A New Pair Of Trousers (pt 2)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
Nata Media
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Distant Pod is a weekly podcast where Elis James, Mike Bubbins, and Steff Garrero dig through the best (and worst) clips, documentaries, books, and sporting moments they’ve found that week. From genuine sporting greatness to complete nonsense — no expertise required, strong opinions guaranteed.
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In Part 2, the focus shifts to elite winter sport, Olympic-level pressure, and high-performance competition.
Steff recommends the documentary Scotty James: Pipe Dream — a deep dive into Winter Olympics snowboarding, an elite athlete, and the mental toll of competing at the highest level
https://www.netflix.com/browse?jbv=82184420
Mike chooses the book “I Can’t Stop Thinking About VAR”, with help from Elis — a sharp, funny look at football’s ongoing relationship with technology, refereeing, and modern rule-making
https://amzn.to/4qC8wWe
A perfect listen for fans of Winter Olympics documentaries, snow sports, and how sport evolves under pressure.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's socially distant sports bar, part two. |
| 0:06.8 | Pick up a cute toad and it kills you. |
| 0:09.0 | Yeah, it's winks at you and you're dead. |
| 0:12.4 | The winking toads, as I call it. |
| 0:14.9 | Oh, great, it's a winking death coat in my song. |
| 0:19.2 | So where they go, they've got the new Japanese era of snowboarders |
| 0:22.6 | coming in. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm the kind of person who'll sit there going, |
| 0:24.9 | yeah, yeah, isn't it? |
| 0:26.0 | Yeah, big time. |
| 0:27.0 | Big time. |
| 0:29.7 | You're absolutely bullshitting it. |
| 0:31.8 | My commentary would be |
| 0:32.9 | bloody hell. |
| 0:34.1 | They're all great. |
| 0:35.3 | Fuck me. |
| 0:36.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.7 | Wow. |
| 0:37.7 | Wow. Jesus Christ! great. Fuck me. Yeah. Wow. Wow. |
| 0:38.6 | Jesus Christ! He said it again. |
| 0:41.4 | This is part two of this week's socially distant sports bar. |
| 0:45.0 | If you want to get this episode early release and advert free, you're going to need to go to Apple |
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