Hunt joins "Everything Fab Four" to share his Beatles-fueled full circle moment Published April 23, 2026 3:55PM (EDT) Brendan Hunt performing onstage during Thundergong! (Fernando Leon/Getty Images) Award-winning actor, screenwriter and playwright Brendan Hunt joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about how his upbringing and “ Hey Jude ” inspired his new one-man stage production and much more on “ Everything Fab Four ,” a podcast co-produced by me and Womack (a music scholar who also writes about pop music for Salon) and distributed by Salon. Hunt, best known for portraying Coach Beard on the Apple TV series “ Ted Lasso ” (on which he is also co-creator and writer), told Womack, “I literally don’t remember a time when I didn’t know about The Beatles .” Growing up in Chicago, he says his earliest memory was being three years old, his parents having just divorced, and wandering out of bed to find his mother alone watching “ Yellow Submarine .” Even from that young age, Hunt says, “they drew me in.…