Bill Maher
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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With the present.
And everything bad in the present is the worst that's ever happened.
Right, right.
I try to tell them, I don't even need history books to know something like this.
You lived it.
I saw America like you did, but not like you did.
That's why I'm asking you, because I can't know what you know.
Our fathers may have crossed paths.
Well, my father was in radio news.
We lived in Jersey, but he commuted every day into Manhattan.
Oh, okay.
And maybe your father was... He was interviewed every now and then.
That's what I'm saying.
Well, I would hardly call that the business.
But radio news, yes.
I mean, that was what put the thing.
It was the era when radio, every radio station had news at the top of the hour.
And you would have five minutes of news.
And you know, even us kids listening to WABC, Cousin Brucie, we had to like sit through five minutes of news.
I feel like we don't ask kids.