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Meeting Penn Jillette

Posted September 16th, 2009 by Jeremy Schoemaker

In the last couple years I have had the fortune to meet with a lot of celebrities.  Sometimes it kind sucks though because unfortunately when you meet them in person they can be real jerks.   Then you are done with them as a fan.

At Techcrunch50 I got to sit down with Penn Jillette for about a hour.  We talked about his iPhone application,  religion, politics, just about everything.  He was really a cool guy and it was a pleasure to meet him.

I asked him if he would do a quick interview with me and he agreed:

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33 comments. What say you?

  1. Good Comment?
    Rosario

    Thank you for this video. There are new things i’ve learned just wayching it. Rosario :)

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    Learn Internet Marketing

    Good stuff!

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    Best CSS Gallery

    It is true that famous people very often turn to be not very pleasant ones. And it is always nice to hear about exceptions.

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    Mailing List Building Blog

    Oh that was a memorable meeting. Isn’t it?
    I can see through the video that he’s really a very nice guy.

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    Steven Finch

    Who is this guy?

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    CoolestGeek

    Hope you had a great time with Penn. Cool interview

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    Popuppost

    Nice interview .. interesting guy

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    Chris Peterson

    Wow! I really liked the interview. He is find such a really charismatic personality. It’s rare to mind such a multi -faceted personality.

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    David

    I dunno if i want Penn’s help in getting laid, having his money might help lol

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    John

    “Sometimes it kind sucks though because unfortunately when you meet them in person they can be real jerks. Then you are done with them as a fan.

    You’re hitting the celebrity status yourself Jeremy. Do you watch what you say more than you did than let’s say last year?

    Cheers

    John

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    hackcorp

    Hah, funny… Too bad the interview is really short. :)

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    Steve

    Thank God you didn’t try to interview Teller cause that interview would have gone nowhere.

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    Kris - Cashtactics.net

    I <3 Penn and Teller. I've been a fan of Magic for a long time.

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    Greg Ellison

    He is very cool and very smart person. That is cool that you got to do an interview and talk with him. Greg Ellison

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    Hemorrhoids Creams

    I love that guy! He is really funny, although sometimes he seems to be an a-hole, but oh well, you can’t have everything!

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    PoKnee

    You are a pretty tall dude Shoe….

    ….Penn seemed to tower over you even while just sitting down. (or it seemed that way watching the video)

    Was that the case?

    He also seems to have a VERY strong personality….was that also the case?

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      Mike

      I don’t know how tall Jeremy is, but Penn is just under 6′ 7″, so there aren’t a lot of people that he doesn’t tower over. ;-)

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    Colleges In

    Penn rocks!!

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    fas

    That is quite funny, off my chair now.

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    Mike

    Glad to hear he didn’t turn out to be one of the jerks. I like those guys and just watched Penn & Teller Get Killed again the other day.

  20. Good Comment?
    Brandon Hartman

    “A lot of married people want to get laid too” Penn is one funny guy. Will have to check out his new iphone app.

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    Black Hat Blog

    His show rocks, cool that you got to meet him!

  22. Good Comment?
    BrianJUY

    I love how you scratch your ear from .42 to .48…

    And I agree with Penn, yes, us married guys want to get laid too…

    Cool interview…

  23. Good Comment?
    Matt Wolfe

    That’s awesome! That guy is pretty hilarious. I love the way he tries to explain how much tricks work, yet by the time he’s done, you still have no idea how the hell they did it. It’s kind of like the internet marketing world.

    Matt

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    Sugar Cribs

    great meeting right???

  25. Good Comment?
    sean

    Did you get to talk to Teller? I heard he’s not much of a conversationalist.

    Sean

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    Lead Generation Solutions

    It’s official, I’m jealous…

    Am I the only one that doesn’t know of his app?

  27. Good Comment?
    Charlie

    When I was doing valet parking years ago he came in with a bright pink ford bronco… With “pink death” written on the back. I don’t remember the exact conversation but I do remember he was just a really nice guy.

  28. Good Comment?
    Juuso

    Met Penn, cool!

    (Magicians don’t make good internet marketers: their specialty is making money disappear…)

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    Edgar

    I love his show. Was his partner in crime there too.

  30. Good Comment?
    Sahil Kotak

    Hey Jeremy, I think that would be a cool feeling. Thanks for sharing your experience.

    Thanks

  31. Good Comment?
    Adam Struve

    Excellent. You got to love Penn.

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