While the Honey currency does seem pretty dumb. I will make a counter point that honey does literally last forever. Honey found in ancient Egyptian tombs were eaten and still edible Hundreds of years later. So that is something atleast, even if it is stupid, better to store that away in case of emergency
I did actually keep a small collection of honey (different brands, flavors, and as many local jars as I could) as a teenager basically for this reason. I joked about how it lasts forever, has inherent value (caloric value, much more immediately valuable than precious metals), and had the great name option of "liquid gold". Of course when I got older and had to move out I left it behind because I didn't see the apocalypse coming any time soon and couldn't afford to ship about 90 lbs of honey with me. But I thought I would save the idea in case I ever wrote a post-apocalypse story. AND HERE I AM LEARNING I WAS YET AGAIN BEATEN TO THE PUNCH
I did read another dystopian, post-apocalypse book where Honey was a very important commodity, but it wasn't being used as currency. The presence of honey meant the presence of honey bees as pollinators, & this post-apocalyptic story took place in a wasteland without vegetation where things like pollen, honey, & crops/food were being hoarded by the elite few. It's a much better premise with the whole 'honey is important' thing than this book
I don't really want to say anything in defense of a generic YA slop, but dogs absolutely CAN tell if someone is male or female. Hell, their noses are so sensitive they can be trained to respond to fluctuations in people with diabetes. I remember having an old dog who didn't like men specificially due to past trauma (she was a rescue.) Not like that saves the rest of the book, though...
@@JamesTullos Honestly, the whole time you were talking about the "beasts" part of me was assuming it was spelled "beests", thinking they were in some way "Bee-ified".
Commenting purely for the engagement boost. All these books want to come to Denver but nobody wants to talk about seeing a King Soopers or having the most mid ass pizza in the country.
Writing an apocalypse Webtoon rn, considering giving them a side plot of going to Denver just for the hell of it (especially bc they're in the UK). Give me ideas of what they should encounter while there :3
19:05 A 17 year old girl could definitely pass as a 12 year old boy if she's short enough. I once knew a 19 year old girl who got mistaken for a 12 year old boy quite often, actually. She was only 4'11".
I vaguely remember reading this back in the day, and in retrospect, it was so weird. Especially the part where the love interest guy needed her saliva for the cure, and his response was to just kiss her a lot. While she was in a coma. I really hope I'm misremembering that bit.
The 'dogs only respond to commands in certain languages' thing is actually a real thing. I used to work at a boarder and we'd get this dog in sometimes whose owners spoke Polish in the home and used polish words for dog commands (sit, heel, paw, that sort of thing). We had someone on staff who spoke Polish and she would handle the dog because she could give the commands he recognized and would respond to
Similar thing with my dog. We're bilingual and our dog responds interchangeably to both languages, but he responds better to certain commands in one language and other commands in the other. We weren't really consistent when training him, so now he understands "come" in English but not "go", and things like that.
@@Phontoz Yeah. My dad, who is not German at all, trains all his dogs with German commands. And his father, who trained guard dogs professionally, did the same. Idk what it is about the German language
It's really not. They'll respond to any command you train them to respond to, including just gestures and touches. It's a stimulus-response thing. German just so happens to sound like barking, so it can be easier, but you don't need to say "sit" in German for it to work, and if a dog is trained on "sit" but they've never heard the German word for it before, then the German version won't work.
"in army of the dead, the message is that we shouldn't let Zack Snyder write movie scripts." God damn! I love watching Zack Snyder catch strays. Absolutely brutal, genuine spit take from me
In regards to chemicals affecting different things differently, you commented "that's why some people are allergic to bee stings" which was the worst example of an allergy you could have possibly picked. Bee venom is mostly a bunch of allergens. Some people go into anaphylaxis, but not many are actually immune. Some people apparently become immune, others become more allergic, it's a fantastic example for your point that chemicals can behave in very different ways depending on the subject, but basically everyone is allergic to bee stings.
The concept of small stinging insects turning people into zombies, reminds me of a concept I once had, for a Turn Based Strategy Game. The insects were called the Scourge and they are bio-engineered wasps, designed by an Extraterrestrial Empire to strike terror and inflict mass casualties to their enemies. An individual Scourge is about as big as a rat and uses a venom that suppressed the nervous system, allowing more Scourge to burrow inside victim and hijack all motor functions. From there, the zombie will become a walking hive, as the several Scourge will begin to lay their eggs inside the victim, as newly hatched Scourge, burst from the hive ready to repeat the gruesome process. The main weakness of the Scourge are incendiary weapons, as Flamethrowers and White Phosphorus could incinerate scores of Scourge and zombies.
