Untitled Beatles Podcast

“One To One: John & Yoko” (2025) / Touring the Shanoff Collection

As our beloved US quickly descends into cruel authoritarian idiocy, the UBP crew reunited IRL to wax fab on new RSD purchases, old Reckless Records purchases, and then attend an IMAX screening of the new Magnolia Films doc One To One: John & Yoko.
Within the fortified safety of their top secret Meigs Field Beatle Bunker Bag, T.J., Tony and Producer Casey hunkered down to opine freely about anything (¿🇺🇸?) and pre-game with some DEEP HARDCORE MACCA. Owwwoooooo!!!!
It wouldn’t be a UBP field trip without a visit to some kind of ROADHOUSE. And while no one got punched completely through the stomach at this particular establishment, the atmosphere was lively with the CRUNCH of real pub-style appetizers AND the PLOP of real hard-hitting questions.
Questions like:
🤮 Does your pronunciation of the Wrigleyville wing-stitution Yakzie’s depend on which side of the tracks you were born?
🎧 How come streaming services don’t feature an XDR chime and 27 seconds of hiss to start off every album?
💰 Why did John have so many copies of Abbey Road in his re-enactment apartment? Was he reselling them to Bleecker Bob’s for rent money???
Sadly, our fact-checking robot P3Z-Nutz was kidnapped by ICE agents on the way to his favorite oil store, where he has been disappeared without due process to be re-tariffed for Government Bitcoins using taxpayer dollars. I think Gary Numan put it best when he said “Is everything stupid?” (Fact-checking currently out of order)
Remember, if you voted for the scrotum-faced man-toddler wannabe-Putin, you’re either in on the grift (rich psychopath), or you got grifted (poor mark). Binary world, right?
 
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Untitled Spring Break 2025 / Yoko Ono's "Approximately Infinite Universe" (1973)

Spring Break Alert! Get your bus ticket to Cabo and/or Wabo, because it's time for a springtime April catch-up! Tony and TJ 1969 Xmas Flexi Disc the heck out of this episode, as they review the latest Beatle film news, and more! Plus, newly crowned 8th Beatle Yoko Ono takes the spotlight, with a deluxe reissue of our early-ass look at Approximately Infinite Universe; now in Dolby NR!
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Originally reissued August 12, 2023
Yang Yang! You’ve given me a Yang Yang! And we’re thinking of Yoko…so we’ve decided to reach into our archives for a limited, deluxe remix/remaster/reissue/bonus Gnome edition of our vaunted 4th episode in 2020, where we deep-dished a Tony favorite: Yoko Ono’s “Approximately Infinite Universe”!
Did you know it’s TWO albums? Well hell yeah, it is! Good for Tony. Butt, what about T.J.? Well, there are even more questions that must be answered, such a$:
🧹Spoilers: Did Yoko’s “Death Of Samantha” predict the “Who’s The Boss?” series finale decades before it aired?
☀️🍔 Does anyone remember the 1990’s Fiddler On The Roof/Don Henley theme restaurant, “Sunrise Sunset Grill”?
🏀 Was San Diego Clipper great World B. Free really a bastard? And if not, WTF with Yoko’s hateful tune?
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Originally published June 20, 2020
Tony turns TJ on...to Yoko Ono's 1973 double-LP Approximately Infinite Universe. They explore the merits of her influence and the complexities of her marriage to John at the time this album was recorded. TJ comes to terms with his disdain for Elephant's Memory, particularly the saxophone, and Tony reveals his least favorite song of all time. Spoiler: it's not by The Beatles (Remember, they like them!)
 

Eighth Beatle Bracket! (Part 2)

March may be officially in the rearview, but its Madness sticks around for one more week! Join T.J., Tony, and Producer Casey as they Duke it out over their Eighth Beatle Brackets, and maybe also inadvertently disseminate dubious biographical details.
We’re just asking questions here. Like:
🏀🍆 Did Jimmie Nicol "Delonte West" John’s Aunt Mimi?
📡🍆 Can any of us ever truly know whether “Radar Love” was written about Patti Boyd?
🇺🇸🍆 Where was Cilla Black on J6?
WE’RE 👏 JUST 👏 ASKING 👏 QUESTIONS 👏 HERE 👏
And who will be crowned the Untitled Beatles Podcast’s official Eighth Beatle? Could this finally be Ringo’s year? Probably not, but you’re a mere 53 minutes away from knowing for sure; 35 minutes and 20 seconds for you monsters who listen at 1.5x speed.
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The "Purdie" Sound of Music, a new true crime series (TRAILER)

It’s 1964. The Beatles have conquered America. But beneath the screams and the hysteria lies a secret—a mystery so audacious, so rhythmically complex, that it has remained hidden for decades. Could it be true that Bernard Purdie, legendary session drummer, played on Beatles records?
Join hard-hitting investigator Tony Mendoza as he dives headfirst into one of rock and roll’s most bizarre conspiracy theories. Along the way, he encounters a rogue’s gallery of underground insiders whose stories paint a picture of deception, syncopation, and a janitor with a mop that could shuffle harder than a Reno croupier.
Did Bernard Purdie really lay down the beat for the biggest band in the world? Or is this just another myth in the long, strange history of Beatles lore?
Find out in The Purdie Sound of Music—an exhaustive 87-part true (or false?) crime docuseries. Coming April 1, 2026, only on The Untitled Beatles Podcast.

