LIVE at the Hackney Empire (Pt 1)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
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4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Elis James (Elis James & John Robins), Mike Bubbins (Mammoth) and Steff Garrero bring you a LIVE episode of The Socially Distant Sports Bar, recorded at the iconic Hackney Empire in London in front of a "packed" audience.
This is Distant Pod on stage — bigger, louder and slightly more chaotic.
PART 1
The first half of the live show, as the lads ease into proceedings before things inevitably escalate.
- Elis: Robot Wars
- https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWW_DmXiI_z/?igsh=MWZ4ZDVpcm5xNGx3OQ%3D%3D
- Mike: Actors can’t throw
- https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWjvy9YibzB/?igsh=MTFxYXhpN2VnY3RoOQ==
- Steff: March Madness
- https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWjWd0LjoVh/?igsh=MWh5aWN1NTNvdGw3Yw==
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's distant pod. |
| 0:04.2 | There's a pelvic imbalance, your knees are flaring, you're emotionally distant. |
| 0:10.0 | His favourite part of cricket was appealing. |
| 0:13.0 | He thought the fact you had to, like, who was LVW or on edge, you had to appeal it. |
| 0:18.0 | I don't like that. |
| 0:19.0 | He thought it was fucking magic. |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah. He'd be her up and down the room |
| 0:21.1 | and just going, |
| 0:21.4 | Oh, see! |
| 0:23.9 | When really, it was like a fucking lawnmower |
| 0:26.1 | which someone tied a fucking kitchen knife to. |
| 0:29.3 | Right? |
| 0:30.6 | For no reason. |
| 0:31.8 | They just did this. |
| 0:40.5 | So fucking one of that this week's socially distant sports spa is a live episode |
| 0:49.1 | we did some live gigs in spring in March and April |
| 0:53.7 | and we recorded all of them. |
| 0:57.8 | So this is the first night that we did at the Hackney Empire. |
| 1:00.8 | We did two nights there. |
| 1:02.0 | We did a couple of nights at the new theatre in Cardiff. |
| 1:04.4 | And we did a homecoming gig for Ellis in Carmarthen as well at the Lyric Theatre there. |
| 1:10.3 | So this is night one at the Hackney Empire. |
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