278: Double Custard (Pt 2)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
Nata Media
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
🎙️ Episode 278: Double Custard
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💡 About that title…
You won’t understand why this episode is called Double Custard unless you’re a Patreon. It comes from a glorious moment in this week’s subscriber-only section – and it’s very much worth hearing.
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📍 PART 1
⚽ Elis – Jess Fishlock’s dad – Absolute peak proud parent energy.
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🏌️ Mike – Scottie Scheffler.
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👕 Steff – Newport County’s new away kit – Spoiler: it’s a beauty.
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📍 PART 2
🎬 Steff’s Documentary – The Turnaround – A remarkable redemption story.
📖 Mike’s Book – Living with a Legend by Kathy Botham – Behind the scenes of life with cricket’s superstar.
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📍 PART 3
🤖 Steff – The Future… – Equal parts exciting and terrifying.
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🏏 Mike – Nasser and Stokes
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⚽ Elis – Brian Clough removes pitch invader – A masterclass in old-school fan-management.
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- Fri 20 March – Cardiff, New Theatre
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- Tue 7 April – London, Hackney Empire
- Wed 8 April – London, Hackney Empire
- Fri 24 April – Carmarthen, Lyric Theatre
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The Socially Distant Sports Bar – Like a sports podcast. But with more custard.
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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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