1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,439 Speaker 1: Hello friends, This is Jill McCormick from the Afraid Not 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:07,160 Podcast and you are listening to Surely You Can't Be 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:10,720 Serious with Jason Colvin and Dee Graves. 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:23,039 Speaker 2: Listen in guys, Hello everybody, and welcome back to the 5 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:26,879 Surely You Can't Be Serious Podcast Special Edition Five Minutes 6 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:27,359 of Fire. 7 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,679 Speaker 3: We are here talking about the lyrics of We Didn't 8 00:00:30,679 --> 00:00:33,479 Start the Fire by Billy Joel. We're covering only five 9 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:35,280 minutes at a time, which is about to link for 10 00:00:35,359 --> 00:00:37,039 the song, so it works out kind of nicely. So 11 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:41,679 please join us as we dive into some new lyrics today. 12 00:00:41,719 --> 00:00:43,759 Speaker 4: All right, guys, so here are the topics that we're 13 00:00:43,759 --> 00:00:45,119 going to be covering today. 14 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:52,880 Speaker 3: John Glynn listen, Beats Patterson and Pope Paul, John Glen okay, Jason, 15 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:54,520 what can you tell me about John Glenn? 16 00:00:54,759 --> 00:01:01,359 Speaker 4: Okay? John Herschel Glenn was an American Marine Corps aviator, engineer, businessman, astronaut, 17 00:01:01,399 --> 00:01:02,439 and politician. 18 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 3: So he's a slacker. 19 00:01:04,879 --> 00:01:07,239 Speaker 4: When the US went to war for World War Two, 20 00:01:07,239 --> 00:01:10,680 he quit college and enlisted as a US Naval Aviation cadet. 21 00:01:10,879 --> 00:01:13,439 Went on to become a flight instructor In the Korean War. 22 00:01:13,519 --> 00:01:16,439 He was nicknamed magnet Ass for all the amounts of 23 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:18,640 flack and bullets that he took on his missions. In 24 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:20,719 nineteen fifty four, he became a test pilot for the 25 00:01:20,799 --> 00:01:23,879 US Naval Test Pilot School, and in nineteen fifty seven 26 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:28,200 he made the first supersonic transcontinental flight, took three hours 27 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:30,319 in twenty three minutes. He was selected as one of 28 00:01:30,359 --> 00:01:33,959 the Mercury seven, became the third American man in space, 29 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,840 first American to orbit the Earth, which he did three 30 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,959 times in nineteen sixty two on Friendship seven. Nineteen sixty 31 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,760 four to nineteen ninety ninety serve as US Senator, and 32 00:01:42,799 --> 00:01:46,280 in nineteen ninety eight he flew in space again. At 33 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:48,920 age seventy seven. Two thousand and one, he was on 34 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:51,239 one of the funniest episodes of Frasier of all time. 35 00:01:52,879 --> 00:01:57,159 He passed away in twenty sixteen. Godspeed Junglin, Godspeed Okay, 36 00:01:57,560 --> 00:01:59,959 tell me about Listen beats Patterson right. 37 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:06,319 Speaker 3: Right. Liston is Sonny Liston born in Slanslow, Arkansas, slanslow 38 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:10,439 Land Slow. He was abused as a child, said my 39 00:02:10,599 --> 00:02:13,800 daddy never gave me anything but a beaten. Eventually became 40 00:02:14,039 --> 00:02:17,599 a habitual criminal, ended up in prison in Missouri in 41 00:02:17,719 --> 00:02:21,680 various other correctional institutes, but he became a boxer, and 42 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:26,879 despite his criminal history and connections to the criminal underworld, 43 00:02:27,319 --> 00:02:31,960 and even a warning to Floyd Patterson by JFK not 44 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:34,840 to fight this guy because he's connected to organized crime, 45 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:39,599 Floyd Patterson, the reigning heavyweight champion, decided to fight Sonny 46 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:44,520 Liston so on September twenty fifth, nineteen sixty two. Fight began. 47 00:02:44,879 --> 00:02:48,280 At two minutes and six seconds into the first round, 48 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:53,400 Sonny Liston, who was twenty five pounds heavier than Floyd Patterston, 49 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:58,319 gave him a left hook which knocked him out cold. 50 00:02:58,479 --> 00:03:02,800 It was the third fast ko in heavyweight title fight 51 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:06,240 history and the first time a champion had ever been 52 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,400 KOed in round one. One of the commentators said that 53 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:13,120 left hook crashed into Patterson's cheek like a diesel rig 54 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:17,719 going downhill, no breaks wow. Liston was known for being 55 00:03:17,879 --> 00:03:22,919 immensely strong, having a vicious jab and a very long reach. 56 00:03:23,159 --> 00:03:26,800 The fight was repeated the next year, and the ko 57 00:03:27,319 --> 00:03:31,439 was also repeated, making him also the heavyweight champion for 58 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:34,280 the WBC, which had formed that same year. He was 59 00:03:34,319 --> 00:03:36,879 known by most of the fighting world as the most 60 00:03:36,919 --> 00:03:40,080 intimidating man in the history of the sport. You know 61 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:43,840 who He didn't intimidate the young upstart named Cashius Clay. 62 00:03:43,919 --> 00:03:44,719 Speaker 4: His mama Common Clay. 63 00:03:44,719 --> 00:03:47,759 Speaker 3: I'm a con thing. Okay, what can you tell me 64 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:48,840 about Pope Paul? 65 00:03:49,159 --> 00:03:53,479 Speaker 4: All right, we're talking about Pope Paul sixth born Giovanni 66 00:03:53,759 --> 00:03:57,080 Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montanini. 67 00:03:57,879 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 3: That's easy for you to say in. 68 00:03:59,159 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 4: Eighteen ninety seven. He served as the head of the 69 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:05,680 Catholic Church from June twenty first, nineteen sixty three until 70 00:04:05,719 --> 00:04:08,120 his death in nineteen seventy eight. He was known as 71 00:04:08,199 --> 00:04:12,719 the Pilgrim Pope, known also for seeking Christian unity, but 72 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,280 also for reaching out to leaders of other religions and 73 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:17,959 even atheists. He is known for embracing the leader of 74 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,879 the Eastern Orthodox Church at the Mount of Olives in 75 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:24,240 nineteen sixty four, and he lifted the excommunication that had 76 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:27,959 caused the Great Schism that had lasted nine. 77 00:04:27,639 --> 00:04:29,399 Speaker 3: Hundred years wow. 78 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:31,720 Speaker 4: In nineteen sixty four, he flew to Jordan, making it 79 00:04:31,759 --> 00:04:33,800 the first time a pope had flown on a plane 80 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,240 and the first time the pope had left Italy in 81 00:04:36,319 --> 00:04:38,639 more than a century. He reaffirmed the teachings of the 82 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:41,839 church during the sexual Revolution, and in nineteen sixty five 83 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:44,199 he was the first pope to visit the United States 84 00:04:44,399 --> 00:04:47,959 War in the world of a contraceptive culture, Pope Paul 85 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:48,360 the sixth. 86 00:04:48,639 --> 00:04:51,079 Speaker 3: Okay, guys, that does it for today's episode. Join us 87 00:04:51,079 --> 00:04:52,439 next time for five minutes of fire.