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Welcome back again to Kevin's English room podcast.
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You know how some of the radio stations have this kind of a kind of side effect?
No, you never heard of it?
No, not at all.
I'm not a fan of that.
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I'm not a fan of that.
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So we've got another topic from our Instagram DM.
Thank you always.
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We appreciate that.
That was how did us three became friends.
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Yama and Kaka Chan.
So as we've been saying and a lot of our media is that we were in the same circle, in the
same university.
But how did we get close?
Right.
Do you remember?
I do not remember.
You know, I first time.
No, I don't remember.
Actually, I don't.
But I remember the first time I saw you singing in front of all the people.
You were quite a good singer.
Oh, well, thank you.
I'm flattered, sir.
Yeah, you were, you know, kind of really cool.
Oh, yeah.
So that's my memory.
Okay.
Wow, he sings well.
And you know, wow, his name is Kevin?
What?
Yeah.
A lot of people remember my name on first sight because it was Kevin.
Right.
And your hair was a little bit longer than that.
Yes.
And you know, it was like a little bit more.
I had male bangs.
What?
I had male bangs, right?
Yeah, yeah.
A little bit like, how should I say, like, Iketeru Koukousei style, right?
A little bit long from hair.
I was not an Iketeru Koukousei by the way.
So that's what I felt at the first time.
So my impression of my first impression of you, like, if I remember, was probably you
were wearing sunglasses, weren't you?
Right, right.
Yeah, I remember that.
That I remember.
Yeah, that means you remember nothing, huh?
I don't remember the first time speaking to you.
I remember being close to you rather like more than Kake-chan.
I think it was later on that I became more closer to Kake-chan than you.
That I remember.
Yeah, because maybe we were in the same group, the band.
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I feel like I'm more close.
I was close to Kake-chan about like second year.
I don't remember being real close in the first year.
I don't think so.
I don't know about you guys.
Yeah, I'm afraid.
How about you?
Do you remember your first encounter with Kake-chan?
I don't remember the first time, but I did remember when we did a first concert, which
was in August.
No, no, no.
In fall season.
I remember we talked with Kake-chan and did a group with Kake-chan.
I was a voice percussionist.
You were doing voice percussion?
Yeah, it was my first time and the last time.
And he did the bass part.
He was a bass man.
So we did a written section.
Was that a song?
Lady Gaga's song.
Ah, okay, okay, okay.
Yeah, I remember that.
And we talked about like what about the concert.
How she would do, how she would make that.
That's what I remember.
That's when you first became close with Kake-chan.
Yeah, I remember.
Right.
Do you remember our first contact?
With Kevin?
Kevin?
We've been friends for a long time.
I don't think we were friends for the first year.
Do you agree?
No, but we were friends for 3 years.
Ah, that's right.
I remember that.
Right.
We weren't friends then.
It was when we were freshmen.
So we were pretty close from the beginning then.
Right.
That was pretty like brotherhood kind of shit.
Yeah.
Because we snuck out, went to the onsen, right?
Right.
Got in trouble.
Right.
That was pretty like, right?
That's the friend-
Brotherhood kind of shit.
Yeah, yeah.
Wait, only three?
Yeah, it was only three.
Okay, okay, only three.
Went to the outside bath.
Yeah, got in trouble, right?
Oh, so-so.
That was pretty fun.
Like those were the memories that I remember being fun.
You know, like the ones we got in trouble with.
Like-
Kind of like friendship trouble kind of thing.
Yeah, yeah.
It was fun.
Like stand by me thing.
Yeah, yeah, kind of like that.
Right.
Was kind of a little adventure.
And you two did the business when you guys-
Yeah, third grade.
The third grade.
Summer vacation, summertime during, right, third year.
Right.
We did a shaved ice cream shop in a kitchen car.
We had like-
We did not make any profit at all.
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We did not make profit.
But was that fun?
It was fun.
It was fun.
Like we did it in Shinjuku.
Oh, really?
We were lucky we got a place in Shinjuku.
Yeah, got a like-
Yeah, got an ice cream shop.
