Mr Sassoon (pt 1)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
Nata Media
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Episode 301: Mr Sassoon
Over 300 episodes in and still finding sporting gold in the strangest corners of the internet, Distant Pod is the 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, it’s a fast-moving, funny tour through sport and culture — with zero expertise required and strong opinions guaranteed.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on today's socially distant sports bar, part one. |
| 0:06.7 | That's a really bizarre double brand, that, isn't it? |
| 0:09.8 | It is. |
| 0:10.2 | Old people's home and boozer. |
| 0:12.1 | And away from. |
| 0:13.3 | It's final of the third dance. |
| 0:16.2 | It's very, very, very, very, very, very wrong. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm going to say it. |
| 0:21.1 | It's wrong. |
| 0:21.9 | 15-year-weight and then I'll have a lovely girlfriend. Yeah. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. And you watch the way the regions are playing at the moment, right? All the Welsh regions. If they start a click and jail, they'll win games. And then suddenly, what are you worried about? Everything's all right. it will be really well |
| 0:38.3 | and that's what's going to happen |
| 0:41.4 | and that's what's going to happen. suddenly, why are you worried about? Everything's all right. It will be really well. |
| 0:40.3 | And that's what's going to happen. |
| 0:41.4 | Calm down. |
| 0:43.1 | This is part one of this week's socially distant sports bar. |
| 0:47.4 | If you want to get this episode early release and advert free, you're going to need to go |
| 0:51.7 | to Apple Podcast to their app and subscribe to the |
| 0:55.4 | Distant Pod bonus club. Just two clicks and it'll be done for you. You get parts one and part two |
| 1:01.0 | early and advert free and you get part three exclusively as well. For now, enjoy this week's |
| 1:07.8 | part one of the social distance sports bar. and I'm I'm I'm the I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm in the house and go ahead. |
| 2:00.4 | But how was your day more importantly that? Yeah, yeah. I didn't do that once. That's what Ben. Yeah, that's what Ben does. It blows my mind when he does it, Mike. I say it's reasonable to do that from the age of 13. I lived with dad from the age of 13 until I was almost 19. Yeah. And never asked. No, no, no. |
| 2:18.1 | When he came back from work, |
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