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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
What's up guys?
So, today, as usual, I've got a message from...
Uh...
Urana-san.
Urana-san.
Yes.
Thank you, Urana-san.
And she sent us a message that is saying she bought our book.
Why, thank you!
Thank you so much.
And saying, uh, we're, you know, wasting 13 pages talking about...
Fuck.
It's the first time for her to read that kind of book.
Right, 13 pages of explaining the word "fuck."
Yeah.
Right.
Irregular.
Yep.
But anyways, uh,
Right, when it hit, right?
Yeah.
Actually, we... right, in Georgia it's very rare to have earthquakes.
It only happens like every two years or something.
Yeah.
So, we are not used to it.
But, we did experience some earthquakes.
Oh, really?
Right.
Big one or...
No, very small shake.
But, uh, I am now used to it in Japan.
Right.
Because I've gone through... I've lived in here for over 10 years, been through several earthquakes,
and even the, uh, March 11th, that happened.
And, um, so I am used to it actually.
And, um, and do we have a evacuation practice in the U.S.?
No, we don't.
Not for the earthquake, but for like other, like for example, like hurricanes or like fires and stuff like that,
we do have them.
And we do practice like evacuating out from a building, in groups, in classrooms and stuff like that.
That we do have.
So, we are kind of used to like the emergency kind of situation style.
But not for earthquakes.
I don't think we've ever, we were ever taught of how to survive through when there's a shake.
Right.
So, um, yeah.
It's kind of different, you know, compared to those fire things or...
Right. It's very different, right?
In Japan, we are taught that first we have to get it under your desk, you know, to avoid something from your head.
Right, right.
And, yeah, after that you go out and that's what we do in Japan.
Right, right, right.
Right.
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Oh, wait.
I think, I just remembered, I think we've, I just remembered a scene where all of our classmates were like,
"Get under the desk, guys!"
Oh, really?
So, I think that it's that one spot of the scene that I just remembered.
So, maybe that was an earthquake scenario.
And maybe we were doing an earthquake evacuation scene.
Maybe. I just, I just remembered.
It just came to my head.
So, like I, I'm not sure.
But maybe.
Yeah, but I do remember in the U.S. we practice getting under the desk.
So, maybe we were doing an evacuation for earthquake. Maybe.
Oh, by the way, do you have Bousai-zuken kind of, do you know what is Bousai-zuken?
No, I don't know what that is.
Oh, wow.
Bousai-zuken, no, I don't know what that is.
Wow.
Tell me about it.
I kind of shouldn't have said this.
Why? Come on.
Because actually I wanted it to be a good topic of ego stangle game.
Ah, right.
But, uh, it's a Bousai-zuken.
It's kind of, you know, a helmet kind of thing.
But the texture is like this.
It's a...
It's like a blanket.
Yeah, it's a kind of blanket, but a little thicker.
And you put like this, like an Egyptian people, you know, it all wrap your head.
It's like a knit bow?
And shoulder, and it's much bigger.
Like Japanese samurai, you know, they're wearing some Kabuto on their heads.
Okay.
You know what it is?
I think I know what a Kabuto is.
Like, it looks like this.
It's like a shoulder, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But in the texture of this thicker...
Thicker cloth.
Yeah, felt.
Felt.
Things like this.
So it covers your head and the back of your shoulder as well.
Yeah, and around these parts.
Okay.
So that if some, you know, heavy things will come on your head, it will, you know, protect your head.
But they're soft.
Oh, yeah.
They're soft, though.
It's not the hard, like, plastic helmet.
But it's like, protect your head.
So nothing sharp will go through then, I'm assuming.
Right.
Right.
All right, right, right.
And also, like, in the usual situation, you use that as a mat, as a cushion.
Oh, really?
For your...
For your butt?
Yeah.
Wow.
All the students have own Bosaizukin and put that on your chairs and use it as a cushion.
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And that's really common in Japan.
I mean, everybody, everybody, like, literally everybody has their own Bosaizukin.
They buy it for themselves?
Buy it or...
