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terms apply. Hello

1:16

and welcome to the Abroad in Japan podcast. Probably

1:18

the best way of learning about life in

1:20

Japan without actually being in Japan. I'm your

1:22

host Chris Broad and we're joined as always

1:24

by England's top Japan enthusiast, Mr. Pete Dawson

1:26

himself. Pete, how the devil are you doing?

1:28

What's going on? I'm going to get you.

1:31

I am fine. I was just eyeing up.

1:33

I was going to start the show by wearing

1:37

one of my many silly masks.

1:40

I've got this little fella here.

1:43

Monkey mask. Try

1:45

explaining that for all your own listeners. It's

1:48

good. If you Google the wrestler, Kimani,

1:50

he's a wrestler of restricted heights who

1:52

once got kicked off a turnbuckle.

1:57

Yeah, I'm feeling good. thinking

2:01

about wearing more of my

2:03

masks. I've got quite a large collection

2:05

of masks I've bought

2:08

in Japan, masks I've bought outside of Japan. I

2:10

do like a mask, though I've got no cost

2:12

to use them, ever. There aren't

2:14

that many situations where you can wear

2:16

a mask to be quite frank. I

2:20

don't know, Halloween?

2:23

With Halloween roll arounds? But that's once a year and

2:25

I've also got a real pong shot for Balaclava. That

2:33

sounds bad. Balaclava is that. I've got

2:35

loads of ones that I've got like a leopard one

2:37

I bought in Haute Epic in New York

2:39

about 15 years ago. I've got

2:41

one that looks like Batman's face that you

2:43

put on. It's lovely and one-on-one. Why

2:46

is the Balaclava become the exclusive

2:51

preserve of the

2:53

problematic Roadman stealing scooters? Why

2:57

can't I wear a Balaclava as

2:59

a man who lives in Essex? Why can't I do

3:02

that? I can think

3:05

of an awful lot of reasons why.

3:07

I nearly bought one there, when I

3:09

went skiing the other day I nearly

3:11

bought one but I just thought outside

3:13

of my three days of skiing there's

3:16

no practical use for this because I've

3:18

never thought of that. I was in

3:20

a deserted nuclear bunker about three months

3:22

ago and I bought one there. We

3:26

were on a ghost hunt even though

3:28

I really have very

3:30

little appetite or patience with

3:32

ghosts, ghost hunting, people

3:35

pretending ghosts exist. But it

3:37

was in a deserted

3:40

Cold War bunker so it's come from

3:42

like 9 p.m. until 3 a.m.

3:44

Long long time. I mean bearing in

3:46

mind it's a bunker ghosts can be

3:48

there any time and

3:50

there's no natural light coming in it's a bunker so why

3:52

don't we just do this during the day and

3:54

I can just have a McDonald's on the way home. But

3:57

no they had this they had this nuclear bunker

3:59

on on the gore, so to speak. It

4:03

had like rooms and

4:05

rooms of dumb terminals

4:07

that they would have used in the

4:10

event of like a nuclear attack. And

4:13

for that reason it was really, really fascinating.

4:16

But for the whole men in military

4:18

attire pretending that there's a ghost in

4:21

the room with some spooky

4:23

magic tricks, I had very little.

4:25

I actually went to sleep at one point. Because

4:28

obviously down in the nuclear bunker they would obviously

4:30

have to have people sort of sleeping down there.

4:32

So there's a lot of like abandoned beds.

4:35

So when they were just

4:38

going on about the ghosts and

4:40

stuff I just went, I'm just going to pile in

4:42

here. I went for a couple of hours. Sleeps for

4:44

about half an hour. Why the

4:46

fuck would there be a ghost in a nuclear

4:48

bunker? Nobody died down there. There wasn't a nuclear

4:50

war. Why is there just a ghost stumbling around

4:53

in a bit of concrete under the ground

4:55

with no historical context? It's very cheap

4:57

to hire overnight. It's like you're sleeping at

4:59

50 quid and you can take down your

5:01

ghost troop. And I

5:04

mean, you know what? I don't mind being lied

5:06

to. I don't have that strong an opinion about

5:08

ghosts and stuff and people like that. It's absolutely

5:10

fine. I'll sit there any old nonsense. But

5:12

I think you

5:14

require I think in that situation a bit of

5:17

razzle dazzle, a bit of pageantry.

