Former England teammates Mike Brown and Jonny May join the dream team for a revealing chat on the intense world of professional rugby. Brown, fresh from retirement and a corporate career change, offers candid insights into the psychological toll of the professional game, and the lads debate contrasting experiences under Eddie Jones. May and Brown also reveal the ups and downs of their volatile relationship on and off the field, including a training ground injury that ended in 11 stitches. Finally, the pair get stuck into an England selection debate ahead of the Autumn Nations Series.

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00:00 🎬 Introduction: Welcome to the Good, The Bad, and The Rugby  

01:01 🗣️ Fan Feedback on the previous episode with Peter O'Mahony  

03:42 🏉 Mike Brown joins: Life after rugby  

05:00 💔 The devastating news of Lewis Moody's MND diagnosis  

09:54 🎉 Celebrating Mike Brown's career  

15:47 🎤 Brown's bizarre interview for Southampton FC Academy Director  

15:09 🐅 Joining Leicester Tigers: the nervous week's trial  

21:41 ⚡The Eddie Jones Experience  

44:00 🚗 Continental Tyres Grip Strength Challenge  

45:22 🤝 The Brown-May Relationship  

52:43 🔄 The England Selection Debate: Ford, The Smiths, or Farrell?

01:04:16 😡 The "Mr. Angry" Persona, clashes with Eddie and Ben Te'o  

01:12:47 😬 Brown's "awful" start to international rugby  

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