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455. Science or Whatever: The Metaverse, Pt. 2

Our collective friend and honorary Small Bean Griffin Rowell walks us through the capitalist concepts driving the current metaverse, the companies to look out for, and the methods we can use potentially to build it into something mor...

Movie Production Diary #41 (Now, With Video!)

As we recently announced, we're making a movie and a true crime podcast, and we're making them in full view of you, our Patrons. Today, we worked on the movie! In this episode, Michael and Abe discuss some feedback from actual furs...

454. The Coen Brothers Brothers: The Tragedy of Macbeth

Coen Brother (?) Brothers is back, baby! We take a break from our normal deep dive Ander’s Sons to jump back to the podcast series that made it all happen. This time to cover the recent release by Joel Coen, starring Denzel Washing...

453. BOLD: Showing Up for Racial Justice (Feat. Erin Heaney)

Ivette Ale (@dignityandpowernow, @justicelanow) and Dahlia Ferlito (@wp4bl) talk with Erin Heaney, director of Showing Up for Racial justice and the history of white people taking anti-racist action in multiracial coalitions for collective liberation. This is a collaboration between Small Beans and Showing Up for Racial Justi...

Movie Production Diary #40

As we recently announced, we're making a movie and a true crime podcast, and we're making them in full view of you, our Patrons. Today, we worked on the movie! In this episode, Michael and Abe discuss camera tactics and continue di...

452. Frame Rate: Dave Chappelle’s “The Closer” (Feat. Adam Tod Brown)

Unprompted by anyone: a podcast about Dave Chappelle’s recent Netflix special! Adam Tod Brown, friend from Cracked and host of Unpopular Opinion joins us to discuss the recent trend of comedians dunking on transfolk! So listen to t...

451. Directorpiece Theatre: The Sublime and Subliminal Josie and the Pussycats

Josie and the Pussycats can be seen as a vapid, mind-numbing waste of the senses. Someone else might see it as a satire of cultural propaganda and a decrying of the entertainment industry as a whole. Both have validity and while Abe ...

Movie Production Diary #39

As we recently announced, we're making a movie and a true crime podcast, and we're making them in full view of you, our Patrons. Today, we worked on the movie! In this episode, Michael and Abe discuss pre-vis and pre-production str...

450. Star Trek: The Next Futurama 19 - Put Your Head On My Shoulders

As always, our hosts find and compare a corresponding Star Trek: The Next Generation with the aforementioned Futurama episode which jumpstarts a conversation about, you know, whatever. Not only does this episode feature a lengthy “...

449. Frame Rate: Gattaca (Feat. Sarah Griffith)

It is the near-future and genetic manipulation has polarized the rich/poor gap to an even more extreme extent. Michael and Abe along with Small Bean Sarah Griffith take a look at the prescient social commentary in this 1997 sci-fi st...

The Furry Movie - Production Draft

As our regular Movie Production Diary listeners are aware, we've just completed another massive overhaul of our screenplay, The Furry Movie. This is what we consider the Production Draft, from which we will begin to build a budget ...

Movie Production Diary #38

As we recently announced, we're making a movie and a true crime podcast, and we're making them in full view of you, our Patrons. Today, we worked on the movie! In this episode, Michael and Abe rewrite some scenes dealing with Sarah...

448. Shooting Threes: The Matrix Revolutions

In this episode, Bridgett and Sarah discuss the Matrix “trilogy’s” third film. Completing the “trilogy,” the hosts point out what did and did not work for them. If you recall, we start the film with Neo using his Matrix Mag...

447. Sad & Important - Short Stories and Poems by Michael Swaim

Written and read by Michael Swaim. Score by Davey Francis. Cover art by TokBlok and Von Doyle.

Table of Contents:

0:00 - Dedications

0:35 - The House With No One In It

37:00 - The Blessing

44:45 - Semper...

Swaim's 2021 Standup Set

Michael was meant to perform some standup in 2021 and worked up a 15-minute set to that end. All his show dates got cancelled though, for obvious reasons. Since he can't let anything go without somehow monetizing it...here's this. Happy New Year, jabronis!

