Zex (pt 2)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
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4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 32 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 2 – Episode 298
In Part 2 this week:
- Elis’s documentary pick: The Daring Road
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's socially distant sports bar, part two. |
| 0:06.7 | Oh, thank God for that. |
| 0:08.0 | I thought it was utter gash. |
| 0:10.1 | How did you make something so impressive, so fucking boring? |
| 0:13.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:13.2 | I have never heard that phrase to describe a documentary before. |
| 0:18.3 | I think I'm a better anecdotalist, man. |
| 0:20.6 | Oh, it's not that, man. I've got, and it says here, Mike, you've got 39 years no claims bonus on you. I'm not holding one in shoulder. Can I get a hole in six policy? Is that what? Is that such a thing? This is part two of this week's |
| 0:37.8 | socially distant sports bar. If you want to get this episode early release and advert free, |
| 0:43.2 | you're going to need to go to Apple Podcast to their app and subscribe to the Distant Pod bonus |
| 0:48.6 | club, just two clicks and it'll be done for you. You get parts one and part two early and advert three, and you get part three exclusively as well. So sit back and enjoy this week's deep dives into a documentary and a book on part two of DistonPod. Thank you. and the I'm the |
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| 1:29.3 | the Right, part two of Distant Pod for this week. |
| 1:54.4 | It is documentary and this time, Ellis, it was your choice. |
| 1:58.9 | This is a documentary from Amazon Prime. |
| 2:02.4 | It's in French, so we watched it with subtitles. |
| 2:05.1 | It's called The Daring Road. |
| 2:08.6 | This year, I would really like to try to break the record for the fastest bicycle crossing of Europe, |
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