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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
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Hello, hello.
Okay, this one.
This is from pelikan-san.
Kevin-san, Yama-chan, こんにちは。いつも楽しく拝聴しています。
私は建築学部に所属しており、この間模型製作の片付けをしていた時に友達が下のスチレンボードのカスがやばいと脳内で誤変換をしてしまい、下にカスがたくさん落ちているのを想像してずっとツボってしまいました。
二人は自分のツボが浅いなあと感じることはありますか?また他人に理解され難い笑いのツボはありますか?読んでください。ありがとうございました。
I only see merit in it. Don't you think so? I can't think of one demerit. It just brightens up the whole conversation. Right? Laughter. It's a positive thing, right?
He's a happy guy. Happy people.
Yeah, true.
Yeah, true.
Right?
Yeah, sometimes you...
So it's different from Gera or something, but I laugh when I'm, for example, reading something manga, funny manga. That makes me laugh out loud.
When I was in high school, I was reading manga that was so funny, like Atashinchi, for example. It's funny, right?
Okay, all right. Let's keep on going.
You said you love Atashinchi.
I do love Atashinchi. Not because it's funny, though, but...
Isn't it funny?
No. It's heartwarming.
Oh.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah, it's heartwarming.
It's heartwarming.
But it's very funny.
I don't know. Do you find it funny?
Yeah.
Really?
Yeah.
Does it make you laugh a lot?
Yeah.
Really?
Yeah, so when I was in high school, I wasn't reading Atashinchi. That was Ahiru no Sora. That's a basketball manga, which was very funny.
Okay. Doubtful. Okay.
And I was laughing out loud, because it was funny. That made me laughing. And I was reading and I was laughing at the same time.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And people were like, looked at me.
You're right, because you're not talking to anybody. Why is this guy making noise, right? Yeah, yeah.
Obviously, yeah, I can see that happening.
Right, right, right.
Yeah.
And I was like, I mean, I don't want to be a stranger in high school.
Yeah.
I don't want to be a weird guy.
Like, that's like the first step.
Yeah.
Of being a weirdo.
Right.
Yeah.
So, yeah, that I remember.
Oh, it's like you realize.
Yeah.
Oh, shit. I shouldn't laugh out loud when I'm alone in public.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, maybe gay people feel the same way. Maybe.
Oh.
Why are you laughing?
I see.
Because nobody is laughing. And just one guy found it funny and laughed alone.
That's true.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If you guys are friends, and you have a conversation together, and that laughs a lot, that makes, you know, atmosphere great.
If you're like in public, and if you're the only one who is laughing the whole time.
I see.
You gotta get the look.
Yeah.
That's true. I would not want that.
Yeah, right?
That's true.
Especially you. You can't hold it in, right?
Especially in places where you shouldn't laugh.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The more extreme the situation is, the more harder to hold that laughter in.
Yes.
So, the moment when I was in high school.
Yeah.
The first laugh was the book that made me laugh out loud.
Yeah.
And I noticed that people were looking at me, my classmates.
Yeah, like a weirdo, yeah.
And then I realized, oh, I shouldn't laugh out loud. Then that made me laugh out loud.
Ah, it triggers you more.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then I stopped reading and just go to the bathroom and just...
You gotta give it a reset.
Yeah, yeah.
To like let the laughter sort of like get out from your body.
Yeah.
Oh.
Well, happily, I had friends in my classroom.
Yeah.
So, my friends were like, oh, what are you laughing at?
And then, like, teasing me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That made the whole atmosphere like...
Yeah, that makes it easy.
Yeah.
But if I was in completely like in public space or something, for example.
You have no one to rely on.
Just you.
So, sometimes I read books in the train.
Yeah.
And you wanna laugh?
Yeah.
What do you do?
And I just close the book.
You just close it?
And so, you're like holding it in, right?
Yeah.
When you're looking up.
Yeah.
Like you're putting on that face of you holding in that laughter.
Right.
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Because that has its own face, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're doing that face.
Yeah.
Damn.
Yeah.
Just be hard.
Just be hard.
So, maybe get other people...
Even harder?
Yeah.
Maybe even harder.
Yeah.
Maybe, like, for example, like, kaigi or kaisha.
Right.
And find something funny.
Funny and start laughing.
Yeah.
Oh, that's scary.
That's true.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But you laugh a lot, no?
Yeah, I mean, relatively.
Yeah.
Like, someone that, yeah, laughs a lot.
Yeah.
Right.
Because I want to laugh a lot.
True, true, true.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
Do you think you're relatively, like, easy to laugh?
It's difficult to answer.
Yeah?
Yeah.
But I think I'm relatively easier side.
Okay.
Because I'm...
Yeah.
I kind of...
I'm a kind of cool guy, you know?
What the fuck are you talking about?
What the fuck was that?
I'm like, you know, I'm not just laughing around and, you know, speak around like a drunk guy kind of guy, no?
I'm relatively, like, cool and settled and smart.
What are you...
I don't know what you're doing here.
What are you talking about?
What are you...
No, honestly.
Okay, you're not a drunk dude.
I know you're not a drunk dude.
I've never seen you sort of, like, drunk and just be obnoxious or anything.
I'm relatively, like, always, you know...
Chill?
Chill, yeah.
Sure.
Right?
Not, like, always, like, partying and, like...
No, you're not.
You're not that type of person.
Yeah, no, no, no.
So I'm kind of relatively that side.
Like, cool.
Okay.
Why you don't agree on that part?
I don't know.
I don't know about that.
Cool.
Like, yeah.
What's your point?
Okay, if you're on the cool side...
So I'm not, like, laughing side.
Oh, I see.
Now I know what you're talking about.
Yeah.
I see.
Hmm.
You agree with that?
Well...
Yeah.
In a way, yeah.
Yeah, thank you.
Yeah.
Thank you.
You are, though...
Yes, I am.
Like, in a good way, in a good way.
You are someone that, however, changes the atmosphere of the conversation.
This is a compliment.
In a good way.
I would love to have that characteristic, yeah.
In a good way.
Like, when you are in a conversation that adds a positive vibe to it when you're in the conversation
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versus when you weren't there.
Oh, thank you.
Yeah, you do.
Is that a good thing?
Definitely a good thing.
I would love to have that.
Oh.
Yeah, so...
Oh, thank you.
Yeah.
Is that...
You're saying I'm not cool side of guy?
Is that...
I don't think you're on the cool side.
But that's okay.
Yeah.
Is that okay?
That's okay.
I don't think being cool is the best way to live.
I'd rather have a characteristic of like, oh, he's always in a good mood.
He's always having fun.
True.
That's...
Uplifting guy.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
True.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
That's true.
Yeah.
That's true.
Yeah.
Keep it as a compliment.
Oh, yeah.
It is a compliment.
Yes.
I meant it as a compliment to begin with.
Thank you.
Yeah.
I'm a cool guy.
I didn't say you're a cool guy.
No, you didn't say that.
You're more funnier.
You're more on the funnier side.
In a good way though.
In a good way.
Yeah.
Thank you.
That's all.
Thank you.
In a good way.
Yeah.
All right.
Cool, funny.
Not really.
But thanks for listening, guys.
Let's end the podcast.
Bye-bye.
Bye.
Bye-bye.
