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I was thinking about doing a stream on specifically that,
but everyone's talking about it.
And I had this show on my head for.
For a while now, a show on Seneca.
And so I'm going to cover some Seneca and then I'll open it up to.
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Right now I want to I want to talk about some Seneca.
I think it's.
I think it would be cool.
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And.
Yeah, I never know if people is going to be tuning in when I do these kind of
live shows, but it doesn't matter.
I want to do the show.
Irregardless of the situation.
So.
I've been going down these rabbit holes for a philosophy for a while now.
And it has really fascinated me.
And this week in particular.
I really started going down.
When down Seneca, I listened to the his letters to Lucilius,
which was freaking amazing.
The version that I listened to.
Is by Vox Legendi YouTube channel.
And it has the modern English.
The link is in the bottom of the description.
So if anyone wants to listen to it, it's about six hours.
And.
Again, it's in modern English.
I can't listen to that Shakespearean translation nonsense.
First of all.
He wrote this 2000 years ago.
English wasn't even a thing 2000 years ago.
So why people try to translate it into.
Experien English is beyond me.
I don't get it.
It's freaking stupid.
It's it's I don't know.
All right, it's not my cup of tea.
I can't do it.
So this version is modern English.
You anyone can understand it and it's freaking on fire.
I've listened to it three times already, three times over.
And.
I want to go over the good, the bad and the ugly,
just like I did when I did the Marcus O'Reilly show.
Me, the these letters were
truly amazing when you realize that they were written 2000 years ago.
You're like, God, damn, this dude was full of knowledge.
And one of my favorite things.
In these letters to Lucille is so he was in exile when he wrote these
letters, he was exiled.
I'm going to go through a little bit of his history.
You know, give you a little bit of his background.
But when he wrote these letters, he was exiled.
And so I guess to keep busy to keep from going crazy.
He was writing these letters to his home homeboy Lucille is.
And his writing style is impetuous, man.
He could write and it makes sense.
His dad was a professional
instructor in the rhetoric, I suppose.
You know, and how to master speech and language.
So obviously his son was going to have real good grasp of the language
and the way the letters are written exquisitely done, man.
And one of my favorite things is I as I listen to it.
So like I said, I've listened to it three times.
But after the first five letters,
so it's like letter one, letter two, letter three, letter four.
After the first five letters, when he ends his letters to his homeboy Lucille is
like before I leave, I'm going to give you this little gift, this little knowledge.
Boom, he drops some knowledge, drops the mic.
And moves on to the next letter.
And I found myself like every, especially the first time I listened to it
after he would finish a letter, I'm like dropping truth bombs galore.
And obviously, if we if you find yourself having similar taste to to my taste,
you guys are really going to really going to enjoy it.
I can't. I can't recommend it enough.
Now, I didn't know nothing about the man, Seneca.
Prior to listening to the letters, I just I got hooked on listening to that
audio book. And so as I did, I started going down the rabbit hole
who he was and it made things a little different.
So he's Seneca, the younger was a he's considered a stoic philosopher.
But the controversies around him is because he was a wealthy elite.
One of the first times he gets exiled out of Rome was because he was tapping
some forbidden ass.
So he gets exiled for that.
And then after he's exiled for about seven, eight years,
he gets brought in by Agrippina, whom's her son was a young Nero.
And she requests
Seneca to come out of exile to tutor her young son Nero.
If you guys are familiar with Roman history,
Nero was one of the most wicked so so bees in
in in Roman history.
And so some people will kind of tarnish, you know, put a black eye on Seneca's
legacy because of that.
And like, look how look how Nero turned out, he was his tutor.
But others argue, look, he, you know, you can't help if you're
I mean, if the kid was a scumbag from the very get go,
and you really take the scum in his out of him, even with the best tutor in the world.
So it's one of those things that these happenings happen 2000 years ago.
We'll never know exactly precisely how things
may or may not have transpired.
You know what I'm saying?
So you got to keep that in mind.
What I will say is his letters, his writings, absolutely on point.
Absolutely so on point that there were some forgeries later on around the fourth
century that made it look like Seneca was talking to the Apostle Saint Paul.
And so there was a time, a period in time in the early church
foundations where they were even thinking about using his writings in the Bible.
I mean, his writings are bad ass, the way he writes.
And not only the style, but
what he teaches, you know, the virtues,
the ethics for people to live by, anyone could live by.
You don't have to just be a Christian.
So it is interesting that the church at one point was even mulling that around.
But let's learn about a little bit about Seneca's background, this from Wikipedia.
His real name was Lucius Anais Seneca, the younger.
Usually known monotonously as Seneca.
He was a Stoic philosopher of ancient Rome, a statesman, a dramatist.
And in one work, a satirist from the post Augustan age of Latin literature.
Seneca was born in Colonia Patricia Cordoba.
What was Spain at the time?
So it was Spain under Roman rule.
And he was, you know, I don't think I mentioned his date,
but he was they think around the year for B.C.
To about four A.D.
It's not exactly known, but
for all intents and purposes, he was basically a contemporary of Jesus.
Which is also interesting.
And let's see.
Well, I guess we can continue reading the Wikipedia.
His father was Seneca, the elder.
His elder brother was Lucius Junius.
Galeo Anais and his nephew was a poet.
Lucan in A.D.
41 Seneca was exiled to the island of Corsica under Emperor Claudius,
but was allowed to return in 49 to become a tutor to Nero.
When Nero became Emperor in 54,
Seneca became his advisor and together with the Praetorium Prefect,
Sextus, Afrinus, Burris provided competent government
for the first five years of Nero's reign.
Seneca's influence over Nero declined with time
and in 65, Seneca was executed by forced
suicide or alleged complicity in the Smithsonian conspiracy
to assassinate Nero, of which he may or may have been innocent,
although there are still no consensus in agreement.
Historic and calm suicide has become the subject of numerous paintings.
As a writer, Seneca is known for his philosophical works
and for his plays, which are all tragedies.
His prose works include 12 essays and 124 letters dealing with moral issues.
These writings constitute one of the most important bodies
of primary material for ancient Stoicism.
As a tragedy, he is best known for plays such as Medea,
Piestes and Pedro.
Sorry, Seneca had an immense influence on later generations
during the Renaissance.
He was a sage admired and venerated as an oracle of moral.
Even of Christian edification, a master of literary style
and a model for dramatic art.
And there is a picture of him, I'm assuming, in his older, later years.
The picture that I have of him was what obviously when he was a little bit younger
and he's got a fat joint in his mouth.
Oh, shit, I didn't even screen share, so my apologies.
Oh, gosh, darn it.
All right, there we go.
So there's Seneca.
So.
From what I understand, when he was younger, he.
He had a lot of ailments.
It's not exactly known what he may have had
because he talks about it in his writings quite a bit,
but he had a hard time breathing.
So a lot of people, you know, a lot of modern day scholars
think that he may have had asthma, some kind of breathing
disease, because he would often talk about how it sucked,
you know, to not be able to breathe properly
and have those issues that would come and go as they went.
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Carl and Annie, man, if you want to hit up that stream yard
after I'm done, man, we can chat about everything,
anything and everything.
