Wow. Hello and I'm the

welcome to the Abroad Japan podcast.

Probably the best way of learning about life in Japan

without actually being in Japan and I'm here in the studio with my good friend

Mr. Ali plot. It's me. How you doing Alan? I'm doing great.

Before we get into it, Ali is the resident BBC film nerd

slash guy you might have seen doing all the interviews

with every actor, director, film person ever.

You've interviewed like everyone from Tom Cruz

and Matt Damon to like directors like town. like

D. directors like Tarantino, Scorsese. Yeah, sometimes even some women.

Yeah, sometimes even some women. Yeah, Jonathan, the Lawrence is a good one if I could recommend people to just go skip away from this.

You don't want that? You don't want that? You don't want that? You want people to stick with that

podcast and they're currently watching or listening. Okay, got it It's probably a few years ago Pete

Dawson interviewed, I don't know pretty can talk about that, I interviewed Jennifer

Lawrence and he said, oh she didn't want to shake my head and she said oh I didn't want to shake my hand. And she said, oh, I don't shake hands.

And then I asked Dally the other day

have, did he shake Jennifer Lass's hands?

Yeah, he should shoot my hand.

Yeah, why wouldn't she?

I've got great hands, so it's just...

Maybe in his men, maybe it was caved, I don't know.

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