Can we just appreciate tellers penmanship with a can

@shaynehughes6645

3 жыл бұрын

His Pennsmanship*

@haukerikjacobsen3580

3 жыл бұрын

@@shaynehughes6645 woosh

@yoyochinb3742

3 жыл бұрын

@@haukerikjacobsen3580 how was that a woosh?

@haukerikjacobsen3580

3 жыл бұрын

@@yoyochinb3742 dunno if this is what Nab ban intended, but "Penman" Pen and teller, Pen the man, Penman

@henryambrose8607

3 жыл бұрын

@@haukerikjacobsen3580 but his name is Penn, not Pen. That's the joke that the reply was making, not the original comment.

So the FCC won't leave me be or let me be me so let me see, they tried to shut me down on MTV but it feels so empty without me

@harvey4385

3 жыл бұрын

Let me be*

@nemoschmitz2374

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought when I saw the title. I had no idea what FCC even stands for but it automatically triggered that song in my brain

@Uatemydoodle

3 жыл бұрын

Whenever I see the fcc, that's the only thing that goes through my head.

@hihi-dz6dx

3 жыл бұрын

That’s what I thought lol

@travlynpantana9945

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking

Little did they know: that it would be the massive corporate enterprises with more power because the government doesn't go after monopolies anymore.

@jack_papel

3 жыл бұрын

The government now directly supports monopolies, unfortunately.

@sweet.n.soursauce

3 жыл бұрын

@Kris W teddy roosevelt would like a word

@Levi-gh1sq

3 жыл бұрын

@@sweet.n.soursauce I'd say it's time for some good ol' trust bustin

@silverblondguy3

3 жыл бұрын

@Kris W wrong president there, buddy

@JonatasAdoM

3 жыл бұрын

@@silverblondguy3 He'll talk to him after he gets shot.

Will the FCC not let you be?

@jaggerjdm9787

6 жыл бұрын

won't let me be me

@timykroell5831

6 жыл бұрын

Tryna shut me down on MTV

@kavir3359

6 жыл бұрын

But it feels so empty without me

@ashlet6035

5 жыл бұрын

So c'mon get... Just get with it FCC.

@snailsaredumb9412

3 жыл бұрын

Love you

I'm a New Zealander. NOTHING on tv is censored. We just have shows with swearing and intense violence at certain times of day/night and have parental warnings at the beginnings. It is a parent's job to choose what shows a child watches, and an adult can watch/listen to/see whatever he/she damn well wants!

@ARCtheCartoonMaster

Жыл бұрын

One thing that annoys me about American TV is that they just display the rating in the corner when the show starts, and it's so easy to miss. Compare that to Australia, where they flat-out announce that the programme is rated PG, M or MA15+, and why.

@zomgpirate

Жыл бұрын

I shid my pant

@VolkColopatrion

7 ай бұрын

i mean the government seems to like surpressing speech these days sasdly :(

Wellcome to 2017

@TheLinkoln18

5 жыл бұрын

Welcome to 2018.

@MMArtsRock

5 жыл бұрын

Welcome to 2049

@alexanderpovey1973

5 жыл бұрын

Welcome to Jurassic park

@yungmoneyincorporated601

5 жыл бұрын

2019

@noatoe760

3 жыл бұрын

2021😷

Jefferson never said the first part of that quote. It first appeared sometime in the 50's from political cartoons in newspapers. However, Jefferson did say the second part in one of his letters. They are both good quotes and pretty much mean the same thing.

@innertuber4049

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

The FCC is basically a government department to counter First Amendment RIGHTS. However, I can understand the FCC’s “technical” role in preventing radio interference and ensuring every station or service is able to operate freely without technical, business, or political interference-to maintain free speech, and not restrict it.

Every time I hear a new Jefferson quote I realize how brilliant he was

@lolmcswagger7247

3 жыл бұрын

He never said the first part though, those founding father dudes weren’t exactly small government

@john-zf1yb

3 жыл бұрын

@@lolmcswagger7247 some were though Jefferson was for small government but Hamilton was for large government.

