Welcome to this week's Socially Distant Sports Bar with Elis James, Mike Bubbins and Steff Garrero.This is Part 1 of this week’s episode. Part 2 is out every week on Fridays. If you want to listen to the full podcast ADVERT FREE every TUESDAY, including 30 MINS of bonus content not available on the free version, then head to either https://anchor.fm/nata-media/subscribe or https://www.patreon.com/distantpodGORDON SMARTThis week it’s a LIVE GUEST EPISODE and Elis, Mike & Steff invited journalist and podcaster Gordon Smart to join the live on stage in Islington in May at the Podcast Show 2023.Gordon co-hosts the Restless Natives podcast with Martin Compston. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/restless-natives-with-martin-compston-gordon-smart/id1637468844 Gordon is on BBC 5Live on Sunday evenings at 8pm https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001nzcx BRITISH PODCAST AWARDSVote for us this year!! We haven’t won one of these yet and we’d like one…Please vote for us: loads of times… Use all of your email addresses…https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/voting PUPPETS ON YOUTUBE“Puppet” Paul Melin has been busy creating puppet versions of our funniest moments on Distant Pod.Head over to our YouTube Channel, SUBSCRIBE AND CLICK ON THE BELL to see the latest episode whenever it gets published. https://www.youtube.com/thesociallydistantsportsbar LIVE SHOWSWe're doing 2 live shows in November.On Saturday November 4th at 2:30pm at the Cheerful Earful Festival at The Clapham Grand.https://link.dice.fm/j30befa1054cOn Sunday November 5th we’re live in Wrexham at the William Aston Hall.https://williamastonwrexham.com/event/wrexham-comedy-festival-socially-distant-sports-bar-live-ft-humphrey-kerr CHICAGO MARATHONSteff is running the Chicago Marathon for Grassroots Soccer - why not sponsor him?https://impact.grassrootsoccer.org/fundraiser/4504656 THIS WEEK’S EPISODEGordon clip: Gordon’s memories of Hibs winning the Cup https://www.instagram.com/reel/CshFa60AeO5/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Gordon clip: Scott Brown. I Dunno. https://youtu.be/rMeYPir9ZhA Steff Clip: John Jeffrey playing for Wales https://twitter.com/ApsmRugby/status/1522283253616594944 Elis clip: John Conteh, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook on Parky https://twitter.com/doule_tom/status/1659458092038234112?s=48&t=Pm-WnsT18372yekRZRXoiA Mike Clip: Micheal Block hole in one at US PGA https://youtu.be/cS11uQc_AE4Gordon Clip: Sean Connery https://www.instagram.com/reel/CsoQrVNowON/?igshid=NjFhOGMzYTE3ZQ== Gordon’s Book: It’s Been Emotional by Vinnie Jones https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/18629800 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesClick here for a NORD VPN dealhttps://nordvpn.com/distantCLICK HERE TO SEE CRWST's SELECTIONhttps://crwst.cymru/collections/shop-all🛍️ 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🎟️ TOUR 2026Live shows are coming!🎫 Tickets available now at distantpod.com/live Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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