I Don't Know About That - The Beatles

Episode Date: October 3, 2023

Turns out Jim did know a lot about this, but our expert Robert Fadley (@jambandpurist) still came in strong with even more Beatle facts.

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays. Which one do you like? They're all pretty good. None of them are the weekend though, are they? Probably Friday. I don't know about that. Jim Jefferies. There you go.

Why did you, um... Oh, I'm glad you ended it early. Yeah, yeah. Did I end it early? Yeah, this is the first time Forrest has been in charge of the electronics. Yeah. His computer's still in the shop. It's done, but third.

Kelly's not with us today because she's out of town. Why did I what? You didn't start with Monday. No, because no one likes Monday. I have to have options. Saturday, Sunday. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Everyone has got opinions on those days.

Everyone's got the same opinion on Mondays. Mondays suck. No good. Mondays suck. Even if you have a Monday off, all the good restaurants are shut. It's true. I had a job where I had Tuesdays and Wednesdays off, so that was like my weekend.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Change it up. You can have a good night on a Tuesday. There's no fun to be had on a Monday. You can't fight it. That's true. The restaurants are really closed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The restaurants are closed. The Asian ones for sure night on a Tuesday. There's no fun to be had on a Monday. You can't fight it. That's true. The restaurants are really closed.

Yeah, the restaurants are closed. The Asian ones for sure, which are great. Yeah, yeah. They don't work Mondays. Nothing with a good chef. He's not working. That's his day off. Good point.

Good way. So I just want to thank whoever threw the Montreal Expos hat on that I'm obviously wearing. When you threw it on stage, I didn't pick it up when I was waving to the people after the end of the show because, you know, nutjobs throw stupid shit up there sometimes. So I try to avoid it. Could have been anthrax.

It wasn't just a hat. I've had a lot of questions about the Patreon. And I don't know if we want to... We're not doing it. Yeah, okay. But I actually want to say that on the podcast. Yeah, to. We're not doing it. Yeah, okay. But I officially want to say that, like in the podcast. Yeah, we're not going to do it. We've had, you know, sometimes it's been on, sometimes it's been off.

We've never charged anyone for listening to the Patreon. No, no, we charge people, but if it wasn't on. No, no, no. We charge people for receiving a product, but if the product wasn't there, we didn't charge people. No, no no no no no if it we we charge people for receiving a product yeah if the product wasn't there we didn't charge people but my my problem is we had so many great patreon episodes and i would have liked for the general public none of you cunts fucking paid a dollar a week to listen to it so that's it we're not doing it we're not doing it well some people did but i just wanted more people to hear those things and it's like we were going to do a Patreon for that live Titanic one,

and then I enjoyed that one so much that I really wanted just to release it. And, you know, look, I'll just keep reading ads, I guess. That's what I'll do. Yeah. Keep reading ads. So this is an official note. We might have to even put this out on Instagram because I had people, like, saying stuff, and I said, well, we haven't had a chance to announce it since.

Yeah, yeah. You know, but. We didn't really decide until like a week ago. Yeah. I got to tell you what my week was though. You two already know, but the general public. Public needs to know about what went down. So I'm in...

I did perform in Montreal. Lovely. Big, big week of gigs in Canada. Really far apart from each other. Really hard to get to. Thanks, booking agents who took no responsibility when I... Easy routing. When I asked you, like, why am I going here, here? No responsibility, none. to get to thanks thanks booking agents who took no responsibility when i easy routing when i asked

you like why am i going here here no responsibility none yeah that was an easy one to find bookings for too oh to get in between was really tough to figure that it was fucking it was road warrior shit man i was on the road each day so so we we played kingston lovely little university town i believe elon musk went to university there it's lovely little place um. I believe Elon Musk went to university there. It's a lovely little place. And we finished the gig, and then the next day I woke up at about midday, and we're on our way to the last gig in Ottawa, Ontario. And I woke up, and I felt a little bit of a twinge in me side. And I've had diverticulitis before, so I thought, oh, maybe I've got that again.

You know what I mean? Oh, it's a bit sore i've been having sesame seeds who knows and then i got in the car oh you know i've uh feeling a bit more and then like i just i was i i was killed over in pain within seconds and i assumed that my appendix it's uh it smashed and i said we have to go to the emergency room and it was just like we were in traffic and even like like oh you can't turn right on a red light no no you can you just got to do it today you know anyway so eventually we get into the emergency ward and i came in and there was several people

who were sitting in the emergency ward who had been to the gig the night before including the nurse and the doctor who i see later on so everyone had been at the bloody gig. Excellent. And I was crying, just like, oh. And because I'm not a Canadian resident, I didn't get the free health care. So they're making me sign things. I literally did sign an X on one thing, just, oh. And I couldn't sit down because that was crinkling my body. And so I was hugging a pole in the middle, just, oh. People came out, loved the show last night.

Thank you. Thank you so much. There was one person that got caught love the show and I was like thank you thank you so much there was one person that got called nobody asked you what was wrong with you well they said are you feeling pain I think so

fans of the show oh yeah if it was a busted appendix it takes like 48 hours so there was no hurry to do that you know the emergency rooms they're really going

head and heart if you're having a stroke they let you through if you have a heart condition they let you through heart get right through you condition they let you harder yeah heart get right through yeah you should have said out of pain my heart yeah it's moved to here yeah this feeling in the side they can uh they can make you comfortable right so someone came out and gave me an injection still wasn't it wasn't cutting the mustard i was still in so much pain and then eventually there

was even one person that went i think jim should go before me he looks a lot more so like like canadians god bless them thank you so much right but i said no you go first i'll wait my turn so eventually why'd you do that you were afraid they were gonna say like i don't want to happy but i was big fucking shooting myself right anyway so, so I get through and the doctor comes up. Oh, I was at the show. And then she goes, you've probably got a burst appendix. We're going to do an MRI. And they give me a shot of morphine.

By the way, morphine. It was something more powerful than morphine. It was in between morphine and fentanyl. It was something in between that. I forgot the name of it because I was wiped out doing the whole thing. But it was an opiate, right? Delighted? Whatever it was wiped out doing the whole thing. But it was an opiate, right? Dilaudid? Whatever it was.

Good one. Well done. To all those hillbillies on heroin that are fucking taking oxys all the time that I've mocked in the past, I see what you're doing. Do you report them now? Yeah. I don't support you, but I get what's happened there. I understand completely what's happened there.

Where would you rank it with Imodium? It does the job, just like Imodium does, but it's a faster acting than Imodium. Imodium might take a couple of goes before it really kicks in. I think it's better than Imodium, because let's say you had to shit yourself. You could take Imodium, but if you took a painkiller, you'd still might shit yourself but

you'd still feel good about it yeah i was i was like they they yeah so so so my my by this stage my management had found out and they'd rung the hospital because they're worried about my next show starting right so they're like we believe you have a show and i'm on so much there's morphine i'm like don't worry about it let me stay here for a week or two right and then anyway so they they go in and i still could feel pain and i go in they go you have a really large kidney stone and they go you're in much worse pain than a burst appendix like substantially more pain and they gave me two more shots of whatever the modi the morphine magic sauce. And now I'm just rolling around laughing. And they tell me there's not a lot we can do.

We can just manage your pain. It's going to pass through. Six millimeter job I had. Six millimeter rock. Yep. Sounds pretty big. You have to pass it from your kidney down to your bladder. And that cable there is like thread width.

It's one fifth of the side of your urethra. Everyone worries about the penis, right? Going down the penis. So that's the part that's like the snake and the rat, where it's just like a lump. Yeah, yeah. It's just going through, cutting your insides. You start getting blood in your urine, right?

You're trying to pass. Just being squeezed through this little tiny vessel. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And every time it moves a millimeter, you're just like this. Ah! Like that, right? Like, it was as much pain. They say it's worse than childbirth.

