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Rabbit.
Ribbit.
Welcome to...
Rabbit.
Kevin's English Room...
Rabbit.
Podcast!
That was...
Frogs.
That was a frog.
Onomatopoeia.
Yep.
Beautifully done by Yamashan.
Rabbit.
It's more of a ribbit.
Ah, it's...
It's r-i.
Huh?
R-i.
Ah, okay.
E-b-i-t.
Ribbit.
There you go.
Okay.
Perfect.
That's perfect.
I pronounced...
Rabbit.
Yeah, that's rabbit.
Yeah.
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Ribbit.
Okay.
So...
Ah...
This is from Natsumi-san.
Natsumi-san?
Natsumi-san.
Alright.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Ah, hello Kevin...
And Yamashan.
Hello.
Thank you.
Okay.
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Okay.
Alright.
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Okay.
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Uh-huh.
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Yeah.
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Ah-ha.
Alright, that's...
Yeah.
Go ahead.
Okay.
Alright.
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Mm-hmm.
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What?
*laughter*
Ah, I got it, got it, got it.
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Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm.
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Okay.
Yeah.
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Ah, okay, got it, got it.
Alright.
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I see.
Yeah.
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What?
I'm sorry, this is really too difficult.
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Today's message is...
I don't know, the vocabulary level is just...
Yeah, that's...
That's called "Waza in Japanese."
I got it, got it.
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Uh-huh.
Um...
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Yeah.
Um, for example, like...
Uh...
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Seems, for example, like...
Like...
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Yeah.
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I see, I see, I see.
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That's a...
Lie.
Lies are sometimes...
Useful.
Ah, white lies!
Yeah, white lies, yeah.
Got it.
Yeah, sometimes one of the ways.
I see, got it.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Thank you so much.
Uh-huh.
Wow.
Uh...
Wow.
What do you think about this situation?
Well, yeah.
That's a good one.
Is that a good one?
So a guy...
Okay.
First lies that...
"Oh, no, I didn't wait at all."
Yeah.
To make the girl...
Not feel guilty.
Yeah.
But now he himself feels guilty for lying to the girl.
Ah, so he tells the truth.
Yeah.
But now the girl feels guilty.
Yeah.
So who's...
Which is justice here?
That's...
What a paradox.
Wow.
But see if the guy...
Tries to be gentle...
Okay.
And saying, "Oh, I just came here."
Okay.
And then that's...
You should...
You should be, you know, pretending as an...
As it is.
For more day.
Got it.
But should you be a gentleman at the cost of you lying?
Yeah.
Gentlemen sometimes lies, yeah.
Okay.
Because you reveal that lie.
That's for you, right?
For yourself.
For your, you know...
For yourself, right?
What do you mean?
What is?
Okay.
Oh, the lie you...
The lie he...
Said?
Yes.
Took?
The lie he said?
The lie he...
Lied?
The lie he...
Did?
I'm gonna...
The lie he...
Had?
What's the answer?
The lie he...
Made?
Made.
Oh, made.
Okay.
The lie he made...
Was for her.
Okay.
Right?
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
But the revealing that lie...
Is for himself.
Right?
Yes.
So, you don't have to...
No, no, no.
The revealing of the lie is not fully for himself.
Okay.
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It's for the relationship, to be honest.
Ah.
Okay.
Yeah, it's...
Do you want...
So, are you gonna value the...
100% transparent, fully honest relationship...
Or are you gonna go with the gentleman?
Ah, okay.
Huh.
Okay.
Well, if you...
If you...
See, if you wanna keep relationship 100% transparent...
Okay.
Then you have to...
You should say, "Oh, I came here 10 minutes ago."
At the very beginning, right?
I agree.
Yeah.
But if you just happen to...
You know, pretend it...
To be a gentleman, then...
Then, like...
You have to pretend it.
Mm-hmm.
That's my stance.
Got it.
At least, like, 10 minutes or, like...
30 minutes came early.
See, that's not...
That's not fair.
Yeah.
That's not fair.
Right.
Wait, so which one would you choose?
Okay.
So you would choose to be a gentleman.
I do.
And then not tell...
Not tell him about when you came...
When you...
How early you arrived or not.
Yeah.
All right.
I see.
Yeah.
Or tell the truth from the beginning.
Mm-hmm.
Which one would you do?
Say that you were here 30 minutes earlier.
Oh.
Okay, let's say hour.
Okay.
Hour.
Hmm.
Was I early arrived or was she late for one hour?
Okay.
So...
Okay.
She was late for an hour.
Okay.
Yeah.
Let's say...
How would you answer?
What would you say?
Ah, matta desho.
Ah.
Gomen de matta desho.
Well, no, I was in a cafe, so it's okay.
Okay.
Yeah.
That would be my answer, yeah.
Yeah.
What about you?
Ah, gomen matta desho.
I would probably say the same thing.
Oh, yeah.
I'd be like...
Ano, sage wo shita kara.
Chou de yokatta.
Yeah, that's...
That's what we would say.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Like, one hour would be too big for, you know, pretending.
Ima kita togoro dakara.
You know, it's kind of...
All right.
