257: Joe Marler (Pt 2)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
Nata Media
4.9 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2025
⏱️ 34 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 distance 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. |
| 0:17.1 | Hey everybody, welcome to part two of this week's socially distant sports bar. |
| 0:22.7 | This week's episode is in the company of Joe Marla. |
| 0:27.1 | We've been trying to get Joe on the pod for a very, very long time. |
| 0:29.9 | And we lined it up once, but then he got called up to play for England, |
| 0:34.3 | and he couldn't do it the week we were supposed to do it. |
| 0:36.3 | And then his career, you know, kept on going and going and going and going and been talking to his producers of his podcast the |
| 0:44.3 | things people do for a long time and we just haven't managed to nail it we haven't managed to |
| 0:49.3 | line it up because they tend to do podcasts with people who are current players or current sports people. |
| 0:56.4 | We're trying to line up when we guarantee Thomas that we've been trying to do for a long time as well. |
| 0:59.6 | But these guys are busy. |
| 1:01.2 | When you're a current sports person, I think Emily Campbell, our last guest episode, might be the only active sports person we've done a podcast with. |
| 1:08.8 | I'm pretty sure that's right. |
| 1:10.2 | So, Joe has recently |
| 1:11.5 | retired, which has freed up a little bit of his time, but not so much that he didn't do this |
| 1:15.1 | episode entirely in the car, because he's a busy guy. That's all right. The signal drops out, |
| 1:19.6 | the signal kicks back in. It sounds fine. It was quite fun when we were recording it, |
| 1:24.0 | but, you know, Adam's done a great job on editing it. So you will not experience |
| 1:27.7 | half of the stuff that we experienced. If you haven't listened to Part 1 so far, it's probably |
| 1:32.4 | best to go back and listen to that. I don't think that's true of all of our episodes, but I think |
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