I know I get in trouble every time I mention something being worse than childbirth. Didn't you say it was a woman doctor? A female doctor said to me, she said this is much worse than childbirth. Another, it was either a nurse or a doctor said, I've had four children, two kidney stones. The kidney stones were worse. All right, so, you you know you've done it and if you go online people say it's worse because it's not like labor pains where it comes and it goes this is a constant you're dying right anyway so i don't remember anything from that moment on all i remember is i i did the show

it was it was a two hour that was joe in kingston no kingston was the show i did the night before what was this show we went to ottawa ottawa the show I did the night before. What was this show? We went to Ottawa. Ottawa, yeah, sorry. And we drove two hours from Kingston. I was smacked out. And all I can remember is being on stage, because it was 5,000 people in the audience,

so they had the big screens up. And every time I looked, I hadn't done my hair or anything like that. It was all matted down. I hadn't put the flakes in or anything like that. And I was just sweating profusely like this, right? And I looked like a fuck. I looked like, you know that last concert of elvis when he's singing unchained melody yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah he crushes it i i allegedly i had a good show tommy your opener tommy campbell texted me and sent me photos going jim is crushing right now and i don't know why he sent that i

probably did it i didn't know he had this kidney that I feel like came back home. I probably put more effort in because I thought, I better just put a bit of show dev showmanship into the whole thing. I, I, anyway, so just.

wait, which, okay, I've got some of the reviews here. They're all good. Back when you were drinking. Yeah. I've done some shows with you

where I'm like, I don't think you're conscious right now. Like you're all conscious, but there's like, and I've seen some shows with you where I'm like I don't think you're conscious right now like you are conscious but there's like and I've seen you perform I'm like wow okay like hats off remember all the jokes all the acting yeah blind

Jim had the entire venue laughing for the entirety of the show yeah more time two hours well I lost track of time but when we did the meet and greet I had to have a chair to sit down in between

you know I must have done a lot of it so here you go this man is passing a kidney stone and still put on one of the funniest performances I've seen to date can't recommend him wherever later on on his comic

great way to spend a Saturday night that's all they wrote it's a very fine line to walk in order to be a storyteller who is gut busting hilarious while simultaneously insulting everyone in the room and being entirely self-deprecating before two straight hours after spending the day in the hospital oh yeah yeah so so i finished off and then like when you when the stone moves to your bladder you're all right right for a bit, right? There's a small window. I had a 12-hour travel day from the moment I left my house to the moment I got from door to door because I had to change flights and then it was delayed.

And so the last hour of the flight home, the kidney stone started to move again, right? And I was back. Because you called me in between that. Yeah. And you seemed okay. Yeah, no, I was fine for 10 hours. I was fine because the kidney stone was just floating around and piercing me bladder.

It hadn't made its way to the next bit of its life, right? And I called Forrest up and I said, I don't know. I think if it starts to go on the plane. They say it's the number one cause of airplanes landing early because people think their appendix have ruptured. Kidney stones are the number one reason that planes have to emergency land

so I was just like I started getting the pain and I was just like not even making the noise I was just like this next to this Asian woman who couldn't speak a lick of English

and I was like had to go to the toilet all the time I'm sitting in the window we should swap me and you should swap. Me and you should swap. She didn't understand you. She didn't understand shit.

I kept on saying, I have to get out again. And she's like, oh, this fucking guy. I mean, luckily you knew that it was kidney stones before getting on the plane. Yeah, that's true. Because if you experienced that on the plane, then it probably would have landed early. You would have thought you were dying. So in the end, I had a bucket beside my bed. I had this doctor that kept on talking. He used to ring me up every hour and took me off the ledge.

I think I'm dying. And he's like, no, no, you're all right. You're just in the weeds right now. I had another real bad bit. And then I was laying on my side. You sounded terrible when I talked to you on your back. We had to move this podcast. Jack had to take me out to get pain meds, right?

Because I'd run out of pain meds. The Canadians give you one day's worth, right? They don't trust Americans. take me out to get uh to get to get pain meds right because i'd run out of pain meds the canadians give you one day's worth right they don't they don't trust americans yeah they don't trust you and so i had to get more pain meds and uh i i was like squatting down in the cvs we're in line he i have a photo of him just squatting in line this is a pain now this was about this is about two hours before i passed it right this is about two hours before I was fine, right? And I'm squatting in the line, and I went up, and I went, here's my insurance, and here's my license.

And the guy's like this, your medicine's going to be ready in about 20 minutes. Can he come back instead of me? And he said, I can't sit here for 20 minutes. Yeah, you could just pick it up for him. Yeah, and I said, can he come back and get it? And they said, sure. And I went, thank you.

And then I walked out of here. And then we got caught behind a really slow old couple trying to get out. Yeah, yeah, some old couple walking along. Even with a kidney stone, I walk faster than people in their 80s. I've got more of a spring in me step, right? Because I go, get out of my way. And I sort of jogged past them. Anyway, I'm laying on my side.

I'm laying on my side. And I had a bucket next to the bed like a Halloween bucket now this is a funny story because I was I was on Triple M and to add to the story I said it was a metal bucket

because because it did you wanted the sound yeah I wanted the sound I said it was like I said it was like champagne I lied I said it was a champagne bucket

because afterwards I get off and Jack was like this I don't know what to think anymore you make shit up just he's just like I didn't know you lied so much like this I can't believe He's just like, I didn't know you lied so much. Can't believe I got in your head.

I was fucking with you. It was a Halloween bucket, right? But it still made, I was laying on the side and I pissed and it made a dunk. Like I wanted like a metal bucket. Like a bullet. You want like a bullet in a metal thing, yeah. Yeah, you want it like a spittoon. Yeah, yeah.

Anyway, so it hit the side of the plastic bucket and went, like that, like in the thing. And then the doctor called me up and he's like, hey, how are you feeling? I said, actually, I've been feeling really bad. You got the extra payments? Yeah, I got the extra payments. And then I could see it.

I just reached into the bucket of piss and I just pulled it out. I was like, ah, I've got it. You felt better. And then it came out in three sections. Yeah, nice. Came out in three sections yeah came out in three sections anyway I got some gigs to promote

yeah this week Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks baby California come and see me Thousand Oaks is pretty much all sold out

that one's pretty much all sold out Oakland October 6th Oakland is not sold out come and see me in Oakland I'm flying up and Anaheim

two shows in Anaheim on October 7th early show sold out late show has tickets okay then the two weeks after on October 7th. Early shows sold out. Late show has tickets. Okay. Then the two weeks after that, October 19th, Cincinnati, Ohio. I have no idea how that's going. October 20th, Chicago and October 21st.

Chicago and New York. First show sold out. Second show, still tickets available. They added shows. Then that's October 20th and 21st at the Chicago Theater yeah October 24th Tel Aviv gonna go do that gig

Tel Aviv there's like it's like a 5,000 seat venue there's like 800 tickets left but they'll go pretty quick Galway Ireland Galway Comedy Festival October 25th and 26th

there's three gigs there two of them I believe are sold out and they added another show and that show's got plenty of tickets but they'll go quick and they need to add it to your website

but there's two shows in New York on November 3rd and November 2nd if you click on tickets from November 3rd it'll take you November 2nd

but it'll probably be added on there by the time yeah yeah yeah we'll get that on there so and a bunch of other dates Austin, Dallas Austin, Dallas

Tulsa they're all miles away we don't have to sell those tickets D.C. Tyson's Virginia which is basically Washington D.C.

that's where the chicken comes from yeah and IDCAP podcast on Instagram follow us on there follow us on there we'll put clips on there in DC. That's where the chicken comes from. Yeah. And IDCat Podcast on Instagram. Follow us on there. We'll put clips on there. You can find out about

if we have a live podcast or any other announcements. I have a photo of the stone. I might actually bring the stone in for one of the things. I've only got a third of the stone. But there's a doctor picking it up tomorrow to take it to check it out. I have to drop it off to check it out to see if uh what's giving me kidney stones but i really want it back

i'd like to put a little jar yeah like a necklace out of it or something something make some jewelry for my wife yeah yeah i mean i you know because a ring we just had our third year wedding anniversary yeah stone i think that's third year you know what happens rock you know what happens right i know what happens, right? Look, I don't keep my wife secret. If you watch my stand-up, I talk about it constantly. You don't keep her secret. She's not locked in a basement. No, no, no.

She exists. We talk about her all the time on the podcast. And I love my wife more than anything. But I'm always hesitant to post pictures of her because whenever I post a picture, you all shit on me. Everyone shits on me. Oh, out there, yeah. The general public just goes, your wife's beautiful, you're a troll.

Right? That's the general gist of the whole thing. And my wife loves it. She's just sitting there. But it's also, my wife's 32, right? She's not 20. She's 32. She looks young for 32, mind you.

But it's like I get told, like, I'm a pedophile because my wife's young looking or something what do i look like a fucking burn victim what's wrong with me i'm okay she looks young she looks younger than her age she looks younger than her age but but it's it's uh oh she's punching above her he's punching above his weight and then they just start getting outright mean about it. They just start going, she's going to leave you and take half your money. That's another fun one. She signed a piece of paper. Or she's just with you because you have money.

All these things. What a fucking cunty thing to say. I'd love to be in that situation. That sounds good. Look, you don't want it the other way around. So I'm complaining about having a hot wife. Right. So I'll take it back a step. I'm complaining about having a hot wife, right? Yeah. Right, so I'll take it back a step. I am complaining about having a hot wife.

