Speaker 1: This is Deaf Dave and you are listening to the
Surely You Can't Be Serious Podcast.
Speaker 2: 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 lengthen the song,
so it works out kind of nicely. So please join
us as we dive into some new lyrics today.
Speaker 3: All right, guys, so here are the topics that we're
going to be covering today.
Speaker 2: Birth control, Ohichimen, Richard Nixon back again, kay d, tell
me about birth control? Okay, birth control. People were trying
to figure out ways not to have babies for decades.
In the nineteen thirties, scientists found that high doses of
androgen or estrogen or progesterone inhibited ovulation, but it book
about thirty more years of work until they ultimately had
a contraceptive that was approved by the FDA as a
birth control pill or the pill, if you will. This
happened in February of nineteen sixty one, but it wasn't
until nineteen sixty five, when the Supreme Court ruled in
the decision Griswold versus Connecticut that governments could not interfere
with the buying and use of contraceptives by married couples,
that it was available nationwide for unmarried women. It took
until nineteen seventy two with the decision Einstadt versus Baird. Wow,
what's the story on Ho Chi Minh? All right?
Speaker 3: So, Ho Chi Minh was the president of North Vietnam
nineteen forty five to nineteen sixty nine. And this is
a guy of many names, so he's gone through many
name changes. He was born when Singh Kuhn in Vietnam.
In eighteen ninety, while working in Paris, he petitioned Woodrow
Wilson asking for Vietnam's independence from French rule way back
in the twenties. In nineteen twenty, he joined the French
Communist Party. He studied communism in the USSR and China.
He returned to Vietnam in nineteen forty changed his name
to Ho Chi Minh, which means bringer of light. The
vietnamn was a revolutionary group that seized Hanoi, and Ho
Chi Minh became the leader of the North that led
to the Vietnam War. In nineteen seventy, America withdraws from Vietnam.
Uncle Hoe, as he's known, Declarre's victory and Saigon is
renamed Ho Chi Minh City. All right, do you tell
me about Richard Nixon? Back again?
Speaker 2: All right? After Richard Nixon lost the election to JFK
in nineteen sixty he lost again. He tried to be
governor of California in nineteen sixty two and lost that
one as well. He fought back to regain prominence in
national politics. And one interesting thing that he did was
to be a guest on the popular television comedy show
in Nixon repeated the show's running gagline, sock it to
Me a number of times, and it gave the impression
that he wasn't such a stuck up snob after all,
and he was elected president in nineteen sixty eight. Okay, guys,
that does it for today's episode. Join us next time
for five minutes of fire