Hurts

The Smartest Man in the World

Greg Proops

Comedy

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 112 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In another dispatch from the Fortress of Proopitude, Greg and Jennifer hash out Hal Willner, Helsinki and "The Hit."

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	One carder, Kenny Barron on piano, lighting one up, pouring one down.
0:18.1	Once again, hooray hoorah.
0:19.1	The smartest man in the world propcats takes to the ether, this time from the purpose
0:23.1	of Frutatured which moves on a regular basis.
0:31.6	We've seen Ron Carter with Russell Malone and Donald Vega, but this is from 1977.
0:37.6	It's his quartet and it's his birthday.
0:41.8	He's 83.
0:42.8	Ron Carter is 83.
0:45.4	He sealed somewhere away in the Carter vault of records where he's teaching.
0:50.2	I'm sure he's teaching.
0:53.0	Mark Striker, who wrote a book called Jazz from Detroit, pointed out that Ron Carter and
1:00.5	Paul Chambers were in the same class together in Detroit and that Detroit had a, quote,
1:05.6	remarkable public school music education program.
1:08.8	Yes, one would think.
1:10.3	My name is Greg Proops.
1:11.6	This is my wife, Jennifer.
1:12.6	Hi.
1:13.6	Hi, Jennifer.
1:14.6	How are you?
1:15.6	Pretty good.
1:16.6	Considering.
1:18.6	There's a couple of things that take the sting away from this.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Greg Proops, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Greg Proops and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.