I would love to be in that situation. Yeah, because this is the whole thing. You don't want people- You could be doing better with that. The amount of money you have- Yeah, yeah, yeah. You should be crushing it. Yeah, you don't want to see the two of us next to each other

and people going, eh, that tracks. Oh, jeez. No, you don't want that. I thought you were doing better than that. Yeah, you don't want that. I'm in a theater. I thought it was- Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what? thought you were doing better than that you know what that's i'm in a theater i thought it was yeah you know you know what you guys are meant for each other you know what i admire you and your love of personality so anyways um idcap podcast instagram jimjeffries.com for all tour dates oh uh listen to my podcast too please the mermen podcast we

just did a tour through florida we did our first live podcast went awesome got a lot of new listeners and stuff so the Mermen podcast with me and Dave Williamson and 4shaw.net is my website

all my dates and stuff I got a bunch of dates with Jim and then my own dates in San Diego and Orlando recording an album anyways let's get to our guest

alright please welcome our guest Robert Fadley G'day, Robert. Now it's time to play. Yes, no. Good work, Forrest. Yes, no.

Solid. Yes, no. Judging a book by its cover. All right. Okay. So, well, we know that's not your studio. I was about to say that you're some expert in guitars or a session musician. Do you work in the music industry?

Absolutely. Yes, I do. All right. Are you in a band? I am in a band, yeah. You look familiar. Should I know? That's the lead singer of Maroon 5.

No, it's not the lead singer of Maroon 5. I know that guy. I couldn't remember his name. Adam Levine. Even I know Adam Levine. I know, but I couldn't remember his name. Adam Levine. Even I know Adam Levine. I know, but I couldn't remember his name. All right. So is our topic music-based?

Yes, it is. It is. Okay. Is it about a very famous band? Are we going to talk about a very famous band? Yeah, I already said you're going to like this topic. It's the Beatles! Yeah, it's the Beatles.

Yay! I'm excited. I kind of said, Jim, you're going to like our topic, you're going to be interested in whatever, and as soon as you said music, I'm like, you're probably going to get it now. I like the Beatles. I gave a little bit too much of a thing.

Robert Fadley is a music historian and journalist from Harrisonburg, Virginia. He has a degree. That's after George Harrison. That's right. I'm not sure, but... Yeah, it is. Yeah Harrisonburg, Virginia. He has a degree. That's after George Harrison. That's right. I'm not sure, but. Yeah, it is. Yeah, okay, cool. He has a degree from James Madison University and has been to over 1,600 concerts

and festivals and is a full-time musician performing solo and with his band Love Dog. That's D-A-W-G. You can find him on TikTok at JamBandPurist or his website, JamBambandpurist.com tell us a little bit more about yourself robert absolutely yeah i fell in love with music at an early age and the beatles was absolutely you know one of my favorite bands so i've dived in head

first and from there everything 60s 70s i just love it and um i've seen well over 1600 concerts and uh i've seen this band widespread panic 98 times that's the jam band purist that's right yeah that's that part but it also i mean to say that the beatles weren't a jam band i'm not they were a jam band they jammed together you could see it you can watch it on tape yeah oh okay all right i wouldn't doubt we should ask that as a question. You actually let it be. Oh, the Get Back documentary. I haven't seen it. They pulled it off at Disney+. All the stuff they

did on Amazon. Why did they pull it off at Disney+. I have no idea. It's their series. I don't know how it's going. Are they going to try to sell it on Blu-ray or something like that? Do you still have Blu-rays? Yeah, I do. Alright, Robert. I'm going to ask Jim a series of questions about the Beatles and when he's done answering them, you're going to grade them on his accuracy, 0 through 10. Kelly's not here, I'm going to ask Jim a series of questions about the Beatles, and when he's done answering them, you're going to grade them on his accuracy, zero through ten.

Kelly's not here. I'll grade them on confidence. Okay. I'll grade them on et cetera. We'll add those all together. I didn't put categories in there. Zero through ten, the Eftels. 11 through 20, the Seedles.

And 21 through 30, the Beatles. All right. Okay. I see the pattern. I was on the fly. I just did it there. Feetles. Feetles. 11 through 20 The Seedles And 21 through 30 The Beatles Alright Okay I see the power I was on the fly I just did it there Fetals Fetals

Fetals Fetals Alcohol syndrome And Seedles And Beatles Alright Okay Great

Worst one ever Some of these I think some of these you'll get And I think we had some harder ones The thing is I'm a fan But I don't know if I'm an historian of the band But give me a go Okay Who are the Beatles? Give us a brief description

of the members and how they got started. Brief. The Beatles are John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. They are four lads from Liverpool who started out in a band where they had a different drummer called Pete Best and then about 1963 they swapped over to Ringo Starr. Do you know the original band name? The Quarrymen would have been the original band name by John Lennon, but that was never really one that Paul or anything was in. They were the Beatles pretty quickly after that.

They had another guy, Stu Sutcliffe, in the band for a brief while who died of a brain. Stu Sutcliffe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was played by, he was a movie called Backbeat, and he was played by Stephen Dorff And he died of a brain hemorrhage He was like a good looking fella

Alright, what are key milestones and events in the Beatles career That contributed to the rise to global fame in the 1960s? Well, Beatlemania You want to know what happened to the rise? Key milestones, like events Okay, so your big events would be When Ringo Starr moved over from Raw Story and the Hurricanes, and then they would have –

okay, so they have their first album, first singles, Love Me Do would be a big event. It was when they're meeting George Martin, the producer. Brian Epstein coming down to see him at the Cavern would have been a big moment. And then the biggest moment of all was the Ed Sullivan show where they sang

I Wanna Hold Your Hand and that would have been like your biggest sort of that's when the world but before that they were being played at Nauseam on the radio and trying to get into that show

was very difficult what about their evolution from early rock and roll sound to their more experimental psychedelic phases? Oh, you're talking about like... That's another question. Drugs, man.

Drugs. Are you sure? So drugs and a little bit of Indian culture helped that along as well. And, you know, Ravi Shankar bringing the sitar in and all that type of stuff would have made it a bit more. But drugs was your main. See, they'll go on about Lucy in the Skyward Diamond.

Lucy in the Skyward Diamond was actually just my son, Julian, just brought in a painting. I thought, what was that? And I thought that was a beautiful painting. It was Lucy in the Skyward Diamond. Get the fuck out of here, John. It's LSD and you know it is. If you watch the bloody film clip,

they've got brains with bloody rainbows. And right, even Paul McCartney now, oh no, it didn't mean anything to do with LSD you know get the fuck out of here that's disappointing

if it's not yeah yeah of course it is I agree 100% yeah the jam band guy yeah so so there was

drugs man and also George Martin you mentioned oh you want to say something else yeah with George Martin and all that type of

yeah like what was his role what role as a producer did he play okay so George Martin before you mentioned. Oh, you want to say something else? Yeah, with George Martin and all that type of- Yeah, like what was his role as a producer? Did he play- Okay, so George Martin before that sort of did big band type of music, but he also- This is where it comes back to comedy, right? George Martin produced The Goons. Now, The Goon Show, which Harry Seacombe, Peter Sellers,

and Spike Milligan were your main goons, right, was the number one comedy show that Prince Charles was obsessed with the goon. But incidentally, John Lennon was obsessed with, he was a big comedy fan, was obsessed with the goons. And because he did that, John wanted to sort of hang out with the goons a little bit. So that helped. George Martin producing comedy helped. Was it that show that caused a person to have a heart attack while they were laughing so hard? And that's been credited as the one time

someone died after? Maybe pop. My parents always went on. When I got into comedy, that was the whole thing. You should listen to some goon albums. Oh, the bloody goons. Never heard of the goons. My parents had their five. Peter Sellers was in it? Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Seacombe.

Harry Seacombe was no more as a singer. It was a radio show. What are some recurring themes in the Beatles' lyrics? There's always, it's always like, he loves you, she loves you, I want to, you want to. Love is everywhere. Love is all you need. Love me do.

Love, love, love, love, love. You think they had like one hate song you know in there no you know they they well after after they broke up they had some hateful music going on to each other that song fuck you yeah yeah yeah they had some hateful tunes going on afterwards yeah okay i'm gonna re say this question like what country yeah hamburg i think is what you're about to say no what country was influential in the to the beatles music america now in shaping their later music let's say india yeah there you go okay we'll see so so part of the privilege of growing up in liverpool and even if you go to even if you go to liver now, that's where the best cocaine is in the

UK. Noted. Because that's where the harbour is and that's where all the shipping... Let me note it. You don't do cocaine. That's where all the shipping containers came in. But also, music wasn't like what it's like now where you just go online and you learn about a band.

The sailors had to bring in albums and that's why they were... The Beatles were getting the rock and roll music from America a little bit sooner than the folks on the... You all know all the answers so far. I've watched that big documentary on the Beatles. Which Beatle lost his virginity in front of the other bandmates? What? I don't know this for sure,

but it would have to be George Harrison because George Harrison was 17 in the band when they were living in Hamburg, and that was like Red Light District where there was all like hookers and strippers and stuff. So I reckon it was probably he chucked one up someone in a dodgy little closet room in Hamburg. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that's what's happened.

