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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I... I really enjoy communicating something that people understand.

And one of the cheapest ways to do that is to give up a scam.

Because you get an immediate aha.

And in all...

one of the most enjoyable experiences is the aha when you really understand something.

And you can see that by how much we manufacture it with mysteries that aren't real ahas.

They're artificial ahas.

Sure.

You know, they're artificial sugar.

So when you have something...

that someone has been scammed with.

And you can say, no, this is how it breaks down.

And they just go... Which is hard, because it takes a great deal of control over one's own self-image to be able to go, uh-huh.

And, uh...

You don't get into magic, and I'm speaking more for Teller than me now, because I get in so late to magic, and only because of Teller.

I was a juggler, which is diametrically opposed to magic.

Juggler says, I can do this, and they do it.

Magician says, I can do this, and they can't.

But you don't get into magic because you like fooling.

You get into magic because you like being fooled.

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