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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

🗓️ 12 February 2018

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

In the latest dispatch from the Fortress of Proopitude, Greg discusses Dennis Edwards, Dorset and Dylan Farrow.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Who A Hero once again the smartest men in the world proofcast takes to the ether with the

0:14.7

salubrious sounds of Dennis Edwards.

0:43.4

I promised to tribute last week and I didn't deliver because I got caught up in my own world.

0:48.4

Dennis Edwards was the lead singer for the temptations after David Reffen.

0:53.4

And this is what we call psychedelic soul. Norman Whiffill was assigned the group after

0:58.9

smoking had them for a long time and he teffened up the sound. And this is the period that gave

1:04.4

us this song. Can't get next to you. Just my imagination. Thakadelic Shaq. It's pretty

1:11.4

groovy baby. Wow. And you can frugue to it. And I mean frugue. And I ain't no lie. All of a sudden the

1:27.4

temptations lyrics changed right. It used to be them the way you do the things you do and

1:33.4

I know what's the one I know to you. It might sound strange. That was Rorin's favorite. But I wish it

1:40.4

would rain. It's a purpose of frugitude. You might have guessed. Ryan is here and Jennifer's

1:45.4

here. And finally we're going to celebrate the awesomeness of Dennis Edwards. Then all of a

1:50.4

sudden when Norman Whiffill took over and Dennis joined the group everything changed. The direction

1:54.4

change. Now there's songs about living in the ghetto and what it's like to be in the black

1:58.4

expires in America and all of a sudden drugs are involved in the temptations of all groups who were

2:03.4

singing about sunshine on a cloudy day. Now they talk about living on cloud nine because they can't get

2:07.4

a job. It is groovy. This is how he joined the group Eddie Cantrich's in Otis Williams. Otis is one

2:14.4

of the original members. And he passed three of them have Eddie Eddie as well decided they had

2:21.4

to have I love this is from the Guardian newspaper rough and ziratic timekeeping. Cacane use and galloping

2:28.4

megalomania. And then their example of his galloping megalomania was he wanted to rename the group David

2:34.4

Ruffin and the temptations. And so they weren't having any of it. They asked Dennis Edwards to join the group. And this is what Dennis

2:41.4

Edwards said. I had been hearing rumors about David and drugs and alcohol. One morning at 4 a.m., he knocked on my door and said, and I said

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