Sondico Mills & Boons (Pt 1)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
Nata Media
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Over 300 episodes in and still discovering sporting brilliance in the strangest corners of the internet, Distant Pod is the weekly podcast where Elis James, Mike Bubbins and Steff Garrero bring you the best clips, documentaries and books they’ve found that week. From legendary sporting nostalgia to total nonsense, it’s a fast-moving tour through the world of sport.
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🎧 PART 1
Mike: Newport RFC
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUA3QPkCINR/?igsh=MzdpMTY5endzMzRn
Elis: Peter Beardsley
https://x.com/sid_lambert/status/2018588358193062387
Steff: Is that you Maureen?
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DSzyZL3DBEl/
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on today's socially distant sports bar part one. It's not about the invagling, I would say. No, I know. It's about the fact you're a cunt, Mike. He thinks you're a cunt. Your son thinks you're a gun. Yeah, my dad may play football for the school once with a pair of books down with socks. I come from my shin pants. Wuthering heights down yourimpats. Well, like paperbacks, to be fair, like a couple of mills and boons down there. For a couple of seasons, he was absolutely lethal, Paldi. Such a great player. There are many jobs where you can be described as being lethal, and it'd be a positive. Yeah, good point. Like the sausage factory, for example. If you had a lethal |
| 0:38.7 | member of staff there, I don't want to stand next to them on the line. This is part one of this |
| 0:44.3 | week's socially distant sports bar. If you want to get this episode early release and advert |
| 0:49.5 | free, you're going to need to go to Apple Podcast to their app and subscribe to the Distant Pod bonus club. |
| 0:56.1 | Just two clicks and it'll be done for you. |
| 0:58.0 | You get Parts 1 and Part 2 early and advert free, and you get Part 3 exclusively as well. |
| 1:04.5 | For now, enjoy this week's part one of the Social Distance Sports Bar. I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm and I'm and I'm and I'm I'm There's some other people up there. |
| 1:56.8 | I do apologize. |
| 1:59.8 | That's a lovely way to start. |
| 2:02.7 | Sawadour with Benicol. |
| 2:04.1 | What's Benical? |
| 2:05.1 | Cholesterol lower and spread. |
| 2:06.6 | Is it? |
| 2:07.5 | I've never had Benicol. |
| 2:09.2 | It sounds like a medicine. |
| 2:10.3 | It sounds very medical, yeah. |
| 2:11.5 | It does. |
| 2:11.9 | I'm not sure I want to spread that on my toast. |
| 2:13.7 | It's quite nice, actually. |
| 2:14.6 | I've never read it before. |
| 2:15.5 | I'm a peptobismal, which I've never taken. What's it too? Oh, what? Peptibesmal. It calms a, like, excitable stomach situation. Oh, right. It's like magnesium. It's like milk and magnesium bit, isn't it? Yeah. In the old days. Oh, okay. There are side effects to the, what a chalky, drew up to the color of your poo afterwards. Well, yeah, because it's pink, isn't it? Pepto-Bismore. Interestingly, he doesn't make it come out of pink. No. Oh, okay. Yeah, more Guinnessy. Oh, God. Yeah. My, he used to love drinking. Pepto-Bismol. And so he would just swig Pepto-Bismol to calm the effects of the drinking. Yeah, I've got a friend who's eclectic in his drink choices. So one round will be a baby sham, the next will be a Guinness, the next will be a dark fruit. Yeah, he was like that. The next will be a Baileys. And then he'll have Rennies with him in the pub. Yeah, I can I can think of a way of stopping you needing those. My mate, Nick, who's a big cider fan. He's a Xantac, a preemptive Zantac, man. What's a Zantac? I've never taken a Zantac. Zantac is like a, it's an indigestion thing, but it's a tablo. Okay. because he has one of those to start the night. Before he goes on the piss, yeah. Yeah, yeah. |
| 3:26.7 | There's ways of stopping need it, though, isn't there? Yeah, I've told him to drink less cider, but he would have none of it. Yeah. He would just keep it in his pocket drinking, so he's... He's always got a pack it on. He's always got a pack of his antac on him. |
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