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ROTTEN AMERICANS
JEFF BEZOS

Hysteria: Jeff Bezos: Everything You Didn't Know About His Sh*tty Past


Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDFM7j-44Tg
Peter Burgess COMMENTARY

In some ways Erin Ryan and Alyssa Mastromonaco, the hosts on the Hysteria podcast are better 'journalists' than the mainstream of conventional serious journalists. I am a fan of 'facts' and a lot of journalism does a lot of 'sanitising' facts to make the outcome suit those who are rich, powerful and in control! The 'Hysteria' team goes for the jugular and in the process does better journalism than the 'so-called' serious jopurnalists!

In this epiosode, the Sh*tty character of Jeff Bezos becomes very clear. What is needed now is a practical plan to offset the power and 'sh*ttiness of the man!

Peter Burgess
Jeff Bezos: Everything You Didn't Know About His Sh*tty Past

Hysteria

Dec 16, 2024

335K subscribers ...300,443 views ... 14K likes

On episode 15 of 'This F*cking Guy,' Hysteria podcast hosts Erin Ryan and Alyssa Mastromonaco dive deep into Jeff Bezo's power hungry past. From founding Amazon, to hoarding unconscionable wealth and exploiting his workers, to wrecking havoc on the planet, to prioritizing joy rides to space over helping those in need, this fucking guy maybe one of our most reprehensible yet! Written By Erin Ryan (@eringloriaryan) and Julia Claire (@juliaclairegrams)

Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P...

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Transcript
  • 8:10
  • and his new wife McKenzie took his Wall Street earnings Rolodex and his rich white guy confidence across the country
  • to Seattle and decided to roll the dice on the everything store idea and so on July 5th 1994 Amazon was born and the
  • startup began filling orders the following year the couple beta tested a couple of truly bad had names before
  • they settled on the Amazon branding we know and begrudgingly accept Jeff bandied about the name make it so which
  • was a Star Trek reference but was talked out of that one to the relief of trekkies everywhere the company's
  • initial name was Kadabra as an Abracadabra until a bunch of people pointed out how much Kadabra sounds like
  • kadab especially over the phone I simply would not be shocked if it turned out that Bezos was on top of everything else
  • a close-up magic dweep I could see it also CAD a actually might have been a more appropriate name for the company

  • 9:02
  • all things considered as my fellow '90s kids will remember Amazon started out as an online book seller but old Jeff
  • didn't choose books because he was a lover of literature like all of Jeff's decisions this was purely Financial of
  • all the categories of things a person could buy there are more items in the category of books than any other by a
  • lot at any given time there are about three million books in print worldwide which is obviously far more than any
  • brick and mortar store could ever keep on the shelves why does it feel like 1 million of those books are James
  • Patterson paperbacks at the airport absolutely less than two months into the business Amazon was delivering books in
  • all 50 states and they were Off to the Races Bezos had read the autobiography of Walmart founder Sam Walton multiple
  • times why what a huge red flag he copy pasted many of Walmart's unsavory
  • business tactics for use at Amazon from Walmart's example Bezos knew that the way to win over customers was teaching
  • them to put price and convenience above all other considerations AKA start with the

  • 10:02
  • assumption that people if given the choice would rather do less to get products and services they want Walmart
  • also set a great precedent for basos of underpaying and overworking one's employees but we'll get to that later
  • like Walmart Amazon crushed competitors by pricing items so low that the company actually lost money knowing small
  • businesses in particular couldn't absorb those kinds of hits as long as Amazon could until eventually the small business would have to shut its doors
  • Bezos was lifting so studiously from Walmart W's Playbook that he even started poaching Walmart executives
  • after Amazon's initial public offering in 1997 I mean who wouldn't want to move from Aransas to Seattle truly I
  • certainly would Amazon quickly branched out into CDs and DVDs and began acquiring other companies damn I didn't
  • think this episode would make me so nostalgic for physical media I need to hold a Tory Amos boys for p CD right now
  • such a good CD this commitment to always having the lowest price plus non-stop expansion meant Amazon didn't turn its
  • first profit until 2001 and did not have a full year of profitability until 2003

