255: Sexy But Contrite (Pt 1)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
Nata Media
4.9 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
🎙️ Welcome to The Socially Distant Sports Bar – Episode 255
Elis James (Elis & John, Oh What A Time), Mike Bubbins (Mammoth), and Steff Garrero are back with another week of sporting chaos, niche nostalgia, and tangents that barely stay on topic. This episode has it all—rugby brilliance, American football icons, and a cracking boxing documentary too.
"Like a sports podcast, if the sport was optional."
✨ What’s on This Week’s Episode?
🏉 Arthur Emyr’s career-defining game – Elis relives the day the Welsh winger was absolutely untouchable.
🏈 Dan Marino doing Dan Marino things – Mike throws us back to one of the NFL’s greatest quarterbacks at his absolute peak.
🎬 Battling to Belong: Lodge Boys – Elis recommends a powerful documentary exploring the challenges and triumphs of a group of young fighters.
✨ Another week of sporting nostalgia, chaos, and absolute nonsense – only at The Socially Distant Sports Bar! 🎉
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🎉 THIS WEEK’S SHOW – Don’t Miss It!
📌 PART 1 (OUT WEDNESDAY):
🎤 Mike’s Bonus Clip: A Britain’s Got Talent moment to remember. Watch here.
🏉 Elis: Arthur Emyr has the game of his life. Watch here.
🎥 Steff: Sports reporter Emma Jones - The DM hotline Watch here.
🏈 Mike: Dan Marino doing Dan Marino things. Watch here.
📌 PART 2 (OUT FRIDAY):
📺 Elis Documentary: Battling to Belong: Lodge Boys – Watch here.
📚 Mike’s Book Pick: The Professionals by Ray Didinger – Get it here.
📌 PART 3 (PATREON EXCLUSIVE):
⚽ Elis: Steve McMahon chasing a lost cause, 1988 – Watch here.
🚣 Steff: The sheer power of Ward Lemmlijn – Watch here.
🏉 Mike: Tommy Bowe and Donncha O’Callaghan – Watch here.
📺 TV from Mike and Elis:
📌 Mike’s latest on Scrum V Top 5 – Watch here.
📌 Mike’s Throwback Special – Watch on BBC iPlayer.
📌 Elis’ Derwydd Special – Watch here.
✨ 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 | Wonderry Plus is better than ever, with updates just for our UK listeners. |
| 0:03.9 | Wonderly 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. |
| 0:17.5 | 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 |
| 0:38.8 | distance sports bar Patreon? I think you should sign up for it for three, maybe four. |
| 0:44.3 | No, three, three good reasons. So, you will get, if you sign up to the eight-pound layer |
| 0:50.1 | or the ten-pound layer, you will get Michaelens' movie club, which is us talking about movies, |
| 0:56.8 | because Michael Owen has not watched many movies. It's about an hour every month, |
| 1:01.6 | and the latest episode is Spinal Tap. So the concept is we watch a movie. Then we talk about |
| 1:09.6 | the movie. But if you listen to the social distant sports bar at all, you will know that |
| 1:14.0 | getting sidetracked is kind of our thing as well. |
| 1:16.8 | We have done, how many episodes have we done? |
| 1:20.2 | 53, Spinal Tap is the 53 edition of Michael Owen's Movie Club. |
| 1:26.2 | We have done such movies as The Phantom of the Open, Grand Slam, Tin Cup, |
| 1:31.8 | the Arsenal Stadium Mystery, Bull Durham, the Hurricane, the wrestler, JFK, some of them are sports movies, |
| 1:39.5 | JFK obviously isn't a sports movie, but it is a lot of fun, and if you like Distampod, you |
| 1:44.8 | will like that. We also, every month, this is part two of why you should join up, every month |
| 1:50.4 | we have, Huffy Part. You might remember we did like a pilot of it as an episode of the |
| 1:57.9 | Social Distant Sports Bar. It worked. we decided to launch a spin-off podcast. |
| 2:02.7 | We've done 19, coming up on 20 episodes of that. |
| 2:06.3 | We've picked something that might be a documentary. |
| 2:09.6 | It might be three clips each of stuff that isn't about sports. |
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