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Welcome to Gavin's English Room podcast.
Hello, guys. Hello.
Hello. OK. How's your week?
My week has been.
Let's see, what did I do? Yeah.
I.
Nothing special.
Nothing special? Yeah.
Just an ordinary week. OK.
I have been looking into.
Oh, I got the Kukichi Joki.
Oh, yeah, it's good.
Which one?
I think a little bit older version of that, but the smaller, smaller.
Yeah, smaller. Oh, yeah.
Like the same.
Yeah.
That's sharp. Yeah.
Hmm. It's the same brand.
I think it's sharp. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
It's it's great. It's
just like how I feel in this room.
It's my nose is a lot clearer.
Oh, that's great. And yeah, it's very good.
Yeah, that's great. Satisfied.
Great. Yeah. Great to hear that. It's good.
You. But this morning I.
I saw you with your tissue
putting in your nose. Yeah, I don't know why, but every time I come from outside
into a room. Yeah.
Not only this room, but my room as well.
My nose gets a little bit runny.
Oh, and I don't want to like, you know,
use a tissue like to go every time.
So I just boom, stick it up there.
It's so much easier.
Oh, really? Yeah.
You have to get rid of those runny nose.
Oh, it's it goes away after.
Yeah, like 10 minutes.
See, right now it's not running at all.
Yeah. So it's only after I come from outside to the end.
You don't need to like.
Right now, not at all.
Like, oh, I don't know.
Right now, not at all. Like, oh, my nose isn't that.
No, no, no. Like I'm not doing any of like the or anything like that.
Yeah. It's only when I come from the outside.
Oh, so maybe.
Hmm. The outside.
Yeah. So I'm assuming it's like a.
The outside. Yeah.
The temperature. Yes, true.
Cold to warm.
Maybe. Yeah.
Maybe. Maybe. Or, you know.
A.
Kuki Seijoki room to a non Kuki Seijoki room.
Yeah. Right. Different than that, maybe.
Right. So. Yeah. Yeah.
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It's not that I have a cold or anything.
It's just I don't know.
It's just an environmental kind of thing.
Okay. My nose is adapting to it.
Yeah. It's just like running by having a runny nose.
Yeah. Okay.
That's great. Yeah.
Uh.
Hmm. Something else.
No, not much.
You don't have anything that recently you bought like beside Kuki Seijoki.
Hmm. Or like recently you like tried anything or like new place.
Maybe. I used to just.
Oh, yeah.
I discovered what's called the dry aging beef.
Ah.
I saw a YouTube video.
Okay. Saying that that was really good.
Yeah. And I got interested in it.
I wonder what it's like.
Yeah. Yeah. And.
And in my mind, like, okay, the next gourmet dish I'm going to try is this one.
Yeah.
Like they sell it at Peter Luger.
Do you know that place?
It's it's a recently opened steakhouse.
That's apparently popular in New York.
New York. Okay.
And it's the Joriku Shita Bakkari kind of thing.
To Japan. Yeah.
That's that's one that they sell.
Okay.
Wolfgang Steakhouse.
That's a popular steakhouse.
Yeah. It's a really like the best quality steakhouse and quite expensive.
And apparently they sell the same thing.
Okay.
Aged dry aged beef.
T-bone.
Oh, wow.
Yeah. And never had one before.
Mm hmm.
And I want to.
Yeah.
On my next gourmet timing.
When would be?
I don't know.
Whenever I have mustered up the.
Yeah.
Courage and the energy of trying out new expensive.
Okay.
So I don't know when that would be, but.
Okay.
So it's not like all like every like a weekend or not those.
No.
A month maybe.
Maybe.
Whenever.
Whenever you're ready.
Whenever it charges.
I don't know when.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
What do you need to be charged?
Like not consume so much like every time I buy something I lose energy.
You lose energy.
Yeah, like I like I lose energy of buying new things.
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Yeah, I understand.
Like when you buy something expensive like you're like satisfied like I don't want to buy anything.
Yeah anymore.
Right?
Not anymore.
But like I've.
Yeah.
Like I go into this like defense mode.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Like after I do a little offense.
Okay.
And now I'm still in the defense mode.
Okay, because you've both.
Yeah, that's one reason right?
That's right.
So that's like.
And I have to face taxes right this season right?
Like I've.
Oh yeah, of course.
Right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Shime.
Yeah.
Right?
So like I'm facing taxes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like that gets me kind of like tired.
Okay.
From the offense.
Oh.
Offense world.
Okay.
So it's just a factor of many things.
Okay.
Every time like in an after I go through several stages of defense.
I go into like, oh, I feel like offense.
Okay.
Buy something.
So.
Wow.
It's a cycle.
Buy some expensive thing.
Yeah.
Like food.
Right, right.
Or like some thing.
Experience or food or right.
Oh.
Yeah.
That's great as in like a cycle.
Yeah.
You try new thing like pay you like I have some like a moment and then like you charge it.
Yeah, charge it.
Yeah.
And then if I feel like it I try something new.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's great.
