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Ep. 249 | The Beatles' Christmas Records, 1963-69 (Replay!)

We’re off this week for the holidays! Please enjoy this beloved holiday classic. And if you’ve got episode ideas or things you’d like to hear more or less of on the show in 2026, drop us an email at untitledbeatlespod@gmail.com.

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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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Ep. 247 | Beatles Anthology Collection 4 Part 2 (2025)

1-2-3-4! Can I have a little more? 5-6-7-8-9-10
instrumental versions of Beatles classics! Is this “The Hollyridge Strings Plays The Beatles”? Nope, it’s the CD and vinyl release of Anthology 4; not to be confused with Anthology 4 on Disney+, not to be confused with the largely different Anthology 4 on DVD/VHS. Make sense, fellow Calderstoners?

With 13 new tracks, plus some choice (and, ahem, choice-adjacent) cuts from the recent deluxe Beatles reissues, there is much genuine Beatle joy to be be found on Anthology 4. A few tracks are revelatory! A few are kick ass! A few are fine! And a few too many, you can #FileUnderANap.

Tony and T.J. look at the highs and lows, both musical and bourbon-influenced, of the most recent entry into The Beatles vast compilation canon. On this aural journey (#OhSherry #BuzzerSFX #ThatsSoloStevePerry), Tony, T.J., and P3Z-Nutz ask and answer the questions literally millions of podcast listeners are begging us to answer, which may-or-may-not-include:

🕎 Even T.J. wouldn’t be so crazy as to spend $17 + $10 shipping to order the new/weird mixes of “Free As A Bird” & “Real Love” on exclusive “milky-white” vinyl 45 from the Beatles online store, right? And if he did, he wouldn’t be super excited about it arriving in the mail any day now, referring to it as an “early self-Hanukkah gift” to help alleviate the guilt of spending even more hard earned money on the exact same maddening Anthology content, right? I SAID, RIGHT, DAMN IT?

📣 Should Tony’s mention of Chicago’s Drag City Records guarantee the UBP a free vinyl copy of Fred Armisen’s “100 Sound Effects” - now available in fine record stores everywhere? And should said free vinyl be sent directly to Meigs Field c/o Producer Casey, via expedited shipping to arrive in time for the holidays?

🚕 (Angry Chicago Guy, he’s furious): HOW COME WFLD CHANNEL 32 DON’T SHOW THE BRADY BUNCH WEEKDAYS AT 4:30 NO MORE? AND WHERE'D TAXI GO? AND HOW COME LAUREN JIGGETTS DON’T RETURN NO FAN LETTERS?

 

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Ep. 246 | Beatles Anthology Collection 4 (2025)

Attention Wealthy Beatles Fans (TM)! How do you feel about 13 tracks? No, not “of whack”, as Walter Becker might have presented us, while he was still alive anyway. But rather, 13 tracks of unearthed Beatles demos & takes, nearly all of which are pure gems, now available on “Anthology 4”.

Awesome, yes? Now, how do you feel about spending $74 for a deluxe vinyl package (excuse me? SIR?) with 36 tracks of whack. Does it make you feel better to know that you’re spending that hard earned cash on 36% “new” material, and; coincidentally, (Beatles) ’64% of music you already bought on previous deluxe reissues? Good news, because as the Fat Boys once sang, “Baby you’re a rich man, too!”

 Look, we like to joke around at the UBP, it’s what makes us Apple’s only legally/emotionally authorized Beatles podcast (TBD). OF COURSE we’re grateful for “new” Beatles goodies we’ve never heard before. Early takes of “Tell Me Why”! “Every Little Thing!” “In My Life”! Surely, “A4” has been curated for both the die-hard and casual Beatles fan, yes? What’s that? Oh you were expecting a “Yes, and?” Well we love improv, too. It’s our water, our oxygen, our physical fitness. In fact, improv is what makes us The Second City’s only legally/emotionally authorized Beatles podcast (TBD).

So not only do Tony & T.J. begin to deep dish “Anthology 4: Less Faster But Even More Furious”, but they yes and themselves into veritable Don knots over:

đŸŽ±đŸ›€ïž Is T.J. forcing Tony to repeatedly listen to “Reel Music” on 8-track tape considered “trafficking”, “torture”, or “a healthy 2026 resolution”?

 đŸ‘ What kind of big-production, expensive, show-stopping finale does Producer Casey have planned for today’s episode?

 đŸ„— If Tony is Statler, and T.J. is Waldorf, does that make P3Z-Nutz “Salad”? And like anything sent to Ringo after the 20th of October, will said salad be tossed?

 

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Ep. 245 | Beatles Anthology Collection 1 – 3 (2025)

It only took 29 years, but we Beatles fans finally have what we’ve all been clamoring for: instrumental “Fool On The Hill.” That’s right, Anthology 4 has arrived! Are you excited? We fans love sequels! Maybe it’s an appetizer to George Harrison’s “Early Takes Volume 2”, which is tentatively scheduled to be released sometime after we’re all dead.

