My close personal friend Penn Jillette has a new series… on teh intertubes.
Called Penn Says, it’s a series of short (shockingly swear-free) vids where he opines on various issues. I don’t always agree with him, but I always like to listen to him, and he makes me laugh a lot.
In a cool move, they are asking for people to upload responses. I may do that myself. But I’ll be careful. He’s way bigger than me.
P.S. Showtime– it helps if you allow embedding of videos. I know, I know, you won’t get the additional $0.000001 per view of the vid, but it helps spread the word, and your audience on teh toobs likes it. Sometimes it’s a good idea to make the audience happy.
January 13th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Hmmm, they also want me to upgrade my Flash player. Few things put me in Grumpy Old Codger Mode more effectively than asking me to upgrade my Flash player.
January 13th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Forget Showtime. I keep telling them via email and message boards I’d pay $1 and episode for Dexter. I’m not paying $15 a month to see one show. Period. Instead I wait and rent the DVDs, and they get about 0.001 cents out of it.
And forget all that too:
http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2008/smithscloud/
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! WE’RE MORE DOOMED THAN TEXAS!
January 13th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
I don’t know, have you seen the ‘Penn Says’ about Dr. Phil? Apparently Penn thinks you are pure cynical and are the biggest scumbag in the world.
Oh, wait. . .
January 13th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Those were funny. I knew that we had similar outlooks and opinions, but I didn’t realize how closely our political beliefs aligned!
One thing, and maybe someone said something to him after the first few, it is really annoying to watch him touching his face all the time. I noticed he did it less on the later ones. That sort of body language tells me that he really doesn’t believe what he’s saying, or he’s really uncomfortable saying it. Somehow I can’t believe Penn is uncomfortable saying anything!
The last one cleared up something I’ve always wondered about him, i.e. whether or not he’s married. Now that he’s affirmed it, I have to wonder what sort of woman could put up with that ego. Unless, of course, it’s all a shtick and his off-screen personality is totally different.
- Jack
January 13th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Not only is he married, he has two kids (Moxie and Zoltan).
January 13th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
“The last one cleared up something I’ve always wondered about him, i.e. whether or not he’s married. Now that he’s affirmed it, I have to wonder what sort of woman could put up with that ego. Unless, of course, it’s all a shtick and his off-screen personality is totally different.”
I think he puts on the egotistical facade has an Appeal to Authority. It makes his arguments sound all the more poignant.
Every interview I’ve seen with him makes him seem like a totally down to Earth and cool guy.
Any insight into this, Phil?
January 13th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
I want “Teller Doesn’t Say”!
January 13th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Just out of curiosity, why is the word “the” misspelled twice in your post above?
January 14th, 2008 at 2:40 am
This makes me smile.
I was an avid listener of Penn Radio–I never missed a show, and still carry some around on my iPod–and, though I don’t always agree with Penn’s opinions, it’s always great to hear them. Once I actually get off of my iPod and onto my computer, these videos will be one of the first things that I check out.
January 14th, 2008 at 5:26 am
Tod said:
“Just out of curiosity, why is the word “the” misspelled twice in your post above?”
It’s something to do with the people who populate the intenet, Tod. They have abused the humble definite article for so long that it has mutated…
January 14th, 2008 at 5:29 am
The BA said:
“Not only is he married, he has two kids (Moxie and Zoltan).”
Wow. It takes some cojones to name one of your kids “Zoltan”! Is he ever gonna suffer whenever there’s a superhero or superspy in town!
January 14th, 2008 at 6:12 am
The only problem I had was the Dr. Phil and Britney Spears was a little misleading.
January 14th, 2008 at 6:25 am
I recall seeing Penn & Teller getting stuck into the Dalai Lama & Mother Teresa on TV recently here in Oz.
Cojones they do NOT lack.
Good manners and respect for other peoples opinions on the other hand …
I don’t know. Sometimes I find them very funny if I’m in the right (cynical, cheesed-off, angry) mood.
Other times they make me cringe …
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All the time they come across as very full of themselves .. and very mean and contemptous of what other folks think.
January 14th, 2008 at 7:12 am
Hmm… I didn’t have any problem embedding the video at my
blog. I just hit the little + at the top right corner of the video and copied the embed code.
January 14th, 2008 at 8:57 am
It’s a shame the video auto-loads, without an option to stop it. It makes the page load really slowly, so I won’t be bookmarking his page there. I prefer simple links to videos, not embedded videos that start downloading immediately when you visit the page, whether you want them to or not. I’m sure he’s got some good content, though.
January 16th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
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