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Welcome back to another episode of Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Hello.
We just realized that it was our friend's birthday.
Yes, actually.
The very important...
The very important friend of ours.
The Hayashi.
We'll call it the Hayashi, okay?
Okay.
A very important friend of ours.
We've known her for like what?
Since first year of college.
A funny person.
Yeah.
She's funny.
She's always got something to say.
Yes.
She's always got stories.
And interesting stories.
Interesting stories, yes.
Very interesting.
But we're not going to go deep.
It's her personal life so we can't talk about it that much.
But just realized that it was her birthday.
So me and Yaman-chan were like, "Let's send her a gift, like a line gift at the same time."
We both on the gift card had a karaage-kun coupon on it.
And then we decided to write a haiku on it as well.
Yeah, yeah.
And it's been a long time since I thought of a haiku, you know?
It's very long.
When do you ever think of a haiku, right?
True.
I feel like it was ever since high school or something.
So I thought, "Why don't we do a haiku contest today?"
Haiku contest today?
Or yeah, Goushichi-go contest.
Goushichi-go contest, really?
The one we did was a Goushichi-goushichi-shichi.
But I think it's easier to do a Goushichi-goushichi-gou contest.
Because it's short.
Yeah, it's shorter.
Are you ready?
Okay, I'm ready.
Yes.
You ready?
Okay.
The topic will be...
Topic will be...
Let's see.
Coffee.
Coffee?
Yes.
So it's tanka.
Wait, wait, wait.
It's sendyuu, right?
Goushichi-gou.
Oh, sendyuu.
You don't have to put kigo in it.
You don't have to.
Okay, then sendyuu.
Sendyuu.
Okay.
Okay.
The topic is about coffee.
It's coffee.
Anything with coffee.
Okay.
Okay.
I might do a little skip here.
Because I'm going to shut up for several seconds.
Yeah.
Okay.
Are you ready?
Yeah.
Okay.
I'll start with my haiku.
Okay.
Sendyuu.
Sendyuu.
Okay.
It's a little jiyamari, but don't worry.
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Hoka itsu nomu?
Toubun sesshu go kuro koohii.
Okay.
That's nice.
I only drink black coffee only when I'm taking a bath.
I'm not taking in lots of sugar.
That's the only time I would want to drink a black coffee.
So, yeah.
So, you call black coffee like kuro koohii?
Yeah, but I can fit into the five letter thing you said, right?
Yeah, of course.
Of course.
Okay.
Okay.
Your turn.
Okay.
When the sun is bright, look into a white cloud.
Drinking black coffee.
Is that even within the rules?
What?
Can you use English?
Why not?
That seemed long, you know?
Like five sounds, seven sounds, five sounds.
Five sounds.
Okay.
Five sounds, but okay.
Tell me what was that again?
It was when the sun is bright, look into a white cloud.
Drinking black coffee.
Okay.
Can you tell me what you mean by that?
No, it's just hot summer day, so looking up to the white cloud and blue sky and the sun is bright and drinking my coffee.
There's nothing special about it.
Okay.
I just wanted to make it in English.
I wonder if there's a haiku version of English.
Is there?
Poem?
Yeah.
Poems.
Poems.
Poems, but there's some English haiku.
Oh, really?
But it's not actually like five seven five.
It's a different form.
So like for me, it's not haiku.
They're not haiku.
But it's a very short poem.
It's like skies are blue.
What was it?
Skies are blue.
Yeah, those.
Sun is red.
Da da da da da.
Da da da da da.
Yeah, it's even shorter.
Even shorter?
But like skies are blue, me standing.
That's it?
Those.
That's short.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Oh.
Yeah.
Well, we're going to have to choose a winner.
Have to choose a winner.
That's the whole concept of the competition.
Of course, of course.
The winner will be decided upon who we decided on.
Janken.
That's fair.
That is very fair.
Yes, yes.
There you go.
Rock, paper, scissors, shoot.
Okay, wait, wait, wait.
Okay.
What's that?
Rock, paper, scissors, shoot.
That's shoot.
So the shoot timing, you put your hand.
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Yeah, that's when you put your hand.
Okay.
Rock, paper, scissors, shoot.
Yeah.
The winner is Yamashan.
Good game.
Okay.
Great game.
Great competition.
Challenge.
Yes, it's a great challenge.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, for like, I kind of, I kind of enjoyed thinking about haiku.
Mm-hmm.
You know?
You like it?
Yeah.
I mean, I'm not a Japanese person.
Like, I'm not a very good Japanese, like, I'm not a, like, you know, I'm not good with
Japanese language, even though, but like, I, I, I, it's fun.
Mm, that's nice.
I think of a concept and then how can I express that into 575, even though that was not a 575.
No problem.
That was fun.
Oh, yeah?
That was fun.
Then you should start some Sendyuu content.
Oh, yeah.
Like, maybe I should do that.
Start doing that on...
Sendyuu.com.
You're right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Maybe Sendyuu TikTok, Sendyuu Twitter.
You know, Twitter's like a really text-based, so that could be it.
Yeah.
Or you're just on a screen and read your haiku like that.
That's great.
Like a live screen or something?
Yeah.
Live, live stream it.
Live stream.
There's a five minutes of you thinking without any words.
Okay, here we go.
That's funny.
That's funny.
That actually really, that's a good idea.
That's funny.
That's funny.
I wonder.
Me and Kake-chan were like doing this TikTok recording and then like, "Okay, so we got
to a million followers.
That's great.
How about this?
Let's do a challenge of how fast we can get 1 million followers to zero followers."
How about we post that content that's shit for so many times until people unfollow us
and how fast we can get to zero followers?
Is that possible to get zero followers?
I don't know.
I don't think it's possible.
A lot of the followers are like dead already.
They're not even on TikTok, so they might not even go to TikTok to unfollow us, so that's
not going to be difficult there.
Yeah.
Right.
All right.
Yeah.
Maybe 10 minutes maybe?
Yeah.
Oh, that's nice.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
