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🗓️ 5 May 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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50 years on, the world is still in love with The Beatles. Join Nothing Is Real hosts Jason Carty & Steven Cockroft as they continue the never-ending conversation about the greatest band the world has ever known. Each episode puts a tiny piece of the Beatles story under the microscope to try and make sense of it all. Coming at you live, on tape, from Dublin. Fortnightly.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Nothing is Real, a podcast about the Beatles, everybody thinks they know the Beatles, |
0:07.3 | but how much do you really know? |
0:13.6 | This is an introductory episode, in episode zero, so to speak, where we're going to introduce |
0:17.6 | ourselves, talk a little bit about why we are doing this, and give you an idea of what we're going to be ourselves, talk a little bit about why we are doing this, |
0:24.3 | and give you an idea of what we're going to be talking about on future podcasts. |
0:26.0 | My name is Jason Carty. |
0:27.4 | My name is Stephen Corkcroft. |
0:30.9 | And I guess the germ of this podcast goes back a couple of months because myself and Stephen were at the Dublin Beatles Festival in November 2018. |
0:35.8 | And after many hard years of slog, we finally won the coveted title of |
0:40.8 | Beetle Brain of Ireland. |
0:42.6 | Beetle Brain of Ireland and at that point it seems like there's no more mountains left to climb. |
0:47.4 | What do you what do men of a certain age do with all this arcane knowledge? |
0:50.9 | And the answer is obviously a start a podcast and there is a lot of Beatle a startup podcast and there is a lot of |
0:55.2 | beetle podcasts out there and there's a lot of great beetle podcasts out there but what we kind of |
1:00.5 | wanted to do is talk about the Beatles from our own personal perspective and try and draw |
1:05.5 | together a few little ideas about the Beatles that that we've kind of had in private conversation. |
1:12.3 | I mean, we want to give you a little bit of an idea about ourselves. |
1:15.1 | We are broadcasting or recording in Dublin, but we're obviously going to try and go worldwide, |
1:20.7 | just like the Beatles did themselves. |
1:23.2 | And in order to, whenever I meet somebody who likes the Beatles, Stephen, I like to know why they like the Beatles or how they encountered the Beatles. So how did you encounter the Beatles? How did I encounter the Beatles? Well, first of all, I suppose I should let everyone know I'm a lot older than you are. |
1:40.4 | You're still not a real-time first-generation. I'm not a real-time first generation, but I'm a lot |
1:45.3 | older than Jason is. My first memory of encountering the Beatles is the film Help, or specifically |
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