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: Bardeau, Budapest, Alabama.
Speaker 2: Kruz Chef. All right, Dee, what can you tell me
about bardew.
Speaker 1: Okay, so this has to be Bridgitte Bardeaux, which is
the first one that we've come across who is still alive.
She was born almost ninety years ago, nineteen thirty four.
She studied ballet, was planning on becoming a dancer. Then
at the age of fifteen, she appeared on the cover
of Elle magazine there in France, and it was a
monumental moment for French fashion. She became a new it girl.
The way that clean cut Christine Girls should look. She
did multiple modeling gigs after that. Then movie directors started
looking at her, and one of those movie directors sent
his assistant director, whose name was Roger Vadim, to go
see if she might be in a movie. She turned
down the movie, but did not turn down Roger Vadim.
The problem was is that he was six years older
than her, which if you're in your twenties, not such
a big deal. If you're a teenager, much bigger deal.
And so her parents forbid her to date this guy,
and so she said, Okay, I'm just going to kill myself.
Then like maybe even had an attempt, and so they
finally kind of gave up. Seventeen years old, she marries
Roger Vadim and that was nineteen fifty two, and then
just four years later, nineteen fifty six, he cast her
in his new movie called and God Created Woman, and
she becomes a sex icon. They even dubbed her a
sex kitten, one of the first times that that phrase
is used to describe Somebody called her the first and
most liberated woman of post war France. She was in
multiple movies, usually as a liberated and sexually free woman
ushered in the sexual Revolution. Then in nineteen seventy three
she said I'm done. But because of the iconic status
that she had reached over that roughly twenty year time period,
she is still remembered today as a monumental sex That's
some incredible wow. Okay, Jason, tell me about Budapest.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let's talk about the Hungarian Revolution of nineteen
fifty six. This revolution lasted from October twenty third, nineteen
fifty six to November fourth of nineteen fifty six. It
was an attempted countrywide revolution against the government of the
Hungarian People's Republic and the policies of the government's submission
to the USSR. The revolution started when university students showed
up but the Hungarian Parliament building to protest. They take
over the building with the party radio. They broadcast sixteen
demands in order to back down from this revolution. One
of these demands is the evacuation of all Soviet troops.
Guess what the Soviets say. They say no, the revolution
is repressed on November fourth, nineteen fifty six, when the
Soviets rolled tanks in and troops kill twenty five hundred
Hungarians and lose seven hundred Soviets and caused seven hundred
thousand people to seek political refuge abroad. All right, d
what can you tell me about Alabama?
Speaker 1: Well, it's a state in the United States, but we
need to know what happened in nineteen fifty five. What
happened in Montgomery, to be specific Montgomery, Alabama in nineteen
fifty five was they had a law that was a
segregation law on the buses and if the white section
filled up, that meant that the sign that separated the
sections got moved back, the African American section got smaller
so that the more white people could fit on. Well,
what happened was that Rosa Parks had had a long
day at work. She came and sat down in the
non white section. The white section filled up, and when
it did, somebody said you got to move, and she said, no,
my feet retired. And because this was in violation of
the law at that time, she was arrested for this
act of civil disobedience. The arrest resulted in demonstrations and
a boycott of the Montgomery buses by African Americans that
lasted until December of nineteen fifty six. Since the boycott
was costing the stores money and the white business's money.
Negotiations were made to stop the action, but it took
a Supreme Court ruling in November nineteen fifty six that
segregation on transportation is unconstitutional to finally integrate the buses.
This event was also the starting point for the civil
rights movement of Martin Luther King. Hey, Jason, tell me
about Krushchef.
Speaker 2: Nikita Krushchev succeeded Malinkoff, who we talked about in an
earlier episode. He was the first Secretary of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union nineteen fifty three to nineteen
sixty four. That means he's the most powerful person in
the US. He's responsible for crushing the Hungarian Revolution, the
process of de stalinization in the Soviet Union, which actually
made it less repressive in the Soviet Union. He's known
for colorful speeches. He actually took off and shook his
shoe at the UN one time in a.
Speaker 1: Speech we will bury you.
Speaker 2: He ousted Malankov, He approved the construction of the Berlin Wall,
and he is responsible for positioning missiles in Cuba.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a heck of a guy.
Speaker 2: Forced to resign in nineteen sixty four due to a
breakup with China and food shortages in the USSR finished
his life quietly, dying of a heart attack in nineteen
seventy one. This is one of the guys that the
US feared most in the sixties.
Speaker 1: Okay, guys, that does it for today's episode. Join us
next time for five minutes of fire.