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204. Waveformed: Katie Willert

In the premiere episode of Waveformed, host Cristian Ramirez gets to know Katie Willert better...

Off Hours: Writing Stream (and Get Your Name in the Credits!)

As we discussed on the recent stream (above), Swaim's gotta write an Off Hours episode about the "Least Likeable Everyman Sitcom Protags" and could use the group's help. If you can direct us to a data point, story arc, character moment, or bit of ...

203. Frame Rate: Little Shop of Horrors (Feat. Jacquis Neal)

Culture King 2019-06-25 04:15:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Off Hours Writing Stream June 26th!

As we are wont to do, we'll be live-streaming our writing...

201. The Coen Brothers Brothers: Burn After Reading

What the fuck?!

Free month of MUBI: https://mubi.com/brothers 

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200. Frame Rate: Annihilation (Feat. Jack O'Brien)

Jack O'Brien returns! To basically have a very confusing movie he's just seen for...

Guest Beans: Behind The Beanstards - L. Ron Hubbean (Part II)

Finally, the epic conclusion to the L. Ron Hubbard story! Part V in total, but only the second one featuring the Beans, and the ONLY part featuring an act...

Scriptophobic Interviewed Michael

Pretty self-explanatory. Pretty dope interview. Thanks to Zack Long!

199. BOLD: Mass Incarceration - The Cost and Fight to Change

BOLD is a podcast about race and justice in America, and a collaboration between Small Beans and Showing Up For Racial Justice, produced by 2019-06-06 18:34:58 +0000 UTC View Post

Guest Beans: Behind The Beanstards - L. Ron Hubbean

Hey! Our pal Robert had us on his hugely awesome pod, Behind the B's. This is part one of two parts abo...

Off Hours - If Your Life Got Rebooted, What Kind Would It Be?

The very first episode of Off Hours, a series about a group of friends who often find themselves sitting around dissecting pop culture. 

Katy, Maggie, and Daniel try to cheer Michael up by sharing a meal of vodka and beans, and discussi...

Off Hours Shoot 001: The Debrief

Hey, you know all that money you gave us? 

We spent it! No foolin', we spent 8k out of the 14k raised last month to secure the equipment, props,...

197. Frame Rate: Ichi the Killer (Feat. Brooks Brown)

Takashi Miike's seminal (literally), ultra-gore manga-adapted tale of The Number One Killer, his friend The Other Number One Killer, this Lady Who Kills, and a few other Notable Killers. It's mad, it's undeniably well-crafted, and it may just be t...

196. What Dinosaur Real Good? Therizinosaurus!

2019-05-24 02:00:24 +0000 UTC View Post

SB Store Update: New Shirt, New Short

We have just added an Off Hours logo tee, as well as a new ...

194. Tales from the Pit: Love in the Time of Ballera (Feat. Vanessa Gritton)

Your sick host Michael Swaim is super-stoked to welcome tight guest Vanessa Gritton to discuss hella-pertinent issues like romance and dating through the lens of mental illness...

Off Hours! Script Reading and Production Meeting

There will be spoilers for the new episodes of Off Hours, insofar as we'll be reading the rough drafts of the scripts and discussing them. We love you and what you're all about!

193. Rough Stuff: A Richness of Embarrassments (Feat. Cristian Ramirez)

Precocious Childhood Personal Disappointments! PCPD host Cristian Ramirez braves the Rough Stuff hot seat and endures cross-examination on topics like drama in Dram...

192. Pop Culture Petri Dish: Future House!

Everyone in Austin, TX, lives in a dumpster and shits in a bucket, and they're better people for it. Ask Abe and Cristian how!

Art by Michael Vincent Bramley.

SB Merch: 2019-05-10 22:12:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Force of Nature: A ReadStream

Here's a weird thing! This is us and our extended fam reading a spec script we just finished. It's called "Force of Nature," and it's an action/thriller in the vein of Die Hard. We were asked to write it by SOME PEOPLE and we're hoping to sell it ...

OFF HOURS Logo, Baby!

By Michael Vincent Bramley, who also drew this sh...

Bust: A Pilot Script

Hi there! From time to time, we are forced to give up on projects for various reasons. In the case of "Bust," our spec script for a comedic, heist-centered TV thriller about "What If The MythBusters Did Crimes?," we pitched it for years and now th...

Off Hours: An Update!

Our new series Off Hours is set to launch near the end of this month! 

As such, we've got three episodes in the works. The pilot will be about R...

Force of Nature: A Readstream!

Okay, let's try this again. Our cast of avengers are re-assembled, none of them are an animated raccoon, and they'll all be live-reading our NEW SCREENPLAY...

191. Frame Rate: Four Lions (Feat. Robert Evans)

Robert "Behind the Bastards" Evans returns to provide real-world expertise in the analysis of a very silly film about suicide bombers. That's right, it's Sharia Law and Lotsa Laf...

190. Who Fucked The Dishwasher?

The second installment in our never-ending series of planned sketches loosely referred to behind-the-scenes as "What Did Michael Fuck This Time? Bet It's Unconventional!"

Trouble w/RSS Feed? Bean This!

You've beaned everything, and the Patron-only, specially-curated RSS podcast feed STILL isn't beaning properly. We're sorry! After trying in vain to fix this for you from our end, we received the below missive from Patreon Prime. 

So it...

188. Frame Rate: Save the Green Planet! (Feat. Robert Evans)

Behind the Bastards' Robert Evans joins 2019-04-26 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Off Hours Writing Stream!

The inaugural writer's meeting for Off Hours! WARNING: episode spoilers contained herein.

187. The Coen Brothers Brothers: No Country For Old Men

Call it, Friendo.

MUBI PROMO CODE: https://www.mubi.com/Brothers 

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