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We saw the beekeeper, so you know what that means.

Jason Manzoukas
What's up, jerks? That's right, London, here we go. Hello, people.

Paul Scheer
J man, Big Paul in the beautiful. June gonna take us in the gloom. All the way to the room thunderpants. I've got a lot to say. I took notes.

June Diane Raphael
I'm not okay. People of gauntlet. Bell pass things for farts. Eat em all. Rupert Grimford changed his name.

So upset. I hate this. That's my ugly truth. This place is full of bees. How does this get made?

Jason Manzoukas
Get this guy out of here.

Hello, people of earth, and hello, people of London.

Paul Scheer
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.

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 the United States or the president. There's a lot of rules there seems like there's a lot of beekeeping. All I know is don't piss this man off, don't machine gun his honeybees, and most importantly, don't trick his old lady friend. This is an AARP commercial meets death wish.

Statham is avenging a fool fishing scam. That's the movie.

That's all you need to know. And now you need to know my co host. Please welcome to the stage, for the first time in London, Jason Manzoukas.

Jason Manzoukas
What's up, jerks?

How we doing? London.

That's right, we're here. I've been in your city for ten days. You didn't even know. I saw the smile at Allie Pally. I saw Mary Latimer 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 beekeeper and our London shows came out, because, seriously, this might be one of my favorite movies.

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. This is better than Oppenheimer.

Paul Scheer
I honestly. Beef and Hummer. I mean, I was gonna try to do Barbie, but that's beep, Barbie, beep. Either way, you do the math. And that's the shirt.

This movie came out January 10, 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.

Jason Manzoukas
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.

Paul Scheer
Please welcome, also for the first time. In London, June Diane Raphael.

How are you, June? I am okay, question mark. So, yeah. And I don't think we told you this, Jason. I watched this movie, like, 40 minutes after Paul and I left Paris.

Jason Manzoukas
So romantic. We had been there for days and had such a beautiful time. And then I settled in for beekeeper. Ugh. And you were like, is it possible this is better than Paris?

June Diane Raphael
It was so shocking. And it was also like, go back to America, June, where you belong.

Jason Manzoukas
Hey, trash. Watch this. 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.

Paul Scheer
And I want to see if you both caught it. Cause he's 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.

Jason Manzoukas
Oh, yeah. Oh, wow. Although. Although many more states. Many more than 50.

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.

Paul Scheer
That's american fucking flag. Oh, shit. But we got all these bees on here. And I truly don't know where to begin talking about this. It's like we could go so many different directions.

June Diane Raphael
I have so much to say, but I just want to start with, buckle up, asshole. We're going to be here for 9 hours. Oh, yeah. We're shutting this place down. And we have four beekeepers backstage in case they do try to shut us down.

Jason Manzoukas
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?

Paul Scheer
No. That's a great question. What hive is the United States? It's just the United States. Yes.

Jason Manzoukas
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 the 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? Cause that makes me go, you are a horrible detective, if you. Cause it took forever.

British oiki oiki bees. No doi oiki bees. And people are like, now, hang on. You sound like you maybe aren't exactly. From here, but here's my question.

June Diane Raphael
So if 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 want to say, you're doing a horrible job. They should shut them down immediately. Cause like, that collapsed many, many years ago.

Jason Manzoukas
Well, keep in mind he is retired. The person who is the current beekeeper, that lady is the lunatic with the minigun. The woman 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 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 flowchart that takes me through. And maybe this is the tv, the organization that takes me through. Just like there's the president, there's secret service, CIA, Navy Seals, like, who do we call?

June Diane Raphael
And then, like, the insane clown posse that showed up. Well, that's the thing. They are scenarios. 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 want to 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.

Paul Scheer
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.

Jason Manzoukas
That's the world this. That's the world the beekeeper lives in, man. Nobody. They're all Americans. Now, this exposition dump right here, I just want.

Paul Scheer
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've disturbed the beekeeper.

Jason Manzoukas
Oh, 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.

Jeremy Irons
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, I will say this.

Paul Scheer
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. Clearly left. Decanter of, like, scotch. We clearly left from, like, last looks. Yes.

