Chris & Pete's Secret 200km Japan Road Trip

Chris Broad· Host0:00

If, if I talked earlier about how, like, I don't like social media, if I ever quit this, I could just be a wolf salesman, a robot wolf salesman. It's sort of like a natural succession, isn't it, from Robot Wars? Robot Wolf Wars.

Speaker 20:11

Wow.

Chris Broad· Host0:13

Hello, and welcome to the Abroad in 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 who's coming to Japan in a week, Mr. Pete Donaldson. Pete, how the devil are you doing? What's going on?

Pete Donaldson· Host0:29

I'm very good, Chris. Um, I'm just sort of batting away, um, WhatsApps from my mother, who has woken up on a morning, uh, very early in the morning, you know, pre-7:00, um, and just started t- to lambast me and berate me for, uh, for, um, uh, not graduating.

Chris Broad· Host0:47

[laughs] What? Not gradu- That was like 40 years ago, wasn't it?

Pete Donaldson· Host0:51

Exactly. Well, it wasn't that much, but it was a, it was a- 40 years ago ... it was a distance away. It was a distant... A, a good 20. Um, and my mom is complaining that she doesn't have a picture of me in a, in a, in a graduation smock and hat. Um, and, uh, she's absolutely gutted that time, uh, that, that I d- she, she basically didn't have a photograph of me- Aw ... graduating.

Chris Broad· Host1:11

[laughs] That's sad.

Pete Donaldson· Host1:12

Which is funny, isn't it?

Chris Broad· Host1:13

That's sad, isn't it?

Pete Donaldson· Host1:14

Which is a funny thing for her to get upset about. And the only reason why I didn't graduate, as discussed on this show before, was because I had outstanding library fines, and I just never thought it was that important. [laughs] I was happy to get out of De Montfort University Leicester after four long years. One year spent in a zoo. I was happy to get away, but