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The Rugby Pod

The Fight of his Life - Ed Slater & Sam Raven chat with Jim Hamilton

The Rugby Pod

The Ringer

Sports, Comedy, Rugby

4.75.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In July 2022, Gloucester and former Leicester second row Ed Slater was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 34 and forced to retire from professional rugby. In this episode, Jim and Gloucester Team Manager and good friend, Sam Raven, chat with Ed about coming to terms with the life-changing diagnosis and the impact it's had on him, his family, and friends. It's an emotional and inspiring chat, but one filled with plenty of laughs as the guys also reflect on their recent 350-mile charity cycle which raised over 300k for MND charities and research. We wish Ed all the very best and you can support Ed and follow him on his journey via Instagram @4edfundraising or Twitter: @edslater Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

0:10.0

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is

0:13.6

then sweaty armpits because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps

0:17.9

and heath and you get to the top and you're like and then you can see the breath

0:22.2

but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

0:25.0

Joy in every sip with red carp now back at Starbucks.

0:30.7

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0:58.2

DHQ. On this episode I've got two people in the studio. One of them is my best mate, Sam Raven,

1:05.3

aka the slug. The other is the inspirational and powerful Ed Slater who's got the fight of his

1:11.2

life on his hands. Enjoy.

1:41.3

Right welcome Ed, Raven Slug to my office. How's it feel?

1:51.7

Well the air conditioner, I was absolutely beating. Well with Raven driving through London,

1:57.3

he did not have a clue. There were sounds coming out of his mouth. I've never heard in my life

2:03.1

driving through Piccadilly Circus. I was going to say how about that ride in? I wanted to say that.

2:07.3

It's been a week since the ride. Yeah, this start. How good? I'm not judging every road now.

2:14.0

Like I'm on a bike. This would be hard. I wouldn't want to do this on a bike.

2:18.4

The ironic thing is as a driver of the Ki8 cyclist. There was a couple today in London that were

2:25.0

irritating. Yeah well I mean the London cyclists are different but on a bike I had cars. Yeah.

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