5:20

And these people just did not, like

5:22

they were the thickest of the thick. And

5:25

they just did not have the razzle

5:27

dazzle. They did not have the Derek

5:29

Acora about them. They were just like,

5:31

people would ask them questions like, did

5:33

anyone die near here? Yeah,

5:36

probably. Probably did die near here actually.

5:38

Yeah, you're right. And it's like that

5:41

was their razzle dazzle. It's like, and

5:43

they had like little stupid little like

5:47

LED lights tricks basically, you know, a

5:50

little button in your pocket and you

5:52

press the button to make the thing

5:54

make the noise. It's

5:57

a ghost attack. There's definitely some ghost

5:59

activity. down here. So yeah, it just all out

6:01

really. I find it very, I don't mind paying a

6:03

load of

6:07

money to go into a nuclear bunker because

6:10

I very much enjoyed the computers and just

6:12

been around on some beautiful 70s terminals. It

6:15

was like Fallout, all of the terminals looked

6:17

like that. But

6:19

yeah, the razzle dazzle was severely lacking

6:21

with the ghost hunters of Essex.

6:24

What the hell? It's

6:26

pretty good though. In

6:29

the event of a nuclear war, would it

6:31

be actually a good bunker? Did you

6:33

think, oh yeah, I'd love to be here in

6:35

a nuclear war? It was quite close to London.

6:38

You imagine that would be the first place that

6:40

gets hit, I suppose. But yeah, I don't know.

6:42

I don't know how far the blast would go

6:44

back in the 70s. But yeah,

6:46

I think we would have been all right

6:48

down there. It was a really fascinating thing.

6:50

There was loads of, there was like a

6:52

broadcast room and just map room and all

6:54

kinds of stuff. Looking at your house and

6:56

seeing blast radiuses, radii,

6:58

sort of mapped out

7:00

you're like, oh dear. So

7:02

yeah, it was really good stuff. And

7:04

the gift shop was on the honour

7:06

system because nobody was there to man

7:08

it obviously. So you just get your

7:11

own put cash down

7:13

and buy whatever you wanted. So I came

7:15

away with a nuclear attack, tea

7:17

towel and a balaclava. A

7:20

good towel is that by all. That

7:22

sounds ridiculous. I mean,

7:25

we're closer. I have a weird

7:27

interest in nuclear weapons, a

7:30

mild obsession. I don't know.

7:33

I remember when I was like 16, we had

7:35

to give a talk on anything we wanted to.

7:37

And I gave a presentation on nuclear weapons and

7:39

I got like full marks. I'm

7:41

the sort of kid who was like shit at everything

7:43

at school unless I was interested in something. Then I

7:45

went all out and I did the best thing I

7:47

could ever do. And I gave a talk

7:50

and it was a very vivid talk. I was like, vivid

7:52

talk? What was like, if a new kid

7:54

would fall off their bones? Yeah, it was

7:57

really like clinical. I was like, if a

7:59

new clip one went off in London

8:01

now, the windows would shatter

8:03

here and this would happen and that

8:05

would happen and they're all on the

8:07

edge of their seats. I really went

8:10

into depth on it. Thanks for that

8:12

mate. Thanks Chris. Thanks for scaring on

8:14

your classmate. Everyone you love would be

8:16

vaporised. I don't think we think

8:19

about it as much as we maybe

8:21

should but at any moment half

8:24

the world could be vaporised on a

8:26

bad day. The doomsday clock is

8:29

the closest it's ever been to the

8:32

end of civilisation. I find the doomsday clock is

8:35

just a load of nonsense. It's just a bit, you

8:37

know, it subsides every year to decide how

8:39

close we are to annihilation but yeah, I guess

8:41

it is, we are quite close. I think it's

8:43

the scientist just trying to get laid. He's really

8:45

laying off the doomsday clock.

