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The Michael Berry Show

Why Do Guys Like Billy Joel Feel The Need To 'Upgrade' When They Hit It Big?

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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0:00.0

The Michael Berry Show

0:05.2

video on Billy Joel's ex-wives

0:08.6

Last night. The first one was before we made it big, when a lot of those guys are married until they make it big and then they go,

0:17.0

Oh, I got to upgrade my wife. This was the wife I love, with whom I was suitable, who trusted me and loved me.

0:27.0

But now I'm a famous rock star, so I gotta have a supermodel.

0:32.0

Bye. Which I think tells you a lot about a person even though I love

0:37.1

Bill of Joel's music that always it never sits right with me. And then he marries, of course, Christie Brinkley.

0:46.0

And they're asking him about the idea that they're mismatched

0:55.0

that they make an odd pairing.

0:59.0

And his answer to that is,

1:01.0

well, that's because people don't realize how brilliant Christie is. They think of

1:08.1

her as this Ditzy model, but she is my intellectual equal.

1:12.4

No Bellin, that's not But she is my intellectual equal.

1:18.0

No, Billy, that's not what anybody was thinking it was a mismatch.

1:24.0

She's six inches taller than you and she's drop dead gorgeous and you write and sing a good song but when you're together nobody thinks she saw you across the room and said

1:29.0

wow that's a good looking for right now.

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