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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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 2.
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They just care about flight time.
Is this the amount of time you've flown this kind of aircraft?
And I think, you know, we have such incredible examples.
George Burns sucked for a long time.
But he was on stage so much, he got good.
And we have so many examples of that.
But...
It just, you're gonna learn certain stuff.
You know, carnival performers who have no desire for art, really.
You know, they're just trying, usually trying to avoid, at least in my day, trying to avoid prison rap.
They just get thrown into doing shows.
Um, it's almost a test, right?
What if you have someone who doesn't have anything to say... Right.
...and doesn't want to say anything?
And you put them on stage doing a show, and they do that... 30 shows a day, seven days a week, for 10 years.
Turns out you watch them, and they're like,
They're really, really good.
There's some stuff that's just skill.
You know, in art, there's... I believe there's two things you're looking for.
You're looking for skill and you're looking for crazy.
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