1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,319 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Chris Webber and you're listening to the 2 00:00:02,359 --> 00:00:14,800 Shirley You Can't Be Serious Podcast. Hello everybody, and welcome 3 00:00:14,839 --> 00:00:18,000 back to the Shirley you Can't Be Serious Podcast Special 4 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:21,079 Edition five Minutes of Fire. We are here talking about 5 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:24,440 the lyrics of We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel. 6 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:26,800 We're covering only five minutes at a time, which is 7 00:00:26,839 --> 00:00:28,480 about to length of the song, so it works out 8 00:00:28,559 --> 00:00:31,320 kind of nicely. So please join us as we dive 9 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:33,960 into some new lyrics today. 10 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,039 Speaker 2: All right, guys, so here are the topics that we're 11 00:00:36,039 --> 00:00:37,359 going to be covering today. 12 00:00:37,399 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 1: Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy Metal, suicide. We're at. 13 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:50,240 Speaker 2: Heyde tell me about Wheel of Fortune? 14 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: All right now. The Wheel of Fortune actually started in 15 00:00:54,039 --> 00:00:57,920 nineteen seventy five. It was a MERV Griffin game show. 16 00:00:58,079 --> 00:01:01,840 The original hosts were Query we all know because he's 17 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:05,359 a game show icon, right, and Susan Stafford was our 18 00:01:05,439 --> 00:01:09,159 letter turner. Okay, but they left the show. Chuck left 19 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:12,480 in nineteen eighty one, replaced by Pat Sajak. In eighty two, 20 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:17,359 Stafford left, replaced by and White still looking good, majors, yep. 21 00:01:17,439 --> 00:01:20,719 And in nineteen eighty three, September of eighty three, the 22 00:01:20,799 --> 00:01:24,879 show went to a nighttime position Because of its popularity, 23 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:28,159 It is at this point considered one of, if not 24 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:32,640 the most popular game shows of all time. Over seven 25 00:01:33,079 --> 00:01:37,239 thousand episodes and you still have Pat and Vanna helming 26 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,879 the ship. Wow. I can't tell you how many episodes 27 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:42,239 of the show that I have watched with my grandmother, 28 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:46,000 with my family, with my kids. It is evergreen if 29 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:46,760 you will. Yeah. 30 00:01:46,879 --> 00:01:49,079 Speaker 2: Side note, I saw a comedian talking about how he 31 00:01:49,159 --> 00:01:52,280 watches Wheel of Fortune, then Jeopardy. He goes from genius to. 32 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 1: Moron in an hour. Jason Who's Sally Ride. 33 00:01:55,879 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 2: Sally Ride was an American astronaut and physicist and was 34 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,040 actually the first American woman in space. After high school, 35 00:02:03,079 --> 00:02:06,359 Sally earned a grief in physics from Stanford. Nineteen seventy seven, 36 00:02:06,439 --> 00:02:09,919 she saw an article fighting women to apply to NASA. 37 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:12,919 She applied and was one of six women chosen over 38 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:15,960 eight thousand people had applied. After a series of tests, 39 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,400 on January sixteenth, nineteen seventy eight, she was informed that 40 00:02:18,439 --> 00:02:20,240 she was selected to be a part of the NASA 41 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:22,759 Astronaut Group eight. Georgia Abbey, who was a big wig 42 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:25,960 at NASA wanted a woman in space for their next mission, 43 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:29,240 and Sally was selected. The media began asking her super 44 00:02:29,319 --> 00:02:32,560 dumb questions like will spaceflight affect your reproductive organs? Do 45 00:02:32,599 --> 00:02:34,520 you weep when things go badly on the job? 46 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:35,319 Speaker 1: Oh? My god? 47 00:02:36,039 --> 00:02:40,039 Speaker 2: NASA even famously worked on a space makeup kit for her. 48 00:02:40,159 --> 00:02:42,719 On June eighteenth, nineteen eighty three, she became the first 49 00:02:42,759 --> 00:02:45,919 American woman in space. Two Soviet women actually preceded her. 50 00:02:46,039 --> 00:02:48,520 Her job was to work the robotic arm. She flew 51 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:50,800 in the Space Shuttle again in nineteen eighty four, and 52 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:54,719 she died of pancreatic cancer in twenty twelve. Pioneer iconkay 53 00:02:54,759 --> 00:02:56,800 Do tell us about heavy metal suicide Okay. 54 00:02:56,879 --> 00:03:01,759 Speaker 1: On the evening of December twenty third, nineteen eighty five, 55 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:05,319 twenty year old James Vance an eighteen year old Raymond 56 00:03:05,479 --> 00:03:08,599 Belknap shot themselves with a shotgun in the playground of 57 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:11,840 a church with the purpose of committing suicide. They had 58 00:03:11,879 --> 00:03:15,759 been drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana earlier that evening. What 59 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:20,680 their parents ultimately alleged was that they had committed suicide. 60 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:25,000 Had formed this suicide pack based upon the lyrics and 61 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:30,400 music and subliminal messages contained in Judas priests nineteen seventy 62 00:03:30,439 --> 00:03:33,879 eight album Stained Class. Belknap was the first one to 63 00:03:33,879 --> 00:03:37,159 put the shotgun under his chin. He died instantly. Some 64 00:03:37,319 --> 00:03:41,520 time later, Vance shot himself, but he only disfigured himself 65 00:03:41,599 --> 00:03:43,800 by blowing the lower half of his face off. He 66 00:03:43,919 --> 00:03:48,479 ended up dying three years later, probably from a drug overdose. Now, 67 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:51,680 what Billy Joel didn't know in nineteen eighty nine was 68 00:03:51,719 --> 00:03:54,759 that the next year there would be a lawsuit. Lawyers 69 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:59,000 representing the two families said that subliminal messages had urged 70 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:01,919 these two young men to do it. Embedded in the 71 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:05,840 song better by You, Better than Me, which is actually 72 00:04:05,919 --> 00:04:09,159 a cover of a nineteen sixty nine Spookytooth song. Judas 73 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:12,159 Priest had actually only recorded the cover at the urging 74 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:14,960 of their record company because the rest of Stained Glass 75 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:18,160 had already been completed. During the trial, they tried playing 76 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:22,360 at different speeds and playing it backwards, saying the backmasking 77 00:04:22,399 --> 00:04:25,160 that there were these messages to the youth, but the 78 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:28,199 judge ultimately found that it was just a combination of 79 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:33,879 guitar chords and exhaling that made these kind of coincidental noises. Ultimately, 80 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,680 Amongst a big protest by the heavy metal fans, the 81 00:04:37,759 --> 00:04:39,879 members of judas priests were ultimately exonerated. 82 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 2: Remember those days. 83 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 1: Okay, guys, that does it for today's episode. Join us 84 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:47,120 next time for five minutes of fire.