WEBVTT - Thinking Sideways: Paul is dead 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:04.439 Thinking Sideways is not brought to you by Detective Bebop. Instead, 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:08.920 it's supported by the generous donations of our listeners on Patreon. 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:13.080 Visit patreon dot com slash thinking Sideways to learn more 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:24.000 and thanks Thinking Sideways. I don't understand you never know 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:31.400 stories of things we simply don't know the answer too. 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:38.520 Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Thinking Sideways the podcast. 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:46.680 I am Devin joined you know most weeks by and Steve. Uh. 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:50.240 This week we're going to talk about a mystery which 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:52.640 I guess probably will surprise most of you. It's really 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:56.120 scary mystery because it involved a dead body. It does 0:00:56.320 --> 0:01:02.160 maybe maybe not talked. Will you ask? Yeah, it really does. Uh. 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.840 The mystery, I guess we're just going to call it, 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:08.839 um Paul is dead and yes, this is a Beatles mystery. 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:17.039 I wish we had a sound effective like girls screaming Yeah, 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:20.880 but we don't. We don't. So. Paul McCartney of the 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.959 Beatles is who we're talking about. You know, there there 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:25.920 are four of them. Two of them are dead or 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:29.800 maybe three. Ringo Star is definitely alive. Nobody has ever 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:32.400 cared about Ringo Star. I was when I was doing 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:35.360 my rear. When I was doing my research, I was 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.640 reading this quote of like, um, it was something like 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:42.679 George Harrison was the heart of the Beatles, John Lennon 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.560 was the voice or no, the soul of the Beatles, 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.520 Paul McCartney was the voice of the Beatles, and Ringo 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:55.200 was the drummer. It's like how people actually Ringo Ringo 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.240 had more top ten hits after they broke up than 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:59.920 John Lennon did. Yeah, he's I mean, he's pretty talent 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:04.520 it but um, so we're we're going to talk about 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:10.720 this theory, this mystery that Paul McCartney actually died and 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.760 was replaced sometimes in the sixties, sometimes in the sixties, 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:17.520 and we'll talk details right now. The theory goes that 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:20.240 Paul McCartney actually died in a car accident at five 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:24.280 am on Wednesday, November nine, nineteen sixty six. Paul had 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.880 reportedly picked up a female hitchhiker on his way to 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:30.560 visit friends. The woman became really really excited when she 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.600 realized who had picked her up, and screamed and threw 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:35.600 her arms around Paul, and that caused him to lose 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.680 control of the car uh and he rammed it into 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:42.680 a wall. Paul was decapitated by the accident, apparently, and 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.440 the trauma to his head was so bad that even 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:50.720 dental records were useless. Did she die too, She also died. 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:53.400 How do they know she screened to put her arms 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.800 around him. That's what I was wondering, right, good question. 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:01.760 What about the five It was at five am? He 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:06.320 was going to visit friends, Okay, okay. Anyway, this was 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:10.360 at the height of when the Beatles really really becoming popular, 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:14.040 and so record executives decided that instead of upsetting the 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:18.280 fans quote unquote um, they would just replace Paul with 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:22.320 a fall If you will, fake Paul, which is a 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:26.720 thing you will see all over yea, So we're gonna 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:29.960 we're gonna refer to him as such. Um. But the 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:34.160 record executives decided to just replace Paul with fall Um 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.680 and then just continue on as if nothing had ever happened. 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:41.200 You know, probably the other three members agreed, because you know, 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:44.040 they would continue to make money and be popular and 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:47.160 have success, which they may or may not have if 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:52.080 Paul ended up actually being dead. The surviving Beatles did, however, 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.360 plant clues in all of the rest of their albums, 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:57.920 and in the cover art and stuff like that. Um, 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:00.280 to make sure that the fans knew that Paul had 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:03.720 actually died. The Record executives and I guess maybe the 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.960 other Beatles, I don't know who had a second right, 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:11.040 but they decided to replace Paul with a man named 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:15.480 William Campbell who had recently won a Paul McCartney lookalike contest, 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:19.440 and um, Billy they call him Billy Campbell. Actually they 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:21.760 call him something totally different, but we'll talk about that later. 