I just wanted to do the show on.
Seneca, because it was something that I wanted to do for quite some time.
I found.
His letters, really, really inspiration.
I'm going to play some of the audio quotes
from some of his letters just to show y'all.
And maybe you guys will get inspired to listen to it.
And it's it's pretty cool.
As I was saying,
so when he was younger, he did have these elements.
And so that may have inspired him to.
You know, join the stoic side of things, if you will.
And.
As I showed you there around the year 41,
he was exiled over to the island of Corsica
for having relations with someone related to Ligula.
I can't remember if it was his ex-wife or, you know,
after he had already been done for.
Whether he was guilty or not is debated, just like a lot of these things.
I mean, again, 2,000 years ago, who knows either way?
But from what is understood, he was exiled
and he was an exile for seven or eight years.
And when people here island, they probably think, oh, yeah,
it's like a paradise and everything.
But back then these islands were barren from what I understand.
There was nothing on there.
You were banished.
There was no luxuries.
And so this is where he started writing
a lot of his badass material.
And this is probably where he started in practicing
his stoicism that he was learning and teaching.
One of the coolest things that he says
when he's writing to his homeboy, Lusilius, is that Lusilius,
I am not here to teach you.
I am here to learn alongside with you.
What a gangsta as quote, man.
And some people will say, well, he was probably writing that stuff
because it was all for show and blah, blah, blah.
You know, there's people that are cynical, whether
he was just a 100 percent hypocrite and he lived a different life
than what his writings show.
But I mean, it's also possible he was just a human being.
With flaws, who?
Who the hell here is perfect?
None of us are.
We all have skeletons in our closets.
We all have messed up things about us.
And if we're so introspective, if we're self-aware,
there's a lot of motherfuckers out there that lack self-awareness.
A lot of them, a lot of people out there.
They're good to point out other people's flaws.
But when it comes to their own selves, they can't do it.
And I will say this, I was one of those people for the longest time.
I think the last few years, I've been very, very introspective.
Trying to look at my failings.
All right.
I do have an issue here.
Let's try to fix it.
I do have an issue there.
Let's try to fix it.
And that's.
I think that's a virtue.
Once you can get to the point where you can analyze yourself.
And not only analyze your failings, but.
Trying to do something about it, trying to make those necessary changes.
In February.
So next month, we're in January already.
In February will be one year that I quit chewing tobacco.
And I was really, really hooked on chewing tobacco.
I did that for a well over a decade.
And I had tried to quit in the past.
You know, I.
Tried for a little bit.
I even had success for a couple of months and then I eventually relapsed.
Went back at it.
I was doing a can of chewing tobacco and I know it's gross.
I know it is, but I was hooked.
I was addicted.
I would really start to get antsy, man.
My body was craving it.
I was really, really hooked in February of last year.
I finally said I'm done with this.
I'm hooked.
I'm spending too much of that money on this shit, on this vice.
I'm done with it.
I'm done.
And I said.
I was done.
And I'm not going to say it was easy.
That shit was hard.
It was incredibly hard.
First day that I quit.
I'm at work because I got into the habit of putting in a dip because I.
I do drive in all damn day and I would put it in a fat dip in my mouth.
I had a 30 minute drive from point A to point B and it would give me a little
buzz, you know, make me feel good as I'm driving.
And so I wanted to get that buzz, that daily buzz as I worked.
And that first day that I quit was incredibly hard.
I was my body was feeling for it.
I I just kept scratching on myself, man.
I needed that little buzz, that little dopamine hit.
And I had to be resolute and say, no, I ain't doing that shit.
Second day, even harder.
Third day was hell, man.
I I was like even like sweating a little bit.
I was going through withdrawal.
And for me, everyone's probably different.
I'm just trying to give confidence to anyone that may be thinking about it
or maybe going through something similar, you can do it.
It's how bad you fucking want it.
You know, I had talked about it for a long time, I'm going to quit.
I'm going to quit.
I talked about it.
I wish I quit.
I know.
I know every time I put it in my mouth, I knew it was bad for me,
but I kept doing it.
You know, why? Because I wasn't serious.
When I finally said I'm serious and I'm done.
That's when I was done.
And again, that's recognizing for yourself.
There's how many people are hooked to certain things
and will never admit that they are hooked or addicted.
First step is self acknowledgment, being self aware
of the problems that you have.
And that's one of the things that that I've been learning the last few years,
being being self aware and again, trying to fix my my issues.
But yeah, the tobacco thing from next month will be one year that I quit.
And the first week was hell.
Now, a year later, I'm good.
I'm 100 percent good.
I don't even think about that shit.
I don't need it.
And it's great.
That's part of that growing process, I suppose, that I'm experiencing.
And I'm proud of myself for.
But going back to these letters of.
Seneca to his homeboy, Lucille is.
I took him as letters that he's writing from the heart.
In a great writing style, in the perfect writing style that he writes it with.
Like I said, every time he ends a letter, he ends it like a fucking boss.
He go, you know, after like letter 45, he goes, Lucille is I know you're
expecting the gift.
So here it is and take it and I'm going to grab it from the treasures of
Epicurious from the coffers of Epicurious, and then he dropped some
truth bombs, man.
And I just his writing style.
Is 100 percent relatable to today.
He talks about friends.
Let's see.
Let me tell you how many letters he's exactly got.
So the link is in the description of the of the audio book that I listen to.
And here's another life hat.
If you don't want to experience YouTube ads.
Listen to YouTube via the brave browser.
You can thank me later.
You will not have any YouTube ads because as I play this, some YouTube ads
will come on here and it's only because I'm.
I've got YouTube on a different browser.
But if you don't, if you want to experience it for yourself without
zero ads, brave browser, thank me later.
All right.
So.
There are a total of sixty five letters and the whole audio book is six
hours and twenty six minutes.
But look at the letters on saving time, on discursiveness and reading,
on true and false friendship.
I'm going to I'm going to put a little clip from that on the
terrors of death, the philosophers mean on sharing knowledge on crowds.
Yeah, he's got he's giving us thoughts on all these things.
So let me just see if I could play this first clip here.
And like I said, if anyone wants to call in after we're done here
and we could talk about Seneca, some more Seneca, or we could talk about whatever
the madness going on, that's going on in the world.
All right.
The OK, I think this is on friendship.
So let's play it right here.
Share this.
You ask me what you should be especially careful to avoid crowds.
You are not yet strong enough to be among them without risk.
I must admit my own weakness, too.
I never return home from being among the masses as the same person
I was when I left.
Something within me, which I had forced into calm becomes unsettled.
Some of the flaws I thought I had conquered come back again.
Just as a sick man, recovering from a long illness is too weak
to leave the house without relapsing.
So, too, are we vulnerable when our souls are still healing
from the sickness of vice to mix with crowds is dangerous.
Every person you encounter will either introduce some vice to you,
reinforce one you already have or stain you with their own,
even without intending to, and the larger the crowd, the greater the risk.
But nothing is as harmful to one's character as spending time
at public spectacles where vice creeps in through the disguise of entertainment.
What do I mean?
I mean that I return home from such places more greedy, more ambitious,
more indulgent and even more cruel, simply from being around other people.
