DarkHorse Podcast DarkHorse Podcast with Greg Ellis and Bret Weinstein
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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