How about this?
How about this?
Okay, okay.
How about...
Twenty minutes.
You waited twenty minutes.
Okay.
Oh, twenty minutes, then...
No, saki kita togoro.
I would say that.
Saki kita togoro.
Wait.
Not like cafe wo sage wo.
Ah.
Oh, zenzen matte.
Ah.
Zenzen matte.
Ah.
Ah.
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Zenzen matte nai yo.
Ah, okay.
Like, that's what I actually feel.
Uh-huh.
Twenty minutes isn't that long to me.
Uh-huh.
I can read books.
Uh-huh.
So, that's what we would say.
Ah.
How about you?
I would probably...
Um...
Hmm.
What I'm most comfortable doing...
Yeah.
Would be to say that, um...
Ah, mattarasu goenji poun kurete.
Ah, daijobu.
Saki wo sate togoro.
Okay.
That's what I would say.
You're standing and, uh...
Like, I would probably do like heisho or something.
And I would say that, oh, I didn't...
It's okay because I was doing my own thing.
Okay.
Like, I probably wouldn't say that I just came here.
Uh-huh.
Um...
True.
However...
Okay.
If it's like...
Maaaaaah.
You...
I probably wouldn't say I just came here.
Yeah, me too.
Yeah.
Um...
But see, in any cases...
Uh-huh.
If we wait for somebody in some places, we're not going to be like waiting for like this,
right?
Yeah.
We surely...
We've got things to do, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So...
Ah, kore yatte takara.
Would be the, you know, honest reply.
Yeah.
You didn't waste my time.
It's okay, right?
Yeah.
I just did my thing and that's okay.
You don't have to feel guilty.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But, um, my...
I feel like, um, this is a weakness that I found out in myself fairly recently.
I feel like I tend to not be honest with myself and like I tend to avoid short-term conflict.
Okay.
And like say that, "Oh, daijoubu dayo."
Even though like I'm deep inside, I feel like I'm not okay, but like I avoid the short-term
"yamete."
Yeah.
I'm scared of saying that and then like me trying to solve the issue comes after.
Like I atomawashi that.
And then what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to like say, trying to fix the problem, trying
to like confront the problem ASAP and like not atomawashi.
This is a weakness that I have.
It's a trait that I'm trying to fix.
Oh, great.
Yeah.
But I have it in me.
It's definitely something that I had.
Yeah.
I've cultivated over the years somehow.
Yeah.
Um, true.
I thought you are kind of really straightforward guy.
If that's no, you'd say no, like directly, instantly.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
But at the same time, I do understand that you are kind of really kind, right?
You're really, um, you know, sweetheart, sweet-hearted guy.
So I guess that's kind of Japanese side, I guess.
That is a very Japanese side of me.
I have.
Yeah.
Right.
Right, right, right, right.
So, all right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
See, the problem would be, ah, matta is the problem, I guess, no?
What do you mean?
You don't have to ask for that.
You can just say, "Omatase."
See, because 10 minutes late, I'm 10 minutes late.
See, I always late.
I don't ask, "Nanbun mae ni kita?"
Because it's obvious I'm 30 minutes late.
So, "Omatase shimashita."
Right.
Yeah.
That's true.
If you're late, if you're the one that's late, I think that's true.
Yeah.
Right.
Um, the, you were supposed to meet at 6 p.m.
Yeah.
And then she arrives at 6.
Yeah.
Right?
And then you were here 40 minutes prior.
Okay.
Yeah.
Then I think it makes sense for the girl to say, "Oh, matta?"
True.
Right?
True.
What would you say in that situation, scenario, when she asks, "Matta?"
Like, when she's, she's here, like on the dot.
In the time.
And you were here an hour prior.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What would you say, like, if she says, "Matta?"
Well, I was in the cafe, the same, you know, story.
Yeah.
I mean, I was here early with my decision.
I made the decision to be here.
So like, it's not, it's not your fault.
Yeah.
It's my plan.
Yeah.
It was my, I was doing my thing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I see.
Yeah.
I agree.
Yeah, but that's, I know that's a difficult, you know, paradox.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But yeah.
Another thing that I feel like...
Go, come on.
Let's just get this out real quickly.
30 seconds.
Yeah.
I feel like, like, okay, guys that do like, the girl is like 30 minutes late.
Okay.
Right?
And the guy is waiting for 30 minutes.
And then the girl asks, "Ah, gomen ne, matt deshou."
And then the guy goes, "Ah, ima kita bakkari dayo."
I just think that that's too obvious.
Like, that's like, it's like a cliche answer now.
Like, it's just...
That can't be true.
Yeah, I know.
Like, that can't be true.
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You're just being kind.
Right.
The fact that I'm saying that cliche, ki wo tsukau phrase, I'm like, "Oh, ima kita yo."
"I just got here.
Don't worry about it."
It just feels like, "Oh, look at me.
I'm being a gentleman."
That's right.
"Look at me, guys.
I'm being a gentleman."
Like, it just...
That's true.
It just cringes out.
Yeah.
It cringes me out.
That's true.
Yeah.
All right.
All right.
Thank you.
Okay.
