I had a major “Sim” moment happen when listening to this podcast episode earlier today…. When they were talking about bees and bee stings and Jason (I think) mentioned not being able to feel them land on you then it gets you with the sting and start thinking to myself that I don’t think I’ve been stung by a bee once in my adult life and not since I had a major Thomas J moment when I was about 11, but minus the anaphylactic dying part… ( too soon?)! So I’m on my balcony listening and not even a minute later in the episode I get attacked and stung! But I felt it land on me, it came for me and it stung like a *%]+~?|•|%{?. So whoever is playing me in this simulation decided to spring a (I assume) Yellow Jacket on me right after as it stung a few times before I could flick it off and run inside.
If that's true, it's wildly unprofessional and disrespectful on the part of Hawkins (who, frankly, I have never heard of- it seems she has 3 Broadway credits, the most recent of which was from 1983).
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."