So I often struggled at school.

Once, when we had a maths test, I looked around the room and everyone was just doing it.

And I couldn't and I began to cry.

But my teacher came over and said,

it might look like one big problem,

but it's just a handful of small ones.

And you can deal with that.

I hear her voice in my head for every problem I face to this day.

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Hello and welcome to the 400-pound podcast,

probably the best way of learning about life in Japan without actually being in Japan.

I'm your host, Chris Broder,

and we're joined as always by England's top Japan enthusiast, Mr. Pete Dalson.

Pete, how are you doing today?

Howdy.

I'm a little less enthused by the level of quality of coffee I'm drinking on the Sunday sure,

because I've gone back to the powdered kind of freeze-dried stuff that I bought from the supermarket.

They say it apparently, right, to improve really bitter coffee that tastes like absolute turd.

You add a bit of salt, would you believe.

I watch this man on, it gets served up to my Facebook algorithm quite a lot,

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