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Speaker 1: Hey, guys, this is Shawnee Hoff and you're listening to

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the Shirley You Can't Be Serious Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Shirley You Can't

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Be Serious Podcast Special Edition five Minutes of Fire. We're

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

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

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a time, which is about to link the song, so

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it works out kind of nicely. So please join us

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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. We're gonna be talking about

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Student Baker, television, North Korea, South Korea, and Marilyn Monroe.

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Speaker 2: Now this one is interesting because you texted me a

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little bit earlier dividing up our list, and you said,

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I combined North and South Korea, and I said that's

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appropriate since they couldn't do it on their own. We'll

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get there, Jason, what can you tell me about the Studebaker?

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Speaker 1: Studebaker was an American car company founded in eighteen fifty two,

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based in South End, Indiana. They actually started with wagons, buggies,

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and carriages. They made their first electric car, yes, I

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said electric nineteen oh two, first gas powered car in

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nineteen twelve. They were the first people to kind of

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come out of World War Two with a great slogan

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that said first by far with a post war car.

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But Studebaker soon found itself in trouble battling Ford in

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GM because they had come out with these massive price

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decreases in order to capture this audience of soldiers coming

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back from war. But Studebaker couldn't keep its cost down.

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Their labor was high, and so they began losing money

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by as early as nineteen fifty four and had made

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its last vehicle in late December nineteen sixty three. You

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probably know it best because Fozzy's driving in at the

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end of the Muppet movie Studibaker, I love a bear's

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natural habitat ah. A bearon is natural habitats good to Banker?

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Speaker 2: All right, what's television, Jason, I've never heard of it.

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Speaker 1: Otherwise known as the boob tube, we call it the

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idiot box at our house. First became like crudely available

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in the nineteen twenties, but really made its first public

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appearance at the nineteen thirty nine World's Fair broadcasting FDR.

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After World War Two, a better version came out and

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soon became wildly popular in the nineteen fifties. From nineteen

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forty nine to nineteen sixty nine, TV sets went from

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less than a million to over forty four million, huge

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boom in television sales at that time, and it soon

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became the primary medium for influencing public opinion. Disney is

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widely considered responsible for the people upgrading their sets from

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black and white to color because of their nineteen sixty

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one program The Wonderful World of Color. By twenty thirteen,

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seventy nine percent of households in the world had a

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television set, and by twenty eighteen, TV was making more

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money than farming was. The most watched program in the

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history of the United States is Super Bowl fifty nine,

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when the Patriots and Seahawks played each other. I actually last

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five hundred dollar night talking about that. But the Funeral

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of Princess D had two billion viewers worldwide. We all

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know and love television. D What can you tell us

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about North Korea and South Korea?

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Speaker 2: I can tell you that Billy Joel was like, what

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the what do you mean? Nothing happened in the fifties,

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so Korea was split into a North and South portion.

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After World War Two, after Japan was defeated, North Korea

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became established as a communist dictatorship by the Soviet Union

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in Red China. In nineteen fifty, North Korea attacked South Korea,

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which started the Korean War. The United Nations entered the

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war to defend South Korea, and the Soviet Union made

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the mistake of walking out on the UN vote, which

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allowed the measure to pass. Since the declaring of war

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was not acceptable without the approval of Congress, President Harry

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Truman declared the fighting a quote unquote police action, and

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this allowed the entry of American troops. The war resulted

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in what we would call a stalemate, and Korea is

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still divided to this day. One more left in the verse.

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Marilyn Monroe.

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Speaker 1: What do you got? My Goodness? She is one of

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the most popular sex symbols of all time. We all

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know her the blonde Bombshell. Herself born Norma Jene Baker

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in nineteen twenty six. She died August fourth, nineteen sixty three,

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at the very young age of thirty six years old.

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Born and raised in la she got married at sixteen

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to a guy so she wouldn't have to go back

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to the orphanage. It was either marry him or go

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back to an orphanage. Didn't really work out. She got

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a job in a factory. She was discovered by a

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photographer and became a pin up girl from there. That

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led to her appearing in some movies. People noticed her.

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That got her bigger and better roles, and by nineteen

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fifty three she had become one of Hollywood's most marketable actors. Also,

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in nineteen fifty three, nude pictures of her appeared in

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the very first Playboy magazine. In order to improve her

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acting roles, she actually studied acting under Lee Strasburg, which

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we talked about in The Godfather. She appeared in movies

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like Some Like It Hot in nineteen fifty nine, the

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last completed film that she was ever in was called

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The Misfit. She was married to Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller.

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She died of a barbituate overdose in nineteen sixty three.

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Some people think it may have been a suicide.

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Speaker 2: She was involved with JFK allegedly, and she was also

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involved with a mafia guy, Joe Giancano.

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Speaker 1: So She and Shirley Winter, who were roommates, used to

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sit around and make a list of people that they

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wanted to sleep with for fun. JFK was definitely on

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that list. Sure, And then in nineteen eighty three, def

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Leppard released a song called Photograph totally about Marilyn Monroe.

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Speaker 2: Ready to bring it all back? Okay, guys, that does

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

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minutes of fire.