8:50

We are going to all be toast next

8:52

year so why don't you come

8:54

to bed with me. You're in a scratch.

8:56

He's disgusting. Absolutely foul. If

9:00

there's a nuclear war there you'll be alright. Ain't no

9:02

bombs going past our friend. I don't think Essex is

9:04

on the hit list. We're on the Thames? That's where

9:06

the subs will come up? There's

9:09

nothing of strategic value at all. We're the men

9:11

at Lakeside Shopping Centre. We've

9:14

got a story this week from, why am

9:17

I not scrolling? Liam. Hello

9:19

Liam. Hello Liam. Actually

9:22

this week's news story, which Pete's now

9:24

going to find while I read this out,

9:27

involves a Yakis and Mob boss who tried

9:29

to smuggle some weapons-grade platinum. Yay! Liam says,

9:31

hello Chris and Pete. I got back to

9:33

England last year after studying in Japan and

9:36

smashing three podcast episodes while working. It's been

9:38

incredibly nostalgic. I used to live in Meijiro,

9:40

Tokyo and I met up with a few

9:42

Japanese mates and it was starting our

9:45

night out at a Shibuya bar crawl to be followed

9:47

by a day trip to Enoshima. Needless to say, we

9:49

were a little too keen on catching up so we

9:51

went heavily on the drinks. Despite waking up late the

9:54

following day, we agreed to stick to the

9:56

plan. Good man. And dragged ourselves onto the three off-day

9:58

trains we needed to arrive in Enoshima. Once

10:01

there, Enoshima is kind of like this

10:03

island, not too far from

10:05

Kamakura, just south of Takeya, lovely place,

10:07

beautiful place, good little island, lots of

10:09

feral cats. Once there, it was

10:11

time for food. We had a big burger

10:13

lunch with several Enoshima beers and we were

10:15

refuelled for our long walk down the beach.

10:18

It was quite the stroll and the sun was

10:20

setting when we were on the return stretch. It

10:22

was getting pretty dark there and we

10:24

didn't want to turn an ankle traversing the rocks

10:26

and so we turned on our phone lights. As

10:29

we did, I spotted a little crab

10:31

scuttle nearby. Then as I

10:33

trained my eyes to the spot, I saw

10:35

another and suddenly there are a lot of

10:37

bloody crabs everywhere. All over the rocks and

10:39

the pathways, we took pictures of videos. We

10:42

were in awe of the numbers. They were

10:44

quite small. My friend said he wanted to

10:46

pick one up. He selected one and this

10:48

is a fucking mental story and he selected

10:50

one and gently went to scoop it up

10:52

as he lifted it and opened his hand

10:54

horrifyingly. There was just a

10:56

single leg inside his palms. Realising

10:59

this, he exclaimed in the most Natsuki-like

11:01

English I've ever heard, Oh

11:03

fuck, I broke it. He immediately

11:05

put it back down, looked completely

11:07

shocked and turned around to apologise

11:10

to the crab in some of

11:12

the most kegaw heavy language that

11:14

I've ever heard. Moshuakiguzai Mose. Not

11:17

sure if crabs shed their limbs like

11:19

some lizards do or quite what

11:21

happened but hopefully his thousands of crab friends

11:25

helped him out. I'd love to

11:27

hear if either of you have been to

11:29

Edishima and I think it's often overlooked despite

11:31

being not that far from Tokyo.

