Wow.

Hello and welcome to the Braun Japan podcast. Probably the best way of learning about life in Japan

without actually being in Japan. I'm your host Chris Broad. We're joining as always by

England's top Japan enthusiast, Mr. Pete Dahlsen. Pete. How are devil you doing? What's going on? I'm good. What is going on in my life? I'm spending a lot of time, preparing for the springtime, preparing for the summertime. I throw out so many clothes yesterday. I've just got to give up on the size 30 waist trousers. I've just got it. I mean, I'm 32. Oh, that's barely any difference. But to be about 32 is too big for me. So I needed 31. But all of my 30 clothes and all of my sort of shirts that don't really do up, I was like, you know what? I've been sitting on these for like three years now. It's not going to happen. I'm a big boy now. Let's just throw them away. So I have done some wonderful spring cleaning. I basically made more mess than the mess was existing. I also bought some trousers, some more trousers on vintage. I think I told you last time that I've been

buying trousers on vintage, and with varying degrees of success, but bought a pair of trousers,

and they arrived, and they were black when I ordered brown, and I was like, I think they've

sent me the wrong trousers. It's the wrong, it's the wrong, mouldy trousers.

That was another pair of trousers that absolutely stank.

I was like, where have you kept these trousers? It felt like they'd sort of put them to line like a hamster cage. You're disgusting. Anyway, bought these trousers, they arrived, wrong colour. I said, these are the wrong colour. They went, how dare you? I said they were black.

And honestly, the picture could not be more brown.

Fuck it out.

The brownest trousers you've ever said they were black. And honestly, the picture could not be more brown.

The brownest trousers you've ever seen in your life. And I said, it said, why do you think they were brown? I was like, well, your pictures for a start looked very brown and they were very brown.

You just sent them a photo of like a colour chart. I'm a fucking brown. It was pantone burnt umber

at best or burnt sienna.

And they were adamant.

And the thing that got me was, right?

I just said, I think you've got this one wrong.

Could you send me the right trousers?

And they went, they are the right trousers.

How dare you?

Who even wears brown trousers?

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