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The Socially Distant Sports Bar

253: Papering Over The Cracks (Pt 1)

The Socially Distant Sports Bar

Nata Media

Comedy, Game Of Thrones, Rugby, Alt Schwift X, Sports, A Clash Of Kings, Football, Arts, A Song Of Ice And Fire, Sport

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

🎙️ Welcome to The Socially Distant Sports Bar – Episode 253

Elis James (Elis & John, Oh What A Time), Mike Bubbins (Mammoth), and Steff Garrero are back with another round of sporting nonsense, wild tangents, and clips that will leave you questioning reality. This week, we’ve got boxing legends, rugby icons, and a brutal cricketing demolition – plus, of course, the usual barely-researched takes and questionable wisdom.

"Like a sports podcast, if the sport was optional."

✨ What’s on This Week’s Episode?

  • Bernard Hopkins vs. Buncey – Elis brings us an absolute classic in boxing trash talk.
  • The legend of Dennis Bree – Mike introduces us to a man who plays rugby with his grandson.
  • England getting absolutely battered – Steff choses Australia dismantling their old rivals.
  • Plus: Jason Robinson magic, Tom Brady’s non-involvement in the worst documentary of all time, and a look at Lauren Price vs. Natasha Jonas.

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🎉 THIS WEEK’S SHOW – Don’t Miss It!

PART 1 (OUT WEDNESDAY):

PART 2 (OUT FRIDAY):

  • Mike’s Documentary Pick: Becoming the GOAT: The Tom Brady Story – Watch here
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✨ Another week of sporting chaos, nostalgia, and top-tier nonsense – only at The Socially Distant Sports Bar! 🎉

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:03.9

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0:08.4

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0:17.1

Hi everybody. Welcome to the socially distant sports bar before we get into the main action.

0:22.9

It is big rugby time at the moment with the Six Nations going on, so I wanted to point you in the direction of some stuff that Mike is doing on the BBC.

0:33.4

Scrum 5 top fives. He's spoken about it a lot during the recordings that we've done.

0:38.8

It's Mike in his garage. How'd you get a deal like that? You get a series off the BBC where you get to go downstairs, stand in your bar. They'll set it all up. The cameras are all set. Craig setting it all up. You don't have to do anything. Just turn up and there is either a famous rugby player

0:57.2

or a famous person who likes rugby in his bar and he talks to them about stuff. I watched the

1:02.0

Alan Win Jones one the other day and Al doesn't do an awful lot of interviews, but he is brilliant

1:09.4

in this. It's a really lovely series. And if you go to the BBC

1:13.5

I player, if you're not from Wales, like Scrum 5 is a brand around rugby. It's like a thing,

1:20.5

it got the title because there's like a five metre scrum away from a trial. It's just really

1:26.7

bad name. It would be like if match in the day was away from a trial. It's just really bad name.

1:31.1

It would be like if match in the day was called indirect free kick.

1:32.4

It's a bad name.

1:35.0

But it's been there for so long that it just is a thing.

1:37.6

To add to the badness of it in terms of searchability,

1:40.3

and I can say this because I used to do the podcast for them.

1:45.3

So me and Martin Williams used to the Scrum 5 podcast. It's eminently unsearchable because they use the Roman numeral V rather than 5. So it's Scrum V. And then to add to the fun

1:52.5

of searching for this one, the top 5 is the number 5. So Scrum V top 5, if you search for that

1:58.1

in the I player, it will show up.

2:01.0

And it is very, very good because it's our Mike.

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