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Speaker 1: I'm Jason Colvin, I'm d Graves. Give us five minutes

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and we will give you the fire.

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Speaker 2: Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Surely you Can't

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Be Serious Podcast Special Edition five Minutes of Fire. We

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are here talking about the lyrics of We Didn't Start

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the Fire by Billy Joel. We're covering only five minutes

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at a time, which is about to link with the song,

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so it works out kind of nicely. So please join

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us as we dive into some new lyrics today.

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, so here are the topics that we're

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going to be covering today. Malcolm X British politician, sex,

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JFK Blown Away, Malcolm X The Greatest Politician DFKA, All right, date,

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tell me about Malcolm X.

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Speaker 2: Born Malcolm Little on May nineteenth, nineteen twenty five. He

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was the son of a Baptist minister. His family had

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been harassed by white supremacist a number of times, and

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apparently three of his uncles and his father were killed

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by white men. After his mother was institutionalized as insane,

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he grew up in foster homes. He was discouraged in

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school from wanting to be a lawyer because his white

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teacher said it wasn't a realistic goal for black people,

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quit school, drifted through menial jobs until he was arrested

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for burglary and sent to prison for ten years, But

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there he became a voracious reader and soon converted to Islam.

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He was the spokesman for the Nation of Islam until

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nineteen sixty four, when he had a falling out with

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the leader of the Nation, Elijah Muhammad. And having a

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falling out with the leader of the Nation of Islam

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resulted in him having numerous death threats and ultimately on

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February twenty first, nineteen sixty five, as he was about

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to give a speech to the Organization for African American

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Unity in an auditorium about four hundred people, someone in

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the audience yelled in word get your hand out of pocket.

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There was a commotion. Malcolm X and his bodyguards went

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to go quell the commotion, and three individuals approached him.

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One of them pulled out a shotgun and shot him

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in the chest. The other two pulled out automatic weapons

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and shot him several more times. There were twenty one

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gun shot wounds all over his body. They arrested three

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men for the murder. One of them was named talmoge Heyer,

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the other one Norman three x Butler. The other one

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Thomas fifteen x now Hayer, confessed to the murder but

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said that Butler and Johnson were not involved. All three, however,

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were convicted and given life sentences. As it turns out,

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Butler and Johnson were ultimately exonerated in twenty twenty one

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when it was discovered that the City of New York

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had hidden critical evidence in their case, and in July

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of twenty twenty two, Butler filed a case against New

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York City for forty million dollars for false im prisoner. Okay,

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tell me about British politician sex.

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Speaker 1: All right, so let me tell you about John Parfumo,

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who was a British Secretary of State who in nineteen

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sixty one had an affair with a nineteen year old

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show girl, Christine Keeler. When I say showgirl, I mean prostitute.

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Speaker 2: Here's the problem.

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Speaker 1: He was married to Hollywood actress Valerie Hobson. She actually

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was in Werewolves of London and the Bride of Frankenstein.

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She's a well known actress, very pretty. But here's the

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big problem. Christine Keeler was already in a sexual relationship

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with a Soviet naval attache Egvanni Ivanoff. You get a

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British politician and a Soviet spy and you're sharing a girlfriend.

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Speaker 2: That's big trouble.

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Speaker 1: He lied to parliament about the nature of the relationship,

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saying quote no impropriety whatsoever.

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Speaker 2: Not of sexual relationship with that woman.

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Speaker 1: Yes. After mounting pressure and evidence, Perfumo was forced to

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admit that they did, and he lied. He was forced

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to resign his party lost and later she posed naked

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in a chair became one of the most iconic photos

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of the nineteen sixties.

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Speaker 2: Google search gigis stitch all right?

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Speaker 1: And the movie called Scandal came out in nineteen eighty nine,

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starring Joanne Wayley Kilmer val Kimmer's wife. Oh wow, all right,

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tell me about JFK blown away?

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Speaker 2: Okay. Editor's note, Apparently I was mistaken when I said

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he lived happily ever after. November twenty second, nineteen sixty three,

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John F. Kennedy, the thirty fifth President of the United States,

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was assassinated while writing residential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.

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Kennedy was in the vehicle with his wife Jacqueline Kennedy,

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Texas Governor John Conley, and Conley's wife. He was shot

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from a nearby Texas school book depository by former US

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Marine Lee Harvey Oswald. The motorcade rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital,

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where Kennedy was pronounced dead about thirty minutes after the shooting.

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Conley was also wounded in the attack but recovered. Vice

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President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president later

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that day. Lee Harvey Oswald was ultimately apprehended eighty minutes

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after the assassination after he killed a policeman. He claimed

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his innocence maintained he was a patsy for the next

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two days until he was killed by Jack Ruby. And

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then Oliver Stone and Kevin Costner got involved back and

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confused everyone back and to the left. What else do

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I have to say? Okay, guys, that does it for

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today's episode. Join us next time for five minutes of fire.