Wow.

Hello and welcome to the Aborn Japan podcast.

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

I'm your host, Chris Broad. 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? Hello, Christopher. I'm feeling very festive. I spent last night fixing

with my hands and my eyes and my soul, a super it film projector.

Oh, wow.

It was, I couldn't figure out why it wasn't working

and forgetting, of course,

that if you ever buy anything from the 70s,

the rubber belts are always perished.

They're always, like, they just revert back to dinosaur blood,

or wherever the hell oil comes from.

And you open up the back of something,

and everything's just black,

because the belts just absolutely tarnished and died.

So I basically jerry-rigged a rubber band.

You know the sort of big rubber bands you get the Portsman

thrown on the floor.

Because they just seem to be able to sort of throw them on the floor

without impunity.

Yeah, I used one of those.

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