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Hello and welcome to the BORNJAPAN Podcast, probably the best way of learning about life in Japan,

without actually being in Japan. I'm your host Chris Broad, and I'm enjoying

as always by England's top Japan enthusiast, Mr. Pete Donaldson himself. Pete, how the devil are you doing?

Don't get, just got a message from Amazon that my Iber Provin's going to be delivered very soon,

so yeah, it's all going off like a frog in a sock here at Shade Donaldson. It really, really has.

So I love every, sort of if you start this podcast back in 2018, you'll listen to the earlier episodes.

You can hear like your life in your sitting room in a little flat in Soho, and you can be like,

oh, I've just come home and there's rubbish all over the flat, it's terrible, it's awful.

And then there'll be drunk people stumbling around out front, and then there's just,

but we've sort of progressed, and then you lived in a country house, a very nice place.

In houses, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's wonderful. And now you're...

Somewhere else.

Now I'm somewhere else. I mean, I'm in S60, the beach, but the thing that gets me, I dropped out

of Canvey Island yesterday. I didn't really know what Canvey Island was. I was like,

I'm going to go to Canvey Island because, yeah, I can drive now. It seems weird, right? That I can...

So my driving test was weird because I thought I'd failed. I thought I'd absolutely fucked it. I was

fuming 10 minutes in, amount of curve, and from experience from one of your driving tests,

because we're both in the two pass club, the two exam, two test club. You can't clip curves.

You can't mount curves. But I did the very smallest of slow kind of mountains of curves, and

I thought I'd failed at that point. That was 10 minutes in. And so for the rest of the exam,

I was fuming. I was fuming with myself. I can't believe they had done it. I was so angry with

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