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Speaker 1: This is Jeff Johnson from Cincinnati, Ohio, and I want

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my Shirley You Can't Be Serious Podcasts.

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Speaker 2: Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Surely you Can't

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Be Serious Podcast Special Edition Five Minutes of Fire. We

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are here talking about the lyrics of We Didn't Start

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the Fire by Billy Joel. We're covering only five minutes

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at a time, which is about to link for the song,

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so it works out kind of nicely. So please join

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us as 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. Dylan Berlin, bave pigs, invasion,

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Dylan Berlin.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Jason, what can you tell me about Dylan?

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Speaker 1: Bob Dylan is who we're talking about today. Mister Robert

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Allen Zimmerman was that he was born as in nineteen

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forty one in Duluth, Minnesota. He's an American songwriter and singer.

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Some say he's the best songwriter to ever live. Moved

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to New York City in nineteen sixty one. He signed

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with Columbia Records pretty quickly. His first album didn't do much,

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but his second album, The Free Will and Bob Dylan

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album was very well received and gave us a song

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Lowing in the Wind. He became a major figure in

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the civil rights movement. On the album Highway sixty one

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Revisited in July nineteen sixty five, he came out with

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the song like a Rolling Stone. In July of nineteen

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sixty six. He also had a motorcycle accident where he

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broke his neck. Starred in the nineteen seventy three movie

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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, from which we get

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the song Knocking on Heaven's Door. In the late seventies,

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he converted to Christianity and released several albums. In nineteen

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eighty five, He's sang on We Are the World. In

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nineteen eighty eight, he co founded the Traveling Wheelberry's and

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is widely believed to be one of the twentieth century's

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most influential personalities. Okay, do tell me about Terry Nunn

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and Berlin.

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Speaker 3: Different.

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Speaker 2: This is happening about the real bout. Oh sorry, okay, yes, yeah,

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So when I was in sixth grade, the title of

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my US History report was Berlin the Divided Country, Because

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when I was in sixth grade, the Berlin Wall was

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still in existence. So after World War iiO Berlin was

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divided up among the Allied powers. The ones that got

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East Berlin were the Soviets. After the first fifteen or

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so years of the Cold War, there were several folks

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in East Berlin that decided they didn't like the Soviet

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lifestyle so much. As a matter of fact, three point

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five million of them defected from East Berlin over into

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West Berlin. And so the Soviets decided, you know what,

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they need protection from this influence, and so we're going

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to put up a wall. And so on August thirteenth,

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nineteen sixty one, they started construction on the Berlin Wall

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to quote unquote protected citizens, but everyone knew it was

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to keep them from defecting. That wall remained there until

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just a couple short months after the release of the song.

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We didn't start the fire. It's incredible and was taken

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down November ninth, nineteen eighty nine.

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Speaker 1: Our buddy Vanilla and Plexico said we could do it

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entire We didn't start the fire song just on events

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of nineteen eighty nine.

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Speaker 2: And he's not wrong. Okay, Jason, tell me about the

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Baya Pigs invasion.

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Speaker 1: Okay, April of nineteen sixty one, more than one thousand

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Cuban exiles stormed the beaches of the Baya Pigs in

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Cuba to launch a revolt against Fidel Castro. Castro had

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risen to power in the nineteen fifties. On New Year's

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Day nineteen fifty nine, Castro invaded Havana, forcing US backed

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Batista to flee. Castro declared himself Prime Minister and signed

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agreements to buy oil from Russia. This did not sit

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well with the United States, so the US severed all

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ties with Cuba. He soon declared himself communist and seized

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all US assets in Cuba. So Eisenhower came up with

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a plan to train Cuban refugees as freedom fighters. However,

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there were several spies in those bands of freedom fighters.

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Fast forward a bit to John F. Kennedy. He decides

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to move on an invasion and invade Trinidad, which is

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an area of Cuba, but at the last second he

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switches to the Bay of Pigs, which is interesting because

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the area around the bay swampy, making fighting very difficult.

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This group of freedom fighters was met by twenty thousand

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Cuban troops. Oh gosh, by April nineteenth, the US sends

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in air support, but it's a total failure. It's a

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complete embarrassment for Kennedy and it actually emboldens Castro and

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the USSR. These events pushed us even closer to World

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War three.

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Speaker 2: Okay, guys, that does it for today's episode. Join us

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next time for five minutes of fire.

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Speaker 3: 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 4: It's called Apples and Oranges and it lodges on February seventh.

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Speaker 3: We will be matching albums against each other in a

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one v one format, discussing every single track and then

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giving our verdict on which album is better.

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Speaker 4: Pet Sounds versus Revolving Sergeant Pepper versus Smile.

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Speaker 3: 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 4: 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 3: What we got were some of the greatest albums of

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all time.

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Speaker 4: Awesommer Long versus A Hard Day's Night, Rivers Sol versus

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The Beach boys today.

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Speaker 3: 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 4: That's Apples and Oranges February seven,