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Hello and welcome to the Borgia Pan 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 Pete.

How you doing? I'm good. I'm having a coffee, coffee or not, coffee or not, my short,

uh, let's hold it coffee, uh, because for me it is very early, but for you, it is rather later in the day,

but you don't seem to care. Your body is treated badly by you.

My body is treated badly. No, it's only six o'clock in the evening. It's a good time for coffee.

I'll be working until like midnight editing anyway. I'm in an awful rut at the moment where I keep going

to bed at like 3am, waking up at midday and say my body clock is just a mess and I suppose having a lot of coffee in the evening is a key part of that, but it's just the whole

editor's lifestyle, right? You know, you tend to find you edit better late in the kind of night or early in the morning when there's no other distractions, but

I guess so. I'm just trying to chat to you or text you, I guess.

We say that, but there's times, times, times, times, so yeah.

I do know that aside before we went live just moments ago, you revealed some disturbing news. Well, good news, depending on how you look at it of a liquor store opening across the street from your apartment.

Yeah, the liquor store over the road from me has been close since the COVID pandemic.

The rather convoluted, confusing and downright. I'd say dangerous advice from the boss, Johnson's government here in the UK has meant that people feeling bold and to open their businesses.

Yeah, the posh booth shop over the road is open for the first time in a couple of months. So I'm just peering into the window. See what, where's they've got on with it?

Because I did finish off a bottle of pretty nice Japanese whiskey over the weekend, spent a lot of money on it. And yeah, absolutely pile into it.

I didn't expect to do that because I'm not a big whiskey drinker, but a delish or so.

I find most most whiskey drinkers get into it in like the late 30s, early 40s.

And so it's absolutely bang on then. Yeah. It was a Yamasaki 12 year job. I thought, oh, that's how the I'll go posh.

I'll go home. And then I went posh. I went home and polished it off like an absolute maniac. Where does you get it from?

What's your other, the other posh booth shop down the road? That one's been open. That's been on right through.

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