ESN #313 : The Patriotism Paradox Episode (Feat. Darran Griffiths)

This week's topics: • Griff's clinical, expansive and thoughtful takes on popular culture • Griff's lack of clincal, expansive and thoughtful takes on Black Brits who hate on the England football team • Black people playing for England (or any other coloniser country) • African and Caribbean teams not looking after their sportsman • Lack of empathy for Black players who get racially abused by English fans because they choose to play for a team that they know would that • Players not steeping up to take penalties • John Barnes breaking down White Supremacy and English snobbery in an interview • The current English team being different than teams from the past • Comedian, Andrew Lawrence getting cancelled for a joke deemed racist and our take on that • Who it's acceptable to make jokes about on the social ladder • Marcus Rashford defaced mural perhaps not being racially motivated • Men being in the delivery room when their partners are giving birth and trying not to mess things up and upset the woman • Men having to know where the line is in upsetting their woman • The hiked price of road tax and a general old man rant about the state of driving on these stupid ass road these days with their locked off roads, speed cameras, speed limitations, congestion charge, ULEZ and all manor of young folk messing up the flow of the road • How often is too often to pay driving tolls to link up with a woman • The lack of good garages anymore • New film talk • #StavrosSays : Summer Of Soul Movie [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Eg-vtSABE] Connect with our guest: @griffthejoker on Instagram, Twitter & YouTube or www.darrangriffiths.com for upcoming show details Connect with us at & send your questions & comments to: #ESNpod so we can find your comments www.esnpodcast.com www.facebook.com/ESNpodcasts www.twitter.com/ESNpodcast www.instagram.com/ESNpodcast @esnpodcast on all other social media esnpodcast@gmail.com It's important to subscribe, rate and review us on your apple products. You can do that here... www.bit.ly/esnitunes