  • 11:04
  • here's the thing I don't understand the company is worth billions yes and every time I pick up the paper each year it
  • loses more money than it lost the year before but company's never made a profit that's right it's amazing you know we
  • lost 12 million last year and we're doing great well there a whole series of Dunbury
  • cartoons about this this is this is not a new phenomenon we are famously unprofitable company and we are
  • investing in the future it's not which isn't unusual companies have done this before what's a little surprising about amazon.com is the scale which we're
  • doing it we're doing it in a big way I see so you just keep reinvesting we're reinvesting nobody has ever laughed harder at Jay Leno the 9s and early
  • 2000s were a time when companies like Amazon were lowed for their growth at all cost practices creating a corporate
  • Monopoly tax avoidance union busting OSHA violations who cares move fast and
  • Break Stuff it was all about that market share baby and the company just kept expanding in 2000 Amazon Marketplace

  • 12:01
  • launched with thirdparty sellers able to sell directly to Amazon customers with Amazon naturally taking a handsome cut
  • that same year the company Inked a deal with toy Emporium Toys R Us to be their exclusive online retailer then Amazon
  • used Toys R Us's own internal data against them to extract big fees from the company while also squeezing them
  • out of the market entirely and that's part of the reason that Toys R Us became toys Were Us RP Amazon kept on with its
  • winning strategy losing huge amounts of money in the short term to get customers continually coming back to the trough in
  • the long term to that end the company unveiled Amazon Prime in 2005 a yearly subscription service that offered free
  • two-day shipping on all orders for just $79 per year like most Amazon features
  • to reduce friction for Shoppers this one had no clear route to breaking even but as Bloomberg reporter Brad Stone wrote
  • in his 2013 book The everything store Jeff Bezos in the age of Amazon the service turned customers into Amazon
  • addicts who Gorge on the almost instant gratification of having purchases reliably appear 2 days after they

  • 13:04
  • ordered them the entire first decade of Amazon was about building a customer base and undercutting the competition
  • but the company wasn't limiting its Sledgehammer tactics to Brick and Mortar stores it also went on a killing spree
  • of other online retailers in 2009 Amazon approached quiddy the fast growing
  • parent company of several profitable online stores like diapers.com which allowed new parents to easily schedule
  • diaper deliveries and made an offer to acquire the company quiddy declined almost immediately Amazon slashed its
  • diaper prices by some 30% and launched Amazon Mom which gave customers a Year's worth of prime shipping for free and
  • even steeper discounts on diapers Amazon was on track to lose an estimated hundred million in just three months
  • from this Gambit quiddy saw the writing on the wall and ultimately sold Amazon under extreme pressure in 2010 you might
  • be thinking to yourself hey Amazon is just being a competitive business by offering the lowest prices and low
  • prices are better for consumers Amazon good actually well unfortunately that's not how it works once a company like

  • 14:05
  • Amazon lowers its prices below the cost of production and succeeds in killing its competitors when you know what they
  • raise those prices right back up even higher than before because now they control the market it even has a name
  • predatory pricing all of this is documented in a sweeping 2017 Yale law
  • review article called Amazon's antitrust Paradox which was written by a then little-known law student named Lena Khan
  • this paper went viral in wonky policy circles and put Con on the map as we lay out in our complaint Amazon is now able
  • to get away with harming its customers so just to give you a few examples over the last few years they've littered
  • their search results page with junk ads they've also been steadily hiking the
  • fees that small businesses have to pay to sell through Amazon and so now some
  • small businesses have to pay one out of every $2 to Amazon it's basically a 50%
  • Monopoly tax the New York Times said Khan had reframed quote Decades of Monopoly law four years later President

  • 15:05
  • Joe Biden announced that he was nominating her to head the Federal Trade Commission and Amazon Executives freak
  • the [ __ ] out Lena if you're watching this girl we love you Amazon's model is one we've seen become the industry
  • standard in Silicon Valley take on mountains of debt cornering the market and getting users hooked on a no cost or
  • extremely cheap product or service and then hope it turns into profitability it's like in a casino where your first
  • bet is or a drug dealer who gives you your first hit on the house right and from the beginning Bezos was
  • Unapologetic about Amazon's strategy to reinvest any profits into growth and Acquisitions rather than say paying its
  • employees better wages for their backbreaking labor by now as we sit here at the end of 2024 Amazon employee
  • conditions particularly those for warehouse workers need little introduction this was again the Walmart model of running On's Corporation with
  • frugality which is a fun way of saying underpaying the people who create your profits and sub ing them to terrible
  • working conditions but rest assured they continue to spare no expense in pursuit of market dominance again bradstone

