August 5, 2025 • 7 mins
"Can a failed musician, a stolen wife, and a motorcycle crash really lead to superstardom?"In this riveting segment of The Ben and Skin Show, the crew unpacks the unexpected emotional rollercoaster of the new Billy Joel documentary—and it’s not just about the music. From suicide attempts to stolen love and a drunken motorcycle wreck that somehow leads to Christie Brinkley, this episode explores the wild, messy, and oddly inspiring journey of one of pop culture’s most polarizing icons.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And Skin Show ninety some point one the Eagle. As
you know or maybe you didn't know, but we're giving
away Pantera tickets all this week on the Bin and
Skin Show. Listen for your chance to win. Sometime in
the next two and a half hours, we'll give you
the opportunity. You have to have that free iHeart app
so make sure to have it. There is a new
Jack Black Paul Rudd movie you need to know about.
(00:21):
We'll talk about it in the Hollywood Shuffle. But all
this month, iHeart is celebrating the greatness that is the
Texas teacher. I mean, we're doing it all across the nation,
but here in town, we care about these great Texas teachers.
It's iHeartRadio's Thinking Teacher, powered by donors Choose and what
you can do is you can go nominate your favorite
teacher right now, someone who made a difference in your life.
(00:44):
Go to iHeartRadio dot com forward slash Teachers and people
have already gone and done this, and we're gonna pick
a winner, and that winner is gonna get five thousand
dollars for the classroom to go and hook their classroom up.
And so every day here locally, with all our iHeart Stations.
We are featuring a different teacher tomorrow The Been and
Skin Show will feature one. Today our friends bowing them over.
(01:08):
On lone Star, they featured Miranda Henley at Fairview Elementary
School in Sherman. Someone nominated her and talked about how
great she was. Now she makes all of her classroom
curriculum relatable to the students. So we're celebrating great teachers
and you can get involved. Nominate a great one just
like Miranda Henley. Go to iHeartRadio dot com forward slash Teachers.
(01:31):
But right now it's time for this sin track. Another
edition of things is traffic. Thank you, Thank you very much.
I've been trying to get up early and get in
my Japanese interval walking, but that saw a problem today, guys,
because last night I can't remember if any of you
(01:53):
said you had watched this yet, but I did jump
in on the part one two and a half hour
Billy Joel documentary, and I jumped in real late. Have
you guys looked at any of this?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I've stumbled across it, I saw, and I watch it
for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Did you get interested in it?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Not?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Really didn't do anything for you? I mean a little bit.
Did you not enough to stick around? Did you watch
any of it? I thought you said you looked at it.
I know it exists. Mike wanted to watch it, and
I told him to wait for me. So, okay, I
take no pride in saying that I haven't seen it.
It's not some bad jo honor for me that I
haven't seen it. But he's going to take a pretty
good push to get me to watch Billy Joel stuff. No,
(02:30):
and I get it. And also I think part of it,
you know, always has to do with your age, Like
sometimes you get into something that's not in your lifetime,
the way Christina did with led Zeppelin. But in the
case of Billy Joel, I've never been some big Billy
Joel fan. But you would literally have to be the
guy that lives under a rock to not know how
(02:50):
Piano Man impacts people. It's the same thing as Sweet Caroline.
It's arguably one of the five greatest singalongs in the
history of recorded music. Like, piano Man is such a
huge thing, and they were showing all this footage last
night of giant, wimbley sized stadiums of people singing Piano Man,
(03:12):
and you know, It's like when there's something that exists
in the world of pop culture that you may not
be a fan of, but you just know it throughout.
Like I doubt any of us are big Neil Diamond fans.
You are not really you are? You are?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
My mom was.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, like the Neil Diamond was popular when Ben and
I were and Billy Joel to some degree where it
was popular. I remember the first Billy Joel memories I
have is I Love You Just the Way you Are,
which was a kV Il staple, which is borderline easy listening,
right like, And in this documentary they're talking about the
(03:48):
fact that Billy Joel didn't want to put that on
the record. He thought it sucked, and.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
But he liked we didn't start the fire.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Well, that's totally different, Like we didn't start the fires
like Ben and I were seniors in high school.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
That in fourth grade.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Okay, see that's what I'm talking about. This whole has
to do like how old you are and all that stuff.
Bill Clinton, Bob dol Packers won the Super Bowl. Yeah,
okay for some of it, and for me and Ben,
we're eighteen when that song came out, and when you're
an eighteen year old there is nothing less cool than
Billy Joel, Like it is the opposite of cool. And
(04:22):
I'm watching this going didn't Ram do this better three
years ago? Like that's basically end of the world. It's
his version of end of the world as we know it.
