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So this is from Shichi-san.
Shichi-san?
Shichi-san.
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Same as like seven.
Shichi-san.
Oh, right, like the number seven.
Shichi-san.
Kevin-san, Professor Yama.
Konnichiwa.
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So Kevin-san, Professor Yama.
Konnichiwa.
Konnichiwa.
Nice to meet you.
My name is Shichi.
Thank you for your great podcast.
I like watching sports, but I get too emotional when I watch all the athletes.
I get really tired.
Wow.
I watch the Olympics a lot now, but every time I get one point, I cry and can't stop.
Wow.
Even when I turn on the TV to cheer for Japan, I get worried about the other athletes, and I get emotional.
[Speaking Japanese]
Wow.
I think she should stop watching Olympic games.
I mean, that's very tiring.
You're gonna like, you're gonna cry after every game, right?
Like every match she sees, she's like, "Oh no, after all the hard work, you should stop watching the games."
03:04
Yeah.
So energy consuming.
But it makes her like, kanto energy.
It's enjoyable for her.
Yeah, maybe.
Yeah.
Do you get that?
Uh, like, not like professional football game.
Because I'm not-- I'm seeing all the, you know, techniques and tactics and those--
Yeah, you're not on the emotional side of the game.
You're more on the tactics.
Yeah, so not for this football games, but other than that, I will be like this.
Not crying every time, but like judo match, the sports that I'm not very professional at.
So you don't know anything about table tennis?
No.
And Ito Mima-senshu, she was on fire.
Like, when you look at that, does that come to you?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
And not only for Ito-senshu, but the opposite.
The opposite too?
Like the coaches.
You know, coaches are every time like yelling something and--
Yeah?
"Ahh, ahhh!"
But, you know.
Oh, you're just like, not a sign.
Yeah, but not crying.
Okay, but you still get the emotional kind of like, "Wow!"
And for me, especially like kakutogi things, like judo.
Boxing?
Boxing, yeah.
Oh, like, yeah, like those things.
Like judo is very like, you know, I don't know anything about judo.
Makes me like--
You're drawn to it.
Yeah.
So not only the team, the players, but also the coaches.
Yeah, coaches.
Coaches are very like moving.
Really?
I've never, I've never like specifically looked at coaches before.
Wow, okay.
Yeah, like I, in a football game, there's a certain role and coaches can make a difference, you know?
Yeah, they can change players, right?
But like in a judo match, I don't know about this.
I'm not sure, but I guess there's not many things that coaches can do in a match.
It's all up to the player.
Yeah, they can say advices and, you know, cheer up.
But basically it's the player who does everything.
Well, I guess.
So that makes me like, "Coach."
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Okay, so it's like, is this the same feeling of like, of the parents in the audience?
You know, like they can't do anything about it.
Kind of.
But they're sending all their wishes to him.
That's a little similar.
Yeah, yeah.
And coaches have been like practicing very hard, like long time.
And now nothing they can do but stay together and, you know, those.
Okay.
Yeah.
Wow.
Judo or like Eki-dense.
Eki-dense?
What about Eki-dense?
It's like a marathon.
Yeah, yeah.
You know.
Are you drawn to the coaches or what do you...
In marathon, that's runners.
Okay.
How do you look at the runners?
What makes you emotional about it?
You know, they're running, just running in.
That makes me like emotional.
Like it's like putting everything, putting everything into that moment.
Makes me like maybe emotional.
Like marathon, like those Eki-dense, Judo.
How about Usain Bolt?
Looking at Usain Bolt doesn't make you emotional.
I'm guessing.
Because like many of the matches that he's in, he's like very like yoyu.
And like doesn't have...
I'm sure he's playing on plenty of like work to, you know, to get that skill up and, you know, be on that level.
But it makes it look like he's not really trying that hard, right?
Yeah.
So I'm assuming that, you know, seeing plays like that doesn't get you that emotional.
True.
Okay.
So I actually don't...
You know.
I prefer the like second one or even like lose runners.
Got it.
You know.
And I feel like this is, it's a stronger emotion for you.
Yeah, absolutely.
Like kuyashii or something.
Yeah, like, ah, like finally, like at last he didn't get it.
Makes me like more, even more emotional.
I guess like showing strong raw emotions is something you like, I guess.
Yeah.
It gets you emotional.
Yeah.
It gets you affected by it.
Ah, I understand.
Yeah.
Okay.
What about you?
You don't...
Yeah.
You don't cry?
You don't get any emotional?
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I don't really get emotional.
From those spores?
No.
I do have, I do like, you know, that match of like semi-final of soccer.
Okay.
The Nihon Daihyou.
Ah, yeah.
I know, the Olympic Games.
Yeah, versus Spain.
Spain, yeah.
Yeah.
And they lost.
And I was really like, ah, like I was really like every time they missed, like ah.
But like it never got me emotional though.
Like I didn't...
Okay.
Never not a single tear.
Not like that.
Okay.
Were you excited?
I was excited for it.
Okay.
Yeah.
But I think I remember crying once for women's volleyball.
Wow.
Yeah.
In this year?
No, it was like two or three years ago.
Yeah.
But you know how I said I enjoy watching women's volleyball because it's got so much rallies and everything.
I was drawn to it.
I was like, I was kind of actually excited for it.
I knew when the game was going to be on.
So I got ready for it.
I never do that.
I never get ready for a game.
I watch it whenever it's on.
Like it's like a luck game.
But like for that volleyball game, I was like, I was planning to watch it.
And I saw it from the very beginning.
And I think I cried on that.
So it's...
Why is that?
Was that any like special match?
Okay.
I don't remember.
Okay.
But it was a tournament thing.
It was like a Japan Daikyo tournament thing.
Must be like a final game then?
I don't remember.
Okay.
But I think the reason why I cried is very...
It's the same as you.
It's like all the teams are like really like working hard.
Like you can see that they're all in on it.
Yeah.
And like that got me kind of emotional, I guess.
So I guess in general, like I...
I guess it's that it's this is happening because that I'm not...
I don't cry because I'm not really interested in other people.
And I'm not interested in like the fields that I'm not really into.
But for volleyball, somehow it got...
I got interested in it and it got me emotional.
Probably that's why.
Wow.
Yeah.
Why was that game so important to you at the moment?
I just... I guess it's...
You made a plan to see that match, which is very rare to you.
I guess that was a time when I just started enjoying volleyball.
Oh, okay.
When I first found out.
It was a time when I first found out that, you know, watching a volleyball game was enjoyable.
So that's when I got really like interested in it.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
Wow.
Volleyball.
Yeah.
Right.
I... This is similar to like you more being emotional with the second places.
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Uh-huh.
The last places instead of the first place.
I got more emotional with the set-ta people.
Okay.
The supporters.
Yeah.
Not like the attackers and like the toss strong like attacks.
But like more on the supportive side.
Like I got more a little more emotional back.
Wow.
Yeah.
They're like they're working hard.
You know, they're supporting from back end.
Yeah.
It was like really like, oh nice.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yep.
Okay.
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