@thatoneguymatt987

3 жыл бұрын

Their versions of small and big government today would be like, Tiny and Small Government

@lineialquantum

2 жыл бұрын

He was a piece of shit who owned and raped his slaves

I can't hear "the FCC" without thinking, "won't let me be"

@TheLibermania

3 жыл бұрын

I immediately have the Family Guy song in my head

Welcome to 2021 See this line works at any point

They saw this shit 13 years ago from the FCC over regulating. No wonder they knew so many tricks and things

Kinda wonder what their thoughts on today's current events are. I feel like if Penn told us they wouldn't be allowed on tv anymore.

@bcampbell12095

3 жыл бұрын

Still surprised they got away with as much as they did back in the day on Bullshit. glad these clips have started making rounds again

@stabbityjoe7588

3 жыл бұрын

Only recent thing I could find was an interview from Penn in 2018 on how much he hated working with trump and thinks he’s doing a shitty job as President but that’s not surprising since he’s a libertarian.

@ForeverLaxx

3 жыл бұрын

@@stabbityjoe7588 It's interesting to look at what he was doing, when we wasn't embarrassing the country with foreign faux pas. I don't like the man as a person: I think he's a narcissistic baby that's used to getting what he wants when he wants it, but he didn't exactly "ruin everything" like the Left wants to pretend he did thanks to the curated hit pieces they shoveled out constantly. What I do know, though, is that Biden has already started claiming programs, measures, and actions that first started spinning during the previous administration.

@raydehn5565

3 жыл бұрын

@@ForeverLaxx that's what every administration does

@ForeverLaxx

3 жыл бұрын

@@raydehn5565 They're rarely this bold about it, though, and they almost never frequently declare the previous administration for "doing nothing" while all evidence points to the contrary. What usually happens is a previous President's policies cause changes in the system that the new President attributes to their reversion of those policies. Things take time to develop, but the general voter doesn't understand that. They want instant results, so the "New Guy" enacts a policy (read: undoes the old one), and since the old one was already in motion and heading in a probable upwards direction, they say their cancellation of that policy is what actually caused the upturn when that kind of turnaround is almost always impossible.

"I work for the single largest division in hell! The FCC!" Quote taken from Sam & Max

@Pelcurus

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, those were the days. Now the FCC just makes coffee for social media giants and Hell itself works for the Chinese government.

This is one of the best shows ever. Very under-rated

Wow! Didn't know Pen and Teller were that much aware! Nice!

Yes, you are right. Liberalism does mean placing importance on freedom. I do often tell people I am a liberal in the true meaning of the word "liberal", but the way this word is used today is so different by how it is meant to be used. And so people who identify themselves as "liberals" today do not represent my views whatsoever. Thus, when I call someone a liberal I am implying that he belongs to the ideology of today.

Wow. That is exactly how it should be! I don't want my kids to watch A LOT of things, but it's my job to make sure they don't! People want to blame everything but themselves way too often.

I love Penn Jillette because I can disagree with him on so much of what he believes and yet still find common ground on so much more. Our political and religious views might be in complete opposition, but when it comes to free speech, we're in perfect harmony. I long for the days when this was commonplace to resurface again.

@permeus2nd

11 ай бұрын

You find that a lot, if you just take the time to listen to people even ones you disagree with you find that there not that different from you, I also disagree with him on quite a lot of stuff but he is a smart man but even the smartest men can still be wrong. Penn dosnt believe in real magic myself I’ve seen and even done too much stuff to not believe in it, as an example for years now both me and my mum have heard the other one of us call them from other rooms only to check on the other and find them asleep or in another part of the house or is some cases not home at all, you can always tell it’s not the real person as the voice dosnt sound quite right but as my mum is disabled and critically ill I have to check on her even if I know it wasn’t really her, the oddest phantom voice I heard was my own voice calling me from downstairs and to make it even more impossible it wasn’t the voice you would hear or the voice I would hear if it was recorded it was the voice I hear in my head as I talk, I have no explanation of what it is I have guesses but nothing provable so it gets filed under supernatural, and just to prove it wasn’t just in our heads we have both been in the same room and heard one of us call one of us from somewhere else we both heard it and other people have heard it too. Penn has said he wants to believe but to date have never found anything he couldn’t explain or wasn’t someone hoaxing it and sadly there are soooooo meny hoax’s people trying to make a quick buck of their ghost encounter when it’s really just fishing wire, why is it all the stuff that’s moving is moving towards the camera? Or towards a point on the wall that has pipes on it that you could be use as an anchor point for the wire?

