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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of five

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Speaker 1: Heart Radios How Stuff Works. Hey, and welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh Clark, and there's Charles w Chuck Bryant, and

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Speaker 1: there's Jerry over there, and this is Stuff you Know

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Speaker 1: and nice, I think we should say what just happened

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Speaker 1: off Mike because as Jerry does once every three hundred episodes,

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Speaker 1: she realizes what we're recording on and has an actual

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Speaker 1: comment about it, right, and this is about Live Aid,

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Speaker 1: And she went, I was in London when Live Aid happened,

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Speaker 1: And Josh said, did you go? Jerry said, no, I

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Speaker 1: didn't know what was happening because we forget in there

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Speaker 1: wasn't an internet blast like Live Aid was a big deal.

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Speaker 1: But little Jerry, a little twelve year old Jerry in London,

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Speaker 1: doesn't know what's going on. To get any info, you

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Speaker 1: the telephone poll and see what somebody's staple there, yeah,

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Speaker 1: or go to hear the town crier on his uh

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Speaker 1: very anticlimactic story because it led to nothing. But like anyway,

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Speaker 1: I was there, I was twelve yeah, I had no

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Speaker 1: controller agency over my life. Probably true. But Jerry, had

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Speaker 1: you been just three years older, you might have been

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Speaker 1: pulled up on stage with Bono to dance to dance

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Speaker 1: to dancing um in the dark. No, that was Bruce Springsteen.

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Speaker 1: He did not play Live Aid. Did you know? It

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Speaker 1: was Courtney Cox? All right? Sure it was not real.

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Speaker 1: It was set up. She was an actor. Stills. I

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Speaker 1: thought it was just coincidence. But yeah. One of the

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Speaker 1: most famous moments of Live Aid was when Bono and

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Speaker 1: We'll get there. But I watched it again today, Man,

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Speaker 1: I got a little teary, did you It was such

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Speaker 1: a great moment. Oh, I just wanted to be like Bonno, stop, No,

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Speaker 1: that's what everyone in the band was doing. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: it was like edge. You could ed still had hair before.

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Speaker 1: He just started wearing beanies all the time. And they

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Speaker 1: were playing the great song Bad and they did like

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Speaker 1: a seventeen minute version of their like twenty two minutes set.

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Speaker 1: Because Bono wanted to dance with a girl, and he

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Speaker 1: finally jumped down onto the floor of Wimbley Stadium got

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Speaker 1: this young fifteen year old girl dance with her for

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Speaker 1: like fifteen seconds, took another five minutes to get back

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Speaker 1: Adam Clayton has his big white afro, and uh, Larry

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Speaker 1: and they just played that same riff from Bad over

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Speaker 1: and over and over, and they were a little mad

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Speaker 1: because he only got to do two songs. They were

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Speaker 1: gonna close with Pride in the Name of Love, which

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Speaker 1: everybody like wanted to hear. Sure, it was a big hit,

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Speaker 1: you know, they were a young band at the time,

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Speaker 1: but it was on and the band was a little miffed.

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Speaker 1: But in as it turns out, that became one of

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Speaker 1: the iconic moments of live aid and it really launched

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Speaker 1: YouTube into the stratosphere, which I mean, Bonno looked out

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Speaker 1: about you? Yeah, what are you doing? But it was

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Speaker 1: a nice moment, he said, I really wanted to dance

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Speaker 1: with that fifteen year old girl. I know. It was

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Speaker 1: very sweet. Her name is cal Collique, and she says

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Speaker 1: that she was getting kind of smushed and that that

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Speaker 1: this point, or we should a lot of the stuff

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Speaker 1: we're talking about you can go see. Yeah. I was

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Speaker 1: actually when I was researching this, I was like, what

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Speaker 1: a time to be allowed? Man? I was just pouring

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Speaker 1: through these videos. Yeah, you can just go watch. Most

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Speaker 1: of the stuff we're talking about is out there on YouTube.

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Speaker 1: So if if you ever just go what pause to YouTube?

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Speaker 1: They don't know what you're talking about, and um start

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Speaker 1: watching videos. Yeah, I watched a bunch. We should just

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Speaker 1: so when you think man Zeppelin reunion, Sabbath Reunion, what

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Speaker 1: that really means is like chubby, big haired AUSI and

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Speaker 1: told this story before, but I was babysitting. I had

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Speaker 1: I remember I watched virtually all of the Live Aid

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Speaker 1: and Jerry were in Hyde Park hanging out She's like,

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Speaker 1: there's this annoying nine year old just following me around

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Speaker 1: talking about podcasts. Says he's from the future, something about

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Speaker 1: a way back machine. Um. So yeah, thanks to Julia Layton,

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Speaker 1: Dr Late's from back in the old day. She's great

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Speaker 1: and writes great stuff. And I threw Live Aid out

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about the origins of this, Yes, because

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Speaker 1: Live Aid happened on July and um, the whole thing started.