I think this is really cool, I’m just thinking about stuff that it reminded me of. If I remember correctly, warhammer 40k’s poxwalkers (totally not zombies) had a similar rule, where they were hosts for Nurgles influence and could regenerate their unit if they killed people with melee. In one of the dnd supplements, there was also a specialized zombie that was basically this but with worms and way less cool than how you described it.
Hot take: most fantasy writers now are so focused on subverting the genre that they forget quality. I’m an aspiring writer and I have problems with it too, but my upcoming book still has plenty of tropes. I subvert to show that most ‘good vs evil’ has good or bad people on both sides and that no good side on war exists, others subvert to be different for the sake of it (not related but my opinion I wanted to get out there)
The evil bees sound like a souped-up version of realworld Africanized bees. They're a crossbreed of African and European bees that are much hardier than regular bees (esp to some of their biggest threads, like varroa mites) but they are much more aggressive. They do kill and out-compete native bees. They're capable of killing large animals and people, and sting like 10x more than regular bees. Honestly, not the worst basis for a dystopian threat, even if the rest doesn't make any sense.
A for engagement Fun fact: a species of wasp called the emerald cockroach wasp DOES in fact turn its prey into a zombie (of sorts)! It latches on and forces the prey to take itself back to the nest to feed its young. Nature is brutal and fascinating!
When you think about the fact that divergent wasn't the worst book to come out of this "dystopian world main girl is not like other girls love triangle is a must" era ... not sure if it's funny or just sad
A real quick note on your comment around the 24:00 mark. Dogs can actually tell what sex people are based on smelling our hormones and pheromones. I know many trans people who have actually been treated differently by the same animal pre and post transition thanks to their hormones changing. The more you know!
I like that you have just devolved shaking around weapons while you read your notes. It seems to focus you... and me! Havin' weapon pointed at me tends to focus me, apparently. Who knew?!
James describing such a batsthit plotline while waving an orange toy gun with a psychedelic color background is making me feel like what druggies probably feel when high af
Commenting for the engagement. Hey, anybody want a good banana bread recipe? -Mash 3 bananas, then add 1/3 cup of butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 tsp vanilla, 1 egg, then mix. Add 2 cups flour, 2 tsp baking powder, a pinch of salt, then mix and add chocolate chips or nuts, whatever you like. Bake in a loaf pan at 350 for an hour, then enjoy! 🍌
Unrelated, but i have a story recommendation that you may or may not like, but i promise you, it is pretty interesting. It is a fanatsy called "The Fight We Chose" and it is a fanfiction. Now i know you already tempted to grab the nearest shotgun to blew your own brain out when you read, fanfiction, but trust me, this one is pretty good it could be it's own published novel. So "The Fight We Chose" was a GATE fanfic. GATE itself was an isekai anime where an interdimensional gate was open between Japan and a Roman like fantasy work. Long story short, the fantasy world invade Japan but was repeled by the JSDF. The anime was basically a what if a modern warfare vs medieval army story. It has a pretty good world building and a realistic potrayal of a modern military. The anime have a good potential as it has great action and a pretty interestimg worldbuilding but was held back due to the usual isekai anime trope. Now, in "The Fight We Chose". Instead of opening in Tokyo, in the 2010's, the gate open in Dallas, Texas, right before the JFK assasination. Basically the fic replace the JSDF with a 1960's US military as its protagonist, but it is more than that, as the fic also delve into alternate history in a pretty detailed manner. For example, because the gate was open and the medieval army invaded that day, JFK cancel his campaign and was evacuated to the Air Force One, and Lee Harvey Oswald, who now didn't have anyone to assasinated ended up using his rifle to kill the invaders and was remembered as a martyr. And JFK personally commend his action unaware of his true motive. And because now the US has an inderdimentional gate on its soil, they focus all their effort to invaded the other side, which lead to the total withdrawal of all US military personel from South Vietnam years earlier. And for the portrayal of the US military, the author didn't potray them as saints, as this time, they're quite open to everyone that their intention is to overthrow the empire that invaded Texas. They also use chemical weapons and repeatedly referring to the natives as 'savages'. And the US citizen is mostly onboard with it since the empire had enslaved many Americans. It was an interesting read. Sorry for the long comment
It's so heavy though! You'd have to carry around a big bottle and a funnel or something and either a measuring cup for transactions or just eyeball it. Even with a funnel I know everything I owned would have honey spills - at least there are no bugs to get in the honey?
