Synopsis
A show for Sweating the Details that make our world richer. Join your personal brain trainer, Cameron Boozarjomehri, as he helps you flex those brain muscles! From Cinema to Science, TV to Technology, Entertainment to Everything Else, this show has something for everyone!
Episodes
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Bonus - Jurassic World: Dinos Not Hot
12/07/2019 Duration: 06minJust a good old fashioned bonus episode full of goofs, and gaughs (whatever those are). We make references, memes, and other stuff. Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and co-host and Mind Fiend Keon Boozarjomehri as we pick apart Jurassic World (along with Jurassic Park). Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at smallstuffshow@gmail.com, reach out on Twitter with #smallstuffshow, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube! If you enjoyed the episode make sure to like, subscribe, share it with a friend, support us on Patreon for even more great content, and/or leave a review on itunes so others can find us! And as always, remember: it's details like these, and more importantly fans like you, that make it worth sweating the small stuff! :D
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022 - Jurassic Park: How Not To Treat Your Staff
08/07/2019 Duration: 29minIn part 2 of our series on Jurassic Park we bring you a CEO's guide to how to treat your employees and build your organization! ...Or perhaps, how Mr "Spared No Expense" doesn't do that and how it bites him in the butt! Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and special co-host and Mind Fiend... Keon Boozarjomehri as they dive into the hiring, firing, and general treatment of staff and services at Jurassic Park! Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at smallstuffshow@gmail.com, reach out on Twitter with #smallstuffshow, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube! If you enjoyed the episode we hope you'll like, subscribe, share it with a friend, support us on Patreon for even more great content, and/or leave a review on itunes so others can find us! And as always, remember: it's details like these, and more importantly fans like you, that make it worth sweating the small stuff! :D
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021 - Toy Story 4: Pixar's Journey To Visual Mastery
01/07/2019 Duration: 23minPixar is a company that has been pushing the envelope on computer generated technology since the early 90s and one of the few companies to do it well! Now, almost 25 years later, we thought it would be a good time to take stock of the technical progress made by a company known for exceptional story telling! Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and co-host and Neural Nutritionist Sam as they explore how every movie in Pixar's line up has been both a Master Craft in story telling and technical excellence! You can find sources for this episode here: Steve Jobs ran Pixar Pixar's Animation Over 24 Years Direct Link To Business Insider Video Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at smallstuffshow@gmail.com, reach out on Twitter with #smallstuffshow, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube! If you enjoyed the episode make sure to like, subscribe, share it with a friend, support us on Patreon for even more great content, and/or leave a review on itunes so others can find us! A
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020 - Jurassic Park: Who Should Inspect The Park?
24/06/2019 Duration: 17minSo you are running an incredible new amusement park that doubles as a covert genetics research lab. And now someone has been murdered on your property by one of your "experiments". So we gotta ask, "Who should you hire to inspect Jurassic Park?!" Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri as he proves that Jurassic Parks business model is already a real thriving amusement park that proves everything in the movie is nothing short of incompetence! For your sanity, our notes on OSHA violations from The Legal Eagle and TheLegalGeek.com Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at smallstuffshow@gmail.com, reach out on Twitter with #smallstuffshow, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube! If you enjoyed the episode we hope you'll like, subscribe, share it with a friend, support us on Patreon for even more great content, and/or leave a review on itunes so others can find us! And as always, remember: it's details like these, and more importantly fans like you, that make it worth sweating
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Bonus - Men In Black: Are The MIB A Police State?!
