259: Part Pity, Part Disdain (Pt 1)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
Nata Media
4.9 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
🎙️ Welcome to The Socially Distant Sports Bar – Episode 259
Elis James (Elis & John, Oh What A Time), Mike Bubbins (Mammoth), and Steff Garrero return for another round of sporting chaos, wild tangents, and barely-researched brilliance.
This week? Public toilet jeopardy, rugby referee rage, George Foreman defying time, a YA novel about running, and one of the most terrifying away ends in football. Just another week in the Bar.
“Like a sports podcast, if the sport was optional.”
✨ What’s on This Week’s Episode?
📌 PART 1 (OUT WEDNESDAY):
Elis:
🚽 The Dangers of Going for a Piss – When nature calls mid-game, chaos can follow.
🧟 Mordor Away – A genuinely terrifying away end. Orcs probably booed.
Mike:
🗣️ Angus Gardner: RefChaos – Mike breaks down one of the greatest ref moments in rugby.
📌 PART 2 (OUT FRIDAY):
🏋️♂️ Documentary: Dorian Yates – The Original Mass Monster
Old-school bodybuilding, big weights, bigger intensity.
📚 Book: Ghost by Jason Reynolds
A fast, sharp young adult novel about running, fear, and finding your pace in life.
📌 PART 3 (PATREON EXCLUSIVE):
Steff:
🥊 Foreman – 21 Years Apart – George Foreman becomes world champ in '73… and again in '94. Unbelievable.
🧠 Quade Cooper on Communication – Chill, thoughtful, and unexpectedly deep.
⚽ Panama Beat USA – Underdogs, upsets, and pure CONCACAF energy.
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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. |
| 0:17.3 | Hello, welcome to the socially distance sports spa. This is part one of this week's episode. |
| 0:23.8 | We split the episodes up into two parts every single week. |
| 0:27.6 | So what you get in the first part is us talking about various sports clips, |
| 0:32.4 | catching up on what we've been up to over the past week. |
| 0:34.8 | And then in part two, you get us talking about documentary that we've all sat around and watched |
| 0:38.9 | and a book that we have all consumed. |
| 0:42.0 | If you would like a little bit more content than that, |
| 0:46.9 | then head over to our Patreon, which is patreon.com slash distant pod. |
| 0:50.9 | And on that, every single week you get those episodes bolted together. |
| 0:56.8 | So you get part one and you get part two. But you also get half an hour bonus content every |
| 1:02.6 | single week as well, where we talk about some more sports clips that we've watched that week. |
| 1:06.6 | So if this is your thing and you're really enjoying it, go to patreon.com slash distant pod. |
| 1:11.4 | If you just want the bonus content for the regular episodes, then it's £4 a month plus VAT. |
| 1:17.2 | If you want to also get Huffy Pod, which is where we talk about stuff that isn't sports, |
| 1:22.2 | and Michael Owens Movie Club, where we talk about movies, then you need to go to the eight pound layer to get it at a certain |
| 1:29.8 | point in the month. And if you want it earlier in the month, you go to the 10 pound layer. All sorts of |
| 1:33.5 | different opportunities, all sorts of different levels to what we do. Crucially, you'd be supporting us |
| 1:38.1 | directly, which is kind of how we managed to fund this podcast and kind of how we managed to |
| 1:42.8 | keep it going. So, please, if you |
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