Are rich people bad? From “Classy”

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4.8 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re sharing an episode from another podcast we think you’ll love. “Classy” is a new show from Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy exploring the ways that class infiltrates our day-to-day lives. Host Jonathan Menjivar has some hang-ups about class. In this episode, he takes us from a nightclub outside Los Angeles to the halls of a fancy Manhattan prep school, and asks sociologist Rachel Sherman, “Are rich people bad?”

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0:00.0	Hey everyone it's Rima. So the team and I are busy working on some more new
0:03.8	episodes for you all this season, but in the meantime I'm coming to you today
0:07.5	because I want to tell you about another podcast about money that I'm loving these
0:11.5	days. It's called Classy with Jonathan
0:14.4	Manhivaar and it's a show all about the Class divisions that exist between us
0:18.5	that are hard to acknowledge and even harder to talk about. They have episodes about how class shows up at the workplace
0:25.3	and the music we listen to in our food and the TV we watch.
0:29.2	At the center of the show is Jonathan who grew up working class.
0:32.2	He's got a lot, he's trying to work out and make
0:34.0	sense of and you know just overall it's a thoughtful show with a lot of funny
0:38.0	and emotional moments throughout. Several outlets last year named it one of the
0:41.9	best podcasts of 2023.
0:44.4	So today we're going to play the first episode of the show for you all.
0:47.7	I hope you enjoy it and we'll be back with a new episode of This is Uncomfortable
0:52.2	next week.
0:53.8	All right, I'll catch y'all then.
0:56.9	I don't remember my parents together.
0:59.2	The only evidence that had happened
1:00.6	are a couple of photos, me I guess. The memories start with Soul Train.
1:07.6	If I was at home with my mom on a Saturday morning, Soul Train was on.
1:11.8	Watching everyone on screen dance felt like our own personal disco.
1:17.0	I loved it. The minute the host came on, my mom would pull me off the couch and force me to dance with her.
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