You match with Maya on Tinder. You agree you don't fancy each other, but she makes you laugh till it hurts.

She drives you to a mate's house in the Northern Quarter, and you actually have a great time.

You connect with some new people, like Isaac, and decide to go to the gallery on Mosley Street,

where you bond over your shared appreciation of silence.

And bit by bit, the world starts to feel so full of possibilities and you think what if I hadn't

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Wow Wow. Hello and welcome to the Broad Japan 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

England's top Japan enthusiast, Mr Pete Dawson himself. Pete, how the devil are you doing?

How do you, how do you pointing us? I'm pointing for crying out loud.

Hello yes, this is the Broodja and Puckus.

And Chris, I want to go to Japan and have the McDonald's butterscotch pie.

It's a but scotch pie.

Instead of the apple pie and the mints pie and custard pie you occasionally get a Christmas

in the UK.

There's a delicious but a scotch pie.

Sh- Yeah, sounds pretty.

Only last week's episode did I say that I'm cutting down sugar for 2024.

Yeah.

That might be going out the window pretty fast.

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