Hello everyone and welcome to this episode of the Flats and Shanks podcast. We are going

to try and be up beat even though our little five minutes pre pod chat has been state of

the nation, everything's carnage, we're all ruined. All right Tommy, you up beat fella?

Yeah, yeah, you've charmed me. Well done. Well done. Just just before just before you did the

intro I said, make this up beat one flats, will you? Christ say yeah, right. It's carnage.

Think of it on effect. It's tier three. Oh God. No crowds, six nations. Oh, gee. Yeah.

Health is worth it mate. Health is worth. How are you feeling? Like, how are you? How are you,

how are you, fella? I said genuine. How are you? You're right. I'm all right. Don't worry about

me. Yes, you are worried about over there. I'm all right, boy. Yeah, it's always good to us,

you know, because you're a match. Yeah. I know you like to cry at sometimes you wear your heart

in your sleeve, but often you bottle things up and I mean, you never don't bottle things up.

You bottle everything up. But bury it mate. You just just just like your mum. I keep pushing.

I keep pushing it down down. I think that's one of the thighs are so big because all my issues

and problems are in there now. You've got disproportionate, large calves for your size. Yeah.

Yeah, I'm all right. I feel like I feel like I'm just back from a six week epic journey because

I've a long weekend in Ireland, but we'll talk about that in a bit. But on your own. No,

no, no, with some just some guys I'm at online. Yeah, it was good. Yeah, it was good. I'm all right.

I'm all right. The kids are on Christmas holiday. So yeah, are they logging in to school?

Everyone's different. No, schoolwork. No, I'll stay in the obvious. Everyone's different.

Yeah, I'll stay in the obvious. Yeah, I know. Yeah. I know it's like cool to say, oh,

nightmare, kids are on Christmas holiday. And then if you say, I love it when my kids are on Christmas

holiday and on holiday from school, you sound like that sort of fake Facebook parent who like,

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