Blotto Beatles

Ep . 73.- Ports of Love

Blotto Beatles

Show Notes

We ask you to bear with us as we begin this episode with our bylaw approved quarterly staff meeting. From there we remind everyone that we were early on the Mal train, dig into our single album White Album tracks and titles, differentiate between Pee Wee Herman and the Marx Brothers, question the Outbreak Monkey of Beatles for Sale, question an instrumental verse several times, explicate bays of hale, marvel at RB's Bowie connection to this song, invent snants (TM), and discuss the rose...

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