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:26.520 William Campbell or whoever they decided to replace Paul went 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:30.840 through some extensive plastic surgery to make sure that he 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:34.400 looked as much like Paul as possible. But he had 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:38.279 this little scar either on his lip or chin, depending 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:41.480 on who you talked to, that couldn't be fixed. And 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:45.480 so it was happy accident that you know it had 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:46.880 he probably been in a car accident. So it was 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:50.560 okay because yeah, he had some stuff that looks a 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.440 little different. Um, but you know, it turned out it's 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.359 okay because you know, Paul was in a car accident. 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.640 According to the Record executives, he just you know, chipped 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.040 a tooth and had a scar. Are not got to 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:06.680 captate and replaced. That's a much happier story. Find story. Yeah. Also, apparently, 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.320 according to the legend, it turns out that William Campbell 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:12.200 could totally sing and was a songwriter, and he was 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:14.839 really really good at creating pop melody. So he just happened. 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:19.400 He sounded almost exactly with a little tweaking. He sounded 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:22.760 like Paul, you can always alter your vocal cords to yeah, right, 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:25.240 with just a little plastic surgery. It's fine. Yeah, that's 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:30.080 how I ended up sounding like guitar string ring the exactly. Yeah. Okay, 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:33.320 well that's it's kind of silly, right, this whole story 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.760 a little bit a little silly. Yeah, So are you 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:38.920 gonna are you gonna kind of conclude right now that 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:44.000 it's absurd? Yeah? Story over episode overall credits. I remember 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:45.719 when I was when I was a kid, this story 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.440 was making the rounds, and somebody showed me, like you know, 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.000 I was like, yeah, man, it's like it's true, Like 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.120 you know, it showed me the cover of Abbey Road 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.880 and Paul's barefoot and we're gonna talk about that, don't 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.240 go too far into that. But but my reaction was 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:03.159 so what you know, and I was just a kid. Yeah, 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:07.600 so you've always been like this. So the story, this 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.800 story really gained It was in the news, and um, 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:13.920 a couple of news outlets reported immediately that Paul had 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.440 died in this car accident. And I should mention that 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.960 it is true that a car belonging to Paul McCartney 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:22.640 did crash on that night at that time. Whether he 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:24.520 was in it or not, I'll be let you be 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:31.920 the judge, like, yeah, exactly, I think it was. Um no, 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:36.880 just kidding anyway, So the news outlets did immediately report 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:40.200 that Paul had been killed, but then retracted it, um 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:44.920 presumably because the record executives or whoever was behind the replacement. 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.880 Um yeah, they you know, they said no, no, wait, wait, 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.440 wait wait, no, Paul's here, he's fine, don't worry about it. 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:53.719 And the news outlets were like, all right, yeah, I 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:57.359 know you're right, we were probably wrong. But a really 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:02.080 intrepid investigative journalist from the well known publication called The 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:06.359 Northern Star really broke this case open and made it popular. 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:08.680 You guys know, you guys know the Northern Star, right 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:14.880 of course, right yeah, the Illinois University student newspaper, right, 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:20.760 hard hitting journalism. No Okay, well, in this article it 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:25.200 kind of exposed the conspiracy quote unquote, and it was Um. 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:27.520 It was either that one or depending on where you 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.320 read it, the editor of the Drake Times Delphic, which 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:34.440 is Drake University's student newspaper, either of these, and I 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:39.400 couldn't find the original one, shocking, but the article whichever one, 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:43.080 whichever student newspaper was in, came out on September seventeenth, 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:46.080 nineteen sixty nine. The credit is kind of spread all 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:47.920 over the place because they're like four other places who 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.160 also say no, no, we came up with this first, 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.280 but I thought they definitively identified the guy who wrote 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:57.040 the original story. That's not true. There's a lot of 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:01.760 people who give credit that's that's credit. Well, no, there's 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.600 a lot of people who point credit at different people, 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:06.520 and it just happens to be. I think there's a crowd. 