Griffin Rowell, Michael's oldest pal, joins him in the Pit to trace the shape of a friendship and hold fast to the weapons that help us ward off the darkness. Art by Seth Laster. Music by Abe Epperson. Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans SB Merch: https://smallbeans.bigcartel.com
Jun 28, 2019•1 hr 2 min
Culture King Jacquis Neal himself drops by to help Abe and Michael root through the tangled story branches (and seeds and trunks and so on) of the various versions of Little Shop of Horrors. But primarily the stage show and the 1986 Rick Moranis movie! Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans SB Merch: https://smallbeans.bigcartel.com
Jun 25, 2019•1 hr 10 min
Greg, Adam and Mike answer Small Beans' questions, shoot the shoot about Escort Mission, their tenures at Cracked, and plans for future collaborations. It's fun to hear old friends catch up! Support SB and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans SB Merch: https://smallbeans.bigcartel.com
Jun 24, 2019•1 hr 1 min
Greg Burke drops in to chat with Sarah and Bridgett about their (and others') most embarrassing moments, including #DadFarts, shirtless child wrestling, and the time he tried to get the coolest kid in school to explore his secret passage. Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans SB Merch: https://smallbeans.bigcartel.com
Jun 19, 2019•57 min
What the fuck?! Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: www.patreon.com/SmallBeans SB Merch: smallbeans.bigcartel.com
Jun 14, 2019•2 hr 16 min
Jack O'Brien returns! To basically have a very confusing movie he's just seen for the first time explained to him by two dudes who have seen it more times than that. Listen along, won't you? Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans SB Merch: https://smallbeans.bigcartel.com
Jun 10, 2019•1 hr 4 min
BOLD is a podcast about race and justice in America, and a collaboration between Small Beans and Showing Up For Racial Justice, produced by White People 4 Black Lives. In the third episode, Dahlia Ferlito talks with Ivette Ale and Taina Vargas-Edmond about their activism around prison reform. Also features a special message from Rahsaan Thomas, currently serving a life sentence at San Quentin State Prison. Complete Show Notes at https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans
Jun 06, 2019•1 hr 10 min
Takashi Miike's seminal (literally), ultra-gore manga-adapted tale of The Number One Killer, his friend The Other Number One Killer, this Lady Who Kills, and a few other Notable Killers. It's mad, it's undeniably well-crafted, and it may just be the most faithful comic book adaptation of all time. Let's talk. Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans
May 27, 2019•1 hr
Pop your doctor-prescribed Thorazine, hop in this audio limousine, and rock to the Dino-team's pod-magazine by the Smallest Beans! This dinosaur has weird claws. Art by the Small Beans community. Wicked Guitar Riff by Abe Epperson. Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans SB Merch: https://smallbeans.bigcartel.com
May 24, 2019•31 min
Behold, what was the first of our monthly Patron-exclusive episodes for Beans only, newly released to the public! Perennial favorite DOB joins us to A your Q's, R to your Cs, and just generally BS in hilarious fashion. Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans SB Merch: https://smallbeans.bigcartel.com
May 22, 2019•30 min
Your sick host Michael Swaim is super-stoked to welcome tight guest Vanessa Gritton to discuss hella-pertinent issues like romance and dating through the lens of mental illness, addiction, and family drama. Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans
May 16, 2019•1 hr 37 min
Precocious Childhood Personal Disappointments! PCPD host Cristian Ramirez braves the Rough Stuff hot seat and endures cross-examination on topics like drama in Drama, dancing for the pleasure of your peers, and playlist fails. Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans
May 15, 2019•57 min
Everyone in Austin, TX, lives in a dumpster and shits in a bucket, and they're better people for it. Ask Abe and Cristian how! Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www,patreon.com/SmallBeans
May 10, 2019•59 min
This month for our Patron-exclusive Beanus Content Module, Robert Evans joins Michael and Abers to answer your questions at a more moderate pace than last time. It's way more interesting than it has any right to be, and you helped us make it! Thanks. Support Small Beans and access Additional Content at: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans
May 08, 2019•35 min
Robert "Behind the Bastards" Evans returns to provide real-world expertise in the analysis of a very silly film about suicide bombers. That's right, it's Sharia Law and Lotsa Laffs with Abe, Mike, Rob, Omar, Barry, Faisal and Waj! Access Additional Small Beans Content at: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans
May 06, 2019•1 hr
Behind the Bastards' Robert Evans joins Mike and Abe to discuss a genre-bending tale of kidnapping, mental illness, torture, aliens, bees, enough film references to choke Tarantino's horse, and laughter. Save the Green Planet! proved to the world that Jang Joon-Hwan can Direct one Beck of a movie (Beck combines lots of genres, get it?). It's relentless, inventive, engaging, and hard to find in the states. Frustration brought to you courtesy of our Pick the Flick Small Beans Patron Sean Murhpy. T...
