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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 Braun and we're joined as always by England's top Japan enthusiast, Mr Pete Donaldson. Pete, how the devil, are you doing?

What's going on?

I'm good. I've sort of walking up and I'm reading a story about a Japanese woman who's been giving all of her money to Mick Jagger.

And it's made me a bit sad, Chris.

The actual Mick Jagger or somebody pretending to be Mick Jagger?

Well, you be the judge.

There was a, yeah, a woman basically who just been on contact

with somebody who purported to be Mick Jagger's manager online, a Japanese lady, and she basically

offered this Japanese lady a type of membership-based service in which fans send money to

Mick Jagger, who then multiplies it and then sends the money back to them.

But Mick Jagger, for whatever reason, didn't manage to do that that week and

just ran off with the money. We should say for legal reasons, I don't think it is Mick Jagger

who's doing all of this. But then again, who knows what he's gay gets up to? Well, the most sinister

story I've read this year in a similar vein was how an AI deepfake of Pierce Brosnan left

an art gallery in Tatters

like an art gallery in North England

got contacted by

Pierce Brosnan. It wasn't

Pierce Brosnan but there was lots of deepfakes

that were used and I think

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