Small Beans
601 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 960 ratingsSmall Beans Podcasting is a place for beans of every sort to come bean it up. Free your soul, eh? Be a frijole.
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135. My Top 8: Nyx Fears
November 19, 2018 09:53 - 1 hour - 120 MBOn this episode of My Top 8: a relationship podcast about friendship, Maggie sits down with May Leitz (AKA Nyx Fears) as they discuss how films shaped our idea of friendship and why Jack and Sally may have sent some wrong messages.
133. Pop Culture Petri Dish: Let's Get Xenophysical
November 07, 2018 20:08 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBAbe and Cristian attempt to save all science fiction and the sanity of costume designers everywhere with an argument for why aliens may, in fact, be roughly human-shaped. Find out why that's even not the weird part; the weird part is how WE'RE shaped. We're freaky! Boobs shouldn't exist! Hate your body for whole new reasons along with us. Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Abe Epperson.
132. 1Upsmanship: Sonic CD
November 07, 2018 20:05 - 49 minutes - 68.6 MBGet ready for some contention, some reaffirmations of fraternal love, and some going super duper fast! It's Adam and Michael dissecting Sonic CD, and, as they so often do in the process, the very nature of their friendship.
131. Rough Stuff: 'Scuse Me While I Side-Hug The Fun Ceiling (Feat. Katie Marovitch)
November 03, 2018 00:29 - 55 minutes - 76.2 MBComedian, book-carrier, fuck-not-haver and College Humor mainstay Katie Marovitch joins hosts Bridgett and Sarah to discuss a truly diverse set of topics. These include why hugging your grandma is harder than kissing your dog on the mouth, writing garbage bullshit horoscopes to trick dopes, and childhood sociopathy!
129. The Coen Brothers Brothers: The Big Lebowski
November 03, 2018 00:28 - 1 hour - 82.1 MBThis aggression will not stand, man.
130. Frame Rate: Monster Squad (Feat. Soren Bowie)
November 03, 2018 00:26 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBHappy Halloween! In honor of all those burned at the stake due to mass hysteria surrounding witchcraft, here's Soren Bowie forcing Mike and Abe to cover possibly the worst movie ever featured on the show. Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, The Creature From The Black Lagoon, and The Wolfman team up to kill lots of cops, fail to kill several children, and hang out on the Universal back-lot. Laugh along with us, your mouth presumably stuffed with candy corn!
128. Frame Rate: October Sky (Feat. Tom Reimann)
November 03, 2018 00:21 - 37 minutes - 34 MBIt's the age-old struggle between coal and rocketry! We cover one of Abe's favorite movies with the help of Gamefully Unemployed's Tom Reimann, and admire some old-fashioned rocket boys.
127. 1Upsmanship: Horizon - Zero Dawn (Feat. Ryan Pequin)
October 22, 2018 19:28 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBThree Word Phrase creator and Cartoon Network animator Ryan Pequin graces the show with his opinions on a bright start to a new AAA franchise about robot dinosaurs and the people that love to slay them.
126. Tales from the Pit: The Girl Who Fisted the Wasp's Nest (Feat. Biba Pickles)
October 22, 2018 04:21 - 1 hour - 91 MBBiba Pickles discusses art, battling bi-polar disorder, and covering her body with cereal and self-inflicted cigarette burns. It's a party! Art by Seth Laster. Music by Abe Epperson, Kelsey Hudgins and Kevin Clark.
125. Pop Culture Petri Dish: Megacities
October 17, 2018 20:09 - 31 minutes - 29 MBFrom Blade Runner's vision of Los Angeles to just plain old current-day Los Angeles, the PCPD boys delve into Megacities both fictitious and all-too-real. Judge them with Dredd and you Coruscan't go wrong!
124. Frame Rate: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Feat. Jamie Loftus)
October 17, 2018 05:12 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MBThe Bechdel Cast host Jamie Loftus returns to ride the roller coaster of hacking, sexual assault, efficient Swedish filmmaking and Daniel Craig that is TGWTDT. Abe and Michael are also there to kick a hornet's nest and play with fire, respectively.
