Series 4 - Episode 36
Flats and Shanks
Flats & Shanks
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:07.0 | That's what a day is being made. Hello, everyone, and welcome to a podcast where we talk |
| 0:12.5 | about everything and nothing. It features the stars of the show, two former rugby athletes |
| 0:19.3 | that retired due to injury, probably still replaying. If it wasn't for retrospective |
| 0:24.4 | knees, neck, shoulders, I'm Tom Shanklin. I'm David Flatman, eight caps for England, |
| 0:32.0 | seven off the bench, but a lot of people say to me, I thought you played for England |
| 0:36.4 | more than that, I thought you played for England more than that, and it's like, no, I should |
| 0:39.6 | have. But there was a lot of stuff going on, wasn't there back then, it was a different |
| 0:44.4 | political climate, wasn't it? Scandal, mate. Scandal, the other wargate scandal, loads, |
| 0:51.8 | who's went on, didn't they? Lots of spies in the camp. I suppose if you're faced |
| 0:56.7 | on and fit the bill, mate. No, I remember. What's your strength, really? |
| 1:00.8 | Because you came from great upbringing. You came from a middle to upper class background. |
| 1:05.9 | There's only one direction you want to go, and that was Rugga. Turn up to training in |
| 1:11.5 | the right gear. You had your chinos, your deck shoes, your shirt, your pink jumper tied |
| 1:15.5 | around your shoulder, your filafax under the arm. Loads of bands. Mon-blanc pen. Loads of |
| 1:22.2 | bands are as well, bands are with like, and I was doing bands before, you know, max |
| 1:27.8 | events. We just put the Z on bands. I was putting the Z on bands before max 7's, yeah. |
| 1:33.2 | He's on a quest at the moment to get Rigby's out to Portugal to do a podcast, and yeah, |
| 1:39.8 | he's got quite a little good marketing tool, mind. What? His misses. Oh, yeah. Sorry, |
| 1:47.1 | sir, mate. Sorry, sir, he's doing a sending videos of his misses saying Rigby's pod out |
| 1:51.7 | here. Okay. Yeah. Okay, docks. I'm a f- after rugby, mate. We all end up doing different |
| 1:59.0 | stuff, don't we? I'm not for it. We sold it to me. I'm joking. Look, before I'm happy |
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