Penn Jillette

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

Penn Jillette’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Why bother?

Because we agree.

I thought this was the first honest conversation we'd ever had.

Oh, yep.

It's all bird flu.

As a matter of fact, with COVID, we got really lucky.

The first thing we get that's bird flu related, it's really bad.

I mean, the coming plague, as the book said, or the epidemic that's coming is going to be really, really bad.

And our hope is maybe we can be dead by then.

That's what we're clutching onto.

Well, one thing, you know, is if you cut down animal products a lot, it would help things a lot.

The potatoes was, I'm a glutton.

And I was completely on the SAD, which is, you know, Standard American Diet.

Right.

And a friend of mine who's pretty pro-science, worked at NASA and all that shit, said to me, you know, you've got to knock yourself out of your head.

So people tend to say it back in an oversimplified way.

That you just started to eat potatoes.

And the fact is I did for two weeks.

And what that did for me, I'm not saying for anybody else, what it did for me is it taught me what it felt like to be hungry, which I didn't know.

You know, you've never been fat.

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