21/06/2019 Duration: 14minThe Men In Black protect the earth from all sorts of alien threats, whether we know it or not. But the secrecy and neuralyzing comes at a cost. A cost to our freedom, a cost to our individual liberties, and a cost to our society. So we had to ask: "If the MIB are real, do we live in a police state?" Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and co-host/Neural Nutritionist Sam as we probe the cost of not knowing what's out there. Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at smallstuffshow@gmail.com, reach out on Twitter with #smallstuffshow, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube! If you enjoyed the episode make sure to like, subscribe, share it with a friend, support us on Patreon for even more great content, and/or leave a review on itunes so others can find us! And as always, remember: it's details like these, and more importantly fans like you, that make it worth sweating the small stuff! :D
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019 - Black Mirror: The Social Trap
17/06/2019 Duration: 28minBlack Mirror is Back Y'all and this season is just as poignant as ever! But one episode really stood out. I'm talking about S5E2 "Smithereens". This episode covers so very much but we figured we could stick to the high level stuff here. 1) Just how much data can these companies get (even when they aren't tracking you?) 2) Who's really at fault for making our smart devices so addictive? 3) Can you really Google your way through a kidnapping?! Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and special co-host and Mind Fiend Keon Boozarjomehri as we shine a light on the shadier parts of the digital landscape! Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at smallstuffshow@gmail.com, reach out on Twitter with #smallstuffshow, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube! If you enjoyed the episode make sure to like, subscribe, share it with a friend, support us on Patreon for even more great content, and/or leave a review on itunes so others can find us! And as always, remember: it's details like t
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018 - Matt Basta: Building Pinecast From Scratch!
10/06/2019 Duration: 29minMatt Basta is a full-time programmer, and we do mean full time! By day he develops for the global technology platform Stripe. By night he is the visionary driving the technology, development, and support for the popular podcast hosting service Pinecast! And for anyone interested, he was nice enough to include a promocode for 2 free months of Pinecast, but you'll have to listen to the episode to find it! Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and Matt Basta as they discuss Matt's incredible journey building Pinecast, and explore the meaning of Sweating The Small Stuff when you are trying to build a game changing service from scratch! You can find all Matt's Work at the links below: - Facebook - GitHub - Instagram - LinkedIn - Twitter - Website Matt was even nice enough to stick around for a little extra Q&A about the Podcast that almost took down pinecast! You can find that part of the interview and more over on our patreon. Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at smallstuffshow@
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Bonus - The Adventure Zone: Mountain Mechanics
06/06/2019 Duration: 16minIt's time to answer that most heinous of questions. What happens when you drop a freaking mountain out of the sky!!! This is potential spoilers for The Adventure zone Amnesty Episode 28 but I gotta get it out there! Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri as he does the literal math of what happens when you drop a solid mountain peak out of the sky! Here some fun reference articles I found to go along with this episode: - XKCD Dropping mountains - Quora dropping a cubic mile of molten core 10 miles above the earth! Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at smallstuffshow@gmail.com, reach out on Twitter with #smallstuffshow, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube! If you enjoyed the episode make sure to like, subscribe, share it with a friend, support us on Patreon for even more great content, and/or leave a review on itunes so others can find us! And as always, remember: it's details like these, and more importantly fans like you, that make it worth sweating the small stuff!
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017 - John Wick: Carrier Pigeons vs Basic Encryption?
03/06/2019 Duration: 22minJohn Wick is a movie/comic series steeped in "Cool Factor". From tattooed supermodels to ...guns... it's the greatest hits of how to ooze style! But with all that cool factor we gotta ask, how do carrier pigeons and slide phones compare to good old fashioned encryption?! Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and Mind Fiend Keon Boozarjomehri as they examine why the Nokia 8800 might make sense as the assassin phone of choice! Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at smallstuffshow@gmail.com, reach out on Twitter with #smallstuffshow, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube! If you enjoyed the episode we hope you'll like, subscribe, share it with a friend, support us on Patreon for even more great content, and/or leave a review on itunes so others can find us! And as always, remember: it's details like these, and more importantly fans like you, that make it worth sweating the small stuff! :D
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Bonus - Aladdin: How Genie Magic Work?!
31/05/2019 Duration: 17minOn this bonus episode your Personal Brain Trainer and Neural Nutritionist wrestle with that most simple of questions. How Genie Magic Work?! This is actually a tough one so if you have thoughts pretty please do send them our way! Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at smallstuffshow@gmail.com, reach out on Twitter with #smallstuffshow, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube! If you enjoyed the episode we hope you'll like, subscribe, share it with a friend, support us on Patreon for even more great content, and/or leave a review on itunes so others can find us! And as always, remember: it's details like these, and more importantly fans like you, that make it worth sweating the small stuff! :D
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016 - John Wick OTG: What Is A Social Economy And Can It Have Inflation?!
