Rock and Roll All Zeit 12/4: George Zimmerman, Fred Hampton, Jay Z, James Bond

On this edition of Rock and Roll All Zeit Miles and Sofiya discuss George Zimmerman suing Trayvon Martin's family and others, the 50th anniversary of Fred Hampton's assassination, Jay Z releasing music on Spotify, and the new James Bond trailer!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to ah want to Smoke Up All
Side and every Day Great, welcome to you know that
other Zitegey ste Daily guest. I have a special guest
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(00:22):
right now. Yeah, for twenty day Fiance, I'm with Sophia Alexandra.
Thank you so much for joining me with this. Thanks
so much for having me quick rundown of the top
news stories of the day. And look, if you haven't
subscribed to Fortunately Day Cancer yet, what are you doing?
What are you doing? What do you like trash TV?
Because you're like, come, come aboard this ship. You like
some delightful, juicy tangents. Oh yeah, they're dull, they're ripe.

(00:46):
The tangents are right. Um, so let's just take a
look at some of the top trending stories right now.
George Zimmerman is trending and I was like, why the
fuck is the guy who got away with murdering Trayvon Martin?
Try ending every time a celebrity trends that you like,
you're like, oh god, I hope they're not dead, and

(01:07):
they are always dead. It's like David Bowie dead. And
now whenever someone like a ship is trending like George Zimmerman,
you're like, oh my god, is he dead? Is he
did something? Did see in jail? Not he not good news?
I mean, for if you don't a quick history lesson.
Back in, George Zimmerman murdered Trayvon Martin, who's only seventeen

(01:28):
years old, unarmed, unarmed, but you know, he he committed
the heinous act of being a young man of color
while wearing a hood at sweatshirt. And Zimmerman also was
part of a neighborhood watch, so he was like a
self appointed fucking yeah, and it was the whole thing
is a mess obviously. Uh look you'll remember. But he

(01:50):
has now filed a one hundred million dollar lawsuit against
this attorney, Ben Crump, and the family of Trayvon Martin
hundred million dollars because he's also naming someone Rachel Jane Tell,
who was a key witness, for saying she was an
impostor and a fake witness. It also says that in

(02:13):
the suit that Crump, the lawyer, was defaming Mr. Zimmerman
because of remarks he made in a book that came
out called open season legalized genocide of colored people. Wow,
I mean that. I'm sure that whole book is about you.
George MM Zimmerman. Anyway, what a trash human being. I
really feel like he's just doing this so people talk
about him. There's no other way, There's no other reason, right,

(02:36):
It's just a publicity. He needs money. He's probably whatever
it is, um trying to get some kind of attention,
I mean, and fucked up to keep bothering this poor
boy's family, like are you kidding me? And even naming
his mother in this lawsuit as well. It's disgraceful. This
dude got away with murder. He murdered him and still

(02:58):
terrorizing the emily. It is so heinous. If there's a level,
if hell was real and there's different levels to it,
this dude would be. It's like, I'm murder your son
and then sue you for making it hot for me.
That I fucking bottom of all of it. Um, Yeah,
it's it's but hey, that's uh, that's how things work

(03:21):
these days. Also trending, um ironically, I guess right after
George Zimmerman is another young black man who was killed. Uh,
Fred Hampton, Um, Now he was the head of the
Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, and today marks
the fiftieth anniversary of his assassination. And I say assassination

(03:44):
because with between the FBI and the Chicago police, Uh,
they basically I'm pretty sure he was drugged and then
they broke into his house and shot him in his
bed while he slept, shot him point blank in his head. Um.
And the reason, when you look at again, he was
he was twenty one years old when this happened. He
was really Um, he was getting too close of doing

(04:06):
the thing of uniting poor black people and poor white
people and erasing that color line of a truly inclusive
movement of disenfranchised people, of working people, of poor people, Uh,
to you know, mobilize and empower themselves. Um. Yeah, So
of course that's how well, that's how the FBI looks
at things. It's like, oh, we have a history of

(04:27):
going after leaders who get too close to actually uniting
the people, which shows you a lot about what the
power dynamics are play um in our h quote unquote democracy. Um,
this was fifty years ago. So um, it's cool to
know nothing has changed, No, And I mean yeah, like

(04:49):
party was like damn. Right after George everyone, you also
see Fred Hampton, who I mean, my god, the momentum
that was being created through his work and the people
around him. A. I can't imagine what history would have
looked like in this country. Um, had he lived much longer.
And also you know his his wife, his pregnant wife
was sleeping in bed next to him when this happened.

(05:10):
She survived, um and give birth to their son, Fred
Hampton Jr. Because Yeah, they were like, no, you know,
it would be inhumane to all some murder of the
wife just him. Yeah, but it's twenty one to have
had that much effect and been that much of a threat, Yeah,
is crazy. He he accomplished, accomplished so much at such

(05:34):
a young age. Yeah, and I would be like, please
read up because or even listening to some of his
speeches because there's also been like write ups around it.
Don't really they talk about the tragedy, but it's really
the class issues um that he was addressing that I
think are really the important, um, one of the more
important parts of what he was doing. Because you know,

(05:54):
this is like another thing we're facing again, Uh in
this country, we're looking at Oh we they're the upper
class has completely declared war on working people. UM. Not
in like, oh, they're killing you with weapons type ship.
They're killing working people with the lack of access to things,
lack of living wages, etcetera. UM and again healthcare. This

(06:17):
is uh this, this fight still continues, um, so please
keep that in your mind. Onto some other news. Uh.
Jay Z is trending because he's fifty years old. Uh.
And finally he put all his music on Spotify because
I was not getting titled. I don't care what. I

(06:38):
don't care how many albums of his I really love,
could not bring myself to pay for title. Just didn't
make sense, even if he was being like, well, then
you don't get my music. I don't care a threat honestly, Like,
I'll just listen to those songs off of YouTube. Yeah that,
or like go and bring on my old hard drive
from like back in the day when we used to
store all your MPT book. I have all your albums anyway,

(07:02):
but like, don't make me go into this case. I
will go to my garage. I will get that CD
book out. Do you have anything of his own vinyl? No,
what's your favorite jay Z song? I don't think I
have a song, probably an album. What's your favorite album?
The Danger Mouse remix? Ouma, Wow, I really love the

(07:25):
Gray Album. I think the Man the Problems version on
the Gray Album is amazing. Everything actually on that is
super is the best album. It's one of those albums.
Man and I talked about this on the show, like
back in the maybe like a year ago. I started
re listening listening to it again and it holds up.

