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Billy Joel · Deprogrammed Music Podcast

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  It's Deprogram, the podcast where we try to get you into an
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  artist. That's right.
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  We've done all the work for you. All you have to do is press play
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  and boy oh boy, we've done some work today.
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  We'll get into that in a second. My name is Justin.
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  I am your host and you could call me band Curious.
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  I like to get into these artists and I like to bring in my
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  friends to talk about said artist.
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  And we go about that by bringing in a list and we mash them
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  together and try to create a top 10 starter kit for you to listen
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  to so you can get into that artist.
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  It's a, it's a whole lot of passing the buck.
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  You could say. We really want you to get into
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  Billy Joel. Today we're going to be talking
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  about Billy Joel. And I mean, look, man, there's a
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  million things I could say here. I'm not going to say any of
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  them. We, I, I feel like, I feel like
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  even though this hasn't been on the board like for a very long
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  time, I feel like this is kind of an important one.
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  And especially like now he, you know, the documentaries come out
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  and like I, I, I just feel like, I feel like this was an
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  important, this is an important musician who's kind of
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  strangely, even though he got his flowers, really has never
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  gotten his flowers in the way that maybe he should have.
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  I don't know. I'll leave that the for the
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  panel to decide. I'm going to look at the order
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  here real quick 'cause I forgot. Oh, yeah.
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  OK, so we're going to start with you, Chris Otto, you put, you
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  put Billy Joel on the board. So talk to me about the
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  importance of of Billy Joel and why it is we are talking about
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  him today. I mean, I am amazed that you
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  haven't done Billy Joel already. Yeah, he's such an iconic
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  musician. But for me, I grew up in upstate
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  New York. Even though I've spent more time
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  in Virginia than we did in New York, I still consider myself a
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  New Yorker. And I grew up in the 70s and 80s
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  in New York and Billy Joel was just everywhere.
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  He was huge in New York, huge in New York City, huge in Long
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  Island. Obviously I listened to Billy
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  Joel a ton growing up, had all of his records, tapes, whatever.
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  And just just an amazing, amazing artist, amazing
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  songwriter and has so many. I'll get into it later when we
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  start talking about lifts because I haven't done a deep
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  dive in Billy Joel in in years and just so many amazing iconic
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  songs. Just he he he's amazing.
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  I know I'm repeating myself, but you know, internationally known
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  huge in the in the Seventies, 80s and 90s even fruits it to
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  go. He had, you know, a long
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  standing residency. He'd play once a month at
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  Madison Square Garden and it was sold out for years, but
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  constantly just sort of sold out.
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  Sold out. Well, I I don't know what I
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  could say about Billy Joel other than he's fantastic and
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  everybody should love him now. Well, that brings us to your
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  lovely wife who I believe, I think maybe the Neil Diamond
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  episode or maybe the one before that, you guys kind of brought
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  this up kind of in tandem. So Marlene, talk to me about
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  Billy Joel and and why you wanted to come talk about him
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  today. OK, so bringing Kristen, I also
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  grew up in New York. Billy Joel was king.
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  Glass Houses was my very first cassette tape that I never.
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  Purchased, you know. So it, it, it was stand track of
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  summer and even then, you know, until I got to college and I
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  went to school with a lot of people from Ireland.
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  I started to learn this stuff before glass houses.
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  And it's just, it's, it was the soundtrack of my youth.
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  So many Billy Joel songs are just bring back so many memories
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  and pickle many. He had so many hits.
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  So I. So yeah.
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  Yeah, after that, Randy, you jumped on Billy Joel pretty
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  quickly. I, it almost feel like you
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  pounced on it, like like you're waiting for it to, for it to
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  appear. So talk to me about Billy Joel.
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  Yeah, I'm glad that there is good New York representation in
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  the House because I wasn't sure about Marlene's backgrounds, but
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  Chris and I, Schultz, I should say, since there are two Chris's
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  in the house, we're both Long Island born.
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  And some bands and artists that are out there like you need that
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  representation. And Billy Joel is that important
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  to Long Island as a whole, that it would be like us doing a riot
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  girl band and not having a woman present.
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  It's it's that important. It's almost like we did that,
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  sort of. I would agree, I think.
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  We had one, we had one. But I'm, I'm just, I'm saying
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  like the representation is important here because I mean,
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  most people that are from Long Island, all they want to do is
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  leave Long Island. They, they aren't like prideful
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  that there's not a lot to be prideful about, to be honest
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  with you. There's little things here and
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  there, I suppose. But in, you know, Billy Joel and
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  Mick Foley are like the only two people on the planet that
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  actually love being from Long Island.
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  So it, it, it makes me feel kind of OK to be a Long Islander
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  knowing that he sings songs that, you know, mentioned
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  certain towns like Cold Spring Harbor and places like that.
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  Like I, I can, I can relate. I can recognize it.
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  And, you know, it all goes back to being a kid.
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  This is constantly on in the house, every album of his, the
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  greatest hits, you name it. Like it was just on and on and
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  on. And I couldn't get away from it
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  and nor did I want to get away from it.
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  I just like felt infatuated by it.
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  I mean, he has such a a pleasant sound, very poppy.
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  But like still he can kind of he can kind of rock when he wants
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  to, but like beautiful lyrics, like everything gets put
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  together so cohesively in his music.
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  And you can tell from that documentary that you mentioned
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  that he's very, very meticulous about how he puts his music
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  together. And I just feel like I can kind
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  of connect with it on a level that, you know, maybe other
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  artists, I enjoy their music. But like this, he kind of he's
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  kind of a voice for me and people who are like me.
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  That's how I see it. He he represents an area that
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  kind of gets made fun of a little bit, that kind of gets
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  poked at a little bit. And, you know, I while I haven't
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  lived on Long Island and 16 or 17 years, like I still feel like
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  that's part of me and I feel like I can never get rid of it.
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  And whenever I do listen to him, it feels like I'm kind of at
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  home again, if you know what I mean.
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  Totally. So I mean, you know, in in
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  saying that a couple months back we went to Baltimore yourself,
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  myself and Chris Schultz and and Chris, you go I want on that
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  that episode. I did.
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  We were pushing through that ridiculous bar.
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  Yeah, and we a a spot opened up and I was like, you know what?
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  Schultz said he wanted in. And so here you are, man.
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  So talk to me about Billy Joel. I I assume there's similarities
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  between everything that everybody else has said.
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  Well, you know, 150 million records worldwide, 81 million in
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  America. He's got a platinum, sorry, a 12
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  time platinum, therefore a diamond album in the stranger 6
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  Grammys, including the Grammy Legend Award, which nobody
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  freaking wins, and American Music Award and a Tony.
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  Today we give Billy as flowers today.
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  Today is the day. Yeah, he's never had them.
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  Before finally, thank God we're here finally.
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  We're going to talk about Billy Joel.
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  People been waiting for anyone to notice this guy, you know,
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  since 1970. Whatever the fuck.
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  No, I just to me, there's some stuff in this these records that
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  taught me how to be a man. That's not a joke.
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  There's memories of long nights driving on the Ocean Parkway,
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  singing along to all for Elena and doing things you shouldn't
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  do in a car. I mean, it's there's AI got a
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  million reasons why I need to be on the show, the least of which
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  is the songs. I can literally just, we could
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  just talk about a record and I'd be happy, but I somehow got it
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  down to 20. So you know, you, you poked a
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  little fun at me there first, first talking about him needing
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  his flowers and. You're right.
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  You're right, though. I I'm not poking fun at what you
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  said. It's funny.
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  It's funny that that's actually how it feels.
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  OK, so yeah. OK, so then you're you're there
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  with me. Like it.
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  It is weird that he feels like this underdog, like he feels
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  like this musical underdog that was never supposed to be like
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  anything. And I think that kind of speaks
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  to like what what Randy was talking about being from from
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  Long Island. And like, I think there is
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  that's built in to like his music.
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  I think that's part of the appeal is he feels like it
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  shouldn't be this way. Like he he isn't getting
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  flowers, but he he is world renowned.
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  He is, you know, he had, he's a multi multi platinum.
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  He's he's sold records, he's won awards.
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  But like, it's not like it's not enough.
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  But it, it feels like if I don't know, man, like Jay Moore
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  recently said on his pod that one of the first, one of the
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  first musical guests when he came to Saturday Night Live was
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  Billy Joel. And he's like, and like, fuck
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  that guy. And then I guess he came came
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  around to him like a couple years later and was like, whoa,
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  what the fuck? Like, you know what I mean?
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  Like there, there's something to that.
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  So let's let's get to that next layer, then that the difficult
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  layer. Chris Otto, let's talk about
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  picking songs for this because ultimately we we decided to do
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  everything which is like up and over 100 songs.
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  So that in and of itself is, is a chore in, in in some way, some
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  regards the best kind of chore, but you got to turn them down to
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  20 man. Like what is What's your game
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  plan on 20 songs for Billy Joel? I mean, I thought I thought the
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  Queen episode was going to be the hardest I ever did.
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  And this ranks right up there because again, I hadn't done a
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  deep dive on Billy Joel in a long time.
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  And like, he's got entire records.
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  Like the entire record belongs on the fucking list.
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  And then the next record, the entire record belongs on the
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  list. I mean, he's got so many songs
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  that are just so freaking good. I forgot about that.
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  I forgot how many just really great songs he's got.
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  And how do you pick, you know, which ones to choose?
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  You got to throw nostalgia out the window if you're trying to,
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  if you're talking about a big thing about Billy Joel and his
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  popularity is outside of New York for a long time, he's like,
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  you know, he's a joke artist. People don't take him seriously.
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  He's that New Yorker who did, We didn't start the fire, you know,
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  but he did so many great, amazing songs.
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  And so how do you choose them? It's it's really freaking hard.
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  So I had to throw nostalgia out the window.
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  I grew up listening to him constantly.
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  You have to throw being in New Yorker out the window because
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  someone from, you know, Wyoming, you know, they, they don't give
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  a shit about New York. It was really hard.
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  It was really hard to cut it down to 20.
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  My first pass I think was 69. Nice.
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  And I, I made my final cuts today and I was just finally
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  like, throw its art out, I guess, and pull a few songs out.
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  It was it was it was really difficult for me to cut it down
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  to 20 because again, just an amazing discography of great
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  songs and and we don't even have everything in this.
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  We have close to everything, but we didn't have everything you
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  got. To make you got to.
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  You got to. That's somewhere.
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  It was really fucking hard. I didn't like it.
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  So Marlene, you know, this, this isn't the first rodeo, but like,
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  this is I feel like the first time we've done we've tackled
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  this much is does that change your approach Or I mean, you
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  know, Chris just said like he had to kind of toss out
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  nostalgia. Did you take the same approach?
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  I did and I did it sooner than Chris did.
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  I think in my process thing, the way I looked at it, because I'm
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  accounted, I said well we have 10 albums here.
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  I can get 2 songs from every album because like Chris said,
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  there are entire albums that belong on this list there and
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  more than one. So it was just really hard.
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  And then today I realized there's 11.
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  As I was going doing my final cuts, I'm like wow.
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  Shoot. There's 11 albums, so, you know,
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  a couple of albums only have one.
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  But it was, it was very, very difficult because like so many
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  hits and even the songs that like never got radio play are
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  amazing. Songs.
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  So, you know, Yeah. Hello.
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  Hello. You all hear my entire rant.
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  Yeah, I love it. I'm enjoying the crickets.
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  It's nice. Yeah, yeah, we can hear you
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  because. I, I finished my rant and I'm
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  like, I heard death silence and it looks like oh, and anybody's
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  I didn't hear anybody. I didn't hear anybody talking.
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  I'm sorry, you you're going to have to edit Justin.
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  Sorry about that. Like hell I am.
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  I just couldn't hear anyone. I'm like hello can anyone hear
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  me? I just made this impassioned
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  rant and God I hope it got on the on on tape.
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  Yeah. Yeah, we we just weren't that
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  impressed with the baby. And I you were called.
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  It. Got a it?
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  Got a It got a cavalierly tepid response.
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  Don't worry. And any other.
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  We passed the mic on to Marlene and and she said her piece.
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  I I did a wonderful. Job I didn't hear that at all.
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  Here to the first. Guy, I'm sure it was fantastic.
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  I'm sure she put me in the shame.
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  So I mean, anyway, yeah, with with this, this heavy
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  heavyweight upon you here, Andy, like talk to me about how you
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  kind of went to get went went about putting your list together
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  for this. A lot differently than Kirsten
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  Marlane did. I did not want to stress over
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  this. I, I didn't, I pretty much new
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  like not the whole 20 right away, but like there's certain
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  tiers of Billy Joel for me that are top and will not be, you
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  know, will not be taken down. And then there's like a second
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  tier and there's a lot in the second tier, and then there's
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  probably like 1/3 tier, which are some of the albums that I'm
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  less familiar with. But like, you know, I, I didn't
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  need to do a full refresh because what I put together were
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  the songs that kind of define my story with Billy Joel.
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  I, I'll, I'll say it like it's impossible to not do 20 without
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  all hits. And I don't think every song
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  that I picked is a hit or even a big hit.
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  And I left a lot of hits out just because you kind of have to
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  by default. But you know, I, I, I went with
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  maybe some that are on the greatest hits album but aren't
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  like the mega hits. And like, those are the songs
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  that kind of really get to me. I, you know, with some songs,
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  yeah, there are artists, if you have a lot of hits, they're
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  going to be some songs that are, you're just going to be like,
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  OK, I'm tired of this. I respect the song for what it
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  is, but it can be put in pile B and not in pile A.
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  But there are some songs that are absolutely undeniable that
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  need to be in pile A. And I, I really didn't have too
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  much of A struggle with it. I think I had made a preliminary
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  20 again and then did a little bit of remixing because I was
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  thinking like, you know, this song over this song.
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  I think it's more important to his catalog and maybe I can talk
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  about it a little more. But there was there were small
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  little changes and I'm sure their songs that you guys are
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  all going to take and I'm just going to be on the other side of
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  it and that's that. But you know, I, I don't see
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  where we have a 10 where we can really go wrong with it.
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  Yeah. I think yeah, I.
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  Think that's a. A great point, Chris.
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  We know that. I don't know.
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  Or Chris Schultz, I should say. I, I said I'm gonna, I'm gonna
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  make sure that I'm pointing out Otto and Schultz.
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  But we're doing it, are we? Doing it.
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  Are we going? No, no.
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  Absolutely not. After hearing that story, no,
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  absolutely not. But I know for a fact, 'cause as
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  we, as we were coming together just before we hit record, I
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  know for a fact you made a change.
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  You made a last minute change. I did.
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  So talk to me about. You know what spurred that last
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  minute change? And talk to me about, you know
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  what, what was the, what was the the rest of the process like for
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  you? All right.
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  So I I started this out by laying out the 10 songs that are
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  the actual answer, right? I think there's like I.
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  Think there's like there is a definable you can literally just
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  look and say there's a two of his songs have a billion plays
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  on Spotify, right? Like literally over a billion.
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  So like those two songs should probably make it.
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  I cut one of those songs because what I did was I put the 10
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  songs that most people would put that aren't fans.
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  And then I cut the ones that I don't particularly like.
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  And then I then I went with songs I want to talk about.
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  And when I started doing that, I became a mental mess.
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  I I went out. I.
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  It was like, it was like I opened up Pandora's Box and all
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  that was in it was myself talking at myself.
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  And it wasn't like it wasn't, it wasn't fun.
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  Everyone but I'll, I'll say this, there's like, there's a
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  song that I literally used to play the cassette in bed and
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  imagine telling the girl I liked that I would sing it to her.
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  And I cut it. Like that's the kind of thing,
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  that's the kind of things I cut. And, and Marlene, I wanted, I
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  wanted to back up to what you said.
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  How was your first cassette tape?
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  I don't know if I've told this story on the show, but my dad
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  bought me two tapes when I was a kid 'cause he wanted to know if
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  I'd like Hard Rock or soft rock. And he, he bought me Bob Seger's
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  Hollywood Nights and Aerosmith's big ones.
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  Oh God. And I.
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  And I love them both. And he didn't know what to do so
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  his so his response to that was to buy me a piano man.
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  So that was my third tape which I ever.
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  Had. So there you go.
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  I love that you mentioned that before because I was very
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  excited to tell that story. So interestingly, I I didn't put
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  this in the first first half. I also am from New York.
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  This is an all New York panel here.
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  Don't even. Think about.
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  It yeah, strangely. Enough.
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  I don't have that same history that you guys do.
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  Like, I didn't grow up. Yeah.
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  I did not grow up in a Billy Joel household.
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  I did not grow up where, you know, we're constantly listening
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  to to his records. I mean, my dad was more show
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  tunes, Barbra Streisand. I've.
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  I've talked about that ad nauseam.
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  My mom was more U2, but that doesn't mean he didn't
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  infiltrate my brain. You know, like between radio and
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  MTV and, you know, various other means.
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  Like he found his way to me and. Kind of.
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  I when I'm looking at the list kind of the same way like Randy,
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  I, I looked and I had 12. I just looked at the list and I
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  had 12. I was like these, these have to
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  be on my list. I unfortunately, there are some
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  that I may get laughed out of the building for, but they were
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  nostalgia picks that I could not separate myself from.
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  I had a miserable time on my first pass because I like like
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  Otto had something like 60 and you know, like each time 1's
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  hitting the floor, I'm like, this is just this is this is
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  bad. This is a great song just going
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  into my bin. Like I don't like this.
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  So just, you know, song after song, like great song after
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  great song just going into bins and you know, I, you know, I
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  don't know, man, like ultimately I, I agree with Randy.
