The Best

Season 3, Episode 13, Aired
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Penn and Teller skewer our pursuit of "the best" in everything, from neighborhoods to electronics to automobiles to spouses, and demonstrate how such rampant consumerism is a race designed so that the runners never win.
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      • Throughout the episode, they refer to Kobe beef because many consider it to be the best beef in the world. Kobe beef is beef made from cows that are fed a diet enriched with beer and massaged lovingly by attendants in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. Edit

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      • Penn: If you buy into the whole best thing, you gonna get f*cked. Edit
      • Penn: Average food with people you love is a lot better than Kobe beef with an a**hole. Edit

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