277: The Fat Friar (Pt 2)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
Nata Media
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
🎙️ Episode 277: The Fat Friar
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📍 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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- Fri 20 March – Cardiff, New Theatre
- Sat 21 March – Cardiff, New Theatre
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- Fri 24 April – Carmarthen, Lyric Theatre
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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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