Ep. 1496 "I Fooled Penn and Teller"
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
As a fan of magic myself, I was delighted to learn not only that I had a professional magician among my newsletter subscribers, but also that he managed to fool Penn and Teller on their "Fool Us" television program. Doc Dixon is a libertarian (like Penn and Teller themselves), and that comes through in our discussion, but we also get into the weeds of what it's like performing for Penn and Teller, as well as plenty of inside baseball about the life of a magician.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1496. |
| 0:03.4 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.1 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:39.1 | At any rate, get all the details at contra Krugmanbook.com. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. I think most of you folks listening know |
| 0:46.3 | that Penn Gillette of Penn and Teller is a libertarian. Of course, the magician duo. Teller is also |
| 0:52.8 | a libertarian, as it turns out. And so is our guest |
| 0:56.0 | today, Doc Dixon, who appeared on the Penn and Teller program, Fool Us. And not only did he |
| 1:02.0 | appear on the program, but he did in fact fool them. And then when I found out that he was on my email |
| 1:08.5 | list, I said, all right, come on you, OSOB, you're coming on this show. |
| 1:12.1 | We're going to talk this through. |
| 1:13.7 | I have to talk to you about this just because of my lifelong interest in this stuff and the |
| 1:19.5 | fact that there are magicians that I follow closely. |
| 1:22.2 | I go to live performances. |
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