11:33

Best wishes Liam. With a

11:37

story that sort of went in many different directions,

11:39

ultimately ended up in a terrible

11:42

incident with a crab. I don't... What

11:45

story is this? What

11:48

I like about our story is like our stories

11:50

that are sent in. They're almost like sort of

11:52

metaphors for man aren't they? Oh

11:54

look at this lovely crab, I'm going to

11:56

pick it up. Oh I've killed humanity and

11:58

I've killed all of us. of the wildlife

12:01

and man a studie, that

12:03

is all it is. But

12:05

also Linus Tech Tips, the

12:07

sort of tech vlogger, those

12:10

guys watch quite a lot of their

12:12

work and whenever they test

12:14

out sound on a

12:17

mobile phone or a laptop they always use Crab Dance

12:19

which is a video of a load

12:22

of crabs dancing and some terrible sort

12:24

of Euro disco pop. And

12:27

I'm imagining all of

12:29

these crabs dancing around and

12:31

going yeah, that is good. One

12:37

thing about these stories is

12:40

they always lack a narrative structure don't they?

12:42

There's no three act or five

12:44

act structure. Usually when you read a story there's

12:46

a beginning and middle and end and

12:49

there's a nice satisfying ending but

12:51

more often than not. So a crab

12:53

picks up a crab, damage crab, what does these three

12:55

act? It's

12:57

a tragedy isn't it I guess, there's no uplifting

13:00

ending, there's no like method or story,

13:02

it's just the crab got ripped off on

13:04

a beach. The iron claw, everyone

13:07

dying, losing limbs. But I think crabs

13:09

do sacrifice the limbs don't they? They

13:11

do, I've seen one like, I've seen

13:13

that gif of the crab going deal

13:16

with it and pulling his own fucking

13:18

leg off. I mean that's incredible, I

13:20

mean that is an incredibly

13:23

boss thing to do as

13:26

a crab pulling your own arm off. I'll

13:28

give you a shot. Enoshima, go

13:30

for the stray cats, stay for the

13:33

crabs. Enoshima is

13:35

nice, definitely underrated. There was a famous video

13:37

a year or two ago of the

13:40

Enoden train, the Enoshima coastal train,

13:42

beautiful train going along the coast.

13:45

A beautiful train, you sound like Donald Trump there,

13:47

a beautiful train. It

13:49

was a train, it was a beautiful train, it was the best train ever existed. And

13:53

like, you might have seen this video right, there's like

13:55

10, 15, 20 photographers train Otaku.

14:00

photographers and they're waiting and

14:02

the trains coming around a corner They're gonna get the

14:04

money shot and then I think

14:06

a guy I think he was Turkish Comes

14:10

around the corner on a bicycle and

14:12

sees all the cameramen and he's in between

14:14

the cameramen the train and he kind of

14:16

goes we And he

14:18

blocks the view of the train Slightly or

14:21

ruins the shot in the eye of the photographers

14:23

and they all go absolutely fucking mental

14:26

And they go we get really angry and

14:28

they're like Shouting and screaming

14:30

at him. They're like we need you owe us money.

14:33

You've ruined the shot Yeah,

14:38

it's all a bit and and it became

14:40

like a thing and that is a

14:42

sort of people that hang out at a Shima I've

14:46

always always I've always remembered that though. I was in

14:48

Kamakura the other day I just thought I

14:51

want to find these people on to find the train or takis

14:53

get in the way of a shot I Think

14:57

but you surely I mean if you did that you

14:59

are improving their life because then they could do

15:01

you know the Thrill of the hunter surely just

15:03

you know that that's the whole Raison

15:05

d'etre for a train fan. So yeah,

15:07

you're giving that back to them Imagine

15:09

like your favorite film imagine seeing that

15:11

for the first time you are giving that

15:13

back to them I don't know about that.

15:16

I mean I I thought they could Utilize

15:19

the the guy on the bike and make him like

15:21

part of the scene like a good photographer Adapts

15:24

to the heat of the moment. They don't go. Oh somebody's

15:26

in the fucking train shot. It's done They go all guys

15:28

sound like it's a bit of a dick They

15:32

did wave his arms around and sort of make a spectacle

15:35

you decide don't watch it go look at I

15:37

don't know where the video It's on the issue.