Fortunately, for those of us who remember the excitement for the original Anthology CD’s, the good folks at Apple have finally cleaned up the tracks from volumes 1-3. This week, Tony & T.J. instant-react to those reissues (and/or maybe remixes), in addition to previewing their full-on deep dish of Anthology 4.

Along the way, the boys ask:

đŸ€” (Angry Chicago Guy:) HOW COME OBAMA TOOK THE MARTIN MULL SITCOM “DOMESTIC LIFE” OFF OF WOR SUPERSTATION? ANY HOW COME I CAN’T FIND “IT’S A LIVING” NO MORE? AND HOW COME NOBODY WANTS TO WATCH T.J.’S DIGITIZED COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL “DOMESTIC LIFE” EPISODES HE VCR’D FROM WBBM CHANNEL 2 BACK IN 1985?

đŸŽč Should the URSP’s next episode feature a deep dish on “Steel Wheels” or “Made In The Shade”? And did anyone get a little angry that the author used a compilation rather than a catalog album in the second example? Would a live album have sufficed, like “Still Life”? And can a case be made that “Flashpoint” is actually the best live Stones album, in no small part due to the presence of Chuck Leavell?

đŸ‘źâ€â™‚ïž Did Family Matters’ Steve Urkel mean to take credit for 1995 Beatlemania on A-Beatles-C when he asked, repeatedly and to waves of canned/coked laughter, “Did I do that”?

 

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Ep. 232 | Hot Beatle News! Anthology 2025 and Power To The People

BIG BREAKING BEATLE NEWS (from like a week ago):

T.J. finally scored Ringo's VH1 Storytellers cassette from Psychic Records in Brooklyn.

Lots to react to, between this development and some business about a new Anthology release and Power to the People box set.

Open up those wallets and get geared up for all the grumps and gripes, as the Gab Two (+ Casey!) give Angry Drunk Chicago Guy a run for his money, with the hard hitting questions like:

đŸ’°đŸ”„ WHERE'M I SUPPOSEDA GET 400 BUCKS FOR ANTHOLOGY VINYL WHEN I ALREADY SOLD MY WEDDING RING FOR A MACCA TICKET?

đŸ’°đŸ”„ HOW COME THESE APPLE JAGS ARE MAKING ME BUY ANTHOLOGIES 1-3 ALL OVER AGAIN? AND REVOLVER SUPER DELUXE? AND PEPPER SUPER DELUXE? AND WHITE ALBUM SUPER DELUXE? AND ABBEY ROAD SUPER DELUXE? AND LET IT BE SUPER DELUXE?

đŸ‘żđŸ”„ WHEN'S UNTITLED H.R. GONNA FINALLY STEP IN TO END THE BULLYING CAMPAIGN AGAINST TONY MENDOZA? IF LOVIN' THE SAXOPHONE IS WRONG, MY GUY DON'T WANNA BE RIGHT.

(We'll resume our "Help!" deep dish as soon as we get this out of our system. Thanks for your patience.)

 

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Ep. 226 | "Yesterday and Today" (1966) Side 2

Maybe, just maybe, "Yesterday"...And Today, was a modern-day Robin Hood (Men In Tights). Sure it stole from the rich, in this case, the U.K. "Revolver". But it also gave to the poor, in this case, American Baby Boomers, whose dreams would eventually be crushed under the weight of their own selfish interests from a life unfulfilled.

Anyhoo! The Gab 2 dissect this essential Capitol album, and butcher both facts and myths as they discuss it and more, like:

🗑 If you're a Sanford, and your son isn't in trash, are you super pissed?

đŸŒ« When did Tony become such an expert on pricey London Town neighborhoods?

🍎 Will the deluxe reissue of Dark Horse include the rare demo of George's quite personal raga, "Goiter In His Gut"?

 

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Ep. 225 | "Yesterday and Today" (1966) Side 1

Bill Miller isn’t just Texas’ fastest growing BBQ joint this side of that one suburban Manila Kenny Rogers Roasters. No, sir/ma’am! Once upon a time, Bill Miller traded in his Texas, wet-rub BBQ stained hands to prepare something better and more culturally significant than chick’n: a U.S. Beatles album!

Longtime Capitol butcher Dave Dexter was (allegedly) too busy running Nixon’s campaign to assemble a Beatles album comprised of songs left-over from the British albums “Help”, “Rubber Soul”, and ripped from the not yet released “Revolver”. So that job fell to Bill Miller, the fast-growing Texas BBQ joint. HEARD OF IT, LIB? #Freedumb

And in the process, the infamous - yet famously fun-to-spin - final U.S. capitol album of “new” material was released: Yesterday
And Today. (a.k.a. “Yesterday...And Today” for you cassette freaks! We see you! We are you!)

