Ep. 448: Be The Killer Bee

Happier in Hollywood

The Onward Project

Careers, Business, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Before Liz and Sarah dive into the episode, Liz shares the sad news of her dad’s recent death and thanks listeners for the outpouring of love and support. Then they talk about their Team Theme for 2026 and how they want it to relate to this year’s theme but also be more aggressive. They land on “Be the Bee,” and their symbol is the Killer Bee. In The Mailroom, they answer a layered question about whether or not too much pressure is put on new writers to deliver stellar spec pilot scripts. This week’s Hollywood Hack is to have multiples of certain items — including phone chargers, scissors, and reading glasses. Finally Liz recommends I Love LA on HBO Max.

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LINKS:

Jack Craft obituary:

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/kansascity/name/jack-craft-obituary?id=60219609

I Love LA trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnBAmvw_Yow

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0:00.0	Lemonada.
0:05.8	I was just thinking since Anne is in town, maybe we should take advantage and do a Roar 24 before Christmas.
0:13.8	Oh, we should. We'll check into our, the blue and the emerald.
0:18.3	Iguana. Yeah, let's pick a day.
0:20.5	Okay. blue and the emerald iguana. Yeah, let's pick a day.
0:21.1	Okay.
0:31.1	Hi, and welcome to Happier in Hollywood, the podcast about how to be happier, healthier,
0:34.4	saner, more creative, more successful, and more productive, and a backbiting, superficial, chaotic, unpredictable, fundamentally insane world.
0:40.7	I'm Sarah Fane, a TV writer and producer living in Ohio right outside of L.A.
0:45.2	And with me is my high school friend and writing partner Liz.
0:48.9	That's me, Liz Kraft. On this podcast, we talk about being writers in Hollywood,
0:53.5	how we balance a career and friendship
0:55.4	and how to survive the war of attrition that is life in Los Angeles.
1:00.0	Today, we are talking team theme for 26.
1:04.4	The problem is we still really like last year's theme.
1:07.8	Then we have a mailroom question about what showrunners really expect from
1:12.6	lower level writers. This week's Hollywood hack is all about multiples, and Liz has a show
1:19.0	recommendation, but first, we have an update. Yes, so as many listeners know, Sarah, my dad, Jack
1:27.2	Kraft, died December 2nd.
1:30.0	I was there, Gretchen was there, my mom was there, we were all around him.
1:34.7	So as far as it went, that was as we all would have wanted it.
1:41.5	I don't want to go into a lot about it because it's just still so
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