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You're listening to BBC Sounds. I can confirm that Nicki Robinson is in the air on the way back to Japan and he will be with me tomorrow

here in steamy sleepy beep I say steamy because it's the capital is the place to be if you want to go in a traditional Japanese hot spring and there are baths here everywhere.

There's a poplar fan zone which you can hear in the background as well.

So there's a lot going on and we're half an hour away from,

if this is what the Tumbridge Wells or Bath or Harrogate of Japan, then we're half an hour away from Potal but which is Oita and in Oita on Wednesday Wales will play Fiji.

Nick he'll be back as mentioned tomorrow however this week he caught up with his old

pal Mike Tindle World Cup winner both played with each other in Gloucester they

sat down just for a brief chat to discuss all things World Cup and they both sat down

had a little chat is a nice little chat actually, just nice and brief, and just trying,

well, Nicki, desperately trying to make some analogies between the 2003 team and the 2019 Welsh vintage. So here they are, Nicky and Mike Tindall.

So welcome to the pod. We are on a train and I'm with a 2003 World Cup winner Mike Tindall

MBE. It's just good to get a different perspective from what we normally get,

which is obviously very Welsh biased and it would be good to speak to Mike about winning a World Cup which you like to talk

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