Bridgett and Sarah start their coverage of one of the biggest trilogies in film history. That’s right. The one with the hobbits. Join us for the first installment of the three-part LOTR podcast.
Also, apologies about th...
2025-08-22 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 Ti...
2025-08-21 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Michael and Abe discuss the recent Ice Cube vehicle, War of the Worlds. A screenlife movie where Cube saves the planet from the safety of his Amazon-brand life pod, using corporations to save humanity. It’s recently gone viral for ...
2025-08-18 13:00:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Seanbaby joins the pod to discuss the ancient FPS and trailblazer Halo 2. They discuss legacy, mechanics, and the Golden Triangle (Swaim’s taint).
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2025-08-15 13:00:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Sit back and listen to the sweet sound of the boys talkin’ bout the ‘berg. This episode covers 2017’s The Post!
If you want more of this series, its releases alternate between the Small Beans network and the Gamefully Un...
2025-08-11 13:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Michael and Abe, very white dudes, discuss the themes, execution, and techniques of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners. Movie’s pretty good.
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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 Ti...
2025-08-07 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Sarah and Bridgett discuss how the fears of adults and the fears of children are different (and the same). How we can reason our ways out of things and how irrational fears persist. Also, how children do not fear death and that means...
2025-08-05 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
This episode covers 2017’s It, the famous fun clown story. Michael and Abe discuss why they made the clown SO sexy and discuss the Kingiverse at large.
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The hosts get into this episode on an anime FPS and puzzle-platforming game from 2022. This is a wild episode where Michael vows to kill gaming genres that are about killing. Adam voices that sometimes the joy of things is in repeti...
2025-08-01 13:00:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello distinguished beans,
We typically like to watch a movie and talk over for the benefit of YOU, the BEAN. We do this every other Monday at 5pm PST on our Discord channel.
Here's how you join:
1. Click on this in...
2025-07-28 22:50:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Adam Ganser and Abe Epperson discuss the 1998 anime Cowboy Bebop. This time, we talk about session #12, the second part of the mid-Pefect Session doubleheader, Jupiter Jazz. 3, 2, 1. Let’s jam.
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2025-07-28 13:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Just so ya know, our Pick the Flick tier is back on so you can give us some scratch to choose our Frame Rate topics. We’d like to thank Doctor Slaphammer for suggesting Videodrome for our epic return.
Also, Tom Reimann joins ...
2025-07-25 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 Ti...
2025-07-24 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Mike and Bill talk Steamed Hams, writing for and EP-ing The Simpsons for multiple seasons of the Golden Era, creating Mission Hill and real bizarre burgers from across this terrible nation.
2025-07-23 18:06:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Mike checks in with his Mom about the book she's writing, surviving an early life filled with cosmic horror-levels of trauma, finally finding help, and how grateful they both are to still be here.
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2025-07-22 13:00:10 +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.
This show exclusively releases every other episode here on the Small...
2025-07-21 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Honorary Small Bean Tom Reimann joins us again for another Doom chat. This time about this years’ installment (and prequel to Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal), Doom: The Dark Ages. The hosts break down the mechanics, lore, and charact...
2025-07-18 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s a bonus episode! The hosts bring to the table the piece of wisdom they’ve wished they learned, or they did learn but learned the hard way. Also, they talk about movies. Movies that are wise.
Email us suggestions for e...
2025-07-14 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Adam Ganser and Abe Epperson discuss the 1998 anime Cowboy Bebop. This time, we talk about session #12, the first part of the mid-Pefect Session doubleheader, Jupiter Jazz. It’s another Vicious one. 3, 2, 1. Let’s jam.
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2025-07-11 13:00:15 +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 Ti...
2025-07-10 07:05:50 +0000 UTC View Post
This episode was recorded along with the Little Mermaid episode so there’s a bit of flutter in Abe’s track but it’s not so bad. We swear it won't happen again.
(Randy Marsh impression) Oh… Aaah! A dive into Trey Pa...
2025-07-07 13:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post
The fabulous Garth von Ahnen turned one of Mike's sci-fi short stories into a 20-page, full-color comic we've been selling through the 2025-07-06 20:09:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Adam and Michael do their dive into the recent installment of the famous turn-based strategy game where you play as world leaders attempting to take over the world, or develop your culture, or religion, or just some sick moves.
This episode covers 2025’s The Life of Chuck, a short story told in 3 acts chronicling the life and choices of Chuck, a man on his deathbed. Michael and Abe slightly disagree about the film, but you’ll never see the twist coming....
2025-06-30 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Bridgett and Sarah complete their dive into the Paddington trilogy. They discuss the internet hype, the feel-goodery-ness of it all, and what releasing a bear into the wild might do to the great country of Peru. Spread it onto your e...
2025-06-27 13:00:18 +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 Ti...
2025-06-26 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostSwaim's kid Sunny is six months old now and still a poor sleeper, but he and jenn are used to it to the degree that we have time for one (1) Nice Thing. We've decided it shall be the return of Small Beans Monday Movie N...
2025-06-26 00:36:39 +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? L...
2025-06-23 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a new style of episode. A kind of genre state of the union. The hosts discuss not one game but the definition, trends, and future of the Open World RPG. Let us know if you like this new type of episode!
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