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Club Random with Bill Maher

CHAPTER

Reflections on Aging and Regret

This chapter explores the themes of aging, self-awareness, and regret as the speakers reflect on their past memories and personal growth over the years. They discuss the impact of aging on life experiences, relationships, and learning, while also sharing humorous anecdotes from the past. The conversation delves into the nostalgia of the 90s, reflecting on changes in fashion and style, and ends with a contemplation on giving advice to their younger selves to navigate life's challenges.

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Speaker 2
Four? Come on, man. But I mean, we're on 10 years. I finally figured it out. What
Speaker 1
is different about the four that you didn't
Speaker 2
know? Well, one is that we are absolutely perfect for each other. no question. That helps. Two is that I finally did a lot of work on myself and sort of figured out how to be happy -centered, content. And honestly, to like what I was doing, to like myself, because I was skating, but I just didn't really... At some point, I was
Speaker 1
so... You were up and matured. I mean, aging sucks. We all know that. But it's also fucking great, because you're just different in your 50s and 60s. You're comfortable in your skin. You know exactly who you are.
Speaker 2
This is the best version I've been, for sure. Me too.
Speaker 1
I mean, so it's a cruel joke that the God I don't believe in. No,
Speaker 2
but I do. I feel like, especially with my wife, like, you know, we are older. We're both, you know, she's only a year younger than me, but I feel like we are in our best years. It's in me. I
Speaker 1
always think of that when somebody great croaks like, wow, like so much that you put into a life to gather all this wisdom and knowledge and sensitivity and all these good things. And then, you know, that's the time you would want to preserve it. Right, and that's when your body
Speaker 2
started to fail you.
Speaker 1
Right, and that's when it goes, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 2
I mean, I'm definitely hanging on. Hanging on to that, to what youth I have, especially with skating, but I feel you, yeah. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1
I'm a only, it's only about tomorrow person. Like memories, sad memories, memories of things that were bad and sad. They don't make me sad. They make me happy because they're over.
Speaker 2
They're oh yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1
But good memories make me sad because good memories are things that are also over. And fleeting. And fleeting. And in many ways, irreconperable. Oh,
Speaker 2
absolutely, yeah. But the
Speaker 1
future is still the future. No matter how old you are, tomorrow is still... Oh,
Speaker 2
no, and I feel like we're creating incredible memories now because we have that much appreciation, and we have all that experience to understand why we should appreciate that much more. No, I mean, I love life. No, it's way more fun than it's ever been. So
Speaker 1
the fourth wife is the lucky one. Oh. I think we're... She's the one that got the good version.
Speaker 2
Well, but also she was the catalyst. Oh.
Speaker 1
For that. Yeah. Do you ever feel bad about past wives, past relationships? You know, I... Wait, let me finish the question. Okay. Okay. Um, feel bad because you learned something on a later person that you didn't know when you were with the earlier person. And you're like, yeah, that I would have gone better for her and me and you if I had known that then. But I didn't learn it until Susie. But I feel bad because I should have known it when I was with Sally, but I didn't. And so suffered. I
Speaker 2
don't think I get that introspective on it. No,
Speaker 1
I feel that all the time. I feel like, oh yeah, if I hadn't been such a dipshit... I
Speaker 2
mean, I feel like I could say that through so many points in my life, not just with relationships,
Speaker 1
but... So you think it's as ridiculous as I do when people say, I have no regrets? Oh,
Speaker 2
yeah. Well, that just seems
Speaker 1
like you're not accountable for anything. It seems to me like you're not sentient. I mean, how can you not have regrets? Every day I have a regret, even if it's just the most minor ones. Sure. It's like, I never had a perfect day. I dropped on a perfect call. My day was perfect. I was in court.
Speaker 2
I didn't say words. I always wondered what a perfect call sounded like. I
Speaker 1
wonder if you'd hang out and go, that was a perfect call. It's in such a testament to his insanity. To even come up with that concept. I mean, it's just not a phrase that you've ever heard anyone else say. A perfect call. Perfect. A phone call, perfect. Like, no one else in the universe ever put those two things together. A perfect and a phone call. It just doesn't happen, except in the mind of an insane person. That's what people miss about him. He's stupid, of course, but also insane. That is insane. That is a level of insanity of our next, of our past and future president. But I don't want to drag you into politics and... I
Speaker 2
did, you know, I did politically incorrect.
Speaker 1
Oh, I remember. Yeah. You remember the sign? Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Isn't that awesome that I fucking saved that all these years? Pretty cool. Doesn't it look like a cool thing in front of a stripper pole? Yeah, that's perfect. I mean come on man Yeah, I remember again 90s, but that's why I'm saying We obviously I was obviously aware of you then and you obviously had risen to the level where you were on talk shows Yeah,
Speaker 2
I don't know if I was quite prepared or qualified to be on politically incorrect,
Speaker 1
but There were no there were there were no qualifications. That was the point of the show. Yeah, the point was to put together For people who you know were but I always said that was a great name because of the chyron, of course, that we're, you know, senator, you know, actress, skateboarder, like perfect. This is what I'm trying to do, create this train wreck of mismatched people. And do you remember who you were on with? No,
Speaker 2
I don't. I remember I tried to get a few words in edgewise and I just... It didn't land. Somebody was drowning you out?
Speaker 1
Could have been Paulie Shore. It
Speaker 2
was not Paulie Shore. I would have remembered that for sure. I feel like I would have been like I had a little chum with him. But I mean, when you do
Speaker 1
see stuff, you know, from the 90s, occasionally they'll rerun something somewhere or something. I mean, it does look like the land that time forgot. Oh, yeah. The hair, there's a certain kind of, I think it was Armani influenced suit that men were wearing. The thin leather jackets. That too. I mean, it wasn't as horrific as the 80s with the hot pink and the hot ice blue. But there is a kind of a look and the ties, or if you see a movie from the 90s and it's like, wow, that should be recent. And it's a, I mean, that show went on 31 years ago. Right. I mean, 31 years is, you know. That's a lot of taped conversation. That's a chunk of time. I know. I don't know where it goes or of course you can't get it back. But what would you tell your like, if you have one thing to tell your young self from your old self, what would you tell them? What would save you the most pain that you could say to a person?

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