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Frame Rate takes aim at the original Nazi-scalping history-changers, the Inglourious Basterds! Daniel O'Brien sits in to help dissect Tarantino's bloody masterwork.

Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Pryzbylewski from The Wire, Ash from Evil Dead, Paul Newman and the Dad from Frasier all join forces to invent the hula hoop. It's the Coens' first flop, and one of Michael and Abe's all-time favorite films. You know...for kids!

Maggie sits down with Director Cody Ziglar and talks work friends (are they real friends? Or only cross-over potential?) how to identify the elusive 'fake friend,' and Cody gives us some advice on easy ways to stay in touch with our old friends.

Rough Stuff is back, and more humiliating than ever before! Join hosts Bridgett Greenberg and Sarah Griffith for a jaw-dropping, face-palming ride through the most torturous moment of comedian/actor John Paul Green's childhood. There's sex, phones, and parents involved, so you know it's gonna be pretty bad. Enjoy JP's pain! Hope it make you giggle!

Michael and Jonny bring you the news of the week, both Small Beans and otherwise.

Host of The Bechdel Cast and comedian/hacker extraordinaire Jamie Loftus joins Michael and Abe in suddenly realizing that a movie they thought was really funny as teens is now wildly uncomfortable to sit through. If you like Small Beans AND Judd Apatow, listen to the episode and prepare for one of those things to change!

Maggie sits down with writer and Audible queen Erin Mallory Long. Are our romantic partners also our friends? Why don’t we ever want to go to parties? Does it count to consider yourself as a friend? Grab a seat, Erin's got some wisdom to share.

Those who plumb the Pit discuss the thin, sad line between grief and a bout of depression, practical ways to know when you're depressed, and practical ways to address it that you probably won't take advantage of while you're depressed, but hey, it was worth a shot. Maggie Mae Fish, host of My Top 8, joins to shed her light on these and a number of related topics.

It's a story of three generations of an American family. I've always wondered why no one's done that! Join perennial favorite Katie Willert to tackle the complexities of motherhood, and how sometimes, you just gotta hit your kids with a belt in the rain.

Abe and Cristian explain Stephen Hawking's lame party invite, the primary jokes that Science has, and the tangential intersection between "real" science and sci-fi time travel awesomeness.

Maggie sits down with writer and comedian Bailey Norton, who put on a one-woman play in the middle of a basketball court. Did it help her make any friends? No! Join us as we talk childhood friendship, best friend syndrome, and owning up to when we were not great friends.

Join Michael Swaim, Abe Epperson, and presumably Milhouse Van Houten and Nelson Muntz in a thoughtful discussion of the Coens' treatise on the act of screenwriting itself. Get ready to finally understand that sink drain shot!

DOB, Abe and Swaim join forces yet again to bring you the latest installment in a never-ending cycle of repetitious content they will stay forever trapped within unless they become better men.

One soldier's experience serving in the Army in Iraq, and, later and much more importantly, as one of the biggest Small Beans around. PCPD host and fixture Cristian Ramirez tries to explain to Mike what war is really like on this week's Tales from the Pit.

23 and...we?! Find out all about Cristian's genes, genes in general, and how to make your own Cristian in a petri dish at home.

It's a hard-boiled mobster noir bromance from the Coen Brothers! What's not to like? Abe Epperson and Michael Swaim drag you into the metaphorical woods to make you beg for your life, but in a good way, as they delve into the Coens' third masterpiece.

Michael and Jonny bring you the news of the week, both Small Beans and otherwise.

Brace yourself, Rough Stuff is back! Special guest Jamie Loftus leads Bridgett and Sarah on a tour of such diverse topics as braces, back braces, and the never-before-revealed secret recipe for Doritos Soup.

Festering creep, or misunderstood misanthrope? Tom Reimann joins Abe and Michael to dig into the foam-rubber grave of Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! BEETLEJUICE!

Katy Stoll returns to the Pit to discuss the loss of beloved pets, and why the heck we keep doing this to ourselves.