This week, Tony & T.J. begin a deep dish of this classic, million selling Beatles album, which was unavailable and out of print from 1992-2014. Along the way, they ask the questions that only two guys with this much weirdo time on their hands would ask, like:

🐭 (Angry Drunk Chicago Friend - he’s mad because none of youz bought a new shirt with his mug on it yet, they’re available on Tee Public or the UBP website you jagbags): How come Disney’s too woke to let me learn how to make an AI of Minnie Mouse singing “A Wank Is A Wink Your Fart Makes”?

🍔 Where’s Herb? And where’s Herb’s beef?

đŸ» Do Redneck White Sox fans drink (Pabst) Blue Ribbon beer before they beat the daylights out of a defenseless, elderly first base coach?

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Ep. 221 | SUPER DELUXE REISSUE: The Beatles' Love LP (2006) and All Together Now DVD (2008)

John Lennon literally said it best: "All You Need Is Love: The Cirque Du Soleil Soundtrack, on CD in multiple editions, streaming with bonus tracks on iTunes, and on a making of DVD."

And in 2020, a younger, dumber, sadly Casey-less Gab Two gabbed fab and dished deep on this album!

Now, for the first time, here's the Deluxe Edition remaster, in 5.1 Dolby NR Cr02 Color.

See you next week with an all new episode!

 

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[Originally released September 19, 2020]

In this episode of Pizza Talk, T.J. and Tony get acrobatically off-topic trying to discuss The Beatles collaboration with Cirque du Soleil. It contains 101 local Chicago references.

We think this episode will sell a lot of tickets for the Vegas show.

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Ep. 220 | Our Favourite Fab Beatle Cover Art

What’s your Favourite Beatles Cover, Art? Or, more generally, for those listeners not named Art, what’s your Favourite Beatles Cover Art? There are seemingly endless global 7” and 12” covers from which to choose. Despite all but a small few ever being authorized by the Fabs, a good many are iconic, super weird, or a mesmerizing combination of both.

Loyal listener and Patreon member Mick B brought us this great suggestion, inspired by the live-performance photo on the cover of “The Beatles In Italy”; which, indeed features hits by The Beatles! Just not live. Or “In Italy”. Maybe Bruce Spizer will help us sue Calderstone/Odeon for fraud???

In this episode, the Cover Two (#GOBEARS) show
and tell
and show, if you smash this link for our WORLD PREMIERE SHOW VIDEO, their Favourite Beatles Cover Art. Along the way, they ask the hard hitting questions that those grotty, non-officially-Apple-authorized podcasts are too meat free Saturday, chicken-substitute-s**t to ask, like: 

📐Could AI create a geometry-inspired parody called “Oblong-Di, Oblong-Da”, and make it sound like it’s being sung by They Might Be Giants? And, both existentially and ethically, would it all be worth it?

🍆 (Angry Chicago Guy, he’s upset because he’s still unclean): “And how come Beatlefest don’t have no Beatles ASMR room no more? And how come if they did, they wouldn’t let me feel up Terri Hemmert’s copy of “Rock N’ Roll Music” to feel if the print is raised up like Diane said I can’t do no more?”

🕰 Could the front cover art for “Now & Then: The Final Beatles Song (TM)” have been so much better if only it didn’t suck?

 

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Ep. 216 | The Beatles “Kum Back” (1970)

Did you know that fellow '60's Brit rockers The Kinks had their biggest ever hit in 1984? Who didn't love "Kum Backing", their tribute to one of the very first bootlegs: the Beatles acetate "Kum Back"?

Here at the UBP we love the Kinks, kink shaming, Kum & Go gas, and this legendary bootleg, heard by the #Kum2GetherToo for the very first time just this month! Some Beatles "fans", right? I'll bet they can't even pronounce "Esher" correctly...

So do get your tape recorders rolling, but be forewarned; Kash Patel may come to your home to sing songs about justice for people who poop on senate desks. Smart fella, that one. All of 'em, really.

ANYHOO, when your tape is rolling, Bob, be ready for more questions than a societally-destructive right wing manosphere podcast is "just asking", such as:

🐭🍆 Did (Lovely) Rita Rudner ever guest star in a "SHOtime After Dark" entry, or was she merely the lead-in programming, immediately following "An American Tail"?

✝🍕 (Angry Chicago Guy:) If Paul McCartney's pitching is in a strident manner, how come he and Mark Buherle ain't in Cooperstown? And how come the Pope ain't returning no answering machine messages no more, he too good for me now? We go to Aurelio's every Tuesday, he better show up.

đŸš«đŸ§ž Cancel "Teddy Boy", correct?

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