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Hello and welcome to this. It is the egg chases rugby podcast. The podcast about rugby doesn't take itself all the game too seriously.

I'm JB sat here alone in the rugby dungeon, but I'm not really alone because down the line on my two great friends Tim Cocker and Phil Lorgan. Tim, how are you?

I'm very well. More to point at how are you all I can see in the rugby dungeon is you kind of got a Hugh Heffner vibe going on JB in the minute.

Exactly, I imagine this is exactly how Hugh Heffner would have dressed if he also had COVID or indeed with everything or a bomb it's for anything else that Hugh Heffner would do.

But yeah, thank you for asking Tim. I am OK, which is probably why I am here alone and you guys are down the line because I've been struck down by the dreaded COVID-19.

And you're feeling OK, most importantly, you are doing all right at this moment in time.

I am feeling absolutely fine, absolutely fine.

Is it wrong to say this? There's a little bit of me that it's like I took the kids round to a friend's house when they were younger to so we could get chicken pox out the way.

There's a little bit of me that it's just like I'm going on my head and rather JB's it's a difficult one, isn't it? Because if you dare mention that it's not very dangerous to people of this age.

People go absolutely mental. They fly off the wall. I tend to believe what the science said originally. It's not that dangerous to young people and judging by how I feel doesn't seem that dangerous.

That said, I have been reading around it and apparently day five is death day. So all beginning of death. So I'm on day five now. So who knows.

I'm glad you were JB. How are you feel?

I'm very good. Very good. I was looking forward to doing the first pod in person since North thought at sevens. But sadly, Jay, Jay's ruined it for the three of us.

Exactly, exactly. One of the things which annoys me most about this whole COVID thing is as soon as I said that I had it to some certain people.

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