281: He’s Trying To Say Sorry (Pt 1)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
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4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Episode 281: He’s Trying To Say Sorry
Elis James (Elis & John, Oh What A Time), Mike Bubbins (Mammoth), and Steff Garrero are back with another week of classic clips, documentaries, books, and total nonsense.
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PART 1
- Elis: Big Jim Collie
- Steff: Steve Burton
- Mike: Phil on Tiger and Scottie Scheffler’s record vs Tiger
PART 2
- Elis Documentary: America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys https://www.netflix.com/title/81725526
- Steff Book: My Favourite Year, edited by Nick Hornby https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4263.My_Favorite_Year
PART 3
- Elis: St Helens’ final game
- Mike: Pre-season 😬
- Steff: Barcelona play 60 minutes with only academy graduates
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| 0:00.0 | Wonderry Plus is better than ever with updates just for our UK listeners. |
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| 0:17.1 | Hey everybody, welcome to part one of this week's socially distant sports bar. |
| 0:21.0 | Hopefully you are about to enjoy your favorite podcast, and we know it is your favorite podcast, |
| 0:26.6 | and we know that you love it. And we know that the vast majority of you will either jump on your |
| 0:31.4 | socials or jump on various Facebook groups and talk about this podcast. And we love the fact that you do that. |
| 0:40.2 | We would like you to take that one step further now and vote for us at the British podcast Awards. |
| 0:45.3 | They have this thing called the Listeners Choice Award. It is nothing but a popularity contest. |
| 0:50.0 | Let me make that clear. And there is nothing better in life than a popularity contest |
| 0:54.7 | because it makes you feel popular. |
| 0:57.3 | If American films have taught us anything, |
| 1:00.0 | it is that popularity is the only important thing in the world. |
| 1:03.9 | We genuinely would like to win it. |
| 1:06.1 | And it's pathetic, if I'm being honest. |
| 1:08.9 | It says a lot about us as people, but stuff it, we want to win. |
| 1:12.8 | So if you could click on the episode description, there is a link there that goes to the |
| 1:17.4 | British podcast awards voting and type in the socially distant sports bar. |
| 1:22.7 | You get something that lands in your email address, then you have to plug that in, |
| 1:25.8 | and then you click on verify. |
| 1:28.7 | And that's it. |
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