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Welcome to Kevin's English podcast.
Did you guys notice that?
It was great. We did a little bit of a trick play here.
We actually... How do you explain that?
We alternated our echoes. I said the echo, you said another echo, I said the third echo.
I think that was pretty smooth.
Right, that was great. I remember when we were at college student,
and one of our friends told me that our voices sound similar.
I do. I remember that.
I sometimes do.
But I feel more similar to Kake-chan's voice.
Yours? Oh, really?
Yeah. When I'm singing or something.
Oh, really? Yeah.
But I do feel the same about you too. I do feel a little bit similar.
Our voices were a little more similar when we were college students.
And our looks were similar too. Right.
Remember? People would always tell me that I look like you.
Yeah, I remember that too.
Okay, so what is our topic today?
So...
So, this is a question for us.
Which one of you pays for the first date?
The man or the woman? Or the man?
Okay, so... Right.
Thank you for the question. Great question by the way.
I think we can go very deep down with this topic.
I feel like this podcast is going to be deep.
So...
If I were to go on a date right now...
First date. First date.
Right now, I would pay for the bills.
I would take care of the bills. Oh, really?
So you would buy? Yes.
Like, 100% and zero?
Uh...
Good question. I would probably do...
Okay. If it's 5000 yen.
I would just... In total?
In total, maybe I'll have them give me 1000 yen.
I'll have her give me 1000 yen and I'll pay the rest.
Okay.
Yeah, if it's...
If it was like 10000 yen in total?
If it's 10000 yen in total...
You know, if it's 10000 yen, I think I would just go for it all.
Oh. Just...
I don't know. It just feels weird to receive just one or two or three thousand yen.
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If the total itself is as big as 10000 yen.
Oh, really? It just feels a little bit weird to me.
Okay.
That... Yeah.
But receiving 1000 yen is not strange for you?
Yes, yes, yes. Because...
Because, like...
It's relieving guilt from the partner.
Right. That's what I'm trying to do here.
Like, if it's...
If I'm taking 1000 yen from the total of 10000 yen,
I don't think that the guilt level would really relieve as much.
I'm taking in such a high percentage of the total that...
You know, I don't think it would change.
I think it would just be...
It would make a lot more sense if I just go for it all.
Okay, okay.
That's natural for you.
Well, that's...
Actually, no. That's not natural.
But I would do that because...
Because it's the social norm.
That is the only reason why I'm doing it.
Because it's the social norm.
That's so.
Because actually, I...
I definitely do 50/50.
Okay.
Tell me why.
Well, you know...
Because it's the social norm?
Is that so?
But I think, you know, I'm here for having a date with her.
Yes.
And she's here for having a date with me.
And, you know, we're going to be the partner, maybe, right?
Yes, yes, yes.
So we're the same people.
Yes.
So it should be 50/50.
That makes a lot of sense.
Right?
Right.
Deep down, that's how I feel.
Oh, okay.
Deep down is how I feel.
But like the social norms...
Right, I know that.
Because men have to pay...
Yes.
A little bit more.
Right.
That is the only reason why I do that.
Okay, okay.
So I would...
I want to get to the...
I want to get into a relationship deep enough to not have to do that.
Oh, I see.
Yeah.
Okay.
So if it was a first date, you would pay a little bit more.
Yeah.
But if it was like your girlfriend...
Yes, I would not do that.
50/50.
Okay.
50/50.
Yeah.
Have you ever done like a special present?
Yes, I have.
Oh, really?
Yes, I have.
I mean, like on special occasions, I pay for it all.
Right, of course.
Right.
Of course.
But if it's like an everyday kind of thing, I would do 50/50.
Okay.
Agree?
Yeah.
I agree with you on a special.
What do you think about the social norm kind of thing?
Oh.
Actually, I don't much care about that.
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Because it's the problem between me and her.
You're exactly right.
So if she agree with me, like 50/50, then we can...
I think we can be a partner, a real partner.
But if she disagree about that and, you know, if she want the social norm,
then I don't think we can be a good partner.