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Speaker 1: The seed was planted about six months before, well a

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Speaker 1: what was going on to viewers, including a guy from

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Speaker 1: Ireland named Bob Geldof Yeah, who Julia refers to as

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Speaker 1: one plenty wrong. That was their big hit though. That

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Speaker 1: but we don't sound like Abe Simpson quite yet. So

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Speaker 1: Geldof saw this, really spoke to him, and he said,

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Speaker 1: a fundraiser. And this is not Live Aid yet. No,

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Speaker 1: this is band Aid right, previous to Live Aid. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Cyrus Rocker? Right? He he got this single produced and

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Speaker 1: he for sure did. Uh. That song itself though, by

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Speaker 1: itself raise more than ten million bucks, and they have

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Speaker 1: whoever's the hot British rockers are at the time? Ed Sheeran, right,

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Speaker 1: he he was in the two thousand and fourteen version.

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Speaker 1: So was one direction. Okay, Um, they're the group, right, yeah, Okay,

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Speaker 1: It was Christmas. Um So a month after that, Harry

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Speaker 1: Belafonte got together with a producer named Ken Kragan or Craigan,

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Speaker 1: he's getting all the limelight. I'm Harry Belafonte, right, So

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Speaker 1: So that part at the end when they recreate live

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Speaker 1: AISI have you did you see the YouTube video of

424
00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:14,399
Speaker 1: the Live Aid version and the Bohemian Rhpsody version. I

425
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:19,560
Speaker 1: did not watch the side by side comparison because it

426
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,040
Speaker 1: is pretty close. Yeah, I mean I've watched that live

427
00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:25,680
Speaker 1: Aid performance dozens and dozens of times. Yeah, and they

428
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 1: nailed it. Um. The thing that bothered me about that

429
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:32,240
Speaker 1: movie was how much they rewrote the timeline in the band,

430
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:37,359
Speaker 1: so it was not Queen's first performance back, and like

431
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,359
Speaker 1: they had just reunited and forgiven each other and he

432
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,480
Speaker 1: had just told them about HIV, like none of that

433
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,880
Speaker 1: the timeline so out of whack. Supposedly he didn't know

434
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 1: he had HIV yet at the Live AIG show. I

435
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 1: can't remember exactly. Was that pretty sure? But I mean

436
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 1: a lot of like they took a lot of license

437
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,280
Speaker 1: and you know, it's fine, you're trying to make a

438
00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:00,160
Speaker 1: more dramatic film. I get it, but I don't if

439
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,199
Speaker 1: it needed it because that performance itself. Still if you

440
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,880
Speaker 1: look up any what were the best performances of Live Aid,

441
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,920
Speaker 1: it's almost roundly, Um Queen is in the number one spot. Yeah,

442
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,120
Speaker 1: not just Live Aid. Like a lot of people point

443
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 1: to that as like one of the greatest mini sets ever. Know,

444
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,680
Speaker 1: the BBC did a poll in two thousand five and

445
00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:22,920
Speaker 1: that was named as the number one greatest rock performance

446
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 1: of all time. That is really great. Just gave me chills,

447
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,679
Speaker 1: pretty amazing. I got chills right now, not even watching it,

448
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:33,600
Speaker 1: just hearing you talk about a BBC poll or if

449
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:39,280
Speaker 1: you're a medium writer. The article said it was like

450
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:43,400
Speaker 1: Adam touching God on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Ben Franklin

451
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:50,120
Speaker 1: wielding a lightning rod, or ET phoning home. Man, they

452
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:52,400
Speaker 1: had me right up until the last one right there.

453
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 1: That's just so like, come on, just say it's great.

454
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,760
Speaker 1: I didn't get the last It's like e T phoning home. Yeah,

455
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,320
Speaker 1: Like I really tried to go on the writer's head too,

456
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,160
Speaker 1: and I was like, no, if that was personal, Yeah,

457
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:08,160
Speaker 1: that person really was moved by ET phone at home

458
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 1: or something. What else do we get? We got a

459
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:11,800
Speaker 1: lot of anytime you have a big thing like this,

460
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 1: you have a lot of people collaborating on stage. Sting

461
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 1: and dire straits of course. Well yeah, Mick Jaggerantina Turner,

462
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 1: that was pretty unforgettable. But not just Mick Jaggarantina Turner,

463
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 1: because it turns out that Tommy Matola, who's the head

464
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 1: of Sony Records, said hey, if you don't get Hall

465
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 1: and Oates on with Mick Jagger, Mick Jagger's not going on,

466
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 1: And Hall and Oates backed up Tina Turner and Mick Jagger.

467
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,399
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, see I thought that they were saying, if

468
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,919
Speaker 1: you don't give Holland Oates a primetime slot. Then they're not.

469
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 1: Then Mick Jagger won't come because he represented both. I

470
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:52,359
Speaker 1: think that that was there. They they equivocated by saying

471
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,440
Speaker 1: we'll have him back up Mick Jagger and Tina Turner.

