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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What I'm doing is stage magic, trickery.
If our culture could replace the word magician with trickster, I'd be thrilled to pieces.
The idea that what I do is tied to it all with anything mystical and magical... I believe...
To call that magical.
Christopher Hitchens once said to me, he probably said other places too, everything in the world is enough.
Well, I just label them all, you know?
I think that feeling of love you have for your children that is evolutionary, you have no control over it... You're okay with it being... Oh, sure.
First of all, let's start simply.
I can't explain anything.
Okay, let's start with that.
Okay.
I think that I have a friend who's just brilliant.
You know, head scientist at Google and worked in the Hubble and just knows everything.
And he does this thing to me that kills me.
He'll say, you know, I've never understood how toasters work.
And you go, okay, this guy can build a toaster from stuff he'd find in a bathroom.
What does he mean?
And it was a great thing he said to me the other day.
He said, I've been thinking about this, and it's impossible to do impersonations.
There's no way to... When I watch Kevin Pollak do a perfect impersonation of somebody, and the voice sounds perfect, it's impossible, because you're hearing through your bones, and that's being conducted, and then people are hearing it in the air, and those are two different mediums.
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