If I talked earlier about how, like, I don't like social media, if I ever quit this, I could just be a wolf salesman, a robot wolf salesman.

It's sort of like a natural succession, isn't it, from robot wars? Robot wolf wars.

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 joined, as always, by England's top Japan enthusiast who's coming to Japan in a week. Mr. Pete Donaldson. Pete,

how the devil? Are you doing? What's going on? I'm very good, Chris. I'm just sort of batting away

WhatsApp from my mother, who has walking up on a morning, very early in the morning, you know, pre 7 o'clock,

and just started to lambast me and berate me for not graduating.

What? Not grand. I was like 40 years ago, wasn't it?

Exactly. Well, it wasn't that much, but it was a distance away.

It was a good 20.

And my mum is complaining that she doesn't have a picture of me in a, in a graduation smock and hat.

And she's absolutely gutted that I'm, that I did, she basically didn't have a photograph of me graduating. That's sad. Which is funny, isn't it? Which is a funny thing for it to get upset about. And the only reason why I didn't graduate, as discussed on the show before, was because I had outstanding library fans and I just never thought it was that important. I was happy to get out of De Montfort University, Lester, after four long years, one year spent in a zoo. I was happy to get away, but no, like, she's a bit upset about, yeah, she's a bit upset about me not graduating. I don't know what has, you know, got her angry about it for this morning, but it is something that sticks in her craw, and it's something that she, you know, repeats at will at me every now and again.

But yeah, she's walking up in that kind of mood.

Yeah.

You're the co-host of the Broad Japan podcast.

I know.

Look at what everything I've achieved.

I've got my own cabin.

What are you drinking, Chris?

It looks like we were talking about black and white packaging on the show,

on last week's show.

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