Hello everyone. You're listening to the ITV slash STV Rugby World Cup podcast with me, Tom Shanklin.

And me, Di, Flatman, Flat Sun. How are you, flats? I'm all right. I'm in Japan, aren't I?

You've made it. Well done. Was it a smooth journey? Yeah, I'm all right. I mean, Japan, aren't I? You've made it. Well done.

Was it a smooth journey?

Yeah, we went all right.

So two flights, so London, Tokyo, Tokyo, Sapporo, got to Sapporo and Uggle.

Oogs will elaborate on this a bit in a minute, so we're going to speak to Ugo in a minute. So we're going to speak to Hugo in a minute. We had a guy who was there specifically to guide us through and get us to our bus and all that sort of stuff with all of our gear.

And his brain exploded. He had one job. He was Paolo one shop and he absolutely ballsed it up.

He ruined it. It took us to completely the wrong terminal. You had nine blokes, loads of gear,

all the camera gear for two crews. Everyone was sweating. It was

brutal. It turned out, yeah, we were rescued by the Black Flamingo, but we'll explain that a bit later.

Journey was fine, mate. And most importantly, it's sleep, isn't it? That's what you talk about.

And last night, went to bed at midnight, woke up after a lovely night's sleep at half

one in the morning and thought, oh no.

But got back to sleep, Tommy.

Woke up at five and thought, that's it.

Close my eyes and woke up at 1pm.

I never sleep like that fella.

I've been battling to stay awake all day, done a bit of filming, but we're all right.

You go all the way out to Japan just to get a good night's sleep.

That's it.

Look, these ITV podcasts are coming out every Monday and every Thursday throughout the World Cup.

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