27/05/2019 Duration: 24minDisclaimer: This is our very first Sweating The Small Stuff: On The Go (OTG), which means we were recording outside our element. But we think this will make for a fun new way to experiment with episode formats and hope you'll enjoy what we have in store! Disclaimer Over John Wick 3 has been out for at least a week so you should have had plenty of time to take in all the none people getting shot a bunch spoilers! But while rewatching John Wick 2 in preparation for its sequel, I realized there was an easily overlooked detail worth sweating over! So join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and co-host and your Neural Nutritionist as we explain what exactly a "Social Economy" is, and try to understand whether it can still have inflation! Big thanks to Alex Wells! Alex stepped up and helped us by editing this episode in a few hours with almost 0 notice. Alex is an excellent composer and Podcast Editor, and we are big fans of his work. You can find him on Facebook, Instagram, and SoundCloud. Have
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015 - Venezuela: The Intersection of Economics and Health!
20/05/2019 Duration: 25minThe economy is very important, but as a listener of our show you probably already knew that... What's interesting is how fast a populations health can plummit (along with its GDP). Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and special co-host and Neural Nutritionist Sam Spiers as they sweat over a case study out of Venezuela and the unfortunate consequences a poor economy can have on national and global health! Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at smallstuffshow@gmail.com, reach out on Twitter with #smallstuffshow, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube! If you enjoyed the episode we hope you'll like, subscribe, share it with a friend, support us on Patreon for even more great content, and/or leave a review on itunes so others can find us! And as always, remember: it's details like these, and more importantly fans like you, that make it worth sweating the small stuff! :D Find out more at https://sweating-the-small-stuff.pinecast.co
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014 - Retrospectives Podcast: Video Game Villain Corporate Strategies
13/05/2019 Duration: 35minCongratulations, you are now a giant organization with a grand vision! Maybe you wanna flood the world (looking at you Team Aqua), maybe you want a portal to another dimension! (Black Mesa cough cough) ...or maybe you just wanna see captain falcon crash at 800 km/h! So what's stopping you?! Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and very special co-host and host of the Retrospectives Podcast Patrick Arthur as they dive into videogame villain's corporate strategy! If you liked the episode we hope you'll go checkout more of their stuff on the Retrospectives Podcast Website. Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at smallstuffshow@gmail.com, reach out on Twitter with #smallstuffshow, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube! If you enjoyed the episode we hope you'll like, subscribe, share it with a friend, support us on Patreon for even more great content, and/or leave a review on itunes so others can find us! And as always, remember: it's details like these, and more importantl
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013 - Futurama: What You Didn't Know!
06/05/2019 Duration: 25minFuturama is a real banger of a TV show (Why'd you think it was smart to cancel it Fox?!), but one of it's most excellent elements maybe one of the biggest things most fans overlook. So this week we are taking a (uniquely long) deep dive into the themes and detail that make Futurama's intro one of the most visually entertaining and easily overlooked aspects of the shows incredible run! Join your Personal Brain Trainer (Cameron Boozarjomehri) and special co-host and Mind Fiend... Keon Boozarjomehri as they dig into the stunning details of Futurama's opening sequence Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at smallstuffshow@gmail.com, reach out on Twitter with #smallstuffshow, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube! If you enjoyed the episode we hope you'll like, subscribe, share it with a friend, support us on Patreon for even more great content, and/or leave a review on itunes so others can find us! And as always, remember: it's details like these, and more importantly fans like you, that ma
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Bonus - Introducing LAWK!
02/05/2019 Duration: 30minFor something completely different, introducing the LAWKCast, better known as Life Advice With Keon! For this very special episode I got lucky enough to be a guest on Keon's podcast so that's always nice! Join your Life Coach Keon Boozarjomehri and his guest host Cameron Boozarjomehri as they help you navigate maintaining your sanity in the digital age! You can find his show at lawkcast.com and find them on social media with @lawkcast Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at smallstuffshow@gmail.com, reach out on Twitter with #smallstuffshow, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube! If you enjoyed the episode we hope you'll like, subscribe, share it with a friend, support us on Patreon for even more great content, and/or leave a review on itunes so others can find us! And as always, remember: it's details like these, and more importantly fans like you, that make it worth sweating the small stuff! :D Find out more at https://sweating-the-small-stuff.pinecast.co
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012 - Pacific Rim: Enter the Drift!