But he got so massively big and they're breaking down,
like he was dirt poor, like he had nothing, and
it was one of those deals where he was either
(04:43):
gonna make it or he was gonna be homeless. And
he actually I didn't know this. He tried to take
his life like he's he swallowed pills and then they
sent him and they got him out of the hospital
and then they checked him into a psych ward. But
you know, when there's someone who's always been famous your
entire life and you don't really pay that much attention
to him, and then you learn all these crazy stories
(05:04):
about him, it's really interesting.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Oh yeah, I just have other things I'm interested in.
It's not it's not that I you know, I think
any documentary on any famous person there's gonna be so
many cool twists and turns. It's just like when I
stumble across and I'm like, yep, this gets two hours I'm.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Just like, I don't have it like that. Yeah, no,
I understand interested enough to give it that time. Yeah,
you gotta be, you got. It's got to be a
topic that you're interested in, and you know, I'm I'm
way interested in music icons and especially how they shape
the world. Like that's like I told you guys, the
Live Aid documentary stuff. I love it, but that's something
I'm interested in. I'm interested in how pop culture changes
(05:40):
the world. Again, never been a big Billy Joel fan.
And I at the end of two and a half hours,
it's one thirty in the morning, I realize I'm not
going to get up and do Japanese interval walking, and
I'm sitting there with crazy heavy lids, going, Am I
going to fire up Part two right now? Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Because you do it?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I did not. But here's the best part for you guys,
because y'all are obviously big fans of step Brothers, this
documentary is honestly and truly broken up, just like that
Billy Joel cover band is. Because part one ends right
before they get into eighties Joel. Yes, I'm just gonna
(06:23):
watch part two. No, no, no, you want to watch
part one because the really super interesting thing about him
in his career is that he was failing miserably until
his wife, who by the way, he stole from his
best friend when they were eighteen, which is why he
committed tried to commit suicide, felt bad about it. Then
(06:44):
they reconnected. They stayed together all throughout the seventies. She
became his manager and all those songs are about her,
and she took him to be the biggest star since
the Beatles in terms of record sales. And then he
got in a motorcycle wreck while he was drunk, and
she left him, and that's where it ends. And it's
(07:04):
about to pick up with He's about to hook up
with Christie Brinker in her prime and it was awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
A lesson everyone, wreck a motorcycle. It'll all work out,
all right. Coming up next in the Hollywood Shuffle, Jack
Black and Paul Rudd are teaming up on a project.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
We'll discuss next
And Skin Show ninety some point one the Eagle. As
you know or maybe you didn't know, but we're giving
away Pantera tickets all this week on the Bin and
Skin Show. Listen for your chance to win. Sometime in
the next two and a half hours, we'll give you
the opportunity. You have to have that free iHeart app
so make sure to have it. There is a new
Jack Black Paul Rudd movie you need to know about.
(00:21):
We'll talk about it in the Hollywood Shuffle. But all
this month, iHeart is celebrating the greatness that is the
Texas teacher. I mean, we're doing it all across the nation,
but here in town, we care about these great Texas teachers.
It's iHeartRadio's Thinking Teacher, powered by donors Choose and what
you can do is you can go nominate your favorite
teacher right now, someone who made a difference in your life.
(00:44):
Go to iHeartRadio dot com forward slash Teachers and people
have already gone and done this, and we're gonna pick
a winner, and that winner is gonna get five thousand
dollars for the classroom to go and hook their classroom up.
And so every day here locally, with all our iHeart Stations.
We are featuring a different teacher tomorrow The Been and
Skin Show will feature one. Today our friends bowing them over.
(01:08):
On lone Star, they featured Miranda Henley at Fairview Elementary
School in Sherman. Someone nominated her and talked about how
great she was. Now she makes all of her classroom
curriculum relatable to the students. So we're celebrating great teachers
and you can get involved. Nominate a great one just
like Miranda Henley. Go to iHeartRadio dot com forward slash Teachers.
(01:31):
But right now it's time for this sin track. Another
edition of things is traffic. Thank you, Thank you very much.
I've been trying to get up early and get in
my Japanese interval walking, but that saw a problem today, guys,
because last night I can't remember if any of you
(01:53):
said you had watched this yet, but I did jump
in on the part one two and a half hour
Billy Joel documentary, and I jumped in real late. Have
you guys looked at any of this?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I've stumbled across it, I saw, and I watch it
for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Did you get interested in it?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Not?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Really didn't do anything for you? I mean a little bit.
