Season 4.5 Episode 10: Back to Beesics

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One of the most eventful episodes in ages. Its the finale of Houdini and Doyle! Tom tells us about what Covid-19 is. Nate reads the next chapter of Wolverines of Doom! Its long and filled with references only the hosts will understand. Plus, the official plan for season 5 of Clayne Cast is announced. Lets get back to Beesics.

## Episode Summary

First episode of 2024! Tom is sick with the Covid. Drew is moving. Nate mingles with the SB elites. Hooray!

Despite being likely the worst episode of Houdini & Doyle, the hosts are able to produce a great episode of ClayneCast to start the year off right. They lay out some plans for the upcoming Season 5, and even touch on fan favorite, THE BEES!

Drew thinks the Mafia and Hells Angel’s fell off and isn’t afraid to pick fights with anyone.

They check out Josh Brandon, a writer on the Houdini & Doyle. He also wrote William Shatners book/biography and a movie which the lady constable from the show is in.

Nate was at a dinner recently with **Jordana Brewster** (who played Dr. Maureen Cahill on Lethal Weapon). Her husband actually brought up ClayneCast to Nate, who reluctantly talked about it. But then he actually thought it was so cool, and she even told him that she also thought her character and Clayne should have gotten together! And the genius Clayne also thought that.

Tom will do a Lethal Weapon re-watch under 2 stipulations: **1)** JB agrees to join for an episode when they do the season finale/recap/andy cohen episode to talk about Lethal Weapon and **2)** Adam Levine joins as well.

Drew’s stipulation is that each of them get a “Skip” option, to skip over boring or bad scenes (like the Murtaugh family scenes)

### Video Watchalong

**Click here to watch** the hosts do anything but pay attention to the final episode of Houdini & Doyle!

### Show Recap

Not a great finale. A town was poisoned by a CO2 leak but it was an accident. It has absolutely nothing to do with the other plot, which was an assassination attempt on the President of the United States. So these 3 British people (only one of whom is an actual police officer) go to Canada to expose a plot to assassinate an American President. And the person plotting it all was Adelaide’s husband who we found out last time wasn’t actually dead (“It was a rope trick.”). Another theme is Houdini having horny dreams about his dead mother. The Canadian police blame Walt, a member of the Canadian First Nations, who tells them about Dreams.

> "In this episode, we hear Michael Weston's Houdini say, "Am I the only one who doesn't like Canadians?" The real Houdini had nothing against Canadians. Canada was a regular part of his travels and played an important role in his early career (read: Bruce MacNab mines Houdini gold in the Maritimes). This is most likely a playful nod to the fact that on October 22, 1926, Houdini was struck in the stomach by a Canadian student named J. Gordon Whitehead. This started a chain of events that would culminate in Houdini's death on Halloween. Maybe it's fitting that this final episode has a moment that foretells Houdini's own end."
> - from *Wildabouthoudini.com*
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Read their full review here.

### Host Ratings

Not given. However it was not well received and confusing.

## Notable Quotes

### Nate

* “I watched, I think, probably over half of it, and I thought it was great and then I just… like anything, I stopped watching and never watched it again.” (About THE IRISHMAN)
* “Come on guys, quit fuckin’…god, quit watching children’s TV shows!” (as if he doesn't binge watch Jakers all the time)
* “Ten fucking episodes, and not one magic trick.”
* “When I’m not here, in this little world? I’m well loved, everywhere I go.”

### Tom

* “I finally got covid! I finally got it, and no one gives a shit!”
* “Oh, breaking news, this is huge - breaking news: BTS…all the members of BTS have died.”
* “I have to call her [his wife] when she’s in a work meeting and be like ‘*I need my candy! I’m sick!!*’”

### Drew

* “Google Nate Ruess…Weinstein.”
* “I don’t have any fuckin’ Funkos.”
* “I’ll never watch The Marvels.”
* “There’s no you without us!”

## Wolverines of Doom

The second Chapter of Wolverines of Doom! Starts about 17 minutes into the episode.

Nate actually drew a Map of the CCU to help him organize the whole story, Game of Thrones style. He may upload it at one point, and if that ever happens it will be published here as well.

We also learn that Nate writes this all out on his Phone.