472
00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:57,919
Speaker 1: And even still if you look up Hall and Oates,

473
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 1: it just comes up Mick Jaggerantina to Earner. They're not

474
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:04,160
Speaker 1: even listed in the video anymore. But at least John

475
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 1: Oates was back in then them up. Yeah, I'm pretty

476
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:10,880
Speaker 1: sure Darryl Hall was too. Man. They were good. Yeah,

477
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 1: still are Yeah. Emily One saw them a couple of

478
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 1: years ago, just killing it. Still. Yeah, it's good stuff.

479
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: I like that. Live at Darrell's house too, that show. Uh,

480
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that. I don't know if he's still

481
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 1: doing it, but he did it for a few years

482
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 1: at least, and it's basically his awesome home studio. He

483
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,680
Speaker 1: just test people over and a camera crew and they

484
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,680
Speaker 1: just jam and do songs. They'll do like a hollow

485
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 1: note song and then mainly the songs of the artist.

486
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:39,400
Speaker 1: I feel like I've seen them. It's fun since they've

487
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 1: been back around. Definitely saw Tears for Fears, well, they

488
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,880
Speaker 1: played with them that might have been. Yeah, we didn't

489
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 1: stick around for Holling Notes, and I think the reason

490
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 1: why is because we had seen Holly Notes already. Yeah,

491
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:56,239
Speaker 1: like what happened in my brain? Uh, Phil Collins. They

492
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 1: got a lot out of Phil Collins because not only

493
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 1: did he sing in both he played drums with Eric Clapton,

494
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:06,400
Speaker 1: he played drums with Led Zeppelin. Yeah. So let's talk

495
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 1: about that Zeppelin performance. You can't dance around this any longer, Chuck.

496
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 1: It was not very good. It was terrible. Yeah. Like

497
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 1: if you if you saw Led Zeppelin in like a

498
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 1: fifty person club and they've been drinking at the club

499
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: the whole day, this is what you would expect to

500
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 1: hear from it, you'd probably be like, that was awesome. Yeah,

501
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 1: but for the first time back on stage together in

502
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 1: five years since the death of their drummer, they went

503
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,199
Speaker 1: out at like their peak. There wasn't a decline of

504
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 1: led Zeppelin. They were at their peak when Bonham died.

505
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 1: According to me, Um, you don't think so. I think

506
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 1: their last album was kind of a disappointment. What was

507
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 1: that physical graffiti? No coda? Oh well, that's like I

508
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 1: haven't heard of that one okay, all right, fair enough.

509
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,719
Speaker 1: They were still huge and they're still they still had

510
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 1: playing your music left to put out. So there were

511
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 1: expectations on Zeppelin, okay, okay, and they come out and

512
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 1: play just a terrible set. So much of that. Phil

513
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 1: Collins later on in his um autobiography said, I was

514
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 1: really thinking about walking off stage in the middle. And

515
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 1: the reason I did because I knew that people would

516
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: be talking about to this day how Phil Collins ruined

517
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 1: led Zeppelin set, not about how bad led Zeppelin set was.

518
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 1: So he said he was air drumming, trying to keep

519
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 1: out of the way because there were two drummers. Drum yeah,

520
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 1: but she didn't realize that there was going to be

521
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 1: two drummers. And he basically said, it was just it

522
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: was just terrible, and if you watch it, it was

523
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 1: pretty bad. I'm looking at led Zeppelin now because I

524
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 1: don't want to mess up. I thought you were texting.

525
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 1: No Presence was their final album, not Coda? What was

526
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:50,560
Speaker 1: on Present? Oh no, wait in through the Outdoor. See

527
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 1: this is what I'm saying. Man. They were still like

528
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: very much at their peak. Good lord, I can't believe

529
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: I'm getting all this Zeppelin stuff wrong. El Cooda was

530
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: released in nineteen eight two. Yeah, but that but this

531
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 1: was it was a compilation out right, Okay, that's what

532
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 1: I was saying. So their last studio album would have

533
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: been What Presents or into the I think Presence, which

534
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 1: didn't have much presence. Sorry that should we cut that joke? No? No,

535
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 1: I like it. You're coming like full boy? Did I

536
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 1: have a micro expression? Go over quite a few? Um

537
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 1: so yeah. I mean, if you watch Zeppelin's performance, they

538
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 1: wanted it scrubbed from the world. You can still find

539
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 1: like credit versions on YouTube, not the official live aid

540
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 1: just like the guy that had the camera on his

541
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 1: shoulder in his living room. Basically, apparently Santana requested the

542
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 1: same thing. You can't find Santana said anymore because they said,

543
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 1: don't include that on that h It worked strives in

544
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 1: effect on them. Zeppelin's isn't the worst thing I've ever seen,

545
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 1: But Robert Plant was not in great form vocally, and

546
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 1: he admit such like they all look back and we're like,

547
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 1: it wasn't great. No, Jimmy Page was, Um didn't do

548
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 1: that great of a job either. It wasn't It wasn't

549
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 1: so horrendous that you're just like holding your nose. Yeah,

550
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 1: but it just wasn't anything like what everybody was hoping for.

