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Michael and Us

PREVIEW - #642 - Penn and Teller's Bullshit

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

In the 2000s, there was one form of political iconoclasm that was guaranteed to never get you in any trouble, and it was called libertarianism. At the behest of our Superdelegate patron tier, we return to... (deep, heavy sigh)... PENN & TELLER: BULLSHIT!, with special attention to the episodes "College" and "Safety Hysteria," and remember a popular form of "skepticism" that sounds an awful lot like just being a Republican. PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/135327052

Transcript

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0:00.0

This was a suggestion from longtime listener Eric the Bedhomper, who in his nomination said,

0:05.7

I want to torture you guys.

0:08.4

Luke, you've often remarked that the superdelegates have been generally nice to us when they've suggested things, that we've expected them to torture us.

0:16.7

And this was an invitation for Eric to call our bluff.

0:20.6

So, my God, here we are, back in the pendulumat minds.

0:25.1

I've never felt better about an idea we had to kind of like make the podcast more interesting

0:30.8

or to interact with our audience, to, you know, empower our audience and, you know, make them

0:36.6

feel like the part of this podcast

0:38.9

story that they are.

0:40.7

So what are we talking about again?

0:42.6

What is this?

0:43.2

I can't really remember, but I just know I had a great time.

0:46.2

Pan and teller bullshit.

0:47.5

Again, this is our third episode on this phenomenon.

0:51.2

It is our second.

0:52.8

God.

0:53.4

Our second super delegate episode on this phenomenon. Pan and our second, our second super delegate episode on this phenomenon.

0:57.1

Penn and Teller bullshit for those who don't know or were not alive at the time was a

1:02.0

comedy infotainment show that aired from 2003 to 2010 on the Showtime Network. And it was hosted

1:09.1

by Penn and Teller. And again, if you are too young to know who Penn and Teller are, they were comedy magicians.

1:16.2

They were the bad boys of the magician circuit where, you know, they kind of came to prominence in the 1980s.

1:21.9

And their whole thing was, you know, most magicians don't tell you how the tricks work.

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