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  I I feel like we can throw stone and we'll pull out 10 great
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  Billy Joel songs and you know, it's it'll be hard to argue
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  against our list. I think the work will be, you
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  know, the the part here, because I think, I think we've, I think
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  we do have our work cut out for us, even though I don't think
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  there's AI think it's agreeable. I don't think it's a hard list
• 24:13
  to make, but I think we've got a lot of work to get there.
• 24:16
  So that being said, let me let me jump into this next section.
• 24:19
  Can I ask a question? Can I ask a question before we
• 24:21
  get into this? How many people here have
• 24:24
  watched the documentary? Both.
• 24:25
  Both parts I have. Not I have.
• 24:28
  Not watched it because I didn't want it affecting my choices.
• 24:32
  OK, that's. What?
• 24:33
  I was gonna ask. I was gonna.
• 24:34
  I don't watch. I don't.
• 24:35
  Watch a lot of TV if I have time to watch TVI spend it Well
• 24:38
  aren't you cool? No, it's not cool.
• 24:41
  I. I made it I.
• 24:42
  Made sure to make sure it wasn't like, oh, I'm too cool to have
• 24:45
  on a television. No, no, I just spent my TV time
• 24:48
  doing something probably less productive.
• 24:51
  Hey. You.
• 24:53
  Do what you got to do. Yeah, yeah.
• 24:55
  OK, so I might. Be the only person here that
• 24:58
  maybe a little bit after watching the documentary, saw
• 25:02
  something out of these songs that I didn't see before that
• 25:06
  maybe helped push them to the top all.
• 25:10
  Right. All right.
• 25:11
  So everything that we've said here does imply a heavy lift.
• 25:18
  Chris Otto, based on all all of that we said, how many do you
• 25:22
  think we get through unanimously?
• 25:24
  Yeah, it's going. To be hard like we've already we
• 25:26
  all have already cut like 30 songs that belong in the list.
• 25:29
  So I I just went through my list and I picked out like 8 that I
• 25:38
  think. Yeah, everyone should.
• 25:40
  Have this, but we all have different nostalgia to certain
• 25:45
  songs, so I don't know. I'm going to go.
• 25:52
  I want to go. 6. Oh, OK.
• 25:55
  Yeah, wow, I have. Conflicts I hesitant 6.
• 26:00
  It hasn't, yeah. But song wise it's possible.
• 26:06
  So. I mean, we'll see.
• 26:09
  Marlene, what do you think? Chris is going 6 I think.
• 26:13
  I think that Chris is insane. I'm going.
• 26:17
  Two, there's 5. Of us A yeah and yeah, it's
• 26:21
  that. Comes down so many.
• 26:23
  Good. So I mean, I can guarantee that
• 26:26
  at least one of the songs that Chris thinks is going to be
• 26:29
  unanimous won't be because I don't have that song, whatever
• 26:32
  it is. So I'm going to.
• 26:36
  Love that. Love that.
• 26:38
  I mean, yeah. And two would still be very
• 26:41
  good. You know, like considering
• 26:44
  everything we're working with here, we're all over the
• 26:48
  spectrum already. Randy two and six off the board.
• 26:52
  I will split the difference. And I will say 4, I think that
• 26:55
  there are a couple songs that just feel undeniable at least
• 26:59
  like two or three. And then there's always one
• 27:02
  that's like, oh OK, that doesn't really make any sense how 5
• 27:05
  people would pick it, but we did it just.
• 27:08
  Usually happens. So I'm going to say 4.
• 27:12
  Plenty out there, Chris, like. 24 and six are.
• 27:16
  Off the board, maybe all the safe safe picks are gone.
• 27:20
  I just realized the. Most insane thing ever.
• 27:24
  I I, I will talk about it later when we get to it.
• 27:27
  OK, I love those picks, I love 4 and I'm angry at Randy, but this
• 27:32
  is what I get for being the late Comer.
• 27:37
  I think. I think everyone.
• 27:40
  'S logic is strong. I think my brain normally goes
• 27:44
  high, so I'll go low and say 3, but it's not a strategic choice,
• 27:48
  it's a panic choice. 5 panel, 5 people panels are really hard.
• 27:52
  Yeah, yeah. They are.
• 27:55
  I'm always the. Optimist Justin, you got to go
• 27:57
  5. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 27:59
  I'm usually the optimist. I.
• 28:00
  Am man, I feel like I do. You know, I I'm fighting my
• 28:04
  instinct to go even higher, but I feel like with Billy Joel, I
• 28:07
  actually may have an answer. Like I may actually want to win
• 28:10
  because, you know, because I may have a choice, so.
• 28:16
  Just. Depending you know.
• 28:19
  I think I'm going to take that five.
• 28:21
  It splits the middle. It's usually where I like to be.
• 28:23
  So I'm going to split the middle and I'm going to take that 5.
• 28:26
  All right, we are going to take a quick pause and when we come
• 28:30
  back, we are going to get into it.
• 28:32
  There's it's, it's not going to be heated, I'll say that much,
• 28:35
  but it is going to be breezy. Work.
• 28:38
  We're going to get to it. It's a program.
• 28:46
  And with that. The name of the game is
• 28:47
  deprogrammed. The five of us have come through
• 28:51
  almost everything Billy Joel has done.
• 28:53
  Like 105 songs worth of everything that Billy Joel has
• 28:57
  done and plucked out 20 songs that are now going to mash
• 29:00
  together in an attempt to create a top 10 starter kit for you in
• 29:03
  case you have never given Billy Joel the time of day.
• 29:06
  And now I have two here that I feel like I can go with.
• 29:11
  I can go with something personal where like I kind of forgot
• 29:15
  about it. I think it's a great song.
• 29:18
  It could just kind of be, I find a couple of you guys just to
• 29:24
  kind of see or something that feels like a softball that can
• 29:28
  kind of really test the waters of where we are as a group.
• 29:32
  Should I test the waters or should I test my heart?
• 29:35
  What do you guys think? You're the lowest.
• 29:37
  Why are you asking us? Well, 'cause I you.
• 29:40
  You never know, man. Pretend it's your.
• 29:43
  Show. Justin, go on.
• 29:46
  All right. Test your heart, Justin.
• 29:48
  Go with your heart. I'll go with my heart and.
• 29:51
  I always liked this song, but I love this song now.
• 29:57
  And when I saw it on the list, I was like, OK, yeah, that's got
• 30:01
  to be one of them. And then when I came up on it on
• 30:04
  my second pass, I was like, oh fuck, I fucking love this song.
• 30:07
  I listened to it before we went on.
• 30:10
  Probably not my favorite, but like.
• 30:13
  Way further. Up the list than than I thought
• 30:16
  it would be. You may be right.
• 30:19
  Going to say. It say I'm going to be real bad
• 30:22
  if I don't have this song. Yes, I kept it.
• 30:25
  Absolutely. I have you being.
• 30:28
  Baby right as well, yeah. I.
• 30:31
  Almost cut it but I did not there.
• 30:34
  We go, right? Off the bat, yeah.
• 30:38
  Glass houses gal. Almost didn't have it all right.
• 30:40
  I know, right? Well, it was.
• 30:43
  This are all for Lena, you know. Oh, don't even tell me that.
• 30:47
  I know that's a great song. I mean.
• 30:52
  We, we, we do have to talk about the, the run of track ones from
• 30:56
  Glass Houses, 52nd St. and the Stranger.
• 30:59
  Like those track ones, like yeah, yeah.
• 31:02
  I'm sure we'll get. More into that as we go, but you
• 31:05
  just said. That we got to talk about these
• 31:07
  3 Multi gold album 1 is science. Well, yeah, I mean.
• 31:12
  They don't get their flowers right?
• 31:14
  Yeah. No.
• 31:16
  I mean, that is one of the greatest 3 record runs that any
• 31:19
  artist has ever been on. Can we all just say that?
• 31:20
  Like, I mean, yeah. Well.
• 31:24
  I was. Specifically talking about the
• 31:25
  track ones, but like yeah. So like.
• 31:29
  You know, it feel it felt like in my, you know, my first
• 31:33
  listen, like maybe we'd be running out of gas by the time I
• 31:37
  got the glass houses and you may be right, He may be right.
• 31:40
  Comes on. I'm like, aw.
• 31:43
  Fuck, I've got a. Lot of work ahead of me.
• 31:47
  Last house Good. Rockers, that's one of the
• 31:50
  albums where I'm like, every song on this album belongs
• 31:52
  nonetheless, for sure. For.
• 31:54
  Sure, almost every song. All right, let's see I.
• 32:00
  Want to note that that is one of the answers that I got when I
• 32:04
  asked the Internet about Billy Joel, so you may be right one
• 32:10
  down. It's also got one.
• 32:12
  Of the most one of the most New York lyrics ever when he
• 32:17
  stranded in the combat zone and walk for through Bedford style
• 32:20
  own if it's style yeah. Even rode his motorcycle in the.
• 32:23
  Rain. Yeah, yeah.
• 32:24
  That's. Just like, and I'll say this, it
• 32:26
  kind of proves Randy wrong because it's it's not about Long
• 32:28
  Island. But you know, it's all
• 32:33
  connected. I mean, actually, Brook.
• 32:38
  Brooklyn is on Long Island. So you know what, right, I'm
• 32:40
  wrong exactly. It's.
• 32:41
  It's you may be. Right.
• 32:44
  Don't. Don't tell them that I may.
• 32:47
  Really. Don't, don't tell.
• 32:49
  Someone from Brooklyn, that they're from Long Island, but
• 32:51
  yeah, there you go, right? Yeah, yeah.
• 32:54
  Yeah, or Queens. All right, so you may be right
• 32:58
  is in Chris Otto. Where do you want to go?
• 33:01
  All right. I'm going to go.
• 33:02
  For the bin I'm going to go this is 1's going in the bin, this is
• 33:05
  going to be in one. I kept it for one.
• 33:08
  Specific reason I was I don't remember how old I was when this
• 33:12
  record came out. Nylon Curtain 12 or 13.
• 33:16
  And it's the first. Time I heard fucking in a song
• 33:21
  and it blew it. It blew my little.
• 33:24
  It blew my little mind that I went to the record store and
• 33:28
  bought this record and my parents let me.
• 33:31
  And I heard. Fucking.
• 33:33
  And I was like, Oh my God, I can't play this song.
• 33:37
  What if my parents hear this song?
• 33:38
  It's Laura. I don't.
• 33:41
  I think. He says no, I think he says that
• 33:45
  record I. Know I'm the only.
• 33:47
  One with it, and I only kept it for that reason.
• 33:50
  This one's, this one's from my heart, like Justin said, from my
• 33:53
  heart first of. All Laura.
• 33:54
  Is an incredible song and I also know.
• 33:57
  I think he says. Fucking twice on nylon curtain.
• 34:01
  Oh, does he? I.
• 34:03
  I'll. I'll get up right now so
• 34:05
  specifically feeling. Like a fucking fool.
• 34:09
  And my of course. I like turned.
• 34:11
  The tape off, I'm like Oh my God.
• 34:15
  Oh. So yeah.
• 34:19
  I. Thought you.
• 34:20
  Meant that you actually heard like, vivid fucking in the
• 34:23
  background of a song. I'm like no, no, no, no, no the.
• 34:26
  Word. The word.
• 34:29
  Can anybody save Chris Otto? No.
• 34:32
  No. No, no.
• 34:34
  I. Didn't.
• 34:35
  I didn't. Did not.
• 34:37
  I do not have Laura on my I didn't.
• 34:40
  Expect it. I didn't expect it and and.
• 34:43
  I know, I I, you know, and I cut, I cut.
• 34:47
  I'm sure if someone's going to be like, Oh my God, you cut
• 34:49
  that. I'm like, yeah, I cut that.
• 34:51
  And I fucking kept Laura because I'm a fucking fool.
• 34:55
  So there you go. You go with the heart, man.
• 34:58
  You go with the heart. All right, Marlene.
• 35:03
  So I am actually. Going to go for my first song.
• 35:05
  I discovered this song. I have no recollection of this
• 35:10
  song before I started listening for this thing and I was like,
• 35:14
  this is an amazing song. I can't believe.
• 35:18
  That I've never heard it before, and I don't expect anybody else
• 35:22
  to have it either because it's Weekend Song.
• 35:26
  Oh no. No, I don't have it.
• 35:29
  But that is a great song. Yeah, I was just like.
• 35:32
  Wow, this, this. It spoke to me.
• 35:34
  Maybe I heard it when I was younger, but it didn't mean
• 35:38
  anything to me because. I didn't.
• 35:41
  I wasn't an an adult. For me that that.
• 35:45
  Record never really hit for me. Honestly, that's like one of the
• 35:48
  ones that never really hit. I have to actually listen to
• 35:50
  that. Do you remember what it sounds
• 35:52
  like? There you go.
• 35:55
  All right. Into the bin, unfortunately from
• 35:58
  Arlene. Randy, where you all right?
• 36:05
  I want to start off here. My first song like I think with
• 36:10
  the best music. You.
• 36:14
  Are able to listen and kind of develop, you know, pictures in
• 36:19
  your mind of what's going on in the song, especially at a very
• 36:23
  young age. That's how you can kind of
• 36:24
  relate to music. I think a lot of Beatles music
• 36:28
  that I listen to now, I still get vivid images of things that
• 36:33
  I thought about the song when I was a kid, You know, just like
• 36:38
  whatever it was that I was thinking at the time, like that
• 36:40
  kind of like it grows and you know, that's your taken of the
• 36:45
  song. But this one song.
• 36:48
  Has just a. Really kind of remarkable intro
• 36:51
  with what the song title is. And I always thought that
• 36:56
  listening to this intro and the whistling in the intro like.
• 37:03
  You. Think of a stranger when like
• 37:06
  somebody you just pass by on the street, like of nameless,
• 37:09
  faceless person in a trench coat and a hat and it's just somebody
• 37:14
  just whistling along and whistling by.
• 37:17
  And, and you never see this person.
• 37:19
  You never see their face, you never know their name, but you
• 37:23
  have this vivid image of like, that is a stranger to me.
• 37:29
  I don't know why the whistling made it feel so vivid that it
• 37:35
  defined what a stranger was, but I, I feel like it is 'cause they
• 37:38
  don't, they're not saying any words to you, but they're
• 37:40
  communicating with you in some way.
• 37:43
  So the stranger, Yeah. That.
• 37:46
  I don't have it. I don't.
• 37:48
  Have it either. I.
• 37:50
  That's such a great song. I was whistling it if you didn't
• 37:53
  hear it, but as soon as you said whistling, I'm like, I know
• 37:56
  exactly what you're talking. About that was it.
• 37:59
  It made my first cut for sure. Absolutely.
• 38:02
  That. Was that was a.
• 38:03
  Hard cut. It was a hard cut.
• 38:05
  I absolutely. Have the.
• 38:07
  Stranger. I absolutely have the stranger,
• 38:14
  Randy. That's not what the stranger's
• 38:15
  about. I know it's not.
• 38:19
  Also. Oh God, what are the rules of
• 38:22
  five person panels? Justin rules.
• 38:27
  Twos are kind. Of dead, yeah.
• 38:29
  Depending on but. Depending.
• 38:32
  You know, depends on what, Yeah. Yeah.
• 38:36
  Twos are kind of dead because like fours are threes and fours
• 38:40
  are are practically in. So, I mean, at this point in the
• 38:44
  game, this is still very much alive.
• 38:47
  Well, do you have it? I do not I.
• 38:48
  Cannot make it a three. Whoa, I know.
• 38:52
  Yeah, this. Light dude.
• 38:53
  Look, these are hot. Takes.
• 38:55
  Hot takes, baby. Let's go.
• 38:57
  There's gonna be. A lot of pain in this episode.
• 38:59
  Oh yeah, we came. We came.
• 39:00
  Through with unanimous on you baby.
• 39:02
  Right and a bin for this stranger.
• 39:05
  This is great. I love it, I love it.
• 39:11
  Terrific. I'm.
• 39:12
  Sure, it's going to get worse. For sure.
• 39:17
  All right. Schultz, where you want to?
• 39:19
  Go I. Don't even know.
• 39:21
  I just feel, I feel my body feels strange.
• 39:24
  I, I don't know. I mean, I can go with one that's
• 39:28
  having a moment. I can do one.
• 39:31
  Let's do I think I'll go with a song that I love but maybe won't
• 39:42
  make it. Let's go with the only song in
• 39:47
  history where I can abide a jazz solo.
• 39:50
  Zanzibar, No. Good song.
• 39:54
  No, no, it's a good song. Yeah.
• 39:58
  Yeah, it. Didn't stay.
• 39:59
  It's a great song though. I genuinely love this.
• 40:03
  Song so freaking much. It's the only time I can hear
• 40:07
  Billy Joel's Yankees fandom and not want to puke.
• 40:10
  I. I.
• 40:13
  It's just. Billy.
• 40:14
  It's just Billy because he's a proper Yankees fan and it's
• 40:17
  frustrating. I'd love to make fun of it If
• 40:18
  he's a proper I'm I'm. A proper Yankees fan as well.
• 40:21
  Well, that's don't worry. Chase Stadium will come up in.
• 40:24
  This episode at some point, maybe soon and.
• 40:27
  And I named my catfish Zam Zabar as a child because of this.
• 40:30
  Oh cool. You you want to hear something
• 40:36
  stupid? Because sometimes you need like
• 40:37
  stupid reasons to cut things. And my stupid reason for cutting
• 40:42
  it was because all I could think of was Tenacious D.
• 40:47
  Not. Going to cook.
• 40:49
  It but I'll order it from tons of bar you you are listening.
• 40:53
  It means so much to me that as someone that isn't like a Billy
• 40:57
  Deep diver that stood out to you, that I don't even care.