  • 16:06
  • writes in the everything store some Amazon employees Advance the theory that Bezos lacks a certain degree of empathy
  • and that as a result he treats workers like Expendable resources without taking into account their contributions to the
  • company a billionaire who lacks empathy and human beings as disposable uh well
  • now we've heard it all it should come as no surprise that Bezos and the Amazon Executives he shephered had to be
  • dragged Kicking and Screaming to implement the most basic workplace safety standards Amazon Executives
  • skipped out on air conditioning for facilities in certain regions like the Midwest believing it to be an
  • unnecessary expense anyone from the Midwest knows that it gets hotter than the fourth quarter jock strap of a
  • Nebraska defensive lineman in summer so on not uncommon 100 degree plus days
  • Amazon workers were given only an extra 5 minutes on their breaks and some free Gatorade
  • plus the company installed fans to blow the hot air around how generous a 2011

  • 17:05
  • expose in the Allentown Pennsylvania newspaper Morning Call detailed similarly brutal conditions during that
  • Summer's heat wve in Amazon's two fulfillment centers in the Lehigh Valley 15 workers suffered from heat related
  • illness and had to be taken to local hospitals an emergency room doctor even called Federal Regulators to report the
  • dangerous conditions oh my God the most ghoulish detail in the report noted that Amazon paid a private Ambulance Company
  • to be on standby during the Heatwave because I guess it was cheaper than installing air conditioning the company
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  • issued citations against six Amazon warehouses over unsafe working conditions ergonomic hazards and failure
  • to report injuries many Amazon staffers say the demand for greater speed is the
  • leading Factor harming warehouse workers 11 seconds was the goal is that hard to
  • meet yeah I had a full shift of all Heavy items I got injured I pulled my
  • back out we've looked at how we can get packages to the customer in a day but we
  • haven't figured out how we can get packages to the customer in a day without hurting people 10 hours only
  • only two breaks who get docked for going to the bathroom who get doctored for going to get going to going to get water

  • 20:02
  • 25,000 serious injuries a year 100% turnover in these warehouses what price is America willing to pay to get one day
  • delivery two-day delivery sad yeah according to OSHA's 2023 report Amazon warehouse workers are
  • injured more than twice as often as the company's competitors in the case of one Warehouse it was five times as often
  • even those numbers might be on the low side as reports have detailed a Culture of Fear among Amazon employees about
  • reporting workplace injuries the high number of injuries is attributable to the almost inhuman productivity quotas
  • like inspecting 30 packages per minute and the company's reluctance or even outright refusal to make necessary
  • workplace safety modifications OSHA isn't the only Federal agency involved Amazon also continues to be under
  • scrutiny from the Department of Justice for workplace safety violations and the National Labor Relations Board for union
  • busting activities yeah unions don't tend to like when workers are are regularly being carted off their jobs in

  • 21:00
  • ambulances so far of the more than 110 Amazon warehouses in the US only one has
  • successfully unionized a fulfillment center in Staten Island New York voted to unionize in 2022 but the union has
  • still been unable to secure a contract over two years later as Amazon keeps contesting the election and appealing
  • the vote with the nlrb worse still a 2021 New York Times investigation found
  • that Amazon had been systematically stiffing its workers on their paychecks the times alleged that according to
  • confidential reports Amazon had been short changing new parents patients dealing with medical crises and other
  • vulnerable workers on leave for at least a year and a half all while the company experienced record profits and Amazon
  • has such an enormous market share in basically every retail industry that the way it exploits its workers has a ripple
  • effect yet another New York Times investigation found that other retailers like Verizon began exploiting their
  • warehouse workers too in a rush to compete with the e-commerce giant Walmart paved the way for Amazon which

  • 22:02
  • in turn paved the way for more recent hyper capitalist online retailers like Sheen and Teemu and now many of the
  • world's most profitable corporations have employees they pay meager wages and forced to endure terrible working
  • conditions in order to pump out copious amounts of poor quality slot products at record speed these companies contribute
  • literal tons of trash to landfills each day just so consumers can get Goods they mostly don't need at rock bottom prices
  • the the nonprofit oceanana found that Amazon generated 600 million pounds of plastic packaging waste in 2020 and 79
  • million pound in 2021 that's so much trash and that's just the packaging all
  • this sounds pretty bad right well Amazon has not wrought this much destruction in the name of two-day shipping simply
  • because of inherent corporate evil though we'd be happy to make that argument another time but because for
  • most of the company's history governments have seemed either unable or altogether uninterested in in them in
  • the company might not pay for air conditioning in its warehouses but it sure doesn't skimp on its lobbying

