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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Hello!
Doing our drive and talk.
Drive and talk.
All right.
Lovely.
We're gonna go through the 皇居.
Yes.
Let's go.
All right.
So we need to find the way.
We need to find a way, somehow, to go through the 皇居.
Yeah, true.
I found there are so many, like, one-way roads.
Yeah.
My plan is to do a U-turn here, and then go here, and then turn.
Okay, okay.
Can we do that?
Yeah, if we can do a U-turn here.
So far, it looks to me like it's okay.
Okay.
Do you think so?
That doesn't say though, right?
No?
Right.
We are on camera.
Yeah, take the safest way.
Take a safe, yeah, take a safe.
Oh, you saw the 新幹線?
Just...
What do you mean?
What do you mean?
I saw the 新幹線 just...
Oh, no, I did not see the 新幹線.
Yeah, passing through that.
How was your golden week, man?
Just usual.
Just usual?
Yeah, didn't do nothing special.
Yeah.
Did you?
No, nothing, didn't do anything special.
Yeah.
You know, it was all crowded and everything.
Oh, yeah.
So, like...
All right, now I'm really...
Okay, I'm just going to take the safe road.
Yeah, you should.
Not going to do a U-turn here.
Yeah.
I'm just going to do a...
But it seems...
It seems okay, right?
It seems okay.
They say nothing...
I'll just do another turn.
Yeah, yeah.
And then we can be on our way.
Right.
But I just had my hair cut.
Oh, wow.
Like a few, two days ago.
Good for you, man.
Yeah, because I...
For me?
Thank you.
Because I thought it's just a golden week.
People, you know, they go out, go on a vacation.
Mm-hmm.
So that...
Oh, that's Teikoku Hotel.
Wow.
Oh.
Didn't catch that.
Yeah.
Have you seen a Teikoku Hotel?
Yeah, like a...
No.
Mm.
Like, you know, so many topics there.
But, um...
Mm-hmm.
So many topics there.
But, um, when I was working in a travel agency...
Okay.
There are so many...
Oh, that's a Gaimusho car.
Oh, shit.
Wow.
Gaikoukan.
Yeah.
I've seen lots of negative articles on the Gaikoukan,
where they don't follow the parking manners and shit.
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But they don't get punished for it.
Because they don't follow the rules.
And they don't go under the...
Right?
Whatever.
I can't explain.
I don't know.
It's too difficult for me to explain.
But, like, yeah.
Yeah, because they are special.
They're special, right?
They're special.
Yeah.
But at least they should, like, you know, follow the rules.
I know, right?
So, um, so when I was working in travel agency,
I had so many opportunity to reserve, like, you know,
the finest hotels in Japan, like Teikoku Hotel.
Right.
The finest hotels.
Right.
But I just only reserved them.
Right.
I've never stayed there.
Got it.
I see, I see, I see.
Yeah.
No, like, I was working in Kyoto.
So I knew some fancy hotels in Kyoto.
Like, visit there and talk to their managers sometimes.
Yeah.
But not here in Tokyo.
So...
I see.
Wow.
It's like, oh, this was here.
It was going for you.
Yeah.
All the reservations you made.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I had my hair cut.
Yes.
A few days ago.
Okay.
I thought that was the golden week.
As it was golden week, there are many people going out for, you know, vacation.
Yes.
Leisure trip.
So I thought, you know, that hair cut place was empty.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
So that's why I decided to go to the salon.
But there was a pack of, like, a pack of people in there.
Yeah.
Didn't...
I was surprised.
I mean, I can imagine, you know, golden week hair salons.
Oh, really?
Being crowded with a lot of people.
Well, I thought they cut their hair before the golden week.
And then with the, you know, fresh, beautiful hair, they go on a trip.
But actually not.
Right.
I think we make a turn here.
Yeah.
We can go through the little...
Super.
The little thingy.
Right.
The little thingy by...
Which I mean, the Koukyo.
With respect.
I'm saying this with respect.
Yeah, of course.
Is the...
Is the guy actually in there?
Is he actually in there?
Like, is he...
Like, with all the respect I have in me.
This is coming out from all the respect.