15:39

He was typing like train or takiki angry It's

15:41

a classic video, but I'm

15:44

even more angry about weapons. Great

15:46

plutonium. What's going on this week? Mr. Donaldson,

15:48

did you find the story about me? Kind

15:52

of like a Tom Clancy

15:54

fucking spy film. Hmm. Have

15:56

you heard about this nuclear

15:58

crime Chris? talking about this

16:00

week on the show. A leader of the Japanese

16:03

organized crime syndicate

16:06

Yakuza identified as a

16:09

man called Takeshi Ibsawa has

16:11

been charged by US prosecutors

16:13

with conspiring to traffic nuclear

16:15

materials including uranium and weapons-grade

16:17

plutonium from Myanmar to

16:19

other countries according to a

16:21

superseding indictment announced on Wednesday the

16:23

Hill reported that man is in

16:25

a lot of trouble but yeah

16:27

the undercover drug and force of

16:30

administration the DEA posed as

16:32

a narcotics and weapons trafficker in

16:34

Thailand and yeah Takeshi

16:37

Ibsawa is in a whole heap

16:39

of trouble because the US worked

16:41

with Thai authorities to seize nuclear

16:43

samples which were subsequently transferred

16:46

to US law enforcement

16:49

custody. Weapons-grade plutonium and

16:51

uranium according to the

16:53

DOI were just out on

16:55

the open market and that is what the

16:57

Yakuza are up to these days they are

17:00

trafficking literal uranium

17:02

and plutonium which is

17:04

just great news great

17:06

stuff great great news.

17:08

Weapons-grade excitement I mean when

17:11

you think of like crime syndicates you think

17:13

I just pushing a bit of cocaine on

17:16

the side not weapons-grade plutonium

17:18

out of Myanmar that's

17:21

a pretty bold move what did

17:23

is there any idea

17:25

what we're gonna do with it?

17:27

I think he was I think he was

17:30

just selling it to whoever I think he

17:32

was what a rush I think he

17:34

was just basically selling it to

17:36

whoever was interested basically I mean I imagine

17:38

when you've got nuclear materials there are very

17:41

few people who would be willing to take

17:43

that you know portion risk on

17:45

there's very few people who I mean I

17:47

wouldn't if I'd have already dug out the

17:49

back garden I don't I don't think I

17:52

know any way of getting them to a

17:56

force that could use it for evil and

17:58

weapons of mass destruction etcetera but

18:01

that sounds very much like this what

18:03

this chap's been up to the Yakuza

18:05

leader so yeah and they've

18:07

gone from just basically like

18:09

financial fraud and you know deeds

18:11

to the houses selling

18:13

them off they've turned from cigarettes

18:16

fake cigarettes to weapons-grade

18:18

plutonium it's good stuff isn't it? Nuclear

18:21

Yakuza. That'd be a great

18:23

side quest in the Yakuza video games

18:25

wouldn't it? Get weapons-grade plutonium. Yeah definitely.

18:27

My lord. I've seen a few like

18:29

nuclear related stories today I also saw

18:31

like there was a leak at the

18:33

Fukushima plant somebody like literally

18:36

somebody didn't do the tap tight enough or something

18:38

on the tanks and some contaminated

18:41

water just spilled out and

18:43

also some people got sprayed with some contaminated

18:45

water honestly and then I watched

18:47

a Kurska Saf

18:49

dinner nutshell video about what

18:51

happens after nuclear war I don't know why is

18:53

everything about nuclear war today why is it all

18:55

hitting me? Nothing about nuclear war for Chrono 11.

