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Hello, a very warm welcome to the scrumfied podcast from a dreary overcast Sydney.

It's been a busy few weeks in Australia, plenty to talk about.

So we thought we would bring you the Welsh perspective on the tour so far.

Unfamiliar territory for the Lions, two and ill up for the first time since 1997, but two very familiar faces.

Sat in the BBC flat, my Welsh reinforcements have arrived.

Alex Cuthbert, Tom Shanklin, how are we?

We're okay, we're just about okay.

Every day I've got to apologise to my body.

But it has been fun. I've got to apologise to my body. But it has been fun.

I've enjoyed it.

A very well-known voice in rugby correspondent, Chris Jones here too.

But a little-known fact that you are indeed also Welsh.

Yeah, I am, depending who I speak to.

But for the purpose of this podcast, born and raised, well, my dad. On the program? Yeah. But just quickly, he did want me on. It wasn't just the fact that we're in the same BBC flat. It'd be weird if I was sitting over on the table. I think we all agree that Chris Jones can't be in the vicinity whilst recording a podcast and not be on the podcast. Can he just wouldn't feel like that. Yeah.

I did sell you the dream. Sent to you a pretty atmospheric photo yesterday, a balcony overlooking

Elizabeth Bay, pink sky, you know, at sunset. But you've just arrived and called it a student flat, Tom.

Yeah. If I walked in, you're all eating beans on toast close hang on

oh yeah the three of us sharing here so where are you guys staying somewhere pretty luxurious

yeah well we're looking after 30 plus people so we've got a quite a nice hotel just under the

sydney harbour bridge pier one it's calledch. It is Bosch. So we're doing okay

for hotel-wise. How have your fear week's been? As intense as shags? Yeah, it's been pretty full on.

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