Penn Jillette
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2,353 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 14 Jan
Penn Jillette’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When you go to the Penn & Teller Theater, we tell you we're going to lie to you.
We tell you we're going to break out of that morality, and you are okay with that.
You don't get into magic because you like fooling.
You get into magic because you like being fooled.
In all life, one of the most enjoyable experiences is the aha.
Thank you for having me.
So not a lot of mathematics then.
He was, you know, he was a very good and very successful magician.
And he had done some... It's kind of a beautiful cinematic story.
Like Houdini, like many people.
And I mean, not at the same level, but also we, Penn and Teller, did some stuff like that.
He was doing...
things that pretend to be supernatural.
No, no, no, no.
He was doing it for reals.
I'm talking about when he was like 19.
And that thing, if you are a good person, it immediately breaks your heart and crushes your soul.
when you see how vulnerable people are, and how scared they are, and how lonely they are, and that you can just control them and steal from them.
It's an amazing feeling.
Now, it's even more amazing that some people don't recoil from that, but jump into it and continue doing it.
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