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

I'm Chris Broaden with joined by Top London Radio DJ, Japanophile and now Birthday Boy Pete Roller-McDonaldson.

Thank you, mate. Thank you for giving me a birthday bump, so to speak. Yeah, it's a nice time. You're also a tourist, right?

You're also an April Birthday boy.

I am a tourist. Yes. I didn't know that. I didn't know our birthdays for two weeks apart.

Yeah. I saw on Facebook it was your birthday. Like most people don't actually know the date of your birthday.

Two weeks and several years. Did you have a nice birthday? What does a Japanese boy birthday look like?

It looks like me sitting in a bar alone with my pet, my toy cat, and just sitting drinking slowly, looking at the table and just wondering why.

No, it was a good birthday, actually. I met up with some friends and I told you I bought the desk, got the desk, and more recently.

It was a birthday present to myself, yeah. So I remember years ago I get excited about Buzz Lightyear for my birthday on Nintendo 64's and Playstations and now a desk. It's come to that.

That's when you know you're an adult, right? You get excited by a bloody desk. I've topped it off this week by boy and myself.

I've got a swanky chair to go with it. So now I'm sorted mate. The only problem is I've very stupidly put the chair and the desk on a tatami room mat. So you know tatami mat for the kind of very delicate fragile material.

And my wheels of my chair just torn it up to pieces very stupidly. So now I've got to invest in a carpet. So I knew this would happen. I knew I'd get a desk and it would lead to a domino effect.

I've got to buy lots and lots of additional things. I would have been rubles for your birthday.

I would have been a birthday. Well I've not seen a few, I've not seen many people since I've had my birthday because I was on holiday for about 10 days and I just got back on my birthday.

Starting in Denver went down through Colorado Springs, Boulder and down through New Mexico, Tows, went to Tows, Wheeler's little art collective, sort of Mexican town.

And then across to San Antonio then out of Austin. But man, I love that part of the world.

Yeah, I've been meeting to go around there. If I could drive around one part of America, it would be there. I'd live in Seattle and I would holiday around New Mexico in Colorado.

I would definitely live in. Lucky devil. I would definitely live in some, I really liked Colorado Springs. What a beautiful part of the world.

It's a beautiful, massive mountains and it's just like a little city. Very interesting. Very interesting.

And yet it's not your only holiday this year, is it? It's not my only holiday this year. I've actually already had a holiday as well.

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