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Ep. 234 | The Beatles "Help!" (1965 Film) Part 3
Their second film is fab and gear! Untitled Peedles, Have No Fear! 2025, what a year! And our final look at âHelp!â has arrived! #WeDidntWriteNoPoetry
Tony, T.J., and producer P3Z-Casz put the Finnishing touchers on their âHelp!â deep-dish, with a side of extra kvetching, as old, sad, deranged people do. Who doesnât want to hear that? Are U a fan or not, pal? And, while weâre here, are you a fan of these questions?
đ (Angry Chicago Guy, heâs up late, hoping MeTV will show ONE MORE âHoganâs Heroesâ before sunrise:) âHow come Tony thinks he can name so many improv scenes on âThe Bear?â Does this jagbag think heâs Del Charna? (#Runaway) And how come Mike Myers never made no movie about Del that I read about in the Reader back when Borders was on Diversy and Clark and Diane ainât dead?â
đ€Šââïž Why didn't T.J. get to his âsuper importantâ, underlined note about a âshockingly differentâ Paul vocal track in the heavily edited âThe Night Beforeâ scene? The guys recorded for like six hours, what the hell?
đŽ What about your fatherâs horse?
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Ep. 233 | The Beatles "Help!" (1965 Film) Part 2
Help! I need somebody once told me the world is filled with Kaili, but some folks call her Kylie instead. (#SmashMinogue)
What does any of this have to do with the âHelp!â film? Good point, Buck O(wens); but, then again, what does anything in âHelp!â have to do with âHelp!â? I mean, the boys are skiing, theyâre fighting villains at restaurants, they legit own multiple vending machines⊠Talk about privilege! #DefundTheBeatles
60 years on, âHelp!â presents some of the most iconic scenes and songs in any Beatles-related film not named âBroad Streetâ. And gentlepeople, this week, Tony & T.J. have got the tapes on âHelp!â- specially, the original MPI VHS - and they begin to break down the Fabâs second movie. They also break down emotionally, as they ponder:
đŹ Does P3Z-CASZ represent a dystopian future, or merely a few (legal) edibles?
đŁ (Angry Chicago Guy, after a few Malorts and general sadness because he hasnât seen Diane since the series finale of âERâ): HOW COME THE LONDON HARRODS DONâT SERVE NO FRIED CHICKEN LIKE THEY DO AT THE HARRODS CHICKEN SHACK ON SOUTH WABASH? AND HOW COME THESE BEATLE BOZOS MAKE SO MANY DUMB JOKES ABOUT REGIONAL CHICKEN RESTAURANTS BUT DONâT GOT THE BALLS TO SOLVE NO BROWNS MURDERS?
đžT.J. here - real Untitled Beatle Peedles have already streamed â13 GREEN POTATOESâ, the new kick-ass album from our very own MENDOZA that just dropped, right? RIGHT? Donât make P3Z-CASZ find you! (See below for link!)
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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:
đ°đ„ WHERE'M I SUPPOSEDA GET 400 BUCKS FOR ANTHOLOGY VINYL WHEN I ALREADY SOLD MY WEDDING RING FOR A MACCA TICKET?
đ°đ„ 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?
đżđ„ 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. 231 | The Beatles "Help!" (1965 Film)
âHelp!â Itâs the second smash film, from the biggest band in the world, released when Beatlemania was still at its peak. Itâs filled with great - and in a few cases, top-tier - Beatles music. Its cast includes well known actors, and the director was an expert in maximizing the boys comedic, personable on-screen talents. It satirizes the burgeoning Bond franchise and, itâs in color! (Take that, Boxing Day 1967 UK airing of âMagical Mystery Tourâ)
And yet the question must be asked all these years later: is âHelp!â a classic? A great movie? Merely a good one? And in the grand scheme of Beatles excellence, whatâs wrong with that?
UBPâs Medved and Maltin (which oneâs which??) ask these questions, and also ponder:
â Is Poisonâs âEvery Rose Has Ken Thorneâ the most famous power ballad about the âHelp!â incidental music composer?
đż Are The Skitles Obertauernâs most famous skiing-themed band? No? Cool, go ahead and name a few more, since you seem to know so much about ski-bands from Obertauern. Weâll wait.
đŠ (Angry Chicago Guy): HOW COME MACCA DEEP CUT âZOO GANGâ DIDNâT GET NO LOVE AS THE THEME SONG TO ED ASNERâS SHORT LIVED 1987 NBC DRAMA, âTHE BRONX ZOOâ? AND HOW COME CBS DIDNâT GIVE MARTIN MULLâS âDOMESTIC LIFEâ MORE TIME TO GROW AN AUDIENCE BACK IN â85? AND HOW COME WOR SUPERSTATION OUT OF NEW YORK DONâT SHOW âDOMESTIC LIFEâ NO MORE LATE AT NIGHT AFTER MARTIN MULL DIED AND DIANE STILL AINâT HOME FROM BOWLING LEAGUE?
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Ep. 230 | All-Star Beatle Batting Orders
WHEW! What a Fest that was! This week, the gents are catching their breath. So join us in the bleachers with a cold one, as we revisit a summertime classic.
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Originally released August 13, 2022
Itâs obvious that The Beatles first love was music. But their fabbest love was for the American sport of baseball, with its electrifying foul balls, nail-biting bunts, and contemplative rain delays. And thatâs why this week, T.J. and Tony have each compiled a major league set of fab tunes to compete against one another in this All-Star Beatle Batting Order Midsommer Classic.
This Week in Untitled Beatles Baseball:
đ„ After a severe brow-beating from Cubs manager Lee Elia, is pinch drummer Jimmie Nicol getting sent down to the minors?
