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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 2.

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You know, they hear stuff, boom, and they can tell.

And of course, we know it's very, very confusing how that stuff's used because you know that almost everything

I don't think there's anything in the top 10 now that was ever heard in the studio, right?

So when you get to auto-tune, when you get to waveform generators, when you get to even certain kinds of slapback, you're using a lot of machines.

Yeah.

And I'm not hip to that at all, but I know it's going on.

I know that people are doing albums on airplanes with headphones.

Yeah, and Giles Martin was one of the ones that did all that.

at the studio as he was doing it right after Get Back.

You know, Get Back, the movie, Get Back, the five-hour movie.

They were pulling out vocals and moving them around.

It was just incredible.

But in terms of actual generating, you've got this problem.

Which is, people say, I want a human heart behind this stuff, and I can feel when it's not there.

And the problem is, what happens when you can't feel that it's not there?

What happens when there really is a Dylan song that I can't tell?

And we've already seen it.

Classical music fans...

who are hardcore Bach fans, they put in a Bach fugue that was written by a computer, and no one flagged it.

No one.

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