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167: Richard Herring (Pt 1)

Ep. 243
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 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/distantpod RICHARD HERRING This week there is a FOURTH person in the room. It’s another GUEST EPISODE and Elis, Mike & Steff have invited comedian and podcaster Richard Herring to join them in the bar. Richard has a lot of podcasts but the biggest one is RHLSTP  https://open.spotify.com/show/4mFRB3RPhsVjtT3aRulJNm?si=89ef708140c84d53  He had Elis, Mike and Steff on his pod here https://open.spotify.com/episode/0GsHIs4LPWJq43YjPxAj62?si=N2VnbTSNQ5SKwM5_xH3ukw  If you want to see him record the podcast live click here https://www.rhlstp.co.uk/website.cgi?page=gigs  His brilliant book “Can I Have My Ball Back?” is available here https://www.waterstones.com/book/can-i-have-my-ball-back/richard-herring/9780751585766#:~:text=Can%20I%20Have%20My%20Ball%20Back%3F%3A%20A%20memoir%20of,and%20my%20right%20testicle%20(Hardback)&text=The%20comedian%20and%20author%20of,complex%20opinions%20on%20modern%20masculinity.  BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS Vote 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 AT CHEERFUL EARFUL We're doing a live show on Saturday November 4th at 2:30pm at the Cheerful Earful Festival at The Clapham Grand. Come and see us live if you’ve not managed to make a show so far. https://link.dice.fm/j30befa1054c CHICAGO MARATHON Steff is running the Chicago Marathon for Grassroots Soccer - why not sponsor him? https://impact.grassrootsoccer.org/fundraiser/4504656  THIS WEEK’S EPISODE Richard clip: Subbuteo World Cup  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8OExnRXlzM  Richard Clip: York City beat Man U 3-0 at Old Trafford  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHnz1ErfTJY Steff Clip: Richard playing snooker against himself  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdEnV4qiXNw  Elis Clip: Free kick fun!  https://twitter.com/thefootbailhub/status/1647547796684144642?s=48&t=DF3E3TCc8K1AysO8KfrzdQ  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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