"Five Minutes of Fire": Birth Control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon Back Again

<v Speaker 1>This is Deaf Dave and you are listening to the
<v Speaker 1>Surely You Can't Be Serious Podcast.
<v Speaker 2>Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Surely you Can't
<v Speaker 2>Be Serious Podcast Special Edition five Minutes of Fire. We
<v Speaker 2>are here talking about the lyrics of We Didn't Start
<v Speaker 2>the Fire by Billy Joel. We're covering only five minutes
<v Speaker 2>at a time, which is about to lengthen the song,
<v Speaker 2>so it works out kind of nicely. So please join
<v Speaker 2>us as we dive into some new lyrics today.
<v Speaker 3>All right, guys, so here are the topics that we're
<v Speaker 3>going to be covering today.
<v Speaker 2>Birth control, Ohichimen, Richard Nixon back again, kay d, tell
<v Speaker 2>me about birth control? Okay, birth control. People were trying
<v Speaker 2>to figure out ways not to have babies for decades.
<v Speaker 2>In the nineteen thirties, scientists found that high doses of
<v Speaker 2>androgen or estrogen or progesterone inhibited ovulation, but it book
<v Speaker 2>about thirty more years of work until they ultimately had
<v Speaker 2>a contraceptive that was approved by the FDA as a
<v Speaker 2>birth control pill or the pill, if you will. This
<v Speaker 2>happened in February of nineteen sixty one, but it wasn't
<v Speaker 2>until nineteen sixty five, when the Supreme Court ruled in
<v Speaker 2>the decision Griswold versus Connecticut that governments could not interfere
<v Speaker 2>with the buying and use of contraceptives by married couples,
<v Speaker 2>that it was available nationwide for unmarried women. It took
<v Speaker 2>until nineteen seventy two with the decision Einstadt versus Baird. Wow,
<v Speaker 2>what's the story on Ho Chi Minh? All right?
<v Speaker 3>So, Ho Chi Minh was the president of North Vietnam
<v Speaker 3>nineteen forty five to nineteen sixty nine. And this is
<v Speaker 3>a guy of many names, so he's gone through many
<v Speaker 3>name changes. He was born when Singh Kuhn in Vietnam.
<v Speaker 3>In eighteen ninety, while working in Paris, he petitioned Woodrow
<v Speaker 3>Wilson asking for Vietnam's independence from French rule way back
<v Speaker 3>in the twenties. In nineteen twenty, he joined the French
<v Speaker 3>Communist Party. He studied communism in the USSR and China.
<v Speaker 3>He returned to Vietnam in nineteen forty changed his name
<v Speaker 3>to Ho Chi Minh, which means bringer of light. The
<v Speaker 3>vietnamn was a revolutionary group that seized Hanoi, and Ho
<v Speaker 3>Chi Minh became the leader of the North that led
<v Speaker 3>to the Vietnam War. In nineteen seventy, America withdraws from Vietnam.
<v Speaker 3>Uncle Hoe, as he's known, Declarre's victory and Saigon is
<v Speaker 3>renamed Ho Chi Minh City. All right, do you tell
<v Speaker 3>me about Richard Nixon? Back again?
<v Speaker 2>All right? After Richard Nixon lost the election to JFK
<v Speaker 2>in nineteen sixty he lost again. He tried to be
<v Speaker 2>governor of California in nineteen sixty two and lost that
<v Speaker 2>one as well. He fought back to regain prominence in
<v Speaker 2>national politics. And one interesting thing that he did was
<v Speaker 2>to be a guest on the popular television comedy show
<v Speaker 2>in Nixon repeated the show's running gagline, sock it to
<v Speaker 2>Me a number of times, and it gave the impression
<v Speaker 2>that he wasn't such a stuck up snob after all,
<v Speaker 2>and he was elected president in nineteen sixty eight. Okay, guys,
<v Speaker 2>that does it for today's episode. Join us next time
<v Speaker 2>for five minutes of fire