there is an SCP article that has a similar premise, where if you get stung by aggressive anomalous bees, they turn you into their parasitic aggressive beehive that is hellbent on spreading them
Honey is a preservative so that would probably play a part and it is useful for cooking. Also the zombies in dead rising are bee related and it makes me wonder if there is a connection
As someone from just outside of Denver, I’m just trying to imagine Governor Jared Polis as the Last Leader of the Free World and it’s so funny. Interesting to hear about this book. I remember a friend reading it in middle school, and when I asked about it, she sighed so defeatedly and said “it sounded interesting but it’s so poorly executed” so it’s fun to hear about it.
I can forgive the spelling of Jacqui since that's the same spelling as the singer from the Beautiful South, Jacqui Abbott. If you're reading this and you haven't checked out the Beautiful South yet, this is your sign to do so now.
I remember picking this up at a school book fair. I have a vague memory of the plot, including a guy getting kicked in the balls during a gladiator fight.
sorry if this was explained i just had this in the background- but how is the honey currency measured? does everyone carry a jar around as a wallet? are there little 1oz jars and big 100oz jars? is that even explained in the book?
Gah, I can't believe I read something with this terrible level of biology as a kid! I'm going to have to binge read Tales of Kaimere for a while. There's some genuinely terrifying monsters in that universe, and they're all biologically plausible (albeit some have merged with an alien microorganism that allows for crazy abilities). Seriously, there's a giant carnivorous hoofed mammal that's descended from an ancestor of modern-day whales, which is absolutely massive, incredibly smart, and can mimic sounds. It uses human screams to indicate it wants more humans sacrificed to it, or else it'll just break down the village walls and eat everyone. And that's just one random creature in an entire ecosystem that's all derived from Earth animals getting sucked up to another planet by mindless alien bacteria, which just want to increase the biodiversity of their own planet, and left to evolve like crazy. It's all very cool stuff and makes this book seem like the most painful way a tree could've died.
wow i remember reading this book. it was somehow so unmemorable that it took me a while from the description just to remember whether or not I'd read it
I read both of these when I was a teen and I remember literally nothing about them except the vague feeling it was boring lol. Also another dystopia I remember reading but don't remember the plot was ACID by Emma pass, maybe it would be a good video idea?
For more insect-based apocalypses, there's a James Rollin book featuring an army of wasps that is going to end the world, the name of which escapes me at the moment. It's one of the Sigma Force novels. Edit to add-- maybe the third one wasn't published because of the anti-vaxx undertones to the series?
I saw your critical drinker video, and when I clicked on your channel, I was pleasantly surprised to see my mom's book. Thanks for reviewing it. I'm glad people are still talking about it. Edit: Check the replies for answers to some of the questions and criticisms in the video. Me and my mom are open to answering any questions.
I told my mom about it, and she thought it was really cool that you made a video about her book. She even talked some about the gender swapping stuff. She told me jakie's older brother told Kevin her secret and asked him to go and check on her. She also says the beasts reproduce via sex. The instant love thing is because when she wrote the book before she became a mormon apostate. She was actually really excited to write book 3 she even had the first chapter done, but the publisher refused to buy it. The publishers say she didnt make enough money for them. They frequently wouldn't respond to her emails. They wouldn't to her agent either. She wrote the first book in 6-8 weeks, and was given 12 months to write book 2 while trying to raise me and my three siblings. She is still very sad and frustrated that stung three did not get picked up. I can't think of anything else, but I'm open to any questions.
i mean im 23 and get mistaken for a teenage boy because my voice is high pitched and im only 5'3. I get asked if I am an adult because they think im 13 Also I've owned multiple dogs that didn't like men. I don't know how they know but they do
I was following an author who wrote book 3 and the publisher refused to take it because of poor sales. I assume he was paid already and they just wanted to cut their losses before printing it or publishers are now paying for series per book so they can bail if it isn't Twilight. Idk
I would absolutely ✨love✨ if you covered the Night World series by L.J. Smith, it's a 3 volume ya fantasy romance anthology series with 9 stories total (3 stories per volume) all set in the same universe and taking place in chronological order. The original copyrights for all of the stories are between 1996-1998, well before the fantasy romance boom. A quote from the back of all 3 volumes: "Vampires, werewolves, witches, shapeshifters-they live among us without our knowlage. Night World is their secret society, a secret society with very strict rules. And falling in love breaks all the laws of the Night World." It's been a while since I reread them, but I remember the stories being really sweet and cute, especially the first 3. It actually has some unique lore and they have to stop the apocalypse towards the end of the series (which felt a little tacked on tbh).
