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829. Please Send Help (February 12, 2025)

Michael has been locked in a garage by a mysterious editor and forced to watch and respond to last week's movie trailers. He's been eating sawdust exclusively, poor guy. Welp, there doesn't seem like there's anything we can do here. Enjoy the show!

The show will be posted here on Patreon, our Youtube channel, and our TikTok channel every Tuesday or Wednesday!

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828. I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours: Shut Up and Watch This Movie

The hosts each bring a film that the other will just sit down and watch because they say so, dammit. Maggie sold a show to Nebula! Adam’s girlfriend broke into his house to decorate!

Email us suggestions for episodes at magsandganz@gmail.com. We’ll be sending out a poll for the next episode soon!

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827. Frame Rate: Rosemary’s Baby

Michael recently had a child! So he thought it’d be fun to watch Rosemary’s Baby with his newborn and this is the result. Abe decides to take us on an art history lesson for some reason.

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826. Please Send Help (February 6, 2025)

Michael has been locked in a garage by a mysterious editor and forced to watch and respond to last week's movie trailers. He's been eating sawdust exclusively, poor guy. Welp, there doesn't seem like there's anything we can do here. Enjoy the show!

The show will be posted here on Patreon, our Youtube channel, and our TikTok channel every Tuesday or Wednesday!

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825. See You Space Podboys - Session #6: Sympathy for the Devil

Adam Ganser and Abe Epperson discuss the 1998 anime Cowboy Bebop. This time, we talk about session #6, Sympathy for the Devil. The immortal kid one. 3, 2, 1. Let’s jam.

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824. 1Upsmanship: Games We Release Each Other From Playing (The Uncoverables)

If you’ve been listening to this podcast at all, you should know Adam and Michael are just two very different gamers. There’s a whole mess of games that each of them hold dearly, but just aren’t the others’ bag. So this episode serves as a space where each host releases the other from playing their...

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823. Ander’s Sons: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

Our deep dive of Wes Anderson and P.T. Anderson continues: this time we discuss the 2024 anthology film The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More. Michael and Abe discuss Wes Anderson’s distinctive style, themes, and characters.

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822. Escape from the Multicurse: The Thirteenth Floor

Our three co-hosts are stuck in the multiverse and need to get back to their home universe. Clearly, the only way to do that is to explore our cultural obsession with multiverses, alternate timelines and parallel worlds, and tie it all into a conversation about post-modern art, pop culture, and the lessons these stories teach us. Also, each episode, one of them is an asshole who will probably sabotag...

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821. I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours: Album of the Year 2024

Bonus Episode! Adam and Maggie cover their picks for albums of the year. They discuss having dry mouth, bebop jazz, and the social media landscape of 2024.

Vote every month on our poll for the topic of the next episode! Email us suggestions for episodes at magsandganz@gmail.com as well.

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820. 1Upsmanship: Tetris

We take you back to 1985. To when Michael was a baby and the world-wide craze of block-based entertainment was about to hit critical mass and then promptly disappear (adding points to your score). It’s perhaps one of the most iconic titles in gaming history. Will the shipmates keep it on the hard drive? Will Adam finally profess his love for Russian folk songs, as we have all anticipated for a whil...

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819. Costumes & Cretins - Episode 8: Crazy Puffs & So Many Children

Michael Swaim wrote a short Dungeons & Dragons campaign for his buds Starline Hodge, Abe Epperson, and David Bell. They basically know as much as you do, so we recorded it and here it is. 

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818. Please Send Help (2025 LA Fires edition)

Today’s episode became a call-to-action for helping out some of our friends that were affected by the fires in LA. Please check out these gofundmes: 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-kaller-grey-familys-recovery

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817. See You Space Podboys - Session #5: Ballad of Fallen Angels

Adam Ganser and Abe Epperson discuss the 1998 anime Cowboy Bebop. This time, we talk about session #5, Ballad of Fallen Angels . 3, 2, 1. Let’s jam.

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816. Inside Dads: The Edge, and Other Survival Thrillers

Our limited series with co-hosts Abe Epperson and David Bell digs deep into the internet meme of the “dad movie.” We can all probably name a dad movie, but can we isolate the tropes that really make this a bona fide film genre? Let’s find out!

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815. Please Send Help (January 7, 2025)

Michael has been locked in a garage by a mysterious editor and forced to watch and respond to last week's movie trailers. He's been eating sawdust exclusively, poor guy. Welp, there doesn't seem like there's anything we can do here. Enjoy the show!

The show will be posted here on Patreon, our Youtube channel, and our new TikTok channel every Tuesday or Wednesday!

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814. Star Trek: The Next Futurama 87 - Attack of the Killer App

If you forgot, this show takes a Futurama episode and thematically pairs it with an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, which works surprisingly well.