So that's it.
You're a man.
Really?
You're a man.
Oh, thank you.
You're a man.
Congratulations, man.
You're a man.
Oh, thank you.
Yeah.
Okay.
I admire you for that.
Yeah, but I know it's social norm, so...
Yeah.
Yeah, it is.
I don't have enough strength for me to deny that, I guess.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Well, is that same thing in the United States?
Like that kind of social norm?
Yeah, yeah.
Yes.
The man pays a little bit more?
Yes.
Yes.
Oh, okay.
Yes.
Hmm.
Okay.
So, I know you're a little bit tired, huh?
Me?
Yeah.
No, no, no.
Tough day, huh?
No, no, no.
I'm fine.
I'm fine.
Really?
Yeah.
We recorded our YouTube today.
Right, right.
So, no problem.
Okay.
I'm tired a little bit.
Oh, yeah.
So, let's talk about...
Hmm.
I really want to be a minimalist.
What are you talking about?
I do.
Well, actually, we're at your house, Kevin's house.
Yes, it is.
And I'm looking around at his house and finding so many things around here.
I have a surfboard that I haven't used in like 10 years, right?
Have you ever surfed before?
I've done it twice.
Twice?
Yeah.
Or three times.
Yeah.
Somewhere around there.
Okay.
Yeah.
It's fashion, right?
It's fashion.
Right.
But you want to be a minimalist.
I do.
I actually kind of do.
I've never heard about that from you.
Are you really?
Do?
I'm like, I can't say this to an actual minimalist.
I think they would get angry because I probably don't have the balls and I probably don't have
like the soul of an actual minimalist.
I'm probably headline reading, right?
So, I'm really tired of having a lot of stuff around me.
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Why are you laughing, man?
No, sorry.
Just go on.
I have a lot of clothes right here.
Right.
And they're really similar.
I have a lot of, right, clothes that are really similar.
Like, T-shirt?
Yes.
Well, why do you do that?
Why do you buy that?
Because there were times when I was interested in fashion.
Really?
And yes.
And that's when I bought all my clothing.
Okay.
And now I moved on, right?
Not interested in clothing.
I'm not into materials.
I want to live with don't have a lot of stuff on my shoulder.
So, yeah, minimalist seems like a good choice.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, I plan to buy, I plan to sell your clothes?
Well, you know, that's a good question.
You might think, you know, sometimes you might need a little bit of that someday.
So, you're not going to sell that maybe, you know.
There's never going to be a minimalist guy.
You got that, man.
Right.
So, you have so many clothes, by the way.
Yeah, I do.
I have a lot of pajamas.
They're all pajamas, by the way.
Look at that.
They're all pajamas.
Oh, that's too many.
There's a lot of pajamas, I know.
You're a fashionable boy, huh?
Really?
Thank you.
Thank you.
You have so many clothes.
Thank you.
They're all pajamas.
Well, look, it's just, it's an inner conflict that I have, you know, me wanting to get rid
of all my things because I'm not, I don't want to be a materialism.
I'd be, you know, be into materialism.
But also, I'm conflicting in myself that I may someday, someday I may use this item in
my life.
I don't want to throw this away, kind of.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I understand that.
Yeah.
You don't have a lot of stuff in your house, do you?
No, I don't think.
Yeah.
That's, but books for me.
You got a lot of books.
Right, right.
Right, right.
I can't sell.
How about Kindle?
Kindle?
Was Kindle ever an option for you?
I don't like seeing the screen, the digital screen, so I prefer the paper books.
You're, I'm really curious to like when you're going to be digitalized.
Like, I know so many people who when Facebook came out, they were like, oh, I'm not going
to get on Facebook.
And when Instagram came out, oh, they're for college kids, they're for young people.
I'm not going to get on Instagram.
Now, everybody's on Facebook.
Right, right.
I mean, now only old people are on Facebook.
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Right, even, right.
Right now, everybody's on TikTok.
No, sorry.
Now, everyone's on Instagram.
