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Speaker 1: Good night listeners. This is Martin from Tasmania, Australia and

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you're having a devil of a time listening to the

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Surely You Can't Be Serious Podcast. Hello everybody, and welcome

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back to the Surely you Can't Be Serious Podcast Special

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Edition five Minutes of Fire. We are here talking about

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the lyrics of We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel.

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We're covering only five minutes at a time, which is

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about to link for the song, so it works out

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kind of nicely. So please join us as we dive

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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. England's got a new Queen,

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Marciano Liberaci.

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Speaker 1: And Satiana goodbye. England's got a new queen. All right, Jason,

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tell me about England's new queen.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So, in February of nineteen fifty two, Princess Elizabeth

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of York actually became Queen Elizabeth. Now the interesting thing

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here she was never expected to become queen. Her father

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acceded to the throne upon the abdication of his brother

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Edward the eighth because he wanted to marry an American divorcee.

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At that point, a ten year old Elizabeth became the

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heir presumptive. She began her training and education to become queen.

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Of course, February of nineteen fifty two, King George the

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Six passes away. That was her dad, so at age

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twenty five.

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Speaker 1: She becomes queen.

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Speaker 2: She's known for being wise and beautiful and known for

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her style, really until Princess Diana shows up and starts

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to kind of overshadow her. She passed away twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: We all remember when that happened. Yeah, last year. All right, dee,

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what can you tell me about Marciano? You beat Joe

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Louis' z azzo thatigo? Okay? So this is Rocky Marciano,

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one of the greatest fighters of all time. He was

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born in nineteen twenty three. He was also a high

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school dropout and a ditch digger, but ultimately got into boxing.

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He faced Joe Louis on October twenty seventh, nineteen fifty one.

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He was twenty eight Joe Lewis not one hundred and

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fifty seven. He was thirty seven years old. He beat

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him good. The next year faced Jersey Joe Walcott now

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Rocky was known for his strong jaw, his aggressive style,

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and a thing called the susie Q. Susie Q was

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an overhanded right punch that was unorthodox. He called it

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his susie q because he named it after his girlfriend.

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Speaker 2: You know why, because he punched your lights out.

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Speaker 1: No, because they were both knockouts. Nice, I like it,

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I like you all right. Unfortunately, he was losing this fight.

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He had gotten knocked to the canvas on the very

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first round, but managed to stay in it until the

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thirteenth round. Now, Jersey Joe also had a signature move,

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which was a faint where he would like do a

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fake punch and then return with the right. So he

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does his little feint in the thirteenth round, but before

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he can come back with the right, Rocky Marciano delivers

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his susie q and Jersey Joe drops to his knee,

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his arm draped over the ropes and doesn't move well

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past the count. Marciano remained champion through nineteen fifty six,

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when he ultimately retired. He finished his career as a

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forty nine and zero win ratio. Unfortunately, nineteen sixty nine,

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the day before his forty sixth birthday, he was in

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a plane with an inexperienced pilot, crashed and died. That

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was a sad end for such an epic and outstanding fighter.

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I brought with Rocky Marciana up to my dad and

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I was like, did you watch him? He's like watching

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the fights was the only thing my dad liked to

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watch on TV. So that's what we did together. But

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I tell you the guy I really like to watch

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with sugar Ey. Oh, there we go, there we go. Okay,

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all right, tell me about Liberacci.

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Speaker 2: Liberacci, otherwise known as the Glitterman or Mister Showmanship. He

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was actually born with Lazzio Valentino Liberaci in nineteen nineteen.

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He was better known as Lee to his friends and

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Walter to his family. He was a pianist, singer, and actor.

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Was at one point the highest paid entertainer in the world.

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His TV showed The Liberacci Show in nineteen sixty two

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was actually watched more than I Love Lucy Wow. Born

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in Wisconsin, he had an identical twin who died at birth.

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His dad was a musician. His mom did not want

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him playing instruments, did not want him wasting time doing that,

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so he would sneak out play the piano at Honkey Talks,

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but he would tell his parents that he was hanging

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out at church socials. He's known for being very extravagant,

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very flamboyance. He's got those fancy sequin costumes, brought piano

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music to the masses. Despite the fact that he was

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very religious and politically conservative. His flamboyancy caused people to

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suspect that he was gay, although he vehemently denied that.

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But he died of AIDS in nineteen eighty seven. And

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I know from Bugs Bunny in the Hide and Hair

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cartoon from nineteen fifty five, when Bugs Bunny imitates Liberaci

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by saying, I wish my brother George was here. That's

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Liberacchi died eighteen eighty seven. Okay, d what do you

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got for me? On Satiana?

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Speaker 1: Goodbye? All right? So Santiana was a philosopher, maybe kind

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of famous among other philosophers, but not what you would

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describe as a guy who was a big star of

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pop culture and politics, like all of the other characters

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we've talked about so far. Right, Well, he died in

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nineteen fifty two. He was a guy who had been

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born in Europe but moved to the US when he

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was eight years old. Considered him as self an American,

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was well educated, ended up teaching philosophy at Harvard. What

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he was known for were his aphorisms. One of those

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was only the dead will know the end of war,

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but the other one was those who cannot remember the

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past are condemned to repeat it. Okay, guys, that does

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it for today's episode. Join us next time for five

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minutes of fire.