I recently attended a midday spectacle,
expecting to be entertained with wit and light-hearted diversions,
a moment of relaxation from the brutal games.
Instead, it was worse than usual.
The earlier contests at least had some display of skill,
but this was nothing but pure slaughter.
There was no armor, no defense, just men fully exposed,
each strike landing with deadly effect.
People prefer this kind of show to the usual duels and trained matches.
Of course, they do.
There is no skill involved, no shields or helmets to delay death.
In the morning, men are thrown to wild beasts.
At midday, they are thrown to the spectators.
The audience demands that the winner of one fight
immediately face his next opponent until he too is killed.
Every match ends in death.
This continues even when the arena is nearly empty.
You might argue, but these men are criminals.
They were murderers themselves.
And what of it?
Even if they deserved such a fate, what crime have you committed
that you should sit there watching?
In the morning, the spectators scream,
kill him, beat him, burn him.
They mock those who hesitate to face the sword,
shouting that they should meet death bravely.
If a fighter falters, they demand he be whipped
until he fights with more spirit.
And when the games take a break, they announce
a little throat cutting in the meantime,
so there will still be something to watch.
Do you not realize that witnessing such brutality
makes you cruel yourself?
Be grateful at least that you are teaching such cruelty
to those incapable of learning anything else.
A young and impressionable mind,
one that has not yet firmly anchored itself in virtue,
must be protected from the crowd.
It is too easy to follow the majority.
Even Socrates, Cato.
Damn.
Yeah.
Think about what he I mean.
That's probably one of my favorite parts of the audiobook.
Because he's talking about going to some of these, you know,
going to the Coliseum, watching some of these games
is where people are just lusting for blood, man.
And he right there is admitting he's telling you, look,
I sometimes go to these games and I want to kill some motherfuckers.
I get I start lusting for blood
and I have to catch myself.
I'm like, damn, man.
And so that's what he's talking about, man.
When you're with the crowd, it's easy to, you know, there.
What do we hear when we're kids?
We're always talking about don't fall for peer pressure.
You know, when there's kids your age telling you, hey,
do this, do that, let's go, let's go cause some crimes.
Let's do some drugs.
It's easy to.
To fall into that.
You know what I mean?
And he goes on to say in that in that letter, he goes, if one person.
Has the the power to convince you or persuade you to do some bad things
or or get into some vices, imagine what a whole group of people.
Can do.
So.
In his letters, he like he covers all a wide array of of topics, but I mean.
You know.
Being someone that.
I don't I don't like to ascribe to the mob mentality or, you know,
like I stated at the very beginning, everyone's talking about
the goings-ons in Venezuela.
And I almost went out like I'm going to have to talk about Venezuela.
Maybe I will when we get Collins later on.
But you got to be able to be resolute and think for yourself, man.
Don't let the mob mentality take over.
Don't, you know, think for yourself.
Be different.
It's OK to be different.
And that's kind of what he's stressing about.
Let me play this other clip.
You can't remember what it was about.
And themselves abandoned.
It is in moments of crisis that.
Gosh, darn it. I muted myself.
I think I screwed up.
Sorry, guys.
I think I skipped over where I wanted to play.
But in this particular chapter, he's talking about friends and friendship.
This particular, you know, these particular words
that he talks about friends really resonated with me,
because this is how I view things already.
He's talking about how.
When you choose someone as your friend.
You got to go all in.
You got to be 100 percent trusting with that person.
And and.
That's a friend.
You can't just say, oh, yeah, that's my friend,
but you wouldn't trust him with this or trust him with that.
And that really resonated because this is how I view things.
And I just thought maybe I was an extremist when it comes to that
because I know a lot of people.
There's probably a lot of people that call me their friends.
But I don't call other people my friends because I I feel
if I'm going to call someone my friend.
I'm going to go to war for you.
And I expect your ass.
I expect your ass to go to war for me.
If you're going to push out, you aren't my friend.
We aren't friends.
We're associates.
And I know for some people that may sound extremist,
but that's just how my mind works.
Now, if I show you that same loyalty.
And then I catch you doing some other stupid shit and fuck you.
We are no longer friends.
Get the fuck out of my life.
Again.
I realize that's extremist, but that's just how it works, man.
And so let's hear his words on friends.
And this this little part really, really resonated with me.
He seeks friends so that he may sit by their sick beds,
help them in times of trouble,
and set them free when they are imprisoned.
Anyone who enters friendships only for personal benefit
misunderstands its purpose.
A friendship formed for self-interest will dissolve
as soon as that interest is threatened.
The friend who was chosen for protection
will disappear the moment danger appears.
Such relationships are mere fair weather friendships.
A friend chosen for utility
will remain only as long as he is useful.
This is why those who enjoy prosperity
are surrounded by a crowd of admirers
while those who've fallen hard times find themselves abandoned.
It is in moments of crisis that true friendship is tested.
Yet this is precisely when most so-called friends flee.
This is also why so many disgraceful betrayals occur.
When fear takes hold,
those who formed friendships for gain
are the first to turn away.
The beginning and the end of such friendships are the same.
If a man became your friend because he expected to profit from it,
he will leave as soon as there is no more profit to be gained.
If a friendship is built on anything other than friendship itself,
it is doomed to fail.
Why then do I seek friendship?
So that I may have someone for whom I would be willing to die,
someone I would follow into exile,
someone whose life I would stake my own to protect
and gladly pay that price.
The kind of relationship you describe is a transaction,
not a friendship.
Damn.
There you go, man.
See, for a long time,
I thought maybe I was just an extremist when...
Because that's how I view friendships. That's how I view relationships.
I take it serious. I don't fuck around.
And I expect the same.
I expect the same.
Some people may say, well, that's just a high standard, man.
It is what it is. That's how I view it.
And so to hear Seneca pretty much echo the same exact same thing
2,000 years ago, I'm like, hell yeah, that's my dog right there.
And I think that's why I was vibing with a lot of the shit he was saying.
And let's see, where else was I?
Hope you guys are enjoying that.
I'm just trying to pump you guys up.
I would love for you guys to check it out.
I'm not sure what this timestamp is. Let's let it ride.
So in that little section,
In that little section, he was basically talking about
Can I get that in the live chat?
Can you guys let me know if you guys heard that?
I don't want to.
I hope it wasn't a moment of silence.
Did you guys catch that little last section?
Even though I don't think I had it on the screen.
Um,
Live chat. Let me know, please.
Before I continue on.
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Okay, looks like fluff fluff and say we we heard.
Yeah.
So he was talking about propaganda in that little section.
How people get scared and get worried.
That about baseless stuff, man.
And I found it interesting.
Here's a guy living 2000 years ago.
Essentially during Rome's pinnacle, you know,
when Rome was the big bad wolf of the known world at that time.
And he was one of the wealthiest sons of bitches.
Apparently he owned the states and villas and all this stuff.
He was loaded.
But he's talking about propaganda, man.
Don't let hearsay dictate beer.
You know, don't don't don't let that man verify stuff.
Take it easy, man.
Don't chill.
Chill the hell out.
Confirm it before you start freaking out.
