Wow.

Welcome to the Broad in Japan podcast.

Probably the best way of learning about life in Japan

and actually being in Japan.

I'm your host, Chris Broad, clicking my fingers. And we're joined, as always, by Pete Donaldson,

back from his spectacular holiday, you lucky sausage. Pete, how the devil are you doing?

Every day's a holiday for you, Chris Broad. You can't be jealous of old me, going to a bit of Spain.

Yeah, it was good, man. I had a great holiday, a little bit annoying that almost every sunlanger I sat on,

somebody who was reading a Broad Japan book.

That was not something I needed.

You sent you a couple of pictures of a man.

A man of like, you know when you see like a proper grown-up reading something

that you know, you know

tangentially something about?

You soon sort of go, you shouldn't be reading that.

I've read that.

I've read that.

I'm not having this.

I'm not having this.

But yeah, it was really good.

I met a couple of lovely listeners as well.

Lovely Tom, the director, was there with his family and I was there with mine.

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