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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 Dahlson Pete, how you doing? I mean to be honest,

it's Schrodinger's Japan among because nobody can enter. So it might not even exist anymore,

I'm becoming a flat-ertha as it stands. I don't get that comparison. You say,

it's Schrodinger's Japan because he can't enter. You can't enter Schrodinger's cat either and that is

a rather disturbing, I'm puzzled. Yeah, so wait a minute. It could exist. It might not exist.

We just don't know because no one could go there. You might be thinking of everyone's imagination.

Am I a figment of everyone's imagination? It will be horrible bit of imagination but I guess you sort

of just have to deal with the fact that you're on our head, Chris. Brilliant, brilliant, wonderful start.

How you doing, I think? How's things been this week? Oh good man, yeah, sunshine, I got a little bit of

sunburn yesterday. I had a walk and I came back and felt rather hot and my head was hot. So even in

a COVID-19 lockdown I can also burn my viking face. Well, that was very novel, very Irish.

What you need is a hat, Pete. A very good hat. Oh, but the one I just bought.

A hat, eh? You know I like buying hats. It's my new tray. Yeah, you do buy a lot of hats.

I can't, but what was the last one I bought? It was something like, are you special every day?

Let's have fun together. Let's adventure or something ridiculous. Yeah, you love any hat that

has got silly English on the side of it. You remind me of my first girlfriend's dad who used to

use mechanic and a slightly frightening, disconcerting man. Disarmed man. Probably not.

He used to drive a pig cuddalac down the tiny rods of a fleckney near Leicester.

But one of his hobbies was collecting hats he found in the rod. So you just had a hat stand just

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