Danny Wallace

Radio X

Well hello and welcome to another podcast from the important broadcast.

Did you know that honey is made from bees?

Well, you will soon as you delve into another dark sort of little rabbit hole of Steve Ferdinando's mind.

It's just a slip of my phraseology.

It wasn't a,

it wasn't mistake.

I don't think that.

You don't think what? But honey's made from bees. You did say it. Made by bees. Well, you said honey's... But it's sort of... It comes out of bees, doesn't it? Yeah, well, look out for that. Yeah, it comes out of bees, that's right.

No, no, no, no, it doesn't.

Wait, how's honey made?

I thought honey... Comes out of bees.

So you pick up a bee and you squeeze it into your tea. Like, bee milk. You've been milking bees? Have you been milking bees again? No, no. How many bees would you have to milk to fill up a pot of honey? That's not a job you want.

Well, that's why there's so many of them in those little bee houses.

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, a little bee house.

Is that what you call it?

Like a doll's house, isn't it? Yeah. Wow. So now that's even better, because I thought... No, sorry, bees aren't going out there, like, collecting bits of flour and then, like, cooking up some honey.

They, like, it's like, they secrete something, don't they?

I don't they don't they don't they eat it eat the pollen and then make more this could be

a great question um for the the next installment of a feature that just came about today called you google

...