Apple Versus Apple: The Beatles' Decades-long IP War
Ridiculous History
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Spoiler: The Beatles are kind of famous. Yet even worldwide acclaim didn't make them immune to lawsuits. In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max explore the strange story of Apple Inc and Apple Corps, two hugely influential companies that found themselves embroiled in a multidecade trademark beef.
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| 0:00.0 | Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show. |
| 0:27.8 | Fellow Ridiculous historians. |
| 0:29.2 | Thank you, as always so much for tuning in. |
| 0:32.3 | Let's hear it for the man, the myth, the legend, our super producer, Mr. Max Williams. |
| 0:37.2 | Go, go-goo, gaj go gooo i exist still he is the |
| 0:41.7 | walrus yeah yeah yeah i am the egg man i want to hold your hand bro uh there is uh none other than |
| 0:48.8 | uh eleanor rickby uh there is none other than my uh my colleague compatriot, my brother from another mother, Mr. |
| 0:57.2 | Noel Brown. |
| 0:57.8 | Noel, how you doing? |
| 0:58.7 | I'm doing okay, man. |
| 1:00.1 | How about yourself? |
| 1:01.1 | Oh, well, I'm still going by Ben Bowlin. |
| 1:03.8 | Did you know? |
| 1:04.5 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:05.5 | It'd be awkward if I called you something else like Steve. |
| 1:08.3 | Well, Interpol hasn't caught me yet. |
| 1:10.4 | You can. |
| 1:11.2 | You can. |
| 1:11.8 | In the meantime, check us out. |
| 1:13.7 | I'm hanging out with our pals Jack and Miles over on Daily Zykegeist. |
| 1:16.9 | Hopefully, they'll return to our show as well in the near future for some historical flexes. |
| 1:22.8 | So if you're a fan of them, please bully them into coming on our show. |
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