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Welcome to Kevin's English Room podcast!
No!
That was wild.
Edgy voice at the end.
Podcast!
Oh yeah.
Thank you.
Great.
Thank you.
I thought it was like some kind of Pokemon introducing...
Oh, okay.
Yeah, like...
Like, "Ike!"
Yeah.
"Pikachu!"
Yeah, and that sound.
Those ones, right?
Yeah.
Thank you.
Okay.
So...
Oh wow, Instagram just changed.
What happened?
Just changed those...
Oh, the layouts?
Yeah, layout.
Everything?
Yeah, sorry.
Okay.
So, let's just take this one.
Okay.
"Punimaru san."
"Hello.
I'm a 25-year-old office worker who likes cooking and learning about 10 years."
"Learning about 10 years?"
Yeah.
What is that?
It's...
A star?
No.
It's a voice.
Oh, okay.
Got it.
It's like opera or like classic.
Oh, got it.
Let's see.
Yeah.
Basically singing.
Okay.
So, it's pretty long.
Yeah.
"I've been using the app that allows me to listen to various countries' radio stations during my commute because of my listening ability."
What kind of radio is that?
I know.
I'm kind of curious.
Yeah.
Quite interesting, innit?
I want to listen to Korean versions.
Yeah, yeah.
Wow.
"I've been listening to your podcast since September and I can't stop."
"I was listening to a British radio show that I thought would fit the tone of the app, but your podcasts are so easy to understand and the topics are so interesting that I can't help but laugh."
Thank you.
Thank you.
"I used to love Kevin, San Yama, and Kake's YouTube and Instagram, but I wish I had listened to them sooner."
"Thank you for always having fun."
Thank you.
Thank you.
"It's been getting cold lately and there's only a few left this year, so I thought of a seasonal question and sent it to you."
"I'd be happy if you could answer it."
"Do you two eat Japanese osechi?"
"If there's a similar New Year's dish in the US or France, please let me know."
"By the way, the black bean soup with osechi is delicious like cocoa when you put it in milk, so please try it."
"It's a season where Kandan-san is very easily sick, but please take care of yourself."
Treating him like Oreos.
Yeah.
True.
Osechi!
I do.
You love osechi!
It's not something I love osechi.
It's just I have to eat osechi.
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It's a rule.
Yeah.
Tradition.
Yeah.
Okay, so if you...
So this year, let's say that you're not provided with an osechi.
Why?
How would that make you feel?
Is that...
Oh, it's sad.
So it's really sad?
Really sad, like...
Empty.
Lonely, empty, sad.
Depressing.
Depressing.
Poor.
Poor.
Mm-hmm.
Mentally unstable.
No.
Completely.
Social anxiety.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean...
Some mental diseases.
Emergency.
Emergency.
Surgery.
Surgery?
Yep.
I see.
I see.
Because...
It's like you without Christmas, I guess.
Oh, okay.
How do you feel if you don't have any Christmas with you this year?
You have nothing.
Not a single song.
Oh.
Nothing at all.
Not a single song?
Not a single song.
Just one song.
No, no.
Nothing at all.
Just one Michael Bublé.
One Michael Bublé.
Come on.
No.
No?
No.
That voice is too Christmasy.
No.
Come on.
No.
How about Justin Bieber's "Missile Top of That"?
No.
Just one.
No.
That's not Christmasy at all.
I mean, that's Miso Toso.
No.
Oh, come on.
No.
You feel empty, right?
I do feel empty.
Yeah.
I guess that's the same feeling.
Yeah.
No present at all.
Not a single lightning on the street.
No decoration?
Not at all.
Nothing.
That's sad.
Yeah.
That's really sad.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I do.
The full course.
Like full on osechi.
Like the osechi.
Yeah.
Like two or three stacks.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That osechi.
Yeah.
And then you get together with your family and then like you...
Yeah.
I have not eaten a full stacked osechi in a year.
I have not eaten a full stacked osechi in a year.
I have not eaten a full stacked osechi in a year.
I have not eaten a full stacked osechi in a year.
I have not eaten a full stacked osechi in a year.
I have not eaten a full stacked osechi in a year.
I have not eaten a full stacked osechi in a year.
I have not eaten a full stacked osechi in a year.
I have not eaten a full stacked osechi in a year.
Oh.
Years.
That's...
Years, man.
Sad?
No?
I don't know.
I just don't feel sad.
Okay.
You now just...
I eat chicken.
I eat chicken on New Year's.
Celebratory.
Celebratory.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Celebratory chicken.
Wow.
I mean, I love chickens, but...
That's...
Chickens.
Oh, sorry.
Oh.
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Sorry.
That's okay.
Is that okay?
Yeah.
Is your phone okay?
Strong.
That's okay.
Yeah.
Of course.
Of course?
Yeah.
Chicken.
Soba.
Okay.
New Year's soba.
That's something you eat in the midnight.
I mean, when it turns into the new year.
Okay.
The moment it's New Year's.
Okay.
Got it.
Same thing, right?
Yeah.
Same thing.
But it's not something you eat on the first January dinner.
Oh.
Same thing though, right?
Same thing.
What do you mean, same thing?
Yeah.
I mean...
Same thing, right?
24-hour timeframe.
Yeah.
