Dr. Peter Weller
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Yeah, you're good to go. I want to ask you a question. So you're married? Oh, yes. Okay, Andrew and Stephanie are married.
Yeah, you're good to go. I want to ask you a question. So you're married? Oh, yes. Okay, Andrew and Stephanie are married.
Yeah, you're good to go. I want to ask you a question. So you're married? Oh, yes. Okay, Andrew and Stephanie are married.
Happy anniversary. Thank you. Now I want to tell you something very interesting about history since we're talking about history.
Happy anniversary. Thank you. Now I want to tell you something very interesting about history since we're talking about history.
Happy anniversary. Thank you. Now I want to tell you something very interesting about history since we're talking about history.
Okay, there's a piece of art that is really, and I can't overspeak it. You can't. Oversay it. I mean, there's an art historian that came along in the last five, 10 years who said this piece of art is the one piece of art that you can't impugn. And everybody from Rembrandt to Leonardo to Michelangelo to Picasso to Rothko. So they sourced this piece of art, and it's by a guy named Giotto.
Okay, there's a piece of art that is really, and I can't overspeak it. You can't. Oversay it. I mean, there's an art historian that came along in the last five, 10 years who said this piece of art is the one piece of art that you can't impugn. And everybody from Rembrandt to Leonardo to Michelangelo to Picasso to Rothko. So they sourced this piece of art, and it's by a guy named Giotto.
Okay, there's a piece of art that is really, and I can't overspeak it. You can't. Oversay it. I mean, there's an art historian that came along in the last five, 10 years who said this piece of art is the one piece of art that you can't impugn. And everybody from Rembrandt to Leonardo to Michelangelo to Picasso to Rothko. So they sourced this piece of art, and it's by a guy named Giotto.
G-I-O-T-T-O.
G-I-O-T-T-O.
G-I-O-T-T-O.
Yeah, Giotto. And he does this chapel that's about 20 meters long.
Yeah, Giotto. And he does this chapel that's about 20 meters long.
Yeah, Giotto. And he does this chapel that's about 20 meters long.
Called the Cappella Scrovegni. Scrovegni, like G-N is pronounced like million in Italian.
Called the Cappella Scrovegni. Scrovegni, like G-N is pronounced like million in Italian.
Called the Cappella Scrovegni. Scrovegni, like G-N is pronounced like million in Italian.
Like G-L is the same way, yeah. Scrovegni and that Cappella Scrovegni or Scrovegni Chapel or Arena Chapel, and the reason why they call it Arena Chapel in English, because it's right by an old Roman arena in Padova. And Padua is a beautiful city, the second oldest civic university. Oh, I didn't know that. Most universities are part of abbeys, like Oxford and Sorbonne and so forth.
Like G-L is the same way, yeah. Scrovegni and that Cappella Scrovegni or Scrovegni Chapel or Arena Chapel, and the reason why they call it Arena Chapel in English, because it's right by an old Roman arena in Padova. And Padua is a beautiful city, the second oldest civic university. Oh, I didn't know that. Most universities are part of abbeys, like Oxford and Sorbonne and so forth.