Apr 26, 2019•1 hr 3 min
In this week's PCPD, Abe and Cristian dive into a variety of science developments and compare them to stupid movies to make life sensible for themselves. Artwork by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Abe Epperson. SB Merch: https://smallbeans.bigcartel.com
Apr 25, 2019•33 min
Call it, Friendo. Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans SB Merch: https://smallbeans.bigcartel.com
Apr 23, 2019•2 hr 18 min
Support SB and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans This month for our Patron-exclusive Beanus Content Module, comic creator, writer and animator Ryan Pequin joins Michael and Adam to answer your questions. It's way more interesting than it has any right to be, and you helped us make it! Thanks.
Apr 20, 2019•1 hr 8 min
Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: www.patreon.com/SmallBeans SB Merch: smallbeans.bigcartel.com Big Bean Abe Epperson proves why he's head of the network by putting every other embarrassing story ever featured on the show to shame. His shame is so shameful, other peoples' shame should be ashamed. And it's all for the delight of Sarah, Bridgett, and YOU! Go ahead. Be delighted. See if we care.
Apr 17, 2019•46 min
Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans SB Merch: https://smallbeans.bigcartel.com The 'Burbs! It's part broad 80's comedy, part white xenophobic fear fulfillment, and all Tom Hanks-ed up! Daniel V. Gordh joins the guys to break down every aspect of this weird, dated, yet at moments brilliant movie. And there's Corey Feldman there as well!
Apr 12, 2019•1 hr 2 min
It's an all-Star week here at Small Beans! Perennial favorite Star Hodge joins Abe and Mike to discuss Hayao Miyazaki's epic animated tale of the delicate balance between man, nature, lepers, bullets, crooked priests, and giant boar-worm-monsters. It's Swaim's favorite non-comedy movie!
Apr 10, 2019•1 hr 3 min
Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans Our old boss and host of the Daily Zeitgeist Jack "Potatoes" O'Brien takes a break from fatherhood to watch the most violent, gruesome western ever made and discuss its broader implications with those Frame Rate Fucks. Is Craig S. Zoller a refreshing new voice in suspense, or simply a master of Goresploitation? SB Merch: https://smallbeans.patreon.com
Apr 08, 2019•1 hr 1 min
Support SB and Access Beanus Content at www.patreon.com/SmallBeans From bug-bread (excellent with butter bugs), to lab-grown meat, to unfuckable turkeys, to The Mootrix 2: Electric Boogamoo, Abe and Cristian take a survey of the kind of crap all ten billion of us will be eating the day after tomorrow. Literally. Shit is rough out here, folks. SPONSORED BY FOODINI! Music by Abe Epperson. Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. SB Merch: https://smallbeans.patreon.com
Apr 05, 2019•1 hr
Katie Willert Week concludes with a special Patron-only round of Questions and Answers from you, The Beans! Should you see Bohemian Rhapsody? Is cooking a satisfying hobby to do? FINALLY LEARN THE TRUTH.
Apr 03, 2019•1 hr 3 min
Support SB and Access Beanus Content at https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans This little buddy, you really just have to see for yourself. Bridgett tells the guys about an animal so improbably they both immediately go violently insane. It's a hoot! Art by the Small Beans community. Wicked Guitar Riff by Abe Epperson.
Apr 02, 2019•40 min
SB favorite Katy Stoll joins Abe and Michael to break down and build up perennial favorite, Princess Bride. As you wish!
Mar 29, 2019•56 min
Your favorite purveyors of humiliation Bridgett and Sarah turn to you, the audience, to execute the final phase of what was always their plan: to make a podcast-trap for listeners so they can make fun of them! Enjoy it, listener! Celebrating one year of Rough Stuff.
Mar 27, 2019•41 min
Charlie Kaufman's devastating tale of life, death, and ham-fisted direction shows a side of Phillip Seymour Hoffman that is actually thirty sides. Michael, Brooks and Abe try in vain to unpack a movie that is both representative of less and more than the movie represents. SHIT. GETS. META.
Mar 22, 2019•1 hr 3 min
Jamie Loftus joins Michael in the Pit of Odiousness to discuss her dealings with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, the importance of wearing long sleeves at work, Lilo & Stitch merchandise, and how all of these things conspired to make her the hackstress she is t0d4y. Art by Seth Laster. Music by Abe Epperson and Kevin Clark.
Mar 17, 2019•1 hr 10 min