1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:01,760 Speaker 1: I'm Jason Colvin, I'm d Graves. 2 00:00:01,800 --> 00:00:11,599 Speaker 2: Give us five minutes and we will give you the fire. 3 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Surely You Can't 4 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:19,280 Be Serious Podcast Special Edition five Minutes of Fire. We 5 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,519 are here talking about the lyrics of We Didn't Start 6 00:00:22,519 --> 00:00:25,399 the Fire by Billy Joel. We're covering only five minutes 7 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:27,280 at a time, which is about to link with the song, 8 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:29,480 so it works out kind of nicely. So please join 9 00:00:29,559 --> 00:00:33,280 us as we dive into some new lyrics today. 10 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:35,359 Speaker 2: All right, guys, So here are the topics that we're 11 00:00:35,399 --> 00:00:36,759 going to be covering today. 12 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,560 Speaker 1: Bardeau, Budapest, Alabama. 13 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 2: Kruz Chef. All right, Dee, what can you tell me 14 00:00:44,359 --> 00:00:45,399 about bardew. 15 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 1: Okay, so this has to be Bridgitte Bardeaux, which is 16 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:52,880 the first one that we've come across who is still alive. 17 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:56,719 She was born almost ninety years ago, nineteen thirty four. 18 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,240 She studied ballet, was planning on becoming a dancer. Then 19 00:01:00,399 --> 00:01:02,880 at the age of fifteen, she appeared on the cover 20 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,680 of Elle magazine there in France, and it was a 21 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:11,040 monumental moment for French fashion. She became a new it girl. 22 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,120 The way that clean cut Christine Girls should look. She 23 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:18,040 did multiple modeling gigs after that. Then movie directors started 24 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:20,959 looking at her, and one of those movie directors sent 25 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:24,599 his assistant director, whose name was Roger Vadim, to go 26 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:26,560 see if she might be in a movie. She turned 27 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,640 down the movie, but did not turn down Roger Vadim. 28 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:33,719 The problem was is that he was six years older 29 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,280 than her, which if you're in your twenties, not such 30 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:39,159 a big deal. If you're a teenager, much bigger deal. 31 00:01:39,239 --> 00:01:41,680 And so her parents forbid her to date this guy, 32 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:44,120 and so she said, Okay, I'm just going to kill myself. 33 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:46,359 Then like maybe even had an attempt, and so they 34 00:01:46,359 --> 00:01:49,640 finally kind of gave up. Seventeen years old, she marries 35 00:01:49,959 --> 00:01:53,840 Roger Vadim and that was nineteen fifty two, and then 36 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:57,280 just four years later, nineteen fifty six, he cast her 37 00:01:57,319 --> 00:02:01,439 in his new movie called and God Created Woman, and 38 00:02:01,519 --> 00:02:05,760 she becomes a sex icon. They even dubbed her a 39 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:08,159 sex kitten, one of the first times that that phrase 40 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:10,879 is used to describe Somebody called her the first and 41 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:15,319 most liberated woman of post war France. She was in 42 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:19,919 multiple movies, usually as a liberated and sexually free woman 43 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,800 ushered in the sexual Revolution. Then in nineteen seventy three 44 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:27,560 she said I'm done. But because of the iconic status 45 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:30,960 that she had reached over that roughly twenty year time period, 46 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:35,240 she is still remembered today as a monumental sex That's 47 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,120 some incredible wow. Okay, Jason, tell me about Budapest. 48 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 2: Okay, so let's talk about the Hungarian Revolution of nineteen 49 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:46,120 fifty six. This revolution lasted from October twenty third, nineteen 50 00:02:46,159 --> 00:02:49,199 fifty six to November fourth of nineteen fifty six. It 51 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:52,520 was an attempted countrywide revolution against the government of the 52 00:02:52,599 --> 00:02:56,159 Hungarian People's Republic and the policies of the government's submission 53 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:59,840 to the USSR. The revolution started when university students showed 54 00:02:59,879 --> 00:03:02,840 up but the Hungarian Parliament building to protest. They take 55 00:03:02,879 --> 00:03:06,599 over the building with the party radio. They broadcast sixteen 56 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:09,759 demands in order to back down from this revolution. One 57 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,159 of these demands is the evacuation of all Soviet troops. 