From many years of painful experience, I can confidently say that there is no good way to make a nickname out of 'Fiona'. 'Fo' is among the least objectionable ones I've heard. I always got stuck with something that sounded like a name for a poodle (ex. 'Fifi', 'Fufu'), or just total nonsense ('Rona', which became 'Ronie' and 'RoRo').
While the Honey currency does seem pretty dumb. I will make a counter point that honey does literally last forever. Honey found in ancient Egyptian tombs were eaten and still edible Hundreds of years later. So that is something atleast, even if it is stupid, better to store that away in case of emergency
I did actually keep a small collection of honey (different brands, flavors, and as many local jars as I could) as a teenager basically for this reason. I joked about how it lasts forever, has inherent value (caloric value, much more immediately valuable than precious metals), and had the great name option of "liquid gold". Of course when I got older and had to move out I left it behind because I didn't see the apocalypse coming any time soon and couldn't afford to ship about 90 lbs of honey with me. But I thought I would save the idea in case I ever wrote a post-apocalypse story.
AND HERE I AM LEARNING I WAS YET AGAIN BEATEN TO THE PUNCH
@@isaac_marcusBeeten to the punch*
@Chase_the_Great AAAAAAA (sorry I mean BBBBBBBB)
Good one I hate you
I did read another dystopian, post-apocalypse book where Honey was a very important commodity, but it wasn't being used as currency. The presence of honey meant the presence of honey bees as pollinators, & this post-apocalyptic story took place in a wasteland without vegetation where things like pollen, honey, & crops/food were being hoarded by the elite few. It's a much better premise with the whole 'honey is important' thing than this book
the dumbest thing was not making the honey connected to the cure... like that would have made some kind of sense
I don't really want to say anything in defense of a generic YA slop, but dogs absolutely CAN tell if someone is male or female. Hell, their noses are so sensitive they can be trained to respond to fluctuations in people with diabetes. I remember having an old dog who didn't like men specificially due to past trauma (she was a rescue.) Not like that saves the rest of the book, though...
Zom-bees, lol!!!
... How did I miss making that pun?
I was going to comment just that!
@@JamesTullos Honestly, the whole time you were talking about the "beasts" part of me was assuming it was spelled "beests", thinking they were in some way "Bee-ified".
Certified Alyx moment
Nicholas Cage screaming about bees is darkly funny
He opens his mouth WIDE.
Bro, why?????
I kinda wondered if those bees would even sting him if he didn't move, definitely not as much.
If the name of the zombie people isn't spelled "beests" I am going to be SORELY disappointed
Man, the Bee Movie is darker than I remember.
Berry went too far.
Commenting purely for the engagement boost.
All these books want to come to Denver but nobody wants to talk about seeing a King Soopers or having the most mid ass pizza in the country.
Or BLUCIFER >:[
Writing an apocalypse Webtoon rn, considering giving them a side plot of going to Denver just for the hell of it (especially bc they're in the UK). Give me ideas of what they should encounter while there :3
19:05 A 17 year old girl could definitely pass as a 12 year old boy if she's short enough. I once knew a 19 year old girl who got mistaken for a 12 year old boy quite often, actually. She was only 4'11".
I have a friend who is a 25 year old woman and still gets mistaken as my little brother when we're hanging out
I got mistaken as a middle schooler when picking up my younger brother. I'm 23 and only 5'3"
@@WhoWantsCake0 "only 5'3" the friend I'm talking about is 4'9 XD
Yeah one of my best friends is 20, but looks younger than a 15yo
It heavily depends on her breast & hip development, but unless they’re extreme a lot can be hidden by clothes & posture
I vaguely remember reading this back in the day, and in retrospect, it was so weird. Especially the part where the love interest guy needed her saliva for the cure, and his response was to just kiss her a lot. While she was in a coma. I really hope I'm misremembering that bit.
