Small Beans

Comedian, writer, director and Cracked alum Carmen Angelica finally joins the Small Beans pantheon by bravely exposing some of the truly unfortunate fashion/life choices that have haunted her lo these past twenty years. Co-hosts Bridgett and Sarah commiserate, as is their wont.

Comedian and writer Hana joins Maggie to talk about getting by with a little help from friends, what happens when we forget we have friends (you're probably not as alone as you feel!), and defends her favorite friend duo.

Bridgett Greenberg, co-host of Rough Stuff, takes a dose of her own medicine in The Pit and gets personal about her relationship to anxiety, panic attacks, and spinning tubes.

In their most explosive dust-up so far, Adam and Michael square off to demolish and enshrine (respectively), Michael's favorite game that Adam also played and thinks is just fine! Gamer and comedian Vanessa Gritton joins to incite violence, Michael nerds up the end with a Fallout rap, and Adam and Mike's friendship is forced to bust out a couple stimpaks to survive.

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.

It's the Citizen Kane of cover-based first-person shooters with robust multiplayer and vehicles! Adam and Mike take on the original Halo, and trace its impact through Destiny and all the way to Destiny 2, if you can believe it.

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.

Please note, you can only listen to this 1Upsmanship episode if you already have the Morph Ball, 15 Super Missiles, and the thing that goes on the other thing to reveal the secret thing. Join Samus, Adam and Mike for a rousing discussion of gating and how it makes games possible but also frustrating!

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.