123. My Top 8: Abe Epperson
October 17, 2018 05:09 - 59 minutes - 108 MBThe beloved Abe Epperson sits down with Maggie to talk about his experience as a "drifter" in middle school and high school, and how he eventually decided to start cultivating lifelong friends. He also has a very strong opinion about the word "LOVE" in friendships, VERY strong.
122. The Coen Brothers Brothers: Fargo
October 10, 2018 22:12 - 1 hour - 69 MBThe Coens--and therefore this podcast--start to hit a serious stride with the sixth installment, Fargo. Now entering one of the Coens' Golden Ages! So it is with one eye on the horizon and the other on the giant Paul Bunyan statue ominously looming overhead that we plow right into a snowbank of greed, impotence, mindless violence and what will surely stand as the best wood-chipper scene in movie history.
121. Tales From The Pit: Juror #9 (Feat. Hazel Thornton)
October 06, 2018 06:32 - 50 minutes - 68.9 MBMenendez Brothers trial juror Hazel Thornton, author of Hung Jury, stops by to discuss her time engaged with one of the most high-profile cases of the century. Topics include gender bias, political bias, and flow charts.
119. 1Upsmanship: Red Dead Redemption (Feat. Vanessa Gritton)
October 02, 2018 02:17 - 1 hour - 101 MBJust in time for about a month before the release of the sequel, it's Red Dead Redemption! Adam and Mike invite returning favorite Vanessa Gritton to read her divorce/glitch journal, and help decide whether to keep or delete this Rockstar classic.
117. Frame Rate: Green Room (Feat. Robert Evans)
October 02, 2018 02:12 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBAfter narrowly surviving an encounter with a wild cloud of marijuana vapor, comedian, journalist, author and host of Behind The Bastards Robert Evans joins Abe and Michael to punch Nazis. Or at least analyze a great film about some serious Nazi-punching punks. Reach right through this door here and give the episode a listen! Seriously, nothing bad will happen to your arm. We don't know why you'd even insinuate that.
118. Rough Stuff: Fashion Foe Pause (Feat. Carmen Angelica)
September 30, 2018 04:22 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBComedian, writer, director and Cracked alum Carmen Angelica finally joins the Small Beans pantheon by bravely exposing some of the truly unfortunate fashion/life choices that have haunted her lo these past twenty years. Co-hosts Bridgett and Sarah commiserate, as is their wont.
116. My Top 8: Hana Michels
September 23, 2018 17:45 - 47 minutes - 86.8 MBComedian and writer Hana joins Maggie to talk about getting by with a little help from friends, what happens when we forget we have friends (you're probably not as alone as you feel!), and defends her favorite friend duo.
114. Tales From The Pit: The Show Must Go On (Feat. Bridgett Greenberg)
September 18, 2018 16:11 - 1 hour - 132 MBBridgett Greenberg, co-host of Rough Stuff, takes a dose of her own medicine in The Pit and gets personal about her relationship to anxiety, panic attacks, and spinning tubes.
113. 1Upsmanship: Fallout - New Vegas (Feat. Vanessa Gritton)
September 18, 2018 15:57 - 1 hour - 97.9 MBIn their most explosive dust-up so far, Adam and Michael square off to demolish and enshrine (respectively), Michael's favorite game that Adam also played and thinks is just fine! Gamer and comedian Vanessa Gritton joins to incite violence, Michael nerds up the end with a Fallout rap, and Adam and Mike's friendship is forced to bust out a couple stimpaks to survive.
112. Frame Rate: Inglourious Basterds (Feat. Daniel O'Brien)
September 10, 2018 09:22 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBFrame Rate takes aim at the original Nazi-scalping history-changers, the Inglourious Basterds! Daniel O'Brien sits in to help dissect Tarantino's bloody masterwork.
110. 1Upsmanship: Halo - Combat Evolved
September 05, 2018 12:47 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MBIt's the Citizen Kane of cover-based first-person shooters with robust multiplayer and vehicles! Adam and Mike take on the original Halo, and trace its impact through Destiny and all the way to Destiny 2, if you can believe it.
