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 with 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.
Speaker 1: Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania and old Miss Okay, d
tell me about Lawrence of Arabia. Okay. Lawrence of Arabia
is a nineteen sixty two epic film based on the
life of Te Lawrence and his nineteen twenty six books
Seven Pillars of Wisdom. It was directed by David Lean,
who won the Oscar. Produced by Sam Spiegel, it won
not only for Best Director, it also won Best Picture,
Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Sound, Best Film Editing,
Best Music Score, and was nominated for several others, including screenplay. However,
at the time, only one writer was listed, Robert Bolt,
because the other writer had to remain anonymous because he
had been blacklisted and was living in France and wrote
under a pseudonym. His name was Michael Wilson. When Academy
Board of Directors researched, they found that Michael Wilson had
been a part of the writing process and so he
was at that time given screenwriting credit with Bolt. The
film starred Peter O'Toole. Also had Alec Guinness, which we
talked about from Bridge over the Requy, and Omar Shariff,
which we talked about when we talked about Doctor Schivako.
Speaker 3: Awesome.
Speaker 1: All right, tell me about British Beatlemania.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know if you heard about these guys
that call him the Fab four, John, Paul, George and Ringo.
Speaker 1: They were the English version of the Beach Boys.
Speaker 2: Formed in nineteen sixty in Liverpool, actually cut their teeth
in Hamburg, Germany. Early songs include love Me, Do Please,
Please Me, for Me to You and she Loves You.
Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty three, cut their teeth in a strip
club in Hamburg.
Speaker 2: Yes they did. By October nineteen sixty three, the press
had coined the term Beatlemania to describe the craziness and
hysteria and high pitched female screaming when they would see them.
In February of nineteen sixty four, the Beatles arrived in
the United States and appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show
to seventy three million viewers. They also appeared in A
Hard Day's Night in the movie in nineteen sixty four.
To protect themselves from their fans, they were transported by
armored car, and in nineteen sixty six, John Lennon controversially
is said that the group had become more popular than Jesus.
The Beatles have one of the most lasting rock legacies
of all time, Maybe the maybe, the Yeah, all right?
D you tell me about Old Miss?
Speaker 1: All Right? Old Miss refers to an event involving James
Howard Meredith, an American civil rights activist, writer, and political advisor,
and a US Air Force veteran. But in nineteen sixty two,
after he heard JFK give his inaugural address, he was
inspired to exercise his constitutional rights and apply to the
University of Mississippi. His goal was to put pressure on
Kennedy and his administration to enforce the civil rights for
African Americans. His admission to Old Miss started the Old
Miss Riot of nineteen sixty two, where James Meredith's life
was threatened and thirty one thousand American servicemen were required
to quell the violence. This is the largest ever invocation
of the Insurrection Act of eighteen oh seven, and it
was a flash point in the civil rights history. Meredith
went on to do many more things. In nineteen sixty six,
he started a March against Fear, planning to march from Memphis, Tennessee,
to Jackson in Mississippi without the involvement of civil rights organizations,
and he was shot by the second day by a
white gunman and sovered numerous wounds. He, by the way,
is also still alive. All right, Okay, guys, that does
it for today's episode. Join us next time for five
minutes a fire.
Speaker 4: Hey, check it out. There's a brand new podcast on
the way exploring the discographies of the Beatles and the
Beach Boys.
Speaker 3: It's called Apples and Oranges and and Lodges. On February seventh.
Speaker 4: We will be matching albums against each other in a
one v one format, discussing every single track and then
giving our verdict on which album is better.
Speaker 3: Pet Sounds versus Revolving Sergeant Pepper versus Smile.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't it be nice if most people knew how well
the Beach Boys actually held up against the Fab Four.
Speaker 3: Both bands inspired each other to keep pushing the boundaries
of what was possible in pop music here, there, and everywhere, and.
Speaker 4: What we got were some of the great just albums
of all time.
Speaker 3: All Summer Long versus A Hard Day's Night, River sol
versus the Beach Boys Today.
Speaker 4: So let's come together for some fun, fun fun and
help me Ronda get this podcast off the ground, and
we'll sure appreciate you being around on February seventh, wherever
you find your podcast.
Speaker 3: That's Apples and Oranges. February seven,