I’m your nerd host, Chris Hardwick
Nerdist is a place where we nerds come together and share the nerdery that we find. It's also my home to various elements of the Nerdist Empire. You might recognize me from TV. You don't realize that's where you know me from, but it is. You think you went to college with me or I look like your cousin's friend, but that is not the case. At one time or another you stumbled upon me on your moving picture box in such cerebral gems as MTV's "Singled Out" and Noam Chomsky's "Shipmates." and so much more...
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When are we going to hear from Teller?
He’s talking about Criss Angel, right?
Yep, pretty sure it’s Criss Angel he’s referring to… As a local, I’ve seen both shows, and there’s no question P&T is better (it’s the best show in Vegas, hands down). But I’ve also seen worse than Criss Angel — there are some seriously bad acts here…
Props for the Capriotti’s reference. Forget the pastrami, though — gotta go for ‘The Bobbie’.
Thank you! So great to have Penn back. I imagine Teller sitting in the whole time.
Poll time: Penn’s laugh – best thing or best thing ever?
Yay! I wanted to listen to the other Penn & Teller podcast the other day, but it never loads, and was making me increasingly irritated. But here comes team Nerdist! Reading my mind, and making me happy
Way to go guys!
LIKE
Wait, this is comments on the internet. Let me readjust that. *ahem*
You assholes are the worst thing ever.
More appropriate?
NICE I WAS WAINTING FOR THIS penn said he was going on nerdist on sunday school ive been wating for this very contently now that its here im jizzing a bit
As a skillless and passionless individual I’m leaving a comment in an internet comment thread to say, in my defense, that I am not entirely passionless or skillless. It’s just that all my passion and skill is in making comments in internet comment threads.
I wonder if there are any bookies in Vegas that take bets on how long Penn Jillette can go in a recorded conversation without crapping on another person’s spiritual beliefs.
It’s eerie how much Nerdist is in sync with me. The Youtube channel and podcasts regularly contain content I’m currently interested in. It’s just solidifying my decision to move out to LA next summer and somehow put my Film and Video BA to use for Nerdist Industries.
If you’re referring to his obvious skepticism in regards to ESP and psychics, then why would you need a Vegas bookie? Shouldn’t you be able to, uh, read it in the crystals or something?
So, Vegas in the ’80s was a hipster mecca? Do everything ironically and go to shows ironically.
I swear, for a moment I thought there was something wrong with my internet connection because Penn paused SOOOOOOOOO long during his Dean Martin story.
What was the story Penn told on Celebrity Apprentice about the Nobel Prize? Because there is no Nobel Prize for Mathematics, I’m assuming the story was wrong for the reason why there is no prize, not that there is one. Cause there isn’t one on the Nobel website.
Matt was on fire during this one. The “rewind” comment was pure gold. It’s a good thing I was only drinking water…
Penn should tell his story from the previous podcast about his friend bowling a near-perfect game, as a cautionary introduction to Celebrity Bowling.
Shazam actually does take a unique wave file Chris.
Well, it really takes a sample then uses that as an acoustic fingerprint and then compares that to a database that’s linked to the service.
Doctor Quemmento, well, maybe you and I can read the crystals, but those bookies sure can’t. That’s why it’s always smart to bet all your life savings in Vegas, right? RIGHT?
As for the whole Nobel-in-Math thing, as usual, Snopes.com covers the important ground rather well:
http://www.snopes.com/science/nobel.asp
Danny Gans name backward is Snagy Nnad. A house full of magicians found this out after a year of being in Vegas. So when he died. We respected him by saying “Dude! Snagg Nads died!”
Wow, Penn was right, I do have a scar on my left knee.
Well as a Nobel Laureate in Mathematics myself, I can tell you that it absolutely is smart to bet your life savings in Vegas if you’re a psychic and you know what to bet before you bet it. But if psychics did, in fact, exist then I imagine that all lotterly winners would be psychics, not octogenarians. So if anyone considers me saying that psychics are bogus a shit upon their spiritual beliefs then consider them shat upon, althought that wasn’t my intent.
*it’s
*although
That’s where I went too “Be kind… rewind.”
As a self-professed Dean Martin obsessive, the story from Penn was amazing. I would like to personally offer audio copes from my EXTENSIVE Dean Martin/Rat Pack comedy collection if Chris, Matt or Jonah are interested. It is amazing comedy that holds true to this day.
Also, for anyone interested, a dear friend of mine produced a podcast of the early NBC Radio broadcasts of the Martin & Lewis show and they are fantastic! http://deanandjerry.noebie.com/
*lottery
This is what I get for quemmenting in Internet Explorer.
The nitty-gritty on how Shazam works is at http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf
Penn’s laugh is the best!
Wow this is the first time in my life where I actually gave a lot of thought to whether or not I was a sociopath.
SHAZAM works because the gods granted power to the Wizard to turn Billy Batson into Captain Marvel.
I had that Penn Jillette Dean Martin-esque experience when friend of mine invited me to go see the Foo Fighters live. My punk rock sensibilities could fathom that being anything then ironically humous. I was wrong and my mind was blown.
*humorous
Hey, anybody got a link to the Louis CK / Conan conversation they were referring to?
I don’t believe dean martin was a complete sociopath. I remember in the documentary of Jerry Lewis, when they broke up Dean Martin was very upset, but at the time Jerry Lewis was becoming so insanely huge he wanted to focus more on movies. Which is why when they had a reunion after 10 years of not seeing each other, they both started getting choked up and hugged.