Dr. Peter Weller
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668 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
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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I'll put you to death. But you know something? Yeah, it's what it is. And me and a guy, I'm going to give it to Dan. Because me and a buddy of mine who's got a ton of things going on with YouTube already wrote the outline for it.
Yeah, we're telling you. We never tell anybody about it because it's our little baby secret. I mean, Howard Gordon knows about it. But Cicero is the great story of... Of hubris, of winning, of the people, of failure, of espionage, of passion, of betrayal, and essentially undone. I mean, if you start with a guy who's got no entrance into... Rome, because he's like, you know.
He's the novus homo, like the new man. He's the new man. That's like being a mercantile dude.
You're not of the purple.
You've got to work your way there. And to get the degree, he doesn't go to Greece and study that. And also to advise Julius Caesar, hey, you want to be a lawyer, man? Go to Greece and study that stuff. Study oratory. You know, and Julius Caesar does. And he's a great advisor to his friends. and a great pal, and then becomes the guy in Rome.
But starting as a people's guy, and then ending up, and supporting the end of domestic terrorism, and supporting the end of international terrorism with Pompey the Great taking down all the people who want to bomb Rome. And by the way, Rome is bombed in 69. Those Salesian pirates come in and blow up Austria. I mean, it's own 9-11, man. Yeah. Every single thing that's happening in this century.
I was just thinking.
You know what I mean? Take him out of a toga and put him in Armani.
It's the same deal, man.
And somebody says, no, you know what? It can't parallel it.
You have corporatization. You've got corporatization. Yeah. Privatization of everything. Yeah. Privatization of all things. It's more relevant now, right? Absolutely.
Way ahead of its time. Ed Neumeier and Mike Miner, you've got to thank them, but then you've got to thank Verhoeven. Listen, it gets me absolutely really weepy, the gratitude that I have for those guys. Because I'm doing the movie, I know it's going to be brilliant because it's Paul Verhoeven. I've seen every one of his movies. I've conned my way into doing that part.
I've almost begged Verhoeven to just hire me. I never auditioned once for it. I moved around a room. I met him and met him and met him and him and John Davison, and they finally hired me. I had beefs with Verhoeven, you know, on the set. I wasn't quite sure about some of the dialogue. I had beefs with Ed, you know, on the set. And then all of a sudden, it just started to fall into line, man.
I worked for six months on that movement and had to throw the whole thing out. I had beefs with Rob Boutin, who designed that beautiful stuff, and Stefan DeBruyne did the makeup. But all in all, when all is said and done, every one of those guys are a genius. From Rob to Stefan to Paul to Mike to that cast. I mean, it doesn't matter if you're talking about Ray Wise or Kurt Wood.
It doesn't matter if you're talking about Ronnie or Dana Hurley, man. With Nancy, who I see frequently, that everything in it is like I look at it. You know, it's a tragedy, really, because Miguel Ferrer died and the guy with the Egyptian and The theater said, we're going to have a special screening of Robocop. Would you introduce it? I said, I'll do it if Ed does it.
When Miguel passed away, it was about 10 years ago, and Ed said, okay, I'll do it. He said, are you going to watch it? I said, it's a new 4K reconstituted director's cut of it at the... What's the theater across the street from the Egyptian that's part of it? Oh, the... The Arclight. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So at the Arclight, I said, I don't know, man, I don't know. So Ed and I go and we are...
introduce it, and then we sit through it. And then I turned to Anna and said, I can't watch this movie anymore because it's tragic. It is truly tragic in that the reason why Paul says he took it, I can't speak for, Paul's in LA right now, but because of the center scene is when he goes back and dives into his past and he has visions of it. And it's so upsetting.
Okay, it's not upsetting when you're, 39 years old and you don't have a family. It's not upsetting when Paul Verhoeven says, you know, the most important thing is that when the dreams and so forth. And I'm thinking, like, why isn't that stuff happening before? You know, Robo, it's you. I know you. Paul McRae's life. And he says, Peter, it's not amnesia. It's not amnesia.
I don't know what the hell he's talking about. It's not amnesia, Peter. It's God. It's a spiritual thing. It's infinite. Paul, what in the fuck are you talking about? And we're in a suite. But it's Paul who studied medieval myth and has a degree in this stuff and Christian myth and Egyptian myth. Don't forget, I'm the dummy.
We've been talking about contemporary art, but I ain't seen Johto at this point. I haven't done a dive into all this stuff. Later on, I'm going to talk until Paul's blue in the face. He wants to go home. But then I'm thinking, what is this? He said, Peter, look, look, it's the one thing they can't take.
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