Small Beans Creators & Guests

Ryan Pequin is an animator at Cartoon Network.

Zora Bikangaga is an actor, comedian, and writer known for The Wedding Year (2019), Drunk History (2013), and Raven's Home (2017).

Jason Pargin is known by David Wong, he is a humor writer, novelist, and former executive editor of humor website Cracked.

Jamila Dawson is a sex therapist and speaker.

Dean Spade is a lawyer, writer, and associate professor of law.

Miles Gray is a Los Angeles native with an encyclopedic knowledge of 90’s media. He has been producing, writing, and directing award-winning digital content for companies like YouTube, Playboy, and Conde Nast before joining the HowStuffWorks podcast network as co-host of The Daily Zeitgeist.

Alex Schmidt is a podcaster, comedy writer, and Internet thing-maker. He makes 'Secretly Incredibly Fascinating' -- an independent, information-driven comedy podcast featured by The A.V. Club and The New York Times. He also hosted & produced more than 150 episodes of Earwolf's 'The Cracked Podcast', created the world #1 Kurt Vonnegut podcast, won 'Jeopardy!' 4 times in a row, and proposed the bison emoji.

Robert Evans is a former editor at Cracked and author of the ridiculous book A Brief History of Vice. Over the course of his career, he’s reported from war zones in Iraq and Ukraine, experimented on his co-workers with strange ancient narcotics and interviewed hundreds of people about their baffling careers. Now he’s taking his voice, as smooth as warm molasses, and making a podcast for HowStuffWorks.

Jamie Loftus is a standup comedian and cartoonist whose dead hamster was left in her freezer for six months by choice. She has written and starred in ‘Irrational Fears’ on Comedy Central and ‘Robot Takeover’ and ‘Upgraded’ on Super Deluxe. In print, you can catch her in The New Yorker, Paste Magazine, Vice and Playboy. She is taller than her confidence would imply.

Maggie Mae Fish is a writer, comedian, commentator, and actress. She is the creator of the video series Maggie Does Film Analysis.Fish has been featured on CollegeHumor, Screenjunkies and JASH. She was also a former lead actor and writer at Cracked. She has appeared on the DreamWorks children’s show "Matty Paz is a Noob." She has been an improviser both at iO Chicago and Second City Chicago.After majoring in theater in college, Fish began a career as a serious actress, but gravitated towards improv after desiring to work with a team.

Katy Stoll is an actress and producer. She is also known for her work with Cracked and the podcast Some More News.

Daniel O'Brien is an humorist, author, writer, comedian, and songwriter.

Katie Goldin is a writer, comedian, and author of ProBirdRights, an avian-themed satirical Twitter account. She studied psychology and evolutionary biology at Harvard, and enjoys being a huge dork about animals.

Cody Johnston is the host of Even More News and a formed Cracked personality

Soren Bowie is a writer for American Dad and co-host of Quick Question with Soren and Daniel. He formerly was a writer and personality at Cracked.