"Five Minutes of Fire": Edsel is a No-Go, U2, Syngman Rhee, Payola

<v Speaker 1>I'm Jason Colvin, I'm d Graves.
<v Speaker 2>Give us five minutes and we will give you the fire.
<v Speaker 1>Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Surely You Can't
<v Speaker 1>Be Serious Podcast Special Edition five Minutes of Fire. We
<v Speaker 1>are here talking about the lyrics of We Didn't Start
<v Speaker 1>the Fire by Billy Joel. We're covering only five minutes
<v Speaker 1>at a time, which is about to link with the song,
<v Speaker 1>so it works out kind of nicely. So please join
<v Speaker 1>us as we dive into some new lyrics today.
<v Speaker 2>All right, guys, so here are the topics that we're
<v Speaker 2>going to be covering today.
<v Speaker 1>Edgelzan Nogo, you too, singing Ray Pyola.
<v Speaker 2>And okaydie tell me about Ed's alzanoga.
<v Speaker 1>All right. In the late fifties, Ford realized that it
<v Speaker 1>was not winning the luxury car battle with General Motors.
<v Speaker 1>Their idea was, we need to come up with a
<v Speaker 1>new model that will elevate our luxury vehicles, and so
<v Speaker 1>they decided to develop this car. They called it the
<v Speaker 1>E car for the experimental car. They said, well, we
<v Speaker 1>can't just call this car the experimental car. We can't
<v Speaker 1>call it the E car. That doesn't make any sense.
<v Speaker 1>And so they said, well why don't we call it
<v Speaker 1>edsel Why would you call it Edzel? Because Edseel was
<v Speaker 1>the name of Henry Ford's son. Edsel Ford had also
<v Speaker 1>been the president of Ford for several years. The president
<v Speaker 1>at the time was Henry Ford the Second. They didn't
<v Speaker 1>inform him that they were going to be naming this
<v Speaker 1>car after his father, and they did it at a
<v Speaker 1>board meeting that he was not present at, and he
<v Speaker 1>was quite disappointed with the decision. But they produced it.
<v Speaker 1>They said it's okay, this will be a great car,
<v Speaker 1>and they put their name all over it. Unfortunately, all
<v Speaker 1>of these attempts to make it a popular decision for
<v Speaker 1>the mid range vehicles failed and within just a few
<v Speaker 1>years car was discontinued and regarded as one of the
<v Speaker 1>biggest failures in American corporation history. All Right, you too,
<v Speaker 1>I love this band.
<v Speaker 2>Actually we're not talking about you too, the Irish rock band,
<v Speaker 2>although they did get their from this plane. We're going
<v Speaker 2>to talk about Okay, So this involves the U tube
<v Speaker 2>plane incident of nineteen sixty. Now then May first, nineteen
<v Speaker 2>sixty a U two spy plane was shot down over
<v Speaker 2>the USSR and the pilot, Gary Powers, was captured now,
<v Speaker 2>this plane was doing an awesome job of spying on
<v Speaker 2>the Russians. One of the reasons why it was so
<v Speaker 2>successful is it could fly thirteen miles over the surface
<v Speaker 2>of the land, which was out of the range of
<v Speaker 2>Soviet missiles until it wasn't so a new USSR surface
<v Speaker 2>to air missile was developed. We didn't know that, and
<v Speaker 2>they shot us down and captured Gary Powers to the pilot.
<v Speaker 2>On May fifth, kruse Chef announces the capture of a
<v Speaker 2>US spy plane. Eisenhower says it's a weather plane. Kruse
<v Speaker 2>Chef demanded an apology and wanted no more spying well.
