Welcome to the first installment of our series on the implications of real world Structural Engineering in our favorite Indiana Jones moments! Traps, Tricks, and Tropes aren't safe from our Eagle Eyed Expert! So join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and our super special mystery guest (and expert Structural Engineer) as we investigate what they got right ...and totally wrong in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark! Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at smallstuf...
Sep 09, 2019•17 min
Hurricane Dorian has had the US on edge (especially Florida), but lucky for you listeners you have 3 hurricane veterans to ride out the storm with! Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri , co-host and Neural Nutritionist Sam Spiers , and special celebrity guest Lisha Yang as they Sheppard you through the wind and the rain. They even explain why Toto may have had a vendetta against Florida all along, hiding in plain sight ... in 'Africa'. Enjoy the episode? Then please share it wi...
Sep 02, 2019•22 min
Now for something completely different. Why are so many people classified as "Mad Scientists" when they aren't even doing science?! Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and special co-host and Mind Fiend... Keon Boozarjomehri as they sweat over whether you favorite Movie, TV, and Real Life idols are really scientists at all! Inspiration for Reference Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at [email protected] , reach out on Twitter with #smallstuffshow, and follow us...
Aug 26, 2019•29 min
Every year people all over the world spend days worth of time stuck in traffic headed to and from work. But what is the real "toll" badum tss of all that sitting and waiting. Not just on the economy, but on your health and your life! Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and special co-host and Mensa Muscle Man Amelia Robert as they dive into the real toll of commuting to work! Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at [email protected] , reach out on Twitter with #sm...
Aug 19, 2019•32 min
Captain America Winter Soldier sure was a fun movie! But we gotta step back and ask, why is it when Tony Stark builds killer drones no one bats an eye, but when hydra does it everyone loses their minds?! Well that's what we're asking in this weeks episode! Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and special co-host and Mind Fiend Keon Boozarjomehri as they pick apart the deeper message from Spiderman Far From Home! Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at smallstuffshow@gmail...
Aug 12, 2019•29 min
Drone laws are a strange reality for us. It combines the idea that there are these several pound flying hunks of plastic with everyone's favorite thing... Bureaucracy! But they also invite a more serious question for superheroes who have to navigate these drone filled skies! Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and special co-host and Mind Fiend... Keon Boozarjomehri as they sweat over the past, present, and potential future for drones in SciFi! Have small stuff you're sweating...
Aug 05, 2019•24 min
For this bonus episode Cameron Boozarjomehri takes you through the Zima Blue episode of Love, Death & Robots. Find out how this simple episode shows you the subtle art of machine learning and how imputs impact the machines we are trying to train! Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at [email protected] , reach out on Twitter with #smallstuffshow, and follow us on Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube ! If you enjoyed the episode we hope you'll like, subscribe, share it with a frie...
Aug 01, 2019•14 min
Ex Machina is certainly not the first movie to introduce us to the questions around AI and Ethics. But it was one of the first to show us the terrifying existence of a machine that spent its whole life waiting for its creator to push the off button. The only real question was, who was the real machine?! @_@ Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and special co-host and AI Assistant Taylor McCorkill as they sweat over the implications of the winding road to Artificial Intelligence...
Jul 29, 2019•23 min
Jurassic Park is full of cool dinosaurs! ...Or is it... Maybe there are no dinosaurs, what would that mean for the park, its staff, and those unfortunate enough to have to "inspect" it? Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and special co-host and Neural Nutritionist Sam Spiers as they discuss what it's like to be on the bleeding edge badum tss of genetics research!. Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at [email protected] , reach out on Twitter with #smallstuffsho...
Jul 22, 2019•23 min
Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri for a very special interview with Dr Erin MacDonald as we pull back the curtain on what it takes to make sure your favorite Science Fiction is grounded in Science Fact! For more of Dr Erin's work, and to hear the bonus episode about her journey becoming a SciFi consultant, head over to her website: https://www.erinpmacdonald.com/ Dr Erin Macdonald is an astrophysicist, science fiction consultant, aerospace engineer, and host of the online se...
