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Saturday Feb 01, 2025
Saturday Feb 01, 2025
Sure, in 1982, George may have “Gone Troppo” … but who could’ve guessed that some 43 years later, his old pal Ringo would have “Gone Conttro”?
That’s right! Buckle your buckles, scoot those boots, and pour out’cher ten gallon hats, because this week the Twangin’ Two dish deep not just on Ringo’s new Nashville-infused release, “Look Up”, but they Look Back on their own Americana and country music roots.
Join us as we hit the open highway with our radios tuned to Tom T. Hall, Dave “Curley” Dudley, and Dick Butkus, and along the ride we ask:
🌿 Who got higher at Poplar Creek in the 1980s: Willie Nelson, or T.J.’s mom?
🐂 True or False: Tony’s first concert was Alvin and the Chipmunks at the opening night of Coyote Ugly Saloon?
👯 Is Ringo’s “Can You Hear Me Call” featuring Molly Tuttle the greatest solo Beatle duet since Macca’s “Ivory and Ivory” with Hamish Stuart?
(hat tip to Patreon supporter ChossoMosso for episode art inspiration 🤠)
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Saturday Jan 25, 2025
Saturday Jan 25, 2025
The rager of an anny party continues over at the UBP, as the team celebrates their 200th (200-point-fifth?) episode! With the help of some fab listener questions, Tony, T.J., & Casey dish deep on all things Beatles - and some exciting news that may be revealed for 2025! (This is called a tease, but it’s a bad one, because there’s no special news. There is, however, a rarely-heard Tony Mendoza production, crafted exclusively for Beatlefest 2024, seamlessly bringing together the world’s two most important proper nouns.)
While reflecting on the future of UBP, and also preparing for the past, the UB3 (#Cantaloop?) also ponder:
🌧️🪩 Was it (metaphorically) raining on Tony’s prom night, and how many of you would get and/or appreciate a “Grease” reference here?
🚫🏆 Does Charles Barkley calling T.J. “short and ugly” make up for him, shamefully, never winning an NBA title? T.J., I mean. B**ch a** coward can't win when it matters.
🎞️🎵 (Our Chicago Friend. He’s drunk, sad, and very, very cold) “If Nobama was such a great president, how come I can’t retire off my Beatles Reel Music 8-track tape no more? And how come Sarah Palin ain’t wearing no skirts no more on the reruns of that one SNL with John McCain?"
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Enjoy T.J.’s “All The Best Vol. II” Mixtape
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Saturday Jan 18, 2025
Saturday Jan 18, 2025
It was 200 episodes ago today… The world was thrown into chaos by a pandemic that real scientists, like the bumbling, mediocre, former host of a largely stupid, 2000’s NBC reality show, knew could be cured with basic medical know how; like injecting bleach. #NegativeCreep #FileHimUnderARock
From this weird, wild world of alternative facts and despair came The Untitled Beatles Podcast, and we couldn’t be more proud to share our 200th sojourn into the vast, beautiful world of Beatles music and culture. In this special episode, Tony, T.J., and Producer Casey take the rare step of making things about themselves, and discuss how a deep love of Beatles music—as well as the much anticipated sequel to “All The Best”—brought them together. They answer pointedly personal, potentially problematic questions from some loyal listeners, and also consider:
🎙️🥁 Is the discovery of cassettes featuring Tony’s long lost, desert rock band’s Beatle covers this generation’s “Live At The Star Club”? But the 2 LP Pickwick version, not that lame 16-track Sony Music CD from 1991?
🇺🇸🧦 Angry Chicago Guy: HOW COME MALCOM MCDOWELL DON’T SPELL “COMPLETE” LIKE AN AMERICAN IN “THE COMPLEAT BEATLES”? AN’T MCDOWELL IN CHARGE OF DAT KIND OF STUFF, THE SAME WAY AJ PERZINSKI WAS IN CHARGE OF KICKING THAT JAG CUBS CATCHER MICHAEL BARRETT’S ASS BACK IN 2006? LET’S GO WHITE SOX! DIANE, I’M WET AGAIN HON…. NO, BAD WET, SWEETIE.
🦁💰 Is “Can You Feel Deloitte Tonight”, T.J.’s “Lion King” parody about noted consulters (?) Deloitte, arguably the best corporate “Lion King” parody about Deloitte of 2000? No? Cool. Cool.
