Bee beards. Ever wonder how? Rhett James McLaughlin and Charles Lincoln “Link” Neal, “Internetainers” known as Rhett and Link and hosts of Good Mythical Morning (a weekday show on their YouTube channel), visited a beekeeper who showed them how it’s done. And then made them do it. “A guy named Bill put 10,000 bees on my […]
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