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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Uh, I don't know of that quotation.
And what's fascinating about magic... I feel like I'm an honest liar.
What's fascinating to magic about me is you take something that is deeply and profoundly immoral in every culture, which is lying to people of your own tribe, and you put a proscenium around it, and all of a sudden, it becomes a moral, beautiful act.
And that's all because of consent.
When you go to the Penn & Teller Theater, we tell you we're gonna lie to you.
We tell you we're gonna break out of that morality, and you are okay with that.
And it's also... It's very clear and focused in magic, but it's really true in all the arts.
I mean, Timothee Chalamet comes out and says, -"I'm Bob Dylan."
He's not Bob Dylan.
But that's not immoral because he's doing it within a framework.
And at a bigger level, of course, you do want to be there.
Right.
And there's ups and downs.
Yeah.
Uh, I was, uh, you know, I was raised Christian.
Um, you know, New England Christian.
My parents were, um... That seems like a harder level of Christian, right?
It is.
New England's like... Puritanic.
You know, I mean, I've, uh...
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