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Dr. Peter Weller

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2004 total appearances

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History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

And I've got this great, beautiful, and fantastic, intelligent academic friend who's the head of a department who's still got this bump with her mom. And the mom was one of those hands-on, and she will not go make it up with the mom. Okay, she's 45. How much time do you think you've got to make it up with the mom?

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

And the thing is that I realized this, that what sobriety gave me is that the child is the father to the man. We just sit there and expect your parents to come to you and say, once in a while that happens. Once in a while a parent comes and says, excuse me for paddling you when you were two or something like that. Now parents don't touch again.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

And the thing is that I realized this, that what sobriety gave me is that the child is the father to the man. We just sit there and expect your parents to come to you and say, once in a while that happens. Once in a while a parent comes and says, excuse me for paddling you when you were two or something like that. Now parents don't touch again.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

And the thing is that I realized this, that what sobriety gave me is that the child is the father to the man. We just sit there and expect your parents to come to you and say, once in a while that happens. Once in a while a parent comes and says, excuse me for paddling you when you were two or something like that. Now parents don't touch again.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

falsely blaming you for whatever or like sending you home too early whatever whatever the whatever the sin is once in a while a parent will do it but most times the parents are excoriating themselves for screwing up that's what most parents are doing and my dad did it with my brother and my dad thought he'd screwed up with me And, you know, I'm in the backyard. I'm shooting Robocop.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

falsely blaming you for whatever or like sending you home too early whatever whatever the whatever the sin is once in a while a parent will do it but most times the parents are excoriating themselves for screwing up that's what most parents are doing and my dad did it with my brother and my dad thought he'd screwed up with me And, you know, I'm in the backyard. I'm shooting Robocop.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

falsely blaming you for whatever or like sending you home too early whatever whatever the whatever the sin is once in a while a parent will do it but most times the parents are excoriating themselves for screwing up that's what most parents are doing and my dad did it with my brother and my dad thought he'd screwed up with me And, you know, I'm in the backyard. I'm shooting Robocop.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

My dad's a federal judge, a made guy. And we're cleaning the slate. And my dad was, like, running down some strange stuff that I thought I was going to hold him accountable for. And he was actually thinking that I was accountable for a lot of it. And I was.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

My dad's a federal judge, a made guy. And we're cleaning the slate. And my dad was, like, running down some strange stuff that I thought I was going to hold him accountable for. And he was actually thinking that I was accountable for a lot of it. And I was.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

My dad's a federal judge, a made guy. And we're cleaning the slate. And my dad was, like, running down some strange stuff that I thought I was going to hold him accountable for. And he was actually thinking that I was accountable for a lot of it. And I was.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

And he said, you know, I'd like to say that it was my responsibility for throwing a motorcycle off a bridge and, you know, and getting busted, you know, for drinking beer on the economy and stealing, la, la, la, la, la. You know, breaking somebody's nose in a basketball fight. He said, did any of this ring a bell to you? And I went like, wait a minute, did I do that? He goes, yeah.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

And he said, you know, I'd like to say that it was my responsibility for throwing a motorcycle off a bridge and, you know, and getting busted, you know, for drinking beer on the economy and stealing, la, la, la, la, la. You know, breaking somebody's nose in a basketball fight. He said, did any of this ring a bell to you? And I went like, wait a minute, did I do that? He goes, yeah.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

And he said, you know, I'd like to say that it was my responsibility for throwing a motorcycle off a bridge and, you know, and getting busted, you know, for drinking beer on the economy and stealing, la, la, la, la, la. You know, breaking somebody's nose in a basketball fight. He said, did any of this ring a bell to you? And I went like, wait a minute, did I do that? He goes, yeah.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

You know, and I'm always thinking like, what did I do wrong?

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

You know, and I'm always thinking like, what did I do wrong?

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

You know, and I'm always thinking like, what did I do wrong?

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

And I go, my God, man.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

And I go, my God, man.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

And I go, my God, man.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

Yeah, because I pulled his chain about it. I'd just written him a letter using the I word. I'd certainly like to talk to you about this. Were you having a bad time? Were you whatever? But the child, I had to go to him. The child's got to go. The child's got to go up to the parent and go, hey, can you talk to me about this?