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 just some personal goodies, like a couple of houses and a whole bunch of money and some stuff. And I like them. And the purple Republic goes, okay, kid, you go with Lepidus and your soldiers from Spain and kill that asshole and we'll think about giving it to you. And he goes, okay, okay, you promise you'll give it to me? Yeah, sure.
So off Octavian goes with the General Lepidus to get Mark Antony. And they get him trapped up, you know, by Bologna. And they go, hey, we got him trapped. And the Republic, the purple, goes, not good enough. We said kill him or you're not going to get your stuff. And he goes, look, man, the stuff is rightfully mine, man. Julius said it. I want the yachts and the Ferraris, man.
Give me the shit, man. And they go, no. And he killed him. Okay, so it gets him even more trapped by this lake outside of what's now Bologna. And he says that... I love this. This is a short film. Some people say it's just one legionnaire, the guy who's head of a cohort. And I forget what the... And all my Latinists are going to go, Weller, come on. We told you who this was.
The guy that's head of 500, like his right-hand guy, right, is activist military general. Oh, I know what you're talking about. I forgot the word, too. I can't think what it is. So I like it's one guy. Some people say it was actually 10 or 15 guys, but I like the one guy. One guy rides into Rome, very articulate dude, and interrupts the Senate. And they go, you're interrupting.
He goes, yeah, but I got words from your friend Octavian. And they go, what is it? Guy walks in, right? You know, armed to the hilt with his helmet and his crew of his arm. He says, I'm going to tell you this, guys, all 900 of you, right now, Octavian wants his will executed now or you're going to be in deep shit. And they go, how dare you threaten us? He says, I'm just saying.
He wants his will executed now. He's giving you two times. He's giving you two chances. This is his third chance, and you're out. So I want to go back and tell him that you're executing his will now. Right? Or is this going to be deep shit? And they say, get the fuck out of here. You can tell that kid to fuck off. We're the fucking republic. We're the fucking purple.
He goes, okay. And the next thing you know, they all get a phone call, including Cicero. Cicero's made his speeches against Marc Anthony. And guess what's happened? Octavian has gone over to Marc Anthony and goes, look, you're stuck in the Alps. I'm stuck down here. We ain't ever going to fight it out, man. Why don't we make a deal?
you and me together, we'll include Lepidus, who's the general from Spain, and the three of us, just like my dad, just like Marcus Licinius Crassus, just like Pompey the Great, in 59, in Luca, we'll make a triumvirate right now. And all 500,000 or 250,000 of us will ride down to Rome and tell those fat cat bastards to give it up. And Mark Andes is done.
And so all those guys who told Octavian to blow off, you're a kid, you don't know shit, they underestimated his intelligence. This is Alexander again. This is a guy with a vision. This is a teenager with a total vision of the world like Alexander had. This is not a guy on a horse. You know, the Demosthenes thought it was just legions. No.
This is a dude who wants to take all the Hellenic ideals and throw them like potato chip crumbles into the world so that we'll grow up with an idea of a republic, an idea of space, an idea of architecture, an idea of plays, of theater, of science, and so forth. There ain't nobody with visions like that too much, man.
People say like, you know, this isn't a day when you can, not like Cyrus the Great who also did the same thing, but in a day when, speaking of history of weirdos, when you take a talk about conquest and disbursement and murder and get rid of them and enslave them. Yeah. No, that's not what Alexander was about, man. You don't enslave jack shit, man. You spread the culture in there and educate them.
Yes. And they were with you. Yeah.
Yeah, intermingle because you can't, afford slavery. Right, exactly. And not only is it morally oppressive, it's too fucking expensive. You know, it's better to educate a man and have everybody on the same side. Okay, that's what Octavian is doing. Octavian is telling him, okay, you know what? Let's go in. And man, that republic goes... And they call up Cicero and say, hey, Cicero... Guess what?
They made a deal. What? Oh, gosh. Yeah, those speeches we told you not to make against Mark Anthony, he's coming in and down. Yeah, you shouldn't have made them. And he's looking for blood. He's looking for blood, and they kill him. And you know what happens to Cicero, Casey? Mark Anthony personally cuts off his head and hands, personally.
And nails him in the forum to the roster.
His head, boom, his hands. And said, this is this dick.
Cicero, this douchebag. Who's not a douchebag. He's one of the great guys. Everybody's ego got the better of him. Oh, absolutely.
It's going to make a great miniseries. Absolutely. We would love that. In contemporary time.
Cicero.
Power, Lust, and Violence in a Republic Just Like Yours. Oh, my God. That is perfect. That subtitle is incredible.
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