109. The Coen Brothers Brothers: The Hudsucker Proxy
September 03, 2018 19:46 - 1 hour - 110 MBTim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Pryzbylewski from The Wire, Ash from Evil Dead, Paul Newman and the Dad from Frasier all join forces to invent the hula hoop. It's the Coens' first flop, and one of Michael and Abe's all-time favorite films. You know...for kids!
107. My Top 8: Cody Ziglar
September 03, 2018 19:37 - 57 minutes - 78.5 MBMaggie sits down with Director Cody Ziglar and talks work friends (are they real friends? Or only cross-over potential?) how to identify the elusive 'fake friend,' and Cody gives us some advice on easy ways to stay in touch with our old friends.
105. Rough Stuff: Phone Sex Phollies (Feat. John Paul Green)
August 26, 2018 21:24 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBRough Stuff is back, and more humiliating than ever before! Join hosts Bridgett Greenberg and Sarah Griffith for a jaw-dropping, face-palming ride through the most torturous moment of comedian/actor John Paul Green's childhood. There's sex, phones, and parents involved, so you know it's gonna be pretty bad. Enjoy JP's pain! Hope it make you giggle!
103. Extree! Extree! - 8/21/18
August 22, 2018 00:11 - 14 minutes - 20.6 MBMichael and Jonny bring you the news of the week, both Small Beans and otherwise.
102. Frame Rate: The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Feat. Jamie Loftus)
August 17, 2018 04:03 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBHost of The Bechdel Cast and comedian/hacker extraordinaire Jamie Loftus joins Michael and Abe in suddenly realizing that a movie they thought was really funny as teens is now wildly uncomfortable to sit through. If you like Small Beans AND Judd Apatow, listen to the episode and prepare for one of those things to change!
101. My Top 8: Erin Mallory Long
August 14, 2018 00:30 - 56 minutes - 104 MBMaggie sits down with writer and Audible queen Erin Mallory Long. Are our romantic partners also our friends? Why don’t we ever want to go to parties? Does it count to consider yourself as a friend? Grab a seat, Erin's got some wisdom to share.
100. Tales from the Pit: The Depression Test (Feat. Maggie Mae Fish)
August 14, 2018 00:23 - 1 hour - 92 MBThose who plumb the Pit discuss the thin, sad line between grief and a bout of depression, practical ways to know when you're depressed, and practical ways to address it that you probably won't take advantage of while you're depressed, but hey, it was worth a shot. Maggie Mae Fish, host of My Top 8, joins to shed her light on these and a number of related topics.
99. 1Upsmanship: Super Metroid
August 10, 2018 01:53 - 53 minutes - 73.3 MBPlease note, you can only listen to this 1Upsmanship episode if you already have the Morph Ball, 15 Super Missiles, and the thing that goes on the other thing to reveal the secret thing. Join Samus, Adam and Mike for a rousing discussion of gating and how it makes games possible but also frustrating!
98. Frame Rate: Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Feat. Katie Willert)
August 07, 2018 03:32 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBIt's a story of three generations of an American family. I've always wondered why no one's done that! Join perennial favorite Katie Willert to tackle the complexities of motherhood, and how sometimes, you just gotta hit your kids with a belt in the rain.
97. Pop Culture Petri Dish: Time Travel
August 02, 2018 18:33 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBAbe and Cristian explain Stephen Hawking's lame party invite, the primary jokes that Science has, and the tangential intersection between "real" science and sci-fi time travel awesomeness.
96. My Top 8: Bailey Norton
July 31, 2018 00:42 - 53 minutes - 97.7 MBMaggie sits down with writer and comedian Bailey Norton, who put on a one-woman play in the middle of a basketball court. Did it help her make any friends? No! Join us as we talk childhood friendship, best friend syndrome, and owning up to when we were not great friends.
95. The Coen Brothers Brothers: Barton Fink
July 29, 2018 18:17 - 1 hour - 95.9 MBJoin Michael Swaim, Abe Epperson, and presumably Milhouse Van Houten and Nelson Muntz in a thoughtful discussion of the Coens' treatise on the act of screenwriting itself. Get ready to finally understand that sink drain shot!