PLEASE tell me it's spelled as "BEEsts"
When I heard 'beasts' I immediately burst out laughing... beests...
The 'dogs only respond to commands in certain languages' thing is actually a real thing. I used to work at a boarder and we'd get this dog in sometimes whose owners spoke Polish in the home and used polish words for dog commands (sit, heel, paw, that sort of thing). We had someone on staff who spoke Polish and she would handle the dog because she could give the commands he recognized and would respond to
german is very popular with guarddogs in the movies and tv my research tells me
Similar thing with my dog. We're bilingual and our dog responds interchangeably to both languages, but he responds better to certain commands in one language and other commands in the other. We weren't really consistent when training him, so now he understands "come" in English but not "go", and things like that.
@@Phontoz Yeah. My dad, who is not German at all, trains all his dogs with German commands. And his father, who trained guard dogs professionally, did the same. Idk what it is about the German language
It's really not. They'll respond to any command you train them to respond to, including just gestures and touches. It's a stimulus-response thing. German just so happens to sound like barking, so it can be easier, but you don't need to say "sit" in German for it to work, and if a dog is trained on "sit" but they've never heard the German word for it before, then the German version won't work.
@@farkasmactavishGerman doesn't sound more like barking, and it's just like humans learning languages
I have to mention Dead Rising also having a Bee based zombie virus where if you kill a queen all the zombies around die.
Came to the comments for that, it's kind of weird how that idea has been done before, 4 times. (plus Casefiles and remasters)
"I've covered wars, you know." - Some investigative journalist.
Every dystopian books goes to Denver but none of them asks why is Denver.
"in army of the dead, the message is that we shouldn't let Zack Snyder write movie scripts." God damn! I love watching Zack Snyder catch strays. Absolutely brutal, genuine spit take from me
If it wasn't spelled "Beests" then a huge opportunity was lost and I am sad.
Colorado Springs is already a dystopia so its not that much of a stretch that Denver would be where they go
In regards to chemicals affecting different things differently, you commented "that's why some people are allergic to bee stings" which was the worst example of an allergy you could have possibly picked. Bee venom is mostly a bunch of allergens. Some people go into anaphylaxis, but not many are actually immune. Some people apparently become immune, others become more allergic, it's a fantastic example for your point that chemicals can behave in very different ways depending on the subject, but basically everyone is allergic to bee stings.
The concept of small stinging insects turning people into zombies, reminds me of a concept I once had, for a Turn Based Strategy Game. The insects were called the Scourge and they are bio-engineered wasps, designed by an Extraterrestrial Empire to strike terror and inflict mass casualties to their enemies. An individual Scourge is about as big as a rat and uses a venom that suppressed the nervous system, allowing more Scourge to burrow inside victim and hijack all motor functions. From there, the zombie will become a walking hive, as the several Scourge will begin to lay their eggs inside the victim, as newly hatched Scourge, burst from the hive ready to repeat the gruesome process.
The main weakness of the Scourge are incendiary weapons, as Flamethrowers and White Phosphorus could incinerate scores of Scourge and zombies.
that is a pretty cool idea, made if I take it?
@@thebohemian814 Go ahead. Create your own interpretation of the Scourge.
I think this is really cool, I’m just thinking about stuff that it reminded me of.
If I remember correctly, warhammer 40k’s poxwalkers (totally not zombies) had a similar rule, where they were hosts for Nurgles influence and could regenerate their unit if they killed people with melee.
In one of the dnd supplements, there was also a specialized zombie that was basically this but with worms and way less cool than how you described it.
Pueblo out here catching strays 💀
have i ever heard of this book? no. am i LIVING for these roast-reviews? absolutely.
also, jacqui is the traditional french spelling of jackie! my neighbour (early sixties) is named jacqui
Hot take: most fantasy writers now are so focused on subverting the genre that they forget quality. I’m an aspiring writer and I have problems with it too, but my upcoming book still has plenty of tropes. I subvert to show that most ‘good vs evil’ has good or bad people on both sides and that no good side on war exists, others subvert to be different for the sake of it (not related but my opinion I wanted to get out there)
The evil bees sound like a souped-up version of realworld Africanized bees. They're a crossbreed of African and European bees that are much hardier than regular bees (esp to some of their biggest threads, like varroa mites) but they are much more aggressive. They do kill and out-compete native bees. They're capable of killing large animals and people, and sting like 10x more than regular bees. Honestly, not the worst basis for a dystopian threat, even if the rest doesn't make any sense.
