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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
*coughs*
I'm good, I'm good.
Another day of recording?
Yes.
As always, it's really hot outside.
Yep.
I feel like this summer is more humid than usual.
Is that true? Do you think so?
I feel so too.
It feels more severe.
It's so difficult to just stay outside.
Yeah, yeah.
I completely agree with that.
I wonder if it's going to be like this forever.
Like, and on.
I wonder if it'll ever go back to the summer that was like 7 years ago or like 5 years ago.
It was a lot more fun, you know?
Yeah.
To stay outside.
I wonder if it's just temporary.
True.
But I heard that, you know, the weather is getting, you know, the entire earth is getting hotter.
Oh.
And now...
And now Japan is becoming like a Southeast Asian...
Really?
You know, temperatures and humid and climate.
I mean, that makes sense.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Japan is being like, you know, ondang.
Like Thailand.
Yeah, like the southern, you know, land temperatures.
All humid and hot.
Yeah, yeah.
It makes sense.
I mean, it would perfectly fit the description of, you know, yeah.
So maybe it's like a forever thing.
It's forever.
Yeah.
Man.
Yeah.
I love Japan so much.
Yeah.
And I want to stay here.
Yeah.
For the rest of my life.
Of course.
But now with this temperature.
Yeah.
With this, you know, it just...
It gets me thinking, you know?
Yeah.
I want to find a new place to live.
It's just so...
Like I want to enjoy the outside.
Like I can't...
I can't forget the awesome temperature of Florida.
Yeah.
Oh, Florida.
Awesome climate of the tropical islands.
Yeah.
Guam.
Yeah.
It was so nice.
Just makes me want to grab a sandwich, Coke.
Right.
And start, you know, picnicking.
Yeah.
Outside.
Outside.
In the park.
Yeah.
Beach.
Right.
I mean, I can't...
I don't even...
I can't imagine doing picnicking under this weather right here.
It's just...
Tiring.
Very tiring.
I mean, you know, weather is really important on your life.
True.
That is very true.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I...
Yeah.
I now feel like I'm really following the path of my father because my dad is now trying
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to move out of the states and move into more tropical climate areas.
Hawaii.
Exactly.
Exactly.
I mean, I'm really following his footsteps there.
Yeah.
Well, me too.
Me too.
I mean, I've never been to Florida.
But I heard the weather is great.
Right.
Right.
It's hot and bright, sunny, but not humid at all.
I love that.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Man.
Or like the can in France.
Yeah.
I guess that's the same kind of...
Wow.
It's too humid.
Yeah.
I'm okay with this hotness.
But humidity.
The humidity.
Yeah.
Right.
Absolutely.
And I heard that some professors saying that as we're getting like ondang kiko, we're kind
of losing the four seasons.
See, it's like a wuki kanki types of...
Yeah.
Coming and like hundreds of years later, we will lose four seasons in Japan.
Oh, that's, you know, sad.
Yeah.
That makes sense too, you know.
Where is spring and where is autumn, right?
We hardly ever feel it anymore.
So fast now.
Yeah.
And I feel like it's been like this decade.
A decade ago, it wasn't like this.
It's just the last 10 years made a huge shift, I feel like.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I haven't been around so long.
So maybe this was the speed of the change.
It's been always been going, but like...
I feel so too.
I agree with that.
Man.
Me too.
I'm thinking to, you know, change the place I live in.
Yeah.
Maybe what you could do.
Do you think Hokkaido right now is easier to...
Is Hokkaido not that humid?
Nah.
Very like...
I mean...
First of all, it's much colder than this.
True.
So I didn't feel the humidity at all.
Okay.
So, yeah.
It's much better.
So what do you think about moving to Hokkaido and then moving to Okinawa back and forth
during the two seasons?
That's a great idea, I guess.
Do you think that's feasible?
If you're like financially okay.
See, if you live in Hokkaido, the rent fee is much cheaper if you choose a great place.
That's true.
That's true.
So if you just move like twice in a year, I guess that's...
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It's not that different.
Even like cheaper if you compare living like this Tokyo and...
That's true.
Like so much rent fees.
But where are we going to go during the winter?
Okinawa.
But I'm assuming it's very expensive there, the rent.
True.
Maybe find somewhere that's not...
Like really in countryside.
In the countryside.
Where there's no grocery store or no station.
Yeah, true.
Yeah.
But yeah, winter is tough in Hokkaido.
The snow and everything is heavy.
Your jika is in Hokkaido, is it?
Yeah.
What do you suffer?
Snow.
Okay.
My grandparents' house.
Right, right.
So is it the thickness of the snow?
Yeah, yeah.
I mean...
Is that what makes it difficult?
Yeah.
Like the coldness is fine actually.
I mean I love snow and you can make, build a snowman.
That's fun.
Okay.
But the amount of snow is unbelievable.
So it's like a...
See you have to yukikaki on the road.
Because cars cannot, you know, move.
You have to do it.
You have to.
Not the government.
You have to.
You have to do it.
Or like the rooftop snows.
You have to pull everything down.
Why do you have to do that?
Because it's too heavy?
Yeah, too heavy.
And it's dangerous for the house?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that's tough.
You have to do that every day then, right?
If it snows every day.
It's tough when your body is not as physical anymore.
Yeah.
So like my grandparents, you know, they are kind of getting older.
Yeah.
And they can't do those things by themselves.
Okay.
So they pay for the services.
Like that.
That's true.
So that's tough.
So if you have a house in Hokkaido, and in winter season you move to Okinawa, that's good.
But when you return to Hokkaido, it's like...
Your house may be torn down, you know, from the weight of the snow.
Yeah.
That's true.
Yeah.
I wonder if the global warming is...
It's affecting Japan definitely, we feel it.
But it's affecting places like the tropical areas.
I wonder if it's not becoming so tropical anymore.
Maybe it's getting a little bit too hot maybe?
Yeah, like dessert.
Yeah?
Maybe?
Maybe.
Yeah.
It's possible.
True.
Yeah.
But it's not like forever increasing, is what I heard.
It's like this kind of wave.
Oh.
Waves.
I see.
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Up and downs.
But, you know, it's like 500 years ups and 500 years down.
So I'm only going to live the ups.
Up times, I guess.
Okay.
Yeah.
Tough.
Yeah, that's tough.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Alright.
Thanks for listening guys.
Thank you.
Bye bye.
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