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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
*clapping*
Right.
*clears throat*
This is...
This is...
Honoka-san.
Honoka-san! Thank you Honoka-san.
There are so many people who loves, who love your, you know, accents.
Oh the...
Pronunciation.
The name, accent?
The sign.
The sign.
Yes.
Honoka-san.
Honoka-san.
Yeah.
*speaking Japanese*
Thank you.
*speaking Japanese*
Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Oh no.
*speaking Japanese*
Oh, that's bad.
Hope that title call was the, you know, proper one.
Yeah.
*speaking Japanese*
Yeah, I hope it's not one of those weird ones.
Yeah.
*speaking Japanese*
Oh, no.
Oh no.
*speaking Japanese*
Well, thank you.
Thank you.
And, yeah, like in the, for example in the US, there is no culture of like being quiet.
In the public transportation?
Oh, okay.
Like that.
Plus, they just talk louder.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They just...
They just loud.
Just loud.
Yeah.
Like I agree.
Yeah.
Like I agree.
Yeah.
Like I agree.
Yeah.
Like I agree with her.
Like if you find like a white dude on train.
Yeah.
Just really loud.
Yeah, they are loud.
I don't...
Why they are that loud?
I know.
Like why?
Me too, man.
I'm always asking like why the fuck do you talk so loudly?
The guy over there can hear you speak.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Don't you want some privacy?
Yeah, I agree.
I agree.
Yeah, they just talk loudly.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
And also you don't have any of those, you know, atmosphere that you have to be quiet.
Exactly.
Exactly.
So...
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
In France, I guess it's the middle of Japan and the United States.
They have certain...
You see, if you dance in a train that...
She's dancing.
Oh, that's like that in Europe too.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
So that's maybe the same.
But people are not that loud in public transportation.
Okay.
They should, you know, keep quiet.
Keep themselves, you know, quiet.
Yeah.
But sometimes there are people who play some music and, you know, country guys, you know.
Right, right, right, right, right.
So it's a little bit different from one in Japan, but...
When I went to Korea, what I thought was...
What fascinated me or like surprised me was that, you know, how a lot of the cultures are kind of similar, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Both like age and, you know, like the...
Like the atmosphere is kind of similar, right?
But in Korea, people talk on the phone all the time on the trains and like...
Oh, really?
Yeah, that was really surprising for me.
Oh.
That it doesn't end up in the same public manners as Japan.
So, yeah, I just wanted to squeeze that in.
It just came into my mind.
True.
Yeah.
That's true.
Yeah.
I didn't know that.
Yeah.
I thought it was going to be really similar where like it's kind of uncomfortable where like you talk on the phone where people can hear you.
Yeah.
Right?
And you can imagine easily a Japanese person if it's a quiet room and you have to talk on the phone, there's a lot of people.
You just...
I don't know, but your volume just naturally goes down, right?
That didn't happen.
Okay.
I didn't see that happen in Korea.
Well, it was during my stay there.
So like that was a little bit a cultural...
Like a fairly big cultural difference that I found during the stay.
True.
Mindset.
Yeah.
Be different.
Yeah.
Yeah.
True.
Okay.
So any embarrassing moments?
Yeah.
I think you told me this when you got that...when you...
Masui?
Ah, yeah.
And then your jaw was down.
Yeah.
And then you fell asleep.
Yeah.
And then your saliva just went all over the place.
Yep.
Yeah.
I mean, that wasn't all over the place because luckily, thankfully...
The mask.
Right.
The mask on my mouth.
Right.
So my mask was kind of full of...
Saliva, right?
Yep.
But, you know, I hope nobody noticed.
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Right.
It turned out to be a non-embarrassing moment because no one noticed, right?
Yeah.
Any obvious embarrassing moments you've had?
Hmm.
No.
Do you?
No.
See the episode you had when you visited in New York City subway?
Oh, yeah.
That was funny one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's New York.
Yeah.
Right?
That was me, the chubby little Asian when I was chubby back then.
Yeah.
Really?
Yeah.
The family got off.
I didn't realize that my family got off.
Yeah.
I quickly followed them.
By then, the door closed.
Yeah.
The chubby Asian tried to, like, jam the door open.
Couldn't do it.
People around me just helped the chubby Asian.
Yeah.
And the chubby Asian got home.
[laughter]
Heartful.
Yeah.
Heartful story.
Yeah.
The heartwarming...
The warm New Yorkers helped me.
Yeah.
Sure.
Sure.
I would say, in Japan, I've...
I've tripped and fell in the train.
Okay.
That was embarrassing.
But not that, that embarrassing.
Yeah.
Right.
Um...
Uh...
You've tripped and fell?
Yeah, I tried to get off.
Yeah, no.
Like, I tripped.
Ah, okay.
I didn't completely fall down.
But, like, I tried to get off.
Someone's bag was on the floor.
I tripped on it.
Kind of, like, lost my balance.
Yeah, yeah.
Got a little bit of attention there.
But, you know, it's...
I didn't do anything that's weird.
Yeah.
I just naturally reacted to the falling down.
Yeah, yeah.
So, like...
Um...
Hmm...
I have sometimes...
I have some experiences that, when I sleep in the train...
Mm-hmm.
And then wake up and, "Oh, that's the station that I have to get off."
And, you know, half-I sleep, so I sleep.
So, prepare and go try to go out and realize that, "Oh, this is not the stop.
It's the next one."
Yeah, yeah.
And then I'm like, "Hmm."
[laughter]
Go back to the seat.
That's really confusing, right?
Yeah, confusing.
And then sometimes other people sit down to my place and I would, "Hmm."
[laughter]
If I were you, I would probably change the car.
I'd probably just go through the doors and go to somewhere that's not awkward.
That's a good way, yeah.
But that's confusing, right?
Yeah.
Because the "Denshi Annai Ban"
They show the station name, but you don't know if that's the one that's going to be next
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or, like, the next next or, like, is it bound for the station, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's true.
Yeah, I get it. It's confusing.
Yeah, sometimes I do.
Yeah.
Have you ever had the experience like her where, like, you forgot the speaker was plugged in
or, like, you--and it was on speakers, not the headphone, and then just blasted?
No.
I've had that numerous times.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Is that embarrassing?
Not really. Not anymore.
Because so many people do it.
Really?
And then, like, I was never listening to anything embarrassing.
It was just music. It was K-pop.
So, like, I was like, yeah, I listen to K-pop, and I accidentally forgot that it was on speakers.
Yeah.
Yeah, fuck you.
Yeah, like, you've never done it? Fuck you.
We can't survive that either.
Why are you so aggressive like that?
Yeah, true.
If that sound itself isn't that, you know, strange or weird, then that's good.
Or just people will see you, oh, just made a mistake, and that's it.
Right, right, right.
You know, if the, you know, if you play some weird videos, like--
See, there's sometimes, you know, when you're seeing the YouTube videos,
they are sometimes really weird as--
That's true.
--some, you know, girl, lady, kind of, see?
Like the erotic ones.
Yeah.
Like, first, like, the saxophone music like that, and like--
That's a little bit embarrassing.
Yeah, yeah.
That's true.
Yeah, it's true.
Yeah.
If you play that out, I would be so embarrassing.
It's the ad.
Guys, it's the ad.
It's not me.
It's the YouTube ad.
Right?
Yeah.
Yeah, I get it.
Sure.
I get it.
All right.
OK.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
Bye.