Jason Manzoukas
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, oh, no, it's in the shot. The backgrounds of this movie, 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.

June Diane Raphael
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. Everything happens in Boston. Everything happens in Boston. Is that like a weird camp David?

Jason Manzoukas
No, that's the beach house. She says, I'll be at the president's party, though. That's the son's party. No, it's the president's party isn't gonna go. He's visiting her.

June Diane Raphael
No, but I think all of those people that he brought, his people, okay. Cause they're dressed like clowns. Literally. Is. She said, goofball parade just, like, exploded into the party.

Paul Scheer
I love Josh Hutchinson. Josh Hutcherson 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.

Jason Manzoukas
Savage. Take. A lot of people think in the third man, you know, he comes in pretty strong, but I'm saying, move over. Cause Carol Reeds, the third man, is this unspooled. Got him.

You would appreciate it. You would appreciate it. You would appreciate him. 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.

Paul Scheer
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.

June Diane Raphael
Hutcherson. Really? Josh? I always have to think, Hutcherson. We could just call it.

He's giving another amazing performance. Incredible. Now, I did question. I questioned so many different security agencies and operations. I question the fact that secret Service wears a badge that says Secret Service on it.

Jason Manzoukas
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.

June Diane Raphael
Why aren't they disguised as some of the partygoers? None of them. 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.

Paul Scheer
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.

Jason Manzoukas
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.

June Diane Raphael
Cause I'm like, you're killing Navy SeaLs. Like, 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.

Jason Manzoukas
Oh, right. Died. That 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 there, I have to imagine there are other offices with other offices. There's other businesses there. There's probably doctor's offices.

Paul Scheer
It seems like a quarter of the floor is this little thing that looks like a fashion company. Like, when he walks into, oh, I. 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 paused it a few times. I say, conservatively, he is taking out 26 people, and he has blown up that entire building.

Jason Manzoukas
He kills, I'm going to say, upwards of 200 people in what I believe is 30 hours. The movie's timeline is so fucked. Every time. Crazy. 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 it. Give it up for mini driver. Another amazing performance.

Paul Scheer
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. Cause so many explosives were used, so many guns, so many different weapons.

June Diane Raphael
I could not believe that we never saw him unleash a swarm of beasts. I agree. I was so. I agree. I was.

Jason Manzoukas
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 beekeeper's uniform that I was like, why does fencing suit. Why, yes.

Why doesn't he wear this throughout? I want. Is it too much of, like, a superhero's uniform? Did he not want that? He's like, no, I just want jeans in a t shirt.

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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. Oh, wow. He is a, 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. Ah, weird. Is he a hornet? I'm so sorry.

Jason Manzoukas
What do you mean? Because he is a beacon. But he is a dead in the eyes when you said that, like you know the answer, Jason. And I was like, whoa, guy. I don't know what we're up to right now.

Because they say, is he a hornet? Well, okay, because he's a beekeeper. Well, but the organization is called the beekeeper. But he's acting like a hornet. Because I think he's acting like a queen slayer.

Paul Scheer
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.

Jason Manzoukas
It feels like bees. He's a beekeeper. Like, that's his zen, but he has to protect. I don't know if you know this. Cause it's subtle in the movie.

Yeah, he has to protect the hive. And also he says, but just. I know. And you might not have heard this part, Paul. I imagine you didn't.

June Diane Raphael
But they do mention once offhandedly that he takes care of bees. Yes. Okay, well, this is interesting you bring this up. This is. I have it here as well.

Jason Manzoukas
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'd take care of bees. I'm a beekeeper. I guess he's a bee lover. The beekeeper. Beth, can you pause it for 1 second?

Beekeeper. 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 says he's a beekeeper. You've disturbed the beekeeper. Oh, okay.

So fucking what? Why don't I care if the guy keeps bees? If a beekeeper says you're gonna die, you're gonna die. Your beekeeper. Of a beekeeper.

A beekeeper. Beekeeper. Current active beekeeper. The current active beekeeper. Beekeeping for beekeepers.

