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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
- Oh, sh-- - And you were--
- I was looking at you, man.
I was completely eyeing you.
You're like, "Dude, dude, dude,
where are you gonna come in?"
You were gonna do it with me, man.
- Oh!
- We were gonna say the title together,
the perfect timing, and we're gonna synchronize,
and we're gonna finish the day in such a good mood.
Oh, come on, man.
- Oh.
- It's okay.
We'll try again some other time.
- Yeah, next time.
- Next week, you know?
- Oh.
- Man.
I always forget to echo
when I say I'm gonna echo on the next episode.
- Oh, come on.
- Okay.
- That's sad.
- That's very sad.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Okay.
(laughs)
There we go.
And I missed the message, too.
- Oh, you missed the message?
- Gone.
- Is it gone now?
(laughs)
I don't get that.
Why is it forever gone?
Like, it's just, isn't it just right there on your screen?
- Yeah, it's gone somewhere.
Try this one, okay?
- I see.
- Okay, this one.
Okay, this one.
- Not that one?
- Okay.
(speaking in Japanese)
- Okay.
(speaking in Japanese)
- Yeah.
(speaking in Japanese)
- Mm-hmm.
(speaking in Japanese)
- Mm-hmm.
(speaking in Japanese)
- Mm.
(speaking in Japanese)
- That's true.
- Really?
- That's true.
- It is.
(speaking in Japanese)
- Okay, Lefty, let's go.
(laughs)
- Yes, I'm Lefty.
My mom actually did try to
try to change me into a righty.
- Oh.
- Actually, but that only went on for like three hours.
- Why did she gave up?
- I was like, "Oh, no."
- Why did you gave up?
- Like, "No, I don't."
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I tried like, "Nah, I'll do it."
(laughs)
She kind of like taught me into it.
Like, there's a lot of things that you'll merit,
you'd benefit, like if you're a righty,
like the bumbog, the doors, like.
Right, so it might benefit you,
like if it's easy for you to change it into a righty.
And then I, "Okay, I'll try."
I was like, "Oh, you try starting as pencil-foot."
- When was that?
It was like quite young.
- Yeah, very, very, when I was very young,
like maybe before Shougakusei.
- Yeah, like three, four.
- Or Shougakusei, because I remember.
Because my memory prior to Shougakusei is gone.
I don't have any.
So probably, maybe it's, yeah, when I'm Shougakusei.
- But yeah, I tried for like several hours.
It's like, "Nah, nah, not gonna work."
I don't want the stress to.
- Yeah, maybe a bit too late.
- Maybe.
- Shougakusei is kind of already like devolved.
- Possibly.
- Possibly.
But in the US, there were a lot of lefties.
And being a lefty wasn't something that was like,
"Oh, you should fix it."
I'm not saying that Japan right now has the culture of that.
But like, no, America didn't have it.
- Okay.
- Yeah, and I feel like in Japan, it's just,
it's an old culture, I feel like.
Now, people don't really mind if you're a lefty or a righty.
We don't actually care.
- Right, right.
- But I feel some, I mean, I can imagine some inconveniences
if you are left-handed.
Like my dad, he's lefty.
- Okay.
- And he told me that when he passed the kaisatsu,
he always have hand, using left hand,
try to hand the pass or phones,
when you're anything, and always the right hand.
- Ah.
- You just need to put like this side and like--
- I do that too.
- Yeah, and as he walks a bit faster
than the average as me.
- Okay, it's a DNA thing.
- Pass like, you know, he walks and touches at the same time.
So it's like a, moves will be like this, right?
- Okay.
- 'Cause you, right?
- So you're, usually the kaisatsu,
- Yeah.
- The sensor, the touch sensor shit is on the--
- Right side.
- Right side of you, and your father's holding
the smartphone in his left hand.
- Yeah.
- So the arm would have to go across your body in front.
- Yeah, to the right side, yeah.
And then also he walks faster,
I mean, faster than that machine.
- Okay.
- So when, you know, the machine understand
that the phone or cars are touched,
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then he's obviously always already like,
kind of passed through the gate, right?
So you're like, and kind of turn around things.
- I see.
- Yeah, if you're right-handed, you can just do this.
- Right, you can reach out.
- Yeah.
- So that the sensor would touch way before
you go across the gates, right?
Whereas your father would, the gates would be so much,
like your body, the body would be so much closer
to the gates when the sensor touches.
- Yeah, I see.
So that's, I feel that's, you know, a bit inconvenience.
- Has he ever gotten locked in?
- I don't think so, but anyways.
- Right.
- Yeah, or like family just not that much.
- Hmm.
You know, I don't find it that inconvenient.
Like for me, the Suika thing,
Suika, uh, Pasmo.
- Oh, okay, okay, yeah.
- That's not that much of a problem for me.
I've never felt an inconvenience of me
like reaching over across my body.
And the Otama thing, that's a little convenient,
but like, I don't mind having the inconvenience
for just five seconds.
Like there's a lot of like inconvenient things
that's not related to lefty or righty.
And like, I'm okay with just several percentage of my life
feeling inconvenient.
So I am kind of actually really okay
with a left handed life.
