Anny and John Liot graciously share their miscarriage story with Michael to complete his series on childbirth and childrearing. Losing a baby during pregnancy is one of the more common nightmare scenarios modern humans undergo, so we may as well talk a...
2024-12-02 14:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostHey frijole fam. Just a quick heads up to let you know that the very biggest of the Small Beans...
2024-12-02 00:13:50 +0000 UTC
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Michael has been locked in a garage by a mysterious editor and forced to watch and respond to last week's movie trailers. He's been eating sawdust exclusively, poor guy. Welp, there doesn't seem like there's anything we can do here. Enjoy the show!
The show will be posted here on Patreon, our Youtube channel, and our new TikTok channel eve...
2024-11-26 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Our three co-hosts are stuck in the multiverse and need to get back to their home universe. Clearly, the only way to do that is to explore our cultural obsession with multiverses, alternate timelines and parallel worlds, and tie it all into a conversati...
2024-11-25 14:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Gonna be honest: Adam and Michael, who think Star Wars is pretty sweet but fairly just alright, take time out of their busy day to dunk on the new Star Wars video game installment. They talk SW names, game design, and Ubisoft as a whole. But hey, it’...
2024-11-22 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostMichael Swaim wrote a short Dungeons & Dragons campaign for his buds Starline Hodge, Abe Epperson, and David Bell. They basically know as much as you do, so we recorded it and here it is.
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2024-11-21 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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A rap album written and performed by Michael Swaim. Full joint available at www.patreon.com/c/smallbeans/shop.
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2024-11-20 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Adam Ganser and Abe Epperson discuss the 1998 anime Cowboy Bebop. This time, we talk about Faye Valentine and session #3, Honky Tonk Women. 3, 2, 1. Let’s jam.
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We want to thank Ken M. for donating to our movie Papa Bear! At his request, we recorded a Frame Rate discussing our first attempt at indie filmmaking some 15 years ago. If you haven’t seen it, it’s available on Plex (for free), as well as Youtube a...
2024-11-15 14:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostMichael Swaim wrote a short Dungeons & Dragons campaign for his buds Starline Hodge, Abe Epperson, and David Bell. They basically know as much as you do, so we recorded it and here it is.
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Michael Swaim: https://twitter.com/SWAIM_CORP
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2024-11-14 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Mike made another video for CRACKED, in case you're interested. It's about historical inaccuracies in Gladiator and interesting trivia you can plug into your brain instead for when you inevitably think about the Roman Empire later.
2024-11-13 20:32:19 +0000 UTC View PostMichael has been locked in a garage by a mysterious editor and forced to watch and respond to last week's movie trailers. He's been eating sawdust exclusively, poor guy. Welp, there doesn't seem like there's anything we can do here. Enjoy the show!
The show will be posted here on Patreon, our Youtube channel, and our new TikTok channel eve...
2024-11-12 14:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
If you forgot, this show takes a Futurama episode and thematically pairs it with an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, which works surprisingly well. For the next few episodes of this show, we’ll be connecting the Futurama films to some Star T...
2024-11-11 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Adam and Michael talk about this year’s hit platformer Astro Bot published by Sony. You control a little guy! You’re a Sony product who loves Sony products! But also the jumping is pretty sweet.
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Michael Swaim wrote a short Dungeons & Dragons campaign for his buds Starline Hodge, Abe Epperson, and David Bell. They basically know as much as you do, so we recorded it and here it is.
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Michael Swaim: https://twitter.com/SWAIM_CORP
Star...
2024-11-07 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Michael meets with Cody Franks of the Least Haunted pod and Seqoidea to discuss life through the lens of his Cystic Fibrosis. Opens with the short story "run|time" voiced b...
2024-11-06 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostMichael has been locked in a garage by a mysterious editor and forced to watch and respond to last week's movie trailers. He's been eating sawdust exclusively, poor guy. Welp, there doesn't seem like there's anything we can do here. Enjoy the show!
The show will be posted here on Patreon, our Youtube channel, and our new TikTok channel eve...
2024-11-05 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
In his quest to revivify the Cracked channel, Michael got Willert to come back, rewatch all their old sketches with him and shoot the shit about old times and new. It's a brand new half-hour series and it just dropped like so many hot its!
2024-11-04 19:24:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Our deep dive of Wes Anderson and P.T. Anderson continues: this time we discuss the 2021 film The French Dispatch which details the last days of a dead magazine editor. Michael and Abe discuss Wes Anderson’s distinctive style, themes, and characters....
2024-11-04 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
A spooky themed D&D show?! Releasing on Halloween? 10-12 hours of content released for the next 10 weeks?! Small Beans dropping a new show without any warning?!?
Michael Swaim wrote a short Dungeons & Dragons campaign for his buds Starlin...
2024-10-31 13:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostMichael has been locked in a garage by a mysterious editor and forced to watch and respond to last week's movie trailers. He's been eating sawdust exclusively, poor guy. Welp, there doesn't seem like there's anything we can do here. Enjoy the show!
The show will be posted here on Patreon, our Youtube channel, and our new TikTok channel eve...
2024-10-29 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Our three co-hosts are stuck in the multiverse and need to get back to their home universe. Clearly, the only way to do that is to explore our cultural obsession with multiverses, alternate timelines and parallel worlds, and tie it all into a conversati...
2024-10-28 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Adam and Michael take another retro dive and cover the 1997 action role-playing platformer, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. The player becomes Alucard, half-vampire son of Dracula. You can tell he’s his son because Alucard is Dracula backward. Any...
2024-10-25 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh hey, what’s up? Me? Oh, I’m just a new podcast. I’m all about 1998’s Cowboy Bebop, the anime. You know, just Adam Ganser and Abe Epperson talking about perhaps the coolest media ever created. You like breaking down each episode and talking ab...
2024-10-21 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Our limited series with co-hosts Abe Epperson and David Bell digs deep into the internet meme of the “dad movie.” We can all probably name a dad movie, but can we isolate the tropes that really make this a bona fide film genre? Let’s find out!
... 2024-10-18 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostMichael has been locked in a garage by a mysterious editor and forced to watch and respond to last week's movie trailers. He's been eating sawdust exclusively, poor guy. Welp, there doesn't seem like there's anything we can do here. Enjoy the show!
The show will be posted here on Patreon, our Youtube channel, and our new TikTok channel eve...
2024-10-15 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
If you forgot, this show takes a Futurama episode and thematically pairs it with an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, which works surprisingly well. For the next few episodes of this show, we’ll be connecting the Futurama films to some Star T...
2024-10-14 13:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Adam and Michael cover the 2013 indie hit Papers, Please. The player takes on the role of a border-crossing immigration officer in the fictional dystopian communist country of Arstotzka, complete with quests that make you question your own morality and ...
2024-10-11 13:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostMichael has been locked in a garage by a mysterious editor and forced to watch and respond to last week's movie trailers. He's been eating sawdust exclusively, poor guy. Welp, there doesn't seem like there's anything we can do here. Enjoy the show!
The show will be posted here on Patreon, our Youtube channel, and our new TikTok channel eve...
2024-10-08 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Michael Swaim and Abe Epperson sat down and watched the 7 episodes of the limited series I’m A Virgo, directed by Boots Riley. While the story is about a teen sheltered from the world due to his largeness, it becomes a social commentary about growing ...
2024-10-07 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post