94. 1Upsmanship: Fallout 4 (Feat. Vanessa Gritton)
July 26, 2018 20:39 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBDo synths dream of synthetic sheep? And if so, does that justify their total enslavement for the purposes of salvaging an apocalypse-ridden postwar 1950's-style Earth? Vanessa Gritton joins Michael and Adam to parse the philosophy of Fallout 4, burn Boston, and argue about the potential future of the franchise.
93. Frame Rate: Groundhog Day (Feat. Daniel O'Brien)
July 24, 2018 22:59 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBDOB, Abe and Swaim join forces yet again to bring you the latest installment in a never-ending cycle of repetitious content they will stay forever trapped within unless they become better men.
91. Tales from the Pit: There And Back Again (Feat. Cristian Ramirez)
July 18, 2018 04:38 - 1 hour - 101 MBOne soldier's experience serving in the Army in Iraq, and, later and much more importantly, as one of the biggest Small Beans around. PCPD host and fixture Cristian Ramirez tries to explain to Mike what war is really like on this week's Tales from the Pit.
90. Pop Cutlure Petri Dish: Cristian's Genes
July 16, 2018 20:00 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MB23 and...we?! Find out all about Cristian's genes, genes in general, and how to make your own Cristian in a petri dish at home.
89. 1Upsmanship: Metal Gear Solid V
July 14, 2018 02:06 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBMetal Gear Solid is batshit insane, but in the best way possible. Take Michael and Adam's hands and let us wade through the nonsense together!
88. The Coen Brothers Brothers: Miller's Crossing
July 12, 2018 00:58 - 1 hour - 83.5 MBIt's a hard-boiled mobster noir bromance from the Coen Brothers! What's not to like? Abe Epperson and Michael Swaim drag you into the metaphorical woods to make you beg for your life, but in a good way, as they delve into the Coens' third masterpiece.
87. Extree! Extree! - 7/9/18
July 10, 2018 01:01 - 12 minutes - 16.9 MBMichael and Jonny bring you the news of the week, both Small Beans and otherwise.
86. Rough Stuff: Jamie Loftus
July 06, 2018 21:40 - 1 hour - 84.3 MBBrace yourself, Rough Stuff is back! Special guest Jamie Loftus leads Bridgett and Sarah on a tour of such diverse topics as braces, back braces, and the never-before-revealed secret recipe for Doritos Soup.
84. Frame Rate: Beetlejuice (Feat. Tom Reimann)
June 29, 2018 16:43 - 51 minutes - 46.7 MBFestering creep, or misunderstood misanthrope? Tom Reimann joins Abe and Michael to dig into the foam-rubber grave of Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! BEETLEJUICE!
79. Tales from the Pit: Tragedy For Sale (Feat. Katy Stoll)
June 18, 2018 20:43 - 1 hour - 151 MBKaty Stoll returns to the Pit to discuss the loss of beloved pets, and why the heck we keep doing this to ourselves.
78. Extree! Extree! - 6/16/18
June 16, 2018 16:51 - 12 minutes - 17.1 MBMichael and Jonny bring you the news of the week (again), both Small Beans and otherwise.
77. 1Upsmanship: God of War 4
June 15, 2018 19:55 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBAdam and Michael discuss the latest installment in the Wad of Gore franchise, Wad of Gore 4: "Boy!" Edition.
76. Extree! Extree! - 6/14/18
June 14, 2018 21:24 - 14 minutes - 19.4 MBMichael and Jonny bring you the news of the week, both Small Beans and otherwise.
75. The Coen Brothers Brothers: Raising Arizona
June 10, 2018 03:51 - 1 hour - 84.2 MBIn the Coen's second number, Nic Cage and Holly Hunter prove that it takes a village to kidnap, raise, almost kill, and then return a child. Join hosts Michael Swaim and Abe Epperson for the ride.
74. Pop Culture Petri Dish: Pick Your Planet
June 07, 2018 18:09 - 31 minutes - 29 MBAbe and Cristian put their heads together about Exoplanets, Goldilocks Planets, the search for new planets, basically everything about planets. PLAN to hear IT! Get it? PLAN-IT? Planet!
73. Frame Rate: Wall-E (Feat. Starline Hodge)
June 04, 2018 22:43 - 1 hour - 58 MBThree good friends attempt to define dancing. It's our Wall-E episode!