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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 3: 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: Emingway, Aikman, stranger in a Strange Landway, tell me about Hemingway. Okay,

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we are talking about Ernest Timingway, and I would just

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like to note he was my favorite author in high school.

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He is famous for his Iceberg theory of writing, which

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is a minimalist style that he developed while he was

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a war correspondent, a journalist who had to get to

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the heart of the matter quickly. He carried that over

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into his fiction writing, where he straightforward nuts and bolts

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and let you see the deeper maining for yourself underneath Iceberg.

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He wrote from the mid nineteen twenties on through the fifties.

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Ultimately was awarded the nineteen fifty four Nobel Prize in

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Literature for Old Man and the Sea. Unfortunately, that same

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year he was also in a series of accidents, injured

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in two plane crashes on successive days, leaving him in

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pain and ill health.

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Speaker 3: Two Blaine crashes on successive days.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was a bit revived when he remembered that

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he had buried some writing in some trunks and went

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and found those trunks like he buried in the nineteen twenties,

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went and found them, and they had all these writings

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that he had done. And so for the next couple

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of years he worked on putting those writings together as

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a memoir. It was ultimate released as The Movable Feast.

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But he still continued to sink into depression. Nineteen fifty nine,

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he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho. Wife caught him

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holding his shotgun in a very suspicious way, had him

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taken to the hospital because she knew of his depression.

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He was sedated, he was given electroshock therapy. He was

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ultimately released, but then he downstairs to the basement kicked

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out his favorite gun, his favorite shotgun, sat down on

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the porch and on July second, nineteen sixty one, committed suicide.

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Speaker 2: Okay, tell me about this Eikman Guy Otto Adolph Eichmann

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was a member of the Nazi Party, officer in the SS,

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and a major organizer for the Holocaust.

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Speaker 3: He's known for implementing the final solution to the quote

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unquote Jewish question.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: He was tasked by the SS with managing the logistics

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of mass deportation of millions of Jews to Nazi ghettos

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and to Nazi extermination camps. Is also responsible for collecting

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information on Jews, organizing the seizure of their property, and

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scheduling them on the trains. So at the end of

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the war, he was actually captured by US forces, but

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he had a false identity and so that allowed him

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to escape to Argentina.

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Speaker 1: Probably invited there by one pron probably yeah.

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Speaker 3: Several Holocaust survivors and Nazi hunters dedicated themselves to finding

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this guy. On May eleventh, nineteen sixty he was captured

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in a daring kidnapping attempt by a team of Nazi

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hunters and smuggled out of the country. He was tried

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and hanged in nineteen sixty two. Okay, de what can

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you tell me about Stranger in a Strange Land?

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Speaker 1: Okay? Stranger in a Strange Land was a book that

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had been written by Robert Heinlein, who we've talked about before,

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a co sci fi writer with Philip K. Dick and others.

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He had actually been working on a book for about

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a decade, but didn't feel like that the world was

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ready with its social mores for what he was about

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to present. But sixties were happening and he thought, Okay,

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I guess now is the time. It was an award

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winning book. It was about a Valentine, Michael Smith, who

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was born during the first manned mission to Mars and

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was the only survivor. He gets raised by the Martians

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and when he gets taken back to Earth, he doesn't

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have any knowledge of anything about the planet Earth and cultures.

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In fact, he had never seen a woman. But he

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happened to be the legal heir to an enormous financial empire,

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and the book is about him exploring human morality, the

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meanings of love, sex, other taboo things like religion and cannibalism,

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and he ultimately founds his own church preaching free love

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Because of this free love, many of the hippies of

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the nineteen sixties selected A Stranger in a Strange Land

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as their quote unquote Bible. Among these, Charles Manson. He

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was apparently just a petty criminal until he read this

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book in prison and then started his cult. After leaving

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it many years later, when asked about Stranger in a

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Strange Land, he said, I don't think I've ever read

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the book. However, his son was named Valentine Michael, the

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same name as main character in the book, so that

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seems a little bit strange. Also, the Manson family practiced

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several of the cult things in Stranger in a Strange Land. Okay, guys,

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that does it for today's episode. Next time for five

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minutes a fire

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Speaker 2: Mmm,