Warren Ellis thanks so much for joining us today please have a seat so how you doing I know you youmentioned you were a little tired and now we're hitting these bright lights yes yes yeah yeah that's what you need
And that's how we made the whole project, actually. "Ellis ." So how are you getting this out to the world?
Patel: Right. I think, so I think that's a great question, so lemme, lemme offer a story and then platform off that story into a more direct response to this. So, when Keith Ellison, who's a friend of mine and the first Muslim to get elected into Congress in American history, from the fifth district in Minnesota representing Minneapolis, when people started to, when some people said, "We shouldn't have a Muslim in Congress and we definitely shouldn't let him take his oath of office on the Koran,"
Allyson Felix saw hers. Tracee Ellis Rose, all of these women with these large platforms and grandiose careers put these video odes up and let me know that nobody had ever done anything like that for them.
Andy Grotelueschen, Jeff Slater. Scott Ellis , the director. Robert Horn, the book writer.
is working on clean energy plants for microgrids where advanced fission reactors can pair and work along with renewables so it's pretty exciting. Tyler Ellis is founder and principal of Ellis , black Ellis partners pardon me he received a PhD, SM and SB degrees from MIT in nuclear science and engineering and also an MBA from Harvard that's probably our most decorated panelist.
And I write about Annie Moore, who I've been thinking about these days so much because she's the first immigrant through the gates of Ellis Island. She left from my hometown of Cobh in like 18-- it was like the 150th anniversary. I can't really do the-- it was like 1898 or something I think.
I just thought that trying to see and understand better our past was a good way to understand what's going on right now and maybe face our future. And Ellis Island, here in America, it rings a bell to how America got built. But in Europe, some people know about it.
Thanks. You mean for Ellis Island, for example? For Ellis Island or just in general. I guess the Ellis Island's a little bit more different because you're going through archived works versus current images.
Great. Yeah. My question kind of follows up on that. With "Ellis ," you're going through and you're filming scenes. You're not seeing the spark in someone's eyes.
How do you win? And Ellis says that if the game isn't controllable, it's better to work to avoid losers than to try for winners.
Tiny dog, on its head. Billie Ellish. I really like her too.
It was, at the time, the worst maritime disaster in Australian history. Larry Ellison, who is an accomplished sailor, he was racing on his boat, "Sayonara." And they had just come through the eye of the hurricane, which was not predicted.
really, really have made tremendous progress within their own field. Again, in all areas of life. So, I don't wanna, can I pick on Larry Ellison? I don't really wanna pick on Larry Ellison, but for example, he might be a great mentor to learn certain things from about business, right? Based on what he knows. Personally, he would not be somebody that I would choose as a mentor for how to really set up an effective life, right? Because I don't necessarily share, share values or agree on the way in which he runs his life and,
to, when some people said, "We shouldn't have a Muslim in Congress and we definitely shouldn't let him take his oath of office on the Koran," Keith Ellison's response was to walk across the street to the Library of Congress and to request the Koran reverently owned by The Honorable Thomas Jefferson, and to take his oath of office on that Koran, right? And the message he was sending is that religious diversity and interfaith cooperation was part of the founding ideals of this country. And by suggesting
And then I heard the soldiers saying basically the same thing, we don't want to go back to America. And what Ellis told me was that even people who had been kidnapped by the native tribes along the frontier and taken back and adopted into these societies into these tribal communities, when given the chance to be repatriated to their family,
And his first objective was to discover the criminal type, what the criminal type looks like. And Havelock Ellis , who was a progressive intellectual in the UK, he compared the influence of Lombroso to the influence of Darwin. It was a big deal.
The second thing I fairly quickly came across was this paper, which was published in "Nature," actually, in 2012. Glenn Begley and Lee Ellis wrote a paper that caught a lot of people by surprise, or certainly caught their attention. And what they had done was Lee Ellis -- not Lee Ellis .
But from crappy rock and roll drumming to intense swing drumming, I feel like I'm figuring it out slowly. My name is Brandon Ellis . I play Davy Zlatic the attractive, young ingenue in the show.
For Ellis Island or just in general. I guess the Ellis Island's a little bit more different because you're going through archived works versus current images. Yeah. Well, you know, I don't shoot that much.
thought that you would come back, where for me that's the whole base of the work. And then on Ellis Island, there hadn't been that many photos taken at the time. So I went through the archive, and there's still a couple hundred photos, and selected the ones that I cannot reflect
How do you get that when you're working with these people? So on Ellis Island, I just went through the archives. And they have a great-- actually, it's in the public domain.
How do you win? So Charlie Ellis wrote an article called The Losers Game.
man called Claybourne Paul Ellis CP Ellis you can see me on the right he's had forgotten figure from the history of
He edited Bret Easton Ellis 's first book.
This is from Mark Ellisman's lab in UC San Diego.
And even Larry Ellison, who started Oracle at around this exact same time, talked about how he couldn't get anyone to pay attention
ship like Larry Ellison or something he had this enormous boat that he parked in Chicago's Harbor and then had wild
Sounds like a Larry Ellison thing, doesn't it?
So Larry Ellison gets on a plane and he flies all over the place and he says, look, I know you're in the pipeline
I lived at the Ellison, which was one of these old apartment buildings on the Boardwalk.
It would look like Phaedra Ellis -Lamkins and Diana Frappier at Promise.
Her most recent interviewees are Sophie Ellis -Bextor and Fatima Whitbread.
process into a system called Ellis , which, after 10 years and $1 billion, the immigration at USCIS, and immigration team,
and my dear friend Eddie Ellis who has passed on and so many others who taught me that there's
People usually think of the Ellis Island story or coming to your San Franciscos and LAs and things like that.
So when I met Kurt Ellis -- that's a longer story-- but he's written the forward to my book-- he is the founding CEO of FoodCorps--
Glenn Begley and Lee Ellis wrote a paper that caught a lot of people by surprise, or certainly caught their attention. And what they had done was Lee Ellis -- not Lee Ellis . Glenn Begley was head of cancer research for Amgen, big drug company out in the LA area.
And the Institute became kind of an Ellis Island, attracting scholars from across the world.
So instead of being processed through Ellis Island, like so many European immigrants were, the immigrants who came through Angel Island
And I guess all of it made this film possible. And this was commissioned by the Ellis Island Hospital. And so is it somewhat of a permanent expression.
us race relations and CP Ellis was born in 1927 in North Carolina
But the meal that I did at Ellis Island-- that's in there-- that I really thought I
He was working for Larry Ellison and running some sort of start up company.
I've seen koi fish at Larry Ellison's Japanese villa.
This is never going to happen. Why would Oracle Racing and Larry Ellison partner with this kind of unknown club sinking in debt. Well, he didn't listen to the naysayers.
So I'm going to read something. When I was interviewing Larry Ellison, we got to talking about his friendship with Steve Jobs and about the time that the two of them spent together. And he gave me a lot of great detail on their friendship and their talks.
When you see little Vito turning up in Ellis Island and you get that shot, it's amazing. It gives you a really good cinematic sense of what it must have been
of this stuff, and it's like, wow, this is something that stood out to you. And then I remember the morning that Tracee Ellis Ross saw hers, and I was making breakfast. And Dwyane Wade had just posted his ode from "Black Oak," and she put it in her story.
No, but to be serious, he was a great help in the project. And when I mentioned that I was working on Ellis Island, he said, oh, great. But then I was like, maybe I would love that, somehow, you jump in for a minute.