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Welcome to Kevin's Englishman podcast!
Okay, that was good. That was a pretty good intro. I think that was pretty good.
So, uh, you know what I'm trying? Yeah.
So what do we got for us today?
You're eating budo pana, it's okay.
By the way, we are at the studio where we just shot our YouTube video.
Yes, so it's very quiet today. Thank God.
So today, yes.
So this is, uh, this came from DMs, right? Right. On Instagram.
Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it.
Thank you so much for requesting. Yeah, always.
We've been getting a lot of requests, haven't we? Right, actually. Yeah.
Thank you so much, guys.
So, uh, do you have some vacation in the United States?
We do. It's probably, it's a little longer than Japan.
What? It is longer than Japan. It's like what? Like three months, maybe?
Two or three months, I think. From when to when?
Uh, until September.
So three months until September, I think.
So June, July, or what? In September.
I think so. With my itsy bitsy memory. I think that was it.
And, uh, yeah, it's pretty long.
Um, my summer vacation memories, huh.
Maybe you go to, like, you know, go on a trip, maybe?
Yeah, possible. Very likely that would happen.
Or, uh, have some family time, maybe?
Right. Or, um, hmm, what is my summer memory?
Is he asking about the childhood memories or like the recent memories of summer?
Childhood memories.
Oh, the childhood. Okay. Summer, huh.
I actually forgot all of that.
I don't recall anything.
Really?
But I'm sure there is.
Let me erase back.
Do you have any?
Yeah, for me, I went to my grandmother, to grandma's house.
Yes, yes, yes.
Which is in Hokkaido.
Mm-hmm.
That was a pretty good memory. I ate so many seafood.
Yes.
That was so, so delicious.
Yes.
Oh, went to a family trip.
Uh-huh.
To, you know, other countries.
Mm-hmm.
Like Africa.
Ah, you told me about that.
Yeah, that was a great memory in summer.
Or, you know, I've been playing soccer, football, since I was a little kid.
Uh-huh.
Kid.
So, you know, there was some competition during the summer season, so I, you know, I did, I passed the days of hard training.
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Got it.
And a hot summer day.
Uh-huh.
Right, that was my memory.
How long is summer break in Japan usually?
About one month maybe.
About a month?
Right.
Okay.
August.
Or two months.
One month.
Mm-hmm.
I remember all memory.
There was this place called Stone Mountain in Georgia.
Stone Mountain.
Right, so it's a huge rock with a cave painting, I guess.
Cave painting?
No, it's not cave painting.
It's a rock art maybe.
Right, it's got, there's a huge wall of rocks, right?
And it's scraped off, and there's dent that make it art.
There's pictures of several men riding horses.
That's what it's famous for.
And it's got, it's an amusement park.
There's light shows at night.
Is that an amusement park?
Yeah, it's sort of like an amusement.
It's not as high quality as Disneyland and that shit, but it's got--
Roller coasters maybe?
Ah, no, no, not roller coasters, but like a little merry-go-round and shit like that.
Oh, really?
Yeah, and like shootouts and all that stuff.
In a cave?
No, not in the cave.
You can't go inside the rocks.
It's just, there's a rock and there's amusements around.
So I, yeah, so me and my father, it's like a father and son trip kind of thing.
Oh, that's nice.
That was such a great day.
Yeah, right.
There's also a camping site there.
So we brought our tents, we brought our fishing gears, right?
And we set up the tent.
We did some fishing.
We caught some bass, cooked it, ate it.
It was great.
And then we, during the night, there was a light show.
Light show?
Yeah, it's like laser beam lights.
Oh, laser beam.
There's moving laser beams with music.
Oh, that's quite American stuff.
Yeah, it's probably American.
And there's fireworks at the end.
And I had these little glow sticks.
You know what those are, glow sticks?
Like I think it's popular in Japan, like how concerts, you bend your stick and it glows up.
And then you wave it so the pop stars can see you waving in the dark.
Yeah, I was holding one of those glow sticks.
It was like the first time I had them.
I got so excited.
The instructions said I have to bend it.
So I interpreted it as I had to give it some damage.
I had to give it some friction.
I had to give it some, what do you say, like crackings to it.
So I was doing it with my mouth.
You usually do it with your hand, like bend it so that it glows.
But I wanted to do it to the extreme level.
I was biting every corner of the glow stick.
What happened was I was going from left to right, biting from left to right.
And the substance inside the glow stick at the end came out.
And it went in my mouth, like a lot of it.
A lot of the substance, I don't know what there are inside.
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But I started choking.
I started coughing, I started choking.
Must be delicious, huh?
Yeah, 100%.
My father was next to me, all panicked.
Like, oh shit, my son is fucking choking.
We ran to the nearest bathroom.