• 41:00
  I love that you had that on your radar.
• 41:02
  It means a lot to me. All right, I'm going to go with
• 41:08
  the other one that I was thinking about leading off with,
• 41:11
  though. It seems like I made the right
• 41:13
  choice. This feels like it could be a
• 41:16
  softball. Feels like maybe it should be a
• 41:19
  softball, but who knows? This stranger got cut.
• 41:23
  Because this is hard. I mean, look, everybody knows
• 41:29
  this one piano man. Yeah, it's.
• 41:32
  Too obvious? No, I got it.
• 41:35
  I cut it as well. No, I love.
• 41:37
  It Yeah, we're just coming in. Hot I I have Piano Man.
• 41:41
  OK, so we take the three there. Controversially, I have piano
• 41:47
  man. I will say what the hell?
• 41:49
  This is what? I this is what I realized before
• 41:52
  Justin, when I was like, I just realized something that's
• 41:53
  demented. So this is one of the two songs
• 41:57
  Billy Joel has that has over a billion plays on Spotify.
• 42:00
  Sure. But.
• 42:01
  When I was looking at it, there's only two songs.
• 42:04
  When I was looking at it, this record is on here twice.
• 42:07
  There's Piano Man and the legacy edition of Piano Man.
• 42:10
  Therefore it is split in half and it has a billion plays.
• 42:14
  That's amazing piano. Man.
• 42:16
  Has a I'm going to do. I want to get this right.
• 42:19
  It is 1,102,000,000 a 174,761 plays, but it also on the other
• 42:26
  version of the record has 1,102,000,000 a 174 1761 plays.
• 42:33
  So it has 2.5 billion plays on Spotify.
• 42:38
  That is genuinely, absolutely and definitively demented, yeah.
• 42:47
  Maybe need some? Some rights there.
• 42:51
  People, yeah. People don't need us.
• 42:55
  To recommend this. Song for them, you know I.
• 42:59
  We'll we'll get to that part. You know, if, if it becomes
• 43:02
  expendable, it becomes expendable.
• 43:04
  So we'll see some. Songs just follow people around
• 43:09
  forever whether you love them. I did.
• 43:12
  Go. To one in the Madison Square
• 43:14
  Garden shows on that run and before playing piano Man,
• 43:17
  Billy's like, all right, here's the most obvious one of the
• 43:20
  night. Like he gets it, he gets it.
• 43:23
  But like, you know, for years this Citi Field was like the
• 43:28
  sing along song and now they do random shit.
• 43:30
  They don't do this every night. But like, I feel like that's so
• 43:33
  perfect for, you know, Red Sox do like Sweet Caroline.
• 43:38
  I feel like the Mets doing piano man is just so perfectly.
• 43:41
  Everybody knows the lyrics, everybody reacts to it the same
• 43:45
  way. And I think, you know, now I'm,
• 43:48
  I wasn't going to bring this Mets thing into it.
• 43:51
  But at the first ever World Series game in Mets history was
• 43:55
  game three, 2015, a very awkward Kevin James was sitting in a
• 44:02
  suite with Billy Joel as the song came on.
• 44:05
  And he was like, I Can't Sing this in front of him.
• 44:09
  And did he make did he make the? Kevin James meme face.
• 44:13
  I can't remember what his face was, but like he's definitely
• 44:16
  trying, like legitimately trying not to embarrass himself with
• 44:20
  Billy Joel by singing this song. It's pretty incredible.
• 44:23
  There you go. You know what though?
• 44:25
  Maybe the Mets should start playing.
• 44:27
  You may be right. Because we.
• 44:29
  Yeah, yeah. Well.
• 44:31
  Somebody will hear this. Yeah, it's.
• 44:34
  Probably your. Songs.
• 44:35
  It should, yeah. All right.
• 44:38
  I'm not. I'm not.
• 44:38
  A big fan of. I'm not a big fan of the other
• 44:40
  man. That's a.
• 44:41
  That's a hot team. I know I.
• 44:43
  I know it's essential, Billy Joel, and obviously everybody's
• 44:47
  heard it and loves it. Yeah.
• 44:49
  It's. It's not one of my favorites,
• 44:51
  all right? Everybody's got their reasons.
• 44:53
  It it gets 3, so it gets to hang around.
• 44:57
  Auto you're up. Well, we've.
• 45:00
  Mentioned the Yankees. And the the they just come up
• 45:02
  again. So let's go ahead and bring it
• 45:04
  up now. Miami 2017 The night,
• 45:07
  Absolutely. The night.
• 45:08
  The lights went out in Broadway. I I tried to.
• 45:13
  Detach myself. As a New Yorker, but this song
• 45:17
  not just being about New York, it's, it's just such an amazing
• 45:22
  song. Musically.
• 45:25
  It's an amazing song, absolutely.
• 45:30
  I cut. That song during the intro, I
• 45:33
  did it. Oh no.
• 45:35
  I, I I. I thought really long and hard
• 45:37
  about it. I I left on some songs that
• 45:39
  won't make it. I cut it.
• 45:42
  I cut it because I had to put A1A song on that we haven't
• 45:46
  spoken about yet, so I did just cut it.
• 45:50
  Wow, girl. Got a long intro?
• 45:52
  A lot of them do I the live version has an even longer intro
• 45:56
  and is better, but yeah. I also cut it.
• 46:01
  Justin just because I. Wanted to.
• 46:03
  Got a 2. Yeah.
• 46:05
  Just because. I wanted to is great dirt.
• 46:08
  Justin haven't had an extra 1 so.
• 46:10
  That hurt in a long time, but this one no I.
• 46:13
  Don't I don't have it so it's got a 2.
• 46:16
  It's got a 2. I mean, again, the twos are safe
• 46:19
  right now. We're, you know, we'll see.
• 46:23
  You know, there's still lots of gameplay, still a lot of heavy
• 46:26
  hitters out there. We'll see.
• 46:28
  Marlene. Yeah.
• 46:32
  I don't know where I want to go now.
• 46:35
  Let's go to say goodbye to. Hollywood.
• 46:39
  This is one of those ones that I had kind of forgotten about and
• 46:42
  I listened to and everything and it's like, wow, wow.
• 46:44
  This is just, it's an amazing song.
• 46:46
  These are all amazing. Songs how am I going to cut
• 46:49
  anything and. I like to go with the.
• 46:53
  Less. The less obvious.
• 46:57
  Ones usually so there. You go if I did not take.
• 47:01
  It that is a later. Cost.
• 47:03
  Sorry, somehow that is the. Other song I cut during the
• 47:06
  intro. Wow.
• 47:10
  I. I, I also love that song.
• 47:11
  I, I so here's what happened. I, I went on a ride with my
• 47:14
  girlfriend, who I've been punishing with Billy Joel since
• 47:17
  we met. And I, I played my 20 songs and
• 47:21
  those were the 2 songs we both agreed could be cut.
• 47:23
  And it was actually like, part of the conversation.
• 47:26
  And it's because like, when you really listen to them, they're
• 47:29
  not really about much. They're just a really nice
• 47:31
  sounding song. Yeah, that's, that's really my
• 47:34
  take on it. Like they're just really not
• 47:36
  about much. They're just just nice sounding,
• 47:38
  you know? Yeah, there's nothing wrong.
• 47:40
  With that, nothing about. That at all?
• 47:42
  It's pretty. Yeah, I.
• 47:43
  Mean, that's kind of why I cut it too, because it's just like,
• 47:46
  yeah, good, but put up against a different song that has some
• 47:51
  like force behind it, has some meaning behind it.
• 47:54
  Like, yeah, that was kind of the difference.
• 47:58
  Is it a, is it a one? Yeah, it's just been.
• 48:00
  Unfortunately, yeah. Yeah, That, that's, that's.
• 48:03
  That's a freaking. That's a freaking travesty to be
• 48:05
  a one. That's a travesty.
• 48:06
  I know, right? I I, I wish.
• 48:08
  I wish. I was in there with you, like,
• 48:09
  honestly, all right. Randy.
• 48:15
  I can either like get us back to feeling good about things, but I
• 48:19
  don't think I want to go there. The story.
• 48:23
  My first job in the industry, I suppose, was as an intern for
• 48:30
  News 12 Long Island. And this was in 2008.
• 48:34
  City Shea Stadium was on its final days.
• 48:38
  It was going through the, you know, the last plays at Shea and
• 48:41
  whatever, and I was working for the sports department in News 12
• 48:45
  and during the summer Billy Joel plays the last ever show at Shea
• 48:52
  Stadium. And yeah, it's a huge, huge
• 48:55
  deal. I mean, Paul McCartney came out
• 48:57
  and they did. I saw her standing there and
• 48:59
  like, I remember I got the bootleg of that and I wore that
• 49:01
  thing close. Didn't.
• 49:02
  They close Shea Stadium singing Hey Jude together.
• 49:05
  Yeah, I. Think so.
• 49:07
  I don't that show or you're just saying in general, I think it
• 49:11
  was the last. Thing that happened at Shea
• 49:13
  Stadium wasn't it? Was it them singing Hey Jude
• 49:15
  together? I'm pretty sure yeah, it might
• 49:17
  have. Been it might have been, but I
• 49:21
  remember all of us gathering around to watch the footage of
• 49:26
  this the night after it happened because, you know, none of us
• 49:32
  had went and we're all just watching and we have like just
• 49:36
  bits of clips. We're all just watching and
• 49:38
  we're watching this one song and there's like 3 or 4 of us just
• 49:42
  mesmerized by this. We're like, oh, he's fucking
• 49:46
  brilliant. Like he's, we haven't talked
• 49:49
  about how actually talented he is on the piano.
• 49:53
  Like. Absolutely.
• 49:56
  Incredible. And I was just mesmerized by and
• 50:00
  I if I didn't take the song, I would kick my own ass.
• 50:04
  Prelude. Angry young man.
• 50:09
  Oh. Yeah.
• 50:11
  That was a hard one. To cut.
• 50:13
  But it really was. I cut it too.
• 50:16
  Oh. No, I definitely have it, Randy.
• 50:18
  OK, that's an amazing. That's an amazing song.
• 50:21
  It is. It is.
• 50:22
  An amazing song, Yeah, no. Watching.
• 50:25
  Watching him play that song is is amazing.
• 50:28
  Yes, it's also. Actually, go ahead.
• 50:30
  No. Please go OK.
• 50:32
  The reason? I cut it was because of the
• 50:35
  prelude because. If you've never.
• 50:38
  If you're not a fan of Billy Joel.
• 50:41
  That's a lot I want to give. Him a lot.
• 50:45
  For. For me, the the prelude is what
• 50:48
  sticks out to me. I mean, the song is great and
• 50:50
  it's very, very relevant to today.
• 50:54
  The song, the prelude itself. I remember being a little kid
• 50:58
  listening to this song and imagining people setting up a
• 51:02
  stage, like running with sets pieces and setting it up and
• 51:06
  like doing little dances and running away while this played.
• 51:09
  I would imagine it in my head, like I remember sitting there
• 51:13
  like just with my headphones on pretending things were happening
• 51:17
  to that prelude. Like I have such vivid memories
• 51:19
  of it. Yeah, like a SUS.
• 51:22
  What do you call it? Like things were just speeding
• 51:27
  up in, like, just like a camera in one spot where everything is
• 51:30
  just speed up. Yeah.
• 51:32
  It's just so theatrical. And it's like, so beautifully
• 51:34
  theatrical and, like, has nothing to do with the song that
• 51:37
  comes afterwards. Yeah, it's wild.
• 51:41
  Like, you know, this like frilly theatrical, like almost like
• 51:47
  intro to a Western play like Oklahoma.
• 51:51
  And then you get a song about like a young Republican.
• 51:54
  It's so, so, so bizarre, but it's so good.
• 51:58
  It's so fucking good. When I sent the message of so
• 52:02
  many great songs are hitting the floor.
• 52:06
  This was one of the. Ones that hit the floor, just so
• 52:09
  you know. OK all.
• 52:10
  Right. Yeah, I want to say like.
• 52:12
  Somewhere in the 26th range like you're.
• 52:15
  I'm just looking to shed stuff so.
• 52:19
  Yep, it's hard cut. All right.
• 52:21
  Schultz, We. Haven't.
• 52:24
  We haven't done a ballad yet. I feel like if I don't, if I
• 52:27
  don't force some ballads, there won't be.
• 52:29
  I'll go. I'll I feel like this is
• 52:31
  probably going to make it. Let's go with just the way you
• 52:33
  are. Yep.
• 52:34
  Yeah, it has to. Make it right I.
• 52:38
  Bet Marlene got. It.
• 52:42
  Damn, she cut it. I thought she said she got it.
• 52:45
  She cut it. No, I cut it.
• 52:48
  OK. But a 4 is really good,
• 52:50
  especially the way it's going. It is.
• 52:52
  It is, and it's an it's an amazing song.
• 52:55
  It is. Objectively, it really is.
• 52:58
  And I will say to you like his his.
• 53:02
  We haven't really talked about his vocal technique.
• 53:04
  The guy can goddamn sing. And I think there was, There's a
• 53:11
  few songs you listen to and it's like watching a really, I'll use
• 53:15
  another baseball metaphor, as we always do.
• 53:17
  It's like watching a really good outfielder make a play look
• 53:19
  easy. This.
• 53:21
  This song is incredibly difficult to sing, incredibly
• 53:25
  difficult for a a tenor, a male tenor to sing and it sounds like
• 53:30
  he is having to laugh. Unbelievable performance on the
• 53:34
  recording. They make a Really.
• 53:37
  Big deal of the song on the documentary, it's one of the
• 53:39
  ones they highlight a lot. Yeah.
• 53:42
  So that I don't think that changed my opinion on on it, but
• 53:46
  it made me make sure it made the list.
• 53:51
  This was one of those. 12 That jumped out to me before I even
• 53:55
  listened. I was like, yeah, I kind of have
• 53:57
  to have this one and then, you know, sacks and everything.
• 54:00
  When yeah, and. Then when I got to it, I was
• 54:02
  like, OK, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's in.
• 54:04
  So all right, it gets a 4A4A4 in this climate is is just about a
• 54:11
  shoreline in. This climate, so we'll see.
• 54:16
  We'll see. All right, I'm going to.
• 54:21
  I'm going to take a shot at trying to find a couple of you
• 54:24
  guys here. I doubt that this gets all the
• 54:27
  way in. And I'm not.
• 54:30
  Going to lie, it initially was on my radar because of bosom
• 54:33
  buddies, so I'm giving it away. But but I, I will say that after
• 54:43
  I made my cuts and I listened to the song, I was like, Oh no,
• 54:46
  that it's, it is a great song. It's not just it.
• 54:50
  This wasn't just a nostalgia play.
• 54:51
  It wasn't just me thinking about Tom Hanks dressed as a woman.
• 54:54
  This is this was seriously a song that I like and deserves to
• 54:58
  be on my list. Whether you guys agree or not.
• 55:02
  We're about to find out. I went with my life.
• 55:04
  Yeah. I got it.
• 55:07
  I don't have it I. Contemplated this as one of the
• 55:11
  replacements. I I will say my mom's favorite
• 55:14
  lyric of all time isn't that song.
• 55:15
  I do not have it. OK.
• 55:19
  Was that a no from you as well, Randy?
• 55:21
  Yeah. That's only two, and it's not
• 55:24
  it's. Not because I I actually only
• 55:27
  want to think about Tom Hanks dressed as a woman at any given
• 55:29
  time. Not.
• 55:32
  Not to disparage the great film Bosom buddies.
• 55:35
  Does that. I'll also point.
• 55:38
  Out. Does that mean that?
• 55:40
  Go ahead. Does that mean that?
• 55:42
  You. When you think about Tom.
• 55:45
  Hanks, you only want to think about him dressed as a woman, or
• 55:47
  that you think about Tom Hanks all the time dressed as a woman.
• 55:51
  That's a great. Question.
• 55:52
  I think yes. Is the answer perfect?
• 55:57
  I will point out. That this was an answer that I
• 55:59
  got when I asked, I asked people what essential Billy Joel was
• 56:04
  did that did not frame me in any way, but it was it should be
• 56:08
  noted somebody did answer that. OK.
• 56:11
  Yeah, I think it. I think it's a pretty good
• 56:13
  summation of this is a Billy Joel song.
• 56:16
  Yeah. Oh, it's a.
• 56:16
  Damn good. Song, It's a totally, totally
• 56:18
  reasonable include if like if we ended up with that on the 10,
• 56:21
  nobody would be upset, right? All right.
• 56:25
  Auto. So there's two songs I'm.
• 56:30
  Going to go back to the ballad because I I want to get the one
• 56:33
  that Marlene picked. I don't know if she picked one
• 56:35
  or two, but she's got to have at least picked 1 and there's two
• 56:39
  songs that his that I hear them and I think of her.
• 56:44
  Love you babe. Love you.
• 56:47
  Too one. One of them.
• 56:48
  Was just the way you are. One of them is not always a
• 56:52
  woman. It's you're my home.
• 56:55
  Aw. I don't have.
• 56:57
  It. God damn it yo, what a.
• 57:03
  Great song. I do not have it.
• 57:05
  It is a great. Song, but that is a beautiful.
• 57:08
  Beautiful song it is. And it was between that and the
• 57:12
  other ballad that I kept so. Oh.
• 57:15
  My God. The spoilers.
• 57:17
  I probably don't have your other one that's.
• 57:19
  Fine, I don't care. Well, I'm one.
• 57:24
  I want to. See how old Billy Joel was in
• 57:26
  1973? That's a 24 year old man.
