intro
Theme includes sample of Run for You by Buke & Gass. Check them out! Intro background music is a song by Múm.
jesse’s hat
Comedian Jesse Case relives a humiliating event for your amusement.
bitterness
Dan talks about what feeling like a beast can do to a person.
2 buildings
More talk with therapist Sagit Schwartz, JC Coccoli, Suzy McCopin, Melissa Lefton, Emma, and Ryan Ridley, wherein Dan presents the beauties with a hypothetical.
the math
A brief chat with Playboy Party Girl and writer Suzy McCopin and friend Melissa Lefton about getting hit on by ugly guys.
the world isn’t fair
(abridged) By Randy Newman. Get it on iTunes.
female beasts?
Where are they? Not in the movies…
the dog-faced detective
Intro to a beast story by Dan Kaufman.
ugly duckling
Dan and Sagit Schwartz discuss the fairy tale.
mango face!
Kristi Korzec tells us about her brief visit to beast-ville.
the hen and the oriole
By Don Marquis. Performed by Nick Vatterott.
adversity
If Beauty is bad for you, then shouldn’t ugly be good for you?
ryan time!
Ryan Ridley and Dan play out the beauty/beast dynamic
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Photograph: Lon Chaney Jr. as The Wolfman (1941)
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