[2] The podcasts takes topics from the pop song "We Didn't Start the Fire", released by Billy Joel in 1989.

The song lists, via a series of fast-paced lyrics, brief references to 118 significant political, cultural, scientific, and sporting events between 1949, the year of Joel's birth, and 1989, in a mainly chronological order.

[4] Miranda Sawyer in The Guardian reviewed a "funny, informative discussion.. genuinely interesting and fun" and described it as her "new favourite show".

[5] Sawyer later noted that "Puckrik and Fordyce are funny, but also excellent interviewers and this show, which incorporates war, philosophy, celebrity and political machinations, is far better than you would ever imagine.

[7] Billy Joel himself heard the show and appears as a special guest on an episode first broadcast on October 25, 2021.