• 57:28
  Wrote that song, by the way. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 57:31
  What did he go through? In life, you know I for sure
• 57:34
  had. That on my.
• 57:35
  Watch the. Documentary.
• 57:36
  Yeah. Was that a?
• 57:37
  Was that A1? Yeah, nobody.
• 57:41
  Had you're my home. I that's cutrid.
• 57:44
  Yeah, it was. A a late late cut, but I know
• 57:46
  nobody. Had.
• 57:47
  You're my home, sorry. Freaking no.
• 57:49
  One no one wants more mandolins on this list, but fuck this.
• 57:52
  Panel. All right, Martha's Laura
• 57:59
  language do. You want to.
• 58:02
  Do you want to know what ballad I have, babe?
• 58:05
  That is the. You're always a woman.
• 58:08
  No. Oh no, she's.
• 58:10
  Got She's got away. Oh, that's a good.
• 58:14
  One to do? Damn, that's a.
• 58:15
  Good song. I know.
• 58:17
  That is out of. All the ballads that.
• 58:19
  That was tough to cut, yeah. I can't see so.
• 58:23
  Am I the only one with it? Yeah, I don't.
• 58:26
  Know I don't know why I don't have that.
• 58:27
  I I like that more than just the way you are.
• 58:30
  I should have had that instead. I well well done out of you.
• 58:34
  That's a great song. I completely forgot about that.
• 58:37
  I do. Want to point out that those
• 58:39
  were, I mean it means very little at this point.
• 58:42
  They were both of those last ones were on my first pass so.
• 58:46
  They were. On my.
• 58:47
  Radar just didn't. They just didn't get in.
• 58:50
  All right. Randy.
• 58:53
  All right, let's. Try to get A5.
• 58:55
  I'm going to play a real easy one, and if it's not an easy
• 58:58
  one, we have some real problems. Didn't you put a stranger?
• 59:01
  Out and it hit. The bin, yeah.
• 59:03
  Basically so. You're still.
• 59:05
  Alive though. But I didn't I.
• 59:07
  Didn't think the stranger was gonna have 5 this.
• 59:11
  If this doesn't have 5, we have problems.
• 59:13
  Let's just put it that way. Scenes from an Italian
• 59:16
  restaurant. Come on everyone.
• 59:18
  Yes. Brenda and Eddie man.
• 59:21
  So that is what I added during the intro, that that's why I.
• 59:26
  Said that that's why I. Said this is a demented change
• 59:29
  I'm making. I somehow just didn't put that
• 59:32
  in. That's what.
• 59:34
  I I now. Have it.
• 59:35
  So there you have it. Well, there was that 5.
• 59:37
  That's a 5. That's a 5I I.
• 59:40
  Honestly thought you were going to cut that one.
• 59:43
  Nope. I.
• 59:44
  I was, I was very, very close, but it's.
• 59:48
  I I will say. Let the nostalgia get to me on
• 59:51
  this one because I am not a huge.
• 59:53
  Fan yeah of that song. Really.
• 59:56
  Really. I'm not.
• 59:57
  But I do think, I do think it would be objectively wrong to
• 1:00:00
  not have it on the list. So it's that's the way I put it.
• 1:00:04
  It's another. One of those songs like Miami
• 1:00:06
  2017 where it's it's like 3 or 4 different songs all plowed into
• 1:00:12
  one that's a rock opera. Yeah, I do think.
• 1:00:15
  That he tried something with this one.
• 1:00:17
  Like, I hear this one and I get it, you know what I mean?
• 1:00:20
  I I just I just personally think it's a little bit too linked
• 1:00:23
  with nudge nudge, you know, mad artist at the wheel, no one
• 1:00:27
  telling what to do. But it's also kind of beautiful
• 1:00:29
  that it comes out to be a good song.
• 1:00:30
  So, you know, 6 to 1 half dozen, the other, I guess.
• 1:00:33
  There you go. You know, all right, we got,
• 1:00:37
  we're at Marlene's too. There's still like we're still,
• 1:00:40
  you know, plenty of gameplay here.
• 1:00:43
  There's I mean. Twos. 2.
• 1:00:45
  We have them hanging around. We haven't touched.
• 1:00:48
  An innocent man yet? Yeah, I was about to.
• 1:00:51
  Hit that. I've gone a couple.
• 1:00:54
  Times, yeah, but should. We talk about.
• 1:00:57
  Joel. There's gotta be at.
• 1:00:59
  Least a couple off of that record all.
• 1:01:01
  Right. Should we talk about?
• 1:01:02
  Joel, right now, well, it's your turn, Schultz.
• 1:01:05
  I'm not. Going with the one with a
• 1:01:07
  billion plays because I hate that song, but I will say.
• 1:01:11
  I I will say. I I, I really genuinely despise
• 1:01:14
  it. I'll I'll talk all day about how
• 1:01:16
  wonderful the vocals are in it, but it's a bad song.
• 1:01:19
  I'm sorry, America. I will go with my favorite song,
• 1:01:24
  like maybe my favorite Billy Joel song.
• 1:01:27
  Definitely my favorite Billy Joel song.
• 1:01:28
  At times in my life. It has been my favorite song and
• 1:01:31
  it is 80s Joel Sir and it's teller about it.
• 1:01:34
  Fuck yeah, it's a. Great.
• 1:01:36
  Song it's. A.
• 1:01:37
  Great. Song.
• 1:01:38
  I wish that I don't have it. Is that a fridge?
• 1:01:45
  I got it, yeah. Hell yeah.
• 1:01:48
  That's all I care about. I just want to get respect,
• 1:01:50
  respect on that song because genuinely, that is how often do
• 1:01:54
  you hear an A singer with actual soul that is singing a soul song
• 1:02:01
  that is not voyeuristic. This is a song that is like all
• 1:02:04
  men are so stupid like and and all you need to do to make
• 1:02:12
  someone trust you is tell them how you feel and mean it and
• 1:02:15
  that's. It and it's.
• 1:02:16
  And the And this man felt so impassioned and he was so in
• 1:02:19
  love with Christie Brinkley that he had to write this song to
• 1:02:23
  remind himself that the way you make a woman love you is just
• 1:02:27
  reminding her that you love her and meaning it.
• 1:02:29
  It's a real soul song about something that should just be
• 1:02:33
  simple, and we're all so dumb that it's not.
• 1:02:36
  And it's, it's wrapped up in this like, really, really fun
• 1:02:39
  tune too. Like it's, it's like upbeat and
• 1:02:42
  tell her about it, like, oh God, fuck yeah.
• 1:02:45
  And. Genuinely, my favorite lyric of
• 1:02:48
  all time is when you love someone, you're always insecure.
• 1:02:51
  I've said, I've said that sentence to everyone I've ever
• 1:02:54
  dated, like literally every single person I've ever dated
• 1:02:57
  when they're like, oh, I don't want to take a chance.
• 1:02:59
  And I, I, I bring that up every time.
• 1:03:01
  I mean, brilliant. I'm done.
• 1:03:02
  I'm done with my rant. Age-old.
• 1:03:05
  Was that you know what, Otto? Had it?
• 1:03:07
  You know what? You're right, I should have kept
• 1:03:09
  that song. I'm sorry I didn't and I should
• 1:03:11
  have kept. Yours.
• 1:03:12
  So there you go. OK.
• 1:03:14
  So that was a three. OK.
• 1:03:17
  Yeah. All right.
• 1:03:18
  That's. Where I was going to go,
• 1:03:19
  Schultz, so gotcha. You got me.
• 1:03:23
  We'll take that three, though. Now these twos are starting to
• 1:03:26
  look like they might be in trouble because we've got a
• 1:03:28
  couple threes and a four here. But as of as it stands, all
• 1:03:32
  these twos are very much alive. OK, I mean, I'm not taking too
• 1:03:43
  much of A risk here, but this probably isn't A5.
• 1:03:48
  I think this might be my favorite Billy Joel song.
• 1:03:53
  How about moving out Anthony's song?
• 1:03:57
  Don't have it? Whoa.
• 1:03:59
  Yeah. That's that was another really.
• 1:04:04
  That was a really. Tough cut, yeah.
• 1:04:07
  We are making the. Coolest Billy Joel list ever.
• 1:04:10
  I have it. I also.
• 1:04:12
  I saw you listening to it before the show, Justin.
• 1:04:14
  I was like, hell yeah. Billy Joel snobs.
• 1:04:17
  I know, right? For Hipster Billy.
• 1:04:20
  Joel fans No. It's not that, it's just there's
• 1:04:24
  so many great songs to choose from.
• 1:04:27
  To be fair. You did say that you put 2 from
• 1:04:30
  each album, right? I tried to.
• 1:04:32
  So like. Honestly, we like we.
• 1:04:34
  I made the point before that like that record went diamond,
• 1:04:37
  you had to pick 2 songs from a diamond record.
• 1:04:39
  Like how is that exactly? Yeah, exactly.
• 1:04:43
  Yeah. All right, so was that just?
• 1:04:45
  Me and Schultz. No, I was on it.
• 1:04:47
  Oh. OK, so we'll get.
• 1:04:48
  The three there all right now. Now we're starting to get
• 1:04:52
  interesting on the on this list building because these twos are
• 1:04:56
  officially in jeopardy. Like one of them is officially
• 1:04:59
  out so. We'll get that.
• 1:05:02
  All right, let's, let's try to get A5 and this one.
• 1:05:07
  In what I was thinking of. All right, well, what's going to
• 1:05:10
  be the number one? This might be in my mind.
• 1:05:15
  We'll see. It's still rock'n'roll to me.
• 1:05:19
  I. Not have it.
• 1:05:21
  Wow. I don't agree that it's the
• 1:05:23
  number one. I didn't take it.
• 1:05:28
  That was 1. Of the two songs I considered
• 1:05:30
  adding in when I caught Highland, Sorry, Miami and jeez,
• 1:05:34
  what? Else what was the other one?
• 1:05:36
  Whatever the other one was this morning I did not put it though.
• 1:05:41
  I'll save you. I got it.
• 1:05:44
  Oh, that. Oh wow, wow.
• 1:05:48
  I'll tell you why I didn't. Take it That song has frightened
• 1:05:51
  me my whole entire life. You know why?
• 1:05:54
  Because I used to before going to bed or as I was going asleep,
• 1:05:59
  I used to put on the greatest hits CD and it helped me fall
• 1:06:03
  asleep. But used to listen to music
• 1:06:04
  going to bed when I was like, you know, ages 5 through
• 1:06:08
  whenever and I woke up in the middle of the night one night
• 1:06:13
  with that song skipping and it was just A and it kept skipping
• 1:06:19
  and skipping and skipping and. Skipping I.
• 1:06:22
  Was freaking the fuck out. Just like the.
• 1:06:25
  The bass and just that. Yeah.
• 1:06:30
  Welcome back to the age of Jive Randy.
• 1:06:32
  Here we go. So that.
• 1:06:35
  Was absolutely no way I was taking it I.
• 1:06:39
  I will say bars and clothes are a big part of, of music culture,
• 1:06:45
  but he's talking about having a shit car and then he's saying
• 1:06:49
  that like funk and cool punk are still rock'n'roll.
• 1:06:52
  I, I think like maybe shit cars are not rock'n'roll, right?
• 1:06:56
  So he confused me. I will say that I every other
• 1:07:00
  band taught me that you need a cool car, you know what I mean?
• 1:07:04
  So anyways, if you want to really break it down, this
• 1:07:05
  really. Deep song.
• 1:07:06
  There you go. OK, I will.
• 1:07:10
  Also say my my. Mom had the 7 inch and the cover
• 1:07:13
  is. Extraordinary for the single
• 1:07:17
  I'll. Post I'll post in the chat.
• 1:07:19
  Nice. All right, so.
• 1:07:21
  There we go. It gets a 2.
• 1:07:24
  Marlene, you're up. I'm going.
• 1:07:30
  To go we're. Going to get past.
• 1:07:34
  An innocent man. And we're going to go to
• 1:07:37
  Stormfront. Because this is like.
• 1:07:40
  One of my favorite Billy Joel songs ever and I think that it.
• 1:07:46
  Is. It's probably underrated.
• 1:07:51
  In my opinion. It's Leningrad.
• 1:07:54
  Fuck, I really do not. This is a great song.
• 1:07:58
  Fuck I. Didn't take it but.
• 1:08:00
  That you're right. That is a great song.
• 1:08:02
  I knew you were gonna say that when you said Stormfront.
• 1:08:06
  Fuck, really? There, there's there's there's a
• 1:08:09
  couple songs of. Stormfront, I'm gonna.
• 1:08:11
  Say something. Stormfront's a great record.
• 1:08:13
  I'm gonna. Say something.
• 1:08:14
  I I went into this like I'm. Putting zero 90s Joel, I didn't
• 1:08:18
  realize Stormfront was 89 so yeah, I, I, I was like, oh, I'm
• 1:08:22
  gonna give Stormfront a chance. I didn't, I didn't take any
• 1:08:24
  songs from it. Well, how can he do that?
• 1:08:28
  I. I I just.
• 1:08:30
  There's just he got, really. Affected by the early. 90s like.
• 1:08:34
  Really changed his songwriting style in a way that I do not
• 1:08:36
  like. It's a, you know, I actually, I
• 1:08:39
  see a a definite progression. In every album is a little bit
• 1:08:44
  different. Yeah.
• 1:08:46
  In the style, yeah, yeah. So yeah, I, I don't have any
• 1:08:52
  personally. You don't?
• 1:08:53
  Yeah. I mean, there's there's.
• 1:08:55
  Some hits. There's some stuff from there.
• 1:08:56
  Amazing record. There's amazing.
• 1:08:58
  Songs on that record, but I feel when you go this is a Billy Joel
• 1:09:03
  song, I don't think anything on Stormfront meets it there.
• 1:09:09
  There is one Stormfront song that's absolutely.
• 1:09:11
  Terrific that I took. I only took one from that
• 1:09:14
  record, but it deserved more. I don't wanna give up the ghost
• 1:09:17
  this early in the show, but I'm gonna say this like I feel like.
• 1:09:20
  Everything Stormfront and forward is what people think
• 1:09:24
  Billy Joel is and make fun of. Maybe and I I.
• 1:09:29
  Think he actually. He actually became the.
• 1:09:31
  Stereotype on those records for me.
• 1:09:33
  For me. For me and again, that's
• 1:09:35
  interesting, right? You know, I I agree because I.
• 1:09:38
  I agree when I think of. Yeah, when I think of Billy Joel
• 1:09:42
  I. Never even think of these two
• 1:09:44
  records, honestly. Yeah, Stormfront and whatever
• 1:09:47
  the name of the next one was, which I don't even know the name
• 1:09:49
  of the album. I think it's just River of
• 1:09:51
  Dreams and it's River of Dreams. Thank you.
• 1:09:54
  All right, Yeah. Yeah, into the bin, Leningrad.
• 1:09:57
  That was sorry. It's it's a phenomenal song.
• 1:10:01
  It really. Is.
• 1:10:03
  That was on my radar. So.
• 1:10:05
  Randy. Yeah, OK.
• 1:10:10
  I don't think that this is going to get.
• 1:10:11
  More than three and if it even gets 2 I'd be a little
• 1:10:15
  surprised, but I mean, this is a good song.
• 1:10:17
  And then and I hit, you know, regardless of that, but I just
• 1:10:21
  remember another story of me being a child and listening to
• 1:10:24
  him. I when you're 567 years old, you
• 1:10:29
  don't get a lot of philosophical questions in your life.
• 1:10:33
  But I feel like he was truly talking to me because when I was
• 1:10:39
  growing up, the channels on TVPBS was channel 13.
• 1:10:45
  So when you sing Bryan All my life, channel 13 Sesame Street,
• 1:10:51
  what does it mean? I'm like, what do you mean?
• 1:10:53
  What does it mean? I watched Sesame Street.
• 1:10:56
  I I think it'd be ABC isn't counting and and is there
• 1:11:00
  something else to it? But like, yeah, I.
• 1:11:05
  This is a killer. Song so pressure yeah I got it I
• 1:11:09
  got it let's go I'm. The only.
• 1:11:13
  Thing there my. You know that's gonna make it.
• 1:11:17
  That's. My my ex-girlfriend.
• 1:11:20
  'S screen name on AIM was Peter Pan advice.
• 1:11:29
  And and Randy, yes. Oh, OK.
• 1:11:33
  Yeah, that that kind of sounded. Familiar.
• 1:11:39
  What a song. What a weirdly aggressive song.
• 1:11:42
  What a what a song. That is one of the two songs he
• 1:11:45
  would play on a synthesizer when he played MSG.
• 1:11:51
  That was 80s Joel. I I wanted this song to make.
• 1:11:54
  It just because I want people to listen to these 10 songs.
• 1:11:56
  Be like what I mean, it's just about.
• 1:12:00
  A shirt at a four. I mean, pretty much, yeah.
• 1:12:03
  It's it's incredible. This song is amazing.
• 1:12:05
  Unless. We go on like a heater here
• 1:12:08
  then, you know. Those those fours are are
• 1:12:12
  assured. All right.
• 1:12:14
  Schultz. Oh God.
• 1:12:18
  I. Go I Let's do his like what
• 1:12:23
  should have been a horrific attempt.
• 1:12:25
  At being. A 70s hippie like storyteller
• 1:12:30
  and go with the entertainer. But it's such a good song.
• 1:12:33
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's an important.
• 1:12:37
  Song please tell me that's a 5 it.
• 1:12:39
  Isn't. OK.
• 1:12:43
  That song should have failed miserably and it's so good.
• 1:12:47
  It's I don't think they wanted, I don't think the record
• 1:12:49
  companies. Wanted.
