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The Smartest Man in the World

Fats

The Smartest Man in the World

Greg Proops

Comedy

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2017

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

In another dispatch from the Fortress of Proopitude, Greg gabs about "The Girl Can't Help It," Gullah culture and Guillaume.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The way here are once again the smartest man in the world, proof cast takes to the eat

0:14.0

you're here from the celibus confines of the porpoise of frutitude located somewhere

0:17.3

here in lower California.

0:19.2

The millifueless dulcet piano tones you hear is the awesome, awesome boogie wiggy stride,

0:24.7

hillbelly swamp infuse New Orleans rock and roll.

0:28.5

The millen blues fusion that is Fats Domino in the world's first rock and roll record

0:32.0

from 1949 that call me the fat man.

0:35.5

Oh he weighed more than 200 pounds.

0:45.3

Fats is swirling in the heavens and fortunately on this show we've minded our peas and

0:49.0

quesas Jennifer said about giving respect to people who are still with us on this mortal

0:52.6

coil and I believe it was in San Jose earlier this year that I played a few of his records

0:57.8

and talked about him.

0:58.8

I talked about him and little Richard from time to time.

1:01.0

Keep in mind that his producer Dave Bartholomew who helped him perfect the sound, whose

1:06.8

be hasty recorded a blue or hill and whatnot is still alive in his 10 years older than Fats

1:11.8

and lives in New Orleans.

1:14.0

It's just fantastic.

1:15.0

This is what makes the so rock and roll record.

1:18.2

He imitates a harmonica.

1:25.0

He don't play one.

1:26.0

He imitates one.

1:27.4

So he said Fats, this rock and roll that everybody is talking about.

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