đź Did superstitious T.J.âs â8-Track Onlyâ fast cause him to make a crucial Sgt. Pepper fielding error?
đ Should Tony "Bullethead" Mendoza have gotten ejected for trying to doctor the âBungalow Billâ?
Plus another edition of Starâs Search!
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Ep. 229 | The Beatles Live at Essen (1966)
This week, Tony and T.J. step aside and hand their mics over to Eurotrash broadcast sensations GlĂŒcklich und Froh, recording LIVE from the Grugahalle in Essen, Mutter Deutschland. Listen along as they dig into the recently surfaced bootleg board recordings from the start of the Beatlesâ 1966 world tour.
Was it sloppy? Was it rock n roll? It sure was feelinâ dank.
While theyâre at it, the Zwei Zornzwerge wander off the autobahn and wonder:
đ„ Which Peter would you take in a fist fight: Brady or Gordon?
đ„ Which âGot To Get You Into My Lifeâ would you take in a fist fight: Cliff Bennett and the Rabble Rousers, or Blood, Sweat & Tears?
đ„ [Angry drunk Chicago guy] How come EMI still ainât released the bootleg board recordings from the St. Peterâs Wooltonâs Parish Church fete?
DANKE SCHĂN. UND MACH SCHAU BABY. But please vonât vhistle.
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Ep. 228 | A Beatlefest Preview With Skylar Moody
The 2025 Chicago Fest for Beatles Fans is coming up...like a flower...next Friday, in beautiful, mobbed up Rosemont, IL. To preview the merriment and madness (#ourhouse), the UBP welcomes #1 Beatle Stan, Fab/Gear social media influencer, and friend of the program, Skylar Moody!
Plus, Producer Casey drops by to help preview the 3rd Annual UBP F**k It We'll Do It Live Taping at The Fest! And as piano hero and fascism fighter Ben Folds says, "but wait, there's more!", like...
âłïž At which legendary Rosemont dining establishment are the UBP3 (#Cantaloop?) more likely to dine during a union-mandated Fest dinner break: Giordanos, Caddyshack, or that Hyatt bar that used to rotate but no longer does unless you've made mistakes?
đ If you can't own a physical copy of "Beatles '64", does it even exist? Do you?
đ» Will the UBP's live Tribute to Terri Hemmert be the most memorable event in Chicago media history since Geraldo opened Al Capone's vault?
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Ep. 227 | Untitled Beatles Summer News Extravaganza
When did the news become so awful?
A: 2015.
That was more of a rhetorical question, but youâre 100% correct. It was 2015. So after 10 YEARS of doom-scrolling our collective souls (#shine) into a revolting, malodorous tarpit of human despair (access to misery included for a small monthly surcharge), how can the news be worth our time?
A: When itâs SUMMER BEATLE NEWS!!! Thatâs why this week T.J. and Tony catch up on a romantic hammock and muse freely on the latest from the Land of Fab. And as they sway to the calm breezes of the Beatleverse, it rocks them to sleep #FileUnderRock, conjuring delightful afternoon visionsâŠ
đïž Settling into his fireside armchair, T.J. enjoys an aperitif of Martini & Rossi while cracking into the 26-Volume Encyclopedia of Press To Play by Luca Perasi, with foreword by Danny Zuko from Grease.
đ At a White Hen Pantry, Tony tries a new slushie flavor: Lemon Twig, which elicits an acute case of brain freeze. Channeling Sexy Sadie, he recites a MANTRA OF THE COSMOS, and hovers above a display of various Ringo reissues from the 00s. In his trancelike state, Tony pitches/pesters the clerk about selling âTom Green-flavored condomsââŠfor GOATS!
đș Itâs last call at Ratcatcherâs Tavern. There, leaning on the edge of the bar like itâs his only friend (it is), the Angry Drunk Chicago guy launches into his latest Ted Talk:
HEY IF HEâS SO SMART HOW KUM DAT MEATHEAD ROB REINERSDORF WASNâT IN DA MOVIE ABOUT MEATBALLS?? (belch) YA KNOW... (fart) DOZ MURRAY BRUTHERSSS OWE ME BIG TIME. CUZ GHOSTBUTLERS WUZ MY IDEA...
And out of nowhere, a Vaudeville cane removes him from the frameâŠ
Scroll up for the Untitled Beatles Summer News Extravaganza!!!
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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:
đ If you're a Sanford, and your son isn't in trash, are you super pissed?
đ« When did Tony become such an expert on pricey London Town neighborhoods?
đ 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 isnât just Texasâ fastest growing BBQ joint this side of that one suburban Manila Kenny Rogers Roasters. No, sir/maâam! Once upon a time, Bill Miller traded in his Texas, wet-rub BBQ stained hands to prepare something better and more culturally significant than chickân: a U.S. Beatles album!
Longtime Capitol butcher Dave Dexter was (allegedly) too busy running Nixonâs campaign to assemble a Beatles album comprised of songs left-over from the British albums âHelpâ, âRubber Soulâ, and ripped from the not yet released âRevolverâ. 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 ânewâ material was released: YesterdayâŠAnd Today. (a.k.a. âYesterday...And Todayâ 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:
đ (Angry Drunk Chicago Friend - heâs mad because none of youz bought a new shirt with his mug on it yet, theyâre available on Tee Public or the UBP website you jagbags): How come Disneyâs too woke to let me learn how to make an AI of Minnie Mouse singing âA Wank Is A Wink Your Fart Makesâ?
đ Whereâs Herb? And whereâs Herbâs beef?
đ» 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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