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Speaker 1: This is Deaf Dave and you are listening to the

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Surely You Can't Be Serious Podcast.

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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 lengthen 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 3: 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 2: Birth control, Ohichimen, Richard Nixon back again, kay d, tell

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me about birth control? Okay, birth control. People were trying

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to figure out ways not to have babies for decades.

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In the nineteen thirties, scientists found that high doses of

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androgen or estrogen or progesterone inhibited ovulation, but it book

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about thirty more years of work until they ultimately had

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a contraceptive that was approved by the FDA as a

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birth control pill or the pill, if you will. This

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happened in February of nineteen sixty one, but it wasn't

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until nineteen sixty five, when the Supreme Court ruled in

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the decision Griswold versus Connecticut that governments could not interfere

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with the buying and use of contraceptives by married couples,

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that it was available nationwide for unmarried women. It took

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until nineteen seventy two with the decision Einstadt versus Baird. Wow,

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what's the story on Ho Chi Minh? All right?

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Speaker 3: So, Ho Chi Minh was the president of North Vietnam

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nineteen forty five to nineteen sixty nine. And this is

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a guy of many names, so he's gone through many

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name changes. He was born when Singh Kuhn in Vietnam.

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In eighteen ninety, while working in Paris, he petitioned Woodrow

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Wilson asking for Vietnam's independence from French rule way back

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in the twenties. In nineteen twenty, he joined the French

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Communist Party. He studied communism in the USSR and China.

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He returned to Vietnam in nineteen forty changed his name

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to Ho Chi Minh, which means bringer of light. The

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vietnamn was a revolutionary group that seized Hanoi, and Ho

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Chi Minh became the leader of the North that led

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to the Vietnam War. In nineteen seventy, America withdraws from Vietnam.

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Uncle Hoe, as he's known, Declarre's victory and Saigon is

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renamed Ho Chi Minh City. All right, do you tell

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me about Richard Nixon? Back again?

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Speaker 2: All right? After Richard Nixon lost the election to JFK

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in nineteen sixty he lost again. He tried to be

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governor of California in nineteen sixty two and lost that

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one as well. He fought back to regain prominence in

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national politics. And one interesting thing that he did was

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to be a guest on the popular television comedy show

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in Nixon repeated the show's running gagline, sock it to

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Me a number of times, and it gave the impression

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that he wasn't such a stuck up snob after all,

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and he was elected president in nineteen sixty eight. Okay, guys,

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that does it for today's episode. Join us next time

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for five minutes of fire