"Five Minutes of Fire": Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania, Ole Miss

<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>Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania and old Miss Okay, d
<v Speaker 1>tell me about Lawrence of Arabia. Okay. Lawrence of Arabia
<v Speaker 1>is a nineteen sixty two epic film based on the
<v Speaker 1>life of Te Lawrence and his nineteen twenty six books
<v Speaker 1>Seven Pillars of Wisdom. It was directed by David Lean,
<v Speaker 1>who won the Oscar. Produced by Sam Spiegel, it won
<v Speaker 1>not only for Best Director, it also won Best Picture,
<v Speaker 1>Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Sound, Best Film Editing,
<v Speaker 1>Best Music Score, and was nominated for several others, including screenplay. However,
<v Speaker 1>at the time, only one writer was listed, Robert Bolt,
<v Speaker 1>because the other writer had to remain anonymous because he
<v Speaker 1>had been blacklisted and was living in France and wrote
<v Speaker 1>under a pseudonym. His name was Michael Wilson. When Academy
<v Speaker 1>Board of Directors researched, they found that Michael Wilson had
<v Speaker 1>been a part of the writing process and so he
<v Speaker 1>was at that time given screenwriting credit with Bolt. The
<v Speaker 1>film starred Peter O'Toole. Also had Alec Guinness, which we
<v Speaker 1>talked about from Bridge over the Requy, and Omar Shariff,
<v Speaker 1>which we talked about when we talked about Doctor Schivako.
<v Speaker 3>Awesome.
<v Speaker 1>All right, tell me about British Beatlemania.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, I don't know if you heard about these guys
<v Speaker 2>that call him the Fab four, John, Paul, George and Ringo.
<v Speaker 1>They were the English version of the Beach Boys.
<v Speaker 2>Formed in nineteen sixty in Liverpool, actually cut their teeth
<v Speaker 2>in Hamburg, Germany. Early songs include love Me, Do Please,
<v Speaker 2>Please Me, for Me to You and she Loves You.
<v Speaker 1>In nineteen sixty three, cut their teeth in a strip
<v Speaker 1>club in Hamburg.
<v Speaker 2>Yes they did. By October nineteen sixty three, the press
<v Speaker 2>had coined the term Beatlemania to describe the craziness and
<v Speaker 2>hysteria and high pitched female screaming when they would see them.
<v Speaker 2>In February of nineteen sixty four, the Beatles arrived in
<v Speaker 2>the United States and appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show
<v Speaker 2>to seventy three million viewers. They also appeared in A
<v Speaker 2>Hard Day's Night in the movie in nineteen sixty four.
<v Speaker 2>To protect themselves from their fans, they were transported by
<v Speaker 2>armored car, and in nineteen sixty six, John Lennon controversially
<v Speaker 2>is said that the group had become more popular than Jesus.
<v Speaker 2>The Beatles have one of the most lasting rock legacies
<v Speaker 2>of all time, Maybe the maybe, the Yeah, all right?
<v Speaker 2>D you tell me about Old Miss?
<v Speaker 1>All Right? Old Miss refers to an event involving James
<v Speaker 1>Howard Meredith, an American civil rights activist, writer, and political advisor,
<v Speaker 1>and a US Air Force veteran. But in nineteen sixty two,
<v Speaker 1>after he heard JFK give his inaugural address, he was
<v Speaker 1>inspired to exercise his constitutional rights and apply to the
<v Speaker 1>University of Mississippi. His goal was to put pressure on
<v Speaker 1>Kennedy and his administration to enforce the civil rights for
<v Speaker 1>African Americans. His admission to Old Miss started the Old
<v Speaker 1>Miss Riot of nineteen sixty two, where James Meredith's life
<v Speaker 1>was threatened and thirty one thousand American servicemen were required
<v Speaker 1>to quell the violence. This is the largest ever invocation
<v Speaker 1>of the Insurrection Act of eighteen oh seven, and it
<v Speaker 1>was a flash point in the civil rights history. Meredith
<v Speaker 1>went on to do many more things. In nineteen sixty six,
<v Speaker 1>he started a March against Fear, planning to march from Memphis, Tennessee,
<v Speaker 1>to Jackson in Mississippi without the involvement of civil rights organizations,
<v Speaker 1>and he was shot by the second day by a
<v Speaker 1>white gunman and sovered numerous wounds. He, by the way,
<v Speaker 1>is also still alive. All right, Okay, guys, that does
<v Speaker 1>it for today's episode. Join us next time for five
<v Speaker 1>minutes a fire.
<v Speaker 4>Hey, check it out. There's a brand new podcast on
<v Speaker 4>the way exploring the discographies of the Beatles and the
<v Speaker 4>Beach Boys.
<v Speaker 3>It's called Apples and Oranges and and Lodges. On February seventh.
<v Speaker 4>We will be matching albums against each other in a
<v Speaker 4>one v one format, discussing every single track and then
<v Speaker 4>giving our verdict on which album is better.
<v Speaker 3>Pet Sounds versus Revolving Sergeant Pepper versus Smile.
<v Speaker 4>Wouldn't it be nice if most people knew how well
<v Speaker 4>the Beach Boys actually held up against the Fab Four.
<v Speaker 3>Both bands inspired each other to keep pushing the boundaries
<v Speaker 3>of what was possible in pop music here, there, and everywhere, and.
<v Speaker 4>What we got were some of the great just albums
<v Speaker 4>of all time.
<v Speaker 3>All Summer Long versus A Hard Day's Night, River sol
<v Speaker 3>versus the Beach Boys Today.
<v Speaker 4>So let's come together for some fun, fun fun and
<v Speaker 4>help me Ronda get this podcast off the ground, and
<v Speaker 4>we'll sure appreciate you being around on February seventh, wherever
<v Speaker 4>you find your podcast.
<v Speaker 3>That's Apples and Oranges. February seven,