The Socially Distant Sports Bar

Another week in the life of the world’s most fearless podcasters at The Socially Distant Sports Bar, as Mike Bubbins, Elis James and Steff Garrero once again manage to just brush the shoulder of actual sports chat.
Mike tells the tale of an unexpected night on the town with Chemical Tommy — and the fairly inevitable consequences — while the boys tackle one of the great technological questions of our age:
If AI is so clever, why can’t it make your laptop turn on faster?
Eventually, sport does make an appearance.
In the clips this week, Elis brings us the universally funny sight of a bloke getting kicked in the bollocks, Mike returns — again — to Vince Lombardi for a genuinely inspiring story, and Steff has the sheer, uncomplicated joy of a kid discovering that running very, very fast is brilliant.
Clips
Elis: Bloke Gets It In The Bollocks
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdhKiJ_uUAc/?stkn=cTh1aGVrY2Ftb3li
Mike: Lombardi. Again.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdcOe-7gIcq/?stkn=MXNuM3ZpNGJjZHd5ag==
Steff: Fast Kid
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdNUm5SARql/?stkn=aXZyZ2lrM3U5N29m
Chemical Tommy. Artificial intelligence. Vince Lombardi. And a kick in the bollocks.

Donate to Steff’s mate Owain from The Running Channel https://givestar.io/gs/ephraims-north-to-south-wales-challenge?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZnRzaAUwxp9wZG9mAmZkaWQWUO464ncYiar-yUbqQJHbEkGRzIhKsmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDzEyNDAyNDU3NDI4NzQxNAABp2wZb_2BYw_cnAko3qNDsPSb0Kvz9zL8TAmio-e0r7ROcd_X1eSCY2D_YQFh_aem_3rXA_KnYlcle250i9Kk5dg

Sport. Sort of.
Thanks for listening.

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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 120: That's Earnie From the Two Ronnies"

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Tom Craine is still here

Which is excellent news for us and slightly less good news for anyone hoping this podcast might eventually become a tightly controlled discussion about sport.
This is Part 2 of our guest episode with the comedian, writer and co-host — with Elis James and Chris Scull — of Oh What A Time...

Tom has also launched Last Match Then Bed, a new podcast dedicated to the game responsible for millions of people knowing far too much about obscure Scandinavian footballers: Championship Manager.

Having got ourselves warmed up in Part 1, the conversation continues through football, the 1990s, sporting nostalgia and the moments that seemed completely normal at the time but become increasingly peculiar the further away from them we get.

Including:
Kinkladze v Southampton, 1996
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fkVWNB0Vt3Q
Diana Ross’s World Cup penalty, 1994
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAKsGT9-XB0
World Cup Balloon Keepy-Uppies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r-gedgyZXI
If you haven’t listened to Part 1, start there first. This will make slightly more sense.

And if two parts of Tom Craine still aren’t enough, we kept some of the conversation back for Bonus Club on Apple Podcasts.
Go and find Last Match Then Bed wherever you get your podcasts.

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We’ve got a guest in The Socially Distant Sports Bar this week as comedian, writer, podcaster and Elis James’ other podcast friend Tom Craine joins Elis, Mike Bubbins and Steff Garrero.

Tom already spends a significant amount of his working life with Elis on the brilliant history podcast Oh What A Time..., alongside Chris Scull. Now he’s launching another podcast based around one of the great threats to productivity, relationships and exam results of the late 1990s: Championship Manager.

Last Match Then Bed sees Tom return to the legendary Championship Manager 97/98 database, attempting to manage his way to glory with the help of a different celebrity assistant manager each week.

So naturally, we get stuck into football, nostalgia and the sporting moments that live permanently in your brain.

Across our chat with Tom:
Kinkladze v Southampton, 1996
One of those goals that seemed perfectly reasonable when you were playing Sensible Soccer, but considerably harder when attempted by an actual human being.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fkVWNB0Vt3Q
Diana Ross at the 1994 World Cup Opening Ceremony
An enormous stadium. A global superstar. A penalty. A goal designed to split apart. What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAKsGT9-XB0
World Cup Balloon Keepy-Uppies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r-gedgyZXI

This is Part 1 of our chat with Tom.

Part 2 follows on Friday — and if you want the extra material we kept back from the conversation, Bonus Club subscribers on Apple Podcasts can hear that too.

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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 123: The Party Line"

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