So it's funny Matt you mentioned. We didn't start the fire. You want to hear a real Long Island hour story?

Hell yes.

Give it to me.

My grandfather lived down Suffolk County, not far from where Billy had one of his homes.

And one of my grandfather's friends was like a maintenance guy, right?

So he worked for Billy Joel.

Back in the, I didn't say like mid-80 late late 80s he this maintenance guy goes over to Billy Joel's house and

Billy Joel sitting in his office and he's like I need this done that done whatever so the guy looks around Billy Joel's place and there are just

tons and tons of like Time and Newsweek magazines going all the way back you know

it's like the 40s and 50s and the guys like what

he just really really obsessed with like Henry Lewis or something like that and then

you know he didn't understand until a year later the fucking song came out it was Billy Joel getting into the

fucking archives that was his process motherfucker researched a

fucking pop song that is dedication that is real dedication I gotta say I mean I gotta give him more credit after hearing that. I mean he didn't just take a bunch of ludes

listing things that you remember from his childhood. I mean he may have been on ludes all probably but at least he kind of engaged with the time period and it's popular culture media and you know if you think about all these kind of touchstone cultural moments that that he lived through,

you know, what better way to get to them

than to simply take all of these like popular magazines

and just look at the fucking front cover, right?

And then just list things that happen.

Yes. Without regard for coherence, thematics, vague rhyme, the only

that you care about. I mean that's the kind of slipshod impressionistic totally system endless approach to thinking about history that

leads you to at the end of your song to announce after all that stuff that you've talked

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