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The Socially Distant Sports Bar
184: A Bit Of Apples (Pt 1)
Ep. 295
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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.
You can listen to the podcast WITHOUT ADVERTS, every Tuesday (EARLY RELEASE), with 30 minutes of BONUS CONTENT every single week by heading to our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/distantpod
MICHAEL OWEN’S MOVIE CLUB & HOFFI POD
Every month we produce TWO bonus podcasts for the top two levels of our Patreon.
Michael Owen’s Movie Club is Elis, Mike and Steff talking about a Sports Movie they’ve watched.
Hoffi Pod is the boys talking about clips they like which are nothing to do with Sports.
Head to https://www.patreon.com/distantpod and sign up for the £8 or £10 levels today!
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LIVE SHOWS
We'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/j30befa1054c
On 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
THIS WEEK’S SHOW
PART 1 (OUT ON WEDNESDAY)
Elis: Reliving his first goal for Wales
https://twitter.com/cymru/status/1712908453159584028?s=46&t=zd8v2j0_Ix70hX_A3F1z0Q
https://twitter.com/welshfootball_/status/1712891671468224905?s=46&t=zd8v2j0_Ix70hX_A3F1z0Q
Steff: Goalkeepers from the 70s doing odd things https://twitter.com/bryansgunn/status/1713081285894173014
Mike: Zion Clark
https://twitter.com/gwr/status/1682760157070065666?s=46
https://youtu.be/nTtizrFXL4I?si=lFXjslm_3AQPZ-hW
PART TWO (OUT ON FRIDAY)
Steff Documentary: The Lights of Wrigleyville https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-lights-of-wrigleyville/id1244784611?i=1000395357662
Mike Book: Nobody Beats Us by David Tossell https://amzn.to/46RUjKT
PART 3
PATREON SECTION
(ONLY via https://www.patreon.com/distantpod )
Steff: Bad Ideas on Social https://twitter.com/football__tweet/status/1711018663791178227?s=12
Mike: Jim Hamilton on TT with Craig Doyle
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrJlDSHOmS5/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Elis: Boomerang
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cxr9zIHoVgp/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
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