29/04/2019 Duration: 21minIf you haven't seen Pacific Rim by now, please do yourself a favor and go watch it Right NOW! It is one of our favorite shows with some of the best story telling and plot devices you could ever hope for in a Giant Monster vs Robot movie (Okay I guess we set that bar kinda low...) Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and co-host and Mind Fiend... Keon Boozarjomehri as they dive into the "Drift" from Pacific Rim and how this one plot device (and its deep implications) open up a whole new connection with the audience! Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at smallstuffshow@gmail.com, reach out on Twitter with #smallstuffshow, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube! If you enjoyed the episode we hope you'll like, subscribe, share it with a friend, support us on Patreon for even more great content, and/or leave a review on itunes so others can find us! And as always, remember: it's details like these, and more importantly fans like you, that make it worth sweating the small s
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011 - So Where's My Universal Translator?!
22/04/2019 Duration: 23minThe Universal Translator is as iconic a piece of Sci-Fi as the Enterprise itself, but what questions does such a technology invite? And how do those implications impact our favorite Sci-Fi Franchises? Join your Personal Brain Trainer (Cameron Boozarjomehri) and your newly titled Neural Nutritionist (Sam Spiers) as they decipher the implications of the Universal Translator! Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at smallstuffshow@gmail.com, reach out on Twitter with #smallstuffshow, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube! If you enjoyed the episode we hope you'll like, subscribe, share it with a friend, support us on Patreon for even more great content, and/or leave a review on itunes so others can find us! And as always, remember: it's details like these, and more importantly fans like you, that make it worth sweating the small stuff! :D Find out more at https://sweating-the-small-stuff.pinecast.co
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Bonus - The Plan Moving Forward
15/04/2019 Duration: 05minHaving just rounded our "10th" episode I thought it would be smart to take stock of the journey so far and be clear about what this show is going forward. ...and I thought y'all might enjoy a time lapse to make listening to my baritone voice that much easier! So let me lay it all out for you on this semi-special bonus episode! YouTube Link Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at smallstuffshow@gmail.com, reach out on Twitter with #smallstuffshow, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube! If you enjoyed the episode we hope you'll like, subscribe, share it with a friend, support us on Patreon for even more great content, and/or leave a review on itunes so others can find us! And as always, remember: it's details like these, and more importantly fans like you, that make it worth sweating the small stuff! :D
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010 - Special Thank You Episode For All Our Listeners
15/04/2019 Duration: 07minDear Listeners, Hi all! Your personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri here. For our 10th episode I wanted to take a moment to have a heart to heart and thank everyone who has been with us uptil this point. Whether you've been listening, subscribing, commenting, sharing, or just stumbled across this episode in the backlog I want to say Thank You! It is still early days for Sweating The Small Stuff, and that's why it's important to me to share how much I appreciate everyone's involvement. If you haven't already, please please please reach out to our Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube or visit our website at the link below for more. Please make sure to reach out and let us know about the small stuff you're sweating with #SmallStuffShow, even if you already have! And if you are liking the show we hope you'll share it with friends and leave a review on itunes so others can find us! Don't worry, I am still bringing you a quality show! Infact for todays episode we have a special minisode lined up from
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009 - Senses in Sci-Fi: Taste The Matrix
08/04/2019 Duration: 28minFood is an interesting aspect of cinema. It can show you what characters value or help inform the worlds they occupy. But how does something we never interact with so perfectly anchor us in a story? Join your Personal Brain Trainer (Cameron Boozarjomehri) and special co-host and Mind Fiend... Keon Boozarjomehri as they dive into the often overlooked role food plays in Sci-Fi. Have small stuff you're sweating? Email us at smallstuffshow@gmail.com or reach out on social media with #smallstuffshow! You can find us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube! If you enjoyed the episode we hope you'll like, subscribe, share it with a friend, or leave a review on itunes so others can find us! And as always, remember! From movies to media to the world around us, it's details like these, and more importantly fans like you, that make it worth sweating the small stuff :D Support Sweating The Small Stuff by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/sweating-the-small-stuff Find out more at https://