Real, real basic shit.
All right.
I want to play some of his mic drops that.
That he makes.
Let's see.
And the letter 14.
Letter.
Okay.
So it would be 120.
So let's go to.
Okay, let's play this.
Hear themselves.
The safest course is to remain unnoticed for being despised is as dangerous as being admired.
One must take refuge in philosophy.
Unlike public speaking or other careers that attract attention and breed enemies,
philosophy remains neutral and unthreatening.
Even those who are not good men respect it.
It is peaceful, minds its own business, and provokes no hostility.
No matter how corrupt the world becomes, no matter how much noble character is attacked,
philosophy will always be held sacred.
That said, philosophy should be pursued with balance and moderation.
But what about Marcus Cato, you may ask?
Was his philosophy moderate?
Cato stood against civil war, tried to restrain two raging leaders,
and opposed both Pompey and Caesar at once.
Yet one could question whether a wise man should have intervened in such times at all.
One might ask Cato, why involve yourself?
Liberty was lost long ago.
The only question now is whether Pompey or Caesar will rule.
Why does it matter to you which tyrant takes control?
Even if the better man wins, the victor will still be the worse option for Rome.
Cato's final role was noble.
But even earlier, his efforts did little more than make him a target.
What could he do but protest while the state was looted?
One day, the mob attacked him, spit on him, and dragged him from the forum.
Another time, he was seized straight from the Senate and sent to prison.
We can discuss later whether a wise man should engage in politics.
For now, consider those Stoics who, seeing the dangers of public life,
withdrew to improve humanity through philosophy.
They shaped laws, refined customs, and worked for the good of mankind
without provoking the anger of those in power.
The wise man does not seek to overthrow society's traditions,
nor does he draw public attention through unusual behavior.
But is this path truly safe, you may ask?
I cannot promise safety, just as I cannot promise good health to a man who lives moderately,
though moderation tends to produce good health.
Even ships sink in the harbor, but what do you think happens to those out at sea?
Innocent men sometimes perish, yes, but guilty men perish more often.
A skilled soldier may die in battle, even while protected by his armor,
but his training is not to blame.
In the end, the wise man acts according to reason, not according to outcomes.
Our choices are within our power, the results are in the hands of fortune.
But I do not let her judge me.
But fortune can bring you suffering, you say.
Yes, she can harm me, but she cannot condemn me.
Just as a highwayman who murders a traveller does not act as his judge.
Now, I see you reaching for your daily gift and a fine one I shall give you.
Since we have spoken of wealth, let me share a saying that will make you richer in spirit.
He who needs riches least enjoys the most.
Who said this, you ask?
It comes from Epicurus or Metradorus or some other thinker from that school.
But does it matter? Wisdom belongs to everyone.
A man who craves wealth lives in fear of losing it.
And no one truly enjoys a possession that brings anxiety.
He is always trying to add more.
In his pursuit of accumulating, he forgets how to use what he has.
He spends his time checking accounts, pacing the forum and balancing his books.
Until, in the end, he is no longer a master of wealth, but merely its steward.
Damn!
You see that?
Before he finished that letter, he goes, I see you reaching for your daily gift.
So here it goes.
So that's one of those letters that where he's talking about wealthy,
you know, like having money really ain't shit.
You become a slave to your material things.
It's not about that.
It's about living a just life.
It's easy to say that when you own half of Rome and you're basking in the ambiance of your palaces
and you've got these slaves and servants feeding you grapes and shit.
So I can see why people would say, well, that's kind of, you know, hypocritical for him to be talking about wealth.
And as you heard there, you know, he's like, it's not really a big deal if you're wealthy or not.
It's just how you behave with the money in your hands.
And so yeah, he, I just, I just love the way he ended that one.
And he ends a lot of his letters like that.
Here's your little gift.
Oh, shit, you think I was done yet?
Here's a little gift before I leave before I bounce.
Here you go.
And he dropped some some truth bombs on a recurring basis.
I like at one point too, because he's that's the thing he's often quoting Epicurious.
So back in this time, there's different philosophical schools.
There's the Stoics School of Thoughts.
Then you had the cynics and you had the Epicureans, different schools of thoughts.
It's kind of like today there's a bunch of different MMA schools.
There's some people that'll teach you Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
Some will teach you a Keto and so on and so forth, some wrestling, different schools and things along those lines.
Well, back then they had different schools of philosophical thought.
And Epicurious was considered a rival school to what the Stoics taught.
And so what you hear when you're listening to these letters, he's often quoting Epicurious.
And he even says, look, I know we're not supposed to be quoting Epicurious, but these words are badass.
I'm going to use them.
And I enjoyed that as well because that's something that I like to do.
Just because I don't fully agree with something or someone doesn't mean you can't take some good out of it.
And so by him constantly quoting Epicurious, you're like, damn, man, he's given props to a rival school of thought,
which to me speaks more about him, you know, being humble in doing so.
And as I say that in one of his letters, when he ends, he goes, I'm about to leave you.
I'm about to leave you with some words from your friend from your boy Epicurious.
Because he quotes him so much, he starts messing around like, yeah, that's your boy.
It's not my boy.
But I'm not.
I think you guys would really, really, really enjoy that.
Let's see.
What's the 15th letter?
I put on my notes that the letter 15 in its entirety about bronze and brains.
I don't think I want to cover that.
So another interesting thing about him, he talks about slaves.
He himself had slaves.
He even talks in one of his letters, how he knew he was old at one point,
because he was at the store market and he's seen this dude that was like had no teeth
and he looked old as hell.
And he's like, who's this bum right here?
And the bum looks up at Seneca says, dude, you don't remember me.
I was your favorite pet slave.
He goes, when I was a little kid, you used to like play with me and all this stuff.
And Seneca's like, oh, shit, damn, that means I'm old because you're old.
And so he's talking about just old age.
And he's talking about how there's awesomeness to being old.
You know, it's a different awesomeness.
Obviously, you lose your agility that you had when you were younger and this and that.
But there's other things to be gained as you get older.
But going back to the slave subject, it was interesting to hear his thoughts.
Because again, he had his own slaves and he lived with slaves.
And he talks about treating your slaves good.
He talks about you got to treat your slaves like human beings.
He goes, so many people treat their slaves like cattle, like their livestock.
He goes, what the hell?
These are human beings.
Treat them like human beings.
Talk to them.
Ask them how their day is.
So even though he owned slaves because apparently that was the thing back then.
And according to his letters anyways, he's and he's writing to his homeboys.
Not like he's preaching out to the masses.
He's writing one on one to his homeboy.
He's like, yeah, you got to treat your slaves like human beings, man.
Ask them how they're doing.
Treat them good, man.
They're human beings.
And so for me, that's like, man, this guy's writing about treating slaves
like humans, not like cattle, not like livestock, but like humans.
He's writing about this 2000 years ago.
How many times when we hear American slavery out here, you know, in the 1850s?
Oh, well, it was a different time.
People thought different.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
You hear that so often.
It's ridiculous.
I'm like, that was only a few generations ago.
It wasn't that much different.
People knew had to know the atrocities of owning other freaking humans
and slaves. Absolutely.