(07:47):
But it like gave me energy, Like I was like,
it's not often I listened to some I go, oh, yeah,
it slaps when I'm driving. I'm like, oh, I'm speeding.
I'm speeding and I'm in a cop carps. Uh. Yeah.
So that's um a little bit of interesting development for
those of you all on Spotify and like jay Z

(08:08):
outside of his act as an overt capitalist who tries
to subvert the forward upward movement of one Colin Kaepernick,
then yeah, check that out. Also finally, Uh, James Bond
is trending. I don't know if you guys saw that
trailer No Time to Die? Uh? Is this like as

(08:28):
they say, a lot of people are saying, it's the
first Bond in the me too era, because as we
all know, women are mostly props in Bond films, are
just just a delightful wet holes, yes, who typically will
like lose their lives. And it's sort of like, yes, sorry,
thank you, gotta go because I just needed we just
wanted to before for the marketing too, right, because all

(08:51):
the marketing is whoever is playing James Bond plus this
very attractive actress equals please come to the movie boom.
But this new film, No Time to Die co written
by Phoebe Waller Bridge Holler from obviously Fleaback. I don't
know if she wasn't killing Eve too forgot about that.
I love killing Eve. Oh my god, it makes me

(09:11):
so horny. It's crazy, does it. It totally does. It's
like entertaining. But I'm like the entire time, I'm like,
so around, Oh my god, like she's a she's a
sadistic killer. It's happening, so multi can her and Sandra
fuck already what is happening? But you know, um, so yeah,
this new one. We were watching the trailer. I mean, look,

(09:35):
we already I like that. We're already seeing like a
strong woman of color who's like you're getting get my
fucking way James Bond and I'm gonna knee cap you,
and she like knew what that he had one bad
knee already and she called him out on and she's like,
old man, I'm gonna take out your one good knee.
There was a SHAWNA Lynch who was in Captain Marvel
another great film. Uh, And then you see like the
usual group of people. I mean, I didn't realize Christoph

(09:57):
Valtz was also in this one too, but that makes
sense because I think he was the last one. And
Romney Malick is the bad guy. I guess. I don't know.
I think we just in the Phantom of the Opera.
We don't really know. Yeah, there's a big mask thing,
but then we see him without the mask. I don't
really know what the mask is for if we're going
to see it looks like a mask like some like
a Japanese folklore kind of mask or definitely Asian influence. Um,

(10:19):
but I don't know. I could be totally wrong, but
it's still but it totally is the Phantom mask. Yeah,
like when it cracks, like, yeah, whenever you see a
mask where like the lower third of your mouth and
like half of your phantom, your phantom made. But maybe
it's the Japanese fantoma. That's what they call me in
the streets. Uh yeah, I don't know. I'm curious to

(10:40):
see what the script actually means, like how it seems
already from the trailer the characters in this that are
women have much more agency, have much more independence outside
of their relations to the male character, um but also
generally just sucking it up. But also it's I thought like, oh,
maybe there would be some funny lines because Phoebe, but
there weren't any. It's like a pretty serious trailer. Yeah

(11:03):
it's a Bond film trailer though, I mean, but you
know a lot of times they'll throw in like I
think they're funny. Line was when the bar were the
bartender or whoever, the when he's checking in and he's
like Bond and he's like, who like James Bond. I
think that was their like wink. Or that was when
when she was like, I'll shoot you in your other knee,
like in your good knee. I don't know, maybe that

(11:24):
wasn't even that. I mean, it was a very action.
Look the action looks good. I like. I like Bond movies.
I do too, I also like the books. Did you
ever read the books? No, I'm illiterate, actually, so that
sounds like a threat. I haven't read the trick question.
There are no Bond books really fun? They are? They
just super like easy page turner, Yes, exactly, like bring

(11:47):
it on the beach kind of ship, right, and you
burn through half the book in like twenty minutes. Yeah,
it's so fun. Okay, maybe I'll accept your challenge. I
still need to see a Harry Potter film. Oh yeah, again.
Shout out to any listeners if you got a mansion
on a mansion or a movie theater and I want
to come over. He's gonna watch Harry Potter for the
first time. We're gonna get very high. Did in Finding Silvery? Um? Okay,

(12:12):
well that's about it for today. I hope you guys enjoyed.
Jack is out. He's on a special assignment. Um, he's
out in the field, man, he's out. He's out there,
out in the fields. A lot of pockets, a lot
of pockets, binoculars. Yeah, he's he's out there. He's got
one of those hats with a net on it, pip helmet,
like he's in the like a safari. Yeah. Yeah, Safari

(12:33):
outfit for sure. Cargo shorts anyway, very high up. Oh,
also I forgot the director is Karrie Jogi Fukunaga. Shout
out to Jeffanese Americans out there doing your thing. Getting
that back yeah um yeah with that, thank you so
much for listening. We'll see you tomorrow morning for Daily
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