:06.480 It seems like one of the geez few things where 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:11.320 we extract something from nature for ourselves where there's enough 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:12.720 to go around, and if you do it in the 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:16.360 right way, it doesn't harm the thing that gave it 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:16.600 to you. 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:18.880 Yeah, that is kind of a beautiful thing about it. 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:22.840 And as we'll see, the fact that honey exists is 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.800 kind of miraculous. And that's just kind of like the 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.600 cherry on the top, chuck, that we can harvest honey 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:34.040 without harming or the bees or taking some of their 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.560 head stash for us, like just make a little extra 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:39.480 for us and we can take that. I think it's 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:40.200 wonderful too. 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:42.480 So, yeah, you know, you mentioned we have a whole 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.800 episode on beekeeping. But as a short refresher, this has 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:50.080 been happening for a long time. People were collecting honey, 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:55.320 you know, in the Mesolithic period, so there are like 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:58.520 cave drawings that depict this stuff. So we've always liked 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:02.240 the honey as huge umans. And then you know, there's 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.120 a belief that it may have, just like beekeeping, may 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:08.320 have happened by accident, when a hive maybe set up 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:11.480 in a jar or basket or something that was outside 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.439 at somebody's place and they went, hey, wait a minute, 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:18.280 like this awesome honey is now in this jar on 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:20.720 my back porch, Like I wonder if we could do 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:24.520 this like intentionally and do it on purpose, and they 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.520 kind of just started doing it. That's what the thought 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:27.040 is at least. 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:30.480 Yeah, and they think that originally maybe some of the earliest, 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:35.640 earliest artificial hives were some sort of clay pod or 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:39.320 something that they repurposed for that. Sometimes maybe they came 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:42.000 across a hive and they're like, this is pretty firmly 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.200 attached to this stick. I'm just gonna take the whole 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:45.040 stick home with me. 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:46.720 I hope farm it like that. 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:51.840 You know. Yeah, there's regardless at some point, somebody probably 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.120 just stumbled upon this and then in very short order 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:59.520 it started to spread. They think that bee keeping at 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:04.600 least goes back about five thousand years ago. There's evidence 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:07.680 of it in Egypt, the Indus Valley, and Mesopotamia, and 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:11.200 then China. About eight hundred years after that evidence of 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:15.280 beekeeping starts up, and you would guess the people of 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:18.719 China and the people of Mesopotamia may not have been 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.480 in contact at the same time or at that time. 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:26.120 So it's really possible that beekeeping just kind of independently 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:30.720 grew up or evolved in different societies and cultures around 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:31.920 the world independently. 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.640 Yeah, and it was something because you're using like clay 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:37.520 jars and things like you were saying you didn't need 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.520 to forge a metal. It wasn't super expensive. It was 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:45.040 something that there was a low barrier to entry, I 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.640 guess is what you would say these days. Yeah, totally so, 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.560 and it was really delicious and as we'll soon find out, 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.760 super beneficial. So it became a big deal. 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:59.120 Yeah. One of the earliest artificial hives is still pretty 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.920 much the symbol for a beehive. If you look at 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:08.160 any a a milm winnie, the Pooh Illustrations. Yeah, like 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:12.440 it's called it's it's basically a cone, a baskety cone 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.040 turned upside down. So you take an ice cream cone, 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.560 turn it upside down on the ice cream part, make 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.400 it kind of bubbly, and there you go. That's a step. 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:24.320 Yeah, it's great. That's why where you get your beehive 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:28.440 hairdoo is named after these things. And you know, things 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:31.400 just advance from there, and we'll talk a little bit 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.200 about that later, but I say we take a break now, okay, 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.240 and then talk about what's in honey and what makes 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:38.040 it so good for us? 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:56.920 Sounds good, learn and stuff with Joshua job stuff. 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:12.840 You shine up, okay. 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:16.160 So the question of what is in honey is very 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:20.280 easy to answer because it's almost all sugar. There is 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.920 some water in there, although you know, like we mentioned, 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:27.280 part of the process of getting to the honey state 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:30.680 is to remove as much moisture as possible, but you 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:34.240 still need some moisture. So it's you know, something that 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:36.560 you can squirt out of a plastic bear. 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:40.120 Sure it can later make a bong out of. 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:44.400 I think most everyone that was in college when true 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:45.880 romance came out probably tried that. 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:48.840 And by the way, so long sixth grade classes that 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:49.960 were just listening to this. 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.560 Poor teacher who just ran to the front of the class. 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:57.120 Nothing nothing, nothing. 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:59.520 I'm sorry. What's a bong? 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:01.920 Was that? 