How Did This Get Made? - The Beekeeper LIVE!

Episode Date: May 3, 2024

Paul, Jason, & June travel to Jason Statham's home turf of London to tackle 2024's The Beekeeper—a "top 5 HDTGM movie" that's basically Death Wish meets an AARP commercial. They discuss Jason Statham and Phylicia Rashad's sexual chemistry, the gas station mini-gun fight, Jeremy Irons' monologue, the phishing scam call center/night club, the leaky FBI office ceiling, and so much more. Protect the hive #BEOSWAAAAARM Go to hdtgm.com for tour dates, merch, and more.Pre-Order Paul’s book about his childhood, Joyful Recollections of Trauma, wherever books are soldFor extra Matinee Monday content, visit Paul's YouTube page: youtube.com/paulscheerHDTGM Discord: discord.gg/hdtgmPaul’s Discord: discord.gg/paulscheerFollow Paul on Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/paulscheer/Check out Paul and Rob Huebel live on Twitch (www.twitch.tv/friendzone) every Thursday 8-10pm ESTSubscribe to Unspooled with Paul and Amy Nicholson here: listen.earwolf.com/unspooledSubscribe to The Deep Dive with Jessica St. Clair and June Diane Raphael here: www.thedeepdiveacademy.com/podcastCheck out The Jane Club over at www.janeclub.comCheck out new HDTGM merch over at https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hdtgmWhere to find Jason, June & Paul:@PaulScheer on Instagram & Twitter@Junediane on IG and @MsJuneDiane on TwitterJason is not on Twitter

Protect the hive at all costs and protect your motherfucking fingertips from Jason Statham. We saw the beekeeper so you know what that means. What's up jerks! That's right London, here we go! Hello people of Dublin! Jamie, Big Paul and the beautiful June Gonna take you to the moon while the wind is the room Thunderpants I've got a lot to say I took notes

I'm not okay People of Scotland! Belfast! Things full of farts Eat em all People of Scotland! Belle Pat! Things full of farts. Eat em all! Rupert Grimper changed his name name name. You're getting little more Jason is getting lazy. So upset, I hate this. That's my ugly truth.

This place is full of bees. Here's a real question for you, how did this kid pay? Get this guy outta here! Hello people of Earth and hello people of London! We are live at the Hackney Empire for our very first show in the UK and boy oh boy this crowd is ready because this is a movie that takes place in the UK. You may think it doesn't but when they pull out of the gas station it says petrol and the prices are listed in pounds. Prices are listed in pounds. Laughter Applause

Jason did not want to leave home and I don't doubt him. But you know what? This movie is fucking awesome. How would I describe it? Well, simple. You have the CIA, you have the Secret Service, and then you have the beekeepers. How many beekeepers? I don't know, one. And the beekeeper's job is to protect the hive, the hive being United States, or the president. There's a lot of rules. There seems that there's a lot of beekeeping. All I know is don't piss this man off. Don't machine gun his honey bees.

And most importantly, don't trick his old lady friend. This is an AARP commercial meets Death Wish. Statham is avenging a fishing scam. That's the movie. That's all you need to know. And now you need to know my cohost. Please welcome to the stage, for the first time in London, Jason Manzoukas.

What's up jerks? How we doing London? That's right, we're here. I've been in your city for 10 days. You didn't even know! I saw the smile at Alley Pally. I saw Mary Lattimer at Scala. Nobody else? Not cool, but it's been a great time. Love this town. Eat shit. Jason. Paul. It couldn't have been better timed that The Beat Keeper and our London shows came out because seriously, this might be one of my favorite movies of...

Honest to God, you're welcome. You're welcome. Do you know how bad this could have gone for you? If you don't, just check out tomorrow night's movie You got I'm gonna say a top five. How did this get made movie ever? This this movie is best movie of the year Better than Oppenheimer. I honestly be peeping hi. I mean I honestly... Beepin'heimer? I mean...

I was gonna try to do Barbie, but that's just... Barbie. Beep... Either way, you do the math. We're having fun. And that's the shirt. This movie came out January 10th, 2024. The best day of my life.

One of the first How Did This Get Made movies I watched without even thinking it was ever gonna be on the show. Oh, watch, the minute it was up, I watched every goddamn second of it, and I was like, this is the best movie I've ever seen. And while watching this movie was great, it was especially great to watch our next host

watch this movie for the first time Her jaw dropped her laughter exploded on the Eurostar Please welcome also for the first time in London June Diane Raphael How are you June? I'm okay? Question mark. So yeah, and I don't think we told you this, Jason. I watched this movie, like,

and 40 minutes after, Paul and I left Paris. Oh, so romantic. We had been there for days and had such a beautiful time, and then I settled in for Beekeeper. Oh, and you were like, is it possible this is better than Paris? It was so shocking and it was also like, go back to America, June, where you belong. Hey, trash, watch this. Where you belong, trash person.

You know what's so funny? I knew I was in store for a great film when the opening credits are rolling, and I caught this, and I want to see if you both caught it, because you're speaking about, like, going back to America. This was in the final moment of the credit montage of bees. I believe this is a bee American flag. Oh, yeah.

Oh, wow. Although, although many more states, many more than 50 states. Oh I was not looking, yes. Oh yeah, there are a couple more states, but I feel like that was like, this is like, holy shit, if we make the honeycomb only a quarter of it, that's an American fucking flag. Oh shit. But we got all these bees on there. And I truly don't know where to begin talking about this. It's like, it's, it's, we could, we could go so many different directions. I have so many clips.

I have so much to say, but I just want to start with- Buckle up, asshole. We're going to be here for nine hours. Oh yeah. We're shutting this place down. And we have four beekeepers backstage in case they do try to shut us down. Oh yeah. They'll be eliminated immediately.

But they are regular beekeepers. Here's my question. First of all, are our tax dollars supporting the beekeepers? Great question. Great question because it seems to be off the books. And my question is, are the beekeepers an international organization is the single beekeeper responsible for the world? No, just the hive. Just what hive? The hive is the United States. It's just the United States. Yes. So but we have this gentleman and one of the characters says I'm sensing a little bit of the British Isles in that accent you're hiding. You're hiding a little bit of British Isles in that accent.

I was like, he's not hiding nothing. This is straight up Statham. This is full blown Statham. How could you put that and say that with a straight face? Because that makes me go, you are a horrible detective. Yeah. If you, hey, have British. Because it took forever. Here's a oiky If you, hey, British,

here's a, oiky, oiky bees. No doi. Oiky bees. And be like, now hang on, you sound like you maybe aren't exactly from here. But here's my question. So the beekeepers are responsible, and I don't know how many are working at one time.