It wouldn't have been Ringo. Ringo had already plowed a few women by then. And John had already lost his virginity. Which album is considered their magnum opus featuring groundbreaking compositions and production techniques? Sgt. Pepper would be the one that people regard. But really, the music started to change around Rubber Soul and then Revolver. Everyone says Revolver's the best album,

but Rubber Soul's where it all sort of begins and shifts which beatle song is known for its innovative use of backward masking and spark controversy over alleged hidden messages uh uh number nine number nine number nine but also tomorrow never knows um is like the same draw like indian what is the significance of the paul is dead conspiracy theory and the clues fans believed to have found in the Beatles? What do you mean? Significance? So on Sgt. Pepper, there's a lot of things where there's a left-handed bass reef and they're all looking sad and then they're pointing at a lyric

and then they're all facing forward and Paul's facing at a different... But what was the conspiracy? Allegedly what happened when they left the recording studio, Paul had a car accident in the rain driving back from Abbey Road and he died. And then they seemed to get this other guy, Billy Shears, who was a Paul McCartney lookalike, who turns out can also play instruments

and write cracking songs for another 50 years. So that worked out all right, didn't it? Yeah. I don't know. I love the Beatles and I listen to them a lot, but I don't know any of that stuff. write cracking songs for another 50 years so that was that was worked out all right didn't it yeah i don't know i love the beatles and i listen to them a lot but i don't know any of this stuff i know billy shears from the songs i didn't know that's what that was until if that's correct that's the that's the conspiracy which beetle album was recorded at the same time as the white album but never released as originally intended um i um never that would have been that would have been the one with hey jude on it and it's the one with a sort of standing uh okay you got to get one wrong eventually yeah or or or or or it would be let it well let it be was let it be was the last album released, but Abbey Road was the last album recorded.

There's a question here that I might even ask the part in parentheses instead because it's like, what Beatles song features a complex time signature is considered one of the first examples of progressive rock and mainstream music. It was banned by the BBC for its drug references and later became an anthem of the counterculture movement. First example of progressive rock,

banned by BBC for its drug references, and later became an anthem of... I'll say Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds in. Lucy in the Sky, okay. What event in the Beatles' history led to the famous Rooftop concert, and where was it held? What song did they play?

It was held in London. Well, they played lots of music in the concert. They show it at the beginning of that thing. But Get Back was the main sort of song they sang. And Don't Let Me Down seemed to be churned out over and over again. Where was it? Like, what led to them doing this concert? They wanted to do a final concert.

They hadn't played live together out of the studio for a very long time. They gave up touring because of, in America, like the Ku Klux Klan were going to fucking kill them. Really? Yeah, they said going to fucking kill them. Really? Yeah, they said they were bigger than Jesus. John said he was bigger than Jesus. And back then, people got worked up by things like that. Like me, I say that all the time.

I say it right now, bigger than Jesus. Let's try to get some press. Bigger than Jesus. That's about it. That's about it. Oh! Jesus. First thing he says. Sniper. I'm fatter than Jesus, that's about it. That, oh! Oi, Jesus.

Hell, I'm not going to tell these experts. I'm a sniper. That was the next question. What is the story behind the Beatles covers? I want to hope I'm fatter than Jesus. Well, at the end, for sure. Yeah, I never fucking walked up a hill with a big cross on me. What is the story between bigger than Jesus? That is the next question.

He said that at that time they were bigger than Jesus? That is the next question. He said that at that time they were bigger than Jesus and like to kids there was more people buying Beatles albums and going to see Beatles concerts than were going to church and he just said it

as a matter of fact type of thing in an interview and as with interviews now you get interviewed and all interviewers are trying to do is trying to catch you out

to say something that will make them look fucking good. That's journalism. So we're just clickbaiting him, man. What is the thing? You ever heard of that? Relating to the Beatles. The thing.

The thing. I like to call it Yoko. That's the proper name, right? No, there's something called the thing that relates to the beatles oh i don't know okay what is the origin of the name eleanor rigby um okay there there's i okay the church where paul met john when the quarry men were playing i believe and they they say that they didn't see this, but I believe there's a tombstone that says Eleanor Rigby

on it. And I know that church. When you're in Liverpool, you drive past, you can see it all the time. It's very visible wherever you are. Who is considered the fifth Beatle? George Martin or the lad who played, and I've forgotten his fucking name. You see him in Get Back, he played keyboards, the black guy.

I've forgotten his name. you see him and get back he played keyboards the black guy I've forgotten his name I know his name I don't know why that what this question is supposed to mean I remember we have an error what did a Beatles concert smell like we cigarettes and teenage girls alcohol like like you know I mean like it would be screaming and piss as people would fucking lose the control here's a fun one for you. So the Beatles were signed to play Australia before they got famous and they honoured the concerts. So after they did America, the next bit of their tour was going down under to do some shows in these janky little venues in Australia.

Like this is before they figured out they could do Shea Stadium and arenas and stuff like that, right? And so they came down, and I believe Ringo was having his tonsils out and they had this bloke figured out they could do Shea Stadium and arenas and stuff like that right and so they came down I believe Ringo was having his tonsils out and they had this bloke who was going to play the drums and he just couldn't grow the hair out in time and he's giving it a go he's combed it forward but he's not quite quite there but they went to Australia so there's all this sort of it's long

fucking flight now but it was even longer back then I'm sure. And the next thing they did after America was tour Australia. Couple more questions. Who introduced the Beatles to their first experience with LSD and or marijuana? LSD, a dentist called Dr. Roberts, who they have a song called Dr. Roberts. Okay. Yeah. Marijuana, same person a song called Dr. Roberts. Okay. Yeah. Marijuana, same person. Marijuana, I don't know.

They were doing marijuana long before they were doing it. They were doing marijuana way, like, back in 63 and 64. Okay. So I don't know. They just tried to keep the cocaine away from Ringo because, you know, big nose and all. Here's a last general question. What challenges and tensions did the Beatles face as a band,

both creatively and personally, leading up to their eventual breakup? What caused the breakup? Okay, well, so if you watch, like, Get Back, there's a moment where George quits. And Paul, I believe, was probably trying to keep everything together and he was trying to keep it like he's a real businessman. He was trying to produce a song, do a thing, bring out a song a day. John was coming in with these half-assed sort of songs

that he hadn't really finished. George was writing these entire great big songs that they weren't paying attention to. And that's why his next album, My Sweet Lord, All Things Must Pass, is the album, is filled with bangers, man. Yeah.

That album is filled with bangers because it's all the stuff that the Beatles were just like, eh, eh. Yeah. What's that song? What is that song? That's awesome. Will me what is my life?

What's that one? I don't know what it's called. Who am I without your love? That one. Robert. It's what is my life? What is my life? Thank you.

There you go. There you go. I don't want to interrupt. Oh, yeah. You can't interrupt. Yeah. You know, we're done, I think. We're done.

We're done, right? We did it right. How did Jim do in his knowledge of the Beatles? Year through 10, 10's the best. I got to give him a 10. I don't even think he knew me. Oh, yeah. Is he the expert?

Geez. No, I think you have some information. I mean, the thing is the only thing that you didn't get right. But I still give you a 10. Oh, thanks, man. How do you do on confidence? Yeah, 10. That was...

10. He knows this. Yeah, I'll give you 10. 30. Beatles. Nice. Top score. This is even better than Star Wars.

All right. Ken bomb you, man. Who are the Beatles give us a brief description of the members and how they got started you know Jim said all their names that the quarry men was original band but maybe you can tell us some more details Robert absolutely yeah they started out as the quarry men and they had like 20 members that would come in and out of it and they also had became the silver beatles with the b e e t like the real beatles and then the silver beetles with b e a t l e s and then finally they landed on the beatles but uh like he said george paul ringo and john all make up the the main of it. But they did have a lot of members, like Pete Best.

He said the drummer Pete Best. And I remember the other guys, he had a brain hemorrhage one year after leaving the Beatles, going back to school. That'll happen to you. But he wasn't very good, Stu Sutcliffe. Paul McCartney, he was playing the bass, and Paul McCartney used to unplug his bass, and he'd be up there just thinking he was going for it.

Key milestones and events in the Beatles' career that contributed to the rise to global fame. Jim mentioned Ed Sullivan. You mentioned a lot of stuff, but what would you say are some of the key milestones, Robert?

