Dr. Peter Weller
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668 appearances
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2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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This is the Wild West New York, man. This is right on the hinge of the Harlem Riots and stuff.
And by the way, the Knapp Commission is going on. Serpico hasn't even been shot yet. Right? Billy Friedkin's about to finish his film on French Connection. So this is a New York of cops who are dicey. And it's just the street. So I understand your dilemma with it, right?
Yeah, I took the risk. You know something? I get weepy thinking about it because I took the risk. And then I got nothing but joy and support from my mom. And I think of her often. So, you know, there's an interesting thing about being a sober guy, which I am, is that in the midst of, and I was never really sober. a tank job, like wreck a car, get in a bar fight, end up in jail or whatever.
As a matter of fact, I got in bar fights, but I never ended up in jail and I never ended up killing anybody or hurting anybody willfully. But in spite of that, when one is playing as my friend Mark, another guy who doesn't indulge anymore, said, you know, we were outlaws. It didn't matter how much money you were making.
It doesn't matter if you were going to Studio 54 or how fast a car you were driving, whatever, man. if you're doing drugs in the late 70s, you're looking over your shoulder. I'm sure. Because there's a cop or a thug going to take you down that fast. So he said, do you ever think about that? About two years ago, I thought, yeah, man, we were like, we thought we were impervious. Why?
Because we're white guys of money. And surely they're not going to mess with us. Oh, yeah, they are. And the lunacy of that, and thank God, you know, The spiritual identity or something rang my bell, and I got out of that. But the product of quitting that stuff, one of the great fallouts of it is, as much as one child is the father to the man,
And I've got this great, beautiful, and fantastic, intelligent academic friend who's the head of a department who's still got this bump with her mom. And the mom was one of those hands-on, and she will not go make it up with the mom. Okay, she's 45. How much time do you think you've got to make it up with the mom?
And the thing is that I realized this, that what sobriety gave me is that the child is the father to the man. We just sit there and expect your parents to come to you and say, once in a while that happens. Once in a while a parent comes and says, excuse me for paddling you when you were two or something like that. Now parents don't touch again.
falsely blaming you for whatever or like sending you home too early whatever whatever the whatever the sin is once in a while a parent will do it but most times the parents are excoriating themselves for screwing up that's what most parents are doing and my dad did it with my brother and my dad thought he'd screwed up with me And, you know, I'm in the backyard. I'm shooting Robocop.
My dad's a federal judge, a made guy. And we're cleaning the slate. And my dad was, like, running down some strange stuff that I thought I was going to hold him accountable for. And he was actually thinking that I was accountable for a lot of it. And I was.
And he said, you know, I'd like to say that it was my responsibility for throwing a motorcycle off a bridge and, you know, and getting busted, you know, for drinking beer on the economy and stealing, la, la, la, la, la. You know, breaking somebody's nose in a basketball fight. He said, did any of this ring a bell to you? And I went like, wait a minute, did I do that? He goes, yeah.
You know, and I'm always thinking like, what did I do wrong?
And I go, my God, man.
Yeah, because I pulled his chain about it. I'd just written him a letter using the I word. I'd certainly like to talk to you about this. Were you having a bad time? Were you whatever? But the child, I had to go to him. The child's got to go. The child's got to go up to the parent and go, hey, can you talk to me about this?
I know a guy that was a sober alcoholic and went up to his dad. His dad was very young. He slapped his kids. And then he went up to them when they were teenagers, when the dad got sober, and apologized to his two kids.
And the kids wouldn't accept it. You know, because they're in their teens. Yeah. Going, va fanculo, man. Yeah. We're not letting you off the hook. And they separated from the dad. Okay, now the dad goes on to lead a sober life, a healthy life. Can he get in touch with these kids who are now drinking? Who are now holding him accountable for all his shit? No. No.
And holding him accountable and holding him accountable. And so the dad has to go on his way and go, okay, I made my amends to the man, you know, when they were 17 and 18, but they ain't gonna let me off the hook. And then, thank God, one of them, by the time he turns like 48, goes... He's now sober. He goes, you know, Mike, I forgot it. My dad actually fucking apologized to me.
Yeah. And that's huge. Huge. That's giant. And I never let him off the hook.
And then he goes and asks his dad. This makes me weepy, man. And he's told me about it. He goes and asks his dad forgiveness for holding his dad accountable for the accountability.
And that's maybe the thing that sobriety has given me the most is an objectivity. Look, speaking of history for weirdos, maybe the weirdest history that anyone can walk through is their own. Oh, we're clipping that for social media.
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