• 1:12:50
  It to No, they didn't. It was about them.
• 1:12:54
  It's. Such a great.
• 1:12:55
  Song and I, I think I. Talked about this during the
• 1:12:58
  lifetime. Episode and.
• 1:12:59
  That's like they are legitimately my favorite band.
• 1:13:02
  I hate when bands write songs about being in bands.
• 1:13:05
  I want to hear things that are relatable.
• 1:13:07
  This song is about being in a band and it's so relatable.
• 1:13:10
  It's about, it's about how no matter how successful you get
• 1:13:13
  you, you, you feel like if people don't understand you,
• 1:13:16
  it's not enough. And like, that's why we get it,
• 1:13:18
  right? Like it's so good.
• 1:13:20
  They're just about every band. In existence on their second or
• 1:13:24
  third. Record has written a song about
• 1:13:27
  how the music industry has fucked up just about every
• 1:13:31
  popular band go. Back.
• 1:13:33
  Listen to lyrics and you'll be able to tell.
• 1:13:36
  Yeah, but do they do it with a theremin and a synthesizer and
• 1:13:38
  do? They sing it in a Bob.
• 1:13:40
  Dylan style jaunty tune like it's doesn't make sense.
• 1:13:45
  The whole thing makes. No sense, and it's so.
• 1:13:46
  Good. It does make me happy to hear
• 1:13:49
  that this is a four. And and just about assured in
• 1:13:52
  because I mean, I want to say like 21 like I I kept 2 songs
• 1:13:59
  that I know I'm going to get laughed out of the building for.
• 1:14:03
  I got drawn to nostalgia instead of kind of really going with my
• 1:14:09
  heart towards the end of my list.
• 1:14:11
  And I should have, but this gets a sure.
• 1:14:14
  I kept. I kept fucking.
• 1:14:16
  Laura. I I will say.
• 1:14:21
  Even the songs that only one person had, like Laura.
• 1:14:23
  I, I like every song that's been mentioned tonight.
• 1:14:26
  I absolutely like, absolutely. There's been one song I'm not
• 1:14:31
  super familiar. With that's it.
• 1:14:32
  But like I like every song we brought up like we're there's no
• 1:14:35
  wrong answers here. Well, let me I can't.
• 1:14:39
  I can't. Go through a.
• 1:14:40
  Panel without mentioning. Sparks.
• 1:14:42
  So you're talking about how every band has a song where
• 1:14:46
  they're like, oh, you know, fuck the record company.
• 1:14:48
  So the record company went with a note, Sparks saying, you know,
• 1:14:52
  you don't play any music that that.
• 1:14:55
  Can play in a club or that. People can dance to so they made
• 1:14:58
  a song called music that You Can Dance to.
• 1:15:01
  Like that's the name of the song and it's it's a it's a poppy
• 1:15:04
  little music that you condensed and it it's totally a poke at
• 1:15:10
  the wreck, the label and everything.
• 1:15:12
  And it's a it's a banger of a song.
• 1:15:14
  So sorry, that's that's my sparks rant.
• 1:15:16
  I officially have to do 1 every episode.
• 1:15:19
  All right, well. I'm going to go with.
• 1:15:24
  What could be considered a wrong answer?
• 1:15:26
  I'm I doubt it. It's a hit.
• 1:15:28
  So like one of you is going to have it.
• 1:15:31
  For the love of God, please don't let me be wrong here.
• 1:15:35
  But you had to be a big shot, didn't you?
• 1:15:42
  Yes, I got it. I got it.
• 1:15:45
  That was my. Last cut.
• 1:15:51
  That. Was the.
• 1:15:54
  Other I've got I've. Got 21 songs.
• 1:15:57
  I need to cut one. I'm keeping Laura.
• 1:16:00
  God damn it. I'm going to cut the key.
• 1:16:04
  I'll say that's the other contender.
• 1:16:06
  For most New York lyrics. So there you.
• 1:16:07
  Go yeah, Yep. And the only reason I.
• 1:16:11
  Cut it is because he. Goes into that because you had
• 1:16:16
  to be a big shot, no? That's cheap.
• 1:16:18
  I love it so good. Don't.
• 1:16:21
  What are you talking about? I.
• 1:16:23
  Like it, But that's the reason I cut it, because people are.
• 1:16:25
  Like if you're not a New Yorker, that's going to rub people real.
• 1:16:30
  Oh, nobody, you can't. You can't.
• 1:16:32
  That can't be the reason. Why?
• 1:16:34
  That's like the best part. That's the that's.
• 1:16:37
  The part where he's like, he's. Like, all right, you know what?
• 1:16:39
  I'm. I'm getting in.
• 1:16:40
  I'm admitting. Yeah.
• 1:16:45
  There's still a. Lot to go here.
• 1:16:48
  Otto, where you want to go, there is fucking gold records.
• 1:16:52
  Left. Yeah, I mean, there's there's.
• 1:16:56
  Yeah. All right.
• 1:17:00
  Is it me? Yep.
• 1:17:01
  Yeah. All right.
• 1:17:04
  Do I want to go? Do I want to go for?
• 1:17:07
  Something I think everyone might have.
• 1:17:09
  No, I'm going to go with I'm a sucker for a story song, so I'm
• 1:17:13
  going to go with Billy the Kid. Yeah, that was one that I added
• 1:17:19
  late. And.
• 1:17:20
  I think it was just what got me when I was listening to it was
• 1:17:23
  just like the difference between the the theatrical piano bits
• 1:17:26
  and you hear the I was like, just like laughing.
• 1:17:31
  And and the fucking. Fucking orcas to be long.
• 1:17:35
  Island. Yep.
• 1:17:38
  I don't have it, but I do. Love that song.
• 1:17:40
  I chose. Between that and angry young
• 1:17:41
  man, actually I didn't let myself know.
• 1:17:43
  Fair enough, fair enough. I.
• 1:17:46
  Didn't choose it and you know why?
• 1:17:48
  Because. Of the.
• 1:17:49
  Last verse and it sounds like Billy Joel.
• 1:17:55
  Is. Comparing himself to Billy the
• 1:17:58
  Kid and I just don't sound like it.
• 1:18:00
  Doesn't sound like it's legitimately what he's doing.
• 1:18:02
  Yeah, that's. Exactly.
• 1:18:04
  And I'm just like what? No.
• 1:18:06
  No, I'm sorry. No.
• 1:18:07
  OK, I love you Billy Joel, but no, don't you see that both 6
• 1:18:12
  Shooter and Six Pack have 6? In the name.
• 1:18:14
  Don't you see that? Did you not?
• 1:18:17
  It's right there. It stared at the face.
• 1:18:23
  Yeah. All right, so how many?
• 1:18:25
  Was that was that? Only two that.
• 1:18:26
  Was 2. OK, right now.
• 1:18:29
  All those twos are. Fighting for one spot.
• 1:18:32
  So, yeah. All right, Marley.
• 1:18:34
  Yeah, that's. Got to be fucking hard.
• 1:18:36
  OK, so. This.
• 1:18:38
  Is. A dystopian story song, I think.
• 1:18:47
  It. It really it's a very 80s song,
• 1:18:51
  a very, very 80s. Song in the lyrics just I don't
• 1:18:58
  know, Captain Jack yeah. Oh yeah, I, I.
• 1:19:03
  Don't have it? Nor do I that's a.
• 1:19:09
  Great screen. I I thought about.
• 1:19:11
  It before as one of the. Ones I could add in.
• 1:19:13
  Before the show and I was like, I just, I just don't like that
• 1:19:16
  song enough. I think it's a good song.
• 1:19:18
  I think it's very, very good. I it just reminds me.
• 1:19:22
  Of, I don't know, life in the 80s, though it was written in
• 1:19:29
  the 70s, I think. I think that's.
• 1:19:32
  Yeah, it's a 70s song. I I don't.
• 1:19:35
  Know the story behind it. I'm sure there's one, but you
• 1:19:38
  know, it's a heroine's a heroine song.
• 1:19:40
  So yeah, there you go. The twos are officially done
• 1:19:45
  for, I mean. Again, you know they can always
• 1:19:47
  bring them on Maybe yeah, if depending.
• 1:19:51
  On OH. Did was that a three people?
• 1:19:54
  That was a three. That was a three.
• 1:19:56
  OK cool, I thought it was a 2. All.
• 1:19:59
  Right. Randy.
• 1:20:02
  You guys talked about? Before songs that.
• 1:20:05
  Remind you of each other I'm going to take a song that is my
• 1:20:09
  wife's favorite song. Does remind me of my if and also
• 1:20:13
  we have lyrics in our living room Slow down you're doing fine
• 1:20:18
  Can't be everything you want to be before your time.
• 1:20:21
  It's a beautiful song. Has to be on Lesbianna.
• 1:20:25
  Yeah, I have it. It's.
• 1:20:27
  A great song, I don't have it. I I also have it.
• 1:20:33
  It's having a moment. Right now, the kids.
• 1:20:35
  Love this song right now. Really.
• 1:20:36
  Someone, Yeah, some pop star covered it Yeah, if you actually
• 1:20:42
  if you go to the. Top.
• 1:20:43
  Songs for. Some reason it's #2 right now,
• 1:20:45
  because it's just having a moment with the kids.
• 1:20:48
  Yeah, it's actually. It's actually above.
• 1:20:51
  It's above the song that shall. Not be named and and and and and
• 1:20:55
  right under piano man. I can't.
• 1:20:58
  I can't bring it from a three to a four, but it is a.
• 1:21:01
  Three. Which means it's very much in
• 1:21:03
  the conversation that that song rules.
• 1:21:05
  That song rules and one of his best vocal performances.
• 1:21:08
  Ever. Yeah.
• 1:21:10
  All right, Schultz. I I was going.
• 1:21:13
  To do a ballad, but then. Randy did a ballad and.
• 1:21:15
  I don't want to be a biter. I let's do 80s.
• 1:21:20
  Joel, Sir, you know, I'm going to go with a song that
• 1:21:23
  legitimately taught me how to be a man.
• 1:21:27
  And sometimes it's hard to keeping the faith.
• 1:21:30
  Oh, yeah, that's a great one. I haven't.
• 1:21:34
  No, I did. Not want to cut that song.
• 1:21:37
  But I did. I didn't want to cut it because
• 1:21:43
  I don't know when it happened, but I, I, I've always been a
• 1:21:47
  sucker for redheads and I heard that song and like my wallet,
• 1:21:52
  my, my life's dream was to make it with a redhead girl in the
• 1:21:56
  Chevrolet. I mean, that's all I wanted from
• 1:21:58
  life. That's all I wanted from life.
• 1:22:01
  And. And I am now the new.
• 1:22:03
  Girl and I'm sure I kept. Song I'm sure I kept.
• 1:22:07
  Song from that record that other people aren't going to have.
• 1:22:10
  And now I wish I kept that, God damn it, genuinely.
• 1:22:15
  That song like made me feel OK with being a young queer kid.
• 1:22:20
  Like actually made me feel good about not wanting.
• 1:22:24
  To show out and. Like sometimes thinking
• 1:22:27
  differently than the other guys around me, like genuinely was
• 1:22:30
  the was one of the things that made me feel grounded as a kid
• 1:22:34
  was that song like and like when when that stupid joke in step
• 1:22:37
  brothers. Happened.
• 1:22:39
  You know, like that's where that's the movie, right?
• 1:22:41
  Like the only 80s Joel. That's that's the and, and like
• 1:22:44
  the the dudes like and sometimes it's hard too keeping the faith.
• 1:22:47
  Like, it's like I'm so happy it's in the zeitgeist because of
• 1:22:50
  that, you know what I mean? I just love this song so much.
• 1:22:55
  Yeah. I wanted to keep that.
• 1:22:56
  And I bet I I bet I kept. The popular song that you ate.
• 1:23:01
  I mean, it's to be fair, Otto, it's.
• 1:23:03
  Probably the right choice. Was that a tour?
• 1:23:07
  Probably not. Actually, probably not, because
• 1:23:09
  I I. I'm sure I like this more than
• 1:23:12
  the other one, but I kept the other one play.
• 1:23:14
  I kept the other one playing the game.
• 1:23:15
  Yeah, I would. I would promise you that if I
• 1:23:18
  want I, I. I don't.
• 1:23:19
  Think I can win right at this point because if I said 3, I
• 1:23:22
  promise you that if I won, I would say that's what I would
• 1:23:25
  have forced through. But if I won, no.
• 1:23:28
  Yeah, yeah, it's the. We've only got. 2.
• 1:23:31
  We've only got 2. You've got a shot.
• 1:23:36
  If I win. I would have forced that
• 1:23:38
  through, but I'm definitely. Forcing through the stranger if
• 1:23:40
  I win. OK.
• 1:23:46
  All right, I'm going to take another shot on an answer that I
• 1:23:53
  got. Off of Glass Houses?
• 1:23:57
  How about don't ask me why? Oh yeah, good song, didn't take
• 1:24:01
  it. Didn't take it all.
• 1:24:03
  Right, that's a three the 2. That was the other.
• 1:24:07
  One I added. At the beginning. 2 Chris's.
• 1:24:09
  And Justin. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:24:12
  We'll take the three there. Now.
• 1:24:15
  Now it's Tuesday 3/3. We've got 5 or 6.
• 1:24:21
  Left, yeah. I think this is our.
• 1:24:23
  Last full round and we'll dump out.
• 1:24:26
  How many times we got I got 6 left.
• 1:24:29
  Yeah. I want all right.
• 1:24:32
  There's two that I want to go for.
• 1:24:33
  God damn it, they should both be unanimous.
• 1:24:37
  I'm sure neither of them will be.
• 1:24:43
  Let's go. For the more obvious one, only
• 1:24:46
  the good die young. I got it.
• 1:24:48
  I got. I got it.
• 1:24:49
  Nope. I.
• 1:24:51
  I. Contemplated that one as one of
• 1:24:52
  the ads. But.
• 1:24:53
  Ultimately, I did not add that. Wow OK that's a song I attire of
• 1:24:58
  pretty easily. Really.
• 1:24:59
  Well, sure. Sure point.
• 1:25:01
  It's quince essential. If you.
• 1:25:03
  Want to introduce somebody we've been listening to Billy Joel for
• 1:25:06
  20-30, forty years, all of us. Somebody who's never listened to
• 1:25:12
  Billy Joel. This is a song that'll hook.
• 1:25:15
  I'll tell you this much. When we were when I was doing
• 1:25:18
  that. That I got to do.
• 1:25:19
  Yeah, I'm going to back. You up on that Actually when I
• 1:25:21
  was doing that drive with. My girlfriend playing the list,
• 1:25:25
  I played a couple of things I could add and at first when I
• 1:25:28
  put that song on, she was like, no, and as was going and I was
• 1:25:31
  vibing, you know, I was talking about all the sacrilegious shit
• 1:25:33
  and like laughing about it. At halfway through the song
• 1:25:37
  she's like no, this, this one should be on it.
• 1:25:40
  It turned her from. Fucking zero to 60.
• 1:25:44
  Halfway through the tune, you know, yeah.
• 1:25:46
  So yeah, I will say I have something almost go.
• 1:25:49
  Ahead. I was gonna say I have some.
• 1:25:51
  I'm a little. Ashamed to admit I kind.
• 1:25:53
  Of like the me first to give me give me his version better.
• 1:25:55
  Wow, it's fine. It's a fucking incredible cover,
• 1:25:59
  but. Yeah.
• 1:26:01
  I've not heard it most iconic actually.
• 1:26:03
  That's one. Of their most iconic.
• 1:26:04
  Covers, yeah. Absolutely.
• 1:26:06
  I mean. Most of their covers are.
• 1:26:09
  Fucking amazing stuff. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:26:11
  All right. I believe it did make our list
• 1:26:13
  when we did the. Episode yeah and.
• 1:26:16
  For what it's worth, ironically, don't ask me why is what I
• 1:26:18
  chose. Instead, 'cause I, I just like
• 1:26:20
  that song more. There you go.
• 1:26:22
  So another Three joins the conversation.
• 1:26:24
  Marlene. I.
• 1:26:33
  I guess it doesn't matter in. The end.
• 1:26:38
  Good night, Saigon. Yes.
• 1:26:41
  Awesome song, I don't have it. That.
• 1:26:43
  Was a really hard. And that was.
• 1:26:46
  A. Do I really want this?
• 1:26:48
  On my list because of. Nostalgia.
• 1:26:49
  Or because it's a great song and I cut it because I thought it
• 1:26:53
  was a nostalgia song, but really, yeah, I, I didn't.
• 1:26:59
  I didn't go with it because. When I listen to it.
• 1:27:01
  It's amazing. Absolutely brilliant song.
• 1:27:04
  It feels like somebody else should have done it.
• 1:27:07
  When I hear Billy Joel say I'm like, what are we doing here?
• 1:27:09
  It's not political. Yeah, he doesn't get into that,
• 1:27:13
  but. But I don't, I don't want to, I
• 1:27:14
  don't want to say that he shouldn't be allowed to do that.
• 1:27:16
  He's. An artist, he should do whatever
• 1:27:17
  he wants. But like, I, I, just I If I'm
• 1:27:20
  making a list of 10 Billy Joel songs, as good as that song is,
• 1:27:24
  it's not making it. That's why I didn't put it.
• 1:27:25
  That's all. You know.
• 1:27:26
  Fair enough. Yeah.
• 1:27:28
  No, that's an amazing song. That was one of my last games.
• 1:27:31
  Brilliant, I will say. When I saw him live.
• 1:27:34
  He played it and he brought up, like, all veterans or, you know,
• 1:27:39
  current troops all went on to the stage and all, like, arm in
• 1:27:42
  arms, like, swayed together and sang.
