Penn Jillette

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845 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 16 Jul

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Club Random with Bill Maher · Penn Jillette | Club Random Classics with Bill Maher · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

I cannot treat you like I want to be treated because you want different things.

You know, and that is the problem with extrapolating from your own desires that everybody else wants.

Of course, but I can't use the solipsism of thinking that you have the same desires I have.

No.

And that's what makes the world go round.

You know what I'm saying?

It's a good thing.

That's all you meant.

But I was very anti-marriage, as was my wife, which is an odd thing to say.

And I did not think.

that the solution was gay marriage.

I thought the solution was no marriage for anybody, make contracts.

But we talked to several lawyers, and we couldn't get anybody to tell me 100% that if we had children and my wife died, custody would go to me.

And we tried to write up an elaborate contract that would do that, and the lawyers finally said, get married.

Save yourself some money.

Because we—I think that all the stuff that comes with marriage and saying that there's one way or a broad way that people interact with each other is madness.

It's insane.

But—

And they've put up so many roadblocks because I would not want, and I trust my wife's family completely, but I don't want to be in the situation where she would have a car accident.

Of course, this is now an academic question because my children are over 18.

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