I don't know. I have so many questions about the infrastructure of the beekeeping organization. But if their entire mission is to keep like the social fabric of the United States together, I wanna say you're doing a horrible job. This, they should shut them down immediately cause like that collapsed many, many years ago.

Well, keep in mind, he is retired. The person who is the current beekeeper is the lunatic with the mini gun who rolls into a gas station and just starts assassinating civilians and law enforcement. First of all, she looks like she stepped out of Blade Runner or that she looks like Jubilee. There are multiple characters in this movie

that appear as though they are from X-Men comics. You can't tell me the guy at the end named Lazarus isn't a Rob Liefeld character come to life. See, I thought when those guys, and here's what I really want I want a flow chart that takes me through and maybe this is the t-shirt organization that takes me through just like there's the president there's there's Secret Service, CIA, Navy SEALS like who do we call and then like the

the insane clown posse that showed up. Well, that's the thing. They are, get this, the best of the best. Because Jeremy Irons doing the absolute Lord's work. Yes he is. God bless him. Constantly being handed absolute insanity, grounding it and making it look effortless. I mean, this, I wanna get ready to play clip six. This exposition dump that Jeremy Irons does so effortlessly after we first meet him with

like a tennis racket over his shoulder, like working at an office, but like he is amazing. I do have a question that yes, Jason Statham, obviously British, and Jeremy Irons, British running the CIA. I had some questions. Seems like odd choices. We live, that's the world the beekeeper lives in, man. Nobody, they're all Americans. Now, this exposition dump right here,

I just want, I think we just need to watch it and if you're an acting student, maybe this is a monologue that you might want to prepare for any auditioning. Here we go, clip six. You disturbed a beekeeper. Oh, oh, okay. So fucking what? Why do I care if the guy keeps bees?

If a beekeeper says you're going to die, you're going to die. There's nothing I can do or anybody else to stop it. So, like, what do you even do here then? What good are you? Yeah. I did 35 years of loyal government service, culminating as director of the world's premier intelligence agency. I could have done anything. But I chose this job as a favor to your mother.

I keep Danforth Enterprises safe. Keep her reputation safe, her name safe. My fucking name too, all right? Oh, sit down. Now... Incredible. So good. Now, Incredible. So good. Now I will say this.

If you're just listening at home, he's doing that entire scene with a plastic water bottle and a straw in front of him. Next to a decanter of like, scotch. Clearly left from like, last looks. Yes. Clearly left from like, when he was just waiting for the shot to be set up and he's like,

put my water over here. Yeah, like, he's like, oh no, it waiting for the shot to be set up and he's like put my water over here Yeah, like it's like oh no, it's in the shot The background of this movie is the stuff that's happening in the backgrounds of this movie are electric to watch Especially the president's party has a cast of characters that I can't even begin to understand including a gentleman who is prominently placed throughout wearing a green version of the giant Pharrell hat. Okay, okay, wait, Jason, Jason,

I don't think, are you talking about the final party that takes place where everything goes down in the United States, which is Boston, apparently? Yes, everything happens in Boston. Everything happens in Boston, but that's not. Is that like a weird Camp David? No, that's not the president's party, though. That's the son's party. No, it's the president's party.

No, he's visiting her. No, but I think all of those people that he brought are his people. Okay. Because they're dressed like clowns. They are the insane son posse. She said, by the way... A goofball parade just like exploded into the party. I love Josh Hutcherton.

Josh Hutcherton makes the best entrance of all time in any bit of cinema. Move over Orson Welles because this guy comes in on a skateboard, orders a flat white... Move over Orson Welles. Savage. Savage take. A lot of people think in the third man, you know,son Welles. Savage, savage take. A lot of people think in the third man, you know, he comes in pretty strong, but I'm saying move over.

Because you can't come in. Carol reads the third man? Is this unspooled? Ah! God, I don't feel like that. You would appreciate it. Boo! You would appreciate it.

You would appreciate it. Comes in on a skateboard, orders a flat white, then asks questions about very obscure pieces of sushi, gets a massage, and then... Meditation bowls too. And then examines and comments on meditation bowls. It is a perfect scenic entrance. And he says to his mom, I'm going to bring some of my tech bros to the beach house.

In Boston. Yeah, he's also, Josh Hutcherson is also giving Hutcherson. Really? Josh Hutcherson. I always have to think of Hutcherson. We could just call him Peter. He's giving another amazing performance. Incredible.

Now I did question, I questioned so many different security agencies and operations. Did you question the fact that Secret Service wears a badge that says Secret Service on it? Yeah. I was like, not too secret. Where, I know we're jumping to the end of the movie, but where are they? Where is?

Why aren't they disguised as some of the party goers? Where are they? Listen, I've learned a lot about the Secret Service from the West Wing. And my understanding is they are embedded with these people. They are not wearing a uniform. They are in and amongst, but in this movie, they don't seem to be at all.

They're labeled. They literally are labeled. They might as well have targets on themselves. They have t-shirts. There's also like competing special forces organizations, all of whom are dressed in similar but different colored versions of the same outfits. And that's also quite confusing. Because I believe Statham is trying to only wound the military, but kill the baddies.

Right, if you do bad, he wants you dead. Yes. Which is so hard though, because I'm like, you're killing Navy SEALs. I'm having a little bit of a hard time with this. The guy at the gas station who he takes his keys, that guy died. Oh yeah. That at the gas station blew up. So everything blows up.

Every building, everything he steps inside of when he's outside of it, kaboom. And he leaves people in there. Sometimes he's like, hey, you should tell everybody in the building to get out of here because I'm going to burn it to the ground. I know. In it.

When he first takes out that call center and he does such a weak job of evacuating. We find out later on that, like, yeah, United Organization Corporation is there, but I have to imagine there are other offices with other operations going on there. There's other businesses there. There's probably doctors' offices. It seems like a quarter of the floor is this little thing that looks like a fashion company. Like when he walks into the secretary.

I think my dermatologist is in that building. I hope she's okay. I know. My accountant is definitely there. I drew a little drawing of how many people were in that room. He blows up an entire building to what I think, I pause it a few times, I say conservatively, he is taking out 26 people. And he has blown up that entire building.

He kills, I'm gonna say, upwards of 200 people in what I believe is 30 hours. That was a movie. This movie's timeline is so fucked. Every time. It's fucked. Every time. Every time someone's on the phone, they're like, well, he's killed seven people today. And then later, he's killed

14 people today. It's constantly going up, but it's the same day? Mini Driver walks from one side of the room to... Oh, give it up for Mini Driver. ...another amazing performance. Mini Driver walks from one side of the room to the next, and he has blown up a gas station.