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:02.680 Ralph Wigham? 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:03.240 It was? 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:04.280 It was a pretty good point. 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.000 So it's mostly sugar, and it's believe it or not, 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:12.800 it's mostly simple sugar, fruittose and glucose. There are some 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:16.080 complex sugars, but that's not to say just because honey 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:20.600 is mainly just sugar and simple sugar that it's not complex, 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:21.800 because it really is. 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:25.639 It is super complex. It's again, the word miraculous just 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.760 keeps bringing to mind. Yeah, and I'm definitely not one 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.480 of those intelligent design people. I just think honey is 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:35.120 something really special though, and so like, yes, it does 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.760 have the simple sugars, it has very complex sugars. Let 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:39.240 me throw out a couple of these names just to 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:41.720 kind of blow your mind. You practice, all right, There's 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:46.399 malto pentose. Okay, I didn't add the extra tea in 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:50.199 there all I wanted to so bad. Galactose. That's an 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.679 amazing name. There's also iso malto trios. 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:54.679 Nice. 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.480 These are not your average everyday sugar is like fruit 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.200 toast and glucose, both of which are found in honey. 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:03.560 But that's just the sugars. And again, the simple sugars 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:06.600 combined with other enzymes in the bee's mouths to create 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:09.240 these much more sophisticated sugar, some of which have like 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:14.320 actual protective health properties we've found. But that's just the sugars. 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:20.119 There's also amino acids, enzymes, polyphenols, flavonoids. And when you 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:23.000 start looking at all of the different things that pop 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:26.280 up in honey that's in honey, and you look at 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:28.920 each one individually and you look them up, you will 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:31.840 find that they do all sorts of amazing things. And 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.560 when you put all of it together, you just can't 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.360 help but step back and say, honey is miraculous. 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:39.200 Yeah, and let's have a spoonful. 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:41.920 Yeah, exactly. That's the second thought that follows. 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:45.880 It has, in fact, you mentioned amino acids. It has 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:50.040 all nine all nine essential amino acids, which are the 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:52.399 ones that we need that we don't make in our 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:56.560 own body, so we have to eat them. It is, 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:59.400 and we'll get to the healthy stuff in like twelve seconds. 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:01.880 But need to mention that one of the other great 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:05.320 things about honey is that it's I don't know about 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:07.800 lasts forever. Maybe I know they've pulled honey out of 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:11.639 like Egyptian tombs and reconstituted it to where it was fine, 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:14.680 So maybe it does last forever. But it is acidic, 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:18.640 it has antibacterial properties, so that means honey will last 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:22.960 you a long long time. And if you find an old, hard, 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:26.360 you know, lump of honey and a jar in your 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:29.560 house that you forgot about, you can probably make that 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:31.399 honey awesome again with very little effort. 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:33.800 Yeah, supposedly, what you do is you just throw it 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:36.119 in that jar, and you take that jar and you 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:39.800 put it in like a bath of very hot tapwater. 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.200 Do not heat it up on the stove, just put 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:45.480 it in hot tapwater, and very slowly that chunk of 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:48.800 honey will turn back into liquid gold aka honey. 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:53.560 Yeah, there's a lot of mixed messaging around honey being 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:58.680 toxic if it's heated beyond a certain point. Sure, because 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:02.840 the you know, there's ancient wisdom that says it becomes toxic. 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:06.399 Other people these days say no, it doesn't. So I 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:09.160 was like, you know, I mean, surely there's a study 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:12.320 about this, and I didn't really find one. I found 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:16.840 one about lab rats and honey heated with Geeka, but 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:18.119 that wasn't only honey. 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:21.600 That sounds kind of good and don't. 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:24.040 But I don't know if I just didn't have time 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:26.520 to find the study, because it seems like a simple 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:29.240 enough thing to research, Like you heat the honey, yeah, 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:33.920 and feed it to a monkey and see if it dies. 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:37.680 So I'm kidding, by the way, but the. 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:39.679 Thing is Chuck as you raised something that came up 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:42.719 for me later on that I'll just put here, like 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:47.359 the stuff we do to animals is unconscionable. One hundred 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:49.920 years from now, our cohort is going to be looked 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:53.600 at as just so barbaric. And one of the things 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:57.320 that kind of raised my hackles was, as we'll see 0:20:57.400 --> 0:20:59.199 later on, one of the things they think honey can 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:05.160 help with is neurological disorders or mental imbalances, and they 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:08.080 test that stuff on rats and one of the things 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:13.320 they found was that in rats it recovers hopeless behavior. Sorry, 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:17.400 in mice that have undergone restraint stress for twenty one 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:20.640 days now, it was like, restraint stress doesn't sound very good. 0:21:20.640 --> 0:21:23.560 What is that They put the mouse in a tube 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:27.439 where it can't move any of its limbs or body 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:31.359