Damn... This is really deep. Back then the FCC came for TV and radio but now they come for the internet

FCC is ran by corporate interests now a days. We were so worried about what big government was going to do, we didn't think about corporate monopolies taking the reins.

love them both

This grinds my gears.

I love these guys

It was a Jefferson quote, Ford re-quoted it in his address to Congress. Jefferson also followed that quote with “The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.”

Beautifully said.

THANK YOU! finally someone who can tell the difference.

Welcome to 2021.

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@CertMediocre

3 жыл бұрын

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One of the best non fiction shows ever!

Privatize censorship and all you have to do as a government is fund them. This video is more relevant today than it ever has been.

It makes me angry every time I hear my taxes r spent to force something on someone or takes something from someone.

@theconductoresplin8092

6 жыл бұрын

That's why I won't pay them when I'm older

@davidstorrs

3 жыл бұрын

I think there are some things that the government forces on people / takes from people that are okay. For example, they take my money in the form of taxes but I'm happy about having a national army and veterans who have served our country getting good medical care. I'm also okay with the government taking the liberty of convicted murderers. So...yeah. I feel like there are some good actions taken by government. How about you? Do you agree with any of this?

@gabe8168

3 жыл бұрын

@@theconductoresplin8092 offending the IRS is more scary than offending a pirate. Don't pay your taxes and you'll have Uncle Sam knocking at the door

@theconductoresplin8092

3 жыл бұрын

@@gabe8168 I'll find a way

@FifthHydra39076

3 жыл бұрын

@@theconductoresplin8092 tax evader time

"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." Gerald Ford, Presidential address to a joint session of Congress (12 August 1974) just fyi that this was misquoted and mashed with an actual Thomas Jefferson quote. "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yeild, and government to gain ground." - Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, Paris, 27 May 1788

You just got Penn and _TOLD_

I love how well they aged

I mean the fcc does keep radio waves regulated so that the air isn't congested with random shit

This aired on the sole episode of Penn & Teller's Humbug!

FCC has even started the control what we see and do on the internet. Now companies like Verizon and Comcast can control what we pay for. And what page loads at what doesn’t.

FACTS have never gotten in the way of P&T having their fun. Regulating communications in the United States has been going on since the Radio Act of 1912. The military, emergency responders, police, and entertainment companies all wanted to be able to get their signals out over the airwaves to the right audiences without interference. The Radio Act of 1912 helped to establish a commission that would designate which airwaves would be for public use and which airwaves would be reserved for the various commercial users who needed them. In 1926, the Federal Radio Commission was established to help handle the growing complexities of the country's radio needs. In 1934, Congress passed the Communications Act, which replaced the Federal Radio Commission with the Federal Communications Commission. The Communications Act also put telephone communications under the FCC's control, which was a major change from the previous regulating structure that was in place. The FCC was also created to help break up some of the communications monopolies that had developed by 1934. The most notable monopoly that was broken up by the FCC was the National Broadcasting Company, which eventually spawned the American Broadcasting Company. www.mitel.com/articles/history-federal-communications-commission-fcc

I hate the FCC. They cut out all the best stuff out of shows!

@sweatysocks8214

6 жыл бұрын

sayyouwantthis I come from the future. The FCC will try to screw with the Internet.

@rogelioproa559

6 жыл бұрын

they're trying but won't succed, search: fight for the future and do whatever it takes.

@ryanduffy6089

4 жыл бұрын

@@rogelioproa559 I come from the future. They succeeded

Man, if only the Internet stayed that way. :(

misread the title as FGC instead of FCC, them fighting games gettin to my mind

magicmike - He has always been called Pennryth as far as I have heard. Have you seen Pennryth and Teller's trick involving the truck?

It's just Penn and Teller in your vicinity like... ...Kenan & Kel.

@W1kk3dMango No problem. I love that show.

Watching this in 2018, so yea, they control the internet

Welcome to 2021

Absolutely

@PissedPlayinPimp The FCC is important in some sense because they also make sure that radio waves do not affect create other systems. For example, in the late 70's, american bus manufacturers had put in better brake systems which used radio signals instead of the old system. One day, a bus had stopped because its breaks had locked up on a bridge. Investigators found that a radio dish from a building not far away caused the system to lock up. The FCC makes sure that doesn't happen now.

