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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: Edgelzan Nogo, you too, singing Ray Pyola.

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Speaker 2: And okaydie tell me about Ed's alzanoga.

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Speaker 1: All right. In the late fifties, Ford realized that it

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was not winning the luxury car battle with General Motors.

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Their idea was, we need to come up with a

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new model that will elevate our luxury vehicles, and so

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they decided to develop this car. They called it the

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E car for the experimental car. They said, well, we

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can't just call this car the experimental car. We can't

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call it the E car. That doesn't make any sense.

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And so they said, well why don't we call it

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edsel Why would you call it Edzel? Because Edseel was

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the name of Henry Ford's son. Edsel Ford had also

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been the president of Ford for several years. The president

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at the time was Henry Ford the Second. They didn't

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inform him that they were going to be naming this

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car after his father, and they did it at a

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board meeting that he was not present at, and he

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was quite disappointed with the decision. But they produced it.

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They said it's okay, this will be a great car,

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and they put their name all over it. Unfortunately, all

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of these attempts to make it a popular decision for

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the mid range vehicles failed and within just a few

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years car was discontinued and regarded as one of the

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biggest failures in American corporation history. All Right, you too,

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I love this band.

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Speaker 2: Actually we're not talking about you too, the Irish rock band,

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although they did get their from this plane. We're going

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to talk about Okay, So this involves the U tube

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plane incident of nineteen sixty. Now then May first, nineteen

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sixty a U two spy plane was shot down over

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the USSR and the pilot, Gary Powers, was captured now,

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this plane was doing an awesome job of spying on

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the Russians. One of the reasons why it was so

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successful is it could fly thirteen miles over the surface

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of the land, which was out of the range of

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Soviet missiles until it wasn't so a new USSR surface

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to air missile was developed. We didn't know that, and

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they shot us down and captured Gary Powers to the pilot.

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On May fifth, kruse Chef announces the capture of a

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US spy plane. Eisenhower says it's a weather plane. Kruse

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Chef demanded an apology and wanted no more spying well.

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Eisenhower refused to apologize. Of course, this is all in

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the assumption that the pilot is dead. On May sixteenth,

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nineteen sixty, there was a scheduled summit with the USSR, USA, Britain,

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and France and Paris. Because of Utube, kruse Chef walked out, so,

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I mean tensions were super high at this moment. Krusecheff

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then revealed that they had the pilot alive and well,

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and this was no fore making weather plane. Of course,

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it was incredibly embarrassing for the US in Eisenhower Gary

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Powers was since to ten years. It was actually released

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on an exchange and you can see this exchange if

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you've ever seen the movie Bridge of Spies. This incident

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actually led to the construction of the Berlin Wall in

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nineteen sixty one.

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Speaker 1: I know one of them said, none of this would

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have happened if that son of a bitch would have

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just taken his cyanide pill like he was supposed to.

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Speaker 2: Ooh, okay, d tell me about Sigmund Ray.

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Speaker 1: Okay. Sigmund Ray was the president of South Korea and

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as a young man, he would fight for Korean independence. Ultimately,

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his fight for independence for Korea came to fruition when

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in nineteen forty five, World War Two ended and South

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Korea became a US controlled province, and on July twentieth,

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nineteen forty eight, he was elected the first President of

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the Republic of Korea by the National Assembly, issuing in

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the first Republic of Korea. As president, he was a

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hardlined anti communist and pro American. You mentioned in one

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of our prior episodes that the Armacist was never signed

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in Pamu jam right. It was because he refused to

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sign it. He was again reelected in nineteen sixty because

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his opponent died from cancer before the election took place. Then,

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when his vice presidential companion won by a landslide, there

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was opposition by the other side because they thought the

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election had been rigged. The resulting scandal cause Simon Ray

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to resign on the twenty sixth of April nineteen sixty.

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Despite the fact that he had resigned, however, the protests

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continued and he had to be taken by the CIA

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and covertly evacuated. He spent the rest of his life

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in exile in Honolulu, Hawaii, and died of a stroke

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in nineteen sixty five. Okay, Jason, tell me about Paola.

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Speaker 2: Paola in the music industry is the illegal practice of

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paying a commercial radio station to play a song without

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disclosing the payment. Buying off DJs to play your music

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is illegal, according to the FCC. Okay, Alan Freed was

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a radio DJ in Cleveland before he moved to New York.

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This guy's super influential. He actually even coined the term

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rock and roll. Record companies would compete and give gifts

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like trips, money, female entertainment to influence DJs to play music.

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Uh huh, Alan Freed was even given songwriting credit on

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a Chuck Berry song. Maybee DJ soon started demanding payment

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in order to play a new record. US government became

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interested in The FCC announced that radio stations could lose

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their license for payola.

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Speaker 1: Many thought that this would actually kill rock and roll. Unfortunately,

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that did not happen until Napster in two thousands.

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Speaker 2: In nineteen fifty nine, Alan Freed gave his last broadcast,

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and five years later he died of alcoholism.

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Speaker 1: They accused Dick Clark as well, but he was found innocent.

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There you go. Okay, guys, that does it for today's episode.

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Join us next time for five minutes of fire