257: Joe Marler (Pt 1)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
Nata Media
4.9 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
🎙️ The Socially Distant Sports Bar – Episode 257
Elis James (Elis & John, Oh What A Time), Mike Bubbins (Mammoth), and Steff Garrero return with another round 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 – Joe Marler!
England rugby legend Joe Marler steps into the bar for an episode packed with stories, laughs, and unexpected detours. If you loved our guest episodes with Chesney Hawkes, Josh Widdicombe, or Sam Warburton, you’re going to love this one.
Joe’s career speaks for itself:
🏉 95 caps for England and a 2017 British & Irish Lions tour
🏆 Three Six Nations titles and two World Cup Finals
🎖️ Harlequins Hero (2009-2024), with three Premiership titles and a European Challenge Cup
Now that he’s swapped the scrum for the studio, Joe’s got plenty to say – and, as you’d expect, nothing is off-limits!
(📢 Huge thanks to Dave Doodlemoose for the bespoke artwork on every Guest Episode!)
🎙️ Joe’s Got His Own Podcast Too!
Joe’s now deep in the world of podcasting with Joe Marler’s Things People Do, where he dives into the weird, wonderful, and downright bizarre jobs that people do. If you enjoy this episode, you’ll love his pod too!
🎉 THIS WEEK’S SHOW – Don’t Miss It!
Joe’s brought some cracking clips along for the ride:
🥇 Stephen Bradbury’s Gold Medal Miracle – The most ridiculous Olympic win of all time. A lesson in patience… or just dumb luck?
🏅 Jonathan Edwards’ Triple Jump World Record – A world record so good, they had to check the tape twice.
❄️ Things People Do – How to Sh*t in the Arctic – Yes, really. You’ll never complain about a public toilet again.
⚽ The Clip That Didn’t Make It – Cantona Kicks a Fan – One of the wildest moments in football history.
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✨ A Legendary Guest, Top-Tier Nonsense, and Sporting Gold – Don’t Miss This One! 🎉
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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. |
| 0:17.4 | Hello, welcome to this week's socially distant sports bar, which, as you can tell, from the title of it and from the lovely piece of artwork that Dave Doodle Moose has done for us, is a guest episode featuring the former rugby player. |
| 0:34.2 | Joe Marla, he's only recently a former rugby player, but he is a former rugby player. |
| 0:39.2 | Joe is a 34-year-old who used to play for Harlequins, England, and went on the 2017 Lions Tour as well. |
| 0:47.8 | How would you describe Joe Marla to someone who didn't know who he was? |
| 0:51.4 | He gives funny interviews. He is controversial, and as we talk about during this episode, he makes mistakes. |
| 0:58.4 | And crucially, hopefully, sometimes, most of the time, learns from them and isn't sort of |
| 1:03.6 | shying away from any of the mistakes he's made in his career. |
| 1:06.7 | He's had sort of mohawks down the years, sort of blonde mohawk with a beard. |
| 1:11.7 | He's got a big old beard going on at the moment. |
| 1:14.9 | He is these days a podcaster on a podcast that used to be called the Joe Mahler Show |
| 1:19.7 | and is now called Joe Mahler's Things People Do, or maybe even just things people do. |
| 1:24.5 | It's really, really good. |
| 1:26.1 | And in it, he talks to people along with |
| 1:30.0 | Tom Fordyce, who is a former BBC journalist, now part of the crowd network. They talk to people |
| 1:35.4 | about their jobs. Mike has done a live show with him at the Clapham Grand and has been part of |
| 1:40.0 | his podcast. And we thought it would be nice to return that sort of handshake across the pods and get |
| 1:47.1 | Joe on our podcast as well. Give it a listen. I think with all of our guest episodes, people have got |
| 1:52.6 | preconceptions going into them or preconceptions from not knowing who the guest is going into them |
| 1:58.0 | about what the episode is going to be like and they are never what you think they're going to be like but to paint a minute bits of a picture joe is in his car uh while we |
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