History Podcast / WeDidntStartTheFire

* SmallReferencePools: Tom reveals that he first heard of Creator/DorisDay (the subject of the second episode) due to her being mentioned by name in a Music/{{WHAM}} song ("Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" [[note]] "You take the grey skies out of my way, You make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day" [[/note]]). He later reveals that he first heard of Johnnie Ray (the subject of the fourth episode) due to him being mentioned by name in a Music/DexysMidnightRunners song ("Come on Eilean" [[note]] Poor old Johnnie Ray, Sounded sad upon the radio, Broke a million hearts in mono" [[/note]]).

''We Didn't Start the Fire'' is a modern history [[{{Podcast}} podcast]] produced by Crowd Network that ran for 123 weekly episodes between January 2021 and June 2023. Presented by American broadcaster Katie Puckrik and British sportswriter Tom Fordyce (formerly of ''Podcast/ThatPeterCrouchPodcast''), its premise is that it takes an episode to explain each of the people, places and things mentioned in Music/BillyJoel's 1989 hit "We Didn't Start the Fire" (hence the name). In order.

''We Didn't Start the Fire'' is a modern history [[{{Podcast}} podcast]] produced by Crowd Network that ran for 123 episodes between January 2021 and June 2023. Presented by American broadcaster Katie Puckrik and British sportswriter Tom Fordyce (formerly of ''Podcast/ThatPeterCrouchPodcast''), its premise is that it takes an episode to explain each of the people, places and things mentioned in Music/BillyJoel's 1989 hit "We Didn't Start the Fire" (hence the name). In order.

* SmallReferencePools: Tom reveals that he first heard of Creator/DorisDay (the subject of the second episode) due to her being mentioned by name in a Music/WHAM song ("Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" [[note]] "You take the grey skies out of my way, You make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day" [[/note]]). He later reveals that he first heard of Johnnie Ray (the subject of the fourth episode) due to him being mentioned by name in a Music/DexysMidnightRunners song ("Come on Eilean" [[note]] Poor old Johnnie Ray, Sounded sad upon the radio, Broke a million hearts in mono" [[/note]]).

''We Didn't Start the Fire'' is a modern history [[{{Podcast}} podcast]] produced by Crowd Network that ran for 123 episodes between January 2021 and June 2023. Presented by American broadcaster Katie Puckrik and British sportswriter Tom Fordyce (formerly of ''That Peter Crouch Podcast''), its premise is that it takes an episode to explain each of the people, places and things mentioned in Music/BillyJoel's 1989 hit "We Didn't Start the Fire" (hence the name). In order.

* JumpCut: Discussed, as the song jumps from subject to subject.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In-universe; the Doris Day episode includes a discussion of this in relation to ''Film/TheGraduate'' and ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'', both of which could have starred Doris Day.
-->'''Tamar Jeffers-[=McDonald=]''': I love all this 'she was nearly in this', 'she was nearly in that'.

* VindicatedByHistory: In-universe; discussed in the first episode with regards to Harry Truman who was unpopular when he was President but has since undergone this.

* SpecialGuest: One per episode, usually -- and very much justified given the diverse specialist subject knowledge required to examine each subject that was mentioned in the song. The first episode, which was about UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman, featured American political journalist Eleanor Clift. The second, about Creator/DorisDay, featured Tamar Jeffers-McDonald, Professor in Film History at the University of Brighton.

* SpecialGuest: One per episode, usually -- and very much justified given the diverse specialist subject knowledge required to examine each subject that was mentioned in the song. The first episode, which was about UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman, featured American political journalist Eleanor Clift.

''We Didn't Start the Fire'' is a modern history [[{{Podcast}} podcast]] produced by Crowd Network that ran for 123 episodes between January 2021 and June 2023. Presented by American broadcaster Katie Puckrik and British sportswriter Tom Fordyce (formerly of ''That Peter Crouch Podcast''), its premise is that it explains each of the people, places and things referred to in Music/BillyJoel's 1989 hit "We Didn't Start the Fire" (hence the name). In order.

-->Katie, introducing the second episode

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Unavoidable, given how some of the subjects in the song tie in with each other. In the first episode, for example, Tom remarks that the Truman Doctrine, a major foreign policy achievement of [[UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman the subject of the first episode]], "pretty much tees up the rest of what is to come in Billy's song".

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Unavoidable, given how some of the subjects in the song tie in with each other. In the first episode, for example, Tom mentions that the Truman Doctrine, a major foreign policy achievement of [[UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman the subject of the first episode]], "pretty much tees up the rest of what is to come in Billy's song".

* Foreshadowing: Unavoidable, given how some of the subjects in the song tie in with each other. In the first episode, for example, Tom mentions that the Truman Doctrine, a major foreign policy achievement of [[UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman the subject of the first episode]], "pretty much tees up the rest of what is to come in Billy's song".

* VindicatedByHistory: Discussed in the first episode with regards to Harry Truman.

* SpecialGuest: One per episode, usually -- and very much justified given the diverse specialist subject knowledge required to examine each subject that was mentioned in the song. The first episode, which was about UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman, featured American political journalist Eleanor Clift.

* SpecialGuest: One per episode, usually. The first episode, which was about UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman, featured American political journalist Eleanor Clift.

''We Didn't Start the Fire'' is a modern history podcast produced by Crowd Network that ran for 123 episodes between January 2021 and June 2023. Presented by American broadcaster Katie Puckrik and British sportswriter Tom Fordyce (formerly of ''That Peter Crouch Podcast''), its premise is that it explains each of the people, places and things referred to in Music/BillyJoel's 1989 hit "We Didn't Start the Fire" (hence the name). In order.

* BaseballEpisode: Several, given that the song had quite a few references to baseball.

''We Didn't Start the Fire'' is a modern history podcast produced by Crowd Network that ran for 123 episodes between January 2021 and June 2023. Presented by American broadcaster Katie Puckrik and British sportswriter Tom Fordyce (formerly of ''That Peter Crouch Podcast''), its premise is that it explains each of the subjects referred to in Music/BillyJoel's 1989 hit "We Didn't Start the Fire" (hence the name). In order.