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BEST OF THE GIST: Who Started The Fire?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we listen back to Thursday's Spiel about Billy Joels We didn't Start the Fire. Speaking of Billy Joel, we play an unaired segment from our interview with Anthony Scaramucci where he tells a story about Billy Joel. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, it's Saturday. It's Mike, not in that order. It's Mike, and then I have to tell you

0:08.7

it's Saturday. This will be a weird way to learn. But this is the Saturday show. We're

0:13.5

going to countdown the days of the week. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, ah, we didn't

0:20.8

start the fire. It's still on our minds because Fallout Boy did a cover of it, and then I got

0:27.1

to thinking about the Billy Joel version, which is to say the version, the only version, the

0:32.3

only version that was done with care and attention and in chronological order. So in this, the

0:37.8

best of the jest, I give you my spiel from Thursday, where we discuss what makes the original

0:44.1

Billy Joel song a very good song, and it will also give you an unared excerpt from a conversation

0:51.3

that I had with Anthony's Scaramucci. If you know anything about Anthony's Scaramucci, it's

0:56.9

that he's from Long Island. Maybe you knew that he lasted very few days in the Trump administration,

1:01.1

also that is Italian American. This is true. It's a money on Wall Street. Besides the point

1:05.0

he's from Long Island. And whenever I talk to anyone from Long Island who was born within

1:10.8

a certain milieu has a certain date of birth, talking inevitably comes to Billy Joel. What

1:18.5

is your Billy Joel story? I asked Anthony Scaramucci, and here's what he laid on me. I don't

1:24.8

think we aired it. Even though it was a two party, you got to give a lot of room for the

1:28.7

Scaramucci insights. I don't think this originally aired as part of the two part. But now that Billy

1:35.5

Joel is in the air, thank you Fallout Boy. We revisit our tales of Billy Joel. Enjoy.

1:48.5

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