He's killed a bunch more people, and he's traveled across state lines. But Paul, here's what I said to Jason backstage. The scene that I couldn't believe we didn't see, because so many explosives were used, so many guns, so many different weapons. I could not believe that we never saw him unleash a swarm of bees. I agree.

I was so... I agree. I was... I was so delighted when he used the honey, the of course very explosive, inflammable honey, which I was like, yes, yes! Finally, use your skills. Yes, use your skills. And I loved, and I was also heartbroken that he has this very tailored,

padded, beekeepers uniform. Which is a fencing suit. Why, yes, why doesn't he wear this throughout? I want, is it too much of like a a superheroes uniform. Did he not want that? He's like no. I just want James annotation I have a lot of questions and I I Was like when should I bring this up because I feel like if I say this it unravels the entire show But I'll do it now

He is a youkeeper. You know the bees. Well, I met a couple of the bees. They talked very positively about Jason, said he was great. Had issues with Mini Driver, weird. Is he a hornet? I'm so sorry, what do you mean? Because he is a beekeeper.

Because you look dead in the eyes when you said that. Like, you know the answer, Jason. I was like, whoa, guy, I don't know what we're up to right now. All right, because they say... Is he a hornet? Well, OK. Because he's a beekeeper. Well, but the organization is called the Beekeeper,

but he's acting like a hornet because bees... I think he's acting like a queen slayer. Well, this is the thing. At one point, Jeremy Irons says, don't kick a hornet's nest. He's the hornet. That's his nest. But then also, they talk about bees as being very peaceful multiple times, and it feels like he's a beekeeper.

Like, that's his zen. But he has to protect the... I don't know if you know this. He has... Because it's if you know this. Yes. Cause it's subtle in the movie. Yeah. He has to protect the hive. And also like- Which he says, but just in passing.

I know, and you might not have heard this part, Paul. I imagine you didn't, but they do mention once offhandedly that he takes care of bees. Yes. Okay, well this is interesting. You bring this up. I have it here as well. The beekeeper is protecting the hive. Okay, well this is interesting.

You bring this up. I don't know if I remember that, but we might have a little montage to help us with that. Beth. Bees. I told you I take care of bees. I'm a beekeeper. I guess he's a bee lover.

A beekeeper. Beth, can's a bee lover. I'm a beekeeper. Beth, can you pause it for one second? Imagine you had a drinking game that was every time bee is spoken. You would be dead by now. Okay, sorry, you keep going. He said he's a beekeeper. You disturbed the beekeeper. Oh, okay. So fucking what? Why do I care if the guy keeps bees? If a beekeeper says you're gonna die, you're gonna die. You're a beekeeper. Oh okay, so fucking what? Why do I care if the guy keeps bees? If a beekeeper

says you're gonna die, you're gonna die. You're beekeeper? Of a beekeeper. A beekeeper beekeeper? The current active beekeeper. The current active beekeeper. Beekeeping for beekeepers. Beekeepers. Beekeepers. Beekeeper. Beekeepers. Not unlike bees themselves. Beekeepers. Beekeeper. It's what beekeepers do. That beekeeper? Beekeeper. Some fucking beekeepers. Beekeepers not unlike bees themselves Beekeepers beekeeper it's what beekeepers do that beekeeper beekeepers some fucking beekeepers It's just a beekeeper. Yes, not that beekeepers exist, but mr. Clay does keep honeybees This is a fucking beekeeper beekeeper, huh? It's gone far enough. You proved your point Beekeepers Holy shit.

Oh my god. Thank you, Avril, for that amazing... Incredible. That is... That's the shit right there. And honest to God, 10 out of 10 no notes. Put more in. I'd love it. Let's go back to where it all starts. Felicia Rashad

finds out her husband's a weird, creepy sex pervert. Bill Cosby, she moves out to the farmland. She leaves Philly or... Okay, I'm glad you said that actually because the opening scene between the two of them, and by the way, she gives another remarkable performance. Oh yeah. I mean, she is so fucking good and I could not take my eyes off of her. Now, and watching her decide to press that button was,

it's one of the most riveting pieces of cinema I've ever seen. I was screaming. So she really is so wonderful. And Paul, you wouldn't know this because I know you watch all of our movies on 1.75 speed. Not true, 1.5. Which is for the insane.

All I'm gonna say is you can listen to my book on 1.5 speed, you'll get through it very quickly, it'll be a lot of fun. But I watch it as the director intended at 1.0. I slow it down because I'm like, this is so good. I don't want it to end. So I watched this opening scene between the two of them outside in the yard in real time. And I thought, oh, they're going to make out. Let them fuck. And I. I really did.

I was like, I was like, OK, honestly, there was an energy between the two of them that I could... First of all, this is the problem, by the way. This movie tackles elder abuse as an inciting incident, which I tip my hat to. We don't see it every day. Usually we see a young white woman being kidnapped and someone having... Yeah, we have to wait for Tom Selleck commercials to understand what's going on to old people. I tip my hat to the inciting incident here. Sorry, let's do American reference.

But I was watching the two of them and I was like, I don't know what's gone on between them. Well, this is my issue. I wrote this down because, ooh, in rural Massachusetts. But she looks so beautiful in a crisp white shirt, and he looks great in his beekeeper outfit. And I was like, whatever this is, I'm into it, and I wanna watch more.

She's his queen. And then she is ripped from this world. This is the moment that really... Balcony's wasted. Sorry, sorry, the balcony's pissed. The balcony's wasted. Sorry, sorry, the balcony's pissed. But please, don't piss. This is the moment that I really, I knew I was in store for a great movie because he

has gotten rid of her bees. I have a question about this in a second, but he's gotten rid of her bees and She goes what are you gonna do with them? and he goes It's between me and the base and then she goes I understand Why is this so serious? But I will say and this is where I don't know what kind of research the movie did and the director did but you and I did have an encounter with a beekeeper once. Yeah twice twice actually and they're odd as hell

Yeah, they're odd. I would argue that that that Adam Clay and Felicia Rashad's character in this movie For the brief amount of time that they share the screen have more chemistry than Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson in all three 50 Shades of Grey movies. A thousand percent. All three. You're telling me there's not a red room in that barn? Something has happened between the two of them.

We know there's a bedroom in that barn because her daughter says I lost my virginity in there. Yeah! In the red room. Something has happened between the two of them. Now, am I... Threesome or Beesom? Beesom is a good shirt.

Now... It's you, it's me and my... Okay, but here's the thing, Paul. If you remember one of the conversations we had with our beekeeper... I don't, you actually deeply offended him, if you remember correctly, because we had a bunch of hives at our house. And Paul said, can you just take those down? And he said, no, I'm going to rehome them.

