"Five Minutes of Fire": Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate

<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 3>Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Surely You Can't
<v Speaker 3>Be Serious Podcast Special Edition five Minutes of Fire. We
<v Speaker 3>are here talking about the lyrics of We Didn't Start
<v Speaker 3>the Fire by Billy Joel. We're covering only five minutes
<v Speaker 3>at a time, which is about to link with the song,
<v Speaker 3>so it works out kind of nicely.
<v Speaker 1>So please join us as we dive into some new
<v Speaker 1>lyrics today.
<v Speaker 2>All right, guys, So here are the topics that we're
<v Speaker 2>going to be covering today. Moonshot, woodstock, watergate, shot wood stock,
<v Speaker 2>water gate.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, tell me about the moonshot.
<v Speaker 2>All right, Dave, this is discussing one of the greatest
<v Speaker 2>human achievements in all of history, a man actually stepping
<v Speaker 2>foot on the moon. The mission that took the US
<v Speaker 2>astronauts to the Moon was Apollo eleven. Now on that
<v Speaker 2>craft you had Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin Junior, and Michael
<v Speaker 2>call On July twentieth, nineteen sixty nine, four to seventeen
<v Speaker 2>pm US Eastern daylight time, Armstrong radioed said, Houston Traequility Base.
<v Speaker 2>Here the eagle has landed. At ten fifty six pm
<v Speaker 2>Eastern daylight time on July twentieth, Armstrong climbed down the
<v Speaker 2>ladder and said.
<v Speaker 3>At one all flam for man.
<v Speaker 1>On by a late for man.
<v Speaker 2>That's one small step for man, one giant lead for mankind.
<v Speaker 2>Aldrin joined Armstrong about twenty minutes later. Altogether they spent
<v Speaker 2>about twenty one hours and thirty eight minutes on the moon.
<v Speaker 2>They set up various types of equipment. Hundreds of millions
<v Speaker 2>of people watched this event on television, and on their
<v Speaker 2>way out they knocked the flag over.
<v Speaker 1>Just take a moment. Can you imagine being one of
<v Speaker 1>those guys like talk about fear terror? I mean, you
<v Speaker 1>trained for this, but you're doing something that no one
<v Speaker 1>has ever ever done, and then you have to make
<v Speaker 1>it back home.
<v Speaker 2>Absolutely amazing.
<v Speaker 1>All right? Tell us about Woodsuck all right? This refers
<v Speaker 1>to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to
<v Speaker 1>just as Woodstock. It was a musical festival that was
<v Speaker 1>held from August fifteenth to August eighteenth, nineteen sixty nine,
<v Speaker 1>on Max Jazger's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, forty
<v Speaker 1>miles southwest of the town of Woodstock. It was billed
<v Speaker 1>as an aquarian exposition three days of peace and music.
<v Speaker 1>It attracted more than four hundred and sixty thousand attendees.
<v Speaker 1>Thirty two acts performed outdoors, Despite the fact that it
<v Speaker 1>was overcast and raining much of the time. It was
<v Speaker 1>one of the largest music festivals in history and became
<v Speaker 1>synonymous with the counterculture of the sixties. The next year,
<v Speaker 1>they re released a documentary film, some of which was
<v Speaker 1>filmed by Martin Scorsese, and a soundtrack album that had
<v Speaker 1>a song called Woodstock written by Joni Mitchell, performed by Crosby, Stills,
<v Speaker 1>Nash and Young. In two thousand and four, Rolling Stone
<v Speaker 1>magazine listed it as the number nineteen of the fifty
<v Speaker 1>moments that she changed the history of rock and roll.
<v Speaker 1>Wow Okay? Telling me about Watergate.
<v Speaker 2>On June seventeen, nineteen seventy two, police caught five men
<v Speaker 2>breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, d C.
<v Speaker 2>At the Watergate Hotel, and he called this a third
<v Speaker 2>rate burglary.
<v Speaker 1>At the time.
<v Speaker 2>Now, between nineteen seventy two and late nineteen seventy three,
<v Speaker 2>there was a series of meetings between Bob Woodward of
<v Speaker 2>the Washington Post and a secret informant called Deep Throat.
<v Speaker 2>He revealed that the break in was politically motivated and
<v Speaker 2>could be traced back to the committee to re elect
<v Speaker 2>the president, even to the president himself. The motive was
<v Speaker 2>to collect information and place bugging devices. Now Nixon denied involvement,
<v Speaker 2>of course, and was re elected. In nineteen seventy two,
<v Speaker 2>the Watergate Committee began to dig and place pressure. White
<v Speaker 2>House Deputy Assistant Alexander Butterfield revealed the existence of White
<v Speaker 2>House Tapes, which was a new recording system placed in
<v Speaker 2>the Oval Office. He had to do this under oath,
<v Speaker 2>and it was like this big revelation, So of course
<v Speaker 2>the committee wanted the tapes.
<v Speaker 1>Well.
<v Speaker 2>Nixon tried everything to block the tapes. Right after this,
<v Speaker 2>Nixon gave the quote I Am not a crook speech. Ultimately,
<v Speaker 2>the release of the White House tapes incriminated Nixon. This
<v Speaker 2>causes Richard Nixon to resign the presidency. After that, new
<v Speaker 2>President Gerald Ford pardons him, and the actual identity of
<v Speaker 2>Deep Throat was revealed in two thousand and five to
<v Speaker 2>be former Associate director of the FBI William mark Feldt.
<v Speaker 1>Check out the book and movie All the Presidents Men yep,
<v Speaker 1>Woodward and Bernstein yep. Okay, guys, that does it for
<v Speaker 1>today's episode. Join us next time for five minutes of
<v Speaker 1>fire