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

It’s 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 that’s 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:

🥁 After a severe brow-beating from Cubs manager Lee Elia, is pinch drummer Jimmie Nicol getting sent down to the minors?

🔮 Did superstitious T.J.’s “8-Track Only” fast cause him to make a crucial Sgt. Pepper fielding error?

🐅 Should Tony "Bullethead" Mendoza have gotten ejected for trying to doctor the “Bungalow Bill”?

Plus another edition of Star’s Search!

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This week, Tony and T.J. step aside and hand their mics over to Eurotrash broadcast sensations Glücklich 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 Beatles’ 1966 world tour.

Was it sloppy? Was it rock n roll? It sure was feelin’ dank.

While they’re at it, the Zwei Zornzwerge wander off the autobahn and wonder:

🥊 Which Peter would you take in a fist fight: Brady or Gordon? 🥊 Which “Got To Get You Into My Life” would you take in a fist fight: Cliff Bennett and the Rabble Rousers, or Blood, Sweat & Tears? 🥃 [Angry drunk Chicago guy] How come EMI still ain’t released the bootleg board recordings from the St. Peter’s Woolton’s Parish Church fete?

DANKE SCHÖN. UND MACH SCHAU BABY. But please von’t vhistle.

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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...

⛳️ 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?

📀 If you can't own a physical copy of "Beatles '64", does it even exist? Do you?

📻 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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