And Paul was like, okay. Again, it was the conversation between the first, it was the first time you've ever said that I have engaged too much with a person who works at our house. You are like, get them out of here. Go, go, go. Don't talk to them. I like a quiet home. I like a quiet home. I have to prepare June for doorbell ring. I'm like there might be someone dropping off a package. If that happens will you get the door? And she'll say I don't know. I'm so scared all the time. Like a quiet house. But anyway he took it very

seriously that he was absolutely not going to kill those bees. He was going to bring those bees to a better place. Well, weren't those bees that might attack his bees or something like that? Wasn't there some? I don't know. They were hornets? Or were they? I think those were bad hornets that were going to attack his bees. So the bees that he tasered were hornets?

Correct. Wait, so this is really just a beautiful articulation of what's going on. He's protecting the hive from evil hornets. Wow. So the opening scene is a microcosm of the entire movie. I see. Best picture 2024. The beekeeper.

And I loved it because he's like, I just wanted to say thank you for putting up with me and my bees. That's what he says to her, and every time he is so grateful that this generosity has been bestowed upon him, that he has to avenge it by killing so many people. He literally says to her, no one has ever taken care of me. Now, he says that to multiple people about her. He needs therapy bad.

He's a beekeeper. Now, but this is my question. He, tell me if I'm wrong here, besides the beekeeping of it all, she lives in a farmhouse, he rents a room in the barn or a part of the barn on property. And when the daughter comes in,

after Felicia Rashad commits a beautiful suicide, so classy, red wine, gun on the floor, how did the gun get on the floor? Bam, frozen. With the casing, with the bullet casing standing upright next to the gun, both of them fell perfectly so they could be placed in one shot.

The daughter comes in. First of all, he comes in, but it seems like the daughter is already there. She's like, freeze, motherfucker. And it seems like the daughter is already there, and she's like, freeze motherfucker. And it's like, you saw him walk in. Do you think he murdered? And they came back and they're like, I'll turn off the stove now.

And I'll like- Also, she's dead from a gunshot wound, and he's carrying a butcher's knife because he thinks something's wrong. So at that point too, must you be like, well, wait a minute, if you shot her, why are you now cautiously carrying a knife? And it seemed to me like he watched,

that she watched him take that butcher knife out. Listen, I did not question that reaction on her part. I did question her wearing her Harvard t-shirt. I was so stunned because someone who goes to Harvard I was so stunned. Because someone who goes to Harvard and wears the t-shirt, that says a lot about that person. But then actually, as the movie was progressing, I was like, oh, she's actually insane. She has not processed her mother's death at all. She was laughing about bees, reading funny facts

about bees out of a pamphlet. I'm like your mother died. We don't see her grieve at all. The movie takes place in the 30 hours since she saw her mother's corpse and she has not an ounce of grief. And as a matter of fact she's like I'm gonna solve my mom's murder. Ring ring, hey, I don't work on weekends. I'm sorry. I thought you were gonna wait, I thought you were gonna solve this. She's showing up to Statham's house early in the next

morning to apologize, so I guess it is the next day, to apologize for her behavior the night before. He's pouring, I don't know, six gallons of fresh squeezed orange juice out. I couldn't understand that. I was like, where is this coming from? I couldn't understand that at all. She also, I mean, there's so many things here because-

Can we go back to the suicide though? Because I do have some questions about her relationship to technology because she keeps saying that she's not a computer person. I'm not a computer person. I don't know. I don't know. And she's looking at the keys and the cursor and trying to figure it all out. But then it becomes clear all of her banking is done online.

She has a master password to every single account. And like, I get it, your daughter set it up, but there is some backend work that she seems to- Two million dollar account that she's running. Running. And I just- You gotta do a little, you have to have a smidge of- Yeah, it's like, and at one point I thought,

maybe I didn't see this correctly, but I thought I saw her pull up an Excel document with tons of different information. I'm pretty sure it showed that she was on the finishing screen of Myst, which is a computer game from 20 years ago. Oh my gosh, I love that. More, 40 years ago. 40 years ago? Yeah, that was not out in 2000.

But they treat her like she's an elder who has like a jitterbug like one of those phones remember the jitterbug it had three numbers. Remember it still exists. I'm actually very interested in purchasing a jitterbug. Explain the jitterbug June. What's that? Explain the jitterbug. The jitterbug I think has like three buttons on it. It's like a phone for old people that has like, it's reduced to the simplest of things. Yes. I'm the jitterbug

and I'll make sure you press the right fucking button. Wait, you're saying Jason Statham is the jitterbug? And he cuts off everybody's ears. You hear me now? Because I feel like the jitterbug would fight the beekeeper. Well, I will say this. Felicia Rashad keeps on saying, oh, but all my kids' photos

are on there. That's why she didn't want to spend a couple days going to the tech store. How will I access my kids' photos? But then it seems like her son's dead, and she doesn't talk to her daughter. What photos are on there? OK, very callous.

Very callous. Jesus, Paul. That is a sad callous. Jesus, Paul! That is a savage... She is dead, Paul! Can she not look at past photos of her dead? Have some respect! She doesn't even care about her daughter! Let her live in better times!

She does care about her daughter. She does, in her own way. You know what? She wouldn't have committed suicide if she was getting railed by Statham. That's so I think that might disprove. Honestly, Jason, that's very true. In that sense, she would have something to someone to...

Yeah. Before. I just wish she had called a bank, you know, because yeah, just... And I have to say though, where these schemes are very sophisticated is that they do put money in your account. Let this movie serve as a PSA, a public service announcement to all who are listening. This is being shown at most old age homes. Now I will say, it's probably the reason she fell for it is because it was so damn convincing. Clip one.

Now, in this moment... This guy is amazing. This guy is Jordan Belfort, Wolf of Wall Street level. Like, I don't understand what the fuck is going on because he's only one part, like he's one honeycomb because it seems like... Oh, one honeycomb. Right? Because, because isn't like the person in Boston has like a link to his stream? Except that they're all in Massachusetts. All of these are in Massachusetts. All the call centers are in Massachusetts.

All the call centers appear to be Massachusetts based. The ones that they visit in the movie. I'm certain are other ones, but they never leave Massachusetts state border in this movie. This movie posits that Massachusetts is the most important state in the United States, which, as someone who was born and raised there, I have to contest. It is not. Now, watch the point. Oh, can I say one thing while you're getting that up and running?

