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Speaker 1: I'm Jason Colvin, I'm d Graves.

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Speaker 2: Give us five minutes and we will give you the fire.

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Speaker 1: 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 dive 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.

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Speaker 1: Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania and old Miss Okay, d

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tell me about Lawrence of Arabia. Okay. Lawrence of Arabia

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is a nineteen sixty two epic film based on the

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life of Te Lawrence and his nineteen twenty six books

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Seven Pillars of Wisdom. It was directed by David Lean,

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who won the Oscar. Produced by Sam Spiegel, it won

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not only for Best Director, it also won Best Picture,

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Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Sound, Best Film Editing,

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Best Music Score, and was nominated for several others, including screenplay. However,

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at the time, only one writer was listed, Robert Bolt,

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because the other writer had to remain anonymous because he

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had been blacklisted and was living in France and wrote

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under a pseudonym. His name was Michael Wilson. When Academy

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Board of Directors researched, they found that Michael Wilson had

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been a part of the writing process and so he

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was at that time given screenwriting credit with Bolt. The

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film starred Peter O'Toole. Also had Alec Guinness, which we

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talked about from Bridge over the Requy, and Omar Shariff,

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which we talked about when we talked about Doctor Schivako.

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Speaker 3: Awesome.

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Speaker 1: All right, tell me about British Beatlemania.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know if you heard about these guys

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that call him the Fab four, John, Paul, George and Ringo.

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Speaker 1: They were the English version of the Beach Boys.

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Speaker 2: Formed in nineteen sixty in Liverpool, actually cut their teeth

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in Hamburg, Germany. Early songs include love Me, Do Please,

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Please Me, for Me to You and she Loves You.

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Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty three, cut their teeth in a strip

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club in Hamburg.

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Speaker 2: Yes they did. By October nineteen sixty three, the press

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had coined the term Beatlemania to describe the craziness and

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hysteria and high pitched female screaming when they would see them.

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In February of nineteen sixty four, the Beatles arrived in

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the United States and appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show

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to seventy three million viewers. They also appeared in A

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Hard Day's Night in the movie in nineteen sixty four.

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To protect themselves from their fans, they were transported by

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armored car, and in nineteen sixty six, John Lennon controversially

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is said that the group had become more popular than Jesus.

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The Beatles have one of the most lasting rock legacies

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of all time, Maybe the maybe, the Yeah, all right?

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D you tell me about Old Miss?

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Speaker 1: All Right? Old Miss refers to an event involving James

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Howard Meredith, an American civil rights activist, writer, and political advisor,

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and a US Air Force veteran. But in nineteen sixty two,

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after he heard JFK give his inaugural address, he was

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inspired to exercise his constitutional rights and apply to the

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University of Mississippi. His goal was to put pressure on

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Kennedy and his administration to enforce the civil rights for

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African Americans. His admission to Old Miss started the Old

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Miss Riot of nineteen sixty two, where James Meredith's life

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was threatened and thirty one thousand American servicemen were required

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to quell the violence. This is the largest ever invocation

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of the Insurrection Act of eighteen oh seven, and it

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was a flash point in the civil rights history. Meredith

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went on to do many more things. In nineteen sixty six,

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he started a March against Fear, planning to march from Memphis, Tennessee,

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to Jackson in Mississippi without the involvement of civil rights organizations,

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and he was shot by the second day by a

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white gunman and sovered numerous wounds. He, by the way,

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is also still alive. All right, Okay, guys, that does

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

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minutes a fire.

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Speaker 4: Hey, check it out. There's a brand new podcast on

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the way exploring the discographies of the Beatles and the

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Beach Boys.

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Speaker 3: It's called Apples and Oranges and and Lodges. On February seventh.

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Speaker 4: We will be matching albums against each other in a

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one v one format, discussing every single track and then

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giving our verdict on which album is better.

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Speaker 3: Pet Sounds versus Revolving Sergeant Pepper versus Smile.

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Speaker 4: Wouldn't it be nice if most people knew how well

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the Beach Boys actually held up against the Fab Four.

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Speaker 3: Both bands inspired each other to keep pushing the boundaries

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of what was possible in pop music here, there, and everywhere, and.

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Speaker 4: What we got were some of the great just albums

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of all time.

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Speaker 3: All Summer Long versus A Hard Day's Night, River sol

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versus the Beach Boys Today.

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Speaker 4: So let's come together for some fun, fun fun and

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help me Ronda get this podcast off the ground, and

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we'll sure appreciate you being around on February seventh, wherever

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you find your podcast.

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Speaker 3: That's Apples and Oranges. February seven,