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Trashy Divorces

S26E17: John Lennon (A Game Day Trashy Divorces Encore Plus!)

Trashy Divorces

Hemlock Creatives

History, Comedy

4.52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In the second quarter of our Game Day Trashy Divorces Encore Plus series, Alicia heads back to her April 2020 story that puts some realism into the man, the myth, the legend: John Lennon. Turns out that the voice of a generation was pretty awful in his first marital go-round.

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0:00.0

Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co.

0:05.5

That's audible.co.uk slash wondery.

0:11.5

Welcome to trashy divorces, continuing to the second quarter of our trashy Super Bowl, 2025.

0:18.9

It's Alicia.

0:19.9

And Stacy, back with you for the marital misadventure of our second

0:24.2

beetle today. In this episode, five years in the making, onto John Lennon and his divorce from his

0:30.1

first wife, Cynthia, all the way back from season six. Oh, these two young love, so much pressure

0:36.6

coming for these kids from all sides. So many flags on the play. It's time to kick off for second quarter, y'all. Let's go, go, go.

0:50.2

All right, Alicia, you've got another myth of the great man.

0:59.3

Often requested trashy divorce this week of John and Cynthia Lennon.

1:04.4

Hmm.

1:05.3

Which really, besides the incredible fame of one half of our couple and the other half of our couple hiding in obscureness is really the story of a first marriage.

1:19.2

Young kids striving, doing their thing, baby happens, they get married.

1:25.3

It seems like the thing to do, right?

1:28.9

You're in love and happy,

1:36.2

but you are children, and there is a whole world of nonsense that is about to come for both of you bless both of your sweet, angelic baby hearts. Our bride, Cynthia, born September 9th, 193939, she's a Virgo girl. Vergo's organized the world.

1:49.0

Okay.

1:50.2

She will organize at least John's life enough to be there for his breakthrough.

1:55.9

Cynthia is a Lancashire girl. Born in Blackpool, she's the youngest kid, she has two older brothers,

2:02.2

her dad works for General Electric. And they're like most assuredly middle class, like they're

2:07.2

doing pretty well. Good things are happening. They have their things like all families, but it's

2:12.4

a normalish family structure and all that until dad, after a long battle from lung cancer, sadly dies when

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