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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 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 2: All right, guys, so here are the topics that we're

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going to be covering today. Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got

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a winning team. Einstein, James Dean looking down a wind.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I've heard of this guy named Einstein. I think

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he has a bagel company.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Einstein Bagels exactly. All right, so let's

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talk about Albert Einstein. Born in eighteen seventy nine. He

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passed away nineteen fifty five. He was a German born

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theoretical physicist moved to the United States in nineteen thirty three.

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Widely held to be the greatest and most influential scientist

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of all time. On top of that, it's kind of

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a given that he's like the smartest guy ever lived.

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He fell in love with physics as a boy when

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his father gifted him with a compass. Widely known that

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he struggled a bit in school in subjects like language,

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but he actually wrote his first scholarly paper at the

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age of sixteen, in physics. He clashed with his teachers.

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Some even thought that he had a learning disability. Get this.

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He started off as a teacher, but because he couldn't

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find work, he went back to college he got his PhD.

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He obtained his degree in nineteen oh five and wrote

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four ground breaking papers in that same year. They call

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it the Annas Marabas, like the year of miracles. His

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four papers the subjects were number one, the theory of

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photoelectric effect, number two the Brownian motion, Number three of

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the theory of special relativity, and number four mass energy equivalents.

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Don't ask me to explain any of that stuff. Known

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widely for his theory of relativity E equals mc squared,

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won the Nobel Prize in Physics in nineteen twenty one.

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Died in nineteen fifty five from internal bles eating from

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a ruptured aortic aneurysm at age seventy six. Get this

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his last words that he said to the nurse. He's

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spoke in German. One, she does speak German. Number two,

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she doesn't remember what he said, so nobody knows what

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his last words were. All right, all right, d what

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can you tell me about James Dean?

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Speaker 1: Okay, James Dean. My name is James d. So this

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one was special for me, especially when I found out

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that he started off as a pre law major and

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became a drama major. After that, I flipped that was

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a drama major and then studied law. So this is

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all very cool for me. James Dean was born nineteen

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thirty one. Was very close with his mother, but tragically,

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she died when he was nine years old. His dad

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couldn't take care of him, so sent him off to

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live with his aunt and uncle, who raised him. He

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went to college, but then dropped out in nineteen fifty

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one to pursue acting. Moved out to California. His first

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acting job was in a Pepsi commercial. What His first

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speaking part was as John the Apostle in a TV

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movie called Hill Number one about the resurrection of Jesus.

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He decides, I want to study more he moves to

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New York City and starts studying at the Actors Studio

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with guy we've mentioned several times now, Lee Strasberg. Then

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a night teen fifty three, he gets cast in the

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movie East of Eden and it is a breakout success

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for him. He suddenly becomes the it factor guy. Right

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after East of Eden, he decides that he wants to

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get into car racing professionally, and then just before he

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starts filming the next movie that he's going to be

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in Rebel without a Cause. He competes in his very

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first professional event for the Palm Springs Road Races. He

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got first place in the novice class and second place

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in the main event. He goes to do Rebel Without

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a Cause, which is his definitive movie. Warner Brothers actually

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barred him from racing during the production of his next movie, Giant.

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He had finished shooting his scenes in the movie and

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was in post production. He entered into the upcoming Salinas

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Road Race. He decided to drive his car from La

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to Salinas to break it in. At approximately five forty

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five PM, a nineteen fifty Ford Tutor driven by a

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twenty three year old California Polytechnic State University student Donald

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turnip Seed was traveling east to hernip Seed made a

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left turn on the Highway forty one headed north toward

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Fresno ahead of the oncoming Portiae driven by Dean. Dean

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was unable to stop in time because he was speeding.

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He slammed into the passenger side of the ford, resulting

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in Dean's car bouncing across the pavement onto the side

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of the highway and sustained numerous fatal injuries, including a

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broken neck. Dean was pronounced dead on arrival. Shortly after

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he arrived at the hospital at six point twenty pm.

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He became the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy

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Award nomination for Best Actor for his role in East

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of Eden. He received a second nomination for his role

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in Giant the next year, making him the only actor

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to have had two posthumous acting nominations. Incredible. All right, Jason,

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tell me about Brooklyn's got a winning team.

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Speaker 2: All right, So we're talking about the Brooklyn Dodgers. They

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were founded in eighteen eighty three as the Brooklyn Grays

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based on their uniform, became the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers in

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nineteen eleven, and finally the Brooklyn Dodgers in nineteen thirteen.

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They moved to ebbittts Field in nineteen twelve. During this time,

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you had the New York Yankees, the New York Giants,

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and the Brooklyn Dodgers all playing baseball in the New

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York area. They broke the color barrier nineteen forty seven

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through the efforts of Branch Rickey. With Jackie Robinson, they

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won the nl pennant in nineteen forty one, nineteen forty seven,

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nineteen forty nine, nineteen fifty two, nineteen fifty three, only

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to all fall to the New York Yankees.

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Speaker 1: Damn Yankees, that's it.

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Speaker 2: They were a victim of Giants outfielder Bobby Thompson's shot

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heard round the world in nineteen fifty one. They finally

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beat the Yankees and won the World Series in nineteen

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fifty five and moved to the Los Angeles area in

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nineteen fifty seven and became what we know as the

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La Dodgers.

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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