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Penn's Sunday School

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Penn's Sunday School: Join Penn Jillette and his co-host Michael Goudeau as they go off half cocked. They'll discuss the week's religious news and discuss deep theological questions with all of the insight and wisdom you'd expect from a carny talker and a ex-circus clown. It's a philosophical, fun house mirror maze. You'll laugh and smash into walls until your head hurts.

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Episodes

  1. E732 What Trick Can Follow A Human Heart Brought To Life On Stage?

    How Wes Iseli's Fool Us! trick landed in the Penn & Teller show, ongoing battles with Imposter Syndrome, & how to cheat on essays.

  2. E731 The List on Yoko's Front Door

    McCartney 3,2,1, actively avoiding music theory, & Lance Burton's bus.

  3. E730 A Treatise Ranking High Diving Methods In San Francisco.

    Ways to cure depression: stage work, smiling, & smoking after dumping Goudeau.

  4. E729 Just 'Cause We're Wrong Doesn't Mean We Want to Be

    Penn's favorite sound, a review of Shadow Kingdom, & whom among us is responsible for the deaths of the most birds.

  5. E728 Dolly Parton's Best Feature

    Meta David Bowie, more medical advice from a Las Vegas juggler, & farewell to Jackie Mason.

  6. E727 I Don't Know What Happened, But I Know It's My Fault

    Video game music, kids win arguments, & why we're the bad guys.

  7. E726 Penn Jillette: Bird Hero

    Apex predators as roommates, animals that talk, & Betty White is God.

  8. E725 Where Is Space?

    Farewell to Pam Thompson, Reddi-Rich throws down the gauntlet to Matt, & discord sown by salt water taffy.

  9. E724 Puff Up Your Bun

    Correcting the most literate public speaker in the world, discovering the funniest drawing, & becoming Bob Dylan.

  10. E723 The Worst Show In Vegas History

    Vulture bees, natural alarm clocks, & inspecting neighbors' wives.

  11. E722 Turns Out I Like Obama

    Penn & Teller wrap Fool Us! season 8, Goudeau's return to show business, & 4th of July fireworks,

  12. E721 The Side Hustle (part 2)

    More from The Side Hustle podcast with Sarah Lowe & Chelsea Phillips-Reid: Gigs in costume, chasing bookings, & an infinitely sliding pay scale. (This bank episode was recorded in December, 2020.) thesidehustlepod.com

  13. E720 The Side Hustle (part 1)

    Chelsea Phillips-Reid & Sarah Lowe from The Side Hustle podcast curate stories about how entertainers pay the rent. www.thesidehustlepod.com

  14. E719 John Landis’ Honey In My Tea

    Matt & Penn concoct a hare-brained business scheme without Goudeau's help, Kenny G's Starbucks, & dining with the King.

  15. E718 Penn’s Big Effin Bowl

    Penn & Matt prepare for Fool Us season 8, Penn & Teller do a show for the Caesar's family, & Goudeau learns that making kids do stuff works.

  16. E717 Glenn Alai: Father Of The H-Bombchuck

    Richard Feynman vs. the abacus, a rage-free Jones, & advice for musicians wanting to build ships in bottles.

  17. E716 Olympic Juggling With The World Juggling Federation

    World Juggling Federation founder Jason Garfield pursues making juggling an Olympic sport. www.TheWJF.com

  18. E715 Livin' Bob Dylan's Lies

    The speed of Vegas reopening, what the kids are into, & the rules of showbiz.

  19. E714 Johnny Colorado's Rocky Mountain Fun

    Las Vegas continues to reopen, as Penn, Goudeau, & Matt return to the studio for the first time in 15 months.

  20. E713 Goudeau Is Attacked By UFOs?

    Mystery noises, living that movie life so fly like a G6, & what Penn isn't allowed to discuss on set.

  21. E712 I Have All The Paperwork To Crash My Drone Into The Four Seasons In Budapest.

    Penn returns from Budapest, Hungary, with tales of fine dining & not-so-fine droning.

  22. E711 Don't Everybody Leave with Mac King (part 2)

    Our edit of the second half of Mac King's podcast Don't Everybody Leave, with Jacob Jax, Jason England, Nick Diffatte, Vinny Grosso, & our own Michael Goudeau, featuring Penn as their featured guest.

  23. E710 Don't Everybody Leave with Mac King (part 1)

    Vegas magician Mac King has a new podcast, with Jacob Jax, Jason England, Nick Diffatte, Vinny Grosso, & our own Michael Goudeau. Penn was on it; here's our edit of it.

  24. E709 Tim Minchin (part 2)

    Maturing into gentler, more nuanced politics & beliefs, taking your team to task or leaving it altogether, & Upright with actor/writer Tim Minchin.

  25. E708 Tim Minchin (part 1)

    Composer Tim Minchin's newest album Apart Together, integrating wit into music, & a good reason to leave Los Angeles before a pandemic.

  26. E707 Lewis Black Is Back (part 2)

    A Lewis Black heckle story, a plan for his new special, & the downside of trying different ways to express anger.

