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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Hello.
Doing the driving talk.
Driving talk?
What?
Driving talk.
Is that driving talk?
It's driving talk.
Okay.
Driving, like a talk.
It's an accent.
No, it's talk.
Driving talk.
Okay.
Lovely driving so far.
Thank you.
Lovely driving?
Thank you for driving.
Oh, yeah, of course.
Yeah.
I enjoy driving, actually.
Oh, yeah.
I'm happy to hear that.
I'm enjoying sitting back and relaxing.
Thank you.
Thank you for helping me get to work.
Yeah, I know that one.
Thank you for helping me get to work.
No, it's not.
Go on.
No, nothing, nothing.
Oh, my God.
The traffic is terrible, you know.
Oh, it's okay.
It's okay.
I can't believe it, you know.
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Private one. Private. Yeah. Driver.
You don't have any like gloves? I don't have any gloves.
No. Why do people wear those gloves? What are they for?
I don't know. It's just to grip it. Not slipping.
Yeah, like a... No.
Well, I mean, it seems to me if you wear those like cloth,
like it feels like that's going to be more slippery.
Yeah. Slipperier.
Sure.
Or just they just want to look fancy.
Could be.
Yeah. It looks fancy.
It does look fancy.
Yeah.
Wait, so KM is a high... So what's KM?
It's a company, like a high-end taxi company.
I see. I see.
It's called KM Taxi.
It's like a high-end kind of thing?
They have usual taxis, just usual like town taxis.
But they also do...
Yeah, like a private those.
I see. I see.
Yeah.
They've got own like driver and like...
It's like a higher version of rent-a-car, I guess.
I see. I see. I see.
Wow. Where are we?
We are at... Next to Akihabara.
Next to Akihabara?
Yeah, this is next to Akihabara.
Okay.
I think it's Iwamoto-cho?
Iwamoto-cho.
Yeah, close to Iwamoto-cho.
Oh, so we're heading to Asakusa and...
Yes.
Coming closer.
Oh, yes.
Oh, yes, that's a station. Iwamoto-cho station.
Yeah.
Have you gotten in a car accident before?
Not actually.
Zero?
Zero.
That's what I'm scared of.
I see.
Yeah.
Have you?
Well, I know you have.
Yeah, once.
Yeah.
I ran into a railway.
Like a... What do you call those?
Like a tunnel. I ran into a tunnel.
Like, you know, my height.
Not the railway, right?
Not the railway. Not that one.
I was driving a truck.
The height.
I forgot about the height.
Yeah, but why...
The first question is why did you drive that truck?
No, I was moving.
I was hikoshi-ing on my own.
Okay.
So I was driving like a...
Yeah, yeah.
And boom.
Because it's very high, right?
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Yeah, it's higher.
Yeah, it's higher than your normal car.
Yeah.
And you thought you were driving a usual car like this.
Yeah.
And I was going through a tunnel and I didn't make it.
Well, that's scary.
That's actually pretty scary.
Yeah.
And like, you don't know what to do next.
Like, you're kind of stuck in it.
Yeah, you're stuck in it.
And you can't do like anything, right?
Right, you can't do anything.
So it was an intersection.
Okay.
So it was a four-way intersection, right?
Wow.
And each had like two or three lanes.
Yeah.
So like, I was blocking like three times four.
Plus Juni, 12 eyeballs.
12 lane worth of eyeballs on me.
Pretty tough, right?
That's tough.
That was very tough.
So you got 24 eyes.
24 eyeballs on me.
24 eyes.
Yeah.
24 eyes on me.
That's scary.
That's scary.
That is scary.
But that's scary, but you can't do nothing.
So.
Right, you can't do anything.
Like a, oh, sorry, but like a, please forgive me, kind of.
Because I can do nothing from now.
Right.
Yeah, that's tough.
But besides that, you haven't.
No, besides that, no, I've not had any accidents.
Thankfully.
Thankfully, yeah.
Do you think you're like a careful driver or like a challenging driver?
I would say I'm a careful driver.
But with a little bit of a twist of a, with a hint of, with a splash of challenging driver.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah.
Sometimes I, not all the time, but like once every like 10 times, like I'm in a hurry.
Okay.
When you're in a hurry.
Yeah, I can make it.
I can make that, that light.
Yeah.
That green light.
I can make it.
I get a little bit challenging sometimes.
Yeah, yeah.
Do you drive the highways sometimes?
Yeah, I drive highways.
Yeah.
How far do you go?
How fast?
I'm sorry.
How fast do you go?
Um, just as fast as anybody else that's driving.
Just like.
Like I go with the flow.
Oh, okay.
So you're not trying to like 150 or like 200.
No, I would never do that.
No, you don't do that.
That's, that is, that's scary.
But I, um, I guess I go just a little bit.
I do just a little bit faster than the average, I guess.
Like I would, that's a good question.
Like if it's, I would.
Like, I'm not one of those types where like, like I'm scary fast.
Yeah.
But I would go faster than the average, I guess.
The average, okay.
Yeah.
Because I do tend to go in the, uh, the Oiko Chile and then go back a little bit.
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And then when, when there's a guy in front of me, I would, I would pass him.
So like, that's, I guess, faster than average, right?
True.
Yeah.
So you're kind of like a, sort of a roaming and kind of guy, like a
pass all the cars and like.
Uh, I wouldn't do that.
You don't do that?
I would not do that.
Okay.
No.
Like only if it's like not crowded.
Right.
Then I would easily be able to change the lanes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Like if it's in Shutoko, then no, that's not going to happen.
You don't do?
Yeah.
I mean, first of all, there's too many
right.
Yeah.
I'm too focused on like, of course, where I should be.
If you miss the one.
Yeah.
You're fucked.
Yeah.
That's, that's a problem.
Yeah.
I went on camp a year ago.
Okay.
I remember, I think I told you before, but
me and my junior high friend, we went together.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And he, yeah.
And he drove to the camping place and he's the, you know, the, the
challenging driver, the most like challenging driver I've, I know.
That's pretty scary.
Yeah.
And I was very scary.
Yeah.
And he passed every single car.
And, and like, that was his joy.
Oh, really?
So it's like an adrenaline.
Yeah.
I guess he, he didn't like do something illegal, of course, not like exceed the limit, but like,
he was like, you know, saying things to the cars around and like, oh,
he's the type that changes personalities.
Yeah.
And he, I mean, he's that kind of guy and he's behind the wheels in a usual situation.
So yeah, he, he's not changed.
Oh, he's usually always like that.
He's an aggressive guy.
Yeah.
Always.
But I was very scary.
He passes all the cars and like, oh, I still drive.
Get out of this way.
I actually don't.
You know how general society hates traffic?
Traffic.
Yeah.
I actually don't hate traffic.
Oh, you don't hate traffic?
I actually don't hate traffic at all.
Wow.
So you're talking about the cars, right?
Yeah, like I don't really mind going slowly.
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Like if I had like a, if I had sort of like a, like a, like a deadline.
Okay.
Of like, I have to return the car by this.
Yeah.
I mean, I'd be in a hurry, but like, if I didn't, I actually don't mind being stuck in traffic.
Oh, it's actually kind of fun.
Is it?
Yeah.
Like I can listen to music.
Oh yeah, of course.
Like I can sing in the car.
Yeah.
That's fun for me.
Okay.
All right.
So that's 10 minutes.
Oh, okay.
We gotta be careful not to do it.
Yeah, of course.
Thanks for listening guys.
All right.
Bye-bye.
