This episode contains swearing, sex, and one funky acid trip.

Please be advised.

And a quick note about our scenes.

Some fictionalized dialogue has been added for dramatic and narrative cohesiveness.

It's February 11th, 1963.

It's February 11th, 1963.

22-year-old John Lennon sits up in bed and pushes his shaggy hair out of his eyes.

For most of London, today is just a plain old Monday.

But for John, Paul, George, and Ringo, it's Judgment Day.

And finally, we have the four. Yeah, so Pete Best is out and Ringo is in. John said Pete didn't get their jokes so they kicked him out of the band.

Mm I think guests of our infamous game nights can understand the importance of such a

philosophy. Yes like get the Joker get Out. Exactly, yes. So the boys are due at Abbey Road at 10 a.m. Sharp to record their first studio album.

As John walks barefoot into his grimy little bathroom and looks at himself in the busted mirror.

He's sure of one thing and one thing only.

Today is going to suck.

He opens his mouth and looks at his red swollen throat.

When he swallows, it's like choking on sandpaper.

His nose is stuffed up and swollen and he can barely peel open his eyes

because of all the gunk sealing them shut.

And then comes the headache.

The robbing bolts shoot from the back of his head into his temples.

And the worst part, when he opens his mouth to test his voice, it sounds like he swallowed a duck.

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