Back in time: On The Brink In Sapporo!
Abroad in Japan
Stak
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Chris and Pete will return this Monday for a debrief on Chris' super secret mission, and probably a load of Alex James from Blur chat too - in the meantime here's a rather interesting slice of Abroad In Japan history!
Mere weeks before Japan closed down for nigh on two years to tourists, Chris and Pete shared a hotel room in Sapporo and recorded a podcast. And here's another chance to hear it!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, Pete Daweson here from the Abroad Japan Podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | Here to tell you about what we are doing with today's podcast. |
| 0:17.5 | But while I'm here for Granite Loud, win yourself a PlayStation 5 by entering the special |
| 0:22.3 | Stack Surveges, click the link in the description. |
| 0:24.9 | Let's get to your running for the next five months of competition and we've got five PS5s to |
| 0:28.8 | give away. So click it. You click it once and you're rented into all five months PS5 give |
| 0:33.8 | away. So let's do click it. Enjoy. Now Chris is on a special adventure that may or may |
| 0:39.5 | not result in a podcast coming out today. So since we realize that people rely on a short appearing in their |
| 0:45.6 | RSS on their mobile phones and on their computers to keep your weeks nicely balanced, something |
| 0:50.4 | is fair. So we thought we'd go back to January 2020 where myself and Chris Broad were together |
| 0:56.3 | in Japan, in Sapporo at the Sapporo Snor Festival, making plans about all the great stuff we were |
| 1:03.3 | going to be doing in Japan that year. Let me just remind you of that, did January 2020. Yeah, though those plans were definitely |
| 1:10.3 | not scuppard by anything big at all. Thank you very much. I'm sort of imagining in my |
| 1:15.1 | brain Indiana Jones recording a podcast at the foot of McHill as a big spherical rock |
| 1:20.6 | roast. What's him dripping with, you know, ominous stuff this podcast. |
| 1:25.7 | It really is interesting stuff. |
| 1:26.9 | The masks and cleaning products found under the beds, myself and Chris experiencing the |
| 1:31.9 | very first nockings of a global pandemic. |
| 1:34.8 | And we seem very unconcerned about it as we weren't. |
| 1:37.6 | As we weren't. |
| 1:38.6 | Did I have to clean up this audio bit because it was recorded in the hotel and it sounded |
| 1:41.7 | terrible? |
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