The Socially Distant Sports Bar

Nata Media
  • 4.7 (102)
  • Comedy
  • Updated Weekly

The Socially Distant Sports Bar is an award-winning comedy podcast hosted by Elis James, Mike Bubbins and Steff Garrero — and you don’t need to like sport to be completely hooked. Elis is the king of Welsh podcasting & Mike Bubbins is TV’s Tony Mammoth. Each week you get two episodes Part 1 is fast, funny and chaotic — a stream of clips, sporting moments and internet oddities pulled apart with strong opinions and zero expertise. Part 2 slows things down with a documentary and book recommendation, diving into the stories that make sport so compelling. “Elis James and Mike Bubbins are unreasonably hilarious.” — The Telegraph “A haven where they ramble on about classic clips and random recollections.” — The Guardian Better known as Distant Pod, the show is a multi-award winner, created and produced by ARIA Gold Award winner Steff Garrero Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  1. Oct 31 • Subscriber Early Access

    BONUS CLUB Questions for the team

    We took The Socially Distant Sports Bar to Clapham for The Cheerful Earful Festival. We had a lovely afternoon. We invited our subscribers to send us some questions. And approximately half of you asked about The Race. Honestly. We can't take you anywhere. Welcome to a special Bonus Club Q&A with Elis James, Mike Bubbins and Steff Garrero, rounding off our live-show week. This is your chance to hear the boys answering questions from the people who know the podcast better than almost anyone — for better or worse. There's plenty of chat, the usual collection of tangents and, of course, the ongoing fascination with one particular race that apparently refuses to disappear from Distant Pod folklore. Thanks to everyone who sent questions, everyone who came to the show and everyone who continues to support us. And a particularly heartfelt thank you to the roughly 50% of you who managed not to ask about The Race.

  2. Oct 30 • Subscriber Early Access

    Live At Cheerful Earful With Kate Mason (pt 2)

    The second half of our live show from Clapham sees Elis, Mike and Steff joined by the magnificent Kate Mason. Journalist, broadcaster, podcaster and Distant Pod favourite, Kate brings a bit of professionalism to proceedings. We do our best to make sure that doesn't last. There's Shane Williams, England fans singing Wonderwall and some boxing involving Bailey and Judith. Kate: Shane Williams https://youtu.be/IRaTsrmzhPI?is=3lOFE_0uBltBptN1 Kate: England Wonderwall https://youtube.com/shorts/VwM_jKnmqHU?is=5rkDEmo8BSBiiA1- Mike: Bailey and Judith Boxing https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdmloGWxld1/?stkn=bzVpN2QwOGZvanQx And don't forget, we've also got the Bonus Club Q&A available exclusively for subscribers.

  3. 18h ago

    Live At Cheerful Earful (pt 1)

    Welcome to the first half of our live show from The Cheerful Earful Festival in Clapham, available early and advert-free for Apple subscribers. Elis James, Mike Bubbins and Steff Garrero are back on stage, where Mike has a slightly awkward Edinburgh double-booking to explain. Once that's dealt with, there's Mike Ditka, some questionable half-marathon preparation and the usual amount of nonsense. Mike: Mike Ditka https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTrMqi7Di6m/?igsh=MWQ1dXJqaTA2MDlmag== Elis: Half-Marathon, Half-Cut https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeL1cYwxBAb/?stkn=cnJ4ZDRyYXZlNm41 Part 2, featuring special guest Kate Mason, is also available on Friday, along with the exclusive Bonus Club Q&A on Apple 🛍️ NEW MERCH ALERTWe’ve launched a brand new merch store — mugs, hoodies, prints and more! If you fancy supporting the pod that way, head here 👇 🛒 sdsb2025.myshopify.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  4. 3d ago

