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Hello and welcome to the Brawajapan 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 top London Radio DJ in certified Japanophile, Mr Pete Donaldson, Pete, how the devil are you?

I'm feeling good Chris, I've got a preta mongear, meaty pot, I've just eaten the egg and I've got the sausages for later.

Wow! You and your decadent lifestyle. That's my morning.

That's my morning. Radio DJ.

No, I'm pretty good.

No, I'm pretty good.

Are you a UK only thing or do we have that everywhere in the world?

We have them definitely and I think I've seen some in Hong Kong, but I think yeah, mainly is an English thing, yeah.

To be honest, they seem to be more sophisticated around train stations.

For listeners that don't know what preta mongear is, what is it? How would you describe it in a sense?

It's a sandwich shop with several breakfast and a particular options that have a lot of brushed metal in there.

A lot of aluminium in a preta mongear, but they do some nice stuff. They vary up their fare quite a lot.

Have you actually finished your meaty pot or are you going to be eating it whilst we take the pot cuts?

No, I will have one at the end, I will finish my meaty pot at the end, but if you permit me to drink my Starbucks hashtag, pay your tax.

That would be all right, if I do a little slurp every now and again, off my...

Unbelievable. Western culture. You Starbucks in one hand, me and you put in the other.

Stabbox. Meanwhile, there's me being woken up by a ruddy typhoon. There's been so many typhoons recently, it's driving me insane.

This rather troublesome typhoon that's just come through Japan called Typhoon Tramy.

I don't know what that name means or hoot and head trammy, T-R-E-M-I.

I don't know where the name comes from or who gets the lovely job of naming them, but it's not been a fun typhoon.

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