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Hello and welcome to the Brawndjapan Podcast, probably the best way of learning about life in Japan, without actually being in Japan.

I'm your host Chris Broad and we're joined as always by top London radio DJ and certified Japaner file Mr. Pete Donaldson. Pete, how the devil are you?

I'm great! I'm full of some kind of high-protein porridge that has been sent to another more popular radio DJ than me at work.

I thought I'm having that, I'm going to try out this high-protein porridge. Yeah, that's about it really. I've been stealing freebies.

I've been stealing freebies. It's what's known as the Breakfast Show Privilege. If any breakfast show host who gets sent a lot of stuff leaves it any unattended item, any other DJs will outstay lit.

That's the rules because they get paid 10 times more than we do, so we get to do that.

What are the spectacular perks of working in national radio? I think I could probably get away with never eating or never buying food myself and just eating food that gets sent.

You know, you're in a building that's got like 200 people and each of them have a birthday, so there's usually cake in the kitchen.

But it's I'd merely be eating coles and the caterpillars, but still, it's not the healthiest way to live. I reckon I could probably live on just stuff I've stolen from work.

I just love this image of you like loitering the corridors of absolute radio trying to get all this free food and drink.

I was doing all of this some of the drive time show. It's so hard to steal things. It's so hard to steal the stationary during the day.

But now I'm back on my 10 p.m. slot. It's only me and the cleaners. And they won't tell.

I don't just kind of pretend on your day.

Exactly. I also went to see UCAS United, my favourite football team player, Chris Lepallus, and I was really close to the players.

And we've got a Japanese block called Yoshinori Muto, and he is our first Japanese footballer.

And I was genuinely thinking, I could just shout, gumbatter at him and he probably know I'm in.

He would be amazed probably, that there's just a random white guy from UCAS or shouting out, Japanese.

I mean, can you imagine sort of being a Japanese guy in Newcastle?

We don't even speak English up in the northeast for crying out loud.

Yes, it's a language I've yet to decipher. I mean, I'm still trying to.

Your language is certainly a special work on your Jody Kanji Lake.

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