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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

He writes my recommendation at a grad school, and he's a guy I could talk about endlessly because I had never met a smarter guy or a funnier guy in my life than Gore Vidal ever in planet history time. And one of the first guys to admit that he's gay, I'm queer, you know, like, had the balls, like Burroughs, like Jean Genet, like Pasolini, like several of them, to go, yeah, I'm queer. Mm-hmm.

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

He writes my recommendation at a grad school, and he's a guy I could talk about endlessly because I had never met a smarter guy or a funnier guy in my life than Gore Vidal ever in planet history time. And one of the first guys to admit that he's gay, I'm queer, you know, like, had the balls, like Burroughs, like Jean Genet, like Pasolini, like several of them, to go, yeah, I'm queer. Mm-hmm.

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

Because you guys have marginalized me, and I'm not of your gender, and I'm not of your jam, so fuck you. And those days you get shot for it. If not today, you get shot for it.

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

Because you guys have marginalized me, and I'm not of your gender, and I'm not of your jam, so fuck you. And those days you get shot for it. If not today, you get shot for it.

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

Because you guys have marginalized me, and I'm not of your gender, and I'm not of your jam, so fuck you. And those days you get shot for it. If not today, you get shot for it.

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

Pretty dangerous. So Gore is friends with Tennessee, and Tennessee is gay. Tennessee, Dick Cavett tried to be a smarty pants in 1972. He said, are you homosexual? To Tennessee, right? He's smoking his cigarette. And you're going like, oh, my God. Is that the dumbest fucking thing from some jammed up Anglican Brit?

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

Pretty dangerous. So Gore is friends with Tennessee, and Tennessee is gay. Tennessee, Dick Cavett tried to be a smarty pants in 1972. He said, are you homosexual? To Tennessee, right? He's smoking his cigarette. And you're going like, oh, my God. Is that the dumbest fucking thing from some jammed up Anglican Brit?

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

Pretty dangerous. So Gore is friends with Tennessee, and Tennessee is gay. Tennessee, Dick Cavett tried to be a smarty pants in 1972. He said, are you homosexual? To Tennessee, right? He's smoking his cigarette. And you're going like, oh, my God. Is that the dumbest fucking thing from some jammed up Anglican Brit?

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

To ask the granddaddy of theater poetics.

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

To ask the granddaddy of theater poetics.

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

To ask the granddaddy of theater poetics.

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

Yeah. You know, are you homosexual? And Tennessee goes, takes a puff off his cigarette and says, well, baby, let's just say I covered the water for you.

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

Yeah. You know, are you homosexual? And Tennessee goes, takes a puff off his cigarette and says, well, baby, let's just say I covered the water for you.

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

Yeah. You know, are you homosexual? And Tennessee goes, takes a puff off his cigarette and says, well, baby, let's just say I covered the water for you.

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

incredible is that a class act oh my gosh I said you can't have no more poetry than that man I love that so when he writes this thing this dead and night scene about a guitar player Cajun escapee from New Orleans who's now down in the bayou somewhere in the tibido working in a shoe store for an Italian immigrant with a bastard husband who's upstairs and the dead and night she wants to know who he is you gotta google the scene man yeah look at it fugitive kind Anna Magnani Brando okay

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

incredible is that a class act oh my gosh I said you can't have no more poetry than that man I love that so when he writes this thing this dead and night scene about a guitar player Cajun escapee from New Orleans who's now down in the bayou somewhere in the tibido working in a shoe store for an Italian immigrant with a bastard husband who's upstairs and the dead and night she wants to know who he is you gotta google the scene man yeah look at it fugitive kind Anna Magnani Brando okay

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

incredible is that a class act oh my gosh I said you can't have no more poetry than that man I love that so when he writes this thing this dead and night scene about a guitar player Cajun escapee from New Orleans who's now down in the bayou somewhere in the tibido working in a shoe store for an Italian immigrant with a bastard husband who's upstairs and the dead and night she wants to know who he is you gotta google the scene man yeah look at it fugitive kind Anna Magnani Brando okay

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

I'm paraphrasing this thing, but Tennessee is gay. And we don't know if he's ever been with a chick, but some of the most dynamic feminine characters ever written based on his mother and his sister, ever, ever written in the theater. See Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and shit. And she says to him, Anna Magnani says, Brenda, who are you? He says, I'm a bird. I'm a bird with transparent wings.

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

I'm paraphrasing this thing, but Tennessee is gay. And we don't know if he's ever been with a chick, but some of the most dynamic feminine characters ever written based on his mother and his sister, ever, ever written in the theater. See Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and shit. And she says to him, Anna Magnani says, Brenda, who are you? He says, I'm a bird. I'm a bird with transparent wings.

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

I'm paraphrasing this thing, but Tennessee is gay. And we don't know if he's ever been with a chick, but some of the most dynamic feminine characters ever written based on his mother and his sister, ever, ever written in the theater. See Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and shit. And she says to him, Anna Magnani says, Brenda, who are you? He says, I'm a bird. I'm a bird with transparent wings.