John Luke Robertson
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3,139 appearances
27 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 3d ago
John Luke Robertson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I mean that's just on fatherhood.
Like you see Timoth is struggling with with his father being absent.
He wants to like live up to the name of his father, but he's not there.
And he's he's lucky in the sense that he's got mentor, he's got all these other nesters, he's got all these other, you know, adult mentors, adult men who are speaking into him and trying to like pump him up, but like
He needs his father.
I've
yeah, another point before as we get to wrap up.
Just thinking about um the opening line, which is just so good.
I'm gonna read it again.
We've already read it.
Sing to me of the man, muse, the man of twists and turns.
And that's one of the contrasts that you see in the whole the whole book of the Odyssey is this idea that
Odysseus is
complicated and all the characters are Penelope and Telemachus.
They're all complicated and they they change and grow over time.
And that is specifically in contrast to the gods who are like stable in the sense of they're almost like a character of like a human aspect.
Like Zeus is like power and he
Athena is like wisdom, but they don't change over time.
Like they've got their thing and then that's just who they are.
And they're almost like a force of nature.
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