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Next voice message?
Yes!
I think it's from the same person, from the same listener as the last episode
because the name is exactly the same.
But look at this title.
Okay, I really need your help.
Since this is the last episode for today, we'll do this first.
Then we'll get to you again in the next episode.
Alright.
Sounds really emergency-y.
The title is "I really need your help" is the title.
Alright, let's see if he really needs my help.
We'll go with that.
Hey, I'm Shindy Kevin.
I'm Tetsu from Kyoto.
I've been a teacher in language school for a year and a half.
And now I'm really satisfied with my job to teach English to my kids.
But now the city are looking for someone who is eager to go studying abroad in the United States.
I really want to seize this opportunity because I couldn't go studying abroad in the United States
when I was a college student.
But at the same time, I really didn't want to lose my career because I really love kids.
So my question is, if you were me, what would you do?
Yeah, that's it.
I really having really fun to listen to your podcast.
Thank you always.
Bye.
Thank you.
I don't know if that was a very like an emergency situation there.
I don't know if that's...
Well, if the deadlines are, you know, headed your way, maybe then that's an emergency.
But...
I think the nature of your question itself was just a very like,
how would you interpret this kind of question?
And...
It just... That was a clickbait.
Yeah.
So, let's just leave him.
Yes.
No, no, we're not going to leave him.
We're going to ask you a question.
Thank you.
Thank you for the message request, of course.
And...
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So the question was, going to US to...
Because what he wanted... Because it's what he wanted to do.
But that is in exchange for his career.
I would say, my question... It's easy for me.
Go to the US.
Because it's what you want to do right now.
Because you're...
It's obvious you can't hold it in.
Right?
You're asking us through, you know,
topic requests using clickbaits, right?
Because you can't stand not going.
You probably really want to go deep inside.
And if... The more you hold it in, the more it's going to...
It's going to come back at you.
True.
Bite you.
True.
Right?
So I feel like...
"Yaru koukai yori, yaranai koukai"
No, no, no. "Yaranai koukai yori, yaru koukai"
So I...
That's what always you...
Yeah, that's how I'm always motivated.
So I would go with "Go!"
Of course.
You can always...
You can always find a job there.
Yeah.
Right?
You can always teach kids in the US.
That's an option, right?
Cool.
If you don't think your fluency of English is not to the level,
maybe go work at a Japanese school in the US.
Yeah.
I attended a Japanese school on Saturdays.
In Atlanta.
And there were Japanese teachers there, right?
So, you know, I think that teaching Japanese or English in the US is...
You know, there's demands there.
So there's a way...
It's not impossible to meet both of your demands at once, right?
Maybe go for that first.
And if that's not possible, well then choose your priority.
If going to the US is your higher priority,
which probably I think is, then try going, right?
That is my answer.
Yeah, cool.
Yeah.
Any thoughts?
Completely the same.
Okay.
Imagine like 10 years ago, 15 years ago, what do you think about this moment?
Yeah.
And also, you will never lose anything.
Absolutely.
No?
Absolutely.
Yeah, but here we are.
You just get something bigger, yes.
It's...
You definitely should go.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
That's... I agree.
Yeah.
I agree.
I'm not sure if he can go right now.
Because it's...
Covid.
Yeah, situation is getting difficult, but...
Yeah.
But whatever, if you have a chance, choose go.
Grab it.
Yeah.
I agree.
But I...
But at the same time, I also agree.
It's such a hard decision to make,
since there's so much risk involved, right?
So much...
It's a big decision.
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It's scary.
Of course, yeah.
But if you think about it, it's not that risky.
Right.
I don't know how old you are.
I don't know if you have kids or not.
Oh, yeah.
That's a big factor.
True.
I feel like.
But still...
But he said that he started, you know, teaching and...
It's been like...
several years, no?
Oh, did he?
Okay, let's do it again.
Any how much I call for our ear and a hug?
Here I have.
I just call for our ear and a hug.
Yeah.
So maybe he's not that...
He's still very young.
Yeah.
Possible.
Yeah.
He sounds young.
Yeah.
So it's just only one ear and a hug.
So there's nothing you will lose, you know.
Maybe he's younger than us.
Maybe.
Yeah.
There's nothing we can...
Yeah.
There's nothing that you...
You know.
Right.
Yeah.
You can...
We can start from zero if you wanted to.
Yeah.
We can just drop everything and start from zero if we had the desires to.
True.
Right?
And we'd still be happy if that's what we want to do.
Yeah.
Right?
So like really doing what you want to do really is I feel like is a good way...
Is a healthy option for you.
Yeah.
Like in terms of like not regretting, you know.
Yeah.
True.
Yeah, because regret grows over time.
The longer you wait, the harder you're going to be able to go there, right?
Because you're going to have baggages.
Yeah.
I don't want to say baggages, right?
But...
Yeah.
Of course, we all love our families, but like it's going to be more difficult.
Right?
What are you going to do when your little daughter has to go to ju-ku, right?
Yeah.
Well, who the fuck is going to take care of that, right?
You can't just leave them there.
Yeah.
Right?
That's a barrier that you have to overcome.
So, yeah.
Yeah.
You know, worries for the future is always like getting bigger if you think about those carefully,
because we never know about anything.
True.
So, you don't be like trapped in those worries for the future.
You might be able to fulfill what you want to do by staying here, but also at the same time,
you might be losing your chance of finding something bigger in the US, right?
True.
You might something that would just really...
Your passion would just maybe explode if you go there.
You might find something there.
Yeah.
Right?
It's possible.
Like, don't underestimate your future.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
It can be like much bigger.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
I love that.
In terms of COVID,
Yeah.
I have just a minute and a half.
So, I want to...
I recently learned a new vocabulary.
Okay.
Very technical vocabulary that I feel like we can use.
Oh, cool.
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It's asymptomatic.
Okay.
Do you know what that means?
No.
Okay.
So, asymptomatic.
Symptomatic?
Yeah.
Asymptomatic?
Symptom.
You know what a symptom is, right?
No.
Shoujo.
Okay.
So, asymptomatic is mushoujo.
Huh.
You know how I've always...
You know how recently I started watching United States...
CBM shows.
Right.
And they've continuously used this term, asymptomatic.
So, mushoujo no...
例えば...
You've got a test and...
Yeah.
陽性だったけど、無症状。
Yeah.
場合は...
You've been tested positive, but you're asymptomatic.
Okay.
Asymptomatic.
Asymptomatic.
Like, for example, like...
Like...
Un...
Un...
なんだろう?
Un...
Unwillingとか...
D...
D classification.
D...
Yeah.
とか...
Disclosure.
Like, you know how all these prefixes, that means the negative, right?
A is also, I think, is a prefix of a negative something.
How do you spell that?
A-I?
Or just A?
I think it's just...
Let me...
Wait, hold on.
Let me...
Yeah.
S...
Sim...
A...
Sim...
Wait, let me just...
Hmm?
Uh...
Voice.
Asymptomatic.
Yeah, so it's A-S-Y.
M-P-T-O-M-A-C.
Okay.
M-A-T-I-C.
A-symptomatic.
So just A.
So that's one word.
A-symptomatic.
Right.
I didn't know that word.
Yeah.
Well, thank you.
Yeah.
So you hear this word...
Like, all the time.
All the time, yeah.
Since there's COVID news all the time.
I hear asymptomatic all the time.
Okay.
It kind of sounds like symptomatic.
Yeah.
It's close, right?
So you can...
You might, like, mistakenly think it's...
Oh, you're symptomatic.
So you have the shoujo.
But it's asymptomatic.
Okay.
Yeah.
All right.
That's all.
All right.
Thank you.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
