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

I'm your host Chris Brawinger, and as always, my English top Japan enthusiast, Mr. Pete Donaldson.

He's better than Father Christmas. I didn't, Pete. What's going on?

I've certainly drank more green ginger wine, baby.

I'm yet to, even though we're hurtling towards Christmas, I'm yet to buy pretty much any presents.

I've bought one present and one present alone, and another one for a sacred centre.

And I've bought no food, I've bought no booze for Christmas. I've only started into the Christmas nuts I had bought.

So it's going to be a very, it's going to be very quiet Christmas for me, because I have completely failed to buy anything we need.

And I like to think that you've bought me a Christmas present this year.

You've got me that present you bought, hopefully it's for me.

Well, I mean, festive cheer.

Oh, I mean, probably Christmas is probably too late for the old, probably too late for the old Japan.

It's been a pretty good time.

You could get bacon and cheese there for no, you can't, no, you can't.

Not good cheese, not good.

I'm, I'm amidst the 12 days of Christmas still.

It's been good, although my body clock is well and truly fucked beyond repair at this point.

I've been going to sleep at about 5 a.m. every day.

And I'll tell you now, it doesn't feel healthy because you sort of know you wake up at midday slash 12 30 p.m.

And you feel really groggy and dead.

And then it takes six hours for me to get up to speed.

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