Season 13 of the XAR Podcast starts with JR and Nef recapping everybody's favorite football game. JR and Bri preview their next Japan excursion, which includes a cultural festival and a trip to see sumo, and possibly the use of an official English-language app for McDonald's Japan. Nef goes over the early results of the Winter Olympics and how his favorite teams fared. Among the other discussions are the future of Japanese transportation-and comparisons to how new transit fares in Nef's home town-and JR calling Umamusume: Pretty Derby races in English.

If you are watching the video version of the podcast, we apologize as Nef's video lagged during the show.

The Extreme Anime Radio Podcast brings you news, information, insights and commentary into the world of Anime and Japanese culture. From the people behind Extreme Anime Radio, the station that brought listeners around the world Anime and J-Pop music from 2001 until 2019.

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