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Under The Skin with Russell Brand

#217 What’s Really Going on with Privilege and Class? (with John Barnes)

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

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

4.815.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

This week I spoke with a very interesting guest with a very interesting perspective on a topic that can be difficult to discuss. John Barnes is a former footballer and author of The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism. He was born and raised in Jamaica and is the son of a military officer. He later moved to England and became one of the best football players of his time. In this conversation John talks about how class is ignored when we talk about problems of race and “racial incidents.” He thinks we need to stop showcasing elite people as a sign of progress while we simultaneously continue to ignore people who are lost in poverty and who don’t benefit from things like white privilege, the patriarchy, and heteronormativity. The issues are more complex, and by vilifying those who are worse off in society we are creating more division. He also gives his thoughts on cancel culture and how he sees real change happening. It’s an incredibly provocative and fascinating episode. Let me know what you think. More Info: Get John’s book here: https://bit.ly/3e6vVeR Come see me live; check out upcoming dates: https://www.russellbrand.com/live-dates/ My meditation podcast, Above the Noise, is out now, only on Luminary. I release guided meditations every Wednesday. Please check it out: http://luminary.link/meditate Elites are taking over! Our only hope is to form our own. To learn more join my cartel here https://www.russellbrand.com/join and get weekly bulletins too incendiary for anything but your private inbox. (*not a euphemism) Subscribe to my YouTube channel, I post four videos a week including video clips from these episodes! https://www.youtube.com/russellbrand Subscribe to my YouTube side-channel for more wellness and spirituality: https://www.youtube.com/c/AwakeningWithRussell Instagram: http://instagram.com/russellbrand/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/rustyrockets

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Hello and welcome to Under the Skin from Luminary. This week I spoke with John Barnes, John

0:04.4

Barnes of all my England footballer and the author of The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism

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which came out this year. Now that Under the Skin is on Apple Podcasts, please leave

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us a review there, it really helps and I'll read them out for you. If you'd like to listen

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to the rest of this podcast and all of my weekly Under the Skin podcast, even though

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it says actually here, Under the Scooker-Cooking.

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Oh, just it.

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This gen, it does this.

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Oh, no.

0:25.9

Under the Skin, the name of the podcast that you're producer of, SQ KKIN.

0:32.2

That's my anxiety coming through.

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Let's come across it.

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Ineptitude, enormous ineptitude. The Under the Skin podcast, all we have to do is subscribe

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to Luminary and Apple Podcasts or download the Luminary app. Now, also there's a Christmas

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offer you should take advantage of this. If you're in the US you can get an annual subscription

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to Under the Skin which means a podcast every single week with a brilliant intellectual.

0:54.4

Love the noise, actually guided meditation every week. Plus, they should pause podcast

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on them which is an absolute masterpiece. Plus loads of other content, too much for me

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to list for about $2 a month, Under $2 a month, one penny under to be honest.

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If you're UK listener, you can get it for like $150, about $1.80, is that right? I'm

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doing my master on.

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Yeah, it's less than $2 a month.

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