959. Frame Rate: Apocalypse Now (Feat. merritt k)

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Comedy

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Abe and Michael are joined by author and game designer merritt k! k hadn’t seen Apocalypse Now so we all decided to discuss the 1979 absurdist war film and record it and put it on the internet. This is that. Features: merritt k: https://bsky.app/profile/merrittk.com Michael Swaim: https://bsky.app/profile/michaelswaim.bsky.social Abe Epperson: https://bsky.app/profile/abeepp.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

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The So Swame is resting right now.
0:29.6	He's lounging because his back is thrown out.
0:32.7	Yeah.
0:33.4	So I'm looking at his neck right now.
0:35.8	It's wonderful.
0:37.6	Were you saying that to merit or to the audience?
0:40.0	Are we in it?
0:41.2	Yeah, we're in it.
0:42.3	That's how laid back we are.
0:43.5	All right.
0:44.0	Well, then I'll say it.
0:45.2	Yeah, yeah.
0:46.6	In case it comes true in the audio, I don't know what's going on this winter, but it's got to be a combination of turning 40 and having a kid
0:56.2	simultaneously. My body is like, oh, we're done. Like, you know what I mean? You reproduced. You
1:04.6	will not throw off the natural selection curve at this point. Doesn't matter what happens to you.
1:10.1	So my back's been out for two weeks. We kept kicking this point. Doesn't matter what happens to you. So my back's been out for two weeks.
1:12.5	We kept kicking this back. Today my bag feels slightly better on the mend like tomorrow.
1:18.4	I'll probably feel okay. But unrelatedly, wake up and could not speak this morning, like swallowing glass to
1:26.6	swallow air. I guess that was a bad analogy. But
1:30.4	alternatively, if you don't have kids, does that mean you stay forever powerful? Yeah, but what is you?
1:36.5	Because I would also say that by having kids, my perspective has actually shifted to where I do
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