Speaker 1: Good night listeners. This is Martin from Tasmania, Australia and
you're having a devil of a time listening to the
Surely You Can't Be Serious Podcast. 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. England's got a new Queen,
Marciano Liberaci.
Speaker 1: And Satiana goodbye. England's got a new queen. All right, Jason,
tell me about England's new queen.
Speaker 2: Okay, So, in February of nineteen fifty two, Princess Elizabeth
of York actually became Queen Elizabeth. Now the interesting thing
here she was never expected to become queen. Her father
acceded to the throne upon the abdication of his brother
Edward the eighth because he wanted to marry an American divorcee.
At that point, a ten year old Elizabeth became the
heir presumptive. She began her training and education to become queen.
Of course, February of nineteen fifty two, King George the
Six passes away. That was her dad, so at age
twenty five.
Speaker 1: She becomes queen.
Speaker 2: She's known for being wise and beautiful and known for
her style, really until Princess Diana shows up and starts
to kind of overshadow her. She passed away twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: We all remember when that happened. Yeah, last year. All right, dee,
what can you tell me about Marciano? You beat Joe
Louis' z azzo thatigo? Okay? So this is Rocky Marciano,
one of the greatest fighters of all time. He was
born in nineteen twenty three. He was also a high
school dropout and a ditch digger, but ultimately got into boxing.
He faced Joe Louis on October twenty seventh, nineteen fifty one.
He was twenty eight Joe Lewis not one hundred and
fifty seven. He was thirty seven years old. He beat
him good. The next year faced Jersey Joe Walcott now
Rocky was known for his strong jaw, his aggressive style,
and a thing called the susie Q. Susie Q was
an overhanded right punch that was unorthodox. He called it
his susie q because he named it after his girlfriend.
Speaker 2: You know why, because he punched your lights out.
Speaker 1: No, because they were both knockouts. Nice, I like it,
I like you all right. Unfortunately, he was losing this fight.
He had gotten knocked to the canvas on the very
first round, but managed to stay in it until the
thirteenth round. Now, Jersey Joe also had a signature move,
which was a faint where he would like do a
fake punch and then return with the right. So he
does his little feint in the thirteenth round, but before
he can come back with the right, Rocky Marciano delivers
his susie q and Jersey Joe drops to his knee,
his arm draped over the ropes and doesn't move well
past the count. Marciano remained champion through nineteen fifty six,
when he ultimately retired. He finished his career as a
forty nine and zero win ratio. Unfortunately, nineteen sixty nine,
the day before his forty sixth birthday, he was in
a plane with an inexperienced pilot, crashed and died. That
was a sad end for such an epic and outstanding fighter.
I brought with Rocky Marciana up to my dad and
I was like, did you watch him? He's like watching
the fights was the only thing my dad liked to
watch on TV. So that's what we did together. But
I tell you the guy I really like to watch
with sugar Ey. Oh, there we go, there we go. Okay,
all right, tell me about Liberacci.
Speaker 2: Liberacci, otherwise known as the Glitterman or Mister Showmanship. He
was actually born with Lazzio Valentino Liberaci in nineteen nineteen.
He was better known as Lee to his friends and
Walter to his family. He was a pianist, singer, and actor.
Was at one point the highest paid entertainer in the world.
His TV showed The Liberacci Show in nineteen sixty two
was actually watched more than I Love Lucy Wow. Born
in Wisconsin, he had an identical twin who died at birth.
His dad was a musician. His mom did not want
him playing instruments, did not want him wasting time doing that,
so he would sneak out play the piano at Honkey Talks,
but he would tell his parents that he was hanging
out at church socials. He's known for being very extravagant,
very flamboyance. He's got those fancy sequin costumes, brought piano
music to the masses. Despite the fact that he was
very religious and politically conservative. His flamboyancy caused people to
suspect that he was gay, although he vehemently denied that.
But he died of AIDS in nineteen eighty seven. And
I know from Bugs Bunny in the Hide and Hair
cartoon from nineteen fifty five, when Bugs Bunny imitates Liberaci
by saying, I wish my brother George was here. That's
Liberacchi died eighteen eighty seven. Okay, d what do you
got for me? On Satiana?
Speaker 1: Goodbye? All right? So Santiana was a philosopher, maybe kind
of famous among other philosophers, but not what you would
describe as a guy who was a big star of
pop culture and politics, like all of the other characters
we've talked about so far. Right, Well, he died in
nineteen fifty two. He was a guy who had been
born in Europe but moved to the US when he
was eight years old. Considered him as self an American,
was well educated, ended up teaching philosophy at Harvard. What
he was known for were his aphorisms. One of those
was only the dead will know the end of war,
but the other one was those who cannot remember the
past are condemned to repeat it. Okay, guys, that does
it for today's episode. Join us next time for five
minutes of fire.