18:58

And you went to a nuclear bunker it feels

19:00

like is this a sign? Time to get

19:02

ready. And also I

19:05

also learned that in

19:07

Azabu Jubam kind

19:10

of upmarket place in Tokyo lots of foreign

19:12

residents lots of embassies there they're

19:14

building they're turning one of the underground stations into

19:16

a bunker because they're

19:18

worried about North Korean

19:21

missiles there's something

19:23

quite ominous about that we're a bit worried they

19:25

could missile strike Tokyo

19:27

we better make a bunker for

19:29

the rich people in Tokyo we better

19:32

do it it's like yeah it's a

19:34

bit ominous as well don't they? The

19:36

world is a dangerous place. Certainly

19:39

is. Certainly is Christopher. What are

19:41

you gonna do about it? Nothing. I'm gonna sit here

19:43

and play a goth's assume on a beanbag. Good

19:46

man. That's what I would also do. We're back

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21:01

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21:05

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21:11

struck when you mentioned that even teachers weren't

21:13

intervening and beatdowns happening right before them. I

21:15

know how jet teachers are often reminded not

21:17

to overstep their boundaries when it comes to

21:19

the permanent teachers but I wonder how they'd

21:22

react to a jet breaking up. The fights

21:24

that they would otherwise ignore. I thought this

21:26

would much mean like truly a common occurrence.