58 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:16,159 Guess what the Soviets say. They say no, the revolution 59 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:18,599 is repressed on November fourth, nineteen fifty six, when the 60 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:22,000 Soviets rolled tanks in and troops kill twenty five hundred 61 00:03:22,039 --> 00:03:25,639 Hungarians and lose seven hundred Soviets and caused seven hundred 62 00:03:25,759 --> 00:03:29,240 thousand people to seek political refuge abroad. All right, d 63 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:31,280 what can you tell me about Alabama? 64 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 1: Well, it's a state in the United States, but we 65 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:36,680 need to know what happened in nineteen fifty five. What 66 00:03:36,759 --> 00:03:40,680 happened in Montgomery, to be specific Montgomery, Alabama in nineteen 67 00:03:40,759 --> 00:03:42,919 fifty five was they had a law that was a 68 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:46,400 segregation law on the buses and if the white section 69 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:50,000 filled up, that meant that the sign that separated the 70 00:03:50,039 --> 00:03:53,840 sections got moved back, the African American section got smaller 71 00:03:53,879 --> 00:03:55,719 so that the more white people could fit on. Well, 72 00:03:55,759 --> 00:03:58,479 what happened was that Rosa Parks had had a long 73 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,120 day at work. She came and sat down in the 74 00:04:01,159 --> 00:04:04,400 non white section. The white section filled up, and when 75 00:04:04,439 --> 00:04:07,599 it did, somebody said you got to move, and she said, no, 76 00:04:07,879 --> 00:04:11,479 my feet retired. And because this was in violation of 77 00:04:11,479 --> 00:04:14,080 the law at that time, she was arrested for this 78 00:04:14,199 --> 00:04:18,680 act of civil disobedience. The arrest resulted in demonstrations and 79 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:21,959 a boycott of the Montgomery buses by African Americans that 80 00:04:22,079 --> 00:04:25,920 lasted until December of nineteen fifty six. Since the boycott 81 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,959 was costing the stores money and the white business's money. 82 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:33,240 Negotiations were made to stop the action, but it took 83 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:36,480 a Supreme Court ruling in November nineteen fifty six that 84 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:41,399 segregation on transportation is unconstitutional to finally integrate the buses. 85 00:04:41,439 --> 00:04:44,120 This event was also the starting point for the civil 86 00:04:44,199 --> 00:04:46,639 rights movement of Martin Luther King. Hey, Jason, tell me 87 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:47,399 about Krushchef. 88 00:04:47,439 --> 00:04:50,759 Speaker 2: Nikita Krushchev succeeded Malinkoff, who we talked about in an 89 00:04:50,759 --> 00:04:53,519 earlier episode. He was the first Secretary of the Communist 90 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,439 Party of the Soviet Union nineteen fifty three to nineteen 91 00:04:56,519 --> 00:04:59,399 sixty four. That means he's the most powerful person in 92 00:04:59,439 --> 00:05:03,120 the US. He's responsible for crushing the Hungarian Revolution, the 93 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:06,240 process of de stalinization in the Soviet Union, which actually 94 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:08,839 made it less repressive in the Soviet Union. He's known 95 00:05:08,879 --> 00:05:11,360 for colorful speeches. He actually took off and shook his 96 00:05:11,399 --> 00:05:13,000 shoe at the UN one time in a. 97 00:05:12,959 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 1: Speech we will bury you. 98 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:19,319 Speaker 2: He ousted Malankov, He approved the construction of the Berlin Wall, 99 00:05:19,519 --> 00:05:23,360 and he is responsible for positioning missiles in Cuba. 100 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 1: Sounds like a heck of a guy. 101 00:05:24,639 --> 00:05:27,199 Speaker 2: Forced to resign in nineteen sixty four due to a 102 00:05:27,199 --> 00:05:30,759 breakup with China and food shortages in the USSR finished 103 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:33,319 his life quietly, dying of a heart attack in nineteen 104 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:35,519 seventy one. This is one of the guys that the 105 00:05:35,639 --> 00:05:37,680 US feared most in the sixties. 106 00:05:37,759 --> 00:05:40,160 Speaker 1: Okay, guys, that does it for today's episode. Join us 107 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:41,519 next time for five minutes of fire.