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Episode Date: September 5, 2023The Rugby World Cup is on the horizon, and rugby legend Stephen Donald know just what it takes to win one. He's been travelling all around France to give us a taste of what the host nation has to offe...rSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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This weekend is the Rugby World Cup, it kicks off in France and two ex-rugby legends who have been travelling around the south of France for a TV show that's on Bravo Sunday night called Lost in France, Israel Dagg and Stephen Donald.
Yes, and Stephen Donald joins us in the studio now.
Thank you for having me.
Oh, nice to see you. It looks like an amazing trip that you and Israel Dagg had on TV on Bravo Sunday nights, lost in France
how long ago did you guys film this?
We filmed it in April
thinking that, so me and Izzy packed
our singlets and boardies thinking we were
off to have a bit of a
Europe summer, just the two of us, we'd gone
on a trip, essentially
And what did it turn out to be
holiday like or was it actually hard work?
Well, first of all the singlets and T-shirts were not needed
because we got to Paris and started to freeze our you-know-what's off.
So it was a lot of work.
You guys know, obviously, in TV, you have to do things a few times over
and a few different angles and get the drone up and all the rest of it.
But we're experts now on different camera lenses,
get the 50mm out, the 600, the wide, the wide.
You know all the lingo now.
We've got all the lingo.
So south of France, you guys are hanging out.
And I've got some intel actually from someone on the show.
I want to see if this is true intel or not about things that happened.
Apparently the first thing was that you were terrified of ostriches.
I'll put a bit of context in this.
Okay. So just down, just out of Avignon, there was a wildlife park,
amazing wildlife park and there's lions and giraffes and all the rest of it.
So we're just cruising through in our little car and that's another gag
from the show.
They decided to put us in a Fiat for a month.
It was fun for the first half hour.
It was fun for the first hour.
Sort of humour in it for someone else but not us.
But then, yeah, we went to this wildlife park And we're cruising around
And I had the window down in the ostrich park
When an ostrich is right up close to you
You're sitting in a fiat
And you're seeing this neck
And this mouth coming at you
Like I've never had a wildlife confrontation
With a cobra or something
But that's what it felt like
I'm just panicking trying to get my window up Oh was he sticking his head through the window? Oh yeah I've never had a wildlife confrontation with a cobra or something, but that's what it felt like.
I'm just panicking, trying to get my window up.
Oh, was he sticking his head through the window?
Oh, yes.
And, yeah, I look like a big wuss.
I really do.
I do not judge you in any way.
I'd be the same.
Actually, speaking of that,
that's my next bit of intel,
that you couldn't stay awake in the car as he did all the driving, apparently.
You were just sleeping constantly.
Well, you guys know what it's like a rental car.
You know, you've got your name on the piece of paper for insurance reasons i just uh i didn't
want to risk it but no uh as he did the entire trip driving and i took the opportunities i mean
we were doing two three hour drives that as you got that annoyed with me or i don't know if annoyed
with me actually showed some love towards me he just went and bought me a pillow and to take
because he said well you're gonna sleep i'll get you a pillow for the car as well he just went and bought me a pillow. Oh, that's a lovely gesture. Because he said, well, you're going to sleep, I'll get you a pillow for the car as well.
So he went and bought me a nice pillow.
So that was a lovely gesture from him, as I actually thought.
So I sympathise.
Again, I sympathise with you.
I fall asleep all the time.
We took a tiny plane from Gisborne to Taranaki in a torrential storm.
It was thunder and lightning.
Thunder and lightning.
You couldn't see anything.
Four-seater plane.
Yeah.
I'm like, we're going to die.
This is it.
It's all over. I was just like
petrified and he slept. He's like, what else
can I do? But I was like, how could you sleep in that situation?
You're going down. You don't want to be awake for it,
mate. Well, it's funny. I am
completely off topic here. I have a real
ability to fall asleep
domestically in planes, but
internationally terrible. Oh, really?
Yeah. You can put me on the New Zealand pencil
and I'll fall asleep then and there.
Put me on a Big Bird somewhere
and I'm like looking at the ceiling.
So you're awake for the whole flight
from Auckland to London?
Yeah.
No problem.
Well, no wonder you had to sleep in the car then.
How old is he then?
You guys might also have a similar thing as well
with pallets as well.
Now, apparently, this is my next bit of intel.
You know, being a country boy,
you're like, oh, you'd be able to eat anything.
But I think you struggled, according to this over there in france with some of the
maybe the the meat not being cooked more on the raw side yeah yeah i'm certainly a well done
well done steak person and when i say steak like i presume where most parts of uh steak comes from
but we got over there and obviously you're in france and it's the home of wine and food and
and i'm not a wine drinker and I'm not that much of a foodie.
And Izzy's both of those.
We were lucky enough, I guess people will probably judge me here.
We were lucky enough to get into Michelin star restaurants.
We went to two of them.
And I'd never been to them in my life and all the rest of it.
And it's quite the palaver and they take a long time to bring your food out and all the rest of it.
But the main courses, they called it sweet bread.
And we're like, oh yeah,
cool, bit of bread. I love my bread.
Sweet bread is code. Well, not code. It's what they call brain.
Oh, you're eating raw brain? Raw brain.
They think they've cooked it,
but no, it's raw.
The Michelin star chef
thinks they've done a great job. And he's coming
out and he's wanting to know, you know, in his broken
English, how are you boys
Enjoying it
Yeah great
Thank you
At what point did you find out
It was brain
After I'd eaten it
Oh cool
Okay lovely to hang out with you
Beaver enjoy your time
Over at the World Cup
Will do
Looking forward to it
And you keep safe
And thanks for your time
Thanks for having us guys