Penn Jillette

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The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · Penn Jillette | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · 14 Jan 2026 podcast

In what's called the arts, that section there.

Yeah, yeah.

With ventriloquism in mind.

And I was a juggler at that time, even at 12.

I juggled all the time.

and did not have much interest in magic.

Now, the way I remember this, which we also know is not true, because, you know, we tell stories to ourselves, and every time we remember them, we change them some.

But the vision I have in my head, which is completely honest to me,

but I don't believe it could be true, is I pulled out a book by Dunninger, which seems believable, but I then remember opening to the page that had the trick that Kreskin had done on TV.

It's just too improbable.

What it means is I must have looked through it

and found tricks that were done like this.

And I had the kind of reaction that only an adolescent boy can have, which is I completely flipped out, and my all A's in school went to all D's.

And I considered scientists to be liars.

And I hated scientists and magicians.

And I just thought that lying

to people on TV about their universe was about as immoral as I could think.

Interesting.

And so I rebelled against that, and it wasn't until I met Randy, and Randy said, you know, you can be honest and still do tricks.

And when Teller told me, when I first met him, when I was... I met Teller when I was 17, um...

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