551
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: Zabbees was pretty good, I really despite it was chunky,

552
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 1: big hair at Aussie, but what else do you want

553
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 1: from it? Was? They did Children of the Grave, Iron

554
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 1: Man and Paranoid and it was it was pretty you know,

555
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: I want to say words here we don't say on

556
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 1: the show B word in. Yeah, it was um we

557
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: say that, We've said that before. Really sure, all right,

558
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: it was awesome, okay, Uh. Live Aid at Wimbley ended

559
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 1: it around ten pm with do you do they know

560
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 1: It's Christmas? They brought everyone that they could out on stage.

561
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 1: Of course, Paul McCartney there was there, the who was there.

562
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 1: And then right after that ended, they switched the live

563
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: heat over to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers with their

564
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: great great set. They did American Girl, Refugee, the Waiting

565
00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 1: and Rebels and Uh eighty five to spite the clothes

566
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 1: that was still like kind of peaked. Tom Petty too, Sure,

567
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 1: I think the clothes really got to you. Huh. It's

568
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: just kind of you think of these classic rockers and

569
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 1: then you see him in Cavericies and like take. I

570
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: think it's dope. Like Bob Dylan was there. Man. He

571
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 1: actually Bob Dylan very famously like we'll not pick up

572
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 1: an acoustic guitar and like play his old folks standards anymore?

573
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 1: Did he on this one? Yeah? He played Blown in

574
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,240
Speaker 1: the Wind and he was dressed almost identically to the

575
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:35,720
Speaker 1: Fresh Prince. That would have been really really disappointing. Oh

576
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: my lord. Um. And then they closed the Philly show

577
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: UH with We Are the World and whoever was there

578
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,479
Speaker 1: who could chip in, like Kenny Loggins and China Easton

579
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: and Melissa Manchester. Man, this is so eighties. Do you

580
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 1: remember her? Do you? Oh? Yeah, okay, I had to

581
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 1: look her up, like I know the name, but what

582
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 1: she's saying, don't cry out loud? Good song theme from

583
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: Ice Castles. Yeah, that's and Uh. Our mutual friend Allison

584
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 1: that we used to work with, UH calls us car

585
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 1: Sick songs because it just reminds her like being in

586
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: the back of the station wagon listening to a M

587
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 1: radio and being like car sick. I think it's a

588
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:17,719
Speaker 1: good good thing. So they raised about a d million bucks,

589
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 1: which is about three hundred million today. UM. Donations did

590
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 1: pick up when Queen played, they over kind of they

591
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 1: really played that up in the movie, but they did

592
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: have an uptick when Queen went on because it was

593
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: such a great performance. Yeah. I think Geldof was kind

594
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: of anticipating, like the phone is to be ringing off

595
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: the hook the whole time, and um, he got very

596
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 1: frustrated visibly several times during the broadcast. Yeah he said

597
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 1: the F word. Yeah, that got people pumped up. It did. Um,

598
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 1: there was he was. They went to like an interview

599
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 1: where they were kind of talking up the reason why

600
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 1: Live Aid was going on, and um, the interviewer was like, well,

601
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 1: here's the let's get the address up on the on

602
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: the screen, and he said, f the address, just give

603
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 1: him the phone, right, Yeah, that's what they were thinking.

604
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 1: So so uh and like his bandmates or other I

605
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: don't know who else was was there. Who the other

606
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: rats I guess maybe or else Maybe one was um

607
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: uh was his name Midge Ray? He's Yeah, he's kind

608
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 1: of an unsung, overlooked coordinator. He really helped gold Off

609
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 1: put this together. He might have been up there, but

610
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 1: they all kind of looked at each other like, oh

611
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 1: my god. He just said the effort on the BBC,

612
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: and that got the MTV generation going. The phone started

613
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 1: ringing around then because somebody just said the effort on TV,

614
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,760
Speaker 1: which if you remember back before South Park came along,

615
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:48,800
Speaker 1: that did not happen. It did not happen. Like damn

616
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:52,400
Speaker 1: was I don't want to say controversial, but it was

617
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 1: like it perked your ears up when you heard that

618
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: on TV because it was just so out of the ordinary.

619
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 1: This guy said that on TV on live TV being

620
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 1: broadcast around the world. It got people's attention for Yeah,

621
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,399
Speaker 1: that's still a big deal to hear in a life

622
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: teeth Like if you hear that at an award show

623
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 1: or something, it's not shocking, but everyone goes, oh, you're

624
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: supposed to do that. A little eight year old and

625
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 1: he's like, you're gonna get in trouble. All right, let's

626
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 1: take another break and we'll talk about what went on

627
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 1: behind the scenes and where all this money went. Right

628
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 1: after this, chuck, Yes, let's talk about what went on

629
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 1: behind the scenes and where all this money went. So

630
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 1: to put together a show this big, especially in six months, Um,

631
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: they're gonna be a lot of problems and there were, Uh,

632
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 1: if you talk to the artists, they all across the

633
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:09,240
Speaker 1: board had monitor issues, yeah, and just couldn't led Zeppelin.

