Wow. Hello and welcome to the Broad in Japan podcast.

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

being in Japan. I'm your host Chris Broiler. We're joined as always by

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

What's going on? I'm good Chris rather upsettingly for a man who probably

resembles Pee Wee Herman a little bit more closely than I need to be I have

started watching quite a lot of Pee Wee's Playhouse. The fuck is, what's that?

Are you as a millennial familiar with the work of one Pee Wee Herman?

No.

What is that?

He was, he Rubin, the man who played Peewe Herman died quite recently, but he was a child's entertainer who he would wear a thin grey suit, very thin man, thin

grey suit, sort of slick back kind of black hair, bright red lips.

I didn't talk a bit like this. black hair, bright red lips.

I didn't talk a bit like this.

And he'd laugh like that.

In what country?

America or the UK.

America.

And so like growing up, like Peewe Herman was always one of those kind of characters, a little bit like Homer Simpson.

When you're a kid you didn't really know what he was all about and I never watched a single bit of

Pee we never we never really got it in the UK's I've never heard I don't know I've

I have never heard of this he was in the 80s I think a real sort of juggin all like a like he was unstoppable he was later

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