Like, is the guy actually in there?
Well, I mean, I think so.
Oh, okay.
I think so.
You think so?
But, you know, the guy has several places to live in.
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But you didn't mean he's a busy man.
Yeah, he's a busy man.
Yeah, he's a busy man.
He's a busy man, I know.
He's the busiest man, I guess.
I get it.
So he can, you know...
Yeah, and he has several places to live in at the same time.
Oh, right.
So, yeah, we're not sure he is...
Like, literally in the room right now.
I see.
Maybe, like, some other places.
He could be having lunch, right?
Of course.
12 o'clock.
Yeah.
You think he goes out for lunch?
Nah.
You think the people bring him lunch?
Yeah.
I mean, if you say inside the building,
that's still huge, so...
That's true, that's true.
It's like outside.
I guess there's, like, cafeterias and shit.
Yeah, like, yeah.
You think he goes to, like, any of those cafeterias that are in there?
Gets, like, one of those, like,
D.Va's throwing a golf swing kind of thing.
Or sometimes he goes.
I'm not sure.
Yeah, I wonder how they do.
Yeah.
Like, if it's healthy or, like...
Right.
Because I'm sure it's, like, a completely, you know, secret.
And, like...
True.
Even it's a huge place.
True.
They are, like, kind of locked in.
Right, right, right.
Very, you know, secure.
Very closed, right?
Yeah.
Like, I hope he lives happily.
See, that's the question that I always...
That runs through my head.
Yeah.
Every time I see one of those, like, the daughters, you know, commenting in front of the cameras.
Like, you know, they're, like, at...
You know, they're college students.
They're, like, high school students.
They're in their age where they want to have fun, right?
Yeah.
Like, they want to...
They want to do some romance.
Hanging out with friends.
Hanging out with friends.
Drinking...
Drinking beer and shit.
Yeah.
Getting in a little trouble.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But they're always on camera.
Like, they're always talking to these, like,
ojisans that she probably doesn't even care about.
With all due respect, though.
With all due respect.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, I don't know.
Like, I don't know if that is the life that she would have chosen if she had an option.
Yeah.
Honestly.
True.
With all due respect, though.
Yeah, yeah.
With all due respect.
Like, I gotta fucking, you know.
Of course.
All right, Kokyo.
Yeah.
Wow, super.
Wow.
Oh.
So that's, I believe, Kokyo.
It's like the outer side of Kokyo.
Okay.
And, like, look over there.
There are, like, entrance, like, there.
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Yeah, yeah, I see bridges.
And that's where you can pass through and get inside if it's open.
I see.
Yeah.
Wow.
What a huge place.
It's fucking huge.
I didn't, I can't believe this is, like, in the middle of Tokyo.
Yeah.
It's way too big.
Imagine this was your house.
I know.
That would have been, that's crazy.
That's very crazy.
Wow.
Like, the view of, like, the green.
Yeah.
And then on the background, there's, like, this really tall building.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Really reminds me of Central Park.
True.
Yeah, it's just like Central Park.
Yeah.
True.
Wow.
By the way, that's the Palace Hotel.
The Palace Hotel?
That one right there?
Yeah, that one.
That's a cool looking building.
Yeah.
That's the finest hotel.
Oh, really?
I mean, the one of the most expensive hotel in Japan.
Palace Hotel.
The VIPs go there, then?
Yeah, I guess so.
Wow.
That was lovely.
That was a lovely hotel.
John Probst.
Yeah.
Oh, there are some, like, runners.
Kokyu runners there.
All right.
So that was Kokyu?
Yeah.
Nice.
Great.
Very big.
Bigger than I thought.
Yeah.
Bigger than what I expected.
And we just passed through the one side, right?
It's still huge.
Right, it is.
Yeah, there's, like, this, you know, round...
That's big.
Drive-through.
Yeah.
Wow.
All right, what is next?
So, according to the Hato Bus Tour, the next place is Kokkai-Gijido.
All right, let's go.
I have never been to Kokkai-Gijido.
Oh, really?
Never.
I want to go there.
Yes, let's try that.
All right.
See you next episode, guys.
All right.
Bye-bye.