277: The Fat Friar (Pt 1)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
Nata Media
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
🎙️ Episode 277: The Fat Friar
🏆 VOTE FOR US!
We're up for the Listeners’ Choice Award at the British Podcast Awards – and your vote genuinely helps.
👉 Take 20 seconds to do it here: britishpodcastawards.com/voting
Tell your mates, your boss, your gran. Let’s win this thing. Diolch!
📍 PART 1
🎸 Mike – The Wisdom of Ozzy – A chaotic, beautiful life summed up in 38 seconds
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🎤 Elis – Kenny Sansom’s impressions at Euro ’88 – A lost art
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⛷️ Steff – Grass Skiing in Leeds, 1981 – It’s got speed, risk, and Yorkshire
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📍 PART 2
🎬 Elis’ Documentary – Vive le Tour! (1962) – A poetic, joyful time capsule of the early Tour de France
📖 Steff’s Book – Call of the Warrior by Gareth A Davies
Stories of combat sports, warrior culture, and mind over matter
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📍 PART 3
🏉 Elis – When a linebacker switches to rugby – This lad might sort out your midfield
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🏟️ Mike – Chiefs vs Brumbies – High-octane, no-frills Super Rugby
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🎬 Steff – Wes Anderson does sport (sort of) – Framing, pacing and peculiar joy
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🎟️ THE 2026 LIVE TOUR – TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW!
📍 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
🎫 Book here: distantpod.com/live
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🎧 Extra episodes
📼 Michael Owen’s Movie Club
🎤 Hoffi Pod
🎟️ Early access to tour tickets
💌 Gifting available
The Socially Distant Sports Bar – Like a sports podcast. But in the same way Ozzy Osbourne is like a life coach.
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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 by 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, Podders, Steph here. I hope you're doing good. Just a couple of messages before we get into the main meet of this week's episode. First thing to say is we have tickets on sale to see us live in 2026. And the second thing to say is that we would like you to vote for us at the British Podcast Awards. |
| 0:38.2 | The Listeners Choice Award in particular is where we would like to focus your attention. |
| 0:43.6 | So ticket-wise, you go to Distantpod.com live and immediately it comes up. |
| 0:48.1 | Live shows, exciting news. |
| 0:50.0 | We are off on tour in spring of 2026. |
| 0:53.1 | And it says, we are playing and there are links straight away. So whichever one you want to go, you just click on that, and you head off over to the theatre's website. Cardiff New Theatre, Friday the 20th of March. Cardiff New Theatre, Saturday, the 21st of March. London's Hackney Empire, Tuesday, the 7th of April. London's Hackney Empire, Wednesday the 8th of April. |
| 1:12.6 | Camarthen Lyric Theatre, Friday the 24th of April. |
| 1:17.1 | A bunch of gigs. |
| 1:18.3 | Hopefully there'll be a lot of fun. |
| 1:20.0 | Hopefully you'll all turn up and it will be fun for us too. |
| 1:23.8 | So the second thing I want you to do is head over to British Podcast Awards.com. Click on the pink button at the top left that says listeners choice vote. Now, I'll put, do you know what I'll do? I'll put a link in the episode description, so it's far easier for you to do. And then it says search for the podcast you want to vote for. Cast your vote below. The time has come for you to rally your |
| 1:44.6 | loyal listeners and encourage them to get behind your podcast. That's what I'm doing. Get behind your |
| 1:48.5 | podcast now and vote. To qualify for the listeners choice award, podcasts must have been available |
| 1:52.5 | by the 1st of June 2025 listed on the Apple Podcast Directory. Voting closes on the 8th of September |
| 1:59.1 | 2025. So you type in the socially |
| 2:02.4 | distance sports bar there. It comes up, you click on it, you plug in your email address, you get an |
| 2:06.6 | email, you confirm you vote there. All I'm saying is the way that Google do their emails. If you |
| 2:12.0 | have a Gmail, you could put a dot in between every single letter at various points, and it will change technically |
| 2:18.8 | the email address that is voting. That's all I'm going to say. I'm not telling you to do it. |
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