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I said it before I said it. He goes, well, you know, on The Stranger, the whistling wasn't my idea. He goes, that was Phil Ramone's idea. He goes, I was sitting there, I was doing my thing and I was, you know, kind of practicing and I start whistling. So then I go to Phil, I go, I go, so what kind of instrument should we use for the whistling? And Phil says, we're gonna use your whistling. He goes, "You!" He goes, "We're just gonna let you whistle!" And I was like, "Ahh!" Oh, that's crazy. I was like, "I fucking love that shit!" That's really funny. Or like the Kanye doc is great like that.

August 5, 202533:33Jason
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David32:56
Oh yeah, I fucking love it.
Jason32:59
Oh yeah, like last night I was watching the Billy Joel doc and he has this song called The Stranger and it's this piano, it's beautiful, beautiful piano, and then all of a sudden Billy Joel starts to whistle and he's like— it's just like this whistling over p…
David33:31
Oh, you've said it before you even saw the doc?
Jason33:33
I said it before I said it. He goes, well, you know, on The Stranger, the whistling wasn't my idea. He goes, that was Phil Ramone's idea. He goes, I was sitting there, I was doing my thing and I was, you know, kind of practicing and I start whistling. So then I go to Phil, I go, I go, so what kind of instrument should we use for the whistling? And Phil says, we're gonna use your whistling. He goe…
David34:02
Did you see where Arnold Schwarzenegger was talking about his famous line?
Jason34:07
No.
David34:08
He was talking about—