Well, some sad news for our Gen Z viewers, I'm sorry to report that the inventor of the Jello Shot has died.

Hi, everybody. I'm Bill Whittle here with Steve Green and Scott Ott, and here today to lament the passing of a person who I've always admired enormously,

who in fact apparently did invent the Jellowshot as a way to get around alcohol restrictions at his university.

Tom Lehrer has left the building at the far too early age of 97, taken from us so soon and so early.

But Tom Lairer has always been a particular favorite of mine for a number of reasons.

Gentlemen, you probably being well-educated individuals, as was Mr. Lair.

Tom Lairer was a musical satirist who was very big in late 50s and early 60s, wrote some very

clever songs, and he was a professor of mathematics for most of his life, but he was also

a professor of musical theater, and you don, but he was also a professor of musical

theater. And you don't often get those two Venn diagrams overlapping. I'm one of those people

that kind of lives in that gray area, so I certainly respect that. The guy in musical theater

does not know what a Venn diagram is. No, but the guy who teaches mathematics absolutely does.

So Tom Lear was, look, like most people in that area, he was what you would call a traditional liberal,

and there was a lot of his politics that we may look at as somewhat left-wing.

But I don't have any particular interest in that particular argument.

The thing that interests me, guys, is really almost like the definition of culture.

And what I mean by that is Tom Laird took very sophisticated social and intellectual concepts

and turned them into something that was fun.

He had a great deal of musical talent, but he also had an enormous reserve of intellectual horsepower.

Steve, I'm going to play for you one of the, of fact, maybe the only Tom Lehrer song that

he did not compose the music for, which is the element song, which is set to the tune of modern major general.

Yeah, he used a lot of Gilbert and Sullivan melodies,

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