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Hello and welcome to the Braun 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. Thede Donaldson,

and I'm going to meet how the devil you're doing today.

I'm good. I've got a Diet Coke with lime on the gore. I've had some gentle syringe for breakfast. Have you ever had gentleman's relish before?

I don't know. What is that? Sounds horrible. It's terrible.

The one I've got is like a macro lemon variant, but it's this very old school sort of almost-edwardian looking sort of pomeid that you put on crackers and bread.

It's a very very strong fishy kind of, yeah, they put a tot, very salty, very strong. You don't need much to get through, but it's not too bad. It's decent.

Gentlemen's relish. I'm a crack.

The worst, even worse than that, is the Diet Coke. I can't stand Diet Coke. It's so bad.

The things you put in your body and you have an agor at a nice crisp Diet Coke. I'll not have it. I have a real coke.

I'm going to go for coke, get the real thing, and then that Diet nonsense. It tastes like-

Yeah, it just tastes so artificial. At least coke, you can just taste the sugar, the pure sugar, and we'll have a crack.

At the end of last week's episode, we did bring up the subject of idioms, Japanese idioms.

Do you remember the key phrase, Pete? This is a little test from the last episode. The phrase, even monkeys fall from trees.

It's a Japanese idiom. People say, you know, when they make mistakes, just as much as anyone else.

Come on.

Saru mo ki. Saru, Saru mo ki kara.

Sochu? No. It's not a...

Shochu.

Shochu.

Even monkeys have a drink.

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