M Explained is on the radio and partnership with WNYC. A theme was here with us five years ago, almost to the day when we launched today,. This week he's leaving us, but he's leaving a lot of butter behind. Noam helped me put together a little tribute to a theme, The Dream Shapiro. You are not obliged to listen to it, but if you want to, let me just set it up.
Humanity can’t survive without bees, which is why bees are big business for thieves. Today, Explained’s Haleema Shah heads to the capital of sting operations — California’s Central Valley — to find out who’s beehind these thefts and why they're happening.
This episode was reported and produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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