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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

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

In today’s conversation from the Fortress of Proopitude, Greg and Jennifer jaw on Josephine Baker, James W. Loewen and Jack Hirschman.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh yeah, hooray, hooray once again the smartest man in the world, Proofcast takes to the

0:14.1

ether on the ethereal, hourly brothers.

0:23.6

Fantastically this is their biggest hit and that was Don in the middle there.

0:27.6

Donna swirling in the heavens as are all their celestial melodies.

0:34.6

Yeah.

0:41.6

Hooray, hooray once again the smartest man in the world, Proofcast takes to the ether,

0:44.3

this time in the enormous shadow of the hourly brothers who dominated like few artists,

0:49.4

I'd say Fat's Domino, Elvis, they had a giant rock and middle career, ten years of hating

0:55.7

each other not speaking to each other and then awesomely another ten years of being on

0:59.6

the road together and playing with all the greatest acts in rock.

1:03.4

Can we hear what Ray Davis and his brother Dave think about that?

1:09.8

My name is Elmo Gregorio, oh hey look here it's Jennifer, hi how are you?

1:13.6

Hi good, thank you.

1:14.7

Well it's so nice to have you here for the Proofcast, we're holding hands and holding hearts

1:20.0

and enjoying each other in the fabulousness.

1:28.3

I wanted to play you that one because that's from American bandstaff in 1960 the week it

1:33.3

was a hit and you got to hear Dick Clark say it was recorded in Nashville.

1:38.4

They were taken because they're from Kentucky, Don had already written hits for Kitty Wells

1:43.0

and stuff like he was a teenage hit maker.

1:45.4

That's how boss the hourly brothers are.

1:47.6

Then they signed with Cadence and he took them to Nashville so they didn't record in New

1:53.5

Orleans, they didn't record in Chicago like all the other rock bands right.

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