634
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 1: I mean they didn't blame it on that, but you

635
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 1: even hear Robert Plant in the thing say like, let's

636
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,759
Speaker 1: see if we can get these monitors going. Uh, And

637
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,439
Speaker 1: they couldn't hear themselves. And I always had heard that

638
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 1: until I started playing shows with my my dumb old

639
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 1: man band, like you can't hear ourselves. And I was

640
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 1: always like, what do you mean, Like you got these

641
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 1: ams blasting, But it's true. You can't hear yourself on

642
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: a stage, and especially in outdoor stage unless you've got

643
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 1: really really great systems and monitors, you can't hear yourself.

644
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: And it's very, very disconcerting to play music. Well it's

645
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: just weird, like you know that they're hearing something that

646
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 1: you're not hearing, and you're just like, I hope it's okay.

647
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 1: So no one could hear themselves, which is a problem. Um.

648
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,919
Speaker 1: I believe that they had power issues at Wimbley where

649
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: they thought it might completely go out, like they were

650
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 1: having little brown outs. Um, there were you know, even

651
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 1: though this is for charity, there were you still are

652
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: dealing with huge diva popping rock stars and their management,

653
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 1: who at all by this time found out that Jerry

654
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 1: wasn't there, So what's the point of going on stage? Well,

655
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 1: I mean they were, you know, they were still behind

656
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 1: the scenes, like ego battles and like, you can't go

657
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 1: on after this act, but my guy won't go on

658
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 1: after this person, or you know, trying to get more

659
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: time than twenty minutes. Was so so much so that

660
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 1: Billy Joel actually did not go on because he um.

661
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,400
Speaker 1: His manager was like, they want you to do piano.

662
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 1: And believe me, these other guys ain't playing piano. You're

663
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: gonna look puny compared to these other sets. And he went,

664
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 1: do you mean piano? Man the song? And they went no,

665
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: they want you to play the piano, which, man, oh

666
00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: that was so great, dumb um. And he was like,

667
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 1: you mean the instrument that made me famous, that I

668
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,760
Speaker 1: wrote a song about that I play on of my songs.

669
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,240
Speaker 1: They want me to do that and he went yeah,

670
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:12,400
Speaker 1: and he went I'm not doing it no way, Billy

671
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 1: jo for nobody. He's like, I'll just get my telecaster

672
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:19,879
Speaker 1: do matter of trust three times. That's a good song.

673
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: That's a deep Billy Joel joke, is it? Not the deepest,

674
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,240
Speaker 1: but that's the one where he plays guitar on stage.

675
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:27,839
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the only song that he plays

676
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:30,800
Speaker 1: guitar on. What do you know? He went and played

677
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 1: like a couple of dates in the Soviet Union and

678
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:39,319
Speaker 1: like ended up helping to thaw relations between the US

679
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:42,959
Speaker 1: and the uss are almost single handedly. He also threw

680
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 1: a tantrum on stage the first night because it was

681
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 1: a bunch of like government muckety MUCKs is standing in

682
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 1: the front row st the military. It wasn't and government

683
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 1: muckety MUCKs. And he was like, get the real fans

684
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 1: out right. So he like pushed his piano over and

685
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 1: mid and it doesn't miss a beat, like keeps singing

686
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:01,840
Speaker 1: in the band, keeps playing, even though they're probably terrified

687
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 1: that they're going to be putting a Soviet goolog forever.

688
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 1: I will still go see him every single time I

689
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 1: have a chance. But anyway, Billy Joel didn't play live

690
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: aid is the point? No, he didn't, and he wasn't

691
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: the only one. Yeah, van Halen turned it down. Diana

692
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,399
Speaker 1: Ross lives him, and Elly Boy I know why they

693
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: asked her, Well, I don't know. Yeah, I mean, that's

694
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 1: not I'm not knocking her, but I don't know. It

695
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 1: just doesn't seem like a fit. It doesn't. You're right,

696
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 1: it's like between Sabbath and led Zeppelin. They're gonna try

697
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 1: Lisam and Ellie out there for goods. Troubles come on,

698
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 1: get happy? Uh, Yoko on no Uh. Cindy Lauper, talking heads,

699
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 1: Stevie Wonder a C d C. And Springsteen, who still

700
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 1: really really regrets not doing Live Aid. Not just him,

701
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:48,959
Speaker 1: a lot of them do. Frankie goes to Hollywood turned

702
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:53,399
Speaker 1: it down, and apparently that was their manager who who

703
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:54,879
Speaker 1: was like, you don't want to do this is gonna

704
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 1: be like a disaster, and the band was like afterward,

705
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:02,360
Speaker 1: they said it was the the worst management decision in

706
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: the history of Frankie said, the lead singer. Really yeah, Um,

707
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 1: they were really upset that they didn't do it. Springsteen said,

708
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 1: I really wish I was just throwing the guitar in

709
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 1: the back seat and driven on down. That's what he said.