Bee-ware of these comments, James
Do they... do they use honey as currency because it rhymes with money.....
i miss when we got to see james' bedroom wall
A for engagement Fun fact: a species of wasp called the emerald cockroach wasp DOES in fact turn its prey into a zombie (of sorts)! It latches on and forces the prey to take itself back to the nest to feed its young. Nature is brutal and fascinating!
When you think about the fact that divergent wasn't the worst book to come out of this "dystopian world main girl is not like other girls love triangle is a must" era ... not sure if it's funny or just sad
A real quick note on your comment around the 24:00 mark. Dogs can actually tell what sex people are based on smelling our hormones and pheromones. I know many trans people who have actually been treated differently by the same animal pre and post transition thanks to their hormones changing. The more you know!
I like that you have just devolved shaking around weapons while you read your notes.
It seems to focus you... and me!
Havin' weapon pointed at me tends to focus me, apparently.
Who knew?!
James describing such a batsthit plotline while waving an orange toy gun with a psychedelic color background is making me feel like what druggies probably feel when high af
the "F Pueblo" comment had me too stunned to speak (I thought it was hilarious). He really went out of his way to fire that shot. iykyk
Commenting for the engagement. Hey, anybody want a good banana bread recipe?
-Mash 3 bananas, then add 1/3 cup of butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 tsp vanilla, 1 egg, then mix. Add 2 cups flour, 2 tsp baking powder, a pinch of salt, then mix and add chocolate chips or nuts, whatever you like. Bake in a loaf pan at 350 for an hour, then enjoy! 🍌
That’s my favourite banana bread recipe!
Unrelated, but i have a story recommendation that you may or may not like, but i promise you, it is pretty interesting.
It is a fanatsy called "The Fight We Chose" and it is a fanfiction. Now i know you already tempted to grab the nearest shotgun to blew your own brain out when you read, fanfiction, but trust me, this one is pretty good it could be it's own published novel.
So "The Fight We Chose" was a GATE fanfic. GATE itself was an isekai anime where an interdimensional gate was open between Japan and a Roman like fantasy work. Long story short, the fantasy world invade Japan but was repeled by the JSDF. The anime was basically a what if a modern warfare vs medieval army story. It has a pretty good world building and a realistic potrayal of a modern military.
The anime have a good potential as it has great action and a pretty interestimg worldbuilding but was held back due to the usual isekai anime trope.
Now, in "The Fight We Chose". Instead of opening in Tokyo, in the 2010's, the gate open in Dallas, Texas, right before the JFK assasination. Basically the fic replace the JSDF with a 1960's US military as its protagonist, but it is more than that, as the fic also delve into alternate history in a pretty detailed manner. For example, because the gate was open and the medieval army invaded that day, JFK cancel his campaign and was evacuated to the Air Force One, and Lee Harvey Oswald, who now didn't have anyone to assasinated ended up using his rifle to kill the invaders and was remembered as a martyr. And JFK personally commend his action unaware of his true motive. And because now the US has an inderdimentional gate on its soil, they focus all their effort to invaded the other side, which lead to the total withdrawal of all US military personel from South Vietnam years earlier.
And for the portrayal of the US military, the author didn't potray them as saints, as this time, they're quite open to everyone that their intention is to overthrow the empire that invaded Texas. They also use chemical weapons and repeatedly referring to the natives as 'savages'.
And the US citizen is mostly onboard with it since the empire had enslaved many Americans.
It was an interesting read.
Sorry for the long comment
That sounds interesting!
Huh sounds cool
Ok but, imagine being the poor fantasy people opening a warp gate into TEXAS of all places as the start for their invasion.
Honey doesn’t go bad and it’s a liquid asset🤷🏽
It's so heavy though! You'd have to carry around a big bottle and a funnel or something and either a measuring cup for transactions or just eyeball it. Even with a funnel I know everything I owned would have honey spills - at least there are no bugs to get in the honey?
I also have to imagine counterfeit or adulterated honey would be a big issue
there is an SCP article that has a similar premise, where if you get stung by aggressive anomalous bees, they turn you into their parasitic aggressive beehive that is hellbent on spreading them
I hope Aapo Saavaleinen is okay, I was so used to hearing his name I was shocked when he didn't appear
"A world were food is illegal".
