Dr. Peter Weller
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668 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Well, that's because of Allie. You know, Allie got me with a French teacher and I learned Italian.
Five, not bad. That's incredible. I speak Japanese. If I can go over there and pick it up again and stuff.
But, yeah, by the way, I never started until I was 40. Really? So everybody says, I wish I'd learned. You know what? It's easy. And Ali gave me the thing. I'm going to digress and tell you. Okay. You take the lesson every week.
You get a kid from a school, from an undergrad program at UCLA, USC, whatever, man. So you've got to pay them $75 a week or $50 a week or whatever the heck it is. But you don't miss the lesson, A, whether you've done the homework or not. You've got to hear that language every week. That's what she said. Don't miss the lesson.
And if you have to go abroad, take your little stupid book and go, excusez-moi, je voudrais le verre d'eau, la, la, la, la, la. Raise your hand and be. And the second thing is you've got to make an ass out of yourself. You have to be willing to make an ass out of yourself. You have to be willing to be because Casey's got a two-year-old, four-year-old.
You've got to be the two-year-old going, mama, scusi, I want.
Yeah, exactly. And that's how you learn a language.
But most adults don't want to be that idiot, right?
Now, the thing is you go to France and do that, which I did. I'd go, scusi, moi, je voudrais. And the waiter would go, oh, my God, man. Yeah. And walk off in Paris. Especially in Paris, yeah. Especially in Paris. In the south of France, they're a little more tolerant. Yes, more patient. But Paris, man. No. Paris has gotten better, I've got to say. Oh, really? Yeah, because they had a meeting.
They had a come to Jesus meeting. Really, they did. The culture administration had a call. But the waiters, because the waiters used to be friendly. Yeah. Back in the days of Max Ernst. My life has been as happy as the... as the waiters on the streets of Paris. Not in the 60s and 70s, bro. No. So now they're nicer.
Okay, so, but if you go to Italy, and I knew French before I knew Italian, and you go, scusi, voglio, and you get the waiter goes, momento, you stop, you stop. Just, And the whole kitchen is invited on. To watch you? Yeah. And then you feel like a total jerk. No, no, it's good. No, you do it. Do it again. Do it again. Oh, my God. And they love it.
They're not making fun of you. They're encouraging you. No, but Americans have a self-consciousness. We do. We have a self-consciousness. Yes. We don't like to be embarrassed. Yes. And we feel entitled. We are the ugly American. Come on. I know. We don't want to know who George Bernard Shaw is or look at this painting and not know who John Singer Sargent came to Venice. Why? I don't care.
I don't want to be the dummy. We don't want to be the dummy. Yes, exactly. And also, we can be the dummy in groups, getting off a bus or a ship. We do that quite easily. Yeah, but we don't want to be the dummy.
The single dummy. You don't want to be historical dummy because Americans are... We're young. Exactly. We're young, man. And we are... I say that collectively because I was there. I was the guy. I was the guy in the store or the shop. And a guy would say... Do you want some help? No, I don't need any help. You know, I don't want to be talked down to.
We're going to bring this up. Sí. Sí. Sí. Sí. Sí. Cambia la cabeza es un problema para mí.
Sí, es lo que pasa. Pero prima, yo pensé en italiano, en francés, en todas las otras lenguas.
And they're very kind about it. You can't do that, though, man. You got to go. I know.
I'm Mexican. It's not as complicated. It's not as complicated as this guy. No, and it's so beautiful. But anyway, the point of this long-winded event is that I'm at this thing. And I asked Vittorio Storaro who his favorite painter is, right? An Italian, of course.
Chi è il suo preferito pittorio? And he says to me in English, he's just so condescending. He says, first of all, who's yours? And I said, you know, I like, at that time, you know, everybody's favorite jam, as you can bring it up, like Caravaggio, because Caravaggio's everybody's movie maker. That's hers. I love him. The thing is, that's a cliche.
It's an honest cliche, because he's the first guy to really change lighting and light from the sides of more than.
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