Hey everybody it's your boy the show Corey Ryan Forster here's a little bonus content from you from my new podcast through the screen door with Corey Ryan Forster.

This is a little segment that I do every week called This Week in Southern History where I take a look

back at something that happened this week in the South and I review it and I write a little story about it.

This week the story that I wrote about was the time that two Birmingham

DJ's encouraged everyone to burn their Beatles records because John Lennon had told everyone or at least made a comment in an English newspaper that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus.

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For this edition of this week in Southern history, we're going to go back to 1966,

and what a year it was. Medicare officially went into effect.

Batman starring Adam West, Bert Ward, and Caesar Romero premiered on television,

and a Buddhist set himself on fire at the U.S. consulate in South Vietnam.

You've all seen the picture.

But, before we get to this week in southern history,

we will need to go back a few months and discuss that week in British history.

It was March of 1966 and a London newspaper called The Evening Standard had just done an interview

with John Lennon. Now, that isn't unusual or of

any note of its own. I mean this was the newspaper in London and this was John

Freckin Lennon. They're gonna chat from time to time., however, cause Quitister is what John Lennon said in the

interview when he argued that the public were more infatuated with the Beatles than they were

with Jesus and subsequently by his estimation

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