710
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: He'd wish he'd driven on down the thunder road. Yeah,

711
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 1: I mean he yeah, Springsteen should have done it, And

712
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 1: I think he knows that there was a lot of

713
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:24,439
Speaker 1: regret among people who didn't. Some people were like, I'm

714
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:27,359
Speaker 1: just absolutely not doing it. Michael Jackson was It says

715
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: here that he was in the studio, but I read

716
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 1: that he uh didn't sign on in protest because there

717
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: weren't any African acts on the bill or enough act

718
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:40,319
Speaker 1: freaking acts on the bill for his taste. Um. And

719
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: then Huey Lewis was another one. Yeah, that was a

720
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 1: big one that turned out to uh. And that'll be

721
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 1: a good segue too to what happened to the money,

722
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 1: because Huey Lewis is one of the few artists who

723
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 1: came out just a few weeks before and publicly said like,

724
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:58,840
Speaker 1: where's this money going? And is this really really helping

725
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: to fight famine? Because that's what's important to the news.

726
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 1: My friend, I was really surprised. I didn't realize that

727
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 1: Huey Lewis was a woke Yeah. And and that's a

728
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 1: very good point, like, um, can I say woke? Okay,

729
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 1: Jerry Um. That was the big question to Huey Lewis,

730
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:21,080
Speaker 1: and He's like, I'm not going out there and signing

731
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: up for this because I don't really know the He

732
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 1: was slightly cynical, but rightfully so. I think Yeah. He

733
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 1: had been in USA for Africa, and it was like,

734
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:35,279
Speaker 1: I'm not convinced that that money by this time, you know,

735
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:38,399
Speaker 1: tens of millions of dollars actually making it to the

736
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:42,880
Speaker 1: famine victims. And everybody was like, what famine victims. He's like,

737
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 1: don't you remember that's the whole reason we're doing this,

738
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:47,439
Speaker 1: and Geldof, I I don't want to make it sound

739
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:49,839
Speaker 1: like Geldof ever lost focus like that and why he

740
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,360
Speaker 1: did this, and he proved it during the show and

741
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 1: he stomped on stages like give me your money. These

742
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 1: people are dying now. And he's still very adamant and

743
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 1: defensive about the funds, right, geld this, but Huey Lewis

744
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 1: was the first one to publicly say, I'm not certain

745
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,839
Speaker 1: that these famine victims are actually getting this money. And

746
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: UM we talked about this. We did an episode on

747
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 1: famine and droughts, and I believe it was the famine

748
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 1: one that we talked about it in. But six months

749
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: after Live Aid was finished and complete and just made

750
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 1: like a hundred and fifty million dollars. I believe that

751
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 1: UM worth more than three hundred million a day this

752
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:33,360
Speaker 1: concert one day concert raised nearly three hundred billion dollars

753
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,760
Speaker 1: for victims of famine in Africa, in a little country

754
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:40,439
Speaker 1: called Ethiopia that most people hadn't heard of. Um, And

755
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: Spin Magazine sent a reporter there and said, go find

756
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:47,280
Speaker 1: out what happened to that money. And Spin Magazine's reporter

757
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 1: came back and I was like, yeah, I don't know

758
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 1: if you guys want to hear what happened to that money,

759
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,280
Speaker 1: because it turns out that Ethiopia was in the midst

760
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:56,360
Speaker 1: of a civil war that was being reported reported on

761
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: even less than the famine. And it turns out that

762
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 1: the government in Ethiopia was actually largely causing the famine,

763
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 1: or at least exacerbating the worst of it. Yeah, weren't they.

764
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:11,399
Speaker 1: So there was a the Dirt so what it was called,

765
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:14,479
Speaker 1: which means counsel or committee. They were the military junta, Yeah,

766
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 1: the Dirt regime, and they after Holly Selassie died in

767
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 1: ninety five, they took control as this military group. Well

768
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 1: they they may have actually strangled them to death. Well

769
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:28,919
Speaker 1: it says in the article suspicious Death, So I think

770
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:32,280
Speaker 1: that's fair to say. Um, But there was they were

771
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:35,400
Speaker 1: basically they're they're various stories depending on who you want

772
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 1: to believe. Bob Geldolf's still says that most of this

773
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 1: money went there, but there are other reports that it

774
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:44,799
Speaker 1: was being intercepted, aid was being intercepted, and they were

775
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:48,759
Speaker 1: funding their civil war, and that they were making the

776
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 1: famine worse by dropping napalm on croplands this whole time,

777
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 1: cutting off supply lines to the north, and the north

778
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 1: there was this there was a civil war going on

779
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 1: because the north used to be a country called air Tree.

