penn jillette: the rock

Through one of those weird internetty trails of story to story to page to page, we found out that Penn Jillette has a podcast. We dig it.

The podcast is a snippet of his 1-hour daily radio show (very annoying setup to actually listen, but that’s corporate America for you; have to know the demographic) — 1-2pm Central — from a station in NYC (though he lives in and broadcasts from Las Vegas. It’s maaaaagic!). We don’t mind so much. Another of our favorite podcasts, Studio360, does the snippet thing, too. And, after tuning in to the actual broadcast, man oh man are we glad we just get the 10-19 minute snippet! That radio station is noi-sy!

Anyway, we are enjoying his podcast. During a recent show, we found that he did a series of Ford commercials with little tricks in them, most famously is the balls in cups trick, except done with clear glass cups. We never saw the commercials live, of course. So, again, in one of those oddball internetty ways of the world, we had to find them online. And thus, theoretically, pay to see what we are getting for free. Whoever can figure out that economic system will win a Nobel Prize.

YouTube has all the commercials. Including the balls in cups one that got Penn and Teller kicked out of the Magic Castle in LA.