And so when I hear Seneca saying these words about slavery 2000 years ago,
there you go.
They obviously this guy knew that it was wrong 2000 years ago.
You're going to tell me dudes from 150 years ago didn't know.
That was another interesting little little pickup that I got from him.
And like I said, he he owned slaves as well.
But his attitude was intriguing.
No mess.
Fellow human beings, not as livestock or cattle like so many other people did.
Let's see.
End of letter 16 was my other notes.
Hope you guys are enjoying this.
And I hope you guys are inspired to read some of these truth bombs on your
own time. All right, let's let's see.
A letter 16 was the timestamp was 129.
So let's see what 27.
Oh, here we go.
Oh, I guess not.
I'm sorry, man.
I was listening.
I was writing these timestamps as I was working.
I didn't have the exact ones.
Let's go to end of letter 33.
Instead, 33.
Letter 34 on a man or even for one who has reached the edge of old age to
have only notebook knowledge.
This is what Zeno said.
But what have you said?
This is the opinion of Clint East.
But what is your opinion?
How long will you follow another's path?
Take command.
Speak words that posterity will remember.
Give something of your own.
That is why I have no respect for those who never produce anything
themselves, who spend their lives lurking in the shadows of others,
interpreting words but never daring to put into practice what
they have so long studied.
They've trained their memory with other men's ideas.
But there is a difference between remembering and knowing.
To remember is simply to hold something in trust.
To know is to make it your own.
To stand on your own feet without needing to check back with the
master every moment.
Zeno said this.
Clint East said that.
Let there be a difference between you and your book.
How long will you remain a student?
It is time to become a teacher.
But why?
Someone asks.
Should I continue listening to lectures when I can read the
same things in books?
Because the living voice has great power.
Yes, perhaps, but not when that voice is only repeating
someone else's words.
A speaker who merely echoes another's thoughts is no more
than a stenographer.
Consider this.
Those who never develop their own independence begin by
following a leader where the leader has already been abandoned
and then they follow him even where truth is still
being debated.
But truth will never be found if we settle for the answers
already given.
A man who only follows others does not just fail to
discover anything.
He does not even search.
So should I reject the path of my predecessors?
No.
I will use the old road.
But if I find a better, shorter, and smoother way,
I will take it.
Those who came before us are not our masters.
They are our guides.
Truth is open to all.
It is not yet owned by anyone.
And there is still plenty left for future generations
to discover.
Farewell.
Bam.
What is truth?
And that's Seneca's answer to what is truth.
He's basically saying truth is the truth.
And it has no owner.
And, yeah, people before us may have brought some
truth bombs, but they were just guiding us.
They didn't have absolutes.
They had a guide.
And if we find more truth to add to, you know,
add to what has already been found, then we need to
welcome it and have open minds to it.
As he talked about the future generations.
It was another interesting thing that I picked up
from him was how he talked in the present tense.
He was basically saying we Romans, we have it all,
man, we have all these luxuries.
We have all these nice things.
The ancients before us probably had shitty as times.
And we're enjoying the fruits of luxury today.
He was writing this 2000 years ago.
It's bananas.
But he, you know, his writing style is immersive
that you can kind of picture yourself.
How his world was at this time, at this point in time,
you know what I mean?
Yeah, you can tell.
I really, really enjoyed it.
I hope you guys.
You guys enjoyed as well.
Let's see.
Final notes.
Okay.
One of the things that he says a couple of times
through his.
Through his letters to Lucilius is that
if you have someone, an inspiration,
someone that you look up to
like a role model,
follow them
and live your life accordingly
as if they were looking at you.
You know what I mean?
If you look up to someone,
would I want to let them down
by making this choice
or making that bad choice?
And I thought that was profound.
You guys been following me for a while.
My biggest inspiration
is the late great David McGowan.
I look at my reality,
what we perceive as reality today
with the David McGowan lens.
And so as I'm processing news
about this processing news about that,
I'm just taking it all in
and putting on my David McGowan hat.
How would David McGowan
would have looked at this or looked at that?
And so when I hear Seneca
talking about finding a role model,
finding someone that you look up to
and living
according, you know,
accordingly to how they, you know,
would have lived or whatever.
I choose David McGowan.
You know what I mean?
And so that kind of fits in with my personality.
He would drop an occasional F-bomb,
which I drop a little too much
according to some people.
But David McGowan did that.
And yeah, that's my,
that's the role model that I choose in my mind.
And after hearing him
talking about
living accordingly to that person,
he also says it's silly
when he hears people praying to God
or the gods
and they do it quietly.
But if they did it around other people,
they would feel silly.
He goes, you should feel
you should be able to talk whatever you feel.
If you're going to tell the gods this or that,
you should be able to announce it in front of the whole world.
Why feel shame about it?
You know what I mean? Own it.
Don't be a bitch.
It's basically what he's saying.
What's up, Billy Tractor?
If anyone wants to...
Yeah, if anyone wants to call in,
by all means call in.
And let's
have a little conversations.
Let me see if I got any final thoughts on Seneca.
So Seneca,
like I said at the very beginning, one of his darker spots was that he did
ended up tutoring Nero.
And oh, the other thing I forgot to say,
he often talks about death
and how we shouldn't fear death
because if we fear death
death is something
that has,
you know, the clock on death has been taking from the minute you were born.
The minute you took your first breath on this earth,
you were already on pace
to taking your last breath.
And so he's constantly talking about through these letters like,
I ain't scared to death.
And some of his last letters,
he was writing these letters and exiled.
He was exiled and
he was exiled by Nero.
He was accused of
possibly being involved in a conspiracy
to kill Nero.
Nero finds out about the conspiracy.
And so he gets all these people lined up
in Seneca because he was part of these elites and whatever.
His sentence is to kill himself.
And so
in all these letters, he's talking about facing death like a champ
being brave about it.
And, you know, it's just going to happen, man.
Things are going to happen.
And he goes,
you got to live in the present.
If you start worrying about this or that too far in the future, man,
enjoy the moment because tomorrow is not guaranteed.
And so enjoy it.
So he's constantly talking about facing death and not being scared.
And so
when it's his time to take his own life,
he,
him and his wife are chilling.
His wife apparently
wanted to take her life, you know, do it together.
And apparently
Seneca is like, nah, nah, I'm good.
You go live your life.
I'll do it by myself.
But she's like, nah, I'm not going to leave you by your side.
So the story goes that he, they slit their wrists,
but allegedly because he was too old or whatever,
the blood was having a hard time flowing through his veins.
So then he takes some hemlock poison.
The poison takes,
it's not taking much effect.
So then they put him in a warm bath to kind of
further accelerate the bleeding out and the suffocation.
And that's how he dies.
Apparently he dies like a boss.
He's like writing.
He's telling people his last words, you know, scribes telling him,
nah, just don't let my teachings go to waste.
You know, my teachings are not mine.
They're for the world.
That's the other thing he talks about in one of his letters.
He's like, if you have wisdom, bear it, don't keep it in.
Wisdom is to be shared.
And in a funny way, that's how I feel about my little podcast
with the little reach that I have.
That was one of the reasons why I started it.
