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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And they both touch our hearts.
They're both really important.
But you know, Springsteen is speaking for everyone with a shared experience.
And Dylan seems to be speaking for himself, and then we find the shared experience.
And when you're doing something like Saturday Night Live, or anything that deals with satire and parody,
the point of view is we all feel this about this, right?
We all feel this way about Trump.
We're all together.
We all feel this way about whatever you're talking about.
And I've always thought that
I'd rather have... You know, there's a thing that Steve Martin says in Born Standing Up, and also he says in the documentary that's on him, which, once again, I'm paraphrasing for the way I understand it, not what was actually said.
He said he changed... One of the reasons he stopped doing stand-up was he changed from performing to leading a party.
He was kind of standing there as the emcee at a party.
No, no, it's just that he became so successful that people were coming to be there with arrows through their heads from about 1980.
Yeah, exactly.
And, uh...
I think, and that's once again one of the things that will always come back to Dylan.
So when Teller and I... It all comes back to Bob.
Yeah.
When Teller and I would sit and talk, and Teller and I are the most pretentious people in the world.
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