Oh, yes, sorry, yes. I hear the movie, because I know a lot of you are thinking it the movie looks suspiciously a lot like the architecture of John Wick one yes okay where in Josh Hutcherson is the Alfie Allen analog and the you know he pisses off the wrong person the retired hitman the retired beekeeper you don't want to mess with this blah blah blah but in the in which are shots the retired beekeeper, you don't want to mess with this, blah blah blah. But in the- So, Pusha Rashad's the dog? I guess so.

Or the, or the wife, or the wife. Okay. You know, because one has the wife's death as the kind of exciting- By the way, I do apologize to my wife, I made her visit multiple John Wick sites when we were in Paris. Oh. Did you do the stairs? Did you fall down the stairs?

Yeah. Excellent. But, the movie, the John Wick movies are full of Russian gangsters going into nightclubs and I feel like in this they were like, you know what? All we have is call centers and the set deck was like, I'm going to make the call center look like a nightclub. There were runways. A nightclub.

Now watch this. A nightclub meets like a very high end like game show. It's like. It's a douchey nightclub meets a very high-end game show. It's like... It's a douchey nightclub game show. I don't have a clip of it, but I do want to just call it that the second guy that we meet, who he staples his head multiple times, is wearing a jacket that says goat on it.

Like, he's a goat. I'm like, fuck yeah. Incredible. Where can I buy that? Here we go. Everything I have is on the computer. Okay. There is actually a software package that you can download that would allow me to bring stuff.

Nightclub remotely. Alright. Tell me what to do. She's so good. Incredible. Okay, can you type this? Friendlyfriend.net. Friendlyfriend.net. Click hang up, bye bye, that's a prank. Friendlyfriend. My computer's going crazy totally normal just do not touch your keyboard miss Parker I I made a terrible mistake I was supposed to credit you 500 but I

know I got a stuck key here she's so pissed at him I'm gonna lose my job here I got kids I got fucking kids oh I don't want you to get in trouble. I like that he has to justify that to the people that see him. And he has a whole second scene where he's just talking to the guys in the room. Different password, though. One second. This is the master password for all her accounts. Okay, so the second.

We get it, we zero out everything you know I I think I should call the bank you know what you're probably right but there goes my job and there goes all your data my kids pictures on this computer. Kids pictures. Excel documents. Amazon orders. Uh oh. Oh, fucking yes! That is what I am talking about! Come on! First of all, let me just tell you this much. This show is pretty low tech, but to do all this projection, we have Beth, our amazing stage manager. She's working.

Give it up for Beth. Can you imagine how many people run that? There's fucking screens up there, there's sound effects. That's a whole team. That's a Broadway show that's going on in my room. And my favorite part of the call center is that they have, not during this scene, but in other scenes at other call centers in Massachusetts. I know exactly what you're going to say.

They have webcam footage. Yes, yes. Of elderly people, like... Dozens. Dozens of little thumbnails of all the old people that they're actively scamming. Like... This movie is... This movie... Is this movie like for the elderly?

Because it's a revenge story for the elderly. Yes. The beekeeper is protecting the hive, which is just the elderly, which are the people that are discarded, that he's constantly speaking up for and advocating on their behalf. That is what I found so fascinating about this movie, because the elderly are discarded. And once they don't serve capitalism, we don't care about them. They are not usually... Well, June, you're saying exactly what he said so brilliantly, where he compares old people to children.

Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. He puts old people above children. I thought this is a pretty damning monologue. Yeah, of course. He absolutely infantilizes elders. But I do think that elder abuse is real. And we've seen examples of it Paul in our own lives. Elder abuse is real. First of all, not guilty. You say it like...

I'm not saying you've abused the elderly. She deserved it. The ensure fell from the shelf. That's all. How old were the beekeepers that came to your house? I was just gonna be I was just gonna be I do think that the director let people say whatever they wanted to say because multiple times, like her partner, the cop's partner, he's like, I was just thrown through a window. No, that was somebody else. He goes, I was just thrown through a window.

She's like, I lost my virginity in there. And then it felt like everyone had carte blanche in this movie to do whatever they wanted. And I want to just play this scene that Averyl found that I noticed, but I didn't really take it in. It's scene seven. Don't worry about the dialogue here. And this is not going to be great for the podcast audience. And maybe it's just for you, the live audience. Is this a scene about something that takes place in the background?

I'm obsessed with this exact moment. OK, so I don't know if I should set it up or you should. Just watch it. Yeah, just watch it. Here we go. Dude, I think United Data Group is one of several call centers. So there's got to be a central office that's

controlling all of them. And that's what we've got to find. Hello. Did you hear a sound? And the two balloons! Don't forget the two balloons! The roof is leaking and there are two clown balloons.

Gained more yardage on this thing than the whole squad has in two years. Yeah, well. Her mother is dead! Her mother's blood is on her hands currently. She's not showered yet. What? Dead. Her mother's blood is on her hands currently. She's not showered yet. What? Yeah, all I have is a birth certificate and a social.

You guys never even had a bank account, credit card, flown on a plane. I ran his prints through every database I can think of. No hits. Oh. Let's say it's your wallet. Ha! OK. Let's go. What? Especially to Wiley. Ha! Okay, let's go.

What? They found you guys right now. It's never not gold. They found them, let's go. Shit. It's the gift that keeps giving. Here's the thing. Oh my God, I'm dying!

Here's the thing. Oh my God. In this scene, I'm more drawn to the drama of the roof leak than everything they're talking about. Okay, because here's the thing. I did, first of all, I did not see it. I'm seeing it for the first time right now. I'm overwhelmed. Is that not incredible? It's center frame.

But wait a second, Paul. What do you think, I have a theory. Okay, so my theory, Justine, for the first time, is that whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever sort of birthday celebration was happening. And it was an agent's birthday. And the whole team, the whole team got him balloons and a cake and all that jazz.

And it got totally out of hand. Because there's a story there. The balloons, the leak. Here's what I think it is. Genuinely, here's what I think it is. We have to shoot right now. There's a leak in the ceiling. I don't care.

It'll be in the shot. We're shooting right now. Put a guy under it. It's part of the scene now. Who wants to be on camera? Jimmy, you want to be on camera? Great. Hold a bucket under the leak and action. That's it. I think that's what we got here because

that is so dramatic. The leak in the roof is the most dramatic scene. You see, so that was my original thought. Did you notice it when you watched it? Yes. And now, what I now believe is, one of the extras came up to the director and said, hey, wouldn't it be fun if there's a leak in the ceiling? And I was cleaning up and he's like, great idea. Get this guy a janitor's thing right now.

So, yes, that's possible. My backstory is possible. And then there's another narrative. Well, my backstory is possible too. And yours is too. Well, thank you for validating mine. Immediately validated Paul's, validated your own, zero for me, zero.

