Episode 53 - Do Bees Even Have Knees?

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Bees!

Bringers of life and pollination.

Fuzzy cousin of the hateful-sting-bastard and all-round busy little Apis!

But do they actually possess the idiomatic knees that are so often bandied about to convey brilliance? Are these “bee’s knees” a real anatomical feature, or just another bizarre phrase humans have cooked up during a sugar crash?

Join Ross, Simon, and returning guest Sunjai Arif as they dive wings-first into the sticky world of bee anatomy, idiomatic nonsense, and other oddities. Along the way, they ask the big questions:

• What makes a knee… a knee?
• Were the 1920's just one big hooch-fest?
• And why do so many English expressions sound like the fever dreams of a Victorian entomologist?

Expect buzzing banter, the return of Sunjai’s hilarious anecdotes, and more insect-based confusion than a wasp at a picnic. It's weird, it's wonderful, and it might just leave you wondering what other body parts we've unfairly attributed to animals.

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