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“I was still studying astrophysics, and I had fellow dancers who were making extra money — ’cause I needed money, ’cause we weren’t paid much — and one of them said, ‘Why don’t you come down with us?’ because some of them danced at a strip club, a guy’s strip club,” Tyson said.
“So I went and I was cut and flex— I could do a full split … but I went to just investigate, I wanted data first.”
Tyson added that he was watching dancers come out with “asbestos-lined jockstraps that had been ignited with lighter fluid” before performing an iconic ’50s rock song: Jerry Lee Lewis’ “Great Balls of Fire.”
“Let me just say, I’m embarrassed that only in that moment when I saw their genitals on fire did I say, ‘Maybe I should be a math tutor,’” he said as Clarkson’s audience laughed.
“I’m just sayin’, at that point I had other thoughts about how to earn money,” he added.
“You’re like, ‘I’m gonna keep this junk safe,’” Clarkson quipped.