Absolutely. Ed Sullivan's the number one. It's like, where were you when the Beatles played Ed Sullivan and where were you when we landed on the moon, basically. It's like the two biggest things

in TV history. That was important for you to know this. Well, there's a fun fact. I don't know if this is urban legend or whatever, but I've heard George say it in interviews. That moment the Beatles were on television was the lowest amount of crime in America ever. Because everyone was watching,

or probably because everyone was fucking home, so no one's going to rob your house because everyone's home. You know what I mean? Yeah. But the whole world stopped just to watch it yeah um yeah that's the main milestone when they get the beetle mania goes crazy after that and you know with them experimenting with drugs and moving forward with their career and their music really changes and

becomes psychedelic and and uh that's really important to culture and I honestly could say that the 1960s hippie movement probably would not have happened without the Beatles there yeah because I've heard people say in the past and by the way Ed Sullivan show was what year that they were on 1963 64

point off 29 points I've heard people say that before that like i know some people that like they say like ah beatles are okay um which i don't know how you can say i hate those fuck and they say if they didn't exist somebody would have made the music anyways and i'm like i don't know no no no these people who just like oh the beatles suck fucking beatles suck and it's like okay and you go well what about this song what about oh that song's good this song's for a band you think sucks you like 20 of their fucking songs and then i go what's your favorite band they'll name some kinks or whatever or something and then

they'll be unnamed five fucking songs and so the band you hate you know 20 and the band you love you know five get the fuck they're probably influenced by them but yeah so you're you're agreeing because that's kind of what you're saying, Robert. Like, obviously no one's going to recreate it had to be from these guys. No, those are hipsters saying that. They're just like, oh, whatever. I hate everything.

Have you ever done the tour, the Magical Mystery Bus tour around Liverpool? I have not been to Liverpool, unfortunately. It's a banger. Look, I've taken several different girlfriends over the years that aren't even that excited, but I still take them. And you go down Penny Lane, and when you're in Penny Lane, you can see there's the barbershop, there's the fire station,

all the things that are mentioned, where the lady was selling poppies from her thing and all this type of stuff. It's all there. The song's all there. Strawberry Fields is like a gate, you know, just a red gate that looks out into an orphanage where you can look at Strawberry Fields. It was an orphanage backed up under John's property.

But this whole idea that they've been working class sort of lads, you know, from Liverpool, you know, it's like they were not super poor by Liverpool standards. They came from fairly nice families and all that type of stuff. That's correct. You're saying, Robert? Yeah, that's absolutely correct. They came from, especially John.

He was the one who thought he was like a street urchin or something, but he was not at all. Yeah, that house now, they could never sell it. I think they made it into a museum. They couldn't sell it because just everyone's standing at the front of it taking photos all the time And it's just a normal little house And all the houses on the street

Fucking look like that house It's like the Grateful Dead house in San Francisco There's all these hippies outside taking photos There was the bloke who bought the house And he lived in it for years And he was sick of people taking dirt from his fucking garden And it turned out that he Used John's room as a fucking storage room

So it still had All these years later It turned out that he used John's room as a fucking storage room. And so it still had all these years later, you know, 30 years later when he sells it, it still had posters of Bridget Bardot on the fucking wall. He said at the beginning of this podcast, you don't know a lot about the Beatles. That was what you said. Like no crazy shit. He was being humble.

Yeah, I'm trying to be sweet. But if you go on this tour, if you go on this tour, it's fucking, it's a trip, man. You should have asked your harder questions. It's worth the day out, man, that tour. Do you want to know why? Because Strawberry Fields, he went and played with all the kids and all that type of stuff.

And his auntie used to come home and his auntie used to go, you're getting in a lot of trouble. And she'd go, can you get hung for it? Because there's still corporal punishment in britain and she said no and then there's nothing to get hung about um yeah i mean the the whole thing for like who's the greatest rock and roll band i mean if you look it up on the google it says the beatles so i don't know if that's right or not but yeah but it is my valgus says it. How can you, like, okay, so the pure. Influential.

No, but just the pure workload. So they were famous really for six years. For six years they were in the public eye, right? Before they were playing for years before that. And in that six years, what did we get, like, 11 or 12 albums or some shit? 13. 13, thank you. See, I don't know everything, right?

So you get all these albums That just keep churning out Churning out I like Oasis And I was happy If they got me an album In five years I was over the fucking moon Led Zeppelin put out a lot of albums

They had a lot of hits The only person who comes close Is Taylor Swift I'm not a fan But that girl seems to churn it out For quantity She seems to bring out an album Every fucking six months

I see that girl She's just redoing her own albums. Yeah, good on her. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, they release an album every month. Do they? They release, listen, 50 albums in 10 years or something like that. That's an Australian band, right? Are they good?

I don't know. You've never heard King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard? Yeah, it's an Australian band. No, I don't know. They're a jam band, right? Or they're classified as that? They'd go all over the place, everything. I think there's a documentary coming out about them or something.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Yeah. Check them out. Yeah. They have a following. They have a very big following. I think they play the bowl here. Yeah.

Oh, wow. You don't know about Jim. I don't know. I don't know about that. Good thing there was not a podcast on the King Gizzard Wizard. Yeah, you got a topic. We're going to have you back on, Robert, about the King Gizzard Wizard. I don't know i don't know about that good thing we were just on a podcast on the yeah you got a topic we're gonna have you back on robert about the king i don't know what it is he's gonna get a zero on that one i'll say australia okay they play music you say okay um is there any other milestones besides that sullivan show we should uh or oh ed sullivan

show and just when they released all their albums i mean every album was almost critically acclaimed i mean so i'll tell you what's a cool thing to do the n oh sorry the nm When they released all their albums, I mean, every album was almost critically acclaimed. I mean, so. I'll tell you what's a cool thing to do. Oh, sorry. The NME magazine, which was around, you know, in the 60s, and this is like the magazine where Elton John put an advert in the back to meet Bernie Tolpin, like looking for lyricists, you know. It's like that was the music rag in Britain.

They, on I think the 50th anniversary of the Beatles, they released all their original reviews of all the Beatles albums and then they gave reviews now in hindsight and it just shows you everything you need to know about reviewers and how cunty they can be. Because the last three albums, when the Beatles weren't the hip band anymore we're just like oh let it be this is complete not a trot oh let it be this song will never fucking do anything it was just shitting on him shitting on him shitting on him and now like yeah 50 years

later they're like yeah it's good song that yeah we kind of messed up music journalism has changed so much like I I still do music journalism but i'm still waiting for that call from rolling stones because i like to talk a lot of shit about music and if i don't like you i'm going to tell you that and that's just not how it is anymore at all oh what do they do now puff pieces oh i love it i love that that was great oh positive press releases yeah you kind of have to have the people that say they don't like it otherwise what's up yeah pitchfork does it no but online does that anyway but it was no but it was just look they're they're reviewing fucking the wide album and saying it's shit you know what i mean like it it was just potentious teenagers getting upset by 30 year old men um the musical evolution of the beatles from the

early rock and roll sound to the more experimental and psychedelic phases. Drugs. That's the answer. Drugs. It's a little more complicated than that, but that definitely is part of the issue there. But they were first they were into the 50s music, American rock and roll, blues, stuff like that. So they're really influenced like that. So they were like teddies.

blues stuff like that so they were really influenced like that so they were like teddies so they wore like leather jackets and they put their hair back like elvis and they smoked cigarettes on stage and they cussed on stage there were fights all over the place and stabbings at their shows even um so they were kind of a wild bunch until brian epstein got a hold of them and i guess talked him into to playing the part yeah they all had to go down to get tailored suits. Yeah. Paul was all for it, but I don't know if the rest of the band's been. And we can jump ahead here because we were talking about drugs. So who introduced him to LSD?

Was it this dentist that jumps out? Yeah, it was actually a dentist, but his name is John Riley. And Paul and George took their significant others to have coffee with him, and he dosed them, actually, and didn't even tell them. You could do that back then. Thank John Riley for the 1960s movement, counterculture movement,

because if those two wouldn't have taken that asset right then, it would have never happened like it did. Were they mad at him, or were they like, wow, thanks a lot, we didn't know we were missing out yeah they were like upset at first but then they shared it with the rest of the band too so well my teeth don't hurt anymore you should have seen what this fucking lizard do take a sip of this smell this i've been dosed before so i get it it sucks yeah marijuana is who is that who introduced them i thought timothy leary introduced me i'll see what i got i don't know any of this stuff. So yeah. Okay.

God, sorry. Go ahead, Jim, if you want. No, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Bob Dylan actually smoked a joint with all of them in like 64. After a concert. Hey, hey.

That's why his voice sounded like that. There's also this other, you can watch it on YouTube. It's John and Bob Dylan and they meet up and they can't even talk to each other because they're so high on heroin. It's crazy. It's a crazy video. They're staring at each other. Trying to pass a kidney thing.

Drooling. Yeah, I heard you had a kidney. Yeah, yes, yes. It was unpleasant. Yeah. I was on a lot of heroin. I couldn't have talked to Bob Dylan, but I did a show. Wow.

You could talk to 5,000 people or whatever it was. I don't remember the one bit of the show. I don't remember. Yeah, the beginning of the show, we talked about it, Robert. He did a show on a bunch of heroin, got on a plane and got back here, and then we thought it was good, and he was in more pain. I passed it. Thank goodness, man.

