Hello everyone, welcome to this week's podcast. It's the Flats and Shanks podcast. You know that because you press play. I am the flat spit. He is the...

I thought you were going to say you know that because you're breast stinks. Um, eee.

I'm Tom Shanklin. I'm an uppeak Tom Shanklin. Are you? Yeah, mate.

Yeah, international rugby back, isn't it? You're always happier when Wales don't win naïve a tide.

Like you and Bath. Exactly. Exactly. No one's doing too well for Ella.

Oh, no, I'm not. Look, it was a great game. Really enjoyed it. Really enjoyed it. But I don't want to be too premature.

Um, you know, I'm like, uh, we'll get to that. Yeah. Okay. We will get to that.

Okay, but before we've been up to what we've been up to, which won't take long really on my behalf. Anyway, a lot of cooking is.

Okay. What's going on with the bar bars? What the has gone on get out.

Fella. Shall I tell you what I think's happened? Well, yeah, go on. Cause that's what we're getting to in it. Let's do that.

Okay. Yeah, go on. I reckon it's the government intervention. Right. Are you blaming Boris?

Um, no, not at all. Uh, now you've seen, have you seen the little WhatsApp clip of flying around?

Yeah. Yeah. Lads in a pub, which I'm sure they could have done in the hotel room.

So that bit is a bit frustrating for me. Not the same. There is it. They're like dogs. It's new smells and it's new smells.

And, you know, yeah, that's what stimulates them. They're still in a private room. You know, it's still, it's still can be done.

It's not like they've gone to a nightclub, you know, where they're everyone likes a little bit of a dance. Do they?

Don't you? No. That's just me. Is it? Um, yeah. Sort of flew, fuse MC Hammer and flash dance. But, um, so that that's, that's a strange bit.

Cause they, I know you're saying new smells like a dog, but they could have easily done that in a team room. Um, you know, you agree with yours. Just joking.

Okay. Cause it's the company that you and you know, they're not going out to mix with any other players or friends that they got.

But I think flats. I think now, high club high profile players, 12 of them, I think it was. I think they've been badly advised.

Oh, I think now I don't know. I've read a few things, um, coming here to the ground. But, right.

I reckon that that amount of people would have let somebody know in the barbos squad where they were going.

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