This show goes over the short stories of Michael’s favorite speculative fiction author and notable curmudgeon Harlan Ellison. Each episode Michael pairs (read: forces a friend to read) a short story with a guest that it “applies especially to.” This episode it’s the short story “The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore” and the guest is Alebrelle. 

They discuss the moral complexities of intention, action, and outcome, the definition of free will, and the movie RIPD.

Michael Swaim: https://twitter.com/SWAIM_CORP 
Alebrelle: https://twitter.com/Alebrelle

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507. Like Razorblade Pie: The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore (Feat. Alebrelle)

A Pick the Flick episode of Frame Rate! This means one of our patrons, specifically Nikolai G, generously donated through the Pick the Flick tier and got to choose what we watched! 

This episode covers the 1998 heist film Ronin. A film about a team of ex-military mercenaries enlisted by some Irish people to find a briefcase. We compare it to modern day action films and blockbusters, talk car chases, and determine that Jonathan Pryce is a tiny man. Witness the raw sexual power of Robert De Niro driving fast.

Features:
Sarah Griffith: https://twitter.com/sk_griffith 
Bridgett Greenberg: https://twitter.com/BridgettTweets
Michael Swaim: https://twitter.com/SWAIM_CORP
Abe Epperson: https://twitter.com/AbeTheMighty

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508. Frame Rate: Ronin (Feat. Sarah Griffith & Bridgett Greenberg)

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 sabotage the whole thing.

This week, we discuss 1996’s Space Jam! 

Features:
Michael Swaim: https://twitter.com/SWAIM_CORP
Adam Ganser: https://twitter.com/therealganz
Abe Epperson: https://twitter.com/AbeTheMighty

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510. Escape from the Multicurse: Space Jam

A Pick the Flick episode of Frame Rate! This means one of our patrons, specifically Krischanovich, generously donated through the Pick the Flick tier and got to choose what we watched! 

This episode covers the 2005 film by Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko): Southland Tales. A film with an outstanding cast, a lot of big ideas, and some really rough dialogue. The boys tackle what made this flop and more or less rip into it for 60 minutes. Sorry, Richard Kelly. Well, except for Swaim. Swaim’s not sorry.

Features:
David Bell: https://twitter.com/MovieHooligan
Michael Swaim: https://twitter.com/SWAIM_CORP
Abe Epperson: https://twitter.com/AbeTheMighty

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511. Frame Rate: Southland Tales (The Cannes Cut) (Feat. David Bell)

What is the theme that unites the careers and psychological profiles of Maximilian Robespierre, Trotsky, Steve Bannon and Miles Guo across the ages?

The fact is that all four men were used as controlled opposition to national power structures which were were targetted for self-induced destruction and civil war by a supranational oligarchy.

In this episode of The Great Game, Matt unpacks Bannon's connection to fascist supranational intelligence operations associated with the highest echelons of the black nobility including Lord Nicholas Windsor, and the late Count Otto von Hapsburg.

This story takes us into the real story behind the fascist Pan European Movement which Hapsburg managed for over 40 years and which was founded by leading fascists like Count Coudenhove-Kalergi, Mussolini, Alexander Helphand, Eric Warburg, Walter Lippmann and Hjalmar Schacht in 1922.

This organization designed to promote a system of "benign feudalism" served as counter-gang to the supranational League of Nations founded in 1919. We took an additional look at the deeper subversion of the french state and the murder of Ben Franklin's leading collaborators during the dark years of Jacobin terror which opened the floodgates for pseudo fascist Napoleon Bonaparte by 1795 and the replication of this strategy in the fomentation of the jacobin terror operations of the late 19th-early 19th century led by Trotsky and Lenin who Steve Bannon used as role models for his current strategy of uniting the right around a peculiar brand of Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations ideology.

This entire story helps us understand the true nature of the Jesuits and earlier splintering of the church into warring factions after the League of Cambrai of 1508-1512

This context additionally helps us better understand the role of Miles Gao, Falun Gong and the Epoch Times

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Controlled Opposition, Jesuits and Countergangs

Topics Include: Do Revenge, Bullet Proof, Raven’s Hollow, Margaux, The Good House, Triangle Of Sadness, and the tragic casting of James Franco.

Hypecast - 08.12.2022 - Featuring Logan Trent

DRAFT ACTION HERO - EP16: Hogan Vs Predator

Our hosts discuss what could possibly be the worst Arnold movie ever made DESPITE including a naked snow fight.

Into The Mr. Universe - 09: Red Heat

Our heroes mostly enjoy a short film disguised as a feature length horror.

We Just Watched... Glorious

Brooks is back! So you know it’s weird! This time we all take a look at the experimental horror stop-motion film, Mad God. The labor of love of Phil Tippett (dinosaur supervisor). A film that took 30 years to make. The gang talk about its imaginative and rich world, the importance of story, and how sometimes artists create a situation where their reach exceeds their grasp. 

Features:
Brooks Brown: @quarantine_collective
Michael Swaim: https://twitter.com/SWAIM_CORP
Abe Epperson: https://twitter.com/AbeTheMighty

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527. Frame Rate: Mad God (Feat. Brooks Brown)

For the 30th year in a row, almost every country on Earth voted at the United Nations General Assembly to oppose the illegal six-decade US blockade of Cuba. 185 nations voted against just two: the United States and Israel.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cpiF6JYepfI 

SOURCES here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/11/03/un-vote-blockade-cuba-us-israel

Entire world votes 185 to 2 against blockade of Cuba - US and Israel are rogue states at UN

Small Beans Podcasting is a place for beans of every sort to come bean it up. Free your soul, eh? Be a frijole.

507. Like Razorblade Pie: The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore (Feat. Alebrelle)

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