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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And I believe that's a distinction that's incredibly important on both sides.
Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey, Greatest Show on Earth, Cloud College.
I was impressed by that.
They would make us say that every time.
Like, if we were doing an interview, there was an interview class at Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey, Greatest Show on Earth, Cloud College.
And if we said anything short of that, we were reprimanded.
But anyway, if you say the show, they would go, no, no, no, because you're always advertising.
Yeah, you know, I was... I was not, as I explained earlier, I was not a good high school student.
And I happened to do fairly well on the SATs.
And so I was a national merit to go to any college.
And at the time, I, you know, had hair down the middle of my back and was every kind of hippie, except...
um drugs and alcohol and music that i didn't think was good by that i mean the grateful dead and um and so i had a free ride to any college but uh
they all seemed like it would be more of high school to me.
I now know that if I'd gone to a serious college, it wouldn't have been that way.
But I didn't know that at the time.
I'm a rural guy who didn't know anything.
And I was always talking about comedy.
And I'm from, you know, a little high school in Massachusetts.
And I wanted to talk about comedy seriously, and nobody wanted to.
And I heard that there was this, it's not really a college, it's a training program to get people to work for cheaper in Florida that was wicked hard to get into.
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