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Hello and welcome to the brawn Japan podcast.

Probably the best way of learning about life in Japan without actually being in Japan.

I'm your host Chris Broaden with Join as always by England's top Japan enthusiast,

Mr. Pete Donaldson himself. Pete, are you doing today?

I'm doing well. I've got my top off. I do not mind admitting because there's very warm here in

St. Carnivr towers. And I'm just looking out on a rather sunny day. This week in London's

being a little bit strange. It doesn't really know what it's doing. It's sometimes hot,

sometimes rainy, but always just a bit damp and smelling a little bit like a dog.

Oh God. I think the highest recorded temperature in history this week in Shizuoka Prefecture,

which is kind of in between Tokyo and Nagoya. I think it was 41 or 42 degrees Celsius,

which is absolutely hot. Oh no. Obviously, was it Death Valley in near Las Vegas?

Death Valley? 53 or 54. I mean, a ridiculous. A ridiculous heat, isn't it?

I mean, just it's my iced coffee. What would it be? Well, it wouldn't be around.

We're incredible. Imagine transporting butter through Death Valley. Great album.

Great album. I hate people to do great album, Jokes. Great album, but I like it on this occasion,

because I'm doing it. That's how Jokes work. Next time in America, I want to see it happen.

Fortunately, where I am in Good Old Miyagi Prefecture in Sendai, it's pretty cool. It's

kind of like five, six degrees cooler. They do call it the coolest prefecture in Japan. I'm not

sure who calls it that. I've just heard like three people from Miyagi Kool at that. I think they've made

it up, but I think because they've got the Pacific kind of winds and the current from the Pacific,

it kind of helps call it down. It's definitely noticeably cooler than where I used to live in

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