An Honest Conversation About Race with John Barnes

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

Politics, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Liverpool and England football legend John Barnes joins us in the studio to discuss Race, Racism, BLM, taking the knee and whether we live in a racist society. Buy his book The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-uncomfortable-truth-about-racism/john-barnes/9781472290380 Get TICKETS to TRIGGERnometry Live with Ayishat Akanbi here: https://leicestersquaretheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/873621622 Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I love a day for a black man and a white man to have a fight without being
0:03.8	original incident. Why don't you have a fight because you just didn't like him?
0:07.0	Yeah.
0:13.4	Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster.
0:17.2	I'm Constantine Kissen.
0:18.2	And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.
0:23.6	A brilliant guest we have for you today is a former Liverpool and England legend.
0:28.0	John Barnes, welcome to Trigonometry.
0:29.4	Thank you very much.
0:30.4	I mentioned your Liverpool legends are Anton is already triggered but it's good to have you on the show.
0:35.4	First of all there are no legends.
0:36.4	There are normal people, normal footballers who contribute to the success or the failures of your football club.
0:41.4	And as much as fans may see us differently depending on how well you do as individuals or as football players,
0:46.4	which is what I learnt at Wathau and Liverpool is where all just part of a team.
0:49.4	Just like in here.
0:50.4	Well, the play for John but to people of our generation,
0:54.4	you're one of the iconic footballers of your era.
0:57.4	You must be old.
0:58.4	I am.
0:59.4	I absolutely am.
1:00.4	But the question I want to ask you is, you know, how have you gone from that because in your introduction,
1:06.4	I didn't mention that, you know, one of the reasons we wanted to talk to is you've got a book out
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