"Five Minutes of Fire": Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's Got A Winning Team

<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 for 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. Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got
<v Speaker 2>a winning team. Einstein, James Dean looking down a wind.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, I've heard of this guy named Einstein. I think
<v Speaker 1>he has a bagel company.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, yeah, Einstein Bagels exactly. All right, so let's
<v Speaker 2>talk about Albert Einstein. Born in eighteen seventy nine. He
<v Speaker 2>passed away nineteen fifty five. He was a German born
<v Speaker 2>theoretical physicist moved to the United States in nineteen thirty three.
<v Speaker 2>Widely held to be the greatest and most influential scientist
<v Speaker 2>of all time. On top of that, it's kind of
<v Speaker 2>a given that he's like the smartest guy ever lived.
<v Speaker 2>He fell in love with physics as a boy when
<v Speaker 2>his father gifted him with a compass. Widely known that
<v Speaker 2>he struggled a bit in school in subjects like language,
<v Speaker 2>but he actually wrote his first scholarly paper at the
<v Speaker 2>age of sixteen, in physics. He clashed with his teachers.
<v Speaker 2>Some even thought that he had a learning disability. Get this.
<v Speaker 2>He started off as a teacher, but because he couldn't
<v Speaker 2>find work, he went back to college he got his PhD.
<v Speaker 2>He obtained his degree in nineteen oh five and wrote
<v Speaker 2>four ground breaking papers in that same year. They call
<v Speaker 2>it the Annas Marabas, like the year of miracles. His
<v Speaker 2>four papers the subjects were number one, the theory of
<v Speaker 2>photoelectric effect, number two the Brownian motion, Number three of
<v Speaker 2>the theory of special relativity, and number four mass energy equivalents.
<v Speaker 2>Don't ask me to explain any of that stuff. Known
<v Speaker 2>widely for his theory of relativity E equals mc squared,
<v Speaker 2>won the Nobel Prize in Physics in nineteen twenty one.
<v Speaker 2>Died in nineteen fifty five from internal bles eating from
<v Speaker 2>a ruptured aortic aneurysm at age seventy six. Get this
<v Speaker 2>his last words that he said to the nurse. He's
<v Speaker 2>spoke in German. One, she does speak German. Number two,
<v Speaker 2>she doesn't remember what he said, so nobody knows what
<v Speaker 2>his last words were. All right, all right, d what
<v Speaker 2>can you tell me about James Dean?
<v Speaker 1>Okay, James Dean. My name is James d. So this
<v Speaker 1>one was special for me, especially when I found out
<v Speaker 1>that he started off as a pre law major and
<v Speaker 1>became a drama major. After that, I flipped that was
<v Speaker 1>a drama major and then studied law. So this is
<v Speaker 1>all very cool for me. James Dean was born nineteen
<v Speaker 1>thirty one. Was very close with his mother, but tragically,
<v Speaker 1>she died when he was nine years old. His dad
<v Speaker 1>couldn't take care of him, so sent him off to
<v Speaker 1>live with his aunt and uncle, who raised him. He
<v Speaker 1>went to college, but then dropped out in nineteen fifty
<v Speaker 1>one to pursue acting. Moved out to California. His first
<v Speaker 1>acting job was in a Pepsi commercial. What His first
<v Speaker 1>speaking part was as John the Apostle in a TV
<v Speaker 1>movie called Hill Number one about the resurrection of Jesus.
<v Speaker 1>He decides, I want to study more he moves to
<v Speaker 1>New York City and starts studying at the Actors Studio
<v Speaker 1>with guy we've mentioned several times now, Lee Strasberg. Then
<v Speaker 1>a night teen fifty three, he gets cast in the
<v Speaker 1>movie East of Eden and it is a breakout success
<v Speaker 1>for him. He suddenly becomes the it factor guy. Right
<v Speaker 1>after East of Eden, he decides that he wants to
<v Speaker 1>get into car racing professionally, and then just before he
<v Speaker 1>starts filming the next movie that he's going to be
<v Speaker 1>in Rebel without a Cause. He competes in his very
<v Speaker 1>first professional event for the Palm Springs Road Races. He
<v Speaker 1>got first place in the novice class and second place
<v Speaker 1>in the main event. He goes to do Rebel Without
<v Speaker 1>a Cause, which is his definitive movie. Warner Brothers actually
<v Speaker 1>barred him from racing during the production of his next movie, Giant.
<v Speaker 1>He had finished shooting his scenes in the movie and
<v Speaker 1>was in post production. He entered into the upcoming Salinas
<v Speaker 1>Road Race. He decided to drive his car from La
<v Speaker 1>to Salinas to break it in. At approximately five forty
<v Speaker 1>five PM, a nineteen fifty Ford Tutor driven by a
<v Speaker 1>twenty three year old California Polytechnic State University student Donald
<v Speaker 1>turnip Seed was traveling east to hernip Seed made a
<v Speaker 1>left turn on the Highway forty one headed north toward
<v Speaker 1>Fresno ahead of the oncoming Portiae driven by Dean. Dean
<v Speaker 1>was unable to stop in time because he was speeding.
<v Speaker 1>He slammed into the passenger side of the ford, resulting
<v Speaker 1>in Dean's car bouncing across the pavement onto the side
<v Speaker 1>of the highway and sustained numerous fatal injuries, including a
<v Speaker 1>broken neck. Dean was pronounced dead on arrival. Shortly after
<v Speaker 1>he arrived at the hospital at six point twenty pm.
<v Speaker 1>He became the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy
<v Speaker 1>Award nomination for Best Actor for his role in East
<v Speaker 1>of Eden. He received a second nomination for his role
<v Speaker 1>in Giant the next year, making him the only actor
<v Speaker 1>to have had two posthumous acting nominations. Incredible. All right, Jason,
<v Speaker 1>tell me about Brooklyn's got a winning team.
<v Speaker 2>All right, So we're talking about the Brooklyn Dodgers. They
<v Speaker 2>were founded in eighteen eighty three as the Brooklyn Grays
<v Speaker 2>based on their uniform, became the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers in
<v Speaker 2>nineteen eleven, and finally the Brooklyn Dodgers in nineteen thirteen.
<v Speaker 2>They moved to ebbittts Field in nineteen twelve. During this time,
<v Speaker 2>you had the New York Yankees, the New York Giants,
<v Speaker 2>and the Brooklyn Dodgers all playing baseball in the New
<v Speaker 2>York area. They broke the color barrier nineteen forty seven
<v Speaker 2>through the efforts of Branch Rickey. With Jackie Robinson, they
<v Speaker 2>won the nl pennant in nineteen forty one, nineteen forty seven,
<v Speaker 2>nineteen forty nine, nineteen fifty two, nineteen fifty three, only
<v Speaker 2>to all fall to the New York Yankees.
<v Speaker 1>Damn Yankees, that's it.
<v Speaker 2>They were a victim of Giants outfielder Bobby Thompson's shot
<v Speaker 2>heard round the world in nineteen fifty one. They finally
<v Speaker 2>beat the Yankees and won the World Series in nineteen
<v Speaker 2>fifty five and moved to the Los Angeles area in
<v Speaker 2>nineteen fifty seven and became what we know as the
<v Speaker 2>La Dodgers.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, guys, that does it for today's episode. Join us
<v Speaker 1>next time for five minutes of fire