Hey, hey, hey. How you doing? -Hey, dude. Hey!
-How you doing, 2 Chainz. -What's up?
-I'm Paige. -Nice to meet you, Paige.
-Noah. -It's so nice to meet you.
-How you doing? -How you doing?
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This particular episode is the "Most Expensivest: Future"
where we talk about bees and how we don't have
a future without the bees.
Now, I'm a well-known bee swatter down my way.
I can't lie.
I'm not, like, hanging with the bees or whatever.
But I'm interested in seeing what you guys mean
when you talk about the future.
Yeah, future or present, you know.
If you eat food -- you eat food?
[ Heroic music plays ]
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Uh, yeah, every chance I get.
Yes, I love food.
-Then you need bees. -Yeah.
Bees are everywhere around the world.
So no matter what culture people come from,
they need pollination to get fruits and vegetables.
So they connect all of us.
And they contribute one out of every three bites of food
you eat the bees are responsible for.
All right, to set up something like this
as someone's business or rooftop, what is the cost?
So this service would cost anywhere between $1,250,
to $1,750 for commercial sites.
-A year? -Mm-hmm.
So with our service, we'll install
and manage beehives for home gardens,
for hotels -- like, hotel beehives.
Manage beehives?
We put them in a cool spot like this one right here,
and we come once a month and we check on them.
We get people their honey when they're producing enough.
So they get to take part in saving the bees.
We send them an e-mail, and then we also offer
some customization of the beehive.
So that's my role in the company,
is I pimp out some of the hives.
So you can pick your colors, your stripes, silk screen --
really do the whole thing. -This is deep as hell.
But we've got some businesses nationwide --
million-dollar accounts.
So, you know, it is big business,
big bank with beekeeping.
What we're trying to do is actually not talk
about the money behind it, but the value, right?
So how do you put a price on food?
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Bees contribute $100 billion to the global economy
every year -- that's an estimate, right?
And they free, so y'all just got to catch 'em and go to work.
This is a pretty good hustle.
You know, it's all about finding your Zen.
You know, when you're in a beehive,
it's actually so relaxing.
[ Bees buzzing ] [ Screaming ]
Oh, my God! It's bees!
What -- what made you think of this?
I was finishing up my PhD in honeybee immunology,
and I realized -- -That's a class?
-Yeah, it's a class. -And I was like, "I can't get a job with that degree,"
so I had to start something else, right?
Nine years later, you know, we've raised a couple million
dollars nationwide for bee research.
-Mm-hmm. -You know, just for the citizen science approach.
-This is crazy. -Our data goes to NASA.
This beehive is a NASA data point looking at climate change
and stabilizing food systems.
Hey, man, congratu-- Hey, man.
-Thank you. -Thank you, yeah.
[ Slow clapping ]
Thank you, 2 Chainz.
This is -- this is -- I'm prou--
Th--th--th--this -- this is -- this is --
this is -- this is -- this is -- this is.
-That's good. Thank you.
-Thank you. We're so happy. -This is good.
This is good. I'm blown away.
I'm blown away so hard.
All right, let's go get stung.
-Okay. -Let's go get stung!
-No stings. -No stings?
Nice and vegan.
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I'm with all this shit, man.
Where they at? Come on, where y'all at?
-Are you ready? -Where y'all at?!
Check 'em out. Let me introduce you right here.
Where they at? Let me talk to 'em.
[ Laughs ]
So we're going to smoke 'em now and make 'em nice and calm.
You keep saying vegan -- they don't bite you?
-No, they're chill. -They don't bite you?
They don't bite. They could sting, though.
[ Laughs ]
[ Buzzer sounds ] No, I'm just playing.
I'm playing with you. Let me know, man, 'cause I don't want to look
like no simp in this shit. -Yeah.
Why you put the smoke in there?
To calm 'em down.
Now smoker fuel, plant material, that's what we use.
You can use any plant.
It calms the bees down.
[ Chuckles ] I'm a bee.
They glue their home together with their bee's wax.
It's one of the many products that they make.
Oh, bee's wax. I twist my hair with that.
So that's what this is? -Yeah, yes.
Yeah. We can get you some.
Saying we can start -- let me see.
Yeah.
Bee's wax is more expensive than honey.
-It is? -It's a valuable waste product.
Look at all of this honey just dripping out.
You can eat this. -Ooh, that's honey?
Yeah. -Let me see you lick it.
-You can eat th-- right here. -Come on, lick it.
So honey -- you don't need a food permit to sell honey.
Why you do that?
It n-- you don't have to add anything to it or cook it.
It tastes like your land. -No, don't swat.
Hey get out.
[ Crunching ]
You know, they're kind of -- I won't say they're cute.
That might make me seem kind of weird,
but they're gentle pollinators.
If you like -- if you passionate about 'em, then they are cute.
This the "Most Expensivest: Future"
to let you know you can't really do nothing
without these bees, baby.
It's a wrap. All right.
-You did great. -Thank you guys.
-You're a beekeeper. -You did so good!
I'm hungry!