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Welcome to Tevin's English Room Podcast!
Hey! Hello!
I don't know, this might be the best audio environment we've ever done.
Yeah. Because we're using the... what?
Stand? The mic stand, right?
Yeah.
We're putting this little book.
It should be great.
We're actually manipulating its shape to make it so that we can place a book on top.
And then a smartphone on top of that.
And so that the phone itself is actually in front of our mouths.
Yes.
Because I forgot to bring the pin mic today.
And there's this question in the air.
Ever since I got that new mic, the audio quality for the podcast has gotten very good.
But is that because of the microphone or because I'm normalizing the audio before I upload them?
That's the question that I've been having here.
And I am kind of a little bit scared to fully put that into trial.
Because I'm scared to find out that I wasted my money on that mic.
So if I normalize this audio quality, if I normalize this file and it's really good, well then...
Yeah.
Goodbye to the microphone.
Goodbye to the pin mic.
Well... let's see.
Yep. Let's see.
What do I have to say?
But I guess the microphone does work.
Yeah? It does work.
Absolutely.
Our voices are absolutely close.
Yeah.
100%.
There should be like...
No doubt about that.
Right?
Differences.
Yes.
Should be.
We'll see.
A slight difference at least.
We'll see.
Alright.
Let's go.
We've got a message from Asahi-san.
Asahi-san?
Yes.
Thank you, Asahi-san.
So actually...
He had so many densho battles actually.
And we've been contacting through those densho battles recently.
And he tried 21 densho battles.
He tried 21 of them?
Yeah. But 20 of them have returned to him.
Oh, damn.
It's like, "Oh, okay. That's disappointing."
Yeah.
"We're sorry about that."
Yeah. I've got only one hato.
I guess this is the one hato.
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Yeah.
The message that we've received.
Yeah.
Okay.
So there's 20 left.
There's 20 left?
Yeah.
Got it.
To receive?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
So...
Did you make a mistake reading that?
No, no, no.
Are you accurate?
Yeah. I never make any mistake.
That itself is questionable, but okay.
So can I read again?
Yeah, sure.
"Konchikuwa."
Oh.
Okay.
That's what it says, right?
Yeah.
"Do you two believe in the placebo effect?"
That's all the questions.
Oh.
"BS. I bought a water bottle from a brand called Yeti recently. It's so cute that I'm sleeping with it."
Oh.
So...
Is that it?
This is it.
That was really, like, light and short.
Yeah, because it's Denso Batto who is carrying these messages.
So it should be, like, short.
Got it.
Ah, okay.
Light, you know.
I understand.
If it's heavy, they can't carry it.
Right.
Yeah.
Right.
So...
Placebo effect, huh?
Yeah.
I don't...
I actually don't believe in the placebo effect.
Okay.
Yeah.
Do you?
No, I don't.
Oh, then we agree.
Yeah.
Oh, there's one friend, Naru-chan.
Uh-huh.
He believes, like, strongly this placebo.
Ah, okay.
And...
Yeah.
Like, once he believed that he's sick...
Yeah.
He got, like, real sick.
Dang.
That makes him, like, be sick.
Uh-huh.
And also, like...
Yeah, like...
That's amazing.
He got, like...
That's very strong mindset.
Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
Because once he believed...
Once he believes, like, he's sick or he's in, like, bad condition
or even, like, very good condition, he will be.
Wow.
So he could...
As much as that could be used against him to, you know, put him into bad condition,
he can also take that...
You know, take advantage of the fact that, you know, his body is strongly affected by how he feels.
Yeah.
Right?
So he could, like...
When he feels like he's not strong enough to do whatever he's about to do, he could be like,
"Okay, I'm gonna drink this Red Bull.
And if I drink this Red Bull, I'm gonna be all hyper.
I'm gonna make it."
Yeah.
He can do that, right?
He can do that.
Better than us.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But he needs to be, like, proved by those medical theories
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or, like, real stuff, you know?
Not like, "I go up to that park, then I will be fine."
You know, not those things.
It should be, like, proved by those any scientific theories or...
So he can't just make up an act.
He can't just make up an action and just be like, "If I do this, I'm gonna be powerful."
No, it's not him who can make the theory.
It's needed to be, like, made by some other doctors or...
Like taking an energy drink, which is proven to get you, like, more energy.
Or, like, taking steroids.
Yeah.
So you'd be pumped more.
Yeah.
Okay, okay.
If you eat, like...
I don't know this, but if you eat this typical vegetable, like, every day, you will never be, like,
sick or you will recover or those...
Like, eat garlic every day, it's gonna make you, like, more energetic.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And he actually...
Okay, yeah.
I understand.
Yeah.
I guess that's what placebo effect is.
I just...
Yeah.
You know.
Wow.
So once he gets sick and go to the doctor's house and get medicine, then he will be fine.
Wow.
He's kind of...
Whatever the medicine is, he doesn't care.
Wow.
Like, if it's the medicine against that sick and if it's proven, proved by the doctors,
then fine.
He's satisfied.
Yeah.
And he will recover.
Yeah.
From just from the fact that he's taking in that substance inside his body.
Wow.
So he doesn't care if it's actual medicine or just, like, sugar chunk.
Right, right, right.
It doesn't matter what it is.
Yeah.
That's very strong.
Wow.
So I don't believe myself, but for some people, it works.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
When you get sick, do you take any medicines?
Or do you naturally let it fix?
I take medicine.
Like, whenever I feel I...
Tomorrow I might be sick.
You know, those feeling.
Yeah.
I take medicine.
The Okan?
Not Okan.
It's before the Okan.
Oh, even more.
Yeah.
Like, you can sense the...
Oh, you can.
No?
I can never sense it.
Oh, really?
I can sense the Okan.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I can't sense anything before that.
Okay.
Yeah.
Can you...
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What is Okan, by the way?
Okan is like...
Because maybe we're...
Okay, okay.
My Okan is like...
Yeah.
It's like that feeling you get on the back of the head.
Uh-huh.
It's like that...
Something's pulling...
Okay, okay.
...inside you.
And kind of like it's not functioning properly as well.
Like when you stand up, you kind of feel that you're being kind of handicapped from the
inside.
Because you're not...
It's bothering you because you're not...
You can tell that you're not in full condition.
Okay, okay, okay.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's...
That's Okan.
That's my...
Same as my Okan.
So...
Right.
So you have something before that that you can catch.
Like my kaze always begin with throat.
Oh, okay.
So I can sense that little, you know, throat...
Like tingliness.
Yeah.
Then I can sense that I'm going to be sick the next day.
So when I feel that, I take medicine and also some different like negi...
Those things that I do.
Oh, yeah.
That's the warm negi, right?
The burning hot negi around your neck, right?
Yeah.
I don't make it around my neck recently, but I take...
You take negis.
Negis or like eat some oily ramen kind of soup.
You know, those...
What effect?
Is that the placebo effect?
No, it's scientifically true.
That's...
Okay.
Okay.
You believe in the placebo effect.
Okay.
I think it's 10 minutes.
All right.
Thanks for sitting, guys.
Okay.
Bye-bye.
Thanks for sitting guys!
Okay.
Bye bye.