This show exclusively releases every other episode here on the Small Beans patreon. Wimmy Wam Wam Wozzle!

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The Swaimpsoooooons! (New Video Series)

As is now true every Sunday for the foreseeable future, Mike has a new video out on the traditional day of The Simpsons over at the revived Cracked YouTube channel. This time it's the pilot for a proposed series about facts learned by unpacking Simpsons jokes. If it gets enough views, he'll get to make more! He'd like that!

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813. Costumes & Cretins - Episode 7: A Seance & One Half of a Grilled Cheese

Michael Swaim wrote a short Dungeons & Dragons campaign for his buds Starline Hodge, Abe Epperson, and David Bell. They basically know as much as you do, so we recorded it and here it is. 

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Michael Swaim: https://bsky.app/profile/michaelswaim.bsky.social

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812. 1Upsmanship: Celestial Hard Drive 2024

As is tradition, every year we give the hosts the option to adjust and prune the Celestial Hard Drive for alien consumption. Which beloved games will be off the short list? Find out by clicking on the the triangle above this description and sitting motionless for about an hour.

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811. Please Send Help (December 31, 2024)

Michael has been locked in a garage by a mysterious editor and forced to watch and respond to last week's movie trailers. He's been eating sawdust exclusively, poor guy. Welp, there doesn't seem like there's anything we can do here. Enjoy the show!

The show will be posted here on Patreon, our Youtube channel, and our new TikTok channel every Tuesday or Wednesday!

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810. Tales from the Pit: Mask Off (Feat. Jessica Ellis

Director/Flirt Jessica Ellis stops by the pit to discuss the protean effects of long COVID and the seeming programmed mentality toward sickness we all share (and how that changes over time). 

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809. 1Upsmanship: GOTY 2024

An episode one year in the making: the official 1Upsmanship 2024 Game of the Year episode. Michael and Adam each present their list of this year’s top games.

Michael Swaim: https://bsky.app/profile/michaelswaim.bsky.social 

Adam Ganser: 2024-12-20 14:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post

808. Please Send Help (December 17, 2024)

Michael has been locked in a garage by a mysterious editor and forced to watch and respond to last week's movie trailers. He's been eating sawdust exclusively, poor guy. Welp, there doesn't seem like there's anything we can do here. Enjoy the show!

The show will be posted here on Patreon, our Youtube channel, and our new TikTok channel every Tuesday or Wednesday!

https://www.tiktok.com/@smallbeanscomedy View Post

807. See You Space Podboys - Session #4: Gateway Shuffle

Adam Ganser and Abe Epperson discuss the 1998 anime Cowboy Bebop. This time, we talk about session #4, Gateway Shuffle . 3, 2, 1. Let’s jam.

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Adam Ganser: https://twitter.com/therealganz

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806. Costumes & Cretins - Episode 6: Some Jenkem & Incidental Crack

Michael Swaim wrote a short Dungeons & Dragons campaign for his buds Starline Hodge, Abe Epperson, and David Bell. They basically know as much as you do, so we recorded it and here it is. 

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Michael Swaim: https://bsky.app/profile/michaelswaim.bsky.social

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805. Please Send Help (December 10, 2024)

Michael has been locked in a garage by a mysterious editor and forced to watch and respond to last week's movie trailers. He's been eating sawdust exclusively, poor guy. Welp, there doesn't seem like there's anything we can do here. Enjoy the show!

The show will be posted here on Patreon, our Youtube channel, and our new TikTok channel every Tuesday or Wednesday!

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Mike's Latest IGN Vid - FromSoft Combat

It came out a month ago but no one told him! Now you know too! At this rate, we're afraid the spread cannot be stopped Madame President.

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804. Star Trek: The Next Futurama 85 - Rebirth

If you forgot, this show takes a Futurama episode and thematically pairs it with an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, which works surprisingly well. This episode covers the first episode of 6th season (or 10th)? It’s called “Rebirth” and it’s the first episode after the events of the movies.

This show exclusively releases every other episode here on the Small Beans patreon. Wi...

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803. Ander’s Sons: Asteroid City

Our deep dive of Wes Anderson and P.T. Anderson continues: this time we discuss the 2023 film Asteroid City which follows a town ensemble as they witness first contact. Michael and Abe discuss Wes Anderson’s distinctive style, themes, and characters.

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802. Costumes & Cretins - Episode 5: A Skibidi Toilet & Dying

Michael Swaim wrote a short Dungeons & Dragons campaign for his buds Starline Hodge, Abe Epperson, and David Bell. They basically know as much as you do, so we recorded it and here it is. 

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Michael Swaim: https://bsky.app/profile/michaelswaim.bsky.social

Starline Hodge: https://twitter.com/starlinex<...

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