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:10.800 The guy who's named Um is the editor at the 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:14.400 Drake University newspaper. But I've also seen a lot of 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.680 sources that say, actually, it was the Northern Star. So 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:21.320 I'm just choosing to say it's some university newspaper, which 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:25.080 is probably the safest bet in It's kind of kind 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:28.160 of amazing, even before the internet wild rumors got started. Yeah, 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:32.040 it's crazy. The this article added a little something to 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.800 the story that we just told, and that was that 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:40.079 in the Beatles song Revolution nine, um, if you played 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:43.199 it backwards, you would reveal a hidden message. Now we're 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.760 actually gonna examine that right now, and I'm not going 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.440 to tell you what they said it said because I 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.400 want you to just hear it. So first it's going 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:53.720 to play forwards, and then there'll be a pause, and 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:57.080 then it'll play backwards, and then we'll be back to 0:08:57.160 --> 0:09:03.480 talk about what it reportedly says. Number nine, number nine, 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:22.439 number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine. 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:33.040 So what did you hear? Nothing? Yeah, you's so glad. 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:36.320 Joe did listen that until just now. We just played 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:37.800 it for him in the studio and he had never 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.560 heard it. Um. And apparently he didn't read my script either, 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.720 so he doesn't know what it was supposed to have said. Um, Steve, 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.080 did you when you listen to it? Did you hear anything? 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.680 If you stitch it together in your mind, you can 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:53.480 make something out of it. It doesn't clearly say something. Yeah, 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.800 so apparently it's saying, um, turn me on dead Man 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:02.400 when it's played backwards, and unfortunately, I will say, well, 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:04.760 I mean unfortunately, I will say that for all of 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:09.040 these sound clips that we're talking about. Unfortunately, I read 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.760 before I listened, so it was pretty easy for me 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:13.560 to hear some of it, not all of it, but 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.719 some of it. Well, this is this is this one particularly, 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:20.440 this is the most concrete of the sound clips that 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:23.720 you've sent us before, because there were a number of 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.280 them that I kept. You know, it's not you see 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.440 them on YouTube and they put the text up and 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:31.120 I'm reading the text and I'm looking at it, and 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:35.719 only here is yeah, there's nothing there. There's one of the 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.480 the Paula's dead Man miss and miss and miss, and 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:40.560 you can sort of hear that in there kind of 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.160 yeah you can't. And again but again that's one of 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:47.000 those ones that um, I read before, I read about 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:49.559 it before I heard it, and so I don't know 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:55.320 how much of that influence influences that because that that's 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.360 the way that I was like, this is gibberish, I don't. 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:59.559 I listened to it four times before I started to 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.400 kind of get it. Yeah, So I'm just going to 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:04.920 put that out there that um, when we're talking about that. 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:07.800 Let me ask you ask you this, What if you 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.079 wanted to play that backwards? Do you do you just 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:13.400 rotate the album backwards on a on a turntable or 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:15.520 do you tape it and then run the tape backwards? 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:17.720 How how do you go about doing that? Well, that 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:21.800 one that we just played, I presume was a digital 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:26.920 digitally reverse copy. But I would assume back in the day, 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.360 Back in the day, what you had you had to 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.880 take because the record needle is meant to run one 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.880 way in the group, So what people would have to 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.600 do is they would essentially have to lift the arm 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:43.000 out of its its socket, the record player arm, and 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:46.360 then rotate at ninety degrees so that when the track 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.679 was running backwards, it was still writing in the groove 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:54.280 instead of pushing into the group. I've seen it done. 