  27. E706 Lewis Black Is Back (part 1)

    Comedian Lewis Black as an accomplished Indian playwright, hiker, & president of the United States.

  28. E705 Third Party Gloating

    Bob Odenkirk as Nobody, remembering Michael Collins, & Penn's impersonation of Reddi's impersonation of Penn.

  29. E704 Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti. Those Words In Any Order.

    How to get noticed in the club, Gene Simmons vs. Tom Jones, & Reddi returns from the hospital.

  30. E703 Programs Not Tickets.

    Goudeau & Reddi abandon Penn & Matt for the bulk of the show. The best vent acts, the worst hyp acts, & icing vs. frosting vs. loving yourself.

  31. E702 In"Tent"ion

    Goudeau spends quality time with his mother, the Penn & Teller live show starts again after 421 days, & the podcast begins to fall apart.

  32. E701 Time-Traveling Hecklers

    Penn's first group outing to a circus in the sun, including: Mustard, the joys of parenthood, & the relative market values of entertainment skillsets.

  33. E700 The PSS 700 Club

    Remembering Penn & Teller Get Killed, reviewing the P&T live show rehearsals, & basking in winning the battle, but not the war.

  34. E699 No Whammies In Chloride

    Kevin Macdonald's The Mauritanian, two different takes on the book test, & the highly competitive Wild West gun show market.

  35. E698 I Don't Like The Joke You're Going To Make, So I'm Rushing the Anesthesia.

    Ron Reagan learns Penn's password, bombing on The Colbert Report, & analyzing transgressive jokes.

  36. E697 Dear Herbert

    Trying to connect with your children, dodging a mountain lion, & why every dad should own a wetsuit.

  37. E696 As Clean As The Clean Room At NASA

    How doorstops save lives, G. Gordon Liddy, & Dr. Stockdale's crispy bacon.

  38. E695 P&T's NFTs

    Cheating pronoun confusion, reading all of Tarbell, & "an ocean" vs. "a notion."

  39. E694 It's Official: Penn & Teller Return To The Stage On The 22nd Of April.

    Retiring at age 7, Teller's notes, & workplace nudity.

  40. E693 Alone In The Kitchen, Late Afternoon...I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas.

    The soundtrack of stream of consciousness, a secret verse, & the model lifestyle.

  41. E692 Krack In The Stacker For Mock Apple Pie

    A Rachel Ray fantasy, fish licorice, & how to grow a race car driver.

  42. E691 The Person Who Has The Least Amount Of Control Has The Right-Of-Way.

    Logic's Supermarket, Marilu Henner's eidetic memory, & Eyesmouth-Wrongway.

  43. E690 Penn's Gelato Burns Like Centralia.

    The easiest path to merit badges, the easiest path to reopening the Penn & Teller show, & we debate which of our custom Sideshow Gelatos is the best.

  44. E689 Where Can Danny DeVito Get Scrod Past Pluperfect?

    Improving on roundabouts, the crew plots Penn's next bloodshed, & why Teller's office looks like Rip Taylor's act.

  45. E688 The Pain From Ukraine Comes Out Mainly In Spain.

    Why 2nd degree murder should have tougher sentencing than 1st degree, Penn celebrates his 65th birthday, & we've all found vaccine in the metaphorical Russian bread lines.

  46. E687 Ego Not Based On Achievement

    Z bakes birthday cake, Nomadland, & the finer things: cigars, omakase, boating, & Amanda Seyfried.

  47. E686 Ad Free PSS 686: Nothing Old World About Your Wife's Monkey Ass

    The end of polite conversation, the end of magic, & a love/hate relationship with paint.

  48. E685 Owls Clean The Floor Of The Kitchen

    Advice about late diagnosis of autism, illusions aren't for fat guys, & the writing hazards of Penn, Teller, & Goudeau.

  49. E684 Los Búhos Lavaron El Piso De La Cocina

    Fear of horror, the doctor killer, & the search for shots.

  50. E683 Teller Beats MSNBC In Punditry

    A replica Eiffel Tower for the home, struggling with gender pronouns, & Sean Penn's most cherished possession.

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About this show

Penn's Sunday School: Join Penn Jillette and his co-host Michael Goudeau as they go off half cocked. They'll discuss the week's religious news and discuss deep theological questions with all of the insight and wisdom you'd expect from a carny talker and a ex-circus clown. It's a philosophical, fun house mirror maze. You'll laugh and smash into walls until your head hurts.

Frequently asked questions

How many episodes does Penn's Sunday School have?

Penn's Sunday School has 100 episodes on PodParley. The most recent episode was published on August 10, 2021.

What is Penn's Sunday School about?

Penn's Sunday School: Join Penn Jillette and his co-host Michael Goudeau as they go off half cocked. They'll discuss the week's religious news and discuss deep theological questions with all of the insight and wisdom you'd expect from a carny talker and a ex-circus clown. It's a philosophical, fun...

How often does Penn's Sunday School release new episodes?

Penn's Sunday School publishes a few times a week, based on its 100 episodes since August 2020.
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