Legendary Chicago singer/songwriter Steve Goodman once sang of riding the rails on a train known as the City Of New Orleans. We have no idea how Chicago-based UBP listener, friend, and journalist/author Mark Guarino (Country & Midwestern, Chicago Sun Times, ABC-TV) got to the world’s greatest arena, the Smoothie King Center, to see Sir Paul rock NOLA. But, if Mark is a real Chicago guy, he’s probably still been there since the Bears won Super Bowl XX in January of 1986; unarguably the single greatest day in American history unless you hate excellence and joy. #PaytonIsTheGoat

But all that matters is that Mark did manage to see Macca in one of America’s most incredible cities, and he generously reported back on the show and the scene for the rest of us. At an extremely exorbitant fee, I might add. $12,000 for an audio field piece? In this economy, Mark???

Tony & T.J. will give their highly anticipated (editor’s note: by whom?) recap after they see McCartney in Chicago over Thanksgiving week, you turkeys; but in the meantime we’re excited to share another in our continuing series of the UBP Hive seeing Sir Paul live in 2025. We also ask the tough questions that only OAN has the balls to ask, because they’re also insane, just not in a healthy and fun way:

🏈 If Mark Guarino were really former J-E-T-S QB Mark Sanchez, would he have tried to randomly murder an older truck driver during “Dance Tonight”?

🎺 Does Macca traveling with a horn section cause an existential crisis for Paul “Wix” Wickens? And do most of us who’ve been loyal in our jobs for decades now need to worry about being replaced with a horn section? Like, is Paul’s horn section really a metaphor for AI? We talkin’ about practice? Not the game?

(🧀 Angry Chicago Guy:) How come Paul don’t sing no parody of “Obsession”, the Animotion pop hit from 1984 but call it “Concession”, about not letting me buy no nachos during “My Valentine”? And how come the woke smoothie arena don’t got no sodium-free nacho cheese, my wife Diane gave me diabetes during the series finale of “Benson” and I can’t eat that junk no more?

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