Speaker 1: I'm Jason Colvin, I'm d Graves.
Speaker 2: Give us five minutes and we will give you the fire.
Speaker 1: 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 link for the song,
so it works out kind of nicely. So please join
us as we dive into some new lyrics today.
Speaker 2: All right, guys, so here are the topics that we're
going to be covering today. Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got
a winning team. Einstein, James Dean looking down a wind.
Speaker 1: Okay, I've heard of this guy named Einstein. I think
he has a bagel company.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Einstein Bagels exactly. All right, so let's
talk about Albert Einstein. Born in eighteen seventy nine. He
passed away nineteen fifty five. He was a German born
theoretical physicist moved to the United States in nineteen thirty three.
Widely held to be the greatest and most influential scientist
of all time. On top of that, it's kind of
a given that he's like the smartest guy ever lived.
He fell in love with physics as a boy when
his father gifted him with a compass. Widely known that
he struggled a bit in school in subjects like language,
but he actually wrote his first scholarly paper at the
age of sixteen, in physics. He clashed with his teachers.
Some even thought that he had a learning disability. Get this.
He started off as a teacher, but because he couldn't
find work, he went back to college he got his PhD.
He obtained his degree in nineteen oh five and wrote
four ground breaking papers in that same year. They call
it the Annas Marabas, like the year of miracles. His
four papers the subjects were number one, the theory of
photoelectric effect, number two the Brownian motion, Number three of
the theory of special relativity, and number four mass energy equivalents.
Don't ask me to explain any of that stuff. Known
widely for his theory of relativity E equals mc squared,
won the Nobel Prize in Physics in nineteen twenty one.
Died in nineteen fifty five from internal bles eating from
a ruptured aortic aneurysm at age seventy six. Get this
his last words that he said to the nurse. He's
spoke in German. One, she does speak German. Number two,
she doesn't remember what he said, so nobody knows what
his last words were. All right, all right, d what
can you tell me about James Dean?
Speaker 1: Okay, James Dean. My name is James d. So this
one was special for me, especially when I found out
that he started off as a pre law major and
became a drama major. After that, I flipped that was
a drama major and then studied law. So this is
all very cool for me. James Dean was born nineteen
thirty one. Was very close with his mother, but tragically,
she died when he was nine years old. His dad
couldn't take care of him, so sent him off to
live with his aunt and uncle, who raised him. He
went to college, but then dropped out in nineteen fifty
one to pursue acting. Moved out to California. His first
acting job was in a Pepsi commercial. What His first
speaking part was as John the Apostle in a TV
movie called Hill Number one about the resurrection of Jesus.
He decides, I want to study more he moves to
New York City and starts studying at the Actors Studio
with guy we've mentioned several times now, Lee Strasberg. Then
a night teen fifty three, he gets cast in the
movie East of Eden and it is a breakout success
for him. He suddenly becomes the it factor guy. Right
after East of Eden, he decides that he wants to
get into car racing professionally, and then just before he
starts filming the next movie that he's going to be
in Rebel without a Cause. He competes in his very
first professional event for the Palm Springs Road Races. He
got first place in the novice class and second place
in the main event. He goes to do Rebel Without
a Cause, which is his definitive movie. Warner Brothers actually
barred him from racing during the production of his next movie, Giant.
He had finished shooting his scenes in the movie and
was in post production. He entered into the upcoming Salinas
Road Race. He decided to drive his car from La
to Salinas to break it in. At approximately five forty
five PM, a nineteen fifty Ford Tutor driven by a
twenty three year old California Polytechnic State University student Donald
turnip Seed was traveling east to hernip Seed made a
left turn on the Highway forty one headed north toward
Fresno ahead of the oncoming Portiae driven by Dean. Dean
was unable to stop in time because he was speeding.
He slammed into the passenger side of the ford, resulting
in Dean's car bouncing across the pavement onto the side
of the highway and sustained numerous fatal injuries, including a
broken neck. Dean was pronounced dead on arrival. Shortly after
he arrived at the hospital at six point twenty pm.
He became the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy
Award nomination for Best Actor for his role in East
of Eden. He received a second nomination for his role
in Giant the next year, making him the only actor
to have had two posthumous acting nominations. Incredible. All right, Jason,
tell me about Brooklyn's got a winning team.
Speaker 2: All right, So we're talking about the Brooklyn Dodgers. They
were founded in eighteen eighty three as the Brooklyn Grays
based on their uniform, became the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers in
nineteen eleven, and finally the Brooklyn Dodgers in nineteen thirteen.
They moved to ebbittts Field in nineteen twelve. During this time,
you had the New York Yankees, the New York Giants,
and the Brooklyn Dodgers all playing baseball in the New
York area. They broke the color barrier nineteen forty seven
through the efforts of Branch Rickey. With Jackie Robinson, they
won the nl pennant in nineteen forty one, nineteen forty seven,
nineteen forty nine, nineteen fifty two, nineteen fifty three, only
to all fall to the New York Yankees.
Speaker 1: Damn Yankees, that's it.
Speaker 2: They were a victim of Giants outfielder Bobby Thompson's shot
heard round the world in nineteen fifty one. They finally
beat the Yankees and won the World Series in nineteen
fifty five and moved to the Los Angeles area in
nineteen fifty seven and became what we know as the
La Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Okay, guys, that does it for today's episode. Join us
next time for five minutes of fire