meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Small Beans

1022. See You Space Podboys - Session #23: Brain Scratch

Small Beans

Small Beans

Comedy

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Adam Ganser and Abe Epperson discuss the 1998 anime Cowboy Bebop. This time, we talk about the one where Faye joins a technocult. Features: Abe Epperson: https://bsky.app/profile/abeepp.bsky.social Adam Ganser: https://bsky.app/profile/ganz.bsky.social Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans Check our store to buy Small Beans merch! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-small-beans-store

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

I think it's time to blow this scene.

0:04.0

Get everybody in this stuff together. Okay, three, two, one, it's time to blow this scene. Get everybody in the stuff together.

0:22.5

Okay, three, two, one, let's jam.

0:25.1

You think you could lead a cult?

0:27.3

Yes, no doubt.

0:28.9

What would be your end?

0:31.2

Uh, there'd be so many ways.

0:34.6

First, I think I have a magnetic beard.

0:37.2

The more you look at it, the more it sends you to sleep.

0:39.5

Ooh, it's true. Hypnotic beards. That guy had purple eyes in the episode we're going to talk about.

0:46.0

And I think that's why he's magic, right? Is he had purple? Purple irises, right? Well, he wasn't real. So that helps.

0:54.1

That helped. That did help, but he wasn't real. Because you never meet your heroes, right? Well, he wasn't real, so that helps. That helped. That did help, but he wasn't real.

0:56.3

Because you never meet your heroes, right? So I think a key to a cult is that only the

1:01.9

firm believers in the cult will get past the fact that you look at a meat sack at the end of the day.

1:08.1

You know, for all the words and things they write down in their books or audiobooks or podcasts, if they do exist, you're like, oh, that guy's a guy who shits

1:16.0

and eats just like the rest of us, and that dismisses a little, or demystifies a little bit of

1:20.9

that. But not when you're on a computer and you look fucking hot like this guy did.

1:25.8

That's right. I wouldn't, well, also, he was supposed to be

1:28.1

like 95. That's how old he allegedly was as an image. They're doing the Heaven's Gate thing.

1:35.3

Right. Yes. It was irrelevant in the 90s. Man, Heaven's Gate in media is so much more resonant

1:41.4

and like significant than I think culturally it was.

1:47.0

Right?

...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 8 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Small Beans, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Small Beans and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.