780
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:03,279
Speaker 1: You and then in World War two, Ethiopia said you

781
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:06,920
Speaker 1: you're coming with us. You're part of Ethiopia now, and um,

782
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 1: there was an insurgency that eventually was successful. I think

783
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 1: in Eritrea became independent from Ethiopia again. But this is

784
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 1: how that happened through the civil war and all of

785
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 1: a sudden, the West injects five million dollars into this

786
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:25,239
Speaker 1: country that's racked by famine and civil war and civil war.

787
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 1: That's helping cause the famine. And apparently either a lot

788
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:30,400
Speaker 1: of people didn't know about this, or a lot of

789
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:33,840
Speaker 1: people didn't think we may actually be helping the civil

790
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 1: war by injecting this money in the country and turning

791
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 1: it over to the Ethiopian government. And still to this day,

792
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 1: it's not entirely clear how much the Ethio Ethiopian government

793
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:50,359
Speaker 1: spent on like arms and supplies to fund this this

794
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 1: this war against the insurgency in the north. Yeah, I

795
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 1: think that's that's one of my biggest fears of any

796
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:59,360
Speaker 1: kind of thing like this, of like handing over this

797
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: kind of some of money to countries that, uh, you

798
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 1: don't know where it ends up. It's just like it's

799
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 1: maddening to think because you want to do the right

800
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: thing and donate and support these causes, but if it's

801
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:14,359
Speaker 1: actually making things worse, you know, that's the thing. It's

802
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 1: one thing if if you know it's it's not helping

803
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:19,920
Speaker 1: as much as you would like it to write, it's

804
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 1: an entirely different thing if you're actually giving money to

805
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 1: make it easier for somebody to kill some other person,

806
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:29,319
Speaker 1: like making it worse. And that's the big question that

807
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:31,799
Speaker 1: surrounds you know, the funds from Live AIGs and Yeah,

808
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:36,040
Speaker 1: and you think it's frustrating because the BBC in two

809
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:39,240
Speaker 1: thousand and ten published a report uh kind of claiming

810
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:41,760
Speaker 1: a lot of this the money being diverted to build

811
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:46,800
Speaker 1: you know, reputed places and people. Yeah, they said the opposite.

812
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: They said that the rebel insurgency in Eritrea and recepted

813
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:51,800
Speaker 1: most of the money and they used it to fund

814
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: their their um civil war. But then they retracted a

815
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 1: lot of the stuff because Geldoff, you know, got mad.

816
00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 1: This is only you know, eight or nine years ago,

817
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:02,399
Speaker 1: and he was no, that's not true. So there's still

818
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:05,279
Speaker 1: just a lot of debate over where that money went. Right,

819
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:09,879
Speaker 1: the BBC attracted the story and published an apology too,

820
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: so they may have gotten that really wrong. I don't

821
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 1: think they do that kind of thing just because Bob

822
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 1: Geldof gets mad, you know, sosh right. I think they

823
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:22,480
Speaker 1: got the reporting very wrong. But I also have the

824
00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 1: impression that guild Off, whether he believes, and and a

825
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 1: lot of the funds went to NGOs on the ground,

826
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 1: aid groups on the ground, and it didn't all just

827
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 1: go to the Ethiopian government. And apparently in the aid

828
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: industry UM they still look at this like, Okay, even

829
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 1: if some of the money didn't get to where you

830
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 1: wanted it, and it went to places you wouldn't want

831
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 1: it to go, this still helped raise awareness of the

832
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 1: kind of stuff that goes on in Africa that the

833
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 1: West was not aware of. It was. It had a huge,

834
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 1: huge impact on how you should do these events in

835
00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:00,720
Speaker 1: the future. Um, this kicked off farm Maide and hands

836
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 1: across America. That America for sure. Have you seen us yet? No?

837
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 1: But I ran across an article that reference that and

838
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:10,959
Speaker 1: I was like, I can't wait to see that movie

839
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 1: even more now. It's good. Um but yeah, I mean

840
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 1: it kicked off farm Aide. It kicked off like every

841
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 1: benefit concert, global benefit concert you've ever seen since then

842
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:24,399
Speaker 1: can trace its roots back to Live Aid, including Live eight,

843
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 1: which was another gelof one. That's a lot of people said,

844
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: call it Live aid too, and you'll get a lot

845
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 1: more traction. Yeah, but that wasn't to raise money. That

846
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 1: was just to raise awareness for the Live eight conference.

847
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 1: The eight Yeah yeah, what I say, the Live eight conference.

848
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 1: But think about it. Geldof wasn't trying to raise money anymore.

