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Road trip! Not since [insert huge 2000’s comedy that’s been largely forgotten here] have two guys caused so much big city trouble in a small town. Do you catch our drift? And that drift is Johnsonville Brat farts, as Producer Casey and T.J. meet up at a casino in Minnesota, to drive to record stores in Wisconsin; all in an effort to display with pride how much their NFL teams f***ing SUCK. (You too Detroit.) (You too, Tampa, even though you haven’t been in this division since “Driving Rain”?) Bears pride aside (6-2, y’all), Casey and T.J. catch up IRL for the first time in a New York Minute, as Tony’s just-missed-Rushmore favorite artist Don Henley once pouted. They explore the music and local culture that makes Minnesota Wisconsin. And they ask questions; the kind that Bari Weiss would ask if the viewers of her network weren’t dead, like: 🚨 Is the greatest Mike Post Theme The Who’s “Mike Post Theme”? And why aren’t the classic rock elites more up-in-arms about a 2005 song by The Who about TV composer Mike Post called “Mike Post Theme”? 🐿 Is Tony’s “Chipmunks Medley” this generation’s version of Casey’s “Movie Medley”? And when’s T.J. going to do his own medley; perhaps one of Mike Post themes and Who songs before 2026 pulls a #HeGone? 🍻 (Angry Drunk Guy, he’s extra sad this week, which is DELICIOUS): “HOW COME CASEY GOT SO MUCH SPARE CASH HE CAN AFFORD A CASSINGLE FROM 1987 IN THIS BIDEN ECONOMY?”   EPISODE LINKS Check out UBP's videos on TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, or Instagram! Like and subscribe! Please support our scrappy show. Score some merch or find us on Patreon! Drop us a review on Apple Podcasts!

It’s Rubber Soul! Hey Hey! The first “important” Beatles album…until the “Help” boxed-set next year? Is that how this works, Calderstoners? Tony and T.J. continue to explore the wonders of the new Rubber Soul deluxe edition, focusing on Side 2 and its corresponding demos and alt takes. As previously mentioned, this very “important” Beatles record - T.J.’s favourite, but only the specific U.S. 8-track running order - deserves the kind of careful analysis that you absolutely won’t get here. Because we’ve taken edibles. Are they legal? Yes. Are we driving? No. So stick it with the judgment and help us answer these queries: ✂️ Is whomever did the online smashup of “Little Girl” and “I’m Only Sleeping” also responsible for “The Beatles Movie Medley” (non-Casey remix)? 😿 (Angry Chicago Barfly Guy, He’s pretty white for a Barfly Guy; and also drunk and sad): “Rubber Soul is OK and all but how come ALF reruns ain’t on Channel 32 no more? And how come I can’t dress as ALF no more for Halloween without being cancelled”? 🎸 Do you think Barack Obama is more angry at Macca for writing the seductive ballad “Michelle”, or at Andru Donalds for writing the even more seductive ballad, and - arguably - the 1990’s most famous song, “Mishale”? 🇺🇸 The Untitled Beatles Podcast encourages all of our American listeners to VOTE this Tuesday, preferably not for jagbags who live their lives antithetical to The Beatles music and message of love; and instead thrive on taking rights from people and causing chaos. Make a voting plan, and as Tone Loc (TM) once said, “Let Do It”? #RuleOfFours #TheMoreYouKnow #Vote!   EPISODE LINKS Check out UBP's videos on TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, or Instagram! Like and subscribe! Please support our scrappy show. Score some merch or find us on Patreon! Drop us a review on Apple Podcasts!

As Decca Records’ Spanish heartthrobs Los Bravos sang in 1966: Black is black / I want my track-by-track And in 2026... T.J. and Tony finally delivered. Join the Tawdry Two as they giddily go deep on the 2026 mixes (or are they the 2023 mixes?) of Rubber Soul Super Deluxe Side One, along with some of the corresponding bonus tracks. As always, they tackle the hot questions. Hotter than the Norwegian Wood body slaps? YOU DECIDE. 📼 Which is the more iconic Gen X movie soundtrack hit: Don’t You (Forget About Me), Jim Dandy, or No More Lonely Nights (Play Out Version)? 📝 When will Calderstone make good on Andru Donalds’ long overdue Rubber Soul writing credit? 🕚 Which should get more air time — the six included versions of Norwegian Wood, or the zero included versions of 12 Bar Original? EPISODE LINKS Check out UBP's videos on TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, or Instagram! Like and subscribe! Please support our scrappy show. Score some merch or find us on Patreon! Drop us a review on Apple Podcasts!

