E838 I Am Here To Fight The Ennui In New York.
Heavy stuff about Alex Jones, John Hinckley Jr., & Salman Rushdie. Also, boobs & beer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Join us as Penn Jillette, Matt Donnelly, and YOU discuss the news of the week. We'll examine religious news, talk about monkeys, and anything else that seems funny or makes us mad. We'll also take your suggestions for things you feel like talking about. We run a live video stream from Show Creators Studios for people with the time and inclination to watch people sitting and talking. The live show starts Sundays at noon Vegas time, at www.twitch.tv/reddirich, & is usually available for download from your favorite podcast aggregator by 9 am Monday morning.

Heavy stuff about Alex Jones, John Hinckley Jr., & Salman Rushdie. Also, boobs & beer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
River vs. sea critters, water park nostalgia, & the case against nuclear power. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Keeping basses in the family, a dangerous onstage thought, & there's no way to edit jelly bean sounds live. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Cheap Shot, the wisdom of the kookaburra, & Joni Mitchell never lies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Where Bill Russell went to laugh, where to eat after a show in Sydney, & where to find Penn during curtain call. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Piff the Magic Dragon & Penn compare budgetary line items for the stage. See them together in Reptile Dysfunction at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBBYBiAKQ3U See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The exercise regimens of magic dragons, balancing with your eyes closed, & how to kick morphine, alcohol, & cigarettes, with Piff the Magic Dragon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Who books three jugglers for one cruise, how long does it take to drive to Alaska, & why are we so afraid? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
After a month of touring Australia, Penn & Teller return to the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Kangaroos, ibises, & the climax of the Sydney Opera House bit. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Selling out the room, method clowning, & Piff's point of view on the bravest magic convention volunteer. Make sure to watch Piff's comedy special Reptile Dysfunction on YouTube. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Teller's prayer, Piff's new old comedy special, & how to budget a magic show. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Napping on set, the PMRC, & a random survey of entertainers' height. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Important career choices, being mistaken for a Nobel prize winner, & reading the room. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
I'll be honest: I have no idea what's in this one. I've driven cross-country & back over the past two weeks & can't hold anything in my head more than a few minutes. I remember Goudeau shows up. Maybe someone else should be writing this. Send your comments to: QuestionPenn@gmail.com . Also, don't let this be your first episode ever. You'll need Episode 824 (part 1) for context. -reddi-rich See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Andy Kaufman, rehearsed chaos, & what you need to know before you improvise. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Are we tired of rehashing the topic of "women in magic"? Turns out, we're not. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
World records, touring in Alaska, & when sideshow arts go wrong, with magic's Lucy Darling. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Con techniques vs. magic techniques, 21 vs. Press Your Luck , & thinking fast vs. thinking slow. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Advice from Teller, John Stossell's Emmy, & the best explanation of stage hypnosis Penn's ever heard, with The World's Greatest Con host Brian Brushwood. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Some history of free speech, some solutions to new problems, & how to be sure you won't get sued, with our 1st Amendment attorney Bob Corn-Revere. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
How to properly curse on the radio, with the author of The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder: The First Amendment and the Censor’s Dilemma. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
G. Gordon Liddy, Billy Joel, & the morality of hidden camera. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Secret, former, & mistaken identities of The Carbonaro Effect star & current guest resident of the Penn & Teller Theater at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Starbuck's, dice life, & an outline of Penn's upcoming book, Random . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Different singers using the same instrument, different singers using the same name, & the same books using different names. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We allegedly solve abortion, wheat-borne listeria, & the greatest transportation-based clowning gag of all time. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A new venue near the Green Door, an old venue in Canada, & five of seven NDA violations survive the edit. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Buying a Batmobile, unacknowledged irony, & a working comparative scale of magicians' hands. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
David Copperfield's iteration of the long-suffering Glenn Alai recalls the Indiana magic scene, worldwide shipping, & showbiz parking. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Penn, Jandro, Harrison Greenbaum, & Matt & Mattingly's Ice Cream Social try not to get cancelled sharing convention center space with religious organizations. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.