Hey, Team. Merlin here.As you know, I have a lot of problems.

And, arguably, one of my more benign problems is my lifelong obsession with the music and career arc of The Beatles. It's legitimately an affliction.

Even though I was only, like, three- or four-years-old when the band broke up, their glorious and evolving catalog has been a force and a presence and a friend throughout my entire half-century of life.

I love The Beatles. And thinking about them and the decisions that they made on the day are weirdly often on my mind.

So, when it fell to me to issue a seemingly innocuous Beatles challenge, it should come as no surprise that this obsession led to a lot of boring mouth diarrhea about the quotidian details of their songs, relationships, and cultural impact—as well as all the improbably deep feelings all those things stimulate in me. What can I say? I’m Generation X, and I'm utterly broken inside.

Anyhoo. The beautifully manicured episode that Alex produced cannily condensed a FULL HOUR that was spent just discussing The Beatles in our original raw recording.

And, while I'm glad and grateful that she trimmed as wonderfully as she did (isn't Alex just the best?), a part of me wanted to share our dorky, dumb, too-long, and shambling exploration in full.

So, now, as John says, it's all this.

Thus, provided here is my raw Skype recording of all The Beatles talk. Unedited, unbalanced, unexpurgated, and, yes, largely unnecessary.

It runs about an hour.

Because I love you.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah…

Yeah.