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In this week's PCPD, Abe and Cristian dive into a variety of science developments and compare them to stupid movies to make life sensible for themselves. Artwork by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Abe Epperson. SB Merch: https://smallbeans.bigcartel.com

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Support SB and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans This month for our Patron-exclusive Beanus Content Module, comic creator, writer and animator Ryan Pequin joins Michael and Adam to answer your questions. It's way more interesting than it has any right to be, and you helped us make it! Thanks.

Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: www.patreon.com/SmallBeans SB Merch: smallbeans.bigcartel.com Big Bean Abe Epperson proves why he's head of the network by putting every other embarrassing story ever featured on the show to shame. His shame is so shameful, other peoples' shame should be ashamed. And it's all for the delight of Sarah, Bridgett, and YOU! Go ahead. Be delighted. See if we care.

Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans SB Merch: https://smallbeans.bigcartel.com The 'Burbs! It's part broad 80's comedy, part white xenophobic fear fulfillment, and all Tom Hanks-ed up! Daniel V. Gordh joins the guys to break down every aspect of this weird, dated, yet at moments brilliant movie. And there's Corey Feldman there as well!

It's an all-Star week here at Small Beans! Perennial favorite Star Hodge joins Abe and Mike to discuss Hayao Miyazaki's epic animated tale of the delicate balance between man, nature, lepers, bullets, crooked priests, and giant boar-worm-monsters. It's Swaim's favorite non-comedy movie!

Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans Our old boss and host of the Daily Zeitgeist Jack "Potatoes" O'Brien takes a break from fatherhood to watch the most violent, gruesome western ever made and discuss its broader implications with those Frame Rate Fucks. Is Craig S. Zoller a refreshing new voice in suspense, or simply a master of Goresploitation? SB Merch: https://smallbeans.patreon.com

Support SB and Access Beanus Content at www.patreon.com/SmallBeans From bug-bread (excellent with butter bugs), to lab-grown meat, to unfuckable turkeys, to The Mootrix 2: Electric Boogamoo, Abe and Cristian take a survey of the kind of crap all ten billion of us will be eating the day after tomorrow. Literally. Shit is rough out here, folks. SPONSORED BY FOODINI! Music by Abe Epperson. Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. SB Merch: https://smallbeans.patreon.com

Katie Willert Week concludes with a special Patron-only round of Questions and Answers from you, The Beans! Should you see Bohemian Rhapsody? Is cooking a satisfying hobby to do? FINALLY LEARN THE TRUTH.

Support SB and Access Beanus Content at https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans This little buddy, you really just have to see for yourself. Bridgett tells the guys about an animal so improbably they both immediately go violently insane. It's a hoot! Art by the Small Beans community. Wicked Guitar Riff by Abe Epperson.

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