Really it's more of an investigation of what we can learn about primal human wants and fears from the fact that post-apocalyptic fiction is so specifically prevalent in the medium that's distinguishing feature is you get to interact with it. Why is The End Times a detailed computer simulation we ...
2019-12-30 17:48:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Adam brings his director knowledge to explain the tactics Soderbergh uses to lure the viewer into complacency. It might be sly editing, pacing, or shot design. Abe chimes in every now and then to remind ...
2019-12-30 13:41:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Michael and Abe sit down with Alex Shifman, co-host of Science! The Show, to discuss this 1979 Taiwanese fantasy horror mystery f...
2019-12-27 19:34:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Sarah and Bridgett sit down and read some fan-submitted rough stuff for the second time. You all inspire us with your awkwardness, so press play and keep it rough. Nope. Never saying that again.
SB...
2019-12-20 17:38:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes, in his role as a Video Programmer at IGN, Michael is tasked with hastily but thoroughly researching a pop culture topic, then explaining it to another staffer who plays the "n00b" as an excuse for us to unpack our favorite lore, have a little fun, and explain little bits of Star Wars c...
2019-12-18 00:50:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Superbean and Bean among beans Jim Avery kindly patronized us this month at the Stream With the Beans tier, and that means you get to watch us repeatedly try to five-man a six-man raid, fail the entire time [SPOILERS] and be pretty hilarious [SPOILERS] as we get to know a new friend better. Ride-...
2019-12-18 00:44:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hang me O hang me, Michael and Abe spent two hours and fifteen minutes in this in-depth dissection of the Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis. We get real inside Llewyn Davis, real up in those insides....
2019-12-09 13:40:22 +0000 UTC View Post
You need to listen to this podcast or "I will stuff so much cotton wool down your fucking throat it'll come out your arse like the tail on a Playboy bunny." Michael and Abe sit down with 2019-12-06 15:32:27 +0000 UTC View Post
In this brand new Abe and Adam podcast, Abe poses the ques...
2019-12-03 14:22:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Caroline Anderson joins Michael and Abe in blowin' some mighty wind. We got nothing but hot air for this mockumentary. It's...
2019-11-30 15:26:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Michael and Abe are joined by the inscrutable David Bell to discuss the body-horror film, The Fly (1986). This patron-exclusive e...
2019-11-27 22:47:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Two Americans chew some back bacon (the comedy and cultural relevance of 1983's Strange Brew and how it shaped their comedic sensibilities). For all its flaws, this retelling of Hamlet as the story of tw...
2019-11-25 20:53:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Brandie Posey joins Sarah and Bridgett to discuss how lucky she is to not visually remember her past given her tumultuous wolf-lovin...
2019-11-22 13:34:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Yes, you, specifically.
As the results of the below poll indicate, MOST of you would prefer we sort the Swaim-related IGN stuff from the rest and put it on this feed. So here's the most recent, but helpfully tagged with "[IGN]," which will be the case with this type of content going f...
2019-11-21 00:03:09 +0000 UTC View PostSo, we're in a pickle, which is odd because you'd think we'd be in a bean. Since Swaim started his IGN gig, several of you have expressed that you hope we post all the Swaim-related vids on the Patreon page, since IGN posts twenty things a day and Swaim is only involved in a handful. In this way,...
2019-11-20 07:01:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Pretty elf-explanatory. Part 2 coming next week, Morty.
2019-11-20 00:43:48 +0000 UTC View Post
In a special episode of Waveformed, we do a host swap and Michael prods the musical chronology of the entity that is Cristian. Within 10 songs, multiple nostalgic stories, and a brief heart to heart about emo music, we learn that Michael should never host again.
Playlist: 2019-11-19 19:25:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Mike is getting his boots wet over at IGN, and they let him do an episode of one of their newer series, where you learn 9 - 15 true and interesting things about a thing and try to guess which one was made up. It's the sixth one this time. Oops!
2019-11-13 21:31:39 +0000 UTC View Post
As part of our ongoing partnership to produce BOLD: Conversations About Race, Small Beans is thrilled to be able to invite you to our first Live Podcast Recording ever 2019-11-12 18:24:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Michael waxes nautical about one of his favorite games in a long time.
2019-11-05 20:07:27 +0000 UTC View Post
We made a sketch! With the camera in the Shane Black's house! Lock us up!
The premiere is at 9am PST but if you miss it, it'll still be around for your viewing pleasure, daw-ling. So really, nothing has changed in your life.
Cast & Crew
Colonel Mustard - Michael Swaim
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2019-11-05 15:17:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Patrons! Catch this early access Frame Rate three weeks early! Macaulay Culkin joins Abe and Michael to talk about his experience working on the film Party Monster. We discuss murderers, Marilyn Manson, ...
2019-10-30 11:39:07 +0000 UTC View Post
"The wicked flee when none pursueth."
Artwork by Michael Vincent Bramley.
Theme by Abe Epperson.
SB Merch: smallbeans.bigcartel.com
2019-10-28 18:16:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Improvised by Abe Epperson and Michael Swaim.
2019-10-25 14:31:26 +0000 UTC View Post
As you are perhaps aware, Michael got a new job! And here's the first thing he's made as a result of same. While Small Beans will continue pumping out pods, sketches, and new and exciting stream...
2019-10-23 19:18:09 +0000 UTC View Post
For the "greater good," Michael and Abe are joined by Shawn DePasquale of Bunny Ears fame to talk about the British action-comedy H...
2019-10-22 20:19:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Michael guests on pods a lot. Here's one from Australia, where their ecology has been devastated by the Invasive Springfield Toad.
2019-10-18 21:23:43 +0000 UTC View Post