Yours lacks a certain magic to it. Like I feel like yours might be too true. I want to see what magical thing happened. Well, because there's another narrative that's possible. And it's considering this as like such a thoughtful choice, such a thoughtful choice, which is that the FBI is underfunded and that they are a bunch of yahoos. Yes. With a leaky roof while he eats a wrap.

Because there are several, the other thing that's happening in frame is there are several like Twinkies and like junk fleas. They're always eating and drinking coffee. They're never not with, they're like the Brad Pitt. That's an appropriate read of let's make them seem ramshackle and not up to the task So that's Statham and the beekeepers are the only he is the only element that is able to get control of or like the first scene another reading of it is There's a leak and someone's got to plug it up whether it's the beekeeper or the janitor. We don't make distinctions

That janitor's job just think the janitor is the don't make distinctions. That janitor's job is just... You think the janitor is the beekeeper of the building? Yep. He's protecting the hive? Yep. The hive is the FBI. Let's go out to the audience here. Really? Already? I feel like I still have more to say. Just out of curiosity, Beth, can you play 10 for me, just to see, because I was obsessed with this guy. This guy.

He's absolutely fine. Terrified. Good man, but he's not. Tell me this isn't an X-Man character. Let this guy play Wolverine. What is going on with this guy? Come on, Brew. Come on, this guy's incredible.

Had your best day, so fast. Yes, I know he's missing a leg, asshole! You're looking at me. How is any of this my fault? Wasn't your super secret CIA data mining software supposed to, I don't know, maybe filter out un-fucking-stoppable killing machines? Don't you fuck with me, young man!

Any other life, you'll be in jail. Don't you say anything. Hey, this is a fucking big keep up! Ha ha ha! Yeah, you know I killed one once. Oh you see? Yeah only because I was lucky and un-fucking-lucky. Loved it. Yeah don't piss your pants, bro. My team will be our short thing. If anyone can knock this guy's dick in the dirt, it's them. Loved it. The arrival of this guy breathes life into the movie.

Loved it. Absolutely. I only wish that he used his bionic leg to like punch Jason Statham through a wall. All right. Let's see. If you have a question, you have a thought, you have anything at all you'd like to add. Okay. Yes, your name?

My name is Jessica. Jessica has two questions. I said if the first one's good, we might allow a second. Here we go. The first one was on the point of exposition. As you said, Jeremy Irons does a beautiful exposition jump. And as someone who works in scripted, I'm very appreciative of a quit exposition. However, Josh goes from, what do I care if he keeps bees? To immediately, oh, this isn't

a secret assassin who may kill me, just based on Jeremy Irons saying, if a beekeeper wants you dead, you're dead. That is first of all a great question. Yeah. Because there's no other, it's like saying if a plumber wants you dead, you're dead. Like he's not saying no, that's a code name. He doesn't say that's a secret organization that I know about. He doesn't say that exposition dumped until he's with the mercenaries.

Okay so you did pass second question. Wow. The second question. Good job, Okay, so you did pass second question. Wow. The second question. Good job, Jessica. Thank you. Is very minor, I feel bad now that I asked for two. With the background. You feel bad now?

This is the most British thing that's happening. If this was happening in America, you would be grabbing Paul's hand to be like, I say more now. Did you ever notice? Did you ever notice the movie called The Beat Keeper? Hey, Paul, Paul, Paul, Paul, Paul, Paul, Paul. Don't feel bad, Jessica. Your second question.

With the leak in the background, which I had not noticed until now, is it not possible that they were like, it's fine, you're not gonna see it, it's in the background, and then realized you can see it and had to construct a whole thing around it. Also, those balloons look CGI, so I think something else is happening in there. The balloons are CGI? This is from Scripty.

If the balloons are CGI, then that's wild, because they were like this scene needs Something more they had the people talking they had the leak in the roof and they were like there's just something missing What about a light blue and a yellow balloon? Maybe the person whose birthday it was is from Denmark Are those less is that the flags colors? I those the, is that the flag's colors? I don't know. No, what is it?

Sweden? Fuck you, Europe. You guys are too smart. Fuck you, Europe. I say let's get out of the EU. Boo? Not another referendum? Boo? Not another referendum? Boo? I've misunderstood this whole thing. Okay, your name and your question.

Yeah, Anthony, and this movie kind of posits after his replacement is sent and killed that the beekeepers stand down and when he goes into the hideout, loads of hive logos come up on the map, which implies there's other beekeepers in play. So we said earlier, the sequel that we're all waiting for, who would you like to see of other beekeepers in the next movie? And we're kickstarted. We said we want some retiree beekeepers to pop up, AKA Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Oh, I like a Jean-Claude Van Damme. Oh, I like a Jean-Claude. I would like an Anthony Hopkins. And you CGI his limbs to do crazy... Like you make him like Zohan from the Adam Sandler movie. All the beekeepers are British, but they all are American. I would love if the same... There's absolutely going to be a second movie. I would love it if we get to meet more beekeepers, be they retired or present beekeepers, and that we get into them without being dispatched as quickly as the beekeeper in this one was.

I loved her entrance, I loved that scene, but she just goes away so quick. Did Bay Lynn say no? And I also was like, wow, I was so interested in her sort of anonymity in the world dressed like that. I was like, wow, that's really interesting to be a beekeeper that looks like that. That's interesting to me. And I want to obviously to go to the audience and hear other questions, but this is another question I had, which was, I follow a few beekeepers on TikTok. Oh my God.

Wait, do you follow the woman in Texas who's like, the bees, the bees I saw? Of course I do. I was called to get these bees out of the toilet. It's a beautiful day. And I found the bees in the toilet. And I found the queen. Of course I do. And I put her in a clip.

I'm obsessed with her. I'm absolutely obsessed with her. But all of the beekeepers I follow... Great, that's the T-shirt. Of all the beekeepers I follow. They all take care of bees without the protective suits on. They are all intimately relating to bees. And I found it really interesting that Jason Statham

as a beekeeper like doesn't, isn't comfortable enough with bees actually. There's a lot of beekeepers who say that those people are wrong and that they're prioritizing being on camera more than they are the safety. Which side of TikTok are you on? Whoa. There's a whole part of that community

that is like these people are being irresponsible because they're prioritizing themselves on camera being better for TikTok because that is deeply irresponsible. Well, it's a traditional question. To be or to not be keeper. You know, it's like, oh, no, I'm learning. To be or not to be was incredible. Amazing. Your name, your question. My name is Jonna. And first of all, I want to thank you guys for this podcast because it got my husband and I through the pandemic. So thank you for the laughs. That's right. What part of Britain are you from?