The Chapters will eventually be posted on the Patreon. Nate will send them to Drew, who may or may not heavily edit them and then upload them. Patreon.com/Claynecast

### Chapter 2: “Country Gold, King Daryl, and the Hawks” - Recap

Themes of Revolution throughout the entire chapter.

We learn that the time period before King Lingle asked for the Queens hand was referred to as the era before “Sis made us Fam”, of SMUF.

We’re introduced to several characters who had already taken up battle against the evil overlords pre-SMUF, called HAWK (Hard Authentic Working Kings).

**King Daryl** – founder of HAWK, banished to the isolated and frozen island of Calgary. Beloved by all until his usurping by the Donkey King Hee Haw. Once a week, he would stand on his balcony and sing or shout to the people through a megaphone, a spectacle called ‘Country Gold’.

**Sir Michael Timmins** – A loyal knight. However he would yell song requests to King Daryl during Country Gold and make continued unnecessary comments, distracting him from the flow. Eventually he was completely ignored, which lead to a feud. This escalated so far that Sir Timmins was banished from the event, but still kept on as a trusted night. But eventually he was banished fully and exiled to Calgary island.

The Donkeys of the North saw this feud as an opportunity to seize control of the CCU, which they did, and within a day, King Daryl was also forced to flee to Calgary. Its unsure if Daryl and Sir Timmins ever rejoined forces in Calgary. Shortly after, the newly exiled King Daryl wrote his old friend King Kitty, the King of the West for assistance. The people of the West were largely independent and secluded from the rest of the CCU, however they did have one issue with the other Kingdoms: Queen Lingle's grandchild Justinius had accidentally let too many racoons into the south, and now they had begun to migrate west and started to ravage and annoy the people there. This beef between South and West CCU would never have happened if the Racoons had just stayed on Racoon Island where they were ruled by the (freshly re-assassinated) King Chomper Ninety-four.

**King Kitty** – Ruler of the Western Kingdom. Had a speech impediment that made it sound like he was talking in baby talk. Since he wanted the Racoon invasion to stop, he offered up his son, Pwince Hillawy, to join HAWK.

**Pwince Hillawy** - Wanted to become a famous jester, but his father disapproved and made him join forces with King Daryl. Spent all the Money for the revolution on hot-wings and shitty tattoos and made a panting face every time a woman walked by. After one open jestering night never returned to King Daryls couch.

**Pwincess Kitty** also lives there, but doesn't have a big part in this chapter. Probably busy watching the mañana sunsets.

The Island of Calgary, due to its freezing cold temperatures, has weally weally good ice cweam. The people there, mainly due to the weather but also because of some sexual kinks, were mostly shut-ins. Whenever they did actually leave their homes to get more ice cream, they were bombarded by strong hallucinations from the weather or the kink, causing them to see dinosaurs where there clearlyweren’t any.

**Awesome Joseph** **aka AJ** - freshly divorced Ex-King/husband of the evil witch-queen. A very chill, all-around great guy who made a bad decision to marry a dumb attention deprived racist bitch. Had a rise-and-grind mindset. Upon King Daryls request, joined up with HAWK.

**The Ant Queen and the Ants** – A drop dead sexy queen who could make anyone fall in love with her. However, she had no interest in the world above ground and its many problems, so she declined King Daryl's invitation.

**The Red Queen** – Newly dawned ruler of the Simp-city Catholics. She also could not join HAWK since she was embroiled in a bitter holy war with the Religious Witchy, and couldn’t spare any of her simps to take up arms.

**The Religious Witchy** – evil crazy bitch, fighting the Red Queen.

**The Murphy’s aka the bastards of the CCU** – Immigrated from god-knows-where many decades ago, considered themselves royalty. A large and insular, yet very flashy group. The Murphys are also famed handymen, paving the paths into castles, tiling its many spires, and crashing wagons. At the time of Daryl’s request, they were in a major billing dispute with Queen Lingle, because the paint they used for her castle and claimed would last at least 5 years had washed right off after the first rain. However, when she sought to complain, the Murphys were already long gone. They even took out a life insurance policy in the old queens name, so they were happy to help King Daryl in his quest. They joined up under the condition that they would get an exclusive contract to re-tile and re-pave each castle in the kingdom. In his desperation, King Daryl agreed to their request.

