Penn Jillette

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

magic is essentially intellectual, which was incredible to me, because all magic was to me was, you know, a greasy guy in a tux torturing women in front of Mylar, you know, to bad rip-off Motown music, that was stopping me from seeing the hoop we're gonna be on later in that show.

And that experiment, can you do magic,

without lying to people and without insulting them and condescending to them, is that possible, became the 50-year experiment that's been a teller.

When people say they're exploring atheism, I always tell them, read the Bible.

In our culture.

Yeah, yeah.

In other cultures, you read the Koran, but read the Bible.

And if that seems groovy to you,

Then stay with it.

I'm going to be, forgive me, a little bit pedantic.

Atheist and agnostic are not in the same continuum.

Okay.

Atheist answers the theological question, and agnostic answers the epistemological question.

Okay.

So agnostic says, I don't think things can be known.

And then atheist says, this is what I believe.

Okay.

So I am certainly agnostic.

100 percent i don't think it can be known as my friend christopher hitchens used to say i don't know but i don't think you do either okay which is the important next step right i see uh you're talking to a priest and you say you know i don't know but neither do you um so the question is what is your default setting okay so that's kind of what i was after we don't know

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