  • 23:04
  • budget which currently sits at over $22 million annually Amazon is the second
  • highest corporate spender in Washington and as such has been eye-poppingly effective at fending off all manner of
  • privacy protections antitrust issues internet regulation stricter labor laws and greater work protections as of 2024
  • the two trillion doll company pays shockingly little in federal income taxes thanks to loopholes in part
  • obtained by those obvious at the same time companies like Amazon benefit from employees they woefully underpay being
  • able to access government sponsored Healthcare and other safety net programs like Snap so in a way Bezos is one of
  • history's most profitable welfare Queens in 2018 for example Amazon made 11.2
  • billion in paid you guessed it or maybe you didn't zero dollar in federal income taxes I made just a little less than
  • 11.2 billion that year and I still had to pay my taxes in 2013 Bezos purchased
  • the Washington Post from the Graham Family for $250 million which if you're Jeff Bezos is the amount of money you

  • 24:05
  • find in the pockets of a winter coat you haven't worn for a while now to Jeff bezos's credit which is not a preface we
  • find ourselves using very often over here at this [ __ ] guy in his decade of ownership of the post he seemingly
  • has not interfered with any unflattering reporting on Amazon in fact the Washington Post had a number of scathing
  • articles about Amazon corporate practices that we used as research for this very video but but his
  • non-interference at the post ended in October when he stopped the paper editorial board from endorsing vice
  • president kamla Harris in the 2024 presidential election would that have had anything to do with the billions of
  • dollars in government contracts held by bezos's businesses that could be jeopardized in a retaliation fueled
  • Donald Trump presidency we would never speculate on such things it is far too
  • go Jeff and McKenzie Bezos through all of this were according to their Mega Rich Neighbors in a Seattle suburb
  • totally Reg Mega rich people who seemed to really like each other and were involved in engaged parents to their

  • 25:03
  • four children who by all accounts grew up to be normal and not total [ __ ] so we have to hand it to the Bezos
  • family there at least they didn't populate the world with a bunch of Da juniors in the decade or so after
  • purchasing the Washington Post Bezos has been slowly but surely transforming physically from Nerdy Tech Guy to
  • midlife crisis divorce guy he went from a guy who looked a little like a Winsome Sunday school Puppeteer to a guy who
  • looked like a veiny penis he shaved his head and got some biceps and started wearing tight t-shirts he went from
  • being a malignant nerd to a malignant douchebag he was raning raning you know
  • like Joe Rogan filling up with fluids and supplements skin tinged with magenta of excellence and creat got it copy that
  • got it got it so suddenly in early 2019 after 25 years of marriage extra medium
  • t-shirt Enthusiast Jeff Bezos tweeted out a very PR approved sounding divorce announcement about him and McKenzie it
  • read in part as our family and close friends know after a long period of loving

  • 26:02
  • exploration and trial separation we've decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends it seemed to
  • come out of nowhere but then things got weird and yes even weirder than whatever he meant by the phrase loving
  • exploration oh goodness soon after the national Inquirer published 11 pages of
  • text messages between Bezos and a married Los Angeles TV personality named Lauren Sanchez with whom Bezos had been
  • romantically involved for almost a year whoever was in charge of the Bezos family PR was a bit Shifty with the
  • timelines of the separation and divorce and the implication by the inquirer's expose was that Bezos and Sanchez had
  • been carrying on while he was still very much married what's interesting about the story is the mystery of how the
  • national Inquirer got a hold of those texts to be fair Jeff Bezos sex are incredibly cringe but everybody's sex
  • are cringey which is why I don't recommend sexting any anybody for any reason that's right the only person you

