274: I’m Not An Owl (Pt 2)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
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🗓️ 25 July 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
🎙 The Socially Distant Sports Bar – Episode 274: I’m Not An Owl (Pt 2)
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🎧 This Week:
From Roy Hodgson’s perfectly baffling post-match thoughts to Dexys honouring a darts legend, Pastor Joe blessing NASCAR, sarcastic keepers, Claude Makélélé appreciation, and the wonderful world of softball — it's another classic week of sporting detours.
Elis James (Elis & John, Oh What A Time), Mike Bubbins (Mammoth), and Steff Garrero return to rifle through the weird, heartfelt, and downright brilliant side of sport.
“It’s like a sports podcast… except when it absolutely isn’t.”
📌 PART 1
🟢 Mike: Pastor Joe Nelms' NASCAR prayer – Praise for the fuel and the wives
🟢 Elis: Roy Hodgson delivers an all-time post-match moment
🟢 Steff: Dexys – “Jackie Wilson Said” with… Jocky Wilson?
📌 PART 2 (OUT FRIDAY)
🎥 Steff Documentary: The Best of Saint & Greavsie – classic chaos, timeless telly
📖 Mike Book: Pocket Money by Gordon Burn – snooker, celebrity, and obsession
📌 PART 3 – PATREON EXCLUSIVE
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- Michael Owen’s Movie Club, Hoffi Pod & guest Q&As
- Early live show access
- Ad-free episodes
🟢 Steff: Claude Makélélé – the original “Makélélé role”
🟢 Elis: The most sarcastic goalkeeper dive you’ve ever seen (Hemel Hempstead style)
🟢 Mike: Softball energy. Always softball energy.
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We’re taking The Socially Distant Sports Bar on the road with a brand-new live show. Expect stories, clips, surprises… and maybe the odd song.
📍 Tour Dates:
- Fri 20 March – Cardiff, New Theatre
- Sat 21 March – Cardiff, New Theatre
- Tue 7 April – London, Hackney Empire
- Wed 8 April – London, Hackney Empire
- Fri 24 April – Carmarthen, Lyric Theatre
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Transcript
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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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