Fifty Years, Part One

Penn's Sunday School

Society & Culture, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Penn and Matt are joined live at the Magic Castle by special guests Handsome Jack, Randy Pitchford, and Piff the Magic Dragon for a full recap of Penn & Teller’s performance at Radio City Music Hall, including a surprise from Pilobolus, a backstage first in 50 years of performing, old hits vs. new hits, Piff’s experiences playing Radio City and the London Palladium, and lots more.

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0:00.0	This is Penn Sunday School.
0:04.4	And to our listening ears,
0:07.8	all make your sings and round the strings, the music on the sleeves.
0:14.4	This is Penn Sunday School.
0:17.3	Brothers, sisters, siblings, welcome to Penn Sunday School.
0:19.9	I'm Matt Donnelly, and we are broadcasting from the Pellar Theater at the Magic Castle.
0:24.4	Magic Castle.
0:25.0	In Los Angeles.
0:26.4	Yeah.
0:29.8	And this week, Penn did a show at a little place called Radio City Music Hall.
0:35.0	And he also hosted a morning show of the CW for no reason.
0:38.5	And then he also did a reunion at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival.
0:42.7	Easy for me to say, here he is, Preach and the Love, brought to you by Masterclass Penn.
0:47.8	Yeah, this is a Preach and Love brought to you by Masterclass.com slash pen.
1:12.3	That's masterclass. Dot com slash pen. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They have lifelong learning and you cannot get 50% off. Go there. They also support our show. They've kept us going for years and years and years. So thank you to Masterclass. Okay, I'll just see what time it was,
1:10.5	so I know how long we've been going. Are we done? Yeah, that's it. Thanks for listening, everybody. I don't know which to talk about, because I think Piff and Randy are going to blow by. Okay. Handsome Jack is already here. And they were all at Radio City. All at Radio City. So maybe we should wait for that. I think we'll wait for that. And we'll wait for, maybe we'll wait for the Renfess too.
1:44.7	So how are you doing here at the Magic House? I'm doing good. I'm doing a little run here at the Pellar Theater, which is the lovely, what I've been calling the creepy basement show. And down here with my friend Nick Paul, I'm doing a duo duo show. About a 40-minute duo show down here.
1:45.3	It's been super fun.
1:42.7	Is it going over well? It's going over well. Yes, so second time teaming up down here and putting a show together. It is improved since our first one. Actually, Jack was here when there's a bunch of people who were like literally dripping on drugs. and when he saw the show he goes I literally can't give you notes
1:44.0	because I don't know what show you were like literally dripping on drugs and when he saw the show he goes
2:01.5	I literally can't give you notes
2:02.8	because I don't know what show you were going to do
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