Speaker 1: I'm Jason Colvin, I'm d Graves. Give us five minutes
and we will give you the fire.
Speaker 2: Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Surely you Can't
Be Serious Podcast Special Edition five Minutes of Fire. We
are here talking about the lyrics of We Didn't Start
the Fire by Billy Joel. We're covering only five minutes
at a time, which is about to link with the song,
so it works out kind of nicely. So please join
us as we dive into some new lyrics today.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, so here are the topics that we're
going to be covering today. Malcolm X British politician, sex,
JFK Blown Away, Malcolm X The Greatest Politician DFKA, All right, date,
tell me about Malcolm X.
Speaker 2: Born Malcolm Little on May nineteenth, nineteen twenty five. He
was the son of a Baptist minister. His family had
been harassed by white supremacist a number of times, and
apparently three of his uncles and his father were killed
by white men. After his mother was institutionalized as insane,
he grew up in foster homes. He was discouraged in
school from wanting to be a lawyer because his white
teacher said it wasn't a realistic goal for black people,
quit school, drifted through menial jobs until he was arrested
for burglary and sent to prison for ten years, But
there he became a voracious reader and soon converted to Islam.
He was the spokesman for the Nation of Islam until
nineteen sixty four, when he had a falling out with
the leader of the Nation, Elijah Muhammad. And having a
falling out with the leader of the Nation of Islam
resulted in him having numerous death threats and ultimately on
February twenty first, nineteen sixty five, as he was about
to give a speech to the Organization for African American
Unity in an auditorium about four hundred people, someone in
the audience yelled in word get your hand out of pocket.
There was a commotion. Malcolm X and his bodyguards went
to go quell the commotion, and three individuals approached him.
One of them pulled out a shotgun and shot him
in the chest. The other two pulled out automatic weapons
and shot him several more times. There were twenty one
gun shot wounds all over his body. They arrested three
men for the murder. One of them was named talmoge Heyer,
the other one Norman three x Butler. The other one
Thomas fifteen x now Hayer, confessed to the murder but
said that Butler and Johnson were not involved. All three, however,
were convicted and given life sentences. As it turns out,
Butler and Johnson were ultimately exonerated in twenty twenty one
when it was discovered that the City of New York
had hidden critical evidence in their case, and in July
of twenty twenty two, Butler filed a case against New
York City for forty million dollars for false im prisoner. Okay,
tell me about British politician sex.
Speaker 1: All right, so let me tell you about John Parfumo,
who was a British Secretary of State who in nineteen
sixty one had an affair with a nineteen year old
show girl, Christine Keeler. When I say showgirl, I mean prostitute.
Speaker 2: Here's the problem.
Speaker 1: He was married to Hollywood actress Valerie Hobson. She actually
was in Werewolves of London and the Bride of Frankenstein.
She's a well known actress, very pretty. But here's the
big problem. Christine Keeler was already in a sexual relationship
with a Soviet naval attache Egvanni Ivanoff. You get a
British politician and a Soviet spy and you're sharing a girlfriend.
Speaker 2: That's big trouble.
Speaker 1: He lied to parliament about the nature of the relationship,
saying quote no impropriety whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Not of sexual relationship with that woman.
Speaker 1: Yes. After mounting pressure and evidence, Perfumo was forced to
admit that they did, and he lied. He was forced
to resign his party lost and later she posed naked
in a chair became one of the most iconic photos
of the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 2: Google search gigis stitch all right?
Speaker 1: And the movie called Scandal came out in nineteen eighty nine,
starring Joanne Wayley Kilmer val Kimmer's wife. Oh wow, all right,
tell me about JFK blown away?
Speaker 2: Okay. Editor's note, Apparently I was mistaken when I said
he lived happily ever after. November twenty second, nineteen sixty three,
John F. Kennedy, the thirty fifth President of the United States,
was assassinated while writing residential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.
Kennedy was in the vehicle with his wife Jacqueline Kennedy,
Texas Governor John Conley, and Conley's wife. He was shot
from a nearby Texas school book depository by former US
Marine Lee Harvey Oswald. The motorcade rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital,
where Kennedy was pronounced dead about thirty minutes after the shooting.
Conley was also wounded in the attack but recovered. Vice
President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president later
that day. Lee Harvey Oswald was ultimately apprehended eighty minutes
after the assassination after he killed a policeman. He claimed
his innocence maintained he was a patsy for the next
two days until he was killed by Jack Ruby. And
then Oliver Stone and Kevin Costner got involved back and
confused everyone back and to the left. What else do
I have to say? Okay, guys, that does it for
today's episode. Join us next time for five minutes of fire.