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Small Beans
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Jun 6, 2019 • 1h 10min
199. BOLD: Mass Incarceration - The Cost and Fight to Change
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

May 27, 2019 • 60min
197. Frame Rate: Ichi the Killer (Feat. Brooks Brown)
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.
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May 24, 2019 • 31min
196. What Dinosaur Real Good? Therizinosaurus!
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.
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SB Merch: https://smallbeans.bigcartel.com

May 22, 2019 • 30min
SB Classic! Q & A with Daniel O'Brien
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.
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May 16, 2019 • 1h 37min
194. Tales from the Pit: Love in the Time of Ballera (Feat. Vanessa Gritton)
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.
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May 15, 2019 • 57min
193. Rough Stuff: A Richness of Embarrassments (Feat. Cristian Ramirez)
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.
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May 10, 2019 • 59min
192. Pop Culture Petri Dish: Future House!
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.
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May 8, 2019 • 35min
SB Classic! Q & A with Robert Evans
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.
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May 6, 2019 • 60min
191. Frame Rate: Four Lions (Feat. Robert Evans)
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!
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Apr 26, 2019 • 1h 3min
188. Frame Rate: Save the Green Planet! (Feat. Robert Evans)
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. Thanks Sean!
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