Ohio. Can we talk about how quickly Felicia Ressard actually killed herself? That's a great question. And she has a beekeeper. Like she went from 30 minutes from being hacked to killing herself. Why didn't she call her daughter? So estranged must they be that she does not reach out to her Harvard educated FBI agent daughter to be like,

I think I just got computer scammed. And also you have to think through like- And no note. No note. No note. By the way, that's what was so interesting is like she knew that Statham was going to find her. And so she's leaving him to like... She must know. She must know that he's going to go on a murderous rampage that will end with the president. Who here, show of hands, predicted that that woman was going to be the president? Incredible stuff.

The rest of you, fucking idiots. Honestly, I don't mind telling you, you're fucking stupid if you didn't see that coming. Cause that was tipped hard. I am in the first balcony nice I will say now that the lights are on Paul be careful that probably is the mezzanine now that the lights are on there are four balconies this room Hackney Empire fucking gorgeous gorgeous now I appreciate this gentleman he's wearing an

I'll Hold the Mic shirt. I was gonna bring my hat but you know the rules. Your name and your question. My name is Simon. The question is about nominative determinism. So the... Repeat it again. Nominative determinism. Nominative determinism of course. Just to bring a an English question into the room, I mean, we appreciate our Ohio cousins, but let's have some fucking hackney out here, you know what I'm saying? Represent the state. So, for example, the born identity, the program, is the born program. This is the beekeeper program, and he decides to become a beekeeper.

So right. But now here's what I'll say. No, they seem to all be beekeepers because in her truck is the beekeeping for beekeepers book terrible title. Beekeeping for beekeepers. So they must, that must be an integral part. And by the way, just so you know, I did ask Jason that before we came on stage. I said, why must they actually be beekeepers?

I'm assuming that... Hold on, I feel like we have an answer here. But by extension, the hope is that if, for example, he was a Navy SEAL, he would then become a SEAL. I agree with this gentleman because I See, I I don't understand because it seems like he retired into beekeeping Not he was a beekeeper who was an assassin. He's like, alright, I'm retiring from assassinating

I do think it muddies the story that he both keeps beehives That are sadly destroyed and never to be seen again. Because to June's point earlier, boy would it have been great if he had been able to summon a bee swarm to come in to the call center or whatever and attack the Terminator skeleton that's in the call center later in the movie. Somebody did just yell out a great t-shirt idea.

B.O. Storm. Wait, B.O. Swarm? Whoa! I don't mind punching it up. B.O. Swarm! That's pretty good. That's pretty fucking good. And if anybody asks you I invented it so shut up

Who invented that who oh you did say your name Victoria? Thank You Victoria, okay? well done Victoria a Hero all right, so what's your name in your question? My name is Aaron and This is around when the FBI after debrief the director of I don't know the fucking CIA or whatever the fuck he is they he goes what can you tell me about this guy that's murdering all these people and their answer is he's a beekeeper that's what he does and he turns around and says that's enough for me I can go and tell the president now right like it's there isn't information is that it seems like a this very secret organization

everyone knows about them and knows exactly what they do. Well also like Statham is able to take the beekeepers finger go drive directly to her also Massachusetts based safe house, use her finger to get access and do a full on reload. The movie is also very video gamey. Like find this warehouse, you get to have all these things. Here's your go bag. By the way, great bags. The movie is top to bottom full of great bags. But here's my only complaint about the last bag we see. So I was so excited that he got away. I was so excited that he had that moment with our FBI agent and she let him go and he jumped off. And I was so horrified to see him put on a set of flippers. I was like, what? I don't need to see this. I don't need to watch

a grown ass man put on a set of flippers. Struggle to get flippers on. Someone who's been effortless and graceful like Gene Kelly in the movie. Watch that man put on. And then what you know if you are, if you have ever gone scuba diving is you can't walk forward in flippers. So he was absolutely walking backwards into the ocean. And to watch that happen and I just thought, you're going to end my movie this way? Well, June, I think that's the moment that we realized that he becomes a Navy SEAL.

I am in the upper balcony. Whoa. God, be careful, Paul. Be careful, Paul. Those are the worst of the worst. The balcony monster is in London. It is humid up here. I bet.

I bet. Now, my question is this. Who should I go to? It's very steep. OK, over there. This is a person literally in the back row. She's higher than the people who are sitting on the seats. Well, we don't know if she's higher or not. Yes, all right, here we go.

We don't know what people are doing before the show. Hi, how are you? I'm very well. How are you? Good. What's your question? Well, I'm only sad that we have, there's so much in this film that we haven't touched on.

But we haven't talked about the relationship between the FBI agent and her partner. Oh yeah, the FBI agent and her partner. Well, you know what was a bummer? What was a true bummer was, and I mean this because I've said it already, we do not see her accept or really engage with her mother's death in a way that we repeatedly see Statham do.

He has her picture absolutely ready. He's like, this woman right here, you killed this woman. She was the only woman who ever cared about me. And he has a picture of her and her daughter has not even a mention of her mother and her mother's death. When her partner says, yeah, we got to go. Your mother's house is on fire. Your mother's house is on fire? There is urgency to this. It is the house that I'm pretty sure she grew up in. Yes. She lost her virginity in that barn.

And she doesn't seem to care at she lost her virginity in that barn. And she doesn't seem to care at all about this death. It is heartbreaking. I loved it. I mean, listen, this is what I couldn't get, and I was fascinated by, how did Felicia Rashad and Jason Statham get together in the first place?

Here's the thing. Is that a Craigslist ad? On the computer screens, as they're going, one of the things is a membership to Tinder. They met on Tinder. Umbongos. Yeah. Now that's how you end an audience Q&A. That's the show,! Take care London! That's how you end an audience Q&A. They met on Bumble.

Shame. By home run. Who said that? Who was it? Second balcony, middle. Alright, great work. I want to give you credit, but you're in the dark now. I was thinking about this as I was running down the 10 flights of stairs to get here. For a beekeeper, he starts a lot of fires, which, through my knowledge of bees, is not something that bees ever do.

