Hi.

Hi, Dan.

How are you?

I am well.

Well, that is great.

We only have an hour to record for the podcast today, which actually means it's going to be a longer podcast because we're not going to try to squeeze.

We're not going to do three 15 minute episodes.

Yes.

We're going to do one 45 minute episode. So I hope you guys are ready for us because, well, they'll already know. They clicked on the thing. And they're like, wow, a 45 minute episodes? What happened? People always tell us they want longer ones anyway, I think. Yeah. This is true. But I do want to start with a food heist. Okay. This is a very cool, and this happened in August of this year, just a couple of months ago. Uh-huh. This happened at an apiarist. Okay. An apiary. An apiary is like a place that does bees and honey. Oh, okay. Yeah. Really? What's the, what's the origin of that?

What's the etymology of apiary? The apiary is, I did not go to bees. I'll tell you that. I don't know.

Hmm. And I did not look it up for this. Okay. I discovered that word playing the Pen Dragon RPG,

because you can put an apiary in your

knight's estate. Oh, okay. But this one happened in British Columbia. Okay.

Where the apiary was raided by thousands and thousands of bees. Oh, the bees are the...

The bees are the criminals. I didn't want to tell you this before we recorded. Oh, the bees are the... The bees are the criminals.

I didn't want to tell you this before we recorded.

Because I wanted your genuine reaction.

Oh, wow.

So apparently there are hives of successful bees and there are hives of unsuccessful bees.

And when the unsuccessful bees get desperate, they raid other people's hives.

Really?

So this group of like pirate raider bees discovered this apiary and was like, oh man,

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