Pixar Penn - 12/02/00

Hey, we're visiting scholars at MIT, why not give a talk at Pixar. Our buddy, Craig, invited us out to the brand spanking new Pixar building to be the first people to do a presentation in their auditorium. The new building is amazing. We saw Pixar when it started, and now it's huge. It's like Disney or something. The new building is big and expensive. I don't care much about buildings. It's bolted instead of welded, and the bricks were really laid. That means nothing to me. But, I did love the fact that the art that's all over the building was done by Pixar people. That's very cool. We need art at Buggs & Rudy that's all done by Glenn and Krasher. That's my thinking.

We had a nice lunch with a few of the guys, and then went into the auditorium. Teller and I don't have any presentation together, but we can do Q&A and that's what we did. We were actually pretty funny together. We've never been funny with both of us talking, but this time there were a few joke setups and stuff. It was fun. I'm not sure how much they liked it. We did a lot of anti-psychic stuff, and they seemed fine with that. But, we also did some anti-Liberal stuff. I mean, we talked about the homogeneity of Frisco audiences on the bunny, and gun control. We hit that in a few places. But, mostly it was talking about Blaine and the Masked Magician. Whatever you thought of the David Blaine special, it was great for us. It gets people really interested in seeing tricks, and he doesn't do them live, so he's just selling tickets for us. I sure hope he lasts longer than the Masked Magician.

So, we did another big prestigious thing like at MIT and Oxford, and it was the same thing - we told goofy jokes and got credit for being smart.

Penn

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