The Beatles, every mention
13 scenes (2022) · ← back to The Beatles
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where The Beatles comes up
Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- ▶ 8:10 Ben Gilbert But why is it that Taylor Swift is bigger than the Beatles?
- ▶ 8:14 Ben Gilbert Like, would the Beatles have had this much demand, too, when the only promotion that existed was from the labels in a sort of, like, the labels pick the winners, and then those are the winners world?
- ▶ 8:46 David Rosenthal I think there also is a lot more demand for Taylor than there was for the Beatles.
- ▶ 9:22 David Rosenthal And it was hard to secure a ticket, but very easy to log on to Ticketmaster, or maybe not that easy, but, uh, compared to, I don't even know how you would have gotten a ticket to a Beatles show back in the day.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 2:39:07 David Rosenthal The analogy is the Beatles here.
- ▶ 2:44:19 Ben Gilbert I've never met Matt, but in the countless hours of him speaking at various things that I sort of watch, he just has the demeanor of a Beatle.
- ▶ 3:02:41 David Rosenthal You know, there's like Taylor Gurley stays for a while and like there's new, we'll get into all that, but that's the end of like the Beatles, you know, just like the Beatles had a 10 year run, you know, the Fab Four had a 10 year run.
- ▶ 3:09:48 David Rosenthal I don't mean to blame Yoko, but like, you know, whatever your pet theory is for why the Beatles broke up, this is the end of the era.
Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:07:09 Ben Gilbert So this is like comparing LeBron mid-career to Jordan, if you're, like, trying to compare Taylor Swift now to the Beatles.
- ▶ 2:07:15 David Rosenthal Beatles are number one.
- ▶ 2:36:12 Ben Gilbert I can't recommend strongly enough the Beatles documentary.
- ▶ 2:36:41 Ben Gilbert And it is, especially for those of us who grew up seeing pictures of the Beatles, listening to the Beatles music, and only ever seeing, like, a little video here or there, and usually poor quality.
- ▶ 2:36:53 Ben Gilbert I think for the first hour of it, I was just spending, like, being in a state of shock that I was just hanging out in a room informally with the Beatles.