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:55.960 That's it's hokey. That's one of my that's one of 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.720 my theories is that the person who put this out there, 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:00.400 I really just wanted to get a whole lot of 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.960 people to ruin their albums. This is like, what was 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:05.439 that stupid game that was out for a while for 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:10.040 tossing your cell phone into the air? Yeah? Yeah, could 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.800 you toss your phone just so people would be dumb 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.040 and break them. I was I was actually gonna write 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:17.920 write a phone app for your for your cell phone, 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.360 for your iPhone and you and your droid. It's the 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.280 scale and so that's so you're up up the scale 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:25.320 and then it just waste things and then you just 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:27.480 you just you know, you just you know, you set 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.600 it on the ground and you get on the scale 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:33.600 and perfect. I think that's a great idea. I can 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:39.800 maybe make money. Sorry, let's get back on UM. So 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:46.600 that little revelation UM really spurred people to start looking 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:50.439 for clues, and actually there were a lot of aired 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:55.480 uh comments and fans calling into certain DJs, and then 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:59.200 news articles, most notably in the Michigan Daily, which is 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:02.640 actually reputable source, or at least was at the time. 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:07.600 But this is kind of when I guess collective clue 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.480 finding started to happen, but it really kind of took 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.520 off at that point. So we're gonna there's not I mean, 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.280 there's theories about this. It's going to be a little 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.360 bit of a different episode. We're going to talk about 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:23.800 the what I'm calling the clues quote unquote them. There 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:25.800 are a lot of them, and but they're kind of 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:29.079 proof for one or the other. But we're gonna commingle. 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:31.920 We're going to talk about, you know, some of them 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.080 and then go back and talk about why they may 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.319 or may not be true. Um. And that's going to 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.360 be kind of the format instead of seeing, here's the 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.160 theories for, and here's the theories against, because there's so 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:45.800 much and you know, frankly, the theories against are like, well, 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:50.240 that's dumb, and I don't want to do that. I 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:56.040 want to actually address Yeah, and bye, thanks everyone. So 0:13:56.120 --> 0:14:00.439 let's start talking about clues. And I guess the the 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.000 first thing that we're going to talk about a cigarette 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:06.319 that was found outside his apartment and that was weird 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.600 because he didn't smoke. Nobody in England at that time 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:13.280 smoke no no no. Um. One of the big clues 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:18.120 came from Strawberry Fields Forever. And at the end, apparently 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:21.480 you can hear John Lennon saying I buried Paul Um 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.480 and then actually speaking of speaking stuff, let's listen to 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:36.880 something else for a second. He begs him him. You 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:41.800 can clearly hear gibberish interspersed with Paul is dead, miss him, 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:45.080 miss him, miss him? Right? You heard that right, Okay, 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:50.400 So for the I buried Paul Thing. Um No, he 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.920 says cranberry sauce twice. I think I don't know why 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:58.880 he says cranberry sauce. They were loaded, Yeah, probably that. 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.680 I'm sorry, but the Beatles were having a hi old time, 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:06.000 no pun intended. Yeah they weren't. They weren't as extreme 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:09.040 as the Rolling Stones by any means, or you know, 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:13.120 or the Doors Morrison. He was yeah, yeah, So John 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:15.280 Lennon actually says cranberry sauce at the end of Strawberry 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.360 Fields Forever. You can find some pretty good YouTube videos 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.160 of it slowed down really far, and it's extra clear 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.440 that he says cranberry sauce. Is much like um Daft 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:26.600 Punk when they put out that song two years ago 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.920 and everybody thought it was saying Mexican Monkey. And remember 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:33.640 that Daft Punk. They their their new record came out 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.040 a couple of years back, and the first song on it, 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:38.400 I can't remember what it actually says, but everybody was like, 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:41.920 it's Shane Mexican Monkey. And to the point that band 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.560 was got on the Internet and said, please stop telling 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:49.600 people it says Mexican Monkey. But I can't remember what 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:51.400 it says now that you put me on the spot. 