<v Speaker 2>Eisenhower refused to apologize. Of course, this is all in
<v Speaker 2>the assumption that the pilot is dead. On May sixteenth,
<v Speaker 2>nineteen sixty, there was a scheduled summit with the USSR, USA, Britain,
<v Speaker 2>and France and Paris. Because of Utube, kruse Chef walked out, so,
<v Speaker 2>I mean tensions were super high at this moment. Krusecheff
<v Speaker 2>then revealed that they had the pilot alive and well,
<v Speaker 2>and this was no fore making weather plane. Of course,
<v Speaker 2>it was incredibly embarrassing for the US in Eisenhower Gary
<v Speaker 2>Powers was since to ten years. It was actually released
<v Speaker 2>on an exchange and you can see this exchange if
<v Speaker 2>you've ever seen the movie Bridge of Spies. This incident
<v Speaker 2>actually led to the construction of the Berlin Wall in
<v Speaker 2>nineteen sixty one.
<v Speaker 1>I know one of them said, none of this would
<v Speaker 1>have happened if that son of a bitch would have
<v Speaker 1>just taken his cyanide pill like he was supposed to.
<v Speaker 2>Ooh, okay, d tell me about Sigmund Ray.
<v Speaker 1>Okay. Sigmund Ray was the president of South Korea and
<v Speaker 1>as a young man, he would fight for Korean independence. Ultimately,
<v Speaker 1>his fight for independence for Korea came to fruition when
<v Speaker 1>in nineteen forty five, World War Two ended and South
<v Speaker 1>Korea became a US controlled province, and on July twentieth,
<v Speaker 1>nineteen forty eight, he was elected the first President of
<v Speaker 1>the Republic of Korea by the National Assembly, issuing in
<v Speaker 1>the first Republic of Korea. As president, he was a
<v Speaker 1>hardlined anti communist and pro American. You mentioned in one
<v Speaker 1>of our prior episodes that the Armacist was never signed
<v Speaker 1>in Pamu jam right. It was because he refused to
<v Speaker 1>sign it. He was again reelected in nineteen sixty because
<v Speaker 1>his opponent died from cancer before the election took place. Then,
<v Speaker 1>when his vice presidential companion won by a landslide, there
<v Speaker 1>was opposition by the other side because they thought the
<v Speaker 1>election had been rigged. The resulting scandal cause Simon Ray
<v Speaker 1>to resign on the twenty sixth of April nineteen sixty.
<v Speaker 1>Despite the fact that he had resigned, however, the protests
<v Speaker 1>continued and he had to be taken by the CIA
<v Speaker 1>and covertly evacuated. He spent the rest of his life
<v Speaker 1>in exile in Honolulu, Hawaii, and died of a stroke
<v Speaker 1>in nineteen sixty five. Okay, Jason, tell me about Paola.
<v Speaker 2>Paola in the music industry is the illegal practice of
<v Speaker 2>paying a commercial radio station to play a song without
<v Speaker 2>disclosing the payment. Buying off DJs to play your music
<v Speaker 2>is illegal, according to the FCC. Okay, Alan Freed was
<v Speaker 2>a radio DJ in Cleveland before he moved to New York.
<v Speaker 2>This guy's super influential. He actually even coined the term
<v Speaker 2>rock and roll. Record companies would compete and give gifts
<v Speaker 2>like trips, money, female entertainment to influence DJs to play music.
<v Speaker 2>Uh huh, Alan Freed was even given songwriting credit on
<v Speaker 2>a Chuck Berry song. Maybee DJ soon started demanding payment
<v Speaker 2>in order to play a new record. US government became
<v Speaker 2>interested in The FCC announced that radio stations could lose
<v Speaker 2>their license for payola.
<v Speaker 1>Many thought that this would actually kill rock and roll. Unfortunately,
<v Speaker 1>that did not happen until Napster in two thousands.
<v Speaker 2>In nineteen fifty nine, Alan Freed gave his last broadcast,
<v Speaker 2>and five years later he died of alcoholism.
<v Speaker 1>They accused Dick Clark as well, but he was found innocent.
<v Speaker 1>There you go. Okay, guys, that does it for today's episode.
<v Speaker 1>Join us next time for five minutes of fire