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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The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · Penn Jillette | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · 14 Jan 2026 podcast

If you go faster over something that's boring, it can get more boring.

Now, I'm assuming you have something to offer.

If you don't, then no amount of slowing down is gonna help.

But I just... So that time on stage, it can't give you beauty, but it can give you skill.

I'm sure you've heard that from people, but it's also, um, uh, the positive, um,

aspects of drugs and alcohol are well-documented, and I believe them completely.

No, no, and advocating is a fine thing.

I just don't think I'd be good at it.

I overdose everything.

I've never been able to do anything in moderation.

Nothing.

Interesting.

If I practice, I practice for 10 hours.

If I practice my upright bass, I go to my fingers bleed.

I've never been able to, um, to attenuate anything.

That's interesting.

So it just seems, I've known this since I was 17, and I, you know, I graduated from high school in 73, and that's a heavy drug time for rural America.

I just thought, man, if...

If I do any of this, I think it's all I'm going to do.

And my experience when I've been very, very... It's a good thing Bob wasn't... Very, very sick.

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