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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

🗓️ 8 December 2014

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Live from the Punchline in Sacramento, Greg discusses democracy, Don Lemon and depression.

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0:00.0

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0:06.0

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0:13.0

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0:30.0

Hey Ra, what's he on this one?

0:40.0

I'm the president of the United States of Sacramento, California.

0:46.0

It's Sacramento's most entrawling and enchanting comedy club located conveniently next start of the sleep train here in the Arden Howe Mall at the glamorous corner where there's a McDonald's and a bunch of other shit.

0:57.0

Once more we're at the punchline in Sacramento, hooray our state capital and behind me an evocative depiction of the state capital with an enormous moon rising over it.

1:07.0

That is of course Jerry Brown's head. As you can see Jerry Brown is our governor here. He was our governor. When I was in high school he's our governor now that you're in high school.

1:16.0

That's the continuity we have in America. The same politicians are back and it's exciting. We had an election all over the country and if you listen to the news and the media you'll have heard that it was a landslide for conservatism and that everybody had a referendum on Obama.

1:30.0

When the truth was nobody voted and those that did vote were suppressed and it was really a fucking banana republic farce of an election quite frankly.

1:38.0

Oh you're just saying that because you're bitter and you lost. Now I say during every election this country is we're so lucky that fucking the Ukraine doesn't invade us and install a democracy every other day that God damn weak.

1:50.0

The way we conduct elections is a God damn shame in this country. Why is there not voting for a week? Okay and why is the voting not 24 hours a day? Okay. How hard would that be? There's money for everything else.

2:02.0

There's money for the NFL. There's money for politicians. There's money for endless drones and executions and torture and every other manner of mayhem that the governor, the governor, that the government rather. That was a total fruity and slip.

2:17.0

Governor, if Governor Jerry Brown might be responsible for several things but torture and execution are two things I'm letting him off the hook for.

2:26.0

I mean I know he was a Jesuit and they are massacres. But I'm not saying he wears a collar or any kind of weird like you know a chainmail scrotal pouch under his suit or anything.

2:40.0

I'm not saying he's like Anthony Scalilla on the Supreme Court. The opus day people like to wear like a biting thing that nips into their leg all day long and stuff so that they can always be subservient to the idea that they're enormously misguided.

2:54.0

But the point is this. They just haven't heard my show right? We have every kind of funding to spend on every manner of stuff and every tax break given to every giant corporation.

3:07.0

And yet voting is one crappy day from seven to seven on a fucking Tuesday. Who's fucking off on Tuesday and who has seven to seven to deal with shit?

3:15.0

You know I mean let's get down to what's what and we said it before in the show but I'm going to say it again now says we just had an election we've got a very important one coming up in two years which is the the founding fathers wanted to make sure at the very outset that women and people of color didn't have a voice at all.

3:31.0

And that that grand tradition has been carried on perhaps more vociferously than any other tradition in this fucking country women had to fight unbelievably like truth and nail for several hundred years to get recognized to be able to vote.

3:44.0

For instance women got the right to vote in 1919 my mother passed away last year she was born in 1919 so this is an ancient history this is simply something that happened in my own mother's lifetime but Greg you're unbelievably old yeah I know let me tell you something about president Lincoln he never picked up a check.

4:04.0

You had to buy your own rounds when Lincoln was in the house you know what I mean you're like do you have four score and seven dollars and he's like I don't even I don't even know how many that ends it's like 87 because the checks are hundred and twenty five all right and I'm not stiffing him I think you're honest Abe and he's like I'm peccanious I'm you know I'm not I'm frugal Abe as well yeah I don't I've never understood it I didn't understand it when I was little and I don't understand it now the idea that you have to produce a government issued.

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