I’m rubber. You’re soul. Whatever you say bounces off me and travels through you in 5.1 Surround Sound, Stereo, Mono and orange vinyl, exclusively at Target. Reeling and weary after a relevant-to-the-rest-of-the-world Bears loss to the Packers, T.J. and Tony delve into all of the new Rubber Soul 3000 Super Deluxe 61st Anniversary Special Editions and Extracts. Along the way they’ll ask the questions and A/B the answers. 😎 Which new Discord emoji is the UBP most proud of? A) Terri Hemmert B) A crust-first slice from Pizza Hit (cue the Monkees) 💪🏿 Mr. T says “take it from me.” What should we take from Mr. T? A) His tough advice from the mean streets B) The dope 🔊 What’s the best way to enjoy Giles Martin's 2026 Stereo Mixes? A) 5.1 Surround Sound on Blu-Ray B) Trick question. Mono is the only way to truly the enjoy The Beatles. If you want to listen to stereo Beatles, put on a Perry Como record. It’s the same thing. The Beatles never wanted you to hear those mixes. You shouldn’t even be listening to them. They’ll confuse you. 5 point what?? 1 POINT WHOM??? Many great historians have noted that Van Gogh cut off his ear in order to enjoy Rubber Soul in true mono. A real American Patriot, like his fellow countrymen John, Paul, George and Jimmie Nicol. EPISODE LINKS Check out UBP's videos on TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, or Instagram! Like and subscribe! Please support our scrappy show. Score some merch or find us on Patreon! Drop us a review on Apple Podcasts!

More Rush? Rush? More! Hurry hurry lover, come to me! That hit was performed by Paula Abdul, and oooooh I’m running for congress... what a spooooooooky last name... lock your doors and BEWARE OF PAULA ABDUL!!! And this hit episode - now #17 on “Chicago Improv Beatles Podcasts!” - continues the Rushmore journey of some loyal fans of the show. Good news: there’s no more overtures! Better news: the guys take the listener contributions to the next level, as they level up to a level that's a whole new level. Loyal Discordant Steve My Kitten Alone asked how we’d introduce the Beatles to others; who might not share the same passion for or knowledge of the band. In other words, jag bags. But that’s not all! Do we talk about other stuff? Are there other questions? Questions like? 🍆🍔 Who knew Tony was such a big Mac-Head? (That’s a Fleetwood Mac die-hard, someone who’s loved the band both pre-and-post Peter Gabriel. You know, a real fan?) #BigMacHead 📖🐞 Is there enough interest in the topic of Beatles Missionaries to write a highly unauthorized parody of “Book of Mormon”, but with all Beatles songs? #HasaDigaYesterday 💙🧡 (Angry Chicago barfly, he’s wistfully drinking a Malort & Old Style, ruminating on the passing of Mike Ditka) “Me & Coach Ditka didn’t know each other or nothing. But when me & Diane were going through our hardest times, the ’85 Bears is the only real connection we could muster. She got legally cleared to make sweet love to me Sunday mornings at 11, during the Coach Ditka & Johnny Morris show on Channel 2, WBBM. I used to pay her to pretend she was Jeannie Morris, but she looked more like Linda Yu. Well. Now Da Coach is gone, and Diane is, too. She’s in Tampa, but still. #RipCoachDitka   EPISODE LINKS Check out UBP's videos on TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, or Instagram! Like and subscribe! Please support our scrappy show. Score some merch or find us on Patreon! Drop us a review on Apple Podcasts!

Now somewhere in the black mining hills of Dakota  There was a podcast made by a couple of fooooooools The Gab Two are back at it, rounding out their Rushmores and crowning a couple Crazy Horses. Between blasts of dynamite and pallets of plaster, Tony and T.J. find out: 🎢 On the Mount Rushmore of defunct Chicago amusement parks, is Lincoln Old Chicago? (Answer: Of course not. Kiddieland is Lincoln, Riverview Park is Washington, the Showbiz Pizza Place on Kedzie is Jefferson, and the Sears on Lawrence is Teddy Roosevelt. The Crazy Horse slot is being reserved for Santa’s Village. #HeNotGone?) 🥁 What part of T.J.’s soul is missing that prevents him from appreciating the Glenn Kotche masterclass that is Wilco’s “Shake it Off”…? ⏱ Which will be finished first: this episode, or Crazy Horse?   EPISODE LINKS Check out UBP's videos on TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, or Instagram! Like and subscribe! Please support our scrappy show. Score some merch or find us on Patreon! Drop us a review on Apple Podcasts!