849
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 1: He was trying to raise awareness. And I wonder if

850
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 1: that was because he either became convinced that that money

851
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:51,320
Speaker 1: did go to sources that he didn't want it to,

852
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:53,439
Speaker 1: or if he was just like, I'm tired of arguing

853
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 1: about it. I'm not gonna go to this again. But

854
00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 1: as a result of that um, the eight team pours

855
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: nations in the world had their debts canceled by the

856
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 1: eighth eight richest nations in the world. And I think

857
00:48:07,239 --> 00:48:10,839
Speaker 1: the Aid to Africa is like doubled um over the

858
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 1: previous G eight summit. Yeah, and you know, previous to

859
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 1: nineteen five, you didn't. I mean you had like George

860
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 1: Harrison doing the concert for Bangladesh, which is kind of

861
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: one of the first high profile things like that, but

862
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: you didn't see a ton of big rock stars out,

863
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 1: you know, championing causes. And I think it really inspired

864
00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: a generation of young people and uh of the popping

865
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,880
Speaker 1: rocks celebrities of that age too, to like maybe do

866
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:44,720
Speaker 1: something beneficial with their riches and their Yeah, for sure,

867
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 1: everyftter co caine for a couple of days and go

868
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:50,360
Speaker 1: do something with your life, you rocker. Yeah, you can

869
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:52,759
Speaker 1: get back on the cocaine in a week. Just put

870
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 1: it off to the side. Yeah, So just put an

871
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:57,399
Speaker 1: upside down magazine over it and come back to it later.

872
00:48:57,680 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 1: It was a monumental event and one that I have

873
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:04,600
Speaker 1: a lot of funness for. Still, big, big deal. That's great.

874
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 1: I don't remember any of it. I remember watching it

875
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:09,400
Speaker 1: on MTV and my big sisters were there, but I

876
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:12,400
Speaker 1: don't remember. I have no real memories. I was pretty stupid.

877
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:15,879
Speaker 1: I guess you were nine. I was almost nine, two

878
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:17,840
Speaker 1: days shy of being nine. Yeah, I mean, what is

879
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 1: that third grade? I was probably out playing with like

880
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,719
Speaker 1: hey man stuff most of the timexactly, trying to find

881
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 1: cigarette butts on the ground. Not yet just a few

882
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:28,799
Speaker 1: years later, though, That's right. Uh. If you want to

883
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:31,400
Speaker 1: know more about Live AID I think Chuck and I

884
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 1: and probably Jerry would strongly advise you to just go

885
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,840
Speaker 1: onto YouTube and spend a little time looking at concert

886
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 1: footage from it. Yeah, or send in your special live

887
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:42,359
Speaker 1: aid memories. I like being in London and not knowing

888
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:47,319
Speaker 1: what was going on. I love that one. Um. And

889
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:50,400
Speaker 1: since we said that, since we made funded Jerry's terrible

890
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:55,280
Speaker 1: Live aid story, it's time for listening to mate. Hey guys,

891
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 1: listening to your episode on rape kits. My heart sank

892
00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 1: when you apologize for being two dudes educating people about

893
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 1: the options one might have after being raped or sexually assaulted.

894
00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 1: It sounded as if you thought that men in general

895
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 1: are not fit to do this, which I don't think

896
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 1: is true. I'm a doctor, guys, who works with men

897
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:14,400
Speaker 1: and women that experienced sexual violence, and I imagine that

898
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 1: male victims would find an apology of this kind unnecessary

899
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 1: at best, as with the male therapists who are doing

900
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:23,319
Speaker 1: great work, and you can serve as much needed therapeutically

901
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:28,439
Speaker 1: invaluable counter examples after someone has had bad experiences with men. Also,

902
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:30,920
Speaker 1: don't think your initial disclaimer that this would be a

903
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:34,160
Speaker 1: serious episode without any jokes was warranted, and I'm glad

904
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 1: the episode didn't turn out that way. If anything, you're

905
00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 1: good natured humor brought so much needed warmth to the discussion.

906
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:42,400
Speaker 1: We are all still trying to figure out how to

907
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:44,960
Speaker 1: talk about these topics, and I would like to encourage

908
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,239
Speaker 1: you to stand by your efforts shining a light on

909
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 1: a difficult topic for the benefit of your listeners. Thank you, guys,

910
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:55,120
Speaker 1: keep it up. That is from Hanno. Hanno, h no, no,

911
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 1: thanks a lot, Hanno. It's a great name. Yeah, and

912
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:06,240
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, it said Hanno was in Hanover, Germany. No, yeah, really,

913
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:09,960
Speaker 1: I wonder if they like the town so much. They

914
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:12,840
Speaker 1: just said call me Hanno from now on everybody, I

915
00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:16,439
Speaker 1: love this town. It's like me, I'm from chuckdown your

916
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Speaker 1: addle what a t l Oh gotcha? Yeah, Chucktown, I

917
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:24,799
Speaker 1: guess makes more sense if either one does well. Thanks

918
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Speaker 1: a lot, Hannoh. We appreciate that. We will try to

919
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:29,799
Speaker 1: take your advice to heart because it is pretty good advice. Uh.

920
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 1: And if you want to get in touch of this,

921
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:33,799
Speaker 1: like Hanno did, you can go on to stuff you

922
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 1: Should Know dot com and find our social links. You

923
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:38,759
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924
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925
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