Jeremy Irons
Beekeepers. Beekeepers. Beekeeper. Beekeepers. Not unlike bees themselves.

Beekeepers. Beekeeper. It's what beekeepers do. That beekeeper. Beekeepers.

Jason Manzoukas
Some fucking beekeepers. Beekeepers. He's just a beekeeper. Yes. Not that beekeepers exist, but Mister Clay does keep honeybees.

This is a fucking beekeeper. Beekeeper. Huh? It's gone far enough. You proved your point.

Jeremy Irons
Beekeepers. Holy shit. Oh, my God. Thank you, Averell, for that. Amazing.

Jason Manzoukas
Incredible that is. That's the shit right there. And honest to God, ten out of ten, no notes. Put more in. I'd love it.

Paul Scheer
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.

June Diane Raphael
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 just 1.5, but which is for the insane.

Yeah. All I need to 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 one point, I slow it down. Because I'm like, this is so good. Okay. 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, 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, like, a young white woman being kidnapped and someone having, yeah. We have to wait for tom sell. Up commercials to understand what's going on.

To old people, to the inciting incident here. But I was watching the two of them, and I was like, I don't know what's gone on between. 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 want to watch more. She's his queen, and then she is ripped from this world. This is a moment that really. Balcony's wasted. Sorry.

Jason Manzoukas
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's gotten rid of her bees. I have a question about this in a second. But he's gotten rid of her bees.

Paul Scheer
And she goes, what are you gonna do with them? And he goes, it's between me and the bees. And then she goes, I understand. Why is this so serious? He's a fucking exterminator.

Jason Manzoukas
Like, what? So loaded. It's so loaded. 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.

June Diane Raphael
Twice, actually. And they're odd as hell. Yeah, they're odd as hell. I would argue 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 350 shades of Grey movies. All three.

Jason Manzoukas
You're telling me there's not a red room in that barn? Something has happened between the two of us. 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 besome or besom? Besom is a good shirt. Now. It's you. It's me.

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.

June Diane Raphael
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 engage too much with a person who works at our house. You are like, get them out of here. Go, go, go.

Paul Scheer
Don't talk to them. I like a quiet home. I like a quiet home. I have to prepare June for a 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.

June Diane Raphael
I'm so scared all the time. So 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?

Jason Manzoukas
Wasn't there some. I don't know. They were hornets. I think those were bad hornets that we're going to attack. So the bees that he tasered were hornets?

June Diane Raphael
Correct. Wait, so this is really just a beautiful articulation of what's going on? He's protecting the high from evil hornets from invaders. Wow. So the opening scene is a microcosm of the entire movie.

Jason Manzoukas
Best picture 2024. The beekeeper. And I loved it. Cause he's. And who would have thought?

I just wanted to say thank you for putting up with me and my bees. And every time he is so grateful that this has. 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.

Paul Scheer
He rents a room in the barn, or it's 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?

Jason Manzoukas
Bamf 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.

Paul Scheer
First of all, he comes in, but it seems like the daughter is already there. She's like, freeze, motherfucker. And it's like you saw him walk in. Do you think he murdered and then came back and be like, I'll turn off the stuff now and I'll. And also, she's dead from a gunshot wound, and he's carrying a butcher's knife.

Jason Manzoukas
Cause he thinks something's wrong. So at that point, too, mustn't 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.

June Diane Raphael
I did question her wearing her. Her Harvard t shirt.

I was so stunned because someone who goes to Harvard and wears the t shirt, that says a lot about that. But then. 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. I mean, 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. Oh, no. And she has not an ounce of grief.

Jason Manzoukas
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.

Paul Scheer
I thought you were gonna wait how 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. Or 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.

Jason Manzoukas
I was like, where is this? Where's this? Where is this coming from? I couldn't understand that at all. She also.

Paul Scheer
I mean, there's so many things here. Because I want to go back to. The suicide, though, because I do have some questions about her relationship to technology, because she keeps. She keeps on saying. Saying that she's not a computer person.

June Diane Raphael
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 back end work that she. Million dollar account that she's running, running.