- Yeah, okay.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, me too.
I don't think that left handed will be like
a disadvantage or something.
- Yeah.
- You know, but you know, also in writing thing.
- Right, remember we did the signing thing?
- Yeah.
- That was really like a big problem for me.
- Yeah.
- Especially if they have like hude or something.
- In Japan we do shodo, so.
- Yeah.
- I can imagine that's kind of difficult.
- Right.
- Because your arm starts, you know, covering the.
- Yeah.
- You know.
- Right, right, right.
- It's kind of difficult to see.
- Yeah.
Now that I think about it, I remember my right hand
was, side of my right hand was always, you know,
covered in graphite from the pencil lead.
- Left hand?
- Yeah, when you're lefty and you're,
when I was in high school, right,
I used to write essays and shit.
And it would, the side of my hand would be covered
in like pencil graphite shit.
- You touch graphite just after you wrote it.
- Exactly.
- Oh, right.
- It's a lefty thing.
- True.
- Yeah.
- Right, right.
- I remember.
- Oh, true.
Yeah, but to me like, you know, I play football, right?
So left foot players are quite,
even like that's advantage.
- Right, right.
- Same as like baseball maybe.
- Right.
I kick with my right foot.
- Yeah.
- Is that normal?
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Am I twisted?
- I mean, there are some people like you, like.
- Bless you.
- Excuse me.
- Oh, bless you.
- When you're a lefty, usually.
- Usually left foot.
- They kick with their left foot.
- Yeah.
- Foot or feet?
I forgot again.
- Foot.
- Shit.
- Foot.
- How do you know that?
- Because that's foot.
- We learned it together, right?
- Wait, what was the magic phrase of remembering
which is which?
How do you, why are you so confident?
- It's 10 feet.
- It's 10 feet.
- Oh, 10 feet, right.
- Yeah.
- 10 feet.
- 10 feet, one foot.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, 'cause football.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
(laughing)
- Football you only kick with one foot.
- Yeah, one ball, football.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Yeah, okay, yeah.
- Right.
- So for those of you who don't know,
I have trouble remembering which is which.
Is it a foot or feet?
- Yeah, right.
- Yeah.
- And we've come up with this saying of like,
football you only kick with one foot.
- Yeah.
- So it's foot.
- Although it's played by 22 feet.
- Right.
- Yeah.
- Okay, right.
- What were we talking about?
(laughing)
- But usually, like, yeah, there are so many people
that are using like, born with left hand,
and then mainly use his or her left foot.
- I see.
- But you're not, right?
- Right.
- You kick with the right hand, right foot.
- Right foot, I kick with the right foot,
I right with the left hand.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Yeah.
Am I special?
(laughing)
- I mean, there are some, yeah.
- Am I gifted?
(laughing)
I just realized that.
- Yeah.
- Oh shit.
- You are so talented.
- Am I just?
Am I special to God?
(laughing)
- Yeah.
- Am I God's special child?
- Yeah, you are.
- Oh, damn.
- Yes, you are, yes, you are.
- I was gifted.
- Yeah, you're gifted.
You're born with those talent.
- Oh, damn.
- You're talented guy.
- I should be proud of myself, shouldn't I?
- Yes, yes.
- I will be proud of myself.
- You should be proud of yourself.
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
- Wow.
- Yeah.
- Ego boost.
- Yeah, you got ego.
(laughing)
Yeah, you need to keep your confidence.
- Yeah, thank you.
- Yeah.
- But.
(laughing)
- Even though there are so many people using left hand
and using right foot mainly.
- Oh, so kidding aside.
- It's not that rare.
- I mean, it's not.
Which maybe the twist version is more popular.
- Oh, really?
- 'Cause somebody.
(laughing)
- Are you happy?
- Okay, all right.
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Oh, I'm not that happy, but okay.
- 'Cause you know, born with all left handed,
left footed, and then parents try to change his writing
into right hand.
- Oh, I see.
- For more convenience when you write things
or everything.
So hand only right, which is adjusted
or which is changed into that style,
but still foot or another things still remain.
- I see, I see, I see.
- So you're the like a.
- The opposite of that, the mirrored version of that.
- Yeah, it's like a (speaking in foreign language)
- Shit, I'm gifted.
- Yeah, you're talented.
- Like I'm gifted then?
- Yeah, you're gifted.
- Fuck.
- It's like a special spec thing.
- Oh, damn.
- Wow.
- Wow, should be proud of myself.
- Yeah, you should probably be.
(laughing)
Yeah, but all kidding aside, I haven't felt that much like
like out of place.
- Yeah, and convenient.
- And I'm not really being like lefty.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, why do you kick the ball with right foot?
- It was just my natural state of being, right?
I was like this from the get.
- If you, have you ever tried using left foot?
- I have, yeah.
Not as good.
- Okay.
- Not as accurate as my right, my left,
God damn it.
(laughing)
- Right foot.
- My left foot, my right foot.
- Yeah.
(laughing)
- Okay, that's.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- But yeah.
- Okay.
- All right.
- Yeah.
- Thanks for listening guys.
- Bye bye.
