Dr. Peter Weller
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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In finance, probably. Why did you go back, man?
Oh, sure, when Peter Willer asks, you're going back. They wanted me to take a course, despite the fact that I spoke these languages by this time. They wanted me to take a course in German. I took it a night. I took a night course online. There you go. And qualified for UCLA.
Okay, so like my friend Michael, Bram Ball, who is my Latin teacher, my sister-in-law teacher at Catalina Conspiracy, who's now tenured at Tulane, is still a great friend and a funny teacher, man. is actually a Hellenist. How did he learn Greek? He did some of this, did some of this, did some of that. And you've got to do the Jane Bulker thing, man.
You've got to take the course. And then you finally end up taking the course. And by the way, if you want to know Greek and you want to become a Hellenist or a Latinist, That's not difficult, man. That is not difficult. Okay.
That's also true. These are, look, here's where the predicate goes. Here's where the subject goes. Those are those languages. Grammar, yeah. They're not filled with idiomatic expressions like, you know, get your butt off the rock so I can, like, you know. Yeah, that's true. Ground my spirit. There's not a whole lot of that in it. You've got to do it. Also, you've got to read Edgar Watts' book.
I talked about it on the phone. Mortal Republic. The guy from UC San Diego wrote this. He wrote the most accessible book about the first century B.C. that I've yet read. And it's really saddeningly accessible. Saddeningly? Well, because the thing is that he doesn't structure it. I mean, he's a great scholar, Watts. Yeah. Right. But he's not structuring...
the fall of the Republic in the ozone of academia, which is what I had to read it in. And then I had to go like, wait a minute, I got to go back to Cicero. I got to say, did he really screw this up this bad? Was his ego really that big? I mean, was Mark Anthony truly that much of a stud? I think he was, yeah. Oh, he was.
Well, I mean, and did he really want to militarize Rome, you know, and he did, yeah.
Well, totally, and they knew he was, but it was the Republic... That serious? Like, it is not like... Look, man, my only bitch about our republic right now is that my dad is rolling in his grave as a Republican judge and my late twin brother, the Republican, he was a Republican, and the AUSA of the Fifth Circuit, they're rolling in their grave because the great thing about...
Eisenhower Republicans, as much as they were like, or Christopher, the great Christopher Lord's dad, who was one of the great supporters of Eisenhower, is that they could say when politics was harming people, The republic. Exactly.
And so when the head of the Senate, who's a Republican, said stand up and own this stuff that you let this garbage slip to, it doesn't matter whether it's classified or not, own it.
And stop trying to go, well, Hillary did that. Who cares?
It's not now. So the ownership of it, but we don't have that kind of republic right now. No. The republic is not more important than the ego. Now, Watts points out That's an amazing mistake of the Republic under Julius Caesar, essentially, and then Cicero and the Triumvirate and so forth. That the Republic could not get off its purple horse.
And adapt to...
What the change of the vibe was. Mm-hmm. That much of the world was going, hooray, Julia. You know, when you think of Julius Caesar, dictator. Right. Let's go history for weirdos, people. Yeah. Everybody's out there thinking Julius Caesar. Oh, yeah. You know, he went to Gaul and he conquered Gaul. La, la, la, la, la. No. He was a liberal. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Absolute. For the people.
For the people. For the people. For tax revocations. For land for the soldiers. Everybody gets a break here, man. He was against the oligarchy.
And let's enfranchise these people if they're going to work for Rome. Make them citizens. Yeah, they get to pay some taxes and stuff. Stop using them as like third world free labor. Anybody want to think about that?
But the dilemma that Watts' book is so brilliant at is that the... they won't get off the purple horse. I know. There's still this image of what the Republic is supposed to be. And that Republic ain't been there for 200 years. It's the Grockeye Brothers. Yes.
You did? Yeah. Me and this guy.
I love the popularity. Way ahead of their time. Absolutely. They paid for it. They paid for it because they go, hey, got an idea. All these tribes and all these people that have been fighting for us for a long time, man. And, you know, they've been supporting us and so forth. Like, even the people where I live in the southern Italy.
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