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Hello and welcome to the Abroad Japan Podcast,

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

I'm your host Chris Brodome, joined us as always by England's top Japan enthusiast,

Mr. Pete Donaldson himself. Pete, how the devil are you doing? What's going on?

Oh, can't reach you out everybody. I'm Pete Donaldson, I'm in London. Chris is in bloody Japan doing what he does.

Chris, when are you fucking moving to Tokyo? What are you talking for? You've been talking for ages about how you moving to Tokyo,

but I've not seen you move in box one. What's going on? What's going on?

I've got a funny sound in a live first, Pete. You know, it's very hard.

Do you know, like, when you look for a house from a partner in Japan, you tick boxes, right?

And you're like, I've got this, I want this. And it's all going well. It's like Tokyo, 20,000 properties.

And there's one box that says, Pets are loud. You tick that, it goes down to three. And it's like fuck's out.

Ah, yes. And then the two, the two that remain, foreigners are loud. No foreigners.

No foreigners. No foreigners. It's, it's easy as you think when you've got a cat, let alone two cats.

Yeah, it's really sucks. It sucks. And I don't, I hate moving. I, you know, I don't, I can't like iron my own shirt,

let alone moving, moving fucking house for a studio. I just like, oh, can I just go and sit on a beach and someone else do it for me?

But most of you have like, most of your kind of property, personal property is just cameras lenses.

Most of the apartments are shut. Stuff to be fair in some cats. And they might get you, which I'm sitting in right now, is full to the brim of things.

A nice table or safer, a billion dollar ramen shop. I've got to move all that. You know, it's, it's going to be tough. I've so many people asking and worried about the studio and what's going to happen to it.

Yeah, it's like, it's, it's worrying like people think I'm going to abandon my beloved studio. Well, actually, I'm going to make it bigger and better and make use of it because right now nobody's coming to it.

And like Tom Scott, I'm at any other day, but he couldn't come up to send I and Ludwig. He couldn't come over to see the studio. So it's sad. If it was in Tokyo, people would see it. People would do things with it.

So I'm looking forward to that. Looking forward to getting my money's worth out of this bloody studio that I love so much. Imagine if you sort of got all of that stuff to Tokyo and then the Rackworth quick happened to everything got smacked.

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