Thank goodness. I know that pain. Have you done it? Once it's it's back in its hell how big was yours very small little small one oh you know i had a six millimeter sounds like a boy true um george martin his produce his role as a producer in the Beatles recording process and development of sound Jim started talking about the Goons comedy show I didn't know much about that honestly but

George Martin came in and changed their sound completely and they were doing new types of recording processes they had like miles of tape they had to stitch together to make these freaking songs they spent 700 hours on Strawberry Fields miles of tape they had to stitch together to make these freaking songs they spent 700 hours on uh strawberry fields i mean so george martin was there with them through the whole thing

yeah yeah yeah and then and he never took drugs or anything but he was right there producing like the psychedelic sound really he's the one like maybe he was just um a a tool that they were using but it felt like he was the one pushing it forward. And he never took anything. And the boys wouldn't do it in front of him either because they felt like... Oh, we don't upset Dad. They were trying to be respectful.

Yeah, yeah. They never did joints or anything like that. Well, what's his name from the Beach Boys? Did he do drugs? Oh, yeah. Brian Wilson? Yeah. Oh, absolutely.

He's completely nutso. Yeah, yeah. i thought i was going to use that as a comparison but forget it i was gonna be like george martin didn't frank zappa is your closest non-drug user actually drugs no frank zappa he said he didn't he never touched drugs but it seems like yeah i've been to his house man there's fireman poles to get downstairs. There's a tree in the middle of the fucking house, man. He was out there.

He didn't need drugs. Does Lady Gaga own that now? Oh, I don't know. I think she does. This was over a decade ago. I went there for dinner for something. I'm also a big Frank Zappa fan. So Frank Zappa invited John and Yoko came along to play with him in New York.

And you can see the video of it. And they're playing and Yoko gets on the mic and is just like, and Zappa's like, cut her off. And she goes to the next mic, cut her off. And they actually had someone go into Zappa's vault and steal the tape. And John Lennon released that as his own tape. Oh, wow.

Yeah, what is that shit she did? Have you ever seen that Chuck Berry clip too? Look, she wasn't good, man. Have you seen the Chuck Berry clip? Yeah, but that's the thing is when she's doing that, it's like,

look, you ever had a girlfriend who you're crazy into and at parties you sometimes have to roll your eyes and go, eh, but... Yeah yeah but eventually you gotta get in a fight with her and be like

you can't keep doing this you're embarrassing me in front of my idols like wasn't he like wasn't wasn't Chuck Berry like his idol well look no

there's look I can't speak to this but there's a lot of talk that John used to slap women around a bit so who knows but I can't he even said that

in his book like one of his things he used to beat women and he was very bad to women is what he said it sounded really bad i just threw a joke out there and no one asked that i said not enough hit him in the head sorry robert what was that uh julian lennon his, is actually deaf in one ear because he bashed him in the head. Oof. Yeah. Okay. That leads into our next question.

Not a great guy. Great music. Well, he's still a flawed character. I was at a club called Space in Miami. It's a famous nightclub. Nice, dude. He used to be a podium dancer. Just for one season but the uh the uh this guy

danny tenaglia was a dj there and he was djing for like eight or nine hours and it's like this house music and whatever and and my friend was a photographer so he was in the booth taking pictures and then here comes yoko ono at like three in the morning sure gets into the booth with danny and it's yoko ono so she can do whatever she, you know, she can just open it. And literally got in there and everyone's like on lots of drugs. It's like, it's 2 or 3 in the morning and it's like, and then she's like, and everyone's like, what the fuck?

Like, this is not, and he's just the DJ, Danny's just in there like, yeah, this is great. Everyone has to pretend this is great. And it's like, no. Well, that's another thing. The NME did a uh review of double fantasy which is the last album before john died which was actually the one that got autographed by chapman and uh and one half of the album is john lennon the other half of the album

is yoko owner and they were like this the john lennon stuff is just saccharine and this and the real arts coming from yoko on this one no one knows one of those fucking yoko songs no one no one sits down and goes whack me on a yoko i want to i want to sit here and just relax a bit ah yeah anyways um so what are some recurring themes in the beatles lyrics how do these themes evolve throughout their career? He loves you, she loves you, love me do, you love me, love you. Love is definitely a big part of their music, but also it becomes different in the later 60s. It becomes more about revolution, and there are more cynical songs, obviously,

and as their development grows, they get a little bit wider in what they're talking about. But mostly it is about love. Holding hands. I can't get over how many looks they had, right? So I've been my first comedy special of any note would be 15 years ago. Before that, I was just a club going. So the last 15 years, you you know there's been a little

era where i wore suits uh there's been some yeah on the jim jeffrey show i've had a couple of about the same haircut right yeah yeah like in six years these cunts went from full fucking beards, caftans, suits to caftans, and then like fucking hippie stuff to handlebar mustaches. They just got a lot done. They got a lot done. And then every time you see them in the documentary,

it's like, the Beatles over. Why haven't you recorded something for a while? We're going to record a song right now. We're going to go into the studio. We've had some time off. Why have you had time off for?

And it's like, fucking hell, how fast? Was it because you were all dying of lung cancer in the 60s is that what happened everyone had to do something quicker because you might be dead soon it feels like we're slower now yeah i wish they would have had a zz top phase oh john had a big ass beard there was that one the guitars yeah you look like the the ballad of John and Yoko, that like where he's wearing the white suit where he's got that big fucking beard.

He was something else. I've stayed in the John and Yoko suite in the Amsterdam Hilton. And there's a comedy club in the basement of the Amsterdam Hilton. And so they sort of, they give you the suite and it's like one side of the building is overlooking beautiful canals

and that building is looking over a fucking car park. And it's one of the most expensive hotel rooms in all of Europe because Beatle fans want to stay in this thing. And they let me stay in it. They haven't washed the sheets, right? They took down, so all that stuff, all that artwork of John's

where he just sort of wrote hairpiece and baggism and writing like stay in bed and all that type of stuff, the cleaners came in and threw it all away. And each one of those would be worth 100 grand now. Stay in bed would be... Were they ugly? What, John and Yoko? No, no, no.

Artwork. I tell you what. They were pretty ugly. If you watch that one where they're naked on the album cover, Big Bushes, John and Yoko. If there was crabs to be had between the two of them, they were passing it back and forth. Or she would have had a bloody,

she would have had a tart vagina with all that hair. And his dick would have been no holiday. If you were sucking back on his British fucking hooded fucking dick with his big John Lennon bush. There's no winners there that picture disgusts me to this day it does that was the whole thing is the two of them standing there just naked just there we are that's the two of us that was the best photo for that show and then john and ringer was like i'm

not happy about this photo and then he's just just like, don't worry about it, Ringo. You just have to answer the phone. Okay, then. What happened in India, Robert? What was going on there with the Beatles? Well, I think that's where you start to see the shift and kind of the separation of George and John in one sect and then Ringo and Paul in the other. Because when they went there hanging out with the Maharishi,

I don't think that Ringo or Paul took it too seriously and they left early. The Maharishi wasn't in India. It was in Wales, actually, but he was visiting and he had a compound type of thing. And then there was another, was it Wales or something? And then they had another thing because they caught the train down there

and they got all fucking, and there was- Yeah, it's the mayor robbery, yes, and they got all fucking... You're asking me or Robert? There was... What's her name? Dear Prudence was... What's her name? Married to Woody Allen. Johnny Prudence?

No, Mia Farrow's. Mia Farrow's sister. Mia Farrow. Mia Farrow's sister was Dear Prudence, and when she'd come out and play... That one, she just sat in a fucking kibbutz all the time, and she wouldn't come out. Didn't move.

Yeah, and I think she was probably a good sort, you know, because she was Mia Farrow's sister. She was probably a good sort and they were like, go on, get her out. What's going on with that? Anyway, they wrote that song about her. But also changed the – that was one of the questions, actually, and I was like, he's got to know that one.

But that actually changed the music too because it became much more spiritual for at least george i think he really latched onto that tightly george right to the end was all about like is there a god how can i speak to god where might god be you know it's all stuff and always questioning questioning questioning where i like the ringo star model if you watch get back everyone else is fucking arguing about my song, this song, this song. Ringo seems to be the only one that shows up on time. He's always sitting there behind.

He's got a fag in his mouth and two packets of cigarettes on the side and a thing, and he's just. I get by with a little help from my friends. Yeah, he's just, when you need for me to come in. He knew he was on to a good thing, I tell you. He knew he was fucking luckiest man in show business. I was told he was the last one to find out that the Beatles were breaking up. Hey, Ringo, by the way, we're breaking up.

I was like, what? He left them for a small, like a day or something. He had a little hissy fit and they sent him flowers or something like that. But to this day, Ringo seems to be having the most fun. Well, he's alive, so there's one of two. But Paul's having a lot of fun as well. So I was, okay, so when I moved to Britain, I moved just after 9-11.

And so very soon after 9-11, George Harrison died, maybe a few weeks later or a month later or something. I don't have the exact date, right? 2004 is when he passed away. Oh, okay. So it was way later. Oh, wow. I got that completely wrong.

