283: Beauty and the Beast

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Thomas continues his series on children's books with the (an?) original Beauty and the Beast tale. It's pretty lovely. Is it bad if I want to be Thomas's kid?

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody and welcome to classical stuff you should know.
0:12.7	This is a podcast mostly about old things.
0:15.2	So old books, old notions, old philosophy, sometimes art on occasion, sometimes math on occasion.
0:20.9	We did math? Yeah, we did. Euclid. Oh, sometimes math on occasion. We did math?
0:17.5	Yeah, we did. Euclid. Oh, yeah. Remember? And I am here with one beauty and one, the beast. I'll let you guys figure out which is which. Graham's the beauty. Let's be honest. Yeah, it's not even. So I'm the beast. Can I talk like that the rest of this time? Sure. It's hard being beautiful.
0:19.0	It's a curse.
0:19.5	I wouldn't know. You got the like that the rest of this time? Sure. It's hard being beautiful.
0:38.0	It's a curse.
0:39.1	I wouldn't know.
0:39.7	You got the Greeks and the Achaeans and the Trojans fighting over you.
0:42.5	Oh, you're Helen.
0:43.4	Okay.
0:43.6	Well, this is cool.
0:44.2	Okay.
0:44.9	Did you say our names?
0:45.7	I'm Thomas.
0:46.2	He's Graham.
0:46.7	Yep, there you go.
0:47.3	Cool.
0:47.6	That's great. Yeah. There's also new wine. It's just the line that means nothing. Now I'm questioning the lyric. There's no way that it's wine though. No, it's not wine. Disney. Old as rhyme, right? Or is it oldest time?
1:11.3	Time. Tale is old as time. Song is old as time. Song is old as rhyme. Oh, I bet that's
1:15.8	old as rhyme, beauty and the beast. We're talking about beauty and the beast. Sorry.
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