Small Beans

SB favorite Katy Stoll joins Abe and Michael to break down and build up perennial favorite, Princess Bride. As you wish!

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.

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.

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.

MUBI Promotional Offer: https://mubi.com/brothers The oft-maligned prelude to No Country, Joel and Ethan's grudging remake of the Alec Guinness/Peter Sellers comedy classic The Ladykillers is...wait for it...funnier than you think it is. Abe and Michael unpack it's undeniable flaws, learn a lot about the Coens in the process, and also highlight some truly hilarious Coen Moments you missed if you overlooked this one. J.K. Simmons as you've never seen him before, Tom Hanks as you've never seen him before, and Stephen Root exactly as you've seen him in every other Coen Brothers movie! What's not to kind of like? Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Abe Epperson.

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 second episode, writer, educator, and legendary social justice advocate Paul Kivel helps Dahlia and Michael explain a bit of the history of white allyship, what your stakes as a white person are in dismantling racism in America, the history of racial assimilation in America, the relationship between racism and economic inequality, and much, much more. Also features a piece by Ariel Luckey, and voices and sounds from ongoing protests against 24-Hour Fitness following the locker-room murder of Albert Ramon Dorsey by police.

Abe and Cristian examine fictional economies that strive to span galaxies, yet fail to actually function in any conceivable realm of reality. From Trade Federations to the Replicator to Spice-Trade and the Houses, it's alllllll just bullshit. So let's enjoy it!

The Dino Dream Team of three people who barely know anything about dinosaurs but make up for it with passion is BACK, BABY! Abraham tells Bridgett and Michael about the meanest prehistoric meth-turkey this side of the Mesozoic...Hesperonychus!

The dream team of Fish, Swaim, and Epperson decode the dense, symbolist tome that is the "Weird" Al movie. And if they don't by noon tomorrow, the podcasting network will get sold to an evil old billionaire!!!!

Joel and Ethan force Catherine and George to channel Hepburn and Grant, all respectively. It's the Coens' most expensive film, and therefore the best, as any good divorce attorney will tell you. Join the madcap antics as Mike and Abe unpack one of the brothers' lighter offerings. Get your 30 day free trial of MUBI here: http://mubi.com/brothers