I thought I had a few things, a few things of knowledge in my head.
A few things of wisdom that I didn't hear too many of the people
saying or echoing.
And I didn't want to keep that in.
So that's why I started my little podcast as little as it was
and as little as it is still.
Because I was like, I need to share this.
Maybe some people will find it useful.
Maybe some people will think it's garbage.
I still feel its knowledge, whether it's good knowledge or bad
knowledge.
I mean, I suppose it's subjective.
And that's what Seneca in his writings talks about.
If you have knowledge, bear it.
It's not yours.
It's for the masses bear it.
And so that that's another part that that really resonated.
Man, essentially the whole his whole letters are amazing.
Like I said at the very beginning, his writing style, the way you could
tell he's a professional writer could tell he had the most
exquisite teachers growing up.
Just an amazing, amazing orator and writer.
And it clearly shows through when you listen to it.
It's not like if I try to write something and be like, yeah,
it'd be ghetto.
You could tell it was some bum from the streets, wrote this
shit.
But when you read his letters, you could tell someone that's
highly educated.
And even some of his sense of humor shines through, which is
I found.
I found really, really enjoyable.
Who else we got here?
What's up, Dustin?
All right.
Who's going to call in?
If you are on YouTube, I'm going to end the stream because
we may get some call ins and it may not be YouTube friendly.
So if you're on YouTube and you want to be part of it or
you want to join the party a little bit more.
What's up, Jackson?
Jackson's lad greetings George from freezing cold South
England.
Jackson's lad.
What's up, Jackson's lad?
First time I've seen you.
Then Billy tractor.
Hell yeah.
I think I gave you a shout out.
Hit that stream of Billy.
He K2.
All right.
YouTube people.
I'm going to end the stream there on YouTube.
So if you want to show go over to rumble, please.
All right.
What's up, rumble mfs?
All right.
So.
I think that's Seneca.
I'm trying to think if I've got any more thoughts.
Yeah, I went super deep.
Another interesting thing with Seneca that I.
As soon as I went down the Seneca rabbit hole, then I
went to the Julius Caesar.
I looked up the Julius Caesar story.
A couple of times different versions of it.
And I'm like, oh my God, dude.
The Lincoln stuff and the Julius Caesar stuff.
I may have to do a show on that.
It's.
It's almost laughable now.
One of the co-conspirators in the Julius Caesar.
Plot to assassinate Julius Caesar was Junius Brutus.
And in the Shakespeare version of it.
Julius Caesar.
As he's getting shanked.
He looks and he sees Junius Brutus.
He was like at two Brutus.
That you Brutus like what the fuck that we were homies.
And.
In the Lincoln assassination.
John Wilkes Booth's dad is Junius Brutus Booth.
And what does John Wilkes Booth allegedly say.
Thus always the tyrants.
Pretty much echoing the same shit that happened 2000 years
prior.
I'm telling you, man, all this history nonsense that we get.
It just gets repeated over and over again.
But I started going down the Roman, you know, I went
Seneca and then I wanted to know more about Nero.
And then I started learning about Julius Caesar.
Then I started learning about the founding of Rome.
And I started listening to the audio book of Plato's the
Republic.
Holy crap, man, I really started hitting some rabbit holes
this last week.
And.
It occurred to me.
This whole thing about conspiracies and.
Governments being affairs.
It's from the dawn of time.
You know, when the Romans instituted voting in the
Republic.
It was to make the peasants feel like they were part of
the government.
When in reality, the wealthy owners, landowners, they had
all the power.
All the laws that were being passed was because the
landowners were paying their tribute.
They allowed the peasants to vote to make them feel
like they were part of something good.
In 2000 years later, it's no fucking different.
All these people that still think that their little
ballot that they cast is going to do something, it's
going to change.
It's going to turn corruption upside down.
And nothing fucking happens and people fall for it
each and every damn time.
So.
Yeah, I'm going on my soap box.
Who wants to join me on my soap box?
Hit that little stream yard there.
God damn it.
I'm still waiting for someone.
Frankie says the government is here to help you
wheezy.
My ass it is.
So voting is larping.
Yeah.
Why is my name in blue?
That's what I don't understand.
We need to change that shit.
Fuck is this nonsense?
Damn.
Every now and then like stream yard resets my freaking
settings.
And it's annoying.
George says the British government is fucking us
Brits over every government does though.
But yeah, man, definitely you guys have zero
freedom of speech over there.
And.
Yeah, things are progressively getting worse.
And over here, our government thinks it's
perfectly fine perfectly fine to go into another
country, kidnap their leader.
And take him to New York for trials now.
How much of that is actually real or is
Maduro or is this whole thing a sigh up as well?
I was listening to the whole speech that Trump
gave and he at one point was even talking about
installing the military everywhere.
Military has reduced crime in DC and they're
going to hopefully replicate those results
everywhere else.
Yeah, I mean 2026.
It's going to be interesting.
As you guys have probably noticed if you've been
following me for a while, I enjoy.
Looking at older civilizations, older
empires arise and follow them.
And a lot of the times they have a lifespan of
250 years.
Well, guess what?
2026 is going to be the 250 year anniversary
of the US of a.
What in the hell is in store for us?
This year.
Now.
We can get caught up with it.
We can get stressed out or we can take words from
Seneca.
From 2000 years ago and say.
Yeah, maybe shit will happen, but let's enjoy
the present right now.
Let's enjoy the time that we do have right now.
So.
We're out with that.
Um, let's see.
I don't think anyone wants to call in that stream yard.
We do have a little crowd though.
Hell yeah.
Thank you everyone that made it out.
I want to give a shout out to my beautiful
and lovely message.
She's still recovering.
Hopefully she'll be joining us here.
Very soon.
We'll keep her in your thoughts.
Secret squirrel.
What's up?
Secret squirrel.
Hell yeah.
Secret squirrel is a long time.
Friend.
And listener.
Her and George.
You guys been following me for a long, long time, many years
now at this point.
Awesome to see you here, squirrel.
Yeah, last year or last year.
Yeah, I guess you could say it was last year.
Last week.
I gave some shout outs to all the people, especially
the longtime listeners.
Let's see.
Okay.
Weezy, I followed your Lincoln research, but you never mentioned
when.
He got killed when he.
When.
He killed them vampires.
Yeah, maybe he did kill vampires.
Who knows?
Yeah, I know when I do the Lincoln stuff, it's not for everyone.
But like I said, I, I enjoy it.
And the cool thing is I'm starting to notice a lot of
people like damn man, you have put in the work.
You have put in some research into it and they enjoy it.
And that's freaking awesome.
What up word spell?
He says.
Wayne McCrory probably be a good guess for you.
He goes deep.
I had to check him out.
I don't know who Wayne McCrory is.
I'll definitely check him out.
William Ramsey has been uploading some of Visigoth Visigoth
the greats work the last couple of weeks.
I never heard of Visigoth and I'm not proud of that.
I heard Visigoth on some of William Ramsey's uploads.
And I was like, oh, I want to see if I can get this guy on
my podcast.
And apparently he's been passed away for about a year now.
But he did a lot of great Lincoln research.
He apparently helped David McGowan with a lot of the Lincoln stuff.
