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294. Frame Rate: Under The Skin (Feat. Brooks Brown)

The 2014 film Under The Skin is not for everyone. It's dark, meditative, brutal, and terrifying. There ...

Lisa Simpson

The good and bad of my relationship with the very wise Jennifer Moore.

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293. Directorpiece Theatre - Clueless: Self-Identity and Subculture

Abe presents the case that while 1995's Clueless has flaws, its insistence on inclusive art forms and m...

292. Kings of King: Dreamcatcher

Michael and Abe discuss what's going on with this movie. Why did it flop so hard? Does it deserve the h...

291. The Cast and the Curious: Fast & Furious

Sarah and Bridgett review the fourth installment of the FFF (Fast and Furious Franchise). Sa...

289. I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours: Show Me Your Badly-Aging High School Film

The Show You's start off with a pretty thorough discussion of coffee but things take a turn when Maggie...

ISYMIYSMY Episode 5 Prompt Poll!

Hope you enjoyed the third episode of ISYMIYSMY! Here's the possible prompts for Episode 5 as they've a...

[IGN] Michael and Lucy Talk Leaks

As quarantine quontinues, IGN will continue to occasionally put out videos that are just us talking to each other via webcam. But as far as I can recall, that's what life is and always has been, so...

RUN | TIME

Someone check on Michael. He wrote this...I don't know, short story? Anyway, it's not really that funny at all. I mean, there's one part at the end that's really hilarious, but the rest isn't that ...

288. Directorpiece Theatre: How Pragmatism Helped The Descent Achieve Artistic Success

  Adam tells Abe to pull over because he's taking the wheel for an examination of the 2005 British...

287. Small Beautiful Things: How Die Hard Trains Your Eye

Yippie Ki Yay, Mister Falcons! Abe returns with a lecture on Die Hard and how John McTiernan uses diagonal lines to draw your eye. Not very funny, but if you want to tell people while you're watchi...

286. Frame Rate: Ex Machina (Feat. Tom Reimann)

We don't even summarize the film this time. It's just three dudes talking about what it means to be hum...

Guest Beans: Mike Gorgeous Swaim

Michael got to be on his own personal favorite podcast, My Gorgeous Son! It's about a dad and son who love one another varying amounts, and is brought to life by two of our favorite comedians, Mark...

285. BOLD: Live Interview - Drugs, Race & Criminalization with Eunisses Hernandez

BOLD is a podcast about race and justice in America, and a collaboration between Small Beans and Showing Up For Racial...

284. Kings of King: Misery

Alright, cockadoodies! The kings catalog their third entry of their deep dive into the Kingiverse. So g...

283. Frame Rate: Clue (Feat. Daniel O'Brien)

Dan's back! Everybody Dan's back! Go Crazy! Alright, calm down.

It's murder most foul! A cacophon...

282. The Cast and the Curious: Tokyo Drift

The third installment of our Fast and Furious deep dive comes with many epiphanies, like Sarah learning...

281. Directorpiece Theatre - Paranorman: The Failure of the American Tradition

Paranorman is a movie from 2012 that sneakily deconstructs American traditionalism, suburbia, and consu...

Jackstream: The Repost

Here's our game night stream from last night! Lots of fun, fewer technical issues than we expected...we'll do this again. Hope you'll be in the audience! Otherwise just slap this on in the backgrou...

280. Frame Rate: Devs

Sometimes we talk about TV too! This one is the new FX miniseries starring Nick Offerman and Allison Pi...

Jackbox Games Stream Team!

Hello all! We have beans to report! This Saturday, May 2nd @ 7pm PST, 7 whole big beans will be streaming on our twitch.tv channel for a few hours. You'll get to vote on our suggestions and follow ...

279. Frame Rate: Predestination (Feat. Vanessa Gritton)

Vanessa's back to help Michael and Abe unpack the dense time travel timeline of 2014's Predestination (...

[IGN] How to Make the Mario Remasters Meaningful

Swaim's burgeoning friendship with Brian Altano really hit a new plateau with the co-creation of this, a scathingly intimate portrait of two dudes discussing potential Mario Bros. remasters.

ISYMIYSMY Episode 3 Prompt Poll!

Hey wind bags! Hope you enjoyed the second episode of ISYMIYSMY! As promised, here's the possible promp...

278. I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours: The Album That I Could Live In

So this is how it works. The title of the episode is the episode prompt. How Maggie and Adam define it ...

276. Directorpiece Theatre: John Hughes' Day Off (From Directing)

Like the lazy titular character, John Hughes kind of takes it easy after Act I of Ferris Bueller's Day ...

275. Kings of King: The Mist * EARLY ACCESS

Abe and Michael discuss the themes and relevancy of 2007's The Mist. In the last episode, Stephen King ...

Rough Stuff Live Show (on Instagram) TOMORROW!

Sarah and Bridgett of Rough Stuff are going to do a LIVE 2020-04-11 23:09:05 +0000 UTC View Post

274. I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours: What Movie Got You Into Show Business?

Hot damn, a new podcast! It dawned on us that the most unlikely of pure friendships blossomed in the la...

Bean Team Dreams Streams And More!

Just a public service announcement that while the world is on fire and we're all stuck in our homes, we're trying to find new ways to create content and connect with you guys remotely. Oh yeah. It'...