Did you not enough to stick around? Did you watch
any of it? I thought you said you looked at it.
I know it exists. Mike wanted to watch it, and
I told him to wait for me. So, okay, I
take no pride in saying that I haven't seen it.
It's not some bad jo honor for me that I
haven't seen it. But he's going to take a pretty
good push to get me to watch Billy Joel stuff. No,
(02:30):
and I get it. And also I think part of it,
you know, always has to do with your age, Like
sometimes you get into something that's not in your lifetime,
the way Christina did with led Zeppelin. But in the
case of Billy Joel, I've never been some big Billy
Joel fan. But you would literally have to be the
guy that lives under a rock to not know how
(02:50):
Piano Man impacts people. It's the same thing as Sweet Caroline.
It's arguably one of the five greatest singalongs in the
history of recorded music. Like, piano Man is such a
huge thing, and they were showing all this footage last
night of giant, wimbley sized stadiums of people singing Piano Man,
(03:12):
and you know, It's like when there's something that exists
in the world of pop culture that you may not
be a fan of, but you just know it throughout.
Like I doubt any of us are big Neil Diamond fans.
You are not really you are? You are?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
My mom was.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, like the Neil Diamond was popular when Ben and
I were and Billy Joel to some degree where it
was popular. I remember the first Billy Joel memories I
have is I Love You Just the Way you Are,
which was a kV Il staple, which is borderline easy listening,
right like, And in this documentary they're talking about the
(03:48):
fact that Billy Joel didn't want to put that on
the record. He thought it sucked, and.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
But he liked we didn't start the fire.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Well, that's totally different, Like we didn't start the fires
like Ben and I were seniors in high school.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
That in fourth grade.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Okay, see that's what I'm talking about. This whole has
to do like how old you are and all that stuff.
Bill Clinton, Bob dol Packers won the Super Bowl. Yeah,
okay for some of it, and for me and Ben,
we're eighteen when that song came out, and when you're
an eighteen year old there is nothing less cool than
Billy Joel, Like it is the opposite of cool. And
(04:22):
I'm watching this going didn't Ram do this better three
years ago? Like that's basically end of the world. It's
his version of end of the world as we know it.
But he got so massively big and they're breaking down,
like he was dirt poor, like he had nothing, and
it was one of those deals where he was either
(04:43):
gonna make it or he was gonna be homeless. And
he actually I didn't know this. He tried to take
his life like he's he swallowed pills and then they
sent him and they got him out of the hospital
and then they checked him into a psych ward. But
you know, when there's someone who's always been famous your
entire life and you don't really pay that much attention
to him, and then you learn all these crazy stories
(05:04):
about him, it's really interesting.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Oh yeah, I just have other things I'm interested in.
It's not it's not that I you know, I think
any documentary on any famous person there's gonna be so
many cool twists and turns. It's just like when I
stumble across and I'm like, yep, this gets two hours I'm.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Just like, I don't have it like that. Yeah, no,
I understand interested enough to give it that time. Yeah,
you gotta be, you got. It's got to be a
topic that you're interested in, and you know, I'm I'm
way interested in music icons and especially how they shape
the world. Like that's like I told you guys, the
Live Aid documentary stuff. I love it, but that's something
I'm interested in. I'm interested in how pop culture changes
(05:40):
the world. Again, never been a big Billy Joel fan.
And I at the end of two and a half hours,
it's one thirty in the morning, I realize I'm not
going to get up and do Japanese interval walking, and
I'm sitting there with crazy heavy lids, going, Am I
going to fire up Part two right now? Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Because you do it?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I did not. But here's the best part for you guys,
because y'all are obviously big fans of step Brothers, this
documentary is honestly and truly broken up, just like that
Billy Joel cover band is. Because part one ends right
before they get into eighties Joel. Yes, I'm just gonna
(06:23):
watch part two. No, no, no, you want to watch
part one because the really super interesting thing about him
in his career is that he was failing miserably until
his wife, who by the way, he stole from his
best friend when they were eighteen, which is why he
committed tried to commit suicide, felt bad about it. Then
(06:44):
they reconnected. They stayed together all throughout the seventies. She
became his manager and all those songs are about her,
and she took him to be the biggest star since
the Beatles in terms of record sales. And then he
got in a motorcycle wreck while he was drunk, and
she left him, and that's where it ends. And it's
(07:04):
about to pick up with He's about to hook up
with Christie Brinker in her prime and it was awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
A lesson everyone, wreck a motorcycle. It'll all work out,
all right. Coming up next in the Hollywood Shuffle, Jack
Black and Paul Rudd are teaming up on a project.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
We'll discuss next
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