A brief heads up that this episode contains references to violence that some listeners may find disturbing.

We also swear a lot.

So if you don't like it, you can piss off.

A quick note about our scenes. Some fictionalized dialogue has been added for dramatic and narrative cohesiveness.

It's a cold winter night on December 8th, 1980.

40-year-old musical mega star John Lennon is walking with his wife Yoko Ono down a street in midtown Manhattan. The cold air

fogs up his glasses and he grips Yoko's hand to keep his fingers from

freezing. The two of them have had a very long day.

They spent the better half of it doing a photo shoot with legendary photographer Annie Leibowitz.

Ereisha, do you remember that photo where John is naked and he's like curled up around

Yoko? Of course I do. We recreated it to be the cover art for the show.

Yes, and it's breathtaking if we're being honest. Mm-hmm. It is.

Now, much like us, John and Yoko are definitely super in love, but they're also super busy.

It seems like these days all they do is go from event to event. A limo slides up to the curb to whisk them off to

tonight's dinner engagement. John groans as he opens the door and slides across the

leather seat. When he glances over at Yoko,

she looks just as tired as he feels.

As the limo starts to pick up speed,

John makes an executive decision.

They're not going to dinner. Screw it. He just

wants to go home and see the one person he might love more than Yoko. Their five-year-old

son Sean. If they hurry, John might get to play him some songs

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