So when I found that I was a little bit bummed out.
I was like, oh man, we could have, we could have had a great,
great podcast together.
Shot the shit pretty deep.
Let's see.
Well.
Well, well, well, well.
We are.
An hour in.
No one is hitting up the streamer.
So maybe I'll end it before I leave though.
Streamer should be linked on the top of the rumble.
If anyone's missed it at the very top of the live chat.
I should be doing a show with seven seas tomorrow.
We talked about it yesterday.
But.
I need to confirm it.
I try to confirm it.
If you follow me on Telegram.
Let's see.
You follow me on Telegram.
I try to put the shows on there and that's where you know when
the next show is or whatever.
All that good stuff.
There is a telegram telegram is.
Telegram forward slash wit wheezy.
W I T W E E Z Y is the telegram group.
We also have a discussion channel attached to that where
you can share your.
Share your memes and all that good stuff.
There's some jokes.
Some people share musics.
Whatever you'd like.
Well, the main group doesn't have any of that.
It's just straight up shows.
And that's what we do.
But if you if we end up doing a show tomorrow.
It should be around four o'clock Eastern.
But I still need to confirm it's not 100%.
And well, well, well, well, I think that's it.
Thank you guys for coming out.
Means means a lot.
I didn't.
It was like last second.
I didn't advertise it or nothing.
You guys still came out.
Appreciate it.
Long time listeners.
Appreciate it.
Short time listeners.
No listeners alike in everyone.
Let's have a banger of a year this year, 2026.
Hope everyone had a.
Fantastic start to the new year.
And yeah, let's keep.
Exploring truth.
Let's keep exploring these fun subjects.
I don't like.
I know there's shows that do the same shit, same genre.
And maybe that works for them.
I like to do all kinds of shit, you know, I like to talk
about this, talk about that.
And if there's a particular show that you guys don't really
like.
You know, I see it.
When I do my Lincoln shows.
It doesn't get as many downloads and stuff like that.
It could suck for me if I let it because I'm like, God damn,
I spent so much time.
I spent so much work on it.
It's a passion of mine.
I really don't, you know, I maybe that's a sign of maturation
on my part.
In that.
Everyone's different.
Everyone's unique.
And I accept that.
Even in the quote unquote truth community, I'm very
different.
I'm not for everyone.
Some people may find my style offensive.
Some people may find my style uncouth.
Some people may find my style a little too rough around
the edges, not too professional.
Drops too many f bombs, whatever.
It is what it is.
I just got to be me.
And.
There's a lot of people that that do vibe with me and to
you guys.
Thank you guys.
You guys may not vibe with every type of category or
show that I do, but you guys vibe with me in general.
And that's all I can ask for, you know, I often say that.
Everyone has their own unique taste.
In music in truth.
In all kinds of things, you know, one thing I forgot to
mention.
When I did my, my stats for Spotify rap.
Last week.
At the very end, it showed me what my listeners.
Their top artist.
Is, you know what I mean?
Like.
What most of my listeners like to listen to outside of
this.
I'm like, I'm curious.
And.
Morgan Wayland came up.
I was like, who the fuck is Morgan Wayland?
I want to know what y'all listen to.
And if y'all are listening to Morgan Wayland, I want
to, I want to see what this is about.
So I YouTube Morgan Wayland on YouTube.
It is a country music singer.
I'm like, I don't even listen to that shit.
So I jam some Morgan Wayland.
My dog died last night.
My wife left me, you know.
I was drinking a little beer, a few beers when I
listened to.
So I was jamming a little bit.
And Dustin already mentioned it.
So you can rewind the show, bro.
I ain't going to say it again.
I already mentioned it.
But.
You know what?
Maybe I'll just keep talking shit.
I'm going to open up another beer second one tonight.
But.
Thanks, George.
George says, Weezy, you're a good bloke, my friend.
I think the same thing about you, George.
I know sometimes you may not see eye to eye with
everything I say.
And yet you still are here.
A lot of the times, bro, you know what I mean?
You've been here for years, George.
And so that's a homie right there, George.
2024 been following me for years.
He's from the UK.
Shout out to my boy, George.
He's been following me since the Brian Harvey
days when me and Brian Harvey used to do
podcasts back in the days.
And.
That's my boy.
Shout out to George 2024.
But going back to Morgan Wayland.
I was listening to some of the because I wanted to
know what people that listen to my show, what they listen
to and I'm listening to Morgan Wayland.
I was kind of vibing with it.
I'm not going to lie.
I'm kind of ashamed because I'm supposed to be anti
country music because I'm from the hood.
I ain't supposed to be listening to that shit.
I would never rock it in public.
Fuck no.
But I was jamming.
I was drinking some beer.
All right.
I never heard of Morgan Wayland.
But all right.
I'll jam it.
If this is what my peeps likes, this is what.
I'm going to vibe with on this particular night.
And I've wiped a couple of jams with it.
I haven't listened to any since though.
But I guess the point, the larger point that I was trying
to make was.
Especially in the truth community.
I think most of the people that follow me, we're
we're in the truth community.
We don't believe the government.
I say most because there's probably a handful of you.
That are normies.
And that's fine too, man.
I would think it's weird though.
If you guys follow most of my content and then.
Oh my gosh.
Here he goes.
Talking conspiracies yet again.
I'm out.
Snap.
I like when he talks about Marcus Aurelius and
that's about it or Seneca.
You know, the first part of this show is great.
But then he went into conspiracy and I was like.
Cut it out.
I'm out of here.
Sayonara brother.
Until next time.
I completely understand that could be people like that.
And I guess the point that I still haven't made that
I've been trying to make is that.
Everyone has their unique subjective tastes.
You know what I'm saying?
When I was a firefighter.
In the mornings, most of us drank coffee.
Yeah, one dude.
This one dude.
I don't.
He was crazy.
He would smoke cigarettes and had crazy.
Cardio conditioning and he would smoke cigarettes regularly.
He would also drink Coca Cola every morning all day long.
How the hell he functioned.
Maybe he's dead now.
Who knows, but what the fuck is wrong with this guy?
But everyone has their different cup of tea.
You know what I mean?
Some people may like a little Espresso.
Some people may drink their coffee straight black.
People like it nice and, you know.
A little bit of cream, a little bit of sugar.
Some people like fucking 75% creamer and just a tiny little
sprucing of coffee.
I don't understand that shit.
The point I'm trying to make is everyone is different.
Everyone has different things.
And so in the truth community, I probably am a little bit
different than a lot of motherfuckers.
It could be good and it could be a detriment.
It could be detrimental to my growth.
And I've thought about that a lot.
If I change things up and maybe even if I was like, Hey guys,
welcome to the what is true podcast.
I'm your host Weezy and today we have a rather
fantastic show and maybe five fucking did that the whole show
and no cuss words or nothing.
Maybe I'd have like a fucking killing who the hell knows.
But at the end of the day, I would be fake as shit.
And I don't want that man.
And so maybe it is to my detriment, dropping F bombs
on a regular basis.
Someone left a comment.
I uploaded a Lincoln show.
I'm not going to say your name, but shout out to you.