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.480 But everybody, you know I heard it. I was like, 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:58.600 I didn't hear that until somebody's told me that's what 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:02.760 it said. Oh yeah, because you know, sometimes when songs happen, 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:06.720 you're not exactly sure how the annunciation is working. Yeah, 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:09.800 I mean, and to that point, um, this whole Paul 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.000 is dead miss him, miss Him part. I disagree. I 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.640 don't hear it at all, like at all. Yeah, this 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:17.800 is the one I was. I listened to it four times. 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:19.760 I kept reading it before I figured out what it 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:22.720 was supposed to say. I could hear it in there, 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:26.440 but I had already seen the text. Yeah, but I 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.520 also don't know what was meant to be said there, 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:31.760 Like nobody has ever said no, no, this person is 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.720 saying this, so I could self correct. It was just 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.600 that was the only thing for him, miss him. Yeah, 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.360 that's a backwards recording. Yeah, but I mean it doesn't matter, 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:42.440 like it would be easy for them to say, like, wow, 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:46.640 but it's this yeah, gibberish forwards and backwards. Well I 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:48.920 don't think it was gibberish for it is. I listened 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:53.000 to it. It's gibberish. I swear you're wrong. I thought 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:54.920 that was actual words at that point when it was 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:58.800 going forward. It's gibberish going forward. It actually sounds more 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:02.760 like words going backwards than it does forwards. And that 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.639 recorded this. Oh man, I think it was Lennon talking 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:09.000 at that point. Sorry, you know what, it could be 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:12.679 something completely I watched. I tried to watch The Yellow 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:16.119 Submarine this week just to do extra research, and that 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:21.480 was a giant mistake. That's not not my favorite Beatles movie. 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:25.280 Oh yeah it was. I don't remember watching that and 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:30.399 I had stopped. Yeah, so another clue here is UM 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:37.879 something else album covers. Quickly, we'll talk about the Yesterday 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:43.280 and Today cover UM, which was initially baby Dolls dismembered 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.959 exactly like Paul was in the accident, right right right. 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:49.960 The producers thought that it was a bit much, so 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.280 they replaced it worth from one where Paul was sitting 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:55.280 in a box, which was obviously meant to be a coffin. 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:57.240 It was a big trunk. It was like a shipping 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:01.840 or steamer trunk. But no, actually, that's silly. I've listened 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:05.560 to some interviews with Lennon uh and he says that 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.600 he wanted to quote break the Beatles image unquote of 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.200 being a good boy band and to show quote that 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:15.000 we were aware of life unquote and um not some angels. 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:17.840 And then I think that second one probably signifies like 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:21.680 we feel like we're being put in a box. Very likely. 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:24.680 I mean, if I were the Beatles and I was 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:26.639 hearing all these rumors that would be had attempted to 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:30.200 have a little fun with it. Totally. Yeah. The hard 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:33.280 problem with that is that, I mean there were Beatles 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:40.040 fan clubs in every town across the world, and and 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:45.880 they were The fans were voracious, and nobody get upset 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:47.960 at me because my Beatles knowledge is a little weak 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:52.120 in general. I'm not you know some no, but I'm 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:57.119 not a Beatle just but those people were rabid and 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:01.320 I could just imagine that if you were caught messing 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:05.359 with them, it would be bad. Yeah. Absolutely, that's true. Yea, 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:08.480 I guess people working. That's where the word band comes from. 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:12.960 It's fanatic yep. So yeah, they're guardo crazy. Uh pretty much. Okay, 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:17.439 Next is the um Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:21.280 album cover. It's a big one. We're going to talk 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:23.320 to all that stuff. Um. And as a side note, 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:27.240 this is my favorite Beatles album. Alright, so let's just 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:30.040 go through them all real quick. Here. Um, there's a 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.920 hand over Paul's head all the as though he was 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:36.480 being blessed by a priest before being interred across this 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:41.600 grave site. You should look this up. If you look 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:45.119 it up before you pause us google it, yeah, and 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:48.200 then come back. Cool, you're back, Welcome back. Across the 