  • 27:01
  • should be sexting is God anyway at first there is speculation that Lauren Sanchez's trumpy ass brother had
  • supplied The Inquirer with the sex but it turns out the Inquirer had approached the brother with the sex in hand already
  • to verify their authenticity so they didn't originate with Lauren at all apparently it appeared that The Inquirer
  • or somebody supplying The Inquirer with information had hacked Jeff bezos's phone and given Inquirer publisher David
  • Pecker's closeness to Donald Trump questions swirled about whether Trump's long-standing rivalry or perhaps
  • jealousy of Bezos could have had something to do with a hack but despite some juicy circumstantial evidence Trump
  • was once again harder to nail down than a Jello Jiggler Jello Jiggler I literally haven't thought of a Jello
  • Jiggler since the late 1990s Aaron you just unlocked a memory isn't it bizarre
  • that we once lived in an era when children were serve gingerbread men shaped Jello-O because Bill Cosby told
  • our moms it was a good idea I feel like I am having a stroke I'm sorry I do too

  • 28:01
  • but dated simil is aside the reason the slimy antics of the national inquire leaking Bezos Amorous texts to his then
  • maybe mistress matters is that if you're a tech billionaire who runs a company that provides things like cloud
  • computing data storage and online shopping it doesn't really look good for your ability to protect the data of your customers if you can't even protect your
  • own data from an embarrassing leak if Jeff Bezos shirtless selfies aren't safe then none of us are one very fun thing
  • about the Bezos divorce is that McKenzie and Jeff did not have a prenup and they lived in a community property state
  • which meant that Mckenzie was entitled to half of the assets acquired as a couple during their marriage instead she
  • agreed to walk away with 25% of Jeff's Amazon shares but even that amount of
  • money turned her into an instant billionaire many many times over the second that the divorce was finalized
  • McKenzie Bezos changed her last name to Scott and became one of the richest women in the world and then she got to
  • winning the divorce that's right McKenzie Scott had played a big role in Amazon's early days but now that she and

  • 29:02
  • Jeff were through she wanted to unload her money ASAP she got started right away giving away billions of dollars and
  • flitting around from organization to organization dropping giant surprise donations on causes that are important
  • to her like some kind of reverse leprechaun as of September 2024 she's given away more than 17 billion dollar
  • and is pledged to give away most of the rest of it in her lifetime she's like a real life divorced Fair godmother and
  • perhaps the only benevolent billionaire maybe but let's go back to our evil billionaire Jeff he and Lauren Sanchez
  • got engaged in 2023 and celebrated by sitting for one of the most embarrassing
  • Annie libowitz photo shoots that I have ever seen curse the pages of Vogue uh it takes place on bezos's Ranch just take a
  • look words cannot express how much Bezos is not pulling off a cowboy hat despite the fact that he does have bull
  • castrating bonafides from his time growing up on his grandparents Ranch so some people just scream inside boy post

  • 30:00
  • divorce Jeff bezos's douchebaggery kept accelerating and so it should come as no surprise to anybody that after he and
  • McKenzie's divorce was finalized he purchased a 417 ft super yacht that he named the coru which is surprisingly not
  • a word from the Star Trek or JRR token universes in fact it's the mayori word for New Beginnings the bust on the front
  • of the boat is modeled after his future second wife Lauren Sanchez naturally
  • Aaron the only person who should have their bus on the front of a ship is Seline Dion it is as simple as that 100%
  • this super yacht is so big and obnoxious that it was too big to leave the Dutch Shipyard where it was built without
  • dismantling a local historical Bridge well that feels like a metaphor so
  • despite the fact that bezos's team pinky promised to build the bridge back exactly the way they found it after they
  • dismantled it to let his super yach passed through local citizens were like hell the [ __ ] no and the boat needed to
  • be towed the long way around in the of night the sale of Shame another check on

  • 31:01
  • the billionaire super villain list Desir to colonize space it's always it's always space with these [ __ ] guys
  • Bezos had made it no secret that he's dreamed of becoming an astronaut ever since he was a little boy and thanks to
  • his billions he was able to pretend to be one for a few minutes at Great personal expense in 2021 when his
  • company blue origin sent him and a few passengers far enough into the atmosphere that they experienced weightlessness for a few minutes after
  • the team landed everybody congratulated them M themselves like they'd really done something look good for you you
  • went up so high in the air but how about maybe just clearing some teachers Amazon Wish lists too my brother yeah Bezos has
  • said a lot of very stupid things about space like he wants to colonize it with trillions of people and this quote we're
  • going to build a road to space so our kids and their kids can build the future we need to do that to solve the problems
  • here on Earth I don't know Jeff sounds like we have to solve the problems on Earth on Earth especially because you personally keep creating so many of
  • Earth's problems also Alissa fun fact he wants to turn the earth into like an Intergalactic Park he wants all the

