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: Edgelzan Nogo, you too, singing Ray Pyola.
Speaker 2: And okaydie tell me about Ed's alzanoga.
Speaker 1: All right. In the late fifties, Ford realized that it
was not winning the luxury car battle with General Motors.
Their idea was, we need to come up with a
new model that will elevate our luxury vehicles, and so
they decided to develop this car. They called it the
E car for the experimental car. They said, well, we
can't just call this car the experimental car. We can't
call it the E car. That doesn't make any sense.
And so they said, well why don't we call it
edsel Why would you call it Edzel? Because Edseel was
the name of Henry Ford's son. Edsel Ford had also
been the president of Ford for several years. The president
at the time was Henry Ford the Second. They didn't
inform him that they were going to be naming this
car after his father, and they did it at a
board meeting that he was not present at, and he
was quite disappointed with the decision. But they produced it.
They said it's okay, this will be a great car,
and they put their name all over it. Unfortunately, all
of these attempts to make it a popular decision for
the mid range vehicles failed and within just a few
years car was discontinued and regarded as one of the
biggest failures in American corporation history. All Right, you too,
I love this band.
Speaker 2: Actually we're not talking about you too, the Irish rock band,
although they did get their from this plane. We're going
to talk about Okay, So this involves the U tube
plane incident of nineteen sixty. Now then May first, nineteen
sixty a U two spy plane was shot down over
the USSR and the pilot, Gary Powers, was captured now,
this plane was doing an awesome job of spying on
the Russians. One of the reasons why it was so
successful is it could fly thirteen miles over the surface
of the land, which was out of the range of
Soviet missiles until it wasn't so a new USSR surface
to air missile was developed. We didn't know that, and
they shot us down and captured Gary Powers to the pilot.
On May fifth, kruse Chef announces the capture of a
US spy plane. Eisenhower says it's a weather plane. Kruse
Chef demanded an apology and wanted no more spying well.
Eisenhower refused to apologize. Of course, this is all in
the assumption that the pilot is dead. On May sixteenth,
nineteen sixty, there was a scheduled summit with the USSR, USA, Britain,
and France and Paris. Because of Utube, kruse Chef walked out, so,
I mean tensions were super high at this moment. Krusecheff
then revealed that they had the pilot alive and well,
and this was no fore making weather plane. Of course,
it was incredibly embarrassing for the US in Eisenhower Gary
Powers was since to ten years. It was actually released
on an exchange and you can see this exchange if
you've ever seen the movie Bridge of Spies. This incident
actually led to the construction of the Berlin Wall in
nineteen sixty one.
Speaker 1: I know one of them said, none of this would
have happened if that son of a bitch would have
just taken his cyanide pill like he was supposed to.
Speaker 2: Ooh, okay, d tell me about Sigmund Ray.
Speaker 1: Okay. Sigmund Ray was the president of South Korea and
as a young man, he would fight for Korean independence. Ultimately,
his fight for independence for Korea came to fruition when
in nineteen forty five, World War Two ended and South
Korea became a US controlled province, and on July twentieth,
nineteen forty eight, he was elected the first President of
the Republic of Korea by the National Assembly, issuing in
the first Republic of Korea. As president, he was a
hardlined anti communist and pro American. You mentioned in one
of our prior episodes that the Armacist was never signed
in Pamu jam right. It was because he refused to
sign it. He was again reelected in nineteen sixty because
his opponent died from cancer before the election took place. Then,
when his vice presidential companion won by a landslide, there
was opposition by the other side because they thought the
election had been rigged. The resulting scandal cause Simon Ray
to resign on the twenty sixth of April nineteen sixty.
Despite the fact that he had resigned, however, the protests
continued and he had to be taken by the CIA
and covertly evacuated. He spent the rest of his life
in exile in Honolulu, Hawaii, and died of a stroke
in nineteen sixty five. Okay, Jason, tell me about Paola.
Speaker 2: Paola in the music industry is the illegal practice of
paying a commercial radio station to play a song without
disclosing the payment. Buying off DJs to play your music
is illegal, according to the FCC. Okay, Alan Freed was
a radio DJ in Cleveland before he moved to New York.
This guy's super influential. He actually even coined the term
rock and roll. Record companies would compete and give gifts
like trips, money, female entertainment to influence DJs to play music.
Uh huh, Alan Freed was even given songwriting credit on
a Chuck Berry song. Maybee DJ soon started demanding payment
in order to play a new record. US government became
interested in The FCC announced that radio stations could lose
their license for payola.
Speaker 1: Many thought that this would actually kill rock and roll. Unfortunately,
that did not happen until Napster in two thousands.
Speaker 2: In nineteen fifty nine, Alan Freed gave his last broadcast,
and five years later he died of alcoholism.
Speaker 1: They accused Dick Clark as well, but he was found innocent.
There you go. Okay, guys, that does it for today's episode.
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