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Speaker 1: This is David Byrne and this is Skyle Hoffman from

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a film by podcast, and you are.

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Speaker 2: Listening to the Surely You Can't Be Serious Podcast. Hello everybody,

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and welcome back to the Surely you Can't Be Serious

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Podcast Special Edition five Minutes of Fire. We are here

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talking about the lyrics of We Didn't Start the Fire

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by Billy Joel. We're covering only five minutes at a time,

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which is about to link for the song, so it

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works out kind of nicely. So please join us as

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we dive into some new lyrics today.

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, so here are the topics that we're

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going to be covering today.

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Speaker 2: Kennedy, Chubby Checker, Psycho.

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Speaker 1: Belgians in the congo. Okay, tell me about Kennedy. Who's

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this guy?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 2: His name was John, people call him Jack Okay. Kennedy

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was born to a prominent family in Brookline, Massachusetts. He

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graduated from Harvard Uni University in nineteen forty joined the

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US Naval Reserve the following year. During World War II,

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his survival following the sinking of PT. Oneh nine and

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his rescue of his fellow sailors made him a war

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hero earned him the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, but

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left him with serious lifelong injuries. He was briefly a journalist,

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and then he was elected to the US House of

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Representatives from nineteen forty seven to nineteen fifty three. After that,

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he was elected to the US Senate and served as

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the junior Senator from Massachusetts from nineteen fifty three to

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nineteen sixty. While he was in the Senate, he published

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his book called Profiles in Courage, which won a Pulitzer Prize,

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and then in nineteen sixty he ran for president. This

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was the first time in US history that the debates

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between presidential candidates were televised. Kennedy was young, handsome, and

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well groomed. The what all believed to be heir apparent,

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Richard Nixon, who had been the vice president under Dwight Diahower,

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was unshaven and didn't do anything to make himself look better.

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And it's not the most good looking guy to begin with,

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and it was probably that that turned the tide for Kennedy.

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He was ultimately elected president in nineteen sixty and lived

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happily ever after.

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Speaker 1: I have a feeling we'll get to the rest of

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the story here in a verse or two.

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Speaker 2: I feel so yes, all right, Chubby check Okay.

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Speaker 1: Chubby Checker was born Ernest Evans in nineteen forty one

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in Spring Gully, South Carolina, but he actually grew up

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in Philadelphia. Sang on a street corner quartet. He entertained

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his classmates by imitating other performers like Jerry Lee, Lewis, Elvis,

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and Fats Domino. I kind of feel like this is

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an early version of weird ow. He recorded a novelty

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song as a music school teacher with an unruly class

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of musical performers. The song allowed him to imitate Elvis,

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The Coasters, Cozy Cole, and your favorite the Chipbunks. Based

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on the success of the class, he signed a record deal,

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and then in nineteen sixty he introduced the song The Twist,

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Come On Maybe. The song hit number one in nineteen

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sixty and then again in nineteen sixty one. It became

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a signature song. The Twist also hit number sixteen again

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in nineteen eighty eight with a version with The Fat Boys.

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Speaker 2: I remember that very well, and.

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Speaker 1: He's been doing other stuff. Other songs include The Fly Dance,

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The Mess Around, Pony Time. He actually hit number one

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in two thousand and eight with a Billboard Dance chart

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song called Knock Down the Walls. Okay, do tell me

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about Psycho.

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Speaker 2: He Okay, guys, if you want to hear the full

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story on Psycho, you need to go check out the

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episode that we did with the thirty something movie Guys,

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where we covered Psycho. Silence of the Lambs and m

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Psycho was a thriller movie directed by famed Alfred Hitchcock

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used his TV film crew to film this movie because

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the studios weren't interested in doing it. The book had

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just come out a little bit before and was based

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somewhat on the life of ed Geen, notorious murderer. It

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involves Janetlee, who steals some money from work, leaves town,

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gets a room at the Bates Motel. Shy man named

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Norman Bates runs the hotel and ultimately gently is murdered.

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The most memorable scene is when the character is stabbed

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death while taking a shower. By the end, you realize

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that the murderer is mister Norman Bates himself dressed up

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as his own mother, and he is the Psycho. All right,

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tell me about Belgians and the congo.

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Speaker 1: Okay, this is really hard to keep this tight. There's

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so much going on in this one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.

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Speaker 1: The Belgian Congo is a country that had diamonds and uranium.

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So in nineteen fifty nine, rioting broke out because they

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wanted independence from Belgium. So on July fourteenth, nineteen sixty

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in Africa, the Belgian Congo received its independence in what

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we'd later be called Zaire. It became known as the

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Republic of the Congo. But they really had no plan

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for its independence. So when Belgium turned it over to

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the Congolese people, the Belgians didn't really leave and they

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stayed in charge of the army. Well, guess what. All

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the African officers rejected that idea and there was a

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mutiny against their white officer superiors. It devolved into mass chaos.

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The UN actually had to get involved. They send in

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you in troops. You had factions breaking off in different

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areas fighting each other. It was mass chaos. Luckily the

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US was there to put in a dictator by the CIA.

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Terrible situation.

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Speaker 2: I really feel like Stuart Copeland's dad is involved somehow

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in this thing.

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Speaker 4: He might be right.

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Speaker 2: One hundred thousand deaths and absolute Bloodbath. Okay, guys, that

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does it for today's episode. Join us next time for

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five minutes of fire.

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Speaker 4: Hey, check it out. There's a brand new podcast on

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the way exploring the discographies of the Beatles and the

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Beach Boys.

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Speaker 3: It's called Apples and Oranges and Lodges. On February seventh, we.

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Speaker 4: Will be matching albums against each other in a one

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v one format, discussing every single track and then giving

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our verdict on which album is better.

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Speaker 3: Sounds versus Revolve, Sergeant Pepper versus Smile.

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Speaker 4: Wouldn't it be nice if most people knew how well

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the Beach Boys actually held up against the Fab Four.

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Speaker 3: Both bands inspired each other to keep pushing the boundaries

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of what was possible in pop music here, there, and everywhere, and.

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Speaker 4: What we got were some of the greatest albums of

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all time.

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Speaker 3: Awesommer Long versus A Hard Day's Night, Rivers So versus

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the Beach Boys Today.

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Speaker 4: So let's come together for some fun, fun fun and

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help me Ronda get this podcast off the ground, and

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we'll sure appreciate you being around on February seventh, wherever

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you find your podcast

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Speaker 3: That's Apples and Argies February seven,