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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Get a milkshake.

I mean, I was...

18 years old, I weighed 180 pounds.

You know, you're looking at me, I'm 250.

I was 180 then.

And you don't need a lot of fuel to keep that going.

So I really learned, I mean, with street performing,

you have none of the artifice to keep people there.

If you're not interesting every second... Yeah, they're just going to walk.

They just walk away.

And that gives you a kind of aggression and a kind of top level... I don't mean that in a positive way.

I just mean...

drop down, you wanna get the superficial stuff just hitting him right in the face.

And then, when you get all that down, then you can start digging deeper.

And there's a certain kind of depth of art you can't do unless the audience has granted you the attention.

You're not gonna ever get that on the street.

Yeah, you know, I...

Yeah, we just did a lot of it.

You know, when they're judging pilots, you know, they don't ask them how the flights went.

You know, they don't ask them how the landings went.

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