Jul 15, 2019•24 min
Just a good old fashioned bonus episode full of goofs, and gaughs (whatever those are). We make references, memes, and other stuff. Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and co-host and Mind Fiend Keon Boozarjomehri as we pick apart Jurassic World (along with Jurassic Park). Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at [email protected] , reach out on Twitter with #smallstuffshow, and follow us on Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube ! If you enjoyed the episode make sure ...
Jul 12, 2019•7 min
In part 2 of our series on Jurassic Park we bring you a CEO's guide to how to treat your employees and build your organization! ...Or perhaps, how Mr "Spared No Expense" doesn't do that and how it bites him in the butt! Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and special co-host and Mind Fiend... Keon Boozarjomehri as they dive into the hiring, firing, and general treatment of staff and services at Jurassic Park! Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at [email protected]...
Jul 08, 2019•29 min
Pixar is a company that has been pushing the envelope on computer generated technology since the early 90s and one of the few companies to do it well! Now, almost 25 years later, we thought it would be a good time to take stock of the technical progress made by a company known for exceptional story telling! Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and co-host and Neural Nutritionist Sam as they explore how every movie in Pixar's line up has been both a Master Craft in story telling...
Jul 01, 2019•24 min
So you are running an incredible new amusement park that doubles as a covert genetics research lab. And now someone has been murdered on your property by one of your "experiments". So we gotta ask, "Who should you hire to inspect Jurassic Park?!" Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri as he proves that Jurassic Parks business model is already a real thriving amusement park that proves everything in the movie is nothing short of incompetence! For your sanity, our notes on OSHA vio...
Jun 24, 2019•17 min
The Men In Black protect the earth from all sorts of alien threats, whether we know it or not. But the secrecy and neuralyzing comes at a cost. A cost to our freedom, a cost to our individual liberties, and a cost to our society. So we had to ask: "If the MIB are real, do we live in a police state?" Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and co-host/Neural Nutritionist Sam as we probe the cost of not knowing what's out there. Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at smallstu...
Jun 21, 2019•15 min
Black Mirror is Back Y'all and this season is just as poignant as ever! But one episode really stood out. I'm talking about S5E2 "Smithereens". This episode covers so very much but we figured we could stick to the high level stuff here. 1) Just how much data can these companies get (even when they aren't tracking you?) 2) Who's really at fault for making our smart devices so addictive? 3) Can you really Google your way through a kidnapping?! Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri...
Jun 17, 2019•29 min
Matt Basta is a full-time programmer, and we do mean full time! By day he develops for the global technology platform Stripe. By night he is the visionary driving the technology, development, and support for the popular podcast hosting service Pinecast ! And for anyone interested, he was nice enough to include a promocode for 2 free months of Pinecast, but you'll have to listen to the episode to find it! Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and Matt Basta as they discuss Matt's...
Jun 10, 2019•29 min
It's time to answer that most heinous of questions. What happens when you drop a freaking mountain out of the sky!!! This is potential spoilers for The Adventure zone Amnesty Episode 28 but I gotta get it out there! Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri as he does the literal math of what happens when you drop a solid mountain peak out of the sky! Here some fun reference articles I found to go along with this episode: XKCD Dropping mountains Quora dropping a cubic mile of molten...
Jun 06, 2019•17 min
John Wick is a movie/comic series steeped in "Cool Factor". From tattooed supermodels to ...guns... it's the greatest hits of how to ooze style! But with all that cool factor we gotta ask, how do carrier pigeons and slide phones compare to good old fashioned encryption?! Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and Mind Fiend Keon Boozarjomehri as they examine why the Nokia 8800 might make sense as the assassin phone of choice! Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at smallstu...
Jun 03, 2019•23 min
On this bonus episode your Personal Brain Trainer and Neural Nutritionist wrestle with that most simple of questions. How Genie Magic Work?! This is actually a tough one so if you have thoughts pretty please do send them our way! Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at [email protected] , reach out on Twitter with #smallstuffshow, and follow us on Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube ! If you enjoyed the episode we hope you'll like, subscribe, share it with a friend, support us on Pat...
