Penn and Teller Bring Airport Security to Stage
The USA Today features a new Penn and Teller routine involving the ubiquitous airport metal detector to their stage at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Vegas.
Penn tells the reporter, “What really bothers us about the TSA is not the men and women employed there. We’re just against the idea of people allowing themselves to give up freedoms when confronted with fear.”
The Bad Boys of Magic added a metal detector identical to the type we have all been through at airports.
“The bit is essentially comparing magicians, who earn their living by doing things that are sneaky and disingenuous, with bad people who do things that are sneaky and disingenuous,” said one of our favorite authors Penn.
(Make sure you read his How to Cheat Your Friends at Poker before seeing the show. It doesn’t have anything to do with the show but it will get you in the mood).
The USA Today article explains the routine as seen by an audience member. We don’t want to ruin it for you. However, if you would like to ruin it for yourself, check out the full article here.
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Penn Jillette’s How to Cheat Your Friends at Poker – Magical
You can call us “moronic,” “unethical,” “psycho,” or “scum-bag-esque” but we admit we love to be verbally abused — especially in writing.
But that’s not the reason we loved — absolutely and in all connotations of the word — Penn Jillette’s How to Cheat Your Friends at Poker.
The book is based on material putatively provided by an old acquaintance of Mr. Jillette, called by the nom de plume Dickie Richard. Mr. Jillette was permitted to create any pseudonym for his source and for some reason chose the name “Dickie Richard.”
Our therapist says were obsessed with these types of things but the name gave us pause.
After all, the last name Richard is rather rare in the United States. The surname is most often “Richards.” According to the U.S. Social Security Death Registry, there are a mere 13,353 folks in their database of over 77 million with the last name spelled in this manner compared with fewer than 40,000 for “Richards.”(Interestingly, there are only nine records for “Jillette”).
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