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The Smartest Man in the World

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The Smartest Man in the World

Greg Proops

Comedy

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

In this week's dispatch from the Fortress of Proopitude, Greg and Jennifer talk Thomas Jefferson, the Trail of Tears and The Tubes.

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Ray Hurrah once again the smartest in the world group cast takes to the either this time from the salubrious confines of the fortress of Probe2 locating here in Loan California

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this is the people's choice from Philadelphia and their magnificent classic party is a groupy thing you may remember do it any way you want to the fabulous disco here they have for Gamel and

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I'm Greg Groot's what's your name lady hi I'm Jennifer nice to meet you we're having a groovy thing right here we're also celebrating

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uh oh well yeah for several reasons it's a 750th episode of the podcast I just made that up I love fake anniversary and stuff and I love when people celebrate how long they've been in show business that's one of my favorite things people do when they go

1:11.0

when they go I'm celebrating my 45th it's like I don't want to know well like when um mart said to me last night that Robert Wagner is celebrating his seventh decade in show business yes and has just rebooked a N C S i really just gonna be 90 plus years old he just turned 90 Robert Wagner you may remember Robert Wagner from such grades as what was that you know what was his TV show it takes a thief that was one and I was like late

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60s or early 70s he's in dozens of movies including the pink Panther and um notably uh was marriage and Adley would upon the moment of her demise you said mart but you didn't explain who mart was

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well mart pala everyone listened to the show that yes you were talking about it

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mart pala the playwright uh and uh always appreciate his his stories I asked him if he had ever known Ashley Boone Jr.

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there was an article about uh him in the Hollywood Reporter because it's black history month and uh apparently someone just remembered that there was briefly uh black men who was also gay who's head of uh studio for a few months

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20th century Fox in the in the 70s and uh there was a really fascinating article about him um he passed away

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Hollywood Reporter it was an article by Scott Feinberg and uh Ashley Boone Jr. died in 94 uh he was quite young he was 55

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um he was in Sydney Pache's production company then he moved to Fox in 72 as uh in charge of uh

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marketing and or he wasn't in charge she was working in marketing and distribution at that time let's uh cut to the excitement

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Rocky Horror and Star Wars oh yeah he uh made sure that Rocky Horror was introduced as a midnight

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screening cult film and that I didn't realize that was part of the marketing strategy from the beginning

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in those dates um he took on uh sounder yes that beautiful movie with um Paul um

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windfield Paul windfield and sissley Tyson who's also alive at 93 yeah was just on the Vee yesterday

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was she really yeah speaking of block history wow sissley Tyson did a movie when we were kids called um the

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life and times of Miss Jane pitman of Miss Jane pitman and it was written by Kenan wind son was it

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who um he who was a decent writer and she was a living slave was she not in the picture and she

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recounted her entire story from being in bondages a kid and everything it's it's a superb piece

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