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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, This is Amber Lewis from Docking Bay seventy

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seven and you're listening to Surely you Can't Be Serious.

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Even if you think you already know about the topic

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the guys are discussing. They're sure to educate you and

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give you some tidbits that you never heard before, and

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it's always a great conversation. So sit back, relax, and

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never forget hashtag team member.

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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 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 dived 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: Cara wak sput Nick choo un Lai.

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Speaker 3: Okay, do tell me about Carowac okay.

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Speaker 2: Jack Harrowuac was a pioneer of the Beat generation. He

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is on the Mount Rushmore with William S. Burrows and

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Alan Ginsburg. As far as beat poetry and novelists go.

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He was born French Canadian in Massachusetts. They only spoke

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French in his house until he was six. Finally learned English,

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and he spoke with a French accident until he was

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in his late teens. And World War Two he served

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in the US Merchant Marines. He wrote his first novel

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while he was doing that, but it was not published,

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at least not until forty years after he was dead.

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The first published novel he had was called The Town

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in the City, but his second novel, called On the Road,

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in nineteen fifty seven, made him a Beat icon. He

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went on to publish twelve more novels and numerous poetry volumes.

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He is recognized for his stream of consciousness style. He

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spoke about Catholic spirituality, jazz, travel, promiscuity, life in New

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York City, Buddhism, drugs, drinking, poverty, all kinds of things.

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He is considered, with the other Beats, a progeniture of

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the hippie movement. He influenced Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Jerry Garcia,

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and The Doors. Nineteen sixty nine, at the tender age

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of forty seven, he died from an abdominal morrhage. Caused

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by a lifetime of heavy drinking. Okay, tell me about Sputnik.

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Speaker 3: Let's talk about Sputnik one.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: Sputnik one is the first artificial Earth satellite and the

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first human made object to orbit the Earth. This was

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launched into a low Earth orbit by the Soviets October fourth,

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nineteen fifty seven. When I say this caught the US

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off guard and created public fear, that would be a

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major understatement a little bit. The US collectively crapped their

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pants when this happened. They digged the heck out. They

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did not anticipate this at all. This demonstrated to the

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US they were way behind in the space race. Okay,

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so this actually caused Dwight Eisenhower to get ramped up

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in the space race.

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Speaker 2: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: So.

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Speaker 3: Sputnik one was designed to send radio signals back to

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Earth for two weeks, but it actually lasted for three weeks.

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When I looked at it, I was kind of impressed.

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It looks like a beach ball with three antennas. It's

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no big thing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, have you ever sent a beach ball into space?

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I have none?

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Speaker 3: All right, then, the sphere weigh less than two hundred

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pounds it could actually be seen from Earth, and actually

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scientists could track and understand the atmosphere better by just

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looking at it. So this was the dawn of the

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space age. It orbited Earth fourteen hundred times and was

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up and orbited around for about three months. Wow, and

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scared the crap out of everybody in the US. Tell

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me about Chow un LII.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's probably pronounced zou and Lai chow and lie

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zou and lae tomato tomato right right, okay. So he

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was the Premier and Foreign Minister of the People's Republic

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of China what we called Red China to throw back

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to an earlier episode. He was popular and kind of

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practical as far as administrators in China go. He was

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part of the Great Leap Forward in nineteen fifty eight,

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trying to bring industry and commerce to communists China, and

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later on he would push for modernization to undo the

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damage that was caused by the Cultural Revolution of nineteen

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sixty six to nineteen seventy six. He was largely responsible

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for the re establishment of contacts with the West, including

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Nixon and his presidency. Interesting, are you okay, 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