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Mike I want to ask you, in my last interview with me, you told me you were writing a book.
Where we are with that? We're getting there. Getting there? Yeah, getting there. We actually
spent a lot of time, Adam, my employee, spent a lot of time videoing, video taping me and
answering questions. Okay. So we've got, I mean, how many hours of that we have now. So that's
going to go into, you know, we'll be able to make text out of it. And then I can use bits of it to,
you know, for me to write and to do work like this. And I mean, I just, I'm exhausted at night,
you know, my thoughts go so fast and my fingers are so slow. Well, you have tech knowledge today.
So I forget my, my train of thought. We can get those videos and make transcriptions
from them. And then you read and see if everything is there. That's it. That's right.
Another suggestion, maybe technology, they will print a book and maybe you can put a little
barcode there. They go to the video that I came from. Yeah, I thought that too. People with their
phone. That would be fun. So, you know, trying to do, to introduce all my work with writing it.
The videos that are out there, the YouTubes and the recordings of meetings and like that. Yeah.
There's a lot. So I get to put a lot of information there and I can just,
I can spout. Yeah. I just spout and spout and spout and spout and spout
and get there, you know, but writing is just so difficult. Yeah.
Well, let's use technology to extract all that information and transform it into a book. Yeah.
I'm excited for that. I want to see that coming. I've got another one going to England in
October to go to the national. Okay. I got three talks to do at the national.
That's good. I love the national ones. Yeah, that's the kind of videos that
kind of explode you and YouTube. That's the one that was the first one. Yeah,
the sustainable way up here. Yeah, that was the first, one of the first ones I did. Yeah.
That's going to be a good continuation. Yeah,
that's fun. It's going to be the same subject. Nope. He said,
you're not allowed to do anything you've done before. I see. Well, I'm going to work on.
So what is it? The brood factory talk.
Then another one that's going to be about seasonal management of nucleus colonies.
And so I have to, a lot of that stuff is in the brood factory talk of the wintering and then
getting them ready. I don't know, feeding. I don't need that. I just need to talk about the factories
and my theories and all that. Yeah. And then in the seasonal management,
then I'll include that. So I'm going to break it up into two.
And then the third one is, I build all my own equipment.
And so how to build the equipment and how we use it and pictures from the field in use and like
that. How to be sustainable on that and have a cycle. I don't know how anybody can possibly
start a bee business now. An apiary area with the intention of maybe making a living at it.
When you have to pay the prices of the wooden ware, it's ridiculous. You can't do that. When
I started packages of bees were $10.50. I agree with that. That's another pattern I
saw in my visits. The successful ones, they build their own stuff. Right.(...)
Right. What's a hive body now? It must be up around $20 or $15 or, I mean, gosh,
you can go buy lumber and make the thing for less than 10.(...) Yeah.
The other pattern too I saw was the guys that are in my definition of success are very quiet.(...)
You don't know who they are. They're very,(...) they just, well, let the people talk. I'm fine.
Right. Right.(...) Yeah, the loud ones are always, I don't know, sometimes
not who you want to listen to.(...) Mike, I just want to thank you one more time for your
time here. Oh, yeah. Congratulate you. 50 years, man. Thank you for the work and
inspiration you do to everybody. Yeah.(...) Everybody from all over the world asked me
when you're going to see Mike. Yeah. When you're going to see Mike. That really is
amazing to me. That's... I mean, it's so, it's worked my heart, I'll tell you what.
You know, when I spoke at EIS, I started getting tears in my eyes when I was talking
about that. How much I appreciate, you know, your appreciation.(...) And
now I don't know, is Pettis still the president of EIS? Yes.
I don't know.(...) Who? Jeff Pettis. Jeff Pettis from the, he's the president of Apimonia now.
That's what I'm sorry. Okay, you're talking about Apimonia. Okay. And so in Montreal,(...) Yeah, we
were there. And one of the things I found lacking with Apimonia in Montreal was the fact there was
no track about practical beekeeping at all. It was little science, little... Charts and graphs.
And PhD students and...
We need balance, right? We need more. And he agreed with me. And so hopefully this time,
you know, I tried to get a bee to speak there. They let me put up a poster. Okay.
(...)
So hopefully this time, and I'm going to get him through it. He said, I read your thing and I knew
that was from you. And but there's nothing I could do about it. And well, this time,
maybe I'm going to write it in my application in the fact that so many people in Latin America are
following me, you know, and it would be good for them to hear what I have to say. Yeah.(...) For
a cent, you know, not reading it through some... I know that for a fact. Interpretation. A lot of
the communication I got, it's from South America people that are curious about your work. Right.
I think they might be more comfortable to write to me because I'm from South
America. So they asked me for things. Right. Maybe I should ask them to
talk with Jeff. Yeah, right. Write to Jeff. Yeah, really. So I mean, it's usually only a 15 minute
talk you can give unless you get to be a keynote. Yeah. Then you have a...
But I'd be happy with a 15 minute talk. I would be.
You can deliver your message in 15. Absolutely.