21 DECEMBER 1950- 1 NOVEMBER 2022

" Teller and I first saw Max in the 70s , at some magic convention or something . Maybe NYC , maybe Philly . I don ’ t remember . I don ’ t remember the tricks he did . But I remember the feeling . Teller and I had seen Springsteen a few times before and I remember feeling , “ I have seen the future of magic and its name used to be Phil Goldstein .” He was amazing . I had never seen tricks like that , totally fooled on every single one , and a stage style that killed me dead . He wasn ’ t playing the bland nice guy that everyone else was doing then . He was something else . Something wonderful . Wow .

And after that he just got smarter and better . When there were magical problems that we couldn ’ t figure out , we called Max , and he had a solution for us .

Max will be missed . Magic in general , and Penn & Teller specifically , will be a little less good ."

Penn Jillette