Wow.

Hello, welcome to the Abroad in Japan podcast.

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

I'm your host, Chris Broad, but join as always by England's top Japan enthusiast, Mr. Pete Dolson. Pete.

How the devil? Are you doing? What's going?

I'm good, Chris. I'm a little bit depressed about the future of the world, the Western world,

if you will, simply because there's a lot of talk recently about moving fabrication and

sort of people who put together consumer electronics in the West.

They want to move them away from the power of China and Taiwan and move all of the chip

manufacturing and stuff like that to America and Europe and places like that to fortify

the income moving forward.

And I spent last night about four hours replacing a MacBook Pro screen.

And I've decided that that is not going to work for my poor Western eyesight.

The screws are way too small.

There are too many of them.

And it is too delicate.

And I had to use superglue at one point because I snapped something.

And I'm just hoping against hope that it is going to be fine moving forward.

As an ongoing concern, my MacBook Pro from 2020.

But I managed it.

The patient is out of surgery, but not without a few side effects.

You're the future of the tech industry then, are you?

...