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Speaker 1: I'm Jason Colvin, I'm d Graves.

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Speaker 2: Give us five minutes and we will give you the fire.

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Speaker 1: 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 with 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 2: 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 1: Warn debts, almost vets, aids, debt okay, Jason, tell me

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about foreign debts.

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Speaker 2: Okay. The Latin American debt crisis of nineteen eighty two

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originated in the late nineteen seventies when Latin American countries

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reached a point where their foreign debt exceeded their earning

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power and they could not repay it. A few things

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contributed to this, the rise of the international interest rates,

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the global economic slow. Latin American countries relied heavily on

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raw material exports like oil, minerals and agricultural products. The

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global prices began to fall. To make up for this,

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the Latin American countries borrowed at higher rates. This put

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them in a very risky position. International banks began to

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lose confidence in Latin American countries. In nineteen eighty two,

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Mexico declared its inability to pay back its debts. Many

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countries experienced deep depressions, which led to widespread unemployment, and

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it continues to have widespread and lasting effects today. Okay,

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do you tell us about homeless vets?

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Speaker 1: Okay, Veterans being homeless has been a problem in the

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US since as early as nineteen thirty two. In nineteen

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thirty four, there were as many as a quarter million

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veterans living on the streets. During the Truman administration, there

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was one hundred thousand homeless vets just in Chicago and

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another twenty five thousand in Washington, DC. And then by

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nineteen eighty seven the number had reached an epidemic proportion.

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It was something in the neighborhood of three hundred thousand

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homeless vets. And this became a big concern, and so

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they begin to try to not only address the homeless problem,

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but they addressed some of the other mental health issues

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that go along with veterans being homeless. Typically they suffer

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from PTSD anxiety disorder, and they have a lot of

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emotional trauma, either involving their the war itself or injuries

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that they might have received there. But since nineteen eighty

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seven there's been a push to end this problem. It's

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not over yet, but in two thousand and seven the

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number was down to about one hundred and fifty four thousand.

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By two thousand and twelve it was down to around

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sixty two thousand, twenty thirteen, down to fifty seven thousand,

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two thousand fourteen, down to fifty four thousand, and twenty fifteen,

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down to forty seven thousand, So the numbers keep getting

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chipped away, but it is still a continuing problem even today,

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thirty five years after this song, all Right, Jason aids

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all Right.

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Speaker 2: AIDS AIDS stands for acquired immune to fision syndrome. In

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nineteen eighty one in the US, rare forms of pneumonia

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and cancer begin being reported in high rates for young

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gay men and injection drug users. AIDS we know now

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attacks and destroys infection fighting c D four cells in

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the body. In nineteen eighty two, it's learned that this

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virus can be transmitted sexually and is caused by the

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HIV virus. Cases are now being reported by blood transfusion patients.

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By nineteen eighty three, women start becoming Effective nineteen eighty five,

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the pronouncement of AIDS was like a dessence. In nineteen

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eighty six, we learned that women can pass HIV through breastfeeding.

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In nineteen ninety eight, to ten million people are estimated

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to be living with HIV. The virus was located in blood, semen,

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and even saliva, which scared the heck out of everybody.

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It's much more treatable now, although there still is no cure.

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Famous people who have had HIV include Ready Mercury, reg

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Luganis Gia Keurengi, Arthur Ashe, Liberachi, Anthony Perkins, Isaac Asimov,

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Danny Pintaro, Robert Reid, Roy Cone, Rock Hudson, Ryan White,

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Charlie Sheen, and Magic Johnson.

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Speaker 1: Okay, guys, that does it for today's episode. Join us

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next time for five minutes of fire