28 points. Well, I remember because I moved over after 9-11 and then I remember... Oh, I remember getting... It was after 9-11. No, no, because I had a couple of friends, but I met a new group of friends on the day that George Harrison died because I went out to Abbey Road and people were singing in the street the day that george harrison

died it's 2001 it was november 29th 2001 fucking boom shakalaka november 2001 i knew it was soon because that was my that was my first group of new friends in england and they were just like all beetle fans that asked me to come out and have a drink with them afterwards and I wasn't a comedian or anything really at that stage you know and then I met her I and I remember thinking oh he had a good run he was fucking like 50 something he wasn't very old well he had a good run because he was famous no but here's another one right so I go and see Paul McCartney in concert when I'm about 13 where? one of the first concerts in Sydney came out I believe it was the

Hope of Deliverance tour or something off the ground or something or that might have been the tour afterwards but I was about 12, 13 and

I saw Paul McCartney and my mother came with me because I was fucking 12 and that bloody big fat woman jumping up and down when he came out that's a fucking vision

I'll never get out of your bloody head, I tell you. Started clapping like a teenager. Holy hell. Anyway, so I came, but I remember I came back to school and a few kids at school were sort of saying I was lame because, you know, it was an old sort of bloke performing. And I remember thinking, well, you know,

it's cool that I got to see that guy before he died. And I say to my friends, I can't believe how agile he was on stage and how he played the guitar and how he remembered all of his fucking songs. And I thought it was amazing. Anyway, he was my age right now. Wow. Oh, wow. Still impressive. And I was like, I'm glad I got that guy before he died.

Well, you know what's bigger in Britain the Beatles or like the King and Queen stuff what do you mean bigger the royal family or the Beatles

yeah that's what I'm asking I don't know to who to the people who live there that's a weird question because people there's this Beatle mania people are freaking out

crying seeing the Beatles people freak out crying seeing the Queen the Beatles are the biggest music act to come from England. And then the Queen's the big. I'll tell you what. So who do you think has more?

Who do you think care about more? The Beatles or the Queen? The Queen is bigger than Queen. All right. We got to get through some questions. All right. Which Beatle lost his virginity in front of the other bandmates? Who was that?

Was that George Harrison? He took a shot in the dark and he got it right. They were all cheering him on and clapping him and yeah yeah and this was in hamburg actually as well hamburg yeah he said hamburg yeah what album he was 16 or 17 yeah 16 this is one of the things i always think about as well my parents would have never let me leave school to go tour with a band in pubs in Germany when I was 16. Like, how fucking lax was the Harrison household? And thank fuck they let him do it. Yeah.

But not a chance in hell my parents at 16 would have gone, what are you up to? I'm going to go play in pubs. What? In the red light district in Germany. Okay, have fun. All right, then right then i'm gonna get my dick wet send us send us a postcard um what album is often considered the beatles magnum opus featuring groundbreaking compositions and production techniques is it sergeant peppers absolutely sergeant peppers all the way but i mean honestly he was right and i was going to say this it all starts with revered soul and john lennon called that the pot album.

So that's where it starts. And then Revolver after that is also just groundbreaking. That's my favorite. What were they going to call Rubber Soul? There was another name or something. We were talking about it the other day. It was like some quiz show. They said the original name.

Oh. But it was dog shit. No. Did you know about that Australian guy, the Australian tour with the guy who had his tonsils, with Ringo getting his tonsils taken out, and they had that bloke? I did not know that at all.

Okay, you've got to Google this guy, right? The Australian tour, the drummer who plays Ringo on the Australian tour, 1964, because this cunt, you can tell he's been given the job two weeks earlier and he's doing his very best with the haircut. He's really

trying. Jimmy Nickel. Jimmy Nickel. Jimmy Nickel. Oh yeah. Not good. He looks sort of like Michael Sheen. Yeah. Jimmy Nickel's a scary looking cunt. What's his name? Shannon. Michael Shannon, yeah. Yeah. Jimmy Nickel. Wow. Yeah. Never to be heard of again

Good gig And the other guy Pete Best He went on to be a baker How many times Do you reckon people Have gone into his Fucking bakery

Going weren't you in there Yes I was And part of his problem Was he wouldn't do The fucking haircut He wouldn't put the hair down That was part of the reason He got fired

Yeah Do the haircut cunt Do it The song with Backward masking Sparked controversy Over alleged hidden messages Was reason he got fired yeah do the haircut can't so do it the song with backward masking spark controversy over alleged hidden messages was revolution nine right i said number nine yeah yeah that's correct yeah that one that actually has the paul is dead thing in it actually they reversed it says paul is dead paul is dead and that's where it started or they were leaning into

it then is that what the well the whole thing was kind of a conspiracy myth, mythology type thing that started like maybe 10 years after Paul McCartney had an accident. He wrecked his car and they said, oh, he died. And MI5 came in. They're replacing him with, I forget his name is William Campbell. Actually, they had a contest where they would see who was was the closest look-alike to paul and william campbell won and was never heard from again but why would you hear from him anyway but uh some of the conspiracy talks about uh when they're walking across the road there um they look like they're once like a berry in the other one

and they're like Paul isn't wearing shoes so he's supposed to be dead and then he's supposed to have some sort of scar on his ear that's different

and I honestly don't believe it at all it's fun to look at so maybe they were like leaning into it that's what I was thinking I think at certain stages

especially with like Sgt. Pepper's they were they were leaning into it just to take the piss. But so the Abbey Road one is that he has no shoes on. So even when you get buried, if it's an open casket, you don't have shoes on. Everyone else had shoes on. He was holding a cigarette.

The rest of them are new album covers now. They've gotten rid of the cigarette, which what are we doing? Really? Yeah, yeah. And he was out of step. The other ones were all leading with another foot. He was either leading with his left foot, but he was left-handed. And George Harrison was in denim looking like a grave digger.

Ringo was looking like a mourner in black. And John was looking like a funeral director in white. Funeral director. But I've never seen a funeral director wearing a whole white suit in my whole life. Or is he supposed to be Jesus or some spiritual guide? Could be Jesus. Could be Jesus. I think it was the Abbey Road doc on Disney where they show the other options they had for the Abbey Road photo.

It's just the progress of them walking across. And that was just the one that worked out well. Okay. If you've been to that crossing. Ah, fuck. It's in Swiss Cottage. It's not good for traffic. No, it's very bad.

Right? None of that shit. None of those type of things. The crookedest street in the world in San Francisco. Yeah. It's like that. And if you drive anywhere near there, there's a fucking line.

No, there's people crossing all the time. And there's a crossing a little bit further up and no one's quite sure which crossing it's meant to be. I think it's the back one. But yeah, there's people all the time from all over the world trying to cross this fucking thing, including when Paul McCartney's in town.

I have a theory on Paul McCartney that he fucking loves being famous. I reckon he loves it. I reckon he... That's a theory. I think that he's a guy that's been famous since he was 18 and he doesn't know any other way.

Like, I met him and he was... He lives his life out in the public, man. He catches the tube, that cunt. He goes down to the improv comedy club to watch comedy and just sits there. Like, this isn't a man who doesn't like being bothered. Yeah, he just used the regular bathroom. Yeah, he used the regular bathroom. All right, it's great to be here. Watching a few comedians.

You know what I mean? A lot of people say he's an asshole. Well, when I... Okay, so I met him and it was me, Aziz Ansari, Chris DeLeon. Judd Apatow. Judd Apatow, right? So the four of us all knew he was in the bathroom. So the four of us went and stood...

And the four of us don't hang at any... We were just the other comics, you know. I've done this before too. Yeah, yeah. And so we hung at the front of the bathroom. Pee-pee-ing. And just sort of stood around and sort of had our phones. And he came out and he was just, he was the most famous person

you'll ever meet. And he gave us all four or five seconds and he kept moving so he couldn't take a photo. And he came out and he literally went, I didn't know I was going to meet all these superstars out here. Oh, wow, you're here. Look at you. You're dirty. Your jokes are dirty, he said to me.

Oh, Judd, love your movies. And he shook all of our hands and he was fucking gone. Yeah. And we were like, what? That was dark. It's like I have very few core memories that that if when i have dementia i'll remember and i'll always remember that that's really cool i know phil collins hates his guts because when phil collins first met him he was like oh phil are you are you a little starstruck and he's like fuck you i tell you what he seemed to be very upset

i heard phil collins was the dick though he seemed to be very upset. I heard Phil Collins was a dick, though. He seemed to be very upset about Jimmy Buffett dying. He couldn't say enough nice words about Buffett. People like Buffett. He fucking loved Buffett. And also, you know what I like about McCartney is McCartney, he still hits the weed. Like, he hasn't apologized for it.

