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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He was doing it for reals.
I'm talking about when he was like 19.
And that thing, if you are a good person, it immediately breaks your heart and crushes your soul.
when you see how vulnerable people are, and how scared they are, and how lonely they are, and that you can just control them and steal from them.
It's an amazing feeling.
Now, it's even more amazing that some people don't recoil from that, but jump into it and continue doing it.
You know, people that do fake psychic stuff.
But it built up a... Rage is too unkind a word, but it built up an anger for people who take advantage of other people.
So Randy, like Houdini, went from being a very...
skilled and successful magician, Randy not at the level of Houdini, but still very good, to being a kind of crusader or scientist in terms of... I mean, one of the quick things you'd call him would be Ghostbuster, but that, you know, not in the sense of the TV show, but just saying, there seems to be nothing supernatural.
You know, that was kind of Randy's point.
Yeah, and the thing is that he searched for it so conscientiously.
You know, that's the thing that when people deal with skeptics, they often talk about being closed-minded, not being open to things.
And the truth seems to me to be quite the opposite.
The people that I've known that have worked hard on skepticism have been the ones that most investigate skepticism.
And you end up being, you know, in... I was a follower of James Arandi and he was a mentor and a hero and a very good friend of mine from the time I was 18.
And all that time, I just saw him searching out every single chance there was something supernatural and finding out there was nothing.
Which is also Houdini.
Houdini is the same story.
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