Whether you’re an OG listener, or you’ve tuned in exclusively for a review of Ringo’s new country LP (coming soon!), we’re grateful for all of you, and especially those with the stones to demand that we “get rid of the piano”. THANK YOU, and here’s to the next 200!
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Saturday Jan 11, 2025
Saturday Jan 11, 2025
Cheer Down, Untitled Beatlefreaks! This week, Tony gives T.J. Cliff’s notes (shouldn’t have left your locker open, Cliff) on the fascinating book, Dark Horse Records: The Story of George Harrison’s Post-Beatles Record Label, written by Aaron Badgley. Did the quiet Beatle create the first indie label, one that featured appearances from Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, and at least one former Wing? The guys discuss this and more, like:
🤠 Joe Cocker toured the country in the musical “Grease”, so why is Eric Clapton too cowardly to step into “Oklahoma”? TULSA TIME, MY ASS. #DonWilliams
🗑️ If Matt Gaetz were a grumpy green monster on “Sesame Street”, would his name be Oscar The Couch; because he diddles couches?
📰 Would Attitudes second album, “Good News”, have sold more copies had there not been a crippling frisbee shortage in 1977?
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Saturday Jan 04, 2025
Saturday Jan 04, 2025
To celebrate the release of The Beatles 1964 US Albums in Mono, Untitled T.J. invited Untitled Tony over to his Untitled Beatles Paradise, where the two middle-aged lads Beatled about for hours with these new HOTLY CUT platters.
In this episode, the first in a sporadic series, they delve into this MOSTLY FAB box set, leading off with Side 1 of Meet The Beatles.
While the hot wax spins, the Jurk Twins ponder:
🥩 Is Tony’s new copy of “Mono Meet The Beatles: feat “Not A Second Time Sgt. Paper Inner Groove [Lee Minkler Remix]” more rare or medium rarer than T.J.’s “Target Presents: Mono Meat The Beatles [Exclusive Limited Marbled Blue Vinyl Presented by Target. Target: A Fun Place To Shop!]?
🛍️ Is the key to corporate improvisation, “Bring a bag, not a cathedral”?
🥀 Not to be ’90’s rap conspiratorial, but can we be certain that the Flowers In The Dirt World Tour Pack Shakur really died in ’96? (Angry Chicago Guy: And how come White Sox manager Terry Bevington ain’t at SoxFest no more?)
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Saturday Dec 28, 2024
Saturday Dec 28, 2024
The fellas are offline for the holidays this week, enjoying a restful end of the year and prepping furiously for all-new episodes in 2025.
And hey BY THE WAY, UBP Episode 200 is coming up real soon! If you'd like to be a part of the celebration, we'd love to have you. Record an audio memo with a question for the guys and email it to untitledbeatlespod@gmail.com with "Episode 200" and we'll try to find a way to work it into the episode.
And in the meantime, dust off those old Xmas Flexidiscs, and please enjoy this encore release of our 2021 deep dish conversation about the Beatles' Christmas Records.
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Originally released December 25, 2021
It’s been a real gear year for the Untitled Beatles Podcast and it’s all due to you! ‘Spect some of you are getting out a 50¢ piece to weigh down your rare out of print Beatles Christmas Flexi Discs. For those going without these cherished “only fans” records, T.J. and Tony will cover each holiday curiosity released from 1963-1969, with noses red from holiday cheer.
In this very special holiday episode:
🍆 Ho Ho Ho! Will they succeed in referencing “Ding Dong” on XXXmas day?
🍗 Yeah Yeah Yeah! Since T.J. and Tony have gone right off jelly babies, will they switch to Kenny Rogers Roasters roasted chicken?
🌿 Hi Hi Hi! Was the first legal dispensary in the United States run by Mrs. Garrett from The Facts of Life?
Plus shout outs to Beedle Peedles in the Untitled Beatle Community.
Garry Crimble to you (and Garry Mimble for those who don’t celebrate Crimble) and a Happy Goo Year!
