Wow.

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 Broad, but join us always by England's top Japan enthusiast, Mr. Pete Donaldson himself. Pete, how the devil.

What's going on?

I'm good. My back's killing me because I just spent all yesterday, pulling up an entire carpet from the front room because there's just so much dog pissing my life right now.

Can't have those carpets because there's just so much dog pissing my life right now.

Brilliant. It is brilliant. You're right. It is brilliant.

Bloody brilliant.

It's times like this, I'm glad I don't have a dog. Although the cats aren't much better. I...

Yeah. The cats really aren't that clean. Whenever I'm out because the cats have learned that the young cat Cheetah has learnt to break into my office, into my office room in the apartment.

Earlier I came back from a trip to the shop, went to my room, and the door was ajar, and I walked in the two cats were just sitting there on my desk, causing a right mess.

And they just sort of go in there, and that like terrorists, when I'm not around, they like to terrorise my studio, my office space.

You've got to know why.

Quite valuable stuff in your office slash.

Yeah, I know right.

It's just, it's difficult. It's difficult. But I will say if one, Chris, you are in your Sendai studio for possibly...

Indeed.

What could be the last time on this podcast, and let me tell you, is sort of it, you see it again, because I've not seen it for a little while.

Well, I mean, see, my crew last week, I was going to take you to go and look at a studio, overlooking a concrete highway overpass, somewhere near Shibuya, I think it was.

It was all looking good, but then I got there, and it was rubbish, because we walked in through the front door. It's about seven or eight stories up.

This really tiny elevator, and I got to the fourth story in the door swung open, and it was an old-age pensioners gym, and I watched them working out for a bit.

Then the door slushed out, and I carried on my journey upwards and upwards to the seventh floor of Gilded Luxury.

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