I was the guy who actually did the background =)

"My question would be, if some board does not control the vile filth that people want to put on TV and such, then who will?" Consumer and supply and demand. If filth and raunchy stuff were unpopular no one would air them.

Haha in Canada South Park isn't censored. :D

Because who needs freedom of speech, right?

@Vyt3x

3 жыл бұрын

8 years ago, thos might have been valid, but we have an epidemic of people believing and spreading dangerous misinformation, which can and should be regulated (or, idunno, just like, fix yer fucking education system)

@alexandervowles3518

3 жыл бұрын

@@Vyt3x tbh I'd rather freedom of speech than overt censorship and enforced compliance with state guidelines.

The Federal Communications Commission needs to go.

@connorcriss

6 жыл бұрын

Gammareign that’s a really, really, REALLY bad idea. Taking away net neutrality was bad enough, but if the whole thing was gone, cable companies could literally do whatever they wanted.

@maxbuskirk5302

6 жыл бұрын

There needs to be a balance between the government and companies. Either one can ruin society. Working together, or, perhaps, limiting each other, society can be better than either one option alone.

@lightamplifiedbystimulated7526

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for telling me what fcc stands for so I don’t have to google it

@Jemalacane0

5 жыл бұрын

@@connorcriss I would rather that control go the states. As it is, the F.C.C. doesn't care about net neutrality and they are idiotic about broadcast T.V. And like Penn said, the F.C.C. should have no business regulating content.

@TheGreatRL yep! found it, thanks man!

Several years ago, I discovered Comcast had been overcharging me for a period of about 6 months. All told, I spent about 8 hopeless hours over the course of a few days, on the phone with various comcast workers trying to get the money (about $250) reimbursed. No luck, they weren't going to return a single cent. I had heard, during the course of researching my particular issue, that if I were to file a complaint with the FCC, Comcast would legally have to acknowledge and respond to my complaint within a period of a few days. So, I took a few minutes and filed one. The very next day, I received a call from a Comcast manager, who apologised to me for my trouble. In addition to my refund, I received a 50% rate reduction for the next few years (but that was only because I threatened to leave comcast.) The FCC apparently straightened chose c**ksuckers right out

@seigeengine

3 жыл бұрын

Government regulation of private parties isn't, of itself, the problem. The problem is when that regulation becomes less protecting the interests of the people, and more controlling what the people can choose to see.

@mrman8541

3 жыл бұрын

@@seigeengine It is reasonable to have set hours to protect children from certain things, but after that watershed anything should be fair game as long as it isn't illegal. It's what we have in the UK. And it certainly shouldn't apply to the news.

What episode is this from??

brilliant! i love that fucking show.

It’s the fellas at the freakin FCC

I really hope teller did the humbug at the top bc that's badass

They were appointed by the people we elected. Furthermore, government exists to protect and defend our liberties. If it isn't big enough to do that we can be taken over by any entity big enough to do so, be it another country or a corporation. Don't forget that we are our government. It wasn't imposed on us by outsiders. Pay attention, be active, and vote.

2021...

Pretty much every technological home device bears the FCC seal

If the FCC went away that doesn't mean that Nickelodean, Cartoon Network or other kids channels would go away. Those network could put on programming with lots of violence in them but they don't. And of course we also have the V-Chip.

Fucking hell, these guys were legit.

@MrMooseheadbeer You know, if you read the description, it tells you.

Agreed

2021... laughs histrically

How true

Aren't they magicians?

