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Penn Jillette's Marathon Life in Magic
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Penn Jillette
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Aug 18, 2015
At 6'6" tall, Penn Jillette is a huge character. He's got a huge frame, a huge
personality, and huge appetites. It's a trait that has occasionally gotten him into
trouble; he weighed, until a recent diet change, more than 350 pounds. But his
gregarious energy mostly expands to fill every moment of free time with professional
success. He's an inventor, an entrepreneur, a podcast host, a TV show creator, a
Twitter celebrity, a comedian. And for more than forty years, he's been the talking
half of stage magic duo Penn & Teller. He talks to host Alec Baldwin about his
lifelong atheism, what it's like to perform the same trick for four decades, and why
he's committed to debunking nonsense.
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