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Hello and welcome to the Bronger Pan Podcast, probably the best way of learning about life in Japan without actually being in Japan.

I'm your host Chris Broad and this week we're joined by not Pete Donaldson. He is away again.

I'm letting him have a rare holiday and thank you to Pete for covering last week again while I was on Journey Across Japan, across Kyushu.

But while I'm in Kyushu, I thought I would stop by and visit a good friend and do a little interview today.

I'll say a little, hopefully it'll be half an hour long, but I'm joined by the one known Elite Dogan.

Hey everyone, I'm really happy to be here.

To see you, Dogan.

Please, we don't know Dogan, is kind of respected by nearly every YouTube or I know in Japan has a deep profound respect to you, Dogan.

Why is that?

I guess because I'm in the Hong Kong Jaws, he's very good at Japanese. His entire channel is built around satirical skits and comedy sketches.

sketches, he's very good at it and his channel could be found to just type in doge

D-O-G-E-N. Yep. He's quite prominent on Twitter. Are you on TikTok? No, I tried to set up

a TikTok but it wasn't for me so I got... Good man, yeah. Don't betray you too. Don't

tend to the dark side there's a TikTok on my phone. But we're talking to Doge and about

his experiences in Japan. What brought him here? What he's been doing. The how long have

been in out 10 years? Yeah, a little bit over 10 years and you came like I did to Japan

on the jet program, the Japan Exchange. Yes, that's correct. And we came at teacher before

moving on to the world of Uchi but let's rewind though. When did we first meet now? Do you

must have been... Well, we met on the 5 years ago. Yeah, I guess it was close to 5 years

ago because we met originally you graciously kind of invited me to the the YouTuber retreat.

That sounds a lot better than it was. It was the YouTuber retreat. Yeah, so it was like

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