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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And, you know, you'd slap him around for that and he'd come back up with it and he'd come in with another little thing and he'd say something inappropriate at a bar and you'd go, shut the f*** up.
That's the whole life, right?
Now that same guy...
can be talking to the grand wizard of the KKK within 48 hours of his first racist thought.
So we are able to move these little qualities in us that do not play to our better angels, are able to be reinforced ridiculously.
And it's sometimes said that the worst thing Hitler did was turn his enemies into him.
And I know really loving, and I'm gonna use this as a positive term, woke people who, because of Trump, just started rolling around in their own hate.
You know, it's very... We all know, I mean, Martin Luther King and Gandhi laid it out really clear that if someone comes at you like this, if you don't hit back, you win.
And you don't even have to do this with a higher power or doing the right thing.
Revolutions that are done peacefully are more successful than revolutions that are done violently.
Yeah, yeah.
And because you can have old people, women, and children helping you.
It's very simple.
But we have not found a way
when this hate is computer and mass media assisted to be able to fight that.
There's also this other problem that breaks my heart, which is the fear of boredom.
I tell my children, be bored.
Be really bored, because that's when the beauty will come out of you.
You know, who was it?
I just forgot who this famous quote is from.
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