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[HIGHLIGHT] The Truth Behind John Lennon’s Famous Ringo Quote - From EP 382 · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Here's a clip from our latest episode of Booked on
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  Speaker 1: Rock Tom Doyle. He is the author of Ringo A
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  Speaker 1: fab Life. So let's untangle the myth of a joke
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  Speaker 1: that was made and it's it's covered in the book
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  Speaker 1: you write quote sometimes somewhere an apparent quote from John
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  Speaker 1: Lennon began to circulate, scathingly joking about Ringo's skills as
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  Speaker 1: a musician. When asked by an interviewer whether he considered
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  Speaker 1: Star to be the best rock drummer in the world,
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  Speaker 1: Lennon had supposedly carved Ringo wasn't even the best drummer
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  Speaker 1: in the Beatles. How did that all start? And what
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  Speaker 1: is the real story?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is a odd thing as well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because people will believe that because it's a sort a
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  Speaker 2: quite It's a funny little wine, isn't it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you wouldn't say it's a great joke, right
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  Speaker 2: because I mean it's not true, and it's cruel as well.
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  Speaker 2: But Lenin never said this, right. So basically what happened
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  Speaker 2: was in the eighties there was a British comedian who
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure wasn't famous in the States called Jasper
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  Speaker 2: cart Do you know, no any British and you know,
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't the funniest of guys either, being honest with you,
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  Speaker 2: you know, for a comedian. But they so he claims
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  Speaker 2: that it was him that said it. He was like, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: I said that. Right, And there's a YouTuber, a Beatles
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  Speaker 2: YouTuber in Britain, right called Andrew Dixon, who's great, many
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  Speaker 2: people should check him out. Actually stuff's really good. But
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  Speaker 2: he watches through all this comedian's serieses and it's just
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  Speaker 2: you know, I mean, nobody would want to do this, right,
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  Speaker 2: I don't even think Jas mccarrott's family would want to
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  Speaker 2: sit through all these comedy shows, you know. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: is that bad? Yeah? He was bad. Yeah that's just
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  Speaker 2: an opinion, JA just for sorry that anyway, So he
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  Speaker 2: gets Andrew Dixon. The YouTuber gets to this series called
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  Speaker 2: Carrock Confidential was in nineteen eighty seven, and finally the
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  Speaker 2: joke appears and it's like, okay, for Carrot did say this.
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  Speaker 2: But what's even weirder about it, right, is he wasn't
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  Speaker 2: the first one to make it to the joke, and
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  Speaker 2: he'd obviously sort of nicked it. Well, I wouldn't want
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  Speaker 2: to say sorry again, Jasper. But you know, who knows
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  Speaker 2: how this happened, right, But there'd been a Radio four
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  Speaker 2: BBC Radio four sketch show called Radioactive in nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 2: one and one of the characters said this thing. Now,
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  Speaker 2: as we all know, by nine eighty one, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: John Lennon had passed, right, so it's a be a
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  Speaker 2: bit too late for him to be making the joke
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  Speaker 2: and stuff like that. So weirdly down the years this
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  Speaker 2: is attributed to John Lennon. And actually, if you google it,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, people still believe this was attributed to John Lennon.
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  Speaker 2: Actually wow, but it really wasn't, you know. So that
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  Speaker 2: just shows you, in a way, how that episodic sort
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  Speaker 2: of thematic thing works in this book, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean. It's you know, cocky mate, say it works.
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  Speaker 2: That's up for the reader to decide, right, But what
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  Speaker 2: it means is that I can go into these little
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  Speaker 2: corners and just to vote a chapter short chapter to
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  Speaker 2: just the joke and just untangling that myth, you know,
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  Speaker 2: which is interesting for me as a writer because you
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  Speaker 2: never quite sure what it's going to end, and so
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  Speaker 2: hopefully that makes it interesting for the readers
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