279: The Best Of Hoffi Pod (Pt 1)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
Nata Media
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
🎙️ Episode 279: The Best Of Hoffi Pod
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About This Episode
Over on Patreon we’ve recorded 25 episodes of Hoffi Pod – our spin-off where we chat about the things we really love.
This week, we’re bringing you the best bits from across those episodes – the funniest moments, the weirdest tangents, and the kind of nonsense that makes Hoffi Pod such a hit with subscribers.
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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 distance sports bar early and ad-free. |
| 0:08.4 | Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:13.1 | Start your free trial now. |
| 0:17.2 | Hi, everybody. This is part one of this week's socially distant sports bar, and this week's socially distant sports bar is a best of Hoffy Pod. Now, Hoffy Pod is our spin-off podcast that is not about sport. It is clips that we pick from other stuff on the internet that isn't sport-related. |
| 0:35.9 | It's stuff that we can't shoehorn into Distampot. |
| 0:39.1 | We've tried. |
| 0:40.2 | I chose umbrella opening. |
| 0:42.6 | It was a world championship. |
| 0:43.9 | But I think we kind of made a decision at that point that if there was something that |
| 0:48.5 | was not quite sporty enough or not at all sporty, we'd make another podcast. |
| 0:57.1 | And that podcast is available on our Patreon channel. |
| 1:01.0 | So patreon.com slash distant pod is where you can find it. |
| 1:07.2 | If you subscribe for $8 a month or $10 a month, then you will get Huffy Pod. |
| 1:09.3 | You'll also get Michael Owens Movie Club as well. |
| 1:10.9 | So if you like the best of, we did a month ago on Michael Lowe's Movie Club, then you will probably really, really like our Patreon |
| 1:17.6 | offerings. So go to patreon.com slash distant pod and that is where you will find access to |
| 1:23.3 | HuffyPod and Michael Owen's movie club. We are still wanting you guys to vote for us at the British Podcast Awards. |
| 1:32.8 | The Listeners Choice Award is the award we are after. |
| 1:37.1 | We are in the top 20. |
| 1:38.3 | They released the top 20 just the other day. |
| 1:40.9 | We are in that. |
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