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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Oh, yeah.
Yeah, there you go. Oh, really? Okay, you guys are real Southern California. Yeah. No, through and through.
I was invited to it, and I have no desire to go.
Have you ever been to a bullfight in Spain? No, and I don't want to. We're big animal lovers, too. I have to say two things. I went to Spain to do a movie by Ernesto Salvador, who was the great Argentinian existentialist freedom guy, called El Tunel, right after I finished Robocop. Robocop wasn't out. So I go over there to do this movie with Jane Seymour in Spain.
And it's at the time that Madrid is still ugly because they're using third world gas and the ecosystem's not up. It's 1986. And I go to finish the movie in Argentina. By this time, I have friends in Madrid who have turned me on to all four films. six forms of Sevillanas flamenco and Bolerias flamenco and I go to flamenco. And then I'm in love with the whole Andalusia jam and I'm just like done.
I want to go back and dig the festival of Seville. The festival of Seville is a flamenco festival before a big bullfight. And there's a guy bullfighting there named El Spartaco, as part of his Saturday. No, but you don't want to see a bullfight, man. I know. Because I tell you, it is macho beyond belief.
And it is diabolically brutal. It's brutal. It's brutal and it's just part of Spanish ethic. It's part of Andalusian, Gitano ethic. Like flamenco is. Mm-hmm. But even the Plaza de Toros in Mexico Suidad is a big place for... Yeah. But I tell you, I cannot ever watch one again. I've never been to one. Never watch one again.
No, man.
No, no, no, no, no. Yeah. I'm happy I saw one because it's a thing. But, man, I can't do it again. But! I did get to the festival of Sevilla, and the Flamenco Festival of Sevilla is the nuts, man.
But flamenco is jazz, and it's North African jazz, and it's their true machismo. It's not only of the women, but of the men, and the sounds, the dance, the power of it. And it only really starts... And Andalusia at 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning. I'm not talking about the tourist shit. I'm talking about you go to Cadiz and you see a cat playing. He says, come to me.
Come to this bar at 3 o'clock in the morning. And all of a sudden, man, there's like people get up and start dancing. And you think, they'd get hired anywhere.
And they're dancing, man. And they're just like flying. And the guitar player is amazing. You never see him again. No, man, but that's just the power dynamic. And here's what I want to be when I grow up. I'm going to leave you with this.
So I go to this festival, and they say you'll never get a place to stay. You'll never get a place to stay. The Sevilla, the Sevillanos have their own clique, and you can't get in any tents unless you're a Sevillanos. You can't see any of the stuff unless you're a Sevillano. You can't do anything. It's like truly a festival of flamenco that is Serrano. But I go anyway, man. I drive down there.
I pull up in front of the Alfonso Tracy, the biggest hotel. I park my car on a sidewalk. I don't care if it's towed. I run in, and there's El Spataco going in there. And people ask for an autograph. I got my little Michelin guide thing, right? He signs my thing, right? And I go over to the concierge and I go, look, I got to get a room.
They go, oh, man, Weller, yes, you've sent us a thousand faxes, man. We got no rooms. I go, listen, I'll pay you cash. I'll pay you anything. And this one guy says, come over here. He says, we have a four-major, massive hotel in a basement. It's got one 10-foot high window that looks right even with the garden. So if you open it up, bumblebees will fly in. Oh, my gosh.
But it's got no air conditioning and no heat. But it's for the maids, but the maids don't stay here anymore. The rest of the things are taken for storage. It's got one cot and a sink. Bathroom at the end of the hall. I'll show it to you. I go down, man, it's got a cot half this big. The whole place is about from me to you. Oh my gosh. But it's got a sink, but this fantastic window.
And indeed, I can't open it. Because there's nothing but bees buzzing out there. I stay in there for 10 days, man. Oh, my gosh. And I bullshit my way into a dinner, a lunch, a couple of tents. I learned the first form of Sevillanas. Oh, my gosh. I go like, but here's what I want to be when I grow up. Can I just tell you what I want to be?
They are the original riding clubs. You got to remember the Andalusian Mustang, the horse, was brought.
To the southern United States, and all the plains horses of the Comanches are the Andalusian, the Arabs, right?
So these short Arab, they're like quarter horses, but they're Arabs. They got the big nose, right? Mm-hmm. Okay. So I'm standing on a street corner, man, and you hear a flamenco. And then I see this. You can hear the horses, their hooves coming down because they're all shod, right?
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