That means different, but yeah.
Basically, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I do love the...
If I were to choose the number one dish inside the osechi, I would do the rolled up egg.
Oh, that's child's thing.
The kids love that.
I love that.
The sweet rolled...
Yeah, I love that.
I would go out and buy that.
Yeah.
That's a kid's one.
Okay.
Yeah.
All right.
Let me tell you.
Yeah.
That's a kid's one.
All right.
My choice.
If you're still mature, it's your favorite dish.
My choice.
Kurikinton.
That's so childish.
That's so sweet and childish.
That's so good.
I love that.
Kurikinton is like...
Yeah.
That's so sweet, right?
That's like sweet.
Isn't that one of the things...
Isn't that one of the top two things?
The tamago and the kurikinton is the top two dishes for kids?
Yeah.
What would be a great, kakkoi, mature answer?
Okay.
Like if you want to kakko tsukeru.
Yeah.
To your crush.
Okay.
Okay.
Right?
Okay.
What do you want to eat?
What do you want to eat?
What do you like?
You have to...
Like I'm the girl that you love, right?
And you want to be with me.
Okay.
What do you want to eat?
What do you want to eat?
I think I'll just go with the kobumaki.
That's so sexy.
Wait, let me Google search for the kobumaki.
Yeah, of course.
Hold on.
Yeah.
Hold on.
Wait.
Let me get my Chrome.
Chrome?
Chrome?
Chrome?
Yeah.
I mean, it sounds really like manly and really bulky.
Stronger.
Yeah.
It looks strong, you know?
It does look strong.
It looks manly.
Yeah.
It looks like a belly of Osumou-san.
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You know, like Osumou-san no koshi no maiteru toko.
Yeah.
Yeah, I say.
Yeah.
Wait.
Okay.
Ask me.
Ask me.
Okay.
Hold on.
Wait.
Let me get my answer first.
Of course.
In all, in all.
The best.
The most kakkoi...
Choice.
Otonano...
Okay.
Choice.
In Osu!
Yes.
Okay.
Uh...
Uh...
Uh huh.
There's a lot of...
Uh huh.
There's a lot of...
Uh huh.
There's a lot.
It looks so tasty.
Yeah.
Wow.
Nice.
Okay.
Okay.
We got it.
Ready?
I'm ready.
Eh?
What do you like about me?
You like me?
You like me?
Wait, there is no osu!mono in osechi.
Wait, there is no osu!mono in osechi?
That's ozoni.
Oh.
That's ozoni?
That's ozoni.
That's mochi inside.
Oh.
Oh, that's embarrassing.
What are you looking at?
The pixels?
Yeah.
I'm now looking at pictures.
Okay.
Yeah.
Uh...
Uh...
Uh...
Uh...
Okay.
Okay.
Ask me again.
Okay.
What do you like about me?
Yeah.
That's adult.
That's adult, right?
Yeah.
Only adults would love that.
Yeah.
Only mature, fully grown men.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A grown ass man.
Wow.
It is...
It's rare actually.
Really?
Yeah, as in osechi.
Okay.
See, it's not like fixed menu.
Oh.
It's like...
Depends on your mother or your grandmother or your parents.
I see.
Who cook it.
Oh, okay.
So...
So the fact...
The fact that you're right.
That umezukonyaku is included is...
That itself is kind of...
Very sophisticated.
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Yeah, it's like adult.
Very mature.
Yeah.
Wow.
A grown ass man.
Yeah.
All right.
Oh, yeah.
Man, I kind of want to eat osechi this year actually.
Now that we talked about this, you know.
Yeah.
Wow.
Even like order the osechi box at some, you know...
Do...Are there companies out there that provide one person osechi?
Or is that just too depressing?
Is that just too sad?
The fact that a guy would order a solo osechi.
Is that too sad, Injapan?
Too depressing?
No?
Does that not exist?
I think that exists.
Oh, does it?
Yeah.
Well, that's good.
I think...
Or I believe so.
That's good.
I don't want to have those lonely people around out there.
Oh, come on then.
Well, come on.
I believe that service exists.
Oh, okay.
Like for one...
For one...
One serving?
Yeah.
Right.
Okay.
Or like, you know, we made osechi a bit too much.
And you eat like the first day lunch and the first day dinner.
And second day dinner and second day lunch.
So, even if it's like a bit bigger than the one meal, it's okay.
Got it.
Yeah.
I see.
You don't have to cook every time.
Oh, got it.
That's why we made osechi.
So, I just use like a whole week, I guess, because I'm alone, right?
Yeah.
Consume everything?
Yeah, I mean...
Makes sense.
Could be for a whole week, but that's too long.
Okay.
Should be like two or three days.
Got it.
Got to finish it.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But...
Yeah.
Or like you can go to the like usual supermarkets and find some small packet of...
Oh, true.
Like kuromame or like...
True.
...sakanas and gather into like one plate and...
See, the thing is I want to enjoy like a professional one.
Ah, okay.
I want to try like a non-grocery store, some real authentic shit.
Okay.
Okay.
That's what I wanted to try.
Yeah.
Then you should order something.
Something.
Right.
Pre-order.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
All right.
Okay.
Okay.
Great.
So, thank you for the message.
Yep.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye.
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