Eighth Beatle Bracket!

It’s March Madness! Can you feel the excitement, between bouts of despair from our rapid descent into a fascist state? And did anyone else pick Fascist State to beat Attica State in the Hate Eight?
The UBP takes March Madness more seriously than Americans take hating Duke. (David. F**k him!) Because at the UBP, we have two jobs: being the podcast of academic record for serious Beatle (and bible) study, and creating a tournament bracket destined to cement Dick Biondi’s legacy as a Top 10 figure in Beatles history! So play along with us as Tony, T.J., and Casey crown this year’s champion, the iron-clad, Apple/Calderstone-endorsed, OFFICIAL Eighth Beatle. Who will win it all this year? As John & Yoko once said, “Listen To This Podcast”!
 
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Macca Snacks Finale / Paul McCartney’s The 7” Singles Box (2022)

It’s the end of an error, as Tony & T.J. conclude their three years/one day saga of binging reissued Macca 45s with a couple of absolute late-era McCartney gems; and an exclusive, world-wide/WorldStar, legally dubious debut of T.J.'s "Liverpool Oratorio" test pressing!
We’ll be back next week with an all new episode where we get in the March Madness spirit; and by that we mean point-shaving, baby!! In the meantime, go ahead and grab a Macca snack; they’re meat free and it’s not even Monday. Unless it is!
 
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An Untitled Farewell to Hard Rock Cafe Chicago

Beatles U.K. Singles That Could Have Been

Move over, "Cloud 9". 1987's biggest release, at least for fans of the kind of hard, f rock that Appleton's legendary WFUK made famous, is Tiffany's "Could've Been".#📁_🍆🎸
But what was ol Tiff singing about? We interpret her lyrics as a listing of songs the Beatles could've (been) released in their real-time, U.K. discography. For those of you for whom Tiffany rocks just a wee too hard, the Untitled Two dream up some of their choices most amazing fantasy Fab singles.
So come on down to fantasy land - no yoga toe spreaders required, which is arguably Phil Collins best album - as we also wonder:
🏟️📼💦 (Angry Chicago guy, in line for opening day at Comiskey, which is 6 weeks away. It's dangerously cold.) How come that hollyweird lib Dana Carvey don't do no impressions of John Lennon beating up Bob Wooler? And how come I'm wet when I VCR "Gutfeld" but not Diane?
📶1️⃣2️⃣ Is 12 Bar Original actually 12 bars and/or original?
🟣💰🤑 Why haven't any of you so called "fanz" opened up an Etsy shop where you sell T.J. customized/hypmotized fantasy 1988 Purple Capitol label 45's? #ForJukeboxesOnly
 
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The Beatles "Live at the BBC" (1994)

In what many scholars consider one of the most revelatory album releases of 1994 (perhaps second only to Sade's "Best of Sade"), the Beatles' "Live at the BBC" provides a portal back to the early 60s, when the Beatles weren't yet quite as popular as the big J.C.
This week, T.J and Tony dust off their CD collections to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the 30th anniversary of some of the Fab Four's finest live studio recordings, and in the process, answer the timeless questions:
🇬🇧🎙️ Who was the superior BBC presenter: Lee Peters, Pee Litres, or Step By Step's Patrick Duffy?
🍌👽 How come Ringo doesn't want us throwing bananas at him anymore, and when was he planning to warn us (with peace and love)?
🌭🎵 Whaddyou want when you're hungry for somethin' that you really got to have? #LikeHotDogs
 
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Beatles Fantasy Reunion Setlists

Have you ever had a Rock & Roll Fantasy? The Kinks did. So did Bad Company. And nobody hated Bad Company more than rock music’s Stephen Sondheim. #FireElaineStritch
Some Rock & Roll fantasies are quite dangerous, like the troubling, cancel-worthy ones Rick Rubin has about feet. ALLEGEDLY. But others are healthy enough to dream out loud, on, by any reasonable metric, one of America’s most acclaimed podcasts.
Inspired by an inspiring suggestion from longtime listener, Patreon supporter, and singer/songwriter, Montreal’s own Max "Como" Comeau (which translates loosely in ‘Murican to "Max, how"?), Tony and T.J. dare to dream: what would have a Beatles reunion concert been like in the late 1970’s? Would George wear his silly stache from his self titled LP? Would Paul arrive on a laconic boat from London Town? Would John bake bread as Yoko verbally assaults Chuck Berry? And would Ringo be sober enough to zug-zug his way from Monte Carlo to the venue?
These questions will NOT be answered in this fairly insane excursion in to fantasyland  - you’ll thank us for the two drink minimum, folks - but don’t fret; neither will these:
🚫👖 (Angry Chicago Guy:) How come Frankie Goes To Hollywood instead of Sheridan when he’s getting off the outer drive? And how come Wix got a problem with America's hottie, Sister Jean?
🚫🏊🏻‍♂️ Why is it literally impossible to find out how/where Keith Moon died? Nobody has this information?
🚫⚾️ Sox Fest was hella sad, right? More like, Konerk-NO!
 
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