• 1:27:46
  Well, that's a fucking moment. Yeah.
• 1:27:49
  Made a lot of people happy with that, I'm sure.
• 1:27:51
  Yeah, for. Sure.
• 1:27:53
  All right. Randy.
• 1:27:56
  OK, I have. 5. Left and.
• 1:27:59
  One of them I feel like should be in for a a three to five,
• 1:28:06
  either 3-4 or five. I the song that I'd like to talk
• 1:28:09
  about is one that I don't think that anybody else is going to
• 1:28:15
  have because you guys like really put down Stormfront.
• 1:28:18
  So I'm like a little bit afraid to take it.
• 1:28:21
  So I'm going to go with one to to.
• 1:28:23
  Try to make. This not a dump out song because
• 1:28:26
  it has to be, you know, in a conversation here, New York
• 1:28:30
  State of mind. Great song I got.
• 1:28:34
  New York Stadium. Didn't choose it.
• 1:28:38
  Whoa. Say anybody.
• 1:28:41
  Whoa. This is.
• 1:28:43
  Yeah. I I actually.
• 1:28:45
  In my head was like, that's the other one we'll get A5 on no
• 1:28:49
  matter what I got. So is it just me and you I.
• 1:28:54
  Got New York Stadium, Justin. So there's a three, yeah.
• 1:28:57
  That's all right. And then that's.
• 1:28:59
  Another one where I cut where I'm.
• 1:29:00
  Like. It's a New Yorker song, and I'm
• 1:29:03
  trying to I'm trying to think of the country as a whole.
• 1:29:07
  Not. Just New York.
• 1:29:09
  So I think, I think that's just that's the only reason.
• 1:29:12
  I cut it. That's the only reason I could.
• 1:29:15
  You should have picked Drop of Nevada.
• 1:29:19
  You know what? That's a.
• 1:29:20
  Great fucking song too. It is.
• 1:29:22
  Oh, I know, and I considered it all.
• 1:29:26
  Right, Schultz. All right, well, I've.
• 1:29:29
  Got 4 left because. Randy just hit my.
• 1:29:32
  One that I thought I'd get my 3 with I I'll do my.
• 1:29:37
  Last ballad which I. Don't think is going to go over
• 1:29:39
  on account of we talked about other ballads.
• 1:29:42
  I think it's his best ballad. I think it's probably from a
• 1:29:46
  technical standpoint as far as artist artistry, his Best Song.
• 1:29:49
  And that's honesty. Yes, beautiful.
• 1:29:54
  Gorgeous thong. I don't have it.
• 1:29:57
  Oh no, that's such an amazing thong.
• 1:30:01
  That is, that's one of my number.
• 1:30:03
  One Billy Joel songs. I love that thong.
• 1:30:05
  I've heard I've met multiple people that can't listen to it.
• 1:30:10
  Because it gives them too much emotion.
• 1:30:11
  You can literally like they they feel too much when they hear it
• 1:30:15
  and they just refuse to listen to it.
• 1:30:16
  Multiple people. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:30:19
  That's such a. Great song.
• 1:30:21
  It's a 2. It's it's just incredible.
• 1:30:24
  Yeah. I can't.
• 1:30:25
  Believe that's a 2. That's wow.
• 1:30:27
  Yeah, yeah. Well, yeah, no, same.
• 1:30:29
  Well. When you have 105 going in.
• 1:30:33
  Yeah. All right.
• 1:30:35
  I'm going to run down. I think I got like. 6 left.
• 1:30:37
  So let me start at the top of my list here from How about you
• 1:30:45
  look so good to me No all. Right, James?
• 1:30:54
  Yes, I'm sorry, No, I. No.
• 1:30:58
  I'll take a two there. That's good with me.
• 1:31:02
  All right, how about Allentown? No, that was a cup cut.
• 1:31:08
  But no. Yeah.
• 1:31:10
  That's hilarious, that. That's a weird one.
• 1:31:12
  But it's a one that. Should Yeah, my wife hates.
• 1:31:17
  This song she. Hates.
• 1:31:20
  And that it is a good song, but that's one of those songs.
• 1:31:22
  Where people what, make fun of Billy Joel Four.
• 1:31:25
  Yeah, yeah, 'cause the whole like, you know.
• 1:31:29
  He's not a blue collar guy, you know, Right.
• 1:31:33
  Yeah, he was very. Much he was very.
• 1:31:35
  Much a multimillionaire for that.
• 1:31:37
  Yeah. If Bruce Springsteen released.
• 1:31:40
  Allentown. I'd buy it, dude.
• 1:31:43
  Yeah, that would be literally on car commercials.
• 1:31:46
  Here. We're waiting here in Allentown.
• 1:31:52
  Yeah. All right.
• 1:31:52
  And. I still have a couple.
• 1:31:55
  Left here. How about she's right on time?
• 1:31:59
  Great song. All right, I saved all my.
• 1:32:03
  And. Then these are the.
• 1:32:03
  Ones that I'm going. To get left out of the building
• 1:32:05
  for these were the nostalgia picks.
• 1:32:09
  That I just couldn't. I couldn't bring myself to get
• 1:32:12
  away from the longest. Sure, got it.
• 1:32:16
  That's a. Great song.
• 1:32:18
  I can't. I could not.
• 1:32:19
  Take that I understand, I'm glad to get.
• 1:32:21
  A2 there, but I understand. Because anytime that since that
• 1:32:25
  song came out, anytime. That anybody has ever said the
• 1:32:29
  phrase the longest time it follows up with and.
• 1:32:35
  It's frustrating when you're in conversation and people do that
• 1:32:38
  and. You're just like, all right, I'm
• 1:32:39
  walking it. OK, I have to say it's a It's a
• 1:32:42
  terrible song in my. Opinion.
• 1:32:44
  But but but I will say this about it.
• 1:32:47
  Bro said I'm gonna do a Doo op song.
• 1:32:50
  Vocals only and bro delivered. Bro delivered a hit.
• 1:32:54
  Song. He delivered a hit record that
• 1:32:56
  people like now I know it's for aunties and grandmas and uncles
• 1:33:00
  and shit, but like he did it. So like bless you Billy.
• 1:33:03
  Like what a what a move. It's also a great Family Guy
• 1:33:07
  joke. Yeah, in 19. 80 freaking three
• 1:33:10
  he delivered this Doo. Wop tune with no music, No, no
• 1:33:13
  instruments. Like awesome.
• 1:33:16
  Yeah, That's that's, that's the one.
• 1:33:18
  I kept instead of keeping. Afraid there.
• 1:33:21
  You go. That was not the.
• 1:33:23
  Song I was referencing. Actually I but I know.
• 1:33:26
  Which one it is and we'll get there.
• 1:33:31
  All right, so. Next the next one you guys are
• 1:33:33
  going to laugh me out of the building for.
• 1:33:34
  Again, purely nostalgia Pick couldn't get away from it, even
• 1:33:37
  though it really does. I'll be shocked if anybody else
• 1:33:41
  has this. The River of Dreams.
• 1:33:44
  No, that was a. That was a very.
• 1:33:46
  Late cut because. I wanted to keep something from.
• 1:33:49
  River of Dreams. But in the end I wanted
• 1:33:52
  everything else more. That song sounds like the
• 1:33:56
  Technicolor. Memory of the early 90s I have
• 1:33:59
  like that song is like that song is like the the audio
• 1:34:04
  representation of like the Tim Burton Batman films yeah, I get
• 1:34:08
  it yeah and when I I listened. To it a few times.
• 1:34:12
  And I and I thought. You know what he's trying to
• 1:34:15
  ride off of like Paul Simon's Graceland.
• 1:34:18
  Yeah, Yeah. Well, vibe.
• 1:34:22
  You know. But yeah, I wish.
• 1:34:24
  I could have. I wish I could have separated
• 1:34:26
  myself from. That just to I mean, because
• 1:34:29
  there was definitely songs I liked a fucking lot more.
• 1:34:33
  Yeah. I just.
• 1:34:33
  I couldn't. I know, I know, I fucking know.
• 1:34:39
  And Fall Out Boy did it recently too.
• 1:34:41
  We didn't start the fire. Somebody had to say it.
• 1:34:45
  No. Yeah, no, however.
• 1:34:48
  However. At.
• 1:34:50
  At at the ballpark. We did fireworks night and one
• 1:34:55
  of our trees got roasted and lit on fire at our wonderful.
• 1:35:02
  DJ. DJ double played we didn't start
• 1:35:04
  the fire and when syracuse.com put out their article it didn't
• 1:35:10
  say fire erupts in at NBT Bank Ballpark.
• 1:35:14
  It was we didn't start the fireplays as fire roast trees at
• 1:35:21
  the ballpark. So respect that.
• 1:35:25
  But no, it's that is such. A good story, Yeah.
• 1:35:30
  All right. I'll say this, I'm not.
• 1:35:31
  I'm not gonna act like I didn't. Love that.
• 1:35:32
  Song. I did all right.
• 1:35:35
  If you found my old If you found my old click wheel iPod, I'm
• 1:35:37
  sure it. Has like a.
• 1:35:38
  Million. Plays.
• 1:35:39
  But I'm grown up now and yeah, yeah.
• 1:35:43
  Yeah. Exactly.
• 1:35:45
  Again I. Admittedly, these.
• 1:35:46
  Last handful. Are.
• 1:35:48
  Pure nostalgia that I just couldn't separate myself from.
• 1:35:51
  And also I think that music video was the first time I
• 1:35:54
  noticed a person. I respected balding so that was
• 1:35:57
  cool. I I'll say this too like I
• 1:36:01
  actually. Do love the concept?
• 1:36:02
  Of we didn't start the fire, I like, I like what the song is,
• 1:36:07
  yeah. R.E.M.
• 1:36:08
  Worked really hard on it when they wrote it first, yeah.
• 1:36:11
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you know what?
• 1:36:15
  When we did when? We did the R.E.M.
• 1:36:16
  Episode. It didn't make it either.
• 1:36:19
  So you didn't. You didn't pick Billy Joel's.
• 1:36:21
  We didn't, no. All right, so let's say the song
• 1:36:28
  The End of the World did. Not make it and I was very
• 1:36:31
  that's. That's genuinely demented.
• 1:36:33
  I love that it's I, it's I can. I know it's not hard, but I can
• 1:36:37
  sing. That song with stuttering, yeah,
• 1:36:40
  I I think that's maybe the coolest fact about.
• 1:36:43
  Deprogrammed that. That didn't make the R.E.M.
• 1:36:45
  list. Oh there's way better R.E.M.
• 1:36:48
  Songs all. Right.
• 1:36:49
  Sure there are. Sure there are anyways.
• 1:36:51
  Let's not, at least. 10. My last.
• 1:36:54
  My last song is the song that Chris is.
• 1:36:56
  Talking about and. It shouldn't be on my list, but
• 1:37:00
  it is. Don't let me influence you, no.
• 1:37:04
  You're you're right. It's Uptown girl.
• 1:37:10
  Absolutely. Yeah, all.
• 1:37:13
  Right. Wait, was that a?
• 1:37:15
  Two or a three? No, it was a.
• 1:37:17
  It was. A Yeah, I agree it shouldn't be
• 1:37:19
  on. Your list.
• 1:37:20
  Yeah, I've got. It and it's pure nostalgia.
• 1:37:26
  And I'll tell you why. Lip syncing was big in the 80s
• 1:37:31
  and video cameras were just coming up.
• 1:37:35
  My dad had a video camera because he worked in the news
• 1:37:38
  and I have a video. I may or may I.
• 1:37:41
  I'm probably not going to share with anybody of me and my
• 1:37:44
  brother Lip. Syncing.
• 1:37:46
  Uptown Girl and my dad comes in with this guitar like, play
• 1:37:51
  strumming, wearing a cowboy hat with a cigarette sticking out of
• 1:37:55
  his mouth. It's one of my, it's one of my
• 1:37:58
  fondest memories of my father, who was like, like, this was my,
• 1:38:05
  this was not my father was not one who would be like, yeah, I'm
• 1:38:09
  going to go on a video with my son's lip synching to Uptown
• 1:38:12
  Girl. He was not an outgoing dude.
• 1:38:17
  And there's no way I could cut this song because of that.
• 1:38:22
  And that's the only reason. That's the only reason I I I'm
• 1:38:26
  going to I'm going to chase your really good.
• 1:38:28
  Story with a really bad one. Part of my nostalgia is I my
• 1:38:35
  friend. Coincidentally, yet another
• 1:38:38
  Chris was trying to pass off this somebody covered Uptown
• 1:38:45
  Girl, and he was trying to pass off that it was him in his band,
• 1:38:52
  but him and his band didn't exist.
• 1:38:57
  He didn't he. Didn't have a band first.
• 1:38:59
  Of all, first of all. R.E.M.
• 1:39:01
  Is catching. Strays.
• 1:39:02
  The state of New Jersey is catching strays.
• 1:39:04
  This kid Chris is catching strays.
• 1:39:05
  What are we doing here? We're roasting.
• 1:39:07
  We're roasting people right now. His band didn't exist.
• 1:39:10
  And it was. It was.
• 1:39:12
  Not because I heard it, you know, years later and I was
• 1:39:15
  like, that's not your band. You like you asshole, Why would
• 1:39:19
  you do that? Like so?
• 1:39:22
  It's insane. That's great.
• 1:39:24
  So that's a. Really bad story to.
• 1:39:26
  Chase. Otto's good story, I think.
• 1:39:30
  I think the one thing to be said about Uptown Girl.
• 1:39:33
  Is that like, dude really wanted to have sex with Christie
• 1:39:36
  Brinkley and needed the whole world to know it?
• 1:39:39
  And then he made that. He made that music video.
• 1:39:42
  And like that music video is like, wow.
• 1:39:46
  It is like perhaps one of the most unexplainable pieces of art
• 1:39:52
  that anyone has ever created. They they basically just
• 1:39:55
  recreated like like West Side Story, but put Billy Joel in
• 1:39:59
  like tight blue jeans and let him like jump like like a
• 1:40:01
  prancing deer like it's. That choreography and
• 1:40:06
  everything. Yeah.
• 1:40:07
  Like honestly if you don't. Want to listen?
• 1:40:08
  To our 10 songs and you just want to.
• 1:40:10
  Watch that. I think that's an acceptable
• 1:40:12
  alternative like if I'm being honest with you, because maybe
• 1:40:16
  that's the only thing Billy Joel is to some people.
• 1:40:18
  You know what I mean Those fair enough, so I'll.
• 1:40:21
  I'll point out at this point. Everybody still has their dump
• 1:40:25
  outs, but Marlene's 2 is going to win out.
• 1:40:28
  So Marlene is going to have the final say once we get to that
• 1:40:33
  point. Congratulations, I sit on auto
• 1:40:36
  you. Can dump.
• 1:40:38
  Out. Make this all right, what do I
• 1:40:41
  look up first? Record Everybody loves you now.
• 1:40:45
  Tough cut. Oh, that was a late cut for me.
• 1:40:50
  That is a good song, but it did not hit my.
• 1:40:52
  Radar all. Right.
• 1:40:55
  What else? Innocent man.
• 1:40:58
  Another talk. I got it.
• 1:40:59
  I I. I wanted to put.
• 1:41:01
  It because I. Like it, but I don't think it's.
• 1:41:03
  Good. I know that's weird.
• 1:41:05
  So I didn't put it like it's another one to remind me of the
• 1:41:08
  songs. Yeah, it's not a.
• 1:41:09
  Good song, but but it's it's supposed to.
• 1:41:12
  That whole. Record is supposed.
• 1:41:13
  To remind you of the right also they use they use the baseline.
• 1:41:17
  They use the baseline. In Earthrun gym so I.
• 1:41:20
  Really like that, like half of the music and what the.
• 1:41:24
  Heck, the the hell level the second.
• 1:41:25
  Level is, is the baseline from is it, man?
• 1:41:28
  So I've always appreciated that. Yeah, that's all I got.
• 1:41:32
  All right, so. Chris is out.
• 1:41:35
  Marlene OK. My first one is all Falena.
• 1:41:40
  Yeah, great song. Let's go.
• 1:41:43
  Yeah. It's an.
• 1:41:43
  Amazing song. It's one.
• 1:41:45
  Of my favorites. Yeah, it is such a good song.
• 1:41:48
  I have it so badly. I thought you said you did.
• 1:41:50
  Amazing, amazing, amazing. Yeah.
• 1:41:54
  Oh, you got me so. Good.
• 1:41:55
  I waited. Yeah.
• 1:41:56
  Wait, hold on. Which records that off.
• 1:42:03
  Glass houses, yeah. OK, hold.
• 1:42:07
  On. Scroll down I I'm that.
• 1:42:08
  Whole fucking. Record belongs on the list I.
• 1:42:11
  Swear to God, yeah, it's grass houses.
• 1:42:14
  Belong. Entirely on the.
• 1:42:16
  List. My.
• 1:42:18
  My desire. Was one song off it.
• 1:42:20
  My. Desire was for one.
• 1:42:21
  Of the weirdly. Aggressive songs between.
• 1:42:23
  Pressure and All for Lena and I put them both even though I real
• 1:42:26
  Al for Lena is the one I wanted, but I put Pressure because I
• 1:42:28
  thought I had a chance. I was like, we have to get one
• 1:42:31
  of his weirdly aggressive songs and like All for Lena makes
• 1:42:36
  less. Sense because it's.
• 1:42:38
  Just about him. Having sex once and like not
• 1:42:40
  being able to stop thinking about her and he's like.
• 1:42:42
  The song is literally about him punishing his friends and family
• 1:42:46
  because he had sex with a girl once which is incredible.
