The 20% (pt 2)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
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4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Still gloriously obsessed with the brilliance and absurdity of sport, Distant Pod continues to explore the clips, stories and ideas that make sport endlessly fascinating.
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Elis’s documentary pick is Jim Mills: Jacko’s Sporting Almanac, a deep dive into one of sport’s great collectors and chroniclers.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's socially distant sports bar, part two. |
| 0:05.8 | Jack was written down that he was sent off 21 times. |
| 0:08.8 | He phones him up the next day and goes, |
| 0:10.4 | 22, Peter. |
| 0:11.4 | Yeah, get it right. |
| 0:12.4 | Get your facts right. |
| 0:13.4 | Get your facts right when you're doing journalism. |
| 0:15.6 | I've been, you know, furious when people have scored tries against teams I've played for. But I don I think I've ever stamped on someone's head as a result of that fury. |
| 0:24.1 | And then, classic rugby style, they become friends. |
| 0:27.6 | Good mate, yeah. |
| 0:28.6 | I also loved the fact that when he played in Australia and he kept getting set off |
| 0:33.6 | and he had to go in front of the disciplinary committee, |
| 0:36.6 | the first time he said, oh, yeah, I lost coordination. |
| 0:39.8 | Because I'm not used to it. |
| 0:43.7 | He got off with it, didn't he? |
| 0:44.9 | He got off in the second week. |
| 0:46.7 | He's back there. |
| 0:47.4 | He said, yeah, it's hot again. |
| 0:50.8 | Hey, distant pod fans. |
| 0:52.5 | We are doing live shows in London at the Hackney Empire. |
| 0:57.6 | On April the 7th and April the 8th, we have already sold out the new theatre in Cardiff a couple of times. |
| 1:04.1 | The show that we have in Carmarthen that's on April the 24th is completely sold out as well. |
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