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Under The Skin with Russell Brand

#068 Porn, Sadness & Madness (with Jon Ronson)

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Comedy

4.815.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Today's guest is the always intriguing journalist and great storyteller Jon Ronson. Fascinating, open and honest. We talked about his investigative podcasts into the world of pornography, how he fought his way out of depression and the dark world of social media shaming! It was an authentic and emotionally very real experience with Jon.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to Under the Skin. This week I spoke to John Ronson, the always intriguing

0:05.8

journalist and communicator, great story teller. Brilliant man, fascinating, open and honest.

0:13.6

I think you'll enjoy this interview of him. I've had quite a lot of conversations with

0:16.7

John over the years and he's obviously been through some stuff which he talks about in

0:21.3

this podcast and I enjoyed it, I enjoyed it, you've got to be upset but it was an authentic

0:27.9

and emotionally very real experience with John so I hope you'll enjoy it as much as

0:35.0

I did. Well actually I don't really care about it as in comparison to how much I enjoy

0:38.6

things, I just hope you enjoy it in your own way. Perhaps you enjoy things differently,

0:42.6

more or less than I do. Thanks for all your comments on last week's

0:47.3

podcast with Fern Cotton. Here are those comments, some of them anyhow, let the kids be kid

0:54.7

said, loving listening to your views on well-being in young children via Rusty Rockets

0:59.3

podcast, hashtag love, hashtag compassion, essentially in the schools for our kids to really thrive.

1:04.6

So that's something we need to consider isn't it and over all of the education system,

1:08.6

not that I don't love teachers, I bloody well do love teachers, love them even when I

1:12.8

was at school I don't think I was a missionary, I really liked her and Mr Hill got me into

1:19.3

acting. Anyway, Renee says, this is how I start most Saturdays, coffee, R.B.'s podcast

1:25.9

and a nice long walk to my 12-step recovery group. Renee thank you, brilliant way to start

1:31.8

any Saturday. Loving their tummy says, we love Fern Cotton, we find a super related

1:36.4

world down with, practical yet super creative, I love all the projects from cookbooks best

1:40.5

out there to kids books to bags, really enjoy listening to your both discuss things, yeah,

1:44.0

I love them. She's a very real, emotionally present, kind, intelligent person. Run Ember

1:53.4

Anne says, I listened from the Harbour Bridge in Sydney, so beautiful. God that gives me,

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