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Hello and welcome to the Abroad Japan podcast, probably the best way of learning about life in Japan

that are actually being in Japan. I'm your host Chris Broderba, join us always by England's top

Japan enthusiast, Mr Pete Dawson himself, Aiden Pete, what's going on? I'm good Chris, I've had a

lovely bank holiday weekend and I'm heading into the week proper. Last week was the big podcast show.

Thank you to all people who listened to the Broadge Band podcast, who popped off at the say hello

and I've heard my uncle and I spent yesterday inside the boot of my car, basically with the boot

closed, like I'd been kidnapped or something while my partner threw water on the back of the car

because I'm trying to figure out how this water get into my boot. I figured it out, don't worry

and the money out there to buy my new car was not a waste of money because I've managed to fix it.

You spent untold sums of money on that card. Actually, you got it at discounts,

that's okay, your sins are absolved, you're fine, but good God, that's not. That's not an ideal

situation when you buy a brand new car that you have to go in the boot of it and test it for water

infiltration. It was just weird kind of, I mean it wasn't a brand new car, it's 10 years old Chris,

I mean you expect these sort of slight aberrations but it's just old part and parcel of being a

person who owns a car as well, isn't it? That's a little bit old, a little bit long in the tooth,

but I didn't expect that I would spend most of the bank holiday Monday locked inside my boot,

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