Dr. Peter Weller
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668 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Dr. Peter Weller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But the thing is, if I go look at the clock or look at this news or whatever, I'm not in it, man. Okay? And the last thing, these are like so simple. You think, come on. It ain't that simple. Yeah, it is. You cannot edit. And everybody from Luciano DiCrescenzo, one of the great Neapolitan formalist writers, funny guy, to Woody, to whatever. You write, write, write, write, write, write, write.
Some people call it zero draft. Some people call it draft one. Some people call it a blowout. There are all different names for it. But the second that you get into editing, no, let me go see what I wrote yesterday. You're cooked because then your left brain judgment takes over. Oh, it's all over it, man. Yeah. And you ain't ever finishing it.
Yeah. First thing in the morning. That's really, yeah. And your right brain is flying. It's flying with invention. There's a friend of mine who has a friend who modeled for Salvador Dali. Wow. And he said Dali, he was a model. And he was a legit model. And he was a big cowboy looking guy.
my friend's friend was and dolly would have him dress up different costumes that he had and dolly would sit on a dais uh and he was in new york or at the essex hotel and sit on a dais with like um a hard rubber ball like a handball okay in front of a thing and would look at this guy i'd say move here move there move there and i said hold that And then you just stare at it.
And Dali, this time in the 56s, 70s, right, would fade into, like, alpha state. He'd nap out.
The guy would hold this, right? And the second he'd nap out, he'd drop the ball.
Right? And the ball dropped, and he'd start drawing, like, a fool because that was his alpha state hallucinogenic...
The brainwaves, yeah, man. And that's what we got to source.
Yeah, you're trying to source like, oh, I'll sit down for five hours a day during that. So the whole thing back to your thing about doing the passion thing. I have to get up and play the trumpet.
I quit trumpet and somebody said, get up and play it. It's interesting. When somebody got me back into the trumpet in the early 80s, They said, play it for 15 minutes, man. And they said, play it when you get up. Just like Jane Volker's thing.
It is, isn't it? So I get up and I play the trumpet for a minimum of 15 minutes right when I wake up and wake up my neighbors. But you got to do that when you get up and do it.
And then you got to do a little bit of it, a little bit of it, a little bit. And you're going to say, how did you write your PhD? How did you turn this into a book? I have no fucking clue. Except that I did it in 15 minutes a day.
Mm-hmm. And one thing led to another, led to another, and led to another.
Because I didn't put it on the back burner and wait until Friday after the golf game and all that jazz, man. Right. And the other thing, you know, she does that. Jane Bolger has some other things. Like, you're walking through the thing and you get an idea because you'll get an alpha state idea. Like, oh, Casey Gates wants you to go to History for Weirdos. Write down the History for Weirdos thought.
Put it in your pocket. So you got some notes. So the next day you got a pocket full of notes. But basically, get up and do it. Small amount of time. Zero draft.
I can't believe how that works. Come on. Is that how it works? Yeah. That's how I learned a language. That's how I did things. Because I am not a real smarty pants. I'm a weirdo. I love that. I always say history for weirdos. I'm that guy. I'm not the guy who can stand up in front of a United States Congress and go, you're accountable for this. Screw up with Goldberg. I can't. Yeah.
I can't do that. But I can do the weird version of it.
We'll just come on and complain about it with you guys.
This is amazing. It's funny how you know so much about Cicero.
Well, have you got a degree already?
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