As the leaves turn “Drive My Car Orange” and “Nowhere Man Taupe” in anticipation of next week’s long-awaited Rubber Soul SDE, we here at UBP HQ are taking some time to honor a few non-fab artists. With chisels and rasps in hand, T.J. and Tony carve away at the sacred Meigs Field granite peak, each revealing their favorite musical performers that aren’t John, Paul, George, Ringo, Jimmie or Purdie. It’s Mount Rushmore Beyond The Beatles! Throughout this laborious process they also wonder: 📻🪗 Has radio station WKRP ever played Mike Post’s version of the theme to CSI: Cincinnati (aka “Squeeze Box”)? 🌶️🚽 Speaking of 5-way chili, I’m at a party and I feel a “Jammin on the 2” coming on… Where’s the nearest bathroom??? 🎄💣 Did the Untitled Beatles Podcast just declare a War on Billy Joel’s “Christmas in Fallujah”? Please feel free to share your Mt. Rushmore artists that aren’t The Beatles. EPISODE LINKS Check out UBP's videos on  TikTok/YouTube/Facebook/Instagram! Like and subscribe! Please support our scrappy show. Score some merch or find us on Patreon! Drop us a review on Apple Podcasts!

New Episode Alert! We’re falling for fall at the Untitled Beatles Podcast, especially because Rubber Soul is coming up, like a flower! And now more expansive/expensive than ever! Tony & T.J. share their thoughts on this forthcoming, much anticipated, deluxe version and also ask:  🎤 How many instrumental versions must an album contain before it’s legally filed under “Karaoke”? #FileUnderKaraoke 🎞️ Sure, George Martin wasn’t a huge fan of the U.S. albums; but what are the odds he simply adored “Reel Music”? AND HOW COME HIS NEOPO BABY KID AIN’T GOT THE STONES TO REMIX “MOVIE MEDLEY” LIKE PRODUCER CASEY DID IN HIS SLEEP? AND HOW COME MURAKAMI CAN’T HIT NO MORE? 🕺🏿 Where my community of hefty disco people who wanna see Tom Bosley freak out at?   EPISODE LINKS Check out UBP's videos on  TikTok/YouTube/Facebook/Instagram! Like and subscribe! Please support our scrappy show. Score some merch or find us on Patreon! Drop us a review on Apple Podcasts!

Beatle Bottoms. To some, bottoms is a synonym for “tushie”, as they say in the industry. For Tony & T.J., it’s their least favourite Fab 4 songs. And boy do they just disagree. But there ain’t no good guy, there ain’t no bad guy, there’s only this deluxe reissue of one of our favorite early episodes, reproduced for disc by Grandmaster Casey. ----- [Originally released September 5, 2020] Clickbait: Are T.J. and Tony in a Beatles cult? The answer may dumbfound you!! In this Labor Day Spectacular (not that spectacular really) T.J. and Tony comb the floor of the Sea of Holes in search of the least fab Beatles songs. Listen for adjectives like "treacly" and "loathsome"(!). Also included are hot takes on R.E.M. vs Barenaked Ladies, and a very brief tribute to short form improv. Meanwhile, T.J. discloses one of his "Beatle nightmares" while Tony wears out his “Beatle bag.” Fact cheque: "It’s All Too Much" was recorded at De Lane Lea Studios and "Baby, You’re A Rich Man" at Olympic Sound Studios. Neither T.J. nor Tony can remember what a clavioline is. EPISODE LINKS: Listen to the Beatle Bottoms playlist here! Check out UBP's videos on TikTok, YouTube, Facebook,  or Instagram! Like and subscribe! Please support our scrappy show. Score some merch or find us on Patreon! Drop us a review on Apple Podcasts!

Originally aired May 22, 2021 ----- The British Rubber Soul is for the birds! OK, that might be a little aggressive. The album's a masterpiece, but T.J. and Tony make a pretty compelling argument that nobody really misses "What Goes On," and that Dave Dexter's U.S. version for Capitol Records is just a superior collection. It's so fine. It's sunshine. It's PART TWO of our U.S. Rubber Soul deep dish. And along the way, we ponder: Where does journalist Maureen Cleave fit into the lineup: Is she the fifth Beatle... or THE THIRD? And where does Ed McMahon land? (Spoiler: the ninth Beatle.) Which iconic songs would the guys etch into their solo Eagles Mt. Rushmores? "Run For Your Life" may not age well, but we like to think our dumb Peter Cetera jokes will. YOU BE THE JUDGE.   EPISODE LINKS: Check out our Pandora playlist! Check out UBP's videos on  TikTok/YouTube/Facebook/Instagram! Please support our scrappy show. Score some merch or find us on Patreon! We want all your corrections, hot takes, conspiracy theories, and love notes! Come hang out with us on Facebook. Help spread the worrrrrrrrrrrrrd about our show: rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen!

