Penn Jillette on fire-eating and the recovery plan

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But there are some things that are just intuitive.  Did you know, that if you’re going 100 mph, directly at a very, very thick, reinforced concrete wall, and you speed up, so you’re accelerating right when you hit the wall that the accident you have is going to be much worse than if you’d jammed on the brakes as soon as you saw the wall at the end of the street?  Did you know that?  It’s exactly what everything you know and feel would tell you, and it’s exactly true.  Most times when you’re driving, or playing with fire, or handling money, the thing that makes sense to you is also true.