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Hello and welcome to Slau Home of Warnham Hogg, David Brent and Chasers and also the Burnham

Beaches Hotel where today the United Rugby Championship is being launched, players and

coaches from all across the league gathering here, head of the new URC season which starts

in a few days time.

We've got some great guests coming up on the pod, the Six Nations Player of the Year, 2021,

the European Player of the Year, 2022, one of the great Welsh players of the generations

here as well and the man in charge of the league tells us the state of the URC and where it

goes next.

We're going to start with one of the best players in the world at the moment, a man who's

just won a triple crown, reached the final of the Champions Cup, won the European Player of

the Year and was outstanding as Ireland pulled off an historic series win.

And you see them, welcome to the pod, Josh van der Flier, how about that for an intro?

Thank you very much.

Very flattering, thank you.

First things first, most important question, are you a fan of the office?

I am, yeah, well I've seen a couple episodes of the UK office, what the US office I'm

big into.

It's good.

I could talk about the US office for ages because you assume when you watch it, it's just

going to be a bad version of the UK office and it starts off like that and gets amazing.

Yeah, it's very, very good.

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