Deepak Chopra | Club Random with Bill Maher
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What is the true identity of Deepak Chopra and Bill Maher in this conversation?
I feel like we met thirty years ago or something because it was politically incorrect. Correct. Do you rec recognize the sign? Isn't that just nostalgia for you? But I love this. Uh yeah. I love this too. But I mean that had to be close to thirty years ago because that show went on in nineteen ninety-three. Yeah. And you were like where were you f not ninety three? You were like just you were just becoming very of the moment. You were in the culture a lot.
Oprah, is that what started the whole No it didn't actually m I had messed up but that one particular one hour with Oprah, I sold um eight hundred thousand books in twenty four hours. Wow. And I was on the New York Times uh number one for like eighty four weeks. So
Let me ask you a uh this is a perfect question for you. Uh I even
said to Oprah, Marry me and you could be Oprah Chopra.
Well you said that to her that's hysterical. Job for yeah. That worked better than the uh Oprah Uma joke Lennerman did at the Oscars. But so like thirty years, that's hard to believe, but it did happen. I can't be you look great. Uh well, I feel good, but as Fran Lieber would when she was sitting there, like people only say When you're older and it has to be said, it's never well, it's assumed when you're thirty. So like Nineteen ninety three, you and I, on politically incorrect. Of course I can't remember any of this 'cause, you know, all these club cigarettes, but I'd so I don't remember what the the conversation was like. You might remember it better, but like the version of ourselves. That was there.
in nineteen ninety three. Like, what would you say about that whole concept of like evolution? I mean, this you you're the perfect person to ask. It's like a are you Are you just a slightly different version of your ninety ninety three self? Are you a completely did you shed many snakes uh skins? Not that you're a snake. Uh like Tell me about what your thoughts on where we are as the river passes under our feet. It's a
very interesting question because, you know, now At the age of seventy six, as I confront the final chapters, even though I'm e I'm healthy, but you know, the last curtain will soon be fucking morbid,
dude.
No, I'm kidding. No I I mean you don't look like you're in the final chapter. Well, in my tradition, Bill, first twenty-five years of life is education. Second twenty-five years is fame, fortune, and family, which I did. Third twenty five years is giving back, and the fourth is actually preparing for deaths and finding Your self-questioning, I'm answering your question about identity, I've come to the conclusion there's no such thing. I mean you say, what is your identity? Fertilize the egg? Zygote, embryo, baby, toddler, teenager, young adult, mature adult, guy with Alzheimer's.
Which one is you? I mean you see Fixated on a Bad Ending. I mean first you've seen Fixated on a Bad Ending. No, no, no,
I'm not because you know my tradition actually you prepare for a happy ending. You A happy ending. That would be a good ending. And that happy ending is you have a party. So I want to die in a massage parlor. You have a party, you celebrate, you say goodbye, and you're not there for the party. And then you close your no, no. You know when you're going to die. Oh. You do? But you don't. I do. You do? Well, of course. I plan to die and meditate.
Yeah. When you're what how do you know how old you're gonna be when you're gonna Yeah, but I'm not telling. You know? Yeah. How do you think you know? Because I'm self-aware. Because you're self-aware. You know, I could take offense at this kind of stuff if I don't, because I like you. I look for like this. To this chapter. It's part of my traditional thousands of years. No, the part I could take offense about is the part about I know things you don't. No, I have powers of knowing things and you don't. I'm sorry, D Pak, I love you, but like you don't know things I could not possibly know. I know the statistical likelihood of different than knowing. I know that too. I can read that. I can Google base
everything.
Bayesian mathematics. But you're saying you know what year you're gonna die and you fucking don't.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the true identity of Deepak Chopra and Bill Maher in this conversation?
0:02–15:08
2
How do they confront the fear of death and the final chapter of life?
15:08–32:31
3
What is the placebo and nocebo effect and why does it matter for medicine?
32:31–49:27
4
What crisis of faith did Mother Teresa experience according to Deepak?
49:27–1:06:59
5
Why does Bill Maher claim he is a fictional character in a collective dream?
1:06:59–1:07:12