And I. You gotta do a little bf. A smidge. 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 sure it showed that she was on the finishing screen of Mist, which is a computer game, 20 years old.

Paul Scheer
I love that more. 40 years ago. Yeah, that was not out in 2000. Her, like, she's an elder who has, like, a jitterbug. Like one of those phones.

June Diane Raphael
Remember the jitterbug? It had three number. You could remember it. It still exists. I'm actually very interested in purchasing a jitterbug.

Paul Scheer
Explain the jitterbug, June. What's that? Explain the jitterbug. The jitterbug, I think, has, like, three buttons on. It's like a phone for old people that has, like.

Jason Manzoukas
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?

Yeah. Cause 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. Like, that's why she didn't want to, like, spend a couple days going to, like, the tech store.

Paul Scheer
Like, oh, how will I access my kids photo photos? But then it seems like her son's dead and she doesn't talk to her daughter. What photos are on there? Okay. Very callous.

Jason Manzoukas
Very callous. That is a savage. She is dead, Paul. Can she not look at past photos? Have some respect.

Paul Scheer
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.

Jason Manzoukas
You know what? This family, she wouldn't have committed suicide if she was getting railed by Statham. That's true. So I think that might disprove. Honestly, Jason, that's very dramatic.

In that sense, she would have something to. Someone to live for. I just wish she had called a bank, you know, because. Yeah, I 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 being.

Paul Scheer
Shown at money in your 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?

Jason Manzoukas
Because. Because isn't like the person in Boston has, like, a link to his. Except that they're all in Massachusetts. All of these are Massachusetts. All the call centers are in.

All the call centers appear to be Massachusetts. But there was one that said, the. Ones that they visit in the movie, I'm certain, are other ones, but they are, 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.

Clip one. Oh, can I say one thing while you're running the movie? Cause 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.

Paul Scheer
But in the pusher or shots. The dog, I guess so. Or the door. Or the wife. Or the wife.

Okay. You know, because one has the wife's death as the. 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?

Jason Manzoukas
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 gonna make the call center look like a nightclub. There were runways. Now watch this. Nightclub meets, like, a very high end, like, 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 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 the goat. I'm like, fuck yeah. Incredible.

Paul Scheer
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 rinse nightclub remotely.

Jason Manzoukas
All right, tell me what to do. She's so good. Incredible. Okay, can you type this? Friendlyfriend.com.

Net? Friendlyfriend.net. Click, hang up. Bye bye. That's a prank.

Paul Scheer
Friendly friend.

Jason Manzoukas
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 key. Kids.

Got fucking kids. Oh. I don't want you to get in trouble. I like that he has to justify. That to the people.

He has a whole second scene where he's just talking to the guys in the room. Different password. The 1 second. Now, 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 are on this computer. Kids pictures.

Paul Scheer
Excel documents, Amazon. Amazon orders. Uh oh. Fucking yes. That is what I am talking about.

Jason Manzoukas
Come on.

Paul Scheer
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. Give it up, Beth. Yes.

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.

June Diane Raphael
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 gonna say. They have webcam footage of elderly people. Like dozens, dozens of little, little thumbnails of all the old people that they're actively scamming.

Jason Manzoukas
This movie is this movie. Is this movie, like, for the elderly? Honestly, it's a revenge story for the elderly. Yes. The Beaver 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 the.

June Diane Raphael
That is what I found so fascinating about this movie, because the elderly are discarded. And once they don't serve capitalism, you know, 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, yeah.

Jason Manzoukas
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.

June Diane Raphael
Elder abuse is real. First of all, guilty.

You say it like I'm not saying you've abused the lcd. She deserved it. The ensure fell from the shelf. That's all. Wait, how old were the beekeepers that came to your house?

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And then it felt like everyone had carte Blanche in this movie to do whatever they wanted. And I wanted to play this scene that Avril 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 gonna be great for the podcast audience, so maybe it's just for you, the live audience.

Jason Manzoukas
Is this. Is this a scene about something that takes place in the background? Yes. I'm obsessed with this exact moment. Okay, 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 gotta be, like, a central office that's controlling all of them, and that's what we gotta find. Hello?

