282: Gold Top (Pt 1)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
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4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Episode 282: Gold Top
Elis James (Elis & John, Oh What A Time), Mike Bubbins (Mammoth), and Steff Garrero are back with another week of sporting clips, documentaries, books, and plenty of nonsense.
PART 1
- Mike: Barry RFC
- Elis: F***ing cows
- Steff: Ronnie
PART 2
- Steff Documentary: Scrum Queens: The Fight For The First World Cup (BBC iPlayer)
- Mike Book: A Good Walk Spoiled by John Feinstein (link)
PART 3
- Mike: England Women’s Rugby
- Elis: “Dear God”
- Steff: Aston Villa manager John Gregory singing on TV, 1999
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Distant Potters, welcome to part one of this week's episode. I want to point you in the direction of our Patreon. |
| 0:09.7 | If you want bonus content at any point during your life, you want more from the socially distant sports bar. |
| 0:16.0 | Then head to patreon.com slash DistantPod. It is where you will find half an hour of extra content for every single episode that we have done. And you will also be able to find Michael Owens movie club, which is a spinoff podcast that we do about movies. And Hoffie Pod, which is our spin-off podcast, which we just choose clips that aren't to do with sport, |
| 0:38.0 | stuff that we can't shoehorn into this podcast, basically. |
| 0:40.8 | You get one Michael Owen's movie club, you get one Huffy Pod every month, |
| 0:45.2 | and that is well worth your while, because if you like us, you get more content. |
| 0:50.4 | Go and have a look. |
| 0:51.2 | Patreon.com slash distant pod. |
| 0:53.5 | Enjoy this week's part one of the |
| 0:56.2 | socially distant sports bar. I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I off and it's noisy two seconds. That'd be nice. Thank you. We've got to be the only three hour long podcast. I'm going to say in the world where we've been on for 15 minutes just chatting about stuff. There would be gold. Gold. Great pod. Great pod so far. And we finally get up and running and I was going to turn the dishwasher off. Yeah. Yeah. Mike was just saying that it's taken us 15 minutes to get to the point where we're starting to record and everything that we did not record would be gold. Oh, funny stuff. Yeah. Good stuff. It's nice to know they get on off here. But that's how talented. That's how talented we are. Oh, yeah. |
| 2:18.1 | Look at that. Mug. Fucking Ballin. Oh, fucking legend. Sorry. I misread it. I don't buy it. Who did? I have interest. I don't know. Do your kids take the piss out of you? Yeah. On a dirty basis. Well, Ellie does. Ben not so much. |
| 2:34.3 | No? |
| 2:35.7 | He just knows he could have you, so it's fine. |
| 2:37.5 | Yeah, that's true. Yeah. When I was at the women's euros, someone asked for a selfie, and at the end of it, when the person walked away, Betty said, if you're going to continue being partly famous, Dad, you need to trim your ears. And I laughed a lot. It's good advice. Well, they checked your ears. Oh, yeah, big, long ones, like two and a half inches. Off the rim of your ear? Yeah, man. Yes, I check them all the time because they fucking grow. They're like fucking rhubarb. They grow so quickly. |
| 3:08.1 | You can trim them at 10 a.m. Yes. And by 2.30 p.m. they're back longer than ever. I check them every day. Yeah. But only in certain light are they visible to you. Yeah. Because they're very, they're white, man. Yeah. You don't know if it's a hair behind your ear or whether it's a Yeah, from your ear. |
| 3:24.2 | Either way, it's bad. |
| 3:25.8 | Oh, yeah. |
| 3:26.4 | It's not a good look. |
| 3:27.2 | I haven't got to the hairs on the end of man. Yeah. You don't know if it's a hair behind your ear or whether it's a hair from your ear. |
| 3:25.6 | Either way, it's bad. Oh, yeah. It's not a good look. I haven't got to the hairs on the end of the nose. I mean, no, neither have I. I get lots of those. Clearly, I mean, obviously, God, it's not great surprise, is it? I'm going to shave my nose every day. It's not a huge surprise. |
| 3:37.8 | It is just like a very small straight with Gibralti on nose and if I can see a fair. |
| 3:46.3 | Various bits of my body fighting over it. |
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