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Ep. 271 | Paul McCartney's "The Boys of Dungeon Lane" (2026) Part 1
Two forever fab octogenarian knights have both released brand new albums in this, the space age year of 2026. Truly a remarkable achievement.
Meanwhile, two grotty quinquagenarian jagwads attempt to sort through all of the permutations and variations of the latest of these offerings, Sir Paul McCartney’s The Boys of Dungeon Lane.
These are the Boys of Dumb Dumb Lane.
Throughout this 2-parter they ponder the deep deep feelings (wrong album dumb dumbs) that this platter has to offer. Such as:
💿🏬 Is Boys of Dungeon Lane an album or more of a pop-up merch kiosk at the mall?
🔣🍅 Did Paul’s secret code with John involve “catsup discipline”?
📀🎶 Will there be more versions of this alb-ATTENTION COLLECTOR SCUM!! BREAKING NEWS!! THIS JUST IN!! 3 new and already-rare limited edition versions of the record are now available:
🕊💩 Green and White “Seagull Guano” swirl with Scratch-n-Sniff “Liverpool Marsh” scented Lyric Tissue
⌨💽 Stolen Off *#uT+b€ met@Da!a con>€rsion Digital-to-Vinyl Conversion Bootleg Test Pressing Acetate
🎤🔧 7-LP Xtra-Auto-Tuned 12” Club Mixes of all 14 songs + Silent Forgotten Version of “Lost Horizon” (Digital Only Undownloadable mp3)
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Ep. 267 | NEW PAUL AND RINGO! "Home to Us" (2026)—and Wel-Kum Back Tony!
What’s MORE thrilling than sitting through a slide show of your strange friend’s vacation photos?
Answer: LISTENING to the slideshow!
UBP co-host T.J. and UBP Producer Casey welcome back other UBP co-host Tony with all sorts of fab catching up (but no catching up on hot dogs! #chi-town #hotdogetiquette #nobodysezchi-town). They talk Ringo and Paul and then talk Ringo and AI, because you can’t spell “Ringo and Paul” without “AI”. Plus they have a row over 3 Saville Row.
They also ask:
🍀 Is Record Store Day to record collectors what St. Patrick’s Day is to alcoholics?
🧻 If you say Twotles two times into a mirror, do you really experience and uncontrollable #2?
👻 Wait. What happened to Producer Casey? He just disappeared. Is he okay? Did he get into a tragic accident?? Will he be replaced by an uncanny look-a-like made by an AI 3D printer??? #44IF… Or is this just another case of Millennial ghosting?
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Ep. 266.1 | Ringo Starr’s “Long Long Road” (2026) - Part 2
In this hotly anticipated Part 2, T.J. and Casey and their Sunshine Band pick up the pieces for Florida Man, Tony Mendoza, still buggin’ out in the Everglades.
They wrap up their deep deep dish on Ringo’s “Long Long Road”, and T.J. “press night invite” Shanoff does his finest Chris Jones impression (Angry Drunk Chicago Guy: “I WAS ALWAYS MORUVA HEDY WEISS GUY MYSELF”) and opines on Brendan Hunt’s new one-man show “The Movement You Need” at Steppenwolf’s Magic Carpet Theater.
And between the bits, they babble on wondering:
🎤💉 Is autotune the new Ozempic?
🌩⚡ ️After his recent close brush with lightning during his road trip, is Tony ready to revisit the catalog of Lou Christie?
💨💨 “She’s Gone”: WHO DID IT BETTER? Ringo, Hall and Oates, Steelheart, Bob Marley, Black Sabbath, Clapton, NOFX, L.A.B., Soft Machine, Bang Camaro, the Tindersticks, or South Side icon Ken “the Hawk” Harrelson?
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Ep. 266 | Ringo Starr’s “Long Long Road” (2026)
This week “Guys from The Untitled Beatles Podcast” (not to be confused with “Guys from Toto” or “Guys from Survivor”) pay homage to the great Frank Sinatra album Duets - as T.J. and guest co-host Producer Casey laugh it up over Ringo’s newest country platter, Duets Long Long Road —while ailing co-host Tony uses Duets-era technology to phone in his commentary all the way from Fort Lauderdale (not the first time that guy has phoned it in, just ask the Chicago improv community).
Between all the chuckles and landline logistical delays, the team wonders:
🌬️ How on earth is the weather in Minnesota so different than the weather in Southern California?
📸 Can Portrait Records airbrush the braces and acne off of my 8th grade school photo?
🍌 Is it worth buying the Sack Lunch Original Motion Picture Soundtrack solely for Ringo’s mid-tempo slog-thru of “Banana Stain Blues”?
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Ep. 264 | Give My Regards to Broad Street (Film Review) | Replay!
It was five years ago today
When Teej and Tony told their friends to play
A VHS that T.J. had around
With its super warbly 80s sound
So may we introduce to you
The film you’ve loved for all these years:
Paul McCartney’s “Give My Regards to Broad Street”
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Originally aired April 17, 2021
At long last, T.J. and Tony review Sir Paul's magnum opus: Give My Regards to Broad Street. Starring and written by Paul McCartney, the 1984 movie was panned by critics and audiences alike, but brought us some of Paul's best music of the decade ("No More Lonely Nights"), and some of his worst remakes of his best music from decades past (lookin' at you, "Long and Winding Road").
