235: Beauty and the Beast (Myth Movie Night)
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Here comes the podcast, with its myths like always. We’re covering the origins of the classic, Beauty and the Beast, and decide that if we try, we can all be disembodied himbos.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of Stockholm syndrome, family abuse, death, imprisonment, institutionalization, illness, misogyny, infertility, birth, marriage, spousal murder, poverty, animal marriage, explosions, unrealistic beauty standards, and arranged marriages.
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Spirits was created by Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Schneider. We are founding members of Multitude, an independent podcast collective and production studio. Our music is "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Steer It's Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:04.4 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm Amanda and I'm Julia and this episode 235 Beauty and the Beast from Myth Movie Night. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm very excited for this one. It's been a minute since we've done a Disney one and I really |
| 0:19.6 | love Beauty and the Beast and I will talk about why in the episode, so no spoilers. |
| 0:24.0 | I was so delighted to learn more. I was just sort of like, |
| 0:26.9 | an allegory. It's beauty falling in love with the beast. Look within. |
| 0:30.5 | But there's much more to the story and the history of the story and I was so so excited to learn |
| 0:34.8 | about it. Yeah, I've been really on that fairy tale kick lately, so I'm glad that we've been doing |
| 0:39.6 | more and more of those. Me too. And I am also so glad that Morgan, Jesse the zombie, |
| 0:45.1 | Klingrav and Mech tells our newest patrons and here just in time for a banner Myth Movie Night. |
| 0:51.4 | You join the ranks of our distinguished supporting producer level patrons, Alicia, |
| 0:55.2 | Allison, Brian, Deborah, Hannah, Jane, Jessica K, Jessica S, Justin, Keegan, |
| 1:00.1 | Measelkins, Megan Linger, Megan Moon, Philfresh, Polly, Captain Jonathan, Malachi, Cosmos, |
| 1:05.1 | Sarah, Scott and Zazi. And Julia, don't forget, Legend level patrons, |
| 1:09.7 | Audra, Camera, Change, Clara, Drew, Jackmari, Jbebe, |
| 1:13.2 | Key, Lada, Morgan, Nekor Royalty, Taylor, and BMI up Scotty. |
| 1:16.9 | All of those people, Amanda, they have an enchanted castle, but with none of the downsides. |
| 1:21.6 | No, they're preserved roses in a in a bell jar, never drop any petals. |
| 1:26.8 | No, not at all. All of their servants, people. |
| 1:30.5 | All of their Angela Lansbury's? Woman. Not teapot. Not teapot. |
| 1:35.2 | Amanda speaking of Angela Lansbury. What exciting things have you been watching, listening to |
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