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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

No, he does because you've got Corinth and Thebes and you've got Athens and they're all touchy-feely. They've got space and they've got articulation of theater and architecture and science and whatever. And this guy's a thug, man.

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

Yeah, man. He goes, come on, come on, man. I don't speak your Athenian Greek and all that stuff. No, man, you can't join. Sorry. Go play basketball or something, man. And he goes, you know what, man? I got a kid, and I'm going to hire Aristotle to come over and teach him. And supposedly there's a TV script at Paramount right now. Oh, cool. Yeah, yeah. And so that's like hiring Einstein.

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

Yeah, man. He goes, come on, come on, man. I don't speak your Athenian Greek and all that stuff. No, man, you can't join. Sorry. Go play basketball or something, man. And he goes, you know what, man? I got a kid, and I'm going to hire Aristotle to come over and teach him. And supposedly there's a TV script at Paramount right now. Oh, cool. Yeah, yeah. And so that's like hiring Einstein.

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

Yeah, man. He goes, come on, come on, man. I don't speak your Athenian Greek and all that stuff. No, man, you can't join. Sorry. Go play basketball or something, man. And he goes, you know what, man? I got a kid, and I'm going to hire Aristotle to come over and teach him. And supposedly there's a TV script at Paramount right now. Oh, cool. Yeah, yeah. And so that's like hiring Einstein.

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

To come and teach a kid. Because Aristotle's renowned. Come and teach my kid. So he teaches him four years. So what do you got? A good-looking kid who's an athlete and a stud. And a warrior genius who's the smartest guy in the room. Oh, yeah. All in one. And what is this kid interested in? You know, I mean, his dad makes the deal with Corinth. He says, join with me against Thebes.

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

To come and teach a kid. Because Aristotle's renowned. Come and teach my kid. So he teaches him four years. So what do you got? A good-looking kid who's an athlete and a stud. And a warrior genius who's the smartest guy in the room. Oh, yeah. All in one. And what is this kid interested in? You know, I mean, his dad makes the deal with Corinth. He says, join with me against Thebes.

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

To come and teach a kid. Because Aristotle's renowned. Come and teach my kid. So he teaches him four years. So what do you got? A good-looking kid who's an athlete and a stud. And a warrior genius who's the smartest guy in the room. Oh, yeah. All in one. And what is this kid interested in? You know, I mean, his dad makes the deal with Corinth. He says, join with me against Thebes.

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

And they go, sure. And he goes to Thebes and says, join with me against Corinth. His dad plays that game for a couple of days. And Spartacus is on his side. And then Athens goes, no, we're not joining you. And then he sends this kid in. And Alexander takes down Athens in about eight days or something like that, right?

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

And they go, sure. And he goes to Thebes and says, join with me against Corinth. His dad plays that game for a couple of days. And Spartacus is on his side. And then Athens goes, no, we're not joining you. And then he sends this kid in. And Alexander takes down Athens in about eight days or something like that, right?

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

And they go, sure. And he goes to Thebes and says, join with me against Corinth. His dad plays that game for a couple of days. And Spartacus is on his side. And then Athens goes, no, we're not joining you. And then he sends this kid in. And Alexander takes down Athens in about eight days or something like that, right?

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

Close to 18. Teenager. He's a teenager, and he takes that. Now, I'm going to paraphrase right now. The speeches that we don't have, but we have remnants of, by Demosthenes. He stands up, and he's the guy that tells Athens why you can't let Philip of Macedonia in. They're called the Philippics. Why can't you let Philip of Macedonia and his teenage smarty pants get in? Because we're Athens, man.

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

Close to 18. Teenager. He's a teenager, and he takes that. Now, I'm going to paraphrase right now. The speeches that we don't have, but we have remnants of, by Demosthenes. He stands up, and he's the guy that tells Athens why you can't let Philip of Macedonia in. They're called the Philippics. Why can't you let Philip of Macedonia and his teenage smarty pants get in? Because we're Athens, man.

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

Close to 18. Teenager. He's a teenager, and he takes that. Now, I'm going to paraphrase right now. The speeches that we don't have, but we have remnants of, by Demosthenes. He stands up, and he's the guy that tells Athens why you can't let Philip of Macedonia in. They're called the Philippics. Why can't you let Philip of Macedonia and his teenage smarty pants get in? Because we're Athens, man.

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

And we got Tomey, and we got math, and we got science, and we got architecture, we got plays, and we got theaters. That's us, man. We can't let this thug come in and take us over. And these are called the Philippics because they're anti-Philip.

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

And we got Tomey, and we got math, and we got science, and we got architecture, we got plays, and we got theaters. That's us, man. We can't let this thug come in and take us over. And these are called the Philippics because they're anti-Philip.

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

And we got Tomey, and we got math, and we got science, and we got architecture, we got plays, and we got theaters. That's us, man. We can't let this thug come in and take us over. And these are called the Philippics because they're anti-Philip.

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

Now, we don't have them. They're remnants of them. Okay. Cut to the chase. later, that's around 338 or something like that. Because it says later, okay, around 445, 443, Cicero against Antony is going to do the same thing.

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

Now, we don't have them. They're remnants of them. Okay. Cut to the chase. later, that's around 338 or something like that. Because it says later, okay, around 445, 443, Cicero against Antony is going to do the same thing.

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

Now, we don't have them. They're remnants of them. Okay. Cut to the chase. later, that's around 338 or something like that. Because it says later, okay, around 445, 443, Cicero against Antony is going to do the same thing.

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

That's so crazy. He knows that Demosthenes loses. He knows that they... But the...