I Spent WAY Too Long Listening To Billy Joel This Month
Last time I mention "We Didn't Start The Fire"... I promise.
I don’t even like Billy Joel, BUT that goddamned song was made for a history podcast... Particularly, Twisted History.
It’s what they call a “list song”… Unlike topical songs with a narrative and a cast of characters, list songs typically develop by working through a series of information.
This list song, in particular, has references to 118 significant political, cultural, scientific, and sporting events between 1949, the year of Joel's birth, and 1989, the year the song was released, in mainly chronological order.
It took me 5 hours over 3 podcasts, but I broke down every fucking one of them... Right down to "JFK!.. Blown Away!... What else do I have to say?!?!?"
(Grassy Knoll)
Give it a listen (or watch) because I think it is some of the best shit we have done on this podcast.
Take a report.
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Twisted History
25 videos
![I Got My Ass Kicked By A Professional Sumo Wrestler](https://chumley.barstoolsports.com/union/2024/02/15/Kickass2.0415a884.jpg?canvas=4%3A3&bg-color=000000&width=120&height=68&format=jpg)
I Got My Ass Kicked By A Professional Sumo Wrestler
2![Apparently, Frank The Tank Does More Than Just Walk](https://chumley.barstoolsports.com/union/2024/02/12/IMG_9001.fa42e162.jpg?crop=smart&width=120&height=68&format=jpg)
Apparently, Frank The Tank Does More Than Just Walk
3![How To Make An Irish Man Cream](https://chumley.barstoolsports.com/union/2021/12/14/8553ede5c398.jpeg?crop=smart&width=120&height=68&format=jpg)
How To Make An Irish Man Cream
4![Are you like me?... Fat and/or drunk? Well, here's your drink for Thanksgiving!](https://chumley.barstoolsports.com/union/2023/11/22/4009abf125a5.jpeg?crop=smart&width=120&height=68&format=jpg)
Are you like me?... Fat and/or drunk? Well, here's your drink for Thanksgiving!
5![How To Make An Irish Cream](https://chumley.barstoolsports.com/union/2021/12/14/8553ede5c398.jpeg?crop=smart&width=120&height=68&format=jpg)
How To Make An Irish Cream
6"There were bodies in the trees!"
7The Deadliest Movie Never Made
8In 2001, I was a gullible idiot.
9Reality Television Is The Final Sign Of The Apocalypse
10![Hitler's Seven Dwarfs](https://chumley.barstoolsports.com/union/getty/2022/06/09/GettyImages-514975124.60617fcc.jpeg?crop=smart&width=120&height=68&format=jpg)
Hitler's Seven Dwarfs
11That time a mad Russian was trying to impregante women with monkey babies.
12Handicapped People Are Getting Jerked Off In Japan
13![Well, well, well… Get a load of this piece of shit.](https://chumley.barstoolsports.com/union/2022/05/23/IMG_4120.4211e459.jpg?crop=smart&width=120&height=68&format=jpg)
Well, well, well… Get a load of this piece of shit.
14Uncle Chaps Is Talking Shit Again
I Spent WAY Too Long Listening To Billy Joel This Month
16"TROUBLE IN THE SEWAHS!"
17I HATE RATS
18![TRUE CRIME: History's Fattest Serial Killer Was From California](https://chumley.barstoolsports.com/union/getty/2022/02/10/GettyImages-94752693.8e47a38a.jpeg?crop=smart&width=120&height=68&format=jpg)
TRUE CRIME: History's Fattest Serial Killer Was From California
19Twisted History Turns 100 And Is Now On Video
20Kublai Khan Had 7,000 Concubines Vying For His Mongolian Beef
21Karl Malone is no Arnold Schwarzenegger
22Deontay Wilder Fucked Up My Trip To Saudi Arabia
23![Roberto Clemente Was An Outstanding Human Being](https://chumley.barstoolsports.com/union/getty/2021/01/14/GettyImages-515350142.b0df8d12.jpeg?crop=smart&width=120&height=68&format=jpg)
Roberto Clemente Was An Outstanding Human Being
24Your Lips Have Gotta Touch The Toe
25![Diamond Jim Brady Had A Stomach 6x The Size Of A Normal Man](https://chumley.barstoolsports.com/union/getty/2021/01/07/GettyImages-2695674.a7fd0e0d.jpeg?crop=smart&width=120&height=68&format=jpg)
Diamond Jim Brady Had A Stomach 6x The Size Of A Normal Man