  • 32:05
  • people off and then turn it into like a national park we can all visit oh okay
  • that that works that works yeah but what's the real reason he wants to go to
  • space nobody like Jeff Bezos ever does anything for anybody that doesn't lead to him getting more profit or feeling
  • like a big shot so bezos's buried the lead there but I suspect that his true motivations are that Bezos and other space billionaires don't really care
  • about the childlike Wonder of experiencing outer space they just want to be the first tycoons to master private space flight so they can exploit
  • whatever resources are available in space minerals weapons testing Lair
  • construction maybe I mean what super villain wouldn't want to live inside an asteroid am I right spaces like
  • international waters for people who are bored with their super Yachts one more thing about Jeff Bezos that elevates him
  • to the top of the super villain Power Rankings his desire to live forever oh
  • yes Bezos like many other ultra wealthy Crohns cares deeply about prolonging his

  • 33:04
  • life wealth and Status are famously not compatible with the afterlife so it makes sense that a billionaire might
  • Panic about the fact that if there is a God who cares about Humanity he's probably got some splaining to do when
  • he gets to heaven I'm imagining Jeff asking a friend even if there's nothing do you think there's like a first class
  • section of nothing Bezos invested Millions into a company known as Altos Labs which promised to reverse cellular
  • aging in animals in totally unrelated news Jeff bezos's lazy eye is apparently
  • associated with aging imagine having enough money to run a small country or feed every school child in America but
  • instead deciding to spend it on fixing your own lazy eye we don't know that that's why Jeff Bezos is so interested
  • in anti-aging technology but we don't know it's not why Jeff Bezos is so
  • interested in anti-aging technology maybe the people who hacked his phone and stole his sex would let us know
  • whether whether or not he ever Googled how to grow hair back or bald how to fix or how to grow taller adult man look I

  • 34:05
  • know I'm being mean here but we literally live in a society where even conventionally attractive female
  • celebrities are scrutinized within an inch of their lives women are told they look great for their age at 31 if a
  • prominent female public figure looked like Jeff Bezos she'd be dragged into the street and hoisted in the town square and possibly burned as a witch at
  • the very minimum she'd never ever allowed on Fox News the thing about Jeff Bezos is that he could fix a ton of
  • problems with the money he has and still be richer than God but he chooses not to
  • he could take a page from his ex-wife's book and give life-changing donations to Charities that make the world a safer
  • happier and more beautiful place he could be a real life Santa Claus but instead he hoardes wealth flies to space
  • tries to dissemble old bridges so his yacht can get out of the harbor Alyssa I just did some napkin math mhm in my
  • brain and in the hour or so we've been in this Studio together Jeff bezos's net worth grew by almost $9 million it's

  • 35:03
  • pretty gross okay Alyssa on a scale of 1 to five weasels how many do you think go to oural Jeff Bezos I'm going to give
  • Jeff Bezos four weasels because he's
  • exploiting people he's getting rich off of them he's cheap he is not sharing
  • anything and when given the opportunity look at what his wife does with
  • 25% of the Amazon stock I'm going to go ahead and give him five because I think that the amount of human suffering he
  • has caused in the pursuit of obscene amounts of wealth is like unconscionable and the amount of
  • pollution that he has caused is unconscionable and I think it's even more Insidious because he has tried to do some like surface level good guy
  • things but just because he's not doing the worst thing he possibly could do doesn't mean that he's in any way a good
  • or redeemable person all right um one final thought Alyssa I want you to appreciate the fact that there are many
  • details of Jeff bezos's life that fit perfectly into the lyrics of

  • 36:01
  • Billy Joel's Piano Man and I did not sing any of the details in the form of
  • Piano Man and it was really hard for me his dad was a drunk unicyclist his mother a teen with a
  • dream he castrated Bulls on his Grandpa's Ranch he never liked music
  • that much I went a little toned da at the end but I don't think he could do better oh my God you are right yes I'm
  • going to have Jeff bezos's Piano Man In My Head maybe we could do he did Start
  • the Fire by Billy Joel yeah uh weird L if you're listening okay that's it for
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