21:28

Interest in all your thoughts. Looking forward to

21:30

hearing you both again twice a week until

21:32

the end of time. Thank you Vincent. Are

21:35

you allowed to give someone a swift karate chop

21:37

to the solar axis etc? I remember I nearly

21:39

had to step in. I always

21:41

think about this memory a lot. I

21:43

nearly had to step in. This naughty

21:46

student was like getting up in the face of

21:49

a female colleague. I

21:51

worked with, it was really lovely. She

21:53

was quite small and this guy was

21:56

like shouting at her and getting

21:58

really close to her. close

22:00

like in a way that would

22:02

be like probably suspension expulsion in

22:04

like the UK and I

22:07

was like standing there not quite knowing

22:09

what to do because I thought

22:12

I should maybe step in the middle a lot so

22:14

I just sort of hovered nearby and she was

22:16

like oh don't worry Chris and say you go back

22:18

to the staff room this is sort of

22:20

towards the end of the class and I was

22:22

like I'll just and I didn't I just sort of

22:24

stood there like I can't just walk away

22:26

from this but she kept insisting

22:28

that I'll just leave me do it let me and

22:31

so in the end I I left

22:34

I walked off because she was adamant

22:36

that I should yeah it was fine it was fine in

22:38

the end but yeah I did

22:40

I did that was one time I was a

22:42

bit like yeah I I don't

22:45

I think if I had done something I could have got in

22:47

a lot of trouble if I'd got in the middle off I'd

22:50

pushed him back or something so it's one

22:52

of those things they say on the jet

22:54

program you know don't do things

22:56

like that leave it to the

22:58

teacher to handle and it's a weird thing but

23:00

yeah I guess it it wouldn't

23:03

look good as a foreign employee for

23:06

having any physical altercation with students

23:09

like that so I understand I understand

23:11

I was a tough situation

23:13

yeah we got one here

23:15

from Bella it says hello Chris and Pete I'm

23:17

traveling Japan my boyfriend is a celebratory vacation

23:20

not to complete my studies at university and

23:22

I'd like to explore some of the

23:24

Japanese nightlife my boyfriend and I are huge

23:26

wrestling fans and would love to catch some

23:29

matches while we are in Japan either

23:31

of you have advice on hunting

23:33

down more obscure or extreme wrestling events

23:35

we will travel far and wide across

23:37

all of Japan to see some sweaty

23:39

men get beat up so location isn't

23:42

the issue big fan of the podcast

23:44

cheers Bella from Detroit Pete

23:47

over to you because I don't know

23:49

a damn thing about wrestling just go

23:51

just go kuriken hall there is wrestling going

23:54

on three times a night every single night

23:56

and all the end of time they're just

23:58

like just turn up by a ticket there's

24:00

always wrestling going on or just find

24:02

a company that you seem to like the look of DDT's

24:04

my favourite out there on Noah and

24:07

just get on their website and do

24:09

it like that. But yeah I mean

24:11

Curric and Hold is always events going

24:13

on in Tokyo at the wrestling. There's

24:15

an adorable Chris a video of a

24:18

famous Japanese performer called Asuka who's

24:20

a very hard hitting kind

24:22

of very colourful

24:24

head woman and she's a

24:26

massive WWE star like about as big as

24:28

it gets you know chomping repeated chomping

24:31

etc etc. And she rocked up

24:34

at a Shinjuku bar that was

24:36

dedicated to wrestling and the woman

24:39

who ran the wrestling bar seemed

24:41

particularly into Asuka. So there's just

24:43

pictures of Asuka all over the

24:45

bar, there's like drawings, cartoon

24:48

anime, depictions of Asuka. And Asuka I think

24:50

happened to be walking past and she was

24:52

like oh there's a wrestling bar and like

24:54

my picture's on the front. Wouldn't

24:56

it be funny if I just popped in. I

24:59

think it's in Nagoya actually. Anyway and she goes

25:05

in the bar and obviously Nagoya is

25:07

a little bit off the beaten track

25:09

when it comes to your Osaka, Kyoto,

25:11

Tokyo and stuff even Japanese residents. And

25:14

yeah she just piles it in this bar and

25:17

the woman just goes it was like it

25:19

would be like a god just

25:21

stepped in your fucking room or like

25:23

a cartoon character. If you like really

25:26

the you know Marvel and I don't

25:28

know Thor just popped in for a

25:30

couple of days and she pops

25:32

in and she just goes this woman just stands

25:34

down and takes it in and she goes and

25:38

then just cries for the rest of

25:40

the time. She's like ahhhhhh.

25:44

Yeah she's like it's such

25:46

a lovely lovely moment it really

25:49

is good stuff. So yeah well worth sticking

25:51

out that one. Very

25:54

adorable. It's always as moving

25:56

I imagine as the time

25:58

Harry Potter's biggest fan. a

26:00

Japanese girl met Daniel Radcliffe and

26:03

touched his face on live television.

26:06

Pal painted his face gently because

26:08

she couldn't believe that he was real. He

26:11

was there, right, okay. I

26:15

think that's more cringe than moving me. But

26:18

also seek that out. It was like when

26:21

you did that show in London, people were just coming up and touching your

26:23

face. I want to touch Daniel Radcliffe's

26:25

face. It's brilliant. There's a chair

26:27

with a wizard's hat on in a studio in

26:29

Warner Brothers Studio London. He's like, yes, go on.

26:31

And then Daniel Radcliffe comes out

26:34

of the door and he goes, what's the door, is

26:36

it? And she's like, ahh,

26:38

she explodes and cries. He managed

26:40

to stab him. It's

26:43

absolutely John Riper. Fucking Slytherin. Slytherin.

26:45

It's not Gryffindor. Yeah,

26:48

we, I interviewed

26:50

Daniel Radcliffe from that film.

26:52

He did like a mini

26:54

film with John Riper about,

26:57

yeah, it was good. I remember

26:59

it being quite good because I

27:02

think they're both very underrated comic

27:04

actors. But yeah, they filmed together

27:06

on small, minimal release.

27:09

But I interviewed him in a hotel room for

27:11

half an hour and he, halfway through the interview,

27:13

he sort of went, sorry, are

27:15

you cheeky Pete from XFM? And

27:17

I was. And I was indeed

27:20

cheeky Pete from XFM because he, he said, he

27:22

said when they used to go, I used to

27:24

do a breakfast show with TV

27:26

presenter Colin Aksen and he

27:28

said when he was, when he was a bird

27:31

and he filmed Harry Potter, all of the cast

27:33

members from Harry Potter used to get driven in,

27:35

in their cars. And

27:37

they used to request to listen to XFM.