This long and rambling podcast leads to all the usual goofs and giggles, and—as far as we're able to ascertain—what we believe to be the first reference to the theme music from NBC's "The Days & Nights of Molly Dodd" in podcasting history. And what movie review is complete without also covering the Commodore 64 video game adaptation?
Movie viewing recommended (you might be able to find it on YouTube), but certainly not required. Good times guaranteed either way, or your money back.
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Ep. 261 | SUPER DELUXE REISSUE: George Harrison (1979) and Live in Japan (1991)
In honour of spring break, it’s a super deluxe reissue of the Untitled Beatles Podcast’s third episode. Travel back to the simpler times of 2020, a world under lockdown during a deadly global pandemic, when two old friends/comedy nerds try podcasting about their favorite band on a platform called Zoom. Spoiler: the band is The Beatles. Wax nostalgic about scrubbing your vegetables with soap while reliving the golden days of Covid-19 with all the bells and whistles you’ve come to expect from today’s Tangential Twosome.
Originally published June 13, 2020
T.J. turns Tony on... to two George Harrison solo albums: the self-titled 1979 studio record and the 1991 live double-LP with Eric Clapton's band. Plus detours into the Beatles Sirius channel, Mitch Weissman, Beatle baseball, and The Jimmie Nicol Telethon.
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Ep. 260 | George Harrison, "Cloud Nine" (1987) Side 2
It’s one of the biggest albums of the late 1980’s.
No, not “Small World”, Huey Lewis & The News’ misguided attempt at a jazz-pop record that sadly gave us a song called “Bobo Tempo”, and can be found in near mint condition for a dollar in used record bins across the country. Rather, dear bleeder, it’s George Harrison’s comeback album, “Cloud 9”. Led by its spirited cover of “Got My Mind Set On You”, and the unofficial theme to Disney’s Mulan (“Breath Away from Heaven”), this is a record that’s held up through the years as one of the best by a solo Beatle not named “Pete”.
Tony & T.J. continue their deep-dish of this legendary album, as they explore questions about fonts, album covers, Weird Al, random Billy Joel deep cuts, and more; like:
😈 Whilst (look it up, pal) listening to the 8-Track of “Cloud 9”, do most/moist Harrison fans prefer “Devil’s Radio” (Beginning) or “Devil’s Radio” (Conclusion)? And what meta, psychological data does that provide about the listener?
🐣 Is the UBP so “woke” (ed note: gross) that they won’t let their fans eat Big League Chicken Chew before a little league game?
🏝 (Angry Chicago Guy, he’s angrily waving a dirty, BMG Record Club, CD copy of “The Immaculate Collection”. It belonged to his wife, before she moved to Hammond to "find herself":) HOW COME “LA ISLA BONITA” AIN’T NO BONUS TRACK ON NO “CLOUD 9” REISSUE?
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Ep. 259 | George Harrison, "Cloud Nine" (1987) Side 1
Look. George Harrison took five years after "Gone Troppo" to complete his 1987 masterpiece "Cloud Nine", so excuse us if we take a couple weeks to wrap up our long awaited deep dish.
This week, the Untitled Twotles finally get around to talking about side one, and promise not to wreck the episode with tacky gated reverb like some sorry Fine Young Cannibals knockoff.
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Ep. 258 | George Harrison, "Cloud Nine" (1987)
After spending the past three weeks in 1995’s Anthology universe, the Untitled Beatles Podcast needs a break. So this week… we head WAY BACK… to 1987.
That’s right. At long last, by popular demand—LLGH! Cheers, big ears!—Tony and T.J. delve into George Harrison’s smash-hit solo record, “Cloud Nine”, which T.J. SHANOFF LOVED LONG BEFORE ALL YOU BANDWAGON B*S.
Along the way, they find time to foray into Format Foyer, and answer the pressing questions like:
📼🌴 OK, but does T.J. own the 1987 cassette released on Contessa records in Indonesia?
💿💦 Was Tony’s copy of Cheap Trick’s “Lap of Luxury” CD damaged in a flood, or by teenage Tony’s tears?
💗📻[Angry Drunk Chicago Guy] HOW COME THEY STILL AIN’T PLAYIN’ THESE BEATLE BLOWHARDS ON CHICAGO’S OWN ROCK 95.5 (AN IHEART RADIO STATION)?
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Ep. 239 | Wingstan: The Greatest Greatest Hits of Wings
Everyone knows that the only legitimate and definitive collections of Wings tunes is “Wingspan”; obviously the only one that includes Take It Away (obviously not a Wings tune).
At long last, T.J.’s found a venue to sound off on the editorial decisions of now THREE separate Wings greatest hits collection: 1975’s “Wings Greatest”, 2001’s “Wingspan”, and the latest “Wings” collection due out this November. And Tony… is an accommodating podcast partner.
While we wax rhapsodic on Wings, we also wonder:
Does his love of “Hot Rocks” mean Tony’s a housewife and/or little girl?
Which is the more iconic Chicago eatery: Mr. Submarine, Pockets, or Kenny Rogers Roasters?
[Drunk guy’s back at the bar] You tryna tell me that Starbucks album with the ukuleles ain’t a greatest hits record?
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