Imagine

If that rings a vaguely familiar bell in some of your brains, it's probably because Chapman had heard John Lennon of the Beatles say that the band was more popular than Jesus.

Lennon also wrote the song Imagine, where he sings a line that goes, imagine no possessions, in a nod to how materialism shouldn't really matter and it's not good for us as a society.

Chapman thought that line, you know, with Lennon's actual lavish lifestyle and many, many luxury possessions, made him a phony.

So he went out and bought a 38 revolver and hatched a plan to wait for Lennon.

Now, when Cynthia and John called it quits on their marriage, Beatles frontman Paul McCartney would drive out to visit Cynthia and Julian to try to comfort them during the divorce and the dissolution of their family.

On one of those drives, the line, hey, Jules, don't make it bad.

Take a sad song and make it better.

Rattled through his brain.

We're all going to get along together.

And I love John Lennon and the song Imagine.

And I was hoping that was going to be what it was.

Now we can see the full head of the demon is probably far worse in destroying humanity than social media was promised to unite us.

And everyone thinks John Lennon was the most anti-Christ guy that ever lived.

Because after all, he wrote the song Imagine.

Imagine there's no heaven, no hell below you, above you only sky, et cetera.

He said we're more popular than Jesus, speaking of the Beatles.

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[singing] Imagine there's no heaven.

It's easy if you try.

No hell below us.

Above us, only sky.

Imagine all the people living for today.

Ah, ah, ah.

Imagine there's no [upbeat music]

Like, I think, I think that's the Karl Popper vision of the, of the liberal experiment is like, oh, this, this post-racial, hyper-tolerant society where everything's just...

It's the freaking, the, the Imagine song, right? It's all garbage.

Literally.

It doesn't work.

[laughs]

It's all garbage.

The Imagine song.

It's not the Imagine song, it's Herbert Marcuse, and it's on purpose.

We're all one world.

And the, you know, John Lennon wasn't wrong in his song Imagine.

I hope world leaders, plural, all around the world will see it and, as Jared says, get in the room and talk about, and maybe we can learn something from what two great leaders did back in 1986.

[shouting]

Uh, John Lennon wanted communism in, uh, Imagine, [laughs] no possessions.

It's just kind of a, a bleak existence if you really think about it.

It's my least favorite song probably of all time.

Well, first off, I'm thrilled to see the strange new respect has extended to that degree to Ronald Reagan, who's been described as a great leader by Jeff Daniels, who is by no means a conservative.