Heseltine’s Mace (pt 2)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
Nata Media
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Elis James, Mike Bubbins and Steff Garrero return with another episode of The Socially Distant Sports Bar — a podcast that uses sport to talk about life, culture, history and whatever else comes up.
Part 2 of this week’s episode — a documentary and a book used mainly as springboards for stories and digressions.
PART 2
- Steff Documentary: Carts of Darkness
- A cult documentary following people experiencing homelessness in Vancouver, who race shopping carts down steep hills while collecting bottles — blending danger, humour and a deeply human look at life on the edge of society.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi-f_J6hV-g
- Mike Book: Gypsy Jem Mace by Jeremy Poolman
- A boxing biography Mike chose on the podcast over a year ago — and still hasn’t finished reading.
- https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/products/gypsy-jem-mace-book-jeremy-poolman-9780233002255
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's socially distant sports bar, part two. |
| 0:07.5 | He's literally got a spoon. |
| 0:09.1 | That's all he's gone. |
| 0:10.3 | He hasn't got anybody to sit. |
| 0:11.9 | He uses a pair of socks as a pillow. |
| 0:13.5 | He lies on the floor. |
| 0:14.9 | I think, fucking hell. |
| 0:16.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:16.7 | I've just living free needs on the highway of life. |
| 0:20.8 | And Chingford. And then I've got to pick the kids up the highway of life. And Chinkford. |
| 0:21.7 | And then I've got to pick the kids out. |
| 0:23.4 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:24.8 | Oh, fuck, after school club finishes at six. |
| 0:27.5 | The sentence that I've never heard of this guy before, |
| 0:30.4 | when you read the book before and reviewed it before, |
| 0:33.4 | is phenomenal. |
| 0:37.6 | Two years ago, you will have been exposed to this man. |
| 0:40.5 | Two years a long time, my name. |
| 0:41.8 | It is a long time. |
| 0:43.1 | But I think it says something about all of us. |
| 0:45.0 | I'd forgotten this completely in that case. I'm. I'm |
| 0:55.0 | . |
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