    I Took The Ferry: Pint Size

    Welcome to Pint-Sized Distant Pod. We've been back through our archive of episodes and we've selected our favourite stories, anecdotes and funny bits. If you're new to the pod, then feel free to use these as a jump off point to find your way around our earlier episodes. This clip is taken from "Episode 152: A Circle Thank" 🛍️ NEW MERCH ALERTWe’ve launched a brand new merch store — mugs, hoodies, prints and more! If you fancy supporting the pod that way, head here 👇 🛒 sdsb2025.myshopify.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  5. 4d ago • Subscribers Only

    Bonus Club: Apple Sex

    Welcome to Bonus Club, where Elis James, Mike Bubbins and Steff Garrero have finished discussing the sporting development of young footballers and the extraordinary career of Larry Csonka, and can finally get back to the important stuff. How apples reproduce. Quite how we arrived at that particular subject is probably best discovered by listening. There are also three more clips to enjoy. As ever, the clips are really just an excuse for another round of stories, opinions, unlikely connections and conversations that probably wouldn't survive a producer with a firmer grasp of editorial discipline. Clips Elis: Malta https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeJMxh-HIIR/?stkn=MWx0NHN5cm5zc3Z4Yg== Mike: Golf For Everyone https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6rb7ZRVLW/?stkn=ODcwOTczc25xYzR3 Steff: Elfyn Evans https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/videos/c5rmyz3g1pxvo Golf. Rally driving. Apple Sex. Three things that have probably never appeared together in a podcast description before. Thanks, as always, for subscribing and supporting The Socially Distant Sports Bar. Your support allows us to keep making the show, recording the extra conversations and exploring whatever peculiar subject happens to come up next. Enjoy!

  6. 5d ago

    Moulding Young Minds

    Welcome to the second half of this week's Socially Distant Sports Bar, where Mike Bubbins, Elis James and Steff Garrero turn their attention to the documentary and book of the week. This time we're travelling back to 1988, when England's future football stars were being moulded at a residential school in Shropshire, before heading across the Atlantic to meet a man who helped create the only perfect season in modern NFL history. Two very different approaches to sporting excellence. Both involving a considerable amount of shouting, presumably. Documentary of the WeekElis: 1988 — Life at the FA School of Excellence Elis has uncovered a wonderful piece of BBC archive footage from 1988, following a group of 14-year-old footballers arriving at the FA's School of Excellence at Lilleshall. More than 400 promising youngsters are offered trials, but just 16 are selected for two years of intensive football training, schooling and life away from home. Under the watchful eye of FA Technical Director Dave Sexton, the boys are being prepared for careers in professional football at a time when the modern academy system was still a distant dream. It's a fascinating glimpse into football development in the late 1980s, complete with the hairstyles, training gear, coaching methods and extraordinary confidence that only British television of that period could capture. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=viEnIRCR0hU&pp=ugUHEgVlbi1HQg%3D%3D&ra=m Book of the WeekMike: Head On by Larry Csonka Mike heads to America with Head On, the autobiography of legendary Miami Dolphins fullback Larry Csonka. A Hall of Famer, two-time Super Bowl champion and one of the toughest players of his generation, Csonka was at the heart of the Dolphins' extraordinary undefeated 1972 season. But this is about considerably more than American football. Csonka recounts his complicated relationship with legendary coach Don Shula, the personalities and excesses of the NFL in the 1970s, and a life away from sport that was frequently every bit as eventful as anything that happened on the field. It's a story of toughness, ambition, larger-than-life characters and an era when professional athletes appeared to live by an entirely different set of rules. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Head-Memoir-Larry-Csonka/dp/1637743254 Sixteen teenage footballers in Shropshire. One enormous American footballer in Miami. And three middle-aged Welshmen discussing how it all went. Thanks for listening. For even more from The Socially Distant Sports Bar, including extra episodes and exclusive content, join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/distantpod 🛍️ NEW MERCH ALERTWe’ve launched a brand new merch store — mugs, hoodies, prints and more! If you fancy supporting the pod that way, head here 👇 🛒 sdsb2025.myshopify.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  7. Oct 20