And he's lighting up, right?
My father, in my mouth, lighting up.
And my father got to where the sink was.
He got a cup from somewhere and filled it up with water.
Splashed it on my face.
Fucking drink it, Kevin!
I drank it, I spilled it out.
We did this several times and I was okay.
But that memory was so special to me.
That's the kind of special adventure on a summer day.
Yeah, it was nice.
Nothing like it.
Me and my father running during a parade.
Running for our lives.
That was a fun memory of mine.
That's a nice memory, right?
Yeah, it is.
I like this.
Yeah, we talk about that often.
Every now and then, when I meet him.
Accidents happen.
Right, right.
Stone Mountain was a two hour drive from our house, which was in Rome City.
The drive was fantastic too.
Me and my father just sitting side by side on the highway, talking about whatever.
Is that like American road?
Yes, it is.
Just straight?
It wasn't like deserts on the side.
It was a legit highway.
It wasn't a city highway.
You had to go through Atlanta, which was a pretty city kind of city.
It wasn't like the Texas kind of breeze.
Road trip kind of.
But the time together was remarkable.
Father and son's time.
Yes, I loved it.
It's nice.
Because you're now apart from your father, right?
Yes, I am.
You're in Japan and your father is in America.
Do you often make a phone call?
Ah, no, not often.
Or send email, text messages?
No, no.
That was maybe?
No.
The occasional communications that we have is that we're usually around like once every
two or three months.
And it's usually about like, hey, are you okay with a pandemic?
Or if an earthquake happens or like some sort of natural disaster happens, my father would
hit us up.
Me and my sister, we have a group line.
He could hit us up and be like, you guys okay?
Stuff like that.
And vice versa.
If something happens in Georgia, like a hurricane.
Earthquakes never happen.
Not never, but rarely happens in Georgia.
So if it's like a hurricane kind of thing, that happens a lot.
I would make a phone call or like, yeah, stuff like that.
Or if it's like a business kind of thing.
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What do you mean, business kind of thing?
Like, do you think it's okay to make this kind of a business decision?
Kind of stuff like that.
So he gives you some advice?
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
That's the occasional communication that takes place.
Do you miss him?
I do.
I definitely miss him.
If I had the choice, if I had the time and the money, I would definitely go back.
But you know, me saying that already is an excuse for me.
I should be going there now, you know?
I should just be leaving right now.
I know that in my head, like logically, I should be doing that.
Jesus Christ.
That's a fight I have inside me.
Like, if I were to calculate, like, let's say I meet him every once, every two years, right?
And I get to have two days with him every two years.
With that calculation, I think I would be lucky if I have like a hundred days with him.
If I calculate that in my head.
In the rest of your life.
In the rest of my life, right?
If I were to really consume that in, I have a feeling that, you know, what am I doing with my life?
I should be with my father, you know?
That's what I should be doing.
I should be meeting my family, being with my father.
Yeah.
Do you agree?
Do you feel that?
Yeah.
But you know, it's not that far in my situation.
They're living near from me, so I can go.
Do you go?
I can go now.
Do you go?
Now?
Yeah, like lately.
Have you been there?
Often, yeah.
Like how often do you go?
Oh, like once in a two-month maybe.
Once in a two-month.
Yeah.
Do you do like activities with your father?
Or water quality?
Right, like camping.
That is so heartwarming.
Right.
That's so lovely.
Camping, like do a little barbecue.
That is so nice.
House garden.
Do you have like a barbecue set in your house?
Yeah.
That's amazing.
Camping equipment.
That is absolutely amazing.
My father had those camping equipments too.
We had a huge garden, so we were able to do like barbecues.
How nice.
Yeah, I want to do that again.
And I miss those huge Hargen Dazs ice cream in my refrigerator.
Like a four liter, four to six liter, liters of Hargen Dazs.
I never see that, like four or six liters.
I told you about the gallon of ice cream that sold in the United States, right?
Yeah, we've got tons of those.
My father's an ice cream guy.
He had a lot of those.
You too.
Yeah, me too.
I miss that too.
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Yeah, but you're never going to leave Japan.
I will not leave Japan.
I love here.
And your father?
My father may come back to Japan.
If it's only warm.
My father really loves warm places.
I think that's his number one priority, to live in a warm place.
Georgia's not that warm, so he's planning to go elsewhere.
Hawaii maybe?
Hawaii or like Nangoku, somewhere around there.
Okinawa might be it.
He hates the winter season in Japan.
He hates winter.
He is always cold.
Oh really?
Yeah.
I'm a little bit like you.
Me?
Yeah, because you're always...
Sometimes I'm hot.
Yeah, I'm always sweating my ass off.
Alright, that was good moments.
Thanks for listening again guys.
Thank you.
Bye bye.
