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0710 is the number let's go to dave in chicago d, how you doing? Good morning, Mark. I'm doing

very well. Thank you. Mark, I myself took a helicopter when I was on vacation in Hawaii.

Saw all of the islands and it was great, but there was like four or five of us in the helicopter.

I was very frightened. It was just too crowded, and I was just too young and naive.

But I wanted to ask you, didn't you once mention that Billy Joel used to regularly take a house?

Oh, yeah, that's another one.

Very good point, Dave.

Yeah, thanks for calling.

Good point.

Billy Joel famously took a helicopter unit.

He did a Madison Square Garden every month, and the helicopter would come land right at his

house, Center Island and Oyster Bay.

Land on his, he had his own helipad at home.

And it would fly him to Manhattan to the west side of helip port there.

And he would jump out of it into an SUV that would take him three blocks to the loading side helip port there, and he would jump out of it into an SUV

that would take him three blocks

to the loading dock of Madison Square Garden

so he could walk out of his house

and be backstage at Madison Square Garden

like 25 minutes later.

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