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:51.320 grave site is a bass guitar that's oriented the way Paul, 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:54.720 who was left handed, would have played it. Is it 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:57.760 a grave site. It's a big area with flowers on it. Yeah. 0:19:58.200 --> 0:19:59.920 I mean I think it's meant to be a great 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.280 of even like not in weird interpretations. I think it's 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:05.680 meant to be kind of signifying the death of the 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:08.320 old Beatles. I mean, there's so some of the some 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:11.440 symbolism that the sympology that we're not going to talk 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:14.639 about is. Um, if you're if you haven't stopped and 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:17.760 googled it and found it. There's these wax figures of 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:20.960 quote unquote the old Beatles and then um, the new 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:24.119 Beatles in there like technicolor uniforms, and so I think 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:26.520 it's supposed to signify them finally being able to kind 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:28.320 of break their old mold of the boy band and 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:31.359 going into this new genre. So I do believe it 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:33.760 is meant to be a grave site either way. The 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:40.520 strings on the bass guitar made out of flowers are 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:43.000 made of sticks, but there are only three sticks instead 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:46.520 of four, just because there would be three beatles instead 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:52.080 of four without Paul the base. Yeah. If you hold 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:55.639 a mirror across the middle of the words lonely Hearts 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:57.320 that are written in the center of the drum, in 0:20:57.359 --> 0:21:01.320 the very center of the album cover, you only see 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:06.600 I one I x he die with like little I 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:09.600 don't actually know what those things are called. The greater 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:13.440 than Yeah. But by the way you're you're reflecting the 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:16.640 top part of the letters. So it's the top part 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:19.280 of the letters which reflecting, not the bottom. Yeah, and 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:23.360 not you're not it's not in the center horizontal. Yeah, 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:28.480 it's horizontal reflecting the top down exactly. So rearrange a 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:31.920 little bit. Given some spaces, uh, it should say I 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:36.240 want I x he um you know, greater than less 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:40.280 than uh die, which the image suggests. The date which 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:44.440 is eleven nine or November ninety six. That Paul died, 0:21:44.560 --> 0:21:47.200 and the diamond in between the words he and die 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:51.560 points directly at Paul. So obviously that is a sign 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:55.400 that Paul died on November nine, actually greater than listen 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:58.400 symbol that. Look at the image for ding Dong's it's 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:00.800 it's just a diamond, yeah kind of And actually it 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:05.080 doesn't say he die. It says it says one one 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:08.399 E or I I E. No, that's just a bad image, 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:10.480 is that? What it is actually is a cross a 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:13.640 little cross piece there. It's it's from the internet, of course, 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:18.000 it's UM. There was a model of an Aston Martin, 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:20.200 which was the type of car that Paul was supposedly 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:23.040 driving at the time of his fatal accident, leaned against UM. 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:26.440 A doll's leg in the picture, and the interior of 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:30.400 this car is apparently read, which symbolizes Paul's bloody accident. 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:34.760 There's a a grandmother figure that a doll is laying on, 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:38.120 and there's something that looks much like a bloody stained 0:22:38.359 --> 0:22:43.760 driving globe UM sitting there with that. There's a Japanese 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:46.399 stone figure on the other side in front of the 0:22:46.600 --> 0:22:49.720 wax images of these younger beetles, and it's got a 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:52.600 line on its head, which obviously represents the head wound 0:22:52.680 --> 0:22:56.000 that Paul sustained in his fatal accident or decapitation. I 0:22:56.080 --> 0:22:59.640 don't really know. The there's a four armed Indian doll 0:22:59.720 --> 0:23:02.639 and front in like the very front center. Two of 0:23:02.720 --> 0:23:06.280 the dolls arms are raised pointing directly at New Paul 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:13.040 fall and Paul Old Paul UM, which apparently signifies something. 0:23:13.800 --> 0:23:15.760 The television set on the ground to the right of 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:18.480 the Beatles is turned off, suggesting that the news of 0:23:18.520 --> 0:23:24.040 the tragedy had been suppressed. And then UM in the photo. 0:23:24.720 --> 0:23:28.320 On the sleeve of Paul's uniform is a patch that 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:32.119 says O p D, which is obviously UM stands for 0:23:32.359 --> 0:23:35.960 officially pronounced dead. Right, So you guys want to go 0:23:36.119 --> 0:23:38.840 back and talk about some of these, Yeah, So I 0:23:38.880 --> 0:23:42.119 actually looked up UM. I actually was able to find 0:23:42.320 --> 0:23:46.240 some behind the scenes pictures of this photo shoot, which 0:23:46.440 --> 0:23:49.840 we're actually really really interesting from the different angles and 0:23:51.000 --> 0:23:54.399 just people. It was actually like UM people painting the 0:23:54.920 --> 0:23:57.439 figures that are standing behind them and getting them all 0:23:57.480 --> 0:24:00.159