"Five Minutes of Fire": Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev

<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>Bardeau, Budapest, Alabama.
<v Speaker 2>Kruz Chef. All right, Dee, what can you tell me
<v Speaker 2>about bardew.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, so this has to be Bridgitte Bardeaux, which is
<v Speaker 1>the first one that we've come across who is still alive.
<v Speaker 1>She was born almost ninety years ago, nineteen thirty four.
<v Speaker 1>She studied ballet, was planning on becoming a dancer. Then
<v Speaker 1>at the age of fifteen, she appeared on the cover
<v Speaker 1>of Elle magazine there in France, and it was a
<v Speaker 1>monumental moment for French fashion. She became a new it girl.
<v Speaker 1>The way that clean cut Christine Girls should look. She
<v Speaker 1>did multiple modeling gigs after that. Then movie directors started
<v Speaker 1>looking at her, and one of those movie directors sent
<v Speaker 1>his assistant director, whose name was Roger Vadim, to go
<v Speaker 1>see if she might be in a movie. She turned
<v Speaker 1>down the movie, but did not turn down Roger Vadim.
<v Speaker 1>The problem was is that he was six years older
<v Speaker 1>than her, which if you're in your twenties, not such
<v Speaker 1>a big deal. If you're a teenager, much bigger deal.
<v Speaker 1>And so her parents forbid her to date this guy,
<v Speaker 1>and so she said, Okay, I'm just going to kill myself.
<v Speaker 1>Then like maybe even had an attempt, and so they
<v Speaker 1>finally kind of gave up. Seventeen years old, she marries
<v Speaker 1>Roger Vadim and that was nineteen fifty two, and then
<v Speaker 1>just four years later, nineteen fifty six, he cast her
<v Speaker 1>in his new movie called and God Created Woman, and
<v Speaker 1>she becomes a sex icon. They even dubbed her a
<v Speaker 1>sex kitten, one of the first times that that phrase
<v Speaker 1>is used to describe Somebody called her the first and
<v Speaker 1>most liberated woman of post war France. She was in
<v Speaker 1>multiple movies, usually as a liberated and sexually free woman
<v Speaker 1>ushered in the sexual Revolution. Then in nineteen seventy three
<v Speaker 1>she said I'm done. But because of the iconic status
<v Speaker 1>that she had reached over that roughly twenty year time period,
<v Speaker 1>she is still remembered today as a monumental sex That's
<v Speaker 1>some incredible wow. Okay, Jason, tell me about Budapest.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so let's talk about the Hungarian Revolution of nineteen
<v Speaker 2>fifty six. This revolution lasted from October twenty third, nineteen
<v Speaker 2>fifty six to November fourth of nineteen fifty six. It
<v Speaker 2>was an attempted countrywide revolution against the government of the
<v Speaker 2>Hungarian People's Republic and the policies of the government's submission
<v Speaker 2>to the USSR. The revolution started when university students showed
<v Speaker 2>up but the Hungarian Parliament building to protest. They take
<v Speaker 2>over the building with the party radio. They broadcast sixteen
<v Speaker 2>demands in order to back down from this revolution. One
<v Speaker 2>of these demands is the evacuation of all Soviet troops.
<v Speaker 2>Guess what the Soviets say. They say no, the revolution
<v Speaker 2>is repressed on November fourth, nineteen fifty six, when the
<v Speaker 2>Soviets rolled tanks in and troops kill twenty five hundred
<v Speaker 2>Hungarians and lose seven hundred Soviets and caused seven hundred
<v Speaker 2>thousand people to seek political refuge abroad. All right, d
<v Speaker 2>what can you tell me about Alabama?
<v Speaker 1>Well, it's a state in the United States, but we
<v Speaker 1>need to know what happened in nineteen fifty five. What
<v Speaker 1>happened in Montgomery, to be specific Montgomery, Alabama in nineteen
<v Speaker 1>fifty five was they had a law that was a
<v Speaker 1>segregation law on the buses and if the white section
<v Speaker 1>filled up, that meant that the sign that separated the
<v Speaker 1>sections got moved back, the African American section got smaller
<v Speaker 1>so that the more white people could fit on. Well,
<v Speaker 1>what happened was that Rosa Parks had had a long
<v Speaker 1>day at work. She came and sat down in the
<v Speaker 1>non white section. The white section filled up, and when
<v Speaker 1>it did, somebody said you got to move, and she said, no,
<v Speaker 1>my feet retired. And because this was in violation of
<v Speaker 1>the law at that time, she was arrested for this
<v Speaker 1>act of civil disobedience. The arrest resulted in demonstrations and
<v Speaker 1>a boycott of the Montgomery buses by African Americans that
<v Speaker 1>lasted until December of nineteen fifty six. Since the boycott
<v Speaker 1>was costing the stores money and the white business's money.
<v Speaker 1>Negotiations were made to stop the action, but it took
<v Speaker 1>a Supreme Court ruling in November nineteen fifty six that
<v Speaker 1>segregation on transportation is unconstitutional to finally integrate the buses.
<v Speaker 1>This event was also the starting point for the civil
<v Speaker 1>rights movement of Martin Luther King. Hey, Jason, tell me
<v Speaker 1>about Krushchef.
<v Speaker 2>Nikita Krushchev succeeded Malinkoff, who we talked about in an
<v Speaker 2>earlier episode. He was the first Secretary of the Communist
<v Speaker 2>Party of the Soviet Union nineteen fifty three to nineteen
<v Speaker 2>sixty four. That means he's the most powerful person in
<v Speaker 2>the US. He's responsible for crushing the Hungarian Revolution, the
<v Speaker 2>process of de stalinization in the Soviet Union, which actually
<v Speaker 2>made it less repressive in the Soviet Union. He's known
<v Speaker 2>for colorful speeches. He actually took off and shook his
<v Speaker 2>shoe at the UN one time in a.
<v Speaker 1>Speech we will bury you.
<v Speaker 2>He ousted Malankov, He approved the construction of the Berlin Wall,
<v Speaker 2>and he is responsible for positioning missiles in Cuba.
<v Speaker 1>Sounds like a heck of a guy.
<v Speaker 2>Forced to resign in nineteen sixty four due to a
<v Speaker 2>breakup with China and food shortages in the USSR finished
<v Speaker 2>his life quietly, dying of a heart attack in nineteen
<v Speaker 2>seventy one. This is one of the guys that the
<v Speaker 2>US feared most in the sixties.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, guys, that does it for today's episode. Join us
<v Speaker 1>next time for five minutes of fire.