Ah, yes, Venezuela.
Me when i want to buy bread so i have to haul around my wheelbarrow full of 2billion dollar notes
In fairness, Pueblo never had a chance to not be awful, its name is just "town" in Spanish
Honey is a preservative so that would probably play a part and it is useful for cooking. Also the zombies in dead rising are bee related and it makes me wonder if there is a connection
Wasps I think, but close enough.
"A deadly bee weapon. Bees. My god." - Batman.
As someone from just outside of Denver, I’m just trying to imagine Governor Jared Polis as the Last Leader of the Free World and it’s so funny.
Interesting to hear about this book. I remember a friend reading it in middle school, and when I asked about it, she sighed so defeatedly and said “it sounded interesting but it’s so poorly executed” so it’s fun to hear about it.
Waiting for the No. 6 mention. A BL manga and anime with a futuristic setting, where wasps make people age rapidly and die.
Yay i adore no 6 have the whole set shion and rat are adorable but the story is so sad its nice to finally see someone talk about it
I really need to see the whole shirt , itw deiving me insane
I understand the Pueblo slander and am absolutely here for it haha
"I kiss him like I'm the blood transfusion he needs," is actually a great line for a teenager to think.
I can forgive the spelling of Jacqui since that's the same spelling as the singer from the Beautiful South, Jacqui Abbott. If you're reading this and you haven't checked out the Beautiful South yet, this is your sign to do so now.
44:57 honey had no infalton potatos have infaton
I remember picking this up at a school book fair. I have a vague memory of the plot, including a guy getting kicked in the balls during a gladiator fight.
I am disappointed by the lack of zombee puns is this book. Not character would have thought of that?
I'm definitely going to look for these books. I ended up reading the Atlantis grail series after that video.
Aw, I was hoping this was about the killer wasps that sting you and turn you into a giant killer wasp at a garden party.
This brings back so many memories. I loved this book the first time I read it in high school. I can't wait to hear you tear it to shreds 😂
My cat Mickey is currently laying against me and watching this with me. He is entertained
You look like my cyberpunk character 😭
sorry if this was explained i just had this in the background- but how is the honey currency measured? does everyone carry a jar around as a wallet? are there little 1oz jars and big 100oz jars? is that even explained in the book?
We talkin about pueblo colorado? Aight lemme fight em
Gah, I can't believe I read something with this terrible level of biology as a kid! I'm going to have to binge read Tales of Kaimere for a while. There's some genuinely terrifying monsters in that universe, and they're all biologically plausible (albeit some have merged with an alien microorganism that allows for crazy abilities).
Seriously, there's a giant carnivorous hoofed mammal that's descended from an ancestor of modern-day whales, which is absolutely massive, incredibly smart, and can mimic sounds. It uses human screams to indicate it wants more humans sacrificed to it, or else it'll just break down the village walls and eat everyone.
And that's just one random creature in an entire ecosystem that's all derived from Earth animals getting sucked up to another planet by mindless alien bacteria, which just want to increase the biodiversity of their own planet, and left to evolve like crazy.
It's all very cool stuff and makes this book seem like the most painful way a tree could've died.
This sounds hilarious haha love it
Lol I thought for a second Wiggins would spell it "Beest" 🤣
I feel there was a missed opportunity to call them Beeasts or zombees
"Bees turning people into zombies!"
Soooooo, Dead rising?
Someone saw John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness and thought, yeah, but what if instead of the Antichrist, it was bees?
The special thing about honey is it doesn't go bad.
"A world were food is illegal "
Soviet Union?
wow i remember reading this book. it was somehow so unmemorable that it took me a while from the description just to remember whether or not I'd read it
I read both of these when I was a teen and I remember literally nothing about them except the vague feeling it was boring lol. Also another dystopia I remember reading but don't remember the plot was ACID by Emma pass, maybe it would be a good video idea?
you should've gotten Honey to sponsor this one
44:04 Honey is probiotic, great for preserving other foods, and delicious.
Can Denver not have an Apocalypse, for 5 f****** minutes
I actually remember reading this one. I do not remember enjoying it
For more insect-based apocalypses, there's a James Rollin book featuring an army of wasps that is going to end the world, the name of which escapes me at the moment. It's one of the Sigma Force novels.
