"Five Minutes of Fire": John Glenn, Liston Beats Patterson, Pope Paul

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