End of Times?
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Danny Lavery welcomes Emma Arnold, a comedian, artist, and beekeeper, who recently released a comedy special and album called MYSELF. She is also the host of the City Cast Boise podcast.
Lavery and Arnold give advice to someone who wants to stop feeling dread about aging and the world in general. Another letter writer wants to help a destitute friend in need of support.
Need advice? Send Danny a question here.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon music. |
| 0:03.4 | Just a reminder that Big M. Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery happens twice a week. |
| 0:08.0 | Slate Plus members get an additional mini-episode or Little Big Mood every Friday. |
| 0:12.8 | Sign up now to listen at slate.com slash mood. |
| 0:15.4 | Music Hello and welcome back to Big Mood Little Mood. |
| 0:39.7 | I'm your host, Danny Lavery, and with me in the studio this week is Emma Arnold, a comedian, artist, and beekeeper who recently released a comedy special called Myself. |
| 0:49.0 | She hosts the CityCast Boise podcast and keeps bees and children with varying degrees of success. |
| 0:54.4 | Emma, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me, Danny. Do you mind if I ask, I don't want to get too |
| 0:59.0 | distracted by the bee part, but what kind of bees do you keep? Like, are there particular |
| 1:04.3 | types of bees that are, I don't know, unique to your area or that you prefer? I keep European |
| 1:10.1 | honeybees, although in the last couple years, I used to run quite a few hives, |
| 1:15.2 | but I, after some studies came out, talking about how European honeybees, which are the bees |
| 1:19.4 | that make, you know, honey, obviously, that you're familiar with. |
| 1:22.5 | Your classic bees. |
| 1:23.8 | Classic bees. |
| 1:25.3 | How actually having them in urban environments can actually push out a lot of native pollinators. So I have actually started to kind of go back. I only have two honeybee hives now. And I actually have started to try and do a lot more native bee. You don't actually keep them since they're like technically feral, I guess, or wild. But I have carpenter bee |
| 1:45.7 | houses and I have my whole yard set up as a pollinator, like sanctuary for native bees. And actually, |
| 1:52.4 | in the last couple years, it's been really interesting to see as I cut down on honeybees, how many more |
| 1:56.4 | native pollinators have come in and how neat that's been. That's so exciting. And I assume when |
| 2:00.9 | you say native pollinators, some of that is bees and some of that is birds. We're reaching the |
| 2:05.8 | limit of my like knowledge of how plants work. No, like different bees and wasps. There's actually |
| 2:11.9 | like thousands of varieties of bees, like tons and times. Even in your area, there might be a hundred different |
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