Have you had the aged dry aging?
Aged beef?
I don't think so.
No.
Yeah.
I see it's really, really.
So how different is from?
So.
Dorae.
So.
Amino-san.
Okay.
Is the is what.
Yeah.
Feels tasty.
Right?
When it's dried and it's aged the amino-san compared to like a normal casual steak.
Yeah.
The amino-san is multiplied.
Oh.
Like a lot.
Yeah.
A lot.
Okay.
And apparently that's why it tastes really good.
It's just it's different.
Oh wow.
That's what they said.
Okay.
It's it was game-changing.
Okay.
Wow.
Like I heard like some jukusei-niku which is like aged beef, right?
But I've never had like dried.
Yeah.
Aged.
So.
Yeah.
I don't know how that's different.
Yeah.
I guess dried makes it multiply more.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Must be.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
Just try that.
Yeah.
When I looked into it, I actually found a lot the popular stores are like Wolfgang Steakhouse or Peter Luger.
But like when I looked into it, like I typed in on Google Maps dried aging beef.
Yeah.
There was actually a lot of casual stores.
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I wouldn't say it's cheap, but like a lot of a lot more easier to easier to enter.
Yeah, easier to yeah, like you need a reservation like that.
But like it's a lot more casual than that compared to stores like that.
I actually was kind of surprised of like I was able to find a lot of stores that has the dry aged beef.
I was also surprised that I didn't come across that.
I didn't have the experience of eating that.
Yeah throughout this time.
So, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Should try that.
Yeah, I'm excited to try.
I don't know what it's going to be, but hopefully, yeah, I'll get to try.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
I want to go Wolfgang someday.
Yeah, I've never been there.
Yeah.
Been there before?
Is it what's your image of Wolfgang Steakhouse?
Well, it's like expensive.
It's quite fancy.
And yeah.
Do you have to like dress up to go there or something?
I thought there must be some dress code thing like no jeans maybe or like no slip-ons.
Oh, I see.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
That's a no-go.
You don't wear slippers.
I don't wear slippers, but like I don't like dress code.
You don't like those restaurants?
Why?
Because I have to like get ready for it.
Like I have to.
Yeah, this would be great.
Oh, this okay?
I mean, what I have on is okay?
Yeah.
Well, that's good.
I believe so.
Well, I've never been there, so I don't know about.
Like if I like the, I have a collared denim shirt.
Yeah.
Wow.
I mean denim shirt.
Go for more business-y shirt.
Yeah, like a usual, you know, you have white.
Yeah, like blue shirt.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I would be perfect.
Go for those?
Yeah.
All right.
Okay.
Yeah.
Because it's a little bit nervous, you know?
Like really?
The store, I've gotten so used to Mujin Reji and Mujin Mishokutens.
Like, you know, there's, I'm so used to like using the machine to buy stuff.
Okay.
Like I'm just, I'm just so like, it's just Mendoza now, just to be served by an employee.
Wow.
Yeah.
I have changed.
Yeah, you have changed.
Yeah.
Yep.
Wow.
It's just a, it's just a very small hurdle to overcome.
Yeah.
Very small.
Well, yeah.
I can, I can go over it if I feel like it, but if there was a exact store.
Yeah.
That's completely machine run.
I would choose the machine.
Wow.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Like I would rather, like to me, it's like fun thing.
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Yeah.
You love the...
Like wearing those fun shoes.
Oh, really?
Sometimes and like go and talk with those people.
So...
I know you love the, the conversation.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
So I prefer those.
Yeah.
But yeah.
If you have choices and you prefer like more like convenient.
Yeah.
Like atmosphere.
Like when I'm with a friend.
Yeah.
Like, especially with a friend, someone like you who enjoys the atmosphere.
Like I'm actually kind of more open to it.
I'm actually...
Maybe I'd probably rather choose the employed, employee version.
Version.
Yeah.
But when I'm alone, like when I'm completely kind of like...
Yeah.
The switch is off.
Like I kind of need that energy to like bring it up to like the social mode.
Uh-huh.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I understand that.
It's there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Wow.
So it depends on the situation that I'm in.
All right.
True.
If I'm with someone, I will actually be able to enjoy the conversation.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Probably not when I'm alone.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh.
I get it.
I get it.
Yeah.
When you're alone, can you like get the energy to like...
I mean...
...like have a friendly conversation with some random...
Yeah.
Because I'm alone and I need somebody to talk to.
That's you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Yeah.
Like, yeah.
If I have you to have lunch with, you know...
Like you're already satisfied.
Yeah.
I want to talk with you.
So I don't need like anybody else.
I see.
I see.
It's just...
It's a matter of like being able to share the emotion or not.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It matters for you.
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
Right.
I see.
But, you know, at the same time, I understand sometimes I need solo time.
Like in a cafe.
Yeah.
Okay.
Not kind of time.
Of course.
Of course.
Yeah.
So you have that too.
Yeah.
I get it too.
Yeah.
Thanks for sitting guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.