May 31, 2019•18 min
Disclaimer : This is our very first Sweating The Small Stuff: On The Go (OTG), which means we were recording outside our element. But we think this will make for a fun new way to experiment with episode formats and hope you'll enjoy what we have in store! Disclaimer Over John Wick 3 has been out for at least a week so you should have had plenty of time to take in all the none people getting shot a bunch spoilers! But while rewatching John Wick 2 in preparation for its sequel, I realized there wa...
May 27, 2019•24 min
The economy is very important, but as a listener of our show you probably already knew that... What's interesting is how fast a populations health can plummit (along with its GDP). Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and special co-host and Neural Nutritionist Sam Spiers as they sweat over a case study out of Venezuela and the unfortunate consequences a poor economy can have on national and global health! Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at [email protected] ,...
May 20, 2019•25 min
Congratulations, you are now a giant organization with a grand vision! Maybe you wanna flood the world (looking at you Team Aqua), maybe you want a portal to another dimension! (Black Mesa cough cough ) ...or maybe you just wanna see captain falcon crash at 800 km/h! So what's stopping you?! Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and very special co-host and host of the Retrospectives Podcast Patrick Arthur as they dive into videogame villain's corporate strategy! If you liked th...
May 13, 2019•35 min
Futurama is a real banger of a TV show (Why'd you think it was smart to cancel it Fox?!), but one of it's most excellent elements maybe one of the biggest things most fans overlook. So this week we are taking a (uniquely long) deep dive into the themes and detail that make Futurama's intro one of the most visually entertaining and easily overlooked aspects of the shows incredible run! Join your Personal Brain Trainer ( Cameron Boozarjomehri ) and special co-host and Mind Fiend... Keon Boozarjome...
May 06, 2019•25 min
For something completely different, introducing the LAWKCast, better known as Life Advice With Keon! For this very special episode I got lucky enough to be a guest on Keon's podcast so that's always nice! Join your Life Coach Keon Boozarjomehri and his guest host Cameron Boozarjomehri as they help you navigate maintaining your sanity in the digital age! You can find his show at lawkcast.com and find them on social media with @lawkcast Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at smallstuffshow@...
May 02, 2019•30 min
If you haven't seen Pacific Rim by now, please do yourself a favor and go watch it Right NOW! It is one of our favorite shows with some of the best story telling and plot devices you could ever hope for in a Giant Monster vs Robot movie (Okay I guess we set that bar kinda low...) Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and co-host and Mind Fiend... Keon Boozarjomehri as they dive into the "Drift" from Pacific Rim and how this one plot device (and its deep implications) open up a w...
Apr 29, 2019•21 min
The Universal Translator is as iconic a piece of Sci-Fi as the Enterprise itself, but what questions does such a technology invite? And how do those implications impact our favorite Sci-Fi Franchises? Join your Personal Brain Trainer (Cameron Boozarjomehri) and your newly titled Neural Nutritionist ( Sam Spiers ) as they decipher the implications of the Universal Translator! Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at [email protected] , reach out on Twitter with #smallstuffshow, and fo...
Apr 22, 2019•24 min
Having just rounded our "10th" episode I thought it would be smart to take stock of the journey so far and be clear about what this show is going forward. ...and I thought y'all might enjoy a time lapse to make listening to my baritone voice that much easier! So let me lay it all out for you on this semi-special bonus episode! YouTube Link Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at [email protected] , reach out on Twitter with #smallstuffshow, and follow us on Facebook , Instagram , an...
Apr 15, 2019•5 min
Dear Listeners, Hi all! Your personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri here. For our 10th episode I wanted to take a moment to have a heart to heart and thank everyone who has been with us uptil this point. Whether you've been listening, subscribing, commenting, sharing, or just stumbled across this episode in the backlog I want to say Thank You! It is still early days for Sweating The Small Stuff, and that's why it's important to me to share how much I appreciate everyone's involvement. If y...
Apr 15, 2019•8 min
Food is an interesting aspect of cinema. It can show you what characters value or help inform the worlds they occupy. But how does something we never interact with so perfectly anchor us in a story? Join your Personal Brain Trainer ( Cameron Boozarjomehri ) and special co-host and Mind Fiend... Keon Boozarjomehri as they dive into the often overlooked role food plays in Sci-Fi. Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at [email protected] or reach out on social media with #smallstuffsho...
Apr 08, 2019•29 min