27:39

Really? To our japery in the

27:41

mornings. So I presume I'm on

27:44

nodding terms with a couple of the other cast members. That's

27:47

funny also. Because our

27:49

radio show was fucking childish

27:52

and it was for a ten year old.

27:56

You and Alex Zane, come on. Radcliffe

28:00

was your fan, is that what you're saying? Yeah. Was that

28:02

what you're trying to stop believing? And I'll tell you for

28:04

one, I've never seen any fucking Harry Potter films, you can

28:06

stick that up your pipe. Did Harry

28:09

Potter, did Daniel Radcliffe touch your face?

28:11

Was he amazed that you were real?

28:13

No, he didn't. Full circle. He didn't

28:15

go, huh? He must be like... Cheeky

28:17

Pete, cheeky Pete, go in fact. Tell

28:21

me about your celebrated feature song

28:23

song or fish Friday. Tell

28:25

me about all that. Oh my god. That's

28:28

beautiful. What a great moment. What a beautiful

28:30

moment. Lovely stuff. Turning the tables there. Got

28:33

one last question for Ernie. Ernie

28:36

says, LA convoluted Chris from partitioned Pete.

28:38

I'm planning my second trip Japan for

28:40

a winter trip late in 2024. Since

28:43

I work full time, go to university, I'm unable

28:45

to visit outside of dead of winter or the

28:47

middle of summer. Having

28:49

visited previously in August, I would

28:51

like to avoid the sweltering experience that is

28:53

Japan in the summer, rightly say. Apparently this

28:55

year it's going to be joke temperature. My

28:58

question is this, are there any good New Year's

29:00

celebrations in Japan? Since I've been visiting in winter,

29:02

I do plan on visiting some more northern cities,

29:04

but I wonder if New York's scene, New

29:06

York's eve scene is a big enough draw

29:09

to circle back to Tokyo. All

29:11

the best guys. Ernie, New Year's

29:13

in Japan. It's all right. It's

29:15

not. My favorite memory, I was a

29:18

Niigata board stiff and a Japanese

29:20

guy grabbed hold of me and my

29:22

friend and took us on a whirlwind

29:24

tour of Nagano. Sorry, Nagano, not Niigata

29:27

at night. That was really good. But yeah, I...

29:29

Imagine if you were in Niigata and he decided

29:31

to take you on a whirlwind tour of Nagano.

29:33

All aboard. Get in the car! All aboard the

29:35

train. Well, yeah, New Year's in Japan. It's

29:39

all right. Some fireworks,

29:42

but overall just another day, isn't it? They

29:45

do celebrate it a lot more than Christmas, though. Personally,

29:47

I'd avoid it, though, because around

29:49

New Year's in Japan, all Shogatsu season, everything

29:52

closes down for the first five days of

29:55

January and you can't do anything. Shut.

29:58

That is just not good. time to be

30:00

here really unless you're skiing or something like

30:02

that then it's worth it but I'd avoid

30:04

new years. You've been such a ski head

30:07

Chris Broad. You've been such a ski boy.

30:09

Four days every two years. I've been snobs, drinking

30:12

schnapps. I

30:14

drank a lot but I don't think there

30:16

was any schnapps. Keep the stories, questions, comments

30:18

coming into a Baudreux Pounds [email protected]. We'll be

30:20

back later in the week guys myself and

30:23

was it Cheeky Pete? Is it Cheeky Pete?

30:25

Cheeky Pete from XFM. I was once in

30:27

the top five radio sidekicks on The Guardian.

30:30

And look at him now. Look at

30:32

me now. Chris Broad's sidekick once again.

30:35

Forever the sidekick never the bride. Cheeky

30:38

Pete. But for now guys, have yourselves a good one. We'll

30:40

see you right back here. It's all over again. Bye.

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