    Blood and Guts

    Another week at The Socially Distant Sports Bar, where Mike Bubbins, Elis James and Steff Garrero once again tackle the big sporting issues of the day. Or at least watch some clips and see where the conversation takes them. This week we're heading across the Atlantic for a bit of ice hockey, digging out some tennis rackets that should probably have stayed in the garage, and bringing together two of football's greats. Mike takes us to NHL opening night, where the Americans once again demonstrate that nobody does sporting spectacle quite like them. Steff has found Andy and Jamie Murray attempting to play tennis with some decidedly old-fashioned rackets, proving just how much technology has changed the game — and how difficult it is to look like a world-class tennis player when your equipment belongs in a museum. And Elis brings us Roy Keane and Zinedine Zidane. Two footballing legends. ClipsMike: NHL Opening Night https://x.com/Buccigross/status/2105017215724798320 Steff: Andy and Jamie Murray Hitting With Old Rackets https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hVnyflisJN8 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oJdm7PL-GcI https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bd-bTgqOPHs Elis: Keane and Zidane https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeJ9KWQsF7T/?hl=en-gb Ice hockey. Wooden rackets. Roy Keane. Zinedine Zidane. Blood and guts. And probably quite a lot of nonsense. Thanks for listening. For even more from The Socially Distant Sports Bar, including extra episodes, bonus content and everything else from the Distant Pod universe, join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/distantpod 🛍️ NEW MERCH ALERTWe’ve launched a brand new merch store — mugs, hoodies, prints and more! If you fancy supporting the pod that way, head here 👇 🛒 sdsb2025.myshopify.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  8. Oct 16 ·  Bonus • Subscribers Only

    BONUS CLUB I'm Not The Bad Guy

    BONUS CLUB: I'M NOT THE BAD GUY Welcome to Bonus Club, where Elis James, Mike Bubbins and Steff Garrero have finished discussing Jimmy Tarbuck's approach to television and Pep Guardiola's approach to football, and can finally get back to the important business of talking about whatever they fancy. Three clips. Three completely different starting points. And absolutely no guarantee that any of them will still be relevant ten minutes later. As ever, this is where the conversation gets a little looser, the tangents get longer and someone inevitably finds themselves having to explain why they're not the bad guy. Clips Steff: Best Instagram Running Account https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcTtddkNvPg/?stkn=aTBsZXl1c3gzcnBu Elis: Charlie Nodding https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdygXQgAbTy/?stkn=c2NrM2pwNWJ5b3Y0 Mike: Rashid https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcrFLrWMDep/?igsi=dDA5ajdyYmQ2OXI3 Running. Nodding. Rashid. And someone insisting they're not the bad guy. Thanks, as always, for subscribing and supporting The Socially Distant Sports Bar. It's your support that allows us to keep making these episodes and sharing the conversations that might otherwise never make it out of the studio. Enjoy!

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4.7
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The Socially Distant Sports Bar is an award-winning comedy podcast hosted by Elis James, Mike Bubbins and Steff Garrero — and you don’t need to like sport to be completely hooked. Elis is the king of Welsh podcasting & Mike Bubbins is TV’s Tony Mammoth. Each week you get two episodes Part 1 is fast, funny and chaotic — a stream of clips, sporting moments and internet oddities pulled apart with strong opinions and zero expertise. Part 2 slows things down with a documentary and book recommendation, diving into the stories that make sport so compelling. “Elis James and Mike Bubbins are unreasonably hilarious.” — The Telegraph “A haven where they ramble on about classic clips and random recollections.” — The Guardian Better known as Distant Pod, the show is a multi-award winner, created and produced by ARIA Gold Award winner Steff Garrero Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Information

  • Creator
    Nata Media
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    820
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright Nata Media
  • Show Website
    The Socially Distant Sports Bar
  • Provider
    NATA MEDIA LTD

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