[IGN] Michael Opines On The Multiverse

Storytelling is at an all-time historic high right now -- not necessarily in terms of quality, but surely in terms of quantity -- and from that sea of data points, patterns arise that give us a glimpse into the current collective consciousness...what humanity has on its mind, how it views itself, how it wants to view itself, ...

445. Spielboys! - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Tom Reimann and Abe Epperson, the “Spielboys,” discuss the final film of the Indiana Jones Trilogy on their third episode. They discuss the development of Spielberg as an artist, the themes and execution of the movie, and the beh...

Small Beans Week Off!

For the first time since it's conception, Small Beans is taking a vacation! Michael and I finished a screenplay recently, new podcasts have formed, the new year approaches and we have big plans for 2022? 

Hell, why don't we take a week off. At least in terms of releases. So heads up to all you bean-heads: 

444. I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours: Surprise Screening!

It’s a bonus PATREON ONLY episode! The game called Surprise Screening is where Maggie brings over a movie, they watch it, then Adam has to guess what significance the movie holds for her. It will be a 20 questions format and Adam g...

Movie Production Diary #37

As we recently announced, we're making a movie and a true crime podcast, and we're making them in full view of you, our Patrons. Today, we worked on both! In this episode, Michael and Abe check in with their ideas about their next ...

442. Tales from the Pit: Life on High, a Sobriety Update (feat. Katie Willert)

The pit is back! Well, the podcast. Honestly, it’s been a while because things have been fairly positive in the lives of Michael Swaim and Katie Willert. It’s not all roses, but the two update us (and hopefully fellow addicts out...

[IGN] The Civil War That Almost Blew Up Speedrunning

Speedrunning is the art of playing video games as quickly as possible, and that's much more interesting than you think. Swaim set out to prove that, and learn more about Tool-Assisted Speedrunning, about six months ago. Now, at long last, that journey has resulted in an inordinately long and fascinating minidoc that we're thr...

Movie Production Diary #36

As we recently announced, we're making a movie and a true crime podcast, and we're making them in full view of you, our Patrons. Today, we worked on the Furry Movie! In this episode, Michael and Abe look more into the social worker...

441. Science or Whatever: The Metaverse, Pt. 1

We welcome back the show based around the interests of our collective friend and honorary Small Bean Griffin Rowell. Basically, everyone here at the Small Beans find him fascinating so we felt you should hear him too.

In this miniseries, Michael and Griffin look into the metaverse, the technology behind...

440. Ander’s Sons: Boogie Nights

Episode 3 of our new deep-dive podcast that chronicles the films of Paul Thomas Anderson and Wes Anderson! This time the sons take a look at Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1997 rags to riches porn star tale. The hosts look at the film scen...

Movie Production Diary #35

As we recently announced, we're making a movie and a true crime podcast, and we're making them in full view of you, our Patrons. Today, we worked on both projects! In this episode, Michael and Abe plan their next interview for The ...

439. Star Trek: The Next Futurama 17 - Xmas Story

As always, our hosts find and compare a corresponding Star Trek: The Next Generation with the aforementioned Futurama episode which jumpstarts a conversation about, you know, whatever. Not only does this episode feature a lengthy “...

438. Shooting Threes: The Matrix Reloaded

In this episode, Bridgett and Sarah discuss the Matrix Trilogy’s second film. After almost 2 decades of distance from this movie, what makes it so disappointing? How should sequels deal with canon exposition? Also, there’s parts ...

Movie Production Diary #34

As we recently announced, we're making a movie and a true crime podcast, and we're making them in full view of you, our Patrons. Today, we worked on the Furry Movie! In this episode, Michael and Abe continue their “Sarah pass.”...

437. Directorpiece Theatre: How Michael Bay Saved Armageddon

Love him or hate him, we acknowledge that Bay’s unique sense of motion and cinematic convention has led him to box office success. In this episode, Adam walks us through the story beats and intentions of Bay’s Armageddon work, ho...