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Check out these other fab fave podcasts of ours: Paul or Nothing and Something About The Beatles
Saturday Dec 21, 2024
Saturday Dec 21, 2024
Since Xmashanukkwanza has been an ongoing celebration since late September, we here at the UPB have already spent all of our allotted giving spirit for 2024 (#ThanksObama). Therefore it’s time to focus on what we WANT to RECEIVE from The Beatleverse in the years to come. So this week, Crimbledee and Crimbledum list off all the major contenders on their fab wishlists, while leaving these remaining items for future wishlists:
🧊“Now and Then” Then and Now Commemorative Scrapbook Vault. A crafty 12’x12’ cube to warmly display all of your “Now and Then” 100+ coloured 7”, 10”, 12” vinyls, posters, t-shirts, keychains, beach towels, cuckoo clocks, handcuffs, luxury camping gear (including bug zappers!), weather balloons and other assorted “Now and Then“ ephemera!
🫘 The Royal Mint in conjunction with Heinz Beans presents: Ringo Starr Edible Schilling Legumes in a deliciously “rich” tomato sauce. Make your farts work for you!
🌧️ “Rain/ Paperback Writer” Reversible Drizzle Parka* and Bookmark**
*not recommended for rain**wait 12-36 hours after drizzle for bookmark use***Parka will not work as a bookmark****Bookmark will not work as a parka
Plus a pint-size review of Elliot Mintz’s new book about John Lennon!
Fabby Holidays from the Untitled Beatles Podcast!
T.J., Tony, Producer Casey, and P3Z-Nutz
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Saturday Dec 14, 2024
Saturday Dec 14, 2024
George Harrison's tribute to Smokey Robinson, "When Smokey Sings", isn't just Rob Sheffield's favourite solo Beatles tune. The Motown legend, arguably best known for covering "So Bad", is a huge part of "Beatles '64", the Mouse's latest entry in the world of Beatles documentaries.
1964 is THE seminal year in Beatles history, so surely this Scorcese-produced doc provides a comprehensive look at the full year? Clearly, the talking heads are relevant and used sparingly? Obviously, this release comes in concert with expanded, cleaned up footage improving on what we all really want, a reissued "The First U.S. Visit"?
Our own Medved and (Mister) Roeper explore the highs and lows of yet another Beatles holiday gift, and along the way they ask:
📆 If Leonard Bernstein discusses "She Said She Said" in "Beatles '64", should Dave Grohl and Questlove discuss "Now And Then" in "Beatles '67"?
💿 Why did director David Tedeschi opt to open with a whispery YouTube cover of "All My Loving" over one of Tears for Fears' celebrated Depeche Mode covers?
📓 If this doc was trying to attract a younger audience, how come it didn’t include an interview with Matt Gaetz?
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Saturday Dec 07, 2024
Saturday Dec 07, 2024
Right around Thanksgiving (the American one, THE ONLY ONE), the Material World got a whole lot more material! The Harrison estate graciously reintroduced one of George’s most acclaimed records to the world; via a sparkling, glorious Paul Hicks remix in honor of its’ (approximately, infinite) 50th anniversary. There are many iterations of this current reissue, as Beatleworld continues its transition from “marketing exclusively for the masses” to “marketing primarily for boomers with loads of disposable cash”.
In arguably the greatest national tragedy of 2024, Theater Tony (The Annoyance) and Theatre T.J. ("Madonna: The Musical") could only afford the 2-LP/streaming version of this title. (Producer Casey, please put an “awwwww” drop here. K? Then do it, damn it!) But fear not! The guys delve into this reissue with their usual panache, like a couple of panache-holes, but also find the holiday spirit to ask other hard questions, like:
🎤 What’s the Kim Deal with Seinfeld?
👺🚽 Does the deluxe remix archive crate gnome edition of “Living In The Material World” come with a skibidi toilet?
🚪 If Krishna showed up to Ed McMahon’s house, would McMahon hand him a cartoonishly large check and then bellow in his face, “you are correct, sir?”
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Saturday Nov 30, 2024
Saturday Nov 30, 2024
This week, T.J., Tony, Casey, and P3Z-Nutz all gather round the cornucopia at Untitled Beatles HQ to reflect for just a moment on all the fab fortunes 2024 has brought to Beatledom, while saving a little room for the requisite holiday grievances.
Fun and turkey tomfoolery abound, and we are grateful to get to share the table with all of you.
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