• 1:42:49
  What a wild thing to write a song about.
• 1:42:51
  It's so good like. Piano Man almost the entire
• 1:42:57
  record belongs. On the list, yeah, 100%.
• 1:43:03
  Yeah, maybe more turnstile. Turnstile almost the entire.
• 1:43:08
  Record belongs on the list. The stranger.
• 1:43:11
  Almost the entire record belongs on the list.
• 1:43:14
  Except glass houses, sure. 50. 2nd.
• 1:43:17
  Street. Almost the entire record belongs
• 1:43:19
  on the list. Glass houses?
• 1:43:22
  Did anybody take Ruiner Rag? That's a great.
• 1:43:27
  No can I? It's an.
• 1:43:29
  Instrumental. So no.
• 1:43:32
  I thought about it, but I didn't.
• 1:43:34
  Nylon Kermit. Almost the entire record
• 1:43:36
  anyways. Go anyway, so my next one that
• 1:43:40
  I'm trying to dump out. Here sometimes a fantasy.
• 1:43:43
  Also from glass houses. Let's.
• 1:43:45
  Go I I I wanted to put that so bad.
• 1:43:48
  But I didn't. Yeah, love, that's the Best Song
• 1:43:52
  about phone sex. Ever.
• 1:43:54
  I I. Yes.
• 1:43:56
  Yes, Stormfront from. Stormfront and all about all
• 1:44:02
  about soul from River of. Dreams, right?
• 1:44:05
  Yeah, that's a great song. You're saying the the.
• 1:44:10
  Title track from Stormfront, yes.
• 1:44:11
  Yeah, Stormfront from Stormfront.
• 1:44:15
  All right, Randy, I still. Think that record.
• 1:44:18
  Got gypped a little bit. Here it did.
• 1:44:21
  That's it. Yet I only took one song from
• 1:44:23
  it, so I'm. I'm part of the.
• 1:44:26
  This song was referenced and I guess nobody ended up using it.
• 1:44:29
  She's always a woman. Do you take a great song?
• 1:44:34
  I don't. Have enough?
• 1:44:35
  No. No.
• 1:44:37
  I this one was. Like a late.
• 1:44:39
  Ad. And I figured that nobody would
• 1:44:41
  have a tender that that. That was a hard one to cut.
• 1:44:48
  It's a great song. Leave a tender moment.
• 1:44:50
  I love that song. I love that song so much.
• 1:44:52
  But I have it's really nice song.
• 1:44:53
  It's a great song. Yeah, my.
• 1:44:55
  One Stormfront. Down.
• 1:44:56
  Eastern Alexa. Yeah, it's a great song again.
• 1:45:01
  But. Yeah.
• 1:45:03
  But it could have taken. What's what's the?
• 1:45:07
  What's the last track or off it or so it goes or something like
• 1:45:11
  that? Yeah, I would have taken.
• 1:45:15
  That's not our. Style from the store from if.
• 1:45:17
  I kept one that's not my that's not my favorite song.
• 1:45:21
  I don't. No, that's cool.
• 1:45:24
  One more again, I didn't think that this one would make my
• 1:45:29
  list, but I kept listening to it.
• 1:45:31
  I'm like, this is a beautiful song.
• 1:45:33
  I I didn't even want to listen to River Dreams, but like if I
• 1:45:37
  were to take anything off of that, it would be this lullaby.
• 1:45:40
  Goodnight is it? I was I was going to say a
• 1:45:43
  lullaby. That's a great song.
• 1:45:44
  Yeah, yeah, pretty late there. All right, and.
• 1:45:49
  I hate children. I don't want that.
• 1:45:53
  All right. Schultz for shits and gigs.
• 1:45:58
  Yeah, I mean the the obviously no one's got them.
• 1:46:00
  I I. I have. 2 songs I just really
• 1:46:03
  like that I knew had no chance and I just didn't talk about it
• 1:46:06
  because we had so much to talk about.
• 1:46:07
  The first ones. I don't want to be alone
• 1:46:08
  anymore. I that's great.
• 1:46:12
  I just love that. Song I think it's like you don't
• 1:46:15
  hear people. Talking about having a booty
• 1:46:17
  call with someone that's also down for a booty call.
• 1:46:19
  But like, you're both like, you know what, You're all right.
• 1:46:21
  And like in a different world, we probably would have ended up
• 1:46:23
  together. But like, we have so much
• 1:46:24
  history and it's not working. It's a really hard topic to
• 1:46:26
  write about. And I think it's like a he does
• 1:46:28
  a really great job of talking about a real human experience
• 1:46:30
  we've all experienced. And then and then just a song
• 1:46:34
  that is just like the most me tune ever and easy money.
• 1:46:38
  Oh yeah. Fun.
• 1:46:40
  Song. It's just a great song.
• 1:46:42
  It's. Just a It's just a pop song.
• 1:46:44
  It's like. It's like it's, it's just really
• 1:46:45
  well written. And I, I, I, I think you'll
• 1:46:49
  catch from the songs I put. I just really like when he shows
• 1:46:51
  off that he's got real soul, you know, He really shows it off
• 1:46:54
  that tune. Yeah.
• 1:46:57
  All right, so. As mentioned, Marlene's 2 is
• 1:47:00
  going to win. You may be right.
• 1:47:01
  Scenes from an Italian restaurant are in.
• 1:47:04
  I feel like 12344 fours have to go in.
• 1:47:08
  I mean, and they're all songs I deserve to go in too.
• 1:47:11
  Yeah. So yeah.
• 1:47:12
  So for the record, it's just the way you are.
• 1:47:14
  So does that put us? Pressure the.
• 1:47:17
  Entertainer. And big shot.
• 1:47:20
  That brings us up to six, and now we can start looking at
• 1:47:24
  these threes. I mean, we still have 4 left,
• 1:47:28
  but I mean, Piano Man's starting to look kind of expendable at
• 1:47:33
  this point. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a
• 1:47:35
  minute. I think you get.
• 1:47:39
  Rid of it. What are?
• 1:47:40
  What are? What are our?
• 1:47:42
  Other options? OK, 'cause we have only four
• 1:47:45
  spots left. Let me remind you.
• 1:47:47
  And Marlene has the final say so we only have two.
• 1:47:52
  I get one of those right 3. So technically we.
• 1:47:56
  Yeah, you're right. Sorry.
• 1:47:57
  Three we get. Three, can you run us down what
• 1:48:00
  we have? I can the two fives and yeah
• 1:48:02
  they OK. I'll give you the the full
• 1:48:04
  rundown of the six that. Are in right now.
• 1:48:07
  You may be right, or yeah, you may be right.
• 1:48:10
  Scenes from an Italian restaurant.
• 1:48:11
  Just the way you are. Pressure, the Entertainer and
• 1:48:15
  Big Shot. Those are good songs.
• 1:48:17
  That's a great list. It's really.
• 1:48:19
  Yeah, it's really good. All right, so let me run down
• 1:48:21
  these threes. Piano.
• 1:48:22
  Man, tell her about. It moving out Captain Jack
• 1:48:26
  Vienna. Don't ask me why only be good.
• 1:48:29
  Die young in New York State of mind.
• 1:48:33
  Oh my gosh, we got to get 3 from all.
• 1:48:35
  Of those, yes, Jesus. Technically four.
• 1:48:38
  Well. Keeping the.
• 1:48:40
  Faith. Keeping the faith.
• 1:48:42
  Only have two yes. Oh wow.
• 1:48:46
  Now I I feel really bad about that now.
• 1:48:50
  See. Sometimes it's hard.
• 1:48:53
  To keep in the faith because. Because because that's a better
• 1:48:55
  song. That's a.
• 1:48:56
  Fucking better. Song than piano Man.
• 1:48:59
  A lot of these songs are I, I, I, I.
• 1:49:02
  I want to stump. For Piano Man, I also agree that
• 1:49:05
  it's not. It's not what I want to hear.
• 1:49:08
  But if I. Like, genuinely, if someone
• 1:49:10
  never heard Billy Joel before, like actually never heard him,
• 1:49:13
  come on, the young man's got to be the first thing you hear.
• 1:49:16
  Like, you know what I mean? Like what are we doing here?
• 1:49:20
  Yeah. What are we doing here?
• 1:49:22
  I'll say this if we're. If we're I'm not wrong.
• 1:49:25
  If it's if, if ever it was expendable, it's at this point.
• 1:49:31
  I'm not saying it's, I'm not saying it's out.
• 1:49:33
  I'm just saying if it was ever. Expendable.
• 1:49:36
  It's at this point the fact that it didn't hit all five of us.
• 1:49:39
  I mean, I'm already looking at to, if I'm ranking, tell her
• 1:49:42
  about it moving out. I mean, I was really close on
• 1:49:47
  Vienna. Don't ask me why.
• 1:49:49
  Only the good die young, like die young.
• 1:49:52
  Come on, I'll. I'll be honest with you.
• 1:49:54
  Like my opinion, I'm not. Going to push it too hard
• 1:49:56
  because we could obviously have this conversation.
• 1:49:58
  I don't want to be a punisher. I think both New York State of
• 1:50:02
  Mind and Piano Man should be auto includes and I don't know
• 1:50:05
  what else to say besides that I understand your.
• 1:50:11
  Yeah, I understand your opinion there and your perspective.
• 1:50:17
  I think that Piano Man is. One of the songs that people
• 1:50:22
  make fun of Billy Joel for. You do.
• 1:50:27
  I do. You know, and I'll, I'll.
• 1:50:29
  Tell you why. This is not the first thing, but
• 1:50:32
  I was listening to the radio. Not too.
• 1:50:34
  Long ago and they were talking about Piano Man.
• 1:50:40
  It wasn't. It was a YouTube video.
• 1:50:41
  Whatever. And they were like.
• 1:50:44
  This is the most unintentionally funny song ever.
• 1:50:47
  Written. Because, you know, it's a real
• 1:50:49
  thing. And he wrote this about real
• 1:50:51
  people and they heard the song and they heard about themselves
• 1:50:54
  in the song. And that is hysterical.
• 1:50:56
  And that just seems. Like, I don't know.
• 1:51:02
  That's music, that's writing. I mean you.
• 1:51:04
  Write what you. Know.
• 1:51:06
  I know, but it it was it was it was a.
• 1:51:09
  I'm making fun of this song because you made fun of people
• 1:51:12
  in your song. And this is hypherical.
• 1:51:15
  Yeah. I mean, he just he just
• 1:51:17
  described them. I.
• 1:51:18
  Like he just, I don't think it was like, you know, no, I don't
• 1:51:23
  believe that. No, I don't.
• 1:51:24
  I agree with. You I don't believe that Billy
• 1:51:26
  Joel was actually making fun of them, but I think that that's
• 1:51:29
  the perspective of the song, the people's perspective of the
• 1:51:33
  song. I can, I think.
• 1:51:37
  Go ahead. So go ahead, I can.
• 1:51:40
  I can throw in another. Dumb thing here.
• 1:51:43
  So I used to listen to a lot of sports talk radio and if you
• 1:51:52
  guys recall, at one point Piano Man ran himself into a house
• 1:51:57
  somewhere in in his car. Oh yeah, it was a it was a boat.
• 1:52:02
  We did it a couple times and. Well, and that became.
• 1:52:04
  Kind of like did, didn't. He didn't he drive a boat
• 1:52:07
  through someone's house? Was it like?
• 1:52:09
  I don't know. I think, yeah, I think he had a
• 1:52:12
  boat. Attached to his.
• 1:52:13
  Truck. Yeah, Someone, someone was like,
• 1:52:15
  someone was like watching the fire.
• 1:52:16
  And then Billy Joel came through.
• 1:52:17
  Their wall in like a speedboat. Jesus.
• 1:52:20
  So I mean on on. Rome's show that, you know,
• 1:52:24
  people would run Piano Man Smack.
• 1:52:27
  And then on Jay Moore Sports, he would do like the Twitter hat
• 1:52:32
  trick and people would turn in tweets and you would sign it,
• 1:52:35
  sign whoever. And I remember lots of times
• 1:52:39
  doing signed Piano Man and that being a joke about running into
• 1:52:43
  somebody's house. So I know it's dumb.
• 1:52:47
  It's a dumb connection to make and most people probably
• 1:52:49
  wouldn't. But it is one that I
• 1:52:52
  unfortunately have made a lot. Look, man, I won't be talked off
• 1:52:59
  of it because. I had it.
• 1:53:01
  I had. Both I had piano man, I had New
• 1:53:04
  York State of mind. So like I'm I'm an easy sell on
• 1:53:06
  it. I'm just telling you that
• 1:53:08
  there's songs that I like a lot more than than piano man that
• 1:53:13
  are still not in. So my last thing I'll say about
• 1:53:17
  Piano Man to. Argue for it.
• 1:53:21
  It's very to get 40,000 plus people at the same time, that's
• 1:53:27
  not at the event that the artist is a part of to be singing a
• 1:53:33
  certain song, enjoying it, you know, swaying along with your
• 1:53:37
  friend and like turn it into a memory.
• 1:53:41
  And when I'm going to go back to that moment in the World Series,
• 1:53:46
  that sticks out in my mind very, very much because it was
• 1:53:53
  everybody coming together that were already coming together due
• 1:53:57
  to a common bond. And now you have the song that
• 1:54:01
  bonds everybody together and it becomes an anthem.
• 1:54:05
  It becomes a theme. And it's kind of, for a lack of
• 1:54:09
  better terms, it's his, it's his theme.
• 1:54:11
  It's the theme to Billy Joel, I suppose.
• 1:54:13
  But like when you can do that, when you can power that many
• 1:54:18
  people and bring them together like that, I don't think there's
• 1:54:22
  a lot of things that can replace that.
• 1:54:25
  So that's my argument for it. And do what you will.
• 1:54:29
  I also, again I want to be clear, I don't disagree with.
• 1:54:32
  Any of this, but I Schultz has posited that we need both Piano
• 1:54:37
  Man and New York State of mind. So let's tackle it this way.
• 1:54:40
  Do you agree with that, Randy? Do that we need them both or is
• 1:54:44
  that on either or? Need need.
• 1:54:47
  I'm not going. To I'm not going to like say no
• 1:54:50
  to New York State of mind, but like, you know, I also really
• 1:54:55
  would like to see Vienna and I didn't take it, but like the
• 1:54:59
  enthusiasm that came up when we started talking about Teller
• 1:55:03
  about it. That should don't bait and
• 1:55:07
  switch me. By talking about the other song
• 1:55:09
  I wanted. I.
• 1:55:13
  It just felt. Like there was a good energy
• 1:55:15
  when we. Song not like didn't have it,
• 1:55:18
  but like, I felt bad that I didn't take it.
• 1:55:21
  Like, Justin, you were like, hell yeah, hell yeah.
• 1:55:24
  Like I I feel like that I got I got I got a way we can settle
• 1:55:27
  this. I actually know how we can
• 1:55:28
  settle this. Name, name the threes and all of
• 1:55:31
  us say which ones we would take if we could take four.
• 1:55:33
  OK, That's that's what we do. OK, Yeah.
• 1:55:35
  All right. So again.
• 1:55:38
  So we. Name the three that you would
• 1:55:41
  take because Marlene gets a final 2 correct.
• 1:55:45
  So you get the picture correct, correct, correct.
• 1:55:46
  All right, so I'm going to read them these three and then Otto,
• 1:55:49
  you'll just to just to throw one more wrench.
• 1:55:52
  Into piano man. Billy Joel himself has said it's
• 1:55:58
  dull and repetitive and he is not a big fan of the song.
• 1:56:03
  Other than that it resonates in so many fans that so many fans
• 1:56:08
  love it. He likes that aspect of it, but
• 1:56:11
  it's it's just, it's a very simple, dull and repetitive
• 1:56:15
  song. Yeah.
• 1:56:16
  If he was negative about himself.
• 1:56:18
  If if you want to pit, you know. New York State of.
• 1:56:21
  Mind versus PM and New York State of Mind is is a better
• 1:56:25
  musically, musically, it's a better song.
• 1:56:27
  All right. So I like I like the idea.
• 1:56:31
  I'll run down these. Threes.
• 1:56:33
  And then Otto, you'll pick the three that you would take
• 1:56:36
  Marlene and we'll we'll go right on down the line.
• 1:56:39
  All right, So here's the threes, Piano man.
• 1:56:42
  Tell her about it. Moving out.
• 1:56:44
  Captain Jack. Vienna.
• 1:56:46
  Don't ask me why. Only the good die young and New
• 1:56:49
  York State of mind. Otto, which three of those would
• 1:56:54
  you take, Bree? All right, Damn it.
• 1:56:59
  My brain is so bad at short term.
• 1:57:04
  Tell her about it. What would, I'm sorry, threes?
• 1:57:10
  What else, Captain? Jack All right, so.
• 1:57:14
  Piano man tell her about but we. Do it like this.
• 1:57:16
  How about you say a song and then we?
• 1:57:18
  Either do yeah or not, right? OK.
• 1:57:21
  Oh yeah. Well.
• 1:57:23
  Only the good day. Young.
• 1:57:25
  Nay. No.
• 1:57:27
  Don't ask me why. I'm looking at the threes.
• 1:57:29
  On my list. So I think we all should say,
• 1:57:32
  yeah, hold on, let's start. I'll, I'll, I'll start at the.
• 1:57:35
  Top So Piano man Otto no Marlene.
• 1:57:43
  No. Randy.
• 1:57:46
  Yes, Schultz. Yeah, You try to get out of it,
• 1:58:00
  right? Tell her about it, Otto.
• 1:58:05
  Yes, Marlene. I don't.
• 1:58:09
  Know. Got to be one or something.
