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Hello and welcome to the Bore Japan Podcast.

Probably the best way of learning about life in Japan, now actually being in Japan.

I'm your host Chris Broad and we're joined as always by England's top Japan enthusiast,

Mr. Pete Donaldson, Pete, how the devil you're doing? Yeah, your Olympics.

Well, as the official mascot of the Tokyo 2020-2021 Olympics, Chris, I think you're

shouting year Olympics at the start of every Broad Japan podcast, is exactly what the brand needs to

be quite, Frank. Absolutely. It's off to a good start, generally. Did you see the only exciting

good part where the drains that flew over the stadium? To be fair, I didn't see the entire

Olympics so many, but I don't think so many, but everyone that did, they went on about the

drains. The drain globe, did you see it? Did you retweet it? I didn't see or retweet it. I saw

like a very grainy shot that someone put on Twitter of the the driny globe, drawn globe.

And I was like, I've kind of seen versions of that before. Haven't we the Chinese

have done a few little kind of new years? The wind out the sail. The wind is out the sail.

Farve, give me something new. Give me explosions. Unleash Godzilla over the skyline.

I mean, I'm glad the Olympics are just underway now. We've talked about it for years,

and it's been like one of the overarching themes in my sort of nine years in Japan,

right, the Olympics. It's kind of here. It is here, and it seems to be off to a good start. There was

a turbulent week in the route to it. The head of the Olympic opening ceremony lost his job, I believe,

and the composer as well for something he did back in 1995. Oh yes, the head of the Olympics.

Yeah, the head of the opening ceremony made some ridiculous remarks regarding the Holocaust,

and they came back to bite him from something you said in the 90s. Either way,

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