254: Emily Campbell (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

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

🎙️ Welcome to The Socially Distant Sports Bar – Episode 254

Elis James (Elis & John, Oh What A Time), Mike Bubbins (Mammoth), and Steff Garrero are back with another episode of top-tier sporting nonsense, barely researched takes, and an absolutely brilliant special guest.

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

✨ This Week’s Special Guest – Emily Campbell!

This week, we’re joined by a true powerhouse—Emily Campbell, Olympic silver medalist, Commonwealth champion, and an all-round legend in the world of weightlifting.

A trailblazer for women in strength sports, Emily has shattered records, defied expectations, and inspired a new generation of athletes.

From Tokyo 2021 to Paris 2024, she’s lifted her way to the top, proving that hard work, resilience, and sheer determination can take you anywhere. But beyond the medals and podiums, she’s also got an incredible sense of humor and some cracking sporting clips to share with us this week.

If you loved our guest episodes with Chesney Hawkes, Josh Widdicome or Sam Warburton you’re going to love this one.

🎉 THIS WEEK’S SHOW – Don’t Miss It!

🏅 Emily’s Career Highlights

🥈 Tokyo 2021 Olympic Silver – Watch here
🥉 Paris 2024 Olympic Bronze – Watch here
🥇 Commonwealth Games Gold – Watc h here

🎙️ Emily’s Got Her Own Podcast Too!

When she's not smashing weightlifting records, Emily is behind the mic for Contender Ready, a podcast all about the new series of Gladiators. If you love nostalgia, big personalities, and inside stories from the show, this is one to add to your list.

🎧 Listen to Contender Ready – here

📺 Emily’s Clips for the Pod

Matthias Steiner’s Emotional Gold – Watch here
The Worm – Sports' Greatest Prematch? – Watch here
Weightlifting Glory! – Watch here

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✨ This episode is packed with stories, inspiration, and plenty of laughs – don’t miss out on this incredible guest appearance! 🎉

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0:00.0	Wonderry Plus is better than ever with updates just for our UK listeners.
0:03.9	Wondry plus subscribers can listen to episodes of the socially distant sports bar early and ad-free.
0:08.4	Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts. Start your free trial now.
0:17.7	Hello, distant pod listeners. Welcome to the socially distant sports bar. It is lovely to have you on board as usual. I would like to point you in the direction of our Patreon before we start this week's episode. So patreon.com slash distant pod is where you can find us. Now, why should you sign up for the socially
0:39.0	distance sports bar Patreon? I think you should sign up for it for three, maybe four. No, three,
0:45.1	three good reasons. So, you will get, if you sign up to the eight pound layer or the ten pound
0:51.2	layer, you will get Michael Owen's movie club, which is us talking about
0:56.3	movies because Michael Owen has not watched many movies.
0:59.7	It's about an hour every month, and the latest episode is Spinal Tap.
1:06.2	So the concept is we watch a movie, then we talk about the movie.
1:11.9	But if you listen to the social distance sports bar at all, you will know that getting sidetracked is kind of our thing as well.
1:17.1	We have done, how many episodes have we done? Do it do, do, do 53, Spinal Tap is the 53 edition
1:23.5	of Michael Owen's Movie Club. We have done such movies as The Phantom of the Open,
1:29.9	Grand Slam, Tin Cup, the Arsenal Stadium Mystery, Bull Durham, the Hurricane, the wrestler,
1:36.9	JFK, some of them are sports movies, JFK obviously isn't a sports movie, but it is a lot of fun,
1:43.5	and if you like Distampod, you will like that.
1:46.4	We also, every month, this is part two of why you should join up, every month we have,
1:52.1	Hoffy part.
1:53.5	You might remember we did like a pilot of it as an episode of the Associates and Sports Bar.
1:59.2	It worked.
2:00.3	We decided to launch a spin-off podcast.
2:02.9	We've done 19, coming up on 20 episodes of that. We've picked something that might be a documentary.
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