Mario (pt 1)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
Nata Media
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Distant Pod is a weekly podcast where Elis James, Mike Bubbins, and Steff Garrero dive into the best (and worst) clips, documentaries, books, and sporting moments they’ve discovered that week. From iconic brilliance to complete nonsense, each episode is a fast-moving, funny tour through sport, culture, and the strange corners of the internet — with zero expertise required and strong opinions guaranteed.
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🎧 PART 1 – Episode 299
- Mike’s clip: Osi and Jason
- https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTtOnBODPNI/
- Elis’s clip: Cantrell Farm, mid-90s
- https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTfD_ECiY_H/
- Steff’s clips: Making Golf Balls (1966 & 2010s)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-0U_R8zwkk
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUjV0ipBvJY
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on today's socially distant sports bar, part one. |
| 0:06.0 | You win three or four million. |
| 0:07.9 | You struggle it, you're struggling to even survive, Mike. |
| 0:13.1 | These days. |
| 0:13.9 | Good luck living on that. |
| 0:15.8 | He said to me, fuck off Mario. |
| 0:20.6 | And one of my mates who was the second row was being hit around the head with a walking stick by someone's granddad. |
| 0:26.5 | But I do remember the crowd wading in on that occasion. |
| 0:30.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.0 | This is part one of this week's socially distant sports bar. |
| 0:35.3 | If you want to get this episode early release and advert |
| 0:38.6 | free, you're going to need to go to Apple Podcast to their app and subscribe to the Distant Pod bonus |
| 0:44.5 | club, just two clicks and it'll be done for you. You get parts one and part two early and advert |
| 0:50.2 | free, and you get part three exclusively as well. For now, enjoy this week's part one of the |
| 0:57.1 | Social Distance Sports Bar. I'm I'm I'm |
| 1:11.6 | I'm |
| 1:12.6 | and |
| 1:13.6 | I'm |
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| 1:17.6 | I'm |
| 1:18.6 | the |
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