(SNEAK PEEK) Yoko Ono: Give Her a Chance
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Who was Yoko Ono and what is her early family background?
Welcome back to Write Answers Mostly, a podcast on what you didn't learn in history class, but you really wanted to. My name's Jess Palomo. My name's Claire Donald. And you guys, it is the last episode of Back to School Month. We are so excited to be here. We've had fun, I think. No, we have had range. We have had range, and that's what that's what we do. This one's a little bit more of a wild card. I know. I was not expecting you to choose her? I was not either. And sometimes something just comes to you that you're like, I have to fit it into the theme. You know, you're just like, does this make sense? But everything actually will make more sense, like as the episode goes on in like the l in the, you know, the essence of Ram of like women that we should have learned about.
And you know, she does like fit into a lot of history. Like we're gonna be talking about Yoko Ono, obviously today. We're gonna be talking about World War Two, the Vietnam War, the Beatles, women during this time, conservatism in the United States. Like it's gonna be everything. I can't wait. Also, this is a premium history episode. Yes. Um, so our premium subscribers get the entire thing, which is usually like, you know, we're we're talking like we have some long episodes. I mean, Maryland was like almost an hour, forty five minutes, our last Maryland episode. Yeah. Yes. And Main Feed usually gets about forty to sixty minutes. We try to get you guys like a big chunk, but premium's super important to our show.
It helps us continue to do this. And you know, please consider supporting. We have a code for you right now, a um A sale. Yes. And also, it is just the last episode of every month. And we do this so that we can give you so much free content. Okay, Claire. So Yoko Ono. What are your thoughts of Yoko Ono before we dive into this woman? It's so I do think that she's gonna be the perfect RAM subject because talk about a woman that growing up was presented to society as like a witch, being like she. She ruined everything. Like she was the reason why the Beatles broke up. Like truly, witch energy that she came and cast a spell on this man and took him away from his friends. It's so Meghan Markle coded. Oh wow. There is a lot in here that you're like, we've seen this story time and time again done to women of different generations.
It's crazy. And we will continue to. I so but that's like that's my and oh, I should have brought my um I think it's called Grapefruit. It's a little yellow yellow coffee. You have grapefruit? Do you have grapefruit? I do have grapefruit. So, you guys, to cite my sources, I really just had one source, and that would be this book, Yoko, by David Chef. And l he was a very close friend of Yoko's. They met while doing an interview together in the 60s with John Lennon. And she was like, I vibe with you. And she literally asked her assistant. Which I thought was funny to look up his chart to make sure that they would vibe. She's a big Oh, I'm obsessed. She's a big um astrological girly. And she was like, Yeah, you can come in.
And so they like met on this interview, and then he got really close to her kids, and he was able to like see her throughout many decades of her life. So this is all from a very close friend. It's like, it's not her official like memoir, but like it kind of is. So to start this episode, I would like to read a quote about why the author and her friend wrote this book. Thousands of books and articles have been written about John Lennon and the Beatles, and in most of them, Yoko Ono is a caricature, a curiosity, or even a villain seductress, a manipulating con artist, and a fraud who hypnotized Lennon and broke up the greatest band in history. The Lennon Beatles saga is one of the greatest stories ever told, but Yoko's part has been hidden in the band's formidable shadow and further obscured by flagrant misogynist.
and racism. Totally. And I was just like, that's the end of the episode right there. No. And that's it. Like that's all with that we can use now. Literally like it's the boys being like, these were my best friends.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who was Yoko Ono and what is her early family background?
0:24–9:21
2
How did World War II and the bombings affect Yoko Ono’s childhood?
9:21–18:03
3
What motivated Yoko Ono to pursue art and philosophy in college?
18:03–26:14
4
How did Yoko Ono’s move to New York and the avant‑garde scene shape her career?
26:14–34:00
5
What was the significance of the “Cut Piece” performance and its public reaction?
34:00–43:20
6
How did Yoko Ono meet John Lennon and what led to their relationship?
43:20–50:03
7
What were the major controversies and artistic projects Yoko pursued after the Beatles?
50:03–56:37
8
How did Yoko Ono’s later life, motherhood and legacy evolve?
56:37–1:04:48