Speaker 1: I'm Jason Colvin, I'm d Graves.
Speaker 2: Give us five minutes and we will give you the fire.
Speaker 3: Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Surely You Can't
Be Serious Podcast Special Edition five Minutes of Fire. We
are here talking about the lyrics of We Didn't Start
the Fire by Billy Joel. We're covering only five minutes
at a time, which is about to link with the song,
so it works out kind of nicely.
Speaker 1: So please join us as we dive into some new
lyrics today.
Speaker 2: All right, guys, So here are the topics that we're
going to be covering today. Moonshot, woodstock, watergate, shot wood stock,
water gate.
Speaker 1: Okay, tell me about the moonshot.
Speaker 2: All right, Dave, this is discussing one of the greatest
human achievements in all of history, a man actually stepping
foot on the moon. The mission that took the US
astronauts to the Moon was Apollo eleven. Now on that
craft you had Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin Junior, and Michael
call On July twentieth, nineteen sixty nine, four to seventeen
pm US Eastern daylight time, Armstrong radioed said, Houston Traequility Base.
Here the eagle has landed. At ten fifty six pm
Eastern daylight time on July twentieth, Armstrong climbed down the
ladder and said.
Speaker 3: At one all flam for man.
Speaker 1: On by a late for man.
Speaker 2: That's one small step for man, one giant lead for mankind.
Aldrin joined Armstrong about twenty minutes later. Altogether they spent
about twenty one hours and thirty eight minutes on the moon.
They set up various types of equipment. Hundreds of millions
of people watched this event on television, and on their
way out they knocked the flag over.
Speaker 1: Just take a moment. Can you imagine being one of
those guys like talk about fear terror? I mean, you
trained for this, but you're doing something that no one
has ever ever done, and then you have to make
it back home.
Speaker 2: Absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1: All right? Tell us about Woodsuck all right? This refers
to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to
just as Woodstock. It was a musical festival that was
held from August fifteenth to August eighteenth, nineteen sixty nine,
on Max Jazger's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, forty
miles southwest of the town of Woodstock. It was billed
as an aquarian exposition three days of peace and music.
It attracted more than four hundred and sixty thousand attendees.
Thirty two acts performed outdoors, Despite the fact that it
was overcast and raining much of the time. It was
one of the largest music festivals in history and became
synonymous with the counterculture of the sixties. The next year,
they re released a documentary film, some of which was
filmed by Martin Scorsese, and a soundtrack album that had
a song called Woodstock written by Joni Mitchell, performed by Crosby, Stills,
Nash and Young. In two thousand and four, Rolling Stone
magazine listed it as the number nineteen of the fifty
moments that she changed the history of rock and roll.
Wow Okay? Telling me about Watergate.
Speaker 2: On June seventeen, nineteen seventy two, police caught five men
breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, d C.
At the Watergate Hotel, and he called this a third
rate burglary.
Speaker 1: At the time.
Speaker 2: Now, between nineteen seventy two and late nineteen seventy three,
there was a series of meetings between Bob Woodward of
the Washington Post and a secret informant called Deep Throat.
He revealed that the break in was politically motivated and
could be traced back to the committee to re elect
the president, even to the president himself. The motive was
to collect information and place bugging devices. Now Nixon denied involvement,
of course, and was re elected. In nineteen seventy two,
the Watergate Committee began to dig and place pressure. White
House Deputy Assistant Alexander Butterfield revealed the existence of White
House Tapes, which was a new recording system placed in
the Oval Office. He had to do this under oath,
and it was like this big revelation, So of course
the committee wanted the tapes.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: Nixon tried everything to block the tapes. Right after this,
Nixon gave the quote I Am not a crook speech. Ultimately,
the release of the White House tapes incriminated Nixon. This
causes Richard Nixon to resign the presidency. After that, new
President Gerald Ford pardons him, and the actual identity of
Deep Throat was revealed in two thousand and five to
be former Associate director of the FBI William mark Feldt.
Speaker 1: Check out the book and movie All the Presidents Men yep,
Woodward and Bernstein yep. Okay, guys, that does it for
today's episode. Join us next time for five minutes of
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