• 1:58:13
  OK. Randy yes, Schultz and I didn't
• 1:58:19
  take. It yes, all right so that.
• 1:58:23
  Goes in. Yeah, that's in.
• 1:58:25
  We don't I The reason is not just because I love it, and I do
• 1:58:28
  really love it. I think it will get people into
• 1:58:32
  him. All right, boom, boom.
• 1:58:36
  Boom. OK, so that.
• 1:58:37
  Gets us up to seven. That's so, that's so cool.
• 1:58:42
  That made it. Yeah, right, all.
• 1:58:44
  Right, moving out. Otto no Marlene.
• 1:58:52
  All right, y'all gonna think I'm just.
• 1:58:54
  Agreeing with my husband, but no.
• 1:58:57
  Randy. Like if you got big shot you
• 1:59:01
  don't need moving. Out all right.
• 1:59:03
  And Schultz, I think we're. Crazy to have big shot instead
• 1:59:07
  of moving out. I would AB.
• 1:59:09
  I would, absolutely. Put.
• 1:59:11
  Move it out. It's literally the name of the
• 1:59:12
  probably show we're bugging. Yes, the.
• 1:59:17
  Answer is yes. All right, Captain Jack Otto.
• 1:59:23
  Yes, Marlene. Absolutely.
• 1:59:29
  Randy No. Schultz I.
• 1:59:35
  This I this is not for not liking.
• 1:59:37
  The song, but no, only because of what's up against it.
• 1:59:40
  I also like, is it about drugs? Is it about liquor?
• 1:59:43
  Like we don't know, nobody knows.
• 1:59:45
  Like that's about heroin. It's absolutely 100% about.
• 1:59:47
  Heroin. That's who it is.
• 1:59:49
  Well then, then why? Why name it Jack I?
• 1:59:53
  Mean, I know it's the drug dealer, but come on people.
• 1:59:55
  You know and. Like he has a like a gorgeous
• 1:59:57
  song about quitting cocaine. We didn't talk about that, all
• 2:00:02
  right. Vienna.
• 2:00:05
  Otto Yeah, I like that. Song a lot.
• 2:00:09
  I didn't. I didn't.
• 2:00:11
  Pick it. But I think it's great.
• 2:00:12
  Marlene. Yeah, Randy.
• 2:00:17
  Yes. Schultz.
• 2:00:20
  I don't think it's essential. No, all right.
• 2:00:24
  I had it on my list. I don't think it's essential.
• 2:00:28
  All right. Don't ask me why.
• 2:00:32
  Otto. Yes, absolutely.
• 2:00:36
  Marlene. Can I just?
• 2:00:38
  Say yes to all of them. I.
• 2:00:41
  Mean he can. Even though he says don't.
• 2:00:44
  Even though he. Says don't ask me why.
• 2:00:46
  In the song I still I. Allow it.
• 2:00:52
  Sure, yeah. Yeah, sure.
• 2:00:55
  Yeah. Randy No.
• 2:00:58
  Because I'm I'm still just. Taking three at this point.
• 2:01:02
  Schultz. Not essential.
• 2:01:06
  All right, only the good die young Otto.
• 2:01:15
  Sorry. Yes, Marlene.
• 2:01:19
  Yeah. Randy no Schultz.
• 2:01:29
  A heavy. Hearted.
• 2:01:29
  No. All right.
• 2:01:34
  And last but not least. New York State of mind, Otto, I
• 2:01:40
  mean. Yeah, sure, it's a great song.
• 2:01:45
  I love the song because I'm a new.
• 2:01:47
  Yorker. I love that song.
• 2:01:49
  Yeah, Marlene. OK.
• 2:01:57
  Yeah, Randy, I'm sticking to the.
• 2:02:02
  Script I'm only. Taking 3.
• 2:02:04
  But if I were to take four that we need 4, it would be, I would
• 2:02:09
  put it as the 4th. All right, Schultz.
• 2:02:15
  Yeah, it's essential. Yes, all right.
• 2:02:17
  So. That one is in then.
• 2:02:20
  We all said yay to that. OK, Marlene, do you want to?
• 2:02:26
  Do you want to pick your pick? Now, Oh yeah, probably we should
• 2:02:30
  know that I don't know what's. In and what's not?
• 2:02:34
  Can you go? Yeah, wait to see what's in
• 2:02:37
  before you make your back. Yeah, because I haven't decided
• 2:02:41
  there's yeah. We're we're.
• 2:02:43
  At 8:00. All right, and let me look at
• 2:02:49
  your state of mind made it in which other?
• 2:02:51
  1. Made it in.
• 2:02:52
  Tell her about. It so those were the the only
• 2:02:54
  two that all. Of us agreed on and Vienna is
• 2:02:58
  the only one that got more than two A's.
• 2:03:01
  Vienna got 3A's. So if you if you got I.
• 2:03:06
  Mean if you guys are cool with it, we did the whole.
• 2:03:08
  Thing then Vienna will be song #9 and that that takes it to
• 2:03:12
  Marlene's final say. All right, I'm making the
• 2:03:17
  executive. Decision, we're doing that.
• 2:03:19
  Because we we went to that whole thing.
• 2:03:21
  I mean, we might as well utilize it.
• 2:03:24
  So that means Piano Man is is out.
• 2:03:26
  Yep. That's crazy.
• 2:03:28
  We are we. Are the we are the coolest?
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  People on the planet. Don't love?
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  That or the lamest all. Right, let me run this down.
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  Here's our 9. You may be right.
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  Scenes. From an Italian restaurant, just
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  the way you are, pressure the entertainer.
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  Big shot. Tell her about it.
• 2:03:44
  New York State of Mind and Vienna are in three.
• 2:03:48
  From the stranger. The rules are you do not have to
• 2:03:52
  pick something that's alive. You can pick whatever you want,
• 2:03:57
  Marlon. So you can take a one.
• 2:04:00
  You can take whatever you want, yeah.
• 2:04:04
  So I've. Got it down between 3 only the
• 2:04:06
  good die young keeping the faith or Leningrad and I am actually.
• 2:04:12
  Willing. To take arguments because I
• 2:04:16
  can't decide and I would I would be happy with.
• 2:04:20
  Any one of these three. I mean, I'll put out, I'll put
• 2:04:24
  out my argument. For keeping the.
• 2:04:26
  Faith, let's go. I'm in.
• 2:04:29
  All right. When?
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  When? When I met you, babe.
• 2:04:33
  You were a redhead girl, I know, and all I fucking wanted to do
• 2:04:38
  was to make it with you. I fell in love with you the
• 2:04:41
  moment I met you. I honestly did.
• 2:04:44
  I honestly did. Let's go.
• 2:04:46
  I really did not. And not just because you were a.
• 2:04:49
  Redhead. But it helped a.
• 2:04:55
  Lot listen have. We done anything but talk.
• 2:04:57
  About love songs tonight I. Mean, I think that's just the
• 2:04:59
  reason we got to go with it. I know.
• 2:05:01
  Yeah, OK. Yeah, I mean, I'm happy.
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  With any one of. Them.
• 2:05:05
  So let's go with keeping the faith, all right?
• 2:05:07
  Yeah, love that. So weird.
• 2:05:11
  Yeah, Chris. Chris wanted to fuck this
• 2:05:13
  redhead girl he just met. Let's keep that.
• 2:05:15
  Song. All right, let me.
• 2:05:19
  You're not the only one who wanted to keep it.
• 2:05:22
  I just want to say I. Just want to say before you read
• 2:05:25
  this. Down and I'm.
• 2:05:26
  I'm. Thrilled that the some of these
• 2:05:28
  songs made it. If you asked 100 people to make
• 2:05:32
  A10 song Billy Joel playlist, they would almost all have The
• 2:05:35
  Stranger and Piano Man. I know, right?
• 2:05:39
  Yeah, and only the good. Die young.
• 2:05:42
  And. Probably some would have.
• 2:05:47
  We. Didn't start the fire.
• 2:05:48
  I will say this though, we we have, we have like.
• 2:05:52
  Cuts. That are not.
• 2:05:54
  Like the only cut that is not like a song that you could turn
• 2:05:58
  on classic radio and hear every day is pressure, and that still
• 2:06:02
  plays on the radio. This is a good.
• 2:06:05
  Yeah, All right. It's a fantastic.
• 2:06:07
  List. You can't not.
• 2:06:09
  Make a fantastic. List of Billy Joel's songs.
• 2:06:11
  It's true. Let me run it down and then
• 2:06:13
  we'll crank up the heat even. More so we've got you may be
• 2:06:17
  right scenes from an Italian restaurant just the way you are
• 2:06:19
  pressure at the entertainer big shot.
• 2:06:21
  Tell her about it New York State of mind Vienna and keeping the
• 2:06:24
  faith auto. I read down those 10.
• 2:06:27
  Which one is the one it scenes from Italian, that's what.
• 2:06:34
  Do you think Marlene? Big shot.
• 2:06:40
  I love that. I love.
• 2:06:42
  That it's not big shot. Oh, you do.
• 2:06:46
  You do you, babe. You do you, all right.
• 2:06:52
  Randy one of. You is right.
• 2:06:54
  It's not big shot. It's.
• 2:06:56
  Teams from an Italian restaurant, all right.
• 2:07:01
  Schultz, you know. There's not many.
• 2:07:05
  Songs on. This list that are number ones
• 2:07:07
  on the record, Yeah. And you know what it is?
• 2:07:10
  You know what it is? What is?
• 2:07:13
  No, I'm not doing that. We're we're definitely doing.
• 2:07:15
  Seems for Italian restaurant I I do want to make a point I I
• 2:07:23
  think a case. Could be made for you may be
• 2:07:26
  right, but I I I think it's got to be Italian restaurant.
• 2:07:29
  I mean not just not. Just because.
• 2:07:31
  They both those are the two that had five.
• 2:07:34
  I just there is something snappy about you may be right that that
• 2:07:37
  might catch somebody, but I mean I didn't I didn't not mean what
• 2:07:41
  I was saying. I didn't I, I I think it's.
• 2:07:45
  I think it'd be a fine. Choice if we made it, yeah, but
• 2:07:49
  it sounds like we're all we're all in agreeance that it's.
• 2:07:51
  Italian restaurant. So it it it it, it covers
• 2:07:56
  everything. That is really you wish it was
• 2:07:58
  the. Stranger.
• 2:07:59
  It should be the fucking stranger.
• 2:08:02
  But here we are, you know? Yeah, but you didn't win.
• 2:08:07
  So in a, in a world in. A world where the.
• 2:08:09
  Stranger and and Piano Man are both, perhaps inexplicably, not
• 2:08:16
  on this list. You know it.
• 2:08:20
  It's our world, man. No, say the stranger was.
• 2:08:23
  Up on the. List.
• 2:08:25
  You're. Still scenes from Italian
• 2:08:27
  restaurant is still more Billy Joel than the stranger It
• 2:08:31
  honestly it is I agree with that I I do I I fully agree.
• 2:08:36
  With that. Point.
• 2:08:36
  But. My my take if stranger's a great
• 2:08:39
  song. I love that song a lot but I.
• 2:08:41
  Think that artistically it's the most.
• 2:08:44
  Interesting and most successful thing that he took from idea to
• 2:08:48
  execution in his entire catalog. And I know it's a massive hit
• 2:08:52
  song, so it's tough to pontificate, but like, for me,
• 2:08:56
  that's a really difficult topic to tackle.
• 2:08:58
  And he does it in a way that anyone can understand.
• 2:09:01
  And like, there's not a single person on this planet, if
• 2:09:03
  they're being honest, they can't relate to that song.
• 2:09:06
  And the guitar riff is fucking legendary.
• 2:09:09
  It that guitar riff could scare bears away if they were trying
• 2:09:11
  to eat you. Like I, I don't know.
• 2:09:13
  I, I, I don't know. Anyways, I don't need a stump
• 2:09:16
  for that song. It does really well.
• 2:09:20
  All right, so I'm going to run. This down one last time and then
• 2:09:23
  we'll wrap her on up and get on out of here.
• 2:09:26
  Scenes from an Italian restaurant is going to be our
• 2:09:28
  number one. You may be right just the way
• 2:09:30
  you are pressure the entertainer big shot.
• 2:09:32
  Tell her about it. New York State of mind Vienna
• 2:09:34
  keeping the faith rounds it out and just like that man, you
• 2:09:37
  know, as we said, you know it was it was it was hard work.
• 2:09:41
  We worked we got there. But let's get Let scenes from an
• 2:09:44
  Italian restaurant get a moment in the sun.
• 2:09:46
  Get a table. Near the street.
• 2:09:54
  You know, like you said, Randy, like.
• 2:09:56
  It's it's an agreeable. Artist songs were very
• 2:09:59
  agreeable. I mean, it it, it took some
• 2:10:02
  work, but we got to a very agreeable list.
• 2:10:06
  It's it's just wild. Some of the omissions, Right.
• 2:10:10
  Well, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and.
• 2:10:14
  And with his, with his catalog, yeah, that's going to happen.
• 2:10:18
  It's bound to happen like I said.
• 2:10:20
  There was 50. 60. Songs.
• 2:10:22
  That belong on the list, yeah. So what are you going to?
• 2:10:26
  Fucking do, but we did it. We we turned you on to Billy.
• 2:10:28
  Joel. If for some reason you are
• 2:10:31
  living under a rock and some, I mean, I don't know man, you
• 2:10:33
  know, depends on who you are and maybe you just truly have not
• 2:10:37
  been exposed to him yet. Maybe if that's the case, listen
• 2:10:41
  to this. You'll be into him and go ahead
• 2:10:43
  and do the dive. It's a lot.
• 2:10:46
  It's 7 hours worth of music that we listen to it.
• 2:10:48
  It is a lot, but it is enjoyable.
• 2:10:52
  It was not, it was not a hard listen.
• 2:10:55
  It was hard and listen. Listen to every song we
• 2:10:58
  mentioned. Literally just listen to every
• 2:10:59
  single song. We just said the name of Yeah,
• 2:11:01
  please do. Yes, except for Uptown Girl,
• 2:11:04
  definitely. Do but.
• 2:11:08
  We've done it. We've we've turned you into a
• 2:11:10
  Billy. Joel fan, you're very welcome
• 2:11:11
  for that. Hey man, maybe you would like to
• 2:11:15
  come play. Or actually, let's start with
• 2:11:16
  this. Maybe you disagree with our
• 2:11:17
  list. That's fine.
• 2:11:19
  A lot of people probably are going to.
• 2:11:22
  You can go to Spotify and express.
• 2:11:25
  Hey, these are the songs I would have chose.
• 2:11:27
  That's cool or I can't believe you chose this.
• 2:11:31
  But if you're going to do that, please give us five stars.
• 2:11:33
  It does help us get seen in the algorithm very much.
• 2:11:36
  Would appreciate that if you're listening on Apple podcast.
• 2:11:39
  Same thing goes. Five Star review goes a long way
• 2:11:42
  and would be super appreciative. Appreciated.
• 2:11:45
  Maybe you want to go the extra mile. patreon.com/show.
• 2:11:48
  Hi Justin would be a great place to go.
• 2:11:50
  A dollar a month gets you in the door.
• 2:11:52
  Would very much appreciate that. It gets you deprogramming for
• 2:11:54
  the rest of the world. It gets you the after the fact
• 2:11:56
  conversation that we are about to have.
• 2:11:58
  Probably going to be a short one tonight.
• 2:12:00
  I don't know, we'll see because we went a little long here.
• 2:12:04
  So we'll see. But there will be 1 and you can
• 2:12:07
  listen to it immediately following this.
• 2:12:10
  Like it will go out as soon as it's done.
• 2:12:13
  The ever so occasional. Oh hi Justin.
• 2:12:15
  Those might be coming back a little bit.
• 2:12:17
  I am working on like a weekly musical conversation type thing
• 2:12:21
  where we kind of tackle 4 topics a night and then they each go
• 2:12:26
  out as a podcast to make deprogrammed daily podcast.
• 2:12:31
  More on that as it develops, and a good way to do that is by
• 2:12:35
  going to the patreonpatreon.com/oh.
• 2:12:37
  Hi, Justin again. I'd also get you access to our
• 2:12:39
  Discord channel. It gets an automatic invite
• 2:12:41
  link. You can come join us.
• 2:12:43
  We are growing a tree. We're counting.
• 2:12:45
  I mean, you could say it's kind of like a kindergarten in there.
• 2:12:47
  It is kind of like a kindergarten in there.
• 2:12:49
  We're also doing music leagues. Those are happening in there and
• 2:12:54
  you can jump in on the panelists channel and say, hey, I'd like
• 2:12:59
  to talk about this band and you can find somebody to talk about
• 2:13:02
  the band with you. All that happens there on the
• 2:13:04
  Discord. And it also gets you, if you go
• 2:13:07
  to the $5 level on the Patreon, it gets you into some secret
• 2:13:11
  channels. So consider that if you would.
• 2:13:15
  But maybe all that sounds fun, but you don't want to pledge any
• 2:13:18
  money to get that. Just ask me for link.
• 2:13:20
  Come join the Discord, it'll be fun.
• 2:13:22
  Sharing the link is caring. We are a podcast and getting the
• 2:13:25
  word out there is literally the only way the show can grow.
• 2:13:28
  So sharing the link is super duper caring.
• 2:13:31
  Wherever you're listening from would appreciate that.
• 2:13:33
  And telling somebody that you listen to the show means more
• 2:13:37
  than I could ever say, hey I listen to you programmed and you
• 2:13:39
  should too. And with that Billy Joel, let
• 2:13:42
  them loving people see you next week.
• 2:13:44
  Bye.