How far we have fallen

Jefferson never said anything like that, it's never been written in any of the ample and copious letters we have preserved. The closest he ever put to paper was this: "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground. As yet our spirits are free. Our jealousy is only put to sleep by the unlimited confidence we all repose in the person to whom we all look as our president. After him inferior characters may perhaps succeed and awaken us to the danger which his merit has led us into." This was written in 1788 to Edward Carrington, in reference to the then-ongoing work on writing the U.S. Constitution, and the person of merit he refers to is George Washington, so the concern he writes about is not the power of the government or the legislature, per se, but the extraordinary powers the Constitution chose to endow the Executive branch with. It had nothing to do with the modern conceits on social policy referred to in the highlighted quote, which was likely penned in the 1950's by some ardent anti-Marxist. So, if you're going to quote founding fathers on the scope of government and the right to private property, do your homework, please. Like any of these: "The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management" Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. "A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings." Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 1816. "He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force." Jefferson to Edward Bancroft, 1788. "That, on the principle of a communion of property, small societies may exist in habits of virtue, order, industry, and peace, and consequently in a state of as much happiness as Heaven has been pleased to deal out to imperfect humanity, I can readily conceive, and indeed, have seen its proofs in various small societies which have been constituted on that principle. But I do not feel authorized to conclude from these that an extended society, like that of the United States or of an individual State, could be governed happily on the same principle." Jefferson to Cornelius Camden Blatchly "The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. If for the encouragement of industry we allow it to be appropriated, we must take care that other employment be provided to those excluded from the appropriation. If we do not, the fundamental right to labor the earth returns to the unemployed... It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state." Jefferson to James Madison, 1785

@codegeek98

3 жыл бұрын

pinnable comment right here; thanks for the in-depth answer

@seigeengine

3 жыл бұрын

This is correct, but, more importantly, do not worship the words of any man. An idea's merits are equal regardless of who spoke it.

Which means the staff who wrote the script Penn is reading off the teleprompter was a little more stable. Penn Jillette, proud high school graduate.

@W1kk3dMango The "profanity" episode, I think

@Coshka77 thank you dr seuss

Relevant in Canada rn

You know if the FCC was gone it would be a lot easier for smaller groups to get their own radio or TV stations, which would increase competition on the airwaves, which would probably lead to better shows.

I LOVE YOU DOG

Pen and tellar hating net neutrality before it was a thing

@PunchBug-nd3pp

5 жыл бұрын

lol

@Neo2266.

5 жыл бұрын

Jason Miller Hating THE REPEAL of Net Neutrality

Yeah, dude.

@W1kk3dMango umm that doesn't sound like it from your previous comments

It saddens me that they didn't vet their sources. Thomas Jefferson never said or wrote the quote provided; it is properly attributed to Gerald Ford.

Yep...agree.

I'm with magicmike - WHERE have you heard this? Please cite a source I can go look at/listen to myself as I am INTENSELY curious about this; both IMDb and Wikipedia give his first name as "Penn", period. And even a Google search for "pennryth" just comes back HERE to three comments made on KZread...

So the FCC won't let me be Or let me be me So let me see...

The freakin fcc..

This small segment of a half hour episode on profanity was meant solely to bash the FCC for censorship they even say there's no reason for it to exist. The episode was not about the FCC or media in general but instea dit was on profanity. Getting into how the FCC allows a few companies to control media would've been off topic.

"Hypocrisy doesn't bother me. If you say one thing and do another, you've doubled your chances of me voting for you." - Penn Jillette. (That quote's accurate.) As it happens though, it proves the point even while undermining the man. Regardless of what they gave lip service to, Nixon & Ford (and many others) demonstrated that we shouldn't give anyone power that we have to "trust" them to use it.

Oh boy

Considering that suit was started long after this episode aired I fail to see how it's relevant.

Now the FCC won’t let me be...

JET SET RADDIIIOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

And getting a 30 day ban on Facebook brings me here.

And this not only took place way after the episode aired but has nothing to do with the subject presented in this clip.

Further more, the only people I ever hear advocate the abolition of all the major monopolies in this country (the Federal Reserve system, The public School system, the FCC, etc.) are Libertarians.

Would penn and teller feel the same about youtube and google now a days? Probably not.

Not sure but I saw some FCC labels on a game console box so they must've been involved somehow (and no the FCC can not censor games).

@BigCatOO91 I'm not sure what FCC you're thinking of. I remember one just passed a bill with net-neutrality in the title that did the exact opposite though, and that constantly ignores the petitions of millions... If you want a real bill that protects net-neutrality check out Sentor Cantwell & Franken's bill "Internet Freedom, Broadband Promotion, and Consumer Protection Act of 2011".

Penn and Teller 2024

@J88Wolf Because apparently, these words are "bad". Not because of their definitions. Many of them don't even HAVE set definitions. But because of the specific arrangement of letters and syllables. At least, that's the only explanation I can come up with, for why "Shoot!" means exactly the same thing as "Shit!", but only the latter is ever censored, for any reason. And yes, in the words of Penn Jillette himself....That's Bullshit.