Instagram, Twitter, maybe?
Right, even Twitter.
And now TikTok is probably like every, they're for young people.
They're for college, they're for high schoolers, right?
They're for middle schoolers.
TikTok.
I'm talking about TikTok.
Right, right, TikTok.
And I'm having a feeling that it's going to be mainstream.
Right.
In several years.
Right.
But you never, you, Yamachan.
Me, yeah.
You personally have never rode the wave.
I have a Facebook account.
Because you didn't have an option, right?
Because you had to, to execute on your own responsibilities as a leader of a circle.
No, that was when I went to France, actually.
Ah.
That was the only option.
To connect with your friends.
To connect with my friends, so.
Okay.
But you're right.
But you didn't have a choice.
You actually had to start Facebook because.
But at that time I was interested in social medias.
At that time.
Oh, at that time you were interested.
It was fun for me to text in to my friends, seeing pictures.
That was fun for me.
But how about Instagram?
Do you have an Instagram account?
No.
Yes, but you have zero followers and you have zero people you follow.
Well, actually, I really don't have.
An Instagram account.
The application.
You don't have it installed on you.
Right.
Amazing.
But I have the, our account.
Right.
I have access to our account.
To run our accounts, right?
Right, right, right.
Yes, yes, yes.
Wow.
And you don't have Twitter?
No.
Definitely not TikTok, do you?
No.
No.
Yeah.
And I'm, yeah.
It's strange for you.
It is strange for me.
Right.
Like, it's so convenient.
Right.
The level of convenience is just incomparable.
Mm-hmm.
So I've always thought that people who deny technologies will someday eventually adapt
to the environment.
Right.
That's more convenient.
But you never, I'm not seeing even the slightest of you adapting to it.
Right.
But I have smartphone here.
Yeah.
I'm using this.
So you're like.
Like, I use Line.
You know, I think I have.
You're even slower than the old people.
Right?
Maybe.
Right, right.
You're catching up, but you're just really slow.
Right.
Maybe.
Yeah, because you're a fast man.
I, technology, yeah, I do like new technologies, new applications.
Right, right, right.
But the thing is, I don't, I've never felt like I'm, it's inconvenient without those
applications.
You know, Line is enough for me and email and telephone.
Right?
Wow.
Happy man, one happy man.
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Right.
That's a part of me that I admire really.
Really?
Self-fulfilling.
Yeah, maybe.
Back to self-fulfilling again.
But yeah.
Yeah.
But I admire you that, like the fastness.
Oh, thank you.
Like trying to try new things.
Right, right, right.
And see what is going on.
That's a good thing.
There's an app called Clubhouse.
Clubhouse?
Yeah.
I know Clubhouse.
That's not, that's not what I, I am 100% sure you don't know Clubhouse.
It's like an audio version of Twitter.
Oh.
It might be emerging.
It might.
Oh, okay.
And I'm the only Japanese person on that app.
Really?
The only Japanese person.
The fastest guy in Japan.
Right, the fastest guy in Japan.
Wow.
I'm going by the name of Kavis English Room.
But not everyone can join.
It's in beta.
You can only be invited.
Oh, okay.
Right.
So you're invited.
We were lucky enough to be invited.
Oh, really?
Yeah, I told the administrator that we were an influencer in Japan and they invited us.
Oh, really?
Right.
All the contents in English.
That's for one person.
The UI/UX is all English.
And it might be a thing, man.
Right.
So you record something?
No, no, no.
It's live.
It's live chat only with audio.
So there's this room.
You've got a lot of rooms.
Right now we can go in there and there could be like five rooms, right?
And all the rooms have people in them, right?
And they're talking with audio.
It's free talk by audio.
There's a subject in every room.
And people there just talk freely.
So anyone can be...
Anyone can join to listen.
But you can only be selected to speak.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
That must be the thing.
The thing.
The thing.
All right.
All righty.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Thank you again for requesting the topics.
Right.
Right.
Appreciate that so much.
Right.
Thanks so much.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Bye-bye.
Bye bye.
