David O'Doherty (pt 1)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
Nata Media
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Irish comedian, writer and podcaster David O’Doherty joins The Socially Distant Sports Bar this week — bringing his trademark mix of sharp comedy, surreal storytelling and genuine sporting obsession. David's podcast with Max Rushden, What Did You Do Yesterday? is a favourite of the Distant Pod team.
Known for his live shows, books and appearances on shows like 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, David also brings a deep love of cycling, Irish sport and the kind of niche sporting moments this podcast thrives on.
Across this episode, David joins Elis James, Mike Bubbins and Steff Garrero for a wide‑ranging conversation, split across three parts.
🎧 PART 1
David looks back on his rugby playing days, growing up in Ireland during the eras of Euro 88 and Italia 90, and how attitudes to GAA and other sports shaped his early experience of sport.
That leads into the sporting moment that has stayed with him — Stephen Roche’s extraordinary ride on La Plagne in the 1987 Tour de France.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQojh-wqL04&t=174s
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's distant pot. Well, I've got a shirt for you, mate. Next time I see you, I've got you a Veigl Morgan under 11 shirt. Some poor kid who's earned his cap this year is no longer wearing that shirt. Salman Rushdie come up with Think Bubbles, the Aero slogan. He worked as a copywriter before he wrote... He verse. Sure, that's not what got him in trouble though, is it? Frosty fans. They were dampen about it. It was just, it was August of 16th to commemorate Elvis's death. We had a game of pitch and put Donop Donoporth Kerry. You played pitch and putts. |
| 0:39.4 | It's what he would have wanted, isn't it? So, guest episode. |
| 0:59.0 | Who is it? |
| 1:01.0 | I mean, you know, because it says, this is the hard bit about doing an intro to anything on a podcast. |
| 1:06.0 | Because the episode is called it. |
| 1:09.0 | Imagine you hadn't seen the title of it. Okay, you've just downloaded it. You've pressed play. You don't care. You've downloaded it and you hate spoilers to such an extent that you're actually... You're looking up into the sky. Yes. You download it with your eyes closed. And you're trying your best just to get your thumb onto the play. Yes. Well, it's David O'Darthe, the Irish comedian. |
| 1:29.5 | A normal sports fan, who I've known for a long time, |
| 1:34.3 | and I've always known he'd be good on this podcast, |
| 1:36.7 | and he does not disappoint. |
| 1:38.0 | It's a really, really good fun episode. |
| 1:48.4 | So I want to hear more about Ben Elton's six-pack from David. |
| 1:54.2 | I've just been talking to Ben Elton for the last hour and a half for our podcast. |
| 1:56.4 | Called, called what day? |
| 1:56.7 | Come on. |
| 2:07.9 | What did you do yesterday where we make the guest rigorously stick to telling us what they did yesterday in extraordinary detail? |
| 2:16.9 | And Ben Elton went to the gym for possibly two hours and hammered himself on various machines. |
| 2:21.4 | It sounds like we're talking in a dream sequence again. |
| 2:23.5 | Because Mike's text alert. |
| 2:25.9 | No, it's not my text. |
| 2:27.2 | It's my ringed doorbell cameras. |
| 2:29.2 | It's sending us back in time. |
| 2:31.0 | It's my ring doorbell cameras. Keep fucking going off. |
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