Wow! 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 Broad and we're joined as always by England's top Japan enthusiast,

Mr Pete Donaldson himself. Pete, how the devil? How are you doing? What's going on? I'm good Chris.

We're recording this a few days before the day that this show actually goes out. So it's actually before Christmas when we're recording this. I think it's, I'm not going to let people through the

curtain too much. But that's how that's working because I have to take time off for Christmas.

You don't necessarily have to because you live in Japan and all you have to do is eat

fried chicken on Christmas Day.

But yeah, December's always like a nice alloy of really a lot of work.

A lot of work before the event and then a lot of work, a lot of work before the event, and then a lot of heavy

drinking.

So I am kind of, I'm sort of jostling between just general illness, general work-tiedness,

and see, just overindulging in the old green ginger wine and stuff.

It's good stuff.

It's how the British want to live their lives, to be honest.

Ginger wine.

Yeah, it sounds good.

I mean, for me, December's always one of the top business months of the year

because, you know, all YouTubers throw their content out in December

because ad revenue is higher, right?

And naturally, if you're going to release a video in November, you think,

oh, I'll just release it in December, ad revenue is higher.

Hasn't really worked out that well for me this year, I think,

because there are so many kind of videos going out from creators

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