And also, I've got my opinions on the one-legged woman that he married as well. All right, let's go through some of these questions we share those opinions yeah we don't fucking use a big pain fucking hop to the bathroom we got to get through these all right were you saying something Robert before we keep going or no you're good keep going um the album that was recorded at the same time as the white album lost the league but would never release as originally intended was it the one with Hey Jude I don't know what that's

let's get back let's get back to the album but I don't think it didn't have Hey Jude on yeah okay so that's what album is Hey Jude

on then hmm you're asking excuse me I don't want to look it up while I'm talking to you guys excuse me sorry

oh that was something else yeah you're a very violent sneezer. I don't like people saying bless you because I do multiple sneezes, and I feel like when someone says bless you, you have to thank them for doing that. I just don't want to thank anyone.

I just want to sneeze and move on with my day. Yeah. Okay. It says here in the note that hey dude's the title of the album is that proper there we go it's a compilation album

yeah yeah it was like the album the song didn't get onto any of the other albums and it was just sort of oh yeah

hey dude um Beatles song that features a complex time signature is considered one of the first examples of progressive rock in mainstream music

it was banned by the BBC for its drug references and later became an anthem of counterculture movement. You said Loosing the Sky with Diamonds, Jim. I'm wrong on this one. Yeah. It's actually A Day in the Life because it has all those progressive movements

and it talks about shootings and cigarettes and some other stuff in there. That's so funny that that would have been controversial back then. Cigarettes! Can't get them. Cigarettes and coffee. Cigarettes weren't bad there, but woke up, got out of bed. Yeah, I know, but still, compared to what is in songs now. But also that bit, like John Lennon's bit of that song is fantastic,

and Paul's bit is a bit weak as piss in it. I like the whole song. I still listen to it, yeah. I don't turn it off. I don't get that deep into the Beatles where I'm like, fucking Paul, you suck. I just like the song. I'm a big hater of people who shit on Paul too much

because I'm like, you fucking don't know shit. If you think Paul's terrible or John's awesome and bullshit. So the famous rooftop concert, where was it held? I don't know if you ever told me that, Jim. London. London, okay. And what song or songs did they play and why did they do that? rooftop concert where was it held i don't know if you ever told me that jim uh london okay and what what song or songs did they play and why did they do that was it because they gave up touring because the kkk was going to kill them or i don't know about the kkk was going to kill them they actually

had a show in fort lauderdale when they came here and they made it be uh unsegregated or they were not going to play so that was a big deal in the South. But the famous rooftop concert was in 1969 at Apple Corps in London on top of their studio. And they didn't tell anybody they were going to do it. So the cops were just like, oh, we've got to stop this.

And they played Get Back, Don't Let Me Down, I've Got a Feeling, One After 909 and Dig a Pony. Yeah, you know what they should have done is, because you know when you go to a concert and they're just playing new songs? Just fucking give us I Want to Hold Your Hand at the end.

Come on, lads, just for the encore. It's such the opposite of comedy. If you're like, we got old jokes. You're like, what the fuck? I heard these already. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Songs are like only the old stuff. What's that? The Beatles, oh, God, they're playing new songs, we got old jokes. You're like, what the fuck? I heard these already. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Songs are like only the old stuff. What's that?

The Beatles? Oh, God. They're playing new songs, are they? Yeah. Yeah, I'm a big fan of comedy, too, and I've been watching Jim for years since I was a kid, to be honest. You like his new stuff? That makes me feel old.

I've just gotten to that age where people start doing that to me, man. I'm 36. Well, that's the whole thing. I'm a decade older, and so when you're 36 and i'm 46 that doesn't mean a lot when we meet each other now but when i'm 26 and you were a 16 year old lad that was i was a man and you were a kid it was a big deal right and so there's a lot looking up to you man i was looking up to you there's a lot of people who do that, like, I've been watching you since I was 14 years old. And you're like, all right, I'm fucking old. Okay.

You've got better parents. Well, that's what also started happening with my gigs is now when I look at the audience, loads of fathers and sons. I'm a bridge comic for guys who are about 50 with their 20-year-old sons. They both go and me and dad are are gonna go do it i kind of like that i think that's a sweet thing oh here's the thing uh jim didn't know what is the thing tell us what that is robert okay in hamburg they had an apartment and they all stayed in it together and they would puke or put trash or whatever they could find in the corner and it became this grotesque monster like with

mold all over it and it was like three feet tall and in the corner and they kept it for about three months and had a funeral for it and it was called the thing yeah that's what 16 and 17 year olds do they also didn't want to add here but uh i made a tiktok video about this one and everybody says oh now you want to have a jerk circle with the Beatles because they actually would get together and masturbate together. They would call out names like Richard Bardot.

They'd call out the names? That was the whole thing. It was before porn was readily available. So, you know, you have to do what you could do. If you're having a circle jerk, you're like, right now we're all jer up to Bridget Bardo if it was dark you go naked lady

and then someone would yell the queen or something ah you've ruined it oh I've come yeah that's the thing in the corner and then there's still girls that came back to have sex with George here's our moldy pile of things yeah uh i can think of a worse jerk circle to be honest what is the origin of the name eleanor rigby uh jim said there's a tombstone a church where john met paul tombstone is that right that's actually the myth but they said there is a tombstone i've never

been there they say there is a tombstone there but he said that that's just a myth at first he said he was looking at uh he just liked the name but he had thought about eleanor braun who was started with the beatles in the film help and later changed it to rigby from the name of the store he stopped at in bristol rigby and evan it's my my most disliked beatle song it's the one i skip all the time it just i understand how people would like it but it it always brings me down, man. I like that song. It's a little depressing. It's a little depressing.

I like depressing music. It doesn't have like a great hook. I don't know. It's not one where you go, oh, yeah, banger. And the fifth Beatle, was that George Martin? That's actually up to your decision some people actually say it could be uh eric clapton but once he took patty boy i don't think that that really worked out but actually billy preston really pressed in was the guy the keyboard player that was on top

on the rooftop and get back i don't know if you have the answer to this question it was just in here what did the beatles concert smell like? Jim said cigarettes and piss. Yeah, but he got it right. Piss. There's actually a lot of quotes from people saying that the young girls would wait at the front, and they wouldn't want to leave, probably even the boys, and they would just piss themselves when they had to go, Ah, they're so excited.

It's the Beatles. I'm going to piss myself. And so rivlets of piss would just drip off the floor. Pretty gross. Yum. Pretty awesome. Yeah. excited it's the Beatles I'm gonna piss myself and so rivlets of piss would just drip off the floor pretty gross yum pretty awesome yeah um uh challenges what's my gigs day spell it challenges the tensions the Beatles faces the band both creatively and personally leading up to their eventual breakup uh Jim said in the get back doc George quits um I don't know there's a lot of things that brought that. It was all of them. They were all doing their own things.

They were all separating from each other. They were either on drugs or marrying some lady and taking care of her kid or whatever. And they were just really busy with doing their own stuff and they just kind of separated. And it's just watching a band fall apart on Get Back. You can see it all. It's very tough.

It's not Yoko, not all Yoko, but, I mean, her presence has got to be somewhat off-putting. Yeah, I blame her. Oh, it's just having someone fucking sitting there the whole fucking time is a pain in the bloody neck, you know what I mean? But it's, who was it? Was it Abbott and Costello said,

never let the wives play. And he told that to Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin, and they didn't listen. Because every time Dean Martin would cheat on his wife and fucking run off with someone, Jerry Lewis's wife was disappointed in Dean, and it made Jerry Lewis, it made it harder for him to go to fucking work each time.

So anyway, I don't know. I don't think the Beatles' wives ever hung out that much, did they? I don't know. Ask them. So now is part of our show called Dinner Party Facts. We ask our guests to give us some sort of fact that's obscure, interesting about the subject that they can impress people with. What do you got for us, Robert?

Sure. I've got – Ed Sullivan was actually not their first American TV debut. In 1963, they were on the Hunter Brinkley Report. So that's something most people don't even know that they, it was a year earlier. I never heard that. Never knew that. And they also recorded their first album in just one day.

Ten songs in one day. That's why at the end, the last song they recorded was Twist and Shout, and that's why his voice sounds tear to shreds. And he was drinking a glass of milk, and the blood came out in the milk. No way. I don't think that's a good drink when you're singing.

It's supposed to cool your throat, like coat your throat because it was bloody. Okay. Well, Robert Fadley, thank you for being here. You can find Robert on TikTok at Jambandpurist or his website jambandpurist.com. Check that out. Yeah, thank you for being here.

Thanks. And all the social medias. Thank you, guys. I hope to see you soon. I appreciate it, man. Come to a gig sometime, man, if I'm ever in a town. I'll see you in December. Yeah, I told him.

In D.C. All right. Yeah, we'll see you then. We'll hang out then. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming to listen to the podcast today. If you're ever at a party and someone says the Beatles not very good, you go, well, I don't know about that, and walk away. Never see that cunt again.

Okay. Good night, Australia.