Please, Please Let It Be - Episode 15
Added 2020-05-07 00:26:31 +0000 UTCIt's fan appreciation day at #PPLIB! So we opened up the Zoom room and invited everybody in to join Tim and Eric N. for a freewheeling Beatles chat. A fab time was had by all - thank you to everyone who joined and apologies to all the folks we didn't get to chat with personally.
Please, Please Let It Be is a limited series podcast from Tim Heidecker and writer/director Eric Notarnicola (Mister America, Decker, On Cinema, Nathan For You, Who Is America) exploring the entire Beatles catalogue. Only available for Office Hours Live patreon subscribers.
Thanks for the granny drawing John Galantini!
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loved reading this just now! very well said about how devastating the loss of John was and is.
S
2023-07-07 02:39:30 +0000 UTCI miss this
Josh Legere
2021-02-21 18:53:43 +0000 UTCI came to patreoning shows late. I love the show and everyone involved. I’ll be excited to see some of the newer shows coming up for the solo releases. And if I call in I know what I want to ask and talk about. Although some opinions I disagree with, it’s fair and I empathize and understand why some people may hold those opinions. Some I’ll have to critique, with citable sources if necessary, but also just to get a clearer comprehension of either Tim or Eric or company’s thoughts on a few things that went undiscussed and also to dig deeper into some things that were just lightly touched upon. Also I think the John sense of humor that in today’s light can very easily be viewed upon with a less than redeemable light. He also was incredibly funny aside from anything controversial or edgy (for that time or to this day), but he was undoubtedly the funny one of the group. They all were hilarious in their own way, and as you’ve seen in the many press interviews in the early days they all were so funny as a unit. That really was the first time a group like that even existed and let alone each bearing a unique personality and then creating both the musical alchemy as well as the cultural and societal affect that the Beatles and each of its players had on the billions of people that came after them and were and remain to be influenced by them. My personal catnip is my love for anything Beatles, videos and media and of interview throughout the ages and of course the many performances and all the memorial and news footage of their passings. Some of that footage after Lennon was sadly killed in Dec 1980 and was some of the first major news coverage of the news era as we sort of know it today, it’s really incredible to watch. Such a sad day that was, I wasn’t even born and yet I consider artistically to as almost a close friend of mine I never physically met. Maybe that’s creepy but I have nothing but respect and honor for the stories and lives of everyone in their orbit. We can never truly imagine what it must have been like to be a Beatle. So that’s where when think about Lennon and his humor we must contextual as Tim mentioned the times and how humor and what was acceptable and what wouldn’t be now. He was like all the guys up there probably quite nervous and being that he was deemed the funny one there was perhaps some onus on him to at times of incredible nerves and unimaginable weirdness internal and externally, it’s no wonder John would pull out the stops of what in hindsight can be then considered ‘bad taste’ which it was, but he wasn’t necessarily making fun of mentally challenged people as some direct take and punch down it always seemed to me like more of a self debricating approach at easing things and just remembering to not take things so serious and to just have fun and to be goofy and that then made making funny faces and stomping like a spastic I think as McCartney was mentioning it. But it wasn’t his heart, he was an ass but he wasn’t someone entirely lacking compassion and empathy, sure it took maybe a try and a half to learn the priorities to be a better husband or partner and father. Which is why it’s so sad to learn that he and Julian and Cynthia were finally on good terms and Julian and John were beginning to hang out more before Lennon was assassinated. Also the quote of John from that interview talking about people who brought up disabled people and crippled and physical deformed people to the Beatles and sort of in a pre-make-a-wish foundation type angle that existed quite loosely then. He was making fun of the people that were bringing the people and expecting the Beatles to like cure them. John goes on to say that these people would bring folks with crutches as if then the guy on crutches would get up and start walking so I think that interview can get taken out of context easily. But he most definitely wasn’t against disabled people but the people that were bringing them and using them to get close to the Beatles, that was the bummer to see, not the people in wheelchairs. Anyway I rambled on way more about that than necessary but John is a lovely if not verifiably troubled character but it is true and it’s said by everyone around him at the time but John honestly was seeing the error of his ways in the past and was getting over grudges and things that he was likely finding had hurt or hindered his relationships with his friends and loved ones. So it’s really such a sad story, Lennon’s cold wildly unnecessary murder is one of the saddest moments in the history of artistic humanity. I still miss John and George. I remember where I was when George died, I was on my way to school. I think I was listening to an mp3-CD I made that had the entire discography of the Beatles on the cd, anyway I’m going to try and figure out my zoom or whatever situation so I can call in and chat. Much love and peace and blessings and well wishes and wisdom and everything else we need these days. Peace and Love to the Beatles peace and love to Tim and crew and peace and love to readers like You!
DanBo
2020-07-05 18:42:40 +0000 UTC