A lot of our friends came.
Right.
Not many of our normal customers came in.
That was a good memory.
Yeah.
Like it led to what I am now, really.
I think it was like a-
It really was like a manifestation of like how I felt during the young ages.
The moment you started thinking about your future.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
In hindsight, you know, that was-
What?
In hindsight.
What did you mean?
That means looking back at it now.
Oh.
That's in hindsight.
Hindsight.
In hindsight-
Sounds like Germany.
Really?
In hindsight.
In hindsight.
Yeah.
But right, in hindsight, I think, yeah, that was really a manifestation of how I felt.
A lot of how I felt about what I enjoy doing on my free time.
Yeah.
Doing new things.
Sort of that stuff.
That's nice.
Yeah.
And after that, actually, I think I shouldn't say this.
I mean, I shouldn't make it open to the public, but we did a, you know, some sort of activity.
Yeah, we did an online activity.
This is like disclosed, guys.
Right.
We can't tell you the names, but we were doing internet characters.
Right.
It's pretty much like now.
Yeah, what we're doing now, but we weren't showing our faces.
It was just our voice.
We were doing it on a certain platform that we cannot-
Yeah.
On the internet.
On the internet.
But it was fun.
That was fun too, right?
That was fun, right.
We had like a little bit of fans, right?
Yeah, well, a little bit.
It was fun.
Quite a few, but-
I mean, we've evolved, man.
Like we tried a lot of things.
Right.
Right, right, right.
And I remember we talked, me and you.
Yeah.
I talked about our future at T-Side.
Do you remember that?
I fucking remember, dude.
Yeah.
I fucking remember.
Yeah, we talked that.
That was such a great memory.
Right, right.
Like, you fucking, me and you were outside sitting in a location where it was like really chill.
Yeah.
Right?
It was really, really chill.
It was fucking chill.
The chillest moment in my life, I think.
I mean, T-Side is originally like really chill, right?
Yeah.
So, we were sitting down, we were like, "Oh my god, man.
We're gonna do something, man.
We're gonna start something in life.
And we're gonna make, there's gonna be movies that are based on us, man."
I talked about that.
Do you remember that?
Yeah, I remember that.
We're gonna make history, man.
We're gonna fucking make history, and there's gonna be movies, and we're gonna be a fucking
super star.
Right.
We were planning to make this scene, which is, you know, we, you know, with heavy, really
heavy rain, and we are running into, you know, something.
Right, right, right.
That's the scene, but we have to take.
I fucking remember that.
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Yeah.
I fucking do.
That was the moment.
That was...
Right.
I do, I do.
That was nice.
That was a nice day.
If that happens, we gotta go back to that site.
Talk about it again.
Yeah.
Yeah, we're gonna do a podcast again.
Right.
Based on what we've experienced, right?
Right, right.
That will be nice.
I mean, so far, we've been going through like a...
Yeah.
Like an unbelievable experience with the Kevin's English Room, right?
You know, too, like perfect, like...
Right.
It's more than we expected.
Like, who would have thought on the first TikTok we made, we...
Right.
The first TikTok was like, why don't we just make a TikTok that's fucking English, and
just...
It was just behind the backyard of the...
Right.
I only, like, thought about it.
I only planned it for like, what, like three minutes?
Right.
Right?
Let's do...
Let's do how to make...
Let's do like casual English content, right?
Right.
That blew up, and then from that, snowball effect happened.
And you know, who would have thought?
We're doing podcast, YouTube, Twitter.
That's amazing.
Right.
That's an unbelievable journey.
It's all thanks to you guys.
Thank you for listening again every day.
Exactly.
We appreciate so much for, you know, all your support.
Right.
Couldn't appreciate you guys enough.
So, I guess that wraps up the episode.
Yes.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
So, this is the end of podcast now?
No, this is the end of podcast.
That sounded like it.
The atmosphere was like, the end of it all.
But no.
All right.
So, we're still going to continue.
Okay.
It's the end of the podcast.
The episode.
Yes.
Yes.