They're given to them?
In my case, my mother made it.
They handmade it?
Yeah.
They handmade it?
Wow.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that you can, you know, mine was a little Tomica Bosaizuki, you know?
Okay, okay.
Someone has got a little Mickey Mouse Bosaizuki.
They made it cute, okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wow.
That's really, really, like, common Japanese experience.
And ex, ex, what, ex, ex, experience.
Experience.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah.
I've never...
Bosaizukin.
Never, never seen them actually.
Oh, really?
Is it still, is it still going on?
I...
Is it still there?
I think so.
Or has technology caught up and replaced it?
It might be.
But I don't know actually.
Maybe the plastic...
Because to me, plastic seems safer.
Yeah.
Just by the description of...
It's hard.
It's harder, so for sure.
Maybe.
You know how some, there's like foldable plastic helmets?
Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I feel like that's an advancement in the, right, the technology.
Yeah, maybe.
Right.
Wow.
Maybe now they don't use it anymore, maybe.
But that, that just seems like culture then.
Yeah.
That seems like, you know, every elementary kid would go through that experience of wearing the Bosaizukin and...
At least my age.
Right, right.
We use that and we, everybody knows about that.
Wow.
Bosaizukin.
And when you have evacuation training, everybody put Bosaizukin on their heads and like this, looks like this and go out.
Right, right.
Culture, huh?
Yeah.
Right.
That's Bosaizukin.
Let me go on.
Bosaizukin.
Looks like this.
You know what, I, yeah, I've actually seen that from a film of the Hiroshima bombing, Hiroshima accident.
That, I've seen it in that film.
Wow.
That's what I've seen it from.
That's really ancient, I mean.
Right, right, right.
That's the same kind of Bosaizukin.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It does, it does look like a cushion.
It does look like a...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like we use like this.
Wow.
Put it on the chair or as a bag, cushion, and use like this in the case.
Nice.
All I've noticed is that there must be a Kimetsu no Ya.
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Kimetsu no Ya have a color.
Yeah.
That green and black.
So maybe in recent days they also using this.
Yeah, they may.
Maybe.
Yeah.
Where do they keep them?
Obviously not in their, on the seat, right?
What?
Where do they keep those Bosaizukin?
On the seat.
Always?
What do you mean?
Yeah, yeah, always.
They're always placed in your seat?
Yeah.
And do you know we, like in elementary school, we don't have, we have own classroom.
Right.
And we have own desk and chairs.
Right.
I'm aware.
Yeah, so.
You keep that all the time?
All the time on your chair.
In your chair?
Wow.
Yeah.
I, so my image was like I thought you guys kept them in some sort of like a box or something,
like a cardboard box and you put them all there.
Oh, you keep them in your chair?
Yeah, so that you can access like fast.
Fast and then, wow.
Yeah.
Really practical, huh?
Yeah.
And so that also you can use that cushion.
So.
Wow.
Yeah.
Because I've never really seen like.
I always take this.
Right, right, right, right.
I always, I see, I've seen so many pictures of like the elementary school classrooms.
But I've never really realized or thought of it being there.
Oh, really?
Right.
Like when I see pictures of that, I always see like naked chairs and not have the bullseye looking on it.
So like I, I thought, yeah, it didn't really click to me.
All right.
It's in their butt.
It's under their butt.
So that's not just a cushion.
It's a protection gear.
Yeah.
For an emergency situation.
Right.
Nice.
I think the, I think the USP would be amazed by that.
For real.
Like.
Right.
Yeah.
Wow.
It's new to you.
Oh, it is new.
It's very new to me.
Wow.
That's really funny because for Japanese people, it's really like.
It's standard.
Really natural and standard.
So I now realize that you are born and raised in the United States.
Now realize that.
Just now.
Yeah, just now.
After.
I've been curious about that.
I've been wondering about that.
All these years just now.
Just.
Yeah.
I was wondering about that.
So this is.
That was the game changer for you.
Yeah.
All righty.
Thanks for listening again, guys.
Bye bye.
Bye bye.
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