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

without actually being in Japan. I'm your host Chris Broder, we're joined as always by

England's top Japan enthusiast himself, Mr Pete Donaldson Pete, LLWD, what's going on?

I'm good Christopher, I am watching the David Beckham documentary, that's what I did before

this show, that's what I'm going to be doing. After the show there are a few scenes where he is

spending a lot of time on a Real Madrid-based Japanese tour, which is quite fun, watching people

absolutely lose their S of David Beckham arriving like some kind of beetle. It was an incredible,

incredible scene him sort of arriving at airport and stuff like that, it was really wild stuff,

and it was back when like footballers and you know David Beckham and the space girl, they are

used like public, they didn't have the private jet, so they had to spend a lot of time in

quite public areas in your Heathrow's, in your Hanedas of this world, so you really have to be

a lot of crowd-control concerns and provisions. It was a simpler time, I've actually watched

the Beckham, as we all know I don't have a great relationship with football, but I really enjoyed

the David Beckham documentary on Netflix, all four episodes, because we're kind of like

an nostalgic deep dive into the 90s and just the 90s in general, took me back to the

Spice Girls, Oasis, the glory days of football. We're not good looking now, but seeing those

shots of the football fans watching in the pub, the world, the euros and stuff like that,

we look horrible, we always look terrible now, but I feel like David Beckham came off

incredibly well in the documentary, when you give unframful, incredible access to both your life,

your friends, your family, your everything, you know that it's going to be, you know, overwhelming,

in the same way, to be fair though, when I covered Hyde, the Rockstar or Ken Watanabe,

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