271: Best of The Guests (Pt 1)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
Nata Media
4.9 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
🎙 The Socially Distant Sports Bar – Episode 271: Best of The Guests (Parts 1 & 2)
This week, we celebrate the very best of our brilliant guests — from sports legends and comedy icons to music stars and broadcasting royalty. It's a two-part special packed with golden moments, barely relevant tangents, and top-tier nonsense.
“Like a sports podcast, if sport took a back seat to an impression of Bob Harris or a rant about rugby shorts.”
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Josh Widdicombe, Sam Warburton, Humphrey Ker, Kate Mason, Suzi Ruffell & Maisie Adam, Chesney Hawkes, Gordon Smart, Scott Quinnell, Colin Murray, Joe Marler, Emily Campbell, Danny Wallace, No Such Thing As A Fish, Adam Hurrey, Richard Herring, Bob Harris, Leroy Brito, Greg Jenner, Felix White, and Max Rushden.
Two huge parts – one absolute festival of guests.
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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. |
| 0:17.9 | Hey everybody, welcome to this week's socially distant sports bar, which is a compilation of the best of our guest episodes. |
| 0:28.0 | We don't do guest episodes like every other podcast kind of does them all the time. |
| 0:33.1 | We like to do them as and when someone we like is available to do them. |
| 0:39.3 | So there's no greater logic to it than that. |
| 0:43.3 | So what we like to do is put emails out there, put feelers out there, |
| 0:49.3 | send text messages to people who we get on with or people who we think would work really well on the pod. |
| 0:56.0 | And the great thing about it not being a guest podcast every single week is there's no urgency |
| 1:01.2 | on that. So people get back to us when they want to get back to us and when they are free and |
| 1:06.2 | have the time, because this is quite a long record doing this pod, when they've got the time and the attention to give to us, |
| 1:14.5 | or when they've got a book or an album out, it tends to happen as well. |
| 1:17.2 | When they've got the time to give us, |
| 1:19.1 | they will then get in touch with us |
| 1:21.4 | and we can do ourselves a guest episode, and there's no pressure. |
| 1:24.9 | We were looking back at the guest episodes we'd done, |
| 1:28.1 | and we realized how good a guest list it is. |
| 1:32.4 | And then we thought, you know what, |
| 1:34.6 | rather than banging out a generic best of, |
| 1:37.7 | we'll put out best bits from the guest episodes. |
| 1:41.1 | I know some of you won't have listened to all of the guest episodes, |
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