Greg Ellis is an actor, director, author, and host of podcast The Respondent. He discusses with Bret what makes the current political situation in the US so frightening, having himself grown up in the UK and moved to the US.



TIMESTAMPS: 01:00 Greg's background 02:12 Trump and TDS 
04:58 What do Americans not realize about the US? 
06:48 America versus China for human rights 
10:56 Biological reasons for the divide 
14:30 "Grave Matters" poem 
17:04 Why Greg and Bret are friends
20:55 Freedom in the UK 
22:24 Why Greg started The Respondent and toxic masculinity 
30:27 Raising boys 
33:09 Primary role of a father 
34:56 How modern sexual behavior has impacted men 
38:28 Imbalance in law between mothers and fathers 
42:37 Children out of wedlock and two parent households 
45:05 Decline in marriage rates and nuclear family 
50:40 Suicide 
53:00 The Big Short, markets, and commodifying everything 
54:48 The three deaths and a "Prince's Prayer" poem 
57:51 Who am I? Dialectical dives 
59:17 "An emotion is a feeling with a memory attached" 
01:00:24 Engaging with your own death 
01:02:22 Crisis of meaning. "Everything happens for a reason…[that] we make up afterwards" 
01:04:20 Poetry and free verse 
01:06:11 "The Calamity of Conscious" poem 
01:10:20 "The Memory Shelf" poem 
01:13:02 Pocket Oracle by Greg 
01:14:28 Andrew Yang, philosophers in the White House, and #Unity2020 
01:21:27 Has corporate America gone woke? 
01:28:26 The “how” gets answered after the “why” 
01:32:17 Men 2.0, Greg's book "The Respondent", and "Voices in my Head"
01:37:10 Spongebob Squarepants 

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