Did you hear? And the two balloons? Yeah, don't forget the two balloons. The roof is leaking, and there are two clown balloons. Gain 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? 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.

Especially Jamali. Okay, let's go. What they found, you got going out? Never not found. It's the gift that keeps giving.

Here's the thing. Oh, my God. I got it. Here's the thing. 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.

June Diane Raphael
I am overwhelmed. Is that not incredible? It's center frame, but what do you think? I have a theory. Okay, so my theory, Justine, is that what.

Jason Manzoukas
Whatever. Whatever sort of birthday celebration. What's 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.

Cause there's a story there. The balloons, rivet. 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 I agree. I think that's what we got here, because that is so dramatic.

Well, the leak in the roof is the most dramatic scene. See? So that was my. That was my original scene. Did you notice it when you watched it?

Yes. And now what I now believe is, like, one of the extras came up to the director said, hey, wouldn't it be fun if, like, there's, like, a leak in the ceiling? And I was like, cleaning up. And he's like, great idea. Get this guy a janitor's thing right now.

June Diane Raphael
So here. Yes. That's possible. My backstory is possible. And then there's another narrative that's possible, and yours is, too.

Jason Manzoukas
Thank you for validating mine immediately. Validated. Paul's validated your own. Zero for me. Zero.

Yours. There's another narrator. There's magic to it. Like, I feel like yours might be too true. I want to see what magical thing happens.

June Diane Raphael
Well. Cause 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 with a. Leaky roof while he eats a rap. Because there are several.

The other thing that's happening in frame is there's several, like, twinkies. And, like, they're always eating and drinking coffee. They're never not. They're like the Brad pig read of let's make them seem ramshackle and not up to the task so that Statham and the beekeepers are the. He is the only element that is able to get control of.

Paul Scheer
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 is just. You think the janitor is the beekeeper of the building? Yep.

Jason Manzoukas
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 ten for me? Just to see. Because I was obsessed with this guy.

Unknown
This guy. Terrified.

Jason Manzoukas
Tell me this isn't an exhibition character. Let this guy play Wolverine. What is going on with this? Come on, brew. Come on.

This guy's incredible. Yes, I know. He's missing a leg, asshole. You're looking at me. How was any of this my fault?

Wasn't your super secret CIA data mining software supposed to, I don't know, maybe filter out unfucking stoppable killing machines? Don't you fuck with me, young man. Any other life. You. Hey.

This is a fucking beekeeper.

Yeah. You know, I killed one once. Oh. You see? Yeah.

Only cause I was lucky and unfucking lucky. Loved it. Yeah, don't piss your pants, bro. My team will be our short team. If anyone can knock this guy's dick in the dirt, it's them.

Loved it. This 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.

Paul Scheer
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.

Jason Mantzoukas
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.

Paul Scheer
Cause 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. He doesn't say. That's a secret organization that I know about.

Jason Manzoukas
He doesn't say that. Exposition dumped until he's with the mercenaries. Okay, so you did pass. Second question. Wow.

June Diane Raphael
The second question. Good job, Jessica. Thank you. Is very minor. I feel bad now that I asked for two with the background.

Jason Manzoukas
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 that movie is called the beekeeper?

What? What? Yeah, 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.

Jason Mantzoukas
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 the back. The balloons are. Wow.

Jason Manzoukas
The balloons are. 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. 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. I've misunderstood this whole thing. Okay.

Paul Scheer
Your name and your question. Yeah. Anthony. And this movie kind of posits after his replacement 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.

Jason Manzoukas
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 Kickstarter. We said we want some retiree beekeepers to pop up. Aka Jean Claude Van Damme. Oh, I like a Jean Claude.

Paul Scheer
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.

Jason Manzoukas
There's absolutely gonna 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. Who. I loved her entrance. I loved that scene.

But she just goes away so quick, you know? Did Bailey say no? I 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.

June Diane Raphael
You know, to be a beekeeper that looks like that. That's interesting to me. This is. And I want, 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.

Jason Manzoukas
Oh, my God, wait till rats. Did you follow the woman in Texas who's like, the bees? Yeah, the bees. Of course I do.

June Diane Raphael
Of course I do. I'm obsessed with her. I'm absolutely obsessed with her. But all of the beekeepers I follow. Great.

Jason Manzoukas
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 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 is a whole. 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.

Paul Scheer
Well, it's a traditional question to not be keeper. You know, it's like, oh, no, I'm learning. To be or not learning was incredible. Amazing. Your name, your question.

June Diane Raphael
My name is Jana. 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. Thank you.

Jason Manzoukas
What part of Britain are you from?

June Diane Raphael
Ohio. Can we talk about how quickly Felicia Rossard actually killed herself? That's a great question. She's in the FBI and she has a beekeeper. Like, she went from 30 minutes from being hacked to killing herself.

Jason Manzoukas
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, no, no. By the way, that's what was so interesting is like, she knew that Statham was gonna find her and so she's leaving him to, like, she must know. She must know that he's gonna 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 balcony one. My gosh.

June Diane Raphael
Be careful, Paul. I will say no now that the lights are on. Paul, be careful. That probably is the mezzanine. Now that the lights are on.

Jason Manzoukas
There are four balconies. This room. Hackney empire. Fucking gorgeous. Beautiful, beautiful, gorgeous.

Paul Scheer
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.

Jason Manzoukas
The question is about nominative determinism. So the. Wait, repeat it again. Nominative determinism. Nominative determinism.

Of course. Just to bring 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 Bourne identity.

The program is the Bourne program. This is the beekeeper program. And he decides to become a beekeeper. So. Right.

Paul Scheer
But now here's it. To all be beekeepers. Because in her truck is the beekeeping for beekeepers book. Terrible title. Beekeeping for beekeepers.

Jason Manzoukas
So they must. That must be an intention. 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. Hold on.

Paul Scheer
I feel like we have an answer. 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 don't understand. Because it seems like he retired into beekeeping, not he was a beekeeper who was an assassin who's like, all right, 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.

Jason Manzoukas
Because, to June's point earlier, boy, would it have been great if he had been able to summon a bee swarm to come and to come into 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. Beostorm.

Wait. Beoswarm. Whoa. I don't mind punching it up. Beoswarm.

Paul Scheer
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.

Jason Manzoukas
A hero. All right, so what's your name and your question? My name is Aaron, and this is. Around when the FBI have to debrief the director of, I don't know, the fucking CIA or whatever the fuck he is.

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 of me. I can go and tell the president now, right?

Like, it's. There isn't. How much information is that? It seems like this very secret organization. Everyone knows about them and knows exactly what they do.

Well, also, like, Statham is able to take the beekeeper's 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.

June Diane Raphael
And I was so horrified to see him put on a set of flippers. I was like, yeah. What? I don't need to see this. I don't need to watch a grown ass man put on a set of flippers.

Jason Manzoukas
Struggle. Struggle to get flippers on someone who's been effortless and graceful, like Gene Kelly in the movie. Watch that man. Hold on.

June Diane Raphael
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 gonna end my movie this way. Well, June, I think that's the moment that we realize that he becomes a navy seal.

Paul Scheer
I am in the upper balcony. God. Be careful, Paul. Be careful, Paul. Those are the worst of the worst.

Jason Manzoukas
The balcony monsters in London. Humid. I bet. I bet. Now, my question is this.

Paul Scheer
Who should I go to? It's very steep. Okay. Over there. This is a person literally in the back row, higher than the people who are sitting on the seats.

Jason Manzoukas
Well, we don't know if she's high or not. Oh, yes. All right, here we go. We don't know what people are for the show. I'm very well.

June Diane Raphael
How are you? Good. What's your question? Well, I'm only sad that we. 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.

Paul Scheer
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. Cause 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.

Jason Manzoukas
He has her picture after. 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 said, says, yeah, we gotta 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 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. Ah, they met on Tinder website. Yeah. Now that, that's how you end an audience.

That's the show. Everybody take care London. That's how you end an audience. Q and a. They met on home run.

Who said that? Who was it? Second balcony. Middle. All right, great work.

I want to give you credit, but you're in the, you're in the dark now. I was thinking about this as I was running down the ten fights 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 going to 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.

Paul Scheer
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's 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.

Unknown
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 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 opinions.

Everybody has one. Like assholes. Jason Statham's their beekeeper 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.

Jason Manzoukas
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.

Unknown
My name is Petros, but I am known as Master Tempo in Greece. I am a singer. So fairly, fairly well known singer, song writer and producer. Get out of here.

Jason Manzoukas
Wow, you guys turned on him quick. This audience. Wow. I gotta say one last thing. Just one last thing.

One last thing. Petro, you had them. You're coming tomorrow. I gotta say this from the bottom of my heart, sang for the greek people in five continents. But this.

Unknown
But this thing I did today is gonna be my fondest memory. Thank you, Petra. Bravo. Thank you. Thank you.

Paul Scheer
I feel like you had them, then you lost them. I don't know if you got them back. That was. That was a roller coaster. It really was.

Jason Manzoukas
You all got on board so hard and then you were like, yo, you. Like you fattened him with him. No, they were protecting the hive. They were protecting the hive. Yeah.

That's a beo swarm right there. Be a swarm. Be a swarm. This is a home run. Great show.

Paul Scheer
I do want to read every single five stars 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 4000 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.

Loved this movie so much. I watched it four times. I would watch it again. I had a similar incident happen to me. Five stars in 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.

June Diane Raphael
I mean, this is a great startup idea for anyone who's beekeeper. I'd call them Biker Larry. Biker Larry wrote titled great movie. Stratham is great. Stratham.

Paul Scheer
Great movie. Jason Strathom 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.

153 million worldwide.

June Diane Raphael
You love to see it. You love to see it. This is something that was really interesting. Jason Statham learned all the beekeeping techniques.

Paul Scheer
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 four, Meg two, fast ten, and Operation Fortune are the others. Wow.

Jason Manzoukas
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.

Paul Scheer
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, and they kept that. Wow. Oh, wow. The tagline, expose the corruption, protect the hive.

Jason Manzoukas
Why even put exposed corruption? Just protect the hive. Now beoswarm. 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.

Paul Scheer
That's rotten tomatometer. 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 clone 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.

Jason Manzoukas
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 gotta wear one of. I gotta wear that outfit just to confuse everybody. But no, he's just rocking around.

Paul Scheer
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. No, he never shaves his beard, barely. Puts on a hat. Really?

Jason Manzoukas
Oh, yeah. Wear sunglasses. Oh, my gosh. The FBI dragon loved it. I want to go home and watch it right now.

Do this show.

Paul Scheer
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 Manzukas, June Diane Radio. Thank you.

Jason Manzoukas
We'll see you tomorrow. Eat shit, London.

Paul Scheer
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 or Spotify and make sure you click on follow, then turn on automatic downloads.

Not only will this help the podcast, but it will guarantee that you have the best listening experience possible. Because when you download, you avoid all those audio glitches that tend to happen when you stream episodes. Oh, and by the way, we do have a t shirt for this. The t shirt is amazing. It is.

Be a swarm and you can get that as a t shirt. You can get that as a sticker, a magnet, a mug, whatever you want, even a tote bag. Just go to tpublic.com stores. Hdtgm my book is coming. Oh my God.

We are days away from my book and my book tour. I'm going to be in Brooklyn with the editor of the New Yorker. That's right, David Remnick and I are doing a show together in conversation. They'll be reading, they'll be assigning. I'm also doing a show with busy phillips and Adam Pally and even Adam Savage, the Mythbuster himself.

Jason Manzoukas
That's right. You can check that show out. That's free in San Francisco. And you can also see us in Seattle and Portland doing improv. That's Jason and I.

Paul Scheer
Go to my website or go to howtodisketmade.com dot. 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 omission from this episode, leave me a voicemail at six one nine P a u L A s K. Or write me a comment on our discord at discord gg 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 Sahni 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, be a swarm.

Jason Manzoukas
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