273: Get A Bigger Waist And A Pair Of Socks (Pt 2)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
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🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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🎙 The Socially Distant Sports Bar – Episode 273: Get A Bigger Waist And A Pair Of Socks (Pt 1)
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🎧 This Week: From Wimbledon legends to touchline rants, rugby tackles to golf caddies…
Elis James (Elis & John, Oh What A Time), Mike Bubbins (Mammoth), and Steff Garrero are back for another helping of sporting chaos, heartfelt admiration, and niche nostalgia.
“Like a sports podcast… if your uncle ran it from the back of a pub with a dial-up connection.”
📌 PART 1
🟢 Mike: “Proper Rugby”
🟢 Steff: Fred Perry wins Wimbledon – and makes British tennis history
🟢 Elis: “You’re too close, man!”
📌 PART 2 (OUT FRIDAY)
🎥 Elis Documentary: No Más – the story behind Roberto Durán's most infamous moment
📖 Steff Book: Soul by Jonathan Harding
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🟢 Mike: Rory McIlroy on caddie Harry Diamond
🟢 Elis: 800m gold medal warm up room
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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. |
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| 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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