But you do use smoke to pacify the bees or get them out of a place or you do use, I agree with you, you do use smoke but he is constantly saying I'm gonna burn it down. Right, he at one point says you got to smoke them out and then just goes in there and shoots everybody in the head. Like he doesn't smoke, I like oh he's gonna smoke them out. No. Shoot them in the head just like every other time. We obviously have an opinion about this movie. We think this movie is amazing. And you know what, there are people out there that might not think it's as good,

or maybe they think it's even better. It is now time for second opinions. ["Second Opinions"] Seriously, you guys have made my worst times better and my good times great. So right now, I'm gonna kill a song like not not kill it I'm gonna literally murder it like a beekeeper so let's at least help so it's really easy this is the right hand this is the left hand we pull

them up everybody and we start clapping like this everybody let's go everybody clap let's go yeah once more everybody let's go everybody second opinion everybody has one like s-holes Jason stay thumbs the big keeper And I love honey, so I give it five stars Yeah Sometimes it's bad. Sometimes it's worse Stop, but I still give it five stars Wow Five stars Wow Thank you, thank you, thank you, what's your name? I'll be here tomorrow guys as well

Oh god, I will I just came for these two days. My name is Petros But I know I am known as master tempo in Greece I am a singer so fairly fairly, fairly well known singer, songwriter and producer. Get out of here. Wow, you guys turned on him quick. This audience, wow. I got to say one last thing.

Just one last thing. One last thing? Petros, you had them. You're coming tomorrow. So Greek. I got to say this from the bottom of my heart. I've sang for the Greek people in five continents. But this thing I did today is gonna be my fondest memory.

Very, thank you Petros. Thank you. Thank you. I feel like you had them and then you lost them. I don't know if you got them back. That was a roller coaster. It really was. You all got on board so hard and then you were like, no.

You like, you fanned them up and then devoured them. They were protecting the hive. Yeah. That's a B.O. Swarm right there. B.O. Swarm! This is a home run. Great show.

I do want to read every single five-star review, but there weren't many of them, honestly. That's impossible, because I wrote a number. Well, actually, I mean, I guess there are 4,000 reviews. It's a pretty new film. 81% are five stars. And these are all pretty amazing. I just want to read a selection of them. This one triggered something in me.

From Evan Thompson, the review title is, Great Movie. Love this movie so much, I watched it four times. I would watch it again. I had a similar incident happen to me. Five stars. And June, this might be an elderly person. He wishes that he had a beekeeper in his life. I bet.

It would be great to have a beekeeper service. Old people could call and then have them go fucking murder people. I mean, this is a great startup idea for anyone is. Beekeeper, I'd call him. Yeah. Biker Larry, Biker Larry wrote a title, great movie, Stratum is great. Stratum. Great movie, Jason Stratum shows no one is above the law. Hope it's true in real life.

Five stars. Hope it's true in real life. And then finally Jim Hill writes great movie the beekeeper is a bad boy. If he says your days are numbered your days are numbered five stars. I don't know if that's a review as much as it is just a character description of Adam Clay. I do want to share a couple things here. The movie's budget, $40 million. It made $66 million in the United States. Fantastic. It made $153 million worldwide. That's a success.

You'll love to see it. You'll love to see it. This is something that was really interesting. Jason Statham learned all the beekeeping techniques. He never got stung once. He learned how to pull out the comb, how to smoke the hive, and he did all of that himself. He's the only person on set who didn't get stung, which proves that bees are smart. They don't fuck with Jason Statham. Another interesting fact about this movie, this was one of five films that Jason Statham released within a one-year period. Good for him.

Expendables 4, Meg 2, Fast 10, and Operation Fortune are the others. Wow. Bangers. And then the only other thing here is that no explanation for the old tech, especially the CRT computer monitors are seen in the film, nor is one ever offered. This is because the story was originally set in 2003. That idea was then abandoned, however, the art department had already started sourcing the hardware and they decided to keep what they had purchased.

And originally, the original script takes place in a leaky building. Ha ha ha! And they kept that. Wow, oh wow, the tagline, expose the corruption, protect the hive. Why even put expose corruption? tagline, expose the corruption, protect the hive. Why even put expose corruption? Just protect the hive.

Now... Be a swarm. I will say one other thing here, which is really interesting, because I've never seen this before. 71% on tomato meter, which is high. That's, you know, rottenten Tomato Meter 92% audience score. Whoa.

People love it. The audience fucking gets it. I would say that we all recommend this movie. There's no doubt about it. 100%. I, after watching it, wanted to go back and rewatch it, which has never happened in the history of this podcast. As someone who has now seen this movie twice, I cannot recommend it enough.

I love this movie, it's great. We could do two nights on this movie, but I will say this. There was a moment I was enjoying the movie so much that when they mistakenly found that Jason Statham cloned at the party, I thought it was me. I was like, oh, is that me? I was like, no, you're not in this movie. Am I in this movie? But when he turned around, I was like, it looks enough like me that I was like...

He's also dressed just like Statham, so much so that you would think Statham had seen that guy and been like, oh, I got to wear that outfit just to confuse everybody. But no, he's just rocking around. Yeah, in a little suit and a black, you know, look, he looks like he was the transporter again. And he's easily and effortlessly walking around having changed nothing about his appearance. Nope. He never shaves his beard.

He doesn't, barely puts on a hat, really. Oh yeah, he wears sunglasses. Oh my gosh, the FBI drawing of him. I loved it. I wanna go home and watch it right now. Me too. Do the show again tonight this with all of you? London this has been or I should say hackney. This has been a wonderful night. We could not be more excited

For being here Jason Manzuchis June Diane radio We'll see you tomorrow Thank you, London. What a way to kick off our UK tour. Thank you to the staff at the Hackney Empire and thank you to everyone who came out. What an amazing way to kick off this European expedition. I also want to give a shout out to our tour manager, Beth Thomas, our recording engineer, Matt Rice, and our super talented engineer, Casey Holford, who made that very special UK tour theme for us that you heard at the top of the episode. We're pulling out all the stops for you. Now, before I give you some plugs, I have a quick favorite ask. If you enjoy the show, please go to Apple Podcasts

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And you can also see us in Seattle and Portland doing improv. That's Jason and I. Go to my website or go to howdidthisgetmade.com. All the information is right there. Oh my gosh, so much going on, but you know what? Back to you. If you have a correction or a mission from this episode,

leave me a voicemail at 619-P-A-U-L-A-S-K or write me a comment on our Discord at Discord.gg slash HDTGM and then make sure that you tune in next week for our last looks follow up episode on The Beekeeper to hear me respond to your messages, announce our next movie and chat with Jason about all sorts of fun stuff. Anyway, people, what a show. But I can't end it before I thank our entire team who make this show possible. That's right, I'm talking about our producers Scott Sonny and Molly Reynolds, our movie

picking producer Avery Halley, our engineer Casey Holford, and our associate producer Jess Cisneros. That's all I got. I will see you next week on Last Looks. Until then, Beel Swarm! It's gonna be EAR RUNS! Be a Swarm! Be a Swarm! This is a home run. Great show!