Edit to add-- maybe the third one wasn't published because of the anti-vaxx undertones to the series?
“in army of the dead the message is that we shouldn’t let zack snyder write movie scripts” 💀💀💀 .
11:24 I got the joke, the worst of fates to befall Denver for sure lol
I saw your critical drinker video, and when I clicked on your channel, I was pleasantly surprised to see my mom's book. Thanks for reviewing it. I'm glad people are still talking about it.
Edit: Check the replies for answers to some of the questions and criticisms in the video. Me and my mom are open to answering any questions.
I told my mom about it, and she thought it was really cool that you made a video about her book. She even talked some about the gender swapping stuff. She told me jakie's older brother told Kevin her secret and asked him to go and check on her. She also says the beasts reproduce via sex. The instant love thing is because when she wrote the book before she became a mormon apostate. She was actually really excited to write book 3 she even had the first chapter done, but the publisher refused to buy it. The publishers say she didnt make enough money for them. They frequently wouldn't respond to her emails. They wouldn't to her agent either. She wrote the first book in 6-8 weeks, and was given 12 months to write book 2 while trying to raise me and my three siblings. She is still very sad and frustrated that stung three did not get picked up. I can't think of anything else, but I'm open to any questions.
My mom says thank you for taking the time to make the review
Damn, the prose of these books is exactly like the prose of Umriss
I kind of wish she would do the last book just to wrap up the story
i mean im 23 and get mistaken for a teenage boy because my voice is high pitched and im only 5'3. I get asked if I am an adult because they think im 13
Also I've owned multiple dogs that didn't like men. I don't know how they know but they do
Please please tell me they're at least called "beests"
I was following an author who wrote book 3 and the publisher refused to take it because of poor sales. I assume he was paid already and they just wanted to cut their losses before printing it or publishers are now paying for series per book so they can bail if it isn't Twilight. Idk
there is a book series named project nemeisis that has so many plot twists
Clicked on this video or realize that I've read part of this series as a kid (cured, not stung. For some reason.)
I would absolutely ✨love✨ if you covered the Night World series by L.J. Smith, it's a 3 volume ya fantasy romance anthology series with 9 stories total (3 stories per volume) all set in the same universe and taking place in chronological order. The original copyrights for all of the stories are between 1996-1998, well before the fantasy romance boom.
A quote from the back of all 3 volumes: "Vampires, werewolves, witches, shapeshifters-they live among us without our knowlage. Night World is their secret society, a secret society with very strict rules. And falling in love breaks all the laws of the Night World."
It's been a while since I reread them, but I remember the stories being really sweet and cute, especially the first 3. It actually has some unique lore and they have to stop the apocalypse towards the end of the series (which felt a little tacked on tbh).
Posting for the algorithm. The blood drinking thing really is weird.
I actually knew a Jacqui (spelled as such)in college. Granted, she was Cuban, but she spelled her name like that.
That sure is ONE way to reveal that you never known the scent of a woman...
Ahhhh!!! The beees ahhhh!!!! Lol i love all these wild books and you roasting them - cant wait for you to read that hunger book
From many years of painful experience, I can confidently say that there is no good way to make a nickname out of 'Fiona'. 'Fo' is among the least objectionable ones I've heard. I always got stuck with something that sounded like a name for a poodle (ex. 'Fifi', 'Fufu'), or just total nonsense ('Rona', which became 'Ronie' and 'RoRo').
My mom knew someone who went by Feenie
this is a bittersweet tale
Speaking of bees, you should check out the 1978 film "The Swarm" and the Black Mirror film "Hated in The Nation."
a zom-bee society could be interesting
Good works James very nice video
Gonna be honest, Jacqui doesn't seem THAT weird to me, since "Jacqueline" is the actual French spelling (similar to "Jacques").
1:06 bees turning people into zombies wasn’t that a plot point in dead rising?
I remember that I hated this book when i was required to read it for summer assignment in 8th grade. I hated how nihilistic it was
This is absolutely wild.
love the new background
I remember really liking this book in middle school
Jaqui sounds like he lives at home his mommy and his daddy. Iykyk
Fun fact. I actually know Bethany Wiggins. She used to live in my hometown.
Definitely less comfortable with the prop gun than I am with the prop knife
If you hate colorfully spelled names, never meet a Filipino person. 🤣