A New Pair Of Trousers (pt 1)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
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🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Distant Pod is the weekly podcast where Elis James, Mike Bubbins, and Steff Garrero dig through the best (and worst) clips, books, documentaries, and sporting moments they’ve found online. Expect sporting brilliance, cultural oddities, and a healthy amount of nonsense.
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PART 1
- Elis brings a classic Not The Nine O’Clock News sketch featuring John McEnroe, a perfect collision of sport and comedy
- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fd90m3xKfl8
- Mike picks comedian Charlie Baker’s take on VAR, capturing everything confusing, frustrating, and faintly ridiculous about modern football
- https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTfpkJnjI3Z/?igsh=MTNhdHQzb3NwcXVlMA==
- Steff chooses a brutally accurate reel on the worst possible playlists to run to, guaranteed to ruin your PB
- https://www.instagram.com/reels/DRn1HYViia5/
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on today's socially distant sports bar, part one. If you get into that, just make sure your affairs are in order, I would say. Okay. I always say, I didn't make sure your affairs are in order. Are your affairs in order? Oh, I don't have an affair. Boom. Not having an affair, mate. Wouldn't dream of it. Oh, shit in, shit out. I agree, yeah. Yeah, there we are. Absolutely. Don't worry about it. |
| 0:21.0 | No. |
| 0:22.3 | A, A, A, it'll be a lazy, nasty, |
| 0:24.0 | kent. |
| 0:24.2 | That's all it'll be. wouldn't dream of it. Oh, shit in, shit out. I agree, yeah. Yeah, because there we are. Absolutely. Don't worry about it. |
| 0:21.0 | No, no. |
| 0:22.2 | A.A. |
| 0:22.3 | will be a lazy, nasty, |
| 0:23.8 | cunt. |
| 0:24.2 | That's all it'll be. |
| 0:25.1 | Oh, do you feel? |
| 0:25.6 | Only if it's just you putting stuff into it. |
| 0:28.3 | Gloves and short sleeve top. |
| 0:29.6 | That is something I would get rid of short sleeves and gloves before I got rid of VAR. |
| 0:39.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:39.8 | This is part one of this week's socially distant sports bar. |
| 0:43.8 | If you want to get this episode early release and advert free, |
| 0:47.6 | you're going to need to go to Apple Podcast to their app |
| 0:50.1 | and subscribe to the Distant Pod bonus club. |
| 0:53.7 | Just two clicks and it'll be done for you. |
| 0:55.6 | You get Parts 1 and Part 2 early and advert free, and you get Part 3 exclusively as well. |
| 1:02.4 | For now, enjoy this week's part 1 of the Social Distance Sports Bar. |
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