Released: January 12. 2011

Part Two of the beauty series. This time we focus on the beast’s side. How do beautiful people see beasts and vice-versa? What does being beastly do to a person?

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

discuss!

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