272: Due In No Small Part To Barbara Bush (Pt 2)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
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🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
🎙 The Socially Distant Sports Bar – Episode 272: Due In No Small Part To Barbara Bush (Pt 1)
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Elis James (Elis & John, Oh What A Time), Mike Bubbins (Mammoth), and Steff Garrero are back with another expertly chaotic dive into the world of sport — this time featuring Serie A glory, Barbara Nicklaus, Spartan scraps, McTominay madness, and one of the great Sean Dyche clips.
“Like a sports podcast, if sport was filtered through pub chat, obscure clips, and occasional tears.”
🎧 What’s In This Week’s Episode?
PART 1
🟢 Steff: Scott McTominay – Goals, grit, and glory
🟢 Mike: Barbara Nicklaus tribute from Jack
🟢 Elis: Sampdoria win Serie A in 1991
📚 Documentaries & Books (PART 2 – Out Friday)
🎥 Mike Doc: Spartan Bare Knuckle – raw and brutal
📖 Elis Book: The Turning Season: DDR-Oberliga Revisited by Michael Wagg
🏉 More Clips (PART 3 – Patreon Exclusive)
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🟢 Steff: Tears
🟢 Mike: France vs Australia – Rugby League, 1964
🟢 Elis: Sean Dyche, football philosopher
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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. |
| 0:17.3 | Hey everybody, welcome to this week's socially distant sports bar. |
| 0:25.0 | I have two things that I would like to point in your direction before you listen to part two of this week's episode. |
| 0:27.2 | The first thing is that you could be getting more amazing socially distant sports bar content. |
| 0:33.8 | You could be one of our patrons. |
| 0:36.0 | We talk about them a little bit, |
| 0:40.8 | and we tend not to hammer the point home, |
| 0:44.4 | but there is more content every single episode. |
| 0:46.3 | So when you listen to this one, |
| 0:50.2 | you'll be getting what we would describe as part two of the social distance sports bar. |
| 0:52.1 | So in part one, you get the introduction section |
| 0:54.5 | and you get a first round of clips. |
| 0:56.9 | On this bit that you're going to listen to now, |
| 0:58.7 | you get us talking about a documentary |
| 0:59.9 | and you get a book review as well. |
| 1:02.3 | In between the documentary and the book review, |
| 1:04.6 | we also record a round two of clips. |
| 1:07.6 | So similar to to round one, |
| 1:09.4 | we all pick a clip, we all chat about it. High jinks ensues. It's a lot of clips. So similar to around one, we all pick a clip, we all chat about it, high jinx ensues. |
| 1:13.7 | It's a lot of fun, but you can only access it if you go to patreon.com slash distant pod. |
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