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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, I'll be joined as always by England's top Japan enthusiast, sitting in his car, no less, somewhere on a highway in the UK.

Mr. Pete Donaldson himself, and he's gone mobile.

Hello, I'm actually in Stack HQ Towers, but I'm in what can only be described as the parking lot because of a last minute change of our studios and Chris is very busy week and my very busy week.

I'm broadcasting from my car, but what I will say is that if you worked as a voice-over in the 90s and the 90s,

this was kind of how a lot of like, job-ing voice-overs would do their voice-overs. They would sit in a nearby and they would record their little voice-overs with a towel over their head.

Because to be honest, despite the fact there's quite a lot of mirrored surfaces in the car, the acoustic aren't that bad in a stationary car.

When it comes to being a recording studio, it's not bad.

Look at you trying to make up for the situation. I don't need a $20,000 studio. I've got my free at $500. Actually, no, I'm not.

Most weeks, Chris, it is very much clear that this is a much better set of environment, so to say.

It's quite a surreal experience, but it sounds good, and that's all that matters, right? It's the ends justify the means that's how to bring in the ends.

That's what gets done. I'm at my ends.

Well, I've just had a, take the old lasagna. You know, like, Japan failed.

Meanwhile, from the off-field.

Pete Donaldson in a fucking car park in London. Well, I've just had a top-quality lasagna at my favourite coffee shop, so go me.

It's a lasagna from a coffee shop. I know the lefthood in Japan is good, but you're eating lasagna, but a coffee shop is not right.

This is good stuff. There's lots of coffee shops in Japan. You've got your Starbucks, your Tullies, your cafe, the Vellote, but...

Yeah.

...Hoschino coffee. Hoshino is the one to go for. The interior is like a sort of Gothic 1920 style gangster hideout, like where they had prohibition.

Maybe that's an accurate description. That's how I feel about it anyway.

But you start going and it's kind of like you can't see inside from the outside right, so it's kind of mysterious, like a speakeasy.

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