You know who you are if you're listening to us.
But they said, look, Weezy, this show was a plus because
you didn't have to use the F word at all.
I mean, what do I say to that?
I don't want to be rude.
I don't want to be mean.
So I just ignore it, whatever.
It's like that's not me, man.
I drop F bombs.
That's what I do.
I quit chewing tobacco, so I could definitely stop.
Dropping F bombs 100%.
I know I could.
Have a great night, Karen.
Thank you for stopping by Karen.
Oh, is it Dustin?
See you, Dustin.
I wasn't paying attention to the live chat.
Frankie says, I mean, Normie, I just come here to find out
what is true and I still don't fucking know.
There you go.
I don't know if I believe you're a Normie though.
It's Frankie because you tune into quite a bit of my shows.
Yeah, as I, um, as I reflect on a lot of these things.
Karen.
Hit that.
Hit that stream yard, Karen.
I know you're having some glass of wine.
I'm drinking my beer with my second one.
Thank goodness.
Weezy doesn't have a swear jar.
We'd all be broke.
Hell yeah.
Wish me luck at the club.
What would Seneca do?
Seneca would clap them cheeks.
I mean, he was.
Allegedly clapping some prohibited.
Cheeks and he was exiled to the island of Corsica at one point.
So Seneca will clap them cheeks, Mr. Fluffins.
So, um, I bless you.
Go, go in peace and clap them cheeks.
Oh, yeah.
What was I saying?
I can't remember.
Think I was trying to philosophize.
I've been thinking about.
How it must have been to be in Rome.
At that period in time.
These guys were.
Super, super.
That's.
Aqueduct.
And it was all through military conquest, man.
They were just pillaging, raping and pillaging.
And one of the things that helped them expand was.
The invention of citizenship.
Sometimes I didn't even have to go to war.
They're like, hey.
Be part of our empire.
Pay us tribute.
Pay us taxes.
We'll make you citizens of Rome.
And.
That's what helped them expand and expand and become.
Great power.
That's one of the things that I've been.
I've been thinking lately is how.
People's from all around the world.
Are amazing.
They all do fucked up shit as well.
But.
There's been a lot of amazing.
Society.
And civilizations and empires that have sprung up.
From all corners of the world in the Americas.
In Europe.
Fuck yeah.
In Asia.
In Africa.
Everywhere.
There's been people's that just rise up.
And that's what I've been.
Thinking about.
How.
How things start up.
You know what I mean.
And a lot of the times it starts out small.
And then they start conquering their neighbors.
And then they start growing.
Growing and growing like I was learning about.
Rome.
Rome has the myth that.
It was two twin brothers.
Romulus and some other fuck shit.
I can't remember the other twins name.
And.
They were due to get killed and executed because.
The.
The leaders of that area were saying now you guys are royalty.
You guys are going to.
You guys are going to take over the throne later on.
So kill kill these twin babies.
The people that were due to kill these twin babies said.
No we don't have a heart.
So they put them in a basket.
And send them down the river.
Doesn't that remind you of Moses?
This is the story of Rome.
In any ways the twin babies in a basket and go down the river.
And eventually the basket.
Lands on a shore little little river shore river bank.
And a mama wolf.
She wolf.
Finds the babies.
He takes the babies into her den and she suckles them.
You know they they they start drinking.
Female wolf milk.
And twins get older and older and older and eventually a farmer
or herder finds them.
Then he takes the two boys and raises them up.
As he's raising them up.
Eventually they find out that.
They are the heirs.
To the dynasty.
And then the two twin brothers.
Have you know they they take over.
And they have each other's they have walls to separate the twin brothers.
One twin brother lives here.
Romulus lives over here.
The other twin brother is like nah fuck you I want your fucking patch of land as well.
So he climbs over the walls to try to take over Romulus's land.
And Romulus says fuck you motherfucker and he fucks him up kills him.
He was on twin brother.
And Rome is founded.
That's the mythology of how Rome started.
Pretty bad fucking story if you ask me.
And that's how it started.
It started with violence.
Rome.
And then when you see Rome throughout the centuries.
Grow and grow and grow.
And then eventually conquer swaths of the world and shit.
It's pretty badass.
Pretty super interesting story.
That that it really went down.
But it reminds me.
This type of shit happens all over the world.
I mean the story of the Aztecs I did a show on the Aztecs if anyone's interested.
I'm going to try to have Robert Biddle on again to talk about Meso American philosophy.
It should be a fun show.
But the story of the Aztecs they were a nomadic tribes people.
And then they allegedly came from the Four Corners area.
In Iceland.
And they had visions or shamans allegedly according to their mythology had mission had visions that they had to keep traveling until they found.
A snake or an eagle perched on a cactus devouring a snake.
That's why the Mexican flag has that symbol.
It's from the Aztec mythology.
So they were traveling as nomads and then they get to Mexico City and they see that.
And they were like this is the fucking joint.
This is the sign.
And they start conquering motherfuckers.
There was already established civilizations in Mexico City at this point of time.
The Aztecs were just some nomads.
They were viewed as savages.
There was already tribes that had city walls and temples and shit that she was already established.
And then the Aztecs were just no, you know, like fucking savages is what they were viewed as.
And they the Aztecs were resolute.
They said we want this fucking land.
Our visions are shame and said we are going to conquer this fucking place.
And the other tribes are like, these guys are ghetto as savages.
We don't fuck them.
And the Aztecs ended up taking over the whole area.
So they started as nomads and then they started forming a fucking empire.
That expanded from the West Coast of Mexico to the East Coast of Mexico.
And pretty much the entire area known as current day Mexico is what the Aztecs ended up expanding.
So these civilizations, man, it's I'm fascinated their growth and their rise and peak and then eventually collapse.
And I wonder if that's what's going on right now with the US of a, you know, you had the founding fathers.
You know, in 1786 is what we're told or 76, I'm sorry.
And this year marks 250 years.
Are we going to collapse as an empire?
Who knows?
Like I said, you can really get overwhelmed with that shit.
But one thing when when I read about a lot of these civilizations, it does suck through go through these collapse of eras and times, but then they continue on.
Look at the Chinese, the Chinese have had a robust history that has lasted millennia.
They've been on top of the world at times.
They've been utterly destroyed at other times.
And then they bounce back and down and down.
And all these millennia later, China still up and running.
Still are mortal enemy.
So who knows what's going to happen this year?
But things move on.
So I guess the point that I'm trying to make is don't don't get caught up.
Don't get too stressed out, man.
Like Seneca says, enjoy the moments.
Get ready.
Don't don't don't be caught like a deer in the headlights.
Get your shit together.
Get your things in order as best as you can.
But also don't don't don't overburden your your mind with doom and gloom is all I'm trying to say.
You know what I'm saying?
All right. No one called.
No one had the wave o's to call in.
So if we do a show tomorrow.
I will put it on the telegram.
Thank you everyone for coming out.
Much love hugs and kisses to all.
Weezy things because weezy usually comes up something and I mean that it with all due respect.
Weezy because you usually.
Are pretty good at coming at it from an angle that you have no political, you know,
leading one way or the other.
So you're a little bit more able to come at this from different angles.