Originally aired May 15, 2021 ----- Hey hey! It's our birthday, and we're gonna have a good time. And amazingly, T.J. managed to do an entire year's worth of podcasts before finally cutting loose on his all-time favorite version of his all-time favorite album: the Capitol Records U.S. edition of Rubber Soul. Dave Dexter helps the Fab Four find their inner folksters, and, not to spoil the podcast or anything: TONY AND T.J. ENTHUSIASTICALLY APPROVE. In Part 1 of their deep dish, the guys remember how they first discovered Rubber Soul, compare and contrast the U.S. and British releases, and dig into the first few tracks. But there's so much good stuff to talk about, we'll have to finish out the album in Part 2 next week. As always, we got a little distracted along the way, making sure to cover crucial tangents like: What are our least favorite words for "excrement"? Which Buffalo reigns supreme: Buffalo Springfield, Buffalo Stance, or Dabney Coleman's early 80s sitcom Buffalo Bill? Where does Norwegian Wood sit among the all-time great pyromaniac songs? Really, we can't believe we've been at this for a whole year (or that we still haven't come up with a title for the podcast). We couldn't do it without this wonderful community of Fab Four fanatics. Thanks for coming along on this long and meandering road, and here's to another trip around the sun!   EPISODE LINKS: What do you want to hear in Year 2 of the Untitled Beatles Podcast? Shout at us on Facebook. Help other Beatlegeeks find the fun: rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. Go listen to all the great music we cover! Check out this week's Pandora playlist. Check out UBP's videos on  TikTok/YouTube/Facebook/Instagram! Like and subscribe! Please support our scrappy show. Score some merch or find us on Patreon! Drop us a review on Apple Podcasts!

“Oklahoma was never like this?” Really, Sir Paul? AGAIN with the complaining about the 1999, Hugh Jackman-led revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s first banger? Oh sure, Paul - go ahead and be all Tipper Gore-y about that opening scene where Aunt Eller is churning butter like some barnyard horndog, milking every delicate inch of that up and down churn work. And don’t get me started on how Paul handled the edits to the “Farmer & The Cowman” dance break! He (allegedly) threw the London Cast Recording CD at Heather Mills!! That's a $17.99 CD, my guy!   Who the hell knows what Macca was talking about in his 1986 semi-hit, “Press”. But we’ll be damned if it isn’t one of the best pure pop songs of the mid 80’s. Much like the album from which it came, it’s never gotten the love it’s so obviously due. Until now, as Tony & T.J. freshly (?) assess side two of “Press To Play” with open arms (#Journey) and open eyes (#Incubus). Along the way, they ask (rather intuitively, if we do say so ourselves):   🧵 Is Press To Play the “Designing Women” of McCartney’s catalog, and does that make Eddie Rayner Meshach Taylor?   🚢 Has anyone checked on El Debarge (“The Debarge”, en ingles)? Like, will he short circuit if he doesn’t finally figure out who’s holding Donna, now?   🥔 Angry Chicago Guy (He’s bleeding, but in a good way): HOW COME THEY NAMED A STREET AFTER POTATO ICON ORE IDA B. WELLS BUT YOU CAN’T FIND TATER SKINS AT DOMINICKS NO MORE?     EPISODE LINKS Check out UBP's videos on  TikTok/YouTube/Facebook/Instagram! Like and subscribe! Please support our scrappy show. Score some merch or find us on Patreon! Drop us a review on Apple Podcasts!

