Penn Jillette
speaker
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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His words, which is what you get to, I mean, Nobel Prize winner in literature, the words always have this depth.
And if you have any doubt about that, if you listen to the... I forget the number of the bootleg series, but there was everything recorded on Blonde on Blonde, Bring It On Back Home, and Highway Six You Want.
They have every time the tape was running, and that's now available to us.
And you hear him on stuff like, seems like a freeze-out, which then turned into Visions of Johanna, um, struggling for the exact word, you know, and changing that in a way that The Beatles never did.
The Beatles have the, woo, perfect from the very first take-through.
But the words don't matter.
We saw Get Back.
You saw that the Beatles are just kind of, what is the right number of syllables?
What is the right sound here?
And I realize this gets off the Dylan question a little, but I find it so fascinating.
The Beatles did not care about words.
You think so?
Not at all.
And I used to believe they did a lot.
But further study... You know the song by Chuck Berry, Memphis.
Sure.
Which is a short story that has a turn, right?
Maria's only six years old.
Information, please.
You find out that he's actually talking to the operator about his daughter and not his lover.
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