Speaker 1: Hello friends, This is Jill McCormick from the Afraid Not
Podcast and you are listening to Surely You Can't Be
Serious with Jason Colvin and Dee Graves.
Speaker 2: Listen in guys, Hello everybody, and welcome back to the
Surely You Can't Be Serious Podcast Special Edition Five Minutes
of Fire.
Speaker 3: 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 for
the song, so it works out kind of nicely. So
please join us as we dive into some new lyrics today.
Speaker 4: All right, guys, so here are the topics that we're
going to be covering today.
Speaker 3: John Glynn listen, Beats Patterson and Pope Paul, John Glen okay, Jason,
what can you tell me about John Glenn?
Speaker 4: Okay? John Herschel Glenn was an American Marine Corps aviator, engineer, businessman, astronaut,
and politician.
Speaker 3: So he's a slacker.
Speaker 4: When the US went to war for World War Two,
he quit college and enlisted as a US Naval Aviation cadet.
Went on to become a flight instructor In the Korean War.
He was nicknamed magnet Ass for all the amounts of
flack and bullets that he took on his missions. In
nineteen fifty four, he became a test pilot for the
US Naval Test Pilot School, and in nineteen fifty seven
he made the first supersonic transcontinental flight, took three hours
in twenty three minutes. He was selected as one of
the Mercury seven, became the third American man in space,
first American to orbit the Earth, which he did three
times in nineteen sixty two on Friendship seven. Nineteen sixty
four to nineteen ninety ninety serve as US Senator, and
in nineteen ninety eight he flew in space again. At
age seventy seven. Two thousand and one, he was on
one of the funniest episodes of Frasier of all time.
He passed away in twenty sixteen. Godspeed Junglin, Godspeed Okay,
tell me about Listen beats Patterson right.
Speaker 3: Right. Liston is Sonny Liston born in Slanslow, Arkansas, slanslow
Land Slow. He was abused as a child, said my
daddy never gave me anything but a beaten. Eventually became
a habitual criminal, ended up in prison in Missouri in
various other correctional institutes, but he became a boxer, and
despite his criminal history and connections to the criminal underworld,
and even a warning to Floyd Patterson by JFK not
to fight this guy because he's connected to organized crime,
Floyd Patterson, the reigning heavyweight champion, decided to fight Sonny
Liston so on September twenty fifth, nineteen sixty two. Fight began.
At two minutes and six seconds into the first round,
Sonny Liston, who was twenty five pounds heavier than Floyd Patterston,
gave him a left hook which knocked him out cold.
It was the third fast ko in heavyweight title fight
history and the first time a champion had ever been
KOed in round one. One of the commentators said that
left hook crashed into Patterson's cheek like a diesel rig
going downhill, no breaks wow. Liston was known for being
immensely strong, having a vicious jab and a very long reach.
The fight was repeated the next year, and the ko
was also repeated, making him also the heavyweight champion for
the WBC, which had formed that same year. He was
known by most of the fighting world as the most
intimidating man in the history of the sport. You know
who He didn't intimidate the young upstart named Cashius Clay.
Speaker 4: His mama Common Clay.
Speaker 3: I'm a con thing. Okay, what can you tell me
about Pope Paul?
Speaker 4: All right, we're talking about Pope Paul sixth born Giovanni
Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montanini.
Speaker 3: That's easy for you to say in.
Speaker 4: Eighteen ninety seven. He served as the head of the
Catholic Church from June twenty first, nineteen sixty three until
his death in nineteen seventy eight. He was known as
the Pilgrim Pope, known also for seeking Christian unity, but
also for reaching out to leaders of other religions and
even atheists. He is known for embracing the leader of
the Eastern Orthodox Church at the Mount of Olives in
nineteen sixty four, and he lifted the excommunication that had
caused the Great Schism that had lasted nine.
Speaker 3: Hundred years wow.
Speaker 4: In nineteen sixty four, he flew to Jordan, making it
the first time a pope had flown on a plane
and the first time the pope had left Italy in
more than a century. He reaffirmed the teachings of the
church during the sexual Revolution, and in nineteen sixty five
he was the first pope to visit the United States
War in the world of a contraceptive culture, Pope Paul
the sixth.
Speaker 3: Okay, guys, that does it for today's episode. Join us
next time for five minutes of fire.