Forgive us, dear reader, for sounding Jaded. But most real McCartney fans will admit that Aerosmith’s 2001 LP “Just Push Play” is better than literally any solo Macca; and perhaps even better than most Beatles albums. (*Does not include “Live At The Star Club Vol. 2”) But, in turn, would there even be an Aerosmith without Macca’s 1986 offering, “Press To Play”? We’ll leave that to the rock scholars to decide. But one thing is for sure: “Press To Play” is now officially 40 years old, or, in U.S. presidential terms, at least three decades older than the girls a certain orange baboon used to regularly party with. (In fairness, it’s tough for real patriots to get too worked up about that, especially when Obama once wore a tan suit.) T.J.’s been in love with this cassette since its release the summer of 1986. Tony’s had the opposite reaction since he was contractually obligated to listen to the album twice, in 2020 and 2026; in brave service of arguably America’s Favorite Podcast (TM). This week, the Gab Two discuss whether “Press To Play” has aged well and warrants more respect in Macca's catalog. Does it deserve an Archive Collection reissue before or after “Ocean’s Kingdom”? Are there more remixes of “Press” than there are takes of “Not Guilty”? And what about the other pertinent Beatles questions you won’t hear on woke Newsmax, like: 👋💨 Is Phil Collins’ best release, “Hello…I Must Be Going [And He Never Returned]”? And for the answer, should somebody bring Phil Collins in? 💔🕺 Can Tony retire from his collection of mint, K-Tel Breakdancing LP’s? And is the greatest song about breakdancing Irene Cara’s “Breakdancing”? 💀🚫 Did the sad origins of the “MAHA” movement emanate directly from Mac & Jack’s Wonder Potion? #SaySaySay   EPISODE LINKS Check out UBP's videos on  TikTok/YouTube/Facebook/Instagram! Like and subscribe! Please support our scrappy show. Score some merch or find us on Patreon! Drop us a review on Apple Podcasts!

Listen. Do you hear that? Those are crickets. Crickets at the Marriott Suites O’Hare, abandoned site of Chicago’s Fest for Beatles Fans. Unfortunately, there are no humans at this year’s festival as it has been postponed to retool. #KitO’ReToole Some of the crickets are in ill-fitting Sgt Pepper costumes, others don obscure Beatles ephemera while wacking tambos to off-key “Yellow Submarine” singalongs, and a small number of lonely small-minded crickets are still wearing their pit-stained anti-Yoko t-shirts, repping for the original incels. Oh and look! There’s even an aphid who’s a Pete Best Look-A-Like and a corn weevil that’s dressed up like Freddy Krueger for reasons unknown. As all the bugs scramble for crumbs of pre-packaged microwaveable hoagies while waiting for “Termites from Midge Ure’s Tour Bus” to perform a medley of deep cuts from Press To Play, the Goys of Dum Dum Lame, joined by Producer Casey, are here to gab sad about this year’s absence of fab community celebration. Let’s take a few questions from the crickets: 🎤 Why does Mike Love lip sync live in concert to RFK’s rendition of “Kokomo”? 🥽 With regards to the future of the festival, will there be a VR helmet to unsee “Give My Regards To Broad Street”? 🎵 Angry Drunk Chicago Cricket: HOW KUM DA KAREEOKE KARENS WON’T LET ME SING “GIVE ANT FARMS BACK TO THE ANTISH"?? WHADDOO DEY GOT AGAINST ANTS?  MY GREAT GRAMPA WUZ HALF ANT!! Plus Producer Casey has the boys play a game and T.J. reveals how many BeatleFests he has attended in his half-century on earth. Wait. He doesn’t reveal this. Well, okay. The answer is also a number associated with a Ringo Starr #1 from “simpler times.”   EPISODE LINKS Check out UBP's videos on  TikTok/YouTube/Facebook/Instagram! Like and subscribe! Please support our scrappy show. Score some merch or find us on Patreon! Drop us a review on Apple Podcasts!

Beatle Bangers? I barely even Beatle knew’ers! Is this thing on? No, for real, is this thing on? The microphone in my hand, I mean. Is it on? Can people hear these bits or is the silence merely judgement? What if the XLR is broken? Or the DI? Maybe the audio fella’s on coke? Surely that’s possible, but what if the silence is because these “jokes” are terrible? And maybe they’re not even jokes at all, but more of a psychological crisis, thinly masquerading as “comedy”? If so, would there be more questions like: 🥩 Is Tony proud of his time as script supervisor of “The Bear”, or does he wish he was old enough to have been around professionally for a more classic show, like “One Day At A Time”? Or the reboot of “One Day At At Time”? 👆 Were The Pointer Sisters so excited to sing on Sesame Street that they did an Automatic Fire Slowhand Neutron Dance? And should the sisters be institutionalized, perhaps at the Pointer institute? 🚨 Is the discovery of R. Stevie Moore’s performance of “Pink Litmus Paper Shirt” at the 1999 Beatlefest more or less exciting than the Star Club tapes in ’77; or at least more than the Horst & Fred Fascher tunes?   EPISODE LINKS Check out UBP's videos on  TikTok/YouTube/Facebook/Instagram! Like and subscribe! Please support our scrappy show. Score some merch or find us on Patreon! Drop us a review on Apple Podcasts!