**King R-dub** – The serious and commanding leader of the Murphys, with an intimidating look. Rumored to be in poor health.

**Queen R-dub** – Very very very young queen of the Murphys

**Xander the Great** - Nephew/Brother/Boyfriend/Grandfather of Queen R-dub. Offered up in King R-dub’s place, but ultimately rejected by King Daryl.

Once the members of HAWK were selected, they descended upon King Daryls apartment in Calgary Island, where they planned their revolution and takeover. Unfortunately soon after, Pwince Hillawy went off with some wenches at a bar one night and never returned to King Daryls couch, or HAWK for that matter. Despite this, he tried to remain optimistic. But then, a message written in Crayon arrived – it was penned by Queen R-dub! She said King R-dub was definitely doing great, definitely didn’t have a stroke and definitely wasn’t dead. Also she asked him for some money she would definitely NOT spend on a vacation she would take with her sons. In King R-dubs stead she offered to send her Nephew/Brother/Boyfriend/Grandfather, Xander the Great. But Daryl declined, and decided that just Awesome Joseph and him were enough to get the job done.

He came up with a genious plan, to have AJ be a double agent by auditioning for a role in one of the Donkey King’s plays which was set to be directed and star King Rossersons oldest and bestest and mentally unstablest friend. On opening night, which King Rosserson would surely attend, AJ would assassinate him. As fate would have it, he did indeed get cast for the part of “White man”. After months of prep, everyone from around the CCU had come to see the production. King Daryl also came, albeit disguised in a very scary wolf mask. During the second act, the lead actor/director was supposed to throw a bottle of green tea at AJ’s character. But AJ had secretly filled acid into the bottle, planning to catch it and then pour it over the donkey king’s head. But the plan hit many snags. The play was so boring and stupid that King Rosserson didn’t even return to his seat after the intermission and just went home, like most of the crowd. To make matters worse, the lead actor was so enraged by the lack of interest from the audience he angrily threw the bottle of acid onto Awesome Joseph, melting his face! The remaining audience thought this was all part of the show and its grand finale, and they loved it, giving a 10-minute standing ovation! Keithlovestheatre even called it a massive success. Feeling vindicated, King Rosserson and the lead actor then claimed this was all part of the plot the whole time, and for the rest of the season, a different actor was drenched in acid each night.

Frustrated, King Daryl dropped his scary wolf mask and ran back to Calgary, and hadn’t been heard of since.

The Moral was: *Most* revolutions take time; *most* revolutions take patience. And thanks to the failures of those before them, nobody understood how difficult and intricate this process was going to be than the Wolverines of Doom.

---- end of Chapter 2 ----

## Trivia

Weed makes you tired, Alcohol makes you ready to go.

Many Dogs are being shot in the head because nobody loves them and they don’t even get 1 like.

Walking up and down the stairs one time is a workout (doctor recommended).

Owning a DeLorean is unhinged.

## Get to know your Host(s)

Drew lost 10 lbs. He used to play Basketball as a 12-year-old.

Tom has Long Covid and needs you to help him recover by sending him candy and a Steam deck.

Nate and Drew have many talks without Tom.

Tom hasn’t even seen an episode of Racoons!

Drew has a few Star Wars legos but no other memorabilia. Doesn’t even own the movies!

Tom will never watch a Marvel TV show.

In Restaurants, Nate orders a bowl of salt and a big glass of Ice cubes (and eats both loudly).

## Locker Room Talk

Coming soon. Missed last times because Nate cancelled due to (reason unknown), and then Tom cancelled due to sickness.

## Freaky Figures

This is the first episode of 2024!

It's also the Longest episode of Season 4.5 at a whopping 1 hour, 10 minutes and 02 seconds.

## Clayne Fore-Casting

Everyone is excited for the Lethal Weapon re-watch. At the end of Season 1 or so, whenever they do the Andy Cohen episode (aka Season Finale), Jordana Brewster will join and everyone will have a great time.

The hosts will write and produce Season 2 of Houdini and Doyle. It will be a very explicit and pornographic story about Harry Houdini having to bang a bunch of Women who are possessed by his mother’s ghost. Once he finishes, the ghost moves on to haunt another woman. He must do this until she possesses the right woman or something.