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Chris Broad, joined as always by England's top Japan enthusiast Mr. Pete Donaldson himself.

I had a morning, I was going to say morning, it's the morning. It's the morning after

the evening. It is the morning for me, it's the evening for you. Yes, I'll be Donaldson

sweating my bits off. Got it though Chris, got it. I had more flights to come to Japan in

sort of late September and British Airways have informed me that they have been a cancelled.

So I need to find another person who, uh, rest my weary head. We knew it was coming.

We did. I think it's nice that they made that decision for me rather than me waiting until

a week before and then going, yeah, can't get in. Not going to bother. Yeah, I had to cancel a flight

for my friend who was coming in October. There's a chance, there's a slight chance they might open

it up by October, but we just didn't want to wait around. Even then if he did come over,

it just doesn't feel like the time to come over to Japan for the first time.

I enjoy yourself. So it's a shame. But I'm sure everything's closed. Everything's closed.

And I'm sure, you know, we'll get you over here again soon to do something. I'm just glad

we got you over here earlier on. We did the Sapphire Snow Fest for when everything else.

Exactly. Yeah. It's a lifetime ago now, doesn't it? It's crazy. It really does. I think the idea

of like getting off a flight and getting on a train. I mean, that was kind of like as the,

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