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Hello and welcome to the BROJAPAN podcast, probably the best way of learning about life in Japan,

without actually being in Japan. I'm your host Chris Broider,

I'm a join as always by England's top Japan enthusiast, Mr. Pete Donaldson himself. Pete's

I can see you wearing Sony headphones, very retro, very cool.

classy boy. Hey dude, I like it, very, very swag. I'm also wearing a Shibuya shirt, Shibuya!

Shibuya flag. Very exciting indeed. Yeah, good man, I have started the day by eating turmisu,

and you know, when we look back and go, why don't Pete diet 50? Well, he eats turmisu for breakfast

for crying out loud. At Chris, and BANUES, SAD NEWS, doesn't look like you're going to be making

it home for Christmas like Chris Rear. Well, the good news is, I love that song, the good news is,

I found a restaurant set, does LaZanya, and I had a great LaZanya, and then I discovered

that I probably can't come home for Christmas for the first time in two years because

there's some new variant killed, oh my, Kron or, oh my god, or something, and it's going to kill

us all and destroy the world. And basically, yeah, if I come to the UK, there's no guarantee I'll

be able to come back. And at the moment, I think, from what I understand if I do come back,

I'll have to sit in a government controlled hotel building for two weeks, which is not something

I particularly want to do. So yeah, unfortunately, it looks like UK big plans, the thing that's kept

me going, the thing that's kept me motivated the last three months is in the bin. So I'm not very happy

about that. But no, it doesn't seem ideal, does it? And it's just come at a bad time. If your flight

was like two or three weeks away, you might have a bit more of an idea what's going to be going on

because this is very new. It may be incredibly transmissible, but it also couldn't be, it could be not

as damaging as the previous ones. It could be gassing out, sort of speak. The vaccines may very well,

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