261: Medium Performance (Pt 2)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
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4.9 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
🎙️ The Socially Distant Sports Bar – Episode 261: Medium Performance
Elis James (Elis & John, Oh What A Time), Mike Bubbins (Mammoth), and Steff Garrero return for another week of niche sporting brilliance, poorly researched tangents, and top-tier nonsense.
This week we’ve got: good old-fashioned Welsh rugby nostalgia, Shaun Edwards’ eternal intensity, Millie Bright doing business, and the surprisingly emotional journey of a curling stone. Oh, and a Super Bowl, 1980s-style.
"Like a sports podcast, if the sport was optional."
🎟️ We’re Going on Tour in 2026!
That’s right – The Socially Distant Sports Bar is hitting the road in 2026!
Tickets go on general sale Friday 25 April via distantpod.com/live
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📍 Tour Dates:
- Fri 20 March 2026 – Cardiff, New Theatre
- Sat 21 March 2026 – Cardiff, New Theatre
- Tue 7 April 2026 – London, Hackney Empire
- Wed 8 April 2026 – London, Hackney Empire
- Fri 24 April 2026 – Carmarthen, Lyric Theatre
✨ What’s On This Week’s Episode?
📌 PART 1 (OUT WEDNESDAY)
Mike:
🗣️ Shaun on Danny – If you need motivation, Shaun Edwards has you covered. Again.
Elis:
🐏 Phil Pugh – Proper Old School – A classic clip from the golden era of Welsh hardmen.
Steff:
🏃♀️ Millie Bright Invests in Sports Bras – An important conversation about support, equality, and innovation in women’s sport.
📌 PART 2 (OUT FRIDAY)
Steff’s Documentary Pick:
🎓 The Gareth Southgate Lecture – Leadership, resilience, and an England manager being genuinely inspiring.
Elis’ Book Choice:
📖 Alternative Wales – Issue 17 – Welsh football culture, fan stories, and proper indie spirit.
📌 PART 3 (PATREON EXCLUSIVE)
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Elis:
⚽ Angel Rangel – What a Guy – Swansea City’s Spanish cult hero.
Steff:
🏈 Watching the 1981 Super Bowl in the UK – It’s grainy, it’s weird, and it’s glorious.
Mike:
🧊 How Curling Stones Are Made – It’s oddly satisfying and a bit emotional.
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🎉 Another week of niche sport, cult heroes, and completely unnecessary tangents – only on The Socially Distant Sports Bar!
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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 | Hey distant podders. Welcome to the the socially distant sports bar for this week. |
| 0:22.3 | This is Steph. |
| 0:23.5 | Mike and Elle will be with us very, very soon. |
| 0:25.6 | But I have an important announcement to bring to your attention. |
| 0:28.8 | We're doing some live gigs in 2026. |
| 0:31.9 | Our first proper run of live gigs for five years. |
| 0:36.1 | We did some in 2021. We dabbled in and out of some |
| 0:39.8 | podcast festivals. But these are our first proper gigs for a little one, and we're looking |
| 0:46.9 | forward to them a lot. So these gigs are on sale right now, head to the first link that's |
| 0:53.2 | within the episode description, which takes you to our website, |
| 0:55.9 | and there we'll have all of the gigs laid out for you with separate links for you to click on to |
| 1:01.0 | to send you off towards where those tickets are being sold. |
| 1:05.1 | Friday, the 20th of March, 26, we are playing the new theatre in Cardiff. |
| 1:09.8 | Saturday, the 21st of March, 2026, we are also playing the new theatre in Cardiff. Saturday, the 21st of March, |
| 1:11.4 | 2026, we are also playing the new theatre in Cardiff. On Tuesday the 7th of April, |
| 1:17.9 | 2026, London's Hackney Empire is our host venue, and it remains our host venue for the next day |
| 1:24.4 | as well. Wednesday, the 8th of April, 2026 at London's Hackney Empire. |
| 1:30.3 | The Lyric Theatre in Carmarthen is our final stop on our little tour and we are playing |
| 1:36.4 | Camarthen on the 24th of April. It's a Friday night in 26. You guys need to be there. Because we don't |
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