Welcome to Nothing is Real, a podcast about the Beatles.

Everybody thinks they know the Beatles, but how much do we really know?

My name's Jason Carty.

My name's Stephen Cotcroft.

I're live on tape from Dublin and Belfast.

And we've done it again.

We've made it to the end of another year, the end of another season of Nothing is Real.

And this is our 2020 review.

This time last year, we did a 2019 review because that's how these things work.

And who could have predicted all the things that have happened in 2020?

Pretty unremarkable year, really.

What a fantastic year it's been.

So, yeah, our plan today is just to have a laid back look at all the things that did and more importantly didn't happen in 2020 or that should have happened in 2020.

Because I think maybe it's a bit of an understatement to say we certain things have landed in our lap that we did not expect this year you know

particularly ending the year on a new mccartney album for instance yes yes although you predicted that

i did i've i well i'm always predicting we're never far away from a from a mccartney album and

if you're listening to if you say say it often enough, it's fine.

I'm going to expect one now every Christmas.

Yeah. And if you're listening to us on the day we're putting this out,

happy Christmas. Why wouldn't you be listening to us on Christmas Day? It's fair. And

we're here on Christmas Day doing this on Christmas day again, you know. So happy Christmas. If we can take the trouble to turn up, you know.

Yeah.

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