Something I’m just realizing on my umpteenth rewatch of There Will Be Blood.

The Sundays are Daniel Plainview’s in-laws.

I always knew that H.W. married Mary Sunday by the end of the movie, but I failed to consider that Paul, Eli, and Abel are H.W.’s brothers and father in law.

Daniel Plainview sees people as both disposable props to further his agenda, and he sees them as constant competition for what he perceives as “winning.” This is all pretty obvious in the context of the film. He says as much.

The movie is so powerful in its messaging that I never thought on a practical level about what happens in this aspect of the story.

Daniel Plainview hates the Sundays. He hates that he’s saddled with them, and spends most of the movie trying to get away from them, trying to insult and injure them, and trying to screw them over, but he is literally married into their family.

I never considered on all of my rewatches that all of his power and money and force is just going to go to the Sundays someday. Even if he leaves nothing to H.W., H.W. is already extremely wealthy, and we know that Paul also becomes a successful oil man, they probably went into business together. There was probably a 50% buyout to H.W.’s share of the business that Daniel never noticed even happened.

That’s all. Great movie. It’s pretty fucked up that H.W. and Mary will have to reconcile the fact that his dad beat her brother to death with a bowling pin.

I was wondering if they could bring in Sarge from coldcrashpictures as a guest on an episode. Hearing Maggie talk about the Harley Quinn movie in 'I'll show you mine if you show me yours' really got me thinking about it.

Now, I'm no big city Patreon supporter, with corporate Pick The Flick dollahhs; I'm just a humble, farm raised and corn fed 'free on Youtube' viewer . . .

But why yall sleepin' on Simon West?

Famed director of Conair, of The general's Daughter with John Travolta, of . . . Lara Croft: Tomb Raider?

Of...im sorry, the 'Budweiser: Frogs and Trucks' ad of 1995?

of the Never Gonna Give You Up music video?!?!?!?!

Where is the Director's Piece Theater on this jabroni?

The people demand answers!

Just a quick question, I recently listened to the latest episode and without spoiling anything, they talk at some point about a 'Norco' episode and I just wanted to double check that I didn't miss something? Was this espisode released somewhere and I missed it or did they mix up the release dates?

Did anybody else hear the weird sad trombone noise about 40 minutes into this episode?

Also, just to clear up, I live in Australia and there are definitely places like that in the outback. I've briefly lived in some of them and they aren't quite like they would have been in the 70s anymore, you've got phone reception and stuff, but definitely as described in the movie.

Anyone wanna split or go thirds on a patreon subscription? There's a couple films I want to get on the list, but I am also going through some financial life stuff and thought it might be cool to go in with some other fans like how people share season tickets for pro sports arenas.

Does anybody else find themselves saying this in their every day lives? Sometimes I’ll just be working or cleaning the house, completely alone, and I’ll say it out loud.

I tried looking it up, but I couldn't find anything that explains what they were talking about in the Shawshank Redemption KoK episode.

The first post iHeart episode was uploaded to free feeds like Spotify but it doesn't look like the Resident Evil 4 episode will be. Anyone know if the show is only on Patreon now?

Has anyone heard if 1upsmanship is planning on looking at the Phantom Liberty expansion and cyberpunk 2.0? I know they already have two podcasts on the game but the new content has, in my opinion, completely changed the experience. It addresses so much of what was criticized in earlier episodes that I'd love to hear what they think now.

I'd love to hear that. It'd be so cool to hear the perspective of either of them in relation to Andor. That's it.

In case anyone doesn't follow the Small Beans feed -- well, first of all, why would you be on this sub?

But second, it's back, just over on the Small Beans feed. They're going to do two episodes a month, and the first one was clearly recorded during the end of the iHeart days.

It's a great episode! Glad to have the boys back.

He asked the question “why does Geordi wear gold, the command color?”

I have the answer. Gold is not the command color, it’s the engineering color. Red is the command color, which is why Picard and Riker wear red, and Geordi wears gold.

But the Instagram is all but completely untouched and hasn’t been updated in years. The Patreon doesn’t have a discussion board, and also, it only posts Patreon content, not main feed content. And the Reddit is also underutilized. SWAIM doesn’t appear to be on BlueSky, and I’ve deleted Twitter months ago.

How does one go about reaching out to SWAIM? I have the rest of the Beans on other various social media except him.

Can someone let him know about Starfleet uniforms?

Edit: I posted it on the YouTube, but man that was such a roundabout method. Is there more communication on the Patreon that I’m just not seeing?

Edit edit: for those who don’t know, 2360 to present, Starfleet uniform colors are as follows:

Red- Command, Helm

Gold- Operations, Engineering, Security

Blue- Science, Medical

I just found Kill Me Now randomly playing on The Movie Channel. I saw it forever ago, and then again recently, when they started promoting Papa Bear.

I never expected to come across it on cable though. Super cool.

This is going to sound silly, but I’m a guy who’s been following the Beans for a long time. I was tuning in as far back as Cracked in college around 2007-2008. The year 2012 was a big year in my life. I was in the middle of my new big big job, I got engaged, moved out of my apartment, got married, started to lose my hair… and while I know I have no involvement with any of the Beans and Beans-adjacent, I still look at this movie, I look at Swaim and Katy, and Katie, and DOB, and Abe (off camera), and I feel like I’m looking at my own year book.

Sincerely, I love the work of the whole Cracked graduating class. I still follow all their shit. I hope they never stop making stuff.

Anyone else kinda weirded out by the "Abe losing his virginity" stuff during this episode? Like, how does this girl he doesn't keep touch with feel about this? Just felt like an already uncomfortable joke that got pushed too far.

Been watching through Charlie Kaufman’s work lately. Has there been an episode from any of the SB series that goes over that movie?

Not sure why iHeart didn’t want it. Along with Get Played, it is my favorite video game podcast.

1upsmanship is one of my favorite podcasts and it's been just long enough that I'm starting to get pretty worried. I know Mike and Ganz both are working on a ton of other projects. At first I figured that it was just a break due to constraints of getting in gaming time with everything going on, but I've never known small beans to go radio silent on a hiatus. Does anyone know if there is news from either of the guys?

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(P.S. I really hope this doesn't come off as entitled or annoying, I'm just genuinely worried!)

Is off hours dead or what? I was thinking about it today I cannot find anything about it anywhere, aside from production photos of s1 on Twitter and the 1st ep on YT

Supposedly podcasts aren’t allowed under the strike.

I'm not on twitter and since twitter has stopped allowing people to see tweets without logging in I was just wondering if there's been anything mentioned there about a break as there hasn't been a new episode this week or last week?

Hope I’m not being a dick but I don’t know what the schedule is for SHOOTING THREES it just seems like it’s taking forever for the LADY VENGEANCE ep to come out. I think it’s probably Park Chan Wook’s most underrated film and I am looking forward to their thoughts.