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The Smartest Man in the World

Mendicants

The Smartest Man in the World

Greg Proops

Comedy

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2012

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Vodkasting live from the San Jose Improv, Greg tells tales of the midway, the Mystery Spot and Mike Wallace.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, Drake Groups.

0:20.0

All right, hallelujah.

0:25.0

A Sunday night reporting.

0:27.0

As once again we take to the ether, purpling the airwaves with our violet pros here at the smartest

0:33.0

man in the world broadcast, broadcasting live from the historic San Jose Theatre, which is now

0:39.0

known as the fabulous San Jose Air Prove, ladies and gentlemen, right here in downtown San

0:45.8

San Jose.

0:46.8

Yeah, we're in the South Bay of the South Bay area of my beloved Bay area and it's a fine

0:53.8

mixture down here in downtown San Jose of indigence and mendicence and dangerous people

0:59.8

mixed with parking lots and PF changs.

1:01.8

So there's a feeling of history and at once a sense of menace that lends it its awesomeness,

1:07.8

a railway car that's exceedingly dangerous because it doesn't make much noise and you can be wiped out

1:12.8

in a moment here.

1:13.8

Well, what appears to be a cling on cloaking vessel that drives through the streets of San

1:18.9

Jose.

1:19.9

I'm staying not far from here and in front of the hotel I'm at, I had no idea, San Jose

1:25.4

was the first state capital of California, and in 1849 the year of the big rush, and I

1:32.6

don't mean big time rush, it wasn't the year that for smooth young boys got together

1:36.5

and put a Nickelodeon show on, it was the year of the gold rush and the 49ers came out.

1:42.0

They convened a legislature right here in San Jose, well the weekend turned out to be

1:45.3

wildly stormy and horrible, there wasn't enough hotel rooms, and that legislature was

1:49.7

so rowdy and out of control that they are known as the legislature of a thousand drinks.

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