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Hey and welcome to the short stuff.

I'm Josh and there's Chuck and we're Chuck and this is short stuff so let's go.

So we're talking today about the death of Billy the Kid which I thought I learned from

a Billy Joel song called the Ballad of Billy the Kid.

That seems like an appropriate place to learn it.

Great song but it turns out the Billy Joel stopped at what was to be the hanging of

Billy the Kid and throwing up.

I thought that's how his story ended.

Boy you are misinformed buddy.

Yeah I mean the song literally stops with the town folk in their kin like the sea came

rolling in to watch the hanging of Billy the Kid.

Then there's one more chorus and that's it.

You know now that makes me question if whether we really did start the fire.

Hey did you see that video of him playing the piano on the street the other day and where

are we from?

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