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Hey, Happy New Year, you listeners, you. We are rigging in 2025 with a new episode of How to Do Everything, hosted by Wait, Wait producers Mike Danforth and Ian Chilock. Now, this episode, Mike and Ian sit down with actor and filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg, who just so happened to steal my identity about a decade ago. Whatever. It's fine. I'm clearly over it. I mean, really. I mean, it's fine.
It's fine. I don't mind. They have just a few episodes left in this season, so make sure to follow them at their own feed and enjoy the latest How to Do Everything.
This is How to Do Everything. I'm Mike.
And I'm Ian. Coming up, writer, director, and actor Jesse Eisenberg joins us to answer all of your how-to questions. But first... Hey, Maureen. What can we help you with?
Well, let me take you back. About two weeks ago, sitting on my back porch with my husband and a girlfriend of mine, Caitlin. And she works for this hyper-local honey place here in Atlanta. And she is only about a mile from my house. And she accidentally left a key at her office. And she just made some offhanded comments.
It's like, oh, wouldn't it be so nice if the bees could just fly over my key and I wouldn't have to go get it? Yeah. And so I am thinking immediately, well, this is ludicrous because it would take an insane amount of bees to do this. So I'm imagining like a lot of bees in this huge mass, like a swarm of bees carrying this key. So I ask her, how many bees do you think this would take?
And she's like, oh, well, you know, a house key is small. Like imagine if you could just stick their little feet to the key and then they could all fly up, right? Right. Then maybe it would only take like seven bees. And I'm thinking, no, this is like a 50 bee situation